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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 7, 1957
Faith, Hope And Money
What is happening to higher education in Kansas?
With higher fees for everyone and higher living costs for University dormitory residents effective next fall, enrollment may suffer because students who would otherwise enroll here may decide to enroll at smaller schools in the state because of more favorable expenses.
With a $12.50 fee increase, in-state students can expect to pay a total of $103 each semester starting in September. Out-of-state students will pay a similar increase to their already-high fees.
Each of the 1,700 students who live in University dormitories can expect to pay $310 a semester for that privilege, an increase of $17.50.
Some may find the "privilege" not worth it, and either move to less expensive quarters, or
leave the University altogether. The latter circumstance is regrettable.
By comparison, it is usually more expensive to live in select groups (i.e., fraternities, sororites) than in University dormitories. However, barring an increase in select group living costs, the differential between living in a University dormitory and in a fraternity or sorority may be so slight that more and more students may switch from the former to the latter, or else to private quarters.
Thus University officials may find it increasingly difficult to keep the dormitories filled.
And what will become of the students who now are barely able to attend KU because of a tight budget? Increased costs will probably cause many to drop out entirely.
It appears that a higher education in Kansas will eventually be only for a privileged few those who can find the funds.
Jerry Dawson
Dean Worship Carried Too Far
The latest group to make money from James Dean's death are the mystics. A stage show has appeared recently in cities in this area with a feature attraction called "James Dean Returns From The Dead." There is also the usual collection of knife throwers, gorillas, and ghouls to round out the show.
This is the ultimate in cheap commercialism and bad taste.
It was not enough that Dean's death filled the pockets of movie magazine publishers for months (and still is filling them). It was not enough that his picture has been on the cover of each of these rags at least every other month and that their pages have carried the same old material about him presented in a little different way.
It was not enough that all Hollywood helped
add impetus to an unhealthy legend for the money that it would return. He must be returned from the dead.
There can be only one group with poorer taste than those who try to make money from something like this - that group which pays the money to see it.
Dean, of course, should be remembered. He should be remembered as a good young actor who did not get the chance to become a truly great one.
His death was unfortunate, but not as unfortunate as the sick, commercial worship cult that followed it. If this is a precedent, let's hope that Dean is the last god in modern American mythology.
Jerry Thomas
And Behold, It Was Very Good
Editor:
I had the dubious pleasure of seeing "Of Thee I Sing" Monday night. The show certainly had its merits, but I feel the completely complimentary review by your critic was unjustified.
I would like to ask Mr. Sawyer exactly what his standards are. His criticisms range from one extreme to the other. First he tears a play to pieces and then he is in ecstasy and uses every superlative in the dictionary. I submit that our University Theatre is not this erratic.
I enjoy the theater and have attended nearly all the productions this year. I go to the theater with the same hope that I go to Memorial Stadium; with the feeling that someday we'll have a winner.
So far this hasn't happened. This is the largest school in Kansas, yet our productions compare poorly with such schools as Emporia State Teachers College and Kansas City University.
I have admired Mr. Sawyer's attempts to honestly criticize our plays and I have agreed with him wholeheartedly until his review of "Of Thee I Sing."
Surely Mr. Sawyer doesn't condone the absurdity of a director standing in the front row of the balcony waving his arms in time with the music! Or would he excuse this because the director is a frustrated actor? Was the director guilty or worried about another poor showing? Or was he just enjoying himself?
And I'm certain Mr. Sawyer couldn't ignore the loud and distracting noises made by the chorus wandering in the aisles.
The "talented" vocalists could not be heard and the chorus could not be understood.
Has, Mr. Sawyer submitted to the pressures of petty antagonism?
Controversial figures must necessarily be socially uncomfortable. But it would be almost criminal if his readers were to lose this valuable yardstick by which they measure their theatergoing.
Jerry Haulen
Cincinnati, Ohio
special student
In your defense of your reviewer, Ray Wingerson, you are right that it is "just plain silly" to compare professor Hesseltine and journalism student Wingerson. No such comparison is possible, and if you read my letter once more, you will see that I did not attempt any.
PORTRAIT OF THE CRITIC-
In answer to several letters requesting a look at the Daily Kansan's critic Tom Sawyer, we decided to run this picture of him. He is taking time out for a cup of coffee while writing a review of one of the plays that he enjoyed best.
Editor:
I merely pointed out that Wingerson's review-like the huge majority of reviews-accepted MacKinlay Kantor's "Andersonville" uncritically. Substantial criticism of the book has been made by historians, and reviewers who know nothing about their subject should consult these authorities before writing.
My main intention was not to attack your reviewer but to warn against "Andersonville."
Sigurd Rambusch
Aarhus, Denmark
graduate student
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