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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 10. 1958
More Scholarship Money?
Do we need more money for scholarships in the United States or do we need better distribution of the money that already exists?
According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, several widely publicized surveys have indicated that vast numbers of top high school students cannot attend college for financial reasons. At the same time, the article points out that many experts insist that there is an abundance of scholarship aid in this country and that some corporations are now curtailing their scholarship programs.
"Why the clashing views? Some educators say the problem lies in a basic maldistribution of scholarship aid. 'Unfortunately, while good schools in some parts of the country have ample scholarship funds, many areas tend to be neglected,' observes an official of the College Entrance Examination Board," the article says.
Many colleges are overloaded with scholarship bequests carrying highly restrictive provisions.
Harvard, the article states, has a scholarship for sons of its 1905 graduates; candidates, to no one's surprise, are nonexistent. Yale has a $1,000 stipend waiting for a boy named DeForest. And Boston's Franklin Technical Institute has a $1,200 award originally set up by the Estes Franklin German Automotive Co. The grant is open to a resident of Norfolk, Plymouth or Barnstable counties in Massachusetts who wants to take a course in "automotive service and management."
"There are probably more than 10,000 separate grants which go unawarded each year," says S. Norman Feingold, who has written three books cataloguing available scholarships.
"It's partly a question of these crazy limitations, but even more, a lack of publicity for existing funds."
—Evelyn Hall
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Letters To The Editor
To the casual observer at ASC meetings in the past few weeks it would seem that one of the really smoldering questions involves the qualifications of the president and vice-president of the student body, which has been tossed around at the meetings like a hot potato peeling.
It seems that when the student body president or chairman of ASC appointed a committee to study the problem of qualifications of president about all that they came up with was an amendment providing that any vacancies in the ASC occurring eight weeks before the spring election should not be filled. This amendment proposed by a committee supposedly studying the qualifications of the president comes at a most interesting time. First of all,
The present constitution provides that any candidate for president of the all student body must have served previously on the ASC in order to be eligible for the office. This provision was changed from last year's general revision which provided that the candidate has to have served a full year on the council after the student court declared this qualification unconstitutional.
The question still arises as to why it is a necessary qualification to have a student body president who has served in the All Student Council at all? The president of the student body is not responsible for running the All Student Council—this is done by the chairman, who is elected by the ASC members themselves. Does the president of the United States have to
serve in Congress before he can be elected? Is it necessary for the governor of Kansas to serve a term in the state legislature before he takes office? Yet it is necessary for the president of the student body of KU to have served in the ASC.
Furthermore, an interesting paradox can be found in Article III in the ASC Constitution, which goes under the long, drawn-out name of the "Constitution of the Association shall be composed of all students regularly enrolled at the University of Kansas. No regularly enrolled student shall in a discriminatory manner, be denied the privileges of membership . . .." And yet, on the very same page, under Article V, is this statement: "No student shall be eligible for the presidency or the vice-presidency who has not served on the All Student Council previously." But no KU student is being discriminated against—our constitution "guarantees" that! It's just that no one is eligible to be president or vice-president until he or she has been one of the elite ASC members.
The tragedy of the whole situation (if I may speak in dramatic terms) is that the present ASC regime is well aware of it, and yet refuses to do anything about it. This stand, especially by ASC chairman Dick Patterson, seems to be an almost about face from his usual cry of keeping politics out of the ASC. But then, Patterson is only a junior this year which makes him a very good bet as the top candidate for student body president. So why should Patterson try to cut his own throat by
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
It is very easy for an outsider to forget that even the campus leaders are just students—human beings—like the rest of us and to expect them to implement legislation which goes against their own personal interests is to expect them to behave like inhuman machines.
fighting for a constitutional change which will, in effect, make it more difficult for him to become next year's student body president?
Perhaps the only solution to the problem is in the hands of the KU students, themselves. In one sense this provision in the constitution slaps at the ability of the KU student body to select a qualified candidate by limiting the candidacy to ASC members. In other words, it says KU students aren't smart enough to pick their student body president candidates; so we'll restrict their choice to only those who have served on the ASC.
Alaska's population has increased There are 50,000 farm ponds 60 per cent in the last six years. stocked with fish in Kansas.
"NO CLASS HERE 'TIL NINE."
If and when the KU student body decides that the choice of the president should be in the hands of the students, the ASC will have little choice in changing the constitution for the pressure of public opinion cannot be denied. Anyway, why shouldn't the KU student have the opportunity, if he so desires, to run for student body president, and then let the decision of the majority select the person who is the representative and spokesman of all students and not just the select group which composes the All Student Council.
Bill Wilson
Denver, Colo. senior
The Grand Banks consist of a shallow section of ocean off Newfoundland, where the cold Labrador Current meets the warm Gulf Stream, the National Geographic Magazine says. The swirling waters provide conditions favorable to the growth of plankton, and make a rich oceanic pasture for fish. Fishermen have been filling their ships with cod from the banks for 450 years.
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THE COLLEGE SURVEY ANNOUNCES SUMMER EMPLOYMENT 1958
Each including extensive listings of openings and addresses, information on their pay, responsibilities and necessary application forms.
THIS YEAR IN TWO COMPLETE GUIDES
MARITIME & GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT $ 1
Deck hands, wipers, stewards, messmen on ocean liners, dredgers, freighters, tankers, and sail or motor yachts. Fire control aids, guides, technical assistants, laborers, and others in national parks and game refuges.
CAMP AND RESORT EMPLOYMENT
Counselors, life guards, instructors, and directors in camps. Waiters, waitresses, bartenders, lifeguards, etc., in mountain and sea resorts and dude ranches.
EMPLOYMENT IS GUARANTEED only to those students in the several colleges where announcements of The College Survey appear who are able applicants and have their account number registered in our files by APRIL 3, 1958. Account numbers and our special application forms are given only to recipients of both guides. Those purchasing only one guide must exploit the sources therein without the guarantee of employment through our placement facilities.
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