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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 4. 1959
Drink Up 'Watery' Education
What! Give up love, sex, fun, automobiles and tradition just to learn something in college?
Why, this "Second Curriculum," as journalism teacher Jerome Ellison calls it in his article, "Are We Making a Playground Out of College?" (Daily Kansan, Monday, page 6) happens to be part of the American way of life and just because it goes on in colleges is not the reason that it should be done away with!
Where else could one find all this fun rolled into one experience with a little education thrown in? Mr. Ellison further charges that this life "drives a high proportion of our students through college chronically short of sleep, behind in their work, and uncertain of the exact score in any department of life."
Doesn't he realize that there isn't a better time than college to lose sleep? When else can you lose sleep and have so much fun doing it? As an adult in the cold, cruel world the only time you may get a chance to lose sleep is changing
diapers in the middle of the night or from insomnia.
Mr. Ellison also advocates eliminating "plush university housing (Sunnyside?) for married students until the head of the house becomes a senior." We all realize that this would keep students from getting married, now wouldn't it? OK, so let's rent slums for undergraduates who are so unfortunate that they 'fall in love before they become seniors. That must be the answer.
Are we really "watering down" education as Mr. Ellison charges for the "Second Curriculum"? If making love, driving autos on campus and joining organizations are watering down education, then let's drink it up before it gets too weak!
These "tough seasoned, disciplined thinkers to lead us into tomorrow's new world" that Mr. Ellison is advocating may be the up and coming thing. However, if this is going to be the "thing to do in college," maybe we should all resort to being Beatniks! —Martha Fitch
Congressional Relatives Pay Off
Rep. Steven V. Carter (D-Iowa), slashed his 19-year-old son's salary in half last week after deciding he had made an "error in judgment."
Carter first said his son was worth the $11,873 he was being paid for part-time office work. Then he backed down and decided $6,402 was enough.
The younger Carter is a freshman pre-law student at George Washington University where he carries nine semester hours. He has been on his father's congressional payroll since Jan. 3.
Rep. Carter blames his physical condition for his $5,471 error. He says he may have erred in judgment "while sitting next to the spectre of death." (He is now undergoing treatment for recurrence of cancer.)
This may give rise to another question: What other decisions has Rep. Carter made erroneously because of his ill health? The cancer first struck him in 1957.
A check on Congressional payrolls shows 125 relatives of Congressmen hold staff jobs with salaries ranging as high as $13,344. These Congressmen protest the attack on Carter by newsmen.
And, would he have realized the error in judgment for his son's salary if the matter had not
been brought to the attention of his constituents by newsmen?
They say every Congressman has a very special reason for employing his own particular relative. He knows them better and works with them easier.
Perhaps family employment can be justified on this basis. But it seems Mr. Carter was stretching the price of his son's part-time work.
His own salary is $22,500 a year plus extras. His son's salary, before the reduction, would amount to about half that amount.
Any student realizes even nine hours in college can call for a lot of homework. It would not leave $11,873 worth of spare time for even the best student.
If Rep. Carter knows his son as well as he says he does, it would seem he, too, would be aware of the amount of time his son's schooling demands or should demand.
On what basis then, does Rep. Carter judge the worth of his son than on his own salary and the time he spends to earn it. If the amount of work the son is able to do in his spare time is worth $11,873, then how much work does Rep. Carter do to deserve only twice that amount?
Carol Allen
... Worth Repeating . . .
The cost (of traveling to Venus) would be only one-fiftieth as much if the explorers abandoned the luxury of a round trip and planned to remain on Venus permanently. —Donald H. Menzel
If we were committed to Bedlam, we would edit a handwritten sheet for our fellow inmates, and if Russia took over this country, we would edit underground.—Edward A. Weeks
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"WE BETTER RUN BACK AND CHECK THAT SCHEDULE."
We have carried this new insight (into human relations) so far now that it interferes seriously with getting the world's work done. . .
It encourages people to feel sorry for themselves, to find excuses for failure, to act like children.-Malcolm P. McNair
The Russian sputnik is the result of the American policy of preferring fatheads to eggheads.—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Despite his unusual gifts of causing annoyance, if Mr. Nehru did not exist, our greatest hope for India would lie in inventing him.-Dean Acheson
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I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.-Clark Kerr
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By Ann Hyde
HORIZON, A Magazine of the Arts. January, 1959. issue. $2.95.
"Horizon" is apparently aiming to bring the delights of culture to people too stupid to know whether or not they are culture-hungry and too nervous to read more than six pages at a time. It may succeed. Meanwhile, there are the pretty pictures.
This magazine is a high-class—and high-priced—Life, a parfait of handsome pictures and brief articles. History and art are the light-hearted excuses for the pictures and the price.
There is a medieval minax on the front cover. There is a collection of color photographs of Angkor-huge dark vine-destroyed Cambodian towers and statues. bas-reliefs of graceful long-eared warriors, and a serenely immense green head of a bodhisattva.
There is an eighteenth century map of the solar system and a full page medieval illumination of God dubiously measuring the universe with a compass.
There is a big Bosch-like Hell by Breughel pleasantly interpreted by Gilbert Highet. Most of these pictures are in color but none are "suitable for framing."
There is a covey of modern portraits, both commercial and private (including five of Maugham), by such names as Merton, Dali, Annigoni, Elwes, and Sutherland, accompanied by a competent article which includes a hasty history of portraiture, and by a squib from Maugham.
"Horizon" also proves that Hemingway is as shy as a gorilla when it comes to talking about the art of writing. It gives a brief survey of San Francisco as an art center, with illustrated sections on architecture, sculpture and painting, writing, music, theater and dance. It explains "tape-recorder" music (which, by the by, is represented in the KU music library).
Turning to history, "Horizon" offers a light article by P. G. Wodehouse, and a superficial survey of the relations between Richard and Saladin decorated with some ill-chosen miniatures and a Victorian illustration of "The Talisman."
Science provides an optimistic little essay about the co-existence of religion and space-travel by Clarke; a pessimistic one which says that civilization is burning its material bridges behind it; and a biography of the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, illustrated by contemporary prints and water colors.
Seven other trifles complete this specimen of "Horizon's" "taste, which is meager and hollow, but crisp."
From the Newspaper Rack-
Civil Service Paralyzed
"In their mad rush to make appropriations and go home in two weeks, Kansas legislators are overlooking some opportunities for a constructive session.
"One of the most glaring oversights is the state's headless civil service. This is a tragedy for the persons caught with frozen pay schedules. They cannot lobby their lawmakers. They must accept silently a situation that has no counterpart in the nation. It is caused by the hybrid Kansas state finance council which does not resemble any governmental unit ever known outside the borders of the state."
"Kansas civil service theoretically is administered by a conglomeration of four legislators, the governor and lieutenant governor. Only the council has the right to establish or change civil service pay schedules. Only the governor can call it into session to act.
"Gov. George Docking has refused to call the council. He feels, with good reason, that it invades his executive prerogatives. His refusal and the Republican legislators' refusal to change the law hurt innocent state employees.
"There has been no meeting in 19 months. Hundreds of persons among the 11,000 or more state employees, not including the colleges are awaiting changes in pay classification.
"Could any corporation other than the state of Kansas go three and one-half years without any change whatever in its pay schedule classifications? That is what Kansas' faces.
"Legislators who could break the impasse seem to feel no responsibility for the monster their predecessors created.
"And they think they deserve an increase in pay!"
Excerpts from the Kansas City Star editorial, "A Feud Paralyzes Kansas Civil Service." Monday, March 2, 1959.
It Looks This Way...
By Geneva Mendenhall
It is not a product, but a process. It is a process that begins with school and lasts as long as we do. It is a process by which we are modified and changed, by means of which we grow.
Education is not something that we "get." It is something that happens to us.
It is not an external nor an automatic process, but one which involves us-all of us. It is a creative process by which we are constantly made new; it is a continuing process by which we promote ourselves.
And what is graduation? A degree? Just that—a mark on the cup, a new level in the process.
Education is not something in a package that we can buy and wear. Educated is something to become.