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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1948
The Editorial Page-
Our Neck Again
Theater owners in the past have refused to drop racial segregation practices, maintaining it would lose business. Therefore, we would suggest that an organization be formed for the express purpose of making a survey to determine by factual information whether or not their beliefs are valid. Such a survey would have to be undertaken with a mutual understanding between the theater owners and the group organized for the purpose.
A short time ago, we stuck our neck out by taking a stand on the issue of racial segregation. Since that time, we have published several letters in order to give others a chance to express their disagreement with our stand.
It is our belief that most students object to any form of segregation. For any plan to work against segregation the facts must be brought home to the people of Lawrence not reached by Daily Kansan circulation. We could write editorials for 40 hours a week but until some honest work, door-bell ringing, and talking to people is done, very little would be accomplished. With the size of the goal in mind, everyone must realize that the task is not easy and cannot be solved by blowing off steam in letters to the editor or the editor blowing off steam in an editorial.
In reading letters received on the subject, one rather glaring fact stands out. This fact being that, with perhaps one exception, all letters simply point to our shortcomings in no uncertain terms but fail to offer a constructive plan of action. Many high sounding words and phrases have been used by those disagreeing with us and others simply tell us off. All of which is meaningless unless some practical plan to remedy the racial situation is put forth and carried through.
In the issue of the Summer Session Kansan for July 25, 1947, a news item told of a proposed poll to be taken in Lawrence, through the cooperation of theater owners and groups working for racial quality; such a poll to determine the reaction of theater patrons of ending segregation. We have not been able to learn if such a plan was actually carried out.
It would be well to explain that executives on the Daily Kansan serve only an eight-week term which is not sufficient time to give any program continuity. A program might be started by one staff and the following staff could completely reverse the field. The kind of effort that should be put forth on the campus and in the city of Lawrence must be done by a permanent organization that has the full support of the University administration. Such an organization would also have as its purpose a long range plan for the amicable settlement of the racial question, keeping in mind at all times the best interests of the school community and the community of Lawrence.
There is a challenge, we believe, in our suggestion. Do we have any takers? —M.C.L.
Just as the United States is getting ready to talk turkey, Great Britain wants to argue about whether Eisenhower or Montgomery won the war.
- Letters To The Editor -
A Victory
The Amherst college football team, on a recent Saturday, beat Williams by a score of 13 to 7, but it may be that another sort of victory, won on the Amherst campus the previous day, will be longer remembered.
Until the day preceding the football game, Amherst had a chapter of the national Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. At this time the chapter was suspended by the national executive committee for "unfraternal conduct." This conduct consisted in a decision to go ahead with the initiation of a respected and popular student who happened to be a Negro. The Amherst chapter chose to defy this dictate of intolerance. In taking this position it was in line with the declared policy of the Amherst college trustees, adopted two years ago, and, we hope and believe, with student opinion on the Amherst campus.
The general public can have no concern with college fraternities but it is rightly concerned with the prevalence of the democratic spirit in institutions which receive tax exemptions and other forms of public support. In this episode we see the real meaning of a liberal education. An Amherst degree has always been respected. It will be more respected now.
—New York Times.
An Addition
Dear Editor:
A really worthwhile addition to this campus, it seems to me, would be an exterior bulletin board for the Spooner-Thayer Museum of Art. Such a board could be something like those which churches use to announce their programs to passersby, and, properly, it should be readable from the sidewalk across the street.
Sixteen Entered In Speech Fest
There have been exhibits in the museum which I would have enjoyed greatly if I had only been exposed to a gentle reminder, while passing the building, that the exhibit was going on. Press notices in the Daily Kansan are easily overlooked, and the dates of coming attractions more easily forgotten.
Such a bulletin board, I imagine, would do quite a lot toward encouraging more students to see some of the things the museum has to offer. E.O.T.
Everett. Mass. — (UP)—Everett parents who forget what life was like in their days of school bells and homework now have a better idea of the problems of their children. More than 1,000 of them attended a special three-hour session at Parlin Junior High School and wedged themselves behind small fry desks while teachers explained what goes on in regular classes.
Sixteen persons have signed to take part in the campus problems speech contest to be held next week. Preliminary speeches will be given at 6:45 p.m. today at Green hall.
The contest is sponsored by the department of speech and drama and entries will be accepted until 5:30 p.m.
Subjects will range from "the Union building and its $5 fee" to "the inadequacies of a teaching graduate student."
Parents Become Students
Those who have entered so far are:
Heywood Davis, Carl Fern, Patricia L. Glover and John Land, College freshmen; Donald W. Giffen and Gerald Ogleville, College sophomores; Charles Hoffhaus and Dorothy Hilbert, College juniors; Marilyn Magner, education senior; Douglas Jennings, journalism junior; Evelyn Harris, special student, college and nursing; Theodore Joyce, business senior; Donald Kerle, engineering freshman; Robert Riss and Otis Hill, business juniors.
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Sue A. Sperry, College freshman, was elected president of the Y.W. C.A. freshman cabinet.
Other freshman who were elected to the cabinet are Prisilla Barron, vice-president; Dorothy Hedrick, secretary; Donna Mcosh, treasurer; Marilyn Peck, publicity; Margaret Olson, social; Sus Springer, program; and Arden Angst, projects.
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