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Summer Session Kansau Tuesday, July 9, 1963
Too Much Education
At what point do you get too much education? That may sound like a silly question. But there is good reason to ask it. You work with a disadvantage when you get too much education.
YOU FORGET that the most important thing in life is making a buck—honest or otherwise.
You learn a whole lot of high-blown principles, and you believe them.
You learn to be a bit skeptical about relying on what people and organizations profess to be, and place your faith in facts.
You learn these things and lots more. But when you survey the world you must live in, you wonder if you have learned too much.
YOU LEARN that certain ideas or philosophies which held true 100 years ago may be inoperable or harmful today.
You look around you and see men worshipped or held in high honor for no other reason than they know how to make money or their ancestors did.
YOU LOOK around you and you see the U.S. Constitution is meaningless—if your skin pigment is too dark.
You look around you and you see groups waving various flags and banners and you know from history that they are nothing but latter day hate groups operating in disguise.
You look around you and you see men and
YOU LOOK around you and you wonder why men continue to spout 19th Century idioms in the middle of the 20th Century.
organizations thriving on solid images created by public relations men, but underneath you can see they are only warmed-over Jim Fisks.
And then after all this neck-stiffening looking-around you may laugh the wall of the cynic. You have reason.
You have reason because you yourself represent one of this country's strangest ironies.
THE PEOPLE who lambast you as a fuzzy-headed intellectual are the very people who have gone to great expense and effort to establish institutions to supply you with too much education.
They bring rich and plentiful alms to the altar of education. But those who create society's intellectual Pygmalions are the most severe critics. Not to mention being the blindest and least logical, to boot.
You wonder again, "At what point do you get too much education?"
The answer may be relatively simple. You have too much education anytime you step on the toes of some more-or-less sacred cow. And it is true that you have too much education when you do that regardless whether you be right or wrong.
— Terry Murphy
Trip to Albany Ends in Jail Stay
By Terry Murphy
"It could be accurately described as filthy."
That is the description tendered by Felicia Oldfather, 20-year-old daughter of KU law professor and Mrs. Charles Oldfather, of the Albany, Ga., jail cell where she spent seven days. She was arrested for her part in the Negro protest movement in Albany.
FELICIA'S week-long stay in jail started with a feeling of guilt. She felt she must do something to "make the words of the National Anthem mean something for everyone." including the Negro.
She went to Albany as a field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, a group which is pushing for civil rights for the Negro. Her interest in the group's activities started at Carleton College at Northfield, Minn. She will be a senior next Fall and student body president.
"If the Negroes keep taking it," she said, "they will keep adding to a submerged hatred and you will have lots of trouble. It's not enough to integrate one Negro
each year to every school. The momentary satisfaction of the past is not enough anymore."
MISS OLDFATHER said the Southern whites' view of the Negro is at the base of the problem.
"The whites in the South regard the Negro as an animal—an inferior being. They are confused and worried about such things as intermarriage."
She said that because the white Southerner doesn't believe the Negro is a human being, he has no reason to treat him like one.
SHE SAID she doubts many Southern whites believe they have a chance to win the current battle with Negroes over civil rights. She likened this desperation arising from the prospect of defeat to the last-ditch fighting fury of a retreating army.
She said that while Negroes are accustomed to being treated as second-class citizens, they are beginning to realize they don't have to take it.
"I have no doubt that there will
be bloodshed," she said. "It is reasonable to expect it.
"WE CANT expect the Southern Negro to respect the law which is for and by the white man."
For all practical purposes the Southern Negro is fighting a lone battle, she said.
SHE SAID she was motivated to go to Albany as a field secretary because of a feeling of guilt and a desire to aid the Negroes' cause. It was because of her activities that she was arrested and jailed.
"The white moderates either are too afraid or they have no power," she said. "Their presence is meaningless."
She left school June 8, and after a stopover in Oak Ridge, Tenn., arrived June 11 at an orientation camp for field secretaries located at a farm north of Albany. Three days later she went into Albany.
Shortly afternoon June 21, she was arrested en route to a mass meeting at a church in Albany's Negro community. Headquarters had been moved there, she said.
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Is Henry Bubb A New Moses?
I will give you odds right now that the Kansas Board of Regents will be the source of some of the most controversial news stories during the coming year.
This could be expected in light of population figures. The longestablished crush of post-World War II babies is poised to charge the doors of state colleges and universities.
BUT THE NEWS stories which I anticipate are not the run-of-the-mill stories pegged on the now-familiar news that state educational facilities are inadequate.
That element, naturally, will be in the news.
But the new element which I expect to make news is that some person in a position of responsibility is willing to stand up and be counted among the rare number of state leaders who are willing to do more than talk about it.
THIS MAN IS Henry Bubb of Topeka. He has a record of knowing what to do and then doing it.
As the head of a savings and loan association headquartered in Topeka, Bubb pumped life into the organization which has made it the largest in the state.
If his record means anything, Henry Bubb is a man who mixes the genius of imagination with the sweat of hard work to produce results.
HAPPILY FOR THE State of Kansas, he is the new chairman of the Board of Regents.
This articulate man furnishes the power and life which take ideas and plans out of committees and converts them into action.
He has already pledged himself to getting salary increases for faculty members and other state school officials.
THERE IS REASON to believe that this is no hollow mouthing made for public consumption only. Henry Bubb has accentuated the positive. That is, he talks of what can be done and how to do it rather than why it can't be done.
It would be silly to expect him to wrought miracles in his year as regent chairman. Considering the state legislators' bent for viewing obvious necessities as being extravagant frills, Bubb's leadership faces stout opposition.
But enthusiasm and drive are infectious. Bubb, apparently, has both.
We now have the Eurich Report and enough other educational surveys to know what must be done. Perhaps Henry Bubb will show the way from ideas to action.
TPM
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