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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 17, 1959
Greetings and Welcome
Every year in this spot the University Daily Kansan greets returning students and welcomes freshmen and new students.
We are returning to, or entering for the first time, a campus that has new things to offer all of us: A new business school, Summerfield Hall. The addition to the Kansas Union is a great deal further along than it was when we left in the spring. We have a large new dormitory west of the campus. One of our older dormitories is now co-educational.
Organizations at KU offer opportunities for each student to share his interests with others. There are clubs, fraternities, religious organizations and many more. If we do not get too carried away by joining everything, we can derive enormous benefit from belonging to a few of these organizations.
We have a new language being introduced into the curriculum, our football team looks pretty good, friends are back, and we are busy making new ones. Everything seems rosy. And it is, for awhile. But Monday is the day we actually began doing what we came here for.
Monday, the learning progress begans once again, and with it comes brotherly advice from everyone on just how the new school year should be started, and how students should budget their time. Each and every year we all agree with the experts. We may not follow the advice so freely given, but we do agree.
In his speech Sunday night, Chancellor Murphy referred to the "intellectually lazy." He said they have no place at KU. They do have a place by helping to balance the grade curve, but that position is only temporary.
Some of the intellectually lazy are not really lazy, however. They fear facing reality. When we fail to face reality then we are no longer being fair to ourselves, our parents and the people who trust in us, the taxpayers of Kansas.
We are living in an economy of competition, and only those who are capable of competing can get ahead.
This is the time for good resolutions some say. But the only resolution we should make is to be honest with ourselves. —Lee Lord
The Kansan Salutes
The year of 1959 is a special one in the field of journalism. It is the 50th anniversary of the founding of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, devoted to raising the standards of journalism. More specifically, the fraternity encourages every individual journalist to keep his eye on the ideals and responsibilities of his profession.
The University Daily Kansan is happy to salute Sigma Delta Chi and its 16,000 members on the occasion of the anniversary. Some of these members are world famous newspaper columnists or television news commentators, while others are hard working but less well-known reporters and editors on press, radio and television throughout the country.
In the eyes of the fraternity, the specific position of a member does not count. What does matter is that he aspirs to the highest level of performance in his work. In the measure that he lives up to his ideal, he earns the respect of every American who benefits from a strong, free press.
One of Sigma Delta Chi's long-time goals has been the fight for the people's right to know. The group has campaigned militantly for federal and state laws requiring open meetings of governing bodies and open access to public records.
Most of the fraternity's emphasis, however, is on the individual journalist and his professional standards. In Sigma Delta Chi, there is no employer and employe. All members are journalists who are pledged to contribute personal services to fellow workers and to practice their profession with high ideals.
Many members of The Daily Kansan staff belong to the fraternity. We join with Sigma Delta Chi in pledging ourselves to the practice of ethical and responsible journalism on the campus.
... Letters ...
Dear Students and Faculty
Every year circumstances happen that arouse the wrath of the campus population—blood boils or turns to ice, temperatures go up, and so on. If this happens to you, we want to hear about it.
Therefore, if you don't like the way the Kansan prints the news; if you feel the teaching methods of
the University aren't up to par; if you think you have a legitimate gripe, then write a letter to the Kansan.
Letters received by the Kansan editors will be printed in this column. The only requirements are that they be signed by the writer's correct name and University classification and be in generally acceptable good taste.
The shorter the letter, the better chance it has of being printed. Kansan editors reserve the right to edit letters for errors in fact or grammar and to omit portions of letters.
Sound off. The Daily Kansan is your newspaper. Use it to express your opinions.
The Editors
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Nikita K. and TV's new programs are battling for TV's top ratings. I'm betting on Nikita.
Specials on TV according to the experts are now trying to outgun the Westerns and private eyes. They are going to have to be pretty fast to draww Mr. Dillon.
Doodles
The freshman smile is back on the campus making the senior's look of agony much more noticeable. Oh well, soon . . .
By Lee Lord
You can tell inflation is here. Money costs more.
Jet airlines have cut flying time from coast to coast to five hours, and two days to confirm your reservations.
It Seems to Me ...
★ ★ ★
A Tufts University professor has come up with this solution to alcoholism: Allow the children to sample alcohol in the home. Then they will never have to prove they can drink to anyone, when they finally become legal. I told my father that twenty years ago.
The automobile industry is busy this fall introducing their new low price three to the public. The next problem is will the American public accept these new models like they did the Edsel, plenty of enthusiasm, but little cash.
By Ray Miller
The naivete of newcomers who arrived on the KU campus during this past week was, while short lived, invigorating.
It was an inspiring sight to watch the throngs of inductees walking arm-in-arm with their parents (no doubt a strong motivating factor) towards Hoch Auditorium and their first and, in most instances, last convocation.
Not so inspiring was the scene after the convocation as they returned, not whence they came, but toward that local antidote for boredom—the Hawk's Nest.
As if drawn by the same mysterious force that motivates homing pigeons, they migrated to that poor man's gastronomical retreat, here to be greeted by steaming cups of an exotic brew they assumed to be coffee.
Looks of amazement soon turned to frustration on their faces as they beheld the main lounge and foyer of the Kansas Union on their way downstairs.
One could almost follow their thoughts as they looked at the various paintings, statues, papier-mache Indians, and what-nots. No doubt some thought that they had wandered into
a refuge for totems created from the descriptions of neurotics confessed to a Freudian analyst.
What really seemed to "bug" the poor orphaned infants to Oread, was the huge, bronze statue which bars the entrance to the foyer. Crouched like some gigantic beast of prey, best described in Dante's "Inferno," the bird had groups of awe-struck critics examining it from all sides.
One young thing was heard to utter a tentative, shy question to the group of people examining its powerful, massive head, which is gracefully twisted on its awe inspiring body.
"What is it, an owl?" she shamelessly asked
While the poor girl was being quickly indoctrinated in the folklore of the Jayhawk by a very superior looking fellow who must have been at least a sophomore, the students drifted upon their several ways.
And as they drifted one dejected person, obviously an instructor, was heard to say. "Cheer up-things could be worse."
Undoubtedly they'll cheer up, in time.
"Then let me offer you a theory and see whether you accept it. As a matter of fact, this is one of my favorite theories—and the one that worries me the most, because I think it's true..." The Dean offered him a cigarette and he took it and they lit up. "There's a preamble to this and I want you to listen to it. I have a theory about generations. I think all generations are essentially the same—that is, most of the people who make up generations are the same. But generations get known and tagged, and they get known and tagged differently. And that's because each generation gets known and tagged according to one small group within it. This group is the most influentially divergent group. In the twenties it was the expatriates and the young nouveau rich—the Lost Generation. But they weren't the whole generation. Not even a significant part of it numerically..." He pulled on his cigarette and considered—not apparently what he was going to say, but how he was going to say it, "Since the war—since the veterans' classes—I've been rather troubled by your generation... by those among the various classes who are going to shape and direct and characterize your generation. What do you think is their distinguishing characteristic?"
"I wouldn't know."
"I think you do. At least, you ought to, because you're a good example of it, even a victim of it."
"Well, what is it?"
"Indifference. An inability to get emotionally involved in anything..."
From the novel, "Entry E," by Richard Frede, Signet Book.
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