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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, August 2, 1966
Goodbye, everybody!
It's that time again—that goodbye time. Goodbye campers,goodbye summer school,and goodbye Kansan, for a while anyway.
It has been a good summer. From the day I saw 22 or so eager high schoolers crammed into the newsroom asking, "What can I do?" I knew it would be a good summer. I only hope the campers learned as much as I have this summer.
THERE WERE TIMES OF COURSE, when I could have cheerfully massacred each and every one of the dear children, but there were also times when I could have hugged them.
A few of course, were very professional. They wrote well, and some even knew what I meant when I said "Take it to the back shop." And then there were the others—those who didn't know what a paragraph was.
But they were all exciting and all enjoyable. I'll miss them and so will the rest of the journalism school. It's going to be sort of a drag getting
back to the regular school and the regular college students.
FOR HIGH SCHOOL PEOPLE have a freshness which college people have lost. Perhaps it is college which makes us lose our optimistic outlook on life, but the campers don't have the blase air with which most college students shield themselves.
They are not afraid to be heard, and while they may look the same as college students (only younger) as far as appearance goes, they think quite differently.
And summer is a good time to have them. It's one of the laziest times of the year for any KU student, and it is good to have someone around to remind you of the outer world.
So it's been a good summer, and I hope next year will be the same. Goodbye everybody.
By Barbara Phillips
Dissent is still effective
Several readers have asked us how opponents of the Johnson Administration's Asia policy can make their views effective. They have written to the President, written to their Senators or Congressmen, urged like-minded friends to write, and otherwise expressed themselves. They feel sure that, whatever the opinion polls may say from week to week, there is a deep and steady current of opposition to the policies that entangled the United States in an Asian land war and a leadership that cannot find an honorable way out. Yet, so say the dissenters, their views appear to have little effect on the actual course of policy, and they wonder why not.
We would say first of all that it is a mistake to conclude that citizens' opinions and the expression of them in public discourse are futile. This is still a democracy. Public opinion still counts for something, if only in setting rough boundaries to the policy decisions of Federal officials.
On reflection, the conscientious citizen will agree that those officials, for their part, should not be expected to make their decisions solely on the strength of the mail they receive. They have a responsibility of their own and must exercise it according to their best judgment, whether or not this coinside with the public opinion of the moment. But this does not mean that the citizen must accept the official judgment as his own, nor be coerced into silence when decisions go against him.
On the contrary, he has a positive duty to make up his own mind and to go on expressing
himself in every possible way. The function of dissent is not to control day-to-day policy decisions by bringing pressure on officials, but to help create a climate of opinion in which the broad lines of future policy will be laid down. People who disapprove of the latest escalation in Viet Nam should remember that their views probably delayed the taking of that step for months. If they fall silent now, they abdicate their part in the democratic process and accept a "leadership principle" that is altogether hostile to everything American democracy stands for.
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It must be added that, when all is said and done, the most effective form of expressing public opinion is at the ballot box. To a holder of public office, no message speaks louder than that one. People who want to make their dissent from the Administration's Asia policy effective will find ways, therefore, of expressing it in this year's congressional elections.
For supporters of Administration policies in domestic affairs, this may create problems; each will have to decide for himself whether, this year, it is more important in a particular contest to register support for the goals of a "great society," or to register dissent from policies of military containment and widening war in Asia. When so many Republican leaders are even more warlike than the Administration, it may seem quixotic to strengthen the Republican party in Congress. Yet the hard fact remains that, in a non-presidential year, dissent cannot be registered by sustaining, but only by decreasing, the President's party majority in Congress.
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Business initiates doctoral work
A new doctoral program in business, starting this fall at KU, will complete the degree program of the School of Business.
Previously the School of Business has offered three degrees: the bachelor of science in business, the master of science in business and the master of business administration.
About 10 students will enroll in the new doctoral program, Wiley S. Mitchell, professor of business administration and associate dean, said. Most will come directly from one of the two master's programs, either from KU or another school, but a master's degree is not absolutely necessary.
THE DOCTORAL program will focus on the teaching and research aspects of business rather than the professional aspects of the M.S. and M.B.A. programs.
The University chose to offer the Ph.D. in business rather than the doctor of business administration (D.B.A.) because the faculty felt the former is more academic, Dean Mitchell said.
The new program will emphasize three related aspects of education in business: a general knowledge of the field of business, competence in specialized areas of knowledge in the field, and skill in conducting research in business. A candidate completes the
program by finishing course work, by taking written and oral examinations, and by preparing a dissertation.
TO BE ADMITTED to the program, a person must hold a master's degree or have equivalent training. He also must have scored creditably on the admissions test for graduate study in business or the Graduate Record Examination.
The program is designed for three years of full-time graduate study beyond the bacccalaureate degree in business. If the student has completed the two-year M.B.A. program, only two additional years would be necessary to complete the doctoral program.
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The M.B.A. program, started in 1961, is primarily for non-business graduates who want to prepare for managerial responsibilities in business. This program does not require any previous college work in business and attracts graduates of liberal arts colleges and engineering schools who seek careers in business management.
The opinions expressed in the editorial column are those of the students whose names are signed to them. Guest editorial views are not necessarily the editor's view; opinions expressed in the Summer Session Kansan are not necessarily those of The University of Kansas Administration or the State Board of Regents.
"Where Did You Get The Idea You Have Anything To Say About It?"
The participants in the M.B.A. program learn the broader concepts of business administration and then are able to apply this knowledge to their specific field of interest.
All thins is going to get me into severe trouble one of these days, but meantime I want to say something in defense of modern young people.
EVER SINCE I became 13. I have had this horrible problem:
I am a teenager, but I don't act like one. Feeling like a sinner, I creep around trying to hide the fact that I don't know one pop singing group from another. I can't even dance the twist, much less the jerk, slop, monkey, frug, or pony. I haven't the faintest notion of an idea whether Joan Beaz is becoming too materialistic, and what is worse, I could care less.
Teenager- what's that?
Teenagers like popular music; they all have long, straight hair; they all have bumps on their faces; they all drive too fast; they all do weird dances; they all wear cutoffs; and everyone knows that all teenagers are lazy and irresponsible.
When a person is 12, he is still a child; when he is 20, he becomes an adult; but in between those two ages he is a teenager, the hope of tomorrow and the blight of today. If you happen to be a teenager, you are expected to act like a teenager.
IT IS SAD ENOUGH when adults and children have a stereotyped picture of a teenager, but when a young person himself feels like he must conform to a mold, it is truly pitiful. There is no such thing as the typical teenager. I know some young people who actually dress, talk, and act as they feel a teenager should, but not because they really want to. They act in this manner because they know what adults expect of teenagers, yet many young people fear adult criticism very much. My cousin once said, "if you are a teenager, you should act like a teenager." But she would not enter a restaurant because "there are too many adults in there."
The teen years are supposed to be a period of preparation for adult life, but the average young person is so busy learning to be a teenager, he has little time to prepare for later life. I say no one is going to automatically become an adult when he reaches 20. To parents I say: don't expect your children to act like teenage pests and they probably will not act like teenage pests. They may even be like the anonymous 17-year-old
Go ahead: be a sport!
Sooner or later, the time will come. The decision will be yours. Mama won't be there to shake her head. You'll be alone or with a date you want to impress.
Will you decide to drink?
"Aw, go on," they'll say. "It won't hurt—not one." "There's always a spoil sport in the crowd." "Now you've taken one, take another." "If one doesn't hurt you, you're immune."
Go ahead, try it.
Forget the fact that one drink is all it takes to reveal one's alcoholism. Forget that alcoholies are rarely cured, even in hospitals.
Forget the physical appearance of many drinking people. Forget the bleary eyes, the blast of decayed breath, the protruding stomach, the stagger, and the fuzzy, blurred, and stumbling talk.
And especially forget the automobile accidents. Forget statisti s, A drink for the road steadies the nerves. Go ahead, if you can take one, you're immune. Forget the fact that you could kill yourself. Forget that you could kill another person. Forget that you could creepe someone for life.
Forget the moral consequences of drinking. Forget the fact that most marriages in which one mate is a heavy drinker fall apart, even if they don't end in divorce. Forget the neglected children of a drinking marriage. Forget the crimes a drunken person often unknowingly commits.
Go ahead, try it.
I cannot say Mama doesn't have to know. Nobody likes a spoil sport. —Patsy Jo Palmer
—Patsy Jo Palmer
Powell is planning 'black power' meeting
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y., will hold a Washington conference on "black power" for the nation's Negro leaders during the Labor Day weekend.
In announcing the conference, Powell said "hundreds of Negro leaders would be invited, including Flijah Muhammad, leader of the Black Muslims."
hero who said, "I am not a teenager, I have never been a teenager, and I never expect to be a teenager."
Bess Pride