University Daily Kansan Thursday, February 17, 1955 Page 2 The Rafters Rumbled With 12,000 Jeers Several thousand Kansas State basketball fans proved true to form Saturday night as they filled Ahearn Fieldhouse in Manhattan to witness one of the most unexpected upsets of the 1955 basketball season. And 12.000 howling Wildcats unleashed the school cheer—the boo—from the moment the officials walked onto the court until the last Kansas University basketball player entered the dressing room following the game. It is not hard to understand why K-State fans might turn to this method of showing their displeasure following a game which saw underdog Kansas write finis to Wildcat chances for a share of this year's Big Seven crown. But explanations don't come easy for the rousing chorus of boos that reverberated from the pine planks to the fieldhouse ceiling as the visiting team took the floor for the warmup period before the game. We wonder if this weekly display of poor manners doesn't go a little deeper than just a little extracurricular booing. For, as has been suggested a number of times in the conference, K-Staters seem to be suffering from some sort of a mass inferiority complex in which they feel collectively that they are discriminated against at every turn. Take for example some weird occurrences in this same fieldhouse in March of 1953 that had the out-of-state sports writers scratching their heads. The scene was the regional NCAA tournament and the game was the finals in which the Big Seven's representative, KU was playing the Missouri Valley's representative, Oklahoma A&M, for a slot in the national NCAA tourney. But such an occurrence has been the rule and not the exception. Only last December during the Kansas-Iowa State game of the Big Seven tournament did a K-State delegation raise the chant, "Go, State, Go!" But what happened when the Wildcats played Kentucky in the national NCAA finals in 1951? KU students joined by Lawrence businessmen sent a gigantic telegram several feet long to Minneapolis, tournament site, wishing the State team well. So get out your ear plugs! The booing and boo-hooing should start about tomorrow when the Post Office department delivers this in Aggieland! But in the meantime, pardon us while we take a few minutes to be thankful that we go to school where the basketball coach will get up from the bench to quiet a little-too-lusty crowd, and where sportsmanship is something more than just another of Mr. Webster's 550,000 words. Rich Clarkson Matusow—The Key to a Broken Lock? Harvey Matusow. ex-Communist and one-time undercover agent for the FBI, had admitted giving false statements during many of his 25 appearances before government security agencies and congressional committees investigating communisn. In his forthcoming autobiography, "False Witness," he declares that his only ambition during the last three years has been to become the "Surely there is some house rule pertaining to a situation like this." most famous witness on communism in the United States. If we believe that Matusow is telling the truth, what about the 25 investigations in which he testified? How valid are they? How much did his testimony influence the decision of the investigating committee? How many innocent persons have been fined, imprisoned, and other wise dragged through the mud? Then again, Matusow may have been lying about having lied in the past. If this is the case, we must try to determine when he actually committed perjury—when he retracted his testimony or when he testified originally. In reality, it makes the investigations seem rather useless. Millions of dollars have been spent and many hundreds of men have spent their time and energy trying to rid our government agencies of Communist infiltration, and we actually don't know if we did any real good. Months and months have been spent in compiling information, securing witnesses, and giving and evaluating testimony and we really don't know too much more than we knew before. We have made it clear to the Communists that we will do all in our power to rid them from our government organizations. For a while we thought we were really getting somewhere, but in light of recent developments, the subject becomes rather debatable. We begin and end by asking ourselves the same question, "Just exactly what have we gained and how much good have we really done?" —Gordon Hudelson. Seven hundred manufacturing concerns crowd Worcester, Mass., the state's second largest city. Since World War II, 283 successful businesses have started. A bull sea elephant, by far the largest of the seals, may grow to a length of 20 feet and weigh as much as three tons. Its thick layer of blubber beneath the skin yields a valuable oil. Daily Hansan University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251 Ad Room, KU 376 Member of the Inland Daily Press association, Associated Collegiate Press association. Represented by the National Advertising service, 420 Madison avenue, N.Y. 10017. Received $4.50 a year (add $1 a semester if in Lawrence). Published at Lawrence Kans., every afternoon until the End of School year; exhibited annually during holidays. University holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class matter. Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence Kans., September 23, 1910. EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial Editor Gene Shank Ed. Assistants: Elizabeth Wohlgemuth Business Mgr. Audrey Holmes Advertising Mgr. Martha Chambers Nat. Adv. Mgr. Georgia Wallace Cir. Mgr. George Wallace Classified Mgr. 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