KANSAN COMMENT Saturday Boos Could Backfire Now that KU football fans have had a chance to judge this year's team, maybe they should consider the performance of the crowd at Saturday's game. Granted, it was hard to get psyched for a game against Washington State, which is neither an historic rival nor a national powerhouse. But the student section seemed steeped in a smugness typical of a tennis match, not a football game. Have we become so sophisticated that we find it corny to raise a little hell in the stands? Ironically, the multitude of yell leaders appeared to be part of the problem. Those ten men, using woefully trite slogans and gimmicks to inspire the crowd, seemed to compound the ho-hum attitude. Perhaps some new, spicier cheers would help. If we want the defensive unit to kick some tails, then let's be candid and say so. The yell leaders try hard and are serious about their task, yet their material makes them a pitiful lot out on that track. But the students' poorest performance was at halftime, when Athletic Director Wade Stinson presented the new synthetic turf to Chancellor Chalmers and Governor Docking. The chancellor received a well-deserved, prolonged ovation from the student section, and then faced massive embarrassment when some students just as heartily booed the governor. Whether the governor should be booed is not the question. After the students showed their support and affection for the chancellor, they turned and, in effect, showed Chalmers no consideration at all. Chalmers has had enough problems with the Kansas political heirarchy, and if the students really like the chancellor, they should keep his best interests in mind at all times. This was not the case Saturday. —Ted Iliff LETTERS Questioning the BSU Request To the editor: In view of the recent approval of a activity fee allocations, especially the seemingly overabundant allotment to the Black Student Union and Afro House, we and a group of our fellow students would like to OTHER CAMPUSES Thank You, Mr. Hayakawa From the Daily Iowan By CLARK A. ROBERTS University of Iowa ask the following questions: Samuel Hayakawa was an intellectual inspiration to many people I know. The man who introduced the concept of semantics as applicable to the breakdown of language stereotypes, political, social, and technical, to the academic world and the American reading public at large earned a reputation as lasting as McLuhan's probably will be. And deservedly so; this man of Japanese ancestry, born and educated in British Manitoba, who never learned to read or write Japanese, found at an early age that people would expect his ideas and opinions to be reflective of "the oriental mind." Not "an" oriental mind, but "the" oriental mind. His response to this was two books on semantics which are still widely read today, giving a common sense basis for the overcoming of the language barriers resulting from supposedly untranslatable, opposing definitions of English words and phrases by a deep inquiry into the deceptive and often conflicting meanings given the same words and phrases of the English and other languages. Inquiry into the relationship of language and psychology followed quite naturally. The legacy of Hayakawa's books on semantics is the flexibility of political and social rhetoric which is so much a part of the liberal movements of the past two decades, such as the reaction to Senator Joseph McCarthy's political witchhunts of the 50s and the ensuing dialogue between national governments and treaty blocs which brought about an end to the cold war and resulted in international agreements such as the nuclear test ban and non-proliferation treaties. His books have given an undeterminable amount of aid and conceptual direction to those who have formulated the policy rhetoric of the civil rights and peace movements and now, even more obviously, in all causes related to ecological concern. Yet this is the same man who now suggests that the cure for campus unrest is two years of mandatory service of some regimented form for all young Americans, supposedly sometime between the ages of 15 and 20. I don't know if this puts him in the same category of the morons who think equal rights for women means drafting them. Thank you, Samuel. You just stuck out your tongue at all the fine young people in this nation who took the initiative, mostly on their own, to equate your ideas of language meanings with human values and have been fighting ever since. The trouble with campus unrest springs from decentralized thinking. Too many diversified groups and individuals are too adamant about saving this planet they live on so that they and all following generations can have a good, ambitious, fulfilled life that means for them, as individual men and women, world without end, world without individual aesthetic and physical stagnation. (1) What is the purpose and need of the Afro House and BSU when there is already a Student Senate and a student union? Every self-stereotyped fascist political system on the planet, whether Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Communist China or Castro's Cuba has used some program of regimentation to get young people socially and politically adaptable to the party line. For life. The safest way to ensure a solid status quo acceptable to any political dictatorship is a mandatory ideal of uniformed service forced on young adults so that they know what degree of change is considered safe within their lifetimes to initiate. Centralize, regiment, and uniform this individual diversity, and there will be no more trouble and everyone can lose equally, according to their appointed place in society, while it lasts. While the physical environment it lives in lasts. (2) What activities and programs will the BSU instigate with its $18,950 allocation that will benefit the university as a whole? (3) In view of the apparent availability of student activity fees, why was the Engineering School given a mere token $750 for its exposition? (4) Why must non-black students contribute to two student unions and receive benefits from only one, although black students receive benefits from both? (5) Why must non-black students contribute to two student papers and receive only one without additional charge, although black students receive both without additional charge? (6) Why must such an obviously political game be played with our money? Alan Moser, Shawnee Mission senior Carl Munger, Larned sophomore - * * To the editor: In the issue of the Kansan dated Thursday, Sept. 3, an article entitled "Program to Offer Sex Enlightment" contains one error of terminology that may lead to further student confusion. In the second column the statement is made that the hospital could aid the program from the instruction standpoint only and that it was not equipped to give clinical examinations. Inasmuch as the prime purpose of the hospital is the administration of clinical examinations, this is confusing. We propose to continue clinical examinations for as large a number of patients as possible. Over 600 cases received pap smear examinations last year alone. It would be wise to correct this in order that the proper persons will seek aid when needed. Raymond A. Schwegler, M.D. Director, Student Health Service Student Health Service THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Kansan Telephone Numbers Newsroom—UN 4-4810 Business Office—UN4-4358 Published at the University of Kansas daily during the academic year except holidays and examination periods. Mail subscription: 86 a semester, $10 a year. Second class postage paid at Lawrence, Kan. 66044, goods, services and employment advertised offered to all students without regard to color, creed or national origin. 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