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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1949
The Editorial Page-
Deplorable Sportsmanship
Don't look now, basketball fans, but your cannibalism is showing again—or did you ever hide it after last year? Now cannibals, according to Webster, are animals that devour their own kind, and while you "idiotic few" at the Missouri game Tuesday night didn't exactly devour one of the Kansas players, you did your best to cut his throat.
You got your first touch of this disease, that usually is peculiar to uncivilized territories, last year. There was a fellow on the basketball team who had a couple of bad nights and you never let him forget it, even when he made up for it in other games. From all indications the disease is a chronic one because you picked up Tuesday night where you left off last season.
Basketball is like any sport. Nothing is constant. A fellow has good nights and then there are nights when he can't do a thing right. When that happens it's bad enough to have the opposition on his back, let alone the HOME crowd. Spectators, by their actions, can hurt a lot of players and by the same token they can help them by being reasonably civil. The player under consideration certainly got no help from you in the Missouri game. In fact, some few of you acted like "half-baked punks" towards the whole team.
Now it so happens there is a gentleman on the campus who knows as much about basketball (if not more) than anyone in the country and by strange coincidence he's coaching the team. Stranger still, we wouldn't be a bit surprised if he were a better judge than you of who should and who shouldn't be playing ball for K.U. Why not let him do the deciding? K.U. did win Tuesday, or did you notice?
There are two schools in the quite immediate area that are "outstanding" for their lack of spectator sportsmanship and, sorry to say, Kansas is one of them. How long do you want that attitude to remain or do you care?
Wednesday after the game, a Lawrence barber put the whole situation quite aptly when he said:
"You know, I'm kinda new around here but I've heard that the students upon the Hill don't cause as much trouble here in town as you'd suspect they would. Now I know why. They're too darn busy gnawing on each other to bother us."
Tuesday night isn't the first time this year that such a display of sheer rudeness has popped up. It appeared several times during the football season but then at least you were after the opposing players—if that's any improvement.
That barber didn't have a college degree—in fact he'd never been to college, but he was smarter than a lot of persons who have been. Bill Meyer
It's amazing how welcome and how much fun the first snow of winter can be. It's even more amazing to note the change of opinion after a few struggles up and down Mt. Oread.
As the Midwest digs out after its fourth deep freeze of the season, some are still foolish enough to wonder why so many persons turn out for Nebraska and Kansas picnics—in California.
Letters To The Editor
Trivia
It has been so long since we've had a good nation-wide squabble over trivia, 'perhaps the idea of junking the old White House for a new one should be pushed. Architects now report that something really swanky in the way of an executive mansion could be built for a great deal less than the estimated $1,250,000 the present repair job is finally going to cost.
Even after it is finished, some say, what have you got? A second
hand house. Considering that 40 years is a pretty good life span for an average dwelling, the White House has already done more than three times its stint.
Here is an opportunity for some inspiring congressional oratory, the historians versus the modernists. Change is the mark of progress; touch not a hair of that decrepit old dome—that sort of stuff. And it might save money—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Army Group Will Show Combat Film
Scabbard and Blade, honorary military science society, will show the documentary film, "True Glory" at their next professional meeting Feb. 15. The movie was made under combat scenes and shows actual campaign action of the allied troops in defeating the German war machine. The photographer was later killed filming a marine invasion.
The public is invited to see the picture.
New officers were installed at the business meeting of Scabbard and Blade Wednesday. They are: C. Keith Hinsaw, president; Edward Klewer, vice-president; William Miller, treasurer; and Ralph Henley, secretary.
Faculty Adds Five Paintings To Show
Two more artists have had paintings entered in the faculty art show at Spooner-Thayer Art museum, Dr. John Maxon, museum director, said. The exhibit will last until Thursday, Jan. 27.
Arvid Jacobson, associate professor of design, has two water colors in the exhibit. They are "Feeding Time" and "Shore Life." Robert N. Sudlow, instructor in painting, has two oil paintings, "Lonely Landscape" and "Mayetta." He also has an unnamed water color in the display.
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