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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Nov. 18, 1958
The Dummy
The effigy has arrived at KU. At first glance, it might seem the Kansan should be happy about an indication of student sentiment which supports our stand—that the administration acted hastily in the painting case last week.
We reject this form of support as beneath contempt. We view the effigy with no pleasure and no acceptance.
The hanger of effigies depends on darkness and anonymity to get in his poison. An effigy has no brains, and it requires none to hang one. The only requirements are the materials, an unreasoning hate toward any object, and the cover of night.
effigy, strung up for hatred; sign painting by vandals—these are malicious acts, and we never have and never will support them.
Perhaps our path seems devious. We have asked for student pranks, then attacked some of the results. The determining element, we think, is maliciousness. A bomb, fake or real; an
A student who has a grievance against the University has many channels to express himself. He may go through the Student Court, bring the issue before the All Student Council, write to or meet with the dean or administrator who can help him, or simply relieve his feelings by writing to the Kansan.
But the midnight effigy is out of bounds. It is simply the means used by a bunch of gutless wonders to work off a gripe. If they had legitimate complaints, they should have brought them forth, not come prowling around with their oversized voodoo dolls.
They proved nothing but their own cowardice.
Where the Money Goes
This is the week we are being asked to contribute to the annual Campus Chest drive.
We have all seen the posters which stood in front of Flint Hall until yesterday's deluge. But just exactly to which organizations are we contributing? Why should we give?
The largest single part of the contributions, 40 per cent, will be sent to World University Service. It aids students in over 40 countries, including the United States. It provides medical care, housing, textbooks, equipment, scholarships, and other student needs.
One of WUS's main aims is to improve the health of students. In Korea 200,000 students have tuberculosis. In Hong Kong one out of every eight students suffers from the disease. In these and other places WUS has built and equipped TB wards.
In 1920 it sent post-war relief to Europe and the Middle East. In 1923 it restored libraries in Tokyo which had been destroyed by an earthquake.
In 1937 it provided emergency aid to Chinese victims of Japanese aggression and in 1947 helped provide relief from the flood and famine that hit India.
During the Hungarian revolt it sent aid to the refugees and in 1957 set up the Hungarian Loan Fund. Through the help of WUS about
950 Hungarian students were able to continue their studies in the United States and about 600 of these are continuing their studies this year.
Each of the other organizations in this year's drive will receive 10 per cent of the total collected.
The KU Travel Fund for Exchange Students was established last year. It helps pay the travel expenses for KU students who have been awarded scholarships to five English universities.
Last year the Campus Chest money given to CARE was sent to aid university students in Mexico.
The National Scholarship Fund for Negro Students provides counseling service as well as scholarships. NSFFNS scholars are very carefully selected and the percentage of school dropouts among scholarship holders is extremely low.
The Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students meets foreign students arriving in this country and arranges for temporary housing. It also provides counseling services.
The Save the Children Federation provides medical care, clothing and other needs for children all over the world.
The remaining 10 per cent is set aside in a standing KU emergency fund.
This is where the money goes. Each of these organizations aids students. They are worth supporting. Martha Crosier
Editor:
An Old Wound
...Letters...
We (my pocket mouse and I) have been royally amused during past months by the totally irrelevant and (to use one of his favorite words) impotent observations of KU's obviously uninformed and perennially unsophisticated amateur critic of music and the theater.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"FIVEN THE STUDENTS ARE DEMANDING HIGHER SALARIES FOR OUR TEACHERS — PROFESSORS COME & GO SO FAST THE FRATERNITIES DON'T HAVE TIME TO BUILD A 'TEST FILE' ON THEM"
His latest horror takes the cake, though; anyone should know better than to attack one of the popular arts. The wrath of the people has rightly descended upon John Husar's blithe outstretched neck.
A space authority says it's possible to get to Mars and Venus, but not to the stars. This is the same sort of prophecy that said in 1940 airplanes might be useful for wars, but they'd never break the speed of sound.
His error is doubly compounded when one considers the fact that (according to the Lawrence Daily Journal-World) "The King and I" was produced and directed by Godd himself (Lewis Godd, that is). Viewed in this light, Brother Husar's critique enters the realm of heresy.
David Dodds
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By John Husar
To assure himself of a successful play, all a producer apparently has to do is choose a melodrama, staff it with University Players, and hire an Allen Crafton to do the directing.
For years one of the looked-for items of the KU theater season, the University Players' melodrama has a tradition of annual hits. The current production, "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room," is no exception.
The melodrama is professed to be acted straight, with no hammy accoutrements. Gratifyingly, this is not completely so. The players do their jobs almost seriously and are quite convincing. This is necessary to reproduce adequately a show that "convinced" a number of people many years ago. However, each actor allows enough stylizations to distort his person and not change his character, possibly aiding it in places.
Most of the humor in this play lies in the serious playing. Some of the pathetic situations, when acted straight, look rather ludicrous in an old-fashioned atmosphere and provide delightful comedy.
The broader sequences fit in perfectly with the temperance play's mood. Stretched out of reality, they are charming, comical and ideally satisfying.
Broken into five acts and thirteen short scenes, the play shows how an alcoholic finds success and happiness through temperance, brought about by his daughter's pitiful death. The story reveals how the villain, who caused the hero's original downfall, meets sickness and murder at the hands of the evil drink he spent his life promoting.
Henry Asbell is refreshing as a soulful, self-martyred symbol of temperance. Marvin Carlson caps a long list of fine performances as a strong-arm, do-good, All America young man in, we believe, his first romantic lead. In the smallest part, John Schick is the best lamplighter and incebrite we have seen. Louis Lyda is particularly outstanding as the drunkard. His subtle techniques aid him in creating a quality role seldom found in melodrama. Linda Greene. Lyda's plaintive, almost sickening-sweet daughter, does a beautifully stereotyped performance.
Bob Potter is a true gambler; Suzanne Calvin is in love with love; and Joyce Elliott is a stout-hearted wife. Others in the cast are: Paul Decker, Luckey Heath, Steve Callahan, Judith Satterfield, and Jean Rustemeyer. In a worn old play like this, Prof. Crafton's inspiration is apparent.
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