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University Daily Kansam
Friday, Jan. 10, 1958
K.U. serves 21 percent of all The University of Kansas granted Kansas students beyond high school. 68 doctoral degrees last year.
During the holidays my folks got a letter from the editor of the Jayhawker, our non-prizewinning yearbook.
In substance, the letter told Mom and Dad that "your child...has been too busy to subscribe to the Jayhawker." Don't you think it would be a good idea, the letter asked, if a subscription were given to the busy child?
Cut It Out
Hogwash. I didn't buy a Jayhawker because
I didn't want one; partly because at six bucks, the price is too high.
Business must be good, however, at the Jayhawker office. The All Student Council has approved a $700 bonus for three men on the yearbook's staff.
When the Jayhawker gets cheaper it will be more attractive. Trim away such plums as this bonus and the price can't help but come down.
—Larry Boston
Ike's Plans
National defense, military strength, education and national spending were the primary points of interest Thursday when President Eisenhower gave his State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress.
Following are condensed remarks by the President on these important subjects:
Military strength today-Even if our bases should be hit by a surprise and damaging attack, our bombers would immediately be on their way in sufficient strength to retaliate. In long-range missiles we are probably somewhat behind the Russians in some areas,"but making rapid progress."
Future military strength—"If we make the necessary effort, we will have the missiles in the needed quantity and time, to sustain and strengthen the deterrent power to our increasingly efficient bombers," the President said.
Defense reorganization—The President will propose changes to assure real unification of strategic planning and control; "real" subordination of the military to civilian authority; avoidance of costly and confusing duplication in the scientific and industrial effort and an end to interservice disputes.
Defense speed-up—We must have "stepped-up long range missile programs; accelerated programs for other effective missile systems; more advanced aircraft...nuclear submarines and cruisers; improved anti-submarine weapons; missile ships...mobile forces...increases in pay and incentives to maintain in the armed forces the skilled manpower modern military forces require."
Spending-$1,300,000,000 additional defense funds for the current fiscal year; four billion dollars more next fiscal year than currently for new weapons and military improvements.
Education and research—A four-year, billion dollar program to improve teaching quality and student opportunities, increase funds for improving science education, and double basic research funds.
—Bob Hartley
Bonus Babies
--cases it isn't legal. Some democratic souls will say that it isn't ethical, either. It seems the voters ought to have the right to know what their elected representatives are doing.
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Only trouble with this system is that in most
Any city councilman in Kansas can tell you that the easiest way to take care of the town's business is over a cup of coffee at a cafe around the corner.
It's easier that way because "the boys" can get together, plan what they want to do, and then walk into a city council meeting and rattle off decisions like machine-gun fire. They aren't bothered by a lot of pesky citizens, asking embarrassing questions about how decisions were reached.
Therefore, we're happy to inform the All Student Council that there isn't a thing on that body's agenda which is so important that it must be kept secret. The practice of closed meetings must stop, constitution provisions or no. It's hard enough to keep an eye on our youthful politicians without doing it through a keyhole.
Larry Boston
Shape Up, Soldier
On a recent visit to the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., I found that there are many similarities and contrasts between the life of a plebe and that of a fraternity pledge. The pledge is getting off easy and doesn't know it.
A pledge's phone duty is usually from one to four hours in length and involves only answering the phone and door. West Point guard duty covers 24-hour periods with time off only to sleep. This also includes making periodic inspections of the rooms as well as answering the phone for the guard's company of cadets.
If pledges think they have a lot of required meetings and functions, they should try being dressed in proper uniform and in formation at seven o'clock every morning, then marching in formation to all classes and meals.
Here, only the girls must observe closing hours, but at the military academy all cadets must be in by a specified time. If they are away from the post (which plebes seldom are) and cannot get back on time, a phone call to the state police will bring a car to get them to West Point in ime to sign in.
West Point's Call to Quarters, from 7 p.m. till 9:45 p.m., is the same as quiet hours and study hall for KU pledges. During that time, plebes must be in their room studying unless authorized to be absent.
A fraternity pledge shows only slight deference to upper classmen at the most, but plebs must address their superiors as "Sir" and answer all questions in complete sentences.
Fraternities might designate certain areas as "off limits" after a walk-out, but not permanently. Except during Christmas, the Weapons Room (comparable to our Hawk's Nest, and with dance-
Pledges may think the fraternity is checking too closely on their grades, but they don't have a grade for each class posted publicly every week as the cadets do.
ing area) is forbidden to plebs, and they are never allowed on Flirtation Walk. Many other areas of the Academy are off limits after 6 p.m.
Most fraternities allow pledges to eat their meals sitting comfortably and relaxed; not so at West Point. Plebes sit on the forward six inches of the chair, keep their eyes on their plates and do not talk without permission. But a good joke or other entertainment will likely bring permission to relax for that meal from the upper classmen at the table.
Fraternities require pledge lessons to be learned and recited. Cadets have "plebe poop," such as knowing that there are 340 lights in Cullum Hall, that plebes outrank "the Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat, the waiters in the Mess Hall, and all the Admirals in the Navy."
While going through these hardships both pledges and plebes may wonder if they'll ever make it, and some don't. At any rate, pledges still graduate and plebs continue to become Army officers.
Carol Huston
It's a shame that Prof. Ketzel criticized the All Student Council's policy of sending students to various fuzzy conferences. He is needling the tour agency we all love.
K. U. ranks 24th among 2,049 colleges and universities in the number of graduates in "Who's Who in America."
With 2,296 students, K.U.'s School of Engineering and Architecture is at its peak.
Engineering instruction was first offered at K.U. in 1870.
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