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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 5, 1967
More library problems
Among the many items left unresolved over the summer was that of improving service at MSU's library. While matters requiring a substantial increase in the library budget cannot be dealt with directly, extension of library hours should be considered immediately.
Last year, the 11:30 women's closing hours combined with early suspension of bus service made library operation an unjustifiable proposition.
But now that hours for upperclass women have been abolished, the library's 11 p.m. closing becomes more inconvenient than ever.
Students with night classes, and those who work afternoons or evenings, find use of the library almost impossible. In addition, those students who can get there find the short evening hours make competition for the library's limited facilities almost unbearable.
When term papers start coming due, the library will reach a level of activity far above what it can handle, and the confusion caused by construction and remodeling makes the problem even worse.
By extending library hours, more books, periodicals and readings would be made available to more students. Even though longer hours might create some problems, the advantages in terms of better library utility make later closing a top priority item.
During this period of construction and confusion, a midnight closing should be tried, and as finals week approaches, even later times considered. Only in this way can a true determination of the plan's worth be judged.
Best sellers
Reprinted from the Michigan State News East Lansing, Michigan
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Fiction
The Eighth Day-Thornton Wilder
The Chosen—Chaim Pot...
The Arrangement—Elia Kazan
The Plot—Irving Wallace
The Chosen—Chaim Potok
A Night of Watching—Elliott Arnold
Night Falls on the City—Sarah Gainham
Washington, D.C.-Gore Vidal Rosemary's Baby-Ira Levin
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Nonfiction
Our Crowd—Stephen Birmingham
A Modern Priest Looks at his Outdated Church — Father James Kavanaugh
The New Industrial State—John Kenneth Galbraith
At East—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everything But Money—Sam Levenson
Incredible Victory-Walter Lord The Lawyers-Martin Mayer
Students weak on 'now?'
The university student often becomes so wrapped up in his pursuit of intellectualism and knowledge—not to mention other activities and social events—that while his intake of history, science and math may be reaching new heights, his awareness of current—and sometimes significant—happenings may be sorely lacking.
This is perhaps one of the greatest failings of the American educational system. While the student is being "educated" (usually in the subjects other people think are important to his "well-rounded" future), he may not have time to do outside reading, thinking and listening to catch up on the world outside the university confines.
Many are the university students who will suddenly stop one day and realize that the last time they read an unassigned book or did more than peruse the campus or city newspaper was in the early weeks of their university careers.
What with special projects, term paners, monthly quizzes and reports, the student may find he has little enough time to sleep and eat properly, let alone continue his personal reading habits.
As competition increases and the quality of education improves, many students find the strain and stress of attending classes and trying to be an individual at the same time may be too much. Professional counseling can help this problem, but recognizing the possibility beforehand may avoid it.
The University years are some of the most potent and meaningful in a person's life. They are the years when a student is searching and perhaps grasping at last for the meaning of life and for the knowledge of the past and the secrets of the future.
In this search, the present cannot be ignored.
Reprinted from the Daily Texan, Austin, Texas
"Welcome To The Club"
©1982 HEPBLOCK
THE WARMING PAST
Letters
I am deeply touched by the Kansas's attempt to give a fair chance to both parties in the Mid-East war in order to throw more light and probably enable more people to see both sides of the coin.
Arabs, Burge, Concern project
To the Editor:
However, the remarks voiced by Professor Willner could not escape my notice for the following reasons:
First, her statement that "The Arabs in the old city—of Jerusalem—had been granted all the rights like Israeli citizens" is such a sweeping statement that even the Israeli propaganda machine would find it hard to swallow. Anyone that has watched the TV reports—one-sided as they may have been—must have realized how far from the truth this statement is.
It is needless to bring to the attention of Miss Willmer the fact that the eastern Jews (i.e. those coming from Afro-Asian countries) are treated as second class citizens, despite the fact that they share the same religious beliefs. An article, written by an eastern Jew, appeared in the "Christian Science Monitor" this June discussing this problem.
I need not remind Miss Willner of the security zones—in which more than 90 per cent of the Arabs living under Israeli occupation are concentrated—which are precise replicas of the "Pantosta" used by the South African authorities against the natives.
Second, Miss Willner's remark that "the people in the old city were very friendly and willing to help me if I was lost" should help her and all the others concerned to see that the Arabs hold nothing against a Jew because he is a Jew, but are only opposed to aggressive and expansionist policies.
Although I don't question Miss Willner's motives—I have always thought of her as a good friend—yet I think what she has said stems mostly from prior convictions, and wishful thinking.
First, contrary to the statement that "Jordan still has more than 175,000 in Israeli," said that as a result of the Israeli occupation more than 175,000 refugees fled from the west bank to the east bank of Jordan under the pressure of Israeli terror.
Appearing on the same page was a part of a story in which I talked to one of this paper's editors about my recent tour of the Arab world. Three things were of special interest to me:
bring the two cultures together under the threat of power.
Second, when I talked about the clash of the two cultures I mainly meant that it is hard to
And third, I was described as a graduate student, and this is an honor that I can't yet claim.
Abdul Said Saudi Arabia, senior
Saudi Arabia, senior
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I would like to speak for the members of KU's hip community and thank Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union, for what he did for us last Saturday.
To the Editor:
Those who organized the love-in had forgotten to see if the electricity would be on during the day. It wasn't.
Several people left to try to find out where and how to have the electricity turned on.
When they returned, they said. "Burge said he would work on it."
Disbelief.
"You mean Burge in the Union is working on it? He's on our side?"
"Yes."
Cheers.
And in a little while, the electricity came on.
We would just like to say,
"Thanks, Mr. Burge."
Larry Reibstein Topeka junior
To the Editor:
I am writing to correct an erroneous statement in Monday's Kansan pertaining to Collegiates for Concern. This organization was founded last year by the Congress of the Class of 1969, and has as its goal the raising of $400,000 from across the state of Kansas with which to construct a children's pediatrics center in Dampao, South Vietnam. These funds will also staff and maintain the new facilities for approximately three years, after which our parent organization, Project Concern, Inc., in San Diego will assume the full burden of operation and maintenance costs of the clinic.
The pediatrics center will not, as stated in the Kansan article, be "taken over . . . by trainees from Vietnam, Australia, Europe and Communist China." There are in fact medically trained men and women from around the world comprising the staffs of Concern's six existing clinics. I would emphasize, however, that these people are not "trainees," but professionally trained physicians, pharmacists, nurses and therapists, many of whom have chosen to serve in these clinics for their entire lives.
over or sorts is expected by Communist Chinese in three or four years is far from the truth. Those physicians of Chinese descent currently serving on Concern's staff are, to a man, refugees from the communist government of the mainland.
The implication that a "take-
Most of them have fled to freedom in Hong Kong. These people are certainly not lacking in medical qualifications, but due largely to the stifling, overcrowded conditions that exist in Hong Kong, it is extremely difficult for them to establish themselves in private practice. Thus by joining the staff of Project Concern, they are afforded the opportunity of using their skills, while at the same time greatly benefiting the people whom they serve.
David Keesling, Co-Chairman Collegiates for Concern Herington junior
David Keesling, Co-Chairman
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Benito Mussolini: "This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.'"
Napoleon Bonaparte: "What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared."
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Nikita S. Khrushchev; "Life is short; live it up."
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Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794), French revolutionist: "Burning is no answer."
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