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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 14. 1960
Summer Session Greetings
It is the custom for greetings and salutations to be offered during the first week of any semester and the editors of the Summer Kansan can see no reason to break with tradition. So greetings and salutations.
Summer sessions at the University of Kansas are just a little bit different than the fall or spring semesters. For one thing, the makeup of the student body is just a bit different. Some students are on campus to get ahead and some are here to get caught up. Almost all are likely to wonder at one time or another just what in the world he or she is doing in school during the summer.
In the event that some have already so wondered, we've tried to come up with a few advantages — in addition to the educational ones offered by a summer at KU.
In the event of floods, remember that you're on the highest land in eastern Kansas. In the event of tornadoes, remember that you can see them coming from a long way off for adequate warning. In the event of nuclear attack, remember that no one would want to disturb this sleepy college town.
We tried to think of something to remember in the event of heat, but that's just too much of a burden. It does seem significant, though, that the major air conditioned classroom building on campus is named Summerfield Hall.
But another difference in the summer session is that the University offers a great deal more diversionary activities than normal. It will be our aim to keep you posted on such activities and we hope that you will take part.
- Clarke Keys
That Last Frantic Scurry
Recently I heard, "But you can't enjoy summer if you haven't had a winter." Well, that's one way of being optimistic.
Summer, of course, should have a special meaning for the KU student. Our campus itself rebels against those professors who insist on students attending classes. The fragrance of Lilac Lane and the beauty of the redbud trees are literally forced upon us. We must not attempt to fight the epidemic, and who wants to?
University life is quite a shield. It allows me, to voice unorthodox ideas back in the old home town, and get by with it. It makes it possible for me to be concerned only about me most of the time. With that student's cloak around my shoulders I can be as selfish in my thoughts as I
want to be, for the most important thing is my education."
I am wondering, too, just how well prepared I will be for my role when I get out of school. I shall be qualified to teach in the schools of Kansas, they tell me. But what about all the other duties required of me once I step off this academic hill? A whole new orientation of thought will be necessary as I take the turn around the corner to the other side of the teacher's desk.
Why one should make one last frantic effort (or maybe it's the first) to learn, I'm not sure. Oh well, there are bound to be depressing times, with the weather the way it is and all. Summer is here and thinking gives way to just living.
Crossword Puzzle
-A Senior
ACROSS
1 Thin board.
5 Brisk.
19 Uainspired writer.
13 Hellespont swimmer's sweetheart.
14 Captain of the "Caine."
16 Important U.S. agency.
17 Biblical name.
18 First name of Dickens Heep.
19 Biology: Abbr.
20 Nonstop talker.
22 Poisonous plant.
24 Inlets.
25 Indian name.
26 Thread holder.
28 Joe Miller's claim to fame.
33 Out of breath.
34 Former Barbary state.
35 Stationary: Abbr.
36 Grass plot.
37 Fabric.
38 The "Deacon's Masterpiece."
39 Avenue: Abbr.
40 Athletic gatherings.
41 Cubic meter.
42 The "hideaway" man.
44 Raid.
45 Long practiced.
46 Assisting officer.
47 Language of the year one.
51 Baking crock.
55 Where Havana is.
56 Dynamite-inventing prizegiver.
58 City in Bihar, India.
59 City or lake in Switzerland.
60 __ piano.
61 Journey by ox cart.
62 Companion of crafts.
63 Fathers.
64 Thin vapor.
**DOWN**
1 Heavy rough nap.
2 Mythical Spartan queen.
3 Native of Arabia.
4 Hero of 1857 book: 2 words.
5 High-pitched sound.
6 Low, vibratory sounds.
7 Part of the conjugation of “res.”
8 Yes: Slang.
9 Noise of many tongues.
10 Where 58 Across is.
11 Bud of a plant.
12 Colewalt.
12 Cucumber.
12 British symbol.
12 Scotch negatives.
12 Unpaid worker.
12 Strength.
12 Group of political intrigues.
12 Singles.
13 Actor Michael.
13 Fared seal.
13 Danny — comedian.
13 Nonsense: Slang.
13 7-7, for instance.
13 Affording.
13 Longest English syllable word.
14 Actress Powers.
14 — Springs, Idaho.
14 — land: 2 wds.
14 Farm plots.
14 Evening: Ger.
14 — part (Dissemble): 2 wds.
14 Major industrial region, in Germany.
14 Border on.
15 Unit of measurement.
15 Type of crude rubber.
15 Hear ye!
16 Seize.
17 Whitenpoof refrain.
Kansan Needs Help, Letters
The Summer Session Kansan will be distributed each Tuesday and Friday morning during the session with the exception of July 5. The newspaper will strive to be a service publication and few policies need be set.
Anyone on campus for the summer, or a portion of the time, is welcome to pitch in and help on the paper. The material rewards are small (in fact nonexistent) but we plan to have fun.
Anyone interested in working should drop into the News Room in Flint Hall or call 711.
Letters Welcome
If the editors feel the letter is of general interest it will be run. Because of space limitations, letters must be limited to 200 words. All letters must be signed to receive consideration.
Because of the heat of the summer, the staff is not planning on raising any controversies. But letters of opinion or information will be welcome.
—The Editors.
Laugh a Little Bit To Ease Tension
EAST LANSING, Mich.—(UPI)
—To get along in the present world of tensions and troubles, you have to learn to laugh and cut the tensions.
That is the advice of Betty Garlick who heads a nursery school at Michigan State University and in her work, has picked up some pointers on what can make kids laugh.
One way to encourage humor is to let a child hear songs, stories and poems bordering on the humorous—and enjoy them yourself.
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
(Published Tuesdays and Fridays)
NEWS DEPARTMENT
News Room Phone 711
Editors Dick Crooker
Glenn K. Cooper
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Business Manager 374
Business Engineer Clyde Brown
the took world
By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
THE HASKELL MEMOIRS, The Personal Narrative of a Confederate Officer, by John Haskell, edited by Gilbert E. Govan and James W. Livingood. Putnam, $3.95.
It is difficult to see how, or why, this little volume should gain wide circulation, even in this Civil War-hungry era when almost anything on the great conflict is gobbled up avidly. Here are the memoirs of a South Carolinian who served with a good many of the key leaders of the Confederaey. It is a rambling narrative, with several touches designed to keep partisans of various generals tearing each other asunder.
These are the best touches in the book. They make one reflect; Why do we still identify ourselves so intimately with this war? Why do we argue about whether Longstreet, or Lee, or Stuart, or Pickett lost Gettysburg? Or, to deal with men who are not the concern of Haskell's memoirs, why do we debate the merits of that ramshackle series of generals who headed the Army of the Potomac before Grant took over command of the Army in 1864?
It is a fair guess that the Haskell comments on Southern leaders will provide the most comment about this book. His own narrative of battles, particularly those in the Wilderness and the siege of Petersburg, is quite interesting, but best of all are his frequently snide remarks (the observations of a boy in his twenties, it must be remembered) about the great men of the South. Here are some of these:
Stonewall Jackson—He got his nickname not because he was worth admiring at Manassas, but because "brigades were being hard pressed, that Jackson refused to move to their relief, and that he (Bee) in a passionate expression of anger denounced Jackson for standing like a stone wall and allowing them to be sacrificed."
Joseph E. Johnston—"He would in the European army organization have been an ideal Quartermaster and Chief of Staff, but was apt to wait too long in the effort to make his preparations perfect and so lose opportunities, never to be regained."
Grant—"How many men he sacrificed will, I suppose, never be told, but the ground in front of our works was covered black with the dead, besides the thousands who were carried off or made their way back, wounded. He never stopped till his men, themselves, refused to be longer uselessly slaughtered."
Lee at Gettysburg—"He had an apparent antipathy to anything partaking of pomposity and the vanity of war, but he had an utterly undue regard for the value of the elementary teaching of West Point and for the experience gained by the very small police duty of our miniature regular army."
Custer—"If I ever saw a man with his tail between his legs, it was Custer."
"The Entertainer" is Archie Rice, an aging music hall performer, who does a little singing and a little dancing and a little reciting of obscene monologues and much bragging of his sexual capabilities. He is the same off-stage—a kind of aged "Look Back in Anger" hero who hasn't the courage to fight back when others respond heatedly to his crudities.
His family is little better, yet all seem to have been shaped by the wearying Archie—a somewhat dotty father, given to singing hymns; children who see through him; a wife who drinks too much and thinks too little.
The play makes one feel dirty. It is gross and tedious and, unlike Osborne's "Look Back in Anger," it is unjustified by a point of view. The occasion of its publication appears to be the forthcoming film version of the play. Olivier again stars, and a public that has been licking its chops over Bardot. "It Started with a Kiss" and "Happy Anniversary," is likely to feel that this is shocking realism.
When this play opened on Broadway awhile back, it was met with a good deal of hostility—and consternation. Hostility because it said little and purported to say much; consternation because its star, Sir Laurence Olivier, seemed to have lowered his sights considerably to act in the play, much as, perhaps, John Osborne had lowered his sights to write it.
This play's only excuse is sensation. It is difficult to see how defenders of the theater can hoity-toitedly criticize the movies and the cheap press when this sort of thing plays the Broadway boards.
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THE ENTERTAINER, by John Osborne. Bantam, 35 cents.
Rocky Surprises Ike
K 7
BY LYLE C. WILSON
—Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller did not read to the President the text of his criticism of Vice President Richard M. Nixon and of administration policy.
United Press International
WASHINGTON—(UPI) The word from Capitol Hill on last week's Eisenhower-Rockefeller White House huddle:
eEwsOCOPejuWgerH HHCGAOJOHU
—Rockefeller did not give Eisenhower a clear idea of what he had in mind other than that he would make a political statement.
The governor took advantage of the President by strategy which could give the impression that Eisenhower knew what was coming but made no effort to stop it.
—Rockefeller, not the President, suggested last week's meeting. The significance of the meeting—of the fact that Eisenhower instantly had agreed to see Rockefeller—should be understood in relation to this fact: The President feels obligated to receive any governor on request.