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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 21. 1959
A Year to Answer
The strength of any platform depends upon the quality of material from which it is built. And Vox Populi political party will either stand upon a strong foundation or fall through the weak and rotten boards, depending on its performance.
The test of durability begins tonight when newly elected representatives meet with the All Student Council. The new Council, composed of 20 Vox Populi members, has only a month of the school year left, but this is sufficient time to act upon some of the planks in the party's platform.
The proposals of the platform were:
1. The housing committee should continue to work on the problem of housing for independent students living in unorganized housing. This should be investigated before the end of the 1958-59 school year so provisions can be improved before the fall semester begins.
2. Committee appointments should be made on the basis of petition and with the approval of the ASC. But openings in committee should get campus-wide publication so all interested students are aware of the positions.
3. Vox will...inform students about student government through the ASC public relations committee. Perhaps this is a positive step toward reducing, and eventually eliminating, student apathy.
4. Vox will work toward the formation of curriculum committee in each of the schools of the
University. Not only should these committees be formed, but the ASC should give them guidance which would in turn make them more influential in effecting changes and improvements.
5. The problem of student wages should be taken to the ASC labor committee. But Vox should not stop there. It is a matter that must go beyond committee meetings where everyone agrees that it is a problem and lets it go at that. A solution may never be found unless the problem is thoroughly investigated, documented and presented to the Board of Regents or the state legislature.
The Vox platform also proposed to bring four points to the attention of the ASC. The four points were:
1. Extended library closing hours.
2. Improved new student orientation program.
3. Expansion of the Kansas Union coffee service.
4. Lifting zone parking restrictions during final week.
These proposals need consideration to determine their advisability. But as part of the platform they must be given due attention.
The party built its platform upon which it stood during elections. Now with the majority of representatives on the Council it must continue to stand and to work on it throughout the remainder of this school year and the 1959-60 year.
The work begins at the meeting tonight.
Dear Mr. Jones
(Editor's note: The following letter refers to a column by Alan Jones, "It Looks This Way," in Thursday's Daily Kansan.)
Editor:
I quote—because of necessity:
You (Alan Jones) painted a very discouraging but evident verbal picture in your article. Even though you were merely trying to emphasize the uselessness of student government, you aptly (though unconciously, I am sure) pointed out the cause of "nitwit student government."
"And does it make 37 cents worth of difference who won? Not to me, and not to eight thousand other students."
Mr. Jones, you proved nothing in your emphatic article except that it is the eight thousand and other apathetic students that reduce student government to "petty chi-
canery." Your article was a supreme example of apathetic rationalization.
Be realistic, Mr. Journalist! You cannot condemn the few interested individuals (I believed you termed them activities men) for what the All Student Council does not do—or cannot do!
Limitations exist, Mr. Jones, but I believe that my positive dream, for more effective student government, is more desirable and more beneficial than your remarkable, but extremely negative, observations.
You wrote that campus elections are over "just in time to prevent nausea." But your article informed me of nothing and served merely to increase my nausea.
We have the power of our intellects and our physical fitness within in our reach—but it is up to you and your comrades to realize our
potential, grasp it and use it for constructive gains.
You asked: "What does—what can—the ASC do?" Well, suppose you and your uninterested eight thousand think about it while "the shimmer of hot air is wafting skyward."
Ed McMullan
Long Beach, N. Y. sophomore ASC representative-elect
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Editor:
Class Gift Suggestion
Editor:
Recent editorial letters about senior class gifts remind me to suggest a gift that would benefit a great many people but which may never have been considered.
I gather that there are no regular funds available with which to buy books and magazines for students hospitalized in Watkins. We have occasion to help out a bit on occasion by turning over some of our duplicates, but this isn't a very satisfactory way to keep lively and interesting material on hand all the time.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS BY BIBLER
Only a small gift or endowment fund would be necessary in order to assure that Watkins regularly could have an attractive selection of magazines and new books available at all times for those hospitalized students who don't quite have the energy for intensive studying.
"REMEMBER — AFTER TH' MOVIE DON'T LET HIM TALK YOU IN GOING TO HIS APARTMENT TO SEE HIS EITCHINGS."
A small plaque on the book truck, or something similar, could appropriately remind readers of the class making the gift.
I have heard this problem mentioned so frequently that I am sure a move of this sort would be received with gratitude by a great many people.
Robert Vosper
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By David L. Webber
CROME YELLOW, Aldous Huxley. Bantam Books. 35 cents.
"Crome Yellow," first published in 1922, was Huxley's first use of the novel form for the exploration of the problems which he has so eloquently put before us over the years. Many of the ideas which were later to form the basis for his better-known novels "Antic Hay," "Point Counter Point," and "Brave New World," appear here for the first time and undergo a sort of preliminary discussion.
11 Huxley fails to delve as deeply as he might into the possibilities of some of the problems he presents, it is partly because so many of them appear. One gets the impression that "Crome Yellow" was intended to be a survey of ideas later to be studied individually and in greater detail.
The action takes place in England, just after World War I, and the setting is Crome, a country estate to which a number of guests have come for a summer outing. The plot is a rather tenuous thread used only to hold the book together. Mr. Huxley's style, however, is effective and very readable.
A large part of the book is social satire, quite penetrating although rarely bitter. The remainder is devoted to a study of certain aspects of love and sex. None of the attitudes exhibited are strongly praised, and none are condemned except by being made to appear ludicrous and shallow.
The group assembled at Crome does not comprise all classes, but each character is representative of his type. They have views still common today, and are concerned with problems which are still alive and real today. For that reason the years which have elapsed since the writing of "Crome Yellow" have not affected its timeliness.
Increase Your Word Power
By Wilfred Funk
Check the word or phrase you believe to be nearest in meaning to the key word. Correct answers are on page 4.
(1) immeasurable—A: stingy. B:
without limit. C: powerful. D:
generous.
(2) monograph—A: treatise on a single subject. B: long speech by one person. C: picture. D: study of many subjects.
( 5 ) *recision* [re sizh' un]—A: act of canceling. B: reconsideration. C: surrender. D: surgical technique.
(3) *deranged*—A: assorted. B: degraded. C: defeated. D: disordered.
(4) adulatory (ad' u la to ri)—A:
boastful. B: immoral. C: extravagantly c o m p l i m e n tary.
D:高手踌ed.
( 6 ) severance—A: indignation. B: separation. C: deep respect. D: harshness.
(7) footless—A: clumsy. B: hope-
less. C: free to go anywhere.
D: useless.
( 8 ) imperturbable—A: extremely upset. B: ignorant. C: unexcitable. D: stubborn.
(9) **dismandle**—A: to upset. B: disillusion. C: shatter. D: strip or take apart.
(10) aria (ah'r i a)—A: extent. B: melody for a single voice. C: applause. D: prima donna.
(11) destined—A: made famous. B: postponed. C: fated. D: announced.
(12) virtuously—A: completely. B; righteously. C: hopefully. D; essentially.
(13) uncoouth—A: dull. B: awkward. C: insipid. D: untrustworthy.
(14) holocaut (hol' o kost) — A:
complete destruction. B: fun-
eral pyre. C: feast. D: tumult.
(15) bizarre (bi zahr')—A: of great beauty. B: gay. C: grotesque. D: noisy.
(16) canard (ka nard')—A: game bird. B: false story. C: explosion. D: vase.
(17) **roundly**—A: loudly. B: indirectly. C: unfairly. D: vigorously.
(18) abashed—A: embarrassed. B: insulted. C: smashed. D: self-possessed.
(19) tumultuous (tu mul'tu us)—
A: heavy. B: revolution.
C: full of commotion. D: terrifying.
(20) denumelatory  (de nun' se a to ri) A: resigned. B: vile. C: relating to a formal announcement. D: threatening.
(From "It Pays to Increase Your Word Power," Reader's Digest, May 1959.)
"Whenever someone speaks with prejudice against a group—Catholics, Jews, Italians, Negroes—someone usually comes up with the classic line of defense: 'Look at Einstein!' 'Look at Carver!' 'Look at Toscaniini!' So, of course, Catholics (or Jews, or Italians, or Negroes) must be all right.
"They mean well, these defenders, but their approach is wrong. It is even bad. What a minority group wants is not the right to have geniuses among them but the right to have fools and scoundrels without being condemned as a group."
Agnes Elizabeth Benedict.
quoted from "Jewish Digest"
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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent—William Blake
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.—Thomas Jefferson