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University Daily Kansas Tuesday, March 11, 1958
It's Mostly Malarky
The idea that a person must serve a hitch on the All Student Council before he can qualify as a candidate for student body president is mostly malarky.
Having only "experienced leaders" in office looks good on the surface, but in this case, the idea is rotten to the core. Here's why:
Faced with the tangle of duties and problems that the student body president encounters, it's natural enough to hope for one who knows his way around the jungle of local politics. And anyone who has observed the antics of Our Very Own ASC in the past knows that it's a dandy place for a would-be student leader to get his political baptism-by-fire.
But limiting the choice of student body presidential candidates to ASC members, past and present, is overemphasizing the importance of "experience." Under present constitution, something like 30 persons would be eligible for the office, out of a student body of 9,000 plus. To put it mildly, that's narrowing the field.
Common sense tells you that there ought to be
more than 30 students in an enrollment of 9,000 capable of handling the student body president's job. The law of averages tells you that they aren't all ASC members, either.
Members of the ASC who voted for the "members only" presidential qualification amendment perhaps did so on faith that such a limitation would help insure qualified persons for the job. But in so voting, they have unwittingly cast a shadow of doubt over their motives. They have laid themselves wide open to opponents' charges that they were maneuvering in self interest and have created a "royal family" of candidates.
If we may assume that a majority of the council members did not act on such motives, they are needlessly exposing themselves to criticism. In such a case, it would seem that maintenance of the "members only" qualification rule is unfair to the ASC members who created it. It's a cinch it's unfair to the rest of the student body.
Let's throw out the silly rule before it causes any more trouble.
. Letters To The Editor
—Larry Boston
Being born in a log cabin is considered almost essential for the success of a self-made politician, but I doubt if such a romantic origin has any influence on the future of a hospital.
Here Are The Facts
Your interesting feature in The Daily Kansan of March 5, revived the myth about the student with small pox being isolated in a cabin on the Kaw River. This fictitious item appears, I believe, in Prof. Robert Taft's book, and is based on the same story that Prof. W. J. Baumgartner quoted in an article on "Development of Hospital Organization and Facilities" for a booklet printed when Watkins Memorial Hospital was dedicated in June 1932.
The influenza epidemic of 1928, which was my first year at the University of Kansas, necessitated closing of the University about one week before the usual Christmas vacation. Approximately 400 students were afflicted with influenza before the decision was made to advance the closing date.
No dormitories were taken over as hospital space; the house at 1100 Missouri, now the Nursery School, which was owned by the University and was vacant, was fitted out as a hospital. The "interms from a Kansas City Hospital" played no part in the epidemic. Senior medical students from the University of Kansas School of Medicine made a house survey one evening in an attempt to determine how many students were sick at home, although the University administration had already made the decision to close the University that day.
Please accept this contribution to the "inexact science of telling the truth."
Ralph I. Canuteson M.D.
Director of Student Health
Service
A series of dams keeps the Ohio South Carolina's 22 state parks in River at a minimum depth of nine include more than 46,000 acres of feet. woods and waters.
LOOK
Shortly after the hospital dedication, we received a very pointed letter from a business man in Oklahoma who stated that he was the hero of the episode but-that he was not isolated in a cabin on the Kaw River. He was taken from his fraternity house on Tennessee Street and put in a private room in a house where the landlady took care of him, since there was no hospital in Lawrence at that time prepared to take cases of communicable disease.
In Our Window And See The $150 Worth Of
The Student Health Service actually was initiated by a committee consisting of Dr. M. T. Sudler and Profs. E. H. S. Bailey and M. A. Barber.
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Liberal arts college students graduating this spring should consider the job opportunities in high caliber private schools. According to Miss Mary Watson, director of the Cooperative Bureau for Teachers, there is a great demand for liberal arts graduates as teachers in the private school field.
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background over those who have specialized in teacher training.
"This does not mean there is not also a great need for teachers with specialized training in education. It does mean, however, that students who have not taken education courses can also find interesting and rewarding positions in the teaching profession."
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"Beginning salaries in top-level private schools range from $3,000 to $4,500 depending upon qualifications." Miss Watson said. "Private school teaching positions offer the young man or woman who wishes to devote his life to scholarly pursuits an attractive and interesting environment."
Students interested in further information regarding such job opportunities may do so by writing the Cooperative Bureau for Teachers, 22 E. 42nd. St., New York City.
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Founded 1887, became weekly 1904.
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