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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1964
Thoughts on Love
LOVE IS ONE THING about which no one can readily advise you. Yet chances are that sometime during your college days love will happen to you or, better, you will happen to love.
FOR LOVE HUMBLES, but does not embitter. The proud among you will never earn love for you will never learn to give love. Nor can the fearful and the weak among you love, for the giving of love requires courage and strength. To learn to suffer willingly and joyfully for love's sake is perhaps life's hardest, but greatest lesson.
Your meeting with love can come about in a myriad of ways. For each of you the first knowledge will be unique; for no two people are the same. Perhaps it will grow slowly, like a young plant pushing its way up through the warm, black dirt and then, one day, breaking through into the warmth of the sun. Or maybe it will seem almost to explode upon you, and you will catch your breath quickly and silently in awe and wonderment. Or you will come to love, and you will puzzle at its mysteries and at the changes it works upon you.
But while love humbles, it also exalts. For
then you give to be giving and do not give to be receiving. And that, then, is the true spirit of love.
TO KNOW MORE NEARLY another's deepest thoughts and highest dreams; to see more keenly the brilliant splashes of reds and golds that are autumn; to hear more clearly the whisper of a falling leaf or the sound of its rustling as it dances and whirls to the touch of the wind; to feel more softly the warm wetness of raindrops (or are they tears?) on your face—these are the sones of the earth that love brings to you.
But do not be mistaken that love is all joy and happiness. For those of you who are serious will feel the pain of too much tenderness, the sorrow of too much giving, and the sadness of too little time. And that, too, is the way of all real love.
BUT IF PAIN, hard work and sacrifice are not for you, then it is better that you do not pick up that which is the heaviest of burdens, yet the greatest of joys.
And some of you will ask yourselves still: "Is not the price of loving too high?" And I would answer only that if the price of loving is high, then the price of not loving is even higher.
— Rick Mabbutt
Civil Rights and the Election
(Editor's Note: This article is one in a series of articles in the 1964 Presidential election.)
LOUISIANA LAST LABOR Day weekend was foreign territory to a girl from Kansas; the dark green pines spearing low-lying signs of the coming thunderstorm; a sign glimpsed from the bus window—"Colored Motel;" Confederate flags on a passing jeep; the drawlingly incomprehensible voice on the loudspeaker in the Shreveport station; the Negro soldier who waited until I finished my hamburger to take the empty seat next to me at the lunch counter.
Soon after I reboarded the bus to Monroe, an old, limping, tired-looking man came down the aisle and asked to sit next to me. Leaning toward me with the casual announcement that introduced his two-hour monologue on Louisiana society and politics, he said, "I'm sure glad I got to sit by you. I haven't ridden a bus since January and I was scared to death I'd have to sit by a nigger."
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THAT LABOR DAY WEEK- end ended "the long, hot summer," when the President signed the Civil Rights Law. . . Three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. . . Negroes and whites rioted in Harlem, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Rochester. . . The nominating conventions brought platform controversies and delegation contests before the nation. . .
THERE WERE, of course, attempts to eliminate or at least to minimize civil rights as an issue in the presidential campaign. Roy Wilkins this summer asked Negroes "voluntarily to observe a broad curtailment, if not total moratorium, of all mass marches, mass picketing and mass demonstrations until after Election Day." The party platforms are both bland about the Civil Rights Law, the Republicans promising "full implementation and faithful execution" and the Democrats calling for "full observance" and "fair, effective enforcement." As the newly chosen Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater asked for a White House conference on suppressing the civil rights issue in the campaign. He and the President could only agree that "racial tension should be avoided."
EVEN IF THE CANDIDATES were silent on the civil rights issue, and they are not, the controversy could hardly be eliminated from the campaign. Every American is concerned with the civil rights movement, its justness, its velocity, its ramifications. Negroes, polled as favoring President Johnson by 97 per cent, continue their demands for equality.
POLLSTERS SAY Johnson may lose something like one of every 10 Democratic voters in every 10 Democratic voters in the
anti-Negro protest. The backlash includes first- and second-generation Americans of some ethnic groups who feel the Negro threatens his status, white supremists in the South, northern suburbanites who resent Negro pressure for open-occupancy laws, workers worried about new Negro hiring practices, citizens concerned with violence and crime, the tired-looking man on the Louisiana bus.
President Johnson, who in Congress voted four times against abolishing the poll tax, recently said, "We seek to give every American, of every race and color, and without regard to how he spells his name, his full constitutional rights under our Constitution and under the law of the land." He and his running-mate, Sen. Hubert Humphrey, are now considered champions of civil rights legislation.
SEN. GOLDWATER, who claims personal opposition to prejudice, voted against the Civil Rights Law, saying such laws would "require for their effective execution the creation of a police state."
Dailij Mänsan
Even if Goldwater is sincere in his Hershey, Pa., promise to enforce the Civil Rights Law, he has given the white backlash plenty of reason to rally behind him.
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HE CHOSE A RABID conservative to share the GOP ticket; he admits his and Wallace's support in the South is overlapping; he refuses to discourage the extremists in his train; he welcomes the support of such racists as Sen. Strom Thurmond; he continually advocates states' rights; he ceaselessly dromes his "violence in the streets" attack against the administration.
THE LASH VOTERS — back and front — probably will cancel each other in November. But what will cancel the extremism that has been unleashed in this campaign? What will cancel the mutual mistrust between the Negro and white communities that has been strengthened this summer? What will cancel the hate of the tired-looking man on the bus in Louisiana?
Margaret Hughes
©1964 HERBLOCK
"If You Really Want To Do Something For Me, You Can Take Your Foot Off The Oxygen Tube"
The People Say. . .
Dear Sir:
In response to Bob Jones' editorial, "KU's Poor Jayhawker," we would like to point out a few facts which evidently Mr. Jones did not find time to check before writing his "blast." Mr. Jones is definitely entitled to his own opinions, but we feel that his misleading editorial does not represent the view of the student body as a whole.
THE JAYHAWKER has received good ratings by the Associated College Press in the past few years. In 1962 and 1963, the "Jayhawker" received All-American ratings, the top rating given by the ACP and one given only to about 25 college yearbooks in the nation. The 1961 and 1964 "Jayhawkers" received a first class honor rating, ACP's second rating and one which they describe as "comparable to 'Excellent.'" This was accomplished entirely on student effort, as the "Jayhawker" has no ties with KU's journalism department.
Although Mr. Jones states that KU's "Jayhawker" is "the laughing stock of this area", student acceptance does not support this. Paid circulation of the yearbook comprises about 65 per cent of undergraduate enrollment. This is considered an unusually high percentage in comparison with other schools which do not include a yearbook with fees.
THE PARTY PICTURE section of the "Jayhawker" has been criticized by the ACP every year, yet it remains in the book? Why? Students like it. A majority of the students who buy the "Jayhawker" say that they turn to party pictures first, and that it is the section that they enjoy most. In this case journalistic quality is sacrificed for student acceptance. Since the students are the book's major financial support, their satisfaction should be of major importance. True, the party pictures in the 1964 book were at times in questionable taste; this will be eliminated in the 1965 book.
MR. JONES' CRITICISMS on the literary aspects of the yearbook are somewhat valid. However, since the "Javahawk" writer does not receive credit from the University for his work, the editor must recruit writers from those interested only in improving the yearbook. Therefore, he must do the best he can with the writing he receives. Anyone with professional training in journalism is
more than welcome to make contributions to the book. The only thing we ask is that the writer investigate the facts of a story before submitting it.
For a responsible journalism student it seems highly improbable that Mr. Jones would fail to verify his facts concerning the financial status of the "Jayhawker"—especially those published in the "Annual Report of the Treasurer of Student Organizations" (a public document). Since Mr. Jones has not as yet initiated any personal effort to learn the correct facts, we would like to include a brief summary of basic financial information from the past four years' operations.
Net to Number Jayhawker of
Income Jayhawker Reserve Fund of pages
1961 $43,716.81 $ 10.00 424
1962 $44,611.60 $1,943.64 482
1963 $50,985.27 $ 514.38 502
1964 $51,600.00 $ 800.00 506
(Est.)
IN CONCLUSION, we would like to emphasize that the "Jayhawkener" is a student publication, not just the work of a few. Without student contribution in all areas of the yearbook, it could not be published. We therefore would like to ask all those who are dissatisfied with the "Jayhawkener" to voice their criticisms personally to the staff and work to improve the book. It is our belief that this would improve the book much more than the writing of false and misleading editorials.
group picture.) Correlating these rates with the corrected figures indicates that little or no margin for rate reduction exists. Mr. Jones is only $50,000 off on his calculations regarding gross income, and the profit of $70,000 to $80,000 simply does not exist. The editor and business manager are paid $100 a month as stipulated by the All Student Council, an amount which figures out to less than $1.00 per hour for their duties. Mr. Jones would do well to cheek a few readily available sources of information before making future libelous claims.
rurher research would show that page rates are as follows:
Activities ... $65.00
Advertising ... $90.00
Living groups ... $96.50
(This includes the charge for the
Sincerely,
Larry Bast
Editor
Bob Burkhart
Business Manager
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