Eastern Society Note
to keep you informed SNOOP is beneficial
In keeping with our policy that the public MUST be informed, we here offer you a Kansan exclusive on the newest campus organization: Students Notating Omniscient Observations on Personnel (For Benevolent Interpretation).
The function of this organization—casually known as SNOOP (FBI)—is to keep dossiers on the personal lives of faculty members and administrators.
TO ALLAY any misgivings the campus population may have about this organization, we wish to assure you that it has absolutely no connection with SDS, SPU, YAF, AWS, the Young Republicans or any other left-wing, Communist-front organization.
The president of this newly-founded organization (who wishes to remain anonymous until his diploma is clutched firmly in hand), said the officers have not yet decided what to call these documents. He likes the word "dossiers," the vice-president likes "folders" and the secretary-treasurer prefers "files." Nevertheless, the president said the contents of these dossiers will be used only for purposes beneficial to the faculty and administrators.
"WE FEEL that, with this information, we can detect suicidal tendencies, indications of aberrant sexual behavior and anti-social actions. While we personally can do nothing to help these people, we can alert the proper agencies and authorities," he said.
The president continued, "In a recent informal survey of local faculty and administrators, we found that three out of five have mistresses and/or talk in their sleep. Obviously, they have not adjusted well to the university community."
ANYONE WISHING to contribute information to these files may do so, the president said. Photographs, correspondence, psychiatric reports and old transcripts are being sought.
"We are basing our knowledge on what should be contained in such files upon the previous experience of our subjects," he said.
While no one will be allowed to see the files, any responsible person may ask for an interpretation of their contents, the president said. This interpretation will be available for prospective employers, members of the state Board of Regents, interested representatives of the press, the House Un-American Activities Committee and incoming KU students.
ANY FACULTY MEMBER or administrator who desires may have his file destroyed when he leaves the university community, added the president.
When asked if he expected an angry response to these files from faculty and administrators, the president said he did not.
"After all, these people must understand that files of this nature are indispensable to students who study at a large university. Without such files, faculty and administrators would become no more than obscure bodies collecting blue books, or would be just account numbers in the payroll office.
"MEMBERS OF the AAUP should in no way fear misuse of these files. Arguments that the misuse of one file negates the validity of keeping this kind of information are hogwash. We have only the best interests of these people at heart," he added.
Anyone wishing to know more about these files—or seeking an interpretation of his own file should contact the president's secretary in room 112. Flint Hall.
"My office is always open to rational, concerned administrators." the president said. "We hope to keep all channels of communication open."
—Jacke Thayer
sand bar time
Mr. Farmer not to blame
It's sandbar time again and the senior class is looking for a place to have their annual party.
Wednesday morning at the senior coffee, seniors learned their class officers still want to have a party and contend they WILL have the party, as soon as they find a place. One senior told the assembled seniors the party committee was constantly walking up and down the river trying to
find a farmer who would permit the class party on his land.
THURSDAY I spent the afternoon at the sandbar. As I headed toward the river I was greeted by paper cups, the obvious remains of a party. Cans were strewn across the ground as well as rubbish of all sorts.
I don't know who had the party and what's more, I don't care. I hope it is not someone I
know, for the place was an utter mess!
No, I don't think I'd allow a sandbar party on my property either. Mr. Farmer.
IT'S GREAT to have someplace like the river to go to for a party and to swim, but the abuse of someone else's property is not worth it.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
I am a senior and I, too, would like to see the class get together for a sandbar party. It would be a real blast to culminate the year's activities, but our peers have been unappreciative and the party may never be realized.
"I M SO GLAD FREED FINALLY GOT A DATE — SHE SEEMS SO INTERESTED IN BOYS."
No, Mr. Farmer isn't to blame, but the students of the University are.
By Nancy Scott
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Rep. Melvin R. Laird (R-Wis.), a high ranking spokesman in the House, said Sunday raising taxes would just encourage the Johnson administration to spend more.
'More LBJ has, more he pays'
"If we advocate a tax increase at this time, the lid is off expenditures as far as the federal government is concerned," the congressman said in a broadcast interview.
Laird is chairman of the House GOP conference, a policy making group.
At the same time, the administration was also getting mild criticism from one of its own. Democratic Sen. George A. Smathers, Fla.
In a weekly radio-TV broadcast for Florida, Smathers said "the opposition would not have coalesced" if the proposal were more modest.
masculine femininity
Women do all now
Gone are the days when the female was regarded as a frail, meek creature who blushed at the thought of indulging in any type of activity that denoted masculinity.
HER IMAGE has been replaced by that of a card-playing, Honda-riding, hitch-hiking gal who likes to think she can do anything as well as a man.
And sometimes she can.
WVU cecdis are no exception. They can out-eat, out-dance and out-talk their men-smiling sweetly all the while.
Nothing is sacred to the male anymore. Women bet on the horses, play in powder-puff football games and change a mean flat tire. They have become lifeguards, wrestlers and stock car drivers.
SPRING IS HERE, and with it come skate boards, beats and snazzy sport cars all piloted by women as well as men.
"It's a woman's world," reflected one senior coed. "I believe I can do anything—well, almost anything—as well as any man I know."
Could this be true? Is the American male forced to take a back seat to a woman who not only bears his children, but also teaches them to throw a curve, mow a lawn or clean a fish?
Has the American man lost his identity? Is he unable to see what is happening to him because of the long hair hanging in his eyes?
A coed on this campus enjoys doing most things with her date and if no car is to be had and she lives at Twin Towers and missed the last bus she still has no problem—she joins him in hitch-hiking a ride to her humble abode.
MEN, THERE IS still time to have a woman in your life instead of a competitor. Reawaken her femininity by plying her with perfume and candy instead of offering to drag race with her.
It may be a woman's world—but there are some things a woman still can't do as well as a man.
Like write editorials?
— West Virginia Athenaeum
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