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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Oct. 27, 1955.
Team Support Still Lacking
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
A friend of ours wrote to us earlier this month regarding the not-too-healthy situation in football here. He said you have to consider that regardless of how poorly the team may be faring, it still belongs to the school.
Members of the cheerleaders, and especially the head cheerleader, have made attempts in the last two weeks to boost the work of the pep organizations. To date, it appears their efforts have fallen on deaf ears.
by Dick Bibler
"It's sort of like a poor relative." he wrote. "You might not be too happy with it; but it's still a relative."
It has been apparent that the pep organizations consider the football team a poor relative, and at this time consider it too poor to put any extra effort in backing it. The team now stands an excellent chance at winning their four remaining games. That is not only this writer's opinion, but the opinion of many others who follow the football teams closely.
Last Saturday, after KU had gone ahead in the third quarter, the student body, excluding the pep sections, began throwing paper into the air to signal their appreciation to the team and to the fans on the opposite side. Members of the pep clubs turned their heads in amazement, wondering how someone else could out-pep them. There were a few pep club members who joined the student body in their demonstration, but the majority sat there stunned.
Statistically speaking, the cheerleaders at least attempted to lead 14 cheers in the first quarter, 27 in the second quarter, 23 in the third quarter, and 25 in the fourth quarter. That works out to a total of 89 cheers during the game.
The pep club in their apparent apethetic mood of the day showed no extra effort to back up the cheerleaders. Their apparent greediness to conduct a social hour during the game does no good for the team, nor for themselves as members of the pep organization.
Through Kansan editorials, an attempt has been made to shake up the pep clubs, to get them moving, to get them working toward improving their work.
—Sam Jones
Privacy Of Juries Must Be Protected
Last week Attorney General Herbert Brownell after conferring with President Eisenhower said that the administration would ask Congress to make it a crime to invade the privacy of the jury room.
Two federal judges in Wichita approved the installation of secret microphones in a jury room after being persuaded that it was in the interest of juror improvement.
The reason for alarm came when the University of Chicago Law School, in a study of the jury system, made secret tape recordings of jury deliberations in Wichita.
In future years with communication methods becoming so developed, it will be simple to hear people's private conversations through miniature microphones and other methods.
The opposition has been violent, with Rep Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, even suggesting impeachment of the two judges.
Therefore, we should realize the importance of the private rights of individuals and do everything possible to preserve these convictions.
We believe the privacy of our jury deliberation should be strongly protected.
Men, it's happened at last! Not only have women taken our money, but according to a doctor, they have had a 30 per cent rise in stomach ulcers in the last 10 years. Now all we have to do is get them drafted.
It should not be necessary to make laws, but it seems necessary when people would be willing to take these rights from us.
—David Webb
If the present fight over showing "The Moon Is Blue" in Kansas keeps up much longer, it will be featured on one of those late evening movie programs on TV before it is shown in Kansas theaters.
.. Letters ..
Editor:
Your remarks concerning the plethora of queens on the KU campus were well taken. We would like to suggest a plan to end the queen business with finality.
Jim Beam, the sage of Green Hall, once said, "Fight fire with fire." Applying this to our problem we have, "A queen for a queen."
Briefly our plan is to hold a Queen of Queens contest. All the entrants must be a winner of some queen contest during the school year. We will hold the Queen of Queens spectacular in the spring since all the major queens have been selected by then.
Of course our Queen of Queens will need a title and judges. Since this is a contest to end-contests we will want the most coveted queen title and the best judges of beauty available.
May we humbly suggest the Law School queen title, Miss Res Ipsa Loquitur (free translation—beauty speaks for itself). Naturally this most coveted title is awarded to some lucky lacy in the spring.
Jim Beam also said, "Truth is beauty and beauty is truth." If we could find judges who are devoted to truth and beauty, we would have the best. We'll fortunately we do have such judges on campus. Who are they? Why the young lawyers, of course. We all know their capacity and pursuit for truth. We will readily grant they have an eye for beauty.
After all, do not the lawyers devote their spare time to the study of beauty from the steps of their citadel of truth, Green Hall?
We really went to think big, so let's hold the contest on the steps of Green Hall. We could block off Jayhawk drive and put up bleachers to accommodate the crowds who will be vying for seats to see the lucky girl who will win the best title of them all, Miss Res Ipsa Loquitur.
Peter A. Lons
Kansas City, Kan. junior
WILLISTON, N.D. — (U.P.) A cook at a restaurant here tried an experiment when a friend ordered a hamburger. The sandwich arrived with all the trimmings, ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions and relish. The customer was half-way through when the cook pointed out that the meat had been omitted.
Sauce But No Meat
NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—(U.P.)— The school board, which had a budget of $3,233,916.18. wound up the fiscal year with a balance of four cents.
Cutting It Close
A headline in the Topeka Daily Capital — "Landing On Carriers Is Rougher At Night." Do tell.
Few In Press Disgrace Many
CHICAGO—(U.P.)—A motion picture executive said today it would "bring honor" to the American press if it could "accomplish the downfall" of magazines which peddle "dirty gossip."
Dore Schary, vice-president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, said Hollywood leaders "deploy the shoddy contents" of the magazines "that live off the sad, tragic mistakes of some, or the indulgences of the maladjusted few."
"We deplore the half-truth—and the implied slander that avoids the legal or criminal libel," Schary said.
Schary said no communication medium can eliminate "undesirables" by setting up a standard of quality, "but they can certainly inhibit them."
Double Celebration
RAWSON, N.D.—(U.P.)—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dexter celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary recently with a double celebration. It was the first time in their 50 years that their two sons and five daughters had been together at the same time. Two of the older children left home before the two youngest ones were born.
He Did It!
KALAMAZOO, Mich. —(J.P)
Earl Fairbaird entered the cake baking contest at the Kalamazoo County Fairbaird on a dare from his wife. He won first prize with a white cake and second prize with his devil's food cake.
Daily Hansan
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Kansas Censors Violate U.S. Law
Last Monday the United States Supreme Court struck down a decision that Kansas could ban as "obscene" the motion picture "The Moon Is Blue."
The decision, given by the Kansas Supreme Court, had been appealed by United Artists, distributor of the film, and Holmby Productions, the producer.
The reversal order cited two earlier Supreme Court decisions in movie censorship cases.
It seems the Kansas Board of Review, headed by Mrs. Frances Vaughn will never give up. Repeated rulings by the nation's courts, citing such board actions as unconstitutional, appear to have no effect. The board is persistent.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1952 held that New York could not ban a film on the ground that it was sacrilegious, but added the Constitution does not give absolute freedom to exhibit every kind of motion picture. The court said it was not necessary at that time to decide whether a state may censor pictures "under a clearly drawn statute designed and applied to prevent the showing of obscene films."
Kansas law requires the board to ban pictures that are "cruel, obscene, indecent or immoral, or such as tend to debase or corrupt morals."
The board, made up of Mrs. Vaughn, Mrs. J. R. Stowers and Mrs. Bertha Hall, saw the film twice and disapproved it both times.
The first time the verdict did not precisely agree with the statutes, so the boar saw it again.
The first verdict: "Sex theme throughout, too frank bedroom dialogue; many sexy words; both dialogue and action have sex as their theme." The second time the board said it had found the film "obscene, indecent and immoral, and such as tend to debase or corrupt morals."
The whole thing was summed up rather well in the appeal. It said: "The Constitution does not permit a state to vest the 'village tyrants,' the bigot or fanatic seated in the office of the censor with unbridled power completely unrestrained by the courts."
Kansas Attorney General Harold R. Fatzer had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the appeal. He said that since the litigation began the state board had adopted new regulations limiting and defining the standards of censorship. Mr. Fatzer said the new regulations meet criticism that the former standards were too broad, vague, and indefinite.
But the high tribunal's action was announced in a brief, unsigned order which said only that the Kansas Supreme Court decision was reversed.
To allow suffocation of one freedom is to allow suffocation of others.
This, it seems to us, is the crux of the matter. It is not a question of whether or not the morals of Kansans would be corrupted by the showing of films banned by the Board of Review, but it is a question of violating the provision of the Constitution.
The appeal by United Artists and Holmby said the review board was taking censorship action which violated the 1st and 14th amendments to the Constitution, relating to freedom of speech and due process of law.
-Ted Blankenship
..Short Ones..
This one from the pages of the University of Alabama's Crimson White: "In the interest of public health, the University hospital and the Alabama and American Medical Associations wish us to print the following announcement: With the advent of 'wonder' drugs and modern surgical techniques, an appendectomy has become a minor operation. But under no circumstances should students attempt to remove their own appendix."
Explorers never seem to run out of frontiers to seek. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's latest venture to the Antarctic, "Operation Deepfreeze," is seeking under all that ice and snow for something that sounds rather unlikely. What is it? Volcanoes.
A Chicago railroad engineer is now free to advertise in lonely hearts magazines for wife No. 5, after No. 4 divorced him. She had obtained an injunction because too many answers to his ad were received at their home while she was divorcing him.