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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 9, 1958
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Professor Calls Students Naive
A KU history instructor originally from the East Coast, was diverted from a class discussion one day last semester and began to muse upon the "worldly"maturity of KU students in particular and Kansas students in general. His words sounded sage and original enough to warrant passing on, as well as to comment on here and there. Like all good class discussions, this one wandered around until some now forgotten phase of the conversation touched upon a topic the professor was ready, willing and able to elaborate upon. This he did.
Not germane to this discussion but generally informative is the instructor's opinion of men students who, he said, dress sloppier, or casual, if you like, and who are less interested in their studies than Eastern students. The relative lack of academic interest is a result of coeducation and the accompanying social life which competes for a student's time and energy. he said. As to Kansan gullibility, he also has a point here.
san gumbury, he. His account of the naivete of Kansas students was followed by his views of the disadvantages and advantages of the naive student.
He said, "None of you will realize it but KU students are naive and gullible." He said it is amazing how much baloney KU students will take without even slightly realizing the baloney smell.
and advantages of the naive student is ahead insofar as the idealism and theory of academic life are concerned and he is ready to step from college life into a kind world where right makes might.
However, as KU students supposedly don't know, wrong often makes might also, and here is where the disadvantages enter. The naive student is not critical. He takes the instructor's word as gospel while, like all else, it is to be questioned, tested and heard with a critical ear. Worse yet, probably, the naive student leaves the university with a wealth of learning, but not a batch of knowledge of human nature and how much it operates the "outside" world.
Unfortunately, there are not in use enough textbooks which give a subjective treatment which comment upon the textbook material in a human and not strictly factual vein. Such interpretative reporting is invaluable in a classroom where facts are too often disjoined from people. Some of these textbooks are in use, as in some history, geography, political science and other courses, but there is room for many more.
The unsuspecting student, meanwhile, gets a mental and moral bloody nose each time he turns the corner of experience. Incidents and human action he thought had disappeared with barbarians of the Middle Ages slap him in the face with stinging reality. He comes into contact with people of little education and people who have a sense of values that would make the Golden Rule blush.
Inclusion of them with usually "heavy" and "deep" courses would not only make the subject matter more easy to grasp but would stimulate student interest. More significant, they would give the naive an insight into the "cruel" world they haven't acquired elsewhere.
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Usually he walks away from such experiences wondering if his conception of human nature needs to be re-examined, and it usually does, but a more opportune time for a realistic orientation to man's ways, both foul and fair, would be that place where you put your money down and say: learn me—the university.
Returning to the opposite of the naive KU student, the sophisticated, he's-been-around blade realizes the ability of the indifferent world to bring the unsuspecting to their knees. He, though, is not to be caught unawares, and so he is cautious and questioning in affairs not completely familiar to him. He is not easily duped.
He, too, knows the ins and outs of the business world. knows of practices and behavior that aren't always considered general information and which stun the uninitiated.
—Ray A. Wingerson
A very important Senate race is being staged right now in Illinois, where smooth-talking Sen. Everett Dirksen is out to beat former Illinois legislator Richard Stengel for the post.
Dirksen - Stengel Battle In Illinois
Sen. Dirksen is well known for his alliance with the Taft forces during the 1952 GOP convention, when he spoke out (sometimes dramatically) for Robert Taft for presidential nominee.
When Kae. Eisenhower was nominated, and elected to the presidency in November of that year, Sen. Dirksen stuck to his guns, voting against Ike-derorsed bills on foreign trade, plus siding with Sen. Joseph McCarthy when that senator was having difficulty. Sen. Dirksen also voted to pass, over Eisenhower's veto, a bill to prevent expansion of social security.
It was not until 1954 that the Dirksen tide began to shift. When it became apparent that Eisenhower's popularity was a lasting thing.
Sen. Dirksen thought it best to have his name appear in a good light, when the time came for endorsement on the part of the President.
So now Sen Dirksen is an out-and-out Eisenhower man, hitting the civil rights issue with both fists, and generally going along with the administration's legislation.
One thing that may damage Sen. Dirksen's chances for re-election is the Orville Hodge scandal. Hodge, a republican, was found to have embezzled what may be close to one million dollars from the Illinois treasury while he was state auditor.
Richard Stengel, 41, with several years of state level politics under his belt, is waging an all-out campaign to beat Dirksen.
Though he has not quite convinced the people that he should go to the Senate in 1957, he is gaining fast on the unstable Sen. Dirksen in popularity.
It's not often that any outside activity will bring life on the campus to a dead standstill, but one single man managed to do so Monday afternoon.
We refer not to any important political figure, or to any statesman, but to Don Larsen, an almost unknown pitcher for the New York Yankees.
Just Browsing . . .
Jerry Dawson
He wasn't alone.
As the magnificent Larsen drew closer and closer to the "impossible" perfect game, the tension mounted, and at television sets at the Student Union and in organized houses all over the campus, each successive out brought a roar of approval.
Even the Brooklyn fans, who saw their team fall behind 3-2 in the World Series, were on the side of the handsome hurler, who admitted after the game. "I was so damn nervous I nearly fell down out there."
Students and teachers watching the game on television had the advantage of being able to sit down
From noon until about 1:30, all was forgotten except television sets or radios.
and attempt to case the tension, but these measures didn't help much.
As one still-trembling observer said immediately following the game, "Sure, I cut class" to see the finish of the game. I figured that if he (Larsen) did it, I could tell my grandchildren that I saw a perfect game in the World Series. I doubt if anything that important happened in my one o'clock class."
When the Yankees came to bat, the audience seemed to sit back and relax, waiting only for the next inning and a chance to see Larsen continue to weave his magic spell over the Brooklyn hitters.
The unlucky students who had one o'clock classes appeared to forget about their obligations to the University, as most refused to be torn from the TV screen and Larsen's brilliant feat.
When the Dodgers came to bat, the arm-chair strategists again came to life, vocally urging Larsen and the Yankee defense on to greater heights.
Move over brother. There are lots of us in that same boat.
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Fulbright Forum Wednesday
NEWS DEPARTMENT
A forum on the Fulbright study programs will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser Theater. Faculty members and students who have studied abroad under the Fulbright Act will be at the forum to answer questions pertaining to the country in which they studied or taught.
Dick Walt ... Managing Editor
Margaret Armstrong, Managing Dawn.
Larry Stroup, Louis Stroup, Assistant
Managing Editor, Thomas City.
Fenberg, Assistant City
Editor; Jane Pechovsky, Telegraph
Editor; Joan George, Assistant Telegraph
Editor; Daryl Hall, Sports Editor;
Gerald Thomas, Roberts, Journal
Writer; Jean Stanford,
Society Editor; Dona Seacat,
Assistant Society Editor.
RUSINESS DEPARTMENT
In eight of the 12 presidential elections held between 1900 and 1944, a Roosevelt was running either for president or vice president.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Todd Cain, Business Manager
Lee Flanagan, Advertising Manager; Joe
Gound, National Advertising Manager;
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Manager; Wayne Helgesen. Circulation
Manager; Jim Gamper, Art Director.
EDITORIAL DEFENSE
Rax Wilson   Editorial Editor
David Webb    Associate Editor
Naval Research Unit Seeks New Members
An open membership meeting will be held by the Naval Reserve Research Company Monday in 417 Snow. All veterans with a bachelor's degree or above who are interested in research may attend.
Commanding officer Norvel McClung, assistant professor of botany, emphasized that the meetings are open to members of all service branches.
Once every month Gabriel Doom
Locked himself up in a sound-proof room; Then he laughed out loud and rocked with glee
At a life that was funny as life could be:
He laughed at the weather, sunny on Monday . . . rainy on Saturday, rainy on Sunday.
He laughed at the news so loaded with grief
that an ax murder came as a pleasant relief He cried, "what with worry, hurry, and strife you couldn't ask for a funnier life!"
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