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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1955
Are The Gals Too Ladylike?
Well, we think we have found two reasons for the lack of enthusiasm by students at football games.
But first, let's give the cheerleaders a pat on the back. They were a little more active at last week's game. They didn't turn their backs on the crowd so often, and they seemed to put a little extra energy into leading the cheers.
Now about those reasons. One: the pep organizations. Not the KuKu's nor the Froshawks, but the Jay Janes and the Red Peppers.
From our vantage point at the last game, it was fairly obvious the young ladies of the Red Peppers and Jay Janes were not expending themselves in cheering. In fact, they appeared to spend more time talking about social activities than rooting for the team.
If the girls prefer talking about social life and are not going to cheer, they at least could ring a cowbell to make up for the lack of shrill feminine shrieks, instead of fanning the breeze with those blue and red tissue tufts.
Yes, they stood and waved their red and blue tissue tufts when told, but they certainly did not strain their voices. It is, apparently, very unladylike to become hoarse from too much cheering at a football game.
Reason two. It appears that commercialism has resulted in half the student section being put on sale. There have been a few student complaints about the fact that they no longer can sit north of the 50-yard line on the east side of Memorial Stadium, unless of course they pay the current seat price.
Last week it was said that if too many parents were sitting in the student section for the Parents' Day game, then the section would be extended southward. Those south seats are fine for goal line stands at the south end, but just how many times do the average football games have exciting last ditch stands?
—Sam Jones
Letter Writer Asks Magazine Caution
Editor:
I have just read an editorial in Friday's issue of the Kansan entitled "Phony Aroma Hovers over Magazine Sales." Since I sell magazines, I feel it necessary to make a few comments on the subject.
Man a hurried student who merely read the headline without reading the editorial would get the impression that all magazine sales are phony. Obviously this is untrue. Many students sell magazines to help pay college expenses. True, there are racketeers in this business, as in any other. That they try to victimize college students with their dishonest tactics is regrettable, and places a stigma on those of us who are bona fide salesmen. Surely this situation should be brought to the attention of students through such a medium as the UDK.
Many students who read Mr. Richards' editorial have discussed the matter with me, having read an advertisement which I placed in the Kansan last week. Therefore I would like to offer a few facts to help guide students when they meet any salesmen in the future.
A student who is approached should ask to see the salesman's identification card. All magazine companies issue these cards to their sales representatives. The card contains material which identifies the salesman, and gives the name and business address of the sales manager of the publisher. The sales receipt also contains this information, so that it becomes an easy matter to check up on the salesman and his claims.
The University authorizes no solicitation on campus property. However, there is no objection to placing paid advertisements in campus publications.
Above all, the student should exercise his basic right to accept or reject any offer brought to his attention. He should not allow his mind to be swayed by glib-tongued sharpies using cajolings, threats, or any high-pressure tactics. The use of a little common sense will prevent later regrets.
Walter J. Baskett, Jr.
Journalism senior
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"ONE NICE THING ABOUT THIS COURSE-YOU ONLY HAVE ONE TEXT TO BUY."
.. Letters ..
Editor:
No. No. Dave. For crying out loud, don't play anything we can understand. If there is anything we cannot tolerate, it is understandable modern music.
To be quite serious, we do not resent Dave Brubeck. We enjoy much of the music he has produced in the past. He has probably been a tremendous asset to the development of progressive jazz, whatever this may be, but there are two things which really irk us about the man and his recent music.
1. ) His music has lost its sense of reality. It has, in some aspects, lost its basic rhythm, characteristic of jazz. It certainly seems to have forgotten the original melody or theme of the composition that it intends to develop. We really do not quibble about losing sight of a melody for a short moment as long as the rhythm is still there, but when it is all lost in the shuffle of expression, we are really gone! In fact, all gone. We just don't understand what happened to the music and we don't know what this intermission of sound is supposed to represent.
2. ) According to advance publicity, Mr. Brubeck has a tremendous inability to perform under the slightest conditions of audience unresponsiveness. . We have attended many performances of various kinds at Kansas University, and we have never seen an impolite audience, no matter how poor the performance. But what is going to happen if Mr. Brubeck hears the slight murmur of conversation during the performance? Is he going to pack up his organization and leave the auditorium if such a thing happens? We are not going to miss the Dave Brubeck Concert, but we assure you that we will go there somewhat prejudiced and with the feeling that Mr. Brubeck is performing with the idea that he is a genius, to be respected whether liked or disliked. . We hope to see him as an element of jazz, bringing to us an appreciation of its modern tendencies, and presenting himself as a true performer rather than a take-it or leave-it negotiator.
While I find the new decor in the Hawk's Nest quite attractive (despite a slight case of eyestrain from attempting to read the Kansas by the subdued lighting there).
Jim Furgason,
College senior
Ken Evans Jr.
College sophomore
Editor:
Since its first census in 1840, Michigan has grown at a more rapid rate than the nation as a whole except for the two decades 1890-1910.
Farm Assets Take Drop
American farmers had $1.22 in cash or its equivalent as liquid assets at the beginning of this year for every dollar they owed, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
This proportion has been declining since the peak of $2.35 in cash assets to every dollar of debt which prevailed at the end of 1946. However, in 1940 farms as a whole had less than 50 cents in cash for every dollar they owed.
Agriculture's financial assets were placed at $22 billions at the beginning of this year, with some 60 percent of the total in bank deposits and currency and the balance in U.S. Savings Bonds and investments in cooperatives. Total debt at that time consisted of $8.2 billions in mortgages and $9.8 billions in non-real estate borrowings.
I should like to suggest that a clock be placed there in view of the general public. There is a pillar located at each end of the place, which would be admirably suited to the purpose.
Dave Cater.
Graduate student
OMAHA, Neb. — (U.P.)— Frank Gibilisco, a merchandising manager here, decided to find a new place to park his car. Twice, while parked in the same spot, the car was hit by his company's trucks. The truck drivers always leave a note telling what happened.
Well. They're Polite
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Letter Praises Theatre Group
Editor:
Three cheers for our side! I was most heartened to learn upon gulping down the Sept. 26 issue of the Kansan that, with two possible exceptions, the cast of the first University Theatre production of the year. William Inge's "Picnic," will be entirely student talent.
This recalls to mind the junior crusade which the Kansan and yours truly conducted during the spring semester of 1953 to return the University Theatre to the students themselves.
It was argued that the primary mission of our theater was to discover and develop student talent, not to furnish starring vehicles for faculty members or outsiders—however polished or diverting their performances may be.
During this era the only opportunities to act which students received at all were obscure and thankless bit parts, with rare exception. University Theatre officials responded that the Studio Theatre in Green Hall was offering ample outlet for student expression and served as a proving ground for roles of more magnitude in Fraser.
And, too, the Frances Feist-English faculty members (and their wives) clique apparently had all meaty parts sewed up as a matter of course. The astonishing statement was made to this observer by a member of the speech and drama department at that time that "We never select a play until it's already been cast in our minds!" In thus bypassing the University's professed aim of teaching—and how else can a theater program teach if not by actual experience—and relying only on established talent, University Theatre had reached a stagnated low indeed.
In pursuing this policy, under former University Theatre director Dr. John Newfield, the Theatre sometimes found itself in a ludicrous and indefensible position, such as casting a Lawrence radio announcer in the male lead of "The Lady's Not For Burning," a man who had absolutely no connection with the University!
Mr. Goff may be interested to know that while stationed at various Army posts over the East Coast, I have visited many of the area's campuses and talked to a like number of university theater people, and I am glad to relate that KU's productions can hold their own in nearly every respect. I still rate the 1952 production of "Il Conquistatori," dramatized by KU's own Dr. Allen Crafton, among the top five theater experiences I have been fortunate to observe—and this even after having seen more than 25 Broadway productions while stationed at Ft. Monmouth, N. J.
I wish the University Theatre, its staff and student actors many appreciative audiences through out the year and success in every goal. Further, I extend my sincere good wishes to the staff of the Daily Kansan and their new editorial adviser, Prof. Emil Telfel, for a most productive and worthwhile year. I am looking forward greatly to returning to the Kansan newsroom for the spring semester. Uncle Sam and I then having come to a parting of the ways.
However, I feel quite confident in saying that Mr. Lewin Goff, the new director, shows promise through his selection of the current season's fare of bringing new vitality to this very important phase of our University's cultural life.
Let me say in all fairness, however, that I admired Dr. Newfield greatly for his boldness and experimentation, his community theater program, and the good nature with which he met my jousts. The University definitely lost a good man in his departure.
Sgt. Jerry Knudson Ft. Bragg, N.C. (Journalism,'54)
If smog is found to be one of the chief causes of human lung cancer, what will happen to the population of California?
Britain has discontinued an old custom of taking drunks in the mails. This spoils the excuse of "I'd have been home sooner but they delivered me at the wrong address."
A truck driver finds $42,800 in the road and is rewarded with a "well, thanks." At least we do have a few polite people left in the world.
The stock market suffered a sharp decline last week but we imagine the fountains around the campus kept the soap detergents' stocks bubbling.