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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1947
Basketball Seating
The athletic department has indicated that it is interested in the wishes of students and faculty members regarding seating at basketball games this winter. Because of dissatisfaction expressed last year, the department has considerably asked for suggestions to remedy the situation.
Any plan will have to take into consideration the fact that only half the student body can go to any one home game. Hoch auditorium holds 3,500 and that's that.
But plans as to how to seat the students and faculty at any one game are needed. The system used last year was first come, first served. Because of this, a student had to go to the auditorium an hour or two early to get a good seat. Many married students with children could not do that and suffered accordingly.
A second plan might be unconditionally reserving seats. Under this system each student would occupy the same seat at his half of the games. The complication in this scheme is the obvious unfairness to the students who get seats behind pillars or in the back of the balconies.
The final possibility is a system of rotation of reserved seats. Under this method a student would sit in a good seat one game, and a poor one the next, etc. The obstacles to this plan are the bookwork involved, and the ushers, bouncers, and student responsibility needed.
The Daily Kansan is interested in getting student opinion on this matter. An opinion poll was made among more than 80 students, and results are being tabulated and considered. Today's issue carries a ballot on which you can mark your opinion. Letters to the editor will be gladly received and passed on where they will do some good.
Here is your chance to have your say. In all fairness, if you don't speak now, you shouldn't gripe later.
Public Postcard
Norman Granz orchestra
Dear Friends,
Yours for an entertaining portrayal of the "jazz side" of the musical picture.
Sincerely yours,
University Daily Kansan.
Be Fair To Jazz Dear Editor.
Dean Swarthout's satisfaction with himself on having "turned the Norman Granz jazz concert down flat" disturbs me. I don't feel qualified to speak in defense of the Granz group, but the dean's derogatory comments on jazz in general are a little more than I can take passively.
Jazz is an American folk art which has long been fighting for the recognition it has just recently achieved. Both Carnegie hall and Town hall, establishments which are associated with the "best in music" in New York City, have opened their doors to jazz artists.
Music departments of many universities, also interested in "the best in music," offer courses in the history of jazz. The distortion which Dean Swarthout finds so distasteful
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is by no means limited to jazz. Modern classical composers such as Stravinsky, Milhaud, and Shostakovitch, utilize the effects of distortion to create moods.
In closing I would like to quote the introduction to an article on modern art which appeared recently in the New York Times:
"To deride something one does not understand is easy. To understand the new and the strange is difficult, but often rewarding."
Name widened by request, Graduate student.
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