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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Oct. 30, 1959
LMOC Farce
There is a standing joke on the Hill that KU has more queens per square inch than any other kingdom in the world. Each year over 20 queens are selected to represent the student body at events such as Homecoming, the Kansas Relays, the Military Ball, and for such organizations as the Senior Class, the Jayhawker, and so on.
Each queen is supposed to possess several qualities. She should have beauty,poise,intelligence and an interest in campus activities,to name some.
Tomorrow, at the Student Union Activities Carnival, another queen will be selected. She will be an average, run-of-the-mill queen with one important exception, the students choose her. Usually this will mean that she knows more students at the Carnival than do the other candidates.
A Little Man on Campus (LMOC) is also chosen. He is the lad who is the "good guy." In the past there have been no restrictions placed upon him as to qualifications. This year there seems to be a difference.
Candidates for the dubious honor of being the Little Man on Campus have waged full scale campaigns to assure their election to that title. Posters listing hoards of honors are up on most bulletin boards. The posters imply that the candidate has been in every important organization
on the Hill and, naturally, should be the Little Man on Campus.
After reading such a poster the confused student is apt to ask, "Is the Little Man on Campus really supposed to be a big deal? It seems as if it were a humorous award before.
Another type of campaign is the "personal contact touch." The beaming candidate approaches either individuals or groups and smilingly tells them to vote for him even if it is not the right thing to do politically.
Politically? How could a vote for LMOC have political overtones? Apparently, the house coalitions are functioning, or so the smug candidate thinks. Well, now we have been warned against them by the pious LMOC candidate.
Some candidates are following the tradition of unsolicited votes. They are the men who approach the LMOC title casually. This is the correct way to win what is really a popularity contest.
If the active campaigns continue, this campus will soon be the outstanding example of two things: queenship, and Little Men on Campus who pressure their way to the titles with primitive electioneering techniques and glorious lists of honors.
Then, again, those candidates probably are the true "little men" on campus.
—Saundra Hayn
From a 'Duckling'
Editor:
Hurray for Jack Morton's comments on college activities in the column, "It Looks This Way..." of Oct. 12.
Having emerged battered from a similar discussion here at the University of Virginia, I turned to the UDK for enlightenment.
This inane attitude and violation of the King's English moved me to wrath. I wrote a letter to the editor, indicating bluntly that the said Cavalier Daily would not get to first base in the Kansas High School Newspaper Contest sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information. (As a former instructor of journalism at Kansas, I helped judge one of these contests.)
It all began with an editorial in the Cavalier Daily which stated baldly that those persons who simply "listen to professors," attend classes or study in the library are not students. To be a "student," of course, one must engage in activities.
The letter, alas, has not been printed. However, I did receive a letter from the editor which concluded, "You, Sir, are a parasite."
Kansans will please note the proper form used by a Virginia gentleman. All insults are correctly prefixed with "Sir."
Now, I definitely belong to the
"Ugly Duckling" generation. I am 27 and a weak-eyed PhD, candidate. My activities consist mainly of carrying books to and from the library and sitting through three-hour seminars.
lethargy is that cheerleaders scorn me and dogs yap at my heels in the street. But such is the fate of an "Ugly Duckling", a genus that all too soon will be extinct on American campuses.
I do not build crepe paper floats or throw rolls of toilet paper at football games. In fact, my civic spirit is so low that I have not even joined a White Citizens Council. The result of this disgraceful
Jerry Knudson Charlottesville. Virginia
The result of this damnable
Dailu Hansan
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Letter to Fred
To tell you the truth I had been sort of expecting it for some time, but was reluctant to tell anyone for fear they might think I was a theology major or something. You know how people are if you deviate from the old norm. Right away they get to discussing your childhood and they're liable to find out you didn't like pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dinner.
By George DeBord
Then the senators get wind of it and they find out that you once worked for a guy who voted for a socialist during the depression. It was just a job in a neighborhood grocery for 25 cents an hour, but that only adds to the implication.
By the time the investigations are over, you have been called everything from a "pink" and a "radical" to a "reactionary." You have to plead the Fifth Amendment to keep from telling a nationwide audience that red is your sister's favorite color or she will be in it too.
So I didn't tell anyone. But now that I've finally received
The envelope was soiled and the ink had run somewhat, like water had gotten to it. But then he always was a sloppy writer.
wrote had gotten to it. But then he always was a sloppy writer.
I found the letter on the kitchen cabinet this morning near a half-empty can of Strongheart. Like I said, I wasn't too surprised because he always ate while working when he was with us. I slipped the letter out of the envelope and began. . . .
Dear George?
the letter I don't mind saying that I have been waiting for it for three years. I mean I was kind of expecting that he'd shoot me a line once he got settled.
I ain't had two much practice writin lately, but I got permissin to cum down hear and let you know I got yer ledder the other day. Teh reason I dont rite so good now is that they have me doing all sort of lessons to learn how to be a angel. Pete sez I can take lessuns on writin if I get my wings% I shud* bee a hole lot better the next time i contact you kuz we learn awfull fast on clod nine;
I sure git depressed from readin the papers to sea what a mess people let the world git intwo sieve i left, but if a few people keep fiting for truth;;maybee APATHEE and KUNFORMETEE wont win the nex electshun. keep me enformed. They dont censure our mail.
This has about wore mee out. so ill klose yer faithful servunt and kumpanyun Fred
;p.S: Hear xxx are sum pomes I wrote with a message for the poettery corner. They are better kuz Pete fixed up the spellun.
student apathy's the thing from every housetop hear them sing we don't want to think you see it hinders our conformity
onward, onward, science pushes past the cities, to the bushes liberal learning has been dropped human feeling has been stopped don't teach Plato in the schools graduate some learned fools
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
do not laugh, someone will hear sit on humor, know the fear learning is a serious work we have no time for mirthful quirk
"GOOD EVENING AN' HAPPY HALLOWEEN, PROFESSOR SNARF — TRICK OR TREAT!"
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