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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 19, 1959
Workers, Not Talkers
Telephone lines from the Kansas Union were humming Tuesday night in a last minute attempt to round up a quorum for the All Student Council meeting. The agenda included discussion and voting on the election bill. It was important that this vote be taken because primary elections will be about one week after spring vacation.
No quorum was obtained.
A little planning ahead could have prevented this last minute push to get members out.
The meeting was postponed from the regular time to 8:30 p.m. because of sorority coffees for new pledges.
The chairman of ASC was aware of this conflict ahead of time, but none of the members were notified of the meeting or the change. This clearly illustrates the lack of thoughtful leadership that goes into the regularly scheduled meetings of the ASC.
With general elections a little over two weeks away, the election bill must be passed immediately if it is to go into effect this spring. The proposed bill is designed to eliminate ballot stuffing
and speed up vote counting by use of IBM machines.
Since this bill has just come up for consideration, it appears that it was a last minute idea. But this is not true. The proposal was made quite a while ago. However, no action was taken to draft such a bill until the task was given to a new member of the council, David Wilson. Wilson was chosen in February by Vox Populi party to fill a vacancy in the fraternity living district.
This evident lack of planning on the part of the council's administration points up the need for the student body's careful consideration of each candidate in the coming election.
There are lots of gladhanders and backslappers on campus who, with broad, confident smiles, will convince their fellow students that they are the men for the job. But student government needs something more than talkers. It needs earnest workers.
Often campus office-seekers find the taste of glory sweet but the responsibility, work and planning which an office entails are unsavory to them. Pat Swanson
Irish and the Green
(Editor's note: The following letter is in reply to a statement made in a feature on Tuesday's society page. Mr. Jackson said, "Wearing green on St. Patrick's Day has lost all its symbolism. It is a rather trite custom.")
Dear Editor:
Dear Editor:
To you, Tom Jackson, "may you be in heaven three days, before the devil knows you're dead," especially for saying what you've said. I hope that any Irishman that you've in your family is not a spinning in the grave for the words that you've just been permitted to speak in public.
There are many of us, nay, legions of us that cannot be categorized as professional Irish, and the symbolism is lost with you only, my brash friend. There are no doubt, many of us to whom St. Patrick's Day means Mass, the wearing of the Green, and the standing of a drink to a colleague.
As to be trite, "you can knock an Irishman to his knees, but never to his back." Perhaps you had better examine the historical significance that evolves around the wearing of the Green, and while you are at it, you might also question a few of the sons of the Republc.
Perhaps St. Patrick's Day represents only the sending of funny cards, and other public displays of Irish affections to you, but to others of us, it is the continuance of a spirit of freedom, a spirit filled with joy, love, sorrow, and no doubt, melancholy.
Please consider, Tom, just what the Irish have endured and compare the spirit of the people to that which they have endured through history. I'm not being disparaging; only in this do I hope to pass to you some measure of what I feel in my heart every seventeenth day cf March. Bless you, Tom, and I hope there is a good Irishman beside you next St. Pat's Day.
Patrick Allen
Lawrence sophomore
Equality in Action
Editor:
On the Daily Kanson's front page Monday the headline read as follows, "Murphy Slams Greeks' Bias'... I don't believe that he slammed hard enough and I would like to do a little on my own.
Chancellor Murphy continued by saying that, "racial and religious clauses in national charters are inexcusable," and then followed this statement up by saying, "each sorority or fraternity should be able to decide who can be a member of that living group."
Oh, yes! They certainly should be able to decide. This is their God-given right and they should be very proud of themselves. Why should I deny them the right of protection from "outsiders"? Why should I worry about something that is no business of mine?
Why? Because I am an American who believes in equality, not only in word, but in action!
I might change the famous statement by Voltaire and say, "I do not agree with these words in your charter, and I will defend to the death the common feelings of all men, regardless of racial or religious background."
Would you put yourselves in the same category as the Ku Klux Klan? "Of course not," would be the answer, but you are doing basically just what they are. They fight with a sword and you with a word. You talk about brotherhood, sorority, and fraternity, but have little knowledge of the true meaning.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS BY BIBLER
BEAUTIFUL!
Why do you insist on living with your "own kind?" Why must you have this false security that comes with "agreement?" I would like to impress upon you, the great opportunity that you are missing by limiting your associations to those you look and think just like you, for what better way is there to understand "all people" than to live with them. Let's get on the ball and practice what we preach.
I said to a few fraternity friends of mine, "It's a shame that something can't be done to rid the charters of this kind of garbage," and the answer was always the same, "Jim, I don't agree with the racial or religious clauses either, but if we fight it we may lose our national charter."
Why not change the entire situation, by changing the national charter. When it comes time to send a representative to the national convention, have him go and speak out against this clause, (make sure he can dodge rocks), but let them know that you believe in the rights for which your forefathers died.
The elimination of these simple un-American phrases from your charter could do more for mankind and world peace than all the preaching about "What brotherhood means to me."
Jim McMullan
Long Beach, N. Y., senior
Mamie Eisenhower has lost five pounds. We suspect that since the chemise is going out of style she thought she'd better slim down in order to get the "Best Dressed Woman in America" title again.
Allen - Lenn↑z
By James F. Scott
RICHARD CRASHAW: A STUDY IN BAROQUE SENSIBILITY. Austin Warren (Ann Arbor Press, 1957). $1.35.
The appearance of Austin Warren's "Richard Crashaw: A Study in Baroque Sensibility" adds another important title to the list of republished Ann Arbor paperbacks already including such definitive pieces of literary scholarship as Louis Bredvold's "The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden" and G. B. Harrison's "Elizabethan Plays and Players."
Regarded since its first publication in 1939 as the most balanced statement of Crashaw's poetic achievement, Warren's book represents a fine blend of historical background and artistic analysis which signifies sound and interesting literary judgment.
Although by no means a polemical work, Warren's study does attempt to restore Crashaw to a respectable place among 17th Century English poets and to explain, if not excuse, some of the rhetorical and thematic eccentricities which for three centuries have prevented an enthusiastic reception of his poetry.
Warren builds his case for Crashaw by relating him to the baroque tradition of Continental art and literature, then suggesting that the insensitivity of readers to Crashaw's verse has often been due to a failure on their part to understand the artist's purposes. Paradox, antithesis, and elaborate metaphorical conceits are natural to the rhetoric of a poet concerned with superimposing the spiritual upon the sensuous—the ambition of baroque art. Hence, argues Warren, Crashaw's unorthodox style is not necessarily a poetic defect.
Warren's greatest talent lies in his ability to show the effect of religious and cultural environment upon Crashaw's poetry without ever slipping from aesthetics into sociology. While concerned always with Crashaw, the artist, Warren skillfully incorporates into his work a discussion of the Catholic Counter-Reformation which accounts for its influence upon both the theme and the style of Crashaw's verse.
Warren maintains that Crashaw's spiritual movement toward Roman Catholicism parallels his growing distaste for the rigorous Puritan aesthetic which constricted his artistic development. Only in the baroque style recommended by Tridentine prescripts could Crashaw find artistic fulfillment.
"Richard Crashaw" is a major critical statement not only because it reclaims from literary limbo a poet worthy of more honor than usually accorded him, but also because Warren brings to the study of this particular artist a knowledge of symbolism, versification, and the architectonics of poetry which provides exceptional insights into these more general literary matters.
Worth Repeating
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I would say that in rocketry and space science they (the Russians) are doing enormously good work. It is awfully hard to say who is ahead, but they are certainly not behind them. They have a rocket with considerably more thrust than those we have. Quite frankly, I believe they could send a hydrogen bomb over here.—Fred L. Whipple, professor of astronomy at Harvard.
The United States may be losing the race for scientific supremacy because Americans are more interested in prosperity than posterity.—L. Allen Hynek, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
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I went to Harvard right after the war, when you had to go where you could get in.—Francis D. Fisher (in a political campaign statement as quoted by the Chicago Daily News.)
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Requiring all (high school) students to study advanced mathematics and foreign languages can only result in the lowering of standards in these courses-James B. Conant.
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