From the sidelines To the editor: I am the junior varsity basketball coach at Paseo High School, Kansas City, Mo. This is somewhat a unique situation because I am a white teacher in a 95 percent black school. I have been in this position for the last three years. With these few credentials in mind, I am going to voice my opinion of what I interpreted at your 1969 Homecoming. After coming to a conclusion that the black students and the school administration had worked something out concerning the queen situation, it was very upsetting to me that the black students involved in the Homecoming ceremonies couldn't show enough school spirit and respect to stand for the National Anthem and the school song. I was very disappointed to see that politics and the school's racial problems dominated the afternoon of sports. It is a shame that the followers of Kansas football can't attend a game and watch football. John W. Paris, Coach, Paseo High School Kansas City, Mo. * * To the editor: Perhaps the Great Silent Majority should maintain its silence if it has nothing more functional to offer than the same dogmatic racism we have been hearing for years. It is quite obvious, Mr. Yost, that your concept of what you call "the real student community" is as outdated as your idea that a black homecoming queen is a humiliating occurrence. The "real student community," like the nation itself, is not made up only of a tight white majority who become vocal only when their white superiority (their concept of "white and only white is beautiful") is threatened. The constituency of the Committee of the Whole contains those minorities who deserve representation just as much as the Great Silent Majority. If they have to agitate to gain that representation then it is time that we examine our Great System to discover why it is that minorities are not automatically represented. Why do they have to agitate to gain what is constitutionally theirs? Perhaps, Mr. Yost, as a member of the Great White Silent Majority, you ought to examine that big word "integrity" that you throw around so loosely. Pat Stiles Kansas City junior To the editor: After sitting through last week's game, I felt compelled to write about our unbelievable yell leaders. For years the KU students have cringed slightly but have reluctantly gone along with spelling KANSAS (a cheer that would insult the ingenuity of even high school students); but it has apparently not been enough for our yell leaders. They have found it necessary to subject us to even more of those "get-a-load-of-them" looks from our opponents. "We've got the fever we're hot" must have come out of a junior high cheerleader handbook; and with the fatalistic dancing of our yell leaders, it leaves the fans looking on in complete astonishment. Most fans have taken a "you've got to be kidding" attitude and tried hard to ignore the antics on the sidelines. But the yell leaders were not yet satisfied. Last week they must have decided to set a record for the most humiliating, juvenile cheer of all times even topping the previous week's "fumble-bumble." I truly believe even elementary school students would feel perfectly stupid doing a cheer in such language as "womp 'em up side of the head." It was obvious that the pom pon girls were embarrassed, but seeing no alternative, tried to do their best. Once was too much for the fans but simply not enough for the mad man on the mike. Over and over he blurted the words and danced up a storm. I think we as KU students have now been subjected to all we can take. And I only hope that if our great yell leader does not agree that one of the thousands of irate fans find the courage to take the microphone and "womp him up side of the head!" Vickie Agler Lawrence THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Kansan Telephone Numbers Newsroom—UN 4-3646. Business Office—UN 4-4358 Publicized at the University of Kansas daily during the academic year except holidays and examination periods. Postmaster's copy is also posted in class postage paid at Lawrence, Kan. 68044. Accommodations, goods, services and employment advertised offered by the University of Kansas are not necessarily those of the University of Kansas or the State Board of Regents. BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS STAFF Business Adviser . . . Mel Adams Business Manager Jerry Bottenfield Assistant Business Manager Mike Banks Advertising Manager Jack Hurley National Advertising Manager Rod Osborne Classified Advertising Manager Larry Reagan O'Neill Promotion Manager Reason O'Neill Circulation Manager Todd Smith NEWS STAFF News Adviser . . . James W. Murray Managing Editor Alan T. Jones Editorial Editor Joanna K. Wiele Campus Editor Roe H. Bullard New Media Editor Ruth J. Cox Makeup Editor Ken Peterson Sports Editor Jay Thomas Wilson Editor Martha Sheedorf Arts and Review Editor Mike Sheedorf Women's Page Editor Linda Loyd Prize Wafer Editor Mike Riekle Assistant News Editor Donna Shrader, Stuart Sheedorf Assistant Sports Editor Joe Childs Assistant Editorial Editor Judith K. Dielbelt Assistant Campus Editor Rick Erikel Assistant Games Editor Mike Fredeskens Assistant Women's Page Editor Viki Hysten Member Associated Collegiate Press M-day march "no solution" To the editor: In regard to Saturday's Moratorium march in Topeka, I am almost inclined to agree with Agnew's statement, "If the moratorium had any use whatever it served as an emotional purgative for those who feel the need to cleanse themselves of their lack of ability to offer a constructive solution to the problem." The parade route was down some obscure streets where no more than a small group of Topeka residents could view it. Then there were three "peace-loving" speakers telling these 800 or so "peace-loving" listeners that they were for peace. I wonder if there is another more successful waste of time? I happened to overhear an elderly man and woman passing by and musing at the congregation. "Probably just another of them demonstrations," they decided. Aren't these the people that should be reached and not those who are already firmly against Vietnam? The finale of the fiasco, however, had to be the singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." I wonder how many of those people who were attempting to show their patriotism stopped to think that that very song is a war song, written during the Spanish-American War, another of our imperialistic conquests. Consider the words these "peace-lovers" were singing, "and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air . . . land of the free, home of the brave." Is this the concept those anti-Vietnam people are trying to express? If we are actually serious about putting an end to the war in Vietnam, let's stop kidding ourselves with useless activities and really do something constructive, so men like Agnew will stop making statements about the "impudent snobs." For example, the boycott of classes worked well for one day in October, but interest obviously waned seriously this month. How committed to peace are those 1,500 who marched last month—are they committed enough to do a little self-sacrificing? Also, what about taking Moratorium activities off campus and into the cities, where the main core of the "silent majority" resides? Perhaps these people won't be silent when they are made to realize the injustice of this war. Thirdly, if people are actually concerned with militarism, let's start at our own school and with a basic problem at hand. Instead of those 1,500 "peace-lovers" marching on this campus, why don't they all work to get ROTC off this campus? Kathy Nelson Lincoln, Neb. sophomore United Press International READING, England—Nearly 5,000 students at Reading University will decide next Tuesday on a proposal to boost the Student Union funds by watching a strip show. another of them demonstrations," they decided. Aren't these Jackson, 23, said he reckons on a profit of $480 in behalf of the publication of a handbook and the student's newspaper. - * * WASHINGTON—Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew, speaking out against antiwar groups' demands for an immediate U.S. pullout from Vietnam: "We are not going to undergo a defeat simply because of the exhortations of these people to completely move away from it, to run, to bug out from this war." GRIFF AND THE UNICORN by DAVE SOKOLOFF Griff & the Unicorn, Copyright, 1969, University Daily Kansan.