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University Daily Kansan
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Tuesday. Nov. 4, 1958
On to Columbia
Nineteen thousand people crammed Kansas State's football stadium Saturday and watched the Jayhawkers walk off with their third Aggie scalp in as many seasons. Over one-tenth of them were migrators from Mt. Oread.
This can be called a fairly successful migration.
The near 2,000 KU fans, the band, the Jayhawk certainly did much to spur the team to its fine victory. Most of these students stayed in Manhattan for hours after the game to wildly celebrate.
However, four-fifths of the student population stayed home. Sprawling on beds, easy chairs and bar stools, many of them listened to the game by radio. Others just didn't.
This was the first of three planned migrations.
The next will be to Columbia, Nov. 22, and another will head toward K-State at basketball time.
The Jayhawks are finally on the winning track. To continue toward a formerly hopeless (not so anymore) winning season, the team needs to feel the students behind them. To keep behind them, the students should travel with the team.
Now that we have had one successful migration, let's not give up. This is no time for laxity.
Plans and arrangements must be made in advance. Make them.
In a short three weeks, KU will play its last game of the season. For many of us, this will be the last we can witness.
The bigger the migration, the better the party and, possibly, a much easier victory.
—John Husar
For the Married Student
While married college students were a rarity before World War II, they have become an accepted and sizable part of the student body since the GI boom of the late 1940s.
The married student has generally been found to be more serious, a harder worker, steadier and more reliable than his single classmate. As a rule, the married student has set his goals in school and is more interested in achieving them than in beer sessions or social activities.
There is no sign that married students will disappear from college campuses. On the contrary, the proportion will probably increase in the next several years.
And there is the bind. There is no provision at present for state funds to build married student housing. The KU administration has asked for housing funds to include quarters for married
students, but the legislature has not allotted them.
In normal procedure, funds for student dormitories come from a state appropriation and from private donations. So far, married student housing has been provided by private donors and from other sources the University has been able to find. One example is the Stouffer Place construction, which was built through a federal loan and will be paid off through rent receipts.
So long as state funds are not available for married housing, there will continue to be problems and flareups like the one at Sunnyside.
We believe it is time the legislature reconsidered its restriction on the use of housing funds. Until it does, a large part of our student body will continue to be handicapped in getting an education. Al Jones
One Vote for Snarf
Dick Bibler, KU graduate, man of letters, and syndicated cartoonist, sent the Kansan a little communication the other day.
Mr. Bibler suggests, through his famous Professor Snarf, that KU should initiate a contest to select a campus Prof. Snarf.
Perhaps this should be taken up with Student Union Activities, but we have worked out some of the details on our own hook.
First, the Snarf contest would only be open to faculty members of three years service or more. A new instructor can't really be Snarflike until he has been seasoned.
Second, the Snarf contest should come at an otherwise dull point in the college year. Pick something like the hiatus between football and
basketball seasons.
Third, the contest must come after midsemester. A student can't really judge his instructor until the downslips come out.
Fourth, the voting must be done by undergraduates only. The graduate student is too bitter to be objective.
Fifth, the faculty must be sold on the idea that it is an HONOR to be elected Snarf.
A laurel wreath can be designed for the lucky winner, and a suitable plaque presented.
These are only basic outlines of a properlyrun Snarf contest. The brainpower on campus can fill in the details—effigies, tar and feathers—and come up with a workable program to name Professor Snarf. —A.J.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
By Dick Bibler
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Election Telescope
Two states voting other days: Maine elected in September, Alaska will vote Nov. 25. Maine elected one Democratic senator, two Democratic representatives, one Republican representative, and a Democratic governor.
Election facts on election day:
Today's election will name 33 senators, 432 representatives, 32 governors.
In the Senate, 13 of the Senate seats up for grabs are held by Democrats, 20 by Republicans. These senators were elected in 1952, Eisenhower's first campaign year.
The holdover senators include 26 Republicans, 36 Democrats. The Democrats can get control by winning 13 seats,the Republicans must win 23 for control.Democrats had an edge in the former Senate with 49 seats.
In the House of Representatives, all seats (except Maine and Alaska) are to be decided today. In the past Congress, the Democrats held a majority, 232 to 196, with 7 seats vacant.
The Democrats are assured of 90 seats in the Solid South, and 4 more which have minor opposition. The GOP has only one candidate without opposition. This means the Democrats need only 127 of the remaining 343 for control.
In the 32 governor's races, 13 states now have Republican governors, 19 have Democrats. No "control" is involved here, but the governor can often deliver a majority for his party in a presidential election. The state offices will have a great influence on the 1960 presidential campaign.
Alaska's representative will bring the House to 436. This is the first time in nearly 50 years there has been a change in House numbers. In 1963 the House will return to 435, following reapportionment based on the 1960 census.
The states to watch (returns listed elsewhere in the paper) for Senate control are:
Twenty-nine women are running for Congress this year. Seven are running as independents.
In the House, control hinges on some 80 to 90 "marginal" races. The Democrats won two of these in Maine, are unopposed in four more. They hold 47 of the others. Republicans hold 36 (plus one in Maine). Return of all incumbents here would probably give the Democrats House control.
Arizona, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Miscellaneous data:
... Books in Review ...
By Dick Crocker
THE RESTORATION OF MEANING TO CONTEMPORARY LIFE.
by Paul Elmen. Doubleday and Co., $3.95.
Life today, while seemingly a continuous round of activities, is in reality empty of meaning, says this author. Modern man suffers from what Dr. Elmen calls "boredom," which in its extreme form becomes "horror."
The bored man "weighs the pros and cons, patiently tries to build a system like an old man making a bridge out of matches; in the end the triviality of existence overwhelms him, and he subsides into ennui, not even looking through the window to watch a Rembrandt paint, not even caring when Ibsen brought out a new play, not even saddened when Sacco and Vanzetti died. He is the man of Bethlehem who did not notice the brightness of the sky on the first Christmas morning."
Dr. Elmen says it is only through a return to faith that man can dispel the horror of existence and effect a return of meaning to his empty life.
He recognizes that the sacrifices a Christian must make are not easy. He says, "In a modified form boredom with the spiritual life lies in wait for every Christian whether his life is ascetic or not."
But the Christian must keep faith, for it is through faith alone that the clouds of gloom that surround him can be dissipated. The glory of God is revealed only to those who believe. Said Jesus, "If thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God."
Dr. Elmen has summed up the whole thought of this, his first book, in one magnificent paragraph. He says:
"There comes a moment when all human enterprise reveals the weariness which it carries in its heart; when pleasures bring only a sense of surfeit; when even beauty palls... When such brightness fades, we are undone unless we see slanting across our barren fields a blade of light that comes from earth's morning, when the stars caught fire and when all brightness was born. If at that moment we are not lost, but take up our daily task with dignity and hope, it is because we have discovered in the midst of all sodden things the presence of our cruel and merciful Lord."
Dr. Elmen has written a penetrating analysis of the future of modern man in this book, which is one of the Christian Faith series edited by Reinhold Niebuhr. However, it is not what he has to say but how he says it that one notices.
The book is filled with literary references and quotations that the author has inserted with great skill to clarify and support his thesis, and which clearly show his background in literature. Dr. Elmen is now an assistant professor of Christian Ethics at Seabury-Western Seminary. Evanston, Ill.
Never do the quotations become simply an attention-getting device. They are an integral part of the book. Dr. Elmen has drawn upon the works of writers and philosophers of all ages, including Kafka, Joyce, Dante, Plato, Sartre, and Eliot. It is amazing that one person could have such an intimate knowledge of the works of so many men.