Editorials
ticket scalping
"The function of the Seating Board is to represent the student . . . which results in the best possible seating arrangements in all intercollegiate athletic events."
The above statement by T. J. Snyder, chairman of the Student Athletic Seating Board, can, with understatement, be described as a farce.
THE PRICE OF $4.00 for season tickets to basketball games is ticket scalping without representation.
It cannot be denied that, inevitably, students would have lost the privilege of admission to basketball games solely on ID cards.
But the unexpected ticket price announcement this year is outrageous because every KU student was suffering under a delusion that he would be admitted to games without charge. This delusion is clearly stated on every student's certificate of registration—"This Certificate of Registration and your KU-ID Card entitles you to admission to unreserved seats for regularly scheduled intercollegiate basketball games."
WHEN THE GOVERNING body of the University finds it necessary to raise student fees, they are considerate enough to prepare every student for the added strain on their or their parents' pocketbooks. At least a full semester's notice is given before the fee raise goes into effect.
The same consideration and courtesy could have been exercised in announcing admission prices for basketball games.
apathetic voters
In the desperate, almost ludicrous frenzy that characterizes the final hours before polls close during campus elections, the student who
exercises his privilege of choosing not to vote finds that his only companion is his soul.
THE STUDENT WHO chooses to regard campus government as a myth, or chuckle at the pompous seriousness of campus politicos should at least have the right to say what he feels and act as he believes without having a stigma attached to him.
The electorate is (we thought) supposed to have freedom of choice. The right to vote also includes the right not to vote.
When a person is coerced into voting because he cannot physically resist an onslaught of party workers who grab him and yell "Have you voted yet?", just how democratic is that person's vote?
KUDOS TO THOSE who care, but for those who don't, let them be apathetic in peace.
dollars for CARE
Sincere congratulations are deserved by those living groups who rallied to support the KU Civic Action Committee through their donations. They should have a rightful feeling of pride for thinking of the stricken Vietnamese.
WHAT REMAINS TO be done must be undertaken by each individual who received a CARE envelope during the C.A.C.'s canvass of Lawrence Saturday. The C.A.C.'s work will be a loss unless each person takes just a moment to send a small donation to CARE.
A dollar to us means three beers, a new lipstick, some cigarettes, an evening at the movies, a new book—all luxuries. A dollar sent to CARE will mean vials of penicillin, desperately needed food, a sweater, gauze bandages—all necessities for the helpless war victims and refugees in Viet Nam.
Show that you care. Slip an envelope in the mail today, and send it forward with a small prayer that the war will soon be over.
Karen Lambert
Movie review
Some Like It Cooler
'Zorba' moves with gusto, life
By Larry Ketchum (Kansan Reviewer)
In a word, "Zorba the Greek" is an adventure. It is an adventure in humanity.
Anthony Quinn dynamically portrays Zorba, a common man with the zest and know-how of life. Diametrically opposed to Zorba is his "boss," played by Alan Bates.
THE "BOSS" IS a scholarly
import of Crete from Great Britain. He is filled with poetry and scholastic aptitude but is ignorant of the facts of life in a down-to-earth world.
Zorba shows the young "boss" what life means to him. He dances when he is sad and he dances when he is glad. There is too much pain in the world for Zorba for him to suffer much. If he did suffer from
the world he would degenerate into nothing. On and on Man must go. Zorba seems to be saying, without looking back.
THIS IS A motion picture filled to the brim with human warmth, barbarity, love, strength, anger, and gaiety. Zorba's life is constantly moving on with as much pleasure as he can squeeze out of it. The grizzly Greek says that if an individual avoids trouble he can never enjoy life.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"I THOUGHT I MADE IT CLEAR——THERE IS NO HOMEWORK FOR THIS COURSE."
The acting in this film is highly commendable. Alan Bates plays the "boss" cooly and is always in control of his emotions. His acting does not vary from scene to scene and his characterization is constant.
A LITTLE-KNOWN actress, who is not billed, plays the part of a widow who is sought after by all the men in the village. She succumbs to the "boss" without one line of dialogue. Her one line in the entire production is "Where's my goat?", spoken in Greek. Without lines to support a characterization, she must depend upon her excellent movement and expression.
Anthony Quinn, of course,
steals the show in the title part.
He is a good comedian, a strong
he-man, and a gentle persuader
all wrapped up in one man.
The motion picture is now showing at the Granada.
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Daily Kansan Monday, November 15, 1965
University Forum Rhodesian suicide
Ian Smith's declaration of independence of Thursday is nothing more than a bluff, which, in the eyes of the world and the Africans, would be taken as the most outrageous act of human degradation and defiance of law.
NO NATION THAT is for peace and is with a sense of reality would recognize Rhodesia as a state. Smith's regime would not keep above water for long amidst the wave of unprivileged population of eight million Africans who had waited too long for their rights, and are now robbed of their last hope of freedom by this authoritarian regime.
The majority of Rhodesians are going to right until all Africans are assured of a "one man, one vote" constitution. If fighting means bloodshed, then blood will flow, until every African is committed to live a rightful life in the land where they have lived for thousands of years. Their concern is the concern of all Africans. This is the time when the Organization of African Unity and African states singly would be put to test.
GREAT BRITAIN STILL is most responsible for what has happened in Rhodesia. The reaction of Her Majesty's government to Rhodesia's blundering decision does not go all the way through. The economic sanction and denial of Commonwealth privileges to Rhodesia will not stop Smith from running the kind of government he aspired for. What Ian Smith and his colleagues have done is an illegal action and what averts this rebellious act is the enforcement of law. If the British government is not using force to bring down the rebellion, for fear of disappointing the kith and kin of the white Rhodesians in England, then Wilson's threats and pleas were far from earnest.
Girma Negash
Ethiopia
Graduate student
We were thinking...
The enemy has no definite name, though in a certain degree we all know him. He who puts always the body before the spirit, the dead before the living: who makes things only in order to sell them; who has forgotten that there is such a thing as truth, and measures the world by advertisement or by money; who daily defiles the beauty that surrounds him and makes vulgar the tragedy.
-Gilbert Murray
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