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University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 17, 1960
How About Some Help?
The campaign for governor has been marked by an almost complete lack of intelligent discussion about an issue that concerns every student — the future of higher education in Kansas. To be sure, the brickbats have flown in profusion; but neither candidate has yet been tagged by a solid set of questions based on fact.
THIS IS, IN PART, the fault of the press, for newspapers have not pressed the candidates enough for their views on this subject. In attempting to do just this to Gov. Docking, the Kansan was denied the information. Atty. Gen. Anderson, however, indicated to the Kansan Saturday that he would be glad to answer specific questions about his position regarding this issue, and said he would answer them in detail. We will ask Mr. Anderson these questions. They will be the same ones, as far as they apply, as those printed below.
BUT THE GOVERNOR has shut the door in our faces. We now ask you, the student body, to help us — and help yourselves. If you feel as strongly about the matter as we do, sign your name to the letter below and send it to George Docking. You may be able to bring about what we have tried and failed to accomplish.
- The Editors
Office of the Governor
State Capital Building
Topeka
Kapsas
Dear Governor Docking.
I'm not so much angry as I am confused. I've been trying to weigh the election issues and the positions the candidates have taken on them, but it's difficult when one of the issues that concerns me most is virtually ignored. I want to know what you're going to do about the state's colleges and universities if you're re-elected. To make it a little easier for you to reply, I'll simply ask you to give me a forthright answer to the following questions.
1. In your speech at Emporia State, you said improvisation of existing facilities would permit our schools to operate more efficiently. Specifically, what improvisations would you suggest?
2. The Comprehensive Educational Survey, an independent study prepared by an expert impartial group, states that faculty salaries in state schools must be raised 20 per cent immediately to bring them up to the national average and recommends that building on our campuses must start now and increase at a fixed rate during the next 15 years if the enrollment boom is to be accommodated. Do you feel this is a valid survey? If so, what recommendation will you make on its findings?
3. How do you propose to fund expansion of facilities at state schools? Will you favor an increase in the present tax levy, or will you favor drawing substantial amounts from the general fund and/or the inactive fund? In short, will you favor the proposed program recently issued by the Board of Regents?
4. Do you feel that every high school graduate in this state should have the opportunity to attend a state institution if he so desires, or do you believe that these institutions should be more selective in choosing their students?
5. You have been quoted as saying that "there is not enough time to build buildings and dormitories even if we had the money." In the light of this statement, would you veto or approve an emergency building fund bill with funding recommendations which did not exceed the long-range totals proposed by the Board of Regents?
I'll be waiting for your answer, Governor. I'm in no real rush; but I do have to know before election day.
(clip and mail)
Praise From Syracuse Editor:
We would like to congratulate the student body and the football team of KU on the most outstanding display of genuine hospitality and true sportsmanship we have seen in all the universities we have visited.
It is such a pleasure to visit another university and have the experience mean more than just cheering at a football game. Thanks to KU's hospitality and friendliness we were able to meet many students and learn a great deal about your university. You should all be very proud to be part of such an institution.
—And we're betting on you to be Champions of your Conference!
The Syracuse University Varsity Cheering Squad
A Wrong Assumption
Editor;
--win the female vote, by means which do "themselfs and the nation a disservice," since they are hiding the real issues "under a false front of artificially created charm." As a result, this interferes with the democratic processes.
I would like to say a few words about Mr. Blundell's article of Sept. 29 entitled "The Hucksters' Target." Here he points out that the political camps of Kennedy and Nixon are staging huge efforts to
As evidence for this (heinous) behavior he points to such faets as Kennedy's wearing a more conservative suit than he usually does; his wife's having a baby before election time; his having loads of relatives, women; and the rumor that he wears a bathing cap to bed in order to make more presentable his unruly hair. After disposing with Kennedy in this way, he turns to Nixon.
Nixon wears old suits; he has a mellow disposition; he is having Lodge appear on several afternoon TV shows for short addresses, which, it is implied, will be devoid of content, but solely executed 'or the purpose of wooing the idle malleable housewife (a remarkable conclusion for programs that haven't yet been seen!)'. And he has been to beaches to lure the female sex with his charm. This
So with astonishing confidence Mr. Blundell concludes that the democratic processes are being sold short. All of this seems to say that when presidential candidates are people — people, also, whose every move is subject to much publicity — the democratic process suffers. Besides, if any blame is to be apportioned, one might just as well blame the process which produced the females who melted into ecstasy upon seeing Lodge on the stand.
then, clearly indicates what Nixon is up to.
I assume that both Kennedy and Nixon are dedicated men who believe in the democratic process, and as such will do what they do to get into the position where they can exercise this dedication. It is true that the road to his position might involve certain ceremonials, but what of it? Mr. Blundell would not expect to be taken to task as being a huckster after greeting a job interviewer with "How are you?" when he really might not care.
Edward Lopatin New York City graduate student
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"DO IT OVER AGAIN --- I TOLD YOU I WOULD NOT ACCEPT A MESSY PAPER."
By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
MOSQUITOES, by William Faulkner. Dell, 35 cents.
In the 1920s, before he learned how to write, William Faulkner wrote this comic tale of a cruise on a yacht by a wild bunch of New Orleans Bohemians. Most of it is straight narrative, though occasionally there are foreshadowings of the complexity that Faulkner revealed two years later in "The Sound and the Fury."
"Mosquitoes" is an entertaining and frequently funny book. It has stories in the tall tale tradition of Mark Twain, such as the writer Fairchild's involved story about the swamp boy who turned into a shark, and the descendant of Old Hickory who had a "fish herd" in the Gulf. He branded the mavericks by splitting their tails, he said.
The yacht cruise involves Mrs. Maurier, who is enamored of artist types, and her various guests, most of whom seem bent on ruining the entire excursion. Fairchild is a Midwesterner who sounds a bit like Sherwood Anderson. His suitcase full of whiskey keeps all his friends occupied.
His cronies are Julius, "the Semitic man"; Gordon, a talented and brooding sculptor, and Major Ayres, an Englishman who is trying to patent a bottle of salts because "all Americans are constipated." These four are especially dismayed at the great quantities of grapefruit Mrs. Maurier has purchased for the voyage. Citrus fruit is necessary at sea, she feels.
The others who complicate the trip are Mrs. Maurier's niece, Patricia, who runs off to the swamps with the steward; her nephew, Josh, who causes the boat to go aground and spends most of his time carving pipes; and Jenny and Pete, an uninhibited pair whom Patricia meets and invites to come along.
It is a mad adventure, and one that should come as a revelation to those persons who think Faulkner can write only in the opaque sentences of his later novels.
Dailu Hansan
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