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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 21.1963
Bertrand Russell Called LivelyPoliticalInfluence
Rv Russ Corbitt
A visiting professor of philosophy from Glasco, Scotland, said last night, "The most remarkable thing about Bertrand Russell is that he is still alive." The British philosopher celebrated his 90th birthday last May.
Joseph J. Russell, who is teaching a few courses at KU this semester, spoke to the Great Men of the 20th Century Study Group of the KU-Y in the Cottonwood Room of the Kansas Union. His topic was "Bertrand Russell as a Philosopher."
THE PROFESSOR referred to Russell as "the liveliest political influence in Britain today." He said Russell's life and work can be divided into three main parts.
Prof. Russell said the first division of Russell's life consists of his activities prior to World War I.
"Russell concerned himself primarily with logic and technical philosophy during this period," the professor said.
DURING THE second period of Bertrand Russell's life, the years between the two world wars, he left his intellectual pursuits and began working for reforms which would eliminate war, Prof. Russell said.
Since the second world war, Russell has developed into a "private international statesman." Prof. Russell quoted the British philosopher as saying, "The issues of nuclear war are so dangerous that it is ridiculous to pursue studies of philosophy until the dangers have been eliminated."
PROF. RUSSELL devoted most of his time to the first period of Russell's life and works.
"When Bertrand Russell began his studies at Cambridge," Prof. Russell said, "his two main interests were mathematics and theology."
HE WAS INFLUENCED by many men while he was at the university, but most profoundly by his mathematics instructor, A. N. Whitehead, the professor said.
Theme Selected forStudentFestival
"Happy Fella Around the World" has been selected as the theme of the International Student Festival to be held Saturday, April 20, in Hoch Auditorium.
The festival will include a number of foreign exhibits during the day, and an entertainment program that evening.
The following students have been selected to plan the program for the festival: Vinod Patel, Baroda, India; special student, chairman; Suzanne Bolstad, Oslo, Norway; graduate exhibits; Luis Umezere, Caracas Venezuela, senior; program; Gregs Thomopulos, Benin City, Nigeria, sophomore, publicity; Kang Seng, Cambodia, sophomore, properties: Costa Rosa Macedo, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, graduate, cleanup; Raja Naib, Jhelum, Pakistan, graduate, master of ceremonies, and Omneya Souleem, Cairo, Egypt, graduate, mistress of ceremonies.
Even when Russell moved into the world of physics, he continued working with Whitehead.
Prof. Russell pointed out that Russell has an aristocratic background and a title, but most of his followers and admirers refrain from using it, even though Russell has commented that he might prefer to use it at times.
BERTRAND RUSSELL'S sense of humor was brought to light by a story in which Prof. Russell quoted the philosopher as saying King Henry VIII was the ideal of his people because of his moral convictions.
"Not once." Prof. Russell quoted the philosopher, "but five times, the king proved he would rather commit murder than adultery."
Prof. Russell will speak to the group again in two weeks, said Lacy Banks, Kansas City sophomore and chairman of the group. He will concentrate on the remainder of Russell's life and works, with particular emphasis on his work as a pacifist.
Five KU graduate students, who will soon earn Ph. Ds in chemistry, have accepted college faculty positions for next September.
Five New Teachers To Accept Positions
John K. Garland will teach at the University of Missouri, Victor L. Heasley at Pasadena College in California, Lauren R. Wilson at Ohio Wesleyan University, Leonard R. Worden at Kalamazoo College, and John F. Zimmerman at Wabash College.
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Opinion Asked On House Cut
TOPEKA — (UPI) - Atty. Gen William Ferguson was asked for an opinion today on whether it would be legal to cut 20 members from the Kansas house of representatives.
was recommended for passage in the House yesterday.
State Rep. Thomas Van Cleave Jr.
D-Kansas City, who requested the opinion, said a bill to reduce house membership from 125 to 105 members is unconstitutional. The bill
Van Cleave said the bill denies guarantees under the 14th amendment of equal protection under the law.
The bill gives each county one representative. Twenty additional representatives were distributed among the more populous counties in 1959.
MARKING ON THE CURVE—AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Yet there came a time when Twonkey Crimscoott—mentor, sage, and savant—was thoroughly outthought, outfoxed, outmaneuvered, outployed, and outwitted by Choate Sigafoos, sophomore.
Twonkey Crimscott was a professor. Choate Sigafoa was a sophomore. Twonkey Crimscott was keen, cold, brilliant. Choate Sigafoa was loose, vague, adenoidal. Twonkey Crimscott believed in diligence, discipline, and marking on the curve. Choate Sigafoa believed in elves, Julie London, and thirteen hours of sleep each night.
It happened one day when Chate was at the library studying for one of Mr. Crimscott's exams in sociology. Mr. Crimscott's exams were murder—plain, flat murder. They consisted of one hundred questions, each question having four possible answers — A, B, C, and D. You had to check the correct answer, but the trouble was that the four choices were so subtly shaded, so intricately worded, that students more clever by far than Chate Sigafoats were often set to gibbering.
So on this day Choate sat in the library poring over his sociology text, his tiny brow furrowed with concentration, while all around him sat the other members of the sociology class, every one studying like crazy, every one scared and pasty. Choate looked sadly at their stricken faces. "What a waste!" he thought. "All this youth, this verve, this bounce, chained to musty books in a musty library! We should be out singing and dancing and cutting didoes on the greensward! Instead we are here."
Then, suddenly, an absolute gasser of an idea hit Choate. "Listen!" he shouted to his classmates. "Tomorrow when we take the exam, let's all—every one of us—check Choice 'A' on every question—every one of them."
"Huh?" said his classmates.
"Oh, I know that Choice 'A' can't be the right answer to every question," said Choate. "But what's the difference? Mr. Crincott marks on the curve. If we all cheek the same answers, then we all get the same score, and everybody in the class gets a 'C.'"
"Hmm," said his classmates.
"So why should we knock ourselves out studying?" said Choate. "Let's get out of here and have a ball!"
So they all ran out and lit Marlboro Cigarettes and had a ball, as indeed, you will too when you light a Marlboro, for if there ever was a cigarette to lift the spirit and gladden the heart, to dispel the shades of night, to knot up theravelled sleeve of care, to put spring in your gait and roses in your cheeks, it is filtered Marlboros—firm and pure and fragrant and filled with rich, natural, golden tobacco. And, what's more, this darlin' smoke comes in soft packs that are actually soft and flip-top boxes that actually flip.
Well sir, the next morning the whole class did what Choate said, and, sure enough, they all got 'C's, and they picked Choate up and carried him on their shoulders and sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and plied him with sweetmeats and Marlboros and girls and put on buttons which said "I DOTE ON CHOATE."
But they were celebrating too soon. Because the next time shrewd old Mr. Crimscott gave them a test, he did not give them one hundred multiple choice questions. He only gave them one question—to wit: write a 30,000 word essay on "Crime Does Not Pay."
"You and your ideas," they said to Chateo and torc off his epaulets and broke his sword and drummed him out of the school. Today, a broken man, he earns a living as a caimshat in Toledo. © 1963 Max Shulman
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