Score Essential
Getting tired of hearing about football? Almost everyone talks about it during this season. Some are questioning its place in the academic community. Others shout that it is a builder of men, that it is an important phase of university life.
It is an important part of university life, not as a builder of men but as a builder of classrooms and dormitories.
NATURALLY A DEVOTED alum wants his university to be considered the best. And, just as naturally, the university wants its alumni to be pleased with its performance. A pleased alum, obviously, will donate more money for desperately needed expansion.
Sad as it may seem, the only time a score can
be seen is at a sports event. There it is in lights —Oklahoma 21, Kansas 7.
When an MU alum begins to kid a KU alum at a weekend business convention about how poorly the KU team played on Saturday, it, for some reason, has little effect for the KU alum to ask in return how many Woodrow Wilson scholars have been named at MU in the last ten years.
KU DOES LEAD THE REST of the Big Eight schools, and many others for that matter, in many areas of scholastic achievement. But, this just cannot be chalked up on a score board.
A member of the administration was right when he said if KU didn't have football, something would have to take its place. They have to see a score.
Janet Hamilton
McArthur Still an Issue
The conquering general, the man who said there was no substitute for victory, the sainted figure who had been struck down by the little man from Missouri, came home in April 1951. He came home to tumultuous welcome, to newspaper editorial praise, to ticker tape parades, to one of the most celebrated gatherings ever to take place in Congress. That was his great time. He could have been elected president, perhaps, had there been an election in 1951.
The general was Douglas MacArthur. The story of his firing, one of the tremendous stories of the fifties, and of the foreign policy implications connected with it, comes back to us in a book once called "The General and the President." It is Richard H. Rovere and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s The MacArthur Controversy and American Foreign Policy, (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $5.75), pretty much the book of more than a decade ago but with slight modifications.
The authors make the point, as is obvious in their title, that the whole affair was much more than a spiteful president disposing of a great American hero. MacArthur had been insubordi-
nate. He also had been determined to press the Korean War beyond what leaders in Washington continued the safe point. He was willing to risk war with China. Truman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were not.
And so the controversy. Rovere and Schlesinger were not then, and are not now, partisans of MacArthur. Furthermore, they see the debate of 1951 as relating to issues still being grappled with, including the extent of our role in southeast Asia.
To them MacArthur was without question an authentic hero, even though they have never accepted his attitudes and beliefs. They accepted the concept of containment in 1951; they accept it today. In the earlier book they dwelt at length on America and its China policy; today they believe they were quite right to make that matter a substantial part of their book.
It is all something that still can stir up a good political argument. This new hardback volume is worth reading again. There are cartoons by Herblock of the Washington Post.
The People Say...
Dear Editor:
FROM THAT DAY IN LATE September, 1964, when the students of the University of California at Berkeley experienced a shockingly rude awakening to their lowly plight as students, until this very moment, a "revolution" has swept through the American university. It was, and is, not a "commie" revolution, a "bircher" revolution, a pacifist revolution or any other easily-mouthed stereotype.
It is, rather, a "student" revolution; a movement which began quickly and spread like fire through the long drought stricken forest of academia. The voice of the student was heard—sometimes with disgust, sometimes
with respect; but always with recognition. Now, however, the rain of time has come, and the once bright flame only sputters in the incinerators of administrative disdain.
On this campus alone the results of this withdrawal are too evident to be overlooked. Minority groups of varied political opinion find equally small support simply because their idea and ideals are off the beaten path. Freshmen are puzzled (John Hill, Oct. 13, 1965) and offended that they have not the personal strength—direction, they call it—to activate in their private lives. But most striking, only about 1/14 th (7 per cent) of our campus participate in any investigation, pro or con, of the government policies which shape the world's desiary. What has happened?
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IN A WORD, "APATHY" is what has happened. The insecure experiences of critical analysis and progressive action have lost out to the very secure Saturday night beer-bust and the memorization of intelligence. At best, only a muffled chuckle can be heard concerning anything more important than where the next "kicks" will come from. The student has again become a well-oiled cog in the machine of mass education.
The time of awakening has come again. A new revolutionary spirit must prevail if we are to live within the embrace of meaningfulness; a spirit of rational calm, but with the same conviction; a spirit of meditation, but with the same urgency of need; a spirit of agreement, but with the strength that will not compromise truth.
"Our American ideals are not fragile objects of historical interest to be sheltered from the reality of today's world. They are strong and resilient and as serviceable today as in 1776. They need no special care except daily exercise, and no shield but truth." (Clark Kerr, president, University of California at Berkeley—1964.)
OPEN YOUR EYES. FELLOW students; life is a beautiful challenge—and it's waiting.
Richard Atkinson
Belleville sophomore
We Were Thinking...
We make a virtue of the vices we do not want to correct. . .
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Daily Kansan
Monday, October 25, 1985
Reviews
By Larry Ketchum
Praise for 'Fair Lady'
"My Fair Lady" opened at the University Theatre Friday night with a flourish of color and excitement. The show has been long-awaited by many and the audience, at the final curtain, seemed to appreciate the show greatly. They applauded and applauded and brought the house down.
Harold Crain, director of "My Fair Lady" and a visiting professor from San Jose College, San Jose, California, has staged the production very well. There are no awkward scenes as far as direction is concerned.
ACTING RAN A GAMUT from mediocre to excellent. The variety of acting quality slightly lowered the merits of the show. Scenes between the songs were slow-paced and, as a result, audience interest suffered periodically. But, with each new song and dance, the audience sat up and took notice.
Patricia Wise, in the role of Eliza Doolittle, turned in an excellent performance. She made the transition from a wretched flower girl to an aristocratic society belle with convincing sincerity and grace. Her voice was easily the best in the cast, although, at times, she seemed to run out of breath at the end of songs.
Alfred P. Doolittle, played by Kip Niven, was a hit of the evening. His character was very well played and well defined, his movements and voice kept in line with his characterization. Niven's acting merited the barrage of applause lavished on him after each and every scene.
Somewhat disappointing was Tom P. Rea, in the role of Henry Higgins. His voice was strained, bringing on memories of strep throat. Projection was weak in many spots and enunciation was insufferable throughout his performance. If George Bernard Shaw had been in the audience he would have torn his chair up in anger at the inability of his beloved Henry Higgins to speak the English language.
Rea's movement and characterization were good. He performed in a fairly controlled manner but looked into the beam lights a little too often.
Cleveland Harrison played an excellent Colonel Pickering. His character developed steadily throughout the production. Harrison mastered the English accent better than any other actor in the cast. His sound had an authentic ring to it and there never was a slip into "Americanism."
Choreography was mediocre. Some movements seemed ridiculous and out of place. Tomi Baker, choreographer, should have stuck to a totally traditional mood. Some parts of dances seemed to have an avant garde influence which is out of place for 1900 England.
ROBERT BAUSTIAN, musical director, and his orchestra played Lerner and Loewe's music freshly, evoking a feeling that the famous score from "My Fair Lady" had never been played before.
The costumes, designed by Chez Haehl, were a highlight of the evening. Costumes harmonized with the sets and flattered the characters wearing them. B.J.Myers is also to be praised for her ball gown creations.
when the curtain went up on the first act the audience applauded the set. James Hawes has designed the most beautiful and imaginative sets seen on the KU stage for some years. The sets do not displace the actors—they provide an environment in which the actors play.
Despite its several drawbacks the University Theatre's production of this popular musical is well worth seeking.
'Rage' Outrages
By Larry Ketchum
If you're planning to see "A Rage to Live" stay home and save your money, folks. Although the acting is quite adequate the story is quite boring.
ITS ALL ABOUT a poor little rich girl who goes through life with sex on her mind. Scene after scene rolls by on the screen without much purpose.
Suzanne Pleshette stars and stares. Ben Gazzara is tough and fairly good, but he's lost without a story. Bradford Dillman plays the nympho's hubby very well. Hope to see more of him.
"Rage" is an outrage
It Used to Be...
By Dorothy Elliott Oct. 25, 1915
Oct.25,1915
Prof. E. H. Bailey said he originated the "Rock Chalk" yell about a generation ago at a meeting of the old Science Club. The original vell was "Rah! Rah! Jay-Hawk! KU!
KU beat the Aggies 18-7 at Manhattan Saturday.
Oct.25.1940
In answer to several students who wish to attend the KU-K-State football game at Manhattan tomorrow, the proficiency exams in foreign language have been postponed one week.