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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 17. 1958
Health Insurance?
Do students need health insurance?
The ASC committee on student health is considering the adoption of a plan whereby a lowcost insurance policy will be made available to all regularly enrolled students.
This insurance program proposes to help cover hospitalization and medical treatment as a result of accident or sickness. Since a costly catastrophe can strike at any time, there should be no question that we need inexpensive insurance.
Now the question is—Do the students want insurance?
Obviously insurance is a good thing. Anyone
who has been in a hospital will go along with that. But it does cost a few bucks. Students who are perennially short of cash may balk at the thought of another payment, but there are many of us who will come up with sizeable hospital bills this year.
No one will be forced to take out a policy. Joining this program is strictly voluntary. But it must be kept in mind that no insurance company will set up fairly decent rates unless a sufficient number of students is willing to take advantage of the offer.
So we ask, do students need health insurance?
What do you think? —John Husar
Anniversary of Freedom
Today is the 171st anniversary of our nation's Constitution.
A country founded upon the principles of freedom and equality, the United States today finds itself in the throes of a unique conflict.
In Lebanon and in Formosa, our troops are prepared to fight for world freedom—a promise made by America's leaders to the people of the free world.
In Little Rock, however, Americans are fighting tooth and nail over the principle of keeping so-called free Americans out of free American schools.
We are a nation of either freedom lovers, war mongers or hypocrites. We are ready to defend
On this important day in our country's history, let us re-read a copy of the Constitution. Let us read the words closely and then analyze them. Maybe then we will be able to decide exactly what our America stands for.
the world from tyranny but it is being fostered right on our home front.
If we can conclude upon the Constitution, we should clearly see how stupid we appear in the eyes of the world as we trifle in foreign affairs without keeping close tabs on the following of our own laws.
America can proclaim universal freedom to the loudest exclamation, but unless it practices at home what it preaches outside, its ministrations will be useless. J.H.
Rally Time Again
Saturday we are going to have a football game our first of the season. Friday night a rally will be held in Hoch Auditorium before the team leaves for Topeka. There is not a student on this campus who should miss it.
But if a good football team goes out every day and beats its brains without any support or acclaim from the student body, it soon loses interest and enthusiasm for its main goal—bringing honor and glory to the school. Then it becomes a poor team.
Sure, football means a lot around here. A good team helps us to be a little prouder of our alma mater. Everybody seems a bit happier when the Crimson and Blue knock off an opponent. It provides an interest within the University which could easily have been diverted elsewhere.
News items we never finished reading;
In the last few years, some of our less successful teams received more criticism than praise. It is quite probable that treatment of that type only helped the teams a little further down the ladder.
This year there is a whole new football setup. This should change the normally dour season's outlook considerably. The team has a fresh attitude. Its spirit can be brightened and its determination heightened only through the lasting and loyal support of the student body.
-J. H.
If you have no trivet large enough to hold your roaster when it comes out of the oven. . .
In the selection of wallpaper, look at the
amount of pattern in the rest of the room . . .
Soaking rain made it difficult for 600 persons to sit on bales of hay to eat pancakes and drink coffee . . .
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"OH, FOR HEAVEN'S GAKE, FENGLALSKY — NOT ANOTHER
NOTE FROM THAT ENGLISH TEACHER."
Pro football's San Francisco '49ers are told they must "be clean-shaven and wear shoes" in training camp. Things get tougher for the rookie every year.
Short Ones
Corn is grown in every state of the Union and on three-quarters of all the farms in the nation.—(UPI) And on seven-eighths of the TV programs.
Almost every woman you meet says she loves to walk in the rain. So why all the long faces and bitter comments Monday in the Union?
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Malecolm Applegate - Managing Editor
managing editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Al Jones  Editorial Editor
It Looks This Way..
By Doug Parker
The lime-green monster in front of the Kansas Union has been criticized as an architectural abomination since it was built last spring, but the class of '57 must be happy this week.
The awning has provided one of the few dry spots on campus as a steady, miserable rain fell Monday and yesterday.
During enrollment, the winding line outside the Union pushed a little harder to get under the awning and out of the September sun.
When snow falls this winter, this column may carry further praise of the gift that proved far more useful than a fountain.
Does anyone miss the annual Night Shirt Parade, discontinued this year? Gone forever are pictures of Chancellor Murphy in a nightgown.
From the files: The latest edition of the Television Fact-book reports that Americans have more television sets than bathtubs. Where are we going to use all the soap that's advertised on the terrible tube?
... Letters ...
Editor:
I have been reading in the local paper about the sudden compassion with which the Chamber of Commerce views the working man. I see the chamber is so alarmed about something it calls union slavery that it is championing the so-called Right To Work constitutional amendment.
Three cheers and a tiger for the chamber in its new role as labor's friend.
Which reminds me of a story my uncle Phil once told me, Uncle was a sort of back porch Aesop because all his stories had a point at the end. Anyway, here's his story:
On day young James Bernier was walking down the street on his way to his aunt Martha's house. She wasn't really an aunt, but she was a family friend going back many years. Except on this particular day, she was no friend. She was disturbed about Jim's attention to her daughter Betty. What was worse, Jim was invited to dinner, and that meant green beans with bacon grease. Aunt Martha put bacon in everything, which was to Jim's way of thinking proof positive of the insidiousness of Southern culture, a subject he was prepared to discuss should aunt Martha bring up Betty.
Murmuring "dead, decadent, dreary" to himself as he walked, he was suddenly assailed by Tiger Bones, a long time chum. Tiger asked Jim to come along on a ride that night to Topeka. Jim said no and told his pal why. Well, to cut this short, Tiger preached about the dangers of propinquity. Jim went along and was killed in a game of chicken which Tiger worked up an hour later.
The moral: God protect me from my friends. I can take care of my enemies.
—John M. Wrightson
835 Mass.
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