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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1958
The Spirit Revolts
A revolution in school spirit pleasantly surprised most observers at Saturday's ill-fated KU-Colorado football game.
In the recent past, KU could boast neither a decent football team nor any semblance of strong school spirit. It was a disgraceful situation.
Then a few people decided to change the circumstances causing our deplorable atmosphere. So they brought in Wilt, shagged out Mather and hired Mitchell. There ensued a rumble of displayed affection for the University, but nothing like other schools of similar status.
The idea that the students, not the teams, needed rousing was promoted by a minority of dyed-in-the-wool Jayhawkers. The problem was put into the hands of Prof. Russell L. Wiley, band director, and KuKu President Dave Wilson.
These two, working separately, produced more
physical school spirit than anything since the raccoon coat.
Saturday the band looked different. It had changed uniforms, cleaned up its steps, added a few new horns and drums, improvised a startling entrance and put on a thrilling performance that made this spectator proud to be there.
The KuKus maneuvered and forced students to rectify the dead attitudes they had complained about for years by enlarging the cheering section, building up the pep clubs, and devising a future card section.
With this start, there is a good chance that KU will eventually achieve the respected position given to some Big Ten and West Coast schools in the matter of color. All we need to prevent that future is to have the student body throw a wet blanket on the whole affair. Some would like to. The others should not let them do it. —John Husar
The Hungry World
A centuries-old ghost hangs over more than half the world today. Not the threat of political ideologies, but the insistent belly-growl of starvation.
Ever since the rise of civilization, more than half the people of the world have accepted starvation conditions as a normal way of life. But now these people no longer believe that hunger is inevitable. They believe they have an equal right with the rest of humanity to some of the benefits of a technological civilization.
As a result, we have small countries all over the world rebelling and asking for political independence. Freedom is only a symptom of the thing they want. They need assistance to make themselves economically self-reliant, to end their centuries of poverty and disinheritance.
In many areas, nationalism has been bound up with Communism. This need not be so. The Arabs, the Indonesians, and all the rest care little about politics when their families are starving.
But the Communists have played their propaganda to these people, and many have decided Communism holds their only hope for a decent life.
The Western world has largely spent its time worrying about conflicting spheres of influence and Red military dangers.
In the tensions of 20 years, we have forgotten that there is more to world leadership than military strength. We have token programs to aid backward nations, but there has been no concerted drive to wipe out hunger and misery.
The director of the U.N. Technical Assistance Administration has said this: "We have the knowledge necessary to abolish most of the grosser forms of distress from which human beings are suffering. We have the money to enable us to apply this knowledge. If we do not act, the failure will be in ourselves, not in our equipment."
Hunger may destroy the starving man, but the starving man may destroy those who could have helped him and did not. —AI Jones
Editor:
The Party Line
It was asserted that "the most objectionable plank" in the platform is "To work toward elimination of discriminatory practices." Why, may I ask?
First, is election really a "disease?"—perhaps. But suppose we leave the "dread" to those who have reason to fear it.
The sarcastic editorial, "AGI IDEAS," was a bad attempt to bore holes in the AGI party's planks.
...Letters ...
You weakly said that to back such a proposal would interfere with the progress of the Group for Improvement of Human Relations.
What progress has that group, notably hindered by their lack of support, really made? The approval of our entire student body would give needed force to the stand of those few.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
PROF SNARF MUST HAVE A TERRIFIC MEMORY —75 IN MY CLASS IN HISTORY AN HE NOTICES EVERYTIME I SKIP "
Your information sources—presuming, of course, that you had some—were quite mistaken that the AGI plank for each school to have a voting seat in ASC is "belated."
It so happens that this "AGI Idea" had already been proposed, voted in, and was presented publicly the same day that the ASC initiated their idea.
Montague Kay Epps, Fort Scott sophomore; Janet Douthett, Augusta junior; Rochelle Beach, Whiting, Ind. sophomore.
Certainly "AGI has come up with a good platform" that will benefit the student body"—so why not guide your misdirected barks toward some other tree.
A Philadelphia bank bandit didn't even talk to anyone the other day as he cleaned out $5,000 from the till. He was probably preoccupied about being double parked.
Our economists are at a loss this season. They don't know whether to give credit for the recovery to the 1959 cars or the hula hoop.
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. . . Books in Review . . .
FIVE NOVELS BY STENDHAL, Translated by C. K. Scott Monorieff,
Doubleday and Co.. $9.5
By Kay Reiter
The 19th century French writer, Stendhal, has managed to tell of murder, incest, war, love, greed, and even include comments on social and political problems of the day, in five short novels, here published as a paperback of 268 pages. He has dealt with these momentous issues fairly and without passion, yet he has not failed to make his characters vital and sensitive.
In speaking of these stories and their heroes, Stendhal said, "I have selected in them that which appealed to me as revealing the human heart." In other words, the author hoped to create people in these situations who would be interesting to readers of any generation, and whose personal problems would be of undated psychological significance.
And how well he succeeded! Take for example, the heroine of "The Cenci," sixteen-year-old Beatrice Cenci. Her description alone is provocative enough to keep the reader's eye glued to the pages. "The face has sweetness and beauty, the expression is most appealing and the eyes are very large; they have the startled air of a person who has just been caught in the act of shedding large tears. The hair is golden and of great beauty..." And who would not be caught up in the suspense of a story whose leading lady is locked in a cell for two years at the mercy of a tyrant father?
As we find mystery in "The Cenci," so do we discover romance in "The Abbess of Castro" and "Vanana Vanini." Both are concerned with young noblewomen of tempestuous, strong-willed natures, who dare to love men who are soldiers of fortune. Such love is, as Stendhal says, "... the passionate love that feeds on great sacrifices, that can exist only when wrapped in mystery, and borders always on the most dreadful calamities." In these novels particularly, Stendhal creates a mood of darkness, of tragedy, which never entirely disappears, and which hints at the author's belief in the doom which walks side by side with love.
The final two novels. "Duchess of Palliano" and "Vittoria Accoramboni," touch on the greed and political avarice in the middle 16th century. In a pointed satire which spares no one. Stendhal scorns a regime which has corruption and graft as by-laws.
As might be observed from the above, Stendhal, whose real name was Marie-Henri Beyle, was a vigorous writer, unafraid to phrase his ideas in a commanding style. And since his opinions were at some variance with those held by government and religious leaders, it is no small wonder that in 1821 he was suspected of espionage and sent back to France, away from the Italy he so loved.
However, neither his thoughts nor his pen could be halted, and he continued his literary career with "The Charterhouse of Parma," and "The Red and Black," two of his greatest successes. These novels, like all the others, contain writing that has genuine sentiment, a real feeling and sympathy for man, coupled with a certain naturalistic, almost stark, tone which is inimitably Stendhal.