-Lee Sheppeard-
Is Anvil Being Suppressed Here
by Bibler
The University administration has refused permission to the Socialist Study club to sell Anvil and Student Partisan magazine on the campus.
Administration officials claim that they are refusing permission to sell Anvil in accordance with a ruling in the faculty handbook which was designed to keep peddlers off the campus.
It is important that the American public realize that support of collective economic systems has nothing to do with support of Stalinism.
In the past, this rule has been interpreted as preventing the sale, by students, of publications not sponsored by KU students or student groups. This interpretation does not apply to Anvil, however—in the opinion of this writer, at least.
Anvil, which calls itself "a student anti-war quarterly," is published by organizations from six different schools. These include the New York Student Federation Against War, the Socialist club of Roosevelt college, the Politics club of University of Chicago, Focal Point of Yale University, and the Southern California Youth Federation Against War.
All the organizations sponsoring the magazine are left-wing Liberal. And, even though there is a wide divergence among their exact political stands, all of them are strongly anti-stalinist, and the tone of the magazine would match McCarthy in anti-Stalinist intensity.
nothing to do with support The Socialist Study club has not fought the administration's ruling, but will sell the magazine off-campus instead.
The sixth organization sponsoring Anvil is KU's Socialist Study club, which would seem to mean that the University's regulation does not apply. In other words, there seems to be something fishy here.
It is important that such a viewpoint should be given publicity, important even to those of us who strongly oppose it, because of the widespread confusion in America over the political and economic significance of Communism.
Perhaps the administration was influenced by Anvil's Socialist leanings in its decision to ban campus sales, perhaps it was not. But it still looks as if someone in Strong hall has been doing some sloppy thinking.
A tradition is something that happens by accident more than once. If it happens more than twice it's an old tradition.
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To the Kansan:
May I call attention to a problem which seems to me to be of serious importance to the University. I refer to the undersize overalls that some of our more unconventional Bohemians are wearing on the campus.
I am not criticizing the overalls "per se," of course, for overalls show a democratic spirit, an indifference to external and superficial trappings and a deep interest in scholarly and spiritual values; I object to the size of the overalls—uniformly much too small and too tight. They reveal too much as to the generally poor architectural design of these young men.
We might overlook the fact that most of men are decidedly spindle-legged, not built substantially like the football players, perhaps because the accelerator does not develop the leg muscles as well as walking once did; but is there any reason why these fellows should make an obvious display of their spider legs?
Even if the legs were straight, it would be an unnecessary revelation, but most of the spindles are not even decorously straight. Until recently I never realized how many bow-legged men there are in the University, perhaps the result of rickets, or of the course in equitation.
As a matter of fact, most of these spindle legs are bent two ways at the knees, outward and forward—bow-legged and buck-kneed. The latter infirmity arises, no doubt, from the fact that the tight pants make it impossible to straighten the legs entirely. The possessor does have to bend his knees in sitting down, and apparently is not able or does not dare to straighten them again.
One unfortunate result of this is that, unable either to straighten his legs or bend them much in walking, he slides his feet along, shufflingly, like a Communist on his way to a McCarthy inquisition. Another result of the tightness of his pants is that his feet look much too large, and often indeed are too large—swollen from interference with the
circulation in his legs.
Furthermore, a buck-knee man is usually stooped, from a natural effort to complete the "S" figure and maintain a workable center of gravity and stable equilibrium. Tuberculosis naturally attacks such men.
Finally, I notice that these spindle-legged, bow-legged, buck-kneed, stoop-shouldered devotees of unconventionality habitually wear a look of anxiety. This is not because they haven't their lessons, or are under indictment by the All-Student council; it is because they are always wondering when a sudden vigorous movement may tear their skimpy swaddling from prow to stern, from belt to shoe tops.
Surely something ought to be done about this. What is the All-Student council for? Why does the dean of men ignore this problem? Roomier overalls would cost no more. Man is made in the image of God (can that really be true?) and he should not put his Maker and Model in an unfavorable light; just as I should think he would not want to betray his structural inadequacies to the ladies, and destroy their illusions as to the "big strong mans."
Awaken, slaves of KU! You have only your pants to lose!
Of course, the ladies wear overalls too, and their overalls seem tight and ill-adjusted, revealing—but that is outside the particular field of my professional competence.
Yours for more abundant overalls, for more efficient camouflage, for the fuller life, for life and legs untrammeled and unrestrained.
Men Invade Girls' Dorms
John Ise
Students broke into women's dormitories and set off magnesium bombs as a Halloween prank at Stanford university.
Students Get A-Bomb Advice
The student newspaper at the College of the Pacific has been printing directions for students in case of atomic attack.
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Friday, Nov. 9, 1951
Allow Czech Spy To Leave Country
Washington—(U.P.)-Senate investigators accused the state and justice departments today of giving a Czech spy a clear field to learn about America's atomic program even though U.S. intelligence agents had warned against him.
The spy was identified by Chairman Pat McCarran (D-Nev.), of the Senate Internal Security committee and Sen. Herbert R. O'Connor (D-Md.) as Col. Otto Biheiler, former military and air attack at the Czech embassy here. Biheiler now is in Czechoslovakia.
Both departments refused immediate comment on the charges, but the state department said it hoped to issue a statement later today.
Cairo, Egypt—(U.P.)The government-controlled Cairo radio broadcast today an appeal by a Moslem priest for a holy war against the British in the Suez canal zone.
Moslem Asks For Holy War
The plea was made by Sheik Mohamed Abu Shedida, the Imam of Cairo's Al Hussein Mosque, as he led noon prayers on this Moslem sabbath. The prayers were broadcast throughout Egypt. He urged Moslems to launch a holy war against "the aggressive invaders" and told them not to fear the "enemy's ruthlessness."
New York—(U.R.)—Some 5,000 longshoremen began tackling mountains of cargoes piled on pies as rebel stevedores voted on a back-to-work agreement which ended the port's longest and costliest strike completely today.
Agreement to end the 25-day wildcat stoppage was announced shortly before 2 a.m. after an hours-long meeting between strike leaders and the state fact-finding board. The unexpected break in the strike appeared to be a truce rather than a firm settlement of the bitter intra-union dispute.
American delegate Philip Jessup issued the challenge in outright condemnation of the Soviet proposal to hold a disarmament conference on UN and non-UN members by next June. The United States, Jessup said, wants to start disarmament talks right now, right here in the world organization—not next June outside the UN.
Paris—(U.P.)—The United States challenged Russia today to begin disarmament talks at once within the United Nations.
Clear Way For Price Raises
Washington—(U.P) —The government's price dams were opened today for a flood of requests for higher ceiling prices from about a fourth of the nation's manufacturers.
Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle said the requests would lead to high authorized prices for "a great many" manufacturers. DiSalle last night cleared the way for the price increases by issuing orders permitting some 70,000 manufacturers to compute new ceiling prices on items ranging from furniture to salad dressings.
End New York Dock Strike
Nature Puts On Meteor Show
At the same time Dr. Lincoln La Paz expressed the opinion that a "fireball" seen North of Los Angeles last night was "an extremely bright shooting star." However, he said that the object might have been part of a new astronomical oddity—a resumption in activity of the Bielid stream meteor radiant for the first time since 1914.
Albuquerque, N.M. — U.P.P. The head of New Mexico university's Institute of Meteoritics today hailed a recent burst of flaming objects in Southwestern skies as "without parallel in the whole of recorded history."
U.S. Asks Disarm Talk "Now!"
WarrenReply Expected Today
Sacramento—(U.P.)—Gov. Earl Warren is expected to reply today to an invitation from 17 influential California Republican leaders to seek the presidential nomination in 1952.
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The Governor had "no comment whatsoever' last night when the letter was made public, but he was scheduled to hold a news conference at noon today.