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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Oct. 3. 1957
Vox Woos Campus
The campus political scene has returned to a state of normalcy after a short breather.
With the entrance of Vox Populi in the political wars, we once again have the ideal political setup: A two-party system.
With the gala debut of Vox the age-old question arises: "What will the new party do that the old one didn't do?"
Without thinking the first reaction might be:
"What can they do that is different? Who's going to say they won't stuff the ballot boxes?"
May we offer a few suggestions.
They should practice what they preach. If Vox is going to appeal to the independents then let's see it done instead of only talked-about. The sentiment that independents must be included has for the past three years been an Allied Greek-Independent child. But like Little Orphan Annie, the child hasn't gotten any older or bigger.
Instead of asking Vox not to stuff the ballot box, we might just ask them to keep it at a minimum.
Still another suggestion is for Vox to be discreet if they must violate All Student Council laws.
It has never been a secret that political parties sponsor class officers despite an ASC law forbidding it at cost of a $50 fine. POGO found out that the rule is for a purpose, when they got caught sponsoring class officers in the open.
Don't let the following happen. Vox.
From The Daily Kansan, Wednesday, Sept. 25. 1957:
"Freshmen interested in running for class offices on the Allied-Greek Independent party ticket in the freshman elections Oct. 23, should contact..."
Vox already boasts of having taken five organized houses from the AGI orbit. They continually say former POGO members will have nothing to do with the administrative work of the new party.And at the temporary president's own expense flowers are being sent to the freshman dormitories to help woo them from AGI. There's nothing slow about this bunch.
You can always hope for the best. And it goes without saying that there is plenty of room for the best at KU.
Bob Hartley
It Takes Two
Whitley Austin, editor of the Salina Journal, has fired an editorial salvo at Kansas State's plans for a $375,000 addition to its journalism building.
In an editorial entitled, "Why Duplicate Schools?" Mr. Austin asks why Kansas State and the University of Kansas need duplicate journalism staffs and facilities.
"The only answer is that there is a nonsensical rivalry between the two branches of the state system and an itch for empire building by the administrations of both," Mr. Austin says.
"Compared to the outstanding journalism schools of the midwest, the two Kansas schools rate less than first class. They will continue to suffer as long as they are divided," he continues.
As a fast-thinking, fast-writing editor, Whit Austin manages to keep Salinans informed and broused about all sorts of problems, but this time he is 'way out in a wheat field.
The old problem of consolidating some of the services of the state schools comes up from time to time. There are not two, but five state schools which sponsor school papers and varying numbers
of journalism courses. These same schools also teach some identical courses in everything from art to zoology.
But after the old jokes are passed around about "Silo Tech" and "Snob Hill," there still remain fundamental differences between KU and K-State. Some students choose Kansas State because it emphasizes agriculture. Others choose KU for its lack of emphasis on same.
We suspect that there are as many differences between the management policies of the University Daily Kansan and the Kansas State Collegian as there are between the Salina Journal and say, the Topeka Daily Capital.
Kansas is big enough to support more than one school. By doing so, it gives editors and engineers, contractors and county agents a variety of potential employees, trained in a variety of ways.
We can't believe that Mr. Austin means what he says about the quality of Kansas schools, either. His managing editor is a graduate of Kansas State and his Sunday editor is a KU graduate. Both are among the finest newspapermen in the state.
Larry Boston
The Right-Wing Is Flapping
Human Events, a right-wing paper for students, published in Washington, D. C., has two overriding fears.
One is that "collectivist" ideas are being implanted in the minds of today's students by the faculties of American colleges and universities.
The second fear is that the Washington press corps, supposedly an overly liberal group of writers, isn't giving a conservative slant to the news.
"To establish conservative press representation in the nation's capital." Human Events and the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, a right-wing fund raising organization, are sponsoring scholarships in political journalism.
Scholarship winners may move to Washington and enter one of the universities in the metropolitan area (George Washington University, Georgetown University. The American University, or Catholic University).
Three men have been selected for this year's scholarships. All are 19 years old.
While studying there, they will report Washington news events for Human Events.
up tomorrow's conservative Washington newspaper set.
A little background material on a couple of them may indicate the types who will supposedly make
Douglas Caddy, New Orleans, La., was chosen for a scholarship after he had written 58 "letters to the editor" favoring the Bricker Amendment, opposing the move to censure Sen. Joseph McCarthy, etc. Caddy is now attending the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
William Schulz attended a Bronx, N. Y., high school. Human Events says, "and, in its New Dealish atmosphere, joined with a dozen other students to form a militant conservative club. Two years ago, given a chance to question New Jersey's Democratic Governor Meyner on the TV network program 'Youth Wants to Know,' he and other conservatives on the panel prepared a series of questions to bring out the statist nature of Meyner's welfare program."
If Caddy and Schulz go on to be Washington correspondents it sounds like the capital news may be conservative, all right.
Whether, in being that far right, they are representative of their generation's views is another question.
Larry Boston
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A campus wit was overheard asking a friend if he had heard about the Asian that had the American Flu.
The worst thing about popular songs is that they are put in the Student Union jukebox.
The sorrist guy at Band Day was the one who was colorblind.
A beautiful campus romance broke up recently when it was found that her crinoline skirt wouldn't fit in his sports car.
The Snow Entomological Museum in Snow Hall contains over 1,300,000 insect specimens.
The Hugoton gas field in southwestern Kansas is the world's largest reserve of natural gas.
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