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University Daily Kansan
Friday. March 21, 1958
Don't Start That Again
Suppose there were no All Student Council. Suppose the campus were vacant of any student government.
One day in 1960, a year after the ASC folded because students complained the Council wasn't doing anything, one student would say to another. "You know there ought to be a way we could get more afternoon classes offered. We ought to have a group of students represent the rest of the students and see if that can't be done."
"Why start another student government?" his doubting companion would say. "We will start with 10 students in the government and six months later end up with 200 students in the government."
"Nonsense," would be the words of the naive student.
"Are you kidding?" would be the reply. Because of the feebleness of the student government in coping with substantial problems, the government will wrap itself up in the complexity
of a dozen committees to act as though important legislation is being done."
Again the naive one would say, "A student government can allot money to different organizations and functions and even bring pressure on some of the administration to change some rule."
"What do you mean by that?"
"You better believe it would be a minor rule, the anarchist would say. "It's senseless for students to ask any more of student government." (If you do, how much better?)
"Why you simpleton," the impatient realist would roar, "the student government is simply incapable of handling major decisions, because anything seriously affecting students will be done by the administration, when or if the administration thinks it should be done."
"Yep, I guess you're right." The stubborn student would sigh resignedly. "We'd be stuck with a government that would have lots of limits to its power. Guess we'd as well not try again. The ASC was never able to do anything important."
Doug Parker
Why Not Everybody?
Tomorrow is Saturday, the second day of spring. For some students, if the weather is right, it will be a day of enjoying the sun. For a few hundred others it will be the day they take the English proficiency examination.
This examination is a requirement for graduation from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, the School of Journalism, the School of Fine Arts and the School of Medicine (nursing).
Fine and good, these people should be proficient in the writing of the English language. In fact everyone who gets a college degree should be proficient in writing the English language. But for some reason, this examination is not a requirement for graduation from the School of Business, the School of Engineering and Architecture or the School of Pharmacy.
Why not? Don't the powers that be think these people will ever be required to write in such a degree that they will be required to be proficient? Surely this isn't the case.
People graduating from the School of Business go into various types of jobs, accounting, marketing personnel and industrial management. Surely all these people won't work only with numbers. They will need to be able to
use the English language correctly in correspondence and reports.
Our engineers and architects also branch out into various fields. Will they never have to make use of anything but slide rules, T-squares and mathematical formulas? Anyone in a position of responsibility will have letters, papers and reports to write. However technical they might be, proper command of the English language is still necessary.
And neither will all graduates from the School of Pharmacy be mixing prescriptions in the back room of a drugstore. They enter fields in which an ability to write proficiently is a necessity.
If the requirement is based on future need, why is a fine arts graduate, who may be a designer or a musician, fall under this requirement, when a business graduate, who may make use of letters and reports extensively, does not?
Whatever field or profession a person may enter, he should be able to write a clear, understandable paper of any kind.
If this examination is going to be required for anyone at KU, it should be required for everyone. If not, it should be abolished.
Quotes From The News
NEW YORK—Mrs. Anna Bailey,
who survived the fire that killed
1 of her fellow workers in an un-
wear factory:
—Del Haley
"We was working when all of a
hidden we heard a bang. We all
in. We didn't know which way to
run. And everybody was screaming.
'Smoke and fire' they was screaming.
We didn't know which way to run..."
CORAL GABLES, Fla.—Stripper Evelyn "Treasure Chest" West, after being sentenced to five days in
.ITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
jail for bouncing two tomatoes off the hip of actress Anita Ekberg: "I hope the tail is air-conditioned."
MOSCOW—Comedian Bob Hope,
at an American Embassy show;
"How about that vodka? I'm surprised the whole country isn't up with the Sputnik."
"AN ON THIS PLAY '08' RUNSTH' BALL AROUND MIS OWN RIGHT END?"
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Sam Rayburn, opposing plans to push immediately for an anti-recession tax cut:
"It is still too early to jump!"
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Dick Brown ... Managing Editor
Larry Boston, Bob Hartley, Mary Beth
Noyes, Malcolm Applegate, Assistant
Managing Editors; Douglas Parker, City
Editor; Martha Crosier, Jack Harrison,
Assistant City Editor; Mary Alder,
Townsend Editor; Bob McKinnon,
Assistant Telegraph Editor; George
Anthan, Sports Editor; Bob Macy,
Assistant Sports Editor; Pat Swanson,
Society Editor; Ron Miller, Picture Editor.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Del Haley ... Editorial Editor
Evelyn Hall, Marilyn Mermis, Leroy
Zimmerman, Associate Editors
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Ted Winkler ... Business Manager
John Clarke, Advertising Manager;
Carol Ann Huston, National Advertis-
tional Manager;
Advertising Manager; Tom McGrath,
Circulation Manager; Norman Beck,
Promotion Manager.
John Brown's body lies a-mould' Horse racing and cockfighting ring in the grave on the John Brown were the leading sports in the co Farm near Lake Placid, N. Y. colonial South.
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Dance
to
Woody Herman
and his
New Third Herd at the
Greek Week Dance
Saturday, March 22 9-12 p.m.
Union Ballroom
Tickets On Sale At Information Booth And Union Ticket Center
$2.50 Per Couple