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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, November 11, 1959
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Student discipline problems again are under the eerie light of public surveyance. This time the questions concerning jurisdiction of disciplinary actions have arisen out of the recent probation of Delta Tau Delta fraternity for an undisclosed infraction of KU's social rules and regulations.
Discipline and Deans
The officers of Delta Tau Delta were summoned by Dean of Men Donald K. Alderson to appear before himself and the ASC social committee. The probation penalty was ruled at that meeting. Dean Alderson, Robert Kerlinger, president of the fraternity, and Douglas Reed, chairman of the social committee, all refused to name the charge leveled at the fraternity.
There is a considerable amount of haziness inherent in the definition of authority at KU. This was recognized by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and Dean of Students Laurence C. Woodruff last April when a controversy developed concerning the dismissal of three TNE students on vandalism charges.
The chancellor intimated that he and Dean Woodruff would settle the matter concerning which type of disciplinary problems would be handled by the deans, the student disciplinary committee and its offspring, the ASC social committee. To our knowledge nothing has happened since the chancellor's statement.
According to the Associated Students' constitution, social rules infractions come under the jurisdiction of either the disciplinary committee or the social committee. Nowhere does it specify
which committee will handle the different types of actions. Are the deans left to decide this?
The deans seem to be taking more than a paternal interest in the matter. Dean Alderson appeared to initiate the action for the social committee. The social committee chairman gave the impression that he had little idea of what the matter was about. Obviously, someone, on some committee, must be responsible in disciplinary matters.
Dean of Women Emily Taylor has urged at a joint meeting of all the men's and women's housemothers that they rigidly patrol their charges' parties. Indications point to the possibility that the news of the infraction, whatever it is, came from her office through an "informer" system.
It is feared that a matter of this nature, if blown up out of proportion, will injure the Delta Tau Deltas and the entire Greek system. We doubt this. So far the scope of the situation has not been seen, but indications point that its implications for disciplinary procedures will be vast.
Silence on the matter is being practised in all quarters concerned. Each party mentioned that it was urged not to "publicize" the issue. No one will say who did the urging. Nor why.
There is a fishy smell to our present disciplinary setup. The only way to clear away a bad odor is to give it plenty of air.
—John Husar
Ise Speaks
Editor:
It is fortunate that doddering old economists like myself occasionally can get our economies brought up to date, our rusty theories refurbished by younger men whose minds still shine with the bloom of youth—Messrs. Morrow and Schmitz, for instance.
The older economists and the younger ones always had believed and taught that our high plane of living was due to our rich natural resources and sparse population. We never dreamed that it was due to advertising, since we had high living long before we spent much on advertising.
Neither did we see the real reasons for the poverty of the Chinese; we thought it was due to over-population—too many Chinese and too little land and, therefore too little food. But I can see now that we were quite confused. Apparently the Chinese are noverty-strecken because of lack of advertising. If China had our efficient advertising system there would be beautiful pictures—like our Wonder Bread—and the lazy peasants would get some ambition—American style—and would bestir themselves and produce plenty of wheat, or perhaps make a million dollars so they could buy all the bread they wanted.
Here I can see that the world's most critical problem, one that has baffled our befuddled economists since the time of Malthus, is on the point of solution—the problem of mass hunger. No use talking about the use of fertilizer, or about birth control, no use sending food to the hungry nations. Those expedients reach only the fringes of the problem. No, send them advertisers! We could easily spare a couple of thousand, since we now have about enough of everything. The world problem of hunger would be solved, and with it, of course, the problem of communism. If we had a few hucksters left at home, they would
be useful too; they could take over the study of economics, at which their keen, practical insight is so much better than that of our so-called economists.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
John Ise
Professor emeritus
of economics
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DEAN BELLLOWS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO OWNS THIS
LITTLE FOREIGN JOB PARKED IN THE HALL ?"
Miss Janet Juneau, in two "If..." columns recently attempted to point out the major faults of Greeks and Independents. As an Independent I do not feel competent to comment upon her criticism of the Greek system, but I do think that a few remarks about her general purpose and some remarks concerning Independents are in order.
Independent Opinion
Editor:
MISS JUNEAU'S PURPOSE seemed to be to show Greeks' and Independents that neither of their systems is perfect and that each needs to modify its views somewhat. The two articles seem to be based on two assumptions, 1.) that Independents and Greeks should cooperate more closely, and 2.) that Independents and Greeks can cooperate more closely.
But Independents and Greeks cannot work together any more than can the United States and Russia. Are the Greeks who have dominated the campus for years willing to see the Independents hold an equally powerful position? Obviously not.
IN THE PAST the problem of Greeks versus Independents was minor, for the Greeks ruled the campus and the Independents realized and accepted this fact. But the Independent is not longer willing to be dominated; for the dormant mass, the slumbering independent has begun to realize that potentially he has the numbers to dominate the campus. But the Independents seek not to dominate, they only desire an equal voice on the campus.
The Independent should not blame the Greek for this Greek domination; he has only himself to blame. This goal of equality with the Greeks, which the Independents have set for themselves, is a noble goal. Such a goal will not be reached without a struggle, perhaps a bitter one. There will be setbacks, there will be discouragement; but in the end, there will be victory. Rise up, Independents, for you have nothing to lose but your chains!
Larry G. Ehrlich Russell junior
A Kansas Visitor In New York
By John Husar
Editors note: John Husar, associate editorial editor of the University Daily Kansan is in New York this week attending Associated Collegiate Press conference. This is the first of a series of articles concerning his experiences there.
NEW YORK—Horns blared as automobiles poured from the mouths of an intersection and joined the cavalcade speeding along Broadway. People pressed about, charging from subway exits, offices and stores. A voice from under a Madison Avenue homburg cursed the hand which dropped an orange peel onto its cherished chapeaux from the safety of a skyscraper.
What appeared to be a gremlin loaded with apples futilely tried to whet pedestrians' appetites with raucous Bronx words. A whistle shrieked, and a policeman on a shiny black horse vigorously waved to an errant taxi. The editor from Kansas, fused to the sidewalk, stared at the horse—and thought of home.
The editor was being chaperoned by a faculty adviser and two advertising men. The four are attending a journalism conference in the Hotel New Yorker. Unfortunately they couldn't locate the hotel and were hopelessly lost. Some malicious cabbie had transported them to a lower Brooklyn flea-trap. Before the error was discovered, the taxi had disappeared, and the four were made to play sardines in a subway train during a confusing three-hour tour of Gotham's underground—until they somehow were returned to Brooklyn. A friendly bus driver guided them back to the Great White Way.
Yes, the editor was having quite a time. A few hours before he saw what he thought must have been a television actress. She was standing on a corner in the Battery, looking all made up for the cameras and, like a woman of obvious means, was sophisticatedly smoking a cigarette. She saw the editor staring at her and, apparently trying to be nice, said, "Hiya, buddy." He was about to ask her for an autograph when his friends took him away.
The editor and his three cronies still had plenty of time before the conference began, so they thought of taking in a little sightseeing. Everybody wanted to visit different places like the Statue of Liberty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the United Nations building, and so on. No one could agree on one place. The discussion began getting hot so the faculty adviser diplomatically suggested that each person do as he liked. The group concurred to that suggestion and so dispersed. The editor went looking for the Bronx Zoo.
It seems that he had his heart set on seeing some zebus, which he felt were certain to be there, if anywhere. Zebus are an oriental beast of burden. He was curious about the animals, since he helped publish numerous articles about them for several years.
Some time later the hotel received an irate phone call from an East Side pet shop proprietor who was quoted:
"Some stinko convention fella who says he's staying at your place is in my store ravin' about zoos an' zebus an' rotgut an' tellin' me he's gonna bust the place up unless I show him some damn kinda zebu animal. I got him lookin' at some goldfish now so's he's pretty quiet, but you'd better get him the hell outa here before I hafta call the . . ."
The editor was claimed by his friends and put to bed. The tale of his afternoon was a wild one and will be told tomorrow.
Daily Hansan
University of Kansas student newspaper
Founded 1889, became biweekly 1904, triweekly 1908,daily Jan. 16,1912
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Carolyn Frailey, Society Editor.
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