University Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 18. *1954
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Sentimentality Keynote Of Glenn Miller Movie
By BILL STRATTON
The most conspicuous film offering for local cinemasitcs this week is the widely-heralded "Glenn Miller Story", which begins today at the Granada theater.
With assistance from disc jockeys, magazine writers, musicians and purdits of the Miller cult, publicity scribes for Universal International Studios have had no trouble pushing "the word" on this picture to interplanetary extremes.
In addition to enlisting the authentic Miller sounds, U-I has arranged the famous band leader's biography so that the super-sensituality attacks the audience from the flank. James Stewart's knack for amiability allows him to coast through this role, while June Allyson, as his wife, renders her "get-in- there-and-fight-you-can-do-it" smiles. In the meantime, original Miller arrangements have benefit of
modern sound devices, with which they can tie audience emotion into knots of reminiscence.
Extra-curricular activity is provided by Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, and The Modernaires, all of whom evidently had a part in Miller's life.
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The story is unperplexing, woven mostly with explanations of tales behind the titles of Miller's tunes. These incisions are defly made with full effect being realized when the end approaches. Without the innotations this package does have been used as a subject. Not since the lachrymmal story about Lou Gehrig the movie-going tear ducts have taxed so heavily.
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On the second-run screens, "Soared Stiff," with Martin and Lewis, will run tomorrow and Saturday at the Varsity, while "An American in Paris," starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron is set for Sunday and part of next week.
The Jayhawker carries "Jivarо" for another day then projects "For ever Female." The latter is a comedy featuring Ginger Rogers, William Holden, and Paul Douglas, and introducing Pat Crowley. While trying to stage a play, this foursome gets its love affairs mixed up, and the only solution lies in confronting Miss Rogers, that she is better suited for mother parts. Husband Douglas donates most of the laughs. Pat Crowley contributes the youthful contrast with an invigorating performance, as Holden walks through one of his straighter roles.
For two days, starting tomorrow,
"Fallen Angel" with Dana Andrews
will be shown at the Patee.
Official Bulletin
YWCA Comparative Religions group discussion on "Mohammedanism" 4 p.m.
TODAY
Der deutsche Verein will have a Kafeklatsch, 5 p.m., 502 Fraser.
AWS house meeting. 4 p.m., Union.
Home Correspondents meeting. 5 p.m., Union.
Thirty minute meeting.
James K. Hitt, registrar,
speaker, Refreshments.
KuKu club, 7:50 p.m. Pine room.
Union. Pledges bring last semester'
grade averages and pledge points. Be
on time.
Phi Delta Kappa: Initiation, 5:30 p.m. p.m., room 126. Room 128. 6. Minute Brown speech on School Legislation. For reservation call William Butler, assistant dean of men.
Les Petits Copains, 4:30 p.m. 113 Strong, Mr. Adams will show slides about France, some of its colonies and other parts of the world.
Geology club: 7:30 p.m. 426 Lindley D. Davis Engineering department presents an illustrated talk on Venezuela. The spring award will be announced. Humus Haworth awards will be announced.
Alpha Delta Sigma initiation dinner, 6 p.m. Sunflower room. Student Union: Make reservations with Jack Glick or in advertising office by Wednesday night.
Delta Sigma Pi business meeting, 8 p.m., Oread room, Union.
FRIDAY
Sociology Coffee, 4 p.m. room 17,
Strong Annex E. Discussion: "Race Relations in Hawaii." Leader: Roland Tatsuiguchi, graduate student.
Hillel Foundation, Purim Festival services, 7 p.m., Myers hall chapel.
Delcinca Guest, fine arts junior, recently won the Music Talent Fund audition sponsored by the Kansas Association of Women's Clubs in Wichita.
Fine Arts Junior Wins Music Contest
To qualify for the audition contestants must have won first place for three years in the district contests held annually throughout the state. The audition brings district winners together to compete for first place in the state.
Miss Guest won $35 and a chance to sing in the national Marion Anderson scholarship contest.
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Proposed Greek Party Resolutions
We, the undersigned, Join together at a time when the Greek system has been exposed to dire dangers, which threaten, unless aborted, to make the Greek way secure. Its enemies propose to deal with it harshly. Their plans are not obscure.
They wish, first, to force an association with the N.S.A., a group which requires that collegiate men and women with religious background may not freely associate together to the exclusion of others of a dissimilar race or religion. Such a step would necessitate, in most instances, the binding under the signatures to their respective parent organizations and the consequent disintegration of the Greek system as entirely proper for those individuals as a particular exclusion clause to work, within their national organization, for its elimination, we reject the theory that the anti-Greeks may utilize the emotional backdrop of "tolerance," to cruelly one way of life.
The second step would be even more catastrophic than the first. Anti-Greek schemers would then require that a certain percentage of each house be occupied by Greeks, and do the undersigned object most strongly to this violation of the right of association with whomever one chooses. We also deplete those anti-Greeks who would exclude racial or religious groups to satisfy their own social frustrations.
There is a third scheme which is to be deplored equally with those previously mentioned. This is the attempt, which has reached fruition on some campuses and in other institutions. It poses strict control of the administration over the internal affairs of fraternities and societies. This control is further strengthened by the expropriation of chapter finances from those officers by whom the responsibility, by the free choice of the membres, is exercised. The manifestation of this drive to make the administration omnipotent is the suggestion that University officials may discern whether they are willing or not on she may live. Although the undersigned vigorously defend the right of the individual to be an Independent if he or she chooses, we are equally willing to allow the individual may freely associate with a
Greek society if he or she is invited to do so.
The foregoing paragraphs do not propose to present a complete catalogue of the tools of destruction which our enemies long to utilize. A complete list of these tools is varied and extensive as the warped imaginations of those who oppose us.
A serious question poses itself at this juncture. Who are these "enemies" of whom we speak? Who are these "anti-Greek" whom we deploy? Who are those who drink coffee, go to classes and converse? The answer is, flatly, no. The Independents we know and like are, by and large, level-headed persons who recognize that the Greek is an individual, to be either Greek or Independent. They wish no more to harm the Greeks than we do to harm the Independents. They subscribe to the philodermean doctrine, they find no promise of exhilaration in the mean toll of destructive endeavor.
As much cannot be said for some of the "independent leadership." Many of the leaders are persons, considerable盟友 who have chosen an control of the organs of political expression at KU. The old FACTS party was honey-colored and being using the AIG in the attempt thus far successful, to make it a fellow traveler in their schemes and dreams.
If a time ever existed when Greek unity was of paramount necessity, that time is now. Yet, at this very moment culture came together in an unanticipated sighted leadership into an unnatural and clandestine relationship with the very same people. From this proverbial strange bed of politics has sprung an illegitimate offspring — 'A woman been christened.' "A woman name last," one does not associate with despoilers and emerge undeposied. It is informative, and onminous to, but the very same student Council, this session, Student Council, managed a campaign to associate with the NSA is at the same time a member of an acknowledged leader of the AGI.
What has led the dissident chapters into this unholy alliance with purported (the word is underscored with justification) agitators to attack the answer lies untrapped in the minds of a few, but it is possible, at this time, to give a partial account of their motives. "They are not necessarily neutralness." The organizers of AGI were disturbed by the fact that they had, over the past several years, received their equitable share of political positions and rights.
to allow members of other fraternities and sororites to occupy the positions they were assigned by vested rightz. In the manner of a spoiled child who must play his way over a fierce competence angriness. That crying point meet him. That it was that Greek unity was destroyed.
A second bear bears the label "nobbery." The houses who organized the event were the ones on the right.
wrongly, as the cream of the Greek crop. They had tired of association with those whom they considered their social inferiors; they could not bear the thought of sharing officers with their associates. But they could control a group of non-Greeks; thus the door was opened to Independent participation. It was at this point that the AGI started playing with the for, for, as above reported, the women who conspired with very individuals who offered destruction. Thus it was that the Greek system was endangered.
The third cause bears the label "hypocrisy". Other houses were lured into the AGL, accepting, without evaluation, thetected the elected officials of their leaders. They were told that the former Greek party had been corrupt, foul and insane, and that control of the charge went unanswered for the undersigned were not given an opportunity to speak to the leaders or members of the houses thus approached. It must be noted that a person who contacted these houses was the campaign manager of Pacchacamac during the election at which the alleged conspirators were involved bears the direct responsibility for planning and executing the electoral transgressions. If any man was that the convicted officer killed black and that the Greek system was slandered.
We, the undersigned, were not long in seeing the pattern of things to come. We respected and endangered. We, therefore, resolved to rescue those who would not rescue themselves. In the hope that we could help to restore the framework of the AGL, we petitioned for membership. This we did in perennial domestic form; we dominated the organization not to pervert what we had been led to believe were its ideals. We wished one to follow their mission and used in order that anti-Greeks and their Greek fellow travelers might never carry the day our misconception was broken. The trials of the women were unclearly rectified. A summary of the double-dealing and outright treachery to which we were treated will prove both instructive and painful.
(1) We had been told by responsible AGI officials that the meeting of March 7, 1954 was to be an organizational one, not a meeting come and go, which any house might impractical. The AGI had not, in other words, been formed as of that date. Yet we were asked to leave the room in order that he could respond to the question asked when the AGI constitution had been adopted. The answer was that it had not been. We then asked whether this was an administrative or a business operation, so the presiding officer us that it was a little of both. How right he was! ! He and his cohorts got the organization. The undersigned got the job, bu
(2) We were told to leave the room, and we met a group of independents like-wise petitioned for membership. They came to the present, remain and participate in the discussion.
(3) Each representative of the undersigned was informed that he or she must represent twenty-five in each meeting several dissident members of the undersigned, none of which represented the undersigned, allowed to remain and participate.
(4) Each representative of the undersigned was told that a majority of his or her chapter must vote in favor of the application for AGI membership. We asked for an official sauce for the goose. No sauce for the gander was provided, however. At the same meeting, representatives of the freshman women's dormitories, none of whom had been approved by a major employer, their houses, were allowed to participate.
Not only had certain of the AGI houses precipitated Greek disunity. They now determined to perpetuate it. Although they rejected their own rejections, their own rules were violated, their own "ideals" were tramped into the dust in the process. Selfishness, arrogance and ruthlessness motos. The next step was inevitable AGI leadership decided to bid and bargain for support from those purported leaders. This was a new structure of the Greek system. Thus it is that with the Greek system split down the middle, due to the derelictions of leadership the anti-Greeks were handed their opportunity on a silver plater.
In the knowledge that the above-recited facts are true and that the above-recited perils are imminent, we, the undersigned, do hereby organize a political
3) We pledge the non-interference of Greek council members in matters which directly concern Independents and Independents alone.
2) We advocate the continuation of the Greek system at KU, as it is now required.
4) We dey the principle of the party-line vote by duly elected Greek representatives on any matter which does not affect the future of the Greek system and affirm that we as a society need our candidates will, when elected, exercise their independent judgment.
movement dedicated to the restoration of Greek unity and the preservation of Christian system. We appeal for the support of all Greeks, we gardelless of the technical allegiance of their particular houses. We also solicit the support of those vast numbers of Christians of the malenable right of the individual as a associate with whom he pleases, when he pleases, subject to his prospective associate's reciprocal desire. We will suppleance ourselves with houses as subscribe honesty to the statement of policy which we hereby adopt:
5) We pledge that we will neither reject nor toward any AGI house or individual Greek student that, realizing the folly of perpetuating Greek disunion upon our crusade.
1) We favor the restoration of Greek unity.
6) We urge the prosecutor of the Supreme Court to create an organization of deputies which will insure the honest conduct of campus electors and comment the incumbent prosecutor for his actions toward that end.
The Greek system, as we know it, need not die!! If it is to crumble, it will do so because of the selfishness, snubbery and hypocrisy of certain of its members. It is not for all Greeks, regardless of the technical affiliation of their houses, to rally together to the end that the Greek system shall not be destroyed. This crumbling would deserve and strengthen the system to which we belong and which we cherish.
Benjamin Franklin wrote, "If we do not hang together, we will hang separately." His words are not without significance to those interested in the preservation of the Greek system and the principle of free associations, freely
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