ASC—too many cooks
It seems that the ASC is developing a remarkable capacity for putting forth a completely disorganized effort toward passage of major significant legislation.
Tuesday night, after a long and noisy debate of over an hour and a half, the council defeated the proposed amendment to the elections bill which would have re-districted the campus.
THE EFFECT of this amendment would have been felt in several areas. First, every large dormitory would become a separate voting district, rather than the present system of two districts, "large men's halls" and "large women's halls." Essentially, this would eliminate the need for a candidate to campaign to such a huge number of voters, and also recognize that the needs of different halls are indeed different.
"SMALL MEN'S HALLS" and "small women's halls" (scholarship halls) were combined into a single scholarship hall district.
The remaining districts, sororities, married students and unmarried-unorganized were not affected. The professional-cooperative district of small, interest-oriented houses would become part of the fraternity district.
The proposed amendment did not provide for the election of school representatives to the ASC. Arguments for this cite the fact that the ASC, as yet anyway, does not handle academic matters, and that this would be the only value of a school representative, at least in most of the schools.
WELL, IT SEEMS that almost everyone on the council agrees that the elections bill ought to be changed. Almost everyone feels that it is
an important issue, vital to the proper functioning of student government. But no one, at least not enough council members or not the right council members, can agree on how it should be changed or on who should change it.
If the vote total in one district is high, so we are told by Mr. Rader and his blackboard, possibly that district would elect as many or more representatives as a couple of other districts put together. And so it could be.
Mr. Waller, on the other hand, feels that schools should be represented, and perhaps they should. Mr. X and Mr. Y think that A and B are not right. And finally, Mr. Darville and Miss Orth, authors of the amendment, think it's all right as it stands.
IF THIS ISSUE is indeed as important as it seems, a solution has got to be reached. A meeting of the minds, opposed to each other and opposed to other parties as they might be, must come about, or the issue will be kicked around from table to blackboard to Vox to UP to KUPA and probably never be straightened out.
We strongly urge that Mr. Rader, Mr. Chubb, Mr. Darville and Miss Orth, Mr. Waller, Al Martin and anyone else who is genuinely concerned, from a committee to hash out the elections bill and bring a united recommendation before the council in the interest of improving student government election rather than personal, party or other interests.
If the improvement of student government is to be brought about, such a united effort as this will be a big step in that direction.
A funny way to protest
There is a movement afoot by some of the learned faculty of this university to refuse to turn grades in to Registrar James Hitt and thereby make it impossible for the registrar to send those grades to draft boards.
Their moral consciences working overtime, these gentlemen proceed on the notion that if they send a bad grade to Strong Hall, they also send a KU student to the Viet Nam slaughter house.
But it is through ignorance and blindness that they choose such a course to show their distaste.
IT IS RIGHT that our mentors be concerned and distasteful of any sort of murder, organized or otherwise.
For while a bad grade may bring a I-A classification and the prospect of dying in a foreign jungle, it also closes doors to jobs, to the now mandatory graduate school and to the nebulous virtue of self-respect.
IN OTHER WORDS, the question of death by sword or death by an economic or psychological garrote should be the immediate concern of the philosopher and theologian, not the everyday teacher who must impart the necessary knowledge of his trade.
It is the demands of American society that force the German and chemistry professors to fail 50 per cent of their classes. If those that fail go to a premature grave or to the prison of limited opportunity, the blame should fall not upon the present exercise of foreign policy in Asia or upon Madison Avenue, but rather upon the society that makes competition its god.
By DAN AUSTIN
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"I DON'T SEE WHY YOU EXPECT GOOD MARKS—THE FACT YOU ENROLLED IN MY SECTION INDicates A QUESTIONABLE IQ"
People-to-People Tour: For all KU foreign students, Saturday, American Row show and Paradise, Kansas City, KU-wood office, basement floor, Kansas Union
Official Bulletin
Savings & Loan Institute, All Day. Kansas, Union.
Sudidt Chapter AIA Lecture, 3
Boston University, Japanese architect.
Dych. Auditor.
TODAY
Mathematics Lecture, 3:30 p.m.
Prof. Maufried Breuer, KU, 103 Strong.
Meeting, 6.30 p.m. Kancas Room,
Union, Chancellor Wesco will speak.
KU Mountaineering Club, 7 p.m.
Kansas Union, Room 305 B
KU SOS 7:30 pm $81 Maile
SCHOOL 9:30 pm 8:20 p.m.
"She Stones in Concert."
College Ifs. 9 p.m. Phi Kappa Psi
Struggles for Peace, Ka'i Dunnison.
Mu Iui  Sosetey 1 p.m. Friday
(pm) Hall of Science 1 o'clock Rison
(m) Hall II 6 p.m. Kansas
Savings & Loan Institute, All Day.
Kansas Union.
TOMORROW
Current Events Forum, 4:30 p.m.
State Department expressative Willem
tward toward the Republic of South
Africa. Forum Room, Union.
Ph.D. Exam, 3:30 p.m. B. Eugene
McCa tha, English, 149 C-OL.
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "Charadri" Dyche Aud.
University Theatre, 8:20 p.m. "The Rhaparal."
Museum of Art Benefit Ball, 9 p.m.
National Guard Armory.
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Daily Kansan Thursday, October 13, 1966
"Why is this always the toughest part of wrapping a package?"
STRONG STUFF
as seen by EMERY GOAD
The efficiency award this week goes unanimously to Buildings and Grounds . . . they've watered more cars, sidewalks and streets than ever before. The grass . . . it's dying.
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The Kansas Union, that's the place where the garbage trucks pull up at the back door and you don't know if they are taking it out or bringing it in.
And as for the future of the building plan at KU . . Wescoe says, "It bugs me."
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With all the talk recently about Ehrenreich and the signing of the loyalty cath, a local prof says he would be satisfied if students only signed their papers.
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We understand that it's no secret the president of the sophomore class is really a second semester freshman . . . wonders never cease.
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McCollum Hall, that's the place where you never get a line .or a phone .or a caller.
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And speaking of B & G, we recall to mind two grounds workmen sitting on a curb on Sunnyside Avenue the other day beside a sign.
It read, "SLOW MEN WORKING," and sure enough they were.
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KUPA, that's the new party that stands for Kontrol Until Peace Arrives.
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It seems that the latest trick in studying is to go to sleep with a book in front of your face.
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The AGD's may not have a house yet, but anyone can tell they have study hours every night. The top floor of Oliver Hall is always lit.
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O zone parking lot. That's where there are a "lot" more parkers by night than by day.
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