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University Daily Kansan Monday. April 28,1958
Senior Gift Time Again
Time is rapidly approaching for the senior class to decide what their gift to the University will be.
It is natural, we think, that each class wish to give the University something which will be seen by students, faculty and alumni for years to come. The idea to "give something that everyone can see" is a natural one, but not necessarily a good one.
Something should be said for spending the money for a worthwhile cause rather than investing in just another structure to be placed somewhere on campus. A more functional gift might be decided upon by the class of '58.
Perhaps the class could establish some sort of a fund to help students financially when emergencies arise. This calls to mind the case of a foreign student who attended the University last
year. His parents were killed in an earthquake and he wanted to return home, but he had no money. If such a fund had been in existence, the student could have borrowed the money to return to his country immediately.
Perhaps with the money, some worthy faculty member's salary could be increased as a bonus for outstanding merit in the field of teaching.
Perhaps the seniors could donate the money toward a parking lot for the students, the use of which would not cost 50 cents.
There are many practical ways to spend money. Good cannot always be measured by the amount of recognition received. It would be better for one person to derive good from the money than for it to be wasted on something impractical.
-Evelyn Hall
We Also Made A Study
We took a poll the other day and found that KU women who are short are much better adjusted than the tall girls. To arrive at this conclusion, we looked around the University Daily Kansan newsroom and found that the girls who were tapping most vigorously on their typewriters were the girls who were 5-feet 6-inches and shorter. We decided that the reason for this might be that when someone taller than they spoke to them, they were in a habit of tilting their heads backward, thus relaxing their neck muscles.
The taller girls, when spoken to, had only to look straight ahead into the speaker's eyes to appear attentive. (This whole theorem depends on a premise that the girl's interlocutor is about 6-feet, and probably male.)
We are a little concerned by the outcome of our study, for it is in direct conflict with a report
of a similar study which appeared in a recent issue of the Lawrence Daily Journal World. The study made at Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., by a psychology professor and a student indicated that those "coeds who consider themselves tall are also more ascendant—that is, they stand up better for their rights and tend to be leaders. They are also better adjusted, more even in mood, more socially oriented, more tolerant of others and more homogenous."
The study was made by Carole McCoy, North Hollywood, Calif., a Pomona senior who stands 5-feet 10-inches in her bare feet, and Dr. Graham B. Bell, 6-foot 4-inch psychology professor.
The Daily Kansan study was made by a girl just 5-feet 5-inches in her bare feet, and not more than 5-feet 6-inches when she wears shoes. No professor had anything whatever to do with this study.
—Evelyn L. Hall
American Way' Show At Fair
A Russian electronics engineer, notebook in hand, carefully examined the display of voting machines set up in the American pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair.
The next day he returned with two other Russians.
"We have decided," he told the manager of the exhibit, Arthur Darby of Hallandale, Fla., "that there is a device in the machine that enables an official to tell who voted and how he voted.
"It is not a secret ballot at all."
So Darby, a lean, slow-talking ex-naval officer, hauled the Russians around to the back of the triple-locked machines and showed them how impossible it was to break the integrity of an American ballot.
"I guess they were convinced," he said, "because they left shaking their heads and jabber-
President Eisenhower, who suggested the voting machine exhibit, is herewith assured that showing how America votes has turned out to be almost the happiest inspiration of the fair.
ing away in Russian."
To everybody's surprise it is one of the three top attractions of the display intended to dramatize the American way of life.
The President couldn't have known about it at the time, but the Russians also decided to boast about "equal, universal and secret" suffrage in their adjoining pavilion. Unfortunately, however, they lettered this on a wall just under a painting of the late Josef Stalin.
"Visitors over there are thus able to read the claim, look at Stalin's picture and draw their own conclusions," Darby said.
—United Press
Former KU Professor Writes For Saturday Evening Post
Dr. Eiseley's article, "An Evolutionist Looks at Modern Man," is the first in a series written for the magazine by seven widely known scholars.
Dr. Loren C. Eiseley, KU professor of sociology from 1937 to 1944 and one of last fall's Humanities Series lecturers, is the first author to write for the Saturday Evening Post's current series, "Adventures of the Mind."
human rewards on the moon, but rather in communication with his own mind and fellow man. The moon trip is merely an "escape out of the human problems on earth," he says.
Dr. Eiseley said in his article that he believes man will not find his
Dr. Eiseley is chairman of the department of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.
He spoke here last fall on "Modern Man: The Crisis in His Evolution."
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