AGE EIGHT
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1947
the Editorial Page
Let's Not Mar The Record
There have been rumors lately of secret agitation for the same old tunt tried several times in the past—a walkout Monday.
The drum heaters for such a movement seem to think that the University has legalized a movable holiday. That is not true. Neither administration nor students have ever sanctioned a movable holiday.
This year the University has wise- $ ^{ \circ} $
This year the University has gone the agitators one better by authorizing a student-planned, winor-lose team recognition day. Complete with shortened classes, parades, free entertainment, presentation of the team, and free dances, it offers students more than they can ever expect from a walkout.
By following the student plan, you can have your cake and eat it, too. You can keep up with classes and still celebrate the team's present victory string.
Anyone participating in a walkout would only mar a well-planned program in honor of the team.
Homecoming
(Especially fitting for Homecoming is this nostalgic letter received recently from Dr. J. F. Wiedemann, a German who attended the University as an exchange student in 1930-31.)
British Zone, Germany Dear Friends.
The other day I found a few copies of the University Daily Kansan among my old papers and enjoyed very much reading them. I was back again at dear old K.U. and forgot the dreary present for a few hours. Therefore, I want to thank you.
By this terrible war and the still more terrible time afterwards all my connections with the U.S.A. were
interrupted. But maybe some of the old friends will be interested in learning that the 1930-31 exchange scholar from Germany is still alive, is married, has four children, and is still thinking of his Alma Mater.
Do you, who are there every day, realize how wonderful a place the campus is? There are so many questions that I want to have answered. How many students are there now? Are the coeds of 1947 still as young and lively as they were? What about football? Are there any new buildings on the Hill? Has the town of Lawrence grown larger? I can still see its streets and places before my inner eye.
If any one of you reading these lines would oblige me and refresh my memory by sending a few copies of the University Daily Kansan or any other kind of "literature" (is the Sour Owl still existing?) it would make me very glad.
About our present situation in Germany; It is not at all enjoyable. The worst you read and hear about it may be near the truth. But it is good that you don't have to face the reality.
May K.U. remain what it was and Lawrence as well.
Yours sincerely.
Dr. J. F. Wiedemann
Public Postcard
Province of Schleswig-Holstein.
To the team:
British Zone, Germany
Fight the good fight. In other words, give 'em hell!
University Daily Kansan
Not Transferable
Dear Editor,
As long as 9,057 seats are paid for by University students, why shouldn't he be occupied by 9,057 people?
The reason is that activity books are non-transferable! If you can't fill your seat, it must remain empty. If you want to take a date or friend to the game you must buy two reserved seats ($5.50), because it's illegal to borrow the book of a friend who isn't going to the game.
Many students work on Saturdays and can never go to a football game, but they must still pay the full price for an activity book. And if they sell their ticket to get back some of their wasted money, they may be expelled from school.
Such nonsense! What matter does it make who paid for the ticket originally as long as it is only used once? If 9,057 seats are sold, why shouldn't 9,057 seats be occupied? If a person is not going to use his ticket, why shouldn't someone else?
Under the present system these questions seem hard to answer satisfactorily.
Bill Salers Pharmacy Junior
(Editor's note: We took the matter to Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor. Here are his answers:
Rock Chalk, Hold That Tiger
Tomorrow is the big day. Complete with parades, rallies, hullabaloo, old grads, and football, it should be the biggest, loudest, gaudiest, fightingest homecoming the old timers have ever seen.
Of course, Memorial stadium will be the center of attraction. We plan to be not more than two blocks back in the line when the gates open at
1. Students pay $1 a football game through the activity book. It also includes a charge of about 10 cents a lecture and 14 cents a concert. If the books were made transferable, many students would sell their tickets to the general public at prices between the book price and the public admission price. Except for a few sell-out games, the demand for reserved seats would be lowered, gate receipts would diminish, and the price of the activity book would have to be raised.
2. As to the students who cannot see the games, Mr. Nichols is of the opinion that they still get a good bargain in lectures, concerts, dramatics productions, the University Daily Kansan, forensics, men's and women's glee clubs, band, and a reserve fund given to worthwhile student projects.
The Big Bullies!
Dear Editor:
It has always been my opinion that the purpose of the University is to raise the intellectual standard of the masses.
From what I've seen today, the intentions are to gain this purpose by beating the freshmen. An article recently published by the Daily Kansan tried to convince us of the high mental as well as physical calibre of our athletes. It will take a lot more convincing evidence than that shown by the K club Wednesday.
be the center of attraction. We plan k in the line when the gates open at $ \textcircled{n} $oon, having joined the 50-Yard- Line-Or-Bust club. The' only requirement is that you be infected with that dread microbe, footballus fannus.
And if K. U. wins, we wouldn't bet on the sanity of Mt. Oread Saturday night. It is rumored that small wagers are being made with unenlightened citizens of the "Show Me" state and that after the game the east side of the stadium will ring out with refrains to the effect of "Never Bet a Kansan, He'll Beat You Every Time."
K-Staters have been painting it on K.U. sidewalks for years. But it took Life magazine to convince us. K.U. is a "millionaire's college," and every student is living in plush-lined luxury on Kansas grain-belt. Haw, haw!
Missouri players note: Every time Ray Evans is injured or slugged in a game, the Jayhawkers go for another touchdown.
At last prosperity has come to the athletic office! Someone thought up the bright idea of selling 900 tickets for standing space in the stadium for the M.U.-K.U. game. And they used to call that stadium "white elephant on the Kaw."
Traditions be (censored)! I don't hink it sounds good to say that my University beats students who don't wear hats.
Stuart Rubaloff
Engineering Senior