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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 26, 1958
Are They Few Or Many?
The boys down at the School of Architecture seem to be a little unhappy about the way their school is being conducted.
So far they have voiced this displeasure publicly by two rather childish pranks. The first incident was the hanging of an effigy, which bore a sign with one word, "Beal." This was taken to be a slam at George M. Beal, chairman of the department of architecture.
The latest incident was the placing of a tombstone bearing the epitaph "KU School of Architects, 1869-1958" on the steps of Marvin Hall. This was someone's way of saying that the School of Architecture exists in name only.
How many of the students in the School of Architecture are really dissatisfied with their school? Are these pranks the work of only a small per cent of the students, or do they represent the dissatisfaction of the students as a whole?
So far all that is coming out of the School of Architecture is rumors. Rumors that some members of the faculty are ready to resign if there is no change in the administration; that the department of architecture is not fully accredited, and that changes in administration are contemplated for the department.
John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, has denied the validity of these rumors. Furthermore, he stated that students graduating from the KU department of architecture are equal, if not better, in ability and training, to those being graduated from other institutions.
If Dean McNown's statements are correct, then the students must not have much basis for their charges that the school is of poor quality. And the pranks probably stem out of a personal dislike or dissatisfaction of a few students.
If Dean McNown is unaware of some of the problems in the department of architecture, which seems unlikely, then the students have a legitimate basis for their complaints.
But right or wrong, the students responsible for these pranks are airing their complaints in a manner which is unlikely to be successful. If they have a problem, they should approach it in an adult manner, not with childish pranks.
If a problem exists, we hope a solution will be found, and also that it will, in the future, be approached on a more adult level.
The Case For Pay TV
—Del Haley
In the current session of Congress, hearings have been going on to determine whether the lawmakers should recommend subscription television. The ludicrous thing about these hearings is that they are being held at all. Why must it be left to Congress to determine whether free enterprise shall be allowed to function in the United States?
At the core of the hearing are vested interests in communications, who have presented voluminous testimony against pay TV, a plan under which one or more broadcasting stations could be set up, their programs to be paid for by viewers.
Approval of pay TV would not prohibit the continuation of the present system in which programs are supported largely by the manufacturers and distributors of consumer goods. Addition of pay TV would, of course, create a new area of competition for television patrons.
But competition is the heart of free enterprise. The only harm pay TV could bring to existing television broadcasters would be by the latter's failure to furnish a superior service to favor either type of television. Buttons would still remain on the sets to be switched on or off at the
the viewer's pleasure.
In the name of free enterprise, we see no reason why pay TV should not be allowed to try its wings. Let the public decide after fair trial whether one system is better than the other. If by any remote chance pay TV became so much more desired as to cause sponsored TV to founder, wouldn't that be a natural consequence of fair competition?
Nobody now is lamenting the demise of the horse and buggy. But if some federal edict, made at the behest of the horse and buggy industry, had prevented the development of the automobile, what would have happened to American progress?
The auto won out over old Dobbin by the judgment of the public. Pay TV might or might not win out over sponsored TV under public judgment. That remains to be seen. But it's a pretty sure thing that the quality of the TV menu would be improved. As horse and buggy transportation lost the race to the auto, perhaps horse-opera TV will risk losing the home entertainment race, unless it can give the public the quality it wants, deserves, and is willing to pay for.
Child marriages are an old custom in India. In a village of central India a one-month old boy is reported to have been married to a two-week-old girl. The bride and bridegroom were held on their mothers' laps during the ceremony.
—Boulder, Colo. Camera
With no engineering experience, Ferdinand de Lesseps planned, promoted, and built the Suez Canal. He talked Turkey's Viceroy of Egypt into giving right of way in 1854, but four years passed before he raised the capital.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Three scientists, Drs. Irving Lamuiroir, Vincent J. Schaefer, and Bernard Vonnegut are credited with having started the first artificial snowstorm in the United States in 1946. They air-dropped dry ice on clouds over Mount Greylock, Massachusetts.
At the tip of Florida's Key Biscayne stands an abandoned lighthouse, Cape Florida Light, which is 130 years old. Indians burned it during the Seminole War. Federal gunboats shelled it in the Civil War.
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Quotes From The News
NEW YORK — James C. Petriello, president of the American Federation of Musicians, in a telegram to the president of an AFM local in Los Angeles where a rival musicians union has been formed:
Ted Winkler
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John Clarke, Advertising Manager;
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"This crude effort is foredoomed to failure. The Federation will permanently expel any member that gives any aid or comfort to the dual movement that styles itself the Musicians Guild of America."
FORT CHAFFEE, Ark. - Elvis Presley, arriving here to begin a new career as an Army private: "
"I'm as nervous as when I made my first stage appearance."
PARIS — The Marquis de Cuevas,
72, taking his first fencing lesson so
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grapher Serge Lifar, 52:
"My Spanish blood will help me in the flight. I'll kill him that's what, I'll kill him."
WILDCAT MOUNTAIN, N. H. — Page N. Jones, a witness to the plunge of a runaway ski lift in which two persons were injured:
"I rushed outside and saw some of the cabs hurtling along the cable. They were traveling like bullets. As each one hit it sounded like a car wreck."
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