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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Jan. 16, 1964
Voting Help
Elections are always confusing, and it is time to offer the winter book on the forthcoming presidential contests in the hope they will help you access the oratory of the coming months.
It is particularly timely, now that Sen. Goldwater has manned the bridge to stem the onslaught of Cossacks charging down from Washington on the nation's poor hapless millionaires. With Rockefeller already in, and Scranton liking Ike, the only thing missing is for Richard Nixon to stage another press conference announcing he isn't going to have any more press conferences. (He has been doing this at the rate of once a month the past year, so we may expect it momentarily.)
Once that is on the record, here are some hints of what to expect:
President Johnson will be folksy. He has no choice, with a wife who says, "I'll see you next Sunday, the Lord willin' and the cricks don't rise." The Johnson campaign is fairly well known, except what he decides to do about Texas. If he argues for admitting Texas to the United States, he may lose the whole gonfollah.
Goldwater, of course, will be anti. Antifolksy, anti-Johnson, anti-Rockefeller, antidiluvian, and he wants us all to straighten up and fly Right, even if it kills us.
Nixon is more positive. He is for something, Of course, on occasion he is anti-newspapermen, but he is definitely for Pat's old cloth coat.
Rocky's campaign will be based on a medley of "Happy Days Are Here Again." "Get Me to The Church On Time" and "Rock-A-Bye Baby."
And Scranton will be for Scranton, Pa., and for Ike.
Which leaves Henry Cabot Lodge. He is busy in the rice boondocks these days, but is getting his licks on the late, late TV movies, where he is known as Herbert Marshall.
And that reminds us, George Murphy is running for the Senate. Murphy is an old song and dance man, and he is for Shirley Temple. So far as we know, none of the other candidates on the scene can either sing or dance, which is just as well.
-Garden City Telegram
Pore Ole Rayf'
Time was when I could bring my Uncle Rayford to campus and on a good afternoon point out to him a couple hundred full-fledged, card-carrying extremists—radicals, nuts, quacks.
(Ole Uncle Rayford is interested in that sort of thing. He likes to know which drain his tax dollar is going down.)
NOW WHEN THE old codger makes a visit to Mount Oread all I can do is apologetically single out a couple of language majors who carry their books in a bread sack and a few other sad remnants of the beat movement.
It's intolerably frustrating that I can't peg them on sight any more, since most of the nuts are wearing such respectable get-ups.
I tell old Uncle they're out there. Yes, they are. The only trouble is, they are well nigh impossible to spot.
THEY'RE WEARING ties and white shirts or sport shirts and sweaters and continental slacks, if they're boys, and the regular thing for girls whatever girls wear.
Old Rayf' can't figure it. Back in the good old days you could spot them a mile away. They were likely to be picketing something, and they had
long hair and looked right dirty.
I try to explain they got a new bunch in now. Most of them are debating whether Goldwater is too far left to back for president. Want to be sure he's against income tax, I'm told. All of them are against the UN up in New York City, too.
A FEW OF THEM are hooked up with YAF or the Birchers, I tell old Uncle, but most of them just show themselves once in a while at a Young Republican meeting and let it go at that.
We were walking down Jayhawk Boulevard and — to get my point across to him — I said "There's One!" my poor old Rayford would jerk his head around and get excited, until finally he got so nervous I had to quit.
HE SAID ALL those button-down extremists should have to wear a big "R" on their lapel, but I said no, there were laws about that.
Right there he gave up.
It was too much for the old gent.
He sure does miss the kids who wore sandals, much as he disliked them. Makes the old gaffer terribly uneasy when he doesn't have good tabs on the whereabouts of the crackpots.
Tom Coffman
Passport Politics
Editor:
A delicate situation confronted some of the Arab students on Saturday evening. The case was "not to vote" or "to vote" for Miss Bushra Caraman for vice-president of the International Club.
Miss Caraman is, first and foremost, an Arab student and a friend of the Arabs, yet most of them failed her expectation on that evening. Why?
In 1948, the Arabs were done an injustice by the big powers and thus, the state of Israel was established. During that time, a million and a half Palestinians were forced to leave the country while half a million staved. Miss Caraman happens to be one of those who staved.
No doubt that those Arab students who boycotted or voted against her were driven by an overwhelming fear, namely that if Miss Caraman should win, the vicepresidency of the International Club would be associated with the nature of her passport.
The People Say...
Obviously it is difficult to argue against their decision, for their motive is more emotional than rational. Yet one cannot help but deduce some conclusions and ask some questions.
If the attitude that was exhibited is to be carried out consistently Miss Caraman would not have a chance to depend on Arab friends in playing the role of an active student, irrespective of her capacity and personality.
It is a fact that the Arabs in the occupied part of Palestine (Israel)
No doubt that the Arab countries rely on the ripening capacities of their students abroad for a better future. So every student feels that he is representing the more intelligent section of his country.
Foreign students are known to express their dislike of discrimination so they often pick at Americans in relation to the color problem. Here is a case of double discrimination.
have become a suppressed minority, thus it is inconceivable that any of them would possibly favour the existing conditions.
I read with dismay the letter in this column on Wednesday, signed by Sally Sieg and Cheryl Paul. Their construction of events this last weekend and before in the semester at Ellsworth Hall is erroneous. The remainder of these girls' letter is so unfounded as to not deserve further comment, as pertains both theory and fact. Unfortunately, that letter is only a mild example of the fantastic rumors circulating throughout the campus as well as in the hall itself. A complete disclosure of the facts covering the residents of Ellsworth is obviously impossible in the interests of the persons and families involved. The death of a student is, of course, always sad news, but it also seems to be news that attracts the curiosity and imagination of students. As a result, the incorrect theories and stories that are circulating have reached absurd proportions that are highly damaging to many innocent individuals.
Of course Arab students are driven in their political thinking by a sense of a great and noble duty towards the Palestinian problem, but unfortunately some manifested it in the wrong place.
Salo Stuki
Beirut, Lebanon, graduate
Injurious Rumors Editor:
Said Sidki
The facts are these: There has been one. I repeat, ONE suicide this year at Ellsworth. Other incidents popularly regarded as suicide attempts have not been substantiated in fact. The unfortunate death of Donald Spradlin on Sunday was entirely the result of natural causes. The letter referred to above calls this a "successful" death. Nothing could be further from the truth. Other incidents which occurred in Ellsworth Saturday followed soon after a resident was taken to the hospital that morning. Speculation has been rank in attempts to relate the events. Unfounded assumptions have lilted off tongues as truisms. The fact is that the events of Saturday afternoon are only incidentally related. The popular theory concerning these events is fundamentally false.
Although I realize that by their very nature rumors cannot be stopped, I nevertheless plead with all who read this to conscientiously assess the sources of their information and decide honestly whether such spurious gossip should be repeated. Failure to do so only adds to the injury.
George Brenner
President
Ellsworth Hall
"Wow—Look At 'Em Go!"
Little Symphony
By Karen Nelson
The Little Symphony of the University of Kansas, under the direction of Thomas Gorton, gave a performance of some merit last night. Dean Gorton opened the program with a conservative rendering of Haydn's symphony, "La Reine," No. 85. The beginning intimation of restrained power grew tiring as it continued, never progressing into a real grandeur. The symphony was primarily chordally conceived and therefore lacked linear grace. Although on the whole, the interpretation was tasteful, the lovely melodic motives were obscured by excessive attention to the harmonic structure underneath them. The orchestra, however, played precisely, with good intonation and a great deal of vigor.
THE SECOND composition found the Dean and Assistant to the Dean of the School of Fine Arts performing side by side. Don Scheid played the difficult Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra by Carl Nielsen (1865-1931). The concerto, with its scant melodic direction and many strenuous leaps, presented obstacles to orchestra and soloist alike, and it is doubtful that even a professional orchestra could have turned the seldom-played piece into a truly rewarding experience. The orchestra's intonation and clarity were poor, but the coordination with the soloist was impeccable.
Mr. Scheid began with some technical difficulty but soon gained control and continued with confidence. His tone in the upper register was pleasant when the passage did not involve rapid leaps or staccato, and his middle register was excellent. The cadenza in the part of the concerto, which roughly corresponded to a first movement (the concerto was all one section), gave Mr. Scheid an opportunity to show his sensitivity; the cadenza in the "last movement" demonstrated his technical prowess; both were performed extremely well and gave the listener a small moment of relief from the seemingly endless succession of directionless dissonances.
THE ORCHESTRA, which was interspersed with faculty members, showed the highest extent of their facility and fire in New York "Profiles," a set of four descriptions of that city by Norman Dello Joio.
"Profiles" displayed the virtuosity of the brass and woodwinds and the richness of the strings. Dello Joio's typically thick orchestration pervaded the entire composition; his easily recognized rhythmic and harmonic style seemed to delight the small but appreciative audience. Dean Gorton relaxed his style and allowed the orchestra to be far more melodic than in the Haydn (of course, Dello Joio's style lends itself more readily to open expressiveness), and although it is certainly debatable whether "Profiles" will ever be considered as monumental as any of Haydn's works, yesterday evening, the peak of excitement was reached in the work by Dello Joio.
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