Itll take another 100 to match this one!
THE UNIVERSITY'S centennial medallion, now on sale at the Kansas Union Bookstore, is a wonder to behold. For only five dollars, KU students may possess an enlarged plaster-of-paris replica of the most crowded two-and-one-half inch bronze medal in the world.
MY SYMPATHIES ARE extended wholeheartedly to the medallion's designer, Elden Teft, professor of design. One look at the medallion shows the most casual observer that it is the result of "design by committee," and not artistic legerdemain. Still, Tefft obviously made a valiant effort to preserve an element of design in the final product.
A SHORT DESCRIPTION of the medallion appeared in last Wednesday's Kansan. The December-January issue of Kansas Alumni used 1557 words to describe the intricate design—and then only touched the high points.
One of the major features of the medallion is KU's skyline, including the Campanile, Dyche (Museum of Natural History), Spooner (KU Museum of Art), Green, old Fraser's towers and flags, Watson library, Blake, the smoke stack and McColum Hall.
THE LARGE, TEN-POINTED star in the upper right contains a lode of subtle meanings. The ten points represent the nine schools and the College (no doubt some sinister minds will wonder why some points are larger than others). The triangle in the center of the star represents the three major functions of the university: teaching, research and service. The pyramid in the center of the triangle in the center of the ten-pointed star depicts the flame of the lamp of knowledge. Too bad the committee couldn't have made use of the center of the pyramid.
BUT THE MARVEL of the medallion is the textured column on the left, which is analogous to the burning bush in the university seal. The components of this column are not arranged chronologically, the Kansas Alumni explains, but are interwoven to give the image of solidarity and meaningful enterprise. It must have taken Tefft a coon's age to interweave all those meaningful enterprises.
HARK TO WHAT the column contains (as it reaches toward the stars): three Jayhawks (showing the evolution of the bird), sunflower and wheat, lilacs, the nightshirt parade, a salamander, tribolite, books.
dermatone, the earth, the Rock Chalk Cairn, a windmill, a cell, a newspaper, water scorpion, bee, petri dishes, a basketball, the hesperornis, a cup and brick, spheres and satellites, another cell (this one doesn't have the chromosomes in a spindle formation), the KUMC symbol, the Sienese "Head of an Angel" from the Museum of Art, musical notes and the spire of Watkins Hospital.
AND THEY GOT IT all in a third of those two-and-one-half inches. And what's more, that brick has "Don't spit on the side walk" written on it.
WITH THE FIRST 100 YEARS of the university so compactly organized, it is unfortunate that so much emphasis was placed on scientific, rather than liberal arts, achievements. Surely William Inge and Dr. Lind's book on archaeology could have been worked in where the artist's signature and the copyright symbol are.
IT'S TOO BAD Teftt couldn't have been given a free hand to develop a truly attractive medal. But the medallion will serve one function: we can spend the next century finding all those figures in that textured column.
-Jacke Thayer
Opinion, fact and fancy
By Bill Robinson
WORKERS OF THE UNIVERSITY, UNITE! Wages are going to be raised—working conditions are going to be improved—the oppression of the working student is going to be ended. At last—at long last—an organization has emerged to champion the cause of the laboring student who must work for the university in order to meet the staggering costs of higher education.
Amid the promises of a brighter future, however, some confusion still remains. For example, no one will deny that we would all like to receive better wages for the work we do—regardless of what it may be; however, better wages mean an increase in the operating expenses of the employer, in this case the University of Kansas and the State of Kansas. But, higher operating expenses can be easily offset by asking for a larger allocation from the state in next year's budget. Here arises the first major point of confusion—the State has proven in the past that larger allocations are not gracefully made. So, we'll just skip the State allocation and simply increase the student fees, thereby increasing the operations budget of the university. Aha!—sneaky point of confusion number two now enters the picture: the Ways and Means Committee of the State House of Representatives deduces the total gain realized from any fee increase from the total allocation, which means that fee increases do nothing but increase student costs.
AN INCREASE in student costs
will not be too well liked on this campus; but we can offset any increase in fees with the higher wages to be paid pending the fee increase . . . at least those of us who work for the university, that is. For those who work for the Union, which is a separate corporation which, by state law, can receive no support from the university, some other mode of salvation must be found. Perhaps the Union Activities Fee, which the university collects for the Union, during fee-payment, could be raised. The fee currently goes to retiring the building bond, but any increase could certainly be specified for increased student wages. And there it is—point of confusion number three. University employees get wage increases in order to pay the increase in fees, but are without means to pay the Union Activities fee increase, which is needed to increase student employees wages at the Union so they can pay the increase in University fees.
Bill
The circle becomes a vicious one with very little effort. The basic truth of the matter remains clear, however—any increase in wages must be backed by a proportionately greater reserve of operating funds.
The State has not approved (at least not for the last two years) any increase in the university allocation which has been earmarked for student wage increases; the university cannot increase student fees without ruining the effect of the wage increase; and the student is caught in the middle. Further, the University is closely regulated by Civil Service laws and State laws regarding salaries paid student and non-student help in any non-classified job.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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IF THE NEWLY formed Student Labor Organization seeks to increase student wages by harping at the university administration, there will be no results—the economic factor cannot be ignored if the entire student body is to be considered. If, however, the SLO seeks to work with the legislature and the administration of the university in seeking some plan which will be truly feasible, then results will be forthcoming. If the SLO chooses the latter program, then two years as an 85° an hour dishwasher compel this writer to join the campaign for higher student wages. WORKERS OF THE UNIVERSITY, UNITE—BUT THINK, TOO!
Hillfolk
by Judy McGhee
and Irvana Keagy
HILLFOLK will highlight news vital to readers that is not developed, for one reason or another, in news stories. It will comment on unusual visitors, such as the poet Ginsberg, crazes, such as Batman, or needed campus improvements, like more efficient lighting.
KU people and events make news every day. Blood drives, fashion news, and campus politics all deserve news coverage. But the people and points behind the headlines are often overlooked.
IN THE following weeks, Hillfolk will be bringing Kansan readers a positive, to-the-point approach to the things concerning students most—themselves.
HILLFOLK is not an eccentric or obscure literary expose. Its authors are journalists, not "writers" and we hope to present readable observations about people.
2 Daily Kansan editorial page Tuesday, February 15, 1966
voices from
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50853
by mike miller and jim girard
ANYONE WHO doesn't keep up on contemporary politics is probably unaware of the changes of structure in the College Office. Unbeknownst to most students, the benevolent dictatorship that reigned so long and successfully has been overthrown by a military regime. Most College students have always been aware that the secretaries, the office workers—the mysterious little old ladies of the College Office—think that they are the real administration. And they very nearly are, now that the major deans have been deposed and moved down the hall. Their administrative attitude is very much that of the "multiversity." They view students as walking, talking IBM cards. Indeed, they are incapable of even recognizing a student, let alone assisting him, unless every item on his card is properly punched and his Mickey Mouse ears are on at the correct angle.
Our ears have always been a little askew, but it never bothered the friendly dictators too much in the good old days. Last week, however, one of your professors, Dr. 50853, came in contact with the new rulers and managed to incur their righteous wrath.
IT BEGAN, innocently enough, at enrollment. (This is partly 50853's fault. As everyone knows, enrollment is run the way it is in order to teach students to contend with life. By closing out classes, against the wishes of both instructor and student, we are taught a valuable lesson. Every student, by the time he is a second semester freshman, if he is to survive, has learned to cheat at enrollment. It's survival of the fittest, and the fittest are those who learn to get the classes they need in spite of the university.)
Dr. 50853, a second semester senior who has a special major, was allowed by his advisor to enroll in a certain English course, taught by a certain professor who is also a Reserve Naval Commander. Since 50853 enrolled in one of the last groups and had neglected to learn his lesson about cheating at enrollment, the class was, of course, closed out. The Commander, who had had no intention of limiting his class, promptly granted 50853 permission to enroll anyway, but now this enrollment had to be accomplished through the headquarters of the new College Office regime. Clutching to him his signed authorization, which had been approved by the English department, 50853 strode naively into battle.
ENTERING STRONG HALL at the end of the daily lunch hour (11:30-1:30) he found, to his dismay, that his advisor's signature was now required on his authorization form, even though his advisor would be out of the country for a month fleeing into exile from the new military junta. He pointed out to the new despots that his advisor had originally approved the course at enrollment, but it was made clear to him that only a new signature on this new piece of paper would appease the wrath of the College matriarchs. The pharisees would accept no illegitimate substitutes.
But the story has a happy ending. Because he could not now enroll in fifteen hours, 50853 became eligible for another course of study: a three-year program of research and training with the Summer Institute in South Viet Nam.
This week's readings: Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, and *Tactics of Guerilla Warfare*, by Ché Guevara.