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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 30, 1957
Campus Politics—
We Support No Candidate
Since the much-discussed and apparently muchmisunderstood "Kansan Board controversy" many persons have asked the question: May the University Daily Kansan now editorially support candidates for campus offices?
The answer is yes.
However, we feel that it is in the best interest of everyone that we do not exercise our right to do so.
or party for campus offices in the coming election.
In short, we are not supporting any candidates
We do, however, wish to urge everyone to vote. Voting, on whatever level, is not merely a right and a privilege, it is the duty of a good citizen.
There are some good candidates running for office in this election.
Good Council and class leadership can be a vital part of university life.
So, it's up to you to find out who are the best candidates and vote for them.
Africa Has Much To Learn
(Editor's note: Emphasis on the Dark Continent is highlighted by the visit to the campus of American Universities Field Staff expert Charles F. Gallagher Wednesday. Following is an editorial on the situation in North Africa.)
North Africa is composed of five nations on the northern top of the African continent. They are Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
North African nations that have achieved independence by nationalism, except Libya and Tunisia, often can't keep their nationalism within their boundaries.
Egypt ran into Sudan almost as soon as the British left. Then the Egyptians made war on Suez, nationalized the canal and precipitated a delicate Middle East situation and further fomented trouble with Israel.
Moroccan nationalists have rolled into the northwest African desert to claim more of the French Sudan.
Algerian nationalists have been fighting the French. At a U.N. debate on the Algerian questoin, Dr. Mehdi Ben-Aboud of Morocco said:
"The Franco-Algerian conflict falls within the moral domain and has to be placed among the great upheavals of our time...
"Today, whatever may be the new European settlers, the Algerian people is demanding the return of its freedom. European colonialism is seeking to exclude and annihilate the national existence and legitimate aspirations of an entire people.
"Algeria is a nation. France is another. Colonialism does not accept the truth. Algeria can never forget that it is a nation, different from France, conquered for a time and returning periodically to armed resistance and revolutionary resistance-
"The Algerians have expressed their national aspirations very simply. They ask France to recognize the right of Algeria to freedom and self-government; they want to know their destiny;
they want to know where their present sacrifices will lead them."
This seems to reflect, at least on the surface, the great revolutionary tendencies of nationalism in North Africa.
But nationalism is a symptom, not a cause, of revolution. The cause is something deeper and far more important.
Edmond Taylor, writing in The Reporter, said the cause is an economic and social crisis that is a basic, malignant disequilibrium.
Immaturity is spreading. Half the population in Tunisia is now under 20 years of age. A similar condition exists in other North African countries.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon reported after his stop at Morocco and a talk with Sultan Mohammed V that the pressing problems are unemployment and under-employment. The long-range U.S. aid programs are designed to strengthen the Moroccan economy rather than simply to finance unemployment relief.
The Sultan agreed with Nixon that a peaceful solution of the struggle between France and Algerian nationalists was essential because continued violence would have a residue of problems. A settlement recognizing French and Algerian interests alike through elections should be found.
Civilization is on trial in North Africa.
Until North Africans learn to match their population to the productivity of the desert they live on by birth control, and learn to work together both between themselves and other nations, and educate themselves and show imperialist powers they are capable of governing themselves without warring on other nations, they will have to live in jeopardy.
And it will take a large, hefty heave by themselves on their own bootstraps. At the present time, they're living in a way they deserve.
John Battin
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
'HES SEVERELY HANDICAPPED IN THIS CLASS -HE HAS A HIGNIQ'
The present number of dairy cows on farms in the United States is the smallest in two decades, but milk production is at an all-time high.
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THE THUNDERING MARCH OF PROGRESS
Today, as everyone knows, is the forty-sixth anniversary of the founding of Gransmire College for Women which, as everyone knows, was the first Progressive Education college in the United States.
Well do I recollect the tizzy in the academic world when Gransmire first opened its portals! What a buzz there was, what a brouhaha in faculty common rooms, what a rattling of teacups, when Dr. Agnes Thudd Sigafoos, first president of Gransmire, lifted her shaggy head and announced defiantly, "This here is no stuffy, old-fashioned college. This here, by gum, is Progressive Education: We will teach the student, not the course. There will be no marks, no exams, no requirements. We will break the iron mold of orthodoxy, hey."
Well sir, forward-looking maidens all over the country cast off their fetters and came rushing to New Hampshire to enroll at Gransmire. Here they found freedom. They broadened their vistas. They lengthened their horizons. They unstopped their bottle personalities. They roamed the campus in togas, leading ocelots on leashes.
And, of course, they smoked Philip Morris. (I say "of course." Why do I say "of course"? I say "of course" because it is a matter of course that anyone in search of freedom should naturally turn to Philip Morris, for Philip Morris is a natural smoke, with no filter to get in the way of its true tobacco taste.)
But all was not Philip Morris and ocelots. There was work and study too - not in the ordinary sense, for there were no formal classes. Instead there was a broad approach to enlarging each girl's potentials.
Take the course called Basic Motor Skills
Take, for example, the course called B.M.S. (Basic Motor Skills). B.M.S. was divided into L.D. (Lying Down), S.U. (Standing Up) and W. (Walking). Once the student had mastered L.D. and S.U., she was taught to W.-but not just to W. any old way! No sir! She was taught to W. with poise, dignity, bearing! To inculcate a sense of balance in the girl, she began her exercises by walking with a suitcase in each hand. (One girl, Mary Ellen Dorgenicht, got so good at it that today she is bell captain at the Dinkler-Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.)
There was also a lot of finger painting and gourd rattling and sculpture with coat hangers and all like that, and soon the fresh wind of Progressivism came whistling out of Gransmire to blow the ancient dust of pedantry off curricula everywhere, and today, thanks to the pioneers at Gransmire, we are all free, every man-jack of us.
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When the girls had walking under their belts, they were allowed to dance. Again no formality was imposed. They were simply told to fling themselves about in any way their impulses dictated, and believe you me, it was quite an impressive sight to see them go bounding into the woods with their togas flying. (Several later joined the U.S. Forestry Service.)
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If you are ever in New Hampshire, be sure to visit the Gransmire campus. It is now a tannery.
© Max Shulman, 1957
And be sure to light a Philip Morris when you visit Gransmire, or anywhere else for that matter, because Philip Morris is always a naturally perfect companion and brings you this column each week and is ignitable at either end.