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University Daily Kansar Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1959
The Parking Stickup
We begrudge the campus police not one dollar of the money they collect from legitimate overparking fines, even when it comes at $16 a shot. But a protest must be made when they collect that through deception
During enrollment last week each student driver received a Parking and Traffic Regulations booklet.
The booklet states: "Registration sticker shall be valid for school year (September 1 to August 31 of following calendar year)."
Many of those drivers received tickets for overparking during rush week or orientation. Those tickets were given two weeks or more after August 31, yet they counted on last year's bill.
The Traffic Office was apparently operating on the theory that the car registration year ended at enrollment, and not August 31.
A student may have received three tickets last year, the first a warning, the second $2 and the third $4. He then returned for a new year and an overparking ticket cost him $8.
The booklet states that the year ends August 31. There may have been an oversight in the preparation of the instructions.
But this is no consolation to students who were taken for $2, $4, $8 or $16 last week, when they should have been receiving their first and warning ticket.
Refunds are in order. —Jack Harrison
Mr. K and the Hecklers
Washington has had its share of demonstrations this past week. The protest was against the visit of Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev.
One married couple attempted to display skull and crossbones flags on the Khrushchev parade route the day of his arrival. Sizable groups gathered in advance of the Russian leader's visit to voice objections to his coming. Booing was clearly audible as Mr. Khrushchev deplaned.
The outeys accomplished nothing. Our dignity suffered. Any visiting head of state has a right to expect courtesy when in another country. These demonstrators exhibited an intolerance of Mr. Khrushchev that even the age-old rules of international protocol could not overcome.
In an age when understanding is essential to coexistence, such intolerance is damaging to hope for permanent peace. It reveals a fear of the unknown that could only delight the leader of a nation which is presently engaged with the United States in a race for military and economic superiority.
Perhaps those who protest the visit feel the Russian leader is not acting in good faith. They may believe that he is here to boast of recent Communist accomplishments in science or to
make agreements that will later be broken. Judging by past events, these people have a strong basis for argument. The Russians have seldom given the West cause to trust in their promises.
However, in these tense days of cold war and recurrent hot spots, nothing will be settled by isolating ourselves from those who oppose us. We are committed to democracy and freedom in every corner of the globe. The East and West have no other recourse than to meet on middle ground in an attempt to better understand each other's beliefs and aims.
The more we know about Mr. Khrushchev and his future goals, the better prepared we will be to present our case for democracy in areas where Communism threatens. The great goal of peaceful coexistence is attainable only if the Russians understand that we are strong. Mr. Khrushchev has been given the opportunity to see for himself the strength of our nation and its people.
It is our hope that he will leave impressed by our belief in tolerance, freedom and opportunity. This is our heritage. With such a foundation, we have no cause to be intolerant of those who support another ideology, for we trust that ours is the better plan. —George DeBord
Athletes and Group Living
Roughly 122 students,60 of them freshmen,are temporarily banging their heads south of Allen Field House in the hope of salving KU's badlybruised football ego.
This might seem like a good idea if it were not for the notation that 14 fraternity pledges were forced to join the dormitory group and subsequently live out of their respective houses.
The freshman players, with the exception of one married man, are housed as a group in the new Joseph R. Pearson dormitory. Coach Jack Mitchell and a number of sports writers find logic in this new trend, assuming that constant companionship among players will lead to a more unified team.
Certainly football means a lot within a campus atmosphere. The successful team is desired by all. But more important than football in a supposed mature, college society is the individual's right to choose where and how he wants to live.
And he then should be allowed to live just that way. —John Husar
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CLASS YOULL BE TAKING— SO ILL EXPECT A LITTLE EXTRA WORK FROM YOU THIS TERM."
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It Looks This Way ...
By George DeBord
Yesterday, we breezed into Hillsville on the 8:05 out of K.C. amid the morning rain. The trip was pleasant, if somewhat frightening due to the recent overproduction of trucks prior to the steel strike. The red Chevrolet wanted a 24-inch chunk off a huge diesel, but responded to a tug at the wheel and settled for a mud bath in a Tonganoxie ditch.
There is much to be said for commuting, most of which is unprintable. All of which leads to arriving here for the collision with municipal government and the geography of Europe.
The adjustment from summer's carefree living to the atmosphere of intellectual stimulation was easier than last year. This could be classified as a two-beer enrollment and a three-coffee opening
day. I haven't missed a class yet and yesterday I went three for five at finding the correct classrooms.
Of course, the first day was dimmed somewhat by the Jayhawkers' loss to TCU. However, the score was encouraging—especially after watching the Kansas City Athletics in recent months.
I am what may be termed an enthusiastic sports fan. When the A's were basking in the fortunes of an 11-game winning streak not long ago, I was ready to sign up with the Cheerful Charlies. Now that they are back where they belong—battling Washington for the
seclusion of the cellar-I sleep poorly.I have nightmares about relief pitchers. The A's have one man who has ridden in from the bullpen so often this month that he had to make a payment on the blue Rambler before he could use it Sunday.
Fortunately, the baseball season is all but over and only unimportant things like pennant winners have to be determined. Football is fast coming to the fore. Big Eight conference schools are regrouping for their second tries after a humiliating opening week when hey lost six of seven games. Although only one team emerged victorious, the conference showed its intelligence by not allowing any of the losses to be televised.
I think I'll pack my passion for sports away with my worn-out swimming trunks, at least until Saturday, and get back to the business at hand.
Seeing the campus alive with young men and women bound for higher knowledge was as refreshing as the cool fall air that blew in from Canada for the weekend. The campus dogs apparently haven't arrived yet, but then punctuality has never been among their virtues. I hear the administration was thinking of postponing the opening of classes until Sarge arrived from the barbershop with his latest haircut, but they got word he was in hiding until the fur returns.
Bibler is back but "Peanuts" was again too expensive for The Daily Kansan, which is a blow to us all. I don't know if it's true or not, but there is a rumor that Charlie Brown may be hired to teach Marriage and the Family next semester, since he has a new baby sister and all.
A tip to all you lazy students: The administration is watching closely. Remember: The man who works hard and studies late into the night is the man with the high grade-point average. So watch out for him. He's usually a drag at a party.
Custom decrees co-education, precocious courtship and engagements, and marriage on the threshold of conscious life. And, inevitably, the intellectual failure to order our thoughts on sex creates conditions prejudicial to intellect: young men and women marry during college or graduate study. The men, burdened by new cares, make their intellectual training secondary to domestic duties. To marry these men, the women generally give up college for paid employment and help support the home where the men are housekeepers. The woman's education, an undertaking that shortly before was deemed of great moment, is now thrown away half-used, quite as if it cost nothing to parents, teachers, and the institution.
Yet no adult has the courage to hint that higher education is a privilege the acceptance of which binds the taker; or to say, with even more daring, that the marriage of unfinished minds of equal age stands a poor chance of being permanent.
(From the book, "The House of Intellect," by Jacques Barzun, Harper & Bros.)
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The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.—Nathan M. Pusey.
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Nowadays people are brought up in day nurseries, sent to school in winter and camp in summer, find all their entertainment outside the home, grow old in rest homes, die in sanatoriums, and are buried from funeral parlors. Richard Cardinal Cushing.