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ASC Confesses Failure In Current Traffic Bill
The All Student Council has muffed the ball again.
Tomorrow night a bill to turn control of parking back to the administration will be taken off the shelf. Then the bill probably will go through its second reading unhampered.
Since it will take three readings of the bill to give formal control of parking back to the administration, someone within the ASC has a week to save a scrap of integrity for student government at KU.
Actually the bill does not mean much in itself; the traffic office within the administration has been running the traffic situation for some time.
The bill does mean that the traffic office now can do a better job. Without ASC muddling and inaction, the traffic office, working through a committee of four students and five faculty members, can bring the obsolete portions of University traffic and parking regulations up to date.
The shame of the matter is that the traffic office can do a better job without the ASC. The ASC by its inaction has lateralled off to a more efficient—but less democratic—crew, a crew that can do the job.
Parking fines in the past have been too lenient; elimination of ASC inaction will take care of this.
It's difficult to define the function of student government, but this seems to be one case where students should have handled a job, but didn't. It seems to be a case where student government walked in over its head.
The case is a decided reversal of the trend in recent years toward more student government.
The bill is only a formal surrender, but, as such, it's a symbol of the failure of student government. And unless someone comes up with a streamlined plan to allow ASC participation in University traffic regulation, then the surrender of student government is all to the good. —Ron Grandon
TV Scene a Cultural Gap
Television has crept up on us so rapidly in America that we have not vet become aware of the extent of its impact.
Whether for good or bad, television has taken the place of the soothing syrups and mild narcotics which parents in earlier days used to reduce their children to semi-consciousness and, consequently, semi-noisiness. In the past a harassed parent would say, "Go outside and play" or "If you don't stop that noise, I'm going to beat your dear little brains out." The modern parents suggests, "Why don't you go look at television?"
From that moment, the screams, shouts, crashes, and other miscellaneous din come from the TV speaker instead of the child. For some reason this seems to be more relaxing to the parent. The effect on the child has yet to be determined.
The physical symptoms of television-watching are the same in adults as in children. An appearance of semi-consciousness results—the mouth grows slack; the lips hang open; and the eyes take on a hypnotized or doped look.
If such is the case, one wonders how much of the "message" of television is being understood. This wonder is further strengthened by the fact that a television fan will look at anything at all for hours —kiddie programs, variety shows, or movies.
The situation has been alleviated somewhat by multiple sponsorship of programs and the discovery of new talent but the American television scene still leaves much to be desired.
Gordon Hudelson
And, in the course of the letter,
Mr. Cleaner thrusts forth a challenge
for the review-writing chick to
define humor.
First of all this chick writes a review of the Sour Owl. She gives her opinions. She doesn't like it. Then, the Bird-cage cleaner of the Owl writes a letter to the editor. He doesn't like the review.
..Oh Well..
Do you see the possibilities in this thing?
If it were the policy to begin this galley of junk with a "department," this item would be called "One Dern Thing After Another Department." No sooner is one issue settled on these pages than another one flares. This time it's about magazines and the conflict of opinion is within the very inward-muscles of the ole UDK.
Bv JON
Me? I don't care. All I gotta' do is sit here and bat out this mass of mutilated musings.
It could develop into a feud. Many children could be trampled by the exchange of a flood of opinion. It could even get name-calling.
But it seems only fittin' and proper (as my hillbilly-type friend says) that y'all (as my southern-type friend says) get the full story (as my reporter-type friend says).
Margot's our friend.
Bird cage Ron is our friend.
But before you get the idea that this is going to turn into a intra-UDK battle, let's define terms:
We like everybody.
Bird-cage cleaner—This is a position held by a person on the Sour Owl. This does not in any way refer to the aforementioned person's position on any other media.
In other words, think of Mr. Grandon as the speaker for the Sour Owl in this squabble and not as a member of Ye Olde Editorial Staff of the UDK; and think of Miss Baker as the critic and not as a member of Ye Olde Editorial Staff.
On these grounds they can fight this thing out 'il . . .
P. S. Department: Be sure and grab a gaze at Mr. Hahn's letter in today's issue. He's not only happy, he also explains some points about the Quill you'll be interested in.
No More Space Department: Nuff said.
Oh well . . . ___
New York harbor boasts 24,000 annual arrivals and departures of ocean-going vessels discharging and picking up cargo and passengers, more than any other port in the world. Each month 1,000 ships sail away.
Great Britain imports half its food supply and two-thirds of its raw materials.
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Re: Miss Baker's learned treatise on the Sour Owl:
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Letters
Writers Discuss Publications, Nazis
I would like, on behalf of the Quill club and the staff of Quill magazine, to acknowledge the favorable review given our magazine by Miss Baker, whose opinions do I hope, reflect those of the UDK. We sometimes feel that putting out a magazine of this type is a thankless job at Kansas university, when we are lucky to find three hundred and fifty students out of some seven thousand who are interested enough in a college literary publication to purchase a copy.
It is reassuring, in a sense, to find that the fault is not entirely in our literary efforts.
Dear Editor:
in response to some people who have told us that our price was too high. I would like to take this opportunity to point out that, if we had sold every copy of Quill that we printed, we would still have lacked some forty-five dollars of breaking even financially. This is true even in spite of the fact that we eliminated almost entirely the use of cuts for the pages of the magazine. The deficits which we annually incur are made up out of the club's dues, plus a tiny appropriation from the University. This we are glad to do because we think the project is worthwhile; it makes us a little mad when we are accused of getting rich on the magazine, however.
Again, thanks for the good review and the interest shown. It is this occasional encouragement that keeps us going.
"Blue Law" Out
rnil Hahn
College senior,
Editor, Quill magazine
Pierre, S.D. (U.P.)—The 1955 South Dakota legislature finally got around to repealing a 1907 "blue law" which prohibited Sunday movies, baseball games, rope dancing, acrobatics and other types of entertainment. The law hadn't been enforced for 30 years.
Oil Strike
Concord, N.H.—(U.P.)-The Merrimack Farmers' Exchange struck oil. Nearly 1,300 gallons had leaked into an old press pit in the building from an auxiliary tank at a nearby hotel. None of the fuel oil could be salvaged; too much water in it.
Dear Editor:
Since I could not participate in the panel discussion Tuesday night in the Graduate club, and since I don't have the impression, the results of this discussion, as reported by the Daily Kansan, give the reality of today's Germany, I would like to give my opinion.
The first thing to mention is the statement "that before the 1930's the Nazis had opposition from only the educated people." This is that nice, superficial notion, that book-Education can prevent barbarism.
On the contrary. It is a fact that the voters of the Nazi-party were mainly made up by the petty bourgeois class. The ex-war-officers, the unemployed white-collar-workers, the little businessman, ruined by inflation, made up the voters, the functionary corps and created the anus-philosophy of the Nazi movement. I am no socialist, on the contrary. I am a member of a German middle-class-party. But I have here to say that the worker-class Social Democratic Party didn't lose votes to the Nazis and was the only party which opposed Hitler in the parliament 'till she became extinguished. To see the guilt of the non-social educated, often half literate and politically stupid petty bourgeoisie, the creators of Nazism, is the first step to prevent future Nazism.
There is no cause at all to fear the springing up of Nazism in Germany, whatever the situation may be. Many anti-fascistic Germans have the feeling, even if they don't discuss it that after 1945 a democratic German revolution was prevented by the Allies. It is highly unlikely that the Germans should ever want a Nazi government again.
But I can assure: if there should be some Germans thirsty for a chauvinistic strongman and the blood of other races and if they should become dangerous for the German democracy: there are more people than one knows, ready not to debate with or about the Nazis, but (and that is valid also for the Communists) to recover the punishment of the Totalitarians. These people are not to be found in a large number among the educated, interested but inactive bystanders, not in the cowardly bourgeois, but they are here, they are observing and they are prepared nevertheless.
Erich Knapp Graduate student Heppenheim, Germany
Israel was voted into the United Nations on May 11, 1949.
I suppose this means supper isn't ready again!