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University Daily Kansas Wednesday. March 23, 1960
The Elections Bill
The most recent, and to say the least, the only major bill which the ASC has passed this year, has been praised by everyone.
Those who have not said anything yet are probably those who think the ASC has never done, will never do, and cannot possibly do anything right.
The election bill cannot be fully analyzed until it has been in operation several years. At this point, analysis is interesting even though supposedly impossible.
THE BILL WAS PROPOSED as all bills supposedly are. Any member of the council goes out, uses a little initiative, finds something which needs improvement and then comes back to the council with a bill which he or she thinks will either do away with the problem or alleviate it.
Sally Carnahan, Topeka senior, found a problem, and the problem was in the council itself. Miss Carnahan called this problem which she found a "holocaust of chaos" in November. Now in March Miss Carnahan has offered her solution to this problem of chaos in the council.
This is how the problem appeared in the fall: the council met every other Tuesday night, drank coffee, ate doughnuts, smoked, and did little else except argue. It was indeed chaos many times.
THE COUNCIL WAS WAITING — waiting — waitin. It did not know exactly what it should do or how to do it. Many probably knew just what they wanted done, but were too shy about getting anything started.
One of the non-voting members of the council continually screamed for someone to get out and do something. He did not care what, just something. Actually all his screaming did was to alienate some of the members. It was, in fact, after one of his long dissertations that Miss Carnahan said:
"Can't we stop this holocaust of chaos?"
MISS CARNAHAN'S PLAN (and the one which the ASC adopted last week) to alleviate the chaos is to have two elections each year. One election will be in the spring for the purpose of electing ASC representatives from the academia divisions, student body president and vice president, and sophomore, junior and senior class officers. In the fall, representatives from the living districts and the freshman class officers will be elected. The purpose of the additional election is supposed to make the council a continuously running body.
The plan may work quite effectively. But it may become quite tiresome to council members to be explaining and evaluating plans once only to find a new group. The explaining and evaluating will start again.
One thing which will be missing in this new type of council is a competitive spirit. While the council was discussing and yelling about something to do in the fall, there were continuous references to the "last council" which, according to many of the present council, did not do a thing.
WHENEVER THIS REFERENCE to the last council was made there were four somewhat red faces because four of the present members had served on the council previously. In the new type of council, red faces would not show up unless the faces were reflecting personal insult and anger. The shouting would start again, another holocaust of chaos.
We will wait and see. So far we are just trying out the world, not running it. If we learn to change holocausts of chaos into havens of harmony now, imagine what we can do after we walk through the door marked "graduation" into that holocaust of chaos.
Jane Boyd
Editor:
Infamous Incident
Let me be the first to suggest that the 1961 "Rock Chalk Revue" be changed to the more suitable appellation of "The KU Follies." This not only would prevent embarrassing disillusionment, but also would induce other lasevious minded sex-mongers to leave their various hamlets and journey cross-country to witness a spectacle of heinous profligacy unparalleled even by the perverse revelries of a Roman orgy.
PERHAPS MOST DISTRESSING was the sheer ecstasy which the many players derived from their sensualistic contortions. The whole depraved atmosphere resulted in an audience reaction somewhat similar to a group of people witnessing a public execution. They were agast at the vileness of the proceedings, yet somehow entranced by the total debauchery of the setting.
The remarks and gesticulations derogatory to the governor were excessively immature and in acutely poor taste! Although we may question his motives, it is hardly our place to make a mockery of the state's highest elected official. Mrs. Docking stood up remarkably well under the barrage
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of mud-slinging insolence. She is much too fine and gracious a woman to shatter under insinuations about which she personally had nothing to do.
I BELIEVE THIS WHOLE regrettable incident will long be remembered as one of the most infamous in the school's history. KU will have a long time pass, before this Black Friday and Saturday event is properly lived down.
Herbert R. Bridges
Clarendon Hills, Ill., freshman
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Too Late to Weep
Having been tempered by my experiences in the outer world since leaving KU in January, I am inclined toward conservatism. It has been a slow life far from the windy peaks of Oread.
Something happened last Wednesday, though, which caused a terrific gust of Kansas climate to reach the barren stretches of New Mexico. Chancellor Murphy's resignation touched - better yet, clouted - several persons around here.
The public already has said many fine and quotable remarks about our great chancellor. Although the chancellor assuredly never doubted that he had many friends, the multitude of sorrowful
statements from persons all over the country have given him that assurance.
ON THE OTHER HAND, much has been inferred, but little said about the being who prompted Chancellor Murphy's heart-breaking resignation.
Gov. Docking has persecuted the chancellor, and through him, Kansas students, teachers, legislators, fathers, mothers, grandmas and everyone who loves the state even a little bit, for nearly two full terms. His wild-eyed and tight-fisted hammering repeatedly pounded undeserved jumps upon the chancellor's spirit, and with it, one of the state's greater prides, its college and university system.
AND THE CHANCELLOR TOOK IT. Oh, there were occasional retorts in Chancellor Murphy's speeches, but on the whole, he took it. Many students and faculty members, along with the Daily Kansan stood by his side. But no one but the chancellor could realize the tremendous pressures exuding from the gubernatorial chamber.
It took four years for the chancellor to say to hell with it. And don't anybody dare blame him. Lesser men would have been gone years ago with all memory of the school and the state mentally blocked out.
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Dailu Hansan
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BUT THE CHANGE really is for the better. In California the chancellor will get paid more in the direction of what he deserves. Also, there is a good chance that the people down there will give him enough rein to do what he knows can be done for education. It's about time that he shook off the iron maiden of Kansas politics.
Besides, I hear that they've got a governor out in California who thinks education is good. The chancellor should be able to flower under those circumstances.
Now it's too late to weep. And time to start worrying about Kansas. I understand there's an election coming up in November. Maybe Kansans will want to do something about the situation.
No need to worry about the chancellor. He'll do all right. It's in him.
John Husar
Clovis, New Mexico
NOSTALGIA
By Ernesto M. Vergara
Philippine Graduate Student
The trees, the earth, the roofs of houses
Were white with snow;
Not a wisp of a cloud was in the sky
As would impede the rays of the benevolent sun
To cleanse the world of its impurities.
It looked like a victorious day -
The forces of evil
Annihilated
By the forces of good.
I trod by Potter Lake And felt guilty making tracks On the immaculate and even surface Of the hillside.
I wandered by that little wooded valley Between Kansas Union and Strong Hall, Desiring to lose myself. To commune completely with the nature around me, Wanting to be alone From the cares of the world. From the sight of man-made monstrosities.
And sadly I thought of you
And wildly I wished
That you'd surprise me
Suddenly springing from behind the quiet trees.
Nevertheless, your voice recalled
Was loud and clear — and everywhere,
And I heard nothing else
Nothing else.
Not even the hoarse rear of motor cars
On the nearby road.
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Ode to a Snowflake
Oh, frosty snowflake, small and furry,
Passing me in greatest hurry,
Faintly seen in vision blurry.
Knowest thou not that spring is due?
Can't not tell we don't need you?
Heaped and piled on yonder campus. When you melt, 'twill surely damp us.
Hinder not our flow of traffic.
Need I speak in terms more graphic?
Spread thy furry, fairy wings And get thee gone, make way for Spring.
E. Allen Poo
Illiterate masses who, all over the world, learn daily over the village radio what happens in Baghdad or in Little Rock care more for science, because of its technological consequences, than cultured opinion does in the world capitals.-Philippe LeCorbeiller
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
F to I
" ONE CONGOLATION ABOUT TEACHING FRESHMEN - WITH ANY LUCK YOU WONT HAVE THE SAME GROUP NEXT YEAR."