Yearbook bonus merits ASC thought
One of the many annual decisions that faces KU's All Student Council, a $250 bonus for each of the two Jayhawker editors, will soon again confront the student representatives.
Granted the council has many such routine pieces of legislation that are not exactly exciting or at least interesting, and granted it has only an hour or so in which to dispense with them every two weeks. But I believe the members would agree with me unanimously that each such item should be given its due consideration.
THE ASC CONSTITUTION provides for a Student Publication Board, which is empowered to govern and coordinate the publishing of the official publications of the university. One of these is the Jayhawker yearbook.
Along with stating how the Jayhawker should be published and by whom it should be published, the publications bill also provides how much the yearbook's editorial staff should be replenished for its services.
Section nine of the publications bill states: "The editor and business manager shall receive salaries which shall be determined by the board, they shall not exceed one thousand dollars each per year."
PUTTING OUT A book of the size and scope of the yearbook for the University of Kansas is a tremendous task, as any journalist, whether professional or amateur, would agree. And when two people are put in charge of such a task, they should be paid for their efforts. Five hundred dollars each is an ample,
However, the payment section of the publications bill continues: "Bonuses, which shall not exceed $250 each, may be given on recommendation of the Jayhawker Advisory Board (the governing body of the Jayhawker), and the approval of the All Student Council."
THE ONLY RESTRICTIONS the publications bill places on these bonuses is that "the total of all bonuses shall not exceed 75 per cent of the total profit of the Jayhawker, and if there be losses incurred by the Jayhawker, there shall be no bonuses paid."
yet not outrageous, salary for the two Jayhawker editors.
To my way of thinking a bonus is a little something extra paid an employee for a job well done. It is an incentive to make the employee do his work well.
In the publishing of the Jayhawker, a job well done should take into consideration more than just staving within the budget allotted.
THE JAYHAWKER is not that difficult a publication to sell. It is, by its nature, popular with the students who want an everlasting reminder of their college career. It is at least equally popular with local advertisers who are always seeking a means to get at the cash the immigrants on the Hill have to offer.
Among qualities that should be viewed before the editors are blessed with their bonus should be how well deadlines are observed, the correctness of the material presented and at least some consideration of the style and taste of its presentation.
LAST FALL, the ASC approved the bonuses for
The members of the ASC are supposed to represent the students, their constituents, in their work. Did they do so that fall night last year? Would the majority of the students at KU have given the bonuses to the two editors?
HOW COULD IT have when nothing was said or asked about the quality of the book. The editors told the council how much money they had made, but they neglected to tell the student representatives anything about deadlines, errors or presentation. Neither did the council members question the editors on any of these points.
This is not to say that the editors present at the meeting a year ago did not deserve their bonuses. This was and is for the council to decide. But did the council give its decision any thought? Did it give this "routine" piece of legislation its due consideration?
Let us hope that when this routine decision faces the council this year, the members will give it proper consideration. Let us hope they will truly attempt to judge the quality of the work the two editors have displayed before praising them with $500 of the students' fee money for a job well done.
By STEVE RUSSELL
the previous year's Jayhawker editors unanimously, without debate. The editors, who were on hand, were not questioned about the quality of their work, nor was there a word said in the way of discussion among the members of the council. The proposal was brought before the council by the chairman, taken to an immediate vote and approved.
LBJ's Gettysburg Address
(As presented by Little Boy Johnson, president of the United States and grandson of a former President whom we all know and love. The address was delivered at the dedication of the American military cemetery "Gettysburg East" outside of Saigon in the year 2052.)
Mah fellow Americans:
FOAHI SCORE and seven yeahs ago, my grandfather brought forth upon this continent of Asia a new political concept, conceived in expediency and dedicated to the proposition that we are better dead than red.
Now we are engaged in a Great Society (oops, I mean a Great Civil War), and for that matter have been engaged in that Great Civil War for four score and seven years now, testing whether that concept of a permanent American military presence in Asia or any concept so ill-conceived and so ineptly executed, can long endure.
WE ARE MET on a great bat-
tiefield of that war, a battlefield where General Ky was overthrown by General Hee, where General Hee was overthrown by General Me, where General Me was overthrown by General Wee, where General Wee was overthrown by General Gee, and so forth through the 56 different coups that finally culminated last spring in General Flea's government, which we are now convinced is in a position to bring to this nation the political stability that is so necessary if we are to begin to effectively roll back the aggression from the north.
Excuse me folks, I just received an urgent note. (Oh no, not again.) Hirumph. What I meant was the 57 coups which finally culminated in General She's coup three minutes ago which we are finally convinced is in a position to at last offer this nation the political stability that is . . .
HMMRPH. Be that as it may.
We have come to dedicate this battlefield as a fitting memorial
to the light to moderate losses that our forces have sustained over the past 87 years so that my grandfather and his successors could test the theory that the way to bring Hanoi to the peace table was to escalate further.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a nervous nellie and probably a traitor besides and simply helping to prolong the war.
The world will long note and long remember what we did here, probably because we will still be doing it, but the world will probably never understand WHY we did it.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
AND FRANKLY. I'm fed up with that kind of idiotic questioning emanating from the capitals of the world over the last nine decades! I don't care why we are here! The point is we are here and it's too late to pull out now! We are going to stay here! We are going to escalate! This unpatriotic practice of deferring grandfathers has to stop so that we can build up our troop commitment to 88,000,000 men. Only then we will have an adequate strength ratio of 84 to 1 necessary to put down this insurrection.
'AND IF IT WILL EASE YOUR MIND ABOUT BEING IN A CLASS FULL OF ENGINEERS. MISS ELM, ILL SEAT YOU BY THE EMERGENCY EXIT.'
And as long as I am president, mah fellow Americans, I promise you this: we shall not withdraw. I promise that this nation, under me, shall have a new birth of conformity (boy will we shut up those peaceeniks) and that government of consensus, by manipulation for the sake of saving face shall not perish from the earth, although admittedly the population might.
—The Colorado Deily University of Colorado
A FIRST FOR SOUTHWEST
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—(UPI)—When HemisFair 1938 opens in San Antonio on April 6, 1968, it will mark the first time a world's fair has been staged in the southwestern United States.
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At other schools...
THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD reports that sophomore and junior women who live in co-operative housing will no longer have closing hours if they have parents' permission. The decision was handed down from the Student Conduct Committee at the University of Oregon.
An associate professor of sociology who is a member of the committee, remarked that he believes in "treating students as adults until they've proven they're children."
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"Really," said one cheerleader, "fifteen dollars isn't much when you consider football tickets (regular reserved seats) are $5 apiece. After three games, your ticket is paid for."
Student football ticket sales at the University of Minnesota are lower than they have since 1943, according to the MINNESOTA DAILY. For this season, only 25 to 30 per cent of the student body purchased season tickets, which cost $15 apiece.
Things aren't so bad, after all...
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A picture on the front page of the OKLAHOMA DAILY, entitled "It's a Great State," depicts a black and white front license plate, on which is inscribed:
OKLAHOMA home of MISS AMERICA land of beautiful girls
The outline informs us that the plates are on sale locally by a service organization.
But we think we've seem them somewhere else before. . .
In an article on foreign students in the DAILY IOWAN, Kang Soon Mok, a Korean graduate student, said he found that American girls, though quite beautiful, were considerably different from Korean girls he knew, who he said tended to seek inner beauty.
Another graduate assistant remarked that when he teaches a class, "girls proceed to the front seats and boys take seats in the rear. In France, you chase girls, but here it seems to me that girls chase boys. This is my great discovery here and this is the source of my encouragement."
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