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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1957
A Clean-Up In Employee Recruiting
Big business has finally set up its own code of ethics for recruiting employees from among college graduates.
It's about time, too. Some of the cute tricks pulled by company scouts, university officials and students while peddling their various wares have given a black eye to the otherwise-honorable chore of getting a job after college.
From early fall on through the year to graduation, scouts beat paths to the campuses. Their job is to ca jole bright young prospects into signing on the dotted line to work for their company. The infighting comes when two or more scouts set their sights on the same student.
University officials anxious to chalk up a good employment record for their schools have aided the scouts in their harassing game.
The result has been that good students have been hit from all sides with a barrage of job offers and "fringe benefits," such as expense-paid trips to company plants or offices.
Heaven help a star athlete who happens to make good grades while majoring in engineering. He no longer finishes with the athletic scout before the companies converge on him.
Knowing a good thing when they see it, some students have taken advantage of their position in a job-hunter's market. These unscrupulous ones have gouged prospective employers for all they could get.
In an effort to clean up the mess, several companies have signed a new ethical practices code. Among other things, the signers agree not to solicit a student once he has been offered a bid by another company. Expense-paid trips for interviewees are taboo.
The scouts will still be around, but their activities will be partially restricted by the code's one-bid provision.
Over 100 universities have also signed the code, indicating that it may have some effect.
Fathers who had to scrounge for jobs after graduating during depression days tell us we should be glad to have such pleasant misery as pushing company scouts away from the door.
It is nice to have jobs waiting for graduates. It will be a lot nicer when recruiting practices are cleaned up.
—Larry Boston
Integration Rulings Again On Trial
The segregation-integration battle is on again in full force. With the opening of schools, federal court orders to integrate are once more being tested.
It would seem that there would be no question, no problem, no trouble. The federal government has told the states they must integrate their schools. It seems only natural that the states would obey this order. But the states continue to disobey the order, without the right to do so.
In some places in the South, integration has been accomplished without violence. But in other places such as Little Rock and Nashville, there has been trouble. In Arkansas there might have been no trouble if the governor hadn't called out the National Guard. In doing this, he brought the issue into the open where the public could hardly ignore it.
Forcing the issue, bringing it boldly to the attention of the public, is the best way of causing
violence and even bloodshed. Persons who are only mildly opposed to integration might never openly fight the issue if it weren't thrown in their faces.
The American public is becoming race conscious just as it has become sex conscious. Sex has been thrown in the public's face so long that it has almost become a symbol of Americanism. Now the racial issue is being similarly thrown at the public.
An example of race consciousness is the criticism of the book, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Huck has been labelled "racially offensive." The book has been banned by the New York school system as an approved classroom textbook, but the board said there was no special reason for its action.
Integration will continue to be a problem as long as the issue is forced and the public is forced to be race conscious.
—Del Haley
Solution Needed For Parking Problem
The parking situation at KU is becoming steadily worse. With 9,000 students on the campus and probably 4,000 or more cars, finding a parking place will be similar to hunting for a needle in a haystack.
Apparently the University administration is trying to solve this problem by stiffening fines for improper parking. Maybe this isn't really an attempt at a solution, only an attempt to make good citizens out of the students.
Another solution, which will probably bring a howl of protest from freshman students, is to follow the lead of Missouri and Colorado Universities.
They have banned freshmen from having cars on the campus.
This solution has another angle besides solving traffic and parking worries. A freshman with a car will probably spend less time studying than one without. So if you look at it in the right way, the administration would be doing freshmen a favor by not allowing them to have cars on the campus.
It is not suggested that this is the best or the only solution to the parking problem, but it is a solution, or at least a partial one. There may be better ideas for solving the parking problem. The Daily Kansan would be glad to print letters.
—Del Haley
Would Welcome Winnie's Work
An exhibit of paintings by Sir Winston Churchill will have its American opening at Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, thanks to Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, KU chancellor, and Joyee C. Hall, Kansas City, Mo.
Hall, who proposed the exhibit, and Dr. Murphy, a trustee of the gallery, toured Europe this summer. Some of the arrangements for exhibiting Sir
We congratulate Dr. Murphy and Mr. Hall for their work in bringing this exhibit to Kansas City.
Winston's paintings in America were made at that time.
Because the exhibit is touring only large cities, it probably can't be shown at KU at this time. However, we hope Dr. Murphy will keep up his good work, and that the paintings can be shown at KU sometime in the future.
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