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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Jan. 14. 1959
Ego Seeks Fame
I'm a wheel! I'm important! These thoughts are probably running through the mind of a poor dissatisfied soul now as he gloats over the fact that his week-end venture made the front page of the Daily Kansan.
The ego is a funny thing. For most persons, it is satisfied by a reasonable amount of success in life's daily undertakings. But occasionally one of these characters pops up who must risk life and limb to satisfy the self.
What a disappointment it must have been when he was thwarted in his attempt to place some kind of a flag on the Fraser tower. Someone had succeeded this fall in taking a flag. What frustration that he could not enjoy the same notoriety,
Telling a few about his experience wouldn't
satisfy the need in this case. After all, had he not almost been captured, almost hurtled from that high roof, forced to run a great distance to be entirely safe.
A public letter would be more satisfying, so our hero took pen in hand and inscribed a note to the editors, describing each spine-tingling minute of his adventure.
We hope he is satisfied. If we have boosted his spirit so that his final week will be more successful than before possible, we are happy. Far be it from us to deny public acclaim for such brave individuals.
But in answer to the question of the intelligence of anyone who climbs around on icy roofs at night . . . Res ipsa loquitur. (The Thing speaks for itself.) —Mary Alden
Jailed for Her Rights
Today, Marie Torre gets out of jail. But within a week or so, she may go back.
Marie Torre is not a criminal in the usual interpretation of the word. She is a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune. She was in jail serving a 10-day sentence for contempt of court.
She was convicted for her refusal to identify a source of information in one of her columns. At the time she refused she was a witness in a libel and breach of contract trial.
The federal judge who sentenced her to jail warned Miss Torre that after her sentence is served, she will continue to be subject to additional sentences if she continued defiance of the court's order to reveal her source.
This means this case could have a long and strange history. Miss Torre insists there should be a right of confidence between the newspaper
writer and the informant. Each time she reaffirms her stand, she may go back to jail.
The case may end in several ways.
The person Miss Torre is protecting may step forward and announce his identity. This is unlikely since he would be placed in a bad position in the libel-breach-of-contract suit.
Miss Torre may break down and tell the judge the name of her informant herself. This is also unlikely. Miss Torre believes in what she is doing—to help establish the right of confidence for the press. This right is already extended to ministers, doctors, and lawyers. Newspaper reporters have it in a few states.
The most satisfactory conclusion and result of the case would be for the judge to set a precedent in common law by deciding that Miss Torre did, in fact, have a right of confidence, or for a wave of public opinion to force Congress to pass a law to that effect. —Jim Cable
Trying to Save World
Over 10,000 students should be given credit for at least putting forth an effort to save the world. Students, enrolled in colleges from coast to coast, signed a petition calling upon the United States, Russia and Great Britain to sign an "immediate agreement for the permanent cessation of nuclear weapons testing" with provision for control and inspection.
These names, along with 100,000 more signatures on a similar adult petition sponsored by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy were presented to the delegates to the Summit talks at Geneva.
It is a good feeling to know that at least 110,000 Americans are conscious of what is going on in the world today. The spirit of consciousness we
support. However, the 110,000 should have saved their energy.
It will take more than signatures to stop the mad havoc of our modern nuclear world.
First the United States bulges with smugness as she has something "up" bigger and better than cold Russia. Then we must shudder as here come the Russians with something still bigger and better.
Both countries are so busy concentrating on how to scare each other that they have no time for the people.
Russia has never given its people a chance to register complaints. But our country has and in the past our government has listened.
Jeanne Arnold
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"WELL, I SEE YOU DIDN'T GET HIM TO RAISE YERGRADE."
The Boy Scouts will do almost anything to prove their love of God and their country. One troop is now searching the mud in the harbor at Portsmouth, England, for 400 cannon balls. They will be used to make a Bermuda fort look realistic.
Short Ones
The president of a carpet sweeping company has reported that some women don't approve of the push-button age of housekeeping. They find creative satisfaction in using non-push button methods. Personally, I get the greatest satisfaction out of getting the work done as quickly as possible so I can have time to party.
Two men are in jail for burglary because of a sign they painted which read: "King and Morris, burglaries incorporated. All kinds of work considered; breaking and entering a specialty." It does not always pay to advertise.
Thirty members of the Flying Saucer Study Society in Tokyo scanned the sky for six hours in sub-freezing temperatures without seeing a single flying saucer. Their patience may soon be rewarded. If Earthlings can send rockets into space why could not the Martians?
It Looks This Way...
By Donna Nelson
Aren't you all glad that you kept up from day to day on your readings and assignments. Now you won't have to exert yourselves and cram for final week. You can just look over your notes for awhile and go to bed early, confident that you will age them all.
It doesn't take push to get ahead these days. It takes pull.
Statements that prevent meetings from going faster:
1. I'm not questioning. I'm just asking.
2. On page 43, chapter 2, paragraph 7, article 8 of the constitution it states that we cannot do this without the unanimous vote of the whole organization and so I would suggest we start all over from scratch and ...
3. I ask that I'm not for it. It's just that I'm against it because . . .
4. Wait a minute, please. I got all that down except... well, could you repeat everything from the fourth line on.
Overheard in the powder room: "These nylons I have on ought to be in a race the way they're running tonight."
Many coeds over the campus came back from Christmas vacation wearing new fraternity pins and diamond rings, but the majority of the senior girls simply came back.
It seems pretty stupid to us that one western TV program should do an imitation of another. After all, they're always exactly alike anyhow.
A fan of children's literature reports that all of the latest fairy tales will begin: "Once upon a time when there were only nine planets."
He said he wasn't sure yet, so she suggested they get pinned while he was trying to make up his mind.
It seems American scientists don't want to send a rocket to the moon. They are afraid the first thing they will find is a TNE sign.
Said the sophomore party girl: "I shall consider myself a failure if I ever become a senior."
As the professor who keeps up with student jive talk quipped; "Well, that's the way the cookie bounces."
By Alexandra Mason, Watson Library
THE STOIC PHILOSOPHY OF SENECA, trans. by Moses Hadas. Doubleday Anchor Originals, 1958, 95 cents.
On the first of these Anchor Originals Doubleday is to be congratulated. Seneca is a writer much too little read today, despite his remarkable influence as philosopher and dramatist upon Christian thought and morality, and such diverse matters as French Revolutionary politics and Elizabethan drama.
THE SCOPE AND NATURE OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, by John Henry Cardinal Newman. A Dutton Everyman Paperback, 1958, $1.25.
THE CLASSIC THEATRE, ed by Eric Bentley: Vol. 1, Six Italian Plays. Doubleday Anchor Originals, 1958. $125.
This compact little book presents him in his most congenial form, as a quiet, thoughtful essayist and correspondent.
By virtue of Prof. Hadas' translation and helpful introduction, many readers should find these five essays and eighteen letters an intriguing sample of Seneca's thought and Roman Stoicism which he tried so unsuccessfully to instill into his infamous pupil, the emperor Nero.
The Second Anchor Original is of less certain value. "Six Italian Plays" seems to be the first volume of a series to be called "The Classic Theatre." No statement of the extent or purpose of the series is made in the book, and the contents and method of presentation give no clue.
Five of the six plays of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries included in volume one are English versions (the word 'translation' is not used) of comedies by Machiavelli, Angelo Beolco, Carlo Goldoni (two plays) and Carlo Gozzi.
The sixth is a remarkable expansion by Leon Katz of a brief, anonymous, Harlequin 'scenario' entitled The Three Cuckolds. (A translation of the 'scenario' is printed in Appendix A.)
The notes are meager, uninformative and even misleading. What might have been usful literary documents remain incompletely conceived acting versions.
Cardinal Newman's deservedly famous reconciliation of religious duty and academic integrity, with its remarkable plea for intellectual freedom, was first published in 1852, shortly before Newman became rector of the Catholic University of Dublin.
In 1859 Newman issued a revised edition which later was printed as an 'Everyman.' The present edition adds an index to the original Everyman text.
Dailu Hansan
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