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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1958
Munich
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Munich agreement and "peace in our time."
Munich was a dividing point in European history, climaxing a period of appeasement and peace-at-any-price thinking by the West, and leading in a few months to the awakening to the danger of German aggression.
Chamberlain and Daladier were praised in 1938 for their part in the pact, which brought a few months' peace to Europe at the cost of Czechoslovakia. The futility of appeasement was brought home within a year, as Germany continued her aggression and the world went to war.
Munich proved that peace, no matter how ardently desired, cannot be achieved through weakness before a total state.
Today, we are once again facing a totalitarian government—the U.S.S.R. With their allies, the Soviets claim a much more formidable military machine than Germany had in 1938.
Every major diplomatic move in 20 years has been made with the memory of Munich standing as an example to be avoided.
We have, for the moment, the problem of the Chinese islands. They, like the Sudetenland, are in themselves unimportant. There are again cries for abandonment in spite of treaties and agreements.
The West found in 1939 that it is impossible to yield just a little to a dictatorship. Our hope today is that this country does not decide to yield just a little to the Red Chinese. —Al Jones
An Observation
A milestone in campus conduct was reached yesterday with the shattering of KU apathy by a spontaneous rain around the lunch-hour break.
This is an historic occasion because thousands of KU students actually ran. Ran they did. Ran right down Jayhawk Boulevard through the rain with everybody watching. People even smiled their embarrassment, but kept on running.
It is interesting to view students without their assumed composure.
United in a community of expediency, people dropped pseudo-sophistication and fled the prospects of wet clothes and straggly hair. Banded
together in a brotherhood of rain abhorrers, they organized and headed for cover.
In the general confusion of the shower, people revealed their personalities, something which is rarely done around here.
The shock was a fine thing. Maybe more therapy of the same order will relieve students of their conservative auras for good. Then we might revive some of the long-dead college friendliness. We had a peek at this only a couple of weeks ago with the advent of the friendly, but so-called "naive" freshmen on campus. Now, sadly enough, that's over, for the friendly freshman has conformed and grown cold, like the rest.
—John Husar
Political Semantics
Everybody knows by now that this is an election year. Election years are particularly important on college campuses because many of our bright young people are incarcerated there at the time they achieve their majority.
These potential new voters must learn and inform themselves about the issues, the parties, and the candidates, not necessarily in that order.
For the edification of the new voters and our future civic leaders, we present The Daily Kansas glossary of political terms.
The problem is that the American language, although an instrument of remarkable flexibility, is bent almost beyond repair in the strange syntax of politicians. The meanings they assign to words may be perfectly correct, but they are by no means normal usage.
Communist—a Democrat who doesn't agree with us.
Fascist—a Republican who doesn't agree with us.
Favorite son-candidate with no chance.
My distinguished colleague—he isn't running for election this year.
My learned opponent—this bum is talking through his hat.
Placing country above party—he deserted their party.
Party platform—a carefully-built structure designed to resist collapse until the second Tuesday in November.
Political expediency—what they do to get elected.
Far-seeing statesmanship—what we do to get elected.
Landslide (or mandate from the people)—we won.
Hotly-contested, indecisive contest—we lost
Smoke-filled room—they're splitting the melon.
High-level policy talks—we're splitting the melon. A. J.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
PAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT DEMOCRATS — I HAPPEN TO KNOW
HE FLINKED 13 KNOWN REPUBLICANS LAST TERM. "
The Kansan's downtown opposition declares itself against campus humor magazines, so maybe we should take a firm stand against Buck Rogers.
Short Ones
The kid down the block must be growing up. He's trying to figure how he can customize his hula hoop.
New picture from Hollywood called "The Blob," but it isn't about King Farouk.
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New Traffic Policy
By Malcolm Applegate
(Editor's note: As a service to the students and in cooperation with the campus police department. The Daily Kansan will publish accidents and traffic statistics weekly.)
Many unnecessary parking and traffic violations occur on the KU campus each year. Many of these violations are caused by the students' misunderstanding of the traffic regulations.
In an effort to call the students' attention to these violations, The Daily Kansan, as a part of its new feature, is here listing some of the most unfamiliar aspects of the traffic code governing the University.
The campus police, under the 1957 laws of the Kansas Legislature, are commissioned as city, county and state police. They have this exceptional law enforcement jurisdiction due to the fact KU extends across the city limits.
To illustrate this point, campus police chief Joe Skillman, explained that only the zoned campus parking areas and the north side of Jayhawk Blvd. are in the Student Court jurisdiction. All moving violations, including speed checks, and certain specific parking violations, are subject to the ordinances of the City of Lawrence.
Some of the less familiar laws which chief Skillman listed are:
(1) If a student receives a violation for failure to register his vehicle, he may report to the Traffic and Parking Office and properly register his car within 48 hours after issuance of the ticket, and the ticket will be cancelled.
(2) If a sticker is damaged, it must be exchanged or replaced. If a violation is received, the 48-hour limit is in effect.
(3) Improper display of a sticker is a violation. This includes using any other adhesive than the adhesive already on the sticker. But, if it is placed properly within 48 hours after issuance of the ticket, the student receiving the ticket may report to the Traffic and Parking Office for cancellation of the ticket.
(4) Any student who receives a ticket and wishes to appeal said violation may do so at the traffic office within 10 days after it has been issued. This includes only campus violations under Student Court jurisdiction.
The fees for non-conformance with the parking and registration regulations is one warning ticket for the first violation; $2 for the second; $4 for the third; $8 for the fourth; and $16 for each additional ticket.
Under the 1957 laws of Kansas, which the Board of Regents approved for all state schools, appeals to tickets are now handled by a Student Court whose members are appointed by the All Student Council.
"We hope that by increasing the students' awareness of the necessity for parking and traffic regulations on the campus." Chief Skillman said, "the present traffic and parking situation will be greatly improved."
At the end of each month. The Daily Kansan also will publish a statement from Chief Skillman concerning the regulation which seemed to cause the most violations on campus during that month.