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University Daily Kansan
Fridav, Jan. 9, 1959
Why Wait?
Enthusiasm is not entirely gone from the campus. Right now there are several gung-ho souls who are trying to get everyone excited over the idea of riding bikes to class.
Among the projects done in relation to this new movement is a report entitled "University of Kansas Coeds' Attitude Toward Bicycle Transportation on the Campus." It is a 16 page report complete with graphs. If most students received an assignment this long for a class they would loudly complain.
We must dispute this point. It is hard enough just walking or driving a car with chains or snow tires on this campus during the winter.
The supporters of this "ride your bike" campaign point out that if and when cars are banned on this campus this would be one remedy.
The report says the women who favored riding bikes included some of those who lived on Tennessee Street. The survey must have been taken before the snow arrived. It would take much more practice and skill than the average coed has to ride a bike up the hill in weather such as this.
Actually bike riding is not a bad idea. But it does seem a little ridiculous that before people can begin to ride them they must take a survey and spend months spreading the word that bikes are really neat.
One of the sales pitches used for getting people to accept this idea is that it is something different.
If they really want to prove that it is a different, but good, idea then why not just start riding bikes to class? Why do they have to wait for campus approval?
The best proof of the worth of an idea, is how well it works out in actual use. Let us see some of this kind of proof. —Martha Crosier
Darwinism
There has been a debate of 100 years over Darwinism, with 1959 marking the centennial of the publication of Darwin's theory in his "The Origin of Species."
Outrageous to some and inspiring to others, Darwin's theory, sometimes called "Natural Selection," says essentially that in any species more offspring are produced than can possibly survive. Because of over-population competition arises among the organisms of a species. Individuals vary in their characteristics and only those most fitted survive. The surviving organisms pass on these favorable characteristics to their offspring.
The main objection to the theory has been religion. The non-believers of Darwinism cannot correlate natural selection with the Biblical stories. It does not jibe with the spiritual and picturesque stories with which they are familiar.
Still others have found the theory painful to their ego. The theory completely changes the concept of man about himself.
something that was created apart, but that he was descended from lower animals.
Darwin's theory told man that he was not
Evolution, as Darwin describes it, is a thing of the present as well as the past and the evolution of man is nothing unique. He differs from other life on earth in that he has an understanding of the change that is taking place.
The vast majority of biologists and other educated persons, although they have found some errors in Darwin's theory, believe the theory of evolution is plausible and marvelous.
What will happen to this theory?
Some will never abandon their belief of the Biblical story of the creation. This would uproot their entire lives.
Still others have, and will follow the majority of biologists and other educated persons along the footsteps of Darwinism, finding the theory does not cancel out their religious beliefs.
One thing is certain. Darwin's theory has dominated the intellectual climate of the past century.
—Jeanne Arnold
Editor:
... Letters ...
I read it, blinked, and read it over. It was still just as foolish, naive, and nauseating as on the first reading.
Tolerance is a peculiar thing.
It is wonderful, it is right, but like all other aspects of life, it can be
"... probably. ... Mikoyan really is ... a person interested in nature and the smaller things in life. ... " So states Martha Crosier.
carried to ridiculous, dangerous extremes.
To observe that the number two man in the Soviet Union is "only human" is a gross oversight. Repeatedly it has been proclaimed that the avowed aim of the Communist machine is to destroy all other forms of government—this from the lips of Mr. Khrushchev, himself.
"We will bury you," he recently screamed at an American envoy.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"I SURE AM GLAD I FOUND OUT ABOUT HER! I CAN'T STAND A GIRL THAT'S STRONGER THAN I AM."
Is it logical, then, to state that his fellow cohort in crime is "only human?" This writer questions the thinking which preceded that statement of Miss Crosier's.
I once saw a picture of Adolph Hitler kissing a baby. Surely, then, he was "only human." Of course, by his order literally millions of people met an untimely death, and misery covered the world.
Mikoyan wouldn't be where he is if he was "only human." He is surely just as dedicated to seeing the world ruled by the Communist doctrine as is his boss. If not, Khrushchev has slipped somewhere in his choice of a deputy premier.
No, he isn't likely to be representative of most other Russians. If he and Khrushchev were like the ordinary Russian people, this writer seriously doubts that there would be any real tension in this world, and therefore little likelihood of us all being blown into oblivion.
UNIVERSITÄT Dailu Hansan
Jon Gnagy Hutchinson senior
I wish I could agree with you,
Miss Crosier. I wish I could.
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By Gilbert M. Cuthbertson
Mosasaurus, the terrible sea lizard, and Hesperornis, the great horned diver, both were animals which inhabited the Cretaceous seas of Kansas some one hundred and twenty million years ago.
THE FOSSIL BOOK, Carroll Lane Fenton and Mildred Adams
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Their skeletal remains are mounted and reconstructed in the Museum of Natural History. Their fossil remnants are depicted in the Fentons' stimulating account of prehistoric life, "The Fossil Book."
From gastropods (snails) to gastroliths (digestive stones of some dinosaurs), the Fentons, using a historical-geological approach, recreate the "animals of the past" in photographs and sketches of fossil specimens. The authors' orientation places especial emphasis on the evolution and development of modern genera.
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The first section of The Fossil Book introduces the fundamental concepts of historical geology and paleontology such as "index fossils" and "stratification." Here also is a precise and well-developed account of the nature of a "fossil" and the means by which fossilization may occur (as carbonization and permineralization).
The major portion of the book contains vivid pictures of individual specimens of fossil types, representing the major zoologic and botanic orders and genera with the exception of the primates.
There is a proportionate treatment of the invertebrates and the vertebrates. Of particular interest are the brief treatments of the "problematica" in each section as the early algal stromatolites, the graptelites, and sponges in general. Also treated are questions such as those concerning the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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The Fentons study in particular the emergence of land animals from such forms as the Icthyostegalia, early amphibians of Greenland, and the ancestry of common mammals.
Although the subject matter of "The Fossil Book" is of a technical nature, the Fentons are careful to define or "popularize" their terms. The fossil material is examined with a concise and logical development with illustrations and diagrams on almost every page.
The Fentons conclude with the theme "read, see, and collect." Among the institutions recommended for the reader to visit is the Natural History Museum here, the collections of which provide an excellent supplement to "The Fossil Book."
One Year Ago...
One year ago this week Gov. Docking had pledged in a letter to the All Student Council "to continue to provide the best education, at all levels, which Kansans can afford to support with their tax dollars."
It was announced that bids would soon be let for the construction of Summerfield Hall, the School of Business building, and for Sprague apartments for retired staff members. Although the site for Sprague apartments has not yet been cleared, the business school building is under construction and is expected to be ready for use next fall.
The Humanities lecture in the week of Jan. 7 last year was given by Dr. Bruno E. Werner, cultural counselor in the Washington embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Damage, not expected to exceed $1,000, was discovered in the Alpha Phi sorority house, resulting from a water pipe that burst during Christmas vacation.
Wilt Chamberlain did not play in the game with OU, making KU the underdog—and rightly so. KU lost 64-63.
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