Ban to stay
The ASC this week voted down a resolution asking the Board of Regents to lift the ban on campus cigarette sales. The Regents' stand is firm, and it is doubtful that the resolution would have had much effect on their actions.
Dr. C. Arden Miller, dean of the KU Medical Center, explained the ban to the ASC. He said the University cannot act as an agency to perpetuate the sale of as obvious a health hazard as cigarettes. Through the ban, students are constantly reminded of the hazards involved in smoking.
ALTHOUGH WE AGREE with the reasons behind the ban as explained by Dr. Miller, we are still forced to question the necessity and effects of it.
The ban has not been effective as a reminder of or deterrent to student smoking. Rather, it has merely forced an inconvenience on smokers and a financial loss on the Kansas Union.
Persons now have to buy their cigarettes off campus; but they still buy their cigarettes.
THEY ARE REMINDED of the health hazards involved by a warning printed on each package of cigarettes they buy; but they still buy their cigarettes.
They have read the papers, heard the medical reports, and know the Regents' feelings on the matter; but they still buy their cigarettes.
If one principal aim of the Regents' ruling is to discourage student smoking, perhaps the problem could be approached from an informational angle.
FILMS WHICH BLUNTLY show the physiological effects of smoking, lecturers who describe the unquestionable dangers inherent in smoking, and literature thoroughly explaining the subject would affect the smoker's mind much more than a misunderstood ban from the anonymous Regents.
Some representatives at Wednesday night's meeting were noticeably impressed by Dr. Miller's talk and a talk by a doctor from the medical center. One woman—a smoker who had opposed the ban—changed her vote after hearing the speeches.
Such a personal and hard-hitting presentation of smoking consequences as was afforded ASC members leaves an impression. It forces reconsideration of the smoking habit; whether the ban does is questionable.
We do not favor the ban. But if we are stuck with it—and apparently we are—then it should be supplemented with a more constructive and hopefully effective program aimed at smokers and smokers-to-be.
By Eric Morgenthaler
MSU mixes football with spying
Recently, Michigan State University was considered a very average school. Like most midwestern universities, it was noted mainly for its very professional football team and its beautiful campus.
Now we must salute.
MSU, in a truly glorious leap to the forefront of academia, has graduated from the battles of the gridron to the battles of Viet Nam. But we sympathize a bit with Duffy Daugherty, who must feel a little nervous now that he knows there's an ammunition factory right underneath his plaving field.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
BCOM!
It won't help his recruiting much.
We can't quite understand why Ramparts Magazine made such a fuss about the fact that a few Central Intelligence Agency operators were included in the school's aid mission to Viet Nam.
After all, so what if every one of the thousands of American educators all over the world can
now be legitimately suspected by their host governments of being CIA spies?
THINK OF the vistas MSU's pioneering moves creates in American education. Reputations once considered safe through years of beer blasts and winning football teams will crumble as arms-manufacturing and espionage become the new marks of prestige.
Duffy Daugherty will probably be fired by MSU, to be replaced by either John McCone or J. Edgar Hoover.
Public relations men at the University of Chicago, who have been downcast since that school got out of the Big 10, will suddenly perk up when they remember it was their school which developed the atom bomb.
Both the Ivy League and the Big 10 will become obsolete when MSU, Annapolis, Air Force Academy, West Point, and the Quantico Marines form a new conference, to be called Little NATO.
BUT MSU President John Hannah will be extremely indignant when he discovers one of his office secretaries is actually a scholarship student majoring in Espionage at the University of Michigan.
She didn't mean any harm, she'll explain. Her spy work was for a term project.
This is getting a little ridiculous, you say?
Sure.
But until recently we would have considered it equally ridiculous that even MSU could commit the rape of academic integrity which they have in Viet Nam.
-Wayne State Collegian
The people say... New library quote is inaccurate
On Friday I found that my reactions to the Spencer Library were reported in the Kansan. No reporter ever contacted me, and no one has ever asked my opinion of the library. The statements printed were certainly mine, but they were made about the Palace of Charles V by Pedro Machuca, a 16th century building on the grounds of the Alhambra in Granada. Furthermore, they must have come from a lecture I gave the preceding Tuesday to a Spanish class when I did, indeed, compare the Renaissance architecture of the Palace to the neo-Renaissance of the Spencer Library.
The provision of this additional research facility is an important gift to the University, and I am certain that all of us feel a deep sense of gratitude to Mrs. Spencer.
To the Editor:
Marilyn Stokstad Director, Museum of Art
2 Daily Kansan editorial page Thursday, May 19, 1966
"WOULD YOU FELLOWS LIKE TO KEEP TH TEAM ELIGIBLE THIS SEASON BY ENROL-
ING WITH US IN HUMANITIES SECTION II? PROF GILMORE GRADES ONTH' CURVE."
New paperbacks include original special volumes
Paperback publishers usually go back and find that which seemed profitable enough in the past to warrant publication in a cheaper form. More and more, however, the careful reader with scholarly interests will find that publishers are providing original volumes of special value.
Such a book is Kay S. House's Reality and Myth in American Literature (95 cents), part of a new line coming from Fawcett Premier and called "Literature and Ideas." This work is a collection of significant writings on literature from the earliest times to the present.
THE AUTHOR'S commentators include William Bradford, Thomas Morton, Cotton Mather, de Crevecoeur, Cooper, Bryant, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Franklin, Noah Webster, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Henry James, Howells, Garland, Mark Twain, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Hemingway, Lionel Trilling and Wright Morris. A few lesser-known names also are in the book. The meaning of America has especially enthralled scholars in the past generation, especially those under the American studies influence. This is the theme of the book.
Of similar significance is a work in a quite different field, though it too is concerned with American meanings. It is a slight volume by Andrew C. McLaughlin, one of the nation's greatest constitutional scholars, called Foundations of American Constitutionalism (Premier, 60 cents).
McLaughlin's focus is the early period of American history—the settlers of Massachusetts, the Pilgrims and the Mayflower Covenant, early institutions in the colonies, the significance of Social Contract theories, particularly that of Locke, and the Revolution and the Constitutional Convention. The work, which appeared in 1932, is still of considerable relevance.
AMONG THE BEST of newspaper columnists today is Art Buchwald. University students who follow his delightful and pointed commentaries will be glad to hear about And Then I Told the President (Crest, 60 cents) appearing in paperback.
It's a collection of Buchwald's columns, dealing with the GREAT ISSUES of our day. Buchwald, fortunately, is a man who knows that great issues of our day usually become minor issues in the history books, and he knows how to laugh at people. He is the man who, to show his opinion of the draft card burners, publicly burned his press card last fall.
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