The University Kansan.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOSEPH W. MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FISCHER - Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
HOMER BERGER -- Business Manager
CLARK WALLACE -- Asst. Bus. Manager
HENRY F. DRAPER ---- Treasurer
J. E. MILLER --- Circulation Mgr
MEMBERS OF BOARD.
LOUIS LACOSS CARL CANNON
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1911
DISSATISFACTION.
According to the Daily Nebraskan, there is considerable dissatisfaction at Nebraska over the actions of the recent conference of University governors at Des Moines, especially concerning the action taken in baseball. There is even a movement on foot to have Nebraska withdraw from the Conference, though the Nebraskan says it does not know how well founded the movement is. The party in favor of withdrawing points out that Michigan's standing has not been injured by withdrawal from the Chicago conference and argues that Nebraska would have equal good fortune in a like movement.
The Nebraskan's advice in the matter is that Nebraska stay in the conference and give the new rules and regulations a fair trial. "Many objections were raised to the one-year residence rule,"says the editor, "but now it is seen that the rule is proper and necessary. Perhaps this is the case with these matters. If such is not the case, after the whole thing has been given a fair trial, then let the student body draw up a monster petition asking the university authorities to withdraw from the conference."
The University of Nebraska is not the only school where dissatisfaction exists over the condition of sport today. The same feeling is widely prevalent at the University of Kansas. The students of Kansas have no intention of asking the University to withdraw from the conference, for there has been no widespread complaint on account of the new rules that have been imposed. But they feel that they have a right to ask the University Regents to carry out in good faith the reforms they have instituted. The question of a football coach has not yet been settled. The delay probably means that Kansas must play under a handicap next year. Naturally the students feel that their interests have not been as carefully taken care of as might have been done.
Even at best, the introduction of new rules into athletics can not be accomplished without more or less friction and criticism. By delaying the selection of a coach the Regents have been contributing to the failure of their own innovation.
"it has always been man's duty to go forth to battle while women remained at home to weep and pray. If the present co-ed movement materializes, it will be the girls who go forth to wheedle and cajole, while the men students remain at home to flunk and pay," says the Lawrence World of the plan to have women present the claims of the University before the Legislature.
AN APOLOGY.
When the staff members of The Kansan sought a little innocent journalistic diversion Tuesday by varying the make-up of the paper from the usual sedate style, it was with the expectation that they would be termed "yellow" by some of the readers. And they were. It is our opinion that the real yellow journalism is not to be attained by any such easy method as merely putting big headlines over news stories. It is a much more complex matter, and The Kansan staff will have to decline the compliment so freely proffered by the readers of the paper. The comments heard on the change were varied in the extreme. One man even went so far as to write a poem about it. The editors meant no harm by the innovation, and when they learned that the sight of last Tuesday's issue had driven one reader to poetry—and such poetry—they decided at once to return to the old style of make-up.
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On Yellow Journalism.
To the Editor of The Kansan
To the Editor of The Kansan:
I hardly know The Kansan since its chaste camplexion flaunts new tints. It's yellow as a homeless cur and fairly shrieks and tears its fur and fumes and seethes in sixty point if anything is out of joint. When girls on statehouse lobbies hedge, or Rep Rho Betas freshmen pledge, or it reports a chapel speech, or some new prof. comes here to teach, or Prof. Day lectures on cake flours, or apple sauce or linen showers; it fairly shakes with rage and runs heads clear across the page.
You seem to see an ideal in the San Francisco Bulletin. The New York Journal's style you boast, likewise the Kansas City Post. And what do these strange things bespeak? What new fame does The Kansan seek? An extra every hour or so? Will red ink run like H2O? May we expect our sight to be assaulted by these heads as we glance o'er The Kansan's jaundiced face each evening at our boarding place:
APOLOGETIC.
"Extra—Chancellor may resign" (at Osler's limit, fifty-nine) "Old K. U. Man A Suicide!!" across the page in letters wide. "Blackmar Expounds a Viewpoint New Anent Divorce," in chapel, too. "Fraser to Be Condemned" once more is blazoned in a splash of gore. "In the Museum Thousands Dead" (bugs, with a label at each head.) "Finds Body Chopped in Pieces Small" (while seeing sights in medic hall.) Large letters: "Regents Come to Blows," in hue like summer's blushing rose.
Perchance we have a grouch tonight which dims our wonted keen insight. Mayhap Appeal-to-Reason ways are best for business. Good old days of Journalism safe and sane, at K. U. sure are on the wane.
TRAIL OF GLACIER
TRACED TO POINT
EAST OF LAWRENCE
An important result of the geology expedition to Lenape last Saturday, was the discovery by Prof. J. E. Todd of well marked glacial striae on the bed rock of the river bluffs near that place. These striae, which are scratches made on the rock under a glacier by the load of gravel and stones carried in the ice, are unmistakable evidence of the presence of the great Kansas ice sheet, which disappeared a thousand centuries ago. It has long been believed by geologists that this glacier covered the northern half of Kansas on the southernmost advance of the North American ice sheet, but until last Saturday no incontestible proof in the form of striae has been available further south than Nemaha county.
"The generally accepted evidences of glaciation in this region are the gravel beds and scattered red boulders from Minnesota," said Professor Todd, "but these have been taken by many authorities to be river deposits. This discovery, however, which, by the way, is only the second instance of striae found i nthe whole state of Kansas, is important in that it gives sure proof of glacial action in the Kaw valley.
"The striae are about a half inch deep, in the bluces of the Stanton limestone, about 100 feet above the river at a point eighteen miles east of Lawrence."
Omitted Prof. Glenn's Name.
In the article printed in The Kansan last week regarding the researches which the University has conducted in regard to the chinch bug disease. Prof. F. H. Billings was named as the scientist who had conducted the investigations. Prof. P. A. Glenn,whose name was ohitted from the article,was associated with Professor Billings and took a prominent part in the work of gathering data and conducting experiments.
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