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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 4. 1957
Virginia Maddox
While the rest of us were relaxing on a long Thanksgiving weekend, a tragic drama was being played out here in Lawrence.
The climax came Saturday morning, when, after a tense discussion with her parents, a pretty University woman leaped from the 5th-story window of a downtown hotel. She died the next day.
Thus ended four unhappy days, during which Virginia Maddox was reported missing, then was found at a Kansas City hotel. Virginia and her parents came to Lawrence where they had a long, long talk in their hotel room. The talks and Virginia's future were cut short when she walked up to the next floor, opened a window, and plunged to the sidewalk below.
A lot of reasons have been advanced as to why Virginia Maddox chose to die. Everything from low grades to unpopularity have been given as the motivating factors. But whatever the individual problems which faced her, they added up to a mighty unhappy girl.
We don't remember seeing Virginia Maddox. Yet, we may have passed her a dozen times on the way to class, her face lost in the swirling mass of students which crowd the campus each
day. The University is large, and its size sometimes seems to shut out individual recognition.
Do you suppose that if we had seen her and smiled that it would have prevented Virginia's death? A lot of girls have poor grades which might have been improved by doing homework with Virginia. And where is the guy who couldn't find a date last week? He might have asked Virginia; they could have seen a movie, and laughed a little.
We come here, 9,000 strong, from farms, small towns and cities. It's tough sometimes to adjust to the new life. When you're just out of high school and away from the folks for the first time, Lawrence, Kan. seems a long way from home.
For most of us, the four years at the University turn out to be among the happiest of our lives. For a few, college is a bitter memory of failure and frustrated hopes. But it shouldn't mean death for anyone.
Eighteen is too young to die. At that age, the whole cockeyed world lies ahead. It's not always rosy, that's true, but there is a lot of living left to be done. It is up to us to help each other enjoy doing it.
Larry Boston
The Cyprus Question
Cyprus, one of Britain's last colonial outposts, a forlorn remnant of what was once an empire upon which the sun never set, is again threatening to explode into new violence over the fiery self-determination issue.
The prospect of more violence in the Mediterranean island rears its head as the issue of Cyprus' future comes up soon before the General Assembly of the U.N.
EOKA, the underground group on the island which favors union with Greece, has threatened "total war" against the British if nothing constructive results from the Greek appeal to the U.N. for the island's self-determination.
Britain seems more willing now to talk things over. Such a talk can end in only one way—Cypriot union with Greece plus some salvaged prestige for a harrassed Britain which has, since World War II, seen vast colonies and power slip away.
Cyprus proved of little military value to the British during the campaign against Egypt's Nasser and now, contrary to previous British views, England is trying to find some face-saving way of gracefully bowing out.
But in the past the British have not been noted for their grace in dealing with like matters and in the Cyprus case they face the very stoic Turkish government of Adnan Menderes on the one hand and Athens on the other.
The Ankara government claims that if there is to be any change in the status of Cyprus, the
island should revert to Turkey.
Eighteen per cent of the island's population are of Turkish origin and 82 per cent are of Greek descent.
Cyprus is closer to Turkey than to Greece and herein lies the Turkish argument.
But Turkey, in 1947, did not object to the transfer to Greece of another group of islands, the Dodecanese and Rhodes, all closer to Turkey than Cyprus.
But that, of course, was in 1947 when the Turks were in no position to offer an opinion on anything because Western opinion had not forgotten that Turkey had remained neutral in World War II while Greece fought with the Allies.
Now the squeeze is on.
Turkey believes she can use the Cyprus situation to squeeze economic concessions from the United States. Both Britain and the U.S. fear to irritate the Turks lest Ankara go the way of Egypt and Syria in the game of chess between the United States and Russia.
But for Britain and an aloof United States, there is no escaping the choice that must be made—the choice of making oneself unpopular with Turkey or with Greece, or both.
Cyprus is another in a long line of problems—problems like Jordan and Israel, dealing with two factions, both friendly with the West but unfriendly toward each other.
—George Anthan
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"OH, COME NOW-YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHAT I MEAN BY AN ORAL EXAMINATION."
Have you noticed that the letter sweater wearers on campus have changed from the shorter, heavier type to the taller, more slender type? In the spring the wearers are so fast you can't see them at all.
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