-2= Vid: tht aad Chay dagen Seek Sheldiaielinn. There were too many diplomats who thought that the time was not right to stop either aggressor. The decay of France and some other nations was indicated by the fact | that the wrong-doing was no part of anyone's business. And your Se ee eee ee regarding standards or rules. : You are doubtless right that very few college could stand an investigation. ‘That is evidence of decay and disintegration be- cause it is acknowledged that no big time eachools are keeping the rules, athletically speaking. Yet we shout about the virtues of democracy - that we are good sportsmen =< a the rules. What a paradox and what a hypocrisy! a Tho Japs tnvo cot "It", meaning infeny end treachery. athletics we endeavor to develop@'He" mon -~ hypocrisy and Dhonie. Those are two rent — to "ee velop in eee anateur athletics. Aah iene pti Sheil bee Wak tes aaa ee en Whe time subsidized practice that is now going one The wer and high SRCn ERS lee TS i pertnoely aera! Way, You are right ~ I am not a diplomat. i tien ie wn “yes” men in America today, and too few with intestinal fortitude in — ee eee break theme Gerald Tucker entered Kansas State College and stayed seven weeks. After the ninth week, with a week or so at home, he entered the University of Oklahom. The Big Six eligibility rules state that after an individual has been matriculated four weeks in any of the Big Six schools he is in resideree at the school in which he matricu- lates. He could not possibly have gone to Oklahoma that semester and have been counted a semester in residence there. lowever, he did just that in open defiance of the rules. The rules are crystal clear. ‘The second semester, of course, he was in Oklahoma and he could not heve | been eligible by any way of thinking until the end of this present - Semester. However, Oklahoma did play him in five games when he was a one-semester freshman. The rules plainly state that it is the res- ponsibility of the athlete transferring end the university to which | he goes to clarify this, and it should not have been the responsibility of any other school or individual to have called this to the oonfer- enna SERERNTES FF TES TR MHEREy af Ciclaheom bat Rope he vole. Seme people are more concerned in printing sensational things rather than endeavoring to evaluate and atabi tise the durable things ~« the truths Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Recreation, Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. |