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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 25, 1900
KU Students Reply To K-Staters
By SAM L. JONES
Daily Kansan Editorial Editor
For some time now, the Kansas State Collegian has been trying to raise a big ruckus. In fact, since the KU-K-State football game, which they won, the Wildcat publication has been lambasting the bill sent to their student council for damages some of their fine students inflicted on the KU campus in pre-game warm-ups.
The Collegian has taken a great deal of time in keeping the issue alive on the Manhattan campus. On Monday, they published a list of statements by K-State students commenting on the KU bill for damages.
So, in order to obtain a truly representative view on the matter, we roamed Mt. Oread far and wide in search of the most outstanding comments regarding the issue.
Below are the comments about the issue from KU students:
Joshua Hepflinger, SPSr—"I think that the students over there at that small school in Manhattan are trying to put something over on us. If we had a student council we would get our bill raised."
Rex Reek, DDFr—"I sure hate to see those amateurs try and make us pay that bill they sent us."
Nary Atwain, MFS—"The list with the 10 boxes of rubber bands and other things sounds ridiculous to me."
Wilmar Lark, MCJr—"Ah, it's all just a publicity stunt to make us out like we caused all the damage."
Right Glum, GCFr—"They're not putting anything over on us."
Nary Atwain, MFS—(She chased us down Jayhawk Drive to give us some more of her answer)—"It just made me plain mad. We did paint some of their buildings and statues, but to have them charge us for brushes and other things is just too much."
Lana Lovelorn, MFSr—"I may have tripped over the damage, but that bill was atrocious. There just couldn't have been that much damage—either that or our boys are slipping. Hmmm."
Messy Mesler, SPFr—The bill they sent to us is too low. We did more damage than that. It's an insult."
Pulman Sleeper, BFKFr—"The whole thing's a farce."
Ready Gridley, UWSJr—"We shouldn't exaggerate our costs any to try to meet up with their ridiculous bill."
(Editor's Note: The above names are not intended to portray any living Jayhawker—but they very easily could be Wildcats.)
With the kickoff of the New Hampshire primary March 13, the first step in electing a president of the United States gets underway. Nineteen other primaries will follow, as well as state and district conventions. All are designed for the people to vote for their presidential candidates and their delegates to the national conventions.
Few People Select The Candidate
We generally assume the United States to be a democratic nation, but the "government by the people" aspect of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address apparently is lacking in that few people of the United States have anything to do with the nomination of presidential candidates at the national conventions.
Each state and territory of the U.S. chooses its delegates for the national conventions, who in turn choose the presidential nominees. But in only seven states do the people actually control the vote of their delegates.
Delegates from California, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska, Maryland, Minnesota and Ohio are bound by law to support the candidate whom the people want.
Seven other states have partial control over delegates. Delegates from Oregon, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota and Wisconsin must support the people's presidential choice if the delegates pledge themselves to a certain candidate beforehand. If not, they can vote for any candidate they wish at the convention.
Whether delegates are controlled by the people in Arkansas, North Dakota and Tennessee depends upon each state's party rules.
People of the other 34 states, including Kansas, have no hold whatsoever on their delegates, once the delegate gets to the national convention. Ninety per cent of the people might vote for a certain candidate in the primaries or state conventions, yet the state's delegates can turn around and cast their vote for another candidate at the national convention, where it counts.
A good example of this occurred in 1952 when Sen. Estes Fekauer (D-Tenn.) got 84 per cent of Illinois' popular votes and only three of that state's 64 convention votes.
Under present conditions, it seems all we can do to pick our own presidential nominees is to try to elect delegates who won't change their minds.
—Kent Thomas
Future Of A Free Algeria Looks Dark
What will come out of the hit-and-run fighting that has been intensified recently in Algeria? Will France succeed in suppressing the native nationalists? If not, would the French "Colons" come to the agreement that "a community of French and Moslems will become a living, breathing and indestructible reality"?
The general feeling among University students from the Middle East is that France eventually will evacuate North Africa. They reason that since the Moslem natives are completely different from the French, any assimilation of one nation into the other is impossible, that the French may rule the natives by force for a while but that eventually they will have to withdraw from North Africa as they did in Indo-China.
Would the evacuation of the French bring the Algerians a higher standard of living? Are the Algerians well enough trained to govern by themselves? Will the economic difficulties that may set in after independence drive the nation into the hands of the Communists? These are the most important problems that the Algerians will face, even if they achieve their independence.
Algeria is more than three times as big as Texas and the population is almost equal. This suggests a low density of population, but Algeria is mainly made up of deserts with a narrow strip of fertile land along the Mediterranean coast which borders on a plateau separating the coast from the deserts.
When considered in terms of arable lands, the population problem cannot be escaped. Algeria is at present tormented by an ever-increasing population. The statistics show the population rose from 2,487,000 in 1850 to 8,601,350 in 1948, and it is increasing at the rate of 150,000 annually. How do they solve this problem? Here industrialization of the country is a must to absorb the increasing population.
When considered in terms of these problems, the future of Algeria does not look promising. The economic chaos even after independence might drive the country into the hands of the Communists. Russia makes a good excuse of advancing its power into North Africa by offering economic assistance.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
French government funds are being spent on such public projects as dams, electric power stations and communication facilities. If these expenditures stop, how will Algeria get capital to advance industrialization? Here is also another problem. Do Algerians need technical knowledge and skill?
The future of Algeria is dark. This may affect the world tension. Yet, the nationalists will strive for independence as Mohamed I. Kazem, graduate student from Cairo, Egypt, recently said to me. "We are proud of our fighting in North Africa."
Last week all students had to pay their enrollment fees for the spring semester. Never does the student have to pay so much money so fast at the same place as he does here. Reminds one of Las Vegas and the dice or black jack games. You put your money down in advance, you play the game, and you don't learn the results until you are all through.
—Eiji Tonomura
I'LL SAY ONE THING FOR THAT 'NROTC' INSTRUCTOR
HE VERY SELDOM HAS A DISCIPLINE PROBLEM.
.. Letters ..
Editor:
What is the University going to do about the suspension of Wes Santee by the AAU? Everyone concerned admits that Wes is guilty of taking more money than the amateur code allows. His only defense is that everyone else was doing it why should he be the only one to get away. Such a defence would be worthless in a court of law, but the AAU isn't a court of law.
It is obvious that the AAU was out to get Wes and they have done a very good job of it. Still the question remains—Why did they do it?
It is my opinion that the banning of Santee was a cleverly designed subfurter used to destroy the tradition-laden race between Wes and his Acacia fraternity brothers. This contest has been a thorn in the side of the AAU for years. It represented free enterprise in athletics. It did not have the sanction of the AAU. And worst of all they got no cut from the gate. They probably considered it impractical to demand control of the event as it would be a prohibitive expense to fence off 10 or 15 miles of US 24 to prevent the easy entry of gate crashers.
This display of "Creeping Amateurism" could not be tolerated. The race in itself might not have brought such drastic action by the AAU if it had not indicated a trend. Such impudence had to be death with without regard to the cost.
How can we strike back? The most direct way would be to defy the AAU and continue the Santee-Acacia race. The athletic department of the University could give concrete support to this act of defiance by issuing a public declaration that the members of the Acacia fraternity would in no way jeopardize their eligibility for intramural athletics by their participation.
We of the Law School must admit that we have more at stake in this issue than a strong feeling for the general principals of amateur athletics. An inside source close to the "Secret Seven" has disclosed that the next target of the AAU will be the annual tug of war between the Lawyers and the Engineers at Potter Lake.
The time for action is now.
The time for action is now.
Charles T. Crawford,
Lawrence, Second-year law
Editor:
Re: ..Oh Well..by Jon
Who is the "severe case of nuts-and-bolts disorder" in the cranium that writes this column? Most nonsensical. Why waste the paper?
Lillian Arnold 430 Missouri
Editor:
I think it was pretty shoddy the way you treated old George Herman.
(Name withheld by request)
COLD NO'S
No, chum—you wouldn't have a chance. If you must follow something closely, follow the safety principle that it takes from 3 to 11 times more distance to stop on snowy or ice roads than it does on dry pavement. You just can't stop on an ice dime. So keep out of trouble by keeping your distance. Give yourself living room.
Charleston, S.C., is the nation's number one port of entry for long staple cotton.
An estimated 553,000 acres were seeded in rye in North Dakota during the fall of 1955.
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