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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Jan. 9, 1958
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The Fast Buck
The powers in the University who regulate seating arrangements at athletic events recently made two mistakes:
They (1) underestimated the number of students who remained at the University until Christmas vacation officially started, and (2) carved a section of revenue-producing general admission seats smack out of the middle of the student section at Allen Field House.
The result, at the Kansas-California game, was a group of mighty unhappy student basketball fans, seated, for the most part, in the northwest corner and north end of the big basketball barn.
All sorts of grousing takes place when school officials attempt to make a fast buck by putting the squeeze play on student seating sections. The administration ought to know that by now.
Students are a strange lot. They don't like being second-class citizens at their own athletic events.
That means, boys, that you will have to move the student section back to the center of the auditorium where it belongs. Or we'll keep hollering until you do.
—Larry Boston
Lightbulb Defense
Russia, at the present time, is developing more scientists and engineers than the United States even dreams of. If the United States continues to lag in creating engineers and scientists, there will be no catching up.
Dr. James R. Killian Jr., President Eisenhower's special assistant on science, has told us that the United States still leads Russia in the scientific field.
It would be interesting to know where Dr. Killian gets his information.
Mr. Killian says that though Russia leads in the field of rocketry, this is only one small section of the whole picture.
This is a big section of the whole picture. This isn't a race to see who will get the most points for being able to do the most things, but a race of life and death.
It's fine to say that we lead Russia in many things, such as production of light bulbs, or TV sets, etc. But if Russia fires some of her ICBM rockets in our direction, it would be interesting to see Dr. Killian defending the country with his TV sets and light bulbs.
It is a mistake to lull the people of the United States into the feeling of superiority. We are people that above all need a challenge. Propaganda is fine at times, but this does not seem to be quite the time for it. This seems to be a time for the facts and the truth.
One slip might bring about our downfall.
Dr. Killian should have told us in what areas the United States has the lead when he made his earth-shattering statement.
—Lee Lord
They've Gone Too Far!
We all hear much about conformity—the good and the bad aspects. Many times there is a reason for society's restrictions upon the individual; more often than not the reasons are rather valid. It's the extreme demands that get publicity.
Occasionally those who wish to crush the individual into a die go too far, as they have done in St. Louis.
It seems 27 home owners in a St. Louis subdivision had agreed to position their mail boxes on centrally located posts. They would be black with white lettering. Everything was fine. They all looked alike; they had lost their identity.
Then a scandalous thing happened. One of the homeowners put up a mail box that was not black with white lettering, but was white with black lettering. (The world just isn't safe with all these crazy people running around.)
Those wonderful conforming people asked that awful "different" person to paint his mailbox like theirs. He refused. (What is this world coming to!) He also refused to replace his terrible unfinished mailbox post with a more conforming post.
They sued. They want $2,000 damages. (Horse-whipping isn't really enough for such a person!)
The nonconformist's name is Alphonse J. Dulles. Alphonse says, "It's the way I bought it, the way they sell it in the store. It's going to stay that way until someone with more authority than they have makes me take it down."
Three cheers for Alphonse; may he and his mailbox (even if it's pink with Jayne Mansfield decals) live in peace!
—John Eaton
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
By Dick Bibler
"SAY DIDJA NOTICE THAT NEW CHICK SERVING TH' DESERTS?"
Letters ..
Another Fable
Once upon a time when there were no people on earth there was a kingdom composed entirely of peacocks. They were very happy peacocks. They spent all of their time strutting proudly about, spreading their tail-feathers and enjoying themselves enormously.
They also played a game which they called "Let's Pretend." The object was to pretend to be somebody important. If they played their part well they would win fame and fortune. If they did poorly they were banished to the neighboring kingdom in which lived ugly, long-eared dokeyns. And, as everybody knows, peacocks hate dokeyns.
One day a peacock decided to pretend to be James Thurber. He loved James Thurber and wanted to be just like him. He composed a fable in his best Thurberistic manner. He used all the Thurberisms and Thurber-thoughts that he could think of.
When I got my last letter from him he remarked. "You know -- donkeys aren't so bad once you get to know them."
Moral: Even a peacock can make a jackass of himself.
—John Dierking, first year law
Boys and girls interested in engineering and most sciences should take three units of math in high school, four of English and two of chemistry and physics.
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