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University Daily Kansan Friday. Nov. 20, 1959
The Senator's Speech
A senator from Minnesota stood on a Kansas stage yesterday and thrilled an awe-struck collegiate audience with a memorable speech.
It was a speech we have needed to hear for some time. It was long. It was probing. It was complex.
And yet the students listened. There was no restlessness to leave, no yawning, no disquieting murmur. The audience strained to hear, for whether or not they agreed with the speaker's views, they were deeply concerned with problems he explored.
And explore them he did. This was no wishy-washy, evasive politician of the type we have come to depend upon to guide our nation in these turbulent times.
He did not talk around controversial issues like civil rights and fallout. No! He tasted them into the ring, climbed in himself, and punched away like a champion.
This is what stirred the students, made them Listen.
But there was more. The speech, apart from its dynamic maker, was no ordinary speech. It was a reawakening.
Sen. Humphrey touched the sensitive areas of our existence. He was not speaking only of a distant American public when he denounced inaction on local, national, and international issues.
He was speaking of the students as well—and they knew it.
It was disturbing to have their frailties exposed but the students respected the speaker for having the courage to do it. They knew that they also had substituted personalities for true leadership, apathy for action, and a wait-and-see attitude for planning.
The Senator was applauded for exposing the weaknesses that everyone knows about, but does not have the courage to discuss.
If Senator Humphrey accomplished nothing else in his visit, he made one salient contribution to this campus: He made KU students look at their world, and forced them to see that they have a responsibility to be a part of it.
He showed them that the threat to democracy is not someone else's problem, but their own. He showed them that they are as responsible for good government as every other member of our society. He showed them that world problems are not solved by neglect, but by people.
Every person who sat in Hoch Auditorium left a better human being and a better American.
Regardless of how Sen. Humphrey fares in the presidential race, he will long be remembered for what he has done here. If the election had been held on this campus yesterday, he would have won by an overwhelming majority.
—George DeBord
Last Connection to Miami
The most important football game to be played here in recent years will take place in Memorial Stadium tomorrow. KU and Missouri, both competing for the Orange Bowl bid, will fight for second place in the Big Eight Conference.
Provided that Iowa State loses to Oklahoma, the victor in the KU-Missouri game will go to Miami. Naturally, we at KU hope the Jayhawkers will receive the honor.
The honor brought to the University by any athletic team is reflected upon all of the students. The students, therefore, have a duty to support their team even when it loses. More importantly, they are expected to encourage it
when pre-game pressure becomes difficult to bear.
This afternoon a pep rally will be held at the team's traditional "last practice" at 4 p.m. on the Allen Field House practice field. The president of the Lawrence Quarterback Club has assured Coach Jack Mitchell that close to 400 citizens will attend the practice.
Students belong there, too. The team belongs to them, not the Quarterback Club. It will be the final opportunity for us to show the team we really would like to see it in the Orange Bowl.
—John Husar
Pep
Editor:
It was appalling to me to think that only a handful of KU students are loyal enough to take a half hour's time to come out to a pep rally and support their team for the biggest game of the season. Not only is it homecoming, but also a game which carries a potential Orange Bowl bid, an honor which can be bestowed on only two universities in the nation yearly.
Last week, I sat behind a so-called loyal student who criticized the play when things weren't done the way he thought they should have been. I wonder if this loyal supporter was at the rally. I doubt it. I also doubt that nine-tenths of the other "grandstand quarter-backs" were there.
KU has a very fine football team. But to keep it that way, the team needs a lot of student support. This support must come at events such as this pep rally, as well as on Saturday afternoon.
I'm sure the members of the team appreciated the enthusiastic support they got at the rally, but I wonder just how they felt inside when they saw just how many were there giving that support.
Friday, 4 p.m., at the practice field, the students have another chance to show their support for the team. I hope they take advantage of it. I will.
Don Elwin
Lawrence graduate student
Don Erwin
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TV Pain
Sunday at 6:15 o'clock I left my room on the sixth floor of Templin Hall and proceeded down the hall to the TV lounge. At 6:30 o'clock the Hallmark Hall of Fame
was going to broadcast Ibsen's "Doll's House" starring Julie Harris and I was quite eager to see it since I had planned on it for over a month.
Upon asking the boys (25 of them) just what they would be watching at 6:30, the answer was a wild and unanimous "Maverick!"
As I trundled down to the main and last lounge I said to myself, "Thank goodness, I'm not selling tickets." On entering the main lounge my confidence began returning when I found I had only three people to convert to my side.
I could plainly see that they were in no mood to concede to channel switching, especially to some third-rate classic . . . so I took the hint and dropped in to see what the happy group on the fourth floor had planned for the evening and received a similar ovation . . . likewise the second floor.
The first said, "Til try anything once." The second left after some coaxing to join his cotton picking, gun slinging, channel hoarding partners on the floors above, and the third happened to be a fellow idiot, who like myself had come down to waste his time watching a play by some square by the name of lbsen.
As I sat waiting for the play to begin, I had a strange feeling, as though I were doing something wrong, and at the same time I was satisfied in knowing that I was one of the chosen few who could see this great classic unfold before my eyes.
After a superb performance, I found myself feeling sorry for those cowboys on the floors above and wondered how everything would have turned out if I had come over to watch an opera.
A square type guy.
"Rats"
Editor:
According to Monday's (Nov. 16) paper, the residents of Sunnyside Apartments, usually called "the slum of Mount Oread," are concerned about the invasion of rats who seem to have set up light housekeeping in the floors, walls, and ceilings. I personally cannot understand this.
Rats are very pleasant neighbors. They do not have noisy parties or come home drunk at three o'clock in the morning.
Their friends never start motorcycles directly under your bedroom window nor do they have noisy children. The danger of plague is small unless you are actually bitten by one. A rat makes an excellent plaything for a small child, especially when they are about the same size, as seems to be the case here. . .
If, however, the residents insist on getting rid of them, it seems to me that better methods than traps or poison are available.
Shooting is an excellent method, especially if you have a large supply of inexpensive furniture and/or children. No one seems to be worrying about what poison might do to children at Sunnyside anyway.
Of course, replacing the substandard housing on the campus would solve the entire problem, but this is such a simple solution that I hardly dare bring it up.
The best method would be to arm about eighty men with good, stout clubs spiked with nails on the ends. These might slow down the rat enough so that several men could stun it by repeated blows. Then it could be towed away by a small tractor.
Clyde Thogmartin Emporia sophomore
By Janet Juneau
If you think football games are a way of insuring a morning after...
If your yearly contribution to KU consists of a homecoming visit...
If you can't find a parking place for your Lincoln...
If you've practiced on the old club grip for two weeks...
If you drive 10 m.p.h. down Jayhawk Boulevard to show Fraser Hall to your wife (M.U. '49)...
If you know that the game itself is a minor event in the home-coming weekend...
If you don't mind buying a seat in the student section...
If you enjoy pushing, shoving, jabbing, jostling crowds—as you did in your undergraduate days...
If you think students should welcome you when they are thinking, "There but for a diploma go!'...
If during the game, you stand for the Alma Mater and don't utter another word until the half...
If you decide that a New Year's vacation in Miami might be nice...
If you answer "yes."—you're another alum.
Worth Repeating
Naturalist William Beebe has told of visits he made to Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill. On evening walks they would vie with each other to see who could first identify the pale bit of light-mist near the upper left-hand corner of the Great Square of Pegasus, and then either Roosevelt or Beebe would recite:
"That is the Spiral Galaxy of Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It is 2.500,000 light-years away. It consists of one hundred billion suns, many larger than our own sun."
Then, after a moment of silence, Theodore Roosevelt would grin and say. "Now, I think we are small enough. Let's go to bed."
—Harold E. Kohn
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
OH, THEY HAVE A LOT OF FUN ALL RIGHT, BUT THEY HAVE A RATHER SHABBY REPUTATION."