Editorials
To be a senior
TO BE A SENIOR is not to have all the answers but to understand the questions and to know how to investigate their meaning. It is the realization that the discovery of an answer does not mark the end of the inquiry, but the beginnings of questions never before considered.
TO BE A SENIOR is to discover the real meaning of living in a university community and to realize that the time when unknown passages can be explored and old familiar ones pursued in the light of new facts is growing short.
TO BE A SENIOR is to be a leader—the senior is a leader whether an official title follows his name or not, for he has coped with the pitfalls of the college community well enough to remain a functioning member of it. The contribution may have been effort spent implementing an organization's policies or programs, or it may have been effort spent implementing his own goals and aspirations, but, whether he realizes it or not, the senior's presence alone was a contribution to the community.
TO BE A SENIOR is to feel that self-discovery is at a peak following years of exposure to the new and different. It is immaterial whether this discovery brought inspiration or delusion, for the experience of discovery alone was worthwhile.
TO BE A SENIOR is to appraise the present and the past in the light of the future. It is looking at the mistakes and accomplishments of his own life and of the lives of those around him, and, from them, trying to assemble his own formula for success.
TO BE A SENIOR is to realize that home is where he lives, not where his parents live, and that he is responsible for his actions and his future.
TO BE A SENIOR is, most of all, the recognition of the enormous task of living and making one's way in the world and the determination to meet and conquer this task, no matter what.
— Susan Hartley
Think of others
Too often, our elders are quick to condemn the present generation as thoughtless, uncaring, selfish and generally going to the dogs. Generalizations are always dangerous, and almost daily young adults prove that they can act with responsibility and charity.
THE BLOOD DRIVE to be sponsored by the Red Cross in Templin Hall Monday will give at least a few young men another chance to speak up for the better side of our generation.
We hope the men of Templin give generously. We think they will. Young men have a way of being charitable at the time when their generosity is needed. In this case, it will certainly be appreciated.
- Karen Lambert
We were thinking
"We reproach people for talking about themselves, but it is the subject they treat best."
Anatole France
Notes From Other Newspapers
Anti-War Protest Fizzled
Louisville Courier-Journal:
"Put into proper perspective, the anti-war and anti-draft demonstrations of a few thousand misguided youngsters in a nation of nearly 200 million amounted to little. The overwhelming majority of the American people, as President Johnson and Attorney General Katzenbach point out, support the U.S. policy in Viet Nam and the draft has long been accepted by all but a handful as necessary to national survival in the twentieth century.
"BUT THE DEMONSTRAitors run the risk of misleading foreign opinion, particularly in Hanoi and Peking, where the Communist press, predictably, hails the activity as 'a continuation of the American people's protracted struggle against the U.S. policy of aggression and war.' If overseas Communists really believe such a mis-reading of history and contemporary fact, the demonstrators run the risk of precipitating not peace but enlargement of the war."
Chicago Daily News:
"And in the method and volume of the weekend protests, they stepped across the boundary of free speech into a form of action that is harmful to the nation."
"Whether the motivation is idealism, subversion or plain cowardice, the result is the same—the protestors are undercutting the American effort to halt aggression in Southeast Asia, and lending a helping hand to Hanoi and Peking.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
"Sponsors of the weekend demonstrations against the war in Viet Nam professed to be delighted with the results but they will learn in time that the
parades and picking it did more harm than good to their cause.
"PARTLY THIS IS because of the hostile reaction such tactics invariably create against a majority of citizens. Partly it is because the demonstrators were attacking the consequences rather than the essence
of the foreign policy they oppose.
"By striking at the draft instead of the underlying basis for it, they made the issue one of loyalty and civil responsibility, not of policy, and thus based their protest on the weakest possible ground."
The People Say...
DEAR EDITOR:
"Don't Look Now, But Don't Be Surprised If You Get A Phone Call From The White House Tonight"
What a sad and ironic comment on American society that Miss Lambert and Professor Harris should have to defend their legitimate exercise of freedom before the public. Miss Lambert's emotional denunciation of Communism ("Castro's Cuba Crumbles") appeared as an apologetic sequel to her defense of free speech and the right of free association.
Nor should Professor Harris have had to exonerate the teach-in movement and participating student groups by denying Communist influence.
THE PRESENCE OF Communists or any other minority group is completely irrelevant to the right of free inquiry and dissent. Our commitment to freedom is meaningless, our principles worthless, if we do not extend them to include all men, regardless of creed or color.
Alison McKelvey Graduate Pasadena, Calif.
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Daily Kansan Friday, October 22.1965
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MANAGING EDITOR... Judy Farrell
BUSINESS MANAGER... Ed Vaughn
EDITORIAL EDITORS... Janet Hamilton Karen Lambert
Janet Hamilton, Karen Lambert
NEWS AND BUSINESS STAFF
Assistant Managing Editors ... Suzy Black, Susan Hartley
Circulation Manager Mike Robe
Advertising Manager Dale Reinecker
City Editor Joan McCabe
On The Side...
Why go to Viet Nam, when you can see KU play Nebraska?
In the mail this week was a letter from a local librarian who proposed marriage to us, in view of the draft situation. As we are classified 1A, we may consent, upon receipt of her photograph clipped from a popular magazine. A centerfold portrait, of course.
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The student senate of K-State wants the cigarette ban lifted. They must be getting tired of smoking corn silk.
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In what movie can you see Charlie Chaplin, Abbott and Costello, Jackie Cleason and Jack Lemmon? Why, in the KU football team rurs of course. Sponsored by the KU Quarterback Club.
Closing hours? They prevent promiscuity after 1 a.m. You're on your own before then, though. Sort of like punching a time clock.
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We think having the Stamina is at least as important as having the Knack.
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Did Johnson have his recent operation paid for by Medicare?
— Harry Krause
Are Boy Scouts Amurrikan?
Herbert Carling
Okefenokee Swamp
Publisher. Slipury Rok Outpost
Dear Mr. Carling.
I read the letter on the front page of the Collej Daily Smat of Sept. 27, 1965, about your column charging that "Boy Scouts of Amerika" is a Communist-front organizashun. I agree with you completelte. I wanted to write you a lettur of praise befor this, but I have been too busy playing with my new erector set.
EVER SINCE bekuming a Christian 10 years ago (I was just 10 years old last week), I have known that Communism is bad and wyked. It is inspired by the devil—my daddy told me—and there a e many Communist-front organizazhuns. I want to go to colleie to be a Teechur so I can learn all about bad thengs.
During the Summer I went to a Boy Scouts of America (BSA) meeting because I noticed they often wore "red" merit badges. The merit badges are purty but they look like they are designed to turn us into Communists. One patrol, the Red Devil patrol, was completely branewashed by Commies.
THE MEETING DIDN'T even begin with a scriptur reading but instead they talked about "Boy's Life." They passed around a copy and were laffling at sum of the jokes but I didn't even look at it.
During the meeting, sumwun suggested giving a basket of food to a needy family. I could see rite away that this was pure agreshun on the U.S. guvermint. They also wanted to plant trees in front of the libery which has many books about Rushia.
Well, my Mommy wantz me to go to bed now but I hope you keep up the good work and may God bless you.
Your friend.
Tommy.
P. S. IVE NEVER been in such a "touff looking" bunch as at that BSA meeting. Some of the boys were wearing bermuda shortz and carried poket nives and hatchetz. I think you should also write sumthing bad about Girl Scout cookys.
— Ernie Ballweg