Editorials
Job Corps-easy life
Recruits in the Job Corps appear to be living the life of Riley. Designed to provide a new challenge to unemployed and/or misdirected youth, it has apparently been transformed into a sugar pill for juveniles.
THE PRIDE OF the Job Corps is a wellkept, spacious camp in New Jersey. Abundant facilities featuring the latest in office equipment, factory machinery and agricultural tools are available for vocational training. Recruits are free to choose any program and regular attendance is apparently voluntary. After a hard day of three to five hours in class, the recruits line up in a spacious cafeteria for a selection of excellent and plentiful food. They are free to spend evenings as they choose.
Even in this utopian environment, recruits are finding the pill a bit difficult to swallow. Directors of Job Corps camps were advised, during a 10 day recruits' Christmas leave period, to insure that the recruits returned to camp by sending a Christmas card to each recruit, calling him at home, and promising more entertainment to the recruit on his return to camp.
Apparently the facts of the Job Corps program haven't measured up to the ideal. How can a boy be challenged when the program is served
to him on a silver platter? Enticement shouldn't be necessary to bring the recruits back to camp. Who wouldn't want to return to such a rosy environment?
THE RECRUITS HAVE been disappointed somewhere. Is it possible that these youths really want challenge instead of cosseting?
If so, by all means they should be challenged. The Job Corps won't be doing its recruits a favor by making life easy for them. These young men can never hope to accept responsibility if all their demands are anticipated, and the program will have become a failure at the taxpayer's expense.
CARVING A RESPONSIBLE life in a new environment is of course going to be difficult for these young men, and certainly they are entitled to the basic comforts, foreign to many of them, while they are in the program. But beyond this, how far should accommodation be carried?
A line in a currently popular song runs, "A little bit of sugar helps the medicine go down." Yes, a little bit of sweet is good for all of us, but in excess it usually makes us ill, just as too much of the easy life is apt to be the ruination of the Job Corps.
— Karen Lambert
AWS image makers:
Revisions needed in attitude
KU women are suggesting constitutional changes in the AWS in order to make the campus women's organization more effective. Their interest is commendable, but hopefully they realize that more than constitutional changes are needed.
When Lincoln Steffens wrote his famous series on American cities over 50 years ago, he made it a point never to read a city's charter, for he had learned that even the best charter cannot guarantee good government. At KU it should be equally apparent that even the most sweeping of constitutional changes in the AWS will not insure reform.
WHAT THOSE girls should actually seek is a change in the attitudes of the AWS, an organization that has lost sight of reality. It has manufactured an image of KU women that has displaced and become more important than reality. To the AWS what KU women are really like is unimportant; what matters is what they seem to be and what others think of them.
The AWS has created an image of the college educated career woman, but in reality the career that most KU women seek is marriage. It has created the image of the sophisticated and gracious career woman, but in reality the sophistication so dear to the AWS is only a veneer, existing only to hide shallow intellects. It has created an image of concerned women expanding their interests through a wide range of activities, but in reality it is only concern for prestige that makes KU women active.
NOT ONLY HAS the AWS obscured reality, but it constantly promotes the preservation of its false images. In effect, it tells women, "Do the right thing, but if you don't, at least be discreet." In the eyes of the AWS, conscience is equal to reputation, and women are not expected to justify their actions to them selves, but rather to their peers, the Dean of Women, and the state.
Unfortunately, the AWS is not alone in its creation of self-deceiving images. KU promotes the image of the scholar-
athlete, playing only for the joy of sport, while, too often, the athlete is not a scholar and is at Kansas only because KU made the best offer. He is content with the image of having eliminated racial discrimination from fraternities and sororities, although no one really feels discrimination is gone.
KU claims to harbor serious, inquiring students, but most of these students seek not knowledge, but grades. Fraternities proclaim their good scholarship, but members are too often here for four years of fun, not study. The Chancellor points to the higher morality of today's students on a campus where petty theft and cheating are uncomfortably frequent.
IN AMERICA WE have had our images—the land of freedom and equality; the land of opportunity, where only the lazy are poor; and the land of justice where every man can have a fair trial. And it was only when those images were shown false that progress was made. Perhaps it is time KU once again faced reality. We have to see our problems before we can solve them.
Justin Beck
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
We were thinking...
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No man lives without jestling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
Thomas Carlyle
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Daily Kansan
Friday, January 7.1966
"FOY, DID YOU GUILY EVER MAKE A LOTTA NOISE COMIN' IN LAST NITE?"
On the side
Hints from Heloise?
They say that women, at certain periods in their lives, unexpectedly express a desire for such things as watermelon and ice cream or chocolate-covered cottage cheese with salted peanuts on top.
Although not in their position, the other night I felt an urge to whip up some chocolate pudding. After gorging myself with 16 servings of the stuff, the urge suddenly, and, just as unexpectedly, let me. I even started wondering why anyone in his right mind would eat the stuff.
Eric Johnson
THE NEXT MORNING, I discarded almost all the reasons I had thought up the night before for distressing pudding and figured they were the result of the heavy stress at the moment.
One reason though seems to be just as valid now as then.
rudding recipes are dull.
"COMBINE CONTENTS OF package and two cups of milk in sauce pan. (Blah) Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a full boil. (Eegah!) Serve warm or cold. Makes four servings, $ \frac{1}{2} $ cup each." (Just a note, they fail to mention that the lumps have to be picked out before eating.)
It seems like pudding directions could be really perked up if a company would invest a little time and money and hire well-known authors to write their directions.
The directions could be put in short story form, bound, and attached in booklet form to the package back for housewives to read in their leisure time before they started concocting the gocey brown stuff.
THE POSSIBILITIES are unlimited. Let's take a look at some pudding directions written by some of these well-known authors.
"For Whom the Pudding Boils"
Hurriedly she began to work. Not even pausing to notice the militia regiment advancing toward their stronghold.
TIME WAS ALL important. Her husband, Pferde Fleish, wounded by sniper fire, was losing strength and needed the lifegiving energy of pudding.
"Obscenity!," she screamed. Moisture had wetted the lifegiving Jello chocolate pudding.
Juanita bent low to uncover the package from the brown pine needles on the forest floor. Her muscled thighs quivered violently under the strain.
Juanita, unbathed for weeks, with voluminous rolls of fat quivering with each move, unerringly emptied the contents of the package into a battered and stained old sauce pan.
"EILEN SIE SICH. Eilen Sie sich!," gasped her Spanish husband, who had been taught German by Jesuit priests at the monastery up the road.
"Obscenity! I have but one and one-half cups of goat's milk instead of the recommended two cups." Juanita screeched.
She added the milk, stirring over the medium heat of her campfire while bullets riccoped nearby.
The pudding came to a full boil. Without pause, she poured four servings, $ _{12} $ cup each, down her husband's parched throat without waiting for it to cool.
"ACH!" cried Pferde, "Obscenity, I've been (obscenity) scalded; You Obscenity of Obscenities."
Maddened as he was by Juanita's scalding, Pferde rose and with the lithe movement of a gazelle, bounded over the rocks with Juanita to the safety of the dense forest.
Eric Johnson
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