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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 23, 1957
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
By Dick Bibler
"FRANKLY I'D RATHER ADVISE FRESHMEN—THEY'RE NOT SO SET IN THEIR WAYS."
It seemed very probable that the season for swimming was over and that all the pools were closed. But we began to wonder after the managing editor came into the news room Friday looking like he had been in for a dip, clothes and all.
"Ambassador Satch" has spoken. For the first time trumpeter Louis Armstrong has come out with a statement concerning the integration issue.
. . . Short Ones
It must be due to the fact that KU students are very good drivers or very agile pedestrians that no one has ever been run down on the campus streets. Driving across the campus soon after the library closes at night is like driving an obstacle course, with people.
Armstrong was quoted Wednesday as saying the government "can go to hell" with its plans to send him on a good-will tour of Russia. He said he was abandoning the government-sponsored trip behind the iron curtain because "of the way they are treating my people in the South."
The parking problem isn't too bad; you can find a parking place close to the campus, if you get there by 7 a.m., that is.
This Ivy League fad has finally gone too for. An ad in a magazine the other day was advertising socks with a buckle in the back.
We see that the full petticoats have returned this fall like winter scalp itch. They nibble at sidewalk space, fill doorways and create the impression of ambulating toadstools. The sack dress that Paris is presently trumpeting would be a welcome relief.
The quality of the coffee must be better at the K-State Union. The K-State Collegian has suggested opening up another room to take care of the overflow. Might be the brand.
Satch Speaks Out
Armstrong must have a strong feeling concerning the statement he made, because it isn't a habit of his to say such things just for publicity.
Louie Armstrong is not an obscure figure in this country. He is well known for his jazz and also for his good-will trips abroad. He is respected by both colored and white people. When he makes a statement many people listen.
A lot of the KU students are aware of his sincerity. Especially those who were in the Student Union Ballroom last year when he put in an unscheduled appearance to welcome the basketball team back after their loss in the NCAA final.
It appears that Louie objects to representing a country that isn't all it appears to be. Why should he represent America on a good-will trip, when his race isn't treated equally as Americans? Not saying that he doesn't believe in his country, but it's apparent that his faith is being shaken.
He is reconsidering his decision not to appear in Russia, but first he would like to see some affirmation of the federal government's sincerity in giving his people a fair shake.
Maybe that is what the government needs, a well-known and respected public figure to show his indignation for the bungling done on the integration problem.
Del Haley
A Bargain-Basement Mascot
Mascot fever occasionally hits university campuses and spreads faster than Asian flu.
You may recall that a campaign was started last spring at the University of Colorado to provide $1,200 to feed and care for a buffalo for three years. (CU'ers refer to themselves as the Buffaloes.)
We may each have our own ideas as to whether $1,200 can best be spent feeding a buffalo. However, we'll have to give some credit to the beast. If he can stay at college for three years on $1,200, he's doing better than we are.
Now the Daily O'Collegian, student newspaper of Oklahoma State University, is booming for a mascot for that school.
"In speaking to students, we often hear the suggestion of a stagecoach which would be drawn around the (football) field with a cowboy inside who would step out and perform a few tricks with a
rope or gun and be driven off," the O'Collegian says.
The paper doesn't bother to make clear which would be the mascot, the stagecoach or the cowboy.
Assuming the cowboy is the chosen image, it seems it would require considerable skill to drive him off after each performance, especially if he does tricks with a gun.
We predict an overwhelming coed vote in favor of adopting an Oklahoma mascot if such cowboys as John Wayne, Gary Cooper, et al, are nominated.
Fortunately for tradition-happy souls at KU, they don't have to worry about such pressing problems as financing a buffalo's higher education. A Jayhawk neither eats, drinks, or goes out with female Jayhawks. Our forefathers were wise indeed when they chose a bargain-basement mascot.
Curriculum Revised
—Larry Boston
Yale's new curriculum embodies the first change in its program since 1946.
Heart of the new undergraduate program is a system of "distributional credits," for the first two years.
Distributional credits, aimed at encouraging a breadth of academic interests, must be earned in English, foreign languages, history, the history of art or music, social sciences, the natural sciences or mathematics, and classical civilization, philosophy or religion.
Daily Hansan
University of Kansas student newspaper
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A professor said the other day that there is a difference between vulgarity and witticism. He is right, it all depends—on what kind of company you are in.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Our fair University will be a self-supporting institute soon, the rate the little blue tickets are appearing on windshields.
We felt sorry for the sporty chap driving down Jayhawk Boulevard late Friday afternoon. Anybody would like to have an MG—but with no top in the rain?
Gain Of 25 States
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Larry Boston Editorial Editor John Eaton, Del Haley, Jim Sledd, Assa
The world has gained 25 independent nations and more than 500 million people since the start of World War II, the National Geographic Society reports.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
This gives the world a total of 103 "states," and a population rapidly approaching the three billion mark. Asia had the lion's share of the increase in population. All but six of the new states are in Asia.
Harry Turner  Business Manager
Kurt Pater  Advertising Manager  Jeece
Glover, National Advertising Manager;
George Peser, Classified Advertising
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Schmidt, Promotion Manager.
One state—the Saar—lived and died within a span of 10 years, from 1948 to 1947, when it joined West Germany.
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