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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 3,1958
Don't Be Too Critical
We're not professionals and we don't claim to be. We're just students trying to learn more about journalism. And as a part of our task of getting a degree, we must also publish The Daily Kansan.
Sometimes it gets discouraging to hear people call The Daily Kansan such names as the rag, the rewrite, or the most newsless newspaper in existence. Probably the majority of KU's students are not such ridiculers, but these comments have been heard.
The following isn't an excuse for the mistakes which we do make, and sometimes they're pretty frequent, but I believe if all those who ridicule could see all the effort it takes to publish an eight page daily newspaper, their criticism might be modified.
First, it must be remembered that The Daily Kansan staff changes each semester. New executives take over the management of the paper and a new staff of inexperienced reporters take over the job of gathering the news. All are in a learning stage in their jobs at this time and certainly don't claim to be the best.
A student in Reporting II has his work cut out for him. He must cover 10 to 15 departments of the University for news each day, although time often doesn't allow quite this thorough coverage. It is this Reporting II class of 10 to 15 students on whom The Daily Kansan depends for the bulk of its news.
The executive in charge of the reporters is the city editor. He must have a thorough knowledge of the campus so he can assign stories daily and must keep a daily check to see that they carry out their duties. Either he or his assistant editor must assign pictures and features to be used in the paper. Thorough coverage of news and interesting features is dependent upon his good management.
The society editor digs up some of her own news, rewrites news which is brought in by campus organizations, copyreads all stories which are used, and makes up the dummies. She, more than any other person on the paper, is dependent upon help from people not associated with
The Daily Kansan but who are interested in seeing their news in the paper. Certainly this help is appreciated.
The editorial editor has a separate class of 6 to 10 students who write editorials for the page. But he and his assistants must also write editorials, edit the copy and make up the page, in addition to exercising their extremely important judgment on what will be printed here.
The job of sports editor is a time consuming one. In addition to editing the copy and making up the page, he must cover some of the big sports stories to help out an extremely small staff of 3-4 reporters. When most of us are asleep at 6:30 a.m., you can bet that the sports editor is at his desk getting the day's sports page ready before the 8 a.m. deadline.
The managing editor and four assistant managing editors each make up the news pages of the paper one day a week. They must exercise their judgment in placement of news and check all copy before it goes to the back shop. Due to the lack of copy readers, it is also essential that they read some of their own copy the night before if they want to meet the 2 p.m. press run deadline. Although it's not an everyday job, you can depend upon a good deal of sweat and strain over the many decisions which must be made each day when an editor takes his position in the slot.
These, briefly, are some of the major duties of each person who has a part in putting out The Daily Kansan. That ever binding element of space doesn't permit further explanation of such things as copy deadlines, backshop deadlines, executive meetings, etc. And it takes equally as much work to get the advertising.
Oh, we almost forgot. Most of us also carry the average load of schoolwork. But there's one thing to fall back on. If we didn't like it, we wouldn't be here.
We do try to put out a paper to the best of our ability, and constant non-constructive criticism doesn't help us obtain our goal. The next time we see one of these incessant gripers, we hope his nose isn't buried in a Daily Kansan. If he doesn't like it, he shouldn't read it.
—Malcolm Applegate
Make Up Your Minds, Women!
It gives women a great deal of pleasure, we think, to fall back on the old belief that they are the weaker sex. A woman likes to feel that a man, just because he is a man, should open doors for her, carry books for her, kill the mouse that seems to terrify her, and so on.
With the addition of the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 which gave woman the right to vote, and many gradual changes in policy toward women since then, the woman has nearly reached her goal in aspiring to compete with men.
Today, women not only cook, sew, and change the baby, but they work in airplane factories, mills and ship yards. They hammer, saw, paint, drill, dig and capture criminals. There is
even a women's Army. Women vie for men's positions in literally every occupation and are now sneaking into some of the top governmental jobs.
It is true that our dainty, white-skinned, rosy cheeked Sweet Sue of an earlier age is gone. The ideal American woman has turned into a much stronger, more intelligent business woman, quite capable of competing with men.
However, when a man lets a woman stand on the bus while he leisurely sits to read the evening paper, she may be heard snarling to herself that "chivalry is certainly dead."
If chivalry is dead, the women murdered it.
... Letters
-Evelyn Hall
Editor's note:
The following letter was sent to Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy by concert violinist Joseph Szigeti following his concert Monday night in the University Theatre.
Praise For Theater
I feel privileged to have been the first artist to have been heard in the new theater of the University of Kansas, and to have, as I believe, conclusively proven its outstanding acoustical merits.
To my mind the violin is the crucial test of acoustical properties and my feeling throughout this demanding program was: just as the sound circulates within the violin, so does this perfect theater act like a giant violin in its resonance and sensitivity.
. . .
Editor:
Joseph Szigeti
Indignant
Editor:
I read with interest the little black type story on Page 1 of Tuesday's Daily Kansas. My interest
was aroused by the statement that a faculty man and his wife were both reading the paper. I presume that each had a conv.
On 'Judith'
Editor:
Did they pay for two subscriptions, or for that matter even one?
John Husar has a very considerable gift; he can reduce what Jean Giraudoux thinks on such a subject as God to two or three words. John makes Jean say that God is a fake. Hmmm! John also is able to summarize the events of the play as sexual intercourse. Again hmmm! That came nearer being the content of the "Itch,"—and much more pleasantly—and with much less agitation of gray matter. Seriously I compliment John on writing so that a review that is half devoted to the presentation of ideas can make the front page with a banner headline. Whenever was the word philosophy in such bold type before?
Indignant Subscriber
J. Neale Carman Professor of Romance languages
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Washington — Defense Secretary Neil Emirey, saying he knows of no military advantage in getting a rocket to the moon: "We are interested in the moon as an objective, but mostly for psychological and scientific reasons. I can't say how soon we are going to do it, but it shouldn't be too long."
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Jack Brown Managing Editor
Larry Boston, Bob Hartley, Mary Beth
Noyes, Malcolm Applegate, Assistant
Managing Editors; LeRoy Lord, City
Editor; Martin Crosier, Jack Harrison,
Assistant Editor; Douglas Parker,
Tahoe Coach, George Anthan,
tent Telegraph Editor; George Anthan,
Sports Editor; Bob Macy, Assistant
Sports Editor; Pat Swanson, Society
Editor; Ron Miller, Picture Editor.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
New York—Dan A. Kimball, president of Aerojet-General Corp., saying his firm has a rocket that can shoot a satellite around the moon in a "short time." "We are past the point of deciding whether we will do it or not—it has to be done."
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Del Haley Editorial Editor
Evelyn Hall, Marilyn Mermis, Leroy
Zimmerman, Associate Editors
Miami—James R. Hoffa, Teamster Union president, explaining why he disregarded advice that he turn down an invitation to meet with the International Longshoremen's association Executive Council: "I tolk
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Ted Winkler Business Manager
John Clarke, Advertising Manager; Ann Huston, National Advertising Manager;
Bill Irvine, Classified Advertising Manager; Tim McGradd, Circulation Manager;
Norman Beck, Promotion Manager.
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Cleveland—Vice President Richard M. Nixon on the State of the economy: "Because the economy is basically sound and because of action the administration has taken and is prepared to take, the American people can make their plans for 1958 with confidence rather than fear."
Each year the School of Education send certificates of service to Kansas teachers who have taught for 25 years.
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