University of Missouri at Kansas City - Kangaroo Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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- Mg Q -MMM-'W , -r - f wewffitd Y , I , Z APO Chuck Mullis held back the mulling crowd while Sfudenm made their semiannual visits to the 9Ym Margaret Rogers gave out cards. The known gained entrance. Dances and athletics were secondary. All-School Registration - September l7-20 The lines were interminable. So were the forms. The KANGAROO staff asked questions, took money. People were rude. Pharmacy students got a helping hand from their advisors. Who advised the advisors? Many of them morose and sulky, some 3300 new and old students poured into Swinney gymnasium the three days of registration, the majority of them not to return to the gym until next registration day. They fought to get through the maze and out again, with such remarks as Why do we have to buy an activity ticket? Why do we have to fill out a yearbook blank when we don't Want a yearbook? and All this trouble just to go to class and go home and study. Nuts. The well-known students found it easy to get past the APO guards and to the faculty advisors, who had a faculty for giving out bum dope on requirements for a major. Hundreds of other students chafed at filling out activities questionnaires and completing in- terminable forms that forced them to double back just as they were ready to go through the photographers booth and the bursar's room and out. With typical freedom, the Law School enrollees shouldered past the activities desk and refused to do anything that was not connected with registering for a class. People were rude and aggressive for the most part, but a few stood amid the melee and asked wot hoppen? . Qt, 147:49 .X -

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University President Returns From World Tour Simultaneously the faculty members on the Playhouse stage rose, applauding President Clarence R. Decker, who, fresh from a world tour, was introduced by Student Council Presi- dent Bob Taylor to an already familiar student body. The ova- tion sparked by these alert for alertedl faculty members led up to a well-received speech that justified for once the expected front page rave review in the student U-News. Written by a former student editor, the story said in part: History is moving toward one world, Dr. Clarence R. Decker told University students and faculty members at the first fall convocation Thursday in the Playhouse. Fifteen minutes before Dr. Decker began to speak all seats in the Playhouse were filled and students gathered around loudspeakers in the stone circle and the student union building. As we move toward that one world, we find ourselves in a transition period of two worlds and two opposing giants . . . western Democracy and Communism, he said. Back from a 33,000-mile trip around the world, Dr. Decker reserved his first official report of the tour to members of the University Community. I came back from this trip with no radically new convic- tions about life, Dr. Decker said. But my views of the People of the world in which we live have undergone many modifications. Three factors have made the twentieth century unique, Dr. Decker told the convocation. The atomic bomb, the idealogi- cal struggle between democracy and communism and the rise of power in Asia are all peculiar to our time. 13 X s. For good or evil, the atomic bomb has put its fear upon all cosmopolites in cafes in Paris to laboring peasants in the fields of India, Dr. Decker said. peoples, from The center of political gravity, or the balance of power, is shifting from Europe to Asia, Dr. Decker warned. While Pearl Harbor should have dramatized that for us, the United States still must learn it has a tremendous stake in the Far East. Out destiny lies there, he added. Attendant to these problems are the problems of population and the waste of human effort and natural resources, the president said. He pointed out that while the earth's popula- tion is growing, there is no particular need for alarm except in those countries where there is a maladjustment between the number of people and the means of production. There is a terrifying lack of education throughout the world, Dr. Decker said. In some countries learning is prob- ably non-existent. The lack of education, however, does not blind persons to the fact that some have and some have not. In the United' Nations, in the work of women in all lands, and in the advancement of science and production Dr. Decker found hope for a better world. He emphasized that as people of the University community, the students and faculty of the University should do all within their power to encourage peace and understanding throughout the world.