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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. March 10, 1959
Turn About Is Fair Play
Most persons on campus, students and faculty alike, recognize the whistle as the end of class. It is the time when students stuff their pencils into their pockets, grab their coats and head for the next class.
When a study was made last year to see if there was enough time allowed between classes to make it from one end of the campus to the other it was done on a ten minute basis, timed from when the whistle blew until the next class was scheduled to begin.
That the whistle is a signal to dismiss class may be a general assumption, but it is definitely not a universal one. Some University professors seem to think the whistle has the same function as the Campanile chimes—to tell the time of day.
Dismiss class? Why should they? They still have more to say. Their next class doesn't arrive
for ten minutes so they don't feel pressed for time.
The students with their next class in some distant corner of the campus could pick up their books and leave—but the ever-prevailing grade hangs over their head. They can't afford to raise the wrath of the professor.
These professors, who like to lecture for five minutes after the whistle, are the same ones who storm, fume and even grade down if a student gets to class late.
This is an unfair situation. The students are at the professor's mercy.
The instructors must cooperate. If they expect promptness in their classes, they should not be responsible for the student's tardiness in his next class. —Martha Crosier
Let's Support K-State
The basketball season is about over for the second-raters and the also-rans. But the teams of championship caliber will go on during the next two weeks to try for regional and national honors.
We hate to admit that KU was quite inferior to Kansas State in basketball this year. But the fact remains—we were. And no team need apologize for losing to the current Wildcat team.
The regional tournament will be held in Allen Field House this weekend. The Kansas State Wildcats will be representing the Big Eight Conference in that playoff. It's all over for KU this year, but the Big Eight representative is still in the running for the big prizes of the season.
KU and Big Eight sports fans have something to cheer about as long as Kansas State continues in tournament play.
Seven years ago the Jayhawkers brought home the NCAA first-place trophy. This is a good year for that honor to be returned to the state of Kansas. If we can't have KU winning it, our sister-school, Kansas State, should be our second choice. —Jack Harrison
Editor:
Editor:
How does one fathom all of the circulating propaganda and reach the reality of the existing situation? On hearing Clement Attlee, this same old problem was brought to mind, once again. Any thinking person is probably disappointed and discouraged by the repetition of the evils of the other world power.
We have reached the point of world cooperation or world destruction. We, the students of the University of Kansas, the citizens
We always seem to get one interpretation of recent occurrences. We get only the democrat's opinion on the dignitaries at the Kremlin and on Communism. Even our English Socialist presented the familiar biased and twisted views.
of the United States, and the world, are the ones who must make the choice. We, the members of the "beat generation," are destined to be the leaders who will save our country—in its present form or in another—and we are the ones who can save the world.
Survival and extinction are on the separate pans of a very delicate balance. Any atmospheric disturbance will determine the outcome. We need to be aware of the present conditions and we must have the facts.
The facts? Well, these always present a problem. We all are very content with our present existence in the United States, but we should be aware of the other economic and political systems.
Our intellects must be exposed
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS BY BIBLER
OH, HES OUR MOST POPULAR HISTORY TEACHER ALLRIGHT, BUT I HEAR HIS STUDENTS DONT LEARN MUCH FROM HIM."
to the workings of Communism. Are we not sensible and intelligent individuals? We must hear other viewpoints. Why are we protected from the theory of Communism and why are all of the essential facts on the communal system censored before they are passed on to the "children" of this country.
We are allowed to choose our mode of entertainment. We know of all the beer joints in town and we can decide whether or not we are going to a dance on Saturday night. But with something that is much more important—the future of the entire globe—we have no grounds on which to make decisions.
We cannot think or believe soundly for we are receiving little stimulation and faulty representation of the facts. We search for the night spots but we are very lax when it comes to sifting the information that we get from newspapers and speeches. We should always search for the answers to questions that no one truthfully answers for us.
We run into another question at this point. How does one distinguish between false propaganda and true facts? Many would like an answer to this question and until the question is answered and the problem is solved we are not getting a fair deal.
We cannot fully understand or appreciate our own country and the capitalist system unless we are free to hear about the other forms of government in the world today. Understanding is essential to coexistence.
Was our visiting ex-prime minister, the leader of the British Socialist party, giving us true or biased information? Are the inhabitants of a Communist state less reel to think as they please than we in the United States? Do they all display their uniformity by wearing "red and black shirts?" Perhaps they do! But how can one be sure? I would like, for the sake of intellectual improvement, to hear another opinion, and preferably the opinion of one who is not completely dominated by the ideals of the Western world.
Ed McMullan
Long Beach, N. Y., sophomore
By Robert Harwi
It Looks This Way...
The recent proposal by Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo) to replace the ailing John Foster Dulles can best be described as politics—pure and simple. Sen. Symington should have selected a less vulnerable target for his attack.
vulnerable target for his attack.
Even though he is flat on his back in a hospital bed, Mr. Dulles is far from being out. Sen. Symington says the State Department cannot be run from a hospital bed. Would he want to bet on it?
It has taken a major tragedy like this for Americans to be fully aware of the monumental figure who is serving them in the office of Secretary of State.
Mr. Dulles' iron-fisted control of the State Department quite naturally offends those who would prefer not to see him so successful. Now, when he is down, might seem to some to be the ideal time to call for his removal. Let us hope there is little chance for such a removal for quite some time.
It is likely that Mr. Dulles will never return to his chair in the State Department. But in the meantime, the President can seek his counsel in determining the courses to take in the treacherous time between now and May 27, when the Communists want us out of Berlin.
Mr. Dulles' absence from the State Department is nothing new. He has been our most traveled Secretary of State, our most obvious advocate of do-it-yourself diplomacy. He has done much of this work and traveling despite his less than robust physical condition.
The people who want a sick Dulles out are the people who would want a well Mr. Dulles out. He just is not popular with most Democrats—though it was gratifying to see so many of them come to his defense after the Sen. Symington recommendation.
It is a common argument in these situations to say that no man is indispensable. That is true. There is always someone who can step into the breach.
But where is the man who can fill Mr. Dulles' shoes at this particular moment in history? He knows the background of the Berlin situation thoroughly. He is still close enough physically for personal consultations with his assistants. He is still able to serve as a support for the President, who apparently needs him more than many people realize.
So far there has been no suggestion from Mr. Dulles' doctors that the Secretary should step down. Until there is, or until Mr. Dulles himself or the President makes such a suggestion, we should leave things as they are.
Sen. Symington, who might make a fair president, did not advance his move for the White House very far with this proposal.
By Stuart Levine Instructor of English
PREFACES TO CRITICISM, by Walter Jackson Bate, Anchor, 95c. This is a reprint of the editor's introductions to the texts in "Criticism: the Major Texts" (Harcourt, Brace, 1952).
It contains sizeable introductions to the critical positions of Aristotle, Sidney, Dryden, Johnson, Hazlitt, Coleridge, Arnold and T. S. Eliot, and shorter, but very useful prefaces to the writings of twenty-nine other major critical figures, from Plato to Edmund Wilson.
Mr. Bate has provided us with a very convenient little reference work. I should think that "Prefaces to Criticism" would be a handy book for the undergraduate interested in literature to have around. Lecturers refer to the figures in this volume as reference points, and the relatively inexperienced student may not always know what the references imply. The Bate volume will serve as an adequate stop-gap until the student has a chance to read the original works.
Worth Repeating
Our students spend four years in high school, sitting, four more years in the college, sitting. Then at twenty-two they get down to serious university studies.-Paul J. Tillich.
I'm earning my Ph.D. by the sweat of my frau.—J. Fortescue Perley III.
More and more people find fulfillment in togetherness, in adjustment. ... This homogenization reflects itself in our domestic and foreign policies.—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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