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Page 2 University Dally Kansan Monday. Nov. 26, 1956
Football Seating Problem Unsolved
The gun shot that ended the KU-Nebraska football game several weeks ago in Memorial Stadium not only marked the end of the home season, but it solved the problem of student seating in the stadium. That is, until the problem arises at the first football game next season.
Perhaps now while Memorial Stadium is conspicuous by its emptiness is just the time to try and settle the problem, rather than forget about it and let it haunt us once again next season.
Seat saving is the bugaboo, of course. Thanks to a bit of outside pressure, the ASC alleviated the problem somewhat during the last part of the season by permitting organizations to save seats only in sections 34, 35, 36 and 37. But it wasn't enough. Some students still were cheated out of seats.
If is suggested that reserved seating in the student section be considered, by the ASC. It could work something like this. First of all, figuring on a basis of five home games and roughly 7,000 students, the student section would have to be divided into five parts, each having about 1,400 seats.
A student could be issued a colored card or ticket corresponding to his student ID number. Say for example, a student whose number is between 1 and 1,400 would get a green card; one whose number is between 1,400 and 2,800 would be issued a red one, and so forth.
The green card would admit students to the area between the 0 and 10 yard lines the first game; between the 10 and 20 the second, and between the 20 and 30 the third, etc.
How can you be fairer than that? Each student would be allowed just as good a seat over the season as anyone else, excluding the pep clubs and the band, of course. He wouldn't have to show up at the stadium at 12 o'clock to claim his seat. If enforced properly, it could be as orderly as if you were sitting on the west side.
We understand that this or quite similar suggestions are not new, and have always been turned down by the student council for various reasons. One reason was that it would prevent friends from sitting together. We doubt it. If friends wanted to sit together, they certainly could find someone to trade tickets with, just as they did when KU basketball games were played in tiny Hoch Auditorium and only half of the students could attend each game.
Another reason was that the ASC felt students would rather take their chances at getting good seats for a top game.
We believe a third, though unadmitted, reason might have accounted for the ASC refusal of seat reservation. ASC representatives were and are campus leaders, to be sure. Could it possibly have been that they, as leaders, felt that such a democratic proposal would jeopardize the seats their subordinates could so easily save for them?
In all fairness to the student body as a whole, we feel the ASC should reconsider this or a similar fair plan, and that in so doing; each representative reflects the feelings of the group he represents.
—Kent Thomas
Letters To The Editor
More For Little Man
F4itor:
A hearty pat on the back to Jerry Dawson for his editorial, "Blessings On You Little Man" We can only hope that "Nancy Badbreth" and "Buford Bodkins" are not the least bit "tired of seeing the same names in the news all the time." Perhaps they realize the superficiality of most of this "news" and especially that page in the UDK with its ever recurring columns such as "On The Hill" or "Three Announce Pinnings."
This reader turned to that page for the second time this fall after reading the editorial just to be sure that nothing had changed; and sure enough - NOTHING had changed except the number. Tuesday there were 10 who announced pinnings.
Seriously, does anyone ever read these little bits of nothin? And another question, what is the most important thing in these news items from here on the hill? Is it the person "involved or is it the organization to which each person belongs?"
When the subject was brought up recently, the following response was obtained: "Who cares who's getting pinned, I always look for the house," said Miss Iota Cram, "...look there's our house twice today." Nancy and Buford still have their entity; they are better off not lost in that monotony.
Dawson has recognized the problem, let's see if the new staff can give us a more complete coverage of "majority of students whose names never seem to make the printed page."
J. L. Shaff
Garden City special student
Zoning Questioned
On Nov. 13, the "Suppress the Student Movement of Lawrence, Kansas" reached new heights. After no results from the administration of the University a fraternity (Lambda Chi Alpha) took the initiative on itself to secure land for the purpose of building a new house.
Editor:
The lot they chose is located directly adjacent to land which the city zoning body had recently rezoned for the construction of a sorority house. It was only natural that they should assume that their land, too, would be rezoned. The City Council of Lawrence, in accord with a previous decision concerning the fraternity's plot by the city zoning board, refused to rezone.
Interested citizens who led the opposition to this rezoning are,
interestingly enough, all closely associated with the University.
We have some questions we think need answering by someone:
1. Why has the City of Lawrence established a dual policy in the zoning of land in the West Hills area?
2. Why has the University refused to take a stand in this case either in support of better student housing facilities, or against them?
3. Why has the city of Lawrence, which derives a considerable portion of its income from the University, refused a construction project which would obviously bring several thousand more dollars into the Lawrence area?
Is it possible that some strange form of politics is going on behind the scenes? We don't know—but we do feel that there are questions to be answered. It seems to follow a long pattern—when the chips are down the students find their support waning into active opposition—perhaps this is the great lesson the University is here to teach.
Bob Kimball
Kansas City, Kan., senior
France Defended
Mohammed I. Kazem in his talk on the Middle East crisis (University Daily Kansan, Thursday, Nov. 15), said that the role of Britain and France in the conflict was only an extension of the colonial question. I wonder if these two countries would not have shown a greater leniency towards the nationalization of the "Company" if there had not been at the head of Egypt:
Editor:
1. A man whose violent speeches and boisterous public laughs recalled too much another fellow in Europe who was allowed to burn some countries to the ground by the stupidity of the other countries in 1938. (Nasser is known to be a great admirer of "Mein Kampf" which inspired in great part his own book about revolution.)
2. A man contending to raise the standard of living of his people and yet spending the greater part of Egvpt's national income on building an army from Russia whose brotherly sponsorship was highly appreciated in Hungary. (Maybe that is the reason why the per capita income of Egyptians can't be higher than the per capita foreign aid to Israel).
As far as France is concerned a man who lends Cairo radio to fellows calling for bloodshed in Algeria, even against Arabs, women or children, and who sends arms to rebels in this country
(Affair of the Athos), maybe the hope of becoming the leader of Arabs to the Atlantic warrants such actions, but they constitute flat interference in France's affairs.
Without discussing in these columns the problem of Algeria, I think France is old enough to manage her own problems and that if Nasser did for his people what France did in Algeria it would not be so bad. (As far as I know the per capita income for the lower class is higher in Algeria than in Egypt.)
I think that the Egyptians can find in the leader they gave themselves, or were given, I don't know which, more than in an extension of colonialism, the clue to the prompt retaliation of France and Great Britain. These countries have just enough experience to be willing to build a barrage against the actions of a second Hitler supported by Russia, which may have not been quite understood by the USA, plunged in its election.
Feiletim, France graduate student
Pierre Bonnavaud
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Jane Peelinovsky ... Managing Editor
Felecia念 Fenberg, Joan George,
Daryl Hall, Jerry Thomas, Assistant
Managing Editors; John Battlet, City
Editor; Mohammed, Editor; Owens,
Assistant City Editor; Jim Morsch,
Telegraph Editor; James Bannan,
Leloy Zhmerman, Assistant
Telegraph Editors; Dick Walt, Sports
Editor; Malcolm Applegate, Assistant
Sports Editor; Margaret Armstrong,
Society Editor; Jim Carmen, Assistant
Society Editor; Jim Sledd, Picture
Editor.
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David Webb ... Editorial Editor
Jerry Dawson, Kenf Thomas, Associate
Editors.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
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Tomothy McDevitt, Advocacy Manager
John Swifter, National Advertising Manager; Harry Turner, Classified Advertising Manager; Mary Lue Cole, Circulation Manager.
Hungarians Fleeing To Austria
VIENNA — (UP) — More than 82,000 Hungarians have crossed into Austria since the anti-communist uprising and the exodus is continuing despite tightened Communist border controls and the dangers of death or arrest, Austrian officials said today.
New waves of refugees were reported from border control points during the night, according to officials of the provincial government of Burgenland. No total figure was given for the number who braved sub-zero temperatures and Soviet border patrols to gain freedom in the West.
* LITTLE STORIES WITH BIG MORALS
First Little Story
"Sir, we have an idea," said the boys who even at that tender age were resourceful little chaps. "We will get up on top of the ladder and boost you up on the roof."
Once upon a time when the inventors of the airplane were very small boys, the roof on their house developed a terrible leak. A repairman was called to fix it. He set his ladder against the side of the house, but it was a very tall house and his ladder was not quite long enough to reach the roof.
So the boys climbed to the top of the ladder, and the repairman came after them, and they tried to boost him up on the roof. But, alas, the plan did not work and they all came tumbling down in a heap.
MORAL: Two Wrights don't make a rung.
Second Little Story
Once upon a time a German exchange student came from Old Heidelberg to an American university. One night there was a bull session going on in the room next to his. "Ach, excuse me," he said timidly to the group of young men assembled there, "aber what is that heavenly smell I smell?"
"Why, that is the fragrant aroma of our Philip Morris cigarettes," said one of the men.
"Himmel, such natural tobacco goodness!"
"It comes in regular size in the handy Snap-Open pack, or in long size in the new crushproof box... Won't you try one?"
"Dankeschön," said the German exchange student happily, and from that night forward, whenever the men lit up Philip Morris Cigarettes, he never failed to be present.
MORAL: Where there's smoke, there's Meyer.
Third Little Story
Once upon a time Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, had herself a mess of trouble in Ithaca. With her husband away at the Trojan War, all the local blades were wooing Penelope like crazy. She stalled them by saying she wouldn't make her choice until she finished weaving a rug. Each night when her suitors had gone home, Penelope, that sly minx, would unravel all the weaving she had done during the day.
Why don't you lude in this Urn?
Well sir, one night she left her rug lying outside. It rained buckets, and the rug got all matted and shrunken, and Penelope couldn't unwind it. When the suitors came back in the morning, the poor frantic woman started running all over the house looking for a place to hide.
Well sir, it happened that Sappho, the poetess, had come over the night before to write an ode about Penelope's Grecian urn. So she said, "Hey, Penelope, why don't you hide in this urn? I think it's big enough if you'll kind of squinch down."
So Penelope hopped in the urn, and it concealed her perfectly except for her hair-do which was worn upswept in the Greek manner.
Well sir, with the suitors pounding on the door, Sapho had to move fast. She whipped out a razor and cut off Penelope's hair. The suitors looked high and low but they couldn't find Penelope.
MORAL: A Penny shaved is a Penny urned.
$ \textcircled{c} $Max Shulman.1956
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