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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 7, 1967
The All Student Pep Club
KU's All Student Council should be dumped. It is a waste of time and money for the ASC members to consider important student issues when most of the members are concerned with nothing more than class and school spirit.
Perhaps the council could be renamed the All Student Pep Club (ASPC), and the ASC's current members could assume similar duties in the new organization.
The ASPC would, of course, have to be led by one of KU's award-winning cheerleaders or yell leaders. (This would not present any problems this year.)
One of the functions of the new club might be to arrange for a "student migration" to one of KU's "away" football games. Buses or trains, for example, could be chartered to take students to the Nov. 11th Colorado-KU game at Boulder at a nominal cost to each student.
Then, the various pep club class officers could arrange class parties to be held on the train. Students who had paid their class fees would be admitted to these parties free. Others would have to pay a service charge.
If the trip were successful, one of the senior representatives might decide that a pep club uniform was needed to help "unite" the club. After much debate and red tape, a uniform consisting of a cheap red "Paul Revere" hat and
possibly a red jersey might be adopted. Some members, however, might prefer to wear a blazer with a jayhawk emblem (available from the alumni office), and this would be permitted under an amendment to the constitution.
Pep club members (all students would automatically belong when they paid their fees) would be required to sign in at home games; if they missed more than two games, they would be subject to disciplinary action by the judicial board and possibly lose their little red hat (in extreme cases).
Instead of arranging for nationally prominent speakers, the pep club could distribute road maps showing the best route possible to Kansas State University; and they could then concentrate their efforts on pep rallies, parades and parties (attendance mandatory).
The work of the ASC so far this year would not be lost, for the council's recently-adopted election bill could be adapted to the pep club, and thus insure "continuity from year to year."
The only question is whether the students would support such a club. This is a difficult question to answer, but it can be said without a doubt that a certain fringe of the student body always will be apathetic, no matter how much you try to do for them.
—Paul Haney
NATO faces tough future
Foreign News Commentary By K. C. Thaler
LONDON—(UPI)—NATO, the Westes principal defense alignment in Europe, faces tough times ahead.
Shaken to its foundations by France's pull-out from her military commitments last year, the North Atlantic treaty alliance is currently grappling with the problems posed by the changing patterns both in allied and East-West relations.
NATO planners want to cement the undermined cohesion of the defense set-up—still the most important western military bulwark against any possible ventures from the Communist east.
But divergent political attitudes among the allies render the task more difficult.
A recent two-day meeting of
NATO defense ministers at Ankara, Turkey, made some headway. But not much. There is, first and foremost, the uncertainty about President Charles de Gaulle's future intentions.
Having withdrawn France from NATO's integrated military command, he has nevertheless stayed within the political alliance. But there are increasing fears that he may take a further step and pull France out of NATO altogether by 1969 when members of the NATO treaty can formally serve notice of withdrawal.
This would make France a "neutral" in the heart of Europe, militarily as well as politically, with very serious inherent consequences for the western defense position in Europe altogether.
There also is the growing desire among NATO members to cut down their respective milli-
tary contributions and to thin out forces assigned to the defense alignment.
Financial considerations play an important part. But powerful political arguments also come into the play.
They stem from varying assessments of Russia's intentions. Until the recent Mideast crisis, western chancellories were increasingly inclined to accept at their face value Moscow's assurances that it wants peaceful co-existence in Europe.
"Let's Get A Demonstration Going, Folks Everybody Grab A Picket Sign"
The fact that the Kremlin at the same time quietly helped to build up a powerful war machine in the Middle East, ostensibly to further its own influence in the Mediterranean, has set off second thoughts about the sincerity and reliability of the Kremlin assurances.
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Letters to the editor
Need more 'Big Blue'; hippies not dead
To the Editor:
I've got two complaints that are related to each other. Both have to do with the "Big Blue."
My next complaint also has to do with the color blue. Is K-State any better than us? Is Nebraska any better than us? I don't think so, and I don't think anyone else on campus does either.
To get to the point, K-State has their Big White hats, Nebraska has their Big Red hats. What do we have? Nothing. I think it would be tremendous if we had some "Big Blue" hats. Does anyone have any ideas on how we go
Sure, our colors are the crimson and blue, but we are the "Big Blue," not the Crimson.
Because we are the "Big Blue" I feel we should show a predominating color of blue at football games and all other athletic contests. But what color do we show at football games? Red! The hats of the seniors are red. The senior shirts are white and red.
about getting some "Big Blue" hats?
Mike Casey Overland Park freshman
Strawberry Fields still exists. Certainly it has been bombarded by the lies, misinterpretations, "newspeak" and ultimate paranoia of the mass media, but nevertheless it still exists. The only change is that its inhabitants are older and wiser. They no longer will live by what has been created for them from an empty mold. They have learned to sense the hatred and to be aware of their own super-involvement in a phony creation.
To the Editor:
The following excerpts are from an article by Paul Williams (the editor of Crawdaddy! Magazine, an erudite survey of the pop-rock scene) which appeared in the Village Voice, an independent weekly newspaper published in New York City. Hopefully, it will aid in an understanding and
awareness of what is and has been happening in America. For those of you who have been born and intravenously fed by the mass media, it will be difficult to divorce yourselves from preconceptions and past hostilities. Hopefully, it will be done. This is dedicated to those people who became weekend "hippies" in order to meet their deadlines and to the old man in Salt Lake City who asked us if we were going to San Francisco to become hippies:
"You don't have to worry any more, folks. The hippies are gone, and it wasn't the murder or the methedrine that did it. It was a surfeit of attention. Hippies are no longer good copy.
"It's hard to explain to a lot of you what a hippie is because a lot of you really think a hippie is something. You don't realize that the word is just a convenience picked up by the press to personify a social change thing beginning to happen to young people. And when somebody says, 'The hippies are gone,' you only think: 'Where did they go?'
"The point is, it is a hippie, if
it has the sign around its neck. That's what hippie is. It's a word for the people who read about hippies, and talk about hippies, and fret about hippies; it isn't anything real enough to hang a string of beads on.
"Nothing that goes on in the U.S. can be put in perspective, because there's no framework left. We've built up a system of irrelevancies based on misinterpretations based on inaccuracies and we can't get back to start to try again. Every day's newspaper is funnier than then the last, because it's all serious reporting in a ridiculous context.
"So the kids started dropping out. And they wore long hair and beads and all so as to be different from the world they left behind, yeah, but they did it even more so they'd know they weren't alone. Every long-haired kid was another friend to support you when you felt like a that in a world of this.
"So what happened? Nothing important; dont worry, nobody's dropping back in. Nobody who meant it in the first place. But
the 'hippie' is gone or going," because the hippie has been over-exposed.
"So we've got a problem. How do you drop out far enough, without geographically leaving the country you were born in and love? Easy, friend: drop out inside—not on the cover of Time where the world can see it, but there in your head where you decide what the world is and how to relate to it and what you want to do with it. Drop out inside, and run things your own way for your own benefit and don't get hung up on the system.
"As for saving the world, looks like we gotta find another act. Something that'll do more than show our contempt for this nuthouse. Something, maybe, that'll show people the reality outside the nuthouse, the real world we could all be working to achieve.
"Bring back reality! But not as a goddamned slogan. We don't need another label—but you can be sure that's the first thing we'll get."
Bill Berkowitz New York City junior