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Tuesday, May 10, 1955
UDK Charge Gets Fast ASC Reaction
The reaction we hoped for has occurred. And occurred fast.
It seems that the All Student Council, in particular President George Sheldon, confesses to no failure in regard to the traffic bill now before the Council.
The UDK regretted that student government seemed to be so inefficient that it could not handle University traffic regulations. It now seems that someone is trying to do something about the matter, and we agree the sooner the better.
The truth is that if something isn't done, complete control of University traffic will forfeit to the administration, including control of parking fines. Although fines have been too low for real offenders in the past, student participation in the rendering of justice still seems necessary to insure that the fines are hung on the right persons. We, along with Sheldon and others think that students should participate in the traffic court. This matter must not be left up to control by the administration.
The present traffic committee—which Sheldon points out in the letter below—even though it permits student representation, does not insure justice.
Sheldon, speaking for a major portion of the ASC—we hope—has answered yesterday's UDK editorial in the letter below. Now, we also hope, student government can do something about the matter. Tonight's meeting of the ASC should hold the answer.
—Ron Grandon
Letters
Sheldon Speaks Up
Dear Editor:
The ASC confesses to no failure!
Let's analyze the truthfulness of the article which spoke so disparingly of the council. Last Tuesday night the traffic bill came up for its second reading (incidentally, only two readings are necessary, not three as the paper stated) and met a storm of protest.
Cooler heads in the council suggested that it be tabled 'til more information could be gathered.
Perhaps the traffic office does most of the work, but I will wager that the more than 20 students who appealed unjust tickets to the student court (an ASC judiciary branch) and had their money refunded last September will attest to some utility in the council.
The "muddling" and "inaction" of the ASC which Mr. Grandon so heartily points out will, also by the editorial, be alleviated by a board of five faculty members and four students. I wonder if Mr. Grandon is aware that such a committee has been functioning for many years and was functioning at the time Mr. Grandon wrote yesterday's fallacious accusations.
These are only some of the false remarks directed at the ASC yesterday. I will grant that, humanly, parking and some other features of student government have not been handled as well as possible. We, however, appoint the disciplinary committee, the student court, select members of the athletic board, allocate $3,000 annually to organizations, set social regulations, sponsor the campus chest, publish the K-Book and student directory, and perform other functions which the administration consider invaluable.
I think it is time the ASC received some overdue credit from the students.
I promise this, too: That we are striving now, and will do so next year, to better the student government at KU. Anyone critical of the council is free to run in an election and give us a hand.
George Sheldon
ASC President
.. Oh Well ..
By JON
In case you missed it, here's a Good Samaritan story that back-fired. It happened on 14th street. That's a pretty steep hill . . . or haven't you heard? At any rate, our hero was driving down the street in his truck. Lo and behold, a riderless auto he spied rolling down the hill. Clutching firmly to his Boy Scout pin, he leaped from his truck and into the rolling car, halting it in time to avoid a collision.
In the meantime his truck roller and wrapped itself around a tree.
The Moral: Because you auto, don't go truckin' on down.
Explanation Department: The preceding line is a pun.
Apology Department: A pretty bad one at that.
Remember those cartoons which all had a different picture situation but the gag line always was the same: "You hold him; I'll get a rope?"
There was a time when you saw those things all over the place . . .
but no more. At any rate, I get a big boot out of those things . . . So, this corner will pay enough money for one nickel Coke for each of these mailed in. Just mail it to Dear Jon, Daily Kansas. Put in an envelope with your return address attached thereto and I'll send you by return mail five cents in coin.
Sounds like a radio commercial out of Del Rio, Texas.
Open Letter Department: Dear George Beckmann . You're familiar with Tokyo's many coffee shops . Here's a new one. It' called Shirobasha . Five levels lavishly decorated. And a string quartet that plays classical music.
Junk Department: Subject for the day—Contributed Poetry (w i t h apologies to all who have heard or read this elsewhere):
I'm through with women.
They cheat and they lie.
They prey on us males
'Til the day we die.
They tease us, torment us. And drive us to sin.
Who was that blonde
Who just walked in?
Oh well . . .
Lost Plate
Providence, R.I.-(U.P.)-Desmona Douglas finally discovered what happened to his 1953 automobile license plate. Winfred E. Wilkins of Rumney, N.H., advertised in the Providence Sunday Journal for a Rhode Island plate for his collection. He said his present Rhode Island plate was "beat up." The plate was one Douglas reported lost two years ago.
Approximately 85 per cent of all passenger travel in the United States is by motor vehicle.
Some 820 of every 1,000 persons suffer from some sort of sickness every year.
UDK 'Goof' Noticed by Pittsburg Paper
(Ed. note—The following gem was gleaned from the columns of the Pittsburg Headlight. It's a keen comment. We wonder that no avid UDK-watcher in our KU audience noted it.)
For up to the minute news presentation the daily newspaper at the University of Kansas produced by the students of the school of journalism is entitled to some award. Under a vivacious little head, "Bulletin," in a proper location for such an item, Monday's issue of the Kansan, readers found that "the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Flint at 1603 Louisiana, was reported in flames as the Kansan went to press." It was then explained tersely that two of the Lawrence fire departments were fighting the fire and that Mr. Flint, as Kansas knows, is professor emeritus of the school of journalism.
It is easy to understand what happened. As the Kansan went to press the home was in flames. But evidently before the Kansan got to press, the fire was out. This is to say that before the alert reporter could finish typing the bulletin the firemen did their job and the reporter was not only able to say the fire was out but to report the extent of the damage.
"At 2 p.m. the fire was out. A small hole was burned in the roof."
5 Cents for a Better Caption
(Ed. Note.-The cartoon below was submitted by Richard Lumpkin, fine art artist). The cartoon is unimaginable in the cartoon because it parallels the actions of all captured uses by an assailant same as the great hero. Try your captures.
Next sentence explained happily:
Your Bath Is Drawn, Sir.
Letters
'Hisses' on YM-YW Circulars Said Based on Ignorance
Dear Editor:
I have heard murmurs around Mt. Oread as to the propriety of foreign students like me signing the circular letter sent out by the YM and YW, to various organized houses, eliciting support for the student-exchange program. As a good many of these hisses were feminine, I am hurrying to offer a word of explanation to those who take time to understand. I am sure Sirpa Tomari, president of the International club and Ranen Sinha, chairman of the Y International Committee would endorse this explanation.
To begin with, I am not an exchange student. The enlargement or curtailment of this program, therefore, does not affect me directly. But it does affect me indirectly as it does everybody else who signed this letter, or the petitions sent to Washington.
In these days of tension and worry when the tub-thumping demogues are busy rousing passions and hatreds between peoples with the help of the media of mass communication, every little thing that helps us to peep through this Hate curtain and get away from pat slogans, mass sanders and vague generalizations may enable men of good will everywhere to save humanity for a better and quieter future. This program is one of the big, not little, things that is helping.
Under this program the best of American youth from different campuses can spend some time among the youth of other countries. Similarly some of the keener minds from abroad get a unique experience. They learn something about America they could never learn otherwise and they unlearn something learned from an unpleasant distance.
This medley group of people, with a hundred different economic, social and political backgrounds,
speaking a hundred different languages, rub their shoulders against each other and widen each other's perspective on life. I am sure, all foreign students will join me, in offering their sincere thanks for the kind words of appreciation that Judy Jaeschke and others had to say for us in the editorial in this connection.
In this milling crowd tabus soften, prejudices start melting, and the bonds of personal friendship start taking roots—bonds which are the surest foundation of a world in which men will have learned to live with each other and not kill each other.
And can we afford to see such a program being crippled—we-Americans or Asians, Europeans or Australians?
But Americans have to foot the bill, someone can say. Without doubt the major burden of such programs is on the U.S. Right now who else can take the responsibility on this scale? I hope, in the not-too-distance future my country—India—will have the privilege of inviting thousands of students from abroad, as she used to do more than 2000 years ago, when the universities of Taxila and Nalanda were humming with the music of most of the major languages of the Ancient world.
If this does not soothe the raised eyebrows, I humbly submit that the Graduate students on this campus forget or forgive my "foreignness" when they entrusted me with the responsibility of the president's office, in their club. I cannot serve them by tapping my mouth when such a crucial issue is in the air. Finally, I belong to KU as much as any of the other seven thousand Jayhawkers basking in its sunshine. As one of them, I have spoken and I will. Any objections?
Shanti S. Tangri, Graduate student
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