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University Daily Kansan Monday, April 8, 1957
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..Ad Booki..
Just great! Now we're going to have two queens at the Kansas Relays this year. One will be chosen from candidates from the other schools participating in the Relays, and the other will be chosen from KU candidates. Sour grapes—last year's Relays queen was from Colorado U.
Our good friend Elrod has decided that there is nothing quite like being a last semester senior.
"I have decided that there is nothing quite like being a last semester senior," he said.
to find some small reward for all our tributulations as a last semester senior.
"Why is this?" we asked, hoping
"Why, it is common knowledge that all last semester seniors have what is referred to in the vernacular as a 'golden go', " quoth Elrod.
Dawson
"What last semester senior has not enrolled in the most (what is referred to in the vernacular as) 'pud' courses? What senior has not spent three and one-half years before the mast in preparation for this, the green year of his college career? What senior has never had such peace of mind, such a mellow temperament, such a cooperative attitude, than in his last semester?"
We reflected on this as Elrod cinched his ivy-league trousers tighter about his neck (Elrod being a rather diminutive person).
"But Elrod," we posed, "I have heard of seniors who are struggling (in the vernacular) 'right down to the wire.' It cannot be as you have just said, for many (in the vernacular) 'sweat' graduation. What is your answer to this?"
"Ah," said Elrod, as only Elrod can say "ah."
"Admittedly there are those who have not filled Divisions I, II, and III, with ten hours in each of Divisions IV and V. But they are a luckless lot, and are not even worth wasting and advisor's time."
With that, Elrod bolted from the room to hunt parsnip shoots.
We propose that the Kansas Legislature assess a 2 per cent tax against all college students who make over 70 cents an hour. After all, that would bring in to the state coffers about $1.08 cents a year.
Ad booki.
Jerry Dawson
The average age of American business executives is 53.7 years.
One-House Council A Good Thing
Referendum
On Wednesday, April 17, students will be asked to vote on a measure which would establish a unicameral All Student Council in place of the present two-house system.
We encourage the acceptance of the proposal for the following reasons:
1. Consolidating the All Student Council would eliminate the red tape that now slows up legislation.
2. Members of the new Council would be more inclined to attend meetings, feeling that their votes would count more directly in affecting the passage of bills.
3. Much of the petty politics now practiced in the present two-house Council would be eliminated.
4. The Council would choose its own speaker or chairman, who would thus feel a more direct responsibility to the Council than to a political party.
If the constitutional revision is passed, the student body would then be asked to choose its own president, a new office which would be set up to assume the collateral duties now held by the ASC president.
With campus elections coming up the latter part of this month and the first of May, it would be wise to give every possbile consideration to who could best act as president of the student body, pending the outcome of the April 17 referendum.
The student body president, in the words of Jim Schultz, "will be the central figure in the new reorganized student government."
Concurrent with the ASC elections will be the choosing of class officer candidates.
This too often is a popularity contest, mixed with organized politics, and a waste of time and campaign money.
No class officers have proven to be worth their salt, except perhaps those of the senior class which has honest-to-goodness business to attend to.
A special fall election has been held in past years for the election of freshman class officers. Someone has suggested that all elections be held in the fall to eliminate two elections every year.
We suggest eliminating all but senior class officer elections, and let freshman, sophomores and juniors on the All Student Council act as the governors of their respective classes.
Jerry Dawson
A Spelling Coarse Kneaded
There are a number of compulsory courses, some that serve their purpose and some that don't, but there is one that should definitely be offered to students if we are to end a problem that plagues a large percentage of the student body.
We speak of a course in elementary spelling, and the problems today in spelling.
A frequent reference made today when discussing the educational training of American students concerns the prevalence of poor spelling among high school and college graduates.
And judging from our own observations and remarks made by instructors at the university, students here rank with the best when it comes to misspelling words . . .
Poor training in the elementary school may be at fault, but it is not altogether to blame . . .
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
The whole problem can be summed up in one sentence: words are an inexhaustible supply of knowledge, but the average student of today seems to be too exhausted to bother with them.
A business executive said recently that jobs have been lost on the grounds of a letter injected with misspelled words, while employers frown on work that contains illegible writing . . .
HEY, COACH, WHAT'S THIS I HEAR ABOUT A 'WINNING PROSPECT' YOU FOUND FOR US THIS SEASON?
Whether lack of training or a lack of intellectual curiosity be the reasons for poor spelling, the final blame can be placed on the shoulders of the individual . . . At any rate, with the increasing dissatisfaction arising from missspelling today, perhaps good spelling will once more assume its importance in the three R's.
A large number of professors subtract valuable points from examinations at this university because of poor spelling . . .
-Daily Campus, University of Connecticut
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Friday. April 8, 1932
"We are confronted with the face that most of us are stupid and do not handle our affairs intelligently," Dr. L. M. Birkhead, pastor of the liberal All-Souls Unitarian church in Kansas City, Mo., stated in his address on "Are We All Morons?" before the Why club in Myers hall yesterday evening.
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"The present generation." Dr. Birkhead said, "is not as crazy as some others have been, but it is crazy enough."
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Bernard "Poco" Frazier, '29, is the designer of a plaque placed on the wall of the London Guarantee building, which occupies one of the busiest corners in Chicago on Michigan Avenue. The plaque, which was unveiled March 29, permanently marks the original site of Ft. Dearborn.
"Poco" Frazier, when a student at the University, set all records
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BRIAL DEPARTMENT Jerry DYKORN Editorial Editor
for the 5, 2 and 1-mile races, was known as an outstanding Big Six runner, and also was active in the Kansas Relays competition.
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The dial telephone system in Ford Motor Company's Dearborn, Mich., plants and offices is the second largest industrial installation in the world. It serves 6,000 telephones and handles more than 22 million calls a year.
A shift in the course of the Atlantic Ocean's warm Gulf Stream once caused such a drop in water temperature that tilefish perished in a 4,000-square-mile area of sea, says the National Geographic Society.
TRUE
FALSE
More than 25 percent of today's college students came from farms
False. Although more than a third of our population is on farms, only one-tenth of the college students were farm-reared.
Baseball attracts more fans than any other sport
TRUE
FALSE
False. Last year, major and minor league, school and sandlot baseball drew 70 million fans. Basketball drew 105 million.
Jockey brand briefs are tailored from 13 separate pieces
TRUE FALSE
True. Only Jockey brand briefs are scientifically designed and tailored to fit the male figure trimly and comfortably. 13 separate pieces are expertly sewn together to achieve this perfect fit.