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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Dec. 18. 1962
Parking Privilege
$4 lost!
Every person owning a KU traffic permit has had to fork over $4 for the PRIVILEGE of parking on campus. If you do not think it is a privilege, read the little green and white booklet on traffic regulations handed to each student during enrollment.
WHAT DOES THE $4 pay for? It designates a parking area where students supposedly can rely on having a parking place reserved for them. But this purchased privilege is often revoked.
If the Traffic Department should err and issue more permits than places, or if the area should fill up, the privilege is lost. Last month a student with a Zone X permit entered the lot and found it full, so he parked in an unmarked space at the end of a row of cars. The student was forced to pay a ticket for parking in the "driveway." It did not matter to the Traffic Department that the student had a permit to park in that lot.
THE STUDENT'S permit sticker had become as useless as a Jayhawk decal.
On football days the University refuses to recognize permits issued for dormitory parking lots such as Joseph R. Pearson (JRP) and Carruth-O'Leary. The University has ruled that all students wishing to avoid a blue ticket must remove their cars from the dormitory parking lot, revoking a privilege each student paid $4 for. Then the University rents out the area to football patrons at 50 cents a car. The dormitory residents either must pay 50 cents to park their cars in a lot they already have paid $4 for, or park them blocks from the dormitory since all of West Campus Blyd. is "No Parking."
Zone X patrons suffer the same plight. They also lose their parking privilege on football days. Even though they have purchased a permit for the zone, they must pay $1 to park in that same zone on football days.
KU students pay $4 for a permit that sometimes is ignored and other times acknowledged.
Margaret Cathcart
The usual tinsel, colored baubles and twinkling lights adorn the tree.
Santa
Christmas.1962.
The kitchen smells of the usual browning cooking dough.
THE DOOR is festooned with the usual greenery tied with a large red bow.
The downtown area is jammed with the usual crowd carrying the usual odd-shaped, bulky bundles.
But Christmas is different in Lawrence this year.
The usual Santa Claus is about as peppy as a wet noodle.
SANTA, NOW VISITING several Lawrence stores, is thinner this year. His fur-trimmed red velvet suit droops loosely about his shoulders.
His face, cushioned with tufts of soft, wrinkled skin, reflects frightening foresight. His once-steady gaze darts over the youngsters clustered before him.
A young blonde-haired girl, her clear, blue eyes aglow with innocence and wonderment, sidles toward the old man.
"Santa," she says, "I want a baby doll with spotted pajamas and with a hat just like yours."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
SANTA APPEARS to barely hear the small voice. Mechanically, he reaches for the red candy Christmas tree and hands it to her.
"Santa," he half-heartedly assures her, "will do what he can. Now you have a 'Merry Christmas,' missy."
Santa stares at the small figure as it skips away and is engulfed by the cold, metal elevator doors.
MAYBE HE is thinking about the cold, mortar wall engulfing the East Germans.
Or maybe he is thinking about the cold, hard ground in Vietnam where death engulfed American soldiers, fighting an undeclared war.
"Merry Christmas," he repeats softly. "Santa will do what he can."
—Trudy Meserve
Editor:
After reading the article in Friday's Daily Kansan concerning the decision of Concordia Club to join University Party, I feel that it is necessary to clarify some of the remarks attributed to me in that article.
Concordia's Switch
First of all, let me explain the reasons upon which the decision to join was based. The recent ASC election played a large part in determining our course of action. During the campaign before the election, Art Ogilve, the UP candidate for our district (district eight), campaigned vigorously, impressing the members of our house with the importance of voting and showing great interest in the activities of our group and of the district. He talked to the individuals in our house several times during his many visits. Vox Populi, however, was evidently unconcerned with the voting in district eight, for we were never visited or contacted in any way by
A SECOND FACTOR in the decision was the actions of the defeated Vox candidate after the election. Instead of conceding gracefully and praising the huge election turnout in our district, which was largely due to Art's vigorous campaign, he made charges of illegal voting and contested the election. By doing so he certainly gave Vox Populi a poor image at least in our eyes.
their candidate. Concordia Club was impressed with the activity and interest of UP and gave Art strong support.
Then there are several other reasons, some of which are my own views and are not held unanimously by the members of Concordia Club. One was the decision of John Stuckey to place Theta Tau in the fraternity district for the election. Now this in itself was perfectly justifiable. However, he announced this decision on the night before elections and after Art Ogilvy had gained much support in that house.
... Letters ...
If this was not underhanded political maneuvering on Stuckey's part, it certainly showed his inefficiency in carrying out his duties as elections chairman. I have my own strong opinion about this.
There were other reasons held by different members of Concordia Club, but these are the primary ones for making the decision to join UP. We simply showed interest in the party that showed interest in us.
It snowed in Lawrence Monday night. By Tuesday morning, there was still a light dusting of snow on the ground. It was hardly measurable, except in front of Bailey Hall. At least, that was what I thought as I approached my 7:30 a.m. class.
William Panning
Ellinwood sophomore
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Immaturity Indicated
Editor:
When I got close enough to the building I saw that what I had thought to be rather dingy snow was really piles of cardboard and empty boxes. I was puzzled until I looked across the street and saw the Jayhawker yearbook booth.
BOOK REVIEWS
ELECTRONICS FOR EVERYONE, by Monroe Upton (Signet Science Library, 75 cents)—a revised edition which includes chapters on computers and aviation electronics. More than 100 drawings are included. Upton is an expert on radar and radio communication; he describes electrical development from the crystal set to space telemetry.
VANITY FAIR, by William Makepeace Thackeray (Signet Classics, 95 cents)—one of the most memorable novels in English literature, the story of the adventures Becky Sharp, who uses everyone available to achieve her ends. The novel is brightly funny and wonderfully satirizes European institutions at the time of the Napoleonic wars.
--have seized land and tried to hold it by force of arms.
Apparently, as the yearbook sections were handed out Monday, the cardboard protector covers were strewn over the ground and the wind then blew them over against Bailey Hall. In addition, boxes of trash had been left to clutter the bus stop.
The condition of the lawn in front of Bailey indicates to me a lack of maturity and organization on the Jayhawker staff, in addition to all those who purchased a copy and then discarded the cardboard. I wouldn't be surprised if the administration issues a well-deserved slap on the wrist.
Patrick M. Prosser Lawrence senior
Northeast Brazil Has Ingredients for Revolt
Bv Bill Mullins
Northeast Brazil is a tormented area jammed to the explosion point with the ingredients of revolution.
Both Brazil and the United States recognized the seriousness of conditions in Brazil's Northeast in an agreement signed April 13. The treaty states that Brazil "... has recognized the improvement of the critical problem requiring priority attention both through immediate measures and through a long-term development program..."
THE UNITED STATES endorsed the Brazilian position on conditions in the Brazilian Northeast and plans to spend half a billion dollars in emergency and long-term aid to improve the area.
The basic problem in the Brazilian Northeast is the plight of the peasants, who constitute the overwhelming majority of the nearly 25 million people in the area. Here are some of the conditions the peasants suffer from:
- Disease, hard labor and starvation cut the average life expectancy of men to 28 and that of women to 22.
- Periodic droughts strike the area and the result is starvation. In 1958 an army officer stationed in the Northeastern interior issued a report describing peasants dying of hunger on the roads.
- Widespread graft has prevented large amounts of emergency funds and food from reaching the peasants.
- The most productive land — that along the coast — has been owned by large landholders for centuries. The peasants are largely landless and have to work for the landholders on whatever terms they can get.
- There are almost no doctors or sanitary facilities available for the peasants.
- Peasant leagues have been formed in recent years and are growing rapidly. In some cases they
These conditions exist in an area more than twice the size of Texas. The Northeast includes the states of Ceara, Paiu, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, Bahia, Alagoas, Sergipe and Pernambuco.
CELSO FURTADO, director of the Superintendency of the Development of the Northeast (SUDENE), believes industrialization is the answer to the Northeast's problems. He also plans to attempt to divert some of the extensive sugar plantation lands to the production of food crops and to colonize areas in Maranhao and the Sao Francisco (River) Valley, where there is a water supply. Furtado plans to encourage industry by offering special conveniences, tax exemptions, and a plentiful supply of electricity.
Furtado's plans tie in with the U.S.-Brazilian treaty signed April 13. The long term projects provided for in the treaty are intended to improve the basic ability of the Northeast to provide a better standard of living for its people.
THESE PROJECTS include improvement of roads, development of electrical power, expansion of primary and vocational education, health and sanitation projects, assistance to agricultural production and counteracting of drought conditions through fuller use of available water supplies.
The Agency for International Development (AID) will carry out U.S. work and planning. A special office of AID has been established in Northeast Brazil and will work in cooperation with SUDENE U.S. cooperation with SUDENE is based on a special report prepared by a special mission that was in the area for two months. The mission was headed by Merwin Bohan, special U.S. ambassador for the development of the Northeast region.
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