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University Daily Kansan
Fridav. Mav 15.1959
Unrestricted Parking
Good parking places for student motorists have always been rarities on this campus. Automobiles tie up most available parking places during class hours and spill onto outlying areas.
Zone parking seemed to be the answer a few years ago, and since then each car eligible to park on campus has been categorically allotted a stall. More zones have been added, but more than enough cars came to fill them. We still need additional parking zones before we can accommodate all deserving motorists.
But any new parking zone would have to be placed so far away from the University that it would be easier for most students to continue walking. So, we have quite a problem.
During final week, the problem traditionally disappears. Then students and faculty members make staggered appearances on campus due to the irregular scheduling of their examinations. Many parking stalls stand empty in most zones during that week. Only certain members of the administration, research staffs and civil service colony continue to use their parking places.
A recent All Student Council attempt to open
the zones to unlimited traffic during final week has been stymied by Keith Lawton and Ray Nichols. Both administrators feel that free access to normally forbidden parking places would cause too many headaches. It is expected that students would clog the campus with cars the moment they were not compulsed to keep them at home. There is fear that people entitled to parking places would then be forced away.
These guesses are extreme longshots. Past experience shows that many lots are only partially used during finals. And students should be mature enough not to abuse any privileges granted to them.
Ever since the parking problem increased, it has become a controversy. But it has never gone past the "word" stage. Outside of a few new zones, nothing new has been tried to alleviate the situation.
Opening the lots to the public is a good suggestion. Such a move would benefit many students and faculty members who could then park near their two-hour examinations. It may not end the parking problem, but it is a new idea, and certainly is worth a try. —John Husar
Alley-Oops
Bill Alley, the big, burly javelin thrower, probably made at least one athletic director and coach cringe when they read an article about him in a national sports magazine this week.
Said the 217-pound Syracuse University transfer student;
"I really came to Kansas because I wanted to be on a national champion track team."
If all Coach Easton needs to take the championship is a win in the javelin then Kansas has the title, because Alley is the best thrower in the country as evidence by his record breaking heaves this spring.
Alley's honesty is almost as rare as his 250-foot throws. The public has tired of college coaches who tell high school athletic banquet crowds that coaches are interested first in a boy getting a college education and second in his competing in athletics. Often that same coach will rush from the speaker's table and sign a star athlete, regardless of his scholastic ability.
Statistics on how few freshmen athletes receive college diplomas reveal the phony ring to some coaches' oratories.
Many boys would not have the chance at a college education without an athletic scholarship. Some of these scholarship recipients graduate with honors. But for a coach to infer that his primary aim is to fill the classrooms with good students and not the stadium with spectators is pure hypocrisy.
The bill for tutoring athletes here indicates that if a high school athlete is good enough to play well, the athletic department will take a chance on his scholastic ability.
Universities are supposed to be institutions of integrity. Let's stop being hypocritical at Kansas and admit we are trying to outdo the Joneses. Let's admit we are a bona fide member in the exaggerated cult of athleticism. —Harry Ritter
It Looks This Way...
By Geneva Mendenhall
Open Letter to a Young Man Who Failed the English Proficiency Exam:
Do you want to write?
There is a way; it is a sure and easy way, but it takes time.
Read. Writers are readers.
Reading creates concepts, it enlarges vocabulary, it brings fluency, it develops style, and it develops rhythm.
Writing becomes a natural function for the reader; thoughts flow, and organization follows.
This method is far superior to anything you will learn in a classroom, it is far better than a textbook on writing, much more efficient than a course in composition.
Go read. young man. go read. But it requires time.
Read the editorial pages of great newspapers, not for content but for style. Read the masters: Jefferson, Clay, Webster, and Lincoln. Read the Bible in the King James version—for great writing, for sheer beauty—there is nothing else in the English language to compare with it. Read Cervantes ("Don Quixote"); read Bunyan ("Pilgrim's Progress"); read "The Arabian Nights," and the Norse and Greek myths and legends.
Stay away from some of the young moderns—some of Steinbeck and some of Dos Passos. They have no style. Some of their writing reads as if they had jotted down notes—no capitalization, no punctuation, no style, no rhythm—and then they grew impatient or lazy or wished to attract attention, so they sent their notes to the publisher, and he printed them.
This is called "experimenting in new form"; actually it is the absence of form. They have ideas, they jot the ideas down and the reader picks them up, and that is the end of that. You will never learn about writing from them.
Of course, Faulkner experiments too—more with form than style—but Faulkner makes it worth while to follow him into the maze.
Read Hemingway—read "The Old Man and The Sea." And by all means, read Mark Twain and "Huckleberry Finn."
If you are not interested in the best, then read what you prefer, but READ. And remember this: As a man readeth, so shall he also write.
No path of flowers leads to glory. —Jean de la Fontaine in "Fables, Book X"
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The state of man: inconstancv, boredom, anxiety.
The state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. —Blaise Pascal in "Pensees"
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A traffic expert remarked recently that if all the automobiles in the country were placed end to end it would be Sunday afternoon.
Three More Seniors Honored
(Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles honoring outstanding seniors. The seniors being recognized are of those who have not been Hilltopters. A senior committee has chosen them from nominations sent in by living groups and campus organizations.)
Diane DeWerff, Ellinwood senior, will begin a 3-year tour of duty with the Navy after his graduation next January. An electrical engineering major, DeWerff has held a NROTC scholarship while at KU. He has maintained a 2.5 grade average.
In the School of Engineering, Duane has served as president of Sigma Tau and Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering organizations, general chairman of the 1959 Engineering Exposition, junior and senior representative to the Engineering Council, and as a member of a student faculty committee to study engineering. Other activities include the KuKu's, Gamma Delta and Alpha Phi Omega. He has served as treasurer and activities chairman of Triangle fraternity. A record such as this made his election to Sachem last spring quite logical.
In his leisure time, Duane's engineer background again becomes apparent in his hi-fidelity set which he built.
Arden Weston, Kansas City, Mo,
senior, will not leave Lawrence after
her graduation in June. Future
plans call for a June wedding and
a year as physical education teacher
at Lawrence High School while
the future Mrs. Jerry Glenn waits
for her husband to graduate.
While on the Hill, Miss Weston has served as social chairman and intramural manager of Watkins Hall, vice-president of the Newman Club, Catholic students' organization, president of the Women's Recreation Association, and has held residence hall and AWS Memorial scholarships.
Other activities include Sasnak, the physical education honorary organization, the University Theatre and Actor's Workshop, Young Democrats and the Newman Club
To get through the University in three years is quite a feat in itself, and Margaret Ann Kurt, Kansas City, Mo., senior, has done it while keeping a 2.6 over-all grade average and participating in extracurricular activities as well. Besides her duties at the Kappa Alpha Theta house, Miss Kurt has served as president of El Ateneo, the Spanish Club, for the past year.
This office is a natural outgrowth of her Spanish major. After summer school and graduation, Miss Kurt will enter Stanford University to begin work on a master's degree in education with emphasis on Spanish education on the elementary level.
Swimming and tennis take up her leisure time in the summer and bowling fills the spare hours that remain in the winter after a 22-hour class schedule. One of her most enjoyable activities this year was again in the area of her major. She taught Spanish to first graders at St. John's Catholic grade school.
choir. With all her activities, she has maintained a 2.0 grade average.
Duane DeWerff
Arden Weston
Margaret Ann Kurt
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