Growing pains
If a growing university counts it a mark of success to have new buildings sprouting up almost as fast as they can be named, then KU must certainly be succeeding in at least one area.
With two major buildings now under construction and at least three more major buildings planned for the near future, KU is indeed in the midst of a construction boom.
THE HORNS ATOP new Fraser Hall are the most conspicuous signs of the development underway at KU. The grounds behind Strong Hall are being cleared for construction of the two-million dollar Kenneth Spencer Research Library. Bids will soon be taken for the first part of the proposed giant humanities building to be constructed where Robinson Gym now stands. According to Provost James Surface, that part of the humanities building may rise anywhere from 14 to 26 stories, including a spire on top. The second part of the humanities building will be constructed where Haworth Hall is now.
FOR SOME REASON, though, we have to fight being overly cynical in our ideas about the building boom. Of course construction is vital to KU's development; certainly the buildings will improve the quality education already offered students. Maybe it's just the fact that we're in the middle of it all right now, that there's too much going on for us to appreciate everything, that at times every effort seems to be directed
towards building. Maybe it's just that we have to face new Fraser each morning while we're still half awake.
But for whatever reason it may be, we have become lost in the excitement over building. We have dropped to the sidelines. We're willing to listen to administrators and others tell us how great everything is—but somehow it doesn't seem that great right now. We look at new Fraser or try to picture the mammoth humanities building, and our first reaction is, "Would you believe?"
Would we believe? No, not really.
A large experimental biology and human development building is to be built between Summerfield and Malott Halls. Plans have been announced for an addition to the present Kansas Union, and a second union is to be constructed near Allen Field House. Then there are new dorms planned, fraternity and sorority houses being built and minor campus buildings and additions under consideration.
Although the administration is counting on much of the new building money to come from the ambitious three-year $18.6 million Program for Progress, enough money is already on hand for the first of the new projects. The university administration is not wasting time in idle talk; many of the buildings now on the drawing board will be permanent campus fixtures in a decade.
— Eric Morgenthaler
Peking isolated from Red countries
by Bryce Miller
MOSCOW —(UPI)— Peking's cultural program appears to have driven China into Ideological isolation and been effective in gaining friends and influencing Communists for the Soviet Union.
Editorial comment from the ruling Communist parties reflects the embarrassment Mao Tse-tung must have given veteran Western Marxists who have not forgotten Josef Stalin's absolutism.
Hard-core Communists, who for 13 years have labored at explaining away the abuses of the Stalin era as "alien to Marxism," are now hard put to rationalize Mao's actions.
One refrain runs through the recent writings of Communist spokesmen from Havana to Warsaw as published in the Soviet press—what is happening in Peking has nothing in common with Marxism.
With few exceptions Communist parties which once either took the Peking line or straddled the fence between Moscow and
Peking appear to be breaking away from Maoism.
Moscow has long given up the claim, which Peking now asserts, that it is the headquarters of world revolution.
The thunderbolts of anathema which Stalin once hurled at those who did not follow his party line now come from Peking.
But Moscow for some time, especially since the ouster of Nikita S. Khrushchev, has tried to avoid making its foreign comrades blush. No teen-aged Russian Komsomols (Young Communists) are running amok in the style of Hitler youth.
When the Russians sought a meeting of world Communist parties to outlaw the Chinese from the International Communist movement, they could not scare up sufficient enthusiasm for such a drastic step even among the majority of the world parties which support the Soviet Line.
Now China, with its declared unrestricted ideological and political warfare against the Soviet
Union, has drummed herself out of the camp.
Even Romania, which for her own nationalist reasons has been flirting mildly with the Chinese and more strongly with neutralism, can hardly go along with Peking's description of the Soviet leaders as "scum."
BOOKS
THE CHILDREN OF THE SOUTH, by Margaret Anderson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $4.95)
A moving description by a school teacher of what school desegregation has meant in the South. The epocalyptic Supreme Court decision came in 1954; in the years since then a great many children have been affected by developments in the South, and the author tries to focus on these children rather than on the rioting and the Wallaces and the thrusting of the story onto the national scene. Margaret Anderson was a teacher and guidance counselor at Clinton, Tenn.
"I KNOW I COMPLIALED A LOT ABOUT THI FOOD HERE, BUT NOW
THAT I'M ABOUT READY TO GRADIATE I'M BEGINNING TO LIKE IT."
For those persons who don't want to be bothered with the news of the day, but still want something to worry about, we recommend the following item: glowworms in England are in trouble.
Worms turn on
Many experts agree, it seems, that the male glowworm is attracted to the female by her glow. Lately, however, males in England have been neglecting the females in favor of car headlights and farmhouse lights. And the females have been sitting home alone at night, and they haven't been reproducing.
Some English naturalists have become concerned. They fear the glowworm population may face a real crisis in the future unless the males return to their proper counterparts.
But so far the naturalists haven't found just a whole lot they can do to solve the problem.
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Daily Kansan
And Saw That It Was Not As Good As If He Had Done It All Himself
editorial page
Wednesday, September 21, 1966
Editoritis
(Editor's Note—The following is reprinted from the Louisiana State University Daily Reveille.)
Yea, so what?"
"See that fella going into the Library?"
"He's the new editor of the Reveille."
"Oh yea, Wonder what this one is pushin'."
"Uhh?"
"Oh, you know, them Reveille editors are always real 'pro' some group. I'd just like to know what his kick is."
"I understand that he is an 'independent' type."
"Independent—phooey! He's got to be a pusher of the Union, MRHA, SGA, and YD's or the YR's, Campus Security . . .
"Campus Security?"
" well, ROTC, AWS or some other dang group."
"I don't think so. I heard that he's a pretty fair shooter with all groups."
"Well . . if he ain't 'pro' a particular bunch, what's wrong with him? Is he anti-social? Don't he like people?"
"A friend of mine who knows a friend of his father told me that he is fascinated with the 'individual' more so than with 'people' as an entity."
"So, he hates people does he. I'll bet he's like them Romans and them Christians and them lions. I'll bet he'd put his thumbs down to some helpless people.' That rat!"
"He could be a nice guy."
"Nice guy! Are you kidding—they don't select nice guys as editors of the Reveille. You know, if he ain't pushin' no certain group and he hates people, then there's probably something wrong with him. I mean, he must be a little odd himself."
"What'cha mean 'odd'? Do you mean in the head?"
“Oh, he may not be crazy, but he may be a neurotic or a hypochondriac or somethin’. Then again, he really may be a nut. You know, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if he was one of them conservatives everybody's always talking about. He's probably like that fella . . . Barry What's-His-Name.”
"I understand that this editor is sort of liberal?"
"Oh yea, he's one of them Communists. Yea, he must be one of them rats. And, you know, I'll bet he stutters."
"Stutters?"
"Sure, somethin' has to be wrong with him."
"Why?"
"He's editor of the Reveille ain't he? He can't be normal like you and me."
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