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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 27, 196$
Ticket Troubles
Our well-organized campus community has a new set of rules to follow. As I understand it, in order to exchange football tickets with another student, we are to take said tickets and student identification cards to Allen Field House on Thursday before a game.
My only question is, "So what?" I suppose the purpose is to make student reserved seats exchangeable. But, in my opinion, the rule's only effect will be to make the process harder. The rule is unenforceable.
These tickets will be marked "exchange" and then are to be presented along with the identification card of the original ticket holder in order to gain admission to the game.
UNDER THIS SYSTEM ANY student can exchange a ticket with anyone else merely by giving him his ticket and his identification card. Checking on this would be impossible. You just have to make sure the sex of the identification card owner is the same as yours.
The man taking tickets could ask for the student's driver's license to prove the ticket is his own if it is not marked "exchange." As of now, I know of no university rule that requires students to bring drivers' licenses to games or even to have a driver's license.
Of course ticket checkers could always ask for a social security card but these are very plainly marked "not for identification." Anyway, there's no rule requiring anyone to carry one of those either.
The University Athletic Department and the ASC Athletic Seating Board professedly want to see that all students are treated fairly in regard to university athletic events. If this is really the case why not find a workable solution instead of a meaningless rule to fill the gap?
The purpose of this minor explosion is not to inform everyone how to get around the rules; most students have probably already figured out everything I have said.
BUT, WHY HAVE RULES if you can't enforce them? Students cannot be forced to trek down to Allen Field House to exchange tickets, especially if there are so many ways to get out of it.
Better still, why bother with all these complications? If we pay for the tickets, we should have the right to exchange them with whomever we please. Perhaps it is the ASC Bill Number 11 on Athletic Seating that needs to be changed.
Janet Hamilton
One Man's Opinion-would shatter all their hopes of building an Asia free from the claws of the "gigantic dragon."
"Is Your Picture Service On The Ball? Two Days This Month We Didn't Get Any Photo Of Johnson Signing A New Bill”
Indian Position
The India-Pakistan war that is being fought in the remote regions of Asia is a war of ideologies. On the one side is a nation dedicated to the ideals of democracy and peaceful coexistence, and on the other side is a nation that has freely submitted itself to a totalitarian leader whose entire policy has been based on deception, falsehood, and ruthlessness, to name only a few.
The western nations that have always found it expedient to support Pakistan, for reasons based mostly on their ignorance of the latter's ulterior motives, on the Kashmir issue have now come to realize their folly. The Dulles schemes for the peripheral containment of China in Asia, it can be recalled, found a ready ally in Pakistan. Little did the framers of SEATO and CENTO realize that here was a nation that was going to bite the hand that fed it. Little did they realize that this was the nation that
WHAT HAS NOW come about is a situation in which the United States, the leader of the Western bloc, finds itself hopelessly betrayed by a nation whose very heart pulsates with the several billion dollars of U.S. aid, when a nation has set upon itself the task of destroying the biggest democratic nation in the world by allying itself with Red China. It does seem to understand, however, that Mao's ambitious programs are too avaricious to refrain from gulping it too ultimately.
As regards the people of India, it is now very late for any kind of appeasement with Pakistan. The 18 years of unrestricted irritation and bickering by Pakistan have to be stopped. It has increasingly come to our evidence that we are surrounded by fanatics and blackmailers. If we
have to survive as the sole independent democratic and secular state in Asia, the only recourse now left open is what Shastri, our able prime minister, assisted by Y. B. Chavan, the dynamic defense minister, has set out to take.
The entire nation, and this is no exaggeration, has pledged its support of allegiance to Shastri's present policy and the united India, the great dream of the nation's leaders, that has now come about shall not betray the faith of the prime minister. If the crux of the whole conflict is Kashmir, then it is the determined intention of the Indians to prove to the world that its accession to India in 1947 was complete and that it is an integral part of the nation. No canon of international law can be stretched long enough to show that Kashmir belongs to Pakistan, nor can any amount of polemics by Pakistan change the will of the people of India.
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AT THIS POINT IT WILL not be out of place to say that it is ironical for President Ayub Khan to demand a plebiscite in Kashmir when it does not occur to him that charity begins at home. To understand his hypocrisy one need only look at his hands, stained with the blood of those thousands of East Pakistanis who dared to demand a free democratic election in Pakistan last year and put up the candidacy of Miss Fatimah Jinah against him for the post of president.
It is time for the United States to learn from its grave mistake of trusting Pakistan. It must, at the earliest, propose a resolution in the Security Council branding Pakistan as the aggressor and ask her to vacate her forces and infiltrators from the occupied territory of Kashmir. It is only thus that the U.S. can help preserve the one and the only one democratic institution in Asia. The price will be high but it must be understood that this is the only way to preserve peace in Asia.
Harihar Krishnan
BOOK REVIEWS
THE DAY OF THE CATTLEMAN, by Ernest Staples Osgood (Phoenix, $1.95).
Historians of the American West have had the task, because of the vast proliferation of legend, myth and utter nonsense, of separating the truth from the bunk much more than have historians of other areas. One of the pioneering works in this respect was Ernest S. Osgood's "The Day of the Cattleman," several decades old but fortunately available in an enduring-looking paperback edition.
With excellent maps and illustrations, Osgood, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, tells of that more than 50-year span in our history when the cattleman was powerful in the West, from Texas to Canada and from Kansas to the Pacific.
The cattleman was more than the "cowboy." In some cases he was the land baron. In his best sense he was the one who broke the semi-arid plains, used the native grasses, attracted capital, and built up the empire that was Cattle Country.
THE RAILROADS WERE PART of the story, as were the giant drives from Texas to those railroads in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Boom towns built up, but Osgood does not concern himself with this facet of the cattleman's history as much as do some more popular historians.
One of the significant barriers for the cattleman was the Indian, and the reader of this book will find an excellent discussion of the important battles that took place between white man and red man in those latter years of the century. Then comes the story of the Texas longhorns and the cattle boom that changed the character of much of our land.
Catastrophe struck in the eighties—heavy snow, blizzards, and dying animals. As the century came to an end, so did the cattleman of the past. He remained in some sections of America, notes Osgood, where the frontier receded a bit more slowly. But basically his day was over—except in Wild West shows, popular novels, the movies, and, in recent years, the ubiquitous television.
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