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THE KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Office in Basement of Fresner Hall
Phone, Bell, KU 25.
H. C. WATERS, Editor
H. C. WATERS, Editor.
Claud A. Clay, Manager Editor.
Clinton Kanaga, Business Manager.
Ralph Harman, Ass't Pus, Mgr.
Ralph G. Cole, Circulation Manager
Members of the Board:
May V. Wallace, Judith Connetty.
Paul Harvey, Fred M. Lyon.
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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.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1908.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The Student Council at Michigan in making rules to govern the class elections to be held in a few days, has decreed that no candidate or faction shall print any kind of a ticket or bill for the purpose of furthering the candidacy of particular parties. The effect of this move can already be marked. There is less political trickery and wire pulling and factionalism is reduced to a minimum. The making of slates is entirely done away with and the best man has a chance of being elected to office. The old timers, of course, are wailing that political apathy is the result but that is not the fact. The groups of schemers and slate makers are no longer seen congregated in the halls of Michigan planning whom they may outtrick. But the students as a whole are active, they vote quietly and generally about right.
Next Friday there will be an election for the choosing of a member of the athletic board and already the politicians are getting busy and as always are working on the assumption that the man that can get the most votes is the best man for the place. Politics in the University of Kansas has always been corrupt and in many cases the men least qualified for a position have been selected just because they suited some faction. It is time for the students of the University to forget their petty factionalism and chose the best man for the place regardless of whether or not he suits one faction or not—it is time to get rid of the idea that because a man is a fraternity man or a nonfraternity man he is disqualified for a place in a student organization.
By the tone of the student publications at Missouri University it is evident that the hope of the Tigers to take the Thanksgiving game is burning brighter as the time for the contest draws near. The Tigers too, seem to have
grounds for their hope this year. They seem to be playing better football than ever before and they have arranged a schedule with the only intention of meeting Kansas uninpaired in strength. It is not too soon for the Jayhawkers, the coaches and every student in the University to get their eyes on Missouri and keep them there until the Jayhawker yell of victory shakes the city at the mouth of the Kaw on Turkey day evening.
The Kansan is aware of the fact that at all times its policy does not meet the approval of some people—and indeed it would feel bad if it did. But there are those who have, we think unjustly, criticised the Kansan for the manner in which it handles its news. In these columns it has been stated before that the Kansan is not a magazine nor a literary publication. It tries to follow the form and methods of a newspaper. It is a newspaper first last and all the time, and all it asks is that it be judged by newspaper standards. If it select from a speech those parts that are timely, full of human interest, in preference to the more scholastic and intellectual, it is only following the bent of the jour-
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