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Students Have Not Shaken Republic
(From The Denver Post)
We don't agree with the student editor at the University of Colorado who wants the CU team to lose all of its games this fall so there can be a reapraisal of the CU football program.
--appraised again — which will have to be proved more conclusively to us — it could be done whether the team wins or loses. And we believe CU's team this year is a team that deserves to win.
He seems to have forgotten the reappealaisal that has already taken place this year in which a coach was fired and 20 players were ruled ineligible. That reappealaisal didn't come after a losing season but after one of the most successful seasons in CU's history.
IF THE PROGRAM needs to be
The team that took the field against Utah Saturday night is a team CU can be proud of. It is a clean team, recruited and trained within the rules of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Big Eight.
It is a plucky team that plays a colorful and aggressive type of football, and, even against heavy odds, plays with spirit and determination. It has a fine coach and some top-flight athletes.
IF A CU TEAM ever deserved the support of the students and the student newspaper, this is the one. We hope it gets that support in time for the Kansas State game Saturday, and we hope the Buffs win.
We think the student editor was on the wrong track last week, but his behavior disturbs us less than the behavior of some of his adult critics who imply that the student's offense falls in the same category as treason and tearing down the flag.
Dr. Dale Atkins, a candidate for CU regent, for example, wants to investigate the newspaper, and says he won't send his children to CU until the newspaper, among other things, is "rectified."
Worth Repeating
But the world does move, and its motive power under God is the fearless thought and speech of those who dare to be in advance of their time—who are sneered at and shunned through their days of struggle as lunatics, dreamers, impracticables and visionaries; men of crotchets, vagaries and isms. They are the masts and sails of the ship to which conservatism answers as ballast. The ballast is important—at times indispensable—but it would be of no account if the ship were not bound to go forward. Horace Greeley
DR. ATKINS CONSIDERS it appropriate to quote, in connection with this incident, Gen. George S. Patton's message to his troops before D-Day, as though the occasions were of comparable magnitude.
We wish that Atkins and others who think that the remedy for a newspaper they disagree with is to suppress it would learn to accept the outbursts of college undergraduates with a little more equanimity.
First of all, there is nothing subversive or un-American about being against big-time football. And that also applies to badminton, squash, and bowling on the green.
SECOND, THERE IS nothing unusual about the appearance of an immoderate statement in the columns of an undergraduate newspaper.
Students have been sowing their intellectual wild oats in college newspapers as long as colleges have been in existence. In the United States, there is nothing to indicate that the foundations of the republic are any less secure because of it.
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Reflections of Telstar
Remember the picture above? It flashed across your television screen on a hot night last July. Perhaps you remember that it originated from France. And that it reached the U.S. via Telstar, the world's first private enterprise communications satellite.
Since that summer night, the Bell System's Telstar has relayed electronic signals of many types—television broadcasts, telephone calls, news photographs, and others.
But there's one Telstar reflection you might have missed. Look into the faces of the Bell System people below and you'll see it. It is the reflection of Telstar's
success that glowed brightly on the faces of all who shared in the project.
Their engineering, administrative and operations skills created Telstar and are bringing its benefits down out of the clouds to your living room.
These Bell System people, through their talented, dedicated efforts, make your phone service still better more economical, and more useful.
The reflections of Telstar are many.
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