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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 10, 1958
Freedom Of The Press?
An item came over the United Press wire service which makes our blood boil. It stated that the editor of the Mississippi State College Student newspaper had been fired because he urged that both sides of the race issue be represented in Mississippi publications, it was revealed.
"The Student Council ousted L. E. Miller, a 20-year-old junior from Baldwyn, Miss., because of his determined editorial stand favoring 'freedom of speech and inquiry,'" according to U.P.
One of the two Council members who voted against the ouster said the firing resulted from the work of campus "junior spies" for the White Citizens Council. The student, who declined to be identified, said the disputed editorial was a "calm plea for freedom of speech and inquiry on Mississippi's college campuses."
Now it is one thing, we think, to fire a man
from his job because he is incompetent or because he has failed to present the facts of a story accurately.
However, we feel that we are taking a long slide backward when a newspaper editor is fired for expressing his opinion, which as an editor he has the right and the duty to express. Is freedom of the press, one of our constitutional guarantees, going down the drain at Mississippi State College?
The race issue in Mississippi is a hot one, and the fact that the students have formed an organization like the White Citizens Council is indicative of narrowmindedness and bad taste, but to jeopardize the ideals of our country by strangling freedom of the press is unthinkable.
Evelyn Hall
The Students Must Pay
Education costs are high and going up. And who will pay when all else fails? The Cornell Daily Sun gives this answer.
The tuition raises listed at Harvard and Columbia Universities and the increase in faculty salaries listed at Harvard point up dramatically the present financial crises for colleges and universities throughout the nation.
Harvard announced a tuition raise from $1,000 to $1,250 (making its tuition again, the highest in the country), and a concordant salary raise which puts full professor pay at an average of $15,000. Columbia announced a tuition raise from $900 to $1,100, with increased faculty salaries for the near future.
The student must pay; there is no question about that. For, as Columbia president Grayson Kirk says, "Educational costs have risen sharply, the necessity for increases in faculty salaries for the maintenance of the highest teaching standards has become more pronounced, and the
nation's need for trained leaders has reached what is virtually a state of emergency."
To meet these rises, the national administration is trying to create the first major federal educational program, private companies and foundations are putting a great deal of money into colleges, and alumni are being continually pressed for giving—yet the fact remains that these three sources are not enough. It is the student that must make up the deficiency.
We hope that the American student will recognize this, will appreciate this, when his tuition costs go up, as they are sure to do within a few years. It is an undeniable trend in American education, one that will eventually put the nation's colleges—and, equally important, the nation's facilities—in their proper place. For it has been too long that higher education has occupied a secondary place in the mind—and pocketbook—of the American public; it is time that its true worth is recognized and, hard though it may seem, paid for.
Associated Collegiate Press
Quotes From The News
"We might have just made it to the Portuguese coast if we had carried on flying, but it was too marginal."
LAJES AIR FORCE BASE, Azores — Brig. Gen. William E. Eubank Jr., who landed his Air Force stratos-tanker here Tuesday after a record non-stop flight from Tokyo on which he had hoped to reach Madrid:
CRANFORD, N. J. Joseph Welch, whose 15-year-old son found in the family attic a letter which experts believe bears the authentic signature of George Washington;
"The letter was in such good shape that I didn't think it was more than 10 or 15 years old."
MADISON, Wis.—Dr. K. C. Atwood III of the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic laboratories, on a new drug which may improve man's resistance to radiation;
"It may be possible to develop resistance to radiation up to perhaps five times the normal tolerance of a human."
CHICAGO—Paul Robeson, politically controversial Negro singer, celebrating his 60th birthday, was asked if he is a Communist:
"I refuse to answer your question. In 1947 I said I wasn't, and I resent the insinuation that I am a Communist. I know a lot of Communists."
Nathan Joined Church
Dramatic critic George Jean Nathan, who long proclaimed a disbelief in "The Ambrosia of the Gods, the lovely angels, eternal blue skies and peace, the music of the golden harps," became a member of the Roman Catholic Church six months before his death yesterday, it was disclosed.
Nathan had declared himself a hedonist, a believer that pleasure is the highest good. He once wrote that there was no other reward for life's travail and pain "except for those still sufficiently aboriginal to believe in an hereafter."
It was announced after his death, at the age of 76, that a requiem will be offered for him at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Butterflies belong to the Lepidoptera order which means "scale wing."
The aardvark is not used as a beast of burden in North America.
University of Kansas student newspaper
Founded 1889, became biweekly 1904
triweekly 1908, daily Jan. 16, 1912.
Dailu Transan
UNIVERSITY
Telephone VIking 3-2700
Extension 251-6948
Member Inland Daily Press Association.
Associated Collegiate Press. Represented
Service for University of New York.
Madison Ave., New York. News
service. United Press. Mail subscription
rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year. Pub-
nish on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
noon during the University year except
Saturdays and Sundays. University holi-
dayes, and examination periods. Entered
Lawrence, Kan. post office under act of
March 3, 1879.
Extension 251, news room
Extension 376, business office
Dick Brown ... Managing Editor
Larry Boston, Bob Hartley, Mary Beth Noyes, Malcolm Applegate, Assistant Managing Editors; Douglas Parker, City Estates; Josster, Jack Harrison, Assistant City Editor; Martha Frederick, Telegraph Editor; Martha Frederick, Assistant Telegraph Editor; George Anthan, Sports Editor; Bob Macy, Assistant Sports Editor; Pat Swanson, Society Editor; Ron Miller, Picture Editor.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
TORITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Del Hale, Editorial Editor
Evelyn Hall, Martian Mermis, Leroy
Zimmerman, Associate Eores
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Students Love Contests
Ted Winkler ... Business Manager
John Clarke, Advertising Manager;
Carol Ann Huston, National Advertis-
tion Manager; Irvine, Classified
Advertising Manager; Jim McGrath,
Circulation Manager; Norman Beck,
Promotion Manager.
In a Branding Iron "Special." University of Wyoming student Don Bettis surveys the campus contest situation.
University students love contests. Wherever human talents or defects can be found, a contest will be established to decide who is the best or worst.
Beauty, ugliness, beards, bicycles— not to mention innumerable athletic events figure in students' challenging each other.
Outside of major sports, most competition is centered around the femme fatale.
Associated Collegiate Press
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