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University Daily Kansas
Friday. Nov. 21. 1958
Eighty Billion Dollars
President Eisenhower is on the horns of a dilemma. The President wants to keep government spending at a minimum, and to keep the budget balanced.
Yet next year's national budget will add up to $80 billion, with a $5 to $12 billion deficit. This is the biggest peacetime budget in American history.
The unfortunate fact is this: Most of the budget cannot be cut. The big items are defense, mutual security, agriculture, and the Veterans Administration. These expenses are either fixed by law or needed for national security. According to
Newsweck. 90 per cent of the budget is in this "inflexible" category.
The Pentagon is already starting its campaign to get more money. The VA is limited by law in its expenses, as is the agriculture program. With the present world situation, no cut is likely in NATO or foreign aid.
The Congress may try its hand at budget-cutting, and some lesser services may be pared.
But with rising costs and prices,coupled with America's increasing role in world affairs,it looks as if the budget—and the national debt—will keep right on growing. Alan Jones
A Comparison
February, 1958. Administration finds two students guilty of forging and selling early enrollment cards, 93 others caught using them. Perhaps 200 other students used them, were not caught. No court action.
November. 1958. Administration finds three students guilty of implication in painting TNE signs in Lawrence and on campus. Trial in Lawrence police court.
February. Two forgers (and 93 others) put on probation, stay in school. Forgers lose campus
privileges, contribute their profit to scholarship fund.
November. Three implicated of painting suspended indefinitely. City charges dismissed.
February. "All violators have been put to some inconvenience and...expense as a result of their action."—dean of students.
November. "Repeatedly, the University has expressed its policy that vandalism...will result in dismissal. Therefore, there is no excuse for such irresponsibility by students on or off the campus."—dean of students. —A.J.
The Devious UDK
Editor:
Is there not some difficulty in communication here? Perhaps the public is not yet ready to accept your altruistic editorial in the correct manner or perhaps (perish the thought) there is involved a
question of journalistic responsibility.
Your path seems devious indeed. You complain of the turpitude of the student body of Kansas University, bemoaning the "good old days" when students could stage a fake death on the streets of Lawrence, and yet you view with constation a fake bomb scare directly resulting from your editorial. Again, you pen an editorial denouncing the administration in a style which can best be described as inflammatory (a sample sentence—"But guilt and innocence are of no consequence to the administration") and then throw up your hands in righteous indignation when a group of students (presumably) converts your words into actions.
One final question—the "lynch mob," you have said, "proved nothing but their own cowardice." At least in such an action they ran a certain risk. Could it be that such action, even in the dead of night, is more cowardly than snipping at the administration (or anyone else for that matter) from the inviolable sanctity of the editorial desk?
Marvin Carlson Wichita graduate student
Editor:
More on Harwi
Some questions need to be raised on Mr. Harwi's story in Monday's Kansas. First, was the story a reporting assignment or a criticism? If it was intended to be a criticism, why wasn't someone assigned to the job who had some knowledge of the field?
If I might presume to educate Mr. Harwi, I will take issue with
his statement that "There is little drive in modern jazz." What did you expect, Mr. Harwi, rock and roll? Modern jazz has every bit as much drive except that modern jazz has a subtlety and sophistication so sorely missed in rock and roll.
Mr. Harwi uses some phrases rather indiscriminately; he said "...there was enough 'solid' music to satisfy anyone liking the popular idiom at all." What is he trying to say? What is "solid" music? He closed his article with an apology for implying that the musicians were incompetent, but that the "method" was at fault. What "method?" Why should Mr. Harwi attempt to blame the performers, who were well received by the audience, for incompetency in their field unless it is to conceal a lack of knowledge or competence in himself?
From the amount of applause granted each number, the audience thoroughly enjoyed the concert. I'm sorry, Mr. Harwi, that our music "let one down too quickly to take one anywhere" as you said; perhaps you might learn to listen before you grasp for space-filling phrases to complete your Reporting II assignments.
Don Conard
Garden City senior
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It Looks This Way... Some Random Notes
By Donna Nelson
We thought the "Hell Yes, I'm a Senior" badges were sharp. But this business of the senior girls wearing "Hell Yes, I'm Single" badges is going too far.
As if freshman women didn't have enough problems, now they're forced into the weekly decision whether to wear their Red Pepper sweaters or their TGIF sweatshirts on Friday.
Another investigation is underway on campus. It is rumored that the collection taken at the Kansas-Oklahoma game for the Olympic fund was not for that purpose at all but to buy seeing eye dogs for the officials.
Let's take the banner advertising the homecoming dance and Tommy Dorsey's orchestra to the MU game with us. The team thought that "TD" stood for touchdown and they were playing real football.
"Tm sunk." reported the sophomore after picking up his down-slips. "All my grades are below C-level."
The fraternity housemother felt especially chic. She had on a rich brown chemise and was wearing her silver grey hair in the new bouffant style. She abandoned high fashion forever, though, when she overheard one of "her boys" remark to another that she reminded him an awful lot of a short beer.
Since it managed to rain every Tuesday during the first five weeks of school, Monday morning found the students in mass chaos, hurrying through the torrents of rain to their Tuesday classes.
Let's see. Theme paper, dictionary, The Way of All Flesh, pencils erasers, notebook paper, typing paper, typewriter, College Algebra, biology notebook, Elementary Accounting, and No-Doz. Guess that's it. All ready to go home for Thanksgiving now.
In a recent article, a psychologist says people should take advantage of suggestions and criticisms that are directed at them, and surely everyone agrees with him. Just ask yourself where we'd all be now if someone hadn't told Benjamin Franklin to go fly a kite.
Well, that's the story of my life. Always trying to open coke bottles in the coin return.
The Group Life
The Group Life By John Husar
A panel of four student thinkers met in front of the faculty Wednesday to discuss problems facing the average KU student.
Touching on academic, social and emotional problems, many interesting points were elicited from the forum.
Some of the items mentioned to be bothering students were lack of time, extreme pressure exerted by teachers, poor study methods, disuse of religion, too many exams, over-reliance on text books, and excessive social activities. These are all fine items to think about and should give the student a good indication where the basis of his troubles, if any, may lie.
Reflecting, we would like to add one more theory to the list. Having an emotional basis, it is carried through in social expression, and reflects on the academic results.
They are constantly controlled by the mores of many groups. Finding purpose and entertainment in groups, students join them, submit their minds for review and either rejection or compromise, and conform. Some student are individuals, but they are rare. All belong to groups.
Group participation is not bad. It develops a person, makes him human, and a bit broader. But constant devotion to organizations is not good, as consequently some find little time to understand themselves through the marvelous gift of private thought. Introversion is unnecessary, but the great freedom is achieved in the private confines of one's own four walls.
Students could benefit from spending more time there.
Students display a great lack of individuality.
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