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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 10, 1962
A Confident Bet
Confidence is measured by monetary values. If that is true, then there is a lot of confidence in the University of Kansas across the nation.
A smart better never sinks money into a horse that he thinks will lose. He places his money on the horse that's going to win. If the horse is a bad risk, he will not place a bet and advise his friends to do the same.
KU MUST be a good horse, one which there is little risk in betting. Pick your race: alumni support, academic excellence, music, athletic prowess or research. Place your bets at the window, and stand prepared to win.
Many large corporations and foundations also have found that KU is a good bet. Their race is research and they have discovered that a Jayhawk is a good bird to bet on.
During the past year KU received 31/4 million dollars for research from private donors. Presently, there are 150 senior faculty members, over 400 graduate students and approximately 30-40 talented undergraduate students working on about 175 projects being sponsored by organizations not connected with the University.
THIS SPONSORED research is in practically every department in the University - physical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, engineering, and humanities, just to name a few.
The research projects not only provide answers to some of the earth's and life's question marks, but they also serve as teaching aids for graduate students.
While working on research projects, graduate students have the opportunity to apply their knowledge in a practical way. The challenge offered is different from that of writing the answers on paper for an instructor to grade. The student
must apply his knowledge to the finding of an unknown.
RESEARCH PROJECTS for instructors often grow out of interests they have had for some time. One instructor has been experimenting with teaching aids for crystallization for 20 years. Crystallization is his hobby and he has a "medicine show" he can perform for friends. Now, his hobby is an avocation as he is working on a National Science Foundation grant to perfect these teaching aids.
An institution can be measured by its research. Any University or college should be a center of experimentation and learning. It should be moving forward, justifying its existence by helping solve life's mysteries.
University people are the logical ones on which to call and to invest money in to solve these problems. All universities, however, do not have qualified people to seek and find the answers to the many question marks.
THAT'S WHY some universities have many research grants and others do not. That's why there are $3\frac{1}{4}$ million dollars invested in KU supervised research.
The faculty at KU is respected. Its respect stems from the fact that it is called upon to conduct research projects. The outside organizations which support the research have found KU a good bet.
"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Sunnyside race track. The first race, research, will be run in 15 minutes. Place your bets, the window closes in 10 minutes."
"Hey buddy, who's a good bet inda forst." "Jayhawk!"
Steve Clark
JFK's 'New Era' Policy
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(Editor's Note: What is President Kennedy's policy toward neighboring Mexico? It is defined in the following dispatch written by a former CIA officer who accompanied the Chief Executive on his recent visit to Mexico City.
By Stewart Hensley United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Kennedy's "New Era" policy toward Mexico involves a soft sell aimed at convincing Mexicans that they are no longer regarded as second class citizens in hemispheric and international affairs.
The president is convinced, high officials have said, that the United States must deal with Mexico as a complete equal if it is to secure neighborly cooperation and put an end to historic frictions.
His objective, they added, is to create an atmosphere in which Mexican officials can react with greater responsibility instead of automatically taking anti-United States positions in order to make domestic political capital.
That is why, officials said, Kennedy refrained during his Mexico City visit last week from trying to persuade President Adolfo Lopez Mateos to change his position on Castro Cuba. Kennedy also showed considerable understanding of the domestic political pressures which have impelled Lopez Mateos to adopt a so-called India-type neutrality on disarmament and some other international issues.
U. S. officials acknowledged that Mexican newspapers were right, in a sense, when they claimed the communique issued by the two presidents represented a "victory"
for Mexico. But they added that it was a victory deliberately handed Mexico within the framework of a policy Kennedy decided upon some time ago.
Officials said they expected early negotiations on the involved legal arrangements which will be necessary to return the land.
The president is moving quickly to eliminate the immediate causes of friction. He made it clear in Mexico City and at his news conference here Thursday that he is going to return to Mexico a disputed 620 acres in El Paso, Tex., which has long been the subject of controversy.
These actions, officials said, are designed to give the Mexicans immediate evidence that there was more than mere rhetoric to that portion of the communique in which Kennedy and Lopez Mateos proclaimed "A New Era of Understanding and Friendship."
sary to return the man.
Kennedy also promised Lopez
Mateos temporary measures to
lessen the salt content of the Colorado River waters and set 1963 as the deadline for solving the problem to the satisfaction of the Mexicans.
Kennedy's view, according to his aides, is that while solution of immediate problems is important, it is of greater long-range significance to convince the Mexicans that the United States sincerely wants to bring an end to the remnants of the "Gringo-Greaser" atmosphere which has plagued relationships since the Mexican War.
Kennedy recognizes that he must overcome built-in hostility to the *
On students: Educators in general do not realize the potentiality for work that exists in every pleasure-loving American boy with brains enough to deserve a college education. He may groan and weep and exercise ingenuity worthy of a better cause to avoid exerting himself. But if from the start he knows that the faculty means business . . . he ends up by "taking" twice as much education (nobody can "give" him an education) as one would expect.—Robert I. Gannon
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Steve Clark and Karl Koch Co-Editors
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Bonnie McCullough and Bill Woodburn ... Co-Business Mgrs.
United States stemming from a Mexican feeling that the United States historically has considered it a backward area for exploitation.
The president is said to believe this marked the first real sign from Washington that the United States considered the Mexicans social and political equals. He hopes within his time in office to carry forward this idea and knit the two countries together in a close relationship in both the bilateral and international spheres.
In this sense, Kennedy is known to feel that he is following through on the actions of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He considers Roosevelt's war-time visit to Monterrey, where he conferred with President Avila Camacho, a turning point in relations between the two countries.
The president is said to be convinced that once he has attained such a relationship, Mexican officials will find it possible to acknowledge that their interest in international affairs generally coincides with that of the United States.
The president had some success in convincing Lopez Mateos that the alliance for progress is truly a program based on self-help and not just another give away to Latin American countries, irrespective of whether they undertake the legal, political and social reforms called for under the program. Mexico, which already has undertaken most of these reforms, was skeptical about American intentions. However, Lopez Mateos appeared to accept Kennedy's assurances that the United States would indeed insist upon reform as the price for new aid.
Officials acknowledge that many difficulties beset the carrying out of Kennedy's new policy toward Mexico.
The president must persuade U.S. business interests and others to gear their actions and operations in conformity with his new approach. He also must find ways to eliminate discrimination against Mexicans which still persist in some sections of the southwest.
Kennedy is convinced that his policy is the only moral one and the only one which offers any long range possibility for ending the historic differences between the two countries.
the took world
By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, by Harper Lee (Popular Library,
60 cents).
Few books in recent years have had the charm and the loveliness of this Pulitzer Prize winner. It has some of the quality of "The Member of the Wedding," though it is more affecting, and it also is reminiscent of Ellen Glasgow's "The Sheltered Life."
It is the story of a little girl called Scout, of her brother Jem, of her fine lawyer father Atticus, of the Negro cook Calpurnia, of a quiet southern neighborhood in the days of the depression, and of a troubled girl of white trash background who accuses a decent Negro of rape, and of the trial and tragic death of the real victim—the accused Negro.
This is a moving story, never angry, always believable. One is drawn particularly to the father-fair, honorable, weathering the storm when he takes the side of the minority, teaching his children truth and justice.-CMP
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perception and understanding.
Binx Bolling is a middle-aged investment man in New Orleans, a man living in a world of illusion, whose heroes are the people he has been seeing for years on the movie screen, whose responses are those that come from John Wayne, Marlon Brando or people as far back as Adolphe Menjou. One critic calls the book 'A Catcher in the Rye' for adults only." Perhaps it is. Binx is not much more advanced than Holden Caulfield, and he is nearly as troubled. And like Holden he lives in a realm of imagination.
THE MOVIEGOER, by Walker Percy (Popular Library, 50 cents). For this novel, Walker Percy won the 1962 National Book Award for fiction. It is basically a thin story, though it has moments of perception and understanding.
Binx is able to perform one notable service; he helps to bring meaning to the life of a person even more mixed up than he. How such a feat is possible is not made clear. One leaves the book as convinced as the heroine, Kate, that her marriage to Binx won't really make it.-CMP
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APRIL MORNING, by Howard Fast (Bantam, 50 cents).
"April Morning" is the absorbing story of a Massachusetts farm boy, his family, his fears, his retreat under fire when the British move into Lexington in 1775, his subsequent growth and coming to a time of decision. Fast's British are as villainous as they were in the days of "Citizen Tom Paine," his American patriots as patriotic. Even so, it is a good, fast-moving novel.—CMP
It is fashionable and acceptable again (as it was 20 years ago) to read Howard Fast. He has reneged on communism, and one of these days might even find him endorsing Senator Goldwater. The latter is not too likely, however. Fast still has the democratic sympathies that marked his inflammatory novels of many years ago.
How each of these persons responds to his sure fate is the theme. It is a grim, absorbing, frightening thing to contemplate for long. CMP
The phenomenon of men awaiting certain death—and awaiting it in stiff-upper-lip style—is the fascination of "On the Beach." It is almost redundant to tell what the book is about—an American submarine commander, an Australian girl taken to drink, a scientist who loves fast cars, a young naval officer and his wife, all awaiting the radiation drift that will leave no one alive on the globe.
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ON THE BEACH, by Nevil Shute (Signet, 50 cents).
In this time of debate concerning nuclear testing, "On the Beach," which first appeared about five years ago, is as relevant and absorbing as ever. One reads it with a sense of regret that Nevil Shute is gone, for, though he was never a master of English style, he was one of our most enjoyable story-tellers.
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AMERICAN NOTES, by Charles Dickens. Premier (Fawcett), 50 cents.
50 cents. The picture of America that Charles Dickens leaves us is neither as bitter as one might gather nor as bright as one might hope. Dickens was one of many celebrated Europeans who looked at the new American experiment in mid-19th century, and in "American Notes" he offered impressions that are of great interest today.
One should note, first of all, that Dickens was a social reporter. He spent much of his time in prisons and schools for the blind. That deep compassion which reveals itself in many of his novels comes through here. Though he was shocked by much that he saw he also was impressed.
There is much to cite from Dickens' tour of America. If there was one over-all impression it might be that of a careless, somewhat slovenly people. Tobacco juice—for example—especially in the raw new nation's capital. The ubiquitous spittoon—in the halls of Congress, in courtrooms, in all public buildings—sickened Dickens, Washington itself was to him a disgusting and ugly city.
But he was quite taken with a temperance convention, and the school system of Cincinnati overwhelmed him. Cairo, III., he thought one of the worst spots in the universe. Slavery appalled him, and so did American journalism (each of these rates a special chapter). The Shakers fascinated him, and Niagara Falls was a majestic sight indeed. As for Transcendentalism, Dickens suggests that were living in America he would find himself absorbed in the activities of those New Englanders who then were stirring up intellectual activity in America.—CMP
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LOST LANGUAGE, by P. E. Cleator (Mentor, 75 cents) a description of efforts to decipher languages of the past. Cleator describes development of ancient languages, discusses these as representative pictures, deals with the link between the object and the spoken name for it.