University Daily Kansan Wednesday, December 1. 1954
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Daily Hansan
University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251 Ad Room, KU 376
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EDITORIAL STA
Editorial Assistants Letty Lemon
Editorial Assistants Daryn Dynon
Dot Taylor, Amy DeYong
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... Letters ...
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
Your sports editors might as well give up on arguing for the farce of keeping the Sooners tied to the apron strings of the Sorry Six. The Sad Sextet just isn't in the same league with Oklahoma, and no amount of reportorial double talk will keep Oklahoma in the same league.
The Hapless Half Dozen converts the Orange to the Lemon Bowl by sending as its representative a club that is forced to leave the country to win a non-conference game. Fearless Fossick Faurot is now required to provide a free adding machine for all his opponents outside the corny Colorado-Nebraska-Iowa State-Kansas-Kansas State combine.
But of course in basketball we're big time. Our NCAA representative gets into the playoffs by pulling straws and then promptly dumps the first game. Ran out of straws, I guess.
Minor leaguedly yours
George Deurksen.
Senior, Education.
May I get into this current controversy over girls' basketball? I read the article by Miss Mary Bess Stephens and thought that she superbly leveled this sport to the ridicule which it so richly deserves. Then I read a long dissenting opinion by Miss Jean Walterscheid in your Letter column.
In my opinion, her argument was so feeble that it was almost embarrassing. From what I was able to gather, she had two arguments in defense of girls' basketball: one, 356 girls on the campus play the game; two, it develops "muscle tone," whatever that is.
Her argument was weak, I thought, because she failed to come to grips with the main argument against the game (and this was the whole point of Miss Stephens' article)—namely, that it tends to "defeminize" the women who play it
Certainly, no one who has witnessed women's sports or who has worked at a girl's camp can deny this. The classic example, of course, is the typical physical education major, who, after four years of developing "muscle tone," not only ends up playing sports like a man, but frequently ends up talking, walking, and dressing like one.
One axiom I have always followed is: 'No girl ever became more feminine by playing basketball. She may enjoy herself and she may develop "muscle tone," but she does not become more feminine. Even Nixon and Cozens would admit that. Along this line, I might say that the difference between Miss Stephens and Miss Walterscheid is that Miss Stephens knows what the objectives in life for a woman should be, while Miss Walterscheid does not seem to be aware of this.
To be beautiful, sedate, neat, poised, and sexually attractive to men are still the preoccupations of the eternal female; and, since playing the game of basketball does not enhance one of these traits, there does not seem to be much point in taking the game seriously or even playing it at all.
May I add that I was rather shocked at the editorial spinelessness which the Daily Kansan showed in this dispute. Miss Stephens wrote her article under a by-line and hence was entitled to express herself freely. Yet, when Miss Walterscheid stated at the end of her letter, "I, therefore admonish the UDK for allowing this slur upon KU to go to press," the editor, like a dog with his tail between his legs, added, "Jean, we consider ourselves admonished." In other words, you are admitting that you were wrong in letting a member of your staff express an honest opinion about girls' basketball. Frankly, I don't get it.
A headline in an area newspaper says, "Molester Urged to Seek Help." The job must be getting too big for him.
Beverly Orrmont fine arts senior (Frankly, you certainly don't . -ed. note.)
Flashbacks in History From The Daily Kansan
20 YEARS AGO
Thanksgiving vacation started Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1934. Highlighting the vacation was Kansas' victory over Missouri on Thanksgiving day. The football game, held at Columbia, marked the fifth season in which Kansas had held Missouri scoreless.
was run in old Dec. 2013.
Tickets sold for 75 cents, $1, $1.50, and $2 for "Green Pastures," held Dec. 17 in the University auditorium. Richard B. Harrison portrayed "De Lawd" with an all-star supporting cast.
In a letter written to Dr. F. C. Allen, director of athletics at the University, Frederick W. Rubien, secretary of the American Olympics Committee, said that basketball had been added to the Olympic schedule.
A classified ad in the Daily Kansan says, "People with dirty clothes to be washed and starched." This might replace whisky as a way for getting stiff.
On Dr. Allen's recommendation, the game, along with baseball, canoeing, and polo, was played at the 11th Olympic Games held in Berlin, Aug. 1-16, 1936.
An advertisement for Christmas cards "from one to 10 cents" was run in the Dec. 4 edition of the University Daily Kansan.
Senator Knowland proposes that the United States should blockade the China coast. Six Big Seven conference football coaches should suggest a blockade of Oklahoma.
Rushing the Season?
Commercialization Reigns Supreme
"Only so many more shopping days until Christmas!" Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public and family have been confronted with this statement for almost a month and a half. Wherever they go they are faced with Christmas trees, Santa Clauses, bells, bright colored balls, sleds, reindeers, and all the other Christmas trimmings—and it all began in most places the day after Halloween!
Taken by themselves, these decorations emphasizing the holiday are good. They add spirit and color to one of the most important American holidays.
holidays.
But when it is realized that the purpose of such decorations in all the stores is to sell products while ignoring the true meaning of Christmas, then it is bad. They are transforming a religious holiday into a commercialized occasion, pushing the individual from all sides to buy, buy, buy.
Each year the beginning of the Christmas season is pushed ahead so that now it can be expected around the middle of October. Halloween and Thanksgiving are rushed through so all effort can be put forth for the "buying season" of Christmas. After all, turkeys don't make money the way Christmas gifts do.
are tired of the holiday and want a time of relaxation. They have been pushed around in the crowds, have bought presents they never dreamed of buying, have had them wrapped in sparkly paper and ribbon, and have placed them under the tall, lighted tree. And somewhere in the hustle and bustle, it has been forgotten that Christmas is a time for renewing faith while celebrating—not the coming of the Christmas package—but the birth of Christ.
By the time Dec.25 has arrived, most persons
It has been said that the world's problems could be solved if more emphasis were placed on the church. Religious faith is being sacrificed today for material gain. What more appropriate time could people unite in their faith than at Christmas? Christians the world over could take a big step forward in promoting the importance of religion in peaceful living if only they would not forget what Christmas means—the origin of their faith.
Something other than the profit motive should tell us of the approach of Christmas. Gifts are but a small part of the celebration. While they signify the thinking of others, originating from the gifts to the Christ child, they have come to over-shadow the religious aspect. Dec. 25 must come to stand for religion, and not commercialism.
—Nancy Neville
One Woman's Opinion
For years those antagonistic to advertising have held up the Reader's Digest as a shining exception whenever someone has said that advertising is necessary to keep the cost of a publication within reason.
—Georgia Wallace
But when the Reader's Digest found itself pinched by a vanishing margin, it asked its subscribers, "Should we raise our price or should we accept advertising?" And the answer was "accept advertising." And this decision has more important ramifications than the fact that the Reader's Digest subscribers wanted to save a few pennies a copy.
"TAKE IT EASY"
The Reader's Digest is known for its fervor for the truth. The people respect the Reader's Digest for this. And yet, they must feel that accepting paid lineage will not hurt the integrity of the Digest's editors or make the magazine less enjoyable than it is now. Advertising people, even with their knowledge of the powers and benefits of advertising, cannot help feeling a little elated at this vote of confidence of the Reader's Digest.
... Short Ones
When spring rolls around Joe DiMaggio will probably sign another contract with the New York Yankees, now that he doesn't have anything else to do.
Unemployment will always be a big problem in this country. As soon as everyone finds a job the people who work in the employment offices will be unemployed.
Let's promote a football game between Kansas and Tulsa in the Eight-ball Bowl.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"Even though I'm flunking, Professor Snarf, I always look forward to attending your class."