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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. May 6. 1958
Campuses Attack Press
Pros and cons on student press rights had their share of the limelight this year. The student publications at KU ("Squat" and the "UDK") were not exceptions. But let's glance at the controversy over student publications which has arisen in universities all over the United States. The study of this controversy was partially compiled by editors of the University of Chicago newspaper.
The fine line between elegantly risque and downright obscene material in college humor magazines and newspapers was the issue at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia. At Maryland, a committee investigating bad taste in the student humor magazine "Old Line" brought a permanent ouster for its editor. Tina Fragile.
Several students on the faculty senate committee on student publications, which conducted the probe, voted against the female editor. Students who voted to fire her included editors of the yearbook and newspaper.
Administration and faculty members at Maryland, and some students, were reported to have objected to the "general tone" of the magazine. No specific stories or cartoons were cited.
VIRGINIA . . .
The mid-winter issue of the humor magazine, "Virginia Spectator," was the subject of debate on the University of Virginia campus.
University president, Colgate Darden, was less amused at the issue of "Punch" and appointed a faculty committee to see if the issue discredited the University by printing obscene material.
The special committee did not specifically report that it had found vulgar or obscene material; but it did decide that the issue "discredited the name of the University of Virginia,"
one of the most serious charges the administration could make.
COLORADO . . .
The problem of distributing off-campus publications at Colorado University came to a head last November when copies of the "Young Socialist" were stopped from circulation by the University's president.
After much pressure from the "Colorado Daily" and other sources, a campus compromise was reached and distribution is now being permitted from a central location.
BROOKLYN . . .
For years, Brooklyn College newspaper editors have been battling their president. Harry D. Gideonse. In 1950, the college revoked the charter of the 13-year-old student newspaper "Vanguard" on charges that the paper had violated the new multiple-editorial rule.
(This rule required the publication to print two editorials, pro and con, on all controversial issues.)
NORTH CAROLINA ...
Students of the University of North Carolina, in a recall election, ousted "Tar Heel" editor Neil Bass from his office recently.
The Bass recall hinged, apparently, on whether he was abusing his printing privileges or not. The opposition, led by the campaign manager for the defeated editorial candidate last spring, accused Bass of partiality, of ridiculing letters to the editor, ignoring others, of being "obscene, unfair, and immoral."
The ousted editor continually claimed that it was his right to lash out at whom he pleased and that he had been fair and responsible in handling the newspaper and his editorial page.
Marilyn Mermis
What's Wrong With A Scholarship
For the humpteenth time, a senior class tried to present the University with a scholarship as a class gift. And for the humpteenth time, the officers of a senior class refused to grant the students' wish.
Why shouldn't a senior class present a scholarship to some worthy individual?
This is what the Gift Committee said: First of all, an alumnus, returning to the University, can't point with pride to a scholarship. Secondly, a scholarship is not a lasting thing. Thirdly, $2,000 to $2,500 is too small an amount for a scholarship. Fourthly, a scholarship is traditionally, and more properly, bestowed at the time of a class reunion.
The senior class members voted Thursday to each pay the sum of $3.50 for cap and gown fees and a gift to the University. The fees will amount to about $2,500. Therefore, it appears that if next year's senior class cares to abide by
the inflationary trend in our economy with an individual payment of $5. the class could present the University with a gift amounting to $5,000.
Split ten ways, such a gift would provide a $500 annual scholarship. Few needy students would cough at a $250 scholarship which would pay the University fees and scholarship hall fees for the entire semester.
By the time of the class' ten-year reunion, the scholarship money would have been depleted. But by then, those members, whom the world had heavily endowed in this period, might easily establish a scholarship. It would be large enough to please any gift committee's aspirations because the tradition of giving a scholarship at the time of a class reunion, to which the Gift Committee of the Class of 1958 so nobly bowed, would still be maintained.
—Carol Stilwell
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"HEY THERE IN BACK! AM I ASKING TOO MUCH THAT YOU BRING YOUR TEST PAPER TO MY DESK WHEN YOU FINISH?"
Editor:
.. Letters ..
During the past week there appeared in your paper a daily full-page ad sponsored not only by thirty-one Greek letter organizations on the campus, but also by 10 Lawrence business firms. This ad read in part: "For more and better jobs. The aims of Invest-In-America Week April 27-May 3. To stimulate capital investment through increased deposits in banks. . ." As this statement is the exact opposite of what I am teaching to my economic students, it deserves a comment:
Our country is now producing (in many of its major industries) below its productive capacity, i.e., our productive facilities are not being fully utilized. Attempts of individuals to save more would invariably result in decreased expenditures. Would General Motors, for instance, increase capital investments if people would save more and buy fewer automobiles? If we were to carry this idea to an extreme, save all our money and spend nothing, would then productive capacity be expanded? I and several other members of the department of economics, with whom I discussed this issue, find it beyond our capacity to understand how such a point of view could be justified in times such as these.
Harry Shaffer Instructor of Economics
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