University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 20. 1962
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(Continued from page 1) and half of practicing journalists—Mr. Austin's fellow editors and publishers.
The standards by which schools of journalism and their faculties are tested in this accrediting program are exacting and demanding. Each time this school and its faculty have passed the test with high ratings, most recently in 1960.
Our unjust critic stated that Kansas journalism graduates do not get a liberal education, but he either knows or ought to know that our majors have always been required to satisfy the requirements for the B.A. degree (although they receive the B.S.).
He ought also to know that our school has had an active part in planning and managing both the Western Civilization program and the humanities program from their very beginnings 15 years ago. His criticism that journalism education is too narrow certainly does not apply to the University of Kansas.
NOT ONLY DOES the faculty deplore and resent the denunciation of the school and the group slander of the teaching staff, but the faculty strongly opposes the proposal to reduce the school to departmental status. Immediately after Mr. White's death in 1944 the Board of Regents decided that the department of journalism at the University of Kansas should become a school named for Mr. White.
The editors and publishers of Kansas and the regents believed that the profession of journalism is one for young men and women with broad educations and with thorough grounding in the history, the ethics, the responsibilities, and the skills of the profession.
They believed that journalism, which plays a vital and basic role in our society, is as worthy of professional school training and status as law, medicine, and engineering.
THE REGENTS gave journalism at the University of Kansas this
status, and to the school have been attracted young people from coast to coast and from many foreign countries. Upon graduation they have been sought and employed by outstanding editors and leaders in all of the communications media.
Since 1948 the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information has operated as a separate school at the University of Kansas. Is it reasonable or defensible now to consider toppling it from the level it has reached among its fellow schools throughout the United States?
Does Kansas wish to be known as the state in which an editor torpeded the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information on the basis of undocumented charges and in the face of a record that is respected and envied elsewhere?
We find it hard to believe that Mr. Austin actually understood how damaging his statements can be, not only to the good reputation of our school but also to the whole University over which he and the other regents have supervision and responsibility.
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plan. The membership of the two current campus parties, Vox Populi and the University Party, is made up of voting blocks from the organized living groups on the campus and of separate members.
UNDER THE BLOCK SYSTEM, the parties secure memberships by getting dues from the living groups which join the party. Because each member of the living group pays a housebill to his living group, he automatically becomes a dues-paying member of the party.
Since Action has outlawed block voting in its party, it is difficult to establish that the students who sign its petition, as it is worded, actually plan to become "active members" of the group.
YAF will meet tonight at 7:30 in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union. Members will discuss and vote on a constitutional amendment which provides for the hiring of an executive secretary. Applications for staff members for the Standard, the YAF newspaper, will be accepted.
YAF Meets Tonight
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Johnson said the group, which is working in the South to insure voting rights to all citizens, needs KU's "moral and financial support" to eliminate such things as poll taxes, literacy tests, and coercion which prevent certain citizens from exercising their right to vote.
Johnson said Action plans to help reform the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) through the ASC's investigation and action.
Johnson said the group proposes that a letter be sent to the local Congressman, Senator, and the President of the United States voicing KU's opposition to this committee which Johnson accused of encroaching on the academic freedom of students. The charge arises out of a disorder in San Francisco after hearings of the HUAC on Communism.
Johnson charged that the ASC has not made its voice heard on certain national and international problems and that they should correct this situation by sending their views to national organizations.
Action would advocate the lowering of the minimum required number of votes from 75, as it now stands, to approximately 50 because it is more difficult for these living groups to get large numbers of their members out to vote.
IN DISCUSSING ASC representation, Johnson explained the ASC rules now state that the representation on the Council shall be determined by the number of votes cast from that living district in the last election.
Johnson stressed that all of the proposed planks are temporary and would be subject to revision, deletion, or addition by the members at the Thursday night meeting.
Arthur Massolo, field representative for the United States Peace Corps in Central America who was scheduled to visit KU today to discuss Corps projects in Central America, will not be able to come.
Peace Corps Man Unable to Be Here
Thomas Gale, assistant professor of history, said that Mr. Massolo has been called to El Salvador to set up a Peace Corps program in that Central American country. Prof. Gale said that he would be
Second Jayhawker To Be Out Tomorrow
The second edition of the Jayhawker will be distributed tomorrow from the information booth. Blaine King, Emporia junior and Jayhawker editor announced today. He said he had previously set yesterday for distribution but the information booth was unavailable.
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