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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 30, 1957
Letters To The Editor
Pro
Editor:
In The Daily Kansas of Sept. 24, Mr. Shannon Bennett stated that the KU football team should never have engaged in an athletic contest in a city where segregation of whites and Negroes is practiced—namely, Fort Worth, Texas.
Does a Southerner demand segregated facilities when he makes a journey to the North? No, he does not. The true Southerner knows the simple custom of "doing in Rome as the Romans do." He is tolerant of the non-segregated conditions prevalent in some other ports of the country. The Southerner endures these conditions until he can once again return to the South.
Why then should a person or group of persons demand integrated facilities when they travel South?
Chuck Mather, the fine football coach of KU, is obviously a man who practices common courtesy and does not try to impose the idealisms of one section of our country on another.
If the people of the North are genuinely interested in improving conditions between the races, why don't they devote their efforts to their own section of the country which is sorely in need of it. In the city of Chicago there is enough tension and race trouble between whites and Negroes to keep every Northern civil rights champion in this country busy for many years. The people of the South need the understanding of these people far more than they need their help.
The people of the Southland were well on their way to solving their own race problems before intervention by Northerners, whose only knowledge of the South came from biased magazines and newspapers. The Southern people have gradually and peacefully integrated many of their schools without the unwanted assistance of a federal judge. These are not the stories that make the headlines in northern newspapers. It is only the rare instances of strife and forced integration that appear in headlines in northern newspapers and magazines.
Don Owen
Don Owen
Fort Worth, Texas
Graduate Student
... And Con
Editor:
It would seem that George Anthan, in his sports column, and Mark Plummer, in his letter to the editor, missed the main point that Shannon Bennett made in his letter concerning the segregation imposed on the Kansas football team in Fort Worth.
As we see it, Bennett's main contention was that the University officials should not permit the team to engage in an athletic contest which would necessarily involve segregation of our players. His contention was not that Mr. Mather should "reconstruct the South," as Mr.
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Bob Lyle Managing Editor
Marllyn Mermis, Jim Bannan, Richard Brown, Ray Wingerson, Assistant Managing Editors; Bob Hartley, City Editor; Patricia Swanson, Lee Lord, Assistant Clerk, Leroy Herman, Telegraph Editor; Naree Herman, Telegraph Editor; George Anthan, Malcolm Applegate, Sports Editors; Mary Beth Noyes, Society Editor; Martha Croser, Assistant Society Editor.
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Larry Boston ... Editorial Editor
John Eaton, Del Haley, Jim Sledd, Associate Editors.
Plummer's unsuccessful attempt at witticism implied.
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Concerning Mr. Anthan's column, it is irrelevant whether or not Mr. Bennett was familiar with the difficulty of providing for the transportation and housing of teams. Mr. Anthan apparently feels that the difficulties involved in obtaining suitable accommodations for our team justify any expedient compromise of a moral stand, a view with which we do not concur.
Ronald E. Hubert, Jerry Lee Jones,
William McGlinn, L. K. Rangan,
Walter W. Strohm and Wesley Unruh,
graduate students.
Hospital Trouble
Editor:
Many of the students and faculty here at KU are indebted to the services offered by Watkins Hospital in the face of the coming flu epidemic. No doubt the distribution of flu vaccine will protect the few fortunate ones of us, who avail themselves of the small quantity, from the dreaded effects.
However, I question the efficiency of our campus hospital in treating
At 9:15 p.m. Thursday, when many drugstores, movie theaters and taverns were still doing an active business, our "hospital" had apparently closed for the night. One of my fraternity brothers was found to have a fever of 104 degrees and was rushed to the nearest and most logical place, the receiving room at Watkins
those who do contract it, or a disease of a similar nature.
The electronically closed doors and a buzzer, which was apparently defective, prevented the boys from raising anyone for 15 minutes. Returning to the house, one of them managed, after trying two different telephone numbers, to get an answer at the hospital and returned before the door was opened. He banged on the door until it was opened, and was greeted with the question, "What do you think we were doing, taking a coffee break?" The total time elapsed was 30 minutes.
The question I raise is simply this,
"Is our hospital a 24-hour hospital?
If it is not, I think we should be so informed."
Jim Hamil Fine Arts senior
Gov. George Docking planted a bombshell under state educators last week with two announcements made to the Board of Regents.
Economy Short Course
Gov. Docking told the Regents that (1) they, not the administrative heads of state schools, would present the budgets of the schools at a budget hearing coming up soon, and (2) called on the board to give careful study to ways of economizing tax money spent on education.
The governor had what sounded like convincing arguments in his favor when he made these announcements.
First, there is nothing wrong with economizing tax dollars, wherever they may be spent.
Second, it's probably easier and quicker for all concerned to have one budget hearing between the governor and the Board of Regents. Under the old system, the chancellor or president of each state school made his pitch to the governor for a chunk of the state money available for education.
Preliminary budgets of the five state schools indicate that operating costs for the coming year will be 16 per cent over those of last year. Much of the increase would come from proposed five per cent faculty salary raises, based on a merit system.
In a formal letter to the Board of Regents, Gov. Docking made it clear that a 16 per cent jump in operating costs is too much. He stated that state income is "leveling off." The implication of this is that school budgets should be leveling off, too.
But the problem goes deeper than mere economizing or time-saving. Behind the governor's orders lies the question: How much is a dollar's worth of education?
A five per cent increase in university faculty salaries is needed, not to keep up in the race to acquire teaching talent, but because most members of state school staffs are plainly underpaid.
The governor's statement that faculties are "underworked" is nothing more than a political hay-maker. It's easy to accuse someone of underwork, including state governors.
If faculty members are underworked that means that students are undertaught. The record of graduates of Kansas schools indicates that this just isn't so.
Gov. Docking's decision to give sole responsibility to the Board of Regents for presenting the budgets of state schools will have the effect of gagging the heads of those schools.
We assume that the Regents will take on their new responsibilities with enthusiasm, but when the going gets tough in budget hearings, a school president or chancellor can be relied on to give the best case for his school.
We recognize Gov. Docking's concern over education costs as a genuine effort to promote the over-all welfare of Kansas. It is also true that educators throughout the state are wrestling with the problem of how to squeeze more teaching out of the education dollar.
From now on, when KU needs money for a new building or research project, the Regents will take up the problem. Chancellor Murphy won't have a chance to pound desks for the money.
It's A Good Day
It would be a tragedy for all Kansans if the state's brainpower goes bankrupt. —Larry Boston
One of the smartest publicity stunts KU uses is the annual high school band day. Last Saturday was a good example of how colorful and musical such a day can be.
Band Day gets the football season off to a good start. The sight of hundreds of colorful uniforms filling the stadium and football field can't help but be a crowd-plumer.
The high school students get a good look at KU while they are here. They work hard for their free tickets to the football game, but perhaps benefit in the long run.
A stroll around the campus may convince some of them that KU would be an enjoyable place to get an education.
Doctor's Reply
Larry Boston
Asked to comment on the letter appearing in the next column, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the Student Health service, said he was "truly sorry that someone failed to receive prompt medical attention."
"I believe in this case that the trouble was a mechanical failure of the hospital door buzzer, and not due to any lack of attention by the staff."
Dr. Canuteson said the Watkins Hospital could not keep a complete staff on duty at night because;
1. The hospital's five doctors are needed to treat the daytime patient load.
2. A shortage of funds does not permit the hiring of a larger staff for the hospital.
Two nurses are also on duty at the hospital each night, Dr. Camusenso said, but they are kept "pretty busy" caring for the hospital's bed patients.
Despite a decade of anti-religious pressure by the Communist authorities, churches are still strong in East Germany, reports Stanley High in the October Reader's Digest. "About 90 per cent of Protestant children receive religious instruction," he writes. "Among Roman Catholics the percentage is even higher."
It seems strange that a handful of American scientists can perfect a "clean" Hydrogen Bomb, but that the entire United States can't clean up Confidential Magazine.
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