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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 21, 1964
If It's Fun-Don't Do It
An old friend is dead.
It happened this morning when this writer picked up the Summer Session Kansan and discovered a story that came from the Associated Press concerning the harmful effects of the caffeine contained in coffee.
As a cynical old college student, this writer has seen the demise of cigarettes, that old final week crutch. Cigarettes now have a place of dishonor on campus. You can't even buy them in the Kansas Union anymore. They are naughty, bad and sinful. Also, they wreck your health.
Coffee has gone the way of cigarettes now, and it seems a shame that another friend of the frantic college student is being taken away.
Another crutch of the campus is every students' favorite beverage—beer. The trouble with beer is that it is fattening. Too bad, because it's so much fun.
NOW COFFEE, that stimulating stimulant, is under the watchful eyes of doctors all over the country to find out what harmful things IT does to the body. It makes you feel good, warms you up, gets you going in the morning and in general is enjoyable. Naturally it is not good for human consumption.
SEEMS LIKE EVERYTHING that is fun, a crutch or just amusing is being analyzed, watched, tested and denounced.
As an adult, I feel that people of this generation and the next one are becoming accustomed to being told what they can and cannot do in order to live a peaceful, well-ordered life. "Everything in moderation" is the password for the next 20 years.
But the question is: What fun is it to live to be 100 if you never have any fun or raise any hell?
Not that all health hazards should be ignored just for the sake of being foolhardy... not at all. But this credo of carefulness should be examined for the future.
SHOULD THE CHILDREN I may have in 10 years be raised to fear everything, or should they be given a choice of the vices in which they wish to indulge? After all, every generation has had vices. Life would not be worth living if we all were the pure, sweet figments of the advertisers' imaginations.
Perhaps, as a college student, this writer should not admit how much she dislikes being told how dangerous the world around her is. Perhaps she should submit to the warnings of her elders and give up all the amusements she has learned to enjoy. Perhaps just existing in a vacuum would be better.
Linda Ellis
State Schools Claim Majority Of American College Youth
Almost two-thirds of the country's college and university full-time undergraduate students — 64 per cent or 1,727,849 — were enrolled in public institutions in fall 1963, according to an analysis of U.S. Office of Education figures made by the Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
Fifty-seven per cent, or 1,533,684 were attending public institutions in their home state, while 7 per cent -194,165 -were in out-of-state public institutions.
The breakdown of in-state and out-of-state enrollment in public institutions has particular significance now, at a time when rising enrollments are forcing many state legislatures to ask state and land-grant institutions to consider limiting admission of out-of-state students in order to assure space to qualified residents.
THE ASSOCIATION'S analysis indicates that almost 200,000 full-time undergraduate students now attend public colleges and universities in states other than their own. Presidents of these institutions believe students from other states provide a valuable educational ingredient on campus and help break down provincialism.
President Frederick L. Hovde of Purdue University has stated: "Barriers erected around states, of any kind, academic or financial, will be in the long run bad policy for not only the states, but the nation as a whole . . . I consider the phenomenon of student migration one of the important elements in the structure of higher education."
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PRESIDENT HOVDE points out that eliminating out-of-state students may increase costs rather than reduce them, because students paying non-resident tuition would be replaced by resident students who pay less tuition.
The New York State Education Department recently inquired into out-of-state admissions policy in 17 states which have state-wide boards for coordinating higher education. Results showed that within the last five years eight of these states upgraded academic standards for the admission of non-resident students. In addition, seven of the eight and two other states had increased costs for non-residents over the past three to five years.
At the bottom in total percentage of residents attending public institutions is Massachusetts. Thirty-
ALTOUGH THE analysis shows a national figure of 64 per cent of all college students enrolled in public institutions, there is considerable state-by-state variation. At the top, for example, is Arizona, with 89 per cent of all current residents who are college students enrolled in public institutions-84 per cent in public institutions in Arizona and 5 per cent in public institutions elsewhere.
four per cent of all its residents who are in colleges and universities are in public institutions — 27 per cent within the state, 6 per cent out of the state. In some states, the percentage of students in out-of-state public institutions is as low as 3 per cent; in one case, Alaska, it goes as high as 36 per cent.
THE COMPARISON of 1962-63 high school graduates with the number of first-time students who enrolled in fall 1963 also shows considerable variation. The U.S. Office of Education doesn't give an exact percentage, but uses a "ratio" or number of first-time student residents attending college either in or out of the state, with the number of high school graduates.
The ratio should be considered as an "indicator" of the percentage of high school graduates entering higher education, the study points out, but "undoubtedly this ratio and the percentage are highly related."
The national ratio given by the study is .51 — which would mean that roughly half of all 1962-63 high school graduates went on to college in fall 1963. The range, however, is from California's ratio of .81 — or roughly 80 per cent — to Maine's .31, well under one-third.
New Soviet President Rates As Expert in Political Survival
By United Press International
When he was appointed first deputy premier in 1955, he became the second-ranking man in the government after Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. He is also one of Khrushchev's closest friends.
By Catherine Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, newly appointed Soviet president, is the foremost Soviet authority on how to survive Russian political roulette.
The 68-year-old politician is a swarthy, book-nosed Armenian and one of the "old Bolsheviks." Most of the rest are dead or banished.
HIS FLAIR for business is said to have led Khrushchev to remark that if Mikoyan had lived in the United States he probably would have become a millionaire.
He admits Stalin died in the nick of time for him.
Known for his ready humor and shrewdness, Mikoyan, with his sense of where to jump at the right time, has doggedly stayed atop the slippery Soviet political pyramid.
"Stalin held us in his hand."
Mikoyan once said. "Only one escape was left to us (suicide). At
the end of Stalin's life, I was about to be executed."
Mikoyan was born Nov. 25, 1895, the son of a carpenter in the Armenian village of Sanain. He was sent to an Armenian Catholic seminary but later said, "The more I studied religion, the less I believed in God."
HE GRADUATED from the seminary in 1915 and in the same year joined the Bolsheviks as an underground revolutionary. In 1919 he was imprisoned three times for his activities in strikes and partisan warfare, escaping each time.
His first high post with the Communist government after the revolution was as commisar of trade in 1826. For the next 11 years he had the task of feeding the vast country on a shoestring.
In August 1936 he traveled to the United States to study food production there, announcing that "we must study America."
During World War II he organized the conversion of factories to war production and negotiated multi-billion lend-lease war supply agreements with the United States and Britain.
BOOK REVIEWS
RABBLE IN ARMS. by Kenneth Roberts (Crest, 95 cents).
In the early thirties, when the reading tastes of Americans were more romantically inclined than today, no one could beat Kenneth Roberts in the field of historical fiction. He pounded out eight novels, through the early fifties, all of them set in the early days of this country.
The best, despite the greater reputation of "Northwest Passage," was "Rabble in Arms," and after all these years it's finally available in paperback. A good buy it is, too. It's an epic tale of the American Revolution, and the great incident is the battle of Saratoga, which according to Roberts belongs not to Gen. Gates, who usually gets the credit, but the much-maligned Gen. Benedict Arnold.
credit, but the man himself Arnold, as in "Arundel," is the real hero of the story. Roberts makes quite a case for Arnold's defection being due to the shoddy treatment he received from the Continental Congress. As in his other novels, Roberts shows a tremendous flair for military description, for rough comedy, for long marches, and almost none for conventional love.
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HORIZON (Summer 1964, $5).
The "new" Horizon, that is the Horizon appearing since the big hardback magazine went quarterly on us, seems to be striving for balance between the hot contemporary topic and the quiet look into the past. Tastes greatly vary, of course, as to what is best in something like the summer issue. Horizon pushes its article on the automobile vs. the city. One reader prefers the latest in a series on great painters, this one dealing with Albrecht Durer.
TO START WITH the timely article-Horizon's writer, Victor Gruen, architect and city planner, contends that automobiles and trucks are killing urban areas through noise, danger to life and limb, and pollution of the air. His argument is a strong one; a magazine concerned with cultural matters is right to hit hard on this one.
Gruen's word for the problem of the congested city is "autosis"—an excessive worship of the car by manufacturers and city governments.
Here is some of the other reading—and viewing—in this glittering summer book:
"SARAJEVO: THE END OF INNOCENCE," about the shot 50 years ago that ended the good years and plunged us into World War I—and the modern world; "The King's Trial," the story of the trial and execution of Charles I; "Albrecht Durer," with photographs and text by John Canaday, a fine article on the German genius of the Renaissance; "Rediscovering America," a piece by Alfred Kidder II on latest discoveries of the early Americas:
"Mexico and Points East," drawings in surrealistic vein; "Rousseau: The Solitary Wanderer," a re-evaluation of the famous 18th century philosopher by J. Christopher Herold; "The Depot: A Terminal Case," a nostalgic piece on the decline of another American institution, and "God, Nell, Ain't It Grand?" an article by Cleveland Amory about the fantastic Diamond Jim Brady.
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THIS WAS CICERO, by Henry J. Haskell (Premier, 75 cents).
The author of this biography is a well known editor of the Kansas City Star, and the book itself is a recreation of a statesman so great that his name is practically a symbol in politics.
The Saturday Review said the book was "likely to be the best life of Cicero past, present, or to come." Haskell describes the Roman and his contemporaries—Pompey, Caesar, Brutus, Antony, Augustus. These figures that seem statue-like, in cold relief, emerge as exciting figures from history.
"Safe!"