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University Daily Kansan Friday, Sept. 14, 1956
By Dick Bibler
KU Fortunate
Little Man On Campus
Raw Information From AUFS Men
Before the 1956-57 school year is gone, discriminating students will have a couple of idols crushed under the heel of visiting American Universities Field Staff lecturers.
The term "discriminating" is used to separate from the average lecture-skipping student those students who know an educational bargain when they see one. When these men tour the campus for their eight to ten days, raw, not textbook, information is on sale.
KU is one of the 10 member institutions in the United States sponsoring the AUFS. The other nine sponsoring members are Brown University, California Institute of Technology, Carleton College, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Hawaii, Michigan State College, Tulane University, University of Alabama and Indiana University.
Idol-crushing will ocur when these men let the word out, as they have in the past, that national magazines, newspapers and personages are not as infallible as they are often considered to be. Although this aspect of their visits is just a sidelight to the primary purpose of their lectures, it is none the less an enlightening sidelight.
Realizing that the majority of students appreciate the lecturer services of AUFS it cannot but be advantageous to let the student body know just where the University of Kansas stands in relation to this five-year-old national organization and how the AUFS is organized.
The AUFS was founded in 1951 to do three things:
1. To develop, finance and direct a corps of men to study mainly at first hand the contemporaneous affairs of significant areas of the world and to make their knowledge available to institutions of education.
2. To make their information available to the public through publications.
3. To encourage corps members to develop improved techniques for the study of significant areas of the world.
For five years of operation, the AUFS has made worthwhile inroads considering where the sights were set.
Financially, the organization is backed by member institutions who contribute the equivalent of an associate professor's salary each year, and the Ford Foundation has given the AUFS a substantial grant. KU's contribution averages around $5,000 a year but it varies between institutions.
From its corps of staff members, the AUFS is building a career organization of Americans competent "to observe, evaluate and report on contemporary affairs in major accessible areas of the world."
Prerequisites for staff members are three years of study and residence in a foreign area and fluency in the principal foreign languages. The staff spends half its time abroad in shifts of 18 months every three years.
While not in their assigned country or area, the staff members study or lecture at sponsoring institutions. This is were KU comes in and where non-member universities lose out.
At present, arrangements provide four lectures to a university a year, they are on campus about 10 days. KU also gets staff letters and reports available in the library but these can be obtained by non-members or non-academic institutions or groups.
Scheduled to stimulate the discriminating section of the student body are previous lecturers Albert Ravenholt and Edwin Munger, who will be here in November and March respectively. Ravenholt specializes in the Philippine-Formosa-Hong Kong area and Munger's area is Central Africa.
A final advantage in attending a university which sponsors the AUFS is that students or faculty, visiting an area where an AUFS man is located, may call upon him for local information. If he is the competent man he probably is, your AUFS friend ca ntell you where to go for tasty food, scenic sights and possibly where local, exotic night spots are located.
New lecturers are Lawrence Olson, who will talk on Japan in December, and Charles Gallagher, who will bring North Africa, and perhaps the Suez situation, a little closer when he speaks here in May.
Book Review
30-Year-Old Prediction Holds True Today
"The Revolt of the Masses" by Jose Ortega y Gasset will pick most students up by their gray matter and set them down in a new world of thought.
Altho this piece of non-fiction was published in 1930, it continues to hold, as it did then, a few grains of truth for people in a world which isn't digesting progress as rapidly as it might.
Somewhat along the line or George Orwell's 1984, the book prophesies the future of society The theory based upon observation Ortega's theory, which will continue to pick away at your thought processes for many years, is that mankind, qualitatively, is leveling off. The masses, he holds, are revolting. They are enjoying more and more the pleasures which were restricted heretofore only to the elite, the rulers or the aristocracy
And not only are they enjoying the King's Delight, but they are refusing to pay for their luxuries as the arisortheray in the past did; by leading the masses. Why, because there is no longer an elite, a leading clash; everybody is the messer.
Here the common man sits, Ortega says, enjoying his TV, automatic washer, new auto, electric stove, fine music, current drama and movies, and numerous public facilities, and that is all he does; sit. He doesn't produce as did those who preceded him and who also enjoyed the best of life.
The common man thinks that a perpetuating machine has been invented to sustain the rate of technological progress society has witnessed the past century or two.
The common man is a parasite, Ortega says. He takes from progress but he doesn't give to it. At this rate, Ortega said society will be enervated within thirty years.
His thirty years is about here and his prediction isn't, but that doesn't discount the basic truth of his discourse.
Ortega feels that a solution is direly needed to help following generations cut a productive vein through posterity. Otherwise, the society in not contributing, will regress perforce and will, like the communist state, wither away.
It takes little looking around to see just the type of individual Ortega is pointing a finger at. For the most,part he is the worker-become-rich through a rising wage scale, financial security and comfortable housing in which his shorter and shorter hours are allowing him to waste more time.
The problem of free time is basic to Ortega's thinking, as it is to many thinkers of today. Shorter working hours have been strived for until all know that the 32-hour-four-day week is not far away.
And what is the worker doing with this new time he is acquiring? Ortega said he wastes it when it should be turned to creativity.
Twenty-seven per cent of all drivers involved in fatal auto accidents in the U.S. last year were under 25 years of age.
Somewhere, somehow, a group of leaders must arise. A group which can create, invent and plunge forward into the everlasting unknown to keep its generation from sponging off humanity.
When mailing stamps for return postage or in payment for merchandise, dust a little talcum powder on the mucilage to keep them from sticking together.
Three out of four traffic accidents happen in clear weather on dry roads.
Glass plates are submerged in Narragansett Bay at varying levels for times ranging from one week to several months and the organisms that have grown upon them are studied under the microscope and photographed.
Another effort is being made to make New York state's Thruway even safer than it now is. When fog, rain or bad road conditions are prevalent, red signs will cover sections of the bad stretch of road, informing motorists that their speed limit must be reduced to 35 mph. The normal speed limit is 60 mph.
Fred Marriott was credited in 1906 with being the first man to drive a car more than two miles a minute.
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Just Browsing
Hurrah for the Administration!!! No, we're not advocating the re-election of President Eisenhower, or making apologies for Fred Hall, or anything of the sort. We mean hurrah for our very own administration here at the University of Kansas.
Because the powers that be have made these first few days of school more bearable than we could have believed possible.
Look at it this way. Classes started on Thursday, and the convocation ( or coffee hour, if you prefer) cut all the classes to 30 minutes. That, and also the thrill of meeting all your teachers for the first time, made the day go very rapidly.
So before you realize it, Thursday was over, and you're ready for FRIDAY! Nobody ever studies or works on Friday, so the week is really over before you know what hit you.
Unfortunately, prior commitments kept us from attending either the opening convocation or the all-University coffee break Thursday morning, but our informants tell us both functions were well-attended—the former by freshmen and the latter by the upperclassmen.
As a matter of fact we did happen to be drinking coffee in the Hawk's Nest the other day, when an interesting thought came to mind.
Sometimes it seems like there is enough in a single package to sweeten three or four cups, while other times it seems that three or four sacks are required for a single cup of (ugh) coffee.
How do the people who fill those little paper sacks of sugar measure the contents of each package?
To remedy this extremely serious problem, we'd like to suggest that the Student Union make available to coffee-drinkers some lump-type sugar, like they use. in all the English movies. It would make the stuff much easier to measure.
—Dick Walt
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