The vanishing Hot Nuts
It appears that roaring Kansas Bible-beltism, recently thought to be on the decline, is making a comeback this week at Manhattan.
Doug Clark and the Hot NUTS (please note nuts, not notes), who played at the Red Dog Inn last night, were booked Sept. 7 for an engagement at Me and Ed's, a Manhattan beer-pizza dance establishment. The performance was supposed to take place Tuesday of this week, and $1200 worth of advance tickets were sold at $3 per person by word-of-mouth solicitation.
Then, while no advertisement had appeared mentioning the Hot Nuts, the rumor went around that the K-State administration threatened to put Me and Ed's permanently off limits for all coeds if the band appeared. Me and Ed's announced that the Flippers from Lawrence would play instead.
John Brown, owner of the Red Dog and manager of Mid-Continent Entertainment, who booked the Hot Nuts on their Kansas tour, was told by the manager of Me and Ed's that "the college wouldn't allow them to play there (at K-State)." He added that the city attorney and other officials had "advised" the manager not to allow the band to play.
In statements to the Kansas State Collegian editors, the whole story was later revealed. Me and Ed's was very careful to explain that only "advice, not pressure" was received from both the city and the university; in our opinion he was being very gracious to both, and also protecting himself (as much as possible, anyway, after losing $1,000 on cancellation of the Hot Nuts contract). The city commissioners and the
administration, however, returned the graciousness by denying ever having spoken to him.
A final consideration is that Manhattan has recently passed an ordinance allowing taverns to have dance floors, providing they meet certain requirements. While outwardly a good thing for both students and businessmen, it is a convenient axe to hold over the tavern owners because it can be put on a ballot during a general election with only 2.000 signatures from Manhattan citizens. Combine that with some issue like the Hot Nuts, and we can safely predict a Bible Belt landslide
"I can't risk being put out of business, and I have a responsibility to my competitors," the manager of Me and Ed's said.
Our sympathies lie with Me and Ed's and with the K-State students, and we are thankful that the situation in Lawrence is at least a little better. We have to say "Hot Notes" instead of Hot Nuts in UDK advertising to keep from offending anyone who may not have heard of the band, and much to the amusement of everyone. But the band played here last spring, and again last night, and no one rose up with Bibles and tar and feathers to protect the children from all the obscenity. In fact, if they had, they would have been shocked to find that the performance, on this campus anyway, was not much more risque than any rock 'n' roll show.
Someday, city officials in college towns will fully realize where their bread and butter lies. They will further realize, along with college administrators, that most students are real, grown-up people and perfectly capable of judging their own tastes and running their own private lives. — Jack Harrington
The people say...
'Declaration': smear tactics
To the editors:
The "Declaration" by two anonymous graduate students is the worst example of smear tactics in a newspaper which I have ever seen. Their technique is the most underhanded in journalism; they try to destroy an opponent's position by ridiculing his character as well.
In a series of slandering remarks, which are also obviously intended to reveal the cleverness of their composers, the object of attack is depicted as a masochist, a self-made martyr to a worthless cause, a fool who proclaims himself expert at everything. But then the slanderers really warm to their task of "providing the whipping this masochist so dearly needs."
HE DID NOT sign the loyalty oath because he cannot write his own name. His arguments are "constitution-sex slop." Finally, those who agree with him probably cannot spell either. These are not all of the examples, but such statements are in such bad taste, are so distant from all the issues involved, that the intentions and the tactics of the authors seem evident. First, they wish to do as much as possible to destroy the reputation of the man with whom they disagree. Secondly, and probably most important to them, the writers wish to show off how bright they can be in their cynicism.
Yet nothing is easier for a writer than to apply the terms
“ridiculous,” “monor,” “sickening,” “slop,” etc., to the ideas or names of those with whom he disagrees or to invent statements specifically intended to damage an opponent's reputation. When a person continually takes refuge in ridicule instead of discussion of issues, it is safe to say that this is because he cannot formulate valid arguments.
ETHICAL WRITERS try to guard against the practice, and others resort to it occasionally. But when a writer presents so much completely irrelevant ridicule as the authors of "Declaration," and feels he must clothe the arguments which he does put forth in an aura of aloof sneering with some sad attempts at humor, the only character he really succeeds in exposing is his own.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Luckily for them, the authors of "Declaration" chose to remain anonymous.
"WHY DON'T YOU GET BUSY AND REVISE YOURE TEXTBOOK?"
Lancaster graduate student
James D. Bono
Official Bulletin
Foreign Students: Sign up now for the Oct. 15 People-to-People tour to Kansas City & famous American Royal Show, P-t-P office, basement Kelsonion. First 33 students who sign will be provided free transportation.
Foreign Students: Saturday is last date to complete the important Fall semester forms in Dean of Foreign Students Office. 226 Strong.
TODAY
University Women's Club Welcome Tea, 2 p.m., Watkins Room, Union. Area Principals Meeting, 3 p.m. Kansas Union.
English Proficiency Exam, 7:30 p.m.
TOMORROW
Muslim Society, 1:30 p.m. Friday prayers will be held at the School of Religion (Myers Hall) opp. Kansas Union.
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "The Birds." Dyche Auditorium.
University Theatre, 8.20 p.m. "The Rebeasal." Murphy Hall.
Daily Kansan editorial page Thursday, October 6, 1966
STRONG STUFF
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as seen by EMERY GOAD
The expediency award and congratulations this week go to Dean Taylor for her concern for the campus men.
Now that the junior and senior girls have their keys or card for late privileges no doubt there will be fewer men on the streets during the late and early hours.
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The basement of Strong Hall, that's the place where you have to get sandwiched in among the crowd to get something to eat. * * * * * * *
The power of the common cold and hay fever is stronger than money. The Council for Progress is raising $18.5 million dollars but the University Planning Committee could not meet this week because of illness.
The city- and campus-wide labor shortage seems to have hit the classrooms. Professors too, report that it is hard to find a student to do any work.
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The Holiday Inn, that's the place which hosts more institutes and conferences than the University Extension ever thought of. * * * * * *
Some 1,500 students are taking the English pro this evening and already they are wondering what their score might be.
As soon as the mathematics, advertising and physical education professors get them graded everyone will know.
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KU's biggest sport fans, Chancellor Wescoe and Provost Surface, both wear brightly colored red and blue striped watch bands. And incidentally they don't mind explaining what they are and telling all about KU, to an outsider.
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It looks like KU's flying faculty may take to the air if the appropriated $80,000 plane is approved by the state congress.
Currently the two University planes are always at the disposal of the chancellor and to faculty members on certain occasions.
If by chance certain University heads are hard to locate in the evenings, there is a sure bet they CAN be found.
A local soft-serve ice cream outlet is a very popular place for administrators as well as students in Lawrence.
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The Centennial college, isn't that the group that lives together, studies together, and plays together?
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Flint Hall, it is no secret that there is more gambling going on in there than anywhere on campus. The only thing our slot machines do is move copy, and you can bet on that.
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The ticket office in Allen Field House, isn't that the place where they are still looking for someone to sit in the top of the stadium addition?
One student was overheard to say the other day that when the clouds are low he couldn't see the playing field.
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Watkins Hospital, isn't that the place (like K-State) where anyone gets in and (like the Deans' offices) one seldom comes out feeling better?
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It is no secret lately that there have been more engagements and pinnings celebrated in Potter and the Chi Omega fountain than in the Daily Kansan.
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A dizzy looking student said the other day that the only way he could tell one side of Strong Hall from the other now was the trash containers on the North.
We guess that officials have always tried to put up a "front" along Jayhawk Boulevard.
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The overflowed X zone parking lot lately has been a place where students could car less. We hear that students with little cents are sneaking in the back gates.
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We don't know what it is a sign of, but last week one student who frequents Strong Hall was seen buying mouse traps at a local grocery store.
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No Virginia, your boyfriend will not get his draft deferment confirmed for another month yet. Seems there is a hold up somewhere.
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