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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 9. 1959
Kansan Presents Campus Issues
Both campus political parties have announced their platforms and are now campaigning for the general elections next week. Both have strong and weak points, but The Daily Kansan feels that the voter should consider a few other issues before he goes to the polls. These issues comprise what we believe is important to the University.
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1. Cars should be banned from Jayhawk Boulevard during class hours. This has been done on several other campuses and would alleviate the growing traffic problem.
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2. No parking ticket should cost more than $8, regardless of the number of violations. No parking violation is important enough to warrant the present excessive fines.
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3. Library closing hours should be extended to midnight. Many students find it difficult to attend the library early in the evening. In an institution of higher learning every effort should be made to aid the students' educational efforts.
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4. The curriculum committees in the various schools should investigate the work loads of professors and the amount of space and equipment allotted to them.
--the GIHR should be cut from the ASC budget. A more effective program can be worked out in this field.
5. The All Student Council should investigate the type of library books purchased. We realize that the large collection of rare books presently on hand provides original research material, but the Undergraduate Library is insufficiently stocked with references and books for outside reading assignments.
--the GIHR should be cut from the ASC budget. A more effective program can be worked out in this field.
6. The Student Health Committee should investigate the Student Health Service to determine the staff qualifications, student privileges and other information.
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7. The ASC should propose an amendment to the constitution calling for the automatic replacement of any ASC member who misses three meetings in one semester without an approved excuse. This amendment would insure a more responsible Council and help assure quorums at all meetings.
8. The ASC should direct the Group for the Improvement of Human Relations toward a program of equal rights in Lawrence and on the campus for all students regardless of race. Otherwise,
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9. The ASC should establish a system limiting the number of activities and offices in which a student could take part or hold. Although activities can be educational, we feel the groups each student is in should be limited.
--foreign ambassadors representing their countries in Washington, D.C. Several of the nations invited indicated genuine interest in visiting KU. The first visit arranged
10. The ASC should investigate the possibilities of eliminating class attendance requirements for juniors and seniors. By the time a student is an upperclassman he is able to determine how often he needs to attend a class.
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11. The ASC should investigate all schools and departments in the University and recommend a uniform grading system. This is badly needed. An example of the need is the present situation in the English department.
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12. The ASC should sponsor a system of student-faculty seminars in all schools and departments to be set up according to the wishes of each department's students and faculty members. Students need to be encouraged to pursue academic interests. Seminars could be developed into an effective method.
13. The ASC should begin a campaign to bring about the elimination of all racial and religious clauses in the national charters of all fraternities and sororites at KU. Although many Greek houses no longer have such clauses, the few which still do are contrary to the principles of American freedom.
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14. The proposed constitutional amendment to be voted on by the student body Tuesday and Wednesday should be passed. It will give the small schools an opportunity to elect a voting representative to the ASC. This will provide fairer representation on the Council. The present requirements for a voting representative are unrealistic.
These are the issues which we feel, if carried out, would make for a better student government. These points, if made into realities, will aid the campus as a whole. These are the issues against which the candidates should be measured next week. —The Editors
It Depends On You
...Letters ...
Last semester a number of invitations were extended by the department of political science to
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
11TERM GRADES MUST BE OUT — SOME OF MY STUDENTS AREN'T SPEAKING TO ME TODAY."
As most students probably know, Yugoslavia is a Communist country that split with the Soviet Union in 1948. Since that time it has followed a neutral policy toward both the Soviet Bloc and the "free" countries of the West. As a result of its ideological and geographical position in Western Europe Yugoslavia is a key country whose importance in world politics is far more than its size and population might suggest.
is Friday when the Ambassador from the Federal Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia will visit the University.
However before we in the department of political science make further arrangements for more ambassadorial visits to this campus, we want to make certain that such an interest exists. The best way to indicate this interest is to attend the ambassador's address at 8 p.m. Friday in Swarthout Recital Hall. He will speak on "The Role of Yugoslavia in World Politics."
The United States has since 1948 assisted Yugoslavia in a number of ways including both economic and military aid. Thus we believe that the visit of the Yugoslav Ambassador to the University should be of great interest to the student body.
Clifford P. Ketzel Assistant professor of Political Science
Worth Repeating
The first years of man must make provision for the last.— Samuel Johnson
By Gilbert M. Cuthbertson
THE GREEK VIEW OF LIFE, G. Lowes Dickinson, Ann Arbor Paperbacks, The University of Michigan Press, $1.75.
Dickinson strikes the fundamental chords of Greek Life which reverberate into a "well-destined urn" for the modern world. There is harmony with beauty which is synthesized into the classic keynote of unity.
As the author summarizes his position: "Through and through the Greek ideal is Unity. To make the individual at one with the state, the real with the ideal, the inner with the outer, art with morals, finally to bring all phases of life under the empire of a single idea, which, with Goethe, we may call, as we will, the good, the beautiful, or the whole ..."
"The Greek View of Life" examines four interrelated aspects of Grecian culture and civilization: religion, the state, the individual, and art. Dickinson illustrates each topic with selections from the Greek philosophers, dramatists, and historians.
The view of Greek religion is one of a natural adjustment to natural forces, resulting in an anthropomorphic viewpoint, infused, however, with a certain paradoxical mysticism. Greek religion is considered to be the very foundation of Greek society and a structure resonant with that of the state.
Dickinson's analysis of the Greek view of the state itself presents a miscellany extracted from Aristotle and Plato. The city-state is, of course, the basic governmental unit.
The two divergent forms traditionally represented by Athens and Sparta are contrasted—the capacity for spontaneous individual development with the capacity for discipline and law.
In viewing ethics, the principle of beauty is emphasized which in turn leads to a discussion of friendship from Plato's "Symposium." From this point there is a natural transition to the moral point of view in aesthetics and the theoretical concepts of the plastic and poetic arts.
Tragedy is treated at some length with an emphasis on its interpretative nature, its dramaturgical limitations, and its close relation to religion and to national life. The author finds a parallel in Wagnerian opera.
Although "The Greek View of Life" was originally published some sixty years ago, the book still serves as an admirable preface to a beginning study of ancient Greece.
It Looks This Way...
By Bill Farmer
Why not move the whole thing into Strong Hall and thereby give KU the biggest blasted loafing lounge in these United States?
Before the situation gets out of hand, I think the great white fathers who have decided to enlarge our immensely inadequate Union building should consider another equally sound alternative.
Naturally, Dr. Murphy and many campus administrators would have to set up shop somewhere else, but I'm sure we could squeeze them into one of the Strong annexes or some such hovel.
At any rate, I know that Strong Hall's occupants would be more than willing to sacrifice certain luxuries if it would guarantee bigger and better bowling alleys, larger lounges and a more spacious Hawk's Nest for the war baby boom that'll be hitting our campus soon.
Now do not get me wrong. I realize that the benevolent monopoly is out to help us students, making the old college grind a teeny bit softer for each and every one of us. I'm just suggesting that a little more frugality be exercised in the construction of these non-profit services.
I feel that at a tremendous savings (which could be allotted to scholarship funds and translucent canopies) either the history or philosophy department could be converted easily into the luxurious billiard parlors we all need so desperately.
If somehow we could transfer that bulky old mathematics department over to Fraser Hall, then we could re-establish and enlarge the inadequate Browsing room in its place. Meanwhile, the offices of the various deans would be changed into the college's keenest ballroom ever.
The advantages of this plan are many, as you can plainly see. And not only would the students benefit from it, but visitors would have both of our World War memorials, the Kansas Union and the Campanile, right next to each other for more convenient sightseeing.
Dailu Hansan
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