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University Daily Kansan Thursday. March 24,1960
Salute to the Greeks
Campus Greek organizations have been looking for useful projects to help build community good will between residents of Lawrence and the University.
This year they have hit upon their best idea—free transportation of Lawrence voters to the city clerk's office tomorrow night to register for the April primaries. It's unfortunate that this cannot be done every year.
GREEK ORGANIZATIONS throughout the country have received much criticism in the past couple of years for isolated acts of hazing and deeds of vandalism done by immature members. Too often these unfortunate acts receive much publicity and the usefulness of the fraternity-sorority organizations goes unnoticed.
The campus Greek houses have issued a challenge to other universities all over the nation to
match the number of voters KU Greeks take to register. It would be well for members of fraternities on other campuses to carefully consider this challenge. It could do more good nationally for the fraternities and sororities than all of the public relations information sent out by the organizations' national headquarters.
IT WILL BE A COMPLIMENT to both Lawrence citizens and the students who are members of KU's fraternities and sororities if this program is successful tomorrow. Needless to say, many Lawrence voters will not be able to vote if they do not register. This provides an excellent opportunity.
The campus independents would do well to take actions such as these into consideration next time they are prone to criticize the fraternities and sororites on campus.
- Rael F. Amos
More White Socks
Editor:
Listen! especially you foreign students, for you are the worst offenders of all. Let's not start this bobby socks jazz over again. It's getting quite old. It is full of dents and holes; its seams are ripped; its edges tattered simply from being kicked around frequently and needlessly.
As Sheila wrote a day or two ago, the issue is not white socks, but socks in general. Yes, we do wear them a good per cent of the time, don't we? But for some unexplained (and probably unexplainable) reason certain people apparently think that an irrevocable social stigma is automatically attached to the poor, unfortunate darling who, bound body and soul to this form the tyranny of the majority, inadvertently forgets her socks one tragic morning. Well—"it ain't necessarily so!"
This is not the prize example of slavish American conformity. Nor, indeed, is it much of an example of conformity at all. No psychic agony accompanies a decision to not wear socks on a particular occasion. These socks are a functional part of the wardrobe that has and is catering to the needs of my school years. They are "perfect" for going to classes or for other times when casual dress is in order. When their usefulness is past, they will be laid aside.
Even while writing I have a sneaky suspicion that there are some who will refuse to see the
matter as it is. So to you I have further words. Should I happen to visit your charming country, I doubtless could find some little, quaint habit peculiar to you and your neighbors. (Come, now, don't dispute me!) And peering at you from the ultimate wisdom and infallibility of my cultural setting I might say, "Mercy, what strange people there are here and what funny things they do!" And you, my friend, would look at me with a mixture of pity and disgust in your eyes and reply, sweetly, "Well, you see, this is just a little way of doing things that we have developed here. It really isn't terribly important, but it suits us. We like it. So, why don't you go away and leave us alone?"
And I would
Sharon Hoover Wichita senior
--saturated they will be in better condition to face the "weeks" to come.
Editor:
Beware, Mr: B.
In a recent issue of The Lawrence Journal-World there appeared a letter by one Larry Blickhan. In this letter, Mr. B. questioned (perhaps even on the basis of what he heard and read, i.e. hearsay) the legality of action taken during the rally held for the chancellor, on his lawn. In the same issue he called for police investigation to dig out and punish the people responsible.
MR. BLICKHAN seems to be laboring under the same delusion as a certain out-of-town paper.
He assumes that our purpose was to slander the governor. Well Mr. B., for your information, we burned those effigies early in the evening, then we stood in the snow for better than an hour, our feet numb from the cold waiting for Dr. Murphy. It was for him that we gathered. We remained orderly; chanting and singing to keep our spirits up and our minds off the cold. We talked to academic deans; joked with each other, and enjoyed that rare but much appreciated phenomenon, free union coffee.
YES, MR. B., THERE EXISTS a law which might, on some technicality, condemn us for our action on Thursday night. But in this case, the law would be a cold and meaningless thing to those of us who think enough of our university and chancellor to rise in a body and express our cold contempt for George Docking, and mourn the loss of one of the greatest men this university and state has ever known — Frankin Murphy.
WE ARE NOT ASHAMED of our action, and if we are criminals for this, then we will stand up and face whatever comes. Any accusations must be made by George Docking, NOT Larry Blickhan, self-styled prosecutor and jury. If Gov. Docking should decide to commit political suicide by pressing charges, then I will meet him more than half-way. And Mr. B., if you want someone to direct your pen to; I will gladly be your man. I made one effigy assisted in burning both, and helped make a fair number of the signs.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"DON'T RIB KEN ASQUIT NOT HAVING A BRIEFCASE-HE'S BEEN FERTY HARD LIP HIS FIRST YEAR GRADE SCHOOL."
HOWEVER BEFORE anyone goes off the deep-end, something should be gotten straight. While university students may not be too subtle, we are not exactly stupid.
(2) Only one sign of unknown origin said anything that might even approach slander. The rest sported statements like, "Good Luck Murphy" and "Docking for Dogcatcher," and if anyone tries to interpret the latter as slanderous, they will probably get jumped by every honest dogcatcher in the country.
(1) One effigy had no sign, while the other only said GEORGE.
Perhaps Mr. B. should retract his charges. They seem to assume that a person is guilty until proven innocent. What is more, there has been some rumor that false accusations of slander might in turn expose the accuser to the danger of being liable for slander. Beware, Mr. B.
James Chism Anthony senior
Short Ones
Rumor has it that the Kansas State University faculty is writing to Trujillo for some pointers on security maintenance and mob control.
It Looks This Way...
"Wakeup Week," coming soon at Fort Hays State College, is designed to stress "scholarship and culture," according to the college newspaper.
By Jack Harrison
SOUNDS LIKE A FINE IDEA. If there's one thing today's college students need, it's a good waking up. They'll get it at Fort Hays, through a convocation, panel discussions, coffees, speeches and talks and chats and all the trimmings that go with a "week."
But how can one little old week do the complete job of awakening the sleepy eyed, stumbling, fagged-out student of today?
ITLL TAKE SEVERAL "weeks." at least, as we see it.
First should come "Drink Up Week." This will loosen up and relax the students. When they are in a fluid state — thoroughly saturated — they will be in
We don't want to make the program too rough at first, so how about the second week of the series being "Snuggle Up Week."
This week is of course designed to better relations between the sexes. For some it might be "Make Up Week," and for others merely "Keep It Up Week." We're not quite sure where we fit in the pattern. But we'll conform to the spirit of the week.
Some students may prefer to drop out of the program at this point. But the constructive part is yet to come.
There seems to be a need for a "Dress Up Week." Jeans and sweatshirts, slacks and old boots have become the style at KU as students fight the lousy weather. But we simply cannot have such sloppy dressing habits.
Everybody will stand up big and tall, with chest out and gut sucked in and eyes straight ahead. The week may end when someone walks into a manhole.
And then it will be time for "Stand Up Week." Posture is deteriorating over the campus, as more and more students adopt that shuffling crouch in attempting to keep their feet on the icy sidewalks.
SUITS AND TIES will be required for all men seen on the campus. Women must wear heels and hose. (We're fed up with staring at those ghastly white socks.) We may allow Bermuda shorts when the weather warms up. But they will be strictly Sunday-go-to-meetin' type.
Maybe "Stay Up Late Week" would be a better idea. Burning the midnight oil might aid us in raising the university grade point average. But the snores the next day would bother a few lecturers.
We could have a "Get Up Early Week." Everyone could troop down to the library at 6 a.m. for some needed extra study time. We know some fellows who have never seen the sun come up. It'd be a good experience for them.
WE ALSO MUST HAVE a "Speed Up Week," during which every effort will be made to increase the snail's pace of the traffic on the sidewalks of KU. We might have a "Catch Up Week," and try to get everybody up to date on their classwork. Sounds kind of hopeless, though. Might as well forget that one.
This "week" business could be a tremendous positive force in the life of the university family. There is surely at least one aspiring politician who will back the program.
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The duty of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable—Mr. Dooley (Finley Peter Dunne).
College students have more interest in poetry than understanding of it.-John Ciardi
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