University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Look at the picture. Do you see only an empty street with meaningless geometric streaks of light? Look again. Now you see a portrait of memories the lumi- nous visuali2ation of life that has been on Mt. Oread, but now is gone. This is that old feeling that comes to an alum on his return to the beloved campus. The light of his memories recalls happy hours he spent on the Hill.

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FALL ISSUE 1945 III! OF THE MILL Collective Bargaining Required activities for freshmen is one of the most sensible Hill institu- tions. The inevitable deluge of aspirants every fall upon the office of any of the campus activities serves to remind one that Hill organizations still operate under the safety in numbers policy, or out of sight, out of mind. Ask any activity leader and he will tell you that the processing of 80 or more freshmen is no fun ; that name card files add materially to the waste paper drive. Along with names are registered rank indifference, boredom, stupidity, and rarely too too rarely real enthusiasm. The enthusiasts, the three percent of the total, make life worth- while for the particular activity offi- cer involved. The delightful task of sifting through the mass of names for just such a person is interesting, and after all takes only half a semester to complete. By that time, the applicants who were whipped into line by their organizations have fallen by the wayside through sheer in- difference. The situation has grown so complex that only by persistent appearances does the freshman who is interested in a given activity make himself known to the organization. It would be extremely difficult for the various organizations and groups on the Hill, who require their freshmen to sign up for student activities, to come to a more logical plan. Such as point- ing out the educational, personal, and social benefits which one may accrue by participating in these activities by planning discussions with their freshmen and pointing those most fitted by tem- perament and interest along certain ac- tivity lines. Only then will our D. P. ' s (displaced persons) be adjusted into the right activity from the begin- ning. Ruin We asked Chet Shaw, one of K.U. ' s more notable alums and now managing editor of Newsweek magazine, to guest-write an article for us. He d eclined, saying that he had some very cynical and pessimistic views about the future of the world that I would hesitate to lay before college students. Come to KU, Mr. Shaw, and you may be able to acquire a few new ones. All work, No Pay Gawwffump. The professor clears his thought, the audience sinks into a metamorphic stu- por, the audience listens attentively to noises in the hall, the audience gives up and goes to sleep. The professor drones on through pages of notes, looks up when the class period is over. This is the condition as it too often exists in the best educational system in the world. And K.U. is a part of that system. Educators, alert to progressive learning, are slow to realize their two glaring faults, both of which comple- ment each other. It is one of the poorest paid profes- sions. Conversely are the poor examples of teacherhood who are a drain upon the profession, who do nothing to stimulate the imagination of the students, nor en- courage learning and interest. For every four good professors on the Hill, there is one who would never be missed. Only when K.U. starts paying for its professors, will true intellectual stimulation become a common thing. We ' d like to have more Pattersons and Gibsons on the Hill.

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Capi. . Iti. RETURN OF THE NATIVES SOLDIERS and sailors no sooner win a war than they come traipsing home creat- ing prohlems problems all over the place. If they go to work they are problems to their bosses who, if they aren ' t difficult to manage, worry about when they will become difficult. If they don ' t go to work, they ' re another kind of problem particularly when they start consorting, and as everyone knows they al- ways do, with booze the loafers. If they go to school, they ' re an educational prob- lem what kind of schooling should they have, what are the values of education they should hope to find, and how long will it be before one of them starts drilling holes, each about 32 100ths of an inch, through one of the faculty ' s brains. At home they ' re problems when will they start beating the dog or begin drink- ing canned heat the poor psychoneurotics. What a hot hell civilians must be broiling in these days with only a couple of million of these problems out of the service and millions more yet to come. Veterans probably have always been problems but, as is generally known, not like the ones that are coming out of this war. Thank heavens the folks at home have been adequately warned what to expect when these wrecks from the wars start filtering back into their homes, towns, schools and jobs. Every radio station, newspaper, magazine, book publisher and writer in the country has done its best to give the word on the veteran problem. He ' s Been A Killer and The GI Psychoneurosis are the titles of two magazine articles which appeared a few weeks ago. From them the civilian-reader will be able to deduce that every soldier returning home has been a killer, that he hates to talk about the war, that he begins to shake whenever he hears a steam radiator knock, and that he is apt to wake up in the middle of the night a screaming, sweating hysteric. Willard Waller, one of the outstanding experts on veterans, recently wrote: Be prepared for his strange apathies and unexpected intensities of feeling, tol- erate his outbursts and eccentricities of taste, remember that he is not and can never be again the boy who went away. Wives have been well advised by Dr. George K. Pratt, in his book, Soldier To (Continued on Page 63)