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University Daily Kansar Wednesday, Sept. 30. 1959
Opinion Squelched
Freedom of expression received a jolt when a former Brooklyn College student's recent suit for readmission to the school was dismissed by the United States Court of Appeals.
The story, as reported in the Sept. 23, 1959 issue of the New York Times, is as follows;
"In November, 1954, and February, 1955,... (the student) wrote two 'intemperate and bitter' letters to Dr. Harry D. Gideonese, president of the college. (The letters reportedly criticized the school's administration for controlling certain student organizations.)-Ed.) On March 3, 1955, he was suspended for the remainder of the semester. Five months later he apologized and agreed to abide by the rules and regulations of the college.
"He was permitted to register in September, 1955, after it was agreed that he could not hold office in any student organization. The following year he was advised that this prohibition continued."
"In the first issue of the college paper in the fall semester of 1956...(the student) published the story of his latest 'probation.' It contended that it was caused by 'discriminatory and vindictive policies of the college administration.' He
The privilege of fair comment and criticism has long been a stronghold of America's watchdog press. Without it, the press would be as ineffective as it was in pre-Revolutionary days, when each issue had to be approved by the local government.
Fortunately, free comment and criticism is not a private tool meant only for the use of the few newspapermen who mirror human events. The privilege, as unalienable as the rights to vote and to practice one's own religion, extends to everyone within our nation's borders, citizen or not.
There are many people in America today who would be pleased to see certain unfavorable opinions squelched. Only pity can be had for those who fail to see the value of opinion in that it is almost certain to lead to the discovery of truth.
Narrow-minded people are noted for those sentiments. But when they are found in a college administration, education comes into serious trouble. Brooklyn College is truly not an isolated instance. —John Husar
'Improved' Examinations
KU English professors have revised English classes in hopes that improved proficiency test scores will result.
Uniform final examinations will be given English 1, 1a, and 1H students.
The revision strives for a uniform standard which will prepare each student equally for the proficiency examination. This should provide each student who must pass the test an equal opportunity at preparedness, and seems only fair and reasonable.
Another improvement, less publicized but of greater importance than the first, is a revision in the proficiency examination itself:
The new English examinations will test writing ability rather than question students on subject matter.
Student objections in the past have centered on this point. Students desired to be graded on their knowledge of English, not on their knowledge of current issues.
This revision should pacify these students and make the examination acceptable. However, it seems that college juniors and seniors are being coddled by a department overcager to please the student body.
It does not seem unreasonable that college men and women should be required to write intelligently about current events. —George DeBord
Band vs. Science
It's too bad that scientific interests are jeopardizing the KU marching band. For some reason male musicians seem to be giving more time to books than to their artistic hobby. A unique malady.
Science, of course, is a very passant thing. It changes daily and usually too rapidly for most scholars to keep abreast. Although its precepts may govern our modern age, revising it and boosting higher standards of living, science, unfortunately, cannot satisfy America's poetic soul.
A story in Monday's Daily Kansan reports that band membership is too low. It is feared that the musical group will not be up to par during the important half-time shows this fall.
fortunately, cannot satisfy America's poetic soul. Science is cold, unemotional, mechanical. In the modern family it takes a second seat to the tempers of the heart—pacific phenomenae spoken through music, motherhood and fireside Mah Jong games.
Unquestionably, music is vastly more important. Science is hollow, music is appellant. And the alums, too, must be placated. Should the football team drop another Saturday, we can save face only with a strong band.
The band's the thing! Twelve seats are vacant. There should be plenty of time tomorrow for 12 men to drop their nasty scientific courses.
In the Dark
With John Morrissey
No dear, the final examination in the School of Religion is not to walk across Potter Lake. Rumors and more rumors.
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Strong Hall registration showed the usual changes again this year. Half of last year's freshman engineers are in the college, and half of the late college freshmen have departed; presumably to make room for the ex-engineers.
As long as we're on definitions, we'd like to expose the person who said an optimist is someone who orders a graduation ring at the beginning of his fourth year. All loyal six-year students know that's ridiculous.
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New freshman women are easy to spot. One sure-freed method is to tell the female in doubt that she has beautiful hair or eyes or something. Nine out of ten times the freshman girl will say "thank you." But, brother, watch out for No. 10.
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For the freshman girls: Look, sweeties, be sure to start flirting early this year so you can get asked to the Senior Prom—which, incidentally, has been postponed two weeks due to the disturbing fact that the sand-bar is still under water.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"OH, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, FENGLAUSKY—NOT ANOTHER NOTE FROM THAT ENGLISH TEACHER."
the took world
Allen-Lentz
By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
50 GREAT ARTISTS, by Bernard Myers. Bantam Classics, 95 cents.
It was necessary for Bernard Myers, authority on art and lecturer at the City College of New York, to make some exceedingly arbitrary judgments in the preparation of this highly readable work on art. He had to choose, first of all, 50 artists. He had to trim down, then, the biography of each artist, select representative works, and analyze each.
There would seem little to complain about, especially if one recognizes that Myers has written this book not for the expert but for the layman. In analyzing a painting, he uses language that even the art neophyte can understand. Here is part of his analysis of Rembrandt's "Pilate Washing His Hands":
"A sweeping arc, moving from the lower left up and around to the lower right, is set off against the rectangular building and the opening beyond. Light now comes not from any perceptible source, as in ordinary Baroque painting, but from little pinpoints of light within the glowing rich and darker mass of the figures themselves
"It is not a real, but rather a spiritual radiance which illumines his characters with a unique and universal meaning. It endures as a symbol of his profound feeling for mankind."
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Giotto to Picasso
Myers subtitles his work "A Short History of Western Painting from Giotto to Picasso." He actually goes beyond Picasso, who seems almost an Old Master alongside Chagall, Kandinsky and Kokoschka. Myers' story actually ends with Orozco, who is represented here by "The Victims" and "Hidalgo y Costilla."
There is not space to list all 50 of the artists, though it can be said that the obvious names are here—Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Titian, Raphael, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Manet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Picasso. There are the surprising inclusions of two Americans—Copley and Homer. Whistler is not here. Neither is Monet. But the French Impressionists are well represented.
One senses that from the Baroque and Rococo periods to the coming of French Impressionism painting was in one of its downcurves. The ornate and elegant historical and mythical representations, the lovely but almost ethereal landscapes, the portraits of the cultured—all seem strange alongside the earthiness of Velasquez, Brueghel and Durer, and the later Impressionists. Goya seems out of place. It was the period of Watteau, Gainsborough, Constable and Turner, and of Reynolds, who is not in these pages.
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Reproductions Excellent
Although the black and white reproductions are excellent, it is a center section of color plates that makes this book of special value. Here are the rich early Renaissance colors of Botticelli's "Portrait of a Youth," Van Eyck's "The Annunciation," Raphael's "Saint George and the Dragon," Titian's "Venus with a Mirror," and Holbein's "Edward VI as a Child."
Here are the elongated and strangely twisted figures and symbolic coloring of El Greco's "Saint Martin and the Beggar." A Rembrandt self-portrait, almost solidly black-brown, is represented. Another is Watteau's charming "Italian Comedians," Chardin's "The House of Cards," in subject matter so simple and realistic, is here, as are Gainsborough's idealized portrait of Mrs. Richard Sheridan and Goya's "The Marquese de Pontejos," a sharp contrast to his celebrated portraits of the nude duchess.
Also reproduced in color are Constable's "Wivenhoe Park, Essex," with cattle quietly grazing in a green meadow beside a quiet pond; Renoir's "Oarsmen at Chatou," containing the lovely pinks and blues of Impressionism; Homer's "Breezing Up," an exciting painting of a fisherman's boat at sea; a Cezanne still life that contributed so much to Cubism, and Van Gogh's "La Mousme," a portrait of a Frenchwoman, a painting that seems restrained for the wild and impassioned Dutch genius.
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