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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 21, 1957
Hail-
... And Farewell
As the boys in the travelogues say, "We bid a fond farewell...". This is our last contribution to the University Daily Kansan, and we therefore want to make some personal observations about people and things.
First, our thanks to everyone for letters which were instrumental in no small measure in the shaping of our opinion.
Another thanks to everyone who had a "hot tip" for an editorial, and our regrets that some of them were rejected.
We have gotten much personal satisfaction out of our associations with other Kansan staffers and those who were patient enough to clear the fog from our mind about the All Student Council, campus elections, why no bus service, etc.
A few grips still remain. One of them is the old wheeze about school spirit. Let's face it, gang, it's real dead.
Another is our juvenile element which refuses to listen when wiser heads warn that "this University is no place for the immature."
Despite any senior's opinion to the contrary, the fostering mother (alma mater, you jerk) will still function many years hence; Barnes' bells will still disturb the quiet of the surrounding sylvan grove; the Union will still serve terrible coffee; 11th and Louisiana will still be the redoubt of the sororities' hopes for a better and finer pledge class; the whistle atop the power plant will continue to wheeze and moan; Pablo will continue to clean up after untidy students; Insects and Man will continue to top the most-popular-course list, and the Little Red School House will still serve as the fraternities' answer to television.
Larry Boston is going to be the guiding hand of the editorial page next semester. We know that he will wax sufficiently lucid to arouse some controversy (one of the functions of the editorial, believe it or not.)
All in all, it's been another great year. With the assurance that all is well, we bid a fond adieu.
Adieu.
Jerry Dawson
Congratulations Seniors and a tremendous
Thank You
For Your Patronage Of The Past Four Years.
To Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors-Thank you too, have a good summer,and we'll be looking forward to seeing you in September.
Five KU students were caught on a sojourn to Sycamore Hollow. Their motto now: No nudes is good nudes.
Dave Beck is pictured with a smile on his face after being ousted from the Teamsters' Union. Must have had a good time with those misappropriated funds.
Special recognition should be made here to Martin Hanna, for duty beyond and above the Call.
"Ouch," quoth Elrod, twinging.
Our good friend Elrod is twinged with nostalgia.
It is rumored that the Party of Greek Organizations is now defunct. Well, back to the Inner Circle.
"Why do you twinge with nostalgia, our good friend Elrod?" we queried.
"Oh, remorse! Oh deep, dark, sad, gloomy, despondent, melancholy, grievous, painful, hang down the head, make a long face, mournful, biting, tearing, give away, lose heart, damn the torpedoes, lamentable, sad, unhappy, taedium vitae, woefal, cheerless remorse! I am undone!" Here Elrod paused to tie his sheolace.
"But Elrod," we exhorted, expounded, asseverated, added, said. "Why all this grievous carrying on?"
Quoth the Elrod, "Nevermore."
"Nevermore what?"
"Nevermore am I to be a public figure. Nevermore will my words
or vision rain on
tender ears like
the drops of rain
on little blades of
stinkweed. Alas!
Squiff out in the
prime of a useful
life!"
Whereupon Elrod beat his chest with a great vigor, tearing his hair and gnashing his teeth.
When You're In Doubt, Try It Out—Kansan Classified Section.
Invaded in turn by early Egyptians, Ethiopians, and Romans, Yemen was converted to the Moslem faith during the 7th century. It was a part of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years.
Dawson
Jerry Dawson
After he had subsided a bit, we comforted him.
"Comfort you. Elrod," we comforted him.
Ad booki ultimo tempore.
"Stay! Leave me in peace. I am a has-been, a nothing, a forgotten man. Oh, that this, my last appearance in the public domain, should be so remorseful." And Ehrod muttered to himself in Sanskrit.
Save for a last convulsive effort to gasp his last in the Last Gasp, Elrod must move on to greater and finer things. If Elrod has brightened your otherwise sorry life, then he has done some worldly good. For those many of you who think Elrod stupid, childish, elementary, worthless, and a waste of space, we say a fond "plague take you."
Elrod is no more.
... Letters ...
Propaganda?
Mr. Anthan's recent editorials in The Daily Kansan concerning the Cyprus issue were probably written with an attempt to enlighten the public. However we feel that his views were based on his personal sentiments, therefore lacking in truths and serving as propaganda in favor of the Greek view.
Editor:
It should be made clear that the 380,000 Greek-speaking people on the island have definitely no racial or natural connection with modern Greece, except for religion and language. The Cypriots are Greek only to the extent that the Spanish are Latin and the British are Saxon. These people belong to a race which historians describe as "Mediterranean" or "Levantine." The岛 has no historical connection with Greece either, since it has never been ruled by the Greeks, as compared with the Turkish rule for 370 years in recent history.
This is an island which is only 43 miles from Turkey, while its distance from the Greek mainland is 683 miles. And as it is interestingly mentioned by Mr. Anthan, it is the last one in the Eastern
Yet the 100,000 Turkish-speaking people on the island at present have the same origin of race, religion, language, and sentiments with the Turks in the motherland. We wonder what kind of logic Mr. Anthan was using in his statement that these Turks do not want to be citizens of Turkey'.
The question of "self-determination" on which the whole Greek thesis rests is neither a rule of the international law nor the only principle by which the geographical boundaries of the states are drawn. It is a strange historical fact that not long ago the Greek Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos himself claimed that "the principle of self-determination is not one that should always receive primary consideration where it is a question of assigning a certain territory to a certain state."
Nevertheless, Turkey respects fully this principle were it is applicable. However, it must be kept in mind that although this principle served the noble humanitarian aims of the late President Wilson, it also served the most nefarious purposes of Nazism.
Turkey's interests in Cyprus are much more important than the mal-application of the principle of self-determination. The Turkish thesis upon a necessity which emanates from the exigencies of history, geography, economy, and military strategy, from the right to existence and security. This last point has also been emphasized by the professor of international law, C. H. Crozat as "if the question should arise of the abandonment of sovereignty on the Island of Cyprus by Great Britain the question of the security of Turkey shall prevail over all other principles, even over the principle of self-determination of the Cypriot people."
Mediterranean which Greece has not yet put into her "collection." To us, the annexation of Cyprus to Greece represents one more step toward the realization of "Enosis," a Greek word aspiring the revival of the old Byzantine Empire.
It is significant that two-thirds of the Greek-speaking population of the island are the members of the Communist party, a higher percentage than in any Russian satellite. This is a movement which is stimulated and directed by the cooperation of a religious institution—the Greek Orthodox Church, the Communist party on the Island, and unfortunately the Greek government.
It is our hopes that a solution will be found for the Cyprus conflict so that the Turkish-Greek relations will continue uninjured.
Baran Tuncer
Ankara, Turkey graduate student Ferruh Demirmen Bursa, Turkey junior
Sommer's Parents Thank Students
The parents and wife of Roger M. Sommer, 28-year-old St. Joseph. Mo., senior, who was killed Monday, May 13, on the Kansas Turnpike, wish to thank University students for their expressions of sympathy.
"We wish to express our thanks to the students of the University of Kansas for their many kindnesses during our recent bereavement," Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Sommer and Mrs. Roger Sommer of St. Joseph told The Daily Kansan.
Daily Hansan
University of Kansas student newspaper Founded 1889, became biweekly 1904, trifweekly 1908, daily Jan. 16, 1912.
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Kent Thomas ... Managing Editor
John Battin, Felecia Ann Fenberg, Bob Lyle, Betty Jean Stanford, Assistant Managing Editor; Jim Banman, City Emergency Manager, Assistant City Editors; Hiroshi Shionozaki, Telegraph Editor;
Mary Beth Dellert Haley, Assistant Telegraph Editor; Dick Brown, Sports Editor; George Anthan, Assistant Planner, Martin Mermis, Society Editor; Kati Swainson, Assistant Society Editor; John Eaton, Picture Editor.
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Jerry Dawson ... Editorial Editor
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Dale Bowers Business Manager
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Harbold Metz, Classified Advertising
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Manager.
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