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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Oct. 12. 1959
ASC Sits on Humor
A University of more than 9,000 students conceivably should contain a sufficient number of talented students with the ability to create a presentable humor magazine. Apparently it has been assumed that KU does not.
The persons who must shoulder the responsibility for this assumption are the members of the All Student Council, for they have taken no action to determine whether or not students desire such a publication.
Nothing has been done since last year's entry, the "Fowl," met sudden death after a short and stormy existence.
We feel the ASC is overlooking one of its important functions. That function is to encourage any and all publications the student body wants which the students are willing to publish.
The first issue left much to be desired. To quote a few lines from a review:
"The saddest thing about this 'humor' magazine is that it is not humorous. It has no energy, the art work is, shall we say, less than spectacular; the creative work lacks imagination, taste."
It appears that the council is dubious of humor magazines since it silenced the "Fowl" shortly after the first issue was printed. The magazine was denied a second chance to improve on a disappointing beginning.
This, followed by financial troubles, led to its downfall. However, it seemed at the time that the ASC might have been too quick with its axe.
The editors and staff were busily at work on the second issue when the end came. Perhaps, they might have come up with a quality piece after gaining experience.
Since that time, no one has come forward to fill the breach. Perhaps the potential editor fears a fate similar to that which befell last year's staff. More probably, he fears ASC opposition at the outset.
Indeed, statements of last year's officers offer little encouragement;
The vice president of the student body said, "Personally, I would like to see no official campus humor magazine."
The outgoing president of the student body added: "The trend across the country is to do away with these humor magazines. They're purely trash."
We felt at the time that these opinions did not represent the will of the entire student body. Likewise today, we still believe the students would support a good humor magazine if it were available.
We should be interested in the results of a poll of the students to see where they stand on the matter.
If they are in favor of a new humor magazine, it then would be up to the ASC to act. The first step would be to issue a call for potential editors and staff members for the drawing up of a workable plan for publication. —George DeBord
Scooter Parkina
Editor:
Upon returning to the scooter after my first attempt to park, I found it overturned, badly scratched and dented. I placated myself, after the usual grumbling,
I am fairly familiar with the parking problem that this as well as many other schools face. I have read the parking regulations as specified in the pamphlet distributed by the traffic office during registration, and believe that I understand them. Although I am not too many years older than many of the students at KU, I have attended no less than five colleges and visited quite a few more and casually observed the various methods of handling the problem: too many cars with inadequate parking facilities.
After considerable thought, I purchased a motor scooter and upon suitably registering it, hoped to be able to park it on the Hill without taking up much of the limited space necessary for the much larger cars.
in the fact that this was to be expected when one parks a small vehicle between two large ones. My second attempt was more costly in that the kick-stand was broken and I noted more dents and scratches.
I finally decided that street parking was wholly unsatisfactory and taking example from other two wheeled vehicles, which parenthetically are much in the news of late, inasmuch as they face a similar problem, decided to park on the sidewalk.
My first attempt to park on the sidewalk (for a class in Haworth Hall) was a satisfactory experience, as the scooter was not disturbed by the students nor the conscientious eyes of the campus police. This practice continued for about a week.
One day I received a well-deserved ticket when I parked on a two-foot patch of earth that surrounds a tree which the officer had had the foresight to call "Grass". A few days later in an effort to avoid such reprobations,
I parked on the pavement under the same tree and received another ticket; which I also reserved, as the ticket read "Restricted area".
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
That both tickets were deserved was bluntly but succinctly explained to me by the officers in Hoch Auditorium, and with the admonition, "I don't care how unfair you think it is, no motor vehicles can park on the grass or restricted areas," hotly resounding on my tympanic membrane and reverberating throughout my cochlea. I left with the azure chit pressed against my rapidly thinning billfold.
Well, a story is a story is a story with all respects to G. Lawrence but what is the point?
In essence, I would like to have some "OFFICIAL" statements and regulations promulgated with regard to parking privileges for motor scooters. The things I feel that should be considered are:
JUST ONE STUDENT TO POSE' FOR, MISS LEER—SEEMS A STUPID RUMOR GOT AROUND WE WEREN'T HAVING CLASS TODAY
1. Their usefulness in alleviating the limited parking space problem on the hill.
2. Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, and Illinois Universities allow scooter parking as they would bicycle parking.
4. The suggestion that scooters be parked in Zone X would in no way solve the parking problem on the Hill and would negate the inherent practicality of the scooter
3. Their non-useability in inclement weather, thus limiting them to five-six months out of the school year.
In addition to the above, a little discretion on the part of both scooter owners and the campus police would help the situation greatly. With respect to all progressive thinking traffic officials at KU. I remain, sincerely yours.
U. S. P.H.S. Trainee Dept. of Medical Pharmacology KU Medical Center Kansas City, Kan-
Donald Kissil
Editor:
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Applause
I would like to hereby raise a hearty "three cheers" for Miss (Judy) Weatherby and a common sense attitude toward immoral movies.
Dale Gaumer Jennings senior
With John Morrissev
A pal enrolled in Juvenile Delinquency this semester. He wanted to find out why he did what he did when he did it.
It Looks This Way . . .
By Jack Morton
There appeared in this column recently a comment on the modern "Ugly Duckling." This pernicious term was equated with the older student who "possibly has been in the armed services for from two to four years, has married, realized the need for education and entered college."
The writer defined this "Ugly Duckling" as a being whose chief characteristic is his absence from activities outside the classroom which are "so vital to a complete college education." Thus, the writer says, this elder duckling does not get a chance to exercise the skills learned in the classroom. He shirks opportunities to share his interests with new friends. Worst of all, he refuses to learn how "to successfully associate with his fellows."
It would be much easier to document the writer as the immature thinker he is if he had bothered to get specific in his diatribe. What examples could he have used in place of the vague "other activities?" Pep rallies, perhaps? Nothing in the world is so educational, nothing teaches man so well to get along with his fellow man, as a good, old rip-roaring, spirited hog call for the football team.
The writer says the elder duckling refuses the means by which he can learn "to successfully associate with his fellows." I'll patch up his split infinitive and faulty reasoning at the same time. Most of these elder ducklings learned to associate successfully with about 100 hard working, sweating, stinking G.T's in the uneducational atmosphere of a crowded barracks building. This is supreme togetherness that should touch the very depths of the writer's heart. If you can't associate successfully in the armed services, you find yourself transported to the stockade, where a rather distressing apartness is emphasized.
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I have searched my mind for another "other" activity which the elder ducklings neglect to attend. A large number of them seem to make it to the better art films shown on campus each week. The ducklings also turn out for the concerts in good number, while the younger, more responsible students are getting the full benefits of their college education by listening to rock and roll at the local pub.
It is a sorrowful indictment of most college students that they devote too much time to activities and too little time to education. The elder ducklings have too much regard for their chance for an education to waste it on collegiate falderal.
The ducklings know that too many college students manage to ease their way in, through and out of school and into positions of responsibility in the world without the fundamental knowledge of those institutions, ideas, philosophies, customs, precedents, laws and histories upon which their civilization is based. What faith can be put in the will of the people if the people are ignorant of the things which made their world what it is?
Rather than begrudging the University the charity of their presence at student activities, most elder ducklings are performing a charity by their absence from a majority of the extracurricular high-stepping engaged in by the younger set. The charity the ducklings perform is to the people among whom they will live as informed, useful citizens.
How are people to exercise judgment if they have no knowledge of precedent from which to judge? To what examples, to what person's deeds or ideas, will these people refer when called upon to make a decision which might determine the conditions under which they or their future generations might live?
Each of us has to learn that it's no true gift to have another say: "Beside you, no body else matters..." since the only tribute to be trusted in life is, in the end, the one that means: "Because of you, all others in some way matter more."—Doris Peel.
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The holiest moment of the church service is the moment when God's people—strengthened by preaching and sacrament—go out the church door into the world to be the Church. We don't go to church, we are the Church.Canon Earnest Southcott.
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