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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Oct. 30, 1958
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The Budget Cut
In spite of some anguished yelps, the All Student Council chopped $900 from the Associated Women Students' budget this week.
Before anyone starts feeling abused, remember that the AWS still gets $1.699—the largest single appropriation on the ASC budget.
We have every respect for the AWS, which assuredly does a great deal for the female students around here. As one of the AWS defenders said, it has proved its far-reaching effects in the past.
So far-reaching, in fact, that the AWS got $2,500 out of a $7,000 budget last year.
The women on campus also share in other appropriations—Pep Club, Mortar Board, conventions, and all the rest.
In brief, they receive much more from the ASC than they contribute. In itself, this is perfectly all right. Budget planners must consider needs, not merely distribute money according to the
size of organizations.
There are other projects on campus which also need money. The ASC has decided that they are important enough to get some of the money chopped from the AWS. It would be pleasant to let everybody have as much loot as he wants, but there is only $7,000 to go around.
The bad aspect of the ASC action is the amputation of the High School Leadership Day money. The day is set for Nov. 15, and the cut came too late to permit cancelling.
Unless the money is restored, the AWS will be short $500 from Leadership Day. With some 2,000 members, it seems they could raise the money without difficulty.
If the AWS actually represents all the women, it should have no problem in raising the money.
If it represents only a fraction of student women, it is spending too much money. The AWS must cut its coat to fit the cloth. —Al Jones
Toward a More Perfect Union
The University is ready for another change. Many proposals have been born in these columns. Most have never got past the eyeball stage of student thinking. However, the idea of a Union annex on the west campus has been the subject of many student dreams for years.
This is really not asking too much. For cons, students inhabiting the Lindley-Marvin-Snow regions have needed a congregating center to service their needs. Pity the poor intellectual who has to waste valuable study time while he treks across campus to drink coffee and to waste time profitably in the Union.
Ideally, the idea is good. Loyalties can be developed between areas of study. A mythical line will be drawn, bisecting Strong Hall, and students on either side of the line will frequent their own Union.
Factions will develop. Competition will arise
for political offices, primarily for the all-important position of SUA president-he who decides which Union gets fresh coffee, new juke-box records, or color TV sets.
Political parties will dissolve. Instead, candidates will be run from each Union, with qualifications based on coffee capacity, or abilities to waste time efficiently or control Union-party caucuses.
The annex can be built between Lindley and Marvin Halls. This also is good. Such a blockade will prevent engineering students from building future eyesores like the hyperbolic parabaloid of a couple of years ago.
So an idea is born. There are others—a ski lift up the Hill, a conveyor belt along Jayhawk Blvd., ash trays on the backs of every class seat, a coed on every arm...
Ah. sweet idealism.
Editor:
For the Classics
May I congratulate The Daily Kansan for such ably written editorials as those by Martha Crosier. Her editorial of Oct. 15 ("From Classics to Claptrap") has been one of the best examples and does not require further comment. But Mr. John H. Kiesow's arrogant criticism of this article (Oct. 27 Kansan) very definitely needs some answer.
Mr. Kiesow, a teacher and KU graduate, advocates "adapting" — this means abbreviating, simplifying—the classical works of literature as a program in education, especially for less brilliant students. This is a very convenient, but very dangerous point of view. This issue is not primarily a question of education, but a matter of good taste, and first of all culture.
...Letters...
The new trend of "adapting" and "condensing" culture, of omitting "unessential" (what arrogance) passages, is one of the most serious dangers to our culture. It is in fact more dangerous than the "steady diet of comic books", which at least does not claim to be Goethe or Melville. This fatal trend had been established years ago by Reader's Digest, which is now providing millions of people
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knowledge and half-truth.
It must be strongly emphasized that this practice means a downgrading of standards once set by the great men of our western culture.
Of course, it would provide a convenient way for us to feel very "cultural," very self-conscious. It would give us the illusion of living up to the great standards of our culture, which very few of us really do. In addition, it would mean the surest way to breed lazy minds.
I hope that Mr. Kiesow at least agrees with me when I express the opinion that to breed lazy minds should not be the aim of a teacher. But then he would also have to agree that it is a teacher's task to raise the people up to the standards, not to bring the standards down to the people.
I am convinced that after this new experience a significant part of his self-satisfaction and complacency would have passed away; and perhaps he would even be able to criticize a sincere and unpolemic article with similar sincerity and tact, and with less improper and annoying polemics.
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