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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1957
Black Monday Approaches
Nov. 11 is coming, are you ready? On that black day the mid-semester grades are due from the instructors to the different schools. Shortly after the grades are funneled down to the students.
This is bad news for all students. It is particularly bad for those getting downslips. It is worse for freshmen getting downslips. These downslips usually come as quite a shock to the unsuspecting new students. To those of us who have become hardened to the horde of downslips in our mail box at mid-semester time, it is a fine excuse to go to the tavern and drown our sorrows in a pitcher of beer.
But to the unworldly freshmen, it is quite a blow. Every year about mid-semester time, the first "weeding out" of the class begins. It really
is amazing to see the holes made in the freshman class ranks.
Oh yes, it's a real gruesome picture. But it can be avoided. Three or four hours studying per day will, in most cases, insure a minimum of downslips.
Nothing so shocks Mom and Dad as getting the news (all freshman downslips are sent home) that their child is in danger of flunking out of the University. This triggers the panic button and Mom and Dad hurriedly write a letter telling the errant child to go easy on dating and cut down on the outside activities. Just study.
This could happen to you. Why not start studying now and avoid the rush for downslips. If for no other reason, save the dean of your school from working so hard sending out another downslip.
Dick Brown
Two Halves Into A Whole
(Editor's Note: A few days ago we kidded Salina Journal Editor Whitney Austin for his ideas on consolidating the journalism schools of KU and K-State. Now he's back with another editorial; this time advocating consolidation of the complete facilities of the two schools!)
The Journal is happy to rally to the support of the Manhattan Mercury in its campaign to change the official name of K-State to "Kansas State University."
It is a splendid and appropriate idea. And it is one the Journal has been advocating for nearly a decade.
In many respects and regardless of its name, K-State is a real university, offering a diversity of courses on both the graduate and undergraduate levels. It is not one college but a collection of them, and that is a partial definition of a university.
However, if the Manhattan newspaper wants only to change the name, it is missing the goal by not pushing far enough.
That goal, on which we all can agree, is to make the higher education provided by this state to be the best available anywhere, a source of leadership
that will pay Kansas dividends in many ways. Such education can be furnished only by a full university complete in all respects.
But in Kansas we have only two halves of a university, each half good, but a half nonetheless. Why not put them together into one top university with campuses at Lawrence and Manhattan?
Sports rivalry would continue, alumni enthusiasm would not be lessened, traditions would not be changed. At least they have not been in California where the university is one, although on many campuses, and the achievements have been great.
Such a unified Kansas University, with campuses at Manhattan and Lawrence, would benefit from the mutual use of facilities and academic brains. Integration would be profitable on the educational level, economical on the tax level. Some duplication could be prevented. Capital items of equipment could be put to greater use.
It would be sound business, sound teaching and one answer to the headaches of finance and faculty now fretting Kansas.
—The Salina Journal
World's Problem Child
Syria! Middle East country; problem of the Western powers and Russia.
Turkey borders Syria on the north, and Iraq is to the east. Pro-western Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea are to the west and on Syria's southern borders are Jordan and Israel.
Syria's history goes back to biblical times. Through history, though under the control of different empires, it was able to retain its individuality.
Following World War I Syria was put under French mandate in 1920. It was not until 1946 that Syria emerged a sovereign nation.
Syria's population of $3\frac{1}{2}$ million includes over 3 million Moslems. Syria's president must be a Moslem and is elected by the Chamber of Deputies. The Deputies are elected by direct suffrage, and since 1949 women have been allowed to vote.
Greater Syria as defined by Arab nationalists includes not only Syria, but also Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan. This fact in itself might explain Israel-Syrian relations.
Lt. Col. Abdel Hamid Sarraj was for a time regarded as the strong arm in Syria. Recently,however,veteran communist Khalid Bakdash has been handling the reins. Sarraj is still important since his secret police are some of the best trained police in the Arab world. They could be called the power behind the government.
Since Syria's defeat by Israel in 1948, the men in the government have realized their army of 25.
000 troops needed strengthening. Finally in 1956 the decision was made and an appeal for aid was sent to the United States.
Syria couldn't wait. Syria didn't want to wait. Syria didn't have to wait. Russia and Czechoslovakia had offered arms and equipment to Syria and when a favorable reply was not heard from the U.S., Syria accepted the proffered arms.
Syria was in the snare. With Russian equipment she was dependent on Russia for further supplies. Syria had followed Egypt into the fold and further complications were forthcoming.
Col. Sarraj, already fast friends with President Nasser, backed Egypt during the Egyptian-Israel crisis last year. Syrian troops blew up oil pipelines passing through Syria from Iraq.
Earlier this year Syria accused Second Secretary Howard Stone, of the American Embassy in Syria, of plotting against the Syrian government and asked him to leave the country. The United States soon after asked Dr. Farid Zeineddine, Syria's ambassador to the U.S., to leave the country and told James Moore, ambassador to Syria, not to return to Syria.
The situation in Syria is tightening up. Egypt is ready to help Syria at all costs. Russia and the U.S. are threatening each other about what they will do in case either one is responsible for aggression, all the while trying to hold in their allies who at any time may draw them into war.
Lee Lord
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Asian Flu Running Wild
By UNITED PRESS
Deaths blamed on flu climbed toward the 250 mark today, boosted by an influenza epidemic at a California school for retarded children that killed nine persons.
The highest death toll was in New York with 55 victims. Pennsylvania was close second with 50 deaths, 24 of them in the LehIGH valley area. California's toll climbed to 29.
Taxpayers Change Tune
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 —(UP)— If the Defense Department's mail is any clue, American taxpayers want the nation's rocket programs pushed vigorously regardless of cost.
Two citizens, mindful of the defense money suceeze, even have gone so far as to send Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy small cash contributions to help finance missile and satellite work.
The Pentagon has received more than 125 letters, cards and telegrams from private citizens on the successful Russian Satellite launching Oct. 4. With few exceptions they urged McEliroy not to spare the horses in the missile field.
That is a complete switch from a month ago—before Sputnik. Then the bulk of pentagon mail applauded economy steps.
On Campus with Max Shulman
By the Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!" and,
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek.")
SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: No.1
Though this column is intended to be a source of innocent merriment for all sexes and not to concern itself with weighty matters, I have asked my sponsors, the makers of Marlboro, whether I might not, from time to time, use this space for a short lesson in science. "Makers," I said to them, "might I not, from time to time, use this space for a short lesson in science?"
They agreed with many a kindly smile, the makers of Marlboro, for they are the most agreeable of men. Their benevolence is due in no small measure to the cigarettes they smoke, for Marlboro is a cigarette to soothe the most savage of breasts. I refer not only to the flavor which, as everyone knows, is a delight to the palate, but also to the Marlboro container. Here is no fiendishly contrived device to fray the fingernails and rasp the nerves; here, instead, is a flip-top box that opens like a charm, and inside you find a handy red tape to lift out the cigarettes with ease and dispatch. Add to all this the best filter ever made, and you can see that you get a lot to like.
Let us begin our series of science lessons with chemistry. It is fitting that chemistry should be the first, for it is the oldest of sciences, having been discovered by Benjamin Franklin in 468 B.C. when an apple fell on his head while he was shooting the breeze with Pythagoras one day outside the Acropolis. (The reason they were outside the Acropolis and not inside was that Pythagoras had been thrown out for drawing right triangles all over the walls.)
They had several meetings outside the Acropolis, but finally Franklin said, "Look, Pythagoras, this is nothing against you, see, but I'm no youngster anymore and if I keep laying around on this wet grass with you, I'm liable to get the breakbone fever. I'm going inside." Pythagoras, friendless now, moped around Athens for awhile, then drifted off to Monaco where he married a girl named Harriet Sigafoos and went into the chuck-a-luck business. (He would certainly be forgotten today had not Shakespeare written "You Know Me, Al.")
But I digress. We were beginning a discussion of chemistry, and the best way to begin is with fundamentals. Chemicals are divided into elements. There are four: air, earth, fire, and water. Any number of delightful combinations can be made from these elements, such as firewater, dacron, and chef's salad.
Chemicals can be further divided into the classes of explosive and non-explosive. A wise chemist always touches a match to his chemicals before he begins an experiment.
A variety of vessels of different sizes and shapes are used in a chemistry lab. There are tubes, vials, beakers, flasks, pipettes, and retorts. A retort is also a snappy comeback, such as "Oh, yeah?" and "So's your Uncle Oscar."
I have now told you the most important aspects of chemistry, but there are many more—far too many to cover in the space remaining here. However, I am sure there is a fine chemistry lab on your very own campus. Why don't you go up some afternoon and poke around? Make a fun day out of it. Bring ukeleles. Wear humorous hats. Toast frankfurters on the Bunsen burners. Be gay. Be merry. Be loose . . . For chemistry is your friend!
The makers of Marlboro, who bring you this column regularly, are tobaccoists, not scientists. But here's an equation we do know: Marlboro plus you equals pleasure.