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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1959
The AWS Question
Last Tuesday the All Student Council granted $1,894 to the Associated Women Students. This money came out of a total ASC budget of $7,328.61. In other words, the AWS appropriation was 25.8 per cent of the ASC budget.
The council gets about 80 cents for each regularly enrolled student. And this year, the AWS petitioned for an appropriation of 92.6 cents for each woman student. After cuts, it received 64 per cent of the council's total appropriation of $2.951 for campus organizations. This gives the girls 71.8 cents per head.
Formerly, the AWS was successful in getting all of its financial requests approved. The council has never been stingy where worthwhile student causes were concerned. But neither had it been following the letter of its constitution concerning appropriations.
AWS Functions Questioned
Then, last year, the AWS was given a $1,699 grant, $900 under its request. Apparently, some questions arose concerning the proper functions of AWS.
The group is ostensibly employed to provide a social and cultural program for KU women. It means to provide leadership that will instill proper goals in women; it hopes to raise women to their rightful place in society, whatever that is.
To accomplish this, the AWS holds an All Women's Day each year. It also publishes a pamphlet. At the All Women's Day, various speakers are imported to lecture to the ladies, and some conferences are held. Many ladies attend. Refreshments are served.
In practice, the AWS provides rules and regulations for women students, and attempts to guide freshmen and transfer women while they are new at the University.
But the AWS has gone beyond the realm of student activities. The AWS-sponsored High School Leadership Day, among other events, is nothing more than a public relations function for the University. Of course, public relations
is necessary, but the Associated Students' constitution stipulates that the council may not delegate money to be used in public relations.
It is obvious that the University should pay for all public relations functions and the council for all student activities. But the ambiguous constitution presents another problem. In another section it states that the council cannot give money to a group which receives some money from outside sources.
Therefore, if the University paid for the AWS's public relations functions, the council would not be allowed to cover the group's social and cultural costs. And vice-versa. Confusing? Read on.
Now the council wants to keep the AWS under its power (if ever the good dean of women will let go), and so tends to give the girls as much money as is felt necessary. Yet the council members do realize the girls' native ability for allowing money to sift through their fingers via inane little social outings.
Paid for Public Relations. Anyway
Therefore, the AWS request was cut $550 last Tuesday, still leaving it $195 ahead of last year's figure. Furthermore, money was allowed for the High School Leadership Day, a public relations function.
Now, we are not opposing the AWS, as such. It's a fine old-club which can do a lot of good. For one thing, it keeps our women students organized and in rules. For another, it works its collective tails off to rush about 100 girls each year for the University. It has many parties and keeps the dean of women busy.
But it also wastes a lot of money. And it is a fact that much of the money is delivered contrary to student law.
The council, as a conscientious body of student legislators, has two recourses: It either must follow the law or change it. And while the council is pondering that idea, the AWS might do well to take stock of its pertinence to KU, and then consider a possible revampment.
—John Husar
Editor;
On Bream Review
In his opening sentence we learn that he is also a critic of "manner and appearance" and of types of Englishmen. Although we are unable to conjure the image of vapid gentleman dillettate from Mr. Bream's awkward, cockney (certainly not Oxford or public school) monologue, our critic can. Further, we learn that this particular essence to which critics are sensitive "carries over into the lute and guitar playing."
In the review of Julian Bream's recital, your music critic displayed qualities beyond the call of duty and, I think, with poor taste.
... Letters ..
Curiously oversensitive to inadequacy, the critic then unfolds the language of authority (much less difficult to acquire than the understanding which, alone, permits its responsible use) thick with nuance, qualification and evasion: "something of this quality," "the somehow manages," "progressions of a sort," "but I rather question," "as a sort of sensitive."
Meanwhile, Mr. Bream's reputation quivers lute-like upon the
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"OH, ALL THE FOREIGN GIRLS ARE POPULAR UNTIL THEY LEARN TO SAY 'NO.' "
Mr. Levine is a critic of some excellence when not allowing his affectation to mar his judgment. He is capable of taking more seriously his responsibility to render evaluation and conceive in a less cavalier and impressionistic manner—particularly where the evaluation is damaging.
knees of judicial pronouncement while Levine plucks alternately at strings of damnation and reprieve to end on the note of sour praise: "He is at best a sort of antiquarian."
-Harold Zender
Police Query
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Graduate Student
I noticed while reading Thursday's (Oct. 22) Daily Kansan that the campus police quickly arrested two students in connection with the theft of four chairs valued at approximately $400. The story received good coverage in the Kansan.
Why then, I ask, have we, the students at KU, failed to receive further information about the Allen Field House robbery which resulted in the loss of approximately $6,000? Has the case been solved and have we just failed to hear the results? Did the "hot tip" the police received lead to an arrest?
Were too many toes being stepped on and the case reluctantly dropped? Pray, tell me, what are the answers?
Maurice Fishburn Lawrence junior
(Editor's note: The reporter on the police beat reports no new developments in the case.)
With John Morrissey
I wonder. Did they name the Rock Chalk Cafe after the chant, or was it the other way around?
Food for thought: Do we eat to live or live to eat? Not much of a thought, really. Just a retrospective burp.
CONCENTRATION—Gunnar Wierboten studies a program instead of his sheet music at the Münster Madrigal Choir rehearsal before last night's concert.
By John Husar
A 53-voice choir from the University of Munster, Germany, stopped in Swarthout Recital Hall last night and let an overflow audience in on some of the most exciting collegiate choral entertainment this writer has ever heard.
THE CHOIR provided one of those intangible moments which rarely occur in entertainment. No line was drawn between the performers and the audience. Instead, a bond pulled them together in mutual enjoyment. The "moment," of course, lasted one hour and forty-five minutes—the time it took the gang from Münster U. to serenade their youthful contemporaries from Kansas.
The atmosphere was so relaxed and free and jovial, the Swarthout stage could have been a fraternity living room during a house skit. The choir sang and performed as easily and happily as though it was just a talented part of a crowd showing off for the home folks.
NO DOUBT, much of the choir's appeal lay in the members' obvious love for singing. Their jubilant faces and carefree swaying, like a motley band of inspired Christmas carolers singing just for the fun of it and to hell with the audience, swept an audience, used to straining performers, off its feet. The Miinster choir even stole some of the Experimental Theatre play's audience during the intermission.
But the choir's mastery of difficult music achieved the capital effect. Conductor Herma Kramm-Reuter has perfected the art of teaching college students how to sing well together. Although music majors compose only one-fourth of the madrigal choir, Frau Kramm's knowledge and discipline evidently have knitted the group into a tight web of harmonic compatibility. All eight sections maintained a sharp, perfect rhythm while mellowly balancing their voices in unusually complex choral passages. Selections were sung from Bach, Mozart, Bruckner, Strauss, Brahms, Orff and Ward.
THE CHOIR even stepped through a delightfully unpolished dance sequence while singing Strauss' Vienna Waltz and Rosen aus dem Suden. Half of the company, dressed as Sunday afternoon strollers, staged and waltzed through a casual scene, typical of those from "Maytime" and "Show Boat."
One blond, slender baritone, Dieter Mohme, was given the excited audience's adulation after he rendered three solos in a confident, polished voice. He is comparable to KU's great baritone, Jack Davison, who graduated last June.
THE ATTRACTION of the choir astounded the School of Fine Arts, whose Swarthout Recital Hall could not handle the crowd. But the standing-room-only patrons were not complaining. They were happy to be there.
If the reader is one of the many who missed this event, he has a right to rue the oversight. But instead, he would be wiser to forget all about this review. He could take consolation in the bliss of ignorance.
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