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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, December 11, 1967
A McCollum carol
Wrecks the Hall when two get pally, Foul-foul-foul-foul-foul-foul PDA. Makes the place look like an alley. Foul-foul-foul-foul-foul-foul PDA. These, the thoughts of one observer, Foul-foul-foul-foul-foul-foul PDA. Threw the Hall into a fervour. Foul-foul-foul-foul-foul-foul PDA.
Hex on they who tell such stories, Tra la la la la la PDA. Not the way to bring us glories, Tra la la la la la PDA. Roared indignant lads and lassies, Tra la la la la la PDA. Speaking out at last in masses, Tra la la la la la PDA.
Deck affection, yes by golly.
Rah rah rah rah rah rah PDA.
Had some strengths besides its folly,
Rah rah rah rah rah rah PDA.
Proved a hall of huge dimensions,
Rah rah rah rah rah rah PDA.
Can unite in its intentions.
Rah rah rah rah rah rah PDA.
Betsy Wright Editorial Editor
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Letters to the Editor
PDA controversy continues
To the Editor:
I was walking back from the "hill" while glancing over Wednesday's Kansan, when the "Hanky-panky" article caught my eye. Slowing my pace a bit, I absorbed the "masterpiece," relishing every tidbit and allowed my imagination to work freely.
Just think, ten per cent of the hall's population has been involved; that would be about ffty couples "semi-commonly" lying around on the floor in the depths of passion. Needless to say, I was very anxious to see just what new scenes had developed since I'd left for class. To my astonishment I did not have to thread my way among "bodies" strewn about the living room. Instead, I found only the scene so common in the living room of McCollum. Among the assorted residents there was a couple sitting quietly, reading a newspaper, and holding hands! How embarrassing!
Seriously, though, I hope that the "hanky-panky" has not jeopardized the future of coed living in our residence halls. I believe that coed living is beneficial in the preparation of college students for the world they face. I also realize that there have been some cases of overexpression of affection in the public areas of the hall and I trust that they will cease to be a problem when the individuals realize that there is such. From my personal observations I find that the number of "offenders" is nearer one per cent, and that for them the situation is more or less perpetual.
I hope that the true facts can be projected and recorded more accurately in the future. I am looking forward to an enjoyable and meaningful year in McCollum Hall (my second), and I shall at least be amused if they make ALL areas of the hall accessible to everyone at all times without embarrassment.
James Zeller Colby senior
To the Editor:
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meetings, but myself and about fifty other hall residents were there since it had been rumored that PDA (Public Display of Affection) was going to be discussed and I wanted to hear what action the Senate would take.
Thursday night I attended a joint meeting of the McCollium Hall Men's and Women's Senates. I don't usually attend such
The first order of business after the meeting was called to order was the elimination of me. My motives for recording were questioned and were answered truthfully.
I wished to tape record the meeting for the benefit of a friend — also from McCollum — who found it inconvenient to attend and asked me to record it for his later listening. I was greeted with total disrespect for the dissemination of free public information. Even before the meeting began, several people questioned my reasons and right for being there with my tape recorder. One of those people, I might add, was the resident director of the hall, who gave me a very suspicious look as he questioned the purpose of the tape recorder.
I admit I did not give them the name of my friend, although this was entirely because of the resentful attitude with which they questioned me. At any rate, after they questioned my motives it was moved that I be ordered (not asked) to stop recording the meeting.
I protested that my motives were peaceful and that they had no right, under the circumstances (a previously announced open meeting), to stop me. It was to no avail. My microphones were removed (a senate member had been banging on one of them anyway, to prevent me from getting a good recording) and my machine was forcibly unplugged.
I feel that I have been grossly insulted—not as a person wishing to tape record a senate meeting, but as a resident (tor the third year, and proud of it) of McCollum Hall.
The only other source of information available to a resident about these meetings is the printed minutes. They are at best sketchy. For the individual wishing to obtain more complete information on a meeting but unable to attend that meeting, tape is the only feasible answer.
I feel the individual has a right to be as informed as possible about the actions of his own hall senate. The action taken by our senate Thursday has impaired this right by limiting us to the printed minutes. I feel this should insult every resident.
A copy of this letter will be sent to the McCollum Hall Senate, via hall president Emery Goad, in the hopes that in the future they will offer me an epology for their most disrespectful actions of Thursday evening.
Bart Heffron
Metuchen, N.J., junior
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To the Editor:
Thursday night McCollum Hall residents were treated to what must be called an unequaled display of power politics. Several hundred residents gathered in their cafeteria to hear what they thought would be a meeting of their hall senate. Unfortunately, the real meeting had already taken place, not in front of them but behind the closed doors of the dean of men's office.
The results of that "caucus," as the president of McCollum Hall called it, lasted less than ten minutes. Practically the longest order of business was the motion for adjournment.
Among other matters of discussion was the removal of a tape recorder from the meeting. An angry audience was informed that the edited hall minutes would suffice. Another move was made to force hall residents to ask their floor presidents for permission to speak. No such permission was granted over repeated objections.
What was left after the meeting was an angry group of students with no one left to complain to. However, with the situation at MeCollum Hall reaching most of the newspapers and radio and television stations in the Midwest, perhaps disrought parents, educators, and KU alumni will find someone to whom they can.
Alan S. Hansberry
Overland Park sophomore