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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 29, 1964
Please Explain
If you know the meaning of "banal" or what Rubens did for a living, you're ahead of most college graduates.
GEORGE GALLUP, who ought to have enough to do predicting elections this year, sent out 327 pollsters who gave thousands of people the following quiz:
1. Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
2. If ships are denied the use of the Suez Canal what route do they usually travel to get from England to India?
3. Does the Constitution of the United States prohibit a third term for Presidents?
4. Who is usually regarded the father of psychoanalysis?
5. What is the chief religion of Pakistan?
6. Just as a rough guess, what per cent of profit would you say the average company makes?
7. Can the Supreme Court nullify or rule out a law passed by Congress and approved by the President?
8. What is the shortest air route from Seattle to Stockholm?
With which country do you connect
9. Nehru? 10. Nasser? 11 Adenauer?
Can you tell who these persons were or what they did to become famous?
13. Thackeray? 13. Rubens? 14.
Tiberius? 15. Strindberg? 16. Emerson?
17. Mozart? 18. Gainsborough?
19. Pasteur? 20. Livy? 21.
Kant? 22. Vermeer? 23. Sibelius?
24. Schopenhauer?
Gallup's conclusion, printed in Sunday's "This Week," was that, "although college training might impart a great deal of knowledge in a special field, it does not improve a person's general knowledge as much as you might expect."
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES averaged seven correct; those who had attended college averaged nine; college graduates answered 12. Really a hard test.
Please.
Someone discover that George Gallup somehow messed up his usually accurate statistics.
Someone tell me he took the test and scored 24.
SOMEONE TELL ME these little facts aren't things everybody picks up in high school courses and general reading.
Someone convince me people don't need at least a superficial knowledge of their cultural background and current events.
Someone please explain how the average U.S. college graduate could miss half the questions on this simple, simple, simple test.
- Margaret Hughes
Answers to Gallup Quiz
1. Earl Warren 2. Around Africa
3. Yes 4. Freud 5. Moslem 6. Under
10 per cent 7. Yes 8. Over the North
Pole
9. India 10. Egypt 11. West Germany
12. English novelist 13. Painter
14. Roman emperor 15. Swedish dramatist 16. American essayist 17. Composer 18. English painter 19. Scientist 20. Historian 21. Philosopher 22. Painter 23. Finnish composer 24. Greman philosopher
The People Say . . .
Unjust Punishment
In reply to Mr. Franklin's letter in the UDK:
Someone should inform this naive, ill-informed gentleman of a few facts. It is my intention to enlighten him.
I will grant him the fact that many of our young feminine beings have lost one of their most sacred possessions due to morals, but that is all I will grant him.
Scarlet fever has taken this sacred possession away from a good percentage of our women. I ask you, should we expel these girls after they fail their virginity tests?
What about the girls who have lost their virginity due to a fall they have taken during childhood? Should we expel them when they fail the test?
HERBLOCK
THE WASHINGTON POST
There are many other diseases that have taken some of our young ladies' virginity away. Some of them are such diseases as smallpox and measles. Should they be expelled?
"Ah, Who Wantsa Walk A Straight Line Anyhow?"
Dailijfransan
University of Kansas student newspaper
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Lawrence sophomore
Fred J. Black
There are sports, such as tennis, field-hockey, and horseback riding which also cause the loss of virginity in young women. Do you, I submit, want to expel them too?
If Mr. Franklin is looking for a solution to the morals problem on campus, I suggest he look elsewhere. Too many, not at fault, would be unjustly punished.
Absurdity
In reference to the letter in the April 23rd issue of the UDK by Mr. Franklin concerning his solution to the women's disciplinary problem, we find it hard to believe that he is actually serious, but apparently he is. A virginity test is not only the most absurd thing we have ever heard of, but should be labeled as outright slander toward the women of the University of Kansas.
There is absolutely no logical connection between late hours and a solution involving a test such as that proposed by Mr. Franklin. This is an institution of learning in a free nation, and a physical examination on moral principles is not only an invasion of privacy but certainly no cause to be expelled from the University!
Perhaps Mr. Franklin, to set his mind at ease, would like to conduct the tests himself.
Peter V. Bieri
Seneca freshman
Tom Petroshak
Shawnee-Mission freshman
Bob Leiter Cunningham freshman
Raymond Naughton St. Louis, Mo., freshman
From Other Campuses
Marijuana
Twelve students at the University of Colorado were recently acquitted of a narcotics charge. All twelve had been either using marijuana, selling it, or carrying it.
District Judge William E. Buck ruled that marijuana was not a narcotic as defined by Colorado statute.
An expert witness gave this testimony: "Marijuana has no addictive powers, it does not have the habit-forming characteristics even tobacco may have."
Judge Buck ruled the Colorado narcotics statute was unconstitutional for two reasons: (1) Marijuana exhibits characteristics different from a narcotic as defined by law, and (2) The State Board of Health's power to define a narcotic was ruled an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority.
In theory, the lives of some of the 12 defendants were at stake since state statute provides the death penalty for selling narcotics to anyone under 25.
Jews in Alabama
The University of Alabama elected a Jewish student to the presidency of the student body. The UA newspaper, the Crimson- White, proudly announced that the campus was no longer "a home for bigots."
"The nation should take another look at our campus," wrote a student, "and at a recent trend which separates us from the stereotype (of the South)."
Fag Ban at M.U.
At the University of Missouri, the administration is investigating the feasibility of banning cigarette machines from campus. . .
Racial discrimination in fraternities is a hot topic of debate at MU now. The KU Greek Week demonstrations have apparently become a factor of consideration. The editor of the MU Maneater wrote: "Many IFC members feel, and even have been warned, that the KU Greek Week picketing by CORE (sic) members might be repeated here." (The Congress on Racial Equality had nothing to do with the KU demonstrations.) "Several fraternities on that campus still have white clauses, and all practice de facto segregation."
Loud Speakers Solo In Electronic Music
Two sopranos and a series of Altec and Ampex loud speakers were the soloists at the choral music concert of the contemporary American music symposium here last night.
THE SPEAKERS were the unique part of the music of guest composer Vladimir Ussachevsky. The sopranos had a more conventional task.
"Three Shakespearean Songs" by Arthur Frackenpohl, a setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Afternoon on a Hill" by Thomas Bricecetti, "Psalm 148 (Praise the Lord)" by Maurice Weed, "Love Spell" and "Spell of Sleep" by Juli Nunlist, and two of the 12 Weinheber madrigals by Paul Hindemith.
The program, besides Mr. Ussachevsky's "Creation," included:
The Frackenpohl offerings were traditional in harmony and sparkled with rhythmic freshness. Mr. Frackenpohl writes well for voices, and when it is needed he can produce a good singing melody, Ineta Williams, Wichita junior, sang the solo in the second song, "Never Doubt I Love," with sureness and a fine musical sense.
THE BRICCETTI AND WEED numbers were rather ordinary and directionless. To this reviewer they were uninteresting.
However, the audience of 500 was then treated to the beautiful sonorities and contrapuntal textures of Mrs. Nunlist's two pieces, "Love Spell" seemed to have all the direction that the Briccetti and Weed pieces lacked, and was greatly enhanced by the rich soprano voice of Patricia Wise, Wichita sophomore. "Spell of Sleep" created a lovely nocturnal mood.
Mrs. Nunlist, a housewife from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, wrote better choral pieces than the two men, established composers, who preceeded her.
THE HINDEMITH PIECES are generally unknown, although they are fine music. Hindemith, who died last December, was the outstanding German musical craftsman of our time. His work has had great influence on American contemporary music, since he taught for more than 10 years at Yale, beginning in 1943.
The gigantic challenges of the avant-garde "Creation-Prologur" of Ussacnevsky were met adequately by Mr. Krehbiel, his Chamber Choir, a few members of the Concert Choir, Mr. Ussachevsky and his machines. Electronic music of this type proved to be both a novel and exciting experience for the audience, which did not find the piece nearly as weird as it had supposed. One might even say it was rather nice.
E. John Taddiken