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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 21, 1961
Salute to Greeks
Once again, that special week for campus Greeks is here. For the fraternities and sororites at KU, this will be a time for mutual back-patting, as well as a time for a re-examination of Greek values. Yet while all this activity is directed toward the organizations themselves, the Greeks also will be showing their wares to a collegiate world sometimes skeptical of their accomplishments.
The Lawrence area, however, is anything but skeptical of KU Greeks. In the last few years, the fraternities and sororities of the campus have united efforts to lead the community in civic spirit for at least one week each spring.
Three years ago the fraternities and sororites united and descended on one of the eyesores of Lawrence, the cemetery. The Greeks pulled
weeds, picked up rocks and dead branches, which littered the area. They picked up old papers which had been blowing around in the cemetery for months. By late afternoon, when the groups began to drift away, the cemetery had the appearance of being one of the best kept acres in the midwest.
Two years ago the same masses swarmed down on the city park. Once again the general clean up was effected. But there was also painting this time—benches, curbs and everything else that didn't move.
Then last year the Greeks brought nationwide recognition to KU for taking voters to register for the national election in November.
The Greeks have done a great job. Congratuations, and long live the Greeks.
-Dan Felger
The Theater Corner
The Experimental Theatre opened with its week-long presentation of "The Rope Dancers" last night in *Murphy Hall*. Plumbing deep for an apt phrase of description, one could say it was a studied exercise in depression performed by a canable, nay, excellent cast.
The play starts at a fathomless depth of human despair and never climbs any higher. A look at raw life is often not pleasant. But when the look is by means of a drama that touches the intimate problems of man's emotional side, something is gained. The reward of this play is in seeing the problems caused by man's frailties met and resolved by human abilities. The "Rope Dancers" doesn't end happily, it doesn't start happily and it doesn't have any happy parts. But in it, people grow, love, die and find some meaning to what this thing called life is about. It is a tightly written and staged story that could come out of the lives of many people, though, perhaps, not with the exact same circumstances.
Margaret Hyland is a strong
woman who moves into a New York tenement with her daughter Lizzie. She is meticulously clean, savagely independent, overbearingly protective of her only child, and frugal to a fault. Noticeably absent is a husband.
James Hyland, husband in absentee, is an intellectual wastrel, "the finest unpublished poet in America," who has shunned his marital ties so as to keep one step ahead of reality. For as a husband and a father, his inability to face life would be apparent.
Lizzie, a precocious 11-year-old, is the hub from which all the play's activities radiate. She is the only bond between the parents, the cause for their separation, and the dominant figure of the play.
The drama is based upon related regiments of suspense which to mention here would deprive future audiences of the impact that the play makes. It is not entertainment and not meant to be. It is weighty. It would be difficult for any cast to bring off for it is so tightly knit that one weak link in acting would
spoil the whole story and its effect.
However, there are no weak elements in this cast. Jeanne Rustemeyer, Leavenworth senior, quickly reveals Margaret's character and makes it consistent throughout the play. Roland Loch, Oklahoma City graduate student, gives James Hyland the substance the role calls for: witty, arrogant, confident, but a man who has resigned himself to accepting failure as a daily fare. Patti Garland, as Lizzie, is a Lawrence junior high school student who is perfect for the role of the frail but hauntingly beautiful child who dashes back and forth between the parents attempting to reconcile them.
Ann Runge, Higginsville, Mo., senior, as the neighbor-lady brings an earthiness and comic-relief to the play that is delightful. This is balanced by Daryl Patten, Hitchcock, S. D., graduate student, as Dr. Jacobson who brings the only order to the chaotic world of the fifth-floor flat.
Frank Morgan
Freedom Abused
Editor:
"Freedom of the press" — yes! a glorious phrase, indeed. But, freedom to do what?? — to report a distorted view of CRC proceedings, a slanted picture that is detrimental to the aims of the organization? Yes. I want to know what the CRC is doing. I feel very concerned about the goals toward which that group is striving, as well as about their methods for attaining them. However, I have learned through past experience with the reporting of the UDK that what is said in that paper is to be taken with less than "a grain of salt" to say the least.
Yes, I would like to have information concerning CRC activities, but I feel that the UDK has no right to give the type and quality coverage it has given so far. It's a shame that the CRC felt that it needed to exclude the press, but I can hardly blame them.
R. Vieune Patterson
Lawrence junior
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Missourian Praises Harp Editor:
I enclose a clipping from the 13 Mar. issue of the Columbia Missourian. Dick Harp is so right and you are so wrong. I was present at the basketball game in question and had a very good view of the entire proceeding. Things were not as you have described them. You imply that Henke fouled Hightower deliberately and that Henke's motive was to please the Missouri fans who "wanted, raved, screamed derision at (Hightower)." As anyone who has seen Henke on the court will confirm, Henke is a level-headed player who keeps a tight rein on his emotions. Also, Henke doesn't need to resort to this kind of thing to win the approval of the fans. He already has it.
Attention: Dan Felger
... Letters ...
Your piece in the Daily Kansan is as yellow a piece of journalism as I ever had the misfortune to read. The William Randolph Hearst group needs your type. Please forward this to Harp.
C. R. Smith
Columbia, Mo.
(Editor's Note: The clipping referred to, quoted Coach Harp as blaming the overemphasis on collegiate athletics as the partial cause for the "trouble" at Missouri last Saturday. Dan Felger's editorial was excerpted in he said the Missouri fans were responsible for the brawl.)
From the Grave
I wish to call attention to a slight mistake in either semantics or reporting made in the March 13 edition. An opening sentence of one of your articles reads: "KU received more Woodrow Wilson Fellowships than any other publicly supported university for the coming year."
Editor:
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From the Grave
As I check the list of students I decided to award with fellowships, I find this to be inaccurate. The University of Kansas did not win more fellowships than any other publicly supported university. The last time I checked a dictionary, which of course was in 1921, the word "more," as I suppose you meant it to be interpreted in this context, signified a greater number than that of your composite competitor, the other state universities. My list, however, shows the University of Michigan also received twenty grants which means the University of Kansas did not win more grants than any other state university, but only the same amount as at least one other state university did. And the University of Michigan had twenty-four students on my honorable mention list as opposed to your thirteen. However, the University of Kansas is to be congratulated for being able to keep company with such exalted
intellectual institutions as the University of Michigan.
Woodrow Wilson Formerly of Washington D. C.
(Editor's Note: The UDK doesn't doubt "Mr. Wilson" information, only his existence. We don't think the real Woodrow Wilson, a Princeton man, would be concerned about Michigan. For this reason, we suspect that this letter wasn't really written by Woodrow Wilson.)
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Since only a part of what I said at the last CRC meeting was reported, I would like to take this opportunity to bring out the main point of my remarks which was missed entirely.
Too Much, Too Soon Editor:
I feel that the CRC has acted somewhat irresponsibly in trying to tackle too many different areas of discrimination at once. Others see us as an irresponsible group, in part due to our actions, mainly due to the reporting of the UDK, (which generally take remarks out of context and misses the entire point or distorts it completely). I feel that it is very necessary that the CRC to do everything in its power to change the picture that has been painted of us.
VOX POPULI is a campus political party, therefore we feel that the actions of its representatives to the All Student Council at the University of Kansas should deal primarily with those issues directly concerned with campus problems.
Vox Platform
Editor:
For this reason, I would like to see the Council devote the major part of its time this semester to finding out information pertinent to the discrimination problem, such as the number of apartments available, students living in off-campus housing, and the number of students belonging to minority groups. This is my viewpoint alone and it was discussed to a certain extent at the meeting. Naturally, with the methods used for reporting the meeting, it was impossible to expect a complete job of reporting. Next time the UDK wants a quote from me, why don't you ask me for one.
The following is a political platform upon which the candidates for the All Student Council representing Vox Populi stand. This platform contains current or new ideas concerning the student and student government. A policy statement of Vox Populi will be released later which will express our desire to continue those items proposed in the past, which are being dealt with now.
Carolyn Shull Lawrence junior
We are not trying to limit the actions of the Vox Fopuli representatives to the ASC with our platform. We have other ideas which will take more thorough investigation.
We intend to investigate the possibilities of:
1. Forming an investigative committee to do special, thorough investigation on various campus problems.
2. Joining the student athletic boards of the Big Eight schools in order that we may collectively resolve problems in athletic events.
3. Thoroughly study the ASC budget and present reasons to the administration for increasing funds to the ASC if funds are found to be necessary.
1. CIVIL RIGHTS—
Segregation violates basic human freedoms as guaranteed in the 14th amendment, however, we disagree with many of the methods now being used to obtain these freedoms.
We pledge faithful support to a Lawrence Human Rights Group and the ASC in peaceful methods in eliminating discriminatory practices which the KU student might encounter.
II. COMMUNICATIONS—
JIL LIAISON-
Telephone facilities will be improved in the women's dormitories. HL LAMISON
We will establish a liaison group which will be formed from representatives of student government to voice the students' viewpoints to the Lawrence civic authorities, the Board of Regents, the State Legislature, and the Governor.
IV. SECRETARIAL STAFF -
A secretarial staff will be established to assist the secretary in sending out ASC minutes and handling increased legislation efficiently.
V. STUDENT OPINION—
The ASC will establish a method whereby any student group would have at its disposal a method for obtaining student opinion on controversial issues that directly concern the group's interest.
VI. ADMINISTRATION—
A. We shall obtain a consolidation and standardization of women's rules, i.e., late rules and social regulations.
VII. FINANCE—
C. We shall call for a written clarification of administrative policy on discipline, which shall be distributed to the students.
B. We will urge the administration to remedy low wages and incongruities in hiring standards.
D. We will encourage standardization of grading procedures on a departmental basis.
The ASC will form a subcommittee under the auspices of the finance committee of the ASC for the purpose of monitoring expenditures of groups sponsored by the ASC.
VIII. CULTURAL UNDER- STANDING
IX. PROPERTY PROTECTION—
We shall establish a program to promote better foreign student-student cultural understanding.
We shall establish more extensive protection for student and university property in cooperation with Lawrence and University police forces.
X. CHECKS AND BALANCES—
In order to provide a more distinct system of checks and balances between the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of student government we will establish the following:
A. The approval of the Student Body President will be required before legislation can be passed, subject to a two-thirds override vote of the ASC.
B. A Student Body President's cabinet which will consist of the chairmen of the ASC committees and shall be coordinated by the Vice President of the Student Body.
Worth Repeating
Ultimately, then, academic freedom is a right of the people, not a privilege of a few; and this situation is not affected by the fact that most people know little about it. It is the people at large who have a right to learn what scholars may succeed in finding out if they are left free and secure from reprobation. It is the people at large who have a right to the cultural and material benefits that may flow from the teaching and the inquiries of scholars who have nothing to fear when they make honest mistakes.-Fritz Machlup
Fermented liquor is liquid death.—Graccio Houlder
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