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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 7, 1956
Star Approves UDK Board Vote
With their eyes wide open, students at the University of Kansas who set policy for the daily campus newspaper voted 16-4 to exercise the basic right of free American newspapers to sound off on all and sundry subjects, and to get into hot water if they wish.
Action of the Kansan board deserves more than passing note. The students, many of whom will be graduating soon, took the vote in the face of a flat ukase from the dean of the school of journalism forbidding them to do so.
The students repealed the neutrality clause in their constitution. Beginning Jan. 7, the newspaper by majority vote of its board now may take sides editorially both on campus issues and in
political affairs of the outside world. It was a vote for a free press.
Student political decisions may, at times, jolt the older and more mature publishers of the state. It is a safe guess that the majority of these newspapermen will, with Voltaire, defend the student's right to differ with more mature authority.
Many of the students are serving an internship at the University before going to work in the profession. Soon they will be living in a nonneutral world. It does not seem unreasonable for them to start learning to analyze issues and controversies in the University.
Now that they have freedom of expression, as in the case of their elders, they will be on trial to demonstrate they deserve the priceless gift.
-Kansas City Star
This letter is addressed to the independent students who, being the majority of the student body, have the opportunity to settle the question of where we shall sit at next year's football games.
In the referendum on Wednesday there will be presented three propositions of which we are to choose one, namely whether to have no seat saving, limited seat saving, or unlimited seat saving. It is obvious which choice is the most advantageous to the majority of the student body. It is also obvious that a considerable number of students will be organized to vote contrary to the interests of the majority.
If the independent and unorganized students do not choose to vote, and we get stuck with seat saving next year, clearly we will have brought on ourselves only the results of our own negligence and disinterest, and deserve to be beat out of the best seats.
But if you and I come early to the games next fall and end up sitting in the end zone, while people coming later sit on the forty yard line, because you chose not to vote, then you had better not speak to me at all, but save your voice to encourage the team on the field. And if you complain about the seating arrangement, there is only one answer I shall make, "Did you vote?"
E. David Cater,
San Antonio, Tex.
graduate student
Early Egyptians made an idol of the cat because their food depended on the annual grain harvest. Cats kept swarms of rats and mice from eating the nation's grain.
Texas' petroleum refining capacity is 2,400,000 barrels of crude oil a day, or 28 per cent of the nation's total.
Dailyransan
University of Kansas student newspaper
Founded 1889, became biweekly 1804,
triweekly 1908, daily Jan. 16, 1912.
Telephone Viking 3-2700
Extension 251, news room
Extension 276, business office
Member Inland Daily Press Association.
Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. News service: United Press. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year. Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except holidays. Subscription University holiday, and examination periods. Entered as second-class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan., post office under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Jane Pechovsky ... Managing Editor
Pelecia Ann Fenberg, Joan George,
Daryl Hall, Jerry Thomas, Assistant
Managing Editors; John Battin, City
Editor; Nancy Carrion, City矛
oessential Editors; Harry Coush,
Mercach, Telegraph Editor; James Ban-
man, LeRoy Zimmerman, Assistant
Telegraph Editors; Dick Walt, Sports
Editor; Malcolm Applegate, Assistant
Sports Editor; Margaret Armstrong,
Society Editor; David Killen, assistant Society Editor; Jim Siedd, Picture
Editor.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
David Webb ... Editorial Editor
Jerry Dawson, Kent Thomas, Associate
Editors.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Leo Cunningham, Advertising Manager
Todd Crickden, Advertising Manager;
John Switer, National Advertising
Manager; Harry Turner, Classified
Advertising Manager; Mary Lue Cole,
Circulation Manager.
Why Remember?
At Hickam Field, a few airplanes sat unattended. In the harbor the United States' mighty naval force lay at anchor.
Many miles away, steaming toward the Hawaiian Islands, a Japanese task force commander signalled the first torpedo plane off the flight deck. It was followed by another, then another ...
Those of us who were five, or six, or seven years old could not have felt the impact as our parents did. Even as we grew older, the fact that war was being waged in Europe and in the Pacific did not upset us. It was not easy to remember when there was no war.
Today, fifteen years later, that war has passed. Its effects have not. If it were possible to erase World War II from the ledgers of history perhaps the threat of another war would be erased with it.
Hindsight shows us our mistakes; foresight must prevent their recurrence. Now, more than ever, we must remember Pearl Harbor.
Inauguration To Be Open
—Jerry Dawson
TOPEKA-(UP)-The inauguration of Gov.-elect George Docking shaped up as an open affair.
Open to the public and outdoors in the "Democratic Way," according to the wishes of the incoming Democratic governor.
Mr. Docking said final plans would be worked out later, but he expressed a desire to have an outdoor inauguration and oath-taking ceremony, and possibly open the reception to the public later at Municipal Auditorium.
Gov. Fred Hall took the inauguration ceremony itself to the great outdoors on the statehouse steps in 1955 for one of the rare fresh air affairs in saying at the time "it was the people who elected me. Let it be outside."
... Just Browsing ...
We take it all back, and promise never to do it again.
We mentioned in this column yesterday the wonderful weather with which the campus had been blessed, and by the time these words of wisdom managed to make it into print, the weather had turned colder than a senior coed on a blind date.
Perhaps by the time these words appear before you, things will have warmed up a little, or perhaps it may be snowing. Or there might be a dust storm, or possibly a flood.
Walt
Up at Marquette University, located in the home town of the almost-championship Milwaukee Braves, campus coeds have been banned from kissing their dates good night in front of girls dormitories, and it seems to be a real shame.
All we know is,
we quit, and hereby
attest to the
fact that we will
Mrs. Mabel McElligott, dean of women at Marquette, said "the reason behind the action is that we have to point up rules of good conduct and behavior. We are taking the place of parents and we are pointing out to the girls, just as parents wouldn't want their daughters bringing discredit on their individual homes, so we're trying to show them that by their behavior they bring credit or discredit to residence halls."
never again mention the weather. In the past, we have done so several times, and on each occasion, we have looked worse than when we were flanking those Biology shotguns. So, read about the weather on the front page in the future.
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A suggestion in the Marquette newspaper advises：“Ladies—once inside the door wait for it to slam shut between you and your date. Then turn and press his nose against the glass, staring wistfully after him. When he turns to look back, wave pensively, longingly. Then run upstairs and wait for the phone to ring.”
But remember girls, behave yourself. After all, think of the good it will do you to have the reputation of living in the "coolest" house on the campus.
This sounds like the greatest step forward since the invention of the down slip. After all, when a guy goes out and spends his week's allowance taking that little dollie to the flicks, he always does so with no thought of getting anything in return, and a firm handshake at the door is likely to send him into ecestacy.
Life Was Once Worth Living
-Dick Walt
MILWAUKEE—(UP)—Good night kisses are toba at Marquette University, but coeds are taking the ban in better spirits than their escorts.
Mrs. Mabel McElligott, dean of women, said "absolutely no loitering will be permitted around buildings and vestibules" is the rule and it applies to good nights at the girls' dormitories.
"It's the same as any other rule— just like having to mark your sheets for the laundry," said one dorm resident, who admitted her fiance was not in the city at the moment.
New York's Commerce Department in 1955 played a part in locating nine firms in the state with 3,490 potential jobs and annual payrolls totaling an estimated $11,275,-000.
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Dinner for Two
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For Miss Santa
$5 Gift Certificate
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K. U. Blouse in her choice of red & white or blue & white
Our Gift to Miss Santa is a
TO MISS SANTA
A pair of wool Argyle
Knee-High Socks
in the color combination of her choice, From
Campus West
It was erroneously advertised by the Daily Kansan that Rusty's & Cole's would give Miss Santa $10 worth of groceries. We apologize for this mistake.