Greatness by proclamation
One need not remind KU students that they are the chosen few among many less fortunate high school graduates in Kansas and the region to go to an eminent, outstanding and boosting university.
The chancellor assures students of this fact at the convocation every year.
Freshmen walk out of the auditorium with soothing words ringing in their ears, reflecting that they have not made a bad choice after all. Sophomores, junior and even seniors share the pride secretly in their hearts.
One week, two weeks, and a month after the coronation of "greatness" reality strikes. Assignments, more assignments, problems to solve, term papers, come up marching. Students start wondering if they could ever live up to the "greatness" of the institution.
The chancellor and university officials will be caught up with administrative routines and rituals and tend to forget what they have been saving about the greatness of the school.
I am not implying that KU is not great. No, sir, I will not say it is a great institution, either.
That is the whole point. Greatness is not to be attained by self-declaration. Let others do the rating for us. The know-me-love-me approach has most often been a sign of deficiency or inferiority of some sort.
Should we not show some pride in our achievements, you may ask? Sure, we must be satisfied with our successes, but let us not rush to declare it. While others show approval of our greatness, we should in the meantime occupy ourselves with the task that brings us achievements that speak for themselves.
By GIRMA NEGASH
Announcing: Feiffer
In line with our aims and aspirations to bring a little more of the lighter side onto these pages, we would like to announce that, beginning with the week of Nov. 14, the weekly Jules Feiffer cartoon will return to the Kansan.
Few of us who were there will forget Feiffer's excellent talk on social satire and American humor, one of the highlights of the Centennial Week festivities last April.
Feiffer's cartoon appears in several national magazines, including Playboy, and in over 40 American newspapers, among them the New York Post and the Village Voice in Greenwich Village.
We plan to offer this feature on Monday of each week, the first one appearing Monday, Nov. 14.
We hope you will enjoy it.
Spotlight on state elections-III
Liberals vs. Connally in Texas
By MAURY BREECHER
He faces stiff competition this November from Carr, the state attorney-general. Carr gave up his sure re-election to that post to face Tower.
There is always something big going on in Texas. This year it is the senatorial conflict between John G. Tower, the Republican incumbent, and Waggoner Carr, his Democratic challenger. Tower seeks to be the first Republican re-elected to the Senate in Texas history.
Also weighing the scales against Tower's re-election is the support shown Carr by Texas Gov. John Connally. The governor, a close friend of President Johnson, controls an extraordinary amount of power in Texas.
Connally seeks Tower's ouster because he wants to maintain the traditional one-party system in Texas. He sees Tower's re-election and the possible emergence of a strong Texas Republican party as a direct threat to his power.
At present, Connally is able to dominate the state through the Democratic party. He controls five-sixths of the seats in the Texas House and a majority of the Senate seats, besides having his appointees on every one of the state's 200 boards and commissions.
The election race also draws more than mild interest from the White House because it is for President Johnson's former Senate seat. Tower, a Goldwater conservative, won the seat five years ago in a special election after Johnson gave it up to become Vice-President. Tower came close to winning the seat in his own right during the regular 1960 election when he, an unknown political science teacher, polled an amazing 926,600 votes to Johnson's 1,306,600.
It is doubtful that President Johnson will jump into this particular race and support the Democratic nominee. The President has publicly praised Tower for the fine job he has done and, signif-
ieantly, Tower supports Johnson's foreign policy. (As does Carr.)
William S. White, a journalist whose column is regarded as a Johnson vehicle, has said: "Tower is the one genuine intellectual leader among Republicans favoring the President's Viet Nam policies."
Thus, Carr's main support is from Gov. Connally, who is himself certain to be re-elected this year. Connally support is so valuable that The Nation has said: "Nothing can happen in Texas politics in the next two years without his personal approval."
Yet it is Connally's vast power and support for Carr which may be Carr's undoing. Tower won his Senate seat in 1961 because liberal Democrats defected from the regular party organization or did not vote. He hopes for the same mass defection this year.
Texas liberals are quite disenchanted with Connally because he has used his vast powers of patronage to smash the liberal Democratic apparatus in Texas. At one time, the liberal movement in Texas was quite vigorous and aggressive, but Connally's attacks have weakened it.
The liberal Democrats were so weak this year that they were unable to field a candidate to run against Carr in the primary. By voting Republican, or at least convincing large numbers of normally Democratic voters to stay at home, the liberals hope to help develop a Republican party strong enough to entice conservative Democrats. The liberals then hope to seize control of the Democratic party.
Connally's support of Carr has far from assured the former attorney general's election. Tower remains the only Republican of stature elected in the South during the last presidential elections and so is seen as a symbol around which the Texas GOP can be built.
Carr's own record is a liability. Sen. Ralph Yarborough, the leader of the liberal Democrats, is working behind the scenes pointing out Carr's record as speaker of the Texas House.
While speaker there, Carr sponsored anti-civil rights and anti-labor laws. In addition, one of Carr's last acts as attorney-general was to refuse to meet with Mexican-American farm hands when they marched into Austin demanding support for higher wages.
Whether or not Tower does win depends on the extent of liberal dissatisfaction with conservative Gov. John Connally and his policies. In a state where there are only 300,000 hard-core Republican votes out of a possible 3 million voters, the Republican cause can only be advanced by liberal Democrats who cross party lines or stay at home.
These acts hardly endear Carr to the large Negro and Mexican-American voting blocs. In fact, they have caused him to lose what little liberal support he might have been able to raise.
On the other hand, Carr could win if his party and Gov. Connally's political magic are able to succeed in getting large numbers of registered Democrats out to vote and in keeping the loyalties of the Negro and Mexican-American minorities.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Le Cercle Francais Se Reurain. 4:30
Brasil, Brazil. Kenyan National Soccer.
Madowlack Room, Kansas Union.
Janforth Devotions, 4:30 p.m. Spong-
gaged by Lutherans at Danforth
Chapel.
Classical Film, 7 & 9 p.m. "Aren't
We Wonderful," Dyve Abel
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship,
7. 7 West St., Mado-
dowk, Rock Creek Union.
Kennedy Room, Kansas Union.
Summer Job Placement Meeting for President of PepsiCo. People, job placement committee. Dean Coan will speak briefly; applications available. Jayhawk Room.
TOMORROW
American Chem. Society, All Day.
Kansas, Union
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Experimental Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
"Theatre U.S.A."
Wednesday, October 26,1966
Daily Kansan
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THE STUDENT BODY----THE TEAM----The FACULTY
At other schools...
Among quotes included in the book about courses: "The essay questions were graded with the idea that there was just one, definite concrete, right answer. If you developed an idea which paraphrased the correct answer, you were penalized."
The KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN reports that eight AWS commissions have been appointed to research social and academic issues on campus concerning K-State women. The commissions will evaluate existing AWS policies in regard to changing times, in preparation to the writing of several bills to be submitted to an AWS Rules Convention on Feb.18.
Further notes from K-State: we hear that the COLLEGIAN staff is ready and waiting to hit the streets with a special edition Saturday when .uh. IF the Wildcats should (and they should) kill Snob Hill on the gridiron.
Of another course, one comment was "This is the most fantastic professor I have ever had. He turns every bit of knowledge into a living thing immediately before you to savor and enjoy."
The (University of) COLORADO DAILY gets our vote for the college paper with the most hair. We keep a running bulletin in the newsroom of their ads for local favorite BEvERAGE joints, which they could almost make into a centerfold feature. Competing currently are Moana, Dede and Tomi a-go-go.
Looks like Boulder has seceded from the Bible belt. . .
THE COLORADO DAILY also reports that the Associated Students of the University of Colorado (ASUC) has published a course-evaluation booklet, "The Seer." It sells at the university bookstore for 50 cents and was compiled from questionnaires distributed among student body members last spring.
The paper reports that most students questioned said they were disappointed with the booklet because it did not cover enough courses.
Weather report in the University of Alabama CRIMSON WHITE: Cooling and colder at the University today, with 1334 leaves on campus turning red,2,496 turning yellow,36 turning brown and an uncountable number falling.It's fall.
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