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University Daily Kansan
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Tuesday, Dec. 6, 1955.
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Watkins Steps Are Winter Hazard
Winter arrived just before the weekend—complete with snow and ice. Again the steps north of Watkins Hall leading down the Hill from Lilac Lane were slick and treacherous and caused a number of minor accidents to students going to and from classes.
The building and grounds department, at considerable expense and labor, goes to great lengths to keep the streets and sidewalks clear during bad weather. However, the department is overlooking one safety hazard which someday could cause a serious accident.
The steps are used by residents of some 10 organized houses not because it is the easiest, but virtually the only route to the campus. In warm weather, the steps present no problem, aside from being slightly crowded during rush hours.
In the winter, it is impossible for students to ascend the steps at any time after it has snowed or sleeted without slipping or sliding, dropping books, and losing their balance, which results in many hard falls. The single handrail is not sufficient as a safety precaution.
Last week several students fell and received minor injuries because of the icy steps. These accidents should be eliminated, and safety measures taken to assure students they can attend classes during the winter without fearing a broken leg or arm as a result.
The building and grounds department should make arrangements to shovel the snow from the steps or cover them with ashes daily during bad weather to prevent future accidents and eliminate a treacherous, congested area.
Marion McCoy
Me, Drunk?—No, Just Rude
Shaaay, who shays I'm drunk. I got the poof that shays I'm not drunk.
Tshis profesher at Yale shays you have to conshume tree or mor quarts every two hoursh of beer in order to get drunk. Tshass what he thinksh.
Seriously, Prof. Leon A. Greenberg's statement is that we all change our way of speaking of beer. He worked the problem out this way:
The man whose bodily and mental functions have not been unmistakably abnormal, is not drunk.
For an intoxicating beverage to make the man drunk by causing unmistakable abnormalities, it must get into the blood in a concentration of at least 0.15 per cent.
The capacity of the human stomach is one and one half to two quarts. The average alcohol content of beer is 3.7 per cent by weight. For the man to be intoxicated, he would have to have two and one-half quarts of beer in his stomach at one time, and that's impossible.
The body eliminates and destroys beer at a rate of about one-third of a quart an hour. Therefore, for the man to get drunk on beer by degrees he would have to drink three quarts or more within
two to three hours. That, Prof. Greenberg argues is "physiologically impossible."
Prof. Greenberg's views were set forth in the official journal of the Yale studies on alcohol and alcoholism. He explained that he was concerned only with definition and with straight-thinking.
It was true, Prof. Greenberg said, that college students show "considerable exuberance and excessive and noisy activity, to the point of constituting a nuisance, rudeness, and misbehavior" while drinking beer. But they do it not because they're intoxicated, since they behave as annoyingly without drinking "in such other situations as athletic events, public celebrations, rallies, riots, and so forth."
Of course there were some differing opinions on Prof. Greenberg's conclusions. But they differed only on the point of intoxication—not on the point of rowdiness.
Drinking is a social function. It is for sheer pleasure only, or should be considered as such. Why some young college punks want to fight when they get "drunk" is rather stupefying. If they can't enjoy a good drink in a good way, then they should quit.
Sam L. Jones
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tor; Kurt Thrasher, Sports Editor;
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At the first of the year we developed a system with Mr. Mikols of the intramural office in which the sports writers could obtain information about the games. The system was for each team to write on the back of the game cards the scoring and how it was made. For the most part the intramural teams failed to do this. Sometimes they would give the players' names and points made, but failed to tell how they were scored. But a good deal of the time, even this wasn't done.
... Letters ...
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Leo Flanagan ... Editorial Editor
Louis L. Heil, Lee Ann Urban, Associate Editors
We realize the fact that a good part of the male students compete in this program and we have tried to give the program proper coverage. But to do so we need a little help from the intramural players.
The letter in Monday's Daily Kansas attacking the sports staff for not giving proper coverage to intramural sports was a welcome one. It gives us a chance to relay on to the readers some views we have long held on the intramural program.
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"Tea and Sympathy" deals with a boy who would like to conform but can't, and with a woman who sees that a boy can be a boy without football, boxing, fishing, and visits to the local chippies. The crisis occurs when the boy finds that he is unable to be what is expected of him.
As far as establishing an intramural editor is concerned, we fear this can't be done in the immediate future. Our staff is small and inexperienced for the most part and we haven't got a writer experienced enough with the intramural set-up to do the job.
After several weeks of this frustrating work, the writers, who are only human, tired of such uncalled for work and started using the vague information found on the game cards.
Covering each individual contest is out. Each of the sports writers has other beats to cover for the Kansan and hasn't the
With many games being played each day, it resulted in the intramural writers calling each house that played that night. Sometimes they had to call several times before they found someone who knew the vital information needed to form a good news story.
time to cover each contest. Even if he was to cover the contests it would probably prove useless. The writers wouldn't know the players' names and if past experience is any indication, would get little help from the team members.
As far as a post-season all-star team is concerned, we think it's a good idea. We regretfully admit that such an idea never entered our minds and if it had it would have been difficult since it was impossible to cover each individual game. If such a team would be to your liking and if you would like to help us, may we offer a suggestion. How about the team captains choosing what they considered an all-star team? We would be glad to print it in the Kansan.
Book Review
Until the intramural players start placing more information on the back of the game cards, the sports writers will continue to write up the game from what vague information they do find. If you wish better coverage of intramural contests, try to cooperate with the writers—we'll meet you more than half way.
The role of the individual in today's standardized society is the theme of the other plays in the volume, and of great modern drama since Shaw and Ibsen. Blanche Dubois in "Streetcar" is a tragic person needing and not finding understanding in a time of crisis. Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" is a man whose values prove unable to save either him or his family.
Lola and Doc in "Come Back, Little Sheba" are two lost souls, Lola seeking a return to a life she once found good, and Doe realizing he is a failure and trying to fit his life into that realization. Barney Greenwald in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" is the individual opposing the sophisticate who brings on a mutiny at sea and the tragic breakdown of a naval officer.
'Streetcar,' 'Salesman' Best Plays Since O'Neill
Member of the Daily Kansan Sports. Staff
Aircraft propeller blades are usually made of hollow forgings of alloy steel containing one to two per cent nickel.
Daryl Hall
Neodesha iunior
The place in dramatic literature of the six plays in this new Modern Library volume is still, of course, unknown. But at least five of them loom large in our present-day life, and the sixth has been a commercial standout on both Broadway and in the movies. Two of them already have found a way into anthologies.
Best of the six, commercially, theatrically, and literarily, are the Williams and Miller plays. Such a statement will seem a virtual platitude to the student of the drama, for "Streetcar" and "Salesman" are probably the best American plays since the heyday of Eugene O'Neil.
The plays collected here are "A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams; "Death of a Salesman," by Arthur Miller; "Come Back, Little Sheba," by William Inge; "Tea and Sympathy," by Robert Anderson; "The Seven Year Itch," by George Axelrod, and "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial," by Herman Wouk.
Calder Pickett
But much can be said also for "Come Back, Little Sheba" and "Tea and Sympathy." The first is one of the theater's most gripping exercises in loneliness and frustration, and it deals with far more than the regeneration of an alcoholic "Tea and Sympathy," contrived though it may be, is comparable to "The Children's Hou" in its description of how evil attitudes and gossip can ruin lives.
But it is more than that. It is the expression of the significance of the individual, of the importance of human dignity. And there it has something in common with all of the other plays in this volume with the exception of "The Seven Year Itch"—which is, after all, little more than an hour or so of good fun.
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