Campus Chest
Worth the support
Campus Chest is extending its fund-raising drive into next week because of the slow collection of needed funds. Mike Spencer, Overland Park junior and Campus Chest committee chairman, is hoping that organized living group projects will compensate for the poor returns from collection tables in the Kansas Union and Strong Hall.
CAMPUS CHEST is the only authorized charitable fund-raising group on campus—our version of United Appeal. Its position as the ONLY fund-raising group has been open to question for many years. Nevertheless, it does perform a worthwhile function and should be wholeheartedly supported.
University students are, indeed, poverty-
stricken—as any university student will be the first to admit. Yet, they are among the more fortunate of societal groups. They are given opportunities for education and subsequent monetary advancement. They have the freedom to protest actions of their elders and to seek constructive change. They are generally sound of mind and body.
KU STUDENTS are bothered only once a year by the collective charities. Surely it is not too much to ask that they sacrifice a few cokes or beers to indicate gratitude for their more fortunate situation.
Give to Campus Chest this week.
—Jacke Thayer
An excellent program
It's good to see student organizations getting into the intellectual and cultural spirit of Centennial activities. Mortar Board invited eleven outstanding women graduates of KU to the campus last week as part of women's week and the Centennial.
THE TWO major activities were simultaneous discussions Wednesday evening in Hashinger Hall and Miller Hall by the participating women. The topic, "The Mind and the Mop: the Great Compromise," afforded an opportunity for barbed comments and witty advice to campus coeds.
Yet, perhaps the greater value of the program was the induction of these women into various campus living groups for the week. The women included Ruth Miller Winsor, former national president of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, Delta Delta Delta; Blossom Randall, writer, Alpha Chi Omega; Gussie Gaskill, editor of an academic journal, Kappa Alpha Theta.
RUTH GAGLIARDO, author of children's
books, Chi Omega; Hazelle Rollins, business woman and owner of the world's largest marianette factory, Alpha Delta Pi; Virginia Nelson, psychologist, Lewis Hall; Maud Ellsworth, professor emeritus of art education, Sellards Hall.
Jean Stouffer, dean of women at Fort Hays State; Beatrice Jacquart, member of the Kansas House of Representatives, Pi Beta Phi; Helen Huyck, writer for the Kansas City Star, Alpha Omicron Pi; and Martha Peterson, former KU dean of women, now dean at the University of Wisconsin, Corbin Hall.
THE GIRLS in the living groups who hosted these women must have gained tremendously from the experience. Perhaps this will offer encouragement to an old idea that has been knocked around for several years: sponsoring women guests-in-residence throughout the academic year in women's living groups.
We hope Mortar Board will give greater consideration to the possibilitie for such a program in the near future.
Of common interest
Another Centennial opportunity started this weekend. A preliminary convocation of the Ecumenical Institute was held Sunday afternoon in Hoch Auditorium. Sponsored largely by the Kansas School of Religion, the institute features three prominent American theologians presenting their views on the role of the church in contemporary society.
JOSEPH SITTLER is professor of theology at the University of Chicago and will represent an aspect of modern Protestant views. Rabbi
marc Tannenbaum is director of Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, and Father Dan O'Hanlon is professor of theology at Alma College, Los Gatos, Calif.
The discussions led by these three men throughout the week should be exciting and challenging. The changing role of the church as an institution and spiritual force in secular society is a fascinating phenomenon, and of vital interest to all members of that society.
—Jacke Thayer
The people say...
Why the fans didn't flock
To the Editor:
Having been associated with the now terminated KU wrestling team for the past four years, I wish to give my evaluation of why the sport failed at KU.
WHEN I first noticed that KU was going to possibly suspend the sport I was struck by the irony of our prominent athletic director's statement that, "It was a little late for the fans to become concerned about the future of wrestling at Kansas. Where were they last winter during the season?" This is probably true, but still I would not place the emphasis on the fans or the wrestlers for the failure of the sport.
Why did the fans not flock to the matches these last three years? Fans, except for New York Met fans, are notorious for their non-support of losing teams. This would particularly be true of a team that had only accumulated four wins in the last four years.
WHY DID our noble wrestlers not win? True, poor support and possibly poor wrestlers contributed to the dilemma, but how would the football team fare if, (1) they did not have room or facilities to practice in, or (2) they were presented with a senior in physical education as their coach who had only a passing acquaintance with the sport?
The above probably sounds absurd, but the wrestling team, prior to the appointment of Gary Duff as coach, had to practice under the supervision of a senior in the physical education department who admittedly knew nothing about the sport and could thus not properly evaluate a wrestler's performance or conduct a suitable training session. As for wrestling facilities the team was waiting anxiously for the opening of the new Robinson Gymnasium and their promised wrestling room. For the last year the team has
been wrestling in and out of the pillars on the second floor of the field house. This would be like telling the football team to practice among the trees by Potter Lake.
R. P.Davy Graduate
In final analysis, though, I would have to agree with Mr. Stinson. There is no rationality behind "sustaining a wrestling team we can only support half-heartedly" while there are more important financial matters to consider like, for example, the much needed expansion of the stadium so all the students can flock to see our gladiators of the gridiron (2-8).
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"Say, This Escalation Stuff Is Getting Serious!"
Daily Kansan editorial page Monday, May 2, 1966
1965 HERBLACK
THE WASHINGTON POST
Holy Batman!
Pravda blasts, too
Pravda printed an article about Batman Friday and said he was "the representative of the broad mass of American billionaires." The article was called "Super Cretin With A Checkbook."
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Holy Batman!
Holy Communist Party Newpaper'
"BLACK DAYS have come in the life of James Bond . . . A certain Batman has begun to push out Bond."
"AND THEN, quite suddenly he was resurrected . . . Now recently Batman was pulled out of the morgue, dusted off, shaved, cleaned up and perfumed, and again let go to commit exploits on the telescreens and pages of comics."
"There is something Biblical in his biography. He was born, then, according to the laws of nature, he died."
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"Batman kills his enemies beautifully, effectively, with taste, so that shoulder blades crack loudly and scalps break like cantaloupes."
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"Batman, James Bond and other supermen . . . carry out an important mission . . . Those standing behind them wish to stupify the rank and file American from day to day, from morning to night."
Holy Intellectual!
SPLAT!
"They are trying to get them used to the thought that murder is a beautiful thing . . . worthy of a real man . . . the more so since these qualities are valued by those who recruit killers for the Viet Nam jungles."
"BATMAN has a lot of muscles, but few folds in his brain. What can one ask of him, after all. This is an animal, he only talks in mumbles and grunts."
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