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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. April 29. 1959
Seniors, Vote HOPE
Hope is the word of the 20th Century. And HOPE is the gift the senior class of 1959 should bestow upon its University—HOPE-Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educators.
This is the gift The Daily Kansan proposes for consideration.
Senior class dues are approximately four dollars. Forty per cent of this goes toward the class gift. This is $1.60 per senior, and with this seniors would have a fund of $2,500 for the gift. At an annual rate of interest of 4 per cent, the fund would earn $100 each year.
We propose that this $100 a year be awarded to a University faculty member who has made the greatest contribution to insuring the welfare of his students and increasing the prestige of the University in the arts or sciences during the year.
HOPE will benefit the University not only materially but spiritually. This gift from our senior class will set a precedent that may have repercussions throughout our University, state and even nation.
Other graduating classes have given gifts that can be seen and felt—a bench to sit on, an awning, a clock. They have placed plaques on walls as testimonials to their gifts. But time and weather wear down these witnesses and people hurry by without stopping to read. But HOPE is perpetual. Time cannot blot it out nor weather erase it. And people will not hurry by without noticed.
HOPE is revolutionary. It will stand as a permanent memorial to the Class of '59, and as it is awarded each year it will call to the mind of all students, faculty and alumni that our class was looking forward to recognize where the real emphasis in our educational system must lie.
HOPE speaks of its own time—the 20th Century—our age of nuclear warfare and the possible destruction of mankind. Our main pole of steadfastness today is hope. And our greatest hope lies in better education.
HOPE will contribute to the needs of our age. It will honor an educator who contributes the most toward building a finer KU.
Seniors, go to the class coffee at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
Vote for HOPE! —The Editors
Israel — 'Occupied Territory'
Editor:
The description of Israel as a part of the Arab League is the perfect example of the dyed-in-the-wool refusal to see the truth—which both individuals and nations
I was very surprised at the Foreign Student Festival to see a map of the Arab countries in which Israel was marked as a member of the Arab League. Completely incredulous, I asked the Arab representative at the counter, if there had not been a hilarious mistake. Instead she informed me that it was "occupied territory."
How can there ever be progress in international affairs, until a willingness to face realities, replaces faith in the superiority of propaganda and political slogans to facts?
The word "occupied" has purely a military significance, when applied in this context, and has obviously no reality when used to describe the mass immigration of civilian Jews from other parts of the world.
The troubles of the Arab world spring no longer from Western imperialism, which exists only today in Algeria, but from the incompetence of the Arab politicians, whose love of rhetoric seems to have hidden the facts of political life from them.
seem often to prefer to being sensible. It was a poor example of international brotherhood at an international exhibition.
The real enemy of the Arab people is not Israel, but Russian Communism, and the deprivacy of the old ruling class.
Denis Kennedy
Denis Kennedy
Dublin, Ireland, graduate
student
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--itt is unlikely that in the near future the American student will continue to have himself treated as in a nursery school, while students in Europe are regarded as adults, responsible, not subject to outside campus rules, and—as in the case of some universities in Sweden and France—live in student houses possibly as a next door neighbor to a student of the opposite sex.
Medieval Morals
Editor:
Not only, however, will the American student not accept being treated like a child any more, but in the years to come the dissemination of the neurotic phobia of the preservation of pure, white
What Dennis Kennedy and Jim McMullan wrote about "strictier closing hours" (Wednesday's Daily Kansan) obviously represents only the preliminary skirmishes of the battle yet to come in the decades ahead of us.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
virginity will turn into a sad joke. Who, even today, would still justify the degrading seclusion of human beings on the grounds of medieval morals or the meaningless concept of sentimental virginity?
No, when one day we shall send our children to college, we will not be able to lock them up behind closed dormitory doors. They will want to be human beings again and proud of it, judge of their own actions.
Harald Meyer Assistant Instructor of Western Civilization
Harald Meyer
Poetry Corner
By Augustine G. Kyei
The day called tomorrow;
It's just a few hours off,
Firstly, if today fasty fades off.
The day called tomorrow;
It lies atop the midnight crest,
Within range of another day's
wrest.
I waited for tomorrow,
All day once;
But tomorrow never came.
But there is tomorrow;
Who has seen tomorrow?
The day called tomorrow:
It's all profit,
It's unprofit;
It's all deceit,
It's all defeat;
It's all misery,
It's all mystery;
Man's end can end;
It's a destiny of being;
It's eternity.
Dailu Hansan
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It Looks This Way . . .
By Ray Miller
We have the distinct feeling that the Journal-World's editorial staff was desperate for copy again Monday. They have trotted out that age-old and extremely over-worked "Why the student immunity?" question again.
After the usual vague references to someone called the "University" and "KU officials" who are "guilty" of refusing to release the names of students involved in a wild party, they started throwing terms such as "academic freedom," "responsibility of the individual" and dark threats of there being a "double standard" around.
After nine long, tiring paragraphs, we arrived at the crux (we think) of the editorial.
We quote: "Students involved in such activities still are the ones responsible for them—not the parents, the church. . ."
The next statement the editor makes is that students should have to answer for their actions the same as anyone "not fortunate enough to be enrolled in college at the time he commits a misdemeanor or felony."
We agree with the writer (the editorial was not signed) on this point. However, the writer did not take into consideration the fact that the students did realize they were responsible and paid a total of $115 in damages to the landlord.
Let's face facts: The students involved were guilty of no misdemeanor or felony by virtue of the simple fact that there were no charges filed. The students answered for their actions to the landlady, who chose not to press charges.
If these students had been private citizens, the affair would have been dropped with the paying of damages. Where-oh-where does the Journal-World find justification for wanting to print the names of private citizens guilty of nothing except of having been disciplined by the University for a mistake that they had previously paid for?
If the students involved had been guilty of a misdemeanor or felony as the Journal-World insinuates, their names would have been a matter of public record, obtainable from the police upon request.
The Journal-World has repeatedly said that "the laws that are good enough for the ordinary persons do not appear good enough for students."
It seems that the Journal-World means this in the sense that "the laws that are strict enough for the ordinary persons do not appear strict enough for students."
It is evident that the Journal-World believes in a discriminatory policy which would have a student give up all rights to anonymity and privacy in order to subject himself to "trial by newspaper."
By Jerry Knudson Instructor of Journalism
AMERICAN HERITAGE, April 1959. $2.95.
A prim portrait of Elizabeth I attributed to Gwilym Streates on the cover of this issue is fair indication of the material within. The lead article, "The Elizabethans and America," first of a five-part series, rather sketchily traces the Elizabethan contribution to the voyages of discovery.
Author A. L. Rowse claims to be the first historian to examine this facet of a vigorous queen's reign. His approach leads him into the rather specious "what-if" school of history. What if Elizabeth had heeded the advice of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and chose not to challenge Spain's monopoly in the New World? His answer throws little light on history as it did unfold.
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Possibly of most interest is an article on the Adams papers, "Whatever you write preserve," an admonition which John Adams handed down to his illustrious family. Write the Adamses did, and the preservation of this voluminous mass of manuscripts became a sacred family responsibility until the trustees turned the entire collection over to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956.
Thus the carefully guarded family documents became available to scholars without reservation for the first time since John Adams, second president, bought his first blank "Folio Book" in 1776. Historians everywhere eagerly await the Harvard University Press edition of the papers now underway, and the public will be exposed to glimpses of the Adams family through the pages of Life magazine.
This is a remarkable account by L. H. Butterfield of the zeal and self-discipline with which succeeding generations of Adamsses recorded their times. John Quincy Adams, sixth president, despaired that his task was "like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse."
Henry Adams, pessimistic descendant, later charged. "The old man did nothing but write, during seventy years without stopping." Historians and the American people can be thankful that this dedication produced the most comprehensive, intact collection of original sources on our national past.
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Elsewhere in this issue, editor Bruce Catton sums up baseball's history in "The Great American Game"; a hoax of Scandinavian seafaring prowess is exposed in "The Case of the Kensington Rune Stone"; the Comstock Lode fever is recreated in "Go It, Washoe!" Sir William Johnson emerges as "Father to Six Nations"; "A Season in Utopia" re-examines Brook Farm; "Puccini in America" traces the genesis of "The Girl of the Golden West," and "The Voyage of NorWest John" follows the John deWolf voyage into the Pacific, Alaska, and Siberia in 1804.