University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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OCTOBER Thus self-styled is the University Daily Kansan Malone, publisher; Bill Gill, editor-in-chief; Bill Downs, managing editor; Don Huls, campus editor; Dale O ' Brien, associate editor; Quentin Brown, busi- ness manager; Mary Rutter, feature editor; Marion Mundis, sports editor; Kenneth Postlethwaite, telegraph editor; David Hamlin, editor of the Sour Owl; Alice Haldeman-Julius and Jim Polkinghor n. It is this group of students that acts as the check on the paper ' s activi- ties, as an originator of its policies, and as an elective body for the selection of its editors and managers. John Malone, the present publisher, whose term will last the first semester, has immediate control over all phases of the paper. He is the czar, per se. He has the power to print or advocate in the pages of the Kan- san anything and everything that he sees fit. But, should he get Hearstean ideas or publish anything that the Kansan Board considers detrimental or in bad taste, he is subject to impeachment by a vote of this group. The other elective positions of editor-in-chief, manag- ing editor and business manager are subject to the same ruling. Bill Gill, editor-in-chief, is responsible for the selec- tion, editing and writing of the editorials and editorial features that appear on that page. He has appointed as his associates during his quarterly term, Dale O ' Brien and Alma Frazier. The interpretative material printed in the Kansan is handled by this group. The Student Opinion column, a feature which prints readers ' com- ments and criticism and one of the most popular in the paper, is also under the direction of this department. The news coverage is under the direction of Bill Downs, managing editor. He has appointed Don Huls, campus editor; Jim Porter, news editor; Kenneth Postle- thwaite, telegraph editor; Grace Valentine, society editor; Marion Mundis, sports editor; Phil Stratton and Dwight Bridges, make-up editors; and Howard Rusco with Doris Kent and Stephen David as the Sunday staff. Any morning al eignl o ' clock The news staff handles the reporters, assigns the stories and beats and puts the paper to ' bed every night. Special columns and features are written by those students best adapted for this specialized type of work. On the Shin, the Kansan gossip column, is handled jointly by Allen Asher and Reginald Heap, who replaced David Hamlin when the latter took over the editorship of the Sour Owl. The Roving Reporter, the The controlling forces confer question-a-day feature, is conducted by Stephen David. Interviews and special news features have been covered by Kenneth Postlethwaite, Alice Haldeman-Julius, David Partridge and Virgil Mitchell. Specialized sports writers and interpreters include Rosemary Smith, for the women, and Horace Mason, for the men. Advertising, circulation and the general business side of the Kansan has as the manager Quentin Brown and his associate Elton Carter. These men are respon- sible for the financial independence of the paper. Not to remain uncredited are the reporting and edit- ing students, numbering over one hundred, who are responsible for the more routine work on the paper. These students furnish tips, cover regular campus beats, write headlines and edit copy. To them falls the respon- sibility of supplying and beating into shape the innards of the paper. Standing apart from the actual printing and manage- ment of the University Daily Kansan but invaluable as counselors and advisers in the journalism faculty. Prof. L. N. Flint, head of the department and the old- est instructor from the point of service in the United States, acts as adviser and consultant to every student who has a class in the journalism building. Professor Flint (as he is respectfully called, although no one yet has had the courage to facte with the name) offers the students a liberal, modern and experienced man ' s (Continued on Page 79)

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JAYHAWKER , ALL-STUDENT SERVANT By BILL DOWNS Professor L. N. Flint WHEN children are small they select as their life s ambitions such picturesque vocations as policeman, fireman or the street car motorman on their particular trolley line. Never has one been heard to say Pop, I want to be a newspaper man. Perhaps this is a typical example of the naive wis- dom of youth. For the fourth estate, as the profession is called, seldom has anything like an estate connected with it. It is generally recognized as one of the poorest paid of the professions. Still the University of Kansas has even a larger enrollment in its journalism depart- ment than ever before. Perhaps this is again exemplary of the naive wisdom or innocence of youth. The University Daily Kansan, official student news- paper of the University, is one of the few completely all-student projects on the campus. Ranking with the student government organizations, it stands as a pro- ject of student achievement and student endeavor towards an ultimate goal of serving the Mt. Oread com- monwealth. There is no need to discuss the compensations in journalism over and above the pecuniary shortcomings the thrill of seeing your stuff in print, the race to meet the dead-line, the coverage and interpretation of facts and vital information that affects a world of people all this is merely part of the game and is accepted as such. Truly the smell of the office paste-pot and printer ' s ink combined with the noise of the typewriters and the roar of the press, makes for spell-binding romance and gives opportunity for expression seldom equaled in any other profession. This is the true essence and appeal of newspaper work. The official student paper of the University of Kansas is the billing carried under the name plate of the Daily Kansan. But by official the Kansan does not stand as an organization connected with or acting under the direction of the administrative councils of the University itself. It has no faculty censorship, but depends upon the good taste and direction of its student editors. It receives no dic- tatorship, but serves the student body because its directors are chosen from that group. The University Daily Kansan truly is a free press. It is a cooperative, non-profit, self-supporting student project. The Daily Kansan ' s internal organization is one so set up as to protect itself against any one person or body from dominating or misusing its influence for any selfish or detrimental ends. Its supreme authority is vested in the Kansan Board, a group of twelve undergraduates interested and enrolled in jour- nalism and selected on their merit, their interest in the paper, and their achievements. This year the Kansan Board is composed of John

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JAYHAWKER GOVERNMENT FDR MEN - - Greater things should come from the Council since its rise from coop to castle By DALE O ' BRIEN President }olin Phillips FROM the luxurious meeting quarters of the Men s Student Council luxurious proceedings should emanate. Some people attribute the banality of the proceedings of many years ' Councils to the ordinariness of the coops in which they met. The banality of proceedings is attested by clip upon clip, taken from the University Daily Kansan ' s files, screaming strident warnings to campus cribbers that the Council in its most important meeting of the year lashed out at cheaters with greater fines and more humiliating punish- ments. Finally the penalty pro- claimed by one aggregation was expulsion from school upon certain ill-defined conditions. No succeed- ing Council could outdo the fine business, so soon the memorable debates on whether or not the var- sity dance manager should be paid and what to do with students who wrote snow checks began. And so it went. Last year, however, in spite of the room off the book exchange, the Council snapped out of it and gave us student forums, an N. S. F. A. meet on the campus, a student court, and a revised constitution. This year more can be expected. A new ruling by which the presidents of the fresh- man and sophomore classes are allowed a seat and a vote on the Council hikes the membership to twenty- seven. The party membership is about even now twelve for the P. S. G. L. ' s and eleven for the Pacha- camacs at the latest count. Three of the officers, John Phillips, Hubert Anderson, and ViIIiam Zupanec, are Pachacamacs, while the fourth, Dave Conderman, is a P. S. G. L. Of course it ' s too early in the season for the Council to do much more than lay plans, put irons in the fire, but here are some of the projects under consideration: First is a central band booking agency for middle western schools. The plan, if carried through, would permit the schools to hire big bands at nominal fees on the supposition that a big band will play for, say $500 a dance if several $500 dances close together are lined up for it. If the project goes through we II be dancing to bands from Benny Goodman on down . . . or up. The Council has already begun correspondence on the plan with the governing associations in the Big Six schools, Washburn, the University of Kansas City, Colorado University and Iowa University. The feasibility of setting up a Council agency to book bands for Hill organizations is also under con- sideration. If the plan materializes, Hill organizations will come to the agency to ascertain the availability, price, and quality of the bands registered. Contracts with the bands will be made through the agency. The Council intends to publicize the University by adding impetus to the correspondence-to-home-town-news- The Council ' s new hangout