Locked doors
The action of dean of students Laurence Woodruff in barring student body president Al Martin from meetings of the Council on Student Affairs is unwise.
There seems to be little justification for locking the chief student executive officer out of meetings of a group formed to consider student affairs.
There might be occasions, such as if COSA were to consider the disciplinary record of a single student, when it would be proper to close the Council meeting, but we doubt that generally closing the meetings to everyone including the student body president will promote any student trust in the mostly administrative COSA.
number of administrators are considered essential to COSA's operation, the student body president, elected only a month ago, is not only unneeded, but barred from Council meetings.
Further we think it odd that while a large
Also unfortunate is the ASC debate over Martin's appointments to COSA. Political consideration should not figure in the selection of students to such a potentially important committee, but the idea of student government appointments made without the traditional post-election political wrangling is apparently a concept foreign to some ASC members. Campus politics should not play a role in the selection of students to administrative committees, and the sooner the ASC recognizes this the better student government will be.
Justin Beck
Student control
We fail to understand why the AWS should operate independently of the All Student Council. The ASC technically represents all students on campus, including women. However, the AWS appears (or pretends) to have considerable authority in the making of student regulations, regulations that are thought to be completely outside the realm of ASC authority.
Hours regulations are, in fact, a matter of campus wide concern, and while women students, through the AWS, should be able to change them, there is no reason why the ASC, which is a far more representative body than the AWS Senate, cannot assist the Senate in the making of student regulations, and ensure that the rights of female students are protected.
While there may be some as yet undefined reason for having a separate women's organization there is absolutely no reason why that organization should be independent of the student government which the student body, with the approval of the Chancellor, established to govern student affairs as a whole.
It would probably do the AWS Senate no good to have their actions reviewed by an organization that unlike the Senate admits that it is responsible to the student body. It might give the AWS officials some idea of democratic government.
Justin Beck
New York strike
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
New York has again been hit with a newspaper strike, this one shutting down the newly formed World Journal Tribune newspapers which had been formed out of the merger of the afternoon Journal American and World-Telegram and the morning Herald Tribune.
On strike is the Newspaper Guild which is going to lose about 800 of 1600 jobs in the merger, the second time in 12 months that the Guild has struck New York papers. And like the other newspaper strikes in New York this one could be of long duration.
However, a long strike could mean the end of the Herald Tribune which has been in a shaky financial position for several years, thus putting even more men out of a job.
New York's other papers are continuing to operate on a day by day basis, but may themselves shut down, creating another newspaper blackout for a city which has had more than its share in recent years.
At the very least the strike could prove financially damaging to the newly formed company, whose papers have all been suffering high operating losses in recent years. At its worst it could shut down newspaper printing in New York for some time and close forever the Herald Tribune, one of the country's more interesting newspapers. Worst of all the strike seems unnecessary.
—Justin Beck
TEST MAGOT OR NOT — IVE HALF A MND TO MAKE THAT DOG OF HIS WAIT OUTSIDE!"
The people say...
Supersphinx poses riddle
The world is in a time of crisis. Ideals are questioned, people demand their rights, and democratic chaos seems imminent. The world needs a rescuer! The people need a rescuer! The administration needs a rescuer!
But look—up in the sky! It's a bird! It is inane! It's Supersphinx!! Yes, Supersphinx, strange visitor from another world—faster than a free thought, more powerful than a resolution, able to twist strong words at a single glance—who, disguised as a mild-mannered AWS Senate, fights a never-ending battle for (administrative) truth, (administrative) justice, and the American way of life (salute, dammit!)
At last, our salvation—in the form of a riddle! "What stands on two feet in the morning, crawls on its belly in the afternoon, and hobbles away in the evening?" Woe be unto him who knows not
the answer, for he is doomed to eternal darkness and ignorance. Woe be unto the modern Oedipus who answers "Women's rights at KU," for this is like to make the Supersphinx exceeding wroth. Woe be unto both the ignorant and the knowing but powerless—for this is our salivation: the Supersphinx still rules the desert.
James E. Nickun Wichita senior
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Kentucky speaker ban bill a threat
The proposed American Legion-sponsored bill to ban "insidious" persons from speaking on Kentucky's campuses amounts to a speaker ban, despite the sponsor's contents to the contrary.
We believe the atmosphere at the University and other state schools calls for more controversial speakers rather than a ban. The recent egg-throwing incident might not have happened had students previously had the opportunity of hearing speakers holding minority viewpoints.
STUDENTS, and apparently many state citizens, have yet to learn that exposure to differing
views is an educational experience. Those who would seek to "protect the minds" of students or the image of the state's colleges and universities in essence seek only to limit the possible range for such experience.
The Administration, we feel, has been too often guilty of such "provincialism" here. We have seen no "controversial" speakers brought to campus who have been backed by Administration funds, though the just-concluded Centennial brought in scores of outside consultants. Where were the leaders in some of the major social issues of today—civil rights,
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labor-management disputes, changing qualities of higher education?
Earlier this year North Carolina colleges and universities nearly lost their accreditation because of a similar ban imposed by its Legislature. The ban was repealed one week before a nationwide accrediting organization was scheduled to yank accreditation. Such loss of accreditation certainly would follow imposition of such a ban imposed in Kentucky and would be a devastating blow to education within the state.
THE LEGION bill is a dangerous threat to free education in Kentucky, and we hope legislators will recognize it as completely unreasonable within the modern era of learning.
Rather than drawing the University further into cloisterism, we might hope the Legislature and the administrations of the state institutions would invite and encourage controversial speakers to visit their campuses.
The Kentucky student now is far too much a tortoise. Legislators and Administrators must draw him out of his shell, not drive him further in it.
-Kentucky Kernel
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