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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 24, 1958
No Vandalism, Please!
Spring is here, and with the new climate, stifled wintry emotions are let free. Some students let their emotions go astray and quite a few pranks are pulled. This is natural and there is nothing wrong in it.
But often pranks turn into downright vandalism, which sometimes injures personal property and other students. This is wrong.
To clear matters up and impress upon students the seriousness of going too far astray, the administration has said that the policies of the KU-Kansas State Peace Pact will be enforced.
That policy is that no vandalism will be tolerated from students of either campus. This spring
it will apply to KU students on their own campus.
In the past few weeks, the Delta Upsilon fraternity was damaged by vandals. Last weekend a window screen was damaged at the Chi Omega sorority.
All these events have led the administration to a reiteration of the statement that automatic dismissal from school can be the result of such vandalism.
Last fall Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said, "For the past two years there has been no trouble because we would not stand for juvenile delinquency."
Remember, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
—Doug Parker
Do Spectators Approve?
Coaches and Kansas Relays officials seemed to be in agreement that the new set-up for the Relays is much better than the 32 Relays run previously.
Under the new plan, the Relays is a 2-day event with college and university events being run on both days. Before, high school events had dominated the first day's activities.
No doubt this is a decidedly better set-up for the athletes. It gives them much more time to rest between events and certainly some of the outstanding performers who run in several events can use this extra time to rest.
The new plan was also designed partly to attract a crowd for both days of the Relays. It was thought that having college and university events on both days might accomplish this end.
The 1958 Kansas Relays had a comparably good turnout of 3,000 and 13,000 persons on Friday and Saturday respectively. But as is shown by these figures, Friday's events still lacked the interest of those run on Saturday.
Although high school athletes turned in several fine times in their races, many people lacked interest in watching the high school athletes perform. They would much rather see the top stars of college and university track perform
Certainly there are good arguments for the new set-up. But for future Relays it seems that the average spectator must also be considered. Since he undoubtedly comes to see the top men perform, on Saturday, it seems logical that the majority of the outstanding events should be run on Saturday.
Mal Applegate
'Why My Paper Lied'
The other day I was reading an article in an issue of the Saturday Review written by Thomas Braden. It was titled "Why My Paper Lied."
I think there is no better opportunity than now to tell you why this paper too lied.
This paper has done as so many other papers have done by printing the bare outside face of the news. It is like getting a press release and looking upon it as a godsend, never tracing the story to its full extent.
Our paper has been gullible and has taken you, the readers, along with us to being simpletons. For instance, if a man in the U. S. administration tells the Washington reporters that we have perfected a fuel that can put a rocket ship on the Moon anyday, the reporters report in the newspaper that this is a great thing.
But should the reporter pursue the questioning of the administration official or the official stop trying to put a hoax over on the people, we would find that there has not been and there cannot be for 10 years a rocket that would withstand the pressures of space.
Thus, our paper has lied because we have led you to expect a rocket to the moon sooner than is humanly possible.
If the papers report that our foreign aid is an enormous sum, but the officials or the reporters forget to say that the amount of the money in proportion to the work it does greatly exceeds this country's expectations, then again our paper has told you a lie.
This kind of reporting of the news is continued into state, city and township government and slowly, through the evasiveness of our governmental officials, the American people are becoming apathetic fools living off the propaganda of governmental machines.
What must be done? The reporter must seek behind the official statements for proof. The officials must be brought to realize they are harming the country through their over-zealous protective measures.
—Doug Parker
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"TYPICAL NEW TEACHER PROBLEM—SHEES WORKED ABOUT HER ABILITY TO HOLD THEIR ATTENTION FOR A WHOLE HOUR!"
Employment in South Carolina textile plants has increased more than 33 per cent during the past 20 years.
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