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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 10. 1961
ASC Unbuys Gym
The ASC fielded the big ball batted at it last night like Marty Marion used to field line drives.
The Reserve Seating-New Gymnasium proposal which was brought up last night was punched, poked, cut and pared until there was little more to work on. Then it was tabled to be brought out next week after the Athletic Seating Committee has had time to patch and heal the wounds.
THE REASONS FOR this vivisection were many and well expressed by several members.
Basically, the reaction was against the plan for students to provide funds to replace Robinson Gym. The general feeling was that students should not be asked to pay with an increase in activity fees—which was essentially what the plan called for—when their parents are already paying taxes for Kansas higher education...the precedent of having student financial support for buildings would be dangerous in the future—("if the legislature sees that we are willing to pay for this building, they might not hesitate to let us build more")...it's not out of the question for the legislature to provide funds...why should only those who go to games have to pay for the gym...the maintenance of the new facilities would slow down the amortization so greatly that it would take approximately 35 years to pay off the bonds for the gym.
Those defending the proposal explained that, theoretically, the legislature could appropriate
funds but that a gymnasium occupies the bottom spot on the Board of Regents' and the University Administration's priority list for construction... the unkeep and payment would be similar to that of the Kansas Union where not all use it but all pay . . . it is highly improbable the legislature would contemplate appropriating funds for a gym within the next 10-15 years . . . that the Administration cannot ask for intramural facilities when the Strong Annexes and Fraser Hall need to be replaced soon.
SO, THE ROBINSON replacement died hurriedly.
Then the reserve seating plan was placed on the operating table. Why have reserved seats for basketball games when there is plenty of room? What about groups wanting to sit together? How about exchanging a seat for your date to be with you?
The general disagreement over the technicalities of the plan resulted in the whole thing being retired for more consideration until next week. There was general agreement that a plan was needed and should be adopted, possibly this one, but only after getting rid of the bugs.
Though a gym will be needed in the near future, building it with money out of students' pockets will not have their support. The biggest opening the Administration had was closed last night after the other door had been shut in Topeka months ago.
Frank Morgan
By Barbara Howell HEY YOU, LIGHT MAN! By Oliver Halley.
The second presentation of the University Theatre's annual Drama Symposium was produced last night in the Experimental Theatre of Murphy Hall. "Thunder Over Scotland," by Ernest Ferlita was presented Monday, and "Olympus Farewell" by Jefferson Bayley, will be presented tonight.
The author of last night's production, Oliver Hailey, is an aspiring young playwright. This was his first full length play.
This year's symposium differs from those in years past in that the original plays are full scale productions instead of dramatic readings. A total of 66 manuscripts were submitted to the drama department in the competition and the three being presented were selected as the best.
"Hey You, Light Man" is a basically serious play, the theme of which centers around one man's attempt to establish his world of reality. He tries to do this by setting up housekeeping with his cleaning woman in the very unreal world of a theater stage set.
DAVIES STARTS HIS play world in a modern set with all facilities for housekeeping. His wife and her children find him, so he runs with Lulu Roca to another set. This set is dirty and run down, symbolizing the deterioration of the world he is vainly trying to establish for himself.
The play also has a humorous side, some of which is quite good. However, Hailey seems to depend
Not only is his family closing in on him, but Lulu Roca has trouble "pretending" in the new set which reminds her of the way she has lived all her life. This further breaks down the illusion he is trying to create.
too much on sex and has gone to the extent of being offensive in places. The effect created by this is not only incongruous to the rest of the play, but the good, more subtle humor is lost. Sex has been used as humor for centuries and can easily become tite and overdone.
DAVIES AND LULU ROCA are the only "real" people in the play. The rest of the characters are types which act much as one might expect. The cast projected the characterization effectively and believably.
Finally, Lulu Roca is trapped in the fantasy world by the lights. "Hey you, light man," she calls from the stage. "Don't you ever come down from there?"
The play as a whole shows a great deal of promise. The novel setting for an old theme of escape from life shows imagination and inventiveness on the part of Halley.
Editor:
I am a freshman girl who didn't go through rush. However, most of the girls on my floor, including one of my roommates went through rush and pledged a sorority. I do not feel that their attitude toward me has changed, nor that our relationship has suffered any dampening because they are now sorority girls. On the contrary, most of our floor officers this semester are sorority pledges, and they are the girls who work the hardest for our floor and for our dorm.
I believe that if one pledge pin, one sorority sweatshirt, and one meeting each Monday evening can
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change the inner fiber of a girl to the extent that she no longer looks for the same qualities in her associates, then she is, indeed, a very weak and low type of person. Pledging a sorority does not entail de-pledging all previous friends!
Also, your article, "Sorority Rush System Rejects 119," leads me to believe that 119 girls signed preference cards and were rejected. If you would examine the true facts you would find that only 33 girls signed preference cards and were rejected. Your article failed to mention the 86 other girls who dropped out of rush, as did two girls on my floor. These two girls decided, for various reasons, that they would rather spend their time, energy, and money in other ways. Also, your article failed to mention the fact that about one-third of these 33 girls were pledged during Open Rush.
My acquaintance with two of the 33 girls assures me that your example is truly an exception. The most probable explanation for her exclusion is that people dislike others who wallow in their own self-pity in booths by themselves. In all phases of life selection occurs, and we can't all be a part of every group we would like to be. Apparently your example isn't mature enough to realize this.
The very existence of sororites (and fraternities) necessitates a system of selective membership. To deny them this is to make sororites (and fraternities) miniature dormitories! Why, then, have you used the example of one atypical girl to appeal to the sympathies and the pity of your readers? Do you advocate the abolishment of sororites (and fraternities)? If so, please state this fact and dispense with these tear-jerking examples!
Independence, Mo., freshman
(Editor's Note: There are four explanations formally listed for a girl's not pledging during rush. They are because the girl dropped out of rush and refused to sign a preference card, because she did not receive an invitation from rushes or sororites did not match or because the quotas were filled.
Carol A. Livesay
(This last category of "filled quotas" is increasing with the expanding campus population. Because of the "selective process," an is an exception to girls will be admitted. However when both sorority members and freshman women admit to being hurt by the inadequacies of a system, and the percentage of qualified rushes subseasons offered, the number of places open in sororites (as predictions show they will in the future), sororites themselves will have to accept these (10 girls from the last rush period) in order to problem selection facing sororites one, three or six years from now.)
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Concerning the story in Monday's UDK concerning the NSA fiasco at MU—it seems, from the account of the meetings, that Kansas University was made something of a laughing stock by the deportment of its "representatives." Were funds from the incidental fee that one every pays used to send these "eloquent conservatives" and "extreme liberals" to Columbia, or did these students take it upon themselves to pay their own way? I feel rather cheated if money I paid for my student fees were wasted on a mess like this NSA convention apparently was.
A "Moderate" Signs In Editor:
A POINT: NOBODY mentioned in the story seemed to know the "student view" on issues which were discussed. Isn't an organization such as the NSA supposed to represent the temperament of the school's student body? Perhaps a means to test student attitude might be to merely check book sales at the Union. Is Kennedy outselling Goldwater? Is William Buckley twice as popular as James Weschler?
Finally, a note to Miss McMillen: liberalism is a most nebulous term, perhaps even more amorphously defined than conservatism. There are many means to gain an objective; surely liberalism (whatever that means) is not the only means of "progressive and forward thought."
Anyone for the moderate position?
Name Withheld By Request
(Edito.'s Note: The NSA Convention was held at KU; not MU).
The Real Doctrine Editor:
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A few days ago the U.S., according to the excellent Costa
Rican historian, Vicente Saenz,
scored the 31st intervention in
Latin America. The difference with
the others: the 1st defeat.
It was not the Cuban people "op-pressed by a rough communist dictatorship fighting for freedom." It was just the other way around: the Cubans fighting to be masters of their own destiny with the leadership of Fidel scoring the first victory against Goliath.
One of the arguments used against the Cuban Revolution is the Monroe Doctrine. It states that America is for the Americans. Nothing wrong with that. However, two unwritten corollaries of the Monroe Doctrine throughout its history have been that America (North, Central and South) is for the American monopolies and that no Latin American country has the right whatsover to set up his own social system, if it thereby becomes a "peril to the Western Hemisphere freedom." (Trujillo? Somoza? Stoessner? the Argentine Army? the United Fruit Co.?)
Dan Felger in his editorial of May 2 wrote: "The Monroe Doctrine remains for the U.S. to decide what Monroeism is." A big truth! Because for the Latin Americans (not for the phony governments) the Monroe Doctrine is dead. I would say that it has never existed.
There is a struggle in Latin America against exploitation and misery. If the U.S. wants to engage in this struggle without strings attached Latin Americans will not cry "yanquis no."
Meanwhile, we, as students, have the duty to tell to our American friends what is the truth from our point of view and why today the cry is for Fidel and Cuba.
Eduardo Eichberg
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Special student