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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1959
On Budget Making
Raymond F. Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said last week that the state budget division's recommendations for the KU budget are unrealistic.
This is perhaps the understatement of the year. Aside from being unrealistic, the recommendations are also chaotic.
The members of the governor's budget committee could not have given the proposals of the Board of Regents more than passing consideration before slicing their way through the budget. For example;
The governor's committee failed to recommend $24,500 to allow for four additional faculty members. The same committee did recommend money for three new janitors.
At least this gives the layman an indication of where the governor's committee places its emphasis. Whichever item is the least expensive is the most important. Since janitors come cheaper than professors, they are more valuable in the eyes of the committee.
We're not saying the money proposed for the janitors should have been cut. They are needed for new buildings. But there is also a pressing
But needs were not the primary consideration of the committee. The other 12 items proposed by the regents which were hacked out of the budget testify to this.
Economy, a word frequently used since the present governor took office, was the committee's yardstick. Measure this:
Salary increases for unclassified staff (research nance, office and all others) totaling $107,179 were approved.
Salary increases for classified staff (research staff, faculty, administrators, library staff) totaling $330.325 were not recommended.
This is the committee's way of saying that it is more important to keep the office clean than to keep the boss on the job.
The repercussions of this misguided thinking will be felt when other institutions in more enlightened states start bidding for our faculty.
From past performances, we can't expect much improvement on the committee's action when the proposed budget reaches the governor.
However, we can hope the legislature will be more realistic about the needs of the University.
—George DeBord
ROTC Battles Nature
The Naval ROTC contract statement that "the student must remain unmarried" strikes a severe blow at the very core of the nation—the family.
The defense system of this country is set up to protect that very thing, the family. The feeling that "men can not be loyal to two masters" is absurd. The Navy should realize that a man's family is all the more reason for him to do a good job in the Navy.
The Army and Air Force ROTC contracts do not stipulate that their holders may not marry. It would be more logical to have all the ROTC programs under the same type of contract.
Several students refused to comment on the subject to Daily Kansan reporters because they felt they would "suffer repercussions." It would seem unbelievable that citizens of this country
would fear to talk about an age-old institution, marriage. Yet this is evidently the case, otherwise these men would not have given the reason they did for refusal to be quoted.
The Navy has a vital place in our defense. It must be assumed, for the most part, that mature individuals are enrolled in the program at KU. If not, they will soon leave. These mature persons should be given the opportunity to decide their own personal future, so far as romantic interests are concerned. A mature person has the right to decide for himself if he can handle having a family and also carry a heavy course load at the same time.
The Navy might just as well decide that no student may own an automobile. Let Nature take its course!
A Change of Heart
Editor
Sunnyside is not slumlike, as you mentioned. We have almost twice as much floor area per apartment as the average Stouffer Place
... Letters ...
As the Sunnyside resident who started this chain reaction on rats, I feel I should be responsible for defending Sunnyside, after your editorial on "Sunnyside Rats" in the Daily Kansan.
apartment. We have a lot of playground equipment and a lot of grass. Children don't play in the "mud and garbage."
Rats have not "lived in Sunny-side for years." They have only been here twice that I know of. April of this year, and now. Also, since the story broke, more effective action has been taken in the form of liberal doses of poison under every building. (Sinecer
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Sunnyside apartments are not "fire traps," as you mentioned. Each apartment has two entrances (Stouffier apartments have only one), and the fire extinguishers have been given fairly close attention since last Spring.
thanks to Mr. Chestnut, Mr. Morris and the rest of Sunnyside maintenance crew.)
We are no more of a fire trap than the Strong annexes, Lindley annexes, language sound labs and many other wooden buildings on the campus.
"THE HEAVENLY BODY WE WANT TO STUDY TONITE IS ONLY VISIBLE FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME."
-Philip Prawl Lawrence senior
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MU Makes Peace
Editor:
I wish to apologize to the students of Kansas University for the action of two or three Missouri University students at the south end of Memorial Stadium a week ago Saturday afternoon. I am sure I speak for the great majority of MU students and fans who witnessed this unprovoked destruction of a sign, which undoubtedly represented much time, effort and expense on the part of some KU students, in making this apology.
The Kansas students who were around the goal post when this incident occurred are to be commended for the great restraint and good sense shown by not stooping to the level of these two or three immature troublemakers by attempting to retaliate for this action. They acted like gentlemen in every sense of the word, which is much more than can be said for these few MU students.
I hope this letter can, in some small way, help to repair any damage, in the way of ill-feelings, done to the historic and friendly rivalry between our two great Universities.
Joe Fagan MU Student
By Calder M. Pickett
By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
CUSTER, by Jay Monaghan. Little Brown, $6.
On June 27, 1876, United States cavalry scouts under Lt. James H. Bradley, who were among troops sent on an expedition against the Sioux, spotted a dead horse and then saw strange white objects covering a hillside ahead. Riding up to the objects, the soldiers found the naked bodies of more than 250 men, "white as marble except for mahogany-colored faces and hands."
MOST OF THE BODIES had been stripped by Sioux squaws. Some of the bodies had been cruelly mutilated, some were scaled. The only living thing left on the battlefield was a wounded bay horse, Comanche. Among the dead was Gen. George Armstrong Custer, his body in such a position that the last thing he may have seen was the spectacular plains country, with mountains in the distance, where his "last stand" took place.
It was a dramatic end for one of the most flamboyant and theatrical soldiers in American history. He was only in his late thirties, but he had been a boy general in his twenties, and from Bull Run to Appomattox had performed so recklessly and excitingly that he had become a figure as famed in the Union forces as was Jeb Stuart in the Confederate.
MORE THAN A DOZEN horses were shot from under him during the war. He had been in and out of trouble, facing accusations, court-martials, bitter newspaper editorials, the criticisms of superiors and subordinates. He was a political general, not at all loath to call upon congressmen to guarantee a promotion. He was somewhat of a braggart, and yet his exploits are a matter of record.
Jay Monaghan, who already has written recognized works on the Civil War, has told, with a high degree of objectivity, the story of the controversial Custer. In the telling he describes most of the famed battles of the eastern theater, as well as the expeditions on the plains and the Custer days spent at Forts Leavenworth, Hays, and Riley, and other camps of the plains country.
MONAGHAN RECOGNIZES that numerous other military figures of the Custer generation were jealous of the curly-locked Ohioan, and he takes this jealously into account. But he also observes that Custer was likely to pad accounts of his victories, to emphasize his great historical destiny, much as McClellan was doing at the same time in letters to Mrs. McClellan.
Custer's role in the various battles of the war provides almost a running history of the Army of the Potomac. We are with him as a young lieutenant at Bull Run, when his ambition is to obtain a personal audience with McDowell, so that he can add this audience to a collection already headed by an interview with Winfield Scott. We follow him through the peninsular campaign, when his admiration for McClellan rivals that of any private of the line (admiration linked, in all likelihood, to the somewhat pro-southern, Democratic party attitudes of these two famous officers).
THERE FOLLOWS ANTIETAM, when McClellan let Lee escape after a somewhat undecisive victory, and that terrible group of three battles in late 1862 and 1863 — Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Custer is in most of these campaigns, gaining recognition for his cavalry charges, harassing the Confederates as Stuart and Early were harrassing the Federal Forces.
It was in the campaign through the Shenandoah valley, when Sheridan burned everything that could be used by the South, that Custer achieved his most singular fame, culminating in the assault on Yellow Tavern, when the celebrated Stuart himself fell.
From his student days at West Point, when skylarking and general insubordination put him almost at the bottom of his class, until his death in the hills of Montana Territory, Custer was a storm center, in affairs of the military and affairs of state. This story, and the details of Custer's courtship, make Monaghan's book a worthwhile addition to the almost overwhelming body of books about the Civil War and the years just following the war.
Dailu Hansan
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