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University Daily Kansan Monday. March 13, 1967
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Thanks, Mizzou
The University of Kansas has been formally indicted. The charge is poor sportsmanship. The jurors are many. Perhaps they can never watch a collegiate athletic contest on television again without recalling the picture of a lean giant in a Kansas basketball uniform throwing a punch at an opponent. The first punch. A punch that he had been goaded into tossing. A punch that caused two teams to erupt into a free-swinging, bitter fight. But the jurors can not remember many of the contestants. They will only remember the Kansas uniform worn by the lean giant who appeared to start the fight. That will not be easily forgotten.
THANKS, MISSOURI, FOR THE RECEPTION last Saturday. It was—exceptional. Saturday afternoon, March 11, 1961: Kansas vs. Missouri at Columbia. Two teams played, one team lost. Nothing exceptional about that. But the performance of the Missouri fans was something else. They ranted. They raved. They screamed derision at the opponents. They threw oranges on the floor. They rode the lean giant so much that when a Missouri man fouled him, the Kansas player lashed out in anger. But the Missouri fans weren't satisfied with that. When the lean giant was forced to the floor in the ensuing struggle, they jumped on him. And had a field day
Thanks, Missouri.
Exceptional, Missouri fans. But perhaps your behavior was the rule, rather than the exception...
That isn't the first time you've "taken care" of an opposing player, is it? Colorado's star forward also suffered a Missouri mauling at Brewer Field House earlier this year. That, at least, should prove that your hospitality doesn't extend only to Kansas. But Kansas always gets it just a little worse at Missouri. The football
game was played at Columbia last fall, and Missouri fans started another fight. The football players were wearing pads, so the Kansas band looked like an easier touch. Two fights caused by the Missouri "sports" at Columbia in two games this year. Not a bad record.
YOUR OPPONENTS DON'T EXPECT A tea party, Missouri, but they do expect to be treated as opponents.
The Kansas basketball coach and team did not go to Columbia anticipating an easy game. Missouri plays rough basketball. It's unfortunate that the Missouri coach allows his players to bear the Missouri standard in that manner, but they haven't changed their tactics against Kansas in recent games. And Kansas has won ten of eleven. So, whatever action the crowd took was what finally provoked the lean giant to throw that punch. A punch that indicts Kansas for poor sportsmanship.
Thanks. Missouri fans. But perhaps the blame isn't entirely yours.
KANSAS DIDN'T GO TO COLUMBIA EXPECTING to be cheered. Missouri doesn't come to Kansas expecting cheers. Admittedly, the booing incident in the game here is a black mark against KU. But the boos were stopped, and there were no fights. We're ashamed of our performance that night. We forgot ourselves. The coach and the athletic director, the chancellor and the administration, have developed attitudes at KU that foster good sportsmanship. The squad that collects tickets at Allen Field House is available should our good training be forgotten. But two fights in two games at Columbia indicate that those at Missouri who could foster good sportsmanship have not done so. So, perhaps the blame isn't entirely yours... But we can't talk to them.
Anyway, thanks, Missouri.
Dan Felger
How Come, Ingemar?
Tonight's world heavyweight championship fight at Miami pits Floyd Patterson against Ingemar Johansson for 15 rounds, or less. The natural drama of the event will have several tragic figures standing in the spotlight and hidden in the background, but regardless of who wins, one person's fame and fortune will probably stay the same.
We are speaking of Johansson's perennial fiance, Birgit Lundgren, the girl who came to
BUT THE ONE DESERVED OF THE most pity, and the one who has nothing to win or lose, is a girl who has stood in the background for many, many years and who has yet to attain the simple status to which she aspires—that of being Mrs. Ingemar.
The one whose arm isn't raised when it's over will be an object of sympathy. Bill Rosenhohn, the young entrepreneur who had the promotion all wrapped up but got squeezed out by the big boys, will doubtlessly shed a few tears. And the family of the loser will see several thousand grand vanish that could have been used for another car or a newer refrigerator.
America with the Swedish bomber for his first fight and still has the same title she had then.
Now we would be the last to question Ingo's intentions (propaganda or not, we're impressed with that thing on the end of his right arm), but our concern is for the girl.
A fairer maiden never graced a bikini. Every time we see her she is dutifully attentive to Ingo's every word, or romping down the road beside him as he takes his morning run, or relaxing on the bench with him, or smiling broadly when he tells a joke at a banquet.
THIS IS THE KIND OF A GIRL A GUY ought to have. There would be no hesitation on our part at setting the date the minute she said her first yes. And especially if we had Ingo's money. But there she is with the same old name and the same old title.
Maybe this Swedish giant, the ex-champ, is stronger than any of us has imagined. After all, to elude the hunter with both feet in the trap takes a pretty powerful man. So, win, lose or draw tonight, one could doubt the boy's handiness with the gloves but not his ability to hold out.
— Frank Morgan
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What degree of anarchy can be projected in poetry? For when its principal tenets and accepted formal procedures are assaulted with utter vigor, this art of language does not merely change, it totally disappears.—Louise Bogan
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
What a woman wants is what you're out of. She wants more of a thing when it is scarce—O. Henry
All too frequently, after an evening of avant-garde cinema, one wants to go see a movie.—Pauline Kael
Except in street cars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.—O. Henry
- SO I FIND IT EASIER TO GET DATES NOW THAT I HAVE A CAR."
the took world
By Walter M. Hull
SELECTED STORIES, by Anton Chekhov. Signet, CD37, November, 1960, 50 cents.
This collection is a further admirable example of Chekhov at work as a "seeing" artist. Here we find short character sketches, quick portraits of a passing life, neither asking us to laugh or to cry, but first to see, and then to either laugh or cry, or both, as we wish. We find also longer stories, even a short novel. Plot is introduced, and the character is seen in the face of conflict; is developed, revealed, and grows, and when we leave him at the end we are less impressed with the happiness or sadness of the ending than with its reality.
WE KNOW THAT what we have read is true, true in the tiniest detail, overwhelmingly true in the total presentation of man as man, of reality perceived with a sharpness no camera can match.
Chekhov saw and wrote as an artist, as a portrayer of reality. Yet even above this he saw as a human being. He had that rare knack of seeing in the trivia of life that which was important to someone, and the knack of knowing who that someone was. Truth, in his hands, was not a glaring searchlight, nor yet the varicolored illumination of the stage; it was a gentle light, a soft light, and it was an all-pervading light. Again this selection provides illustration.
And so it goes. Each of these stories is different, new and yet they are all the same: the reality of life, the humanness of man, is always their subject matter. Always the reader is left sad with the discovery of human failing; always he is left happy with the discovery of human glory. Both are here, and both in equal parts, for that is how the author found them, and as an artist he leaves them intact.
IN "HE UNDERSTOOD" one of the shorter pieces, the protagonist is a poor peasant with a passion for hunting, in or out of season. He is apprehended, and taken to the home of the landowner, where he undergoes a rigorous third degree. The reader cannot help sympathizing. Pavel has done nothing, really, to deserve the treatment he gets. Yet the reader still does not judge the peasant's captors with the same harsh judgment which Pavel himself receives. Chekhov's all pervading light has touched the antagonist, and with characteristic honesty, has found him human.
Sound and Fury
The Honors System?
Although basically the University of Kansas is one of the very best schools in the nation, there are several things about the school with which I simply cannot agree.
The first of these things is one certain feature of the honors program. I appreciate the value and accomplishments of our honors program at KU. But I believe that one thing should be taken into consideration: Because a certain person is generally intelligent is no sign that he is gifted in every field. To exemplify this, one needs look no further than the difference between "academic" and "non-academic" subjects. On the basis of an intelligence test, the University can see that a person should be in an advanced mathematics, physics, or foreign language course. But because a student qualifies for honors chemistry is no reason to put him in honors speech. As a matter of fact, most of the students in the honors speech classes have qualified because of scores on placement exams; standings as a Watkins, Summerfield, or National Merit Scholar; or some such purely academic reason as that.
Certainly anyone can see the folly of such a policy, and I sincerely hope that some action will be taken. -BC