Page 2
Summer Session Kansan Tuesday. June 9,1959
Gluttons At Summer School
There are a few gluttons left—gluttonies for punishment, that is. After attending classes for nine months we forsake the idea of a full-time summer job or a vacation, and return to classes—usually by our own choice.
To those of you at KU for the first time, WELCOME.
What is the attraction that the University holds for the summer school students? A couple makes Lawrence their residence until the diploma is earned. A good student takes extra hours to graduate sooner. A bad student—well. A graduate student finishes the necessary class hours for his degree. A woman decides the regular semesters' husband-hunting season is too short and continues her work in the summer.
Each day will be hotter. (It's the humidity that gets you) but the price of ice tea at the Union will remain the same. The KU summer folk will
migrate to the campus coolies—the Music and Dramatics Arts Building, Bailey Hall, the Undergraduate Library, and of course, the Union.
Further information on "what to do, when and where" can be obtained in the blue recreation folder which was handed to us as we emerged uninjured (?) from the "IBM machine" during enrollment.
Summer school and the living is easy. Yes, if you like to work with speed. Everything is double time in this session. When we're taking notes in class, and we drop our pencil, we've missed two days of class.
Although we are supposedly a regular university community, we combine sacrifice with summer school. We deny ourselves the privilege of a ruling body. We are living in an autocracy—no student government. Enjoy yourself.
—Janet Juneau
Plea for 'Truth' Reporting
A fledgling newspaperman at the University or Kansas, writing in the University Daily Kansan, bemoans the growing 'forms of censorship and news suppression."
He points out recent incidents in other colleges. At Texas Tech the college president ordered killed a picture of the student effigy hanging of none other than himself.
The writer quotes a Colorado editorial attacking the growing fear on the campus of being quoted.
He even cites troubles at KU where the All Student Council wanted to see advance proofs of a campus magazine.
"Where is the traditional fire in the hearts of
young men and women that demands truth and burns for the protection of principles." he asks.
It's pleasant to see a future newspaperman worked up over this problem of free information. Here's hoping this fire burns brightly a long time.
Veteran newspapermen have come to accept the philosophy of "no comment" or "don't quote me" as commonplace. They don't like it but more each day are being forced to live with it.
One reporter we know disregards all admonitions that "this is off the record." He counters with, "Nuts to you, brother, you talk to me and get quoted."
He has few friends, but he's a whale of a reporter. —Ottawa Herald
Daily Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Finales at concerts,
6 Hit with palm.
10 Corfort,
14 Went up.
15 Siamese ruler.
16 Wild goat of the Alps.
17 Tariff policy: 2 words,
20 Squire's domain.
21 Esther; Abbr.
22 "Pinafore" actor.
22 Europe's second largest lake.
27 Spoil.
29 Where the cash is,
31 Gardner cartoonist.
32 Arabian garments.
34 Type of tide;
36 Late philosopher and professor.
40 "Waltz of the Flowers," etc.; 2 words.
43 Almacogordo with
44 Withered.
45 Theatre group.
45 Devilkin.
48 Steeps in liquid.
50 Cashew.
51 Artist's process.
52 Particularly suitable place.
57 Anger.
58 Ohoe or clarinet.
60 Snares.
63 Relative of Voice of America: 3 words.
66 Inventor of an elevator.
67 De Valera's land.
68 Toast: French.
69 Katrine or Lomond.
70 Section of film.
71 Slow.
DOWN
1 Close attention.
2 Smelting items.
3 Ph. D, or Ed. D.
4 Oriental.
5 Trio plus quartet.
6 Rialto sign.
7 Limerick product
8 Store up.
9 Play false.
10 Norse goddess
of healing.
11 Let up.
12 Car.
13 Make an effort.
18 Capital of Saskatchewan.
19 Trios.
24 Templeton and Guinness.
26 Home of Kate, the shrew.
27 War, famous race horse.
28 Border on.
30 Victoria and Albert.
33 Federal certificate.
35 Former dictator.
37 A state.
38 Island of the N. Pacific.
39 Tidy.
41 Actor Cesar.
42 Feel discontent.
47 Like better.
49 Makes clean and bright.
51 Where Innsbruck is.
52 Muse.
53 Doctor.
54 Lofty nest.
56 Science of measuring time; Abbr.
59 Streeter's "___ Mable."
61 Homeric poem.
62 Aim at.
64 Like; Suffix.
65 Squiggle fish.
Quantrill No Bad Boy
Though William Clarke Quantrill will best be remembered as the renegade leader of a pack of border ruffians that sacked Lawrence in 1863, the young man evidently had his softer side.
Ev Bill Farmer
Three months before his death in 1865, he wrote the following poem in the autograph album of a young girl in Wakefield, Kentucky:
My horse is at the door,
And the enemy I soon may see
But before I go Miss Nannie
Here's a double health to thee
Here's a sigh to those who love me
And a smile to those who hate
And, whatever sky's above me
Here's a heart for every fate.
Though the cannons roar around me.
And a health to thee and all in door
me
Yet it still shall bear me on
Though dark clouds are above me
It hath springs which may be won
In this verse as with the wine
The libation I would pour
Should be sweet with thine and mine
And a health to thee and all in
Very respectively your friend, W.C.Q.
Feb. 26, 1865
(From "Quantrill and the Border Wars," W.E. Connelley)
Though admittedly this is pretty crummy verse, it just goes to show that there's no such thing as a bad boy.
Aspiring Journalists?
Any persons desiring to work on the Summer Session Kansan in the capacity of reporters should come to the newsroom in Flint Hall, or contact Janet Junean at KU 711.
Dailu Hansan
(Published Tuesdays and Fridays)
NEWS DEPARTMENT
a (leen) - L eh! a
News Room Phone 711
Jonathan Jones
Raj Miller
Associate Editor
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Business Office 376
Business Manager Bill Kane
By Robert E. Schofield
Associate Professor of History
Gilbert Renault, THE CARAVELS OF CHRIST, G. P. Putnam's Sons, $5.00; and Monica Dickens, MAN OVERBOARD. Coward-McCann, $3.95.
Late spring is the silly season for book publishing. It is a time when publishers push onto the market travel books, adventure stories, and light romances, hoping to catch people tired of their own winter experiences and prepared to enjoy, vicariously, the novel experiences of others. No one takes these books very seriously. They are to be read for amusement, not edifiation; they are to be reviewed for their entertainment level.
The first is a combination travel book and adventure story. The story Mr. Renault has to tell us is one of danger and exploration; the Caravels of Christ are those small ships manned by the Portuguese explorers of the 15th century, sent out by Prince Henry the Navigator and his successors of the Portuguese royal family. These ships, hugging the coastline of Africa, ventured the unknown seas until they rounded the Cape of Good Hope and found the trade routes to the Indes. The excitement and the daring of these trips should have been enough to carry the story by themselves; it is therefore unfortunate that Mr. Renault has written his account in a style of superficial excitement and flamboyance quite foreign to the tastes of contemporary Angle-Saxons. Perhaps, in its original French, this manner of writing would not be so out of place, but, as translated into English, the passionate, and obviously fictional, speeches and colorful passages tend to distract the reader from the essential elements of the story being told. If a reader does not know the details of these Portuguese navigations, then, flamboyant language or not, this book is an adequate introduction to the subject.
Monica Dickens' newest novel continues a tradition, now being established by a school of British authors, of light and charming romances of contemporary England. But, although the author is a woman, this is not a story for the woman's magazine. The dominant interest is a widower, Commander Benjamin Francis, who is forced to retire from the navy. This story tells of his adjustment to civilian life, his many attempts to find a job, and the women he meets along the way. Miss Dickens is a great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens and though her work shows little of the social significance of the latter's novels, it shows some of the same ability at characterization. The portraits of the beautiful; famous, and frigid T.V. actress and of the popular, opportunistic writer are beautifully etched in acid phrases while the eccentricities of secondary characters, including a daughter and mother-in-law, are sufficiently developed to make this a possible story for one of those British film comedies which the United States admires so much and too seldom copies. Perhaps the best thing about the book is the unseasonal and almost un-American way in which it ends. Here is no violently happy ending, in fact, there is a touch of Voltairean sadness as the hero loses still another job, decides he will be "happier being nobody very special," and determines to marry the least attractive and least exciting, but perhaps the most appealing of his assortment of eligible females.
This Spells Photo Service!
cameras-
Accessories-
Movie and slide projectors-
Exposure meters-
Rental projectors and cameras-
All films-black & white & color
Customer Satisfaction-
Everything you need-
N ever too busy to help you-
Tips to improve your picture taking-
Enjoyable pictures for you-
Really fast finishing service; both black & white and color-
Stop in today at the CAMERA CENTER for your ONE STOP camera service
Store Hours 9:30-5:30 M-S; till 8:30 Thurs.
CAMERA CENTER
BILL OLIN
1015 Mass. Ph. VI 3-9471
Next To Varsity Theater