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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1950
TODAY'S MAIL
Et Tu . . .
Sir:
In regards to Mr. North's editorial of April 3.
Thank you Mr. North. Your daring expose is typical of most feeble attempts to rationalize the political situation here on the hill. We can now assume that the justification for Pachacamac and its policies is that it is the lesser of two evils.
In other words, the only two opposing factions on the campus are both minorities and for this reason we should accept the one which is in power. Not so hot Mr. North, you'll have to try again.
It is not accident that only a bare fourth of the student population is polled during election. You admit that there is a thing called dirty politics, Mr. North, but you don't clarify.
Maybe you didn't know that there were only 3500 ballots printed last spring with which to record the entire actual student opinion. Maybe you thought it was accident when polls started running out of ballots at 10 a.m. Maybe you think it is funny to see polls located in out-of-the-way, easily congestible areas.
Maybe you didn't wonder why no polls were set up at the Union building to give a large number of students a more convenient location in which to vote. Maybe you think that democracy can exist even if the polls do get blocked just when the largest number of students can be expected to vote. All is fair, eh Mr. North?
Who can say that everything is fine when every election shows us that Pachacamac doesn't really want to register student opinion at all. Now who shall we call self-interested, Mr. North?
Or maybe it would be too much like allowing themselves to be voted out of office if good student government were sponsored.
Let us quit hiding the election behind the name of student democracy and recognize from the first that it is nothing more than just simple "Pach" procedure.
Roger L. Davis Business senior
Editor's Note: The editorial to which Mr. Davis refers was not an attempt to rationalize the political situation which is known throughout the campus. Rather, its purpose was to stimulate some activity on the part of the Independents so as to make the political situation more healthy.
Nothing was mentioned about "dirty politics," except that the words were screamed by the Independents after each election. Mr. Davis' letter merely affirms this statement.
It must be recognized that Pachacamac is a political machine. With little or no opposition, machine politics, whether here or in any city in the country, will become something less than spiritually uplifting.
Pachacamac is not going to disorganize simply because a few students write that it is undemocratic. Could it possibly be that the majority of the students don't want their opinion registered?
Buechel, Ratner Elected To Office In Collegiate YR
William Buechel, College junior; and Cliff Ratner, College sophomore and law; were elected second vice-president and secretary of the state-wide Collegiate Young Republicans recently.
Seventeen members of the K.U. Young Republicans club attended the meeting April 1, in Manhattan.
OUR HARD-WORKING
The Editors Report -
University Players
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Once again, the University players have put on a play worth seeing. Once again, the players have spared no effort in making the production top-notch.
They seem to be indefatigable persons, these thespians. Not only are they superb actors but they can turn you out an eighteenth century toy, draft you up a novel introduction for an ever-entertaining play. Versatile are they.
And when the vacation is over and Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops To Conquer" has been put back on the shelf for another rest, we're willing to bet the University Players will be hard at work on another play. They call themselves players but they look like the hardest-working people we've come across in many a week.
Perhaps indefatigable is too lukewarm a word to describe the energy of the University Playeys. After putting in a full week of shows, they plan to "go on the road" over Easter vacation. While the rest of us are at home catnapping and cracking hard-boiled eggs, they will be putting on shows in eleven towns in Kansas.
K.U. Album
SERVICE TO ALUMNI:
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Sometime this month—we don't know the exact day—the Alumni association will release the long-awaited K.U. album. The songs in the album represent the cream of traditional Hill songs.
There has long been a need for an album such as the association is putting up for sale this month. After four years or more of hearing the songs of K.U., students know the songs by heart. But memory is a transient thing. As years pass, it plays tricks on you.
As students become alumni, then turn into "old Alums," they forget the songs they sang in college. When they return for Homecoming, more often than not, they feel left out of things when they get into a crowd singing K.U. songs and can't remember a single word of the songs they knew by heart only "a few years ago."
Now and nevermore, these "old Alums" need not feel out of things. The K.U. album will take care of that. With the album in his record library, the fuzziest-memoried Alum can refresh his memory of the songs he sang as a student on the Hill.
Every now and again, when he's feeling nostalgic for the days of his youth, the "old Alum" can haul out the album and play the recordings. And if he should want to brag about his Alma Mater, the album will take over and do the job for him—if he should get stuck for something to brag about.
The selections in the album are particularly good. The selections are the efforts of the University band, the Glee club, and A Cappella choir. We don't have space here to tell you about each of the songs. But you can take our word for it. We've heard all of them. They are all top-notch.
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Varsity is derived from the word university.
Riverside, Ga.—(U.P.)—Fishing in the Chattahoochee River, B.E. Freeman hooked a floating box with 20 live chickens in it.
Try This One In The Kaw
NOW IS THE TIME!
for
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Little Man On Campus
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"Your hair smells so lovely tonite, Flossy. I'll bet you just washed it, huh?"
Watkins Hospital Open During Easter Vacation
Watkins Memorial hospital will be open for admittance of cases from 10 a.m. to noon each day during the
Easter vacation. Doctors will, however, be available for emergency cases at all times.
Regular visiting hours from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m., and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., will be observed.
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REGULAR DINNERS
- Fried Chicken
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or
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Curb Service after 4 p.m.
Easter Center Design Varsity Velvet ICE CREAM
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