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University Daily Kansan
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Tuesday, May 7, 1957
Wilt Leaving?
So What?
At the risk of incurring the wrath of Dick Harp, A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg, and everybody generally, we say let Wilt go.
Things are in a sorry state of affairs when a man faced with the proposition of cold cash or an NCAA title won't be allowed to choose for himself.
fer? Nobody. The choice is Wilt's alone. If somebody goofed up by not getting his signature on a little piece of paper that would guarantee his stay at KU for four years, then at least we've learned a lesson.
KU has done Wilt a lot of good. And, Wilt has done KU a lot of good. So, if both parties are simply placed in status quo, who's going to suffer? Nobody.
Wilt has gained nationwide fame for his single
season performance. He was instrumental in bringing KU second-in-the-nation honors.
Conversely, KU contributed to Wilt's aggrandizement by giving him the opportunity of working with an expert coaching staff and other topnotch players.
Somebody volunteered that if Wilt leaves, integration in Lawrence will suffer a 25-year setback. We say nonsense. Wilt's leaving may be used as an excuse for such a setback, but it's not a reason.
Wilt isn't dumb. If he thinks $20,000 a year for 8 or 10 years is more important than a business degree, then he just might be right.
In two years, nobody will know the difference.
One Woman's Opinion-
—Jerry Dawson
Much Ado About Sawyer
With his recent appointment to study with the Royal Academy in London, Tom Sawyer, Topeka junior, critic, actor and general character will leave KU as much a legend to his classmates as did the former Daily Kansan editorial editor Sam L Jones.
TOM SAWYER
Ho, Hum!
... Letters ...
Editor:
I read John Battin's editorial in the University Daily Kansan of April 30 because its title, "Africa Has Much to Learn" attracted me.
In a university newspaper the faculty in charge decides whether an editorial is good or poor. Hence, in this respect, I'll not judge Battin. I also feel that a writer has the privilege of voicing his own opinion and choosing his own style.
But when a writer decides to write an editorial there is no excuse for him to be uninformed. Battin, for example, said "Egypt ran into Sudan almost as soon as the British left. Then the Egyptians made war on Suez . . ."
This information is not correct and Mr. Battin is under moral obligation to apologize to his readers for giving false information.
I probably could write the correction myself, but I am concerned with the writer's attitude rather than what he publishes. Eventually, the journalism student is going to publish many things in the absence of those who can correct him.
I am not going to correct Battin but I would ask that he trouble himself to get the correct information. It is his responsibility to do so and it is his duty to apologize to his readers.
Mohamed Kazem
Graduate student
Cairo, Egypt
Pedantic? My, No!
Editor:
Until recently, commonly held stereotypes attributed to engineers in general a lack of cultural appreciation and a level of literacy only slightly above that of the illiterate.
Lawyers, on the other hand, were considered to be gentlemen of refined sensitivities, conversant with and appreciation of their cultural heritage, to whose ranks one looked for models of elegance and oratory.
The text of that letter appeared to me as an awkward and displeasing model of literary style achieved in part through the combination of pedantic, formal statements with colloquialisms.
Neither Lincoln nor Darrow, at their most frivolous, could have produced such an ungainly statement nor is it likely that any of their less gifted contemporaries would have been capable of such insensitive and unauthoritative use of language.
It was therefore somewhat disheartening to read the April 30th challenge (printed in the Daily Kansan) of lawyers to engineers.
One might be reconciled to the passing of elegance in considering that such a value is after all, expendable and perhaps out of context in this present time . . . but are we to expect leadership in future problems of the nation from the whistlers of Green Hall stairs?
Green Hall stairs:
James V. Spotts
Graduate student
Junction City
Tom Sawyer is a fairly tall, pale-faced, lanky fellow. He rarely shows outward emotion except through the printed word. "He lives on a spastic diet that could seemingly kill an ox, sleeping for 8 hours, working for 48 on some pet project and then sleeping with his eyes in the back of his head like a dead man for another 8," said his former roommate George II. Edwards, Kansas City, Kan. senior.
His eating habits are no better. Time and again I have seen him run into the Student Union, grab a cup of coffee and six doughnuts, gobble them down and call that dinner. Over a period of weeks all this strenuous activity catches up with Mr. Sawyer and periodically he becomes the charge of some pretty nurse at Watkins Hospital.
Sawyer, this year, has been almost weekly the focus of some campus hassle or controversy. If his head isn't rolling for a review he's written about a University Theatre godchild, it is being carried on a pike down Jayhawk Blvd, for a performance of his own that someone doesn't like. During one of the go-arounds with the theater, Sawyer along with the president of the University Players and six other members of the organization tossed in their membership cards.
Sawyer is a charmer. Chances are, if he wants you to get to know him, you will, otherwise don't count on it. On the campus his best friends often rate no more than a brief smile. No, he's not stuck on himself, just reserved.
It is difficult to believe that beneath this walking mass of army shoes, blond hair, quiet blue eyes, and a briefcase lies one of the most controversial, well written persons one will ever hope to meet.
—Evelyn Hall
Daily Hansan
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