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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 6, 1957
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Principals, Presley At Odds
Five high school principals took swats at blue jeans, ducktail haircuts, and Elvis Presley recently when they were interviewed at a convention of the National Assn. of Secondary School Principals in Washington, D.C.
Today's teenager often gets his inspiration from Elvis Presley-type heroes. If they know who George Washington and Abe Lincoln are, they don't want to be like them. Maybe this is natural because neither was very handsome and they no doubt made less money than modern rock 'n' roll stars.
Blue jeans and ducktail haircuts automatically mark the teenager as a poor student and a trouble maker, the educators agreed. One of them said Elvis Presley records had been banned at school dances and two of the schools had bans against jeans and ducktail haircuts.
Another reason, perhaps, is that most texts and teachers present the old heroes as if their problems and ideals were vestiges of the past.
It sounds like a typical case of treating the symptoms and not the disease. Teenagers seem to insist on a certain amount of idolatry. The important thing is not so much how it manifests itself as what is idolized.
Yet these are the persons adults would like young people to admire. It shouldn't be impossible to get them to do so.
Many of the problems that heroes of the past dealt with have parallels today. Why not let students try to work out possible solutions to today's problems as they study about men who sweated through similar situations in the past?
Then let the students compare the principles used in their solutions with those used by the men under study and the circumstances which may have shaped their opinions.
When school administrators barge so far into their students' private lives as to dictate haircuts and wearing apparel, they lower themselves in the eyes of those students.
This would have the double advantage of making these men and their problems real and teaching students to think creatively.
It's a little too late to get Washington's comments on pony tails, rock 'n' roll, or petting, but it's not too late to glean enough personality episodes from history to make him human. Not a god, just human.
And while they're giving their students new heroes to worship, principals might look again at the rise and fall of tyrants.
Principals cannot afford to look too ridiculous to their students; they need their respect for the really important issues.
—Nancy Harmon
... 25 Years Ago ...
Mar. 6. 1932
SHANCHAI — (UP) The Chinese Nationalist government issued a virtual declaration of war on the new independent Manchurian state today while rioting threatened foreign concession here, and Japanese and Chinese forces planned further fighting.
HOPEWELL, N. J. — (UP) — The Lindbergh kidnapping case entered its fifth night of suspense with the authorities of the entire state of New Jersey completely baffled, their nerves ragged and their stamina taxed, and without a definite clue to the abductors of Charles Agustus Lindbergh Jr.
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The affirmative won the debate Resolved: that bullfighting is a more humane sport than American sports, that was presented before a meeting of El Ateneo Thursday afternoon
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We were confounded, dismayed,
taken aback, nonplussed and vexed
in that order when we learned that
a column in another publication was
dubbed "Two Cents" Worth.
Plagiarism being one of the most
ignominious of sins, we have decided to alter our own column, and rename it as it appears today. We defy duplication.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Dawson
Our good friend
Elrod expressed
chagrin to day
when he learned
possibility no liq-
uor vote will be
taken in the fair
heaven of Love.
rence come April 2.
"Why do you express chagrin today, Elrod?" we asked.
"Because the possibility exists that no liquor vote will be taken in the fair borough of Lawrence," he rejoined, his voice trembling with emotion.
"Plague take them!" we comforted.
"Yes, he concurred," Plague take them. I had been all set to play my part in this democratic society by casting my ballot. My father, long a member of the Bureau of Internal Revenue would have been proud of me as I marked the 'yes' box. Now I shall have been foiled. Fie on them."
Walking under ladders is not bad luck. The laboratory asked 300 men to walk under ladders, and report to it within a week any bad luck they may have incurred. None reported in, so the laboratory assumed they had no bad luck.
An independent research laboratory has come up with conclusive evidence that many superstitions are not founded in fact.
The laboratory found that:
Black cats do not cause bad luck. The laboratory asked 300 men to let black cats cross their paths, and report to it in a week any bad luck that befall them. None reported in. They disqualified the testimony of one man who was scratched rather severely while forcing a black cat across his path.
"This is the most ridiculous of all superstitions," the laboratory affirmed. "The most bad luck incurred by anyone breaking a mirror was six years. Admittedly, it was at hard labor." The mirror in question was part of a telescope at Mt. Palomar.
Breaking a mirror does not cause seven years' bad luck.
We learned through a reliable source that one young coed was rather disappointed when she heard George Woollard, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin, discuss sun spots and did not once offer a cure for freckles.
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