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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Jan. 19. 1954
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"It's a material quite popular with the faculty, sir—A 'tweed' is SUPOSED to look baggy."
One Woman's Opinion
It would seem that the bevy or charges hurled fore and aft about the ASC's purported usurpation of the Rock Chalk Revue would bear some investigation, now that most of the anger has cleared away.
Does the bill place the control of the show in the hands of the council? The answer would seem to be no. Will the appointment of the show's manager be political? Again, investigation reveals a negative answer.
To this observer, who certainly feels sympathy for the YMCA but who can also see where the ASC has jurisdiction in the matter, that abovementioned investigation has been revealing.
Under ASC bill 16—which removed profits from the Y-$500 has been set up as a reserve fund, to guarantee that the Rock Chalk production manager will at all times have money for advertising, promotion, tickets, programs, etc. There has never been assurance for this stipend in the past.
But the production manager will not be picked by the Y as in the past. There would seem to be no artificial usurpation at this stage of the bill.
The legislation goes on to provide for 48 per cent of the profits to be distributed among the eight organized houses participating. Judging from past years, that would mean approximately penses of entering the show, and perhaps to encourage more groups to enter better skits.
But who choses the houses which participate? Would that be subject to political corruption, at all? Again nay, for the skits will be chosen as they have always been in the past—by the department of speech and drama at the University of Nebraska.
The only change is that the ASC gets the percentage of profit not going to the participants, uses that part to set up the reserve fund for next year's Y-chosen Rock Chalk manager, and that the YMCA consequently doesn't have enough money to support a $2,000-a-year secretary.
While the action may or may not be an improvement, and while it may or may not be a crime, a cool look at the whole business shows it doesn't merit many of the charges leveled against it.
—Letty Lemon
Letters
Where would Pachacamac have the ASC strike next? Will it be seizing (or as the Kansan put it—taking control of) the profits made by the Jay James in selling mums at Homecoming? Will it be seizing the profits made by Mortar Board in selling giant lollipops before games?
Is it expecting too much to expect consistency from ASC members?
Why should the ASC seize the Rock Chalk Revue from the YMCA? Only one argument was ever advanced in my hearing--that the ASC could better redistribute profits of the Revue. For this alleged reason the ASC took what was probably the most tyrannical step in its history.
Certain Pachacamac members of the Senate accused those of us who opposed the bill of waving red earrings in calling attention to the similarity between this action and the communism. These same members contended on the budget of the YMCA in making an attack on the YMCA.
I challenge the ethical, if not the legal, right of the ASC to sit as judge and jury over the budget of an organization which receives and requests no ASC appropriation.
I agree with the Pachacamac Senate members on one point—it was politically expedient for them to promote this seizure bill. After in they pointed out clearly that the number of organized houses participating in the Revue exceeds the voting strength of those in the YMCA.
Will Pachacamac next desire the ASC to investigate the budget of every organized house on the "hill?" These exceed $4,000. also.
Again I ask: Is it expecting too many expect consistency from ASC member?
I'd like to ask two direct questions of the Kansan:
1) Why were no arguments of
BOOKS: 'Battle Cry' Combines The Best of the Rest
ATTLE CRY. By Leon Uris. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1953. 505 pages.
An antidote to the bitterness of "The Young Lions," the savagery of "The Naked and the Dead," the caricatured stereotypes of "The E Caine Mutiny," and the rankness of "From Here to Eternity" has arrived. It is Leon Uris' very fine novel, "Battle Cry," which appeared last summer. This reader holds that "Battle Cry" is one of the best.
It should be pointed out early that there is no intention of asserting that the aforementioned books are bad. They're generally better than "Battle Cry." But maybe the reason they're better is that they seem a little more professional.
"Battle Cry" is a story of the Marine Corps, written by a Marine who saw action on Guadalcanal and Tarawa. The book goes beyond the author's experience, for its roaring climax is the invasion of Saipan. It's full of a love for the Marines that's far more realistic than Prewitt's mutterings about being a 30-year man in "From Here to Eternity."
"Battle Cry" combines the best of them, and has some of the worst, too. There are bedroom-brothel scenes to rank with "From Here to Eternity." There is foul language to compare with "The Naked and the Dead." Certain characters embody the overdone fatalism of "The Young Lions." And one or two characters are as unbelievable, at times, as was Captain Queeq "The Caine Mutiny"-again at times.
The central character is an old-timer named Mac. At least he tells the story—part of the time. And
that's where one of the great weaknesses of "Battle Cry" occurs. For there is confusion as to who is telling the story. It obviously can't be the all-seeing eye of Mac—though at times he does appear to be more a symbol and less a man.
There is a splendid set of portraits of the Marines involved in the action. First there is Danny Forrester, who leaves high school and enlists in the Marine Corps right after Pearl Harbor. His bittersweet love affair with the girl back home and a temporary "relationship" with a Navy wife on the loose in San Diego are effectively described.
There is Andy Hookans from the state of Washington, a confirmed woman-hater who finds himself married to a lovely New Zealander. There is Marion Hodgkiss from Kansas, who won't drink and won't smoke and reads great books and listens to classical music and is respected by every man in the regiment.
Above all there stands the figure of Col. Huxley, obsessed by a drive to make the Sixth Marines the best and toughest in the Pacific. Sent in to Guadalcanal and Tarawa in mopping-up operations, and sitting out too much of the war on New Zealand, Huxley finally gets his boys an action that hadn't been planned for them, and they go onto Saipan—fighting, screaming, cursing, getting themselves wiped out and establishing one more great mark for the famous "Sixth." —RD
Russia can expect war with the United States should she make a "decisive" effort to dominate Japan, a leading observer of Russian policies and life predicted, in his book.
Crisis in the Kremlin (Doubleday)
The author. Maurice Hindus, said,
"America now finds herself in a position where she will as firmly oppose encroachment on Japan as she would on Alaska, Hawaii, or California."
Hindus, born in Russia and educated in the United States, has been a serious interpreter of Russia for many years. He has also written several successful novels, and has made many visits to Russia, including the war years.
In his book Hindus outlined a series of blunders by the Kremlin which, he said, forced the West to rearm itself through its many defense and economic paets. The Korean war was one of the blunders which, from the Moscow point of view, was an accumulation of setbacks and dangers.
Instead of improving, Russia's position in the Far East has worsened, Hindus asserted, "and not only because of the passing of South Korea and Formosa into the American political sphere and the American perimeter of defense."
"Instead of driving America off the mainland of Asia, the war has made it impossible for America to abandon its position there," Hindus said.
"The last thing the Kremlin desired was exclusion from the peace treaty with Japan. .subsequently implemented by the Japanese security accord, the treaty, together with the mutual defense pacts which America had previously concluded with Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines, makes inevitable the gradual but substantial remilitarization of Japan. ."
FACTS Senate members published in the article on the ASC meeting appearing in the Kansan for January 6, 1954?
2) When the vote of the Senate was taken by roll call for recording in the minutes, why did not the Kansan publish the votes of the individual members of the Senate on this bill, instead of only the totals?
Bob Pope, member ASC Senate
(Eds note: The issue in question was not between Pach and FACTS, but between the ASC and the YMCA. Therefore, arguments which had bearing on the story were not inter-party wranglings, but the ASC-YMCA debate. These arguments were only seconded by Mr. Pope, Pat Reynolds, graduate, and pats.
Also, if the divisions were so neatly cleaved along party lines as reader Pope suggests, why would it be necessary to print roll call vote? If Mr. Pope just wants his name in the paper, we can so instruct our reporters.)
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Cooper's Future Turns Bleak Despite Good Senate Record
Cooper is a Republican senator from Kentucky. He has served in that position two times, counting his present term. However, his chances of re-election may be slim if former Vice President Alben Barkley should decide to run against him in the coming election.
Cooper was born at Somerset, Ky., in 1901. He was graduated from the public schools in Somerset, Centre college, Yale, and Harvard Law school.
In Kentucky he has served in the Kentucky lower house, as a county judge, as a circuit judge, and finally as a senator.
One of the greatest supporters of the United Nations, of internationalism, and any plan that will help the U.S. take its place as a nation seeking peace, is John Sherman Cooper.
After serving in World War II he worked in Munich to help reorganize the German judicial system. He was discharged a captain in 1946.
He was a U.S. delegate to the fourth session of the UN General assembly in 1949. In 1950 he was an adviser to the fifth General assembly.
He was also adviser to the secretary of state at London and Brussels meetings for the council of Paris for the Atlantic treaty organization in 1950.
Cooper can truly be called a liberal. His first congressional voting placed him in the Morse-Aiken-Tobey-Langer liberal wing of the Republican party. He was in direct opposition to the conservative wing
of the party led by the late Sen. Robert Taft.
At a time when there was almost panic to cut taxes he voted against any cuts saying, "There will be no final peace, there will be no restoration of the world's economy until we exercise the full leadership we have assumed."
Cooper voted for Greek-Turkish aid; for emergency relief for France, Italy, and Austria; for the Marshall plan; for the admission of displaced persons; for the Taft-Harley bill; for federal aid to education (but not for church schools), and for confirming David Lilienthal to the Atomic Energy commission.
In 1948 he lost to Virgil Chapman for his seat in the Senate despite the support of the Republican party. When he lost, most of the nation's political thinkers expressed regn
Although Cooper has aged considerably in the past few years he still is one of the most distinguished senators. With his graying, wavy hair and his hesitant manner of speaking he is able to make people like him immediately and make them want to back his program.
However, the odds seem too great in the next election and Cooper will very likely return to work in the Washington law firm he has served for several years. -Ken Coy.
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