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THE KANSAN
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Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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Entered as second class mail matter September 30,1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1908.
POLITICS ENDANGER
ACADEMIC FREEDOM
In Upton Sinclair's recent talk to the Scoop Club he spoke of the way in which organized wealth tends to place restrictions upon academic freedom. Some recent articles in the Outlook show in a striking way how academic freedom is threatened from another direction. The articles which deal with conditions at Oklahoma University, charge that the president and a large part of the faculty of that school, most of whom had long records of competent service, were turned out and their places given to supporters of the political party now in power in the state. The only criticism that was ever made against these men was the silly and foolish one that some of them danced and some of them smoked—arguments which would not be used by anyone but the most despicable politician and would be listened to only by the ignorant and prejudiced. A most significant fact and one not at all reassuring is that the protest against the ousting of these men comes mostly from outside of Oklahoma. In that state, which has the most at stake, the incident created scarcely a ripple. If, as Mr. Sinclair says, the great schools of the East are coerced by the club the wealthy interests shake over them, and if the free schools of the West are to be the prey of the howling pack of politicians, then the outlook for academic freedom is slim indeed. Most of the schools of the West are as yet untainted and no time should be lost in putting them beyond the reach of men who have no conception of the meaning of education and who are as devoid of principle as they are of learning.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The athletic board seems to have the idea that it is a secret society. By its actions it asserts that the students should know nothing of what goes on in the secret recesses of its deliberations. At the last meeting a Kansan reporter was denied admission. The athletic board is a representative body. Its deliberations should be public. Those who are supposed to run the board should know what goes on at the meetings. It would be difficult to make the Kansan believe that the board is doing things that can not stand publicity, so why these star chamber sessions?
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Lawrence Pantatorium, the home for sick clothes. "Nuff" said.
In the freshman class meeting yesterday noon the youthful Patrick Henrys had a chance to get rid of some of their impassioned oratory. "Let us preserve the liberty inherent to us as American citizens" shrieked the tyro orators. The fact that the freshman class together assembled chooses, calmly and freely, to wear a uniform class cap does not signify that the country is on the down grade and that the work of the fathers has been in vain.
We have spent sleepless nights trying to figure out just how much knowledge we did possess, but now a professor comes to our rescue with the opinion that it is "half knowledge." We are not familiar enough with the standards of measurement to say whether that is complimentary or no and about the only thing definite we know about our fund of knowledge is that its status is somewhere between that of a cretin and a professor.
Of course it was not to be expected that an ex-congressman would display any very deep knowledge on economic or social questions, but the fact that Mr. Bowersock was once a congreseman need not have prevented him from telling the truth. Anyone who thinks, even W.C.T.U. Bowersock, could not help but see the truth in what Professor Blackmar really did say.
Professor Blackmar completely and eternally swept our note book editorial into the halcyon tomb of things to be forgotten with the sweeping assertion that it was a "sweeping statement, inspired by half knowledge."
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