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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 9.1957
Shortage In Facilities
We Must Build For Future Needs
Enrollment at American colleges and universities this semester has topped the peak enrollment periods of 1947-1948 when the G.I. bill helped swell student bodies by more than one million World War II veterans.
A report released by the University of Cincinnati revealed that the enrollment in approved universities and four-year colleges is now at 1.724. -897 which is a 6.5 per cent increase over last year.
The biggest freshman increase is in engineering with teacher training next according to the report. The only decrease was in the students enrolled for agriculture. This is probably reflected by the adverse farm conditions.
Veterans'. Administration figures indicate there are now 418.055 veterans going to college. This does not compare with the peak in 1947. It will fall off in a few years since the Armed Forces do not have educational benefits now.
It can be safely concluded that even if there is a falling off of veterans going to college we will continue to have large enrollments in future years.
Peter F. Drucker, professor of management in the Graduate School of Business at New York University, has stated that we are far behind
in building for our future educational needs.
Mr. Drucker believes we should build college facilities for an additional 500,000 students a year for at least the next ten years. Instead, we are building for about 100,000 students each year.
A fight has developed in Kansas over where the money should go for school building. There have been advocates for large universities, smaller colleges and junior colleges.
The state legislators have been divided, usually depending from school situation in their area. However, there have been some members of the new legislature that have shown sound thinking without a bias.
In attempting to solve the problem of building schools in Kansas, the logical answer would be to increase the building program in all areas. It will naturally be a tremendous sacrifice in our state as well as it has been in the rest of the country.
However, it is an essential sacrifice that must be met immediately because there was a large birthrate right after World War II and these people will soon be ready for college.
...Letters ...
David Webb
Free Expression
Editor:
When I read in the newspapers that editorial writers on the University Daily Kansan must be "neutral in all political questions" I wondered if they were neutral in other colleges and universities too.
When the Columbia Daily Spectator disagreed with Gen. Eisenhower in 1949 on the value of security in American life I wondered in how many other universities could the student newspaper disagree editorially with the president of the school. Later when Gen. Eisenhower became a candidate for president of the U. S. the Daily Spectator was for Mr. Stevenson. But the majority of the faculty were for "Ike."
At KU in 1952 the majority of the students were for Mr. Eisenhower, but the Daily Kansan was for Mr. Stevenson. After the election they reorganized the Daily Kansan board so it would conform more to the opinions of the majority of students.
It so happens that William Allen White after whom the School of Journalism at K.U. is named was no neutral, and he didn't get his editorials from the majority of his subscribers. He had the courage and the honor to fight on the side of the minority many times. Two of his virtues were courage and a love of freedom. He did not pretend to be always right, knew he made mistakes, but his mistakes didn't force him to be neutral.
The mistakes the boys at KU make, and the intolerance some folks might have for those mistakes is no valid reason for denying them freedom in thought and expression if they are honest in their expression and they submit themselves to criticisms. Neutral newspapers belong among those readers of newspapers who do not vote at elections, or who are absent or silent at board meetings or committee meetings. Too many of our Kansas newspapers are neutrals or echos of what others say. There is a shortage of sound thinking and honest expression on politics in Kansas.
In Mr. White's editorial "To an Anxious Friend," in which he defended freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, he won the 1923 Pulitzer award for the best editorial in America in 1922. He said that where there is freedom of expression "folly will die of its own poison, and wisdom will survive. Peace without justice is tyranny, no matter how you sugar coat it with expedience. Whoever pleads for justice helps keep the peace."
Francis Biddle, F.D.R.'s attorney general, has written a book entitled "The Fear of Freedom," which lovers of freedom in thinking should read. At the beginning of his first chapter he quotes Benjamin Franklin who said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
Years ago a Canadian pacifist asked for citizenship in the U.S. agreed to do everything required of him except fight in time of war. Was he entitled to liberty and safety in the U.S.? His case was carried to the Supreme Court and he was denied citizenship.
No man should commit suicide, nor should he allow others to be murdered by crazymen or criminals if he can prevent it. If he is about to be murdered by a criminal he should defend himself; and all good Americans should remember their moral obligations to defend others who are near and dear to them. Every nation needs soldiers. But they also need good thinkers with courage in times of danger and in times of intolerance when freedom needs defence.
Slackers in thinking at universities and slackers in expression may be what some intolerent folks want so the conservatives can remain in power. But reforms and improvements do not come from the stand-patters and those who believe in the status quo. The way to fight intolerance in universities and elsewhere is not by being neutral or silent, but by using courage, tact, intelligence, and by joining the union or some other organization which will fight intolerance and promote the rights of its members to have expression and freedom.
Roy Knapp White City
(Editor's note—Mr. Knapp was graduated from the University in 1917.)
Daily Hansan
University of Kansas student newspaper
Founded 1859, became biweekly 1904
triweekly 1908, daily Jan. 16, 1912.
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Jane Pecivinsky ... Managing Editor
Felecia Ann Fenberg, Joan George,
Daryl Hall, Jerry Thomas, Assistant
Managing Editors; John Battin, City
Managing Editor, Eric Harmon, Thiroshi
Shilonowski, Anastasian City Editor,
Morsch, Telegraph Editor; James Batman,
LeRo Zimmerman, Assistant
Telegraph Editors; Dick Walt, Sports
Editor; Malecolm Applegate, Assistant
Sports Editor; Margaret Armstrong,
Society Editor; Malecolm, Assistant
Society Editor; Jim Siedd, Picture
Editor.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
David Webb ... Editorial Editor
Jerry Dawson, Kent Thomas, Associates
Editors.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Leo Flanagan Business Manager
Now that our esteemed colleague has given each and every one of you all his worldly advice on how to prepare for finals, pressure from the higher-ups in the office has made it necessary for this department to give some sort of comment upon this hallowed institution.
Walt
As one of the proudest members of the good old Class of 1956$^4$, we are eagerly anticipating final week, as (we hope) it will be our last experience at any sort of
scholastic activity here at the good old alma mater.
And, as a matter of fact, we're not looking forward to this final week any more than we have the past six—in fact, we're not looking forward to it at all.
And with the
Observation: That, as far as we can see, final week doesn't do anyone any good, except those professors who haven't gotten around to grading any papers all semester and who want a quick and easy way to determine grades for all the students.
tons and tons of experience which we have accumulated during our many semesters in school, we would like to offer an observation.
On second thought, we'll take that back. Final week is great for the Union, for local pubs, for soft-drink manufacturers, for cigaret companies, and firms which supply the campus with all sorts of stimulants.
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A couple of months ago we were talking to a guy who went to school somewhere else, and he was pointing out the advantages of his alma mater. The only one which we can now remember (aside from the fact that his campus had beautiful architecture) was the fact that seniors weren't required to take finals if they had a B average in the course in question.
Now that sounds tremendously logical, which is probably the reason it isn't in effect here. After all, a student who's managed to sweat his way through six or seven final weeks isn't going to be helped too much by one more session of cramming, and if you can find me one single person who doesn't cram for finals, he'll get the Walt Award for the month of January.
But, there's little hope for reform at this late date. See you in the library.
-Dick Walt
An enzyme within the firefly's luminous cells enables oxygen and a substance called luciferin to unite, producing a cold light that throws off neither heat nor energy. The winking glow is a signal between the sexes.
Money Is Not His Concern
King Saud II, who will visit President Eisenhower later this month, is the world's richest absolute monarch.
East. places of Islam for his use as needed.
His income is estimated at around $200 million a year, mainly in the form of royalties from the Arabian American Oil Company. He is one of the powerful figures in the Middle
He ascended the throne on Nov. 9, 1953, at the death of his father, King Ibn Saud, a colorful old desert warrior who made himself master of the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a series of wars.
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Will be on Campus January 10th to Interview Engineering Seniors for Employment
See Interview Schedule in Engineering Office
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