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University. Daily Kansas Friday, March 22, 1957
Fraser Theater Still Useful
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What is to be done with Fraser Theater?
According to Dr. Lewin Goff, associate professor of speech and drama and director of the University Theatre, the grand old veteran of some 650 performances between 1928 and 1957 is going to be virtually "junked" after the University Theatre moves into the new music and dramatic arts building on Naismith Road.
Fraser Theater is a fire hazard. It has already been condemned by the local authorities.
Dr. Goff said, "The fire marshal stipulated that we abandon Fraser as soon as we get into the new building."
It is sad that a theater so steeped in tradition (it has been the home of hundreds of successful plays ranging from Shakespeare to Rodgers and Hammerstein) should be doomed to darkness with only memories to keep it company.
So far, the last productions of the season to be held in Fraser Theater are the two operas, "Gianni Schieci" and "Trouble in Tahiti" April 29,30. and May I.
After the operas are over, then what? It seems to me that somebody in the high offices could get the necessary fireproofing done in order to save the use of the theater. Fireproofing is necessary anyhow, as long as there are classes and offices in the building. What could the theater be used for when the drama department leaves?
After the television department becomes entrenched in Hoch Auditorium, a new place will be necessary for the film series and other things.
Various departments in the University have been clamoring for a large place to hold night meetings, movies, etc.
We are getting a newer, bigger, and safer theater. Let us not stop there. We should not allow Fraser Theater to decay when the future will prove its necessity.
—John Husar
Enforced Segregation-
Is This Americanism?
Earlier this month, a group of foreign students went into a downtown restaurant one night. One of them was a student from Kenya. People at the restaurant refused to serve him, saying that they were obeying laws. The Kenyan protested, but in vain.
This Kenyan joined the International Club group last year to visit Mexico during the Christmas vacation. Since there is no racial discrimination in Mexico, he enjoyed the trip very much. But on his way to the south of the border and back, he inevitably went through two segregation states, Oklahoma and Texas. At each meal time, the bus operator would pull the vehicle to bus depots where under the law separate restaurants and rest rooms were maintained. One time, the Kenyan went with the rest of the group into the restaurant, but he was refused service.
To a person, who has been brought up without realizing that there is discrimination because of the difference of races, facing the actuality means undoubtedly many things. It needs no imagination to picture his feelings of being disgraced, degraded, discriminated against, dishonored, despised, humiliated and stupefied.
Because he is a Negro, they said, he should go to the place for Negroes. The argument that he is a foreign student and that he, as well as the rest of the group, would not understand the separate facilities for separate groups, was to no avail.
There are seven students from Africa studying at KU; two from Ethiopia, one each from Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia and Nigeria. While they have so far favorably been impressed by American hospitality, they at one time or another have been visited with incidents similar to the one which betook the Kenyan. Most of them are discreet, however, saying that although it is very sad indeed to suffer from racial difference, they are not in a position to press the issue, since they are here as foreign visitors. But they do not forget to
point out that despite the high praise the United States enjoys as the leader of the free world, the existence of racial discrimination sometimes distorts the whole picture.
Most of the foreign students share the feeling expressed by their African colleagues. Although they without exception show concern over the segregation issue in private, they feel it better for them as well as for American hosts not to meddle in an essentially domestic problem of the United States which Americans themselves should solve.
But there is nothing to retain those who really wish to do something to end the segregation in this country, even though they are foreigners. They would choose to identify themselves with such groups as the Improvement on the Human Relations group rather than to form a group of foreigners with the same purpose. There is nothing to prevent them from joining Americans to help end segregation peacefully.
Some people will say there is segregation in other countries, too. That is true. But it is not quite logical when they say: "So better leave the American question to Americans."
The segregation problem is universal and not confined to the United States. Anyone with any degree of humanitarianism would feel urged to do anything to end this un-Christian practice anywhere. The United States, fortunately, seems to be moving toward complete desegregation with a determination seen nowhere else. Anyone from another country, if he is so inclined that he joins the forces against discrimination, would learn the process better which in turn gives him a capacity to better fight discrimination in his own country.
There are Americans who tell people from abroad not to worry about segregation because it is on the way out. Granting that it is so, it is extremely hard, if not impossible, on the other hand, to soothe those from Africa to whom harm has already been done.
—Hiroshi Shionozaki
...Ad Booki ...
Good luck.
To Wilt, Ron, Maurice, John, Gene,
Dick, etc.
—Elrod
It seems rather unjust that a full semester is devoted to fall but only one half of a semester is devoted to spring. But, you can't legislate everything.
One of our bespectacled friends proposes a national "Bad Eyesight Week" in tribute to all those myopic, amyopic, oystigmatic indi-
resident who posted the "Go KU" sign high on the outer south wall of that dorm.
Special recognition should be given the 14-foot tall G.S. Pearson
Dawson
We have heard many reports of people working "deals" to get tickets
With all due respect to Lewis B. Hershey, why do draft notices have to be sent out at midsemester exam time?
done so much for Corning.
When a gentleman tells you you're "enigmatic," he means that an instructor used the word in a lecture that day.
Burden Of Raising Others Kids Not A Teacher's Job
When a gentleman asks that you study with him in the library instead of going to the movies, he means that he is broke.
to the NCAA finals. We wonder how many have tried to buy them. It is alleged that there were all of 250 such ducats available for general sales at the University. Wow.
One of our history-major cohorts describes Paul Revere as the first "early warning" system.
When a gentleman suggests that it would be "much healthier to walk than drive" on a date with him, he means that his father insisted that he bring the car home last week.
A handy guide to coeds on being snowed:
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Ad booki. —Jerry Dawson
University of Kansas student newspaper
trweekly 1908, daily Jan. 16, 1912,
trweekly 1908, daily Jan. 16, 1912,
Maybe it is time for someone to adopt a resolution calling on parents to begin to accept the responsibility for the moral training of their offspring. It seems like a natural thing to ask a parent to be answerable for his child's behavior and social attitudes.
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"Many homes find it increasingly difficult," the resolution said, "to help children establish ideals that enable them to adjust to ethical standards of a high order."
Future teachers stand prepared!
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Granted, a teacher does have a responsibility to help his students get started on the right path morally, but it would seem that there is a limit to what should be expected from any instructor in a public school.
Future teachers state prepared: The American'Assin, of School Administrators recently adopted a resolution calling on schools to provide the moral training which it said many American homes no longer provide. Their conclusion was that if the children don't receive the proper training while they are in the care of their parents it is the duty of the teacher to guide their foot-steps and mold their characters.
But to expect a person to take complete responsibility for the moral and ethical training of another's child is demanding too much of any individual.
The association continued by saying that it believes "continuous, special effort should be exerted by the schools of the country to provide for all children and youth those moral and spiritual experiences and concepts essential to ethical character . . . and good citizenship."
Yet some refuse to assume the blame for any misdeed his child might commit, saying it is the fault of the school or some other outside force.
—Mary Beth Noyes
To expect instructors to teach the nation's children the basic standards of social life as well as book knowledge is justified.
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Kent Thomas ------------ Managing Editor
John Battin, Fleecia Arm Fenberg, Bob Lyle, Betty Jean Stanford, Assistant Managing Editor; Jim Banman, City Managers, Assistant Werman, Assistant City Editors; Rheshul Shionozaki, Telegraph Editor;
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Trinidad, southernmost of the British West Indies Islands, and situated just off the South American coast, is one of the Caribbean's busiest crossroads — and a mixing bowl of the world's races and nationalities.
Who can say, however, if the above would supply the teachers with the qualifications needed?
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Jerry Thomas, Jim Tice, Associate Editors.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
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A provision of this sort would require teachers to be more than just disciples of the written word
As administrative center of the British West Indies Federation, Trinidad will head a chain of British islands stretching in a 675-mile arc from the Virgin Islands to the coast of Venezuela, says the National Geographic Society.
Philosophy, logic and ethics should be topics added to the training of an educator. A knowledge of the laws of our country would be of vital interest. More complete courses in political science and history as well as sociology would help build "good American citizenship."
In fact, it might be necessary to include more subjects in the curriculum of future teachers, which could be applied directly to character building.
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and the conveyors of the knowledge of the years. They would need to be of the highest standards and moral character in order to be worthy of shaping the lives of the younger generation.
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