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University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 16. 1959
Disciplinary Problem
The machinery set up to administer student discipline is badly in need of oil-if not outright repair.
Students and administrators have agreed that zones of confusion exist concerning the channeling of cases. It is not clear which disciplinary problems should be handled by the deans and which should go to the student disciplinary bodies.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy voiced his concern over this matter last spring, but to date no action has been taken.
The problem is that in certain cases both the deans and the student disciplinary bodies have authority over the same areas. Each has jurisdiction over "such other disciplinary matters as may arise." Hence the zone of confusion.
Clearly, these hazy areas need defining. In absence of action by the administration, we feel
it is up to the students to press for a more workable plan.
The All Student Council meeting tomorrow night would be a good time to start.
Doubtless the problem will come up for discussion. If the Council truly is interested in student welfare, the discussion will lead to corrective action.
We see little to commend the present methods of policing social functions and administering justice to those accused of violating social rules and regulations. Students are the best judges of their needs. If they come up with an acceptable plan for revising the present system the administration must give careful and fair consideration to their proposals.
—George DeBord
Wednesday morning several cars belonging to residents of Joseph R. Pearson Hall were "decorated" with the familiar blue traffic tickets by campus police.
Parking Blues
The cars were parked in a line next to a driving lane in Zone A behind the hall. Drivers have been parking in that particular line since the hall was opened last semester.
Accompanying each ticket was a slip of white paper with this explanation:
"Park only on outside perimeter of lot or in designated parking places."
Joe Skillman, campus police chief, said yesterday afternoon the tickets are strictly warnings. He said the cars were in an area which was never intended for parking.
The incident brings up several interesting questions:
1. Where are the designated parking places in
the lot? There are no signs telling where to park or where not to park.
2. Why were cars allowed to park in this area in the first place? Wouldn't it have saved a lot of time, and tickets, if the announcement were made several times to residents of the hall?
Chief Skillman said most of the residents would hear about the tickets in a few days and consequently would park their cars somewhere else. It seems to us that the whole matter could have been handled more efficiently and at less cost.
3. How is a student supposed to know when a ticket is a warning?
Regulations regarding automobiles at KU should be made clear to students at the beginning of each year. These should include parking instructions for each specified parking area. Then students would not feel that the police had pulled a "fast one" by citing a regulation the students didn't even realize existed.
—Larry Hazelrigg
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Latin and Greek
Editor:
It has come to my ears that some students and parents are under the false impression that Latin and Greek will not fulfill the A. B. graduation requirements. I am unable to hazard a guess as to the source of this unfortunate misunderstanding, but I hasten to assure all readers that Latin and Greek can and do fulfill the requirements for the A. B. degree under both old
and new college regulations just as they have fulfilled them ever since the University was founded.
The excellent report of the Chancellor's Committee on Foreign Languages (published in two separate pamphlets and available from the Public Relations Office) concentrated its attention upon the modern foreign languages, since their status in the high schools of Kansas has always been at a disadvantage in relation to Latin.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
I SEE TH' SIGNA FII NOTHING ARE MAKIN' QUITE A THOUGH
OUT OF 'PLEDGIN' THAT BASKETBALL PLAYER.
For example, of those entering College freshmen who studied a language in high school in Kansas 57 per cent took Latin; similarly, in 1957-58, 7121 students were enrolled in Latin while Spanish had 4884 students.
This report has created a much more favorable atmosphere for high school language study in Kansas. But its emphasis on modern foreign languages should not obscure the fact that Latin, still the most popular language in the high schools of Kansas, can also be studied in the University and will fill the A.B. requirements. In fact, the "Conclusions and Recommendations to the University of Kansas" from the Language Committee add, after speaking of aural proficiency in modern foreign language study:
High level reading competence in ancient Greek or Latin seems to be an equally worthy goal to achieve.
Chairman, Department of Latin and Greek
L. R. Lind
Some of the cheers occurring in the northeast section of Memorial Stadium on game days are getting crude, obnoxious, unruly, out of hand, and unnecessarily loud.
We like 'em.
We like em.
Seniors never receive high grades in Speech I. Here's why: If the speech is designed on the freshman level, the seniors are bored. Design it for the seniors and the freshmen are shocked. Solution? Drop back ten and punt.
Well, it's about that time of the year when the upperclassmen start withdrawing from Speech I after having met all the class' freshman girls.
By Calder M. Pickett
Associate Professor of Journalism
The second installment of the "History of the Motion Pictures" series-all three hours of it—has come and gone. And a good many of the 100 persons who watched D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance" Wednesday evening in the Museum of Art now know why the film was a commercial failure in 1916.
It was no artistic failure, as the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, which rented the picture to the sponsors of the KU series, points out. It especially influenced the Russians, who studied Griffith's exciting mob scenes—as in the strike sequence—and imitated them by such Russian films as "Strike" and "Ten Days That Shook the World."
A Pioneer
All of the innovations of the great film pioneer are here to see: the "iris" dissolves, the fadeouts, the panning-in and -out. There are the closeups so amazing in their day, "Dear One" giving encouragement to her accused husband during his trial, "Brown Eyes" flirting with the soldier who later runs a sword through her, "The Mountain Girl" chewing onions in the slave market. And a big magnificent camel slowly moving through a crowded marketplace.
But Griffith's switches back and forth in time were maddening. And bewildering, too, as they were to the filmmgcars of 1916 who were so ready to give full acceptance to "Intolerance" after their delight in "The Birth of a Nation."
Through the Ages
"Intolerance" is the story of intolerance through the ages. Griffith begins with intolerance in the 20th century, wherein a group of reformers (a title informs us that women often turn to reform when they no longer can attract men) set out to improve the community. They need money, so they prevail upon the sister of a wealthy factory owner. He cuts the workers' wages—$2.75 a day—10 per cent so he can provide the needed funds.
The workers strike. They get their heads bloodied up, and in true pre-Wagner Act fashion they lose their jobs to those willing to work for less. So they go to the city, where their good countryman instincts are subjected to industrial and urban deterioration. Troubles, troubles, troubles.
Now all of this does not take place in one unbroken sequence. Oh, no. The travails of Dear One, The Boy, and The Friendless One are interrupted by other matters.
Matter Defined
Like, say, that business in Babylon. Belshazzer and his people are bowing to false gods. They are living lives of lust and iniquity. Intolerance, in short, as Griffith would put it. And waiting out in the countryside is Cyrus of Persia, whose Ethiopians and barbarians and mercenaries are waiting to move in on the storied and evil city. And lovely Babylonian ladies are writhing about in Bacchanalian revels that must have inspired Cecil B. De Mille and surely would not have been permitted in the pious age of Shirley Temple and Clifton Webb.
Or Jerusalem. There we see the Pharissees, the quintessence of intolerance. We see them, that is, when Griffith is not suddenly shooting us back into the problems of Dear One and The Boy. One has the feeling that the titles should have read, on occasion, "Meanwhile, back in ancient Babylon..."
More Travels
Then there is France, in the time of Catherine de Medici. Catherine and the royal court have the intolerant design of destroying the Huguenots. With the help of Griffith they destroy them—in one of the bloodiest sequences in film history.
It is not fair, however, to be only facetious about such a film. There is much at which to laugh, much to applaud. It is puzzling, but it holds up amazingly well. Griffith's use of the narrowed shot to permit a vertical emphasis is something that our CinemaScope-crazy producers might well study. The vast sets, the battle scenes, the spectacle values—neither a De Mille spectacle of the 1930s nor a "War and Peace" of the 1950s has improved on them.
An American Primitive
It is, finally, the use of the individual, more than the use of the mobs, which sets apart D. W. Griffith and "Intolerance." Dear One and The Boy are pretty corny and pretty funny in their over-acting. But this corn is in a film that is almost an American primitive, and the attempts of Griffith and his cast to understand human values and human emotions are a foreshadowing of latter days in the movies—"A Place in the Sun," "From Here to Eternity," "Marty," "The Defiant Ones" and the other pictures that we have applauded in recent years. All were made possible by Griffith and "Intolerance."
Dailu fansan
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