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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 27, 1956.
Miami's Views On Professionalism
George wasn't much different from all the other frosh football players who every year poured into the campus of College Town, U. S. A.
He was from a small hick whistle-stop near the Eastern Seaboard of Georgia and was a rather interesting individual. He made better-than-average grades and generally kept out of trouble.
Oh sure, there were a couple of scraps around campus, and he got bawled out by the coach, but everything else was all right.
George was awfully excited when he first came to College Town. Getting to play college football is something big, especially when you are from a small town, and George had visions of stardom . . . someday.
It was while George was in high school that some men came to visit him, and offered him a four-year football scholarship. He was offered a lot of scholarships, but he attended College Town because he got free board, meals, and a little spending money to boot.
During his first college semester, George played football fairly well. He had a few bad days, and it bothered him. George heard that you got kicked out of the College Town if you didn't produce.
It was a chill January afternoon when George got a message at the dorm to report to the football office.
George was called into a room, asked to sit down. Some men had odd expressions on their faces, and George sensed something was wrong.
"George," one of them said, "we're going to have to let you go. You don't play heads-up football all the time, and we think it's best you leave College Town."
George felt sick at his stomach. "But," he asked, "what about that contract I signed?"
"There were some loopholes in the contract," one of the men said. "We're sorry, but you won't be able to enroll next semester."
A few days later George packed his bags, took one last, longing look at the dorm, and crumpled up his grade sheet which read three A's, two B'S. He threw it away in disgust.
No. George isn't at College Town anymore. He's going to try to enter a smaller college where competition isn't so tough, but that won't be until next year sometime.
George thinks he can get an education at that school. He won't get paid as much to play football but he will get an education.
—Brian Sheehan in The Miami Hurricane
Jolly Good Show
Praise For The Rock Chalk Revue
As the curtain went down Saturday night on the final skit of the seventh annual Rock Chalk Revue, one was left with the feeling of witnessing a highly professional show, characterized by hard work and plentiful talent.
The first congratulations should go to Kappa Alpha Theta, Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Delta Pi, North College, Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Nu, Alpha Tau Omega, and Phi Gamma Delta. All eight skirts were well-organized and very entertaining.
They showed the hard work that had been put into them, the many sacrifices that had been made, the precious time that must have been used for practices and rehearsals. If one judged the revue by the amount of entertainment that was produced, there would have been eight winners instead of two.
The second round of congratulations should go to the Rock Chalk Revue staff. Joe Muller, Winter Park, Fla., senior, producer; and his assistant, John Ryberg, Salina sophomore, spent many hours of hard work to round the show into the huge success that it was. A great deal of time and effort
were required to put the revue together.
Allen Sweeny, Wichita senior, and Dean Fletcher, Pratt junior, also did a great job in providing this year's revue with the largest crowds in its seven-year history. The Rock Chalk Revue staff and each participating organization deserve high praise for their conscientious work in bringing KU another top-notch show.
Another round of applause should go to the two winners, North College and Alpha Tau Omega, who repeated last year's victories. To win the revue two years in a row is indeed a feat.
One last group which should not be forgotten is that composed of students, their parents, their guests, and instructors, who attended the revue and helped it to be the huge success that it was. The attendance on both nights was very good, especially when you remember that only 400 customers attended the first revue in 1950.
And so, to all who had anything to do with the 1956 production, consider it a job well done, a credit to the University, and one of the best shows in the history of the Rock Chalk Revue.
Bob Rilev
News In Review
Kefauver's Victory Takes News Spotlight
Sen. Estes Kefauver flew to California last week to capitalize on his upset victory in the Minnesota presidential primary on March 21. As a result of the primary, talk of a third political party for disgruntled southern Democrats was rising among Dixie's political leaders.
And Sen. Symington (D-Mo.) appeared to be gaining strength as a dark horse contender for the Democratic presidential nomination after Adlai E. Stevenson's defeat. Mr. Stevenson and his supporters said they regard Sen. Symington as perhaps more of a threat to their aspirations than Sen. Kefauver.
Reports out of the South indicate the Democrats are going to need tremendous statesmanship and shrewd strategy to avoid a wide-open split at their presidential nomination convention in Chicago over the civil rights and segregation issue. Emotions are running high in Dixie.
The first of the Negro bus boycott leaders, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was convicted March 22 in Montgomery. Ala.
Ike Opens Conference
Monday, President Dwight D. Eisenhower began the North American summit conference with President Ruiz Cortines of Mexico and Prime Minister Louis S. St. Laurent of Canada, at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., to discuss mutual problems.
In Congress, it appears certain that the bill to increase postage rates in an attempt to put the postal system on a break-even basis is doomed. Also, a
turn in the farm bill seems near at hand. Farm state members of Congress are gaining confidence that the bill finally will emerge in a compromise form somewhere between the much-amended Senate measure and the present law.
Internationally, the Soviet Union remained silent on the United States' proposal of opening up 30.-000 square miles of American and Soviet territory to a pilot scheme of disarmament control.
Great Britain plans to spend $25 million to support Jordan's armed forces and bolster the Arab kingdom's economy in 1956-57. This announcement ends speculation that Great Britain might cut off its subsidies to Jordan in retaliation for the March 1 dismissal of Gen. Sir John Bagot Glubb as commander of Jordan's army.
Pakistan formally proclaimed itself the world's first Islamic republic on March 21. The constitutional change substituted a president for the Queen of Britain as head of state but kept the young nation within the British Commonwealth of Nations.
Pakistan A Republic
A sleek Russian jet airliner which brought Gen. Ivan Serov, head of the Soviet secret police, to London, shocked British air experts. The TU104, British newspapers, said, put the Russians over a heath of British and American efforts in commercial jet aircraft.
In Hollywood, newcomer Ernest Borgnine and his picture, "Marty," swept over veteran actors to win
coveted Oscar's for 1955's best actor and picture. A second newcomer to Hollywood, Italy's Anna Magnani, was honored as the year's -best actress for her role in "The Rose Tattoo."
On the sports scene, unbeaten San Francisco successfully defended its NCAA basketball crown by turning back Iowa in the national finals. And Louisville won the NIT title by stopping Dayton for the third time this season.
"On to the Olympic" was selected as the 1956 Kansas Relays theme. The Relays are set for April 20 and 21.
The top activity at KU was the Rock Chalk Revue, which saw North College Hall and Alpha Tau Omega win first places before capacity crowds in a two-night stand.
The Champs Repeat
In Los Angeles, police believe that the women who called them to report "a man in the bushes with a rifle," must be a little nearsighted. Investigating, officers found a battalion of marine reserves on maneuvers in brushy hills near her home.
He's A Nice Guy
-Larry Stroup
... Letters
OLNEY, Ill. (UP)—A justice of the peace here recently fined a man and a woman for disorderly conduct because they had an argument while driving through this city and wrecked their car. A couple of weeks later they returned to Olney, took out a marriage license and sought the same justice to marry them.
Amidst the current controversy over segregation problems in the South, we here in Kansas seem to be entirely forgetting, or conveniently overlooking, the fact that Kansas itself has a segregation problem.
Editor:
In our school and city papers, through editorials and letters to the editor we are quick to point our fingers at the South and cry "Shame!"; then we sit back smugly and self-irritantly and say to one another: "Thank God we don't have anything like that here."
Who says we don't? Surely not those among us who are refused service in most bars, hotels, motels, and cafes. Surely not the guy who, with two of his buddies, walked into a newly-opened restaurant near the campus and was told by the proprietor, "I'm sorry, but I can't serve you colored boys in here."
One would think that such an incident couldn't happen in Lawrence, Kansas—"free Kansas," the state which was quick to adopt the abolitionist cause during the Civil war. Yet there are hundreds who experience these little incidents every day. (There might be some truth to the statement made by one student who, returning to school after serving in the South for four years in the armed forces.) The only difference between the segregation in the South and that in Kansas, is that down South they have signs that tell you where you can and can't go.)
There's no overlooking the fact that Kansans can be proud of their record of integration in education, and to a certain extent in city and state government positions. But we haven't yet reached the point where we can sit back and congratulate ourselves on having solved "The Race Problem."
What can be done about it? There is no magic panacea which can wipe out the whole problem at one fell swoop. But there is a nearby source from which we can look for aid—the students in our colleges and universities, some of whom will be the hotel owners and restaurant proprietors in the future. Student organizations at KU can be instrumental in helping to change conditions in Lawrence, Greeks and Independents instead of fighting each other can at least get together in trying to solve this one problem.
We certainly should congratulate student organizations at K-State who have succeeded, through cooperation with townpeople, in eliminating discrimination in many of the restaurants in Manhattan; they are now engaged in a similar campaign in regard to barbershops. Surely we here at KU can interrupt our endless rounds of bridge games and parties long enough to devote some intelligent consideration to a serious problem that exists right in our own backyard.
Let's put our education to work,
for a change-K-State students are
doing it.
walt Baskett Kansas City, Mo. senior
Editor:
On March 5 The Daily Kansan published an article written by Ray Wingerson dealing with French policy in Algeria.
There is no doubt that the French policy in Algeria provides a fertile ground for any kind of critic, especially from the standpoint of our American friends who are not always aware of the complexity of the situation over there.
I agree that the worsening military situation in Algeria is a blow to the French point of view according to the UN's assessment of the extension of the metropolitan territory.
I concede that the age of imperialism belongs to the past—at least the so-called colonialist pattern of imperialism. But it would be greatly useless to think that France has no positive contribution to offer to Algeria.
Why should we pass over the wide-scale public welfare improvements brought to that country under the French "rule"? One century ago Algeria was nothing but waste land. Nowadays, Algeria is far ahead of most African or Asian countries in the field of public education, public health and social security.
. . .
Shall I mention the fact that public schools are open to all without
any segregation of race or religion? That Moslems take advantage of the Social Security Act to the same extent that French citizens do? That a large scale sanitation campaign has been set up in such a way that the death rate is falling every year?
France took in 1946 the solemn engagement to provide by degrees countries under her leadership with self-government. Morocco has been granted complete independence, while Tunisia, alrady endowed with a self-government, is on the way to gain her diplomatic self-representation; as far as Algeria is concerned, a striking fact is worth being pointed out—more than one million Frenchmen live in Algeria or, in other words, there is one Frenchman for every eight Moslems.
In the case of Algeria it is not conceivable, in spite of Mr. Wingerson's kind suggestion, that the French population be required to leave a country which is a second motherland.
The French government is not unwilling to give Algeria independence, provided the rights of the French minority be recognized and guaranteed. The solution of the problem does not rest upon the French leaving Algeria, but on the necessity of setting up a pacific coexistence of two different groups and civilizations.
This is why there is no sense comparing the American revolution with the present outburst of nationalism in Algeria; there is no common denominator in this comparison where both history and the reader are the losers. In the former case an agreement had to be reached between two English-speaking groups, in the latter case the French government has to face the demands of two different ethical groups so as to promote a compromise acceptable to both parties.
Two weeks ago the French Premier pointed out the French willingness to take the necessary steps towards free elections in Algeria, provided the rebellion ceases, but so far he has not been listened to.
So long as 30,000 rebels who cannot, at any price, be considered representative of the eight million Moslems, keep on fighting, the free elections, gateway to further negotiations will stay at a dead stop.
Philippe Hieronimus
Philippe Hertonien
Paris, France graduate student
Not Enough Room
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UP) — They had to give Recruit Elmer Kooijenga of Zeeland an extra sheet of paper to list his brothers and sisters when he joined the National Guard here. The medical history form has four spaces for listing brothers and sisters. Mr. Kooijenga has 20.
The new Ohio turnpike, which runs 241 miles from the Pennsylvania to Indiana border saves, the average private motorist three hours on a trip across the state.
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