Thursday, January 9, 1969
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Student power:1968
By CHIP ROUSE Kansan Staff Writer
Greater student representation in university government has been the big cry across campuses throughout the nation this year, and the University of Kansas has been no exception.
The current Senate Code proposal and the efforts which have been set forth this year in order to secure a larger degree of student representation in University affairs have been selected by Kansan editors and editorial writers as the top campus news story of 1968.
On the basis of ten points for a first place vote, nine for second, and so forth, the drive for greater student representation received 194 votes.
The initial drive began last spring with a group which referred to itself as Student Voice. Members of this group sent a signed petition to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe asking for greater student representation in University affairs.
At the beginning of the fall semester, two reports were circulated among the student body and the administration. One, the majority report, called for 15 per cent student representation on the University Senate and equivalent representation on its various committees.
The second report was submitted by a group cal ed Peoples Voice (an offshoot of Student Voice) and was referred to as the minority report. This report called for 50 per cent student representation on the University Senate and suggested such changes as the abolishment of the office of Dean of Men and Dean of Women.
Both reports were discussed by the University Senate and the All-Student Council (ASC). On Nov. 6, the ASC passed the Senate Code proposal, which in turn was passed by the University Senate Council on Dec. 13. The Code proposes student membership on the University Senate for the first time in the history of the University.
The Senate Code proposed 15 per cent student representation on the University Senate, the establishment of a Faculty Council, which would reflect the wishes of the faculty and would exist in about the same manner as the present Senate Council. Also, it would call for the abolishment of the ASC.
In order for the Code to be put into effect, it
must be approved by the University Senate, then in a student body election and finally by the Board of Regents.
In his annual fall convocation address last September. Chancellor Wescoe stunned thousands of onlookers by announcing his resignation from the University of Kansas. This campus news story received 174 votes and second place in the balloting.
Third place in the voting went to the story which announced that KU had accepted a bid to meet Penn State in the Orange Bowl on New Year's night.
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's appearance on Mt. Oread was selected as the fourth best campus story of the year. This was the late Kennedy's first major campaign swing in his quest to become the Democratic candidate of the Presidency of the United States.
The dedication of the new Spencer Library was the fifth best story of the year. There was a tie for sixth between the firing of Norman Abrams, a professor of design, and the selection of a Negro coed to the pom-pon squad. Eighth place went to the expansion plans for Watkins Hospital; Bruce Mallin's death and the story involving the math instructor asking several ROTC students to leave his class tied for ninth.
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The HIll With It by john hill
And now a few words about obsc*nity.
This is not a major problem during normal news coverage, but occasionally you run into problems when quoting a well-known campus ruddical making a speech. (Get it? Ruddical? Didja get it? Huh?)
Especially on how to go about, and around, publishing offensive words like *****, ..., and +!*@+!
The thing about the censor's pen being mightier than the sordid is that it's not the words themselves that are doily.
It's those filthy, degenerate little asterisks.
Instead, what we use is a little row of periods, a collection of which is termed an ellipsis, whenever we try to print evil, mean, nasty words like ... Or even ... when we really get brave.
So some newspapers, like this one, scorn using such a vulgar symbol to help make a suggestive term even more suggestive.
Modern paperbacks have exploited the ellipsis, a word which sounds like the way a hairdresser would describe the moon passing between the earth and the sun, resulting in some of the raciest passages in all literature being left to the imagination.
This happens whenever a sentence ends the way this one is going to by saying some lean-jawed guy named David slips his arm around some willow divorcee named Marsha, and the two of them, together, slowly, sin back, together, into the fireplace...
Each of those commas is rough enough on a person, but those teeny dots at the end are murder. Especially if the only reason you're reading it is for the heavy breathing.
The answer to all this might be to simply go along with this line of reasoning, or lack thereof. Even go a step further. Substitute the asterisks and ellipsis when you speak the little nasties, as well as write them.
The next time you crack your shin against the coffee table while stepping barefoot on a pin with one foot and on a railroad spike with the other, just yell "Son of an asterisk!!!" Or you can get Freudian about it as scream that your coffee table is a dirty mother-ellipsis.
Another way of carrying this on would be, for example, to have all Hebrew words which are offensive be replaced not by asterisks but by little teeny Stars of David. The prose of anti-war, long-haired protest poets which proved offensive could simply be replaced by miniature peace symbols. And so on.
But the point is, of course, that anything can be made to appear more suggestive the original by adding asterisks, even G*d, m*therhood, the fl*g, and *pple pie...
The dubious and the damned
Every year Esquire Magazine comes out with its "Dubious Achievement Awards" for those events and persons in the previous year that best represented human folly.
By BOB BUTLER Kansan Staff Writer
Quick to cash in on anyone else's success, the Kansan now presents the "KU Dubious Achievement Awards of 1968":
The George Wallace Law and Order Award—to
the campus cops for selecting at random two or three nights each week to ticket cars parked outside McColum Hall while the drivers were inside picking up dates.
The "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" Award—to Hamilton Salsich.
The Wretched Excess Award—to the KU student who got Robert Kennedv's cufflinks.
The Mistaken Identity Award—to the KU coed who asked visiting French film director Jean-Luc Godard what had prompted him to make "A Man and a Woman."
The S. I. Hayakawa Award—to head football coach Pepper Rodgers for "funarito," "spikeartius" and "Rip City!"
The Better Dead than Red Award—to the Lawrence matron who vented her ire at the anti-Veterans' Day War-demonstrators by showing one marcher into the gutter and then attempting to smash him with her fist. The young man was a reporter covering the march for the UDK
The Rats-Leaving-the-Sinking-Ship Award—to the members of the ASC for voting themselves out of existence in favor of the new Senate Code.
The Clean Mind and Healthy Body Award—to certain University administrators who strongly suggested to the UDK advertising staff that Doug Clark's band of reknown be known as the "Hot Notes."
The Wretched Excess Award No. 2-to Peoples Voice.
The Instant Urban Renewal Award—to the K-State students who threatened to burn the school down if they didn't get their way and then proceeded to do it.
The "So What Else is New?" Award—to the UDK for its exposes on marijuana and homosexuality on campus.
The Commie Dupe Award—to Dean of Faculties Francis Heller, who last spring told a group of dissident students demanding more undergraduate participation in University affairs that students were only "transients." As a result of his realistic.
though unfortunate, remarks, Student Voice was founded and the new Senate Code brought into being.
The "Keep Clean for Gene" Award—to the residents of Daisy Hill for their epic mud fight.
The Impossible Dream Award—to KU's proposed humanities tower, originally planned to take up 25 stories of KU's skyline, then cut to 15, and now down to the three-story substructure with the tower to be added later as funds become available.
The Clarity of Thought Award—to visiting speaker Julian Bond for his poem:
"See that girl shake that thing
But we can't all be Martin Luther King."
The Dubious Achievement of 1968—the neato underground tunnel from the Kansas Union to X-Zone parking lot.