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University Daily Kansasan Tuesday. Sept. 27, 1955.
An Open Letter To Chuck Mather
Chuck:
As you well know, perhaps better than anyone else, something happened Saturday that hasn't happened around these parts for a long time.
Kansas won a football game.
It wasn't an impre sive victory (you were the first to admit that). But after a Saturday string that included 17 losses, dating back to the fourth game of the 1953 season, a victory even by default would have been accepted with relish. Of course you must assume the burden of only eleven of those defeats.
Wednesday you said the team looked the best you had ever seen it and that it was ready for Saturday's encounter with Washington State. You referred to that day's practice as "a hell of a good workout."
You, and the players through you, sensed what was to unfold itself last Saturday.
Your first win in the college coaching ranks was a sweet one, not only for yourself, but for a generation of KU students who had never seen Kansas come off the football field on top of the heap.
The victory Saturday bore undisputable witness to a sign that hangs in the football office and reads something like this:
"There is no such thing as a hopeless situation, there are only men made hopeless by situations." Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, chancellor, hit it on the head Saturday afternoon when he made a few congratulatory remarks to a group of boys who could hardly restrain themselves from shouting in the dressing room. Murphy told them "Faith is one of the most important things in life. With it and belief in yourselves you cannot fail."
But this letter is not intended as a meaningless resume of what has already passed. Like you said Saturday.
"We hope this is the beginning." It does no good to look back.
After the rounds of back slapping and sweaty handshakes which were justly earned, one could sense a stronger, deeper attitude which seemed to take form in the dressing room.
It felt good to win and the desire to experience that feeling again was evident. But it was not merely a baseless desire founded on the happenings of one afternoon, when accolades were tossed with the abandon that often attends success.
Everybody admitted it would involve a lot of hard work. You in particular stressed this fact. But the important thing is that it was common opinion that such things do not happen overnight but involve many tedious hours, and most important, the right attitude.
Kansas may have found itself Saturday and captured at least a small spark of the intangible flame which goads men to accomplishments they might not ordinarily attain.
KU is behind you and the team.
Bob Lyle
"Campus politics. Just mention the two words and you've got a discussion of government, ethics, and education mixed up with heated 'I'm fers' and I'm agins."
Student Council Is It Useless?
"Last year's political story at Indiana was a volatile, red-hot mess of Organized and Independent bickering, election appeals, and amateur attempts to be BMOC's.
"Organized and Independents are split into groups among themselves vicing against each other regardless of party affiliation.
"Why does this happen? Well, say the cynics, what can students actually do? There are no major problems for them to solve. Student Senate isn't given the opportunity to investigate and study campus needs, so the senators resort to petty politics to occupy their time.
"Much can be done through this medium First, though, students have to demonstrate to the Administration that they are mature enough and objective enough to cope with important problems."
Indiana Daily Student
"HOW'S ABOUT ONE OF YOU OTHER GUYS HOLDING TH' BALL FOR A CHANGE?"
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
... Letters ...
Editor:
Saturday's game was truly a tremendous victory for the University football team, for they not only had to overcome the strong line that Washington State brought here but they had to overcome an even bigger obstacle—the apathy and defeatest attitude of the Kansas University students.
This was summed up beautifully by one of the co-captains of the team at the "big" rally held the night before where much less than one thousand students showed up. He pointed out , and justifiably that the team could hardly be expected to go all out to win when the students themselves were not willing to support and encourage them.
The same apathy that kept students away from the rally by the thousands apparently served to silence the students who did get to the game. Someone pointed out that the high school students in the bands made more noise than the KU cheering section, which is no tribute to our student body.
The team was mad enough to win one game—the rest of the wins will have to be a team proposition, with every Jayhawker becoming a member of the team.
Sincerely yours,
William H. Allaway
Secretary of the YMCA
Editor:
I have been seeing frequent letters-to-the-editor in both the UDK and the Lawrence Journal World concerning the lack of need for an all-community lecture series at the university and a new modern building to house the various social science departments.
Let me, as an alum of KU, give my second vote on these two topics. I'm quite ashamed that our state University doesn't have a main structure for history, political science, economics, sociology, psychology and social work.
I'm also quite abashed at the weak position KU takes on lectures for not only the University family but the community and area. Our state agricultural college and our public universities all have free public education programs. Why not KU? I'll bet the faculty wants them!
What is needed more in the world today than human relations? The government research center and department of philosophy could also be in such a new building.
Specialized lectures on specialized topics will not fill the bill Get Harry Truman, Bill Knowland Adlai Stevenson, Wayne Morse "Dugout" MacArthur, Richard Neuberget, Betty McDonald, Margaret Chase Smith, Omar Bradley, Henry Luce, Henry Kaiser, Walter Reuther, Herbert Block (Herblock), actors and actresses, poets, protes-
sors, doctors. .Sell season ducats,
publicize the series.
Promote it and see if it wouldn't be a worthwhile side to our academic life. I've seen it work. Of course, you couldn't have them at night on Saturday or Sunday afternoon, or at 10 a.m. Tuesday—but any other night and "you'd be in like Flynn."
(Ed. note: Mr. Harper, please see the editor's note to Fred Carle in Monday's UDK).
Clay Harper former study
Lost: One Signer Of U.S. Constitution
WASHINGTON (U.P.)—One of the signers of the Constitution is "missing," and a nation-wide search is on to find him.
The National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, is turning attics upside-down to find a portrait of Thomas FitzSimons, an Irish-born immigrant, who played an important role in securing liberty for America.
Historians know what he did—but they don't know what he looked like.
Mr. FitzSimons became a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional Convention in 1786. He also helped to finance the revolution itself and later was active in civic affairs in Philadelphia.
One historian has described him as "a man of commanding figure, agreeable manners, though somewhat stately and reserved"
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Cities Robbed Of Basic Rights
More than 65 per cent of the students now at KU will live in cities or other urban centers when they graduate. And because they will live in cities, their vote in choosing their state Senators will count only 1/23 of the vote of the K-State agricultural major.
Their vote in determining who will sit in the Kansas House of Representatives will be worth 1/50th of the Kansas farmer's ballot.
This is not only undemocratic—it's not even republican, and a republican form of government is supposedly guaranteed to all citizens of the United States by the U. S. Constitution.
How has this depriving of rights of people who live in cities come about?—mostly through the shift of population from the farms to the cities. In other words the Kansas constitution and the constitutions of most other states have not been kept up with the world around them.
The Kansas constitution sets the limit of the number of State representatives at 125. It then insists that every county in the state have one representative. There are 105 counties.
This means that in the House of Representatives of this state there is one representative for Stanton County, which has 1,980 people and only three representatives for Sedgwick County's 297,388 people.
If the under-representation were confined to one house of the State legislature, there would be some hope. It isn't. As stated before, city populations are outvoted 50 to 1 in the House and 23 to 1 in the Senate. In the federal government the misrepresentation is at least confined to the Senate.
In other words Wichita officials are going to have a hard time administering the city properly if a few farmers object to their actions. And when it comes to spending and raising taxes, who has the best deal? Certainly not the under-represented urban population of this state!
The situation calls for:
1. ) Raising the number of state representatives, and
2. ) Re-appointment of seats within the legislature.
Efficient government cannot be carried on with too many legislators. The number of legislators can be raised only so far. This solution is at best a temporary one.
The other solution—legislative apportionment is "required" of the legislature by the constitution. The state legislature is supposed to make a fair apportionment according to latest population figures every five years.
The courts have repeatedly refused to force legislative apportionment. Administrative apportionment could have been forced by a writ of mandamus.
The last attempt to at least make apportionment possible in Kansas was tried in 1949. The proposal would have eliminated the guarantee of one representative per county and would have made apportionment an automatic, administrative process. Needless to say, the proposal was defeated before it got started.
The last apportionment measure which became law was passed in 1947. The measure has been described as "minor," and this could be an over-statement.
A fair apportionment—that is, an apportionment based on population—does not seem to be forthcoming from the vested rights interests in the state legislature. Where can it come from?
The answer may lie within the public opinion government, then less-educated, and presumably If students cannot recognize their stake in Kansas block that is sometimes called, "today's student." less active persons, could hardly be expected to push the fight.
It doesn't happen that way.
This university teaches democracy in all phases of life. But the legislative body on which it depends for funds is not chosen democratically.
—Ron Grandon
Authority by the Board 6f Regents to go ahead with married student housing on the campus relieves a tense situation for a great number of students here. We hope the new housing won't incorporate some of the features of apartments students have been stuck with down town. Sharing the bath is neighborly but not much fun.