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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1959
Students Unaware
South American College students invariably involve themselves in political activities to a degree unknown in this country.
In the United States, most students show little interest in politics. In South American and other undeveloped areas,the students are often the rallying force for political action.
"The Student Struggle in South America," a report made this fall to the International Student Conference by a delegation of students who visited South American countries last year, shows two points which are generally true for all Latin countries.
Students are generally poverty-stricken and so have a deep social consciousness.
Schools are poorly equipped, poorly staffed and receive meager financial support. Teachers are grossly underpaid and usually have to take outside work to live.
Unless they live at home, few students can afford school as scholarships and lodging are both poor and scarce.
The students sit on controlling boards of their
schools, have a strong voice in policy and a strong important feeling of their place in the nation.
The report notes that students are often missed by political organizations which have no educational interests, and which stir the students to riot and violence.
But, contrariwise, they often lead fights for causes to improve their nations. They frequently fight dictatorship.
There are many things wanting in South American higher education. But it has vitality, plus opinions and the willingness and courage of students to stand up for them.
In the United States, our colleges and universities have much more to offer—but more and more it seems the American student has an attitude of non-concern for virtually everything but that which directly or overly affects him.
This attitude is more than slightly distressing to students in other lands, for the United States is the acknowledged free world leader. And tomorrow's leader is today's college student.
—Pat Swanson
What Use White Stuff?
Six inches of snow is a lot of white stuff on the ground. Surely it must be good for something,
It gives the student the perfect reason why he should get up 10 minutes early. It will take him that much longer to trudge through it to his eight o'clock class.
There can be no better outlet for aggression before final examinations. All the student has to do is build a snowman that looks just like his "favorite" professor and start tossing snowballs.
And, the final week just two weeks away, what better temptation to get away from studies than a good sleigh ride or a whirl around Potter Lake on ice skates.
Add a little milk, sugar and vanilla and you have ice cream. This is a way to pick up a new disease (and perhaps even a way to end up taking final examinations in Watkins Hospital.
Students who complain about too many steps down from Lilac Lane to Alumni Place or Tennessee Street no longer have a problem. The piece of ice on the top step is a never-fail elevator that lands students at the bottom in a hurry.
And how else can a coed impress the athlete in her Spanish class than by taking an acrobatic spill in front of Watson Library?
But, after all, it is kind of pretty.
Carol Allen
Serene Sunday
It ended, as T. S. Eliot says, "not with a bang, but a whimper."
About the same time most students were beginning to thing seriously on this business of winding up the Christmas vacation and returning to classes, an era ended.
"Our Gal Sunday," a 21-year-old child of broadcasting, whimpered her final words last Friday, then boarded a plane for a never-ending flight to her husband's castles in Britain. Sunday was politely given the axe by CBS in response to network members' demands for more time for news and music broadcasts.
This, of course, left unanswered radio's eternal question "Can a girl from a Colorado mining town find happiness as the wife of England's richest and most handsome lord?"
But Sunday's millions of listeners are free to conjure up their own answer. We like to think that Sunday is finally free of crippled children, leering lovers, and Black Swan Hall.
Who wouldn't be happy?
Jim Cable
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"MIGHTY POOR STUDENTS THIS TERM — THESE FAPERS ARE SO BAD I CAN'T ADAPT A SINGLE ONE FOR THI' BOOK I'M WRITING!"
A recent official survey says the average Briton smoked eight pounds of tobacco and drank 240 pints of beer, $3\frac{1}{2}$ pints of liquor and nearly two quarts of wine in 1958. "Merry ole England" seems to be in good form.
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Teachers in two states in India have recently received orders not to wear cosmetics in the classroom. Wonder what would happen if they tried that in the United States.
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The December edition of American Heritage is a typical pastiche of American history; that is, a potpourri of assorted commentaries, descriptions, and biographies. Some of the articles are outstanding, others only interesting.
One graphic contribution is Carl Carmer's description of the Hudson and the "myth-haunted valley of this great river of the mountains." Another brilliant essay is Henry Steele Commager's "The Constitution: Was It an Economic Document?" in which he refutes the late Charles A. Beard's economic interpretation of the Constitution. In his separation of the economic and political aspects of this basic American document, Commager resurrects some of the arguments of the past thirty years.
Others of the selections in American Heritage develop single "did you know that" themes. Did you know that American troops fought on and retreated from the "darkling plain" of Russian soil during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918? asks E. M. Halliday in "Where Ignorant Armies Clashed By Night."
The Civil War reader will be attracted by George W. Groh's narrative of the Confederate privateer, Shenandoah, which functioned for seven months after Appomattox and was ultimately sold at auction to the Sultan of Zanzibar.
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