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Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER WARMER
77th Year, No. 71
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Thursday, January 19, 1967
Council approves sophomore rush
By JUDY FAUST Assistant Managing Editor
Panhellenic Presidents' Council yesterday voted to adopt a sophomore rush system.
Glenda Hord, Kansas City senior and Panhellenic President, said the move, the result of some three months of discussion, was made in an attempt to establish a stable rush program, and one most advantageous to all the women involved.
Under the newly approved system, freshmen will not participate in rush. The formal rush period will be held in the fall, probably before registration and enrollment, and sophomores will be eligible to participate. There will be no other formal rush periods during the academic year.
What the system means immediately is this:
- Rush for freshmen will be held as planned this February.
- A fall rush period will be held at the beginning of the 1967-68 academic year for transfer students and KU upperclass women who were unable to participate in the last rush period because of grades. There will be no other formal rush period next year.
- Panhellenic's formal rush period for the 1968-1969 academic year will be held in the fall preceding registration and enrollment. Sophomores will be eligible to participate.
The new system represents a major consolidation in the rush program. Currently Panhellenic is rushing three times a semester—in the fall for upperclass women and transfers, at mid-semester for freshman open houses, and between semesters for freshman invitationals. The approved sophomore rush system keeps formal rush outside the academic
year, and localizes it in one rushing period.
PRESIDENTS' COUNCIL based its decision on the opinions and preferences expressed by the members of the Panhellenic Association in house discussions and individual questionnaires. The Council's final statement represented the individual evaluation of each of the 13 sorority presidents. The sophomore rush system was given unanimous endorsement by the presidents.
No call-up expected by Taiwan students
By PATRICIA PRUITT
Chinese students at KU do not expect Taiwan to enter into any action on the China mainland or to recall them to active duty as military reserves unless there is a serious development, such as an attack on Taiwan by Red China or the outbreak of World War III.
If the call should come, said
Kang Hsu, Nan Tou, Taiwan, graduate student, "it is the responsibility and obligation of the young men of free China to respond. But no one in this world can predict whether it will happen; it depends upon political and military situations."
A Taitung, Taiwan, graduate student did not think the possibility of action or recall is likely.
Novelist Price describes ideology as 'unique vision'
"I don't think it's possible to recall us," he said, "and I don't think we can attack the mainland."
AN INTERNAL UNREST in Taiwan itself may dampen the united front spirit, he said.
Novelist Reynolds Price says the ideology expressed in his novels is his own. "This vision," he adds, "is unique, because I'm the only person who has lived my life."
An audience of about 125 caught a glimpse of this vision when
WEATHER
Price read four short stories yesterday afternoon in the Kansas Union.
Clear to partly cloudy and warmer today through Friday. Southerly winds 10 to 15 miles per hour today. High today near 30. Low tonight near 20.
Two stories taken from events in his own life were entitled "Knowledge of My Mother's Coming Death," and "Light for Life." "Light for Life" appeared in the December issue of Esquire magazine.
Price, assistant professor of English at Duke University, arrived at KU Jan. 9 and will be here until Friday as writer-in-residence.
Price was born in 1933 in Maeon, N.C. He received his bachelor's degree from Duke in 1955 and later attended Merton College, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar.
He said he has written a screen play from his first novel, "Long and Happy Life," which will be filmed "sometime" this spring.
In addition to "Long and Happy Life," Price is the author of "A Generous Man," and a collection of short stories, "The Names and Faces of Heroes."
"It's quite complicated in Taiwan right now," he said, "and the independent movement of Taiwan students in the United States reflects it. The movement is quite strong at K-State. We want Taiwan for the Taiwanese, not for the mainland refugees."
REYNOLDS PRICE
De-Min Wu, assistant professor of economics, said, "The modern government of Formosa is controlled by mainland Chinese refugees. Students want the modern government to be elected by Formosans. It would carry the name Formosa China to separate itself from mainland China and the Chiang Kai-shek government.
"MOST NATIVE Formosans," he said, "wouldn't sacrifice themselves for a government which oppresses them."
Mainland Chinese fled to Hong Kong also. Being a British colony, it is not implicated politically, but might be nationalistically.
Kai-Wai Wong, assistant professor of physics, said, "There are always different factions, and most of the population in Hong Kong is not Hong Kong citizens, but mainland Chinese refugees who carry a Taiwan passport."
Legally, therefore, many Hong Kong Chinese might be obligated, too. he said.
On a voluntary basis, however, he didn't think that Hong Kong students would respond—"It depends on perhaps something big like World War III."
'This way to the good life'
The aimlessly running: myths and masks
By JOHN KIELY
After a showing of Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" last summer, the crowd moved down the stairs from the Kansas Union ballroom.
The movie is a long one and the Union was closed and only those who had been watching the film and those who worked at the Union remained inside.
The viewers came pouring down the stairs—they were indistinguishable, one from another. They were a wall of red-yellow-orange-white-green-black lava.
As they flowed down the stairs and onto the first floor they tried doors and found them locked.
ONLY ONE DOOR was open, and the crowd swirled and flowed toward it, then out of it.
Bob Stewart, Sharon Hill, Pa., junior, watched it all and said, "There are more people aimlessly running around down here then there were in the film." He chuckled. "And that's saying something."
The aimless running in both places really had an aim—to find a way out. But Stewart didn't think that was a good aim, even if it is a true one.
Apparently a lot of other people don't think that's a good aim either—Fellini among them.
But the non-hero of his film was at least trying to find some measure of truth. And part of his search necessitated his knowing who he was. That, of course, today's world would not let him do easily.
HIS WORLD WAS ROME; the students, the University.
And it is here that many of them realize they know not who they are, and here that many of them learn.
"Then he gets away from this safe, secure environment and finds all these things questioned and doesn't have a sufficient rationale to justify them.
"I think everybody grows up with a certain set of goods and evils," said Fr. Brendan Downey, KU's Roman Catholic chaplain, "They are assimilated from the family, from the society.
"When this happens he can take various courses maybe all of them to some degree. He can still cling to his moral code. Of course, if he does this he'll be the odd-ball.
"OR, HE CAN ABANDON it without a rationale. He can start doing things then, because 'everybody else does.'
"Or, he can abandon his rules with the rationale that he'll find some kind of ethical code."
And where can he look for this ethical code?
Nearly everywhere. But he can look without finding. The logic of having and maintaining a set of values and of acting in accordance with them, is that ancient Greek commandment: "Conquer Thyself."
That was the second commandment. The first was
inscribed on the arch of the Oracle at Delphio. It read: "Know Thyself," and is their answer to what modern behaviorists call "The Identity Crisis."
The local religious community sees it most often on the sophomore level. But that's impossible to determine. It varies with each individual. The important thing is that it does happen.
THE VIEWS OF A CANADIAN Episcopal minister visiting here prove it isn't limited to one country.
"He (the individual) feels he should be able to incorporate the myth to fit a meaning. And when he can't or doesn't . . . he experiences the hoax involved."
He considers it a conflict of myths and masks, with everyone from Jesus Christ to Hugh Hefner telling you how to find the good life.
"When he begins to perceive the hoax he begins to create values for himself or he negates and begins to feel the guilt."
And that hoax is, he said, the one perpetrated upon the individual by society. And by all those setting up signs that read, "This way to the good life."
ATHEIST JEAN-PAUL SARTRE suggests by his trilogy's title that there are many "... Roads to Freedom." And believer-in-God Franz Kafka wrote, "There are countless places of refuge, there is only
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