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University Daily Kansan Friday.Sept.19.1958
The White Shirt Caper
A big buzz has gone on for the past few days concerning the pep clubs' plan to reserve a number of seats at tomorrow's football game for students wearing white shirts or blouses.
Accusations have been hurled at the pep clubs for discriminating against the independently-minded individuals who dislike wearing white shirts to football games and who rebel at organizations in any massive or forced form.
Questions have come up about the legality of reserving a section this way. It is bringing back dirty thoughts of seat-saving, formerly the practice until an All Student Council ruling a year or so ago.
People also dislike the idea of taking away free student seats to accommodate spur-of-the-moment pep clubbers who are neither organized nor uniformed.
So far the program is optional. If it fails tomorrow, it will not be revived.
For one thing, an erroneous report was circulated that all student seats between the two 23-yard lines would be closed. The correct slant is that only the front half of four sections is being reserved by the request of the pep clubs to provide a bigger display and card section. This is done in the hope of making our football games more colorful and interesting to the visitor. There is also an idea that any big student effort in this situation would regenerate some of our long-dead school spirit. This is a commendable intention.
If students do not desire to be regimented they can sit either above or on the sides of the shirt section. They can even wear any color shirt they like. Some of these independently-spirited individuals will ridicule the white-shirted rooters tomorrow, but they will be people more interested in the nature of the conformists than in the outcome of the football game.
Where the question of legality arises, the reader is referred to Section 8 of ASC Bill No.11, listed on page 51 of the ASC Constitution. This section provides that the Student Athletic Seating Board shall have the sole and full power to allow special groups to reserve seats in blocks at football games. This is restricted to uniformed groups, including the recognized pep clubs and "other groups." Looking from another angle, is not the white shirt a form of uniform in this case?
The student section will not be short any seats as a result of this plan. No change in seat alotment has been made from last year, and only students will be admitted to the reserved area.
Boiling the situation down, the main gripe is against the pep clubs for inaugurating the white shirt deal. Students who are not dues-paying members of a club do not want the club to dictate popular dress habits. This fire is kindled higher when the wearing of said dictated dress is decreed compulsory for students to sit where they would normally sit anyhow.
The complainers are forgetting one thing. The board that allowed the reserved seat block is composed of students appointed by the direct representatives of the student body. This plan was approved by the faculty and student representatives for the general welfare of the University. Let's go along with it for a while.
This is still in the trial stage, however. If the pep-club program should go over like a lead balloon, the whole idea will be dropped. This depends on how many students wear white shirts and how many dress otherwise. The outcome should be interesting. —John Husar
War in the Air
The Nationalist Chinese Air Force now claims, including yesterday morning's air battle. 17 Red Chinese MIGs destroyed, at a cost of three of its own aircraft—two F84Fs and one F86.
This ratio of kills over the Formosa Strait is a little hard to credit. It has long been the custom for air forces to exaggerate their victories while minimizing their own losses, and the Nationalists are probably no exception. The Reds have been quiet on air claims, and there is little doubt they hold the short end of the field, but six to one is not reasonable.
The MIG-17 is perhaps 200 miles an hour faster
The Red Chinese are flying the MIG-17, an airplane that was presumed to be the equal of the American F100 when it first went into operation.
than the F84F or the F86 which the Nationalists fly. It is incredible that the Reds are such poor pilots that this advantage is useless. Even if they cannot fight, they can escape or break off the fight when they please.
The F86-MIG ratio in Korea was about nine to one (not 14 to 1 as is often believed), under similar conditions. But that was against the MIG-15, which is now as obsolete as the F86.
While it is proven that the Red Chinese are miserable pilots, they simply should not be this bad in MIG-17s.
If the Formosans are beating the Reds by six to one, we are quite happy about it. Chiang is our ally, after all. But until we get an eyewitness, reliable report, we will dilute the Nationalist claims to our own satisfaction.
-Al Jones
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"THEN I SAID: JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE THE 'STAR OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM YOU NEEDT THINK YOU CAN RUN MY CLASS."
Short Ones
Do you suppose the hula hoop is sponsored by that national committee for improving our nation's physical fitness?
Best quote of the week, from Field Marshal Montgomery: "To succeed in the army you have to be a bit of a cad. I am a bit of a cad."
Lancebot Lecher says he doesn't mind the wet weather, if only more coeds would buy transparent raincoats.
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It Looks This Way ...
(Editor's note: This column will appear irregularly—whenever we have something suitable to column style. Any number may play, and contributions on any subject are welcomed at the editorial desk in the Kansan newsroom.)
By Donna Nelson
We know at least one fraternity man who didn't score with a cute freshman. Hoping to appear considerate and charming, he complimented one of the many fashionable dresses he was helping her carry to her room. It would have been an excellent way to win her favor but it was the cleaners' sack that he complimented
Seems that the majority of romances met with disaster over summer vacation. It's exciting for the freshmen, sophomores and juniors who still have another year or two left, but as one senior girl remarked, "No, of course I'm not clutched" and she hustled off to her engineering class.
One is almost afraid to enter into collegiate conversation this term without having a strong argument for or against the Right to Work Bill, Eisenhower's action in the Far East crisis and Brigitte Bardot.
Several freshmen have expressed a keen dislike for Saturday morning classes. But after they've been here awhile they'll realize that the lulling, monotone voice of a professor is much easier to sleep through than a multitude of voices in the dorms, ringing phones and blaring radios.
A sound idea for the new rush system has been suggested by an alert Fine Arts major. Put on a little background music and let all the girls begin their rounds in and out of the houses. Whatever house the girls happen to be in when the music stops is where they'll pledge. Under this plan there is a place for every girl except, perhaps, the poor person who had to turn off the record. We might call it Musical Scares.
After cavesdropping on several tempered discussions, it appears that the "Big 3" in the news is no longer made up of Ike, Khrushchev and Eden but Debbie, Eddie and Liz.
Said one harassed pledge to her pledge mother, "My name is Cinderella and I have 60 ugly sisters."
The girl across the hall has lost every friendship she made because the snapshot on her LD. card was very becoming.
When classes and bad times get you down and life is bleak, curl up in a quiet corner with your high school yearbook and read all the kind and inspiring notes people wrote in it, the year you graduated.
With all the "ology" classes available at this growing, ever expanding university, we have decided that the administration might do well to offer us one more: Apology.
A Kansas University graduate of 1958 reports that the educational system in the United States has reached an all-time low. The example he submitted as proof of this statement was the fact that he was graduated.
Yes sir, son: The library is the place to study. Don't let small things like swinging doors, noisy turnstiles, squeaky shoes and conducted group tours disturb you.
Always remember, if you keep a pleasant smile on your face and have a cheery greeting for everyone—most people will accuse you of having something up your sleeve.
WESLEY FOUNDATION METHODIST STUDENT PROGRAM
(Methodist Student Center, 1314 Oread Avenue)
Sundays: 9:15-10:30 a.m. Student Classes:
"Religion, Church & State," Prof. Paul E. Wilson.
"What Is Campus Christian Conduct?" Prof. Henry Shenk.
"Questions of Living: What Answers. Religion?" Rev.
"Questions of Living: What Answers, Religion?" Rev. Edwin F. Price.
5:30-7:30 p.m. Wesley Fellowship—supper 25c, program worship.
Daily Mondays-Fridays 7:30-7:45 a.m. Meditations in Chapel.
Tuesdays 9:00-10:00 p.m. Coffee Hour & Vespers.
Wednesdays 12:00-12:50. Grad Lunch-Discussion of Bertocci's "Religion As Creative Insecurity." (Call reservation.)
Thursday 7:00-8:00 p.m. (six weeks). "Looking Toward Marriage" Class. Consideration of important factors in courtship and marriage based on questionnaire study and pre-marital counseling.