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University Daily Kansas Thursday, April 16, 2022
NCAA Probation
A lot of people around the KU campus breathed a little easier yesterday after the NCAA's executive council announced that the University of Indiana was the only school which would receive disciplinary action at its spring meeting.
This announcement disproved the multitude of rumors which were claiming that the Jayhawkers had violated the NCAA's football recruiting rules. This wasn't the first time that KU had been rumored to be up for disciplinary action. In 1956, the NCAA did place KU on probation but did not take any disciplinary action.
A RUMOR HAS no real power, but it has the effect of a rolling snowball on discussion and opinion. The question has come up countless times in the last few days as to what would happen to KU athletics if a stiff disciplinary decision was meted out. The thoughts and consequences of such an action are not pleasant.
The immediate reaction is the damage which the ruling would do to the University's varsity teams. KU might not win the track championships as consistently it has in the past. The basketball team might fall into the second division of the conference race and the football team might never beat Oklahoma. The University's athletic reputation would almost be ruined. These losses would dissuade many young stars from coming to KU to compete in athletics.
There is another facet of the problem to consider.
THE VARSITY TEAMS include many young athletes who spend hours practicing each day
so that one day they might have the opportunity to reach the top in their sport. A post-season ban by the NCAA would prohibit KU from competing in any national championships and in any type of NCAA sponsored games after the completion of the regularly scheduled season. The track team this year, for example, has an excellent chance to win the NCAA championship. It probably would not have had this chance.
Most important of these consequences would be the blemish the University would have on its record. A university is the place where people send their children to get an education and to prepare them mentally and intellectually for life. So if the institution they attend partakes in illegal actions, what can be expected of the student attending the school?
IT WOULD BE A SAD DAY when the University placed athletics ahead of integrity and principles. The Ivy League feels that it has a partial answer to the controversy — de-emphasis of athletics. We don't believe that athletics should be de-emphasized at KU. However, the athletic department must always remain aware of the fact that the sports program is supplementary to the main function of the University, education.
The University has a responsibility to its students. This responsibility enters all fields of endeavors connected with the institution. It does not stop at the academic level. This incident might be interpreted as a vote of confidence for the athletic department at KU. It has provided the University with outstanding teams and competitors, and, as expected, remained within its established limits while retaining its high ethical standards.
John Peterson
Foreign Students and ASC
The International Club has threatened to haul the All Student Council into Student Court if the foreign students are not granted a vote on the All Student Council.
Currently, the foreign students and the Associated Women Students send representatives to ASC meetings to sit without voting privileges.
DENIS KENNEDY, the foreign student representative on the ASC until his resignation, claims discrimination. He contends a phrase in the ASC election bill gives foreign students voting rights. In this bill, an elections committee is established to supervise "the election of the foreign student representative to the Council.
Rudy Vondracek, chairman of the ASC, interpreted the Constitution differently. He cited the legislative section listing the areas from which representatives are chosen. These areas are the nine academic schools of the University and eight living districts. The foreign students and the AWS are already represented in these two groups, he said, and there is no such classification as "a foreign student academic division or a foreign student living district."
WHILE THE ASC Constitution is seldom praised for its perfection, the section of representation is well defined. ASC members are chosen by school within the University and living district.
We do not see any contradiction in the two sections within the Constitution. The foreign student council member may be described as a "representative," but he is not defined as a representative with a vote in the legislative division of the document. For terminology sake, he probably should be called an "observer."
WE ALSO DISAGREE with Mr. Kennedy when he accuses the ASC of prejudice and discrimination. We have called the ASC many names, but we haven't found that our student legislators are guilty of an anti-foreign student bias.
Lawyers, and law students too, are known for strict interpretation of legislation. The foreign students will have to catch the Student Court in an extremely liberal mood (if lawyers have such a mental state) before they obtain their vote.
— Doug Yocom
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We can't understand the attitude of our medical students. They try to help Man live longer and then gripe about the cadaver shortage.
Short Ones
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro blasted the U. S. in a $312$ hour television speech Saturday, evidently trying to establish a preponderance of "evidence" for his case.
--that verify consen natu
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Vice President Nixon wants to keep the religion issue out of the presidential election. It's a good idea, considering Nixon's record as a Quaker.
Charlie Brown's baseball team looks like a pennant winner, if Snoopy can develop a peg to first base.
--that verify consen natu
Southern senators claim that the filibuster is the minority's defense against the tyranny of the majority. It is too bad that the Negroes don't have the same opportunity for filibustering that the honorable senators have.
By Calder M. Pickett
By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
WOMEN AND THOMAS HARROW. by John P. Marquand.
Bantam, 75 cents.
John P. Marquand is the modern-day American chronicler of failure. His situation changes, his hero assumes a new name and a new occupation, but always Marquand presents the man of presumed success who has never achieved the success he once hoped for, who has resigned himself to a life of quiet desperation, in the Thoreau phrase.
WEALTH IS THEKE, fame is likely there. True happiness is seldom there. George Aley is a Boston Brahmin who once tried to break away from tradition and failed. Harry Pulham tries to be an advertising man, but fails. Willis Wayde is a financial success but a failure as a man. Thomas Harrow is a great American playwright who is on the financial rocks and has failed three times in marriage.
One must conclude that Marquand is writing, to a certain extent, about himself. Perhaps he is a failure, too. These quiet and pleasant heroes may be Marquand. These men may be this successful writer who has never reached the front rank, who won a Pulitzer prize but never a position alongside Faulkner and Hemingway, who can never rate more than a sentence or so in literary criticisms of the 20th century.
His heroes seldom come from the true aristocracy. In recent years they tend to live, or to have lived at one time, in Clyde, Mass., that town which the anthropologist of "Middletown" persuasion chronicled in "Point of No Return." They symbolize the rootlessness that afflicts so many of us in mobile mid-century.
Marquand's Thomas Harrow scores his first great success, with too much ease, perhaps, in 1928. He writes a first play that makes him famous, a play called "Hero's Return." Then he marries a middle-class girl from Clyde, a girl whose infatuation with security and position cramps the more idealistic hero.Hit play after hit play comes for Harrow. Then he goes to war, and while in Africa he receives a Dear John letter from his first wife.He is married briefly to a floozy actress to whom he turns while on the rebound. He marries again—this time another actress, who is given to saying to Harrow, in the fashion of all good Marquand wives,"But you never told me about that, Tom!" (Marquand's heroes are secretive; their early lives contain too much, reveal too much, perhaps, for casual bedroom conversation.)
FINANCIAL FAILURE COMES to Harrow when he tries to become a producer as well as playwright and sinks his fortune into a musical version of "The Three Musketeers" called "Porthos of Paris." Costume musicals just don't go, his third wife tells him. "You said that about 'The King and I,'" he replies. She ignores him.
Thomas Harrow's third marriage appears to be cracking up, his home is lost, his money is gone. That's how the book ends. No last-minute romantic rescues by Marquand. Harrow has committed himself to facing his troubles, even though there is a way out. Marquand heroes, with the possible exception of Willis Wayde, don't want a way out. They're civilized 20th century New Englanders, who know that failure is their way of life, who will keep up superficial appearances and drink pleasantly and chat pleasantly and almost never raise their voices. They've been that way since George Apley in 1937, and they'll probably always be that way.
Worth Repeating
Education should prepare us on the one hand to enjoy life, and on the other hand to endure it.—George R. Walker
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