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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 19. 1962
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Keys, Women Out
They are on the loose again. The senior women have their keys.
Last night this mass of pulchritude was released on the Lawrence area "after hours" for the first time in their college career. If the past has any bearing on this year, beware.
MEN AT KU HAVE always had the privilege of unrestricted hours and have become accustomed to this liberty. This is only the third year of freedom for the senior women. Although they usually attempt to exhibit some degree of maturity which should be shown by seniors, the female members of this elite class have tendencies toward rowdyism in such forms as all night parties in local motels the initial night of freedom.
The thrill will pass after this week and professors will no longer be able to tell who is and who is not a senior woman in class by observing whose eyelids have drooped the most.
One might also be on watch for an additional campaign by the fourth year femmes. At Colorado, senior women have the opportunity to dwell
in private apartments if they so choose. If this idea were to catch on at KU pandemonium might be the result. What could possibly be worse than having several hundred "mature" women fleeing the confines of their respective abodes nocturnally on a rampage to force the administration to allow them to live in apartments?
SO, SENIOR WOMEN, be satisfied with your keys although there may be some inconveniences. The return time has been moved up an hour from 8 a.m. This, of course, is unfortunate. Also, having to sign out before regular close makes it impossible to skip down to Jim's for that fattening 3 a.m. snack.
A note to the local law enforcement officials might be to increase the night watch this week. This might discourage senior women from such manly pranks as soaping up the Chi O fountain, draining Potter Lake, marching through the steam tunnels, and nabbing Greek letters from the exterior of fraternity and sorority houses.
A note to the University community BEWARE, they are on the loose again.
College Aid Bill
Bill Sheldon
Monday the respective committees of the Senate and House of Representatives passed a bill which is designed to aid the nation's colleges and universities. This is one of the President's major legislative actions and will probably represent the only part of the original plan in this area which will get through Congress before the close of the present session.
THE THREE AREAS of education aid which are dealt with directly are those of classroom construction, grants for community junior colleges and student aids.
It is interesting to note that in the first area any allotments must be limited to physical or natural science buildings, libraries, and engineering buildings. The money to be granted to the junior colleges may be used only for natural and physical science, engineering or library buildings
or for machinery, equipment, utilities, and land needed for such buildings.
THERE IS AN OBVIOUS absence of aid to those areas which are stressed in many of the country's top universities such as the language arts, political science, history, fine arts, and education. Apparently the federal government feels that the space race is of tantamount importance and the $2,350,000,000 bill should overwhelmingly stress those areas of work that might boost the U.S. space push.
The third major section of the bill provided money for student loans. This must be how the government hopes to appease those in the fields of the humanities.
It does not seem quite fair that the only major legislation of this congressional session should be so out of proportion to the present educational system.
-Bill Sheldon
NIGHT FLIGHT, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Signet Classics, 50 cents).
Saint-Exupery, who disappeared on a flight during World War II, had a rare and poetic way of telling about the skies and the men who fly them. "Night Flight" is a story of the early days of aviation in South America, and, though it has a kind of terror about it, it also has a kind of beauty.
It is a short tale, and only one character, the almost tyrannical supervisor who sends young men out to fly at night in all kinds of weather, is fully developed. There also are two pilots, one of whom goes to his death in a night-time gulf of nothingness.
Few good books have been written about those dramatic days of airline pioneering. This may be the best, along with Lindbergh's great "Spirit of St. Louis."—CMP
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DEIRDRE, by James Stephens (Signet Classics, 60 cents).
Struggle through the first 20 pages or so of this slim volume, and it will be difficult to stop. "Deirdre" is an Irish legend, handled by playwrights as well as by novelist James Stephens. It is a tragic and moving story, and it benefits greatly at the hands of Stephens, whose feeling for the language is a lovely thing to contemplate.
Deirdre is a beautiful girl, raised by a foster mother to become the queen of the powerful, magnetic, brutal Conachur, the king. But Deirdre, fears him, and she flees to Scotland with Naoise, her lover. And she and her husband and his brothers finally die at the hands of the vengeful king.
This is the stuff of King Arthur and Beowulf and Macbeth. It is savage and barbaric and beautiful. Of interest to local readers will be the afterword by Walter Starkie, who was guest lecturer at KU a few years back.—CMP
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THERESE RAQUIN, by Emile Zola (Penguin Classics, 95 cents).a new translation, by L. W. Tancock, of the vivid story of love, hate, adultery and murder that was a landmark in naturalistic literature The novel was the earliest by Zola to maintain a lasting place in literary history.-CMP
Short Ones
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.-J. Lawrence Pool.
The test of a college is what happens to its undergraduates that would not have happened otherwise—McGeorge Bundy.
Eating your cake and having it too; this to a remarkable extent has been the American dream.—J. Kenneth Galbraith.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.—Rene Descartes.
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"Man—those traffic booths look like tugboats."
Always a Laugh
Any American VIP who visits Russia these days may consider his trip a bust if he does not rate a personal interview with Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Secretary of Interior Stewart L. Udall is the latest American tourist to return with an account of his palaver with the Soviet chief.
One of Mr. Udall's remarks on the visit reminds us unpleasantly of Harry Truman's once-upon-a-time unfortunate reference to Mr. Khrushchev's predecessor as "Good ol' Joe." The latest Soviet dictator, the Secretary told a Washington press conference, is a man with a "lively sense of humor." He explained that, while a photographer was posing them for a news picture, Mr. K. had offered, "If it will help you out, you can go ahead and shake your finger in my face."
It was just about the same time that Mr. K. was figuratively wagging his finger in the face of Uncle Sam, warning that the Soviet Union would bring down nuclear holocaust on the world if the United States meddled with Cuba, one of his repeated reminders that international communism intends to "bury" us.
What a funny, funny fellow! Admirable host, too.
(Reprinted from the Portland Oregonian)
Worth Repeating
Poverty is a part of you. You don't create it. You listen to it, and you give it form. . . It is a lonely art that must be self-taught. —David McCord.
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
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"YOU LEARN TEACHING TH THE FIRST YEAR THEN YOU STUDY VOCATIONS
THREE YEARS TO QUALIFY YOU FOR THAT EXTRA JOB TO MAKE A LIVING."