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University Daily Kansan Friday, March 28,1958
Problems Need Solving
Spring is almost here, or at least we hope so. With the coming of spring a young man's fancy turns to love, and the typical housewife supposedly begins to think of spring housecleaning.
Maybe this spring season would be a good time for the University to do some housecleaning of its own. There are a few problems that need to be taken care of, and a few issues that should be clarified.
One of the biggest student problems on the campus is the student government or the lack of it. The ASC has acquired a reputation for doing nothing, in an inefficient manner. Many of the campus elections have been little more than a big farce. It seems that a group of politically minded students with the help of a few faculty members could find a cure for our sick student government.
Since the University began, segregation has been a problem. The administration cleared up one phase of this problem when it managed to get the motion picture theaters in Lawrence to stop their segregation practices. But some of the restaurants still insist on refusing service to members of the Negro race. This problem will take much time and patience, but the effect a
solution would have on the reputation of the University and Lawrence, would make all the effort worthwhile.
Other pressing problems needing a solution are the parking and traffic problem, and the toughest, most time consuming problem of all expansion.
Some students in the department of architecture would like a clarification of just where their department stands. Rumors that the department is about to lose its accredited status has caused considerable dissension.
Some students in the School of Engineering feel that their facilities are inadequate. They feel they are being passed by in the University's building program. They want to know if and when the University plans to include them in its building program.
Some of these points may seem minor to many people, but to the people directly involved they are of major importance.
The administration is undoubtedly working on all these problems, especially expansion. The complaints of most students are centered around the fact that they are receiving little information concerning these subjects.
It Will Take Years To Know
—Del Haley
No person now is capable of saying exactly how much the launching of the four space satellites will contribute to history, but it probably wouldn't be too liberal to say that the period of the future will compare with the Renaissance, the Reformation or the Enlightenment.
The four space satellites could launch and may have already launched a new era of political, religious and economic thought.
Will the United States turn to imperialistic tendencies toward the planets, and control Mars just as it did Cuba and the Philippines?
Or could the result be that the lack of major obstructions to reaching and conquering outer
What will outer-space markets bring to the U. S. economy? Will space projects keep our economy booming for years to come?
space would make man forget that the world revolves around God?
Of course, the answers to these questions are not available yet, but when the answers come they will usher in a No.1 historical epoch.
We will have to wait until time spreads out for some distance and people can look back and put this block of time, concerned with space pioneering, into its proper ranking with other historical eras.
—Doug Parker
A Big Night In Hollywood
The 30th annual presentation of Oscar's by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was made Wednesday night with the help of several dozen of Hollywood's best-known personalities.
The 105-minute extravaganza featured five m.c.'s, James Stewart, David Niven, Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon and Rosalind Russell. Many other stars performed tasks such as singing, dancing and presenting Oscars.
"The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Sayonara" almost made the presentation a two-movie affair by capturing seven and four Oscars respectively, out of a total of 21.
The major awards went to Alec Guinness, best actor, for his portrayal of the iron-willed British colonel in "The Bridge on the River Kwai"; Joanne Woodward, best actress, for her role as a schizophrenic in "Three Faces of Eve"; Red Buttons, best supporting actor, and Miyoshi Umeki, best supporting actress, for their portrayal as the tragic lovers in "Sayonara", and the best picture of the year award went to "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
The award for the best song of the year went to "All the Way" sung by Frank Sinatra in "The Joker Is Wild."
Other awards going to those connected with "The Bridge on the River Kwai" were Oscars to David Lean for the best direction; to Pierre Boulle for the best screen play; to Peter Taylor for the best film editing; to Malcolm Arnold for the best music scoring, and to Jack Hildyard for the best cinematography.
The two other Oscars connected with "Sayonara" went to William A. Mueller for best sound recording and to Ted Haworth and Robert Priestley for best art and set direction.
British aircraft exports in January were valued at over 31 million dollars, the largest January total ever achieved.
... Letters ...
Mis-Criticized
A review of the recent Spring Concert by the University Symphony Orchestra, appearing in the March 24 edition of The Daily Kansan, seems to have mis-criticized parts of the program.
I wonder if the "critic" had ever heard Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" prior to Sunday's concert, for if he had, I'm not sure he would have realized that the performance was not really "bright". Also, a closer inspection of the thematic material will show that each section does not have its own theme, but rather is a clever variation on a theme suggested by the early English composer Henry Purcell.
Unfortunately the current trend is for critics to criticize simply for the sake of being critical. Granted the orchestra occasionally outweighed the "cello in the Dvorak concerto, but to say that Mr. Harris' rendition was wanting for clarity and smoothness of execution is really blind criticism. The performance was certainly satisfying to anyone who can appreciate the mastery of the score and artistry of expression which he so ably displayed last Sunday.
News Quotes
Dave Durfee
St. Louis, Mo, sophomore
CAPE CANAVERAL — Maj. Gen, John B. Medaris, Army missile chief, urging that schools eliminate some frills to prepare students for scientific careers;
LONDON — Actor Alec Guinness, notified he had been named best actor of the year by Hollywood's motion picture academy:
"Let's get social education back in the homes and scientific education back in the schools. I never learned how to drive a car in high school and my parents taught me how to behave.
How Else?
"I would never have put money on myself."
Editor:
In Wednesday's editorial, "Are They Few Or Many", you said, "If they have a problem they should approach it in an adult manner, not with childish pranks." How can they approach it in an adult manner? Can they complain to the department whom they are criticizing? Would pointed letters, full of individual digs, be printed in The Daily Kansan? I doubt it.
When some students feel they have sincere, valid complaints and can not be properly heard, whether it is because of their lack of ingenuity or lack of an effective place to air their feelings, what should they do? I don't think they should be silent and inactive. If that is the only way they have found to be heard, then I feel their "harmless" efforts to be heard are not to be condemned. That is their way of enforcing freedom of speech.
Rockaway Beach, N. Y.
sophomore
R. A. Botshon
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