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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 8, 1955.
Students Aren't Like Governors
Gov. Marvin Griffin of Georgia, in issuing his recommendation to the state Board of Regents asking them to prevent Georgia Tech from meeting Pittsburgh in the Sugar Bowl, has placed himself directly in the center of one of the hottest controversies of the year.
He issued his edict because Pittsburgh has a Negro player on its squad, and because Pittsburgh announced it would sell all tickets without regard to segregation customs in Georgia.
The Georgia Tech Board of Regents compromised by allowing Tech to play in this year's Sugar Bowl, but which will probably bar state-supported schools from playing in future integrated football games.
The students in several Georgia schools showed how they felt about the issue of segregation, which ought to serve as a warning to Gov. Griffin and the regents. Four schools burned effigies of the governor. Georgia Tech held the first demonstration Friday after the governor issued his proclamation. Two thousand
students burned the governor in effigy at least six times, and then marched on the state capitol and executive mansion.
Students at Mercer University in Macon, Ga.. also burned the governor in effigy over the weekend. Students at the University of Georgia and Emory University both burned the governor in effigy Monday.
Gov. Griffin certainly underestimated the feelings of the students toward segregation. With the Supreme Court's stand on segregation, which was recently made very clear, it appears that many people in the South believe in the law and want to see the problem ended.
As long as a few individuals continue to dominate the government and uphold segregation, however, the problem will never be eliminated. Congratulations certainly are in order for the students in the Georgia institutions who recognize the changing times and strive to give progress a helping hand.
Marion McCoy
Shortly before his illness, President Eisenhower had scheduled a conference on the nation's health problem. He was distressed over reports that our country's youth couldn't match European youths for health or strength. In short, the report pointed out that we were fostering a nation of weaklings —that our average exercises consisted of the movements used in dressing when we arose in the morning.
Build Health As Well As Brains
After wheezing my way up the Hill each morning I wonder if the report is not correct in all aspects, for I find panting along with me many others with the same stooped, roundshouldered look.
We are fast becoming a nation of brains, and every endeavor is to improve the intellect, often at the expense of the body that houses it. This Hill could be used as a flagrant example of such neglect.
We peer though thick lenses at myriads of pages, and listen, sitting on the small of our backs, to innumerable lectures, exercising now and then with a ball point pen and a piece of
paper. We punctuate this routine by vigorously putting a nickel in a coke machine or shaking a cigarette from its pack.
Our interpretation of outdoor living is as it is seen from behind the Y-block of a Thunderbird.
But the saddest point of all its that we realize we only have about a minute's furious action in us until we are winded, and we don't give a damn.
Dee Richards
We don't particularly care for Western Civilization or English proficiency exams either, but because the University believes they will improve our cultural standard we are forced to accept them. Would it not be just as wise to have a compulsory program of physical culture? Not a one-hour program involving just freshmen and sophomores, but a five-hour program for every semester the student spends on this campus. In our efforts to prove that KU is not just a trade school we have neglected a major principle in achieving such a goal—a healthy student.
Fathers Should Be Deferred
Most fathers registered in the draft may soon look forward to deferments, the Selective Service office in Washington recently announced. This will change a policy which has eliminated fatherhood as grounds for deferment since July, 1953.
Sen. John W. Bricker (R-Ohio) has put pressure on Maj. Gen, Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, to release fathers from the draft.
in 1953 was due to the critical shortage of men, and Selective Service authorities felt that some men were becoming fathers to avoid the draft.
Sen. Bricker maintains that the present draft regulations lead to the drafting of a father of 25 with three children while deferring a childless man past 26.
First, we now have a surplus of 1.746.000 men eligible for the draft.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Neither reason is logical now.
The reason that fathers were drafted originally
Second, the reasoning that married men become fathers solely to avoid the draft doesn't seem logical. Fatherhood is not a trick to avoid the draft but should be an honorable, long-term commitment.
The calling of fathers into the armed services now is not necessary and should be avoided when possible.
David Webb
'GUESS YOU DIDN'T KNOW—PROF SNARF CAN'READ LIPS'.
.. Letters ..
Editor:
Because Uncle Mt.'s Grandfather Gipfel was an old libertarian and Indian fighter from the Rhenish Palatinate, may I say that Dr. Hall of Dyche Museum is quite right when he speculates that the soft buckskin pants just received to go with Comanche "are not the ones Custer wore on June 25, 1876."
As the Daily Kansan tells us,
"Custer was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn... on June 26, 1871. . He and his 212 men were killed in the raid, Comanche, according to the legend, was the sole survivor."
Nearly between those two dates fall these pants in a fascinating saga from an epic of American Americana. For Lt. Col. George Custer did in fact change his pants on the 24th of June, and that is why we see a different pair in the famous Budweiser beer "Custer's Last Stand." The pair that stood that battle fell with Custer, and Comanche, that gifted horse, was indeed the sole survivor.
The reason for the change is still a matter of historical conjecture. It may be that, ironically, this pair was taken to the cleaners on the 24th. It may be that the keen tactician that Custer was, he knew these to be too soft to last or stand. But however it may be—and we may never know—we may be glad that this pair of fringed soft, cream-colored trousers is now safely in the hands of our own museum's preparator of exhibits and fossil invertebrates.
Archibald Dome
. Short Ones . .
We hadn't worried about our milk being watered for a long time. But the story in yesterday's Topeka Daily Capital was reassuring, anyway. Bill Pascal, lab technician of the State Board of Agriculture reported that only ten per cent of the people in the milk industry purposely defraud the customer by adding water to the milk.
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The Kansas highway commission let contracts for $250,000 for the painting of the yellow "life lines" on the highways. These are the yellow lines on either side of the white center stripe which are supposed to indicate places were limited visibility because of hills or curves makes passing dangerous. The way most driver's observe the lines, we'd say its a waste of glass bead and yellow paint.
Keen Off The Grass, Unless—
BOSTON — (U.P.)—Don't get caught napping on Boston Common unless you've got your sleeping permit. A new regulation requires a written pass from the park commissioner before you can sleep on the grass of the Common or other public parks.
The Sudan comprises nearly 1,000,000 square miles, an area one-third that of the United States, yet its population is only 8,820,000 about the same as Ohio's.
Alfalfa has a better chance of survival when seeded the first week in August than when seeded the last week in September.
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