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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 19, 1959
Lobby by Letter
The All Student Council unanimously adopted a resolution to back the proposed higher education budget Tuesday. Yesterday six ASC members appeared before the Senate Ways and Means Committee and talked to various legislators in Topeka.
This is a good start in the right direction, but something more is needed. This something can't come from the ASC but must come from all the students.
To back up the ASC—and even more the University itself—every student should write his legislators. He should also ask his parents to write letters.
The ASC may represent the student body, yet letters from individual students will have a much greater effect.
It takes only a few minutes to write a letter. Its effect could be important.
This is your University and you have a responsibility to support it.
The ASC's resolution won't have much effect alone. With the support of the student body, as demonstrated through the letters they write, the budget would have the backing it needs and deserves. —Martha Cresier
A Righted Wrong
The wrong has been righted. We congratulate the University administration, and Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, in particular, for setting straight the official policy concerning housing for Negro students.
The blame for the discriminatory action of the housing office in giving separate lists to Negro students cannot lie wholly on the administration. One person, the secretary, seems to have adopted this policy to protect students from embarrassment. But this action reflected on the entire
University. Each student, faculty and staff member and employee should feel an obligation to uphold the University's policies and rules.
No more separate lists will be kept, Dean Woodruff assures. This is as it should be. Of course the University cannot dictate its policies to landlords. But equal opportunity for obtaining housing is now available.
We are glad this unequal practice was brought to light and that the administration took such fast action in correcting it. —Pat Swanson
Will You Be the 1 Out of 10?
A thinking man smokes this brand of cigarette boasts one advertiser. But I wonder if the thinking man ever starts smoking.
Although cigarettes might give pleasure and relaxation to the smokers, they might also cause lung cancer.
Lung cancer is the chief cause of cancer death in men. It is difficult to diagnose cancer of the lung in time for a cure. Records show that only about five per cent of all cancer of the lung cases are saved today.
The cigarette-lung cancer relationship has been debated for years. Many scientists who studied the problem became convinced that cigarette smoking was one of the causes of lung cancer. The evidence indicated that the more cigarettes a person smoked, the more likely he was to develop the disease. This interpretation of the evidence is challenged by some scientists.
One of the most significant research studies in the field was a four year study of the smoking habits of 187,783 men between the ages of 50 and
70. conducted by the American Cancer Society.
The society concluded that lung cancer death rates are ten times higher in regular cigarette smokers than in non-smokers.
Based on the research it was shown that these who gave up smoking have lower death rates than the men that continued to smoke. The one-pack-a-day smoker who gives up smoking for at least a year has a death rate less than half that of the man who continues smoking.
The report has good news for the two packs a day smoker. The research showed that a man who smokes two packs of cigarettes a day has about one chance in ten of developing lung cancer. A non-smoker has one chance in 270.
Other research made the discovery that tar extracted from cigarette smoke can produce cancer when applied repeatedly to the backs of mice.
No one can predict what will happen to the individual but in general those who smoke less live longer.
Smoking is a personal decision, but a word to the wise should suffice. —Don Culp
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS BY BIBLER
"YOUR ENTRANCE EXAM INDICATES YOU HAVE A HIGH I.Q.
- HOWS IT HAPPEN YOU WANNA BE A TEACHER??"
Short Ones
A bird in the hand makes it difficult to brush your teeth.-Mad
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.—Confucius
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be—Pierre Corneille
Fame hath sometimes created something of nothing.—Fuller
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EDITORIAL EDITOR
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
(Answer on Page 9)
ACROSS
1 Bread maker.
6 Hemingway's nickname.
10 Saloon.
14 Living.
15 All over again.
16 October birth-stone.
17 Measures of high way width.
18 Decorative ribbon.
19 Accurate.
20 Symbol of incubation: 2 words.
23 Sea bird.
24 Inkling.
25 One end of the Suez Canal: 2 words.
27 Sea bird.
29 Low bow.
32 Excited.
33 Clan.
35 Plagiarize: Slang.
38 Twelve dozen.
40 Rhee soldier.
41 Be kind to a college.
42 Fé or Cruz.
43 Horned animal.
45 5,260 feet.
46 "Jack ___ to the rescue!"
48 Sweeps.
50 Word on with-
drawal slip.
52 Slant.
53 City north of
Cambridge.
54 __ Heights,
locale of
Columbia.
60 Exploit.
62 Little look.
63 Helicopters.
64 Shaky feeling.
65 Unfounded.
66 Slow-moving
animal.
67 Newcastle's river.
68 Frigid.
69 Growing out
DOWN
1 Something soothing.
2 Turkish regiment.
3 Considerate.
4 Subject of Tann-
haer aria: 2
words.
5 Make one's home.
6 Turkish title.
7 Anatomy: Abbr.
8 South of the
Border money.
9 In a spin.
10 Guest bed.
11 Paris afternoons:
2 words
12 French statesman.
13 Version of Helen.
21 Retrieves.
22 Domestic document.
24 R.A.F. "milk run.": 2 words.
25 Comedian's specialties.
28 City 120 miles from Delhi.
29 "Lazy Bones" liked it: 2 words.
30 Golf club.
31 Alentian Island.
32 Therefore.
36 Former U. S. President.
37 Sheep.
39 Oregon's capital.
44 Duplicate.
44 ___ of Capricorn.
49 Bargain.
51 Sired.
52 Poem.
52 Two-legged animal.
55 Take another crack at.
56 Dickens character.
57 Singer Petina.
58 __ yourself: 2 wds.
59 To be: Latin.
61 Where hooks and slices are made.
From the Magazine Rack-
By Martin Mayer
Crowded College Myth
Frank Bowles, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, has pointed out that a student's choice of a college is usually dictated by his "self-image" and by his image of the colleges from which he chooses.
"If he wants to enter a prestige profession," Bowles said, "he will seek a college which can assure him of entry. If he seeks a position in big business, he will seek a college which can assure him of such position." Colleges pick up their prestige in various ways—antiquity, wealth, prominence of alumni, location in New England, or, simply, difficulty of entrance.
There are perhaps twenty such longed-after colleges in America, and they have a near-stranglehold on the best potential talent in the nation. Most of them receive three and four applications from qualified candidates for every vacancy in the freshman class. And the fact that these twenty colleges must reject more good students than they accept has credited the myth of an "admission problem" in American higher education.
Roughly one fifth of all places in entering college classes go vacant every year...Many excellent colleges which have not acquired the reputation of the New England schools are literally crying for good students.
It would seem easy to balance these two problems and solve them both, rescuing the prestige colleges from flood and the good but less famous colleges from thirst. And the failure of balance is, in part, merely a failure of information. Advisers in the high schools often know only a limited list of colleges themselves—especially if college counseling is only part of their duties.
The list could be...long with no diminution in quality, especially if it included certain state universities which the experts feel are not rated highly enough by the public: Kansas, Iowa, North. Carolina and others.
—Excerpts from "Good Colleges That Are Not Crowded," Harper's, February, 1959.