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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1957
Punch And Judy
Someone Pulled The Strings
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has its satellites and so apparently does the University Theatre. For it was recently decreed that either the University Players play the game according to the University Theatre rules or the administration would pick up its marbles and go home.
It seems that the persons responsible for the annual Players' melodrama, "Pity Poor Pearl," were presented with the opportunity of performing this piece in a local theater. The benefits were to have been three-fold: Firstly, the Players would have had the experience of working in what is reverently called the "professional theater." Secondly, the prestige involved would have been no more than a fitting reward for achieving the highest standard of entertainment values displayed this season. Finally, the Players' treasury would have been considerably fattened.
The entire project has since been vetoed. If "veto" be too strong a word, let us rather say that faculty advisers have "advised" the Players not to consider it. The organization's executive council took the "advice" and so this embarrassing all-student success was quickly and quietly buried. Though these operations were quite naturally disguised as the machinations of the great educational bulldozer, it is far better to have tried and failed than never to have bucked City Hall at all.
Constitutionally, the University Players call themselves an honorary organization and affect
an independence of the University Theatre. Certainly advisers are needed to insure a proper balance between gross radicalism and uniform smatterings of ignorance, but Justice is indeed blindfolded if such a simple negation can so easily turn the scales.
A university, by definition, should be a place in which any and all ideas may be aired. Listening is often more important than lecturing as it demands infinitely more cultivation plus that virtue of all virtues: tolerance. Lack of tolerance reveals nothing but an equal lack of imagination. But perhaps there are too few left in the field of education who realize that the finest compliment they can receive is to be surpassed by the pupils. To assume that "inspired teaching" is engulfing us is akin to regarding Florence Nightingale as a homicidal maniac.
The Theater is still engaged in a 2,500-year-old war with a society that chooses to look upon it as an avocation. Battles have been won and lost on both sides. It is unfortunate that the Players' executive council prefers to remain so tied to the apron strings of the University Theatre that it cannot muster the courage of its own convictions. For this is a battle truly lost—not to society this time, but to internal pressures. The taint is not unlike that old theatrical illusion, the Punch and Judy farce.
—Tom Sawyer
Busy, Busy Students
No Time To Save One's Life
In a few months the polio season will begin again. By July and August it will be at its height. Thousands of children and adults will contract poliomyelitis, and many of them will suffer the tragic result of paralysis. Most of who will get the disease and be permanently crippled will be persons who have not received the Salk vaccine injections for immunization against polio.
In Kansas between 1951 and 1955, before the vaccine came into use, an average of 70 cases a week was reported to the State Board of Health at the height of the season. In 1956, when the Salk injections had been started, the highest number of cases reported for one week was 20. This should provide incentive enough for everyone to get his shots.
At the University students have a bargain that cannot be obtained elsewhere. At Watkins Hospital those who are under 20 years old can receive the necessary three injections free of charge. The State Board of Health provides the vaccine for this age group. For students over 20 the charge is $1.50 a dose, because the hospital must purchase this vaccine.
As of Feb. 16, the Watkins staff had given 1543 first doses of the vaccine. This is about 18 per cent of the student body. Those in the 82 per cent who have not started the series of injections are only
narming themselves-paralytic polio is more frequent in adults than in children.
In December in an attempt to encourage more students to take the injections, several nurses from Watkins were sent to give the injections at houses where 20 or more students agreed to have the shots. During that month 575 first doses were given. Of this number 280 have not gone to the clinic to receive their second dose.
It is a waste of time to have only the first injection, for the vaccine will have no effect unless all three are received. The first dose is only a sensitizing dose. The second dose, given two to six weeks later, causes a rise in the polio antibodies, the particles in the blood which prevent paralysis as a result of polio. The third dose is given six to seven months after the second. It also increases the number of antibodies, and it acts as a booster.
It is a short walk to Watkins Hospital, and the Salk vaccine is available to all students. Every student should have the injections, and they cost little or nothing depending on the age of the student. Surely the few minutes it takes to receive these injections are worthwhile in order to avoid the possible consequence of being crippled for life.
Peggy Armstrong
The Old Campaigner Says
"Well, I'm sorry I have not been up here vicing sooner but I have been afraid to come. I have been spending the last couple of days working hard on my other vices to build up enough nerve to make the trip."
"I had promised to come back up and tell you fellows just what scared me in the first place. Well, I have had similar scares since then and am ready to tell all. Am so dang mad that I could probably talk for days about it. Since I must not shirk my other vices I shall contain my wrath to an afternoon.
"No. I do not drive. I have vices but none so bad as driving where people spend all day scaring children, women, and old men like myself. This traffic on the Hill sure bothers us people who like to stay close to the earth by walking.
"I am sure it is not the fault of the drivers. It must be the cars. I have known lots of people who drive cars. I am not a snob. I do not make friends or keep them by the vices they do or do not have. I will associate with a driver of cars just as much as I will with walkers.
"Let me give you a personal experience. This is not what I heard - brother, it happened.
"Well, I struck out like I really weren't afraid and before I knew it I was smack in the middle - couldn't go back and couldn't go forward. Then the fear hit me and I was ready for the blindfold and that last cigarette.
"Well, I stood there for a while and after a couple of whiles I got impatient what with no one to talk to and me achin' to vice. I did a foolish thing - I tried to get across the street.
"I was trying to get across the street down by the Art Museum. It was almost 1 p.m. and cars were lined up every-which-way trying to go someplace. Me, all I wanted was across the street."
"Well, I was almost saved by a miracle - a miracle, that's what it could a been. A feller in an old car stopped about ten feet from me. I was just about to wave my hand in gratitude when he started for me. I reckon he just stopped to line me up in his sights.
"I looked up and I saw him right on top of me - he was a sittin' there a gloatin' and I knew that another fine fellow had fallen under the spell of a blasted car.
Well, as you probably have guessed I wasn't killed. That wasn't the bird of death. It was that feller's hood ornament. I wasn't even hit. The breeze from the car threw me up on the sidewalk and me—the Old Campaigner, who was in the same big war that Teddy was, well, I fainted.
I looked up at that car and knew I was a goner. All I could see was the bird of death a hoverin' over me lookin' all silver and not black atall like everybody who aint seen it say's it is.
"I'm human. It could happen to anybody. Ain't I got two vices—that proves I'm human. Maybe just a little less human than most, that's all. But that's the story, son. And it's a shameful one. But like I said—it ain't the drivers but the cars."
"Got to go to work now. Sorry I can't stay around and let you listen but me and the Night People are digging a tunnel from the Hill to one of the better downtown establishments. No more traffic problems for us. Far be it for me to be a walking temptation for them drivers to commit a wrong on. I ain't no martyr.
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Jerry Thomas
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