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University Daily Kansas Wednesday. April 8, 1959
ASC Too Generous
The All Sfudent Council met last night and approved an appropriation of $73.50 to help the Business School Council defray costs of Business School Day.
This action set no precedent since the Engineering School Council and the School of Law already receive ASC funds. But the precedent does not justify the action.
Although the ASC is empowered by its constitution to grant appropriations for organizations or functions of an administrative, social or service nature, the Business School Council expenses should fall into the hands of the School of Business, just as the School of Law should meet the costs of Law Day. It is the school which sponsors the day. Why should the ASC fall victim to paying for it?
The Council's action in granting appropriations to the various schools for their special days has opened the door to all organizations to demand money for functions that should be financed with other than ASC funds.
Soon the demand could be greater than the supply. It would then be necessary to pick and choose the most necessary functions.
The Council should take action to work out a solution before this problem arises. A constitutional amendment is needed to specify exactly what functions are to be financed by the ASC.
If the ASC were less generous to organizations with other sources of finance, groups which now have economic gray hairs would be able to operate more efficiently with more ASC funds.
—Pat Swanson
If you are a reckless driver you'd better shape up or make an appointment with your local head shrinker.
Drivers, Your ID Is Showing
A Los Angeles psychiatrist says that you reveal your basic personality by the way you steer your wheels. And, he says, this rule of thumb does not apply to teenagers only, but it reflects upon daddy and mommy, too.
The psychiatrist, Dr. Jerome M. Kummer of UCLA, says that any driver who has ever event a fender or collected many traffic tickets is emotionally disturbed and should get a psychiatric examination along with his fine.
Dr. Kummer thinks it is the citizens' responsibility to spot such confused "potential criminals" and prevent them from driving. He thinks the roads would be much safer if people who are emotionally upset were restrained from letting off their anxieties and aggressions from behind the steering wheel.
And, if you are the hot rod type, Dr. Kummer says you well may be trying to cover up feelings of sexual inadequacy. Perhaps this is the basis for the stigma attached to the ferocious female driver.
Dr. Kummer will not let you go, though, even if you are a cautious driver. Sexual inadequacy and emotional disturbance also reveal themselves
if you fail to keep your vehicle in top notch order. If your car does not function properly, it follows that you do not function properly.
From Dr. Kummer's revelations, it is clear and logical that any mishap you might have with your chariot is not the fault of the mechanic or the manufacturer. That is a rationalization. No doubt it is your id, beating your ego to the punch in a battle of instinct versus rational responsibility.
Drivers, not only are the lives of many in your hands, but your own character and reputation are at stake when you surreptitiously sneak behind the steering rod of your Stutz-Bearcat.
Who knows, other than the Shadow, how many eyes peer at you and seek to gain entrance to your precious psychological secrets? You may be branded as an immature, anti-social, sexually inferior, angry bully and potential criminal, when after all you may be one of the meek who shall inherit the earth.
Sinners, if you have been doing naughty things which leave you no outlet for your guilt complexes and aggressions except one behind the wheel, think first of the innocent, puritanical pedestrian. Repent, for heaven's sake! The life you save may lower the grade curve.
—Martha Pearse
Editor:
... Letters ...
When Vox Populi announced its platform for the spring election, the president of Vox stated the party candidates will be campaigning on that platform.
The platform outlines five areas in which Vox has supposedly been working and four new areas in which action must be initiated. 1. Housing Committee: Last year's
Vox platform contained a similar provision. Are we to surmise that nothing has been done to correct the problem of the unorganized independents?
2. Committee Assignments: Vox feels petitioning and approval by the All Student Council is a good method. Yet the ASC constitution requires student council approval of these committee appointments. Also, through Vox's petition system, only 24 of 71 such positions were secured by independents.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
3. Student government information: Vox pledges itself to continue to inform students through the ASC public relations committee. Yet the Vox ASC voted down a proposal to set up a newsletter to be published by the public relations committee.
4. Curriculum Committees: This idea was formulated last year by an AGI student government.
5. Student Wages: Why didn't the Labor Committee work in this area this year?
Next the platform emphasizes four specific points. The first could be made possible only through the extension of women's closing hours and this is something entirely beyond the scope of ASC. The second is so worded that it only raises a problem, but does not offer any suggestions for solving the problem.
As for the third and fourth points, student government should reflect more than mere concern over such matters as where to get the next cup of coffee or where to park the car. Student government should concern itself with matters more relevant to student government.
It is rather disillusioning when candidates for student body offices and the party they represent are unable to develop ideas of more value than this insignificant chaff.
Larry G. Ehrlich Russell sophomore
Worth Repeating
Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.-Thomas Hughes
Student Government
Judiciary Is KU Courts
(Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of articles on campus politics and student government. This article deals with the judicial branch of student government.)
The judicial branch of student government is composed of the Disciplinary Committee and the Student Court.
The Student Court rules on all All Student Council legislation, campus traffic and parking violations and disputes between student groups. This includes handling irregularities which come up during campus elections.
The chief justice is appointed by the dean of the School of Law, the six associates by the student body president and the faculty advisory committee.
The Disciplinary Committee composed of both men and women, handles scholastic violations and appeals from the Student Court. Last year, for example, they met and ruled on the enrollment violations. Its student members are appointed by the president of the student body.
A check and balance system, like that of the federal government, prevents the possibility of any branch becoming dominant in the student government.
The checks in the system are;
The Student Court rules on the legality of all ASC legislation.
All appointments made by the student body president or vice president must be approved by a two-thirds majority of the ASC.
The student body president appoints members of the Student Court, but they must be approved by a two-thirds ASC majority. The ASC also has the power to remove members of the court.
It Looks This Way...
By Larry Miles
Vice President Nixon is reported to be basking in the Miami Beach sun with a bulging brief case. The vice president should try sun-tan lotion.
The report adds the bulging brief case contains statistical studies about the U.S. economy. This doesn't surprise Democrats. They have long suspected the administration's economic policies were born of sun-stroke.
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Papers also reported that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles continued to rest in the Florida sun. The papers didn't mention when Eisenhower was expected.
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Newsweek reports, however, that there were U.S. Congressmen present during the Easter recess. This may suggest the British had an eye to the future when they burned Washington.
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Eddie and Liz said they were "jumping for joy" since Debbie agreed to a quick divorce. The happy couple's fans may want to send skipping ropes.
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The movie last weekend may have been produced by Armour Co. It was all ham.
A student I know is spending all his time in the local dives. He wants a 3.2 this semester, but the University is only giving 3.0's.
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Lawrence drug stores are peddling grades now. They come in NoDoz boxes.
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Members of the 1959 senior class are suggesting class gifts for the University. Some have suggested a good present might be the razing of some of the gifts of prior years.
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A sports-minded friend of mine reports good hunting Easter Sunday. The bunnies were out.
A sociology professor has researched the divorce problem and claims men are at fault. Men, he says, should cooperate. The little women should be permitted to make all the little decisions. Then the men should decide the big decisions and what are little and big decisions.
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It takes nine window washers three weeks to polish all 5,400 windows in the United Nations building, then the men start all over again. It isn't know how many psychiatrists it takes to relieve the frustrations.
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