No room at the Inn
(Or, Seven To A Booth)
"Better wrap it up in a half an hour"—where else would a customer be asked to leave (unless there was an overflow crowd)?
It's a dark day for campus politics and bridge buffs. The sign should read No Vacancy. There's no room at the (Holiday) Inn for the student. The once familiar meeting place is becoming desolate.
Gone are the all-night bridge games, study sessions, committee meetings and discussions.
Gone with the wind that blows through the curtains by the open glass doors, in a unique game of "freeze-out."
It's called "get the customer."
The temperature is surpassed only by the reception.
Few. Lawrence businessmen would contrive to make the patrons feel privileged to be allowed to enter.
If you can pass the acid test, i.e. approval of the cashier, you will be rewarded with the privilege of buying coffee and/or the staples of life.
Gone are the days of the coffee pot. It is sold by the cup now. Ration tickets should be issued. But don't disturb the breakfast set-ups. You'll blow your cool and your chances for readmittance.
Actually the whole bit is quite a set-up. Where else could you get so little for so much?
The seats are at a premium even when you put seven—count 'em, seven—to a booth designed for two.
This is possibly the only establishment in town which features revolving management rather than revolving credit.
They claim financial difficulties and we'd hazard a guess that things will get worse before they get better.
The motto appears to be a reversal of that often chosen by local businessmen.
The student is never right. So forget it, Gang, unless you're a masochist, there's no room at the Inn.
Joan McCabe
GERMAN ROMANTICISM, by Oskar Walzel (Capricorn, $1.45) A survey of the Romantic movement in Germany. Many modern movements trace themselves to the German romanticists, and Walzel considers such figures as Schlegel, Hoffman, Heine, Schiller and the great Goethe. The book is regarded as a standard survey in the field.
THE EIGHTEEN NINETIES, by Holbrook Jackson (Capricorn, $1.95)—Not the gay nineties in the United States, but the "yellow nineties" in Britain, and a book considered to be perhaps the best survey of that period. Many famous names parade through the pages—Wilde, Beerbohm, Francis Thompson, Shaw, Kipling, William Morris. Such issues as Decadence, the Celtic revival, and the arts and crafts movement are treated.
People say: anti-peacenik refuted, English pro revisited
To the editor:
The truth is out. Peace is dead! (Oh, my God!) Yessir, folks, peace, or the working for world peace, has bit the proverbial dust. And who can we thank for this enlightenment? Well, good ole Bill Weaver, that's who. (UDK Jan. 12)
And, people of this great, ole U.S. of A., guess what else? If you work for peace, you're a Pinko! That's right, a regular ole Red Guard. (I'd better tell my mom before her church group studies Christ's Sermon On The Mount any further.) And it was good ole Bill once again who let us in on the secret. But that's not all.
DID YOU know, gang, that there is no such thing as idealism? (Are ya listening Bert Russell and Bill Fulbright?) Boy, I sure didn't. I didn't know "international brotherhood" was dead or was even alive at one time, either, but Bill Weaver pointed it out for all us possible Communist "dopes."
And am I glad to know that I don't have to worry about other people, if they live or die or are hungry or sick, 'cause that's just (horrors!) idealism. The only thing I have to worry about is power "with a capital P" and reality.
And I am worrying about reality. There seems to be a real funny quirk about it—it has a tendency to be new and different with every on-coming day. But that's just idle philosophizing (slap my hand for that indiscretion).
So, on behalf of the ignorant masses, I salute you, Bill Weaver, for imparting your words of wisdom. May you quote D. Mauculsky until there is really nothing left to living except power, reality and the lack of hope for the betterment of man. May you last forever.
Rick Dinkel Palatine, Ill. Freshman
To the editor:
I would like to thank you for pointing out in your editorial of January 12 that my resolution concerning English Proficiency Examination exemptions had merely been introduced. However, I feel that you have misinterpreted the intent of the resolution. I hope, therefore, to use this letter to clear up some misunderstandings about the resolution.
I feel that your reservations over my assertion that K.U. offers high quality undergraduate English instruction are valid. At
the end of this semester, I will have taken three English courses: 1H,2H,and9.All three of my instructors have been excellent, and I have found the courses challenging and rewarding
However, as Miss Joyce Snapp (KUFA-College Women) pointed out, many non-honors sections leave so much to be desired that the Council would not be justified in commending the freshman-sophomore English program. Therefore, I completely agree with Miss Snapp's plan to amend this clause out of the resolution when it comes up for consideration by the Council.
I wish to point out that my resolution does not state "...that satisfactory completion of required undergraduate English courses IS sufficient proof of a student's ability to express his ideas in writing," as your editorial claims. It states "...that satisfactory completion ... SHOULD BE sufficient proof..." I believe that there should be no need for a blanket proficiency examination at any university of the stature which KU claims for itself, as I am sure you do not.
Daily Kansan
editorial page Monday, January 16, 1967
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I also take exception to your conclusion that the resolution applies to any student who merely passes the required courses. The resolution calls for "satisfactory completion" of those courses. The official University definition of a D grade (found on page 83 of the Student Handbook) is, "...work of the lowest quality that would enable you to do additional study in the subject." I do not feel that work "which deserves merely to pass" should be considered "satisfactory completion" for the purposes of this resolution.
I would further like to point out that your comments dealt
only with introductory, explanatory clauses. I hope you do not take exception to the final and most important clause, which states, "Be it resolved: The All Student Council believes that all students who satisfactorily complete the required undergraduate English courses with grades of C or better should be exempted from the English Proficiency Examination."
It is my belief that a blanket proficiency examination is detrimental to the image which the University is trying to project and that the exam should not be carried into the second century.
Respectfully yours,
Frank D. Joyce
Frank D. Joyce
Shawnee Mission
Sophomore
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