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University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 26, 1959
For Better Rushing
University and college alumni need not limit their interest in the old alma mater to supporting the athletic teams.
Alumni of the University of Texas, who are organized as the University Ex-Students' Assn., have set up a program to recruit scholars, rather than athletes, for their university.
"Operation Brainpower" is an independent operation of the "Texas-Exes" clubs, which operate in behalf of the university. Teams of administration officials, deans and students visit Texas high schools to inform the prep students of the opportunities available at Texas U. The program is in its third year.
Alumni donate money to foot the bill for the visits, paying the team's food, housing and travel expenses. A local alumni organization arranges each visit and its members turn out to greet the visitors, man the refreshments table and do their part to help sell their alma mater.
A 2-hour "Brainpower" program comes in three parts. A brief speech by a university administrator or dean is followed by a 24-minute orientation film. Then the members of the team split into small groups and the high school students circulate from group to group asking questions.
"The kids ask serious questions, and they seem to appreciate the university taking an interest in them," a dean at Texas U. said.
The program has been successful. After the first year, the number of high school valedictorians entering Texas U. rose from 88 to 121.
A bit of personal public relations, such as this Texas U. program, can do wonders in establishing good will for a university and in interesting the top students in attending the school.
KU would benefit from a program similar to "Operation Brainpower." Our Statewide Activities organization does very little in actually promoting KU. When the responsibility is left up to the students, they never seem to have time to get a project started.
Fraternities take an active role in persuading students to choose KU as their college. Athletic department officials go out and recruit athletes.
But we need a campaign designed to aid the entire University and not just departments or organizations. The Alumni Association should lead the way in promoting KU through such a program.
Jack Harrison
Crow for Dinner
An editorial in the Wednesday, Oct. 21 issue of the Daily Kansan, titled "KU's New Problem," erroneously accused the School of Pharmacy of lagging in academic developments.
In discussing the seriousness of the small schools' enrollment losses this year, this writer emphasized the need for a curriculum change in the schools of pharmacy and journalism. Through not checking his news source, this writer failed to
discover that the School of Pharmacy had enacted a curriculum change seven years ago, and, in 1957, went onto a five-year program.
Pharmacy's enrollment drop has been explained as being caused by the shortening of actual pharmacy school terms to three years. A student's first two years are spent in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
—John Husar
Mis-Stated Fact
Editor:
My fellow students and I were amazed at the editorial printed in last Wednesday's Daily Kansan, entitled "KU's New Problem." This editorial has a mis-statement of fact. Representing Pharmacy here at KU through the American Pharmaceutical Association student branch, I would like to refute this editorial.
In the editorial Mr. Husar does a beautiful job of presenting the reader with mis-information. It was a feeble attempt by him to increase his journalistic prestige by plunging into a controversial pool without first looking to see if
it were full. First of all, our curriculum underwent a complete revision seven years ago under the supervision of a curriculum committee. This was at least five years before any other KU schools made current changes. Since then, course changes have continued to upgrade our curriculum.
With the never ending stream of new drugs and new medical concepts which enable better treatment of disease, our faculty is faced with constant revision of their class material, the amount of which is unequaled in any other school at KU.
Public health being an ever changing field, our faculty joined the nation-wide trend by changing pharmacy to a five-year course. This includes two years in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, followed by three years in Pharmacy School. This change was publicized last fall by the Daily Kansan, which Mr. Husar evidently doesn't bother to read.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Pharmacy enrollment, one of the bases of the original editorial, is not down. The figures this year are based on the three classes in Pharmacy School, while previous year's figures were based on the four-year school. If Mr. Husar had made the smallest effort to inquire of someone who knew what they were talking about, he could have found this out.
Also since the five-year plan started only two years ago our sophomore class consists only of transfer students with two years of college, thus naturally decreasing it in number. If the pre-pharmacy students in the College were added to our present enrollment figures, I am sure an increase in enrollment would be noted.
"I JUST HEAR A HORIBIBLE RUMOR--THAT THE TRUSTEES WILL REQUIRE ALL PROFESSORS TO PASS TH ENTRANCE EXAM"
These changes as listed above have been made by the profession of pharmacy in a never-ending effort to produce the highest quality men to handle the nation's health. It is supposed to be the job of the journalists to present the truth, so I ask the Kansan to shield the readers from any further unbaked information as was presented last Wednesday. Such information could tear down mountains of good work done by pharmacy to protect the public health, and I think apologies are needed for this dire mistake.
—Robert O. Iott, President
Student Branch, A. Ph. A.
We sure hope KU goes to the Orange Bowl. Like it would be great, man (ugh). The football game might be interesting, too.
--the girls liked me when you were along, but would never go out with me alone. But that's in the past and I'll not hold a grudge against you, no matter what kind of stories you used to circulate.
As we see it, there's only one possible way to eliminate closing hours-eliminate the coed.
Letter to Fred
Hey Fred boy!
From George DeBord
How's the kid? Sorry I didn't get to write last week but I had a bout with the flu bug and spent a couple of days in the old sack. Don't be alerting any angels or anything like that (I know you want me up there with you, boy, but I got some work to do first) because I'm already in the second stage of recovery.
The second stage is the one where you're too sick to eat but too far behind to cut classes. So, you just sort of stumble around and get well between lectures.
Mom sent down some pictures of you the other day to cheer me up. You were even uglier than I remembered. I guess that's why you always got to me—you looked like you needed a friend.
What's that I hear about you taking up the harp? You must be taking that business up there pretty seriously. Just remember what we used to talk about—don't buy any bill of goods until you think it out for yourself. Just because everyone else does it is no reason to tag along. Besides, I've still got 10 bucks bet with my new pup that you'll get sent down before you get your wings.
And if the managers up there ever hear you play, the money is as good as in my pocket. Remember how you used to howl when someone on the radio played a violin? Who you trying to kid? You're no music lover.
Speaking of music (and we don't anymore) there is a new R and R song out about you. It's not really of the Rattle and Regurgitate variety, but it has no message so can be classified with other platters designed for today's teens.
Anyway, it's about a bunch of skirts kissin' and huggin' with you in the back seat of that old 1936 convertible I had when we went to high school. I think maybe Sandra Kurtz wrote it. Remember how she and those other girls used to sit in the back seat makin' out like they loved you while I drove around?
I never could figure out why
I suppose you're well informed on the steel strike, so I'll go on to college news. (You still subscribe to the Times?) Oh yeah, before I forget, they put the blocks to the fake quiz shows on TV. Remember how you used to hate those phony mc's with the big teeth and the small jokes? I knew the questions were rigged when you couldn't answer the one about aerodynamics that time. Imagine, some fresh little sump cleaner knowing the answer when you couldn't even interpret the question.
But at college, we still have the same old situation. The prots still fire the loaded questions and we bluff our way back up for air. But I've got no beef with the teachers, it's the students that cause most of the pain.
We printed a number of articles on student apathy and never got a letter. Then we tried to muster some support for a bigger building program. Again no letters. But when someone turned up the heat at Summerfield on a warm day, the post office was swamped and we had to enlist the help of the society desk to help open the letters.
Which doesn't say too much except that you can't excite today's college student unless you build a fire under him.
Well, Babe, got to take. Take a bath once in awhile and don't forget to get your distemper shots on time.
Don't take any wooden bones.
George
A technical or technocratic culture generates powerful utilitarian pressures and develops means of mass communication—movies, picture magazines, tabloids, radio and television—which all tend to reduce the culture to a kind of sophisticated vulgarity beside which the vulgarity of the unlettered man of other ages will appear as pure innocence.—Reinhold Niebuhr.
Daily Hansan
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Jack Harrison ... Managing Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
George DeBord and John Husar ... Co-Editorial Editors
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Bill Kane ... Business Manager