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University Daily Kansas Wednesday, May 26, 1963
One Last Poke
An anonymous member of the administration was overheard the other day saying, "It's been one hell of a semester." The remark was made with great eloquence of feeling, as though it came straight from the heart.
straight from the heart. Yes, it has been one hell of a semester. No one can accuse us any longer of being a placid campus. If I may speculate, those who are placid and horrified at the prospect of disturbing the status quo, are not members of the student body.
quo, are not members of the steer Disturbances such as we have witnessed, and some of us have perpetrated, have a tendency to cause headaches. This semester on campus could be termed "the aspirin age," judging from the furrowed lines that crease Strong Hall's brow.
furrowed lines in the crease WHAT CAN BE DONE TO alleviate administrative headaches? One solution which seems to be favored is to ignore the problems, or at least the uproar resulting from the problems. The other is to gloss them over with a satiny veneer of public relations or various and sundry "come, let us reason together," bulletins.
Another possible solution occurs to us. We are proposing that the senior gift next year be a stand of the highest trees obtainable. This would solve all of our problems immediately, and provide the fringe benefit of some natural beauty, an asset that some say is absent from Mount Oread.
THE HILL IS ALREADY GRACED by beautiful trees, but anyone walking up to the campus notices that there are still some bare spots open to harsh scrutiny. With a densely landscaped campus, one would not be able to see the problems for the forest.
This solution would take relatively little physical or mental effort, and perhaps is one answer which would make everybody happy.
Our best wishes to the administration for a calm, placid summer.
— Karen Lambert
Editor's Farewell
Since commencement exercises began, seniors have listed the things they will miss.
We have made our mistakes,but we hope we have learned from
things they will need. Added to the usual list, the seniors in the J-school will miss the University Daily Kansan. Many have damned it, more considerate ones have criticized it.
them. We hope that our effort has not been without value to the student body. We hope that our incisive editorial statements have excited some thought and, perhaps, some action.
Our editorial judgment was not always correct, but it was our true conviction.
activities of the campus. We have failed at times. Hopefully, we will do better in the future.
We hope that the Kansan has provided some entertainment for our readers and has somehow added to the memories of their college careers. It has added to ours.
We have attempted to mirror the
-Leta Roth
NOW LISTEN, BOBB! YOUVE BOBBED THE LAST THIRTEEN
JOBS I EVEN LIVE YOU CAN, BECAUSE YOU LET 'SPLOSH'
MAKE A BOOBO OF YOU! SO DON'T BE A BOOBO THIS
BOOB, AND BOBBLE IT OR I DLL BOOB YOU TEN BOB!
DON'T BOOBLE, BOB, OR IT'S TEN BOB, BOB, BLOB, UH-
GET OOUT OF HERE AND START KILLING!
—Reprinted from Kansas Engineer
Clarifies View
Dear Sir,
I DO NOT WISH TO ESTABlish a running correspondence with you or the UDK, but I feel compelled to explain myself to you who misinterpreted my protest.
I did not "grossly misinterpret" Mr. Corcoran, nor did you; there are simply many interpretations. When you consider the Marine Corps, you think of John Glenn and how the discipline instilled by the Corps opened the road of history for him. When I consider the Marines, I think of Viet Nam and Santo Domingo, and the Marine who can kill with the stroke of a hand—and I think that there are only twenty astronauts while there are tens of thousands of fighting men. I do not cringe or writhe or even object strenuously to "militaristic overtones," I am subjected to them daily; but I do object to militaristic glorification, and that is what Corcoran and you and the American public are doing unknowingly by expressing excitement and even delight when thinking of the military. Read the Marine manual, or the United States Constitution — the job of the Marine Corps is to fight (hopefully in defense rather than offense), and to fight is to kill. Yet, after two terrible world wars and many "limited" wars, and after millions have died as a direct consequence, the bands still play and the game of childhood is still "war." My imagination is not working overtime, but your reason is not either. The Marine Corps is a necessary evil at present, but why must it be emphasized? Why isn't there a complementary series on life in the Peace Corps? Is not the self-discipline involved in this work more sensible and more needed?
When will we Americans learn that war is not bands and flags, and smiles? When will we truly focus our resources and young men on the programs of peace? Will you answer me that, Mr. Noland? Can you answer me that?
Richard Atkinson,
Belleville freshman
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