Student representation
Chancellor W. Clarke Wesseoe made a token gesture toward equalizing student representation on the Council on Student Affairs (COSA) last week when he appointed three students and two more administrators to the predominantly administration council.
Wezece's action falls far short of what students had hoped, since the additions give students only six seats on the advisory group, still less than half of the 17 member council which, incidentally contains nine administrators.
HOPEFULLY STUDENT body president Al Martin will seek a further increase in student representation on COSA and more hopefully Chancellor Wescose will reconsider the odd situation in which students are accorded only a minority on a council concerned totally with giving students a full voice in a study of University student regulations.
We also have our doubts about the effectiveness of 17 member committee. It seems too large already. What COSA needs in addition to more students is fewer administrators.
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Last week's ASC meeting held some hope for
those inclined by their nature to be optimistic about student government. New council chairman Jim Prager is highly qualified, and his vicechairman, Tom Rader, Vox's presidential candidate in the recent election, is one of the most outstanding members of the council.
EVEN MORE ENCOURAGING than the high quality of candidates for ASC officers was Al Martin's state of the university speech, his first official speech since his narrow victory in the spiral student body elections a month ago.
Martin continued to stress the concept of student rights and student involvement in university affairs, the major issues of the campaign, recommending that the ASC committee on student regulations turn in a report before the end of the year and that the relationship between the Student Court, the Disciplinary Committee and the ASC be clarified.
"Do You Find Yourself Disturbed By Escalation?"
Although it is still too early in Martin's terms to be certain, his speech Tuesday night gave every indication that he fully intends to carry out as much as possible his campaign promises. If he succeeds it will be quite possibly a real first for student government on this campus.
—Justin Beck
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Faculty should hear curriculum proposals
There are many who look askance at student government. "What can it do?" they ask. When several candidates in the winter term ASUO (student government) election said they'd like to see student government take a hand in making curriculum decisions, those people snorted with disbelief.
ASUO President Steve Goldschmidt, the man who originated the idea of student-started curriculum reform, has the answer.
He's formed a committee that's come up with a number of proposals for changes in the curriculum. They're all good ideas, things that have been tried elsewhere and things that students are likely to benefit from. Among the committee's ideas:
- An academic appeals board for students who think they've been graded unfairly by faculty members. Now there is no appeal from a professor's grade.
- Pass or fail rather than letter grades in physical education classes.
- Pass or fail grades in other classes, probably for nonmaiers.
- A change in the drop date, which is now only three weeks after the start of the term, too soon to do any good for many students.
- Changing from a three- to a five-hour course base, which would have students take three five hour classes, instead of five three hour classes a term.
It's one thing to propose such changes and another to try to put them into effect. The faculty has final control by law over curriculum. How can students have any effect on it?
The answer is simple. Goldschmidt's group is writing up their proposals. Then they'll be taken to the faculty Curriculum Committee, which makes recommendations to the full faculty. University President Arthur S. Fiemming has already assured those two committees will get together every now and then to discuss proposals.
In other words, what this committee will do is give students a voice in curriculum. It's a much-needed voice, a voice that's now missing.
Of course, the faculty doesn't have to listen. If they don't, there is more overt action available to the students. But there is no reason to believe the faculty won't listen. They should have as much interest in improving the curriculum as do students.
This could be the beginning of some real co-operation between students and faculty in the running of the University.
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History is bunk, at least to music
With "America the Beautiful" playing softly in the background, Western-accented Buddy Starcher twangs through "History Repeats Itself."
The record, on the Boone label, is one of several versions being played across the country, including Seattle. It recounts some of the similarities between the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
For instance, it tells how both were elected the same year—100 years apart; how their assassins were born exactly 100 years apart; how their successors—both Southern Democrats named Johnson—were born 100 years apart; how both presidents were shot in the back of the head in the presence of their wives.
Other coincidences include these revelations: John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln's assassin) shot his victim in a theater and escaped to hide in a warehouse while Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theater; Booth and Oswald both
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held unpopular views and were killed before being brought to trial; and Lincoln's secretary—named Kennedy—warned the President not to go to the theater, while Kennedy's secretary—named Lincoln—warned that danger lurked in Dallas.
To the Editor:
Coincidence to be sure.
In all due respect to my brother, I must point out another of a large number of errors that seems to be plaguing Daily Kansan.
The following sentence appeared in the April 20 issue of The Kansan in a report on the KU-Washburn tennis match: "Washburn's Jim Keller won . . . as he defeated KU's Terry Harbaugh." I am not on KU's team (nor Washburn's) but Jim Keller is. It was my brother, Washburn's Randy Harbaugh, who defeated KU's Jim Keller. (Perhaps you are now as bewildered as I was when I read the original article last Wednesday.)
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But how about this for a coincidence? Starcher says the names of the assassins, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, each contained 15 letters. If that isn't grasping at straws . . .
Daily Kansan editorial page Monday, April 25, 1966
The record has no message, except that coincidences happen and that "history repeats itself." And we didn't need the record to point that out.
If there were ever a record in bad taste, this is it. It smacks of cheap sensationalism, drippy sentimentalism. Many Americans held these presidents in high esteem—even to the point of worshipping them. To play upon these sympathies with such trivia as the
number of letters in Oswald's name is detestable.
Apparently some are ready to exploit those who, for whatever reason, are attracted by the mention of John Kennedy. The fact that it is Kennedy is really not important and is not at issue here. It could have been anyone.
What is important is the fact that some people will peddle trash if there's a ready market for it.
People being what they are, unfortunately, it is doubtful that some will remain clear-thinking, rational and unemotional all the time. What's more, the writers of things like this are protected by the Constitution, which is fine. But "History Repeats Itself" doesn't merit Golden Record status. And its producers, clever as they are, do not deserve to make a mint from it. This won't happen if people don't buy it.
So don't.
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