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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Oct. 17. 1963
Intramurals Necessary
Reuben McCornack, student body president, recently proposed the formation of a committee on recreation and sports at the University of Kansas. One of the main functions of the committee, according to McCornack, would be to promote the intramural program and to inform KU students of the availability of recreational facilities and equipment.
Such a committee is greatly needed and would be an asset to the University student program.
The University of Kansas is one of the few universities which do not have a compulsory physical education program for students. As a result, students tend to minimize or even overlook gratefully the fact that physical exercise is important, even essential, to physical well-being.
BUT SINCE the University of Kansas has no compulsory physical education program as such, the responsibility is left in the main to an intramurals organization. Not all students have the athletic ability to be varsity athletes but many students have enough ability to enjoy participating in sports. It is to this latter category that the intramurals program is directed. And it is in this latter category where most of the KU students are found.
So doesn't it follow that everything should be done to reach the students and tell them of the benefits and enjoyments they can gain through such a program? A committee on sports and recreation would be a vital link and channel of communication in such a program.
According to McCornack, the committee would serve not only as an intramural promotion agency but as co-ordinating agency. The University of Kansas has three organizations which are involved in the intramurals program: the Women's
Recreation Association, the Men's Recreation Association, and the Student Union Activities. One of the main co-ordinating problems of the committee, as explained by McCornack, would be to schedule events so they would not conflict, thus giving the student an opportunity for participation in all of the events if he chooses. The schedule conflict seems to be with the recreational associations' events and those scheduled by SUA. Perhaps it can be worked out, but for some students there may be no problem of choice.
One definite advantage of such a committee would be the development of a closer relationship between the women's and men's organizations. The place of the woman in athletics is not to be minimized. The formation of such a committee would in part be a recognition of that fact. With the closer cooperation which would be demanded by both organizations in such a committee, the end result would no doubt be a strengthening of both programs and a possible combining of the programs with such events as mixed doubles in tennis, badminton, table tennis, etc.
ROBINSON GYMNASIUM may not at present have facilities to meet all the demands. It will in the future. But the facilities it does have are not being used to their fullest extent. And also some equipment and facilities can be purchased without the construction of a new building. It all goes back to that old law of supply and demand.
The University of Kansas needs a larger more active intramurals program. It needs an established physical fitness program. A step toward the realization of these goals would be the establishment of a committee on sports and recreation.
— Dolores Orman
Students Won't Work Editor:
Your editorial on the grade system, "Attitudes are Wrong," interesting as it was, contained certain errors pertaining to the European system. The Europeans have come up with a "rational" solution, but not the solution.
The People Say ..
A European student preparing for his comprehensives looks just like his American counterpart, the Ph.D. candidate, preparing for his preliminary exams. Both start cramming about 6 months before the exams. And when the German student, for example, finishes his state exams, he receives, God forbid, a grade.
The point is that Europeans, as well as Americans, know that 90% of the students will not work unless forced. If there is a fault in a system of forced work, then it lies among those professors who
For the first year, and sometimes also the second, the German student does virtually nothing but attend lectures. True, he takes no exams and receives no grades, but he also does very little if any work, i.e., reading in his fields. After that period he becomes involved in the seminar system, and in seminars he must work, receiving in turn a certificate from his instructor. Upon that seminar certificate is also a grade.
take up their students' time with worthless busy work and poor reading selections.
Calvin Gruver
graduate student
Controversial Figures Editor:
I see that certain groups are heading a movement to invite Madame Ngo Dinh Hu, "controversial 'first lady' of Viet Nam, to visit KU during her tour of the United States." I'm glad to see that someone is again getting round to inviting some controversial speakers to appear on campus. Since KU has the responsibility to serve as a forum for ideas and discussions, there are a few other controversial figures who I would like to see and hear in person on campus. Among these prospective speakers would be Mrs. Murray, the lady who is starting the colony for atheists in western Kansas, and Governors Ross Barnett and George Wallace. The latter two could appear on the same program with Madame Nhu and we could see a cross-societal study of bigotry, prejudice, intolerance, and suppression of human freedoms. Also, the latter two probably would be willing to pay their own expenses to be able to air their ideas.
Wallace Danny Johnson, Jr.
Lawrence senior
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Return the Bell
For almost a decade University of Kansas students enjoyed the color and excitement of college football—the band, the cheerleaders, the Jayhawk and the TEKE bell.
This year KU students have felt that something was missing, that there was a void in the pageantry of home games. The TEKE bell was gone.
Blaine King ... Editorial Editor
Editor:
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
What prompted this university of 11,000 students to rid itself of a tradition? One man. One man in the athletic department labeled the bell a troublemaker, and had it removed.
Bob Brooks ... Business Manager
Last year a group of rather inebriated Nebraska alumni attempted to ring, and rang, the bell when Nebraska scored. These men were quickly returned to their seats by several KU policemen and students without further ado.
Is this lone instance, after seven years of bell ringing, reason enough to remove the bell? There is very little doubt that the University can prevent any "riots" before they develop, by the use of Pinkerton men and KU police with dogs (which they are now using without any bell to start riets).
The men of Tau Kappa Epsilon have received calls, and have been stopped on campus by students, parents and instructors, all of them asking why we don't have our bell at the games this year. There have also been many instances of students, and even an instructor, wanting to start petitions to get the bell back in the stadium. We replied that instead of rushing things with a petition we would rather try to straighten it out with the administration and the one man who had the bell removed. After three weeks of "chasing the duck around the bush" we have received a firm NO from the University.
Tau Kappa Epsilon has offered many suggestions to remedy the threat of violence over our bell. The most logical of these is to move the bell from the end zone, where the visitors sit, to a place in front of the KU student body.
It is up to you, the student, to put the bell back on the field where it can echo our touchdowns through the passing years.
David Perry
David Perry
Webb City, Mo., junior
Tau Kappa Epsilon
"Small World, Isn't It?"
Hostile Hot Air Sears Political Scene Too
Either I'm confusing my childhood memories, or those southbound geese that go honking over my house every night haven't looked at the official thermometer lately.
Maybe instinct or habit was too much for them to resist. It couldn't have been the cold weather settling in the marrow of their bones—not with the temperature ranging in the mid-90's for the past several weeks.
It is possible that therein lies the answer. The fall of 1963 is too darn hot; they are on their way to cooler parts.
HOWEVER, I HAVE just one thought to say to their leader, "Grain up for a long flight. To leave this heat which promises even hotter temperatures from political issues, it will be necessary to go far from this country."
Take for example, the smoldering remains of the "sell-wheat-to-Russia" deal. Molecular pros and cons are bumping each other so rapidly that it's enough to spark a presidential campaign issue.
Seeking to apply ointment to the painful scorches on journalists and state department officials, Madame Ngo Dinh Hu, Viet Nam's first dragonlady, is presently touring the U.S. However, even good dragons can forget, and breathe fire without thinking.
The flames which have been feeding on Buddhists' flesh have made Vict Nam one of the hottest spots in the world, and the scorching heat is being felt here.
Supporters of possible Republican presidential hopefuls are busily chopping wood for the growing campfires.
THE WOODCUTTERS for Arizona's Sen. Barry Goldwater include Arizona's Paul Fannin, Oklahoma's Henry Bellmon, Montana's Tim Babcock and Wyoming's Cliff Hansen. In the process of sharpening their axes are Colorado's John Love, Kansas' John Anderson, Utah's George Clyde and South Dakota's Archie Gubbrud.
There's still the possibility that Dwight Eisenhower's reactions to Goldwater's remark of "one Eisenhower in a decade is enough" might dampen the spirit around the roaring bonfire.
Meanwhile, Rockefeller is working hard at starting a bonfire of his own. He intends to enter the New Hampshire, California, and possibly the West Virginia primaries. He has been on a 12-day tour of Europe where he met with Pope Paul VI, Charles de Gaulle, German Chancellor-designate Ludwig Erhard and British Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson.
With two such bonfires raging across the country, it's bound to get unbearably hot—more so than people feel now.
The sound of "going south" for the winter becomes more appealing all the time. However, while traveling the airways, one must be careful not to get caught in the convectional air currents over Latin America.
—Carol Lathrop Knupp