4 Wednesday, November 11, 1970 University Daily Kansas KANSAN comment Dorms. Greeks Losing Ground Among other changes at universities that attract attention is the slow but noticeable evolution in students' housing preferences. The trend is toward apartments and their relative independence, privacy and comfort. The dormitories and Greek houses are beginning to suffer. In the years ahead they will increasingly feel the pressure of competition offered by the spreading apartment complexes. The residence halls suffer in comparison to apartments. The hospital-like corridors and small cubicle-like rooms are abbreviated by many students, who are also likely to be less than enthusiastic about the quality of food served in these high-rise anthills. The atmosphere does not project an intimate, bumelike effect. KU's residence halls are not filled and the number of men going through fraternity rush this year has dropped sharply. The Greek system at KU was formerly a very vigorous arm of the University in terms of prestige and power. Politics and social affairs were controlled by the fraternities and sororites. This is no longer so, and in view of radical changes in Greek systems in colleges on both coasts, KU's system must change if it is to continue to provide an attractive alternative to increasingly attractive apartment living. The advantages of small group living offered by the Greek houses are ones that will never be outmoved. If anything, they will assume greater significance and will be more greatly desired as KU becomes an institution lacking personalization and individual emphasis because of its size. But if these assets of the Greek system are to survive and compete with apartments, there must be recognition of the need for progressive, immediate changes. Restrictive forms of pledgeship have to be abandoned; religious and racial bias have to be buried forever; time demanded of individual members must be adjusted; the blackballing of prospective members has to be closely examined; and more autonomy must be granted to individual houses by the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic. Pollution disasters of the magnitude of the recent on leak off the Isle of Wight or the similar incidents off the coast of Southern California have fortunately been rare in Kansas—or so it would seem. The student's fight against those who would plunder the environment, then, is best fought on his own ground. In spite of the near-morning state of the Greek system on both coasts, the advantages of the smaller group living offered by the Greeks makes the system worth saving if the need for immediate change can be recognized. These examples magnify the problem and say something about the action apropos in dealing with these blights. It is always best to approach a problem from the stance that offers the soundest base for action. Pollution Fight: on the Homefront In fact, Kansas has had its share of raping of the ecosystem lately—witness the massive fish kills caused by runoff from many of the state's feedlots, or—closer to home—the despoliation of the air in the Kaw valley from several of the plants on the periphery of Lawrence, or even the present city handill controversy. There are measures that could be taken on this campus, however mundane and minuscule they may seem, that would be a very real step toward a solution. To name a few: - LIMITING or eliminating traffic on university streets. —PROHIBITING all caps and non-returnable bottles on campus. There is a definite movement away from the organized living group. Perhaps KU will eventually be forced to modify the big dorms into apartment-like complexes like those on campuses of the University of California. —Bob Womack -INSTALLING anti-smog devices on all university vehicles. - PLACING receptacles on campus for deposit or paper and recycling those wastes. More and more students are able to afford a better way of life than that offered by the dorms. As the movement toward apartments continues, the organized living groups—both residence halls and Greek houses—must adapt, modify and change in accordance with student preference to preserve the assets they offer. Letters policy Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 350 words. All letters are sub-created by editing and condensation, according to the editor's judgment. Students must provide their name, year in school and home town, faculty and staff must provide their phone number, and must provide their name and address. —BOYCOTTING by the University of companies that are known to be the most blunt polluters. These suggestions are admittedly weak—but they are more than we have now and the time for suggestions is running out. Tom Slaughter Bad Karma A Locked seep 105 Electric kale to authors Joes Klanes and another Genius for their book, "Armenia Earliest Lives," through which they are trying to convince a salient New Jersey woman that she is in reality the famed aviator. Can't people be die on to die in reality? KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Karura Telephone Numbers Newsroom - UN-13/10 Business Office - UN-13/10 Published at the University of Kuala Lumpur during the academic year, buildings and examination periods. Mail information@uak.edu.my $100 per student for admission to a program offered by the university. 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Cox Richard Simonson Joshua Smith Joshua Smith Joshua Smith Member Associated Collegiate Press Griff & the Unicorn REPRESENTATIVE FOR NATIONAL ADVOCATING BY National Educational Advertising Services IN ASSOCIATION WITH READER'S DIGESTIVE SERVICES, INC. 360 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. W. 1007 By Sokoloff Perma-prest Mentalities "Copyright 1990 University Daily Kansas" By DAVID PERKINS Kansan Writer The other day a triumph of freaks liberated the David Frost show in London. Front excaimed, in an accent that passed for thought," I turned out as the most powerful numeral ever for law and order." Frost is so dull (you have the feeling that every word out of his mouth is packing a few thousand of his brain cells) that he only believes these froaks are the real criminals in his society. Certainly it is understood in this country that when one advocates law and order, one isn't overwriting the arrest of anyone. When Nixon so mysteriously held Malcolm McGinnis to "the tools" (well, they are friends) to clean up crime, everyone knew he mount present company excluded. With all the day-and-night, (time-and-sunday) fight against organized crime, no one expects the arrest of any General Motors board chairman. We will know the deal; commit one pair of men; commit 50,000 and you get four "bars of Hall to the Chief." We naturally expect Nikon (and his bag-eyed mirror image, Edmund Muskie) to espouse this conception of crime. The killer will always vote for himself. But it is surprising to find so many civilians voting for him too. This generation might be older adults mount the first slave revolt ever in favor of the masters. I'm sure all those people interviewed by Gallup who expressed themselves so overconfident, didn't give the slightest thought to General Motors, Can Edison or the thousand of other industries that daily dump mercury and other toxic chemicals into our air and water. Their minds simply aren't programmed to think of that as "crime." They don't see some greasy freak smoking dome, or some black raping their daughter-in-the-fashion their own minds lovingly invent. Crime thrives when they throw rocks. It would never occur to them on their own that 99 per cent of the crime in the streets is on four wheels. I have a friend who disagrees with my contention that this monumental inebibility is natural. He contends that years of breathing poison air, drinking water and eating America's packaged foods has so distorted people's systems that they can't make the simplest judgments. This is evidenced not only by the mass of people alone but by the leaders of industry who spend much more time and effort denying the evidence of their rot than it takes to clean it up. He obtained all the necessary permits and licenses, moved onto campus and opened for business. He opened, just in the midst of a class break (their peak business time), the campus authorities moved in and shut it down after the first meeting that same day. The two were told to go see the chancellor. They were followed into Strong Hall by a spontaneous entourage of students who waited a half hour while a vice-chancellor returned from lunch. The vice chancellor referred them to the events committee meeting. At the next events committee meeting, they were granted a two-week stay of the ejection order while the committee opened to let them stay indefinitely. Like Nixon, their minds simply haven't been able to process that bit of data that shows that a woman was poisoning the stogues who扑 out every night, but themselves also drink the water. They also eat the food. And because most or they live on the live Estrontium (I believe most large corporations are still headquartered there), the chances are that they're going to die the rest of us. That air inwers very deeply, and those have killed whites as well as blacks, rich as well as poor. LETTERS During the next two weeks, a great number of students and faculty daily took advantage of the opportunity to participate in Kansas Union) and the high And back home in dry Kansas, Vern Miller says he's coming down on Lawrence with both feet. Far out, the newsman who inroads to the town hardly keep from laughing, Miller's such a card. But when he brings in his riot (with his squint), and gets a few people there to watch, he will be up here on remote, clucking his tongue and inquiring soulfully of his radiation-soked audience; why are students so scared of the City journalists are black belt matters of the thought-cliche. But it is curious that members of the white middle class or anyone else supports repressive police measures. They assume the police are there and won't take after them. But the seasn't can't discriminate. Everybody gets clubbed. everybody gets shot. As we all know, everybody gets pushed through the plate glass window of the Hilton. To the Editor: Ban on Food Sale: Why? Early in September two old friends of mine, Tom and Mary Turnillah, packed all their belongings into a van they had converted into a rubble borne and from Michigan, bound for Kansas. turnbull, not wanting to engulf himself in some inane eight-hour-a-day job, started a small fix-it shop that met with moderate success but left the couple with at least one broken arm. Turbillum is a registered nurse, she hasn't sought a job because she is pregnant. The baby is due in early December. In need of a more stable in-home provider, the situation and found that campus students were in need of a less expensive source of food than present facilities. Seeing also that his van, equipped with a complete kitchen, was damaged, he decided that he could provide such a service, so he did. When they arrived here they searched in vain for a place to pack their home, in which they had planned to live. In frustration they went apartment hunting. After a tryking week of closed doors and packed furniture, one bedroom apartment for the absurd price $180 a month. It is absurd to think you are going to beat that imbecility with a gun, even in defense of your "liberties." Our only hope, and one reason we have so many resources we have to wring the chemicals out of their perma-prest minds, to get crime out of that slot labelled "marijuana," and into the slot labelled Miller comes down with both feet. it won't be at 12th and Oread, it will be at the Co-ap. 'Do you get the feeling that voters aren't as gullible as they used to be?' quality (agreed upon by all) of the food from the truck, called EJ Canteen. Tom needed to earn only $10 a day above his overhead to make a living. Each day he bought enough supplies to do just that and when he sold out they were gone. The home, not desiring any more work than he needed or any more money than he could use. At the end of the two weeks at a second events committee meeting (after another two hour of business) the assistant was vending permit would not be renewed because, if it were, other businesses could move onto the same space. But soon soon be a sprawling marketplace. An extraordinarily weak reason, especially after all these years of work on the company, is because that very committee controls the influx of such business. It alone can determine what is necessary for the University, and when that need has been filled it can simply say "go ahead." I am not obvious. But the paranoia of a handful of authorities has not only robbed the university of this needed service, it has as a consequence taken away the students. Oh yes, I forgot to tell you, the Turbullaria stayed here because they liked the University and planned to attend as soon as they established residence. But with winter and a baby coming on their livelihood removed arbitrity, why should they stay? But more to the point, why should we tolerate this breach of authority? Time and time again this kind of arbitrary use of power has lead to the suffering of the people. I say it is time for the university to practice what it preaches use of reason. And it is past time for the many who have suffered at the University's hands to take the plunge to a flagrant breach of authority are not repeated. And meanwhile the Vietnam slaughter continues, the pollution plant continues, the cancer continues, the oppression of minorities continues, the turnbells are suffering at the hand of the mentality that makes it all possible continues to flourish. Jim Swindler, Pratt Sophomore The Winner