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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Oct. 26,1956
Seat-Savers, Non-Seat-Savers Arise
Students who attend home football games at the University fall into two broad categories. This fact has been fully emphasized by recent happenings.
Group 1. -Seat-savers or those who reap the benefits of the seat-saving activities of others.
Group 2—Non-seat-savers who hold to the theory that man was biologically constructed to occupy only one seat. They believe in the axiom that to be considered occupied in its truest sense, a seat must have a body in it.
These two categories are further divided into two subspecies.
1. Violent seat-savers and violent non seats-savers.
2. Non-violent members of both types whose true colors are sometimes only made known during conditions of extreme duress.
The first mentioned of the above subspecies is also divided into two additional types. Seat-savers and non-seat-savers alike come in both small and large sizes. However, this is not a problem, as two or three small non-seat-savers equal one large seat-saver or vice-versa. (This has been proved by recent tests conducted in the student section).
The seat-saver is a mysterious animal. He is usually younger and in an inferior position to those he saves seats for. His philosophy of life runs something like this:
"All right, I save seats now. It is a hard job but one that is part of learning to get along with people and part of college life. If I perform my tasks now and do not incur the displeasure of my masters, perhaps someday after I have proven myself, I will have a seat-saver of my own."
The non-seat-saver has his distinguishing traits also. He thinks something along this line: "Seats were made to be sat in. It is all right for
people to believe in the principles of seat-saving as long as they do it among themselves and don't make it an inconvenience to others. If I have the energy to find myself a vacant seat and if I go out of my way to get it, it is rightly mine."
This seating problem is nothing new. It has been going on for years and looks like it will continue, as evidenced by the recent action of the ASC. Harangued by non-seat-savers, it promised action and did do something to clarify the issue. It drew up more definable boundary lines for the Saturday afternoon grandstand game of "who's got the seat?," and at the same time proclaimed the custom a socially accepted practice. Does this astute body plan to referee the off-the-field end runs that may develop or has it adopted a "survival of the fittest" policy?
This publication heard from a non-seat-saver (who proclaimed himself of the violent type) who presented some reasonably sane solutions.
Since the ASC, or its special committee on seating has seen fit to take a stand on the issue, we feel sure that they wisely weighed their action and can make public their reasons for doing so.
Perhaps a report in The Daily Kansan on who voted for and against the practice could be arranged, and maybe even a statement from the president of the All-Student Council is in order.
We hope that, although this football season is almost over, some definite rule can be made for next fall.
Seat-savers and non-seat-savers, arise and proclaim yourselves (in letters to the editor).
You have nothing to lose but your seats!
—Bob Lyle
Always be sure your brain is engaged before you shift your mouth into high.
Letters To The Editor
"Wrong Conclusion"
Editor:
In the editorial column of Wednesday's UDK, Mmes, Morrison and Seacat offered a prolific discussion concerning the seeming paradox of activities at KU. In particular, they directed huge caldrons of seething comments upon the Student Union Carnival and the Rock Chalk Revue. While I do not wish to distract one iota from their main thesis, I do feel that the conclusion reached was the wrong one.
According to these two inspired members of the "activities ratrace," the solution to the waste of energy expended in the production of these spectaculars is to route the derived funds into a worthy charity of some sort.
Now, of course, one cannot speak ill of such a noble thought. However, in regard to their original attack on activities — that because
of them, the "idea of a good education has been completely discarded"—it occurred to me that the proper conclusion should have been the termination of such "idle pursuits."
Perhaps the two composers felt that was a bit too harsh, for, on second thought, they noted that "Rock Chalk is something in which all loyal KU supporters can take pride." By so doing, the writers have presented a bigger paradox than their subject — that these activities are unworthy of the energies expended, yet that they are vital contributions to the excellent reputation of our fair university.
Realistically, they apparently declined to straight forwardly criticise the two activities that so many Jayhawkers feel are so important.
If I may, I would like to submit what I feel is the proper conclusion to their perfectly valid basic contention. To do away with these beloved performances of
course is not the answer. Many people on the Hill feel that such programs are of prime import in their collegiate life. But, it is an undeniable fact that they also tend to utterly disrupt the academic pursuits of those persons residing in the participating houses.
In view of this, prehaps the solution is to schedule these events on week ends immediately following fall and spring vacations. In this way, those persons who feel that these endeavors are so vitally important can work themselves to the bone—on their own time—without distracting from the primary function of Mount Oread. Should this come about, I would also hazard the opinion that the interest in these productions would decline rapidly since perhaps the primary attraction is the chance to get away from the books and to "do something worthwhile."
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