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The centennial Jayhawker is chock-full of tradition. Thus far it has devoted 15 pages to KU's illustrious past and has effectively perpetuated the historical image of the Jayhawker (i.e., that of a sub-intellectual publication depicting the effervescent side of fraternity life).
Yes, the time has come for the yearly—and long overdue—editorial panning the Jayhawker
MAY WE POINT to a few, representative defects in this year's as yet uncompleted issue:
For years, what has seemed like bad photography has been passed off as an artsy-craftsy effect. But any high school dropout could crop pictures better than the Jayhawker staff. And as for those "portraits" of Wescoe—they look like the author's slipcover picture from "I Was a Teenage Aene Victim." They do not lend dignity to the chancellor's personage.
THE JAYHAWKER Citations took a few cracks at the Kansan for printing a certain filler three times. At least we didn't run three pictures of Goulet for filler (and the third one was a blow-up of the picture in the second edition). The Kansan also received their Attila the Hun Memorial Award for Tact and Propriety after publication of the picture of the pom-pon girl. Well, friends, check out the obscenity on pages 192 and 214—and don't forget to read the cutlines.
In the Glaring Goof department, the Jayhawker registers for omitting the picture of one Mortar Board member, and for awarding first-place Rock Chalk Revue honors to Lambda Chi Alpha instead of Alpha Kappa Lambda. The Air Force ROTC also was forgotten in the deadline rush.
WITH THEIR usual perspicacity, the representative Jayhawker staff has selected representative Hilltoppers: thus far, 14 Greeks and four independents.
However, it should be noted that the third edition was published under duress. The copy was stolen the day before the deadline and the staff y as hard-pressed to fill those pages.
Evidently, they also are hard-pressed to publish the fourth and final edition. A sign in Strong Hall rotunda informs seniors that if they wish to get their copies of the final edition (which will not come out until this summer), they must take name, address, student number and 75 cents in hand to the Jayhawker office. Copies will be sent out this summer.
DISREGARDING the unjustifiable six dollars originally required to obtain this quarterly delight, we would like to raise some points concerning the unusual procedure for the last edition.
- That the fourth edition is late is solely the fault of the Jayhawker staff. Those who bought the yearbook should not be penalized for staff inefficiency. Perhaps mailing expenses could be handled out of the yearly bonuses traditionally given the editor and business manager for their superlative efforts (in addition to their salaries of well over $1,000 each).
- If the copiese must be mailed, why must the senior take the initiative to go to the Jayhawker office(which, incidentally, is often closed or unsuffied)? Surely the Jayhawker staff could make it a little easier by setting up places on campus to leave names and addresses?
- Given the unlikely situation that the Jay-hawker may be short of funds and may actually need money to mail copies out, the 75-cent figure still is questionable. The average edition weighs about 16 ounces. Slipping in a few pages leeway, that would mean that book-rate postage would cost 15 cents. Allow another 15 cents for the mailing envelope, five cents for secretarial help to type the labels—and even throw in 15 cents for general mental strain. That makes a grand—and generous—total of 50 cents.
Now we would hate to intimate that the editor or business manager might be padding their bonuses, but...
AT ANY RATE, the Jayhawker staff is up to its usual inexcusable tricks. And it's about time for ASC—or a thundering herd of fed-up students—to improve the situation.
Jacke Thayer
opinion, fact and fancy
Need more communication
By Bill Robinson
Unlike an army, a residence hall does not travel strictly on its stomach. Therefore, not even an occasionally unsatisfactory meal or discouraging atmosphere can be given full blame for the apparent lack of spirit found in our university halls. What else is there? Most every other attempted answer to the residence hall question involves motivation, a subject which was briefly mentioned last week, but deserves further consideration this week.
(Second of a three-part series)
MOTIVATION, complex factor though it may be, should not necessarily be the faltering point of a residence hall. It does seem, however, that if motivation can be controlled—either deliberately or accidentally—a good many changes will be brought about that will eliminate the predominant apathetic spirit of a resident in one of the large halls. To encourage personal motivation among the individual residents of the halls, communications are kept at what is hopefully a positive level for all concerned. The systems of resident directors, assistant resident directors, senior assistants, counselors, individual hall governments, the AURH, the IRA, the MRA (now defunct)—all these and more, attempt to make the communications among the residents and among the halls as consistently high as possible.
THE COMMUNICATION, good as it is, somehow is still inadequate, for there are always those who do not listen to the first mention of a new program or idea, don't hear it the second time, and then wonder why they weren't told of the idea sooner the third time it is announced. For those people, and they are by no means unique to a residence hall system, there
There is, however, some reason to expect that even should communications be developed to the absolute maximum, that hypothetical stage when no more improvements can be made, that even then there will be several who ignore or do not hear what is said to and shared with them. For these people, and they certainly exist now even though optimum communications might not, residence hall living can become catastrophic.
If some semblance of order and an atmosphere conducive to study are to be maintained, there can be no allowance for major deviation within the residence hall society. Consequently, for many, the residence hall is seen as a prisonlike structure, oppressive in nature and inadequate in function. Happily, this is an opinion held by only a very small percentage.
can be only slight chance of improving the system, yet some of the non-listeners are the people who are actually quite talented and represent a good deal of potential contribution to the campus and the university life. Therefore, communications must be handled not just on a primary-depth approach, but with special consideration given to providing a secondary-depth approach which will reach the people who are deef to the first announcement.
These are the very few who become the deviates within the generally internal society of a residence hall. The deviate is always in the limelight in a residence hall situation, for he represents a very real threat to the structure and function of the residence hall society.
For those who do not see the residence hall as a fortress of oppression, there is ample reason to enjoy the advantages and facilities of residence hall living, and to accept it as a major part of a college education, a part to be sought out just as much as any other.
(Next week, the happy side of life— residence hall-style)
The people say...
North isn't bucking class officer board
To the Editors:
Your Monday UDK article "Future sophs plan student congress" requires that I clarify several points that may not have been immediately understood by your readers.
I was quoted as saying that the congress is "bucking" opposition from the Board of Class Officers who regarded the congress as "idealistic." Rather than delving into the accuracy or inaccuracy of that quote, allow me to provide some background information that should facilitate a better understanding of this issue.
INITIALLY, the Board is primarily designed to coordinate the efforts of the individual classes when and wherever possible, and to establish intelligent guidelines by which the class officers can orientate their policies. As such, the Board has neither the desire nor the power to prevent the formation of a Sophomore Congress if this is what the class wants.
Secondly, the Board is mainly composed of incumbent class officers. Those who are familiar with the campaigns waged by the various coalitions for class office know that the idea of representative government for the classes was supported by almost all of the contenders. Hence, to suggest that the officers of the other classes, who are presently considering representation for their own classes, are opposed to this idea could prove misleading.
THE WEDNESDAY, April 20th meeting of the Board did express the opinion that a class congress would be difficult to organize since "the most enthusiastic members of the class are not always the participants." However, that meeting was largely composed of outgoing class officers who, admittedly, based this conclusion on their own experiences, their own successes and failures. The value of such a sentiment is therefore, to my way of thinking, extremely relative. As your article suggested, a conflict of opinion did exist between certain members of the Board and myself, and the adjective "idealistic" was used to describe the Congress and the rationale behind it. Since personal approaches apparently play a definite part in this issue, I would rather go on record as a realist with aspirations, the Congress being a result of the latter. The cold, cruel fact remains, however, that class officers are supposedly elected because of their ideas. Consequently, I feel safe in presupposing that the Board was using this term in a complimentary sense.
In short, the Congress isn't bucking anyone. In fact, I would sincerely question whether or not a case could be built against it other than the terrible thought that it just might work.
-Ken North
President.
Sophomore Class of '66-'67
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