KSU Politics Seen As Petty, Ayres Says
Charley Ayres, editor of the Duchess, labels campus politics at Kent State University as petty. He argues questions on campus lack real significance or future impact on the university's status.
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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
2
Charley Ayres, editor of the Duchess, labels campus politics at Kent State University as petty. He argues questions on campus lack real significance or future impact on the university's status.
The letter criticizes how candidates are chosen by about 40 percent of the student body and secret Greek meetings. It notes petitions with no candidates, intra Greek battles, and independent slates that ignore qualifications. Twelve offices are un contested, leaving Kent politics seen as a waste of time.
A rainy Cleveland street scene centers on a street vendor selling Social Justice for five cents. A lone man debates morality and double standards with a passerby about poverty, gender, faith, and judgment as a Salvation Army trio chants a contrasting plea.
The Kent Stater is issued four times weekly during the academic year and weekly in summer. Publication suspended during vacations. Entered as second class matter October 11 1927 at Kent Ohio Post Office. Printed by P H Bonsall Printing Co 138 E Main St Kent Ohio. It is a member of the Anepoiste Collegiate Press and Collegiate Pest.
In a school cafeteria scene a crowded lunch line forms before the noon rush. Students push and rearrange, friends vouching for each other to keep the line moving and avoid temper flare ups as lunchtime nears.
A garbled note hints that next year’s Short Course will include a color picture in the Sunday Chi Trib. Mentions a Mickey Dover medal from sharpshooting at Shelby and Gamma Sig parity satire. Mentions a Jewish fraternity on campus and Andy Toth backing Dot Humphrey for class secretary.
Dale Rooks announced the first executive meeting of the 1942 short course in photography. The News paper Photographers association executive committee convened in Kent last weekend to review the first copy of News Pictures produced for the press.
Dr. Garry Cleveland Myers will speak on authority and child problems here on October 29. The event is sponsored by the YMCA and YWCA, Gerry Daniels, president of the YMCA, announced yesterday.
Dean Ralph Horn of New York State Teachers College Buffalo visited campus yesterday and commented on the excellent equipment of McGilvrey Hall.
The note describes students in a long cafeteria line forced to leave for the dorm and return at 12 30 to eat quietly and proceed to class, highlighting delays and disruption during peak midday service.
The piece reads like a social column noting Jean Anderson and Betty Duff at Engleman pool. It mentions Roy Berger and Mary Keith at IM gridgames and hints at various social entanglements, engagements, and roaming reporters. It ends with a rallying call to support the team in Cleveland Saturday.
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