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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Oct. 22. 1959
The Future Student
A special citizen of the United States celebrated his birthday September 2. He is 14 years old and will become a KU student during the fall term of 1963.
His birthday on Sept. 2, 1945, coincided with the ending of one of the worst periods of misery in the history of mankind—World War II.
This special student-to-be is the last of the "war babies."
His coming to our college has already created a great deal of controversy. He and his brothers and sisters have swelled the grade schools to the bursting point as they have the high schools. His coming to the University already is being viewed with a great deal of trepidation—and some apathy.
What is his heritage? What is his future?
His heritage is a world of unresolved conflicts which are the result of aborted ideological principles. His future is a struggle in which he will try to make himself heard above the voices of those who will not listen.
Who is this child of conflict? He is the "rock-and-roller," the problem child, the juvenile delinquent, the nice looking lad who sits next to you
in church, the boy next door.
He's the boy who doesn't know what he is going to be, the "conservative," the uncommitted one. He is a member of the "silent generation."
In four years, however, this boy will no longer be a member of a group so often referred to by that overworked catch-all cliche, "silent generation."
In four years he and his kind will make themselves heard through the collective thunder of their many voices. And they will not be denied their say, for already they are learning to speak and there are even those who are listening.
When they come to our campus their ideas will crystalize and unite, and from this unison will evolve a voice which will be the voice of our country. The "war baby" of yesterday is tomorrow's leading citizen.
This future leader is dissatisfied with his heritage and troubled by his future. He will come to us seeking the answers to many questions.
Let us prepare our campus for his coming. Let us give him the means of answering those questions. Let us heed his voice, for it is possible he will lead us in revolution. —Ray Miller
College Marriages a Disgrace?
Husband-hunting college women were called a disgrace last week by the new president of Smith College. Dr. Thomas C. Mendenhall said, "The prevailing mania for early marriage produces a false set of values . . ."
Dr. Mendenhall not only called college marriages a "national disgrace" but also stated that the number of women dropping out of college last year probably approached 60 per cent.
At KU, the situation Dr. Mendenhall describes seems to be reversed. Seventy-one per cent of the women in the 1955 freshman class graduated from the University in June. Of the 492 graduating women 103, or 20 per cent, were married. Surely this must indicate that marriage can be combined with education.
Still, there were approximately 29 per cent of the 1955 freshman women who did not graduate. It would be an exaggeration to assume that all of these women quit school because they were married.
At least 15 per cent of the women who dropped out probably did so because of poor grades.
Others may have been short of funds. Still others may not have liked KU and transferred to other colleges or just quit school completely. Some, of course, do get married and drop out of school.
Patricia Patterson, assistant dean of women, agreed with Dr. Mendenhall when she said the number of women dropping out of school before graduation is "a concern to any educator."
Dr. Mendenhall says that too many college women do not work toward higher degrees because of early marriages. Is it really a false set of values to prefer being a housewife to holding a B.S. or Ph.D.?
The question seems to turn on the point of individual preference. Does the president of Smith College, or any other educational institution, have the right to condemn a woman for preferring marriage to higher education?
How can any individual justly criticize a woman for wanting to create a home, the basic unit of society, saying that she should want to become another degree-holder instead?
—Saundra Hayn
Summerfield too Hot Editor
Students, instructors and parents have been given the impression that Summerfield Hall is an air-conditioned building. Some of us have been shocked, therefore, to find the building unbeatable hot. The higher one climbs, the higher the temperature seems to be.
This is not caused by "working
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up a steam" from rushing up several flights of stairs. Even after sitting in class for half an hour, one suffers because of the "air-conditioning." Such warm rooms result in sleepiness, nervousness and plain old discomfort.
Can't something be done about this problem? A simple twist of a knob would probably do the trick. This is an SOS!
-Virginia Marshall
Colby freshman
There must be something in the saying "fight fire with fire" because that seems to be what takes place in Summerfield Hall.
On hot days the air is conditioned all right—with heat! Either Webster's definition of air-conditioning is erroneous, or some tired janitor is pushing the wrong button early in the morning.
Conditioned with Heat
Editor:
Would you be kind enough to inform me which it is?
Some day in the near future a terrible, choking odor is going to cause much misery on this campus. It will also necessitate the shameful hanging of heads among even the most proud alumni and give rise to many unbearable jokes about KU and the students here (although it is not unreasonable to assume that the students will insist that the faculty and administration are to blame).
Sally Blake
Topeka freshman
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May Cause B.O.
What is this odor?—B.O. Yes,
B.O., my friends. And what causes
B.O.?—perspiration, which in turn
Why, in a modern building like Summerfield Hall, or in any building for that matter, is it necessary that the heat, especially on warm, fall days, range so high as to cause one to perspire quite freely?
is a result of excessive heat, bringing me to the subject at hand.
Is this some sadistic attempt to render KU positively nauseating? Is this the work of an anti-social madman? I want to know why someone can't get on the ball (note the pun on a well-known deodorant, Dad) and correct this situation, else we become known as a bunch of stinkers.
A Summerfield Attack Editor:
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As I got up to leave the room, a bead of sweat trickled down my nose, gaining mass and momentum until a weary shake of my head cast it into space.
I passed the thermostat and glanced wiltedly at it. A hundred and three. I collapsed.
Ralph Gage
Ottawa freshman
When I awoke, a student nurse was removing an ice bag from my forehead.
"What's your name?" she asked. "A hundred and three," I murmured.
She left. Thoughts wafted gently through my mind. Fiery tongues licked my back. My tongue tasted like a dry sponge. The instructor's face vanished in the heat waves.
What had happened? Was I going mad? Then I remembered. I was just another victim of an afternoon class on 5th floor Summerfield.
—Lauren Ward Ottawa freshman
IF
By Janet Juneau
If you are unwilling to admit a mistake to your students...
If you tell your students "black is not white" one day and "black is white" the next day...
If you know your class is the only class...
If you give words of discouragement and never words of praise or encouragement ...
If you think a student is an absolute imbecile and there is no hope ...
If you consistently use the example of girls wearing white sox as the symbol of conformity ...
If you, as a professor, refuse to or frown upon associating with one with the title of "instructor" . . .
If you expect your students to be on time to class and come in yourself at nine minutes after the hour...
If you expect assigned papers to be in on time and hand them back three weeks later . . .
If you decide a person's grade on the basis of one paper, one test, or one remark...
If you think all students' knowledge comes from house files... If you answer "yes," you're a regular KU professor.
By John S. Lewis
Assistant Instructor of English
Although this is his first novel, Charles Beaumont is a veteran of fiction, having published two volumes of short stories. "The Intruder" is set in a small Southern town called Caxton which, like Clinton, Tennessee, had school-integration troubles.
Having exhausted legal means to prevent integration, the leading citizens accepted the inevitable. Then, Adam Cramer, a Californian, came on the scene.
WORKING QUICKLY, Cramer organized a local chapter for a non-existent national organization, the Society of National American Patriots. Skillfully using the techniques of a rabble rouser, Cramer appealed to the suspicions and prejudices of the entire town and gained the backing of the town's richest citizen, a wealthy but dense manufacturer. Although most townspeople did not have strong opinions on segregation, Cramer whipped up violence culminating with the death of a Negro minister.
THE INTRUDER, by Charles Beaumont, Putnam, $3.95.
Cramer's opposite number was the moderate newspaper editor, Tom McDaniel, who tried desperately to prevent strife, but was attacked after he conducted a group of Negro youngsters to school. Cramer also made a feeble attempt to seduce the editor's daughter. He did succeed with the wife of a traveling salesman.
DESPITE THE MULTIPLICITY of conflict which Beaumont gave his novel, "The Intruder" fails, apparently because the author became bored with the characters and situation he created. The climax is terribly forced and is not foreshadowed. In fact, the author foreshadowed Cramer's mental collapse instead of the defeat which came from without.
Beaumont needs to discipline his own writing to sustain a successful novel. He has a great deal of native talent and may become a first-rate novelist in the future. "The Intruder" may lead to better works provided that Beaumont learns to handle foreshadowing more skillfully.
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