Friday, April 21, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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Students of'50s 'Lost'in Search for Peace, Security
By MARSHA SEARS
Kennan Staff Writer
Students attending college in the 1950s often were called the "lost generation." They were often not involved in reared during World War II and lived in constant fear of world War III. Many asked if war was a tragedy, but students thought that to be born in this century was a tragedy. Though the times may have been tragic, they certainly were not tragedies.
The uncertainty of those years created a need for security. According to a 1950 opinion survey, college students preferred security to ruggedness or security to commissions or profit. The survey also showed that college students liked the high living
their parents gave them.
IN 1957, one University Daily Kansas editor wrote, "Conformity—and complacency (selling American society)."
"Probably the biggest governing force the campus is the law enforcement law court. The real individuals, who dare to wear headgear and galoshes when it is raining or a shirt which down-on-down cover, are our research subjects."
As an experiment, students in one class dressed in church clothes for three days when they learned that they saw those strange clothes on campus made caustic remarks about the nonconforming students. An editorial urging students to overreact was written which asked students
to do their own thinking
In a united effort, the students joined in a campaign to raise awareness about the broadcast behind the Iron Curtain in 1950. The purpose for this "Crusade for Freedom" was to promote a war against prosecutions war with Russia.
THE SOCIETY of the Ree Haters, an anti-communist organization, which could be responsible according to one University Daily Kansas editorial, gained strength in the 1950s. The battle against communism was on. The Cuban government and the University Daily Kansan editorial for not interfering with underground activities of Communists. The Curie University Headquarters for the Caribbean headquarters for communism.
Turbulent '60s ...
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LATLY. A group of women wearing about dressee cloaks, closing hours and housing regulations at KU.
A 24-hour vigil was held in front of the School of Religion for people concerned with the plight of starving Biafrans.
The year 1968 also was filled with a variety of protests. First, 21 students, faculty members and staff, marched in protest if necessary, to gain a student vote. Several days later, 1,700 students signed a petition asking for more in decisions that affect their lives. They gave it to教室.
the editorial claimed.
A group of KU students protested the city-proposed $10 car tax, which was eventually voted down.
the last protest of the year took place when 100 persons marched in a "Female for the Democratic Process" from strong Hall to the Douglas County courthouse. They were nonvoice forced upon us in this election." Nixon had just been elected President.
PROTEST IN 1989 began with a civil rights action. About 130 KU students, faculty members and staff participated the picket the Hotel Inn Restaurant. The demonstrators charged that the management
There was a protest march down Massachusetts st. When Lt. Gen. Lewis Walt came to speak at the rally, his pro-war beliefs protested his pro-war beliefs.
Also, in a protest against the war, demonstrators, some streaked with imitation blood, shot at the USS Bonaparte, sus Union, temporarily disrupting student voting. Later the demonstrators marched through the city.
The other protests in 1969 were related to the war in Vietnam.
ON MAY 12, 150 demonstrators disrupted the KU military review in the stadium. They were pro-
tested by war and ROTC on campus.
The ROTC reviews were the stage for the next round of protest. On April 30th, a small group of students on ROTC on campus disrupted the review taking place in front of Allen Field House. They walked among the cadets carrying drums and playing the timing drums and tumourbins.
Later, 25 of these students were suspended.
The next protests were the huge nationwide moratoriums in the fall of 1969.
On Oct. 15, about 2,500 KU students, faculty and lawyers townpeople marched down the street to protest the war in Vietnam.
To combat communism, the United States had entered the armament race with Russia. The war has been developed. The bomb was called "a wedge for insuring peace—a peace of a selfless, unified Daily Kansan editorial KU students sent a petition to President Truman asking that not allow the hydrogen bomb be used.
On the same day a small group of faculty members returned their pay for the day honoring the moratorium.
On Nov. 14 and 15, the second of the large moratoriums took place. About 250,000 Americans, more than half a million, tested against the war with a march in Washington, D.C. On the same date 500 persons, including KU students, marched in a demonstration in Topeka.
THE YEAR 1970 climatically ended the decade of the 1960s. A few years later, he marched in February, when 200 students marched from the KU campus to the Douglas County Courthouse in protest of the "Chicago 10" attack.
The Black Student Union (BSU) became angered when Attorney General Kent Frizzell did not deliver a ruling on whether the BSU had the权 to publish the documents of the BSU members of the BSU seized 6,000 copies of the Kansas and dumped them in Potter Lake.
The BSU also presented a list of demands to Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. They demanded that administrative positions, such as the campus provost and dean, be removed by held by blacks. They also wanted ten per cent of the freshman class to be black within two years.
In March, 65 students participated in a bocquet of the Yuk Down because of alleged discrimination against men with long hair.
A PROTEST rally and strike was organized in April against the Kansas Board of Regents. The board had passed over the proposed bill to associate professor of law, and Fred Licott, assistant professor of speech and drama. Velvel had spoken out against the war in Vietnam and Lilly had produced an anti-Semitic book that declared as un-American.
Several days later David Awlach spoke to a crowd of 4,000 persons gathered in front of Strong Hall and demanded that the regents
Toward the end of April, the Kansas Union burned down and fifteen people were killed in a science building. There were bomb threats at several resisted sites.
A curfew was imposed on Law-
A UNIVERSITY Daily Kanman writer criticized the United States for refusing to recognize Red China. He said:
"Nationalist China no longer represents the hundreds of millions of Chinese. It is Mao's. He is a godfather for the Chinese people."
"If the United States does not recognize Red China as a state, it cannot argue a case against it in the United Nations or negotiate with it concerning civil or military incidents, which may surely confer an unanticipated war spreads to include use of Chinese Communist Troops."
and distance they are from the fighting."
rence. April 22. 23. and 24.
ALTHOUGH McCARTHYISM was criticized, many politicians waged successful campaigns by calling his opponent a communist. Richard Nixon, who was running for U.S. senator in California, called his opponent a communist. domestic communism as a major threat to the campaign. He capitalized on the fact that he was a member of the Un-American Activities Council of Pumpkin Papers that were so important in the Alger Hiss case. In 1950, when President Truman decided to actively aid the South Sudan world armistice stood in jeopardy. A cross-section survey of KU students revealed that students approved of U.S. action against combat in Korea, 12,000 Americans had died. Many KU students then questioned whether the Korean War was justified.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur wanted to bomb Manchuria. He said that more than 200,000 Chinese had poured across the border into Korea. he said half a million were awaited only orders to move.
Although a poll showed that KU students did not think President Truman was justified in firing Gen. MacArthur, many K川aan writers thought President Truman was justified. One wrote:
May 14, nearly 2,000 Kansas college students gave Governor Scott a hand in the steps of the capitol in Topeka. The students wanted Docking to call a special legislative session to vote on the bill it unlawful for Kansas men to fight the soundings of United States law an official declaration of war.
Administrators . . .
"FOR A PEACE loving nation, we certainly are raising a lot of people. We want to expand the war in Asia. You, who will have to support a third world arm with music and culture, we want peace, don't we? The President fired Public Hero Number One. We think it was a mistake."
China. The author of one University Daily Kansas should be used to save southeast Asia from "the ravages of the internet" which could be free world power is strengthened in Asia. By 1854, 105 American aircraft technicians were in China aiding the development of China.
An author of a 1922 editorial spoke out against a Kansas segregation law which provided that cities may segregate by race, but did not equal facilities for blacks and whites. A 1957 editorial encouraged Lawrence citizens to assist the movement to integrate. Students petitioned asking why such laws allow all people to be served
WOMEN'S LIBERATION was almost non-existent in the 1850's. A director of a beauty school said she had learned that the ideal woman according to make tastes would play with women she have "35", "29", "34" measurements. She said she made her husbands throughout the nation begging her not to be swayed by the flapper trend and to stick to it.
ON MAY 7, 1,000 students at
the College of Science and
of Strong Hall. About 420 of these
students later went to the Mili-
tery School and several
were inducted.
WHILE DISCUSSING recent success, he said, "The most overwhelming reaction was when Chaimers accolade his team of students at the stadium after the problems in 1970. The depth and sincerity of the students were immeasurable."
In 1850, the first veteran returned from Indo-China. Since 1947, the French had been fighting the Communists in Indo-
Many students worried about the draft and the possibility of another world war. One editorial writer suggested "training soldiers" to prepare for "the amount of blood thirstiness increases with the senators' age
because they are becoming convinced that they are not the fraile flower-creatures which man know them to be. If we are not careful, the dear things will soon realise that the majority of the women are florists and the stamina of six-day bicycle racers.
She said, "That's the type of girl I'm going to advocate, no matter what the fashion experts say. After all, it's more important for women to suit the men than other women." Daily
Shenk said most of the activism until recently dealt with pranks. He said the '50's, when Franklin D. Murphy was chancellor, was the era of the panty raids. At that time, Shenk said, the University had no policy to make national headlines because of the panty raids.
Shenk said there was a time when students tried to see how the flagpoles swallowed, then came the flagpole and telephone pole sitters, and then crowding as many people as possible into phone booths and
taneous expression of happiness and appreciation at what the boys had done."
"COURTESY IS the only answer to this crucial problem. Our advice to men is be over-solicitud of women's health, respect of women, womanly grace, treat them as if they were made of frillable china."
One male University Daily Kansan writer wrote in 1950:
Editorials of the 1950's urged better housing for independent students in room and shared one closet for all four. Carruth and O'Learay was built for women students and married students in the 1950's.
Is this the feeling we should have for a type of music which has influenced history? This same feeling has followed jazz through the decade and is now being applied toward the American inferiority complex is in the art. We believe that we are the Europeans cannot surpass.
"Now women want more equal rights; they want to be treated as the equal of man in all situations. Women want equal rights
Russia had "outside the west" with their two satellite spain and the U.S. to KU poll, students said Soviet space technology America became increasingly education conscious and in 1988 the U.S. satellite "Explorer"
"If this procedure fails there is but one alternative--suicide. Anything is better than fixing your own meals."
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Students collected the dandows and put the sacks and then the sacks were weighed in the grove in front of Flint.
The Kansas Union fire, sniper fire, and local bombings and fires were brought to the spring of 1970 that forced the University to suspend classes. Chan taught at a stadium, talked with students at the stadium, and explained the alternatives they could select to be able to finish the school year with students.
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A MUSIC REVOLUTION was taking place in the 1950s. According to a 1850 editorial he denied not accepted by Americans.
"To the laymen it sounds as if the musician is playing as many notes on his instrument as we do, and at the amount of time," said the writer.
"Let's give jazz and bop a chance to get out of smoke-fired dance halls and on the concert stages of the country."
"This wildness of today's adolescent college students is equal to the restless confusion of stdrow bums.
ANOTHER EDITORIAL
writer said that jazz is not a
"passing fancy; it is music." Jazz
is the only genre underrated
of art that time.
Bop gradually gained acceptance by some students and in June and July, 1857, students practiced it. But some students in 1857 still did not accept Rock 'n' Roll music. One University Daily called Rock 'n' roll as a combination of jazz and hill hilly music. He said:
"American sentiment has been against jazz since its beginning.
"One year, after weighing the dandelions and dumping them into the seabed, he had been weighed in the sack along with the dandelion.
"I WAS IN Topkea at a meeting, dressed in tux. I came back over here for the rally when the team came in."
The three administrators agreed that KU's 1952 NCAA basketball championship generated an enthusiastic student response.
The team arrived from Seattle at 3 a.m. after winning the game, and then met at the bridge. Alderson said. A fire engine was taken to meet the team, and team member Steve Gouldt it down Massachusetts streets.
Shenk said the students supported the team 100 per cent, albeit without much effort to cater for the students to attend games. The games were held in Hoch Auditorium, he said, and seating capacity was at a mini-
Shenk said, "The whole community was involved. The student body had a pep rally in front of the arena, and then it continued after the game till time to tremendous outpouring of loyalty.
Nichols said, "The students and the townspeople were wildly enthusiastic. It was a spoon-
Nichols seemed to express common sentiments when he said, "They (the students) are concerned changes that they're concerned with society. In my day, it was only in the 'Dove.'"
"Either KU students become more responsible adolescents or they become more addicted to hound dog records and the whining voice of the 'circle hill' billy from Tennessee.
"THERE WERE few season tickets," Shenk said. "They sold half-season tickets, and students had to alternate games."
Alderson, Nichols and Shenk voiced the opinion that the orientation of the students has changed.
"If you reject constructive expression because study is hard, or because living and working are so trying, you'll never grow up."
Luckily, both students and rock music survived and grew during the 1850s.
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