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University Daily Kansan Monday. December 13, 1954
Across College Campuses
CU Votes 'No' To Hillbilly Music
Wilson Hinckley of the University of Colorado's "Colorado Daily" has conducted a "Crusade for Culture" on the CU campus. Having made derogatory remarks about the values of hillbilly music in a Daily article, he set about to make his own poll of the student body on the question. It was simple enough—he just placed a shoe box on the juke box in the campus coffee shop. The tally (discounting obvious duplicate votes) was, anti-hillbilly, 273; and pro-hillbilly, 84. The shoe box was subsequently stolen, presumably, said Hinckley, by a champion of hillbilly music and democracy.
He concluded from the vote that though there are not necessarily 3.25 anti-hillbillies on the campus for every hillbilly, it was shown that a clear majority prefer to drink coffee without listening to hillbilly music. In counting the votes, Hinckley said all obscene speculations about himself were counted as pro-hillbilly votes, as was one totally ineligible scrawl. The votes of Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow and Tex Ritter, all of whom said simply, "Go to h---" were counted as pro-hillbilly votes also. As one sarcastic rabble roser wrote in the "agin Hinckley" column of the Letters to the Editor, "The chances for peaceful coexistence with hillbillies are slim."
The male assistant women's editor of the University of Southern California Trojan filled several columns with his grips recently. Some of his problems are: 1. Informants phoning in information think they have the wrong number and hang up. 2. The female reporters accuse him of cutting their stories with no knowledge of their social importance. 3. The women's editor has a strict "no fraternization rule" between editors and reporters which prevents him from getting acquainted with the interesting coed writers. 4. Instead of the usual glamor girl photos, the society office is adorned with likenesses of Liberace, Marlon Brando and Rock Hudson.
Flashbacks in History From The Daily Kansan
Radio station KFKU observed its tenth anniversary from Dec. 9-16. The station's dedicatory program was broadcast from Robinson gym Dec.15, 1924 and the first regular KFKU program was broadcast Jan. 5, 1925.
Muriel Lester, internationally known lecturer and social worker, known as "London's Woman Crusader," spoke Dec. 10 at Fraser Theater on her Four-and-one-half Years as a London alderman.
The Amateur Athletic union approved Glenn Cunningham's world record mile of 4:06.7 Saturday, Dec. 8. The AAU also approved Cunningham's 3:52.2 indoor 1500 meter run and 4:08.8 indoor mile run.
At the meeting the AAU also established the precedent that no former winner of Sullivan's Memorial medal can receive the award again. Therefore Cunningham, although among the top ten candidates, was not eligible.
Cunningham had returned to the KU campus as a graduate student and was working toward his master's degree in education and a 4:04 mile.
To the editor:
Letters . . .
Ordinarily I would just observe an occurrence such as I saw Tuesday night, Dec. 7, attribute it to an extreme lack of consideration on the part of some individuals, and then proceed on my way with my own business. I cannot help but feel, though, that by not only speaking out against such action myself, but by all others who feel the same way doing likewise, something might eventually happen to prevent reocurrences.
I speak of the extreme rudeness of an audience to a great artist, I, for one, couldn't have enjoyed a performance more than that given by Isaac Stern in his concert Tuesday night. I know from talking to them that there are many others who enjoyed it equally as well. If a person wanted to know who didn't enjoy Mr. Stern's performance all he would have had to do is turn around in his seat and watch the back doors of the auditorium.
No matter how many really appreciative people there are in an audience, it takes only a handful of those with absolutely no manners or consideration to sour an artist against his audience in general. I don't know what Mr. Sterns impression was, but I can imagine when I think of how long he had to wait before playing his first encore in order for the people already headed for the door to get out and the auditorium to return to order. I will say this; that in my opinion a person has the right to get up and leave before the house lights come on if he is able to go once an audience and play better than the artist. Even then he would be rude in doing so.
It still makes me angry and very unhappy when I think of how many people were flocking to the doors to get out. Don't people realize that there are others who would have gladly stayed there as long as Mr. Stern would have continued playing? Don't they realize that an appreciative audience is an inspiration to an artist and he will gladly play encore after encore for them?
Who could blame Mr. Stern for not playing more than he did when he came to the stage only to see half the audience on their feet putting on coats and many more of them already on their way up the aisle to the door. Had I have been in his place I'm afraid I would leave Kansas University with a rather poor impression of its students and patrons.
Andy J. Jacobson Fine Arts freshman
I say to the individuals guilty, you have no right to go to the performance if you cannot keep your seat until the performance is over. You are spoiling it for the people who enjoy it, and you are insulting an artist. There are manners at a concert as well as at a tea table.
"Symbolic silver" last year, "symbolic blue" this year. What "symbolic" color will the University Christmas tree be next year? Purple maybe?
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Minute Women of U.S. Specialize in Heckling
Women hecklers on the front row broke up a Houston, Texas meeting of the American Society of Friends. Alger Hiss attended a Quaker meeting, the hecklers shouted.
Mrs. Suzanne Silvercruys, a U.S. citizen since 1922, founded the Minute Women in her home at Norwalk, Conn., in 1949. She said, on retiring as national president in 1952, that Minute Women were active in 46 states.
The women hecklers were members of the Houston chapter of the "Minute Women of the U.S.A."
Houston is not the only city so infected.
But the "Minute Women of the U.S.A."—the group which says of itself, "We're 100 per cent pro-American,"—is also a group without any kind of constitution, charter, or by-laws. Its officers are appointed, not elected, from the top.
Objectives of the national organization, printed by the American Mercury in 1952, range from ridding the educational system of all Socialists and Communists to "proving women can be effective for good in their communities and in their nation."
The Houston chapter is the best known of the local unity chiefly through the efforts of Ralph S. O'Leary, rewrite man on the Houston Post.
The organization led by about 200 of the wives of wealthy residents had been kept secret because members never acted as a group. All action was carried out individually and none of the many telegrams, letters or postcards from members was signed "Minute Women."
They are accomplishing their purpose
His 11-article series in the Post told the 600,000 residents of Houston of the group's activities. A wave of isolationism, reaction, book burning, intolerance—in short, fascism—had moved into the city.
A public official, on receiving a letter from 500 members of an organization, is likely to disregard the letters. Letters from 500 women will look like a landslide of public opinion.
Ron Grand S
Space Travel Absurd?
Even as staid a publication as the Christian Science Monitor is predicting that the possibility of a U.S. beachhead in space is more than science fiction.
Robert C. Cowen, reporting meetings of the American Rocket Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers last week, said there are definite indicators that the Pentagon is setting its sights on an artificial moon. Intelligence reports that Soviet engineers are pushing a space program of their own which is causing the Defense Department to consider building its own man-made satellites, he said.
Reports of the space flight committee of the American Rocket Society assume that an unmanned satellite is already technically practical and that the time has come to decide when and for what purposes to design and launch one. This fact coupled with persistent rumors that defense department planning has given the satellite a high priority seems to indicate that the project—as top secret as the mechanism of the hydrogen bomb—definitely does exist.