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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 1, 1956
Santee's Story—Chapter No. ?
More About The AAU
The Amateur Athletic Union, in its latest adventure, has carried the Wes Sante story to its most ridiculous lengths.
It was announced Monday afternoon that the entire track team of William and Mary had been declared ineligible for all AAU competition because two members of the team ran against Santee in a meet April 14. Jack Freeman, athletic director of William and Mary, made the announcement.
Mr. Freeman said he received a letter from John T. Core, the first vice president of the Virginia branch of the AAU. The letter stated that the AAU would no longer accept any entries from members of the William and Mary squad.
Mr. Core spread the blame a bit farther by announcing in the letter that he was acting under instructions from Dan Ferris, the secretary of the AAU.
Now just how ridiculous can you get?
Wes Santee admittedly violated the rules of the AAU. However, most observers feel he was not the only one to violate the outmoded regulations implied on amateur trackmen.
No other trackmen have been restricted by the AAU this year. Santee stands alone.
Granted the AAU might have the right to suspend the two members of the William and Mary squad who ran against Santee April 14. This much power we will give the AAU, as it had been made clear that such rulings might be put into effect.
However, we have grave doubts as to the right of the AAU to suspend the entire William and Mary squad for the actions of two of its members.
The theory of guilt by association has a lengthy historical background, but little legal basis. If such a practice is allowed to continue, the results could be fatal to the entire amateur system.
Last winter the University experienced the scholastic loss of a top basketball player. Under the new theory endorsed by the AAU, would the entire team then be declared ineligible? Let's stop this nonsense before it comes to that.
—Dick Walt
"Revolt Put Down In Cuba," proclaims the big headline. Well, we'll remember that next time we have a revolt on our hands. Sounds like a nice place to put any kind of uprising.
--division were incompetent, whereas probably a few were, and most weren't.
And here's another one which cries "Utah Governor Hit By Tax Lien." He'll no doubt learn to dodge better when he's been in office longer. We hear the flying saucers are bad out there, too.
Hope the Student Union got the word on the upcoming convoction in time to brew up an extra supply of coffee for the big day.
. . Short Ones . .
Why is it they're always honoring the top students in each school? How about some sort of award for the student who makes the most average grades throughout his entire college career?
Maybe we can't beat them Okies in football, but it looks like we can at least hold our own in boxing.
What won't they think of next? After a bridge tournament and a derby day for the girls, why don't the females reciprocate and hold some sort of competition in something the men would enjoy. Perhaps an all-University bull session contest would be adequate.
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Too bad the class of '54 didn't leave the University a solid brass statue of Wes Santee.
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Integration Opposition
We'll say one thing for this year's senior class. At least the folly of '56 will be remembered, which is more than you can say for most senior class gifts. And bronze lasts so much longer than grass.
General Clark Speaks For Segregation
The latest southerner to go on record against integration is Gen. Mark W. Clark, retired UN commander in the Far East and now president of The Citadel, a South Carolina military college.
Gen. Clark said several days ago that he was opposed to integration of white and Negro troops when the policy was adopted in 1950, and he still is opposed.
He said, in effect, that he was against mixing Negroes and whites because a Negro division he had in the 5th Army in Italy during World War II was "the worst division I had." He said the troops were unreliable and that they bolted in the face of the enemy."
Just because he was in charge of a division of Negro troops which wasn't up to par in one campaign of one war, he blindly generalizes that Negro troops shouldn't be integrated with whites for fear of lessening the fighting ability.
Not only is it an invalid generalization to assume that all Negro divisions were like the particular one he had in mind, but it's just as ridiculous for him to imply that all Negroes within the
Obviously, Gen. Clark was an able soldier, or he would never have become a general, nor a UN commander, but surely he didn't achieve his military prowess by using the type of reasoning in which he denounced the integration of Negro troops.
You may be able to generalize on lower animals by examining several species, but not on human beings, since each behaves differently.
Even if we accept Gen. Clark's preposterous conclusion that all Negro troops aren't as competent fighting men as whites (we don't and never will), it's still puzzling to figure out his reasoning against integration.
It seems to us that the integration of less efficient persons into higher qualified company would solve a problem better than keeping them separated. If the incompetent group is by itself, it would remain incompetent. But if its members were divided into more competent groups, new goals and attitudes probably would be taken on by the new members, thus making them more competent.
Gen. Clark's answer to this would be that the few incompetent members would degrade the entire group. We disagree: the group would upgrade the few incompetent members.
We aren't going to generalize and say that all college presidents in the South are prejudiced against Negroes, but we do hope that Gen. Clark's reasoning in troop integration is not typical of him or anyone else in a similar responsible position. —Kent Thomas
Don't Let The May Madness Get You
A Word Of Warning
"Don't give up, there's still almost a month of school to go."
Those are probably the best words for students at this time of year. The month of May rolls around and students immediately forget their purpose here at the University and take up more fun-producing and entertaining things.
Now there is nothing wrong with picnics at Lone Star, formals, parties, softball games, or maybe even a day at golf or tennis. Heaven help us without them, as they are necessary for the social education of students. But the student shouldn't forget his studies, as now is the most important time of the spring semester for school work.
May is the last month of the spring semester, and also the month in which teachers get immense joy out of assigning more work than the student can possibly do. Now this extra work can be in the form of hour exams, quizzes, book reports, and at least one term paper per course.
However, don't expect these to be spread out equally throughout the month, because this just doesn't happen. Instead, you can count on a barrage of hour exams and term papers all in one week, maybe two. To be more specific, the student can count on the last two weeks as rugged, because teachers like to wear you down to nothing before final week rolls around.
So probably the best thing students can remember to do is not to coast through or to give up in the last month of school. May is an important time where a student may rise or fall in his courses, depending upon his attitude and work output. Teachers never change, and the work always keeps piling up. Thus, it is up to the student to accept this extra work and to do the best that he possibly can.
Book Review
Bob Rilev
'Southern William A. White' Gives A Host Of Memories
Without too great a stretch of the imagination, Hodding Carter's book "Where Main Street Meets the River" leaves the impression that the articulate author might well be a southern William Allen White. But very much southern.
Perhaps his obvious satisfaction with being a smalltown newspaperman makes the author more comparable to the late Mr. White than anything else.
The book, written in a simple, sincere tone, is sometimes serious, other times humorous, but always interesting.
It's apparent without the author mentioning (which he does) that his deepest love, next to his family, is his Mississippi community, Greenville, followed by the South and the United States, in that order.
Mr. Carter feels that whatever is good for Greenville is good for the South and the nation. This he shows through the eyes of a newspaper editor, which he is, and has been for 24 years.
Varied Recollections
This book is a recollection of the author's memories, ranging from dirty politics to duck hunting.
Huey Long and Theodore Bilbo, former U.S. senators from Louisiana and Mississippi, respectively, are blasted for their "dictatorial" characteristics in the book's most serious context.
In emotional contrast the author tells of his 10-year-old boy's first hunt, which is realistically reminiscent of his own first hunt.
The author's pride in the South is strong, but equitable. Today's Supreme Court ruling of non-segregation probably doesn't alter Mr. Carter's ideals a bit.
In one part of the book a significant change comes in the author's Delta Democrat-Times when a Negro woman asks that the paper be respectful enough to put Mr., Miss or Mrs. before the Negro's surname. The paper agrees and thereby conquers one of the taboos of southern newspapers. The incident serves mostly as an awakening of equality between different races.
Filled With Memories
"Where Main Street Meets the River" is largely about those persons who occupy a never-to-be-forgotten place in the author's mind. Foremost of these, of course, is wife Betty, who helps keep alive her husband's small paper in Hammond, La., during the worst days of our worst depression.
Several characters are introduced at random in the bleak period, mostly to point out the ultra-low living conditions, and the fierceness of newspaper rivals.
The author's newspaper associates are described in detail to show their devotion to the Democrat-Times, as well as the author's admiration of them.
The proud southern editor defends his section's politics, but he is not foolhardy enough to claim that the South is right and others are wrong. For example, he is dead set against racial prejudice, but says that it can be just as wrong to compel a person against his will to employ a Jew, Negro or Catholic than for him to refuse employment on the same grounds. His point is well taken since democracy would be absent in both circumstances.
As he examines the northern criticisms of the South, he seems to defeat his purpose in contrasting northern and southern viewpoints. He tries to show that the North has been just as guilty in racial prejudice as the South, which instills somewhat of a negative effect. His argument does nothing to de-sectionalize the United States.
The author is highly critical of lynchings, but even more so against the judgment in determining whether a murder is a lynching or not. Once again he sectionalizes the country to show that whereas cases in the South were judged to be lynchings, similar cases were not in the North.
Because of the few lynchings in the South in recent years the Greenville editor thinks federal intervention in lynchings is based
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upon past, obsolete records. His opinion is that the state eventually can cease all lynchings through education and local control, if the federal government would allow it.
Hod Carter, the teen-age son, is used by his father to point out the fallacies of public school education. Hod is a brilliant student, with apparently unlimited intellectual possibilities. However, because there are some dense students in high high school class, he and other better-than-average students are wasting their learning capacities by being held back.
Mr. Carter's love for the personal, closely knit community appears most clearly when he decides to take a Nieman fellowship and study at Harvard in 1940. It eventually leads into a job with the now-defunct New York PM, which he never learns to like. His big-city job lasts only a few months.
Humor is excellently intermingled with the serious to make the reading even more enjoyable. Much of it is supplied in his overseas experiences in World War II, when he is in charge of Yank Magazine and the Stars and Stripes newspaper.
Particularly entertaining is when the author and an associate want to give their fellow soldiers a good home story instead of the usual front-line material. Spotting a small item in a foreign newspaper about America's No. I public enemy being killed in attempting to escape from prison, the desperate editors fake a blood-thirsty story and smear it all over the Stars and Stripes, only to find out later that the convict had been found alive.
Hodding Carter's book is sincere from cover to cover. He tries throughout to tell others what is right and wrong about his kind of people. It's a book any small-town editor who's devoted to his community might write. If any others do, we hope their's are just as provocative and interesting.
Kent Thomas
Note to shopmers—Mother's Day will be coming up pretty soon, rumor tells us. We're not sure when, as it's not marked on our Esquire calendar.
Looks like the library could do something about the terrific crowds in the reserve room. Perhaps we could hire an extra campus cop to enforce some sort of 30-minute limit on each chair.
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