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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 14. 1959
Nominate for Hope
Imagination, enthusiasm, courage and a love for his profession—that is what it takes for a teacher to inspire, to stimulate true learning in his students—students already beset with extracurricular activities and social functions which entice the college student away from studies.
Yet the University has many teachers who possess these qualities—imagination that can present ancient history in a fascinating manner; enthusiasm that will awaken lazy minds on the balmiest of spring days; courage that it takes to face a disinterested class and capture their attention, and a love for the teaching profession that leads one to devote more than the classroom hour toward guiding the student in understanding and sincere learning.
Nominations with the teacher's name, position, qualifications and nominator's name are due at the Alumni Office by 5 p.m. Friday. Any fulltime faculty member is eligible for the award.
The Class of 1959 voted to give the HOPE Award each year to such a teacher. This year the award will be given at the Senior Breakfast,
If we reflect upon our college career which will draw to a close June 1,we can recount many teachers who have contributed generously of their time and knowledge toward our education. What better way to say "thank you" for the valuable way they have enriched our lives than to present their names for the HOPE Award.
The HOPE Award is your gift, seniors. Make your nominations. Through the faculty member who receives the award, we will be thanking the whole University. —Pat Swanson
Law Custom Needs Change
Gov. Docking said that university students should learn some manners. That statement does not apply to all students, but it does to many of those enrolled in the school of Law.
If you do not think so take a walk past Green Hall when a group of ill-mannered law students is sitting on the steps and listen to the snide remarks they make as the women students pass by.
This practice, which many students think so cute, is poor advertising for the University. Last week there were two groups on the campus as guests of the University, a group of high school students and a delegation of women from a statewide music organization. Many from these groups had occasion to walk by Green Hall and no doubt heard some of the remarks the law students made to women students.
When these guests go back home they will talk about their visit to this campus. But is it complimentary?
We do not blame the law students. They can plead ignorance. We blame a dean who would tolerate such behavior by his students.
Some will say it is tradition for the law students to behave in this manner. If that is how they plead, then the defense is that the University can do without this tradition.
The chancellor has said on a number of occasions that when students enter the University they are to put aside their childish ways because here they will be treated as adults.
To those who sit on the Green Hall steps and make embarrassing remarks to the women who pass by—we say grow up and act your age.
-Harry Ritter
Ideas Magazine Has Purpose
The All Student Council will vote tonight on a publications bill designating "Universitas" as an official literary-academic magazine.
The ASC committee on committees approved the proposal last night. We urge the Council to follow this approval with an affirmative vote.
The proposed magazine will discuss controversial problems both on and off the campus. The subject matter of the publication is not specifically defined, because its scope is to be general. Anyone interested in local and world problems may contribute material or work on the staff.
The magazine will be similar to "Upstream."
an ideas magazine published here several years ago. On a campus as woefully lacking in serious student thought as this one is, it would seem that any attempt by students to express themselves in writing would be met by overwhelming approval by the ASC. We hope this is the case tonight.
The possibility that KU students might produce a worthwhile magazine, far outstrips in importance any financial or other arguments against its publication.
Students at KU must be given the opportunity to prove that they can produce a magazine of quality. —George DeBord
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"MY ALARM DIDN'T GO OFF EITHER, MISS PLUME, BUT MANAGE TO MAKE IT TO CLASS ON TIME."
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Short Ones
Everybody's yelling about the Jayhawk. It seems that some organizations have complained of a sliding scale of prices for space. Some groups also said they were billed for more space than they were given in the annual. It's O.K. though. The extra income probably went to pay for all the good-looking models who posed for the pictures.
The "Fowl!" is dead. This should have been anticipated long ago, when that particular name was chosen. After all, how can you expect a chicken to compete in a world of wild Jayhawkers?
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By Jerry Knudson Instructor of Journalism
MIDDLETOWN, A Study in Modern American Culture, by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd. Harvest Books, $2.25.
That this massive work of social anthropology should find its way into a paperback edition indicates that nothing is beyond the scope of the reprint publishers. All 550 pages of the Lynd report on "Middletown" are present here, along with a foreword by Clark Wissler of the American Museum of Natural History and 24 pages of tables.
"Middletown" was first published in 1929, but its results seem as contemporary as the morning newspaper. The authors viewed their laboratory town from the standpoint of historical continuity; they saw the Middletown of 1890 as the genesis of the Middletown of today. Their findings could be extrapolated to form a picture of Middletown, 1959.
The insistence upon objectivity in sociological works such as this "is not unlike groping behind the scenes and digging under the stage, disregarding the comedies, tragedies, and dramas in plain sight." Wissler says in the introduction.
The study was a revolutionary undertaking, well executed. "Whatever else a social phenomenon is, it is a community affair." Wissler points out. The Lynds approached an overwhelming task to dissect the innards of a small American community. The heart of Middletown still throbs with passionate intensity.
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THE WORLD OF CAVES by Anton Lubke. Coward-McCann Inc., $5.00.
"Since the earliest times, man has felt a tremendous urge to explore the depths of the earth," writes Anton Lubke in this adventuresome account of speleology, the scientific study of caves.
The men who descend into the dark reaches of subterranean caverns remained an unknown breed until one explorer descended 1,500 feet into the heart of the Pyreneer and came to a dramatic end. The press reported this awesome feat, along with another story about some Swiss cave explorers who were marooned in a cave for ten days.
"The make-up of the caver has something in common with the dark and silent world of his activities: he is modest about what he has seen and experienced in the depths of solitary caverns never before visited by humans." Lubke writes.
Here are photographs and graphic accounts of caves with such exotic names as Heathens' Hole in Germany; Chimneys of the Evil Spirits, in Cappadocia; the grottos of Han, Belgium; Weebubbie Lake in the Nullarbor caverns, Australia; Hall of the Babbath, Belgium; Ivy Stalagmite cave, Australia; the Wookey Hole Caves, and Fingal's Cave in Scotland.
Here are hand imprints and blind fish and cave beetles. The birthplace of Christ in Bethlehem is situated in a cave. In his conclusion, Lubke calls the world's caves a "sixth continent".
"These cave explorers have every right to the title of discoverers of a new continent, the entry and exploration of which was far more difficult than that of any territory on the surface," he concludes.
ALONE AT SEA by Dr. Hannes Lindemann. Random House, $3.50.
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Hannes Linddemann crossed the Atlantic alone—once in a folding boat and once in an African dugout canoe. He survived both heroic voyages to tell his story here.
Dr. Lindemann's observations appeared in Life Magazine, July 22, 1957. He found it impossible to substitute salt water for fresh water; the only liquids he had came from fish eyes, blood, and spinal fluid. He learned that the mind succumbs before the body; in his intense loneliness he began talking to himself and experiencing hallucinations. Twice he almost threw himself from the boat when he thought he saw a food store nearby.
The 35-year-old German doctor set out from the Canary Islands in November, 1955, and arrived in the Virgin Islands in January, 1956. A year later he made the same voyage, during which his kavak-like boat capsized twice.
He found stimulants harmful since they lead to a breakdown. Lack of sleep leads to delirium. And always there lurks the terror of the awful loneliness.
"What drove me to test my strength of mind and body to the utmost?" Dr. Lindemann asks. "I realized that no one answer would satisfy me; the urge for adventure, the quest for scientific knowledge—both played a part. I told myself that man has always searched for the new frontier, pushed for further boundaries and that I as a man, would have to accept that for my answer."
The grueling two hundred days and nights alone at sea played havoc with Dr. Lindemann's mind and body—but his spirit remained indomitable.
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THE HISTORIES by Herodotus. Penguin, 81.95
Without any precedent to work from, Herodotus undertook to recount all the history of the known world to 500 B.C., beginning with the Greek war with Persia. His only available sources were oral stories collected in his travels and remaining buildings and monuments.
"His History was a new thing," says translator Aubrey de Selin-court in the introduction. "He was the first Greek, the first European, to use prose as the medium of a work of art. His mastery of the new medium is one measure of his genius."
Herodotus ascribed the great movements of history to the will or whim of individuals, behind which stands Destiny, the ultimate shaper. "God is jealous, and therefore human grandeur cannot long endure," comments the translator.