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Summer Session Kansan Friday, July 22.1966
A sophomore dissents on the Centennial College
I feel sorry for the 450 freshmen who will be assigned to Centennial College in the fall. I am glad I escaped the administration's "reorganization" of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dean Waggoner was quoted in a Kansan article of June 12 as saying he wants to "eliminate" a "danger of anonymity" with this "most exciting development for undergraduates here in recent years." With all respect to the dean, I think he is confusing what is exciting and what is dangerous.
Although I speak only as a College sophomore, I know what I'm taking about and I know I'm not alone when I say "anonymity" is not dangerous but an exciting challenge.
IT'S THE CHALLENGE of depending on one's self to make one's own way from the sheltered high school to the adult world. I don't believe the institution is helping the student by paving his way for him. Who wants to be catered to like a helpless child? (by representatives of the College, the deans of men and women, and the registrar). Much of the excitement for a new student comes when he successfully gains access to persons, places, and positions.
The challenge of anonymity is more specifically the challenge a boy faces in developing into a man whose name represents an individual and purposeful existence. Anonymity threatens identity but it also maintains high standards by which the person's identity is recognized. These high standards demand that one become more self-reliant, less self-satisfied, more self-confident, and less self-centered as he develops.
Anonymity is what the freshman who enters KU as his first step into the adult world should expect. It is reality. It is what he should be ready to face and if he is not ready yet, he never will be. If he can't use it to his advantage, he never will have the advantage that life in a cosmopolitan atmosphere offers.
MY FAVORITE WAY of describing KU is to say it's a city of young people. We are the thriving core of all there is to be interested in and to care about. There is something here
for each of us to work toward, and the freedom for us to do so in any way we choose.
We are rehearsing for future roles by learning who we are and who we want to be, where we stand and where we want to go, what to expect of ourselves and what will be expected of us. And now the administration says we are to use only one corner of the stage.
There will be no excitement for the undergraduate who lives, attends classes, studies, and socializes with the same 450 people day after day. It is with a tragic short-sightedness that university officials think these students will "learn more, earn better grades, and be happier." How do they know?
HAPPINESS, measurements of knowledge, and scholastic standing are individual matters. A very influential factor in determining them is whether or not the individual's environment is right for him and what he does to make it so.
I think the administrators will be cheating Centennial College inductees by denying
them choices according to their wants and needs. How can they predict that these new students will prefer to be isolated from what Dean Waggoner calls the "extraordinary richness of resources of the multiversity," or that they will benefit more in the long run from "the advantages of the small academic community" they will be given.
I think students should continue to make this choice themselves when they choose to attend a university or a liberal arts college. Dean Waggoner claims both will be available here, but I don't know when or how students will actually participate in the university community when they do everything as a compact unit.
I CAME FROM a high school class of 725, for the opportunity to learn from a variety of sources, in large part from contacts with many people of diverse backgrounds and outlooks. I was acquainted with most of the 400 girls in my living group, but I enjoyed the wider variety of classroom and social contacts. The constant exhilaration in making friends
of strangers is important and even necessary for some people.
If I had wanted primarily to become well acquainted, rather than widely acquainted, in my associations. I might have chosen one of the numerous smaller schools in the state, instead of the largest.
CONTRARY to what a professor of sociology on this campus has said of the situation. I don't look upon classmates as "competing strangers" with whom I am "incapable of collaborating in a pleasurable pursuit of scholarship." Whether or not the other student and I feel that collaboration is necessary for pleasure in learning depends on us. It is up to each individual to decide how he wants to pursue knowledge.
I know of Chancellor Wescoe's concern that KU not become overwhelmingly impersonal. But impersonality is a relative term—relative to each person. Regardless of whatever system the university uses to orient the student toward his education, what and how he learns depends only on him.
Margaret Ogilvie
Italy tells story of Duce's downfall
ROME—(UPI) — twenty-three years after the downfall of Benito Mussolini, Italy, by a curious sequence of events, at last has it on paper.
The Italian government only recently acquired its first complete record of the resolutions voted by the Facist Grand Council July 25, 1943, when it deposed "Il Duce," who led his country into a disastrous war on the side of Nazi Germany.
The documents might never have turned up had it not been for Mussolini's sharp temper, the serious illness last year of his onetime confidential secretary, Nicole de Cesar, and the financial need of an orphanage.
THE STORY was told by the magazine Epoca, which learned of it by making a substantial contribution to an orphanage run by Msgr. Cosimo Bolandi at Como in northern Italy.
De Cesare was a conscientious secretary. When the Facist Grand Council cast 19 of 28 votes against Mussolini that hot July dawn 23 years ago, he carefully collected copies of Dino Grandi's ouster resolution and the resolutions of pro-war Council members Roberto Farinacci and Carlo Scorza.
The resolutions, plus personal jottings of the Duce, went into Mussolini's big leather dispatch case, nicknamed the "Little Inferno."
MUSSOLINI CARRIED the "Little Inferno" under his arm when, accompanied by de Cesare, he called on King Victor Emmanuel a few hours later and was arrested.
As both men entered an ambulance taking them into captivity, Mussolini handed de Cesare the "Little Inferno." The secretary kept it when the Duce left the ambulance under guard at a police barracks where he was to be held. The dispatch case was deposited with de Cesare's other personal belongings when the secretary was delivered to a prison.
Msgr. Bolandi was chaplain at the prison. He and de Cesare spent many hours in conversation and became friends. De Cesare
and the "Little Inferno stayed in the prison until Sept. 8, 1943, when the Germans, who by that time had taken over Rome, set him free. De Cesare got back the "Little Inferno" and found the contents intact.
De Cesare soon followed Mussolini to Munich. But when he finally reached the Duce and tried to return the "Little Inferno," Mussolini, apparently in bad humor, brusquely ordered him to return to Rome and "stand by for orders."
A F EW DAYS later, on Sept. 12, Nazi S.S. commandees under Otto Skorzeny landed by glider at the Gran Sasso Plateau Hotel in the Appenine where Mussolini was being held, liberated him and flew him to Germany.
The orders never came. Nazi armies in Italy surrendered. Mussolini was captured by Italian partisans, machinegunned to death and hung up by his heels
DE CESARE retired from public life. He went towork for Msgr. Bolandi, his prison friend who after the war founded the Como orphanage.
Last November de Cesare, a clerk in the orphanage administration, fell gravely ill. He sent for Msgr. Bolandi, gave him the documents of July 25, 1943, and said:
in Milan to the jeers of the populace.
"These papers belong to the state. I give them to you. I have always kept them because my state disappeared July 25 and nobody ever came and asked me for them to this day. If this story can help the orphanage, go ahead and tell it."
Bolandi told it to Epoca and then turned over the documents to the Italian Government. Thus, 23 years after the fall of fascism, Italy finally has an official record of it.
Course slated for advisers
A course especially tailored for high school journalism teachers and publications advisers will be offered on Saturdays this fall by the School of Journalism.
Though School Journalism and Publications has been included in the School of Journalism's curriculum for several years, this is the first time it will have been offered on Saturdays.
azines. Staff organization, writing and editing, makeup, typography, advertising and illustrations are among the topics considered in the class,which carries two hours' undergraduate or graduate credit.
Taught by Prof. John H. Knowles, a former high school journalism teacher and publications adviser, the class involves a study of teaching journalism in the high school and supervising yearbooks, newspapers, and mag-
The class will meet each Saturday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Flint Hall, starting Sept. 17. Those who do not enroll during the regular registration period from Sept. 14-16 will enroll the morning of Sept. 17. Persons wishing to take the class who have not attended the University previously should apply for admission prior to enrollment through the Office of Admissions and Records, 120 Strong.
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Students show movie tastes are varied in KU survey
Frances Hammer, Topeka graduate: "I would pick 'Sound of Music' because of the music in the show."
Ten summer school students answered the following question:
"What motion picture have you seen in the last six months that you consider the best? Why?"
Joseph McKenna, Lawrence garduate: "I would say 'The Great Race' because it is funny as well as being very well done."
EILL BROOKS. Liberty graduate: "I would say 'King of Kings' because it was a nice job of portraying the life of Jesus from birth through to death."
MARILYN McBRIDE. Enid junior: "Ithink 'A Patch of Blue' is more realistic than others I have seen. The emotions and happenings are so realistic. It presents a social problem yet it is a sentimental movie."
Norma Johnson, Marysville sophomore: "I think 'My Fair Lady' has been the only good show that has been here. I would choose it because I like the music and the costuming. The show is so relaxing."
Ronald Shaffer, Lawrence graduate: "I would select 'Sound of Music' because it is a wholesome show as well as entertaining."
Elizabeth McMillen, Leawood graduate: "My choice would be 'Please Don't Eat the Daisies' be cause it is a light show and very entertaining."
Judy Dickey, Kansas City graduate: "I Would say 'Doctor Zivago' would be my selection because it was so well done. The actors in the movie were very convincing."
Patricia Fagerquist, Lawrenet graduate; "My choice would be 'Doctor Zhivago' because of the scenery which was filmed in Spain and the excellent music.
Driver course open
International students at KU may take a three-week course in driver education beginning Monday. Interested students should contact Prof. Don Henry, 108 Robinson Gymnasium.
Barbara Cochrane, Hoisington junior: "One of those I would pick is 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' because it has a new type of music. I particularly enjoyed it sung in French."
The composer for 'Lawrence of Arabia' also wrote some of the music for the movie."
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Speed reading has become almost a fashionable cult, and if you want some help on it this may be the book. You're entitled, of course, to ask why one should become a speed reader. You're entitled to ask what speed reading does to the beauty of words, the sound that they make on paper, as E. B. White so well puts it. Plots can be found in the Book Review Digest. Or in "Master-plots."
But if your goal is to read rapidly then look at books like this one. Some will prefer to read books with other goals in mind.
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Now about the other books. They have been checked out not with junior high and elementary teachers but with children of that general age group, and the word is that "they're all right for reference but hardly a complete list" (this the opinion of a young woman who reads almost constantly and last year worked in the library of a Lawrence junior high).
Teachers should be advised, for example, that the young folks enjoy (and why not?) a lot of books that will never find their way to recommended lists of the National Council of Teachers of English. Gothic thrillers like "The Uninvited." Everything Louisa May Alcott wrote. Dickens. Dickens gets short shrift in these volumes. No listing at all. Alcott is lightly represented. Mark Twain scarcely at all.