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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1959
KU's New Problem
We see where the KU enrollment this year has increased by 194 students over the 1958 total of 9,241. Although this increase may appear healthy on the surface, it is still short of the amount expected by the Regents.
Four schools in the University have smaller enrollments than last year. The schools and their differences from last year are: Engineering and architecture (29), law (8), pharmacy (29) and journalism (10).
Because of varying enrollment figures, the situations in these schools appear clearer when the enrollment decreases are looked at in percentages. That way, the four schools' reductions are: Pharmacy (22.5%) , engineering and architecture (14.5%) , journalism (12.5%) and law (5.8%).
With the exception of the School of Law, the other schools appear to be in serious trouble. Enrollment problems in the School of Engineering and Architecture were expected. James K. Hitt, registrar, said that engineering schools throughout the country suffered enrollment losses due to a transfer of student interest toward physics and chemistry.
Mr. Hitt agreed that a toughening of KU's engineering and architecture requirements could be responsible for the enrollment drop in that school. Last year a revitalized program was instituted and some necessary faculty changes were made when the accreditation of the department of architecture was questioned.
Over-all enrollment at KU and K-State seems to be holding Its own this year, Mr. Hitt said. But other schools in the state have shown an increase, probably because they have developed their territories more aggressively and more recently than have KU and K-State, he concluded.
Pharmacy and journalism are also on shaky footing. Since both are small schools, an enrollment loss of any size could prove disastrous.
Some of KU's schools and departments have undergone rigorous curriculum changes recently. Pharmacy and journalism are two of those which have remained the same. It is imperative that an investigation of these schools' needs be begun before they are crippled beyond help from lack of students. John Husar
The Presidential Clown
The American people have at last glimpsed the role of the American presidency at its worst. A performance such as Harry S. Truman put on Sunday night, as a part of the Jack Benny show, has previously been limited to the antics of party workers at presidential nominating conventions.
Truman's appearance on the show was in a dual role. Half of the time he was the publicity director for the Truman Library. The other half of the time he played the part of the buffoon.
Truman, the waltzing Missourian, tripped gaily through a series of not too successful puns with the violin-debasing Benny. The appreciative laughter was obviously canned. Perhaps it was the lack of a live audience that threw the two tin cup musicians off beat.
The technical quality of the program was similar to the DeMille production of "The Squaw Man." It also was confusing. At one point, the
squeaking of Truman's chair almost drowned the dialogue. The viewer often felt he was watching "Person to Person." Truman then led Benny from trophy case to statuary which symbolized his accomplishments as president.
Truman did teach Benny a practical lesson in American history. Capering with the aging comedian beneath a picture of George Washington, he waggishly entreated Benny not to lie about his age.
The capstone of the tasteless half hour came in the concluding seconds of the performance. Benny summarized the entire fiasco by three inappropriate requests to his audience:
1. Go see the Truman Library, it is wonderful!
2. Put toothpaste!
2. Buy toothpaste!
3. Watch George Gobel next week!
—Saundra Hayn
Bubbling Spirit
... Letters ...
This is being written on the night of a fine KU victory on the football field. It is being written by four individuals who thought they were going to that game to see the victory take place, to enjoy it, and to cheer on the KU team.
We are in the graduate school or are wives of the same. We did
have the privilege of paying $34 for our activity tickets, and our wives had the privilege of paying $6 for tickets to attend the football games with us.
We went about our usual Saturday morning business, which perhaps only two other couples with eight children between them can understand. We left for the game as soon as possible, 12:15
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
o'clock, in hopes of finding some fairly good seats. The ones we did find were not on the 50, or 40 yard lines, but on the 30 yard line, nicely up in the stadium.
There was no one sitting on the seats when we arrived, only four pairs of feet, which we felt belonged on the floor and not on the seats. Since the seats were not reserved (at least there were no such signs on them) and since we were not about to pass up those fine seats which we had come early enough to find, we sat down—on top of the four pairs of feet.
Here is my first question. Do most KU students want to have their good behavior jeopardized by the behavior of some, the likes of those in front of whom we were unfortunate enough to sit? We were called "Hayseeds" and other even less flattering names during a good part of the game. At just about game time, four other students appeared who actually had hoped to find seats saved for them. We were told we did not know the rules at KU and that we were just "specks of dust" and that what we believed in did not really matter.
Others nearby were also trying to save seats. Is that a KU rule? We happened to feel, perhaps wrongly, that no matter how "hayseedy" we may be, if we had a ticket to admit us and had bothered to get there at a reasonable time, that we should also be privileged to sit in an available seat.
The persons we would like to answer this letter are all the others, elderly folks, student couples, married couples, pregnant women, etc. ..who we saw trudging up the aisle and beyond us to seek any or the best seat which was still available.
And if we are mistaken in our beliefs (first come, first served), then may we also hear from some authoritative source about the rules at good old KU.
Four from the Seats without Feets Club
PENSIVE—Julian Bream tunes his lute before last night's recital in the University Theatre.
By Stuart Levine Instructor in English
The major work of the evening was the Bach Suite in E Minor, which Mr. Bream has sensibly transcribed for guitar from Bach's score for the 13-string lute. It's an extraordinary piece, full of chromatic progressions of a sort I didn't know a guitar could handle, restrained yet inherently powerful, complex a d dynamic, yet always quite straightforward. Mr. Bream played it well, too.
In manner and appearance, Julian Bream reminds one of those enthusiastic but essentially vapid English dilettantes, the gentlemen amateurs who enthuse about one thing or another. And I fear that something of this quality carries over into his lute and guitar playing. Last evening in the University Theatre he somehow managed to be both sensitive and unconvincing.
One of the soloist's encores was revealing—an Albeniz work which is in the repetioires of Andres Segovia and Laurindo Almieda. It is in the tradition of stately, formal and fiery Spanish guitar music, and Mr. Bream was far out of his element even though his playing was correct. He is at his best as a sort of sensitive antiquarian, unearthing, deciphering and performing the gracious music of an elegant period.
STILL, HE IS AN IMPRESSIVE technician, and it was a treat to be able to hear music from the unfamiliar literatures for lute and guitar. Mr. Bream was thoroughly at home with the 16th century lute works which opened the program; he played with grace and understanding.
BUT I RATHER QUESTION some of his other transcriptions, especially that of Ravel's Pavane pour une Infante Defune. You know, it's possible to play Chopin on the calliope, but why do it? It did, however, show off the remarkable range of effects of which the guitar is capable.
I don't mean this disparagingly. Some of my best friends are antiquarians.
The first rule of advertising is to keep the customer dissatisfied. Thanks to advertising, the average American worker is up to his gills in debt and working like a galley slave.-John Ise, professor emeritus of economics.
Prof. Ise continues: People have no economic value. Sheep and cows, yes; but you can't sell people.
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