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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. May 14, 1958
Intrigue On The Campus
It is a sad thing that the very people who are the leaders of the campus, the members of the faculty, are also the leaders of campus intrigue. Yes, we have intrigue here on Mount Oread. It may not be as exciting as that in Casablanca, but it is just as deadly and destructive.
It's the reason your courses aren't always as good as they ought to be. It's the reason your favorite instructor didn't get his promotion last year or his contract wasn't even renewed.
It all comes about from the bloody competition among faculty members for recognition, recognition which means promotions, which in turn means more money. The University can't afford to promote everyone, so it has to base promotions on the recognition already received by its staff members.
If a man is big enough, he tries to see to it that the members of his department receive the promotion and pay they deserve. But this pay business is a cut-throat matter.
Deans and heads of departments find it hard to evaluate their faculty members objectively. For there are some who, fearful of their own academic position, cut down their colleagues instead of praising and respecting, as a civilized person would, those who are worthy of praise and respect. This is especially true whenever the opposite action might result in the colleague's promotion to a position which would someday be competitive with his own.
There are names for this type of intrigue. Faculty members call it politics. Some prefer the term diplomacy. We call it premeditated butchery.
... Letters
To The Class Of '58
One of the distressing problems that has been encountered by the past and present generations will be ours also. This is the racial problem, especially concerning discrimination against the American Negro.
—Carol Stilwell
The emotional intensity and violence that are exhibited in racial strife in other parts of the United States are not so apparent to us on this campus. But most of us will soon find ourselves in social environments which require that we decide exactly what stand to take.
. . .
In our own future homes we may be, perhaps, within hearing distance of racial riots, or we may be asked if we would approve of someone of a different race moving in next door. On our jobs, we may have responsibilities and influence concerning employment practices or patronage restrictions. What stand will we take?
Today, peoples of other nations are idealizing wealth and opportunities in the United States, the leader of the free world. However, many foreign students, especially those of darker colors, who might be mistaken for American Negroes or Spanish-Americans, and those who are from Japan, Korea, China and India, are getting a very disgusting impression of the United States. Most of these foreign students will happily return to their homes where they will find unquestioned acceptance and where they may communicate their bitterness concerning racial hatred in the United States.
The racial problem in the United States is of a controversial nature and it appears that proponents of both sides of the question are equally devoted to their separate
causes. It seems to me that the dignity and equal rights of each individual regardless of his skin color or his ethnic background are higher and more valuable ideals for which to stand than any backward concept of race superiority.
We, the senior class of 1858, could be an effective force in the movement toward better human relations in the years to come. Our spheres of influence will be scattered throughout the Midwest, the entire nation, and some throughout the world. If we are united in our stand for equal human rights, our total influence will be may times more effective than any collective action we could have taken here. Let us decide now to hold high the rights and privileges of our fellow men, regardless of their racial or ethnic backgrounds, and to stand firmly with this decision from now on.
Ronald D. Groening Kansas City, Mo, senior
Editor:
Thanks
I want to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to all of you who have given of your time and energies to further the institution which we refer to as student government on our campus during the past year. It has been an honor and a pleasure to represent you all as Student Body President.
Bob Billings Russell junior
More than 100 college presidents received their undergraduate education at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.
Quotes From The News
By Dick Bibler
"The economic situation is such that a tax reduction should be put through as an anti-recession measure."
WASHINGTON — House Democratic leader John W. McCormack, calling for a tax cut:
WASHINGTON — William O. Walker, president of the National Newspaper Publisher's Association and publisher of the Cleveland Call and Post, urging other Negroes to set up an organization to combat the Negro crime rate;
"If Negroes could populate schools at the same rate that they do jails we would be the best educated people in the world."
DES MOINES, Iowa — Dean Chaffin, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, on the modernistic automobile:
"I like the plain, simple automobile myself. But anything new like that, chrome and gadgets, seems to attract the buyers."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"SOMETIMES THEY GET PRETTY INDEPENDENT WHEN THEY GET HOLD OF THAT DIPLOMA."
WASHINGTON  Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson on electioneering congressmen who have opposed the administration's flexible price support policies;
"It's going to be hard to demagogue on the agricultural issue this fall, and that's going to be hard on a few people."
HOLLYWOOD — Divorcee Marilyn Scott, who claims that Dennis Crosby is the father of her infant daughter, expressing regret that the story had been made public:
"I'm sorry all this had to come out, particularly because of the efest it might have on my baby's future."
Emergency vehicles command the right of way anywhere, anytime. When a siren is neared, a motorist should pull his auto over as close to the edge of the street as possible and stop.
The government said the Communists are mailing handwritten letters to the home of German soldiers which usually begin with "My Loved One" and end with "Your Always Loving."
BONN, Germany — German Communists were assailed today as would-be family wreckers.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Hungarian refugee Koroly Mazcali, 21, thought he had hit on "the fastest way" to return to Hungary.
He extracted a wad of 10 pound notes, threw them at her feet and stalked away.
BEERSHEBA, Israel — Desert chieftain Sheikh Aude Abu Muamr was not flattered when an American woman tourist offered him a pound note for posing for a picture.
Charged with stealing his third car in a year, Maczali told a judge
he wants to return to Hungary and that he thought "the fastest way to do it is to get into trouble."
The world's tallest peak, 29.023-foot Mount Everest, would fit into the Philippine Trench, off the eastern flank of Mindanao, with a mile to spare.
English is the predominant tongue in Trinidad, although many languages are spoken by the island's diversified population.
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