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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Jan. 5, 1959
High Pay or Politics?
Now, after all the threats that the maintenance employees at KU and K-State will leave if they don't get their requested pay raises, Atty. Gen. John Anderson has announced that the prevailing wage scales paid to them are illegal.
This means that all the complaints over no pay raise may rather result in a pay cut. This is because Mr. Anderson said all the jobs come under Civil Service and the wage scales are already above that. The rates paid have been competitive with those paid for comparable jobs in Lawrence and Manhattan.
If the KU and K-State staff are overpaid then all workers holding the same type of job are overpaid.
The difference actually is that the others are paid by private concerns willing to pay good wages to get good workers. The University employees are paid by the state out of tax funds. The men in Topika are worried more about saving taxes and getting votes than getting good employees for the state schools.
—Martha Crosier
Fatal Finals
It never fails. Every semester, the schedule of finals comes out just in time to be a source of surprise and dismay for the reckless undergraduate.
In fall semester, the schedule is diabolically published just before vacation, so the student has a couple of weeks to brood over it.
No student in good standing ever has an afternoon final. They're always at 8 or 10 a.m. No matter how cleverly the class schedule is worked out, John Student winds up with three finals on Monday and one on Saturday, as many as possible in the early pre-dawn hours.
Take this semester. A shrewd student who works out a late-rising class schedule, freeing his nights for carousel, looks at his finals schedule. He finds he has an 8 o'clock for his French class, an 8 o'clock on Saturday for his 3 p.m. nap period, an 8 o'clock for his 2 o'clock Tuesday-Thursday class, and faints before he can read the rest of the schedule.
So next semester, he works things out differently. He takes mid-morning classes to avoid rising at an un-Christian hour, but avoids the afternoon sessions of last time.
And he finds, at semester's end, that he has an 8 o'clock for his 9 a.m. MWF, an 8 o'clock for his 9 a.m. TT, followed by 10 o'clocks for the 10 a.m. classes.
By the time the student has a year or two in the mill, he has found that there are certain hours which naturally lead to late finals. He pursues these hours assiduously, but by now he declared a major and must take 10 hours of required courses each semester. These courses are so arranged that they all have 8 o'clock finals.
But an answer has been devised, a solution found, and the liberation is at hand. If you don't like finals, and particularly detest finals schedules (this includes 90 per cent of the campus) don't take it lying down—graduate. -A.J.
From the Bookshelf Publish or Perish
"For most members of the profession the real strain in the academic role arises from the fact that they are, in essence, paid to do one job, whereas the worth of their services is evaluated on the basis of how well they do another.
"The work assignment, for which the vast majority of professors are paid, is that of teaching. There are a few—a very few—who are supported by full or part-time regular research appointments, but their number is insignificant compared to the vast majority who are hired to teach and in whose contracts no specification of research duties is made.
"Most professors contract to perform teaching services for their universities and are hired to perform those services. When they are evaluated, however, either as candidates for a vacant position or as candidates for promotion the evaluation is made principally in terms of their research contributions to their disciplines."
—The Academic Marketplace, by theodore Caplow and Reece J. McGee
It Looks This Way...
One can't even work on research papers at
By Alan Jones
Some of us are already having second thoughts about returning to the academic cloister as we view with alarm (1) the weeks ahead—weather and schedules seem to be conspired against us. But there is always the carrot on a stick (2), in this case a diploma, dangling before us, and likely all but a few renegades will return to resume their scholarly and other pursuits.
From British Information Services: "A new development in underfloor heating which uses aluminum foil and sheeting has been introduced by a British company." This less than earthshaking news (3) (who wants his underfloor heated?) is overshadowed (4) by the obvious influence of American thought on the English. Notice they did not say "aluminium," but "aluminum," the American spelling. This may herald a new area (5) of understanding in the Western world. We always thought that TV sponsor who insists on calling it "aluminium" was rather putting it on, and it rankled.
For the students who really enjoyed their vacation and left their school work far behind this may mean two weeks of mad cramming, which, added to trying to recuperate from vacationing, could prove to be an ordeal.
Dead Town Revived
The vacation is over and only two weeks are left to get ready for the ominous week of finals.
But having the students back in town has its good points. Those few who spent their vacation in Lawrence know how dead this town can be.
The numbers? We're just counting this week's clichés
When KU takes a vacation so do the restaurant owners. The movies in town go from bad to worse.
night because the library and most of the buildings on campus are locked tight every night.
Of course one can spend his evenings in the Union but it getserie sitting in that big building all alone.
The only night lights are on the Christmas trees at Strong Hall.
Of course there is no parking problem, and most of the parking restrictions are off.
but school is in session and things are opening up again. The town merchants welcome the students back and so do the students who spent their vacation here.
School beginning may mean it's time to study again but anything is better than the complete nothingness this town becomes over vacation.
—M.C.
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Jan. 24...Oklahoma at Oklahoma State
Feb. 7...Arkansas at Texas
Feb. 28...Wichita at St. Louis
Mar. 7...Missouri at Kansas Stato
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Feb. 14...SMU at Rice
Feb. 21...Kansas State at Oklahoma State
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