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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1964
KU in 1984
THE DIN OF THE 20-AFTER WHISTLE jarred 50578 from her day-dream. She was going to be late for her appointment with her ad-vichine.* The autobook* was so slow; she had even been late to classes because of it. Her mother had said students used to be allowed in the stacks, but the new system was supposed to be much more efficient. 50578 thought about going on, but she had to give that history text for the paper on Saxon cemeteries she would write tonight.
The book finally dropped down the chute, mechanically checked out to 50578 for 24 hours. She hurried through sec,\* where an X-ray checked her briefcase for books and her coin purse for torn-up pages.
LEAVING THE LIBRARY, 50578 hurried to the advichine center. An IBM postcard had told her to see her advichine about her down in Biology 1 ccr.* 50578 had never before received a down, but she knew why she had flunked the biology test. She had skipped one of the first blanks on the machine-graded answer sheet and so marked wrong answers on the rest of the test.
THE ADVICHINE only threatened her with probation. Relieved, 50578 decided to go to the dorm instead of back to the library. The fall weather was so beautiful, she wanted to walk; but the 950-women dorm was over three miles from the campus. Besides, she enjoyed the bus ride, except for the long stop at Checkpoint Charlie where the gondolier* checked the passengers' ID cards. To read on the bus, she picked up a UWK.* the campus newspaper published by the J-school faculty.
She hoped 58709 was home. Unlike most of the roommates who had been commatched* by IBM, she and 58709 got along all right. She worried about 58709, though; one of these days they'd have another room check* and send the campus cops to find her studying in 40640's apartment. 58709 knew the rules, but she was the rebellious type.
THAT NIGHT 50578 was tired when came in at closing. She had wanted 48238 to take her to a movie; instead they had gone to the library. As 48238 said, they'd never get through college in two years by spending Friday nights dancing or seeing movies. The long walk to the library (48238 couldn't park near the campus) and the hours studying in the individual cubicles had worn 50578 out.
On their way home, 48238 and 50578 had driven by O Zone, the legendary parking place for KU couples. The fluorescent lights and police patrol had ruined it, though. Now everyone parked in the hillside lot above the football stadium.
BACK IN HER ROOM, 50578 got out her typewriter and books so she's be ready after her sleepshift to get her history paper written before her 6:30 class. There just weren't enough hours in the day to get everything done, 50578 thought. Maybe someday they'd improve the sleep machines so she'd have to be plugged in one hour instead of two.
- 50578
1984 Glossary:
ADVICHINE—An IBM machine that advises students on curriculum, grades and personal problems.
AUTOBOOK—Mechanical library system for procuring and checking out books.
**SEC**—Security check at library exits, instituted in 1964.
BIOLOGY 1 ccr—Elementary required course for students with backgrounds in chemistry and calculus.
GONDOLIER—Attendant in the gondola-booth traffic checks, built in the early '60s.
UWK—University Weekly Kansan.
COMMATCHED—Matched for compatibility by the dean of women's office.
ROOM CHECK—A 2 a.m. flashlight event staged by the D of W.
— Margaret Hughes
KU Shines in Olympics
DETERMINATION, effort, desire, pioneering spirit. Those are the words sportswriters claim Bill Easton manages to cram into every sentence he atters.
But even if the needle is stuck, it is hoped the record will continue.
For two former KU track athletes who were coached by Easton have won gold medals in the 1964 Olympic Games at Tokyo. Billy Mills became the first American to win the 10,000 meters in the Games and Al Oerter won his third gold medal in the discus event.
NOT GIVEN A great deal of attention from KU students nor allotted much money by the athletic department, the KU track team has made one of the most impressive collegiate track records in the nation in the 17 years Easton has been KU track coach. Development of Olympians (Mills marks the seventh) is one of the examples.
OERTER WAS STILL a KU student when he won his first gold medal in 1956. He repeated in 1960 and was considered a likely winner in the Tokyo Games until he suffered a rib cage injury. At the beginning of the Olympics, it was announced that Oerter might not be able even to compete in his event.
Billy Mills represents another example of what results desire, perhaps even determination, effort and the pioneering spirit, will bring.
MILLS BARELY MADE the Olympic team. He was—at best—a 1,000 to 1 shot in the 10,000 meter. His victory may well become the biggest upset of the 1964 Olympics. It certainly was the biggest race of his life.
One can imagine how happy and proud Easton and A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg, director of special athletic events, must have felt when last week they watched Mills and Oerter receive their gold medals in Tokyo.
KU SHOULD FEEL HAPPY AND PROUD to have a coach the caliber of Easton, one who under the circumstances of a limited budget and limited student support has coached seven Olympians and guided KU teams to 12 of the last 15 league indoor track championships, 10 of the last 11 outdoor titles and 16 of the last 18 cross country crowns.
A Senior Looks at Fall
Roy Miller
FALL is generally a spirited time of year when a new start is taken or given to get things done. It is a time of sadness and endings. Especially for college seniors.
IF THE GRADUATING SENIOR cannot be sad about his last fall on such a beautiful campus, it is a shame. There is a lot to miss around here. The Hawk's Nest, the Campanile, Allen's, the Union, the rustling and flippling maple leaves on a windy day and friends with whom to share all these things.
It is the last fall of moving into the dorm or house. It is the last fall of sitting under trees discussing life with a friend. It is the last fall to worry about downslips.
It is the last fall for girls to catch a man and the last fall for some fellows to dodge the draft. It is the last fall to get a regular allowance from
THE LAST OF ANYTHING is terribly final. Naturally. The last means the end. The end of friendships, loves and studies. The end of late hours, worries and grade points. The end of barn parties, hayrack rides and the local tavern on Friday afternoons. The end of irresponsibility and carelessness. The end of a part of life that can never be regained again.
Dad and write happy letters to Mom. It is the last time to be profound in that unbelievably intelligent way that no one outside of a college campus will listen to.
The fall is half gone already. Seniors have their sweatshirts and identification cards. Their symbols of an accomplishment many of them never thought they would achieve. Their symbol of four hard years of studying, playing and learning- Linda Ellis
Khrushchev's Fall Ends a Long Era
THE END OF THE Khrushchev "era," if it may be called that, gives one the chance to ask, "What was he like, and what did those 10 years mean?"
The words "Nikita Khrushchev" immediately recall images to the mind, just as do the words "Texas" or "farm" or "surf."
There is the ambitious Khrushchev at Stalin's funeral, standing beside the equally ambitious men he was so soon to fight in the vicious internal power struggle.
There is the peasant-turned premier touring the Iowa cornfield with President Eisenhower during the too-brief "Spirit of Camp David."
THERE IS THE ANGRY hypocritical politician destroying the Paris summit meeting in 1960 and later pounding his shoe on the table at the United Nations.
There is the frustrated, baffled administrator, so imprisoned by dogma that he is unable to learn why farm production in his "classless" society is no match for that in the "decadent" United States.
THERE IS THE RUTHLESS militarist who ordered the troops back into Hungary, and slipped long-range missiles to an island dictator too incompetent to know what to do with them.
And, finally, there is the humble, probably sad visitor to the U.S. embassy in Moscow during that sad weekend last November.
TOO OFTEN, especially when the topic touches upon communism, we tend to see issues and people as all white or all black. Hence, there can be no good Communist unless he's a dead Communist, and no safe ideas if a Communist shares them too. But let's try to break away from that viewpoint for awhile anyway, and approach this man from another direction.
Above all, Nikita Khrushchev,
as premier of the Soviet Union,
was human—neither a cunning,
evil incarnation of the devil, nor
a godsend to the people of the
world. That he is a mortal, just
like you or I, is obvious, per-
haps, but still sometimes
forgotten.
SECOND TO BEING human. Khrushchev was a politician. He had to be a damn good one, too, to have survived the more than three dark decades that beset
Russia after the revolution, and then to emerge as the most powerful person in the world's second most powerful country.
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BUT NIKITA Khrushchev was more than this.
He served as a hatchetman for Stalin, yet his 10 years as premier saw the emergence of freedoms never dreamed about during the reign of Stalin. His whole lifetime had seen the Russian people hungry and destitute as the Soviet Union devoted its industrial strength to armament, yet he attempted to divert to consumers much of the manufacturing that formerly was earmarked for the armed forces.
THE PRECEDING DECADES had seen Russia's military apparatus bent on conquering the world, or Europe anyway, by force, yet he had the courage to break the ideological barriers to sign a nuclear test ban treaty and proclaim the doctrine of coexistence with capitalism, moves which have deeply split the once-solid Communist front.
JUST AS EASILY though, we can see another Nikita Khrushchev. He is now the short, fat, ugly man with his show off, mocking a solemn assembly of nations. He is the braggart, shouting "We will bury you," and promising a Communist rule for our grandchildren. He is even the murderer, pouring division after division of Soviet military might back into a small, defenseless country whose sole wish is to be left alone to govern itself.
THE EXPERTS and specialists can try to explain this man Nikita Khrushchev. It is unlikely that he was a politician on the level of a Lyndon Johnson, or a statesman of the caliber of John Kennedy, or a fearless fighter as we like to imagine Theodore Roosevelt.
BUT IN THESE 10 YEARS, he did bring Russia from under the shadow of Josef Stalin, he did turn (ever so slightly) the eyes of his countrymen outward to meet those of the rest of the world, and he did pledge the Soviet Union to a more realistic foreign policy which, albeit feebly, points the way toward a peaceful relationship with the free world.
FOR THESE THINGS, if nothing else, we can be thankful. — Fred Frailey
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