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University Daily Kansan Monday, Sept. 24, 1950
Make Your Own Decision, Don't Be A Conformist
Dr. John Ise and Lee MacMorris will oppose Dr. Francis Heller and Kenneth Irby. The big catch is that they don't know what sides they will be taking until the debate begins. A flip of the coin will determine their position.
On Thursday night there will be an English style debate at the Student Union sponsored by the KU-Y. The resolution will be if a student must conform to survive.
K is difficult to tell about students MacMorris and Irby, however, it seems strange either Dr. Ise or Dr. Heller saying that the student must conform in order to survive. They would both heartily agree that the student would have to obey the laws of society but it would be hypocrisy for either of these men to say that a person would have to conform to college social customs in order to survive.
Abraham Lincoln said in one of his famous debates with Stephen A. Douglas that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
So it should be in the social life of an individual student. He should be his own governor on how he should handle his own status in life. The very function of a university should be a guide for the student. It should not mold him into a stereotype character. Any organization or group which conforms a person proves to be a detriment to that individual.
However, a person should have a close fellowship with his neighbors but he should not allow any system to interfere with his capability of making decisions. When he allows this to happen, he is losing the advantage of having friends
Today it is definitely a challenge to be able to ignore becoming a tool of society. Conforming to a pattern is an extremely easy way to fall before a system.
Modern industry can be blamed in a degree for the tendency towards conforming students. Personnel sections of many companies are as much interested in what organizations a person belongs as they are his ability to produce. The joiner turns out to be a dismal failure when he is called to give an individual effort. He has been depending on a system of other helpers for such a long time that he is lost when he comes to be on his own.
The student who has shown individual initiative and his ability to coordinate with other students in a common effort has much more satisfaction than the individual who falls into a clique of following the select group.
A recent action which proves the danger of conformity was the very unfortunate demonstration at the Republican Convention in San Francisco where college students marched under the direction of leaders. These students should have been concentrating on the importance of choosing a platform which would be a benefit for mankind and choosing individuals which would represent their paryt at the highest level.
However, instead of bettering their party these young Republicans looked liked Adolph Hitler's youth group marchers of the 1930s. Undoubtedly, if they had given the proper effort and hadn't been conformists they could have achieved maximum accomplishment.
The very essence of the problem is that the decision made by a person should be on his own weighing of the merits and not the composite opinion of any group. After real soul searching and the person has decided to exercise a certain effort he should let nothing or no group stop him until he has carried out his wish. This wish, of course, has to be within the law.
As the problem of conformity looms up before the individual he should fight with all his effort to arrive at his decision using his own reasoning even if it is opposite to the social group around him.
—David Webb
Allies Continue Aid To Israel
WASHINGTON — (UP) The United States is looking the other way while Canada, France, and other Allies ship modern military weapons to Israel.
This country itself is delivering small but important amounts of communications, ammunition, transportation and other defensive equipment to Israel.
However, the controversial Israel request of last November for jet fighters, heavy tanks and other powerful weapons is still firmly fixed on the administration's shelf. This Israeli shopping list would have cost more than $60 million
State department officials have said that the huge November arms request by Israel is "still under consideration." That is right where it has been for months, and promises to stay despite heavy election-year pressures for approval.
But diplomats credit the administration with a powerful series of assists in getting modern jet fighters cleared for shipment to Israel by other nations.
Earlier this year the State Department said it would have no objection to an interruption of deliveries of 24 French Mystere IV jet fighters to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This government said a decision on their delivery was up to France. But U. S. diplomats knew right along the speedy jet fighters were going to Israel.
The State Department took the same line when asked whether the United States had approved a Canadian decision to deliver 24 Canadian-built F-86 Sabre jets to Israel. A spokesman said the United States knew about the proposed sale and made no objection. He would not go so far as to say, however, that United States approved the deal.
Diplomats said that U. S. objections to the French or Canadian sale of jet planes would have squelched deliveries.
Now that Israel is getting the
Just Browsing...
Alas, alack, and oh woe is me.
Now is the time for all good students to come to the aid of their University by chipping in with their fees, and it's a dirty rotten trick.
After four wonderful weeks of riotous living, unhampered by any shortage of the old moohla, the fee payment date sneaks up and knocks a Wilt Chamberlain-sized hole in the old—or should we say late—bank account.
Suddenly you realize that all the money you were planning on for parties, football games, parties, dances, parties, etc., has all gone down the drain. Nothing to do now but scrounge your way through until Thanksgiving vacation, when you can go home and fill up on the free chow which your parents will gladly set before you.
The financial blow is enough to make almost any student feel a little weak at the knees, but it can't even compare with the total shock which comes with the first fright-
equipment it first tried to buy from the United States administration officials believe their decision against meeting the $60 million request will have little effect on the Nov. 6 voting.
But we must get back to our original subject, so we'll babble some more about fee payment.
Some 99 per cent of the U.S. tobacco output is trucked to market; 97 per cent of the milk; 96 per cent of poultry, eggs and cotton and 91 per cent of the grain.
Some months ago they were betting Jewish voters would register a heavy protest vote against the administration because of its decision against meeting the special arms request.
The Bedouins of the deserts give water to each other and to travelers, not as a gift but as a sacred duty, the National Geographic Society says.
Truck and bus transportation systems provide work for 6,750,000 Americans.
ened peek at the tiny little photograph on the Student Identification card.
Most of these pictures resemble the student only in the fact that the correct student number is down there at the bottom of the picture, and the face in the picture is surrounded by clothes belonging to that same student number.
A couple of years ago we were standing in line to pick up our ID card, and when we got to the front of the line, we bravely told the girl our name and number.
It wouldn't be so bad if those secretaries over there didn't get to look at all the pictures and compare them with the actual persons.
Students who like to write poetry can submit original verse for possible publication in the "Annual Anthology of College Poetry," published by the National Poetry Assn.
She looked through her stack of cards, and finally selected one.
Contest Open Hoecker Named To Advisory Group To KU Poets
She loked at the card.
She looked at us, obviously admiring our handsome profile
"Are you sure your student number is 83475647421₂?" she asked.
"Yes, it's 83475647421₂," we replied.
Entries must be typewritten or written in ink on one side of a sheet of paper. The student's home address, name of college, and college address must be on each entry. Students may submit any number of manuscripts, in any theme and form. Closing date for entries is Nov. 5.
She looked at the picture again.
She looked at us again.
Manuscripts should be sent to "College Poetry Anthology," National Poetry Assn., 3210 Selby Ave., Los Angeles 34. Calif.
She laughed, not politely, but hysterically, for some five minutes before giving us our picture.
And that, little kiddies, is how we became the Masked Marvel.
A similar contest is being conducted for college teachers and librarians. Rules are the same as those for students, but the closing date will be Jan. 1, 1957. Teachers' manuscripts should be sent to "Teachers' Poetry Anthology." National Poetry Assn., 3210-G Selby Ave., Los Angeles 34, Calif.
-Dick Walt
Adlai Drives Hard For Democratic Win
WASHINGTON — (UP) — What's new in Washington: Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic hopeful for the presidency, already has traveled 15,000 miles since his nomination. He started out in January to get the nod and traveled 50,000 miles ahead of time. Right now, he makes several stops a day, whistle mostly, and in the dark of night he works on speeches for the next day, enroute. Can't make the same speech every day, with TV and all. Sometimes it adds up to a 23-hour day.
Michigan's 10,000 factories produce 365 of the 451 various kinds of manufacturing in the United States.
Frank E. Hoecker, professor of physics, has been named to a special advisory committee on radiological health of the State Board of Health.
The advisory group will study present and potential radiological hazards in the peaceful and constructive uses of radiation. They will also study the control of harmful effects of the radioactivity.
The Druses, a sect of Islam, accept no converts for fear of admitting spies. They live in the mountain fastnesses of Syria.
Dailu Hansan
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