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An unfortunate incident
Don Olson's bumper-sticker campaign to have Dean of Men Donald Alderson fired is one of the most unfortunate incidents to hit KU's student left in many years.
Olson, by his irresponsible and immature actions, has completely undermined the efforts of several campus left-wing groups to establish responsible identities on campus.
It is to the credit of Olson's own Students for a Democratic Society that the group last night completely disassociated itself with the bumper-sticker idiocy. The damage, unfortunately, has probably already been done. Many a KU student knows the student left only as a blurry group of anonymous protestors; an action by any leftist
leader, however alone he may be, reflects on the entire movement.
Mr. Olson certainly succeeded in getting attention through his actions, but his tactics completely destroyed any support he might conceivably have rallied to his cause. What may have started out as an honest gripe was transformed into an unfortunate joke by Olson's child-like campaign.
We hope people realize that Olson's actions spoke only for Olson and not for any organized group. The student left has some good, responsible suggestions that are worth listening to. An irresponsible escapade like the one yesterday should not cast the entire movement in a bad light. —Eric Morgenthaler
The student newspaper
National Newspaper Week ends tomorrow, so we think we should grab the chance to expound on our theories of the student newspaper.
Few campus publications invite as much criticism as the student newspaper. Because it is constantly before the public eye and because its staff members are not experienced enough to always know what should and should not be printed, the student newspaper gets its share of trouble and deserved criticism.
Basically, the student newspaper is a learning situation—a laboratory in newspaper practice. The staff members are novices; they do not pretend to be professionals. They are students, all carrying full academic loads at the university. They get rushed and pressured at times; they get confused at times.
At times, they are struck by wild-eyed ideas that seem wonderful for a moment. Somehow these ideas manage to creep into print, and the
At some schools, censorship is applied to the student newspaper. At KU, the paper operates with a remarkably great amount of freedom; students are generally left alone to produce the paper and learn by practice. Mistakes are made, but more is learned from the mistakes than would be learned from a classroom lecturer warning against such mistakes.
student newspaper is off on another fight with a campus organization or the powers that be.
The student newspaper here is not the sensational rag that some students would have it be, nor is it the conservative pillar of the campus that others would like. Because it has little continuity of staff from year to year, it never develops a single personality. It is changing, but then the campus is changing too. Hopefully, the student newspaper reflects the changing campus climate and, however imperfectly, serves as a fair chronicle of events at KU.
The people say...
To the editor:
Every large community, whether it is a civic or an academic one, will constantly face the need for problem-solving. But so often the attempts at solutions provide little more than laughs for a remedy, questioning whether the "cure" was worth it.
I AM THINKING in particular of the decision this fall to "provide" Stouffier Place residents with their own parking area stickers. The problem itself is real: imposition of parking space by Daisy Hill residents and Allen Field House visitors. Seldom do
these visitors value the congested dangers of the Stouffer courts, which day and night are in fact playgrounds for scores of young children. Residents complain of late-hour noise, reckless driving, and of course an overcrowding of limited parking facilities. A real problem, but the recent "solution" was disappointing.
Traffic Control officers have, it appears, three basic choices now in regard to Stouffer Place parking stickers. First, they could ignore the new sticker policy and take no action at all. Second, they could ticket all un-stickered cars
as they do in other university parking areas. Third, they could ticket an unauthorized car only upon the complaint of a Stouffer resident.
Perhaps Traffic Control officers have devised another plan that will work. I would be glad to participate. But until someone sees fit to circulate to Stouffer Place the details of this plan, I would urge its reconsideration by the university. And in lieu of university repeal, or explanation, I would suggest that each Stouffer resident ignore the sticker regulation or write asking its removal.
"Go Back! Go Back! This Pace Is Making Us Dizzy"
Gary Scott Nunley
Ashland, Ky., graduate student
LITTLE MAN. ON CAMPUS
Official Bulletin
Current Events Forum, 4:30 p.m.
State Department representative William Swing, "American Foreign Policy," Forum, Kansas Union Africa" Forum, Kansas Union
University Theatre, 8:20 p.m. "The Robeanal."
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "Charade," Dyche Aud.
TODAY
SATURDAY
Football. 1:30 p.m. Oklahoma. Parents' Day. memorial Stadium.
SUA Carnival 7 p.m. Kansas Union Theater 820 p.m. The Rehearsal
University Lutheran Church, 9:45 a.m. Discussions; 11 a.m. Sunday Worship; Gamma Delta, 5:30 p.m. 150 bd. Iowa
SUNDAY
Oread Friends Meeting, 10:30 a.m.
Unprogrammed meeting for worship followed by discussion of topics of interest. Everyone welcome.
Danforth Chanel
International Club Weekly Meefing,
2.30 p.m. Leave at 2.30 from in 'ont
of Kansas Union for picnic at Wyandotte, County Lake.
St. Lawrence Student Parish 4:30
passed followed by dinner and
festival
L. S.A. 5:30 p.m. Alceve C, Kansas Union.
Mexican Folkcore Concert. S o.m.
p.m. at Chihuahua or Chihuahua,
Mexico, students. Hoch
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New minister in town
KU students and Lawrence citizens have flocked to the First Methodist Church this fall to listen to a most provocative man.
The Rev. Ronald L. Sundbye, the new minister, has attracted such large numbers that ushers have had to turn people away. Finally an extra service was added when it became evident that two were insufficient.
Some have called the new clergyman a showman. Others have labeled him as "distinctly modern." Still others have claimed that his talks resemble philosophy lectures rather than sermons.
Nearly all agree that he is extremely thought-provoking. His technique is to raise disturbing questions, start the congregation thinking, and leave it up to them, for the most part, to find answers. His assistant once stated that the services were meant to be disturbing rather than comforting.
Sermon titles vary from "Without a Rose Garden" to "Pious People Won't Help." Sundbye is able to deliver them with an odd mixture of comedy and intense seriousness. The congregation will rock with laughter one minute and sit stunned the next.
The man is certainly in step with the times. He acknowledges the trend of the younger generation to doubt all that cannot be proved, and speaks as if he knows part of his congregation consists of atheists.
"Religion is not reciting creeds and singing songs or praying prayers," he once said. "It's being tied to something deep in life; being tied profoundly to the goodness of existence."
Commenting on John Lennon's statement that "the Beatles are more popular than God," he said: "John Lennon is one of the Beatles, and if you don't know who they are, you're so far out of it I can't help you." He continued by saying that the statement was true, and that if the Beatles had been performing in Lawrence that morning the church would have been much emptier. He had thus made his point about the sad state of the church.
Even if one cannot accept the decidedly different approach to worship brought by Sundbye, one must concede that at least the man is making people think about religion. He is refreshing, and in many ways profound. People know he will always have something of value to say to them. The college community is fortunate to have such a speaker in its midst. By JUDITH McGHEE
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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