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University Daily Kansan Friday, Feb. 10, 1956
Phog Launches Another Protest-
By SAM L. JONES
(Daily Kansan Editorial Editor)
Dr. Forrest C. Allen has launched into another tirade—only this time it strikes at home.
Dr. Allen, on Wednesday, spoke out bitterly about the conduct of the student body, and in particular, individual members of the K Club, during the basketball game with Missouri last Monday.
"We've got to allow for emotions of the crowd," said Dr. Allen, "but not to extremes"—referring directly to what he called bad sportsmanship during the MU-KU game. He referred to the booing of the crowd and to the conduct of un-named members of the K Club who were sitting in back of the Missouri bench.
"It's a near disgrace for anybody who has competed to be a bad sportsman," said Dr. Allen. "It seems to me out of order, not only for a letterman, but for anyone who has competed."
"For years, we've been faced with fans sitting right on back of our necks," said Dr. Allen. "But we're supposed to conduct ourselves in a gentlemanly manner." He added that he had initiated the practice of putting lettermen behind the bench of the visiting team to "bring good sportsmanship."
He felt that they would be sportsmen enough to protect the interests of the visiting team. But Dr. Allen indicated that the thought behind this practice had been lost.
"We need a re-education of our lettermen first—the crowd takes its antics from the lettermen," said Dr. Allen.
Dr. Allen, returning to the MU-KU game, said, "If they do it again, I'll personally rebuke them if I see it. I feel we have a right to do it because it is our sport and we have to protect it."
Wayne Replogle, assistant football coach, reiterated what Dr. Allen had said. He said "I just can't imagine us booing a team as it leaves the court—not at KU. It is disgraceful."
"I couldn't sleep that night, I was so inflamed," said the coach. "We don't want to start it in this Field House. When Kansas gets behind, they're just as weak as the rest of them."
"We are hard losers, but we want to be good sportsmen," said Dr. Allen.
—And It Seems To Be Justified
We, as did Phog Allen, heard the boos of the crowd.
However, Dr. Allen mentions only the booing of the lettermen sitting behind the Missouri bench.
We heard booing from all sections of the Field House. From where we were sitting, in the upper balcony, it was impossible to see the actions of the K Club members.
Students sitting all around us joined wholeheartedly into the booing, doing at least their share of the noisemaking.
As far as we could see, they were not doing this to imitate the actions of the lettermen, but were merely joining in the actions of hundreds of other KU students.
We have no idea how the trend started. We only know that it is shocking and surprising to hear KU students make such an evidence of their lack of poor sportsmanship.
Perhaps it was the shock of seeing KU lose its first game in Allen Field House that brought on the outbreak of booing, but we don't think so. The hysterics seemed to begin Jan. 16 with the Iowa State game, when KU scored a stirring upset victory.
This new form of behavior is a distinct change from the "good old days" in Hoch Auditorium, when a good play by a member of either team brought applause. Against Missouri, boos greeted each official's decision which favored the visitors, and also any sign of body contact involving a Missouri player.
Perhaps KU students have not yet adapted themselves to the new environment of spacious Allen Field House. Basketball in Hoch Auditorium, although somewhat cramped for space, seemed to be more of a family proposition.
Since moving into the new arena, the University has shown signs of letting big-time basketball go to its head. The pressure to win seems to be increasing, and a defeat is something which is not tolerated.
If the situation continues to grow, KU may well join conference rivals Kansas State and Colorado at the bottom of the ladder in sportsmanship.
With big-time basketball now at hand, students have the chance to make a name for the University. Whether the name is good or bad is now in the hands of the students. Their first chance comes Saturday night.
—Dick Walt
Cynicism-It's The Latest Fashion
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A statement made by a University professor in a University class the other day angered this writer deeply.
The statement was a sneering reference to "One-Worlders" and those "do-gooders" who feel that there is some hope left for this world in the United Nations.
The anger stemmed not from this one remark because it's sometimes difficult to tell with some of our more individualistic profs just where opinionation ends and desire to spur student thought begins—but rather from the fashionable current attitude which this remark spotlighted.
This will be no sophomoric defense of the United Nations; no laudatory words for its many achievements nor lame apologies for its many inherent faults. This will, however, be a plea for the idealist in a world where idealism is sadly lacking
It's as if today we are downright ashamed to express any sentiment, however genuine that sentiment may be, because we fear that to do so will be regarded as "phony." Oh, no, we don't do that anymore. Now we're sophisticated. We flourish king-size cigarets, we stagnate over cold coffee, and we talk cynically.
It's fashionable today, you see, to be cynical. It's fashionable to poke fun at the "eggheads." It's fashionable to boot at Eleanor Roosevelt. It's fashionable to publicly drag through the mud of cynicism many of the ideals and values we as individuals may privately adhere to with considerable conviction.
On a grander scale, American idealism suffered a kidney blow during and after the Woodrow Wilson era from which it has never really recovered. Followed by the embitterting depression, World Crusade II, and the jittery Cold War which reached one climax in Korea, this nation now
boasts a younger generation and an older generation that tend to think negatively—if they think at all—or to sport a fatalistic philosophy of life—if they have a philosophy at all.
Yes, we'll naively plunk down our two bits in favor of the level-headed idealist or even the muddle-headed dreamer, realizing as we do that although the ideal will never be reached or' the dream may never mature something will be gained through the reaching or dreaming.
Don't misunderstand us. We're not advocating a tribal stampede to the most convenient ivory tower. Lofty idealism with no basis in reality can be as rightfully deplored as lowly cynicism with no aspiration to something better.
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