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University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 25, 1954
Reminiscing, Maturity A Part of Senior Life
A group of students sat in the stadium on the 50-yard line during the Kansas-Oklahoma game. Waving Jayhawk Pennants high in the air, yelling that they were the class of 1955, and cheering loudly for their newly elected calendar queen, the group let it be known that it was Senior day.
Just what is it that makes a senior, and what are a senior's responsibilities to his alma mater when he has graduated from the University and has established himself in his vocation?
A senior is just as unique in his upper class position as the freshman is in his new experience with collegiate life. He has gone through the "green" phase of his first year on the campus, has passed through the awkward sophomore year when he felt so wise and yet still had much to learn about the University, and become more self-confident during his junior year as he took a more responsible part in the activities and excitement of the school.
And then he is a senior. He has reached the climax of his four years of studies and Jayhawk life. His final year as a student on the Hill will be filled with senior social functions and all the activities which precede the day when he will walk through the campanile doors, and down the Hill in his cap and gown to receive his diploma.
Besides all the activity, being a senior has a meaning for each member of the class, a feeling which cannot easily be put into words. Each strives to be a mature individual while completing his college studies before he begins his chosen profession. He has had all sorts of experiences while a student, and is wondering what the days following his graduation will hold for him.
The years that follow will not be completely apart from Kansas university. He will return for the games, alumni meetings, class reunions, and just general visits, and he will often find himself referring to the days "when I was a senior in '55." He'll find, when he returns, many changes in buildings, administration, and campus fads, but he'll also note that the students will be basically the full of enthusiasm, having the same ambitions, and adjusting to the same situations.
The senior has a responsibility to KU in that he will be representing the University wherever he goes. He will take with him the ideas and principles he learned here and will attempt to apply them to his daily work. To his associates he will always be classified as a KU graduate, and so he must strive to represent his University well not only while he is a student, but also when he has become an alumnus. —Nancy Neville
...Short Ones...
Even laughter doesn't convince anybody of brighter things these days. Mid-semesters are so close that laughter comes closer to hysteria than humor.
A football bit of happiness: The new KU band uniforms will be worn for the first time at the KU-K-State football game Oct. 30. Maybe they'll brighten spirits.
When La Monroe moved from her "honeymoon" cottage into a swank $450-a-month Sunset Strip apartment there was a little mixup. Because of a landlady's near-error in situating the ex-Mrs. in her new home, a New York doctor almost found himself with the "calendar girl" for company. It seems he had rented the apartment first and the landlady didn't know about it. Better luck next time. Doc.
I am a German Fulbright student and want to give you my opinion about the article "French Fear of Strong Germany Overplayed" in the Daily Kansan of Monday, Oct. 18.
... Letters ...
The article speaks of the possibility that the West German government may strike eastward in an attempt to recapture lands which are in effect still occupied by the USSR, and that from this possibility should arise fear.
Well, in the London conference, where Germany was given sovereignty and an army of half a million men, the German government promised not to try unification of Germany in using this army, that means in beginning war. I hear now the answer, that a new German government could ignore this promise.
Let's for a moment forget the fact that strong securities have been made to prevent West Germany from breaking her promise. Then, if there were no control, I would say; wave out his hand; wave out a reared Germany overrunning France . . . , again is being vastly overplayed."
You are right to a certain extent that "there is a little reason to believe that Germany has ended its war with Russia." You are right, but not in the sense of hot, shooting war. In the era of atomic weapons nobody can wish to make a hot world war, also not we Germans, because there would be in the end no victor, but a hopelessly destroyed world.
Now, when the coming West German army is too weak to overrun Western Europe, how could she try to make a war with far stronger and larger Russia and her satellites without help from the other western powers? That would mean, without any duty to commit a national disaster. The United States people of the Federal Republic both have wanted a German army only for defensive, never for offensive purposes.
Now, the free western world and the free Germany have not only the choice between that peace which means appeasement, and a World War III. There is a third possibility. We have to learn just from the Bolshevies, that democracy can conquer whole sub-continents and millions of people without a hot war, when we use the new techniques of the so-called hot war, with which the Reds conquered their empire in only 35 years. Why should we not try to free the satellite people in that way? It requires constant patience and skill, but no atomic bombs. The riots in East Germany on July 17, 1953, have shown that there are many possibilities to free a country from the Reds without a hot war. We westerners have only to use such possibilities to a good end. We have to look over that a new species of war has come. It is better that we learn this today than tomorrow.
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"I better help that new student stretch his canvas—he seems pretty anxious to get started."
The Negro—of human thought, human emotions, but unable to find human equality—what of him? Slowly, almost unperceptibly, but forced by the big black line we have drawn, he has evolved a society within our own. He has developed his own great minds, his own leaders, and his own communications, while we roll in our clover field of unrestricted opportunity—scientifically and statistically eliminating ourselves—reveling in our "lucky" one in nine chance of being born white.
Lincoln Had Right Idea; Let's Deliberate—DoWe?
When the dust of our wars have cleared away, and our Geiger counters have stopped ticking—will we have to seek equality in courts presided over by the sons of Ham?
Now, who among us will rise and say, "Eight score and seventeen . . ."
—Lomertt Richards
Lincoln began, "Four score and seven . . .," and today we have seated ourselves upon the overstuffed chair of knowledge. Whether or not we have absorbed the comfort of this chair we have not gained a wider perception because of it. We succeed in making issues out of nothing and sometimes coming to what might be considered a satisfactory conclusion, but of something, we forgo, walk light, and leave to the next generation.
Our courts, this summer, took an item off a too dusty shelf and placed it hard before us. Almost a century ago this same issue, in a broader sense, stood in vivid light. We fought a war for its cause. To some the war was won, some just fought a war, and others still fight—seizing every opportunity to wave their banner of that conflict high, but the issue, and the cause was shelved—its leader dead. It merely rode, until recently, in the sentence structure of the foundation of our democracy—a statement at which other societies snicker, and for good cause. A greater hypocrisy was never written.
We are steeped in our fat traditions—shouting America while carrying in the backs of our minds un-American prejudices. These prejudices we pass to our children, failing to notice how well they and the "little colored boy" play together until we tell them that they shouldn't. Now our children riot in their schools—schools where they memorize "We hold these truths . . .." and the Gettysburg Address—, and our great minds become small ones to scream these prejudices on the floors of our legislatures, and to the communications of our society.
Utah Politician Confesses Not a War Hero After All
The case of Republican Rep. Douglas Stringfellow of Utah shows just how far a politician will go to get elected. If he isn't truthful about his war record, how truthful would he be about other issues?
The 32-year-old disabled war veteran admitted in a television program Saturday that he had not served with the Office of Strategic Services during the war and that he had not captured a top German scientist, Otto Hahn, as he had claimed in more than 200 political speeches.
Because of this fake war record he was a hero and had been chosen one of the top 10 men in the United States last year by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
The truth finally came out after Rep. Stringfellow felt that he had to set the record straight. The October issue of Army Times devoted three pages to an article on Rep. Stringfellow, telling in detail his war record. He first denied the charge, saying the attack was politically inspired, but later he reconsidered and made the speech. —Dana Leibengood