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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. April 29, 1958
Keep Those Doors Open
Universities must keep an open mind and an open door to experimentation in new disciplines and skills. They must constantly expand the educated class.The stability and progress of society demand more and more training at middle as well as at advanced levels.Universities have a responsibility toward selecting men and women who ultimately will enter into the field of higher learning.
The only purpose of the university is NOT the education of Ph. D.'s and therefore only future university professors. Different kinds of training for what we are beginning to call a mass democracy are required; as well as all kinds of terminal degrees, and programs and courses that do not need degrees at all.
If universities are going to be restrictive and selective-as too many privately-supported institutions have announced they plan to be, constantly raising the requirements for admission and refusing to make adequate plans to expand with our suddenly growing population—they will shut their doors to the great majority of young people and adults who are not only educable but whose trained services we so desperately need.
A university must always keep its doors open to all qualified students at all times. The survival of learning and of our society depends upon
the acceptance of this obligation. Freedom of knowledge means freedom for scholars and scientists; but it also means free access to them for every legitimate community need and by every qualified student regardless of age, previous conditions of education, and whether or not he has a degree intention. Whether a student's purpose is formal training (on a full or part-time basis, during the day or during the night, in regular term or during the summer) or the advancement of his self-interest and tastes, or for occupational improvement, the university should receive him.
In order to meet all the complex needs of our world and make possible the education of men and women with all sorts of adult responsibilities, universities should be available day and night and 365 days in the year, at the same time that they continue to explore through every form of communication, including television and correspondence courses—the means for the extension of educational services.
Our world requires more educated persons at all sorts of levels; and knowledge, as well as our society, will remain free as we continue to encourage the development of an increasing number of educated men and women. This is where the true defense of learning really is to be found. This is the nature of an open university.
—The Nation
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Protest
May I request the courtesy of your columns to voice a strong protest against a letter published in Friday's (April 25) Daily Kansan. I was surprised to read that some one would refer to Kashmir as a "so-called Kashmir Question." To term an item of international importance, such as Kashmir, "a so-called question" shows the lack of knowledge expected from a person of average intelligence.
As you are aware, Kashmir's problem is an outstanding dispute between Pakistan and India. More than 10 years have passed since India has aggreased in Kashmir. But she still holds the unfortunate Kashmirians in subjugation, by force and in defiance of the world public opinion, which has so cleverly expressed itself in favor of free plebisite in Kashmir.
Why is Kashmir a "so-called question?" Is it because India has aggressed and occupied it? Is it because the people of that unfortunate land continue to suffer under the worst type of colonialism ever known to the history of civilized nations? Is it because India has backed out of her international commitments and has been defying the U.N Security Council's resolution on Kashmir? Is it because the downtrodden Kashmirians have been refused, by India, their birthright—the right of self determination? Is it because the efforts of freedom loving nations, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, to bring about a peaceful solution of this explosive problem have been fruitless, due to the Indian intransigence? Or is it because an Indian graduate student likes to think that way?
I need not add that Kashmir—that powder keg of Asia—is the most dangerous problem undermining the unity of the free world. The world is interested to know how long the Indians can go on defying the United Nations and world public opinion and keep Kashmir under their iron heel. Undoubtedly they can have no consolation in the pages of history.
R. Malik Karachi, Pakistan graduate student
The streets in Lawrence running north and south are named after the states in the United States and the order in which they joined the Union.
A student body numbering 25,000 on its main campus was envisaged as the Pennsylvania State University sought to outline the measures by which it hoped in the decade ahead to meet the educational challenge of the space age in industrial Pennsylvania.
Looking Ahead
Implicit in the long range plan, which will be subject to continuous study and revision, is conversion of the annual schedule from a two-semester plus summer sessions, to a system which will more effectively use the total resources of the University over a 12-month period, and adjustment of daily and weekly class schedules to insure optimum use of faculty and staff, dormitories, classrooms and laboratories.
Green Hall Blossoms In Spring Colors
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Green Hall has blossomed out for spring with interiors of pastels and mahogany. Faculty offices in the building have had new paint-jobs and other decorating. The entire basement has had a face-lift.
"I UNDERSTAND TH' SIGNA FAI NOTHINGS ARE A BUNCH OF 'PARTY' BOYS."
The pride of the lawyers is the new court room in the basement. Silver-colored light bulbs and fixtures illuminate the bench, witness and jury boxes and the partitions between this area and the seating section all paneled in Philippine mahogany.
Currier and Ives prints, which once sold for six cents each, are now bringing as much as one thousands dollars from art collectors.
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Quotes From The News
NEW YORK—Mrs. Robert B. Meyner, wife of New Jersey's governor, explaining quickly to her husband why she gave such a big kiss to the pilot of the airliner taking the Meyners to Europe:
"He is an old beau of mine."
sadors of "peaceful" Communist countries at a Polish embassy reception:
MOSCOW—Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev, speaking to ambassa-
"Now I know there are other ambassadors here who would love to spit on Communism. But don't let's see who can spit further, like camels in a cage."
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SWEENEY IN THE TREES
Spring is here—the season of tree-sitting contests. This I applaud. Tree-sitting is healthful and jolly and as American as apple pie. Also it keeps you off the streets.
Tree-sitting is not, however, without its hazards. Take, for example, the dread and chilling case of Manuel Sigfafoos and Ed Sweeney, both sophomores at the Nashville College of Folk Music and Woodworking, and both madly in love with a beautiful alto named Ursula Thing, who won their hearts singing that fine old folk song, I Strangled My True Love with Her Own Yellow Braids, and I'll Never Eat Her Sorghum Any More.
Both Manuel and Ed pressed Ursula to go steady, but she could not choose between them, and finally it was decided that the boys would have a tree-sitting contest, and Ursula would belong to the victor. So Manuel and Ed clambered up adjoining aspers, taking with them the following necessaries: food, clothing, bedding, reading matter, and—most essential of all—plenty of Marlboro Cigarettes.
We who live on the ground know how much you get to like with a Marlboro. Think how much more important they must be to the lonely tree-dweller—how much more welcome their fine, mild tobacco; how much more gratifying their free-drawing filters; how much more comforting their sturdy, crushproof flip-top box. Climb a tree and see for yourselves.
Well supplied with Marlboros, our heroes began their treesitting contest—Manuel with good heart, Ed with evil cunning. The shocking fact is that crafty Ed, all unbeknownst to Manuel, was one of three identical triplets. Each night while Manuel dozed on his bough, one of Ed's brothers—Fred or Jed—would sneak up the tree and replace him. "How can I lose?" said Ed with a fiendish giggle to his brother Fred or Jed.
But Ed had a big surprise coming. For Manuel, though he did not know it himself, was a druid! He had been abandoned as an infant at the hut of a poor and humble woodcutter named Cornelius Whitney Sigafoos III, who had raised the child as his own. So when Manuel got into the tree, he found much to his surprise that he had never in all his life felt so at home and happy. He had absolutely no intention of ever leaving.
After seven or eight years Ed and his brothers wearied of the contest and conceded. Ursula Thing came to Manuel's tree and cried, "I am yours! Come down and pin me."
But Manuel declined. Instead he asked Ursula to join him in the tree. This she could not do, being subject to mopery (a morbid allergy to woodpeckers), so she ended up with Ed after all.
Only she made a mistake—a very natural mistake. It was Jed, not Ed, with whom she ended up.
Ed, heartbroken at being tricked by his own brother, took up metallurgy to forget.
Crime does not pay.
© 1958 Max Shulman
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