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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1959
United Regents
When the Board of Regents voted Friday to approve the report calling for a stepped-up building program at seven state institutions, a sigh of relief could be heard from educational quarters throughout Kansas.
Few issues have been reiterated more frequently this fall than the present shortage of college buildings, especially the many additions needed to handle the increased enrollment expected by 1962.
The question dividing the regents was not the buildings themselves, but how soon they should be completed. One plan set the completion date
for 1964, while the other specified early 1966. The former plan was selected by an 8-1 vote.
That there are many sides to the question is apparent. But that the regents were willing to consider a plan which would complete the needed buildings four years after the crisis is reached defies reason. By 1964, the need for even more buildings will be felt.
Now, with the regents apparently united, we can expect the educational building program to go on unheeded—that is, as long as the governor and the legislature don't entertain different ideas.
—John Husar
Honking Our Horn
Only on rare occasions does a newspaper feel justified in singing its own praises, but we believe a recent accomplishment of The Daily Kansan merits a honk on the UDK horn.
Last week the Associated Collegiate Press rated The Kansan an All American paper for the spring semester, an award given only to five college newspapers in the nation.
One of the departments in which The Kansan received an "excellent" rating was news coverage. Herein, we feel, lies the reward for painstaking hours spent in search of a difficult story and the many weeks of learning the profession.
It has been, and still is, the policy of The Kansan to discourage minimum effort. A chronological listing of campus events is made available to the student body through the publicity office. Any newspaper can reprint these releases and consider its mission accomplished.
But to background the news, to dig out explosive stories, to increase the reader's understanding of his community—these things require maximum effort.
The judges felt The Kansan had met this standard. So do we, or we could not work here. The Kansan is not infallible; student mistakes are the bane of its adviser.
But it is a determined newspaper—dedicated to giving every story the best its staff can produce. This will continue to be our goal and our source of pride. George DeBord
Editor:
Rain Explained
A definite explanation for the recent increase in rain in the Kansas-Missouri area was announced today by a noted KU scholar.
Philo C. Schlechteswetter, for 20 years a research fellow in the department of divining and horoscopy, said the present weather had its foundation in early Kansas history. Nearly 150 years ago the Kansas Indians, through their chief medicine man, Old Squaw Man, fell into disfavor with the Sun God.
When asked whom he meant by Old Squaw Man, Dr. Schlechteswetter (he holds an honorary doctorate from a small Midwestern college) stated that he would not
Since then, despite the efforts of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, he has never been seen on Mount Oread. The Sun god, that is, "Old Squaw Man," Schlechteswetter said, "Is seen damn near every day on the Hill."
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embarrass the departmental chairman who failed him on his Ph.D dissertation by revealing the Indian's present identity.
Schlechteswetter's dissertation was titled "Why the Sun God Left, or Old Squaw Man Drinks His Own Bath Water."
—Ernie Adelman
—Ernie Adelman
Kansas City, Mo., junior
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Editor:
Movie Rebuttal
I would like to refute the letter that was in the Oct. 2 Daily Kansan in answer to my letter in the Tuesday, Sept. 29 edition on the immorality of our movies. The author of the letter said that a mature individual would not mind immorality in movies which he termed an attempt to portray "life, real life." If this were true it would mean that individual is mature when he can look around himself and see immoral actions and yet not be bothered by them at all.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"AN' NOW TH' LOSING COACH COMES OFF TH FIELD ON TH' SHOULDERS OF—"
In his book "The Mature Mind." H A. Overstreet presents a different picture of a mature individual, however. He says, "A mature adult role, properly speaking, can never be one of passive and uncritical acceptance. It must be one of creative evaluation. The mature adult is a thinking adult. He is an adult who meditates values, considers the bearing of things, tries to foresee consequences, tries to get rid as best he can of the 'personal equation' that makes him see what his hopes and fears tell him to see, imagines better ways of doing things. A mature adult, in brief, is a mind actively confronting life and trying to do what needs to be done to improve the life-situation."
"We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone," he wrote. "Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never - so - little scar. The drunkard excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, 'I won't count this time.'"
"Well, he may not count it; but it is being counted nonetheless. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out." Everything we come into contact with influences us.
The author felt that college student should be able to see a number of immoral movies without receiving any harmful effects from them. Yet, one of America's famous teachers and psychologists, William James, advanced the now accepted theory that every contact with the outside world leaves a permanent trace among the cells of the brain.
I have faith in my fellow human beings, and I want the best for them. I want them to lead happy lives. It is my conviction that a person is happiest when he is leading a life that is morally good.
The cheap thrills of a moment are only short-lived and must be paid for. They do not lead to any real happiness. I want my fellow human beings to have good movies to choose from so that they may be uplifted rather than degraded when they go to the show.
For this reason I uphold my stand of urging the improvement of America's films.
Judy Weatherby Lawrence junior
LATIN ART—"Horses" by John Carlos Castagnino.
Latin Art Show Is Surprise, Exciting
By Jack Schrader
The Spooner-Thayer Art Museum officially initiated its season of exhibitions last week with an exciting show entitled "Latin American Drawings." The exhibit is being jointly sponsored by the museum and the Latin American Area Program of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The contemporary show is somewhat of a surprise to many people. The "drawings" are not simply sketches or studies done as preliminaries to more finished works, as the title of the show might indicate. On the contrary, they are finished pieces in themselves, done in a variety of media. And in this respect they reflect a contemporary trend establishing drawing as an art of its own.
Secondly, the show reflects little of what is commonly (and sometimes, I might add, incorrectly) thought to be "Latin American." Actually, the drawings show influences from the schools of Paris and New York and reflect the ultramodernism of many of our southern neighbors, whose cities are some of the most modern in the world.
"Latin American Drawings" owes much of its success as a show to the excellent design of the exhibition by Edward A. Maser, director, and Richard S. Trump, new curator of the museum. A striking appearance has been given the show through the use of colored paper rectangles on the wall behind some of the frames, complementing the otherwise neutral drawings with areas of strong color.
Highlights of the exhibition include "Funeral of a Dictator" by Jose Luis Cuevas of Mexico, which is strikingly like the work of Ben Shahn both in technique and sentiment; "Horses" by Juan Carlos Castagnino of Argentina, an excellent study building up areas of light and shade; "Woman" by Aldemir Marian of Brazil, which echoes the simplicity and geometric composition of Bernard Buffet; and "Visit in the Afternoon" by Servando Cabrera of Cuba, Picasso-like in structure, but extremely personalized in style.
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