Nuclear Roulette Editorials What can we do? The stricken peasants of Fontamara, oppressed by an ideology they could not define or comprehend, asked with bewilderment, "What can we do?" We Americans are oppressed by a situation we do not comprehend, although we have made some inchoate attempts to strike at it. In a far corner of the world, a war is being fought. Our men are dying. Children are left homeless, their fragile life shattered. Parents are separated from their children, the people are hungry, they have no clothes. For company, there is a sound of children weeping or the drone of airplanes, or the whistle of artillery. For comfort, either physical or emotional, most of the people have nothing. It is a war in which there is only one certainty —we want it to end. And so we ask, "What can we do?" BECAUSE WE ARE basically a compassionate people, we are asking "What can we do?" We are fighting a war that many of us cannot accept, and a great many more of us do not understand. We are repelled and saddened by the thought of hate, struggle, untended sickness, aching hunger, lonely death. We in the KU community can express our desire to do something through action this week by supporting the KU Civic Action committee's drive for funds. This isn't just another fund drive—it is unique in two ways. First, it is sponsored both by CARE and importantly, the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. The Marines have a proud heritage as valiant fighters. This week they will be waging peace. Here is a fighting force working to collect funds for the wartorn Vietnamese war victims. SECONDLY. THE DRIVE at KU and in Lawrence is the first of its kind. It is a pilot project which hopefully will become nationwide. If KU students will present, through their generosity, a united effort to aid the war-shattered people of Viet Nam. our campus could serve as an example to the entire nation. Our support of the drive can serve as a demonstration of our deep desire to bring the Viet Nam war to a swift end. With the money collected from the drive, Marines in Viet Nam will be able to distribute desperately needed medicine, food, and clothing to the war victims in what has proven to be a highly successful counter-guerrilla tactic. WITH OUR HELP, the U.S. forces in Viet Nam will be a significant step closer to winning the confidence of the Vietnamese people. Our contribution to this effort is the only direct way we can display our support of the Americans in Viet Nam and hopefully speed the end of the war. — Karen Lambert Bad manners take over Campus Coed races toward her 10:30 class in Summerfield. Two husky males cross her path as she reaches the south door. Campus Coed is left to catch said door as it swings shut behind aforementioned husky males. Campus Coed proceeds down Jayhawk to 11:30 in Marvin. Sun is shining, birds are singing, breeze is blowing. It's a great day and Campus Cool is arrayed to greet Nature's beauty: gray sneakers, perforated socks (if any), grimy cutoffs and nifty, wrong-side-out sweatshirt. He enters class before good ole Prof. Jones makes the scene and greets fellow sufferers—coeds with hair combed, make up on, radiating girl-next-door wholesomeness, etc., and his fellow campus BMOC's. Campus Cool greets buddies and tells them great joke he heard the other night at the Wheel. Coeds blush. As Prof. Jones enters class in suit and tia, laugh subsides and Campus Cool extends bod to attractive 165-degree angle. Girl-next-door lights cigarette while staring blankly at "no smoking" sign, inhales, flicks ashes on floor. 12:30 cometh and pangs of hunger set in. Campus Cool catches bus back to dorm, frat lodge (unless he's a pledge, in which case he wouldn't have the courage to enter the portals of Signa Phi Nothing looking that way) or homey hutch in Mother Macree's basement. In his hurry, he does not notice that three comely coeds are eyeing the seat into which he has just slouched. To give Campus Coed a break, we switch the scene to Saturday morning on Massachusetts Street. A group of Campus Coeus in too-tight jeans and too-baggy sweatshirts spread across most of sidewalk navigating space. If their shrill giggles and loud voices do not attract attention, the sun glinting off their hair clips will. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years UNiversity 4-3646, newsroom UNiversity 4-3198, business office Founded 1889 EXECUTIVE STAFF Represented by National Advertising Service, 18 East 50 St., New York, N.Y. 10022. Mail subscription rates: $4 a semester or $7 a year. Published and second class postage paid at Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays and examination periods. Accommodations, goods services and employment advertised in the University Daily Kansan are offered to all students without regard to color, creed or national origin. Further exempli gratia: (1) That fool next door refuses to turn down his radio. (2) The girl you met yesterday wants to borrow your best cashmere today. (3) The Union loses salt shakers and ash trays as fast as the UDK loses copy pencils and scissors. (4) The drivers of campus buses and B & G trucks apparently play a pedestrian game called "Scare the Hell out of 'Em." (5) Each year at commencement, over a thousand potted flowers disappear from the stadium. — Jacke Thayer MANAGING EDITOR ... Judy Farrell BUSINESS MANAGER ... Ed Vaughn EDITORIAL EDITORS ... Janet Hamilton, Karen Lambert NEWS AND BUSINESS STAFF Assistant Managing Editors ... Suzy Black, Susan Hartley Jane Larson, Jacke Thayer Circulation Manager ... Mike Robe Advertising Manager ... Dale Reinecker City Editor ... Joan McCabe Classified Manager ... Mike Wertz Feature Editor ... Mary Dunlap Merchandising ... John Hons Sports Editor ... Scottie Scott Promotion Manager ... Keith Issitt Photo Editor ... Dan Austin National Advertising ... Eugene Parrish Wire Editor ... Robert Stevens Solutions: Amy Vanderbilt's manual, psych 144, social work 336, Luke 6:31. Conclusion: bad manners at KU are os campant as those danged squirrels. Fanny Hill Goes to Court WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to rule on a Massachusetts' cout decision that banned the snice 18th century novel, "Fanny Hill," as obscene. A New York State court has allowed the sale of the novel which also has been the subject of lawsuits in New Jersey and Illinois. By today's action, the court agreed to hear arguments in the Massachusetts case and hand down an opinion later in the term. Variety in paperbacks If you think the idea of complete and utter despondency in life is a myth conjured up by the sociologists and the Democrats you might read a new paperback by Oscar Lewis called Five Families (Mentor, 95 cents). Lewis is the well known author of "The Children of Sanchez." This book is a factual and pretty grim story of a day in the lives of five Mexican households. Lewis, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois, has written of Mexico since 1943. This book is an extremely human story despite its bleak overtones. The humanitarian impulse is likely to be stirred in a good many hearts by this elequent story. Another new volume provides an entertaining and readable guide to music—David Randolph's This Is Music (Mentor, 60 cents). Randolph provides an analysis of harmony, melody, rhythm, construction and takes on some of the beliefs about music such as the one that music should tell us a story. He takes after the critics, too, for he thinks they have taken much of the fun out of listening. That brings us to some standards. Much of the good stuff that appears on paperback shelves these days is out of the so-called classical repertoire. Here are some of the books you can buy in new editions: Theodore Dreiser's The Titan (Signet Classics, 95 cents)—the powerful tale (se cond of two volumes) about Frank Cowperwood, the traction magnate who trampled everything and everyone in his path in the New York and Chicago of the Gilded Age. It is one of the finest of America's naturalistic novels, and this is a sharp new paperback you'd enjoy having. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (Signet Classics, 50 cents), which presents the lovable Jane in a charming mood, as she takes her heine into a mysterious country manor. Miss Austen must have been reading the Gothic romances of the day. She never quite makes anyone shocked or frightened, but she offers a continuously delightful comedy of manners. Bram Stoker's Dracula (Signet, 60 cents), which is a Gothic shocker that succeeds, and one written long after the golden age of Gothic melodrama. If you don't know about this one you just haven't watched old movies on television. There is considerably more substance to this horror, however, than you get in the old Bela Lugosi movies. Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Speckled Band and Other Stories (Signet Classics, 50 cents), which, of course, is Sherlock Holmes stuff. Holmes is as popular as ever, and new audiences are coming along for the great detective. This one has some familiar tales—the title adventure, "The Red-Headed League," "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," and several more. We were thinking.. In the practical as in the theoretic life, the man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing, whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own. —Sidney Lanier 2 Daily Kansan Tuesday, November 9, 1965 It Used to Be... By Dorothy Elliott Nov. 9, 1915 Enrollment at KU is 2,806 this year which is an increase of 156 students from last year. All University Sunday is to follow the Nebraska-KU football game Saturday. Grads, students and professors will worship in Lawrence churches after homecoming activities. An essay contest has been announced with the subject being Phases of the Prison Problem. The best master's thesis will win $00 and there will be two prizes of $20 each for the best undergraduate essays.