'Let there be light'
In the beginning the Board of Regents created the Hill and the campus.
The campus was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the Hill, and the Spirit of the Board of Regents was walking over the face of the students.
And the Board of Regents said, "Let there be light"; and that's when the problem started.
LIGHTING ON THE campus has always been a source of editorial fodder for aspiring student writers and a very real danger about which all good housemothers have warned each and every one of their flock.
Whether the student is a coed who is frightened of the possibility of an unidentifiable attacker lurking somewhere out there in the dark night or a student who merely fears for the safety of his or her collarbone and other delicate and breakable portions of the body, it cannot be denied that the bad lighting on campus is a major problem.
KU WOMEN are, of course,the major victims of poor lighting. Not only do they have to watch for strange men hiding in the shadows behind Flint Hall and on the way to Murphy Hall, but they have to worry about finding that next dark step with the Braille system of touch and go.
Admittedly (and idealistic writers do hate to admit anything), some of the street or sidewalk lights have simply gone out and have not yet been replaced. (B and G men aren't everywhere—it just seems that way.)
But some portions of the campus are not well-lit, and it is simply because there are no lights in the vicinity.
PERHAPS IT IS too much to ask, but it would seem that the university would have enough desire to protect the safety of its students to install proper lighting systems in a few of the totally dark areas on the Hill.
And the rest of the quotation? "... and there was light. And ... the light was good."
Let us hope so. By BARBARA PHILLIPS
The new Vox
"The old Vox is dead. There is a new Vox, new blood and a new approach."
Oddly enough, the preceding quote is not taken from the Bible, Ken North, temporary chairman of Vox Populi, mouthed it Wednesday night as Vox experienced its rebirth at the Kansas Union (for there was no room at the Inn).
FOR THOSE OF faulty memories, Vox disbanded more than a week ago and announced it would merge with the KU Progressive Alliance (KUPA), which was recently formed to abolish "dirty" politics on campus and reduce the influence of political parties. A few days later, KUPA
announced it wanted no part of the merger—the Vox people would have to go elsewhere.
Ken North then apparently made a big decision—he decided he did not want to join KUPA anyway. So he picked up his toys and went somewhere else to play, and Wednesday night he said Vox's leaders had decided KUPA's ideals "would be most effectively recognized within the framework of the two-party system." He really showed those KUPA people.
So now we have a new Vox and everybody is happy. We wish them well and will watch with interest. Behold, a second star has risen in the east. — Eric Morgenthaler
The people say...
No mourning for the New Left
To the Editors:
I suppose I'm a member of the new left, although I can't help thinking sometimes that those who say they're in the center are really members of the apathetic right, at least so they appear to me. But I realize that these terms, left, center and right are relative to the society in which the phenomena which they name occur, and so, "nit-picking" aside.
Properly identified, I have a message for Dan Austin: Dan, we're not dead yet! You wouldn't call the new left lethargic (or shouldn't) if you've been to the SPU meeting I attended last night. I heard a lot of new ideas; ideas concerning peace and war, ideas for action, organizational ideas, educational ideas; and (whatever gods may be willing) maybe this is the year we accomplish something.
"That's Showing Those Damned White Civil-Righters"
AND MAYBE SDS's problem is too many different ideas instead of ineptness. If so, it's a little silly to say the membership of the new left is "singular thinking." And let's remember that excessive bureaucracy; inadequate, unthinking, unprogressive administration; the draft; black power and the reactionary white power, are important issues.
George N. Harvey jr.
Wichita sophomore
So don't mourn us yet, Dan. There are still consciences to prick, and we'll be right in there pricking.
Official Bulletin
Faculty Recital, 8 p.m. Reinhold Schoenberg-bass-baritone. Swartouth拒礼 Hall.
Student Peace Union Open Meeting,
7 p.m. Election of officers, Kansas
University
Lecture, 4:30 p.m. Dr. Carl-Christoph Schweitzer, Free University of Berlin. "Germany-DeGaulle-Europe." 112 Blake.
TODAY
SUA Coffee-Forum, 3:30 p.m. Dr.
Victor Brombert, Yale U. "Tragic
Humanism of Camus." Forum Roin,
Kansas Union.
Experimental Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
"Romannoff & Juliet."
Freshman Women & New Women Students' Night, 7 p.m. New Robinson
KU Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, 7:30 p.m. Plans for special educational project. 305, Kansas Union.
Humanities Lecture, 8 p.m. Dr. Victor Brombert, "Malraux & the World of Violence." Swarthout Recital Hall.
Experimental Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
"The Adding Machine."
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Daily Kansan
editorial page
Monday, October 10, 1966
"I M NOT SIRE WHAT THE MODEL AGENCY HAS TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS CLASS, MISS GARF, HONEVER LET ME HASTEN TO ASSIURE YOU~~"
If you can't say something nice...
We shall.
Why don't you write something nice?
It is the 28th day of September in the year of our Lord. And it is about-to-be-falitime. There's going to be a full moon Thursday night. It says so right on the calendar.
AND THE LEAVES shall fall from the trees because they are tired. Snoopy will watch them fall. You and I will forget to watch them fall, but one day in November or maybe December we'll look at the mess in the gutters and then up at the trees and we'll say "Hey, all the leaves are gone."
The air will smell crisper. Yes, you can smell crispness.
The winds will come, lightly at first. Until it is cool, good-cool. The kind where you can wear cotton and sweaters and hate to get up in the morning because the floor is going to be cold.
AS IT IS fall, the rains will come—winter rains to make mush of the leaves. We'll get out our umbrellas and maybe take off our shoes to slosh across the quadrangle where the squirrels hide in the trees. Rain is best in the fall and the winter.
Then soon it will be winter when it is really cold and you can feel cold on your face and the end of your nose. Things seem alive then.
In the fall-time and the winter-time we will be young. That is something nice.
Don't forget to watch the leaves fall.
—The Alabama Crimson-White
Hershey on draft
The serious objector to the draft and the war has a new friend—General Lewis B. Hershey, head of the Selective Service System.
In a recent speech at Yale University, Hershey said that if he found his country's military position "morally impossible to support" he would sooner go to jail than be drafted. All this, he said, "in order to maintain dignity."
He put matters into the proper perspective: there can be as much dignity in refusing to fight a war one does not believe in as there is in fighting for a cause one believes in.
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