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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. April 16, 1957
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS - This chart shows the difference between the presen tAll Student Council constitution and the proposed change. Students will vote on the proposal Wednesday in referendum.
ASC Revision—
Vote 'For'!
Whether or not we will have an improved student government will be directly up to you Wednesday when a revision of the All Student Council constitution will be put before the student body for approval by referendum.
To vote or not to vote is not a matter of choice-it is the duty of a good citizen. This holds true here on the campus as well as elsewhere.
A student governing body which is proportionally representative of the student body and which is functioning as it should can be a vitally important part of university life.
However, students on Mt. Oread have a legitimate reason for saying that the ASC is merely the political plaything of persons interested in the follies of winning personality popularity contests and personal and group gratification.
In its present form the Council constitution is not feasible. Due to its present state petty politics are common; the many Council offices offer enough political plums that one party, by clever strategy, can dominate the Council.
Party domination would not be so bad if party candidates had any interest in or knowledge of student government. Unfortunately, this has seldom been the case.
Should the new system be voted in, the next problem, of course, is running things. We would like to see more officers elected who are interested in student government. This means a non-partisan attitude, knowledge of government, and insight as to the solutions to the administrative problems of student government.
The revised constitution would definitely be an improvement over the present system and would offer a better opportunity for qualified candidates to be elected. Vote "for" the proposal Wednesday.
Jim Tice
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Just what or why Godot is no person seems able to tell.
Wednesday in Green Theater the play "Waiting for Godot" will open. The characters talk to one another, all the while waiting for Godot. But Godot never comes.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
It's reported the play has caused heated arguments from Paris to New York. It could be said after Wednesday that the play has caused heated arguments from Paris to Lawrence.
More 'Godot' Plays Needed
Allen Crafton, director, probably predicted the reaction correctly when he said:
A small group will like the play, another small group will be angry, and a third larger group will be puzzled."
Jerry Dawson Editorial Editor
Jerry Thomas, Jim Tice, Associate Edi-
Kent Thomas ... Managing Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
If "Godot" is God, the group that gets mad will probably be highly religious. Since "Godot" never comes, the play means to the person that God will never help a person or return. Such thoughts, they say, are sacrilegious.
Dale Bowers ... Business Manager
Dave Dickey, Advertising Manager; John
Hedley, National Advertising Manager;
Harold Metz, Classified Advertising
Manager; Conboy Brown, Circulation
Manager.
The group that likes the play is probably atheistic. Since "Godot" never comes, it means, too, that God can't help a person or return because He doesn't exist. Such thoughts confirm an atheistic viewpoint.
It is the third group that threatens the production of excellent plays. Individual persons in this group won't be able to decide what their belief really is and will find themselves unable to assign meaning to what "Godot" is. It is these persons who cry loudest to prevent works of art.
A guess would be that any person can find "Godot" in his own life. For one person "Godot" may mean God. For another, "Godot" may mean husband, wife, or sweetheart. To the brighter humans, "Godot" may mean a goal or destination not vet acted on.
Plays like this one exist to shake the beliefs of the puzzled. There should be more plays like it. Strength of mind comes through exercise, as strength in a pitcher's arm comes through pitching. Like-wise, success comes through work, not hope alone.
John Battin
... Letters ..
Down With 'Godot'
Dear Editor:
I was shocked to read yesterday that the Dramatics organization at KU is planning to put on the play, "Waiting for Godot," next week in Lawrence. I saw this play last year in New York, and I have been sorry ever since—as any Christian American should be.
The play is vulgar, blasphemous, and atheistic. It is an insult to people of Lawrence to display such foreign trash during the sacred period of Holy Week. I think it is your duty to inform students and faculty that this play is stupid and incomprehensible filth. No one should be permitted to enter the theater thinking to see a good Christian play.
If our schools will not protect our young from such pollution, where can we turn? If a campus newspaper does not issue the warning in such cases, what other voice will be heard by our college youth?
Please understand that I am not a prude. I can take anything that any God-fearing American can take. But no one should be made to swallow the foreign preachments of anti-Christ artists in the name of "culture." Samuel Beckett, the author of "Waiting for Godot," has a corrosive and un-American philosophy. The United States has an abundance of native-born playwrights. Let us give them their due on the college stage.
Annabel Wagner,
General Delivery,
Kansas City, Mo.
Because the people of Limousine, a French province, wear a distinctive headdress, the name limousine was applied to large carriages and automobiles with a covering.
A century ago 400 vessels with 13,000 men sailed from Newfoundland to hunt seals. This season only three Newfoundland seal vessels sailed.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — (IP) — The incident fee on all campuses of the University of California will increase from $42 to $50 per semester effective with the fall semester of 1957, President Robert G. Sproul announced here recently. The Board of Regents voted the increase.
Californians Must Pay Higher Fees, Too
dent Sproul explained, to meet increased costs of student services incidental to a University education. Services covered by the fee include student health, counseling bureau of occupations, housing, recreational facilities, laboratory materials and incidentals, and diplomas and certificates.
The increase is necessary, Presi-
HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGFISH IN THE WINDOW?
Dear Mom and Dad (writes Zelda May Nirdlinger, soph).
You have been asking me to account for all the money I spend. There follows a day by day summary of recent expenditures. Don't forget, you asked for it.
MONDAY:
$2.78 - telegram to the Secretary of the Army, offering to go instead of Elvis.
$0.26 week of Philin Manri
$0.26 - pack of Philip Morris, my favorite, and yours,
if you know a good thing when you taste one!
50 - sorority fine for oversleeping and missing my first hour class twelve days in a row.
$2.95 - I bought a rooster named Ralph to wake me in the morning. (Can't sleep with an alarm clock ticking all night.)
TUESDAY:
$0.50 — sorority fine for dating undesirable boy. (Roderigo is not undesirable! Some people say he is "fast" and a "devil" but I say he is just insecure. Why else would he go steady with eight girls?)
$0.50 — sorority fine for not cleaning my plate at dinner.
(I just couldn't! Dinner was Raiph.)
$0.26 – pack of Philip Morris. What joy! What zest!
$557.38 — a motorcycle for Roderigo. (He is giving up all his other girls for me, but they are so widely scattered that he needs a fast conveyance to go around and tell them all goodbye.)
$0.26 — pack of Philip Morris. (Have you tried them yet? If not, you've got a big treat coming. Light one soon. Light either end.)
WEDNESDAY:
$0.50 — sorority fine for staying too long in the shower.
(Gee whiz, a girl gets mighty dirty polishing a motorcycle!)
$0.52 — two packs of Philip Morris — one for Roderigo.
(Dear Roderigo!)
FRIDAY:
THURSDAY:
$0.26 - pack of Philip Morris - a happy smoke for a happy day. Yesterday Roderigo broke with the last of his girls, and today he is mine, all mine!
$8.57 - new dogfish for zoology. (I was dissecting a dogfish in zoology when I happened to look out the window and see Roderigo riding by with Mary Ann Beasley on his buddy seat. I got so upset I threw the dogfish at them.)
SATURDAY:
$2.59 - a carton of Philip Morris, one pack for me, the rest for Roderigo. (I was foolish to be angry about Mary Ann. Roderigo explained that she meant nothing to him-just helping him with English lit. Similarly, Grace Krovney is helping him with Spanish, Betsy Pike with econ, Mazda Notkin with psych, Lola Tweet with phys ed, etc. The least he can do is give them all Philip Morrises.)
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Send money. . . Love and kisses, Zelda May
The price may vary from place to place, but Philip Morris continues to be a natural smoke that daunts no purse, however small. It is made in regular and long size by the sponsors of this column, and is ignitable at either end.
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