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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 31, 1959
A Student Is Gone
A scholar will be buried today. He was 21 years old. He died of cancer.
He died even before he started, Fred Luedders would have graduated in June. Everything indicated he would have had a bright future. His grades were consistently good. His quiet manner and friendly attitude made him easy to like.
And spring is here. People shouldn't die in the spring. Spring means the beginning, the birth of life. Spring means growing, not dying.
Why did he die? Medical science says he had cancer of the lymph system. People often die when they have cancer of the lymph system.
Youth, dying, spring, dying, and my life is starting and he is dead.
Death seems far away as we look across the greening Kaw valley. We plan for the future here at KU. And the future seems to stretch into an eternity.
Maybe it is an eternity and life on earth is only a tiny particle of the vast Something we must face. Theologians say so. We say we believe this. But during this time in our lives it seems easy to accept without too much questioning.
We have so much to live for on earth that life itself seems to be an eternity. We live in the present and the near-future until the passing years show us another way to live. Then we often still look to our few short earth-remaining years.
Life begins at 40; retirement; relaxation; a new life with fewer worries—these become our concern.
Then we find we have been narrow-minded. Life has slipped by so swiftly we never did everything we had planned. And life seems all too short.
But how much shorter would it have been if we died at 21. Fred reminds us it could happen.
A month ago Fred was attending classes. A couple of months before then the doctors and Fred learned of the dreaded, destroying cancer inside Fred. But he came back to school. He wanted to graduate. The quiet smile of this Western Kansas youth gave no indication he would soon die.
But youth and spring were not of as much cardinal importance as was cancer.
A student is gone. —Doug Yocom
European Unity Discussed
Editor:
I should like to make a few comments on two opinions on European affairs which have been expressed on campus and which must be criticized because they distort "slightly" European realities.
The first opinion was in Lord Attlee's speech and, to a certain extent, created the impression that it represented the attitude of a strong European majority.
This is not so. Of course, there are also numerous opponents to European unification on the Continent, but their reasons for objecting...are completely different from his or those of any British politician.
The fact that Great Britain is against European unification is understandable... The British cannot see any economic advantage which could result from joining a supranational community...
Here are the main reasons why attempts toward an economic and later political unification of important European countries are made. Small economic units like the European nations cannot compete with the giants of the world. A concentration of forces, a division of labor and a rationalization of
the economic process are therefore necessary. . . .
No government gives voluntarily something without getting something . . .
There are and will be sacrifices of all partners. This means that in the economic field whole branches of one country or another, so far flourishing under the protection of unhealthy custom duties, will be wiped off by healthy competition and that must lead to a certain structural change of the European economy.
The second reason is the threat of the so-called Communism from the East which requires a political, cultural and ideological unification of Western Europe and demands an unprecedented firmness and compactness without loss of individualism. (In this point the British agree gladly.)
The third argument is that wars between these countries will be avoided. . .
The second opinion which I want to comment on, is Larry Miles' editorial in The Daily Kansan (March 23.1959)...
1. nope with him for a world federation and unification. Nevertheless, he does not seem to be aware of the weakness of the developing countries which need protection because they just cannot compete yet. Nothing is won by a
His example, the coal crisis in Belgium,.. does not give an entirely true picture of the situation. It is true that some coal mines are more efficient or more obsolete than others, but the cause of Belgium's plight in the coal business is not merely, as he says, Europe's drive towards unification.
general elimination of customs barriers.
...the coal problem does not exist only in Belgium, but also in Germany and Luxembourg and even in England...
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Yes, some mines are obsolete and unprofitable in their equipment but not in comparison with their sister enterprises in other countries but in comparison with other sources of energy...
... One reason for the coal surplus is the fact that in the period right after the war Europe had to import from the United States who was "wise" enough to ask for long-term contracts of which Europe cannot get rid now...
"HE NOT ONLY GIVES A LOUSY LECTURE — BUT HE EXPECTS YA TO TAKE NOTES ON EVERYTHING HE SAYS!"
...The problem is a...challenge for these countries to solve their common problems by common efforts now that they are in a bad situation and that one nation's welfare depends so largely on that of the sister nations.
Peter Haefner
Heidelburg, Germany
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Statistics Not Whole Story
Editor:
May I congratulate Mr. Hough on his fervent defense of the Greek grade point average. With a flourishing sweep of statistics he has generalized his article into a single sentence designed for better Greek - independent relationships: "One thing is sure: the Greeks are leading the independents in over-all scholarship."
I have no doubt as to the validity of Mr. Hough's figures. I do question, however, the assumption that the higher grade point average is due to the Greek system because the groups in that system are fraternities or sororites.
I would suggest that he make another extensive survey of organized houses—this time including all independent organized houses (such as university dormitories, scholarship hall, co-ops, etc.) and compare his mountain of notes on grade point averages again.
I feel that he may come to a more realistic conclusion concerning the pseudo-superiority of any large body of students seeking an education.
Darrell Owen Great Bend junior
Editorial Policy
Letters to the Editor should be limited to 300 words and be typed double space. The writer should type and sign his name. No unsigned letters will be run. However, names may be withheld on request.
Student Government- ASC Is Legislature
By Robert Lynn
(Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles on campus politics and student government.)
KU student government has three branches: the executive, legislative and judicial. The legislative branch is the All Student Council.
The executive branch is composed of the student body president and vice president and the committees appointed by them. The judicial branch is made up of the Student Court and the Disciplinary Committee which are both appointed groups. These branches will be explained in detail in future articles.
The All Student Council is made up of two types of representatives. These are representatives for the school districts and for the living districts. One representative is chosen from the schools of Engineering, Education, Fine Arts, Business, Law, Pharmacy, Journalism, and the Graduate School. The College seats two representatives, a man and woman.
Representatives are also chosen from eight living districts: fraternities; sororities; men's, women's and freshman women's dormitories; co-operative houses, and professional fraternities maintaining houses, and married and unmarried students in unorganized housing.
ASC representatives are elected in the fall and spring elections. Two freshman women are selected from the freshman women's dormitories in the fall while the rest of the living district and the school district representatives are elected in the spring.
Representatives may be elected on a party or non-partisan ticket. There are two major political parties on campus, Vox Populi and Allied Greek-Independent. Party petitions are presented to the chairman of the ASC elections committee by the party president. Non-partisan petitions must be signed by 150 or 40 per cent of the qualified voters in the school or living district in which the candidate wishes to run. These are presented to the ASC elections committee chairman by a specified date before the election.
After the council has been elected it selects a chairman, a vice chairman, a secretary, and a treasurer. The chairman appoints the Committee on Committees and Legislation, then sits with that group to appoint members for the Elections Committee and the Finance and Auditing Committee. These are the three standing committees.
Half the ASC members are on the standing committees. The rest are, as far as possible, on the executive committees appointed by the student body president and vice president, who are elected at the same time as the ASC. Executive committees must have approval of two-thirds of the Council members.
The ASC deals in all areas concerning the students except those of purely administrative nature and faculty matters. The ASC is concerned with three main areas: the Department of Student Welfare, the Department of Student Activities, and the Department of Public Relations.
The Department of Student Welfare concerns itself with labor problems, student housing facilities, and the student health service. The Department of Student Activities deals with student publications, social affairs, and traditions. The Department of Public Relations, through the Statewide Activities Committee and the Public Relations Committee, spreads information about the University throughout the state and publicizes the activities of student government to the student body.
The laws of the student government are enacted this way: A proposed law is introduced to the Council as a bill. The bill is given its first reading and referred to the Committee on Committees and Legislation. This committee studies the bill and makes a recommendation to the Council, usually at the second reading.
At this second reading the bill is discussed and voted on by the Council. If it is passed, it goes to the office of the chancellor. If the chancellor does not take action within two weeks, either signing or vetoing the bill, it becomes law. A bill may be subject to referendum if a petition signed by 20 per cent of the student body is presented to the secretary of the ASC to that effect.
Worth Repeating
Don't cross your bridges if you can beat the toll by going around. Mad Magazine
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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