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University Daily Kansan Monday. May 11, 1959
Salary Scale Needs Boost
The report that the faculty received a D grade in salaries should make Kansans just as ashamed as a D student should be who is capable of better grades.
University regulations state: "The letter D indicates work of the lowest quality that would enable a student to pursue the next dependent course."
Translated in terms of salaries the D grade which KU received last week would indicate the state is paying the lowest salaries it can and still keep a minimum of quality.
keep a minimum of coursework The American Association of University Professors which graded nearly 200 colleges on their salary scales found only one straight-A student. Only Harvard University was given marks of A both for its minimum for the different teaching ranks and for the average salaries paid.
To get an A an institution should pay average salaries of $14,300 for professors, $10,000 for associate professors, $7,700 for assistant professors and $5,450 for instructors. To get a C grade an institution must pay $10,000, $7,500, $5,700 and $4,300. Kansas could not squeak out even a C grade.
If teaching ability had been graded this school would have received a mark no lower than B (B work is defined as much more than average quality).
How long will the University be able to keep a B or better faculty on a D salary level? Not for long unless pressure can be brought to raise salaries.
We will not be able to keep our best teachers because the 43 colleges in the country which received a C or better salary rating will lure them away by offering bigger pay checks.
What makes a school great? It is not the buildings or equipment, as necessary as they are; it is the quality of the faculty. Kanssant want a university that can give its young people a first class education. They want an institution of higher learning they can be proud of.
This cannot be done on a D salary level. Kansas has the resources to raise the salary level to at least the nation's average. To do any less is to deny our young people the quality of education that will allow them to compete on equal terms with the young people graduated from other universities. Harry Ritter
Seniors' Last Big Fling
"It was just like a Steinbeck had planned it." That was one of the general descriptions of last Friday's senior picnic.
Only 500 seniors showed for the event, which began when Jay McShann's band arrived at 3 p.m. and lasted until far after the music stopped at 6 p.m. The small turnout impressed the seniors with one thought—they had twice as much beer and food to consume than was allotted.
Enemies of four years standing finally made amends and posed for pictures. Someone started a tractor, with the hope of plowing the whole party under.
A Kansas Union truck came and 750 lunch boxes were dispensed among the 400 who wanted to eat. Eight Schlitz men complained of having to draw beer without a break. Some fellow shouted, "It's raining." But everyone kept on partying.
As the crowd began dribbling away, those who stayed became louder, more active, in an attempt to keep the party going. But it was no use. Soon the band departed and a handful of people were reduced to singing nostalgic old-time favorites around the piano.
Yes, the seniors who came had their final big fling last Friday. In the next three weeks they can polish up their studies, and gently place their memories, along with old clothes, into suitcases before they leave.
But how many seniors really witnessed the event? The conversations seemed topical, the cares only for those next three weeks. Perhaps only a very few stood back and firmly implanted in the mind's eye those faces which may never be seen and names which may never be heard again.
—John Husar
Editor:
...Letters...
I am intrigued and even delighted by the amount of campus interest in library matters as indicated by the major story on Wednesday, May 6. I have always said, and I think some of our statistics as well as general observations support this, that KU students are vigorous users of the library, above the average level. Nothing pleases me more than the
fact that we are an extremely busy place.
But this of course is something of a factor in terms of general noise in the building. I would rather have it busy and noisy than empty and quiet.
On top of being heavily used, we are additionally crowded because the building is simply short of space and was poorly designed in the first place. Everyone realizes
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
this, and the University administration is doing everything possible to get a major addition under construction in order to alleviate the problem.
"NO, NO THAT'S NOT MY CHALK DRAWER—THAT'S WHERE I KEEP MY TEST PAPERS!"
When that addition comes, as the article on Wednesday indicated, there will be opportunity for a variety of changes which will not only reduce the noise level, but provide varying and less crowded study situations for people with varying needs. The several student comments about "bull sessions in the library" suggest the clear need for group study areas. These comments also suggest the need for abandoning the forced study tables that several high school-oriented living organizations still insist on; they induce mighty little studying and produce an annoying amount of seet saving, general conversation, and snoring. We also need more areas for smoking, and we need more space.
I am interested in the uncommonly high noise level reported for the Kansas Room, because this is one room that has no general public desk. This would suggest that the noise comes either from the students, or perhaps from the traffic up the hill and the anachronistic whistle, which, by the way, often seems to be situated right in my office.
In talking with alumni and others around the state, I frequently meet people who long ago decided to stay away from libraries because they are depressing mausoleums where everyone tiptoes, shushes, and whispers. I happen to sympathize with that point of view because my major recollection of libraries when I was an undergraduate revolves around a stern librarian who was continually telling me and the young lady next to me (now Mrs. Vosper) to quit making so much noise. This gave me a pretty low opinion of librarians.
Robert Vosper Director of Libraries
It Looks This Way...
By John Husar
This Elimer guy I know is wantin' fer a summer job, which is perty hard to get. I know, because I walked all around the town all last summer but didn't get one.
Well, Elimer he didn't have the experiences walkin' and lookin' like me because he's a student and all last summer he sat. So lackin' in knowledge of the world, and not hearin' "no" all last summer like me he natterly come to me fer advice on how to get a summer job er sumphin.
I ast him what kinda job he's lookin' fer and all that and he says about a thousand dollars er so, so I says he'd better give his qualifications before he sens out any feelers e sumphin.
That's okay with Elimer an' he sets down at the bar and writes out a list of all the things he can do. This list is real impressive and anyone kin see that he's the man fer any thousand dollar job.
His list says that he's in the biggest frat on the campus and even owns a car. He's a real good student because he has a full 1.00 grade average and the only courses he flunked was biology, which was twice, and the english Profishensy, which is alright because everybody flunks that.
"He's also on the self-glorification committee of the ASC, whatever that is, and used to rewrite stories for a humor magazine before they caught on. He says he likes to write letters to newspapers, bake kugali, and analyze psychology students.
Well, I cud see that he's a pretty well-rounded guy and all that,
and probably about the best what's comin' outa colleges these days,
so I fixed him up with a job cleanin' fish in Alaska fer $120 a week.
He's pretty happy and all with so much money goin' to come in durin' the summer. Thinks he's a lucky guy. But I says no, think of all the home economy majors what got husbands for the summer. And he says I'm right and that it's remarkable what a college edjacation can do for a ordinary guy.
By Calder M. Pickett
Assistant Professor of Journalism
Our recent literature is full of novels about businessmen, Cameron Hawley portrayed the businessmen through several types in "Executive Suite," and as one type—the smooth operator who operates just inside the law—in "Cash McCall." Sloan Wilson drew him as the young Madison Avenue executive, faced with problems of compromise, in "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit."
LOVE AND MONEY, by Noel Clad. Random House, $4.95.
"Love and Money" is in some ways a more probing story than these. But it is most interesting in its relation to two more famous works, John Dos Passos"The Big Money" and James Gould Cozzens"By Love Possessed." Dos Passos, writing in the heyday of the proletarian movement, saw the businessman as a capitalistic ogre who had helped to bring on the depression. Cozzens in 1957 wrote of the varieties of love which, like an evil demon, possess man.
Noel Clad, now 35, took his title from a quotation ascribed to Jane Austen: "What do you write about?" "I write about love and money. What else is there to write about?" By using these twin themes, which have been so important in recent fiction, Clad effectively describes a man of integrity, whose honor cannot be compromised, whether it be in the realm of love, or money.
His hero is Max Armand, member of an Alsatian bank family, who is in America, studying American banking methods, as World War I breaks out. Armand, with his politeness, cavalier bearing, and European charm, wins the heart of a beautiful American girl.
He stays in the United States, restrained as an enemy alien during the war, returning to Alsace only after the war is over, after the value of the German mark has been dissipated and his family's fortune has dwindled to nothing. Through his ability to inspire confidence in others, and through his integrity, he slowly acquires a new fortune in the booming 1920s.
It is Max Armand's inability to compromise his integrity that makes him a character of strength. Furthermore, he is believable. Others were willing to speculate in the 1920s, on the market or in Florida real estate, but Armand cannot do so himself. Nor can he, as an investment counselor, allow his clients to speculate.
as an investment "Love and Money," besides demonstrating how a man of integrity can keep his integrity in a world gone mad, is a novel in the epic tradition. It ranges from New York to Europe, to Florida in the boom days of the twenties. Its characters are in the world of finance, public affairs, the military, and Hollywood.
The style is not brilliant, and it seems unlikely that "Love and Money" will be an enduring work of American literature. But it is a good rung or two above similar books of John O'Hara, and it is almost as painstakingly realistic. Noel Clad, however, makes mistakes that the encyclopedic O'Hara would not permit himself.
Dailu Hansan
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