Unnoticed victory
Passing almost unnoticed in the wake of KU's 81-80 double overtime loss to Texas Western in the NCAA Midwestern basketball regional, was KU's upset victory in the NCAA indoor track championships, giving track coach Bob Timmons and his squad a national championship in Timmons's first year as head coach.
KU edged favored Southern California, last year's outdoor NCAA co-champions by one point, although the Jayhawks failed to produce a single individual winner.
Coach Timmons replaced the highly successful Bill Easton last year amid a great deal of controversy, but the team's success, and individual success such as that of NCAA cross-country champion John Lawson, as well as the addition of such promising athletes as Gary Ard, California junior college broad jump champion to the squad, have shown that no finer replacement for Bill Easton could be found. KU can look forward to a bright track future in coming seasons.
Justin Beck
the people say...
Why not film-making?
To the editor:
One of the major reasons for my coming to KU was its school of fine arts, recommended to me as one of the finest in the country. The diversity of departments within the school gives the student chances for training in almost every field of artistic expression. All phases of music, painting, commercial and decorative arts are represented by a wide variety of courses. However, in the past year, I have become increasingly concerned about the neglect to include in the school any instruction in a very important field of art: film-making.
A COURSE or two in filming exists in the radio and television department but these are primarily for news coverage and do little in the way of exploring the limitless artistic possibilities of the motion picture.
A recent visitor to the campus, designer Morton Goldsholl, asserted that every university should have a department of film-making to, among other things, acquaint students with the
esthetic side of what is generally thought of as a commercial medium.
ACCORDING to those I have talked to in the design department, all that lacks in organizing film courses is the cash and space necessary for the equipment for practical training. However, if enough fine arts students, as well as the general student body along with a few strategic faculty members would support such a venture, funds and rooms could conceivably be diverted to the project.
This may seem like a strange letter to be appearing on an editorial page, but, outside of mimeographed sheets on bulletin boards, the newspaper is the only way to reach the largest possible number of students. And student support is very much needed to bring to KU all too belatedly, instruction in the most important of modern art forms.
Richard Geary
Richard Geary Wichita sophomore
—Drawing by John Boyer
Why immuration?
To the editor:
The recent discussion over women's closing hours, and the administration's defense of the advisability of the immuration of our coeds after a certain time of night, has frankly left me somewhat bewildered. Aside from the fact that the argument that "the idea of closing hours is not to lock people in but to lock people out" bears a distinct resemblance (indeed, one may say identity) to the rationale one hears from the East German government concerning the erection of the Berlin Wall, I—perhaps being somewhat naive—find it difficult to conceive of hordes of miscreants descending upon unlocked women's dorms in the middle of the night merrily molesting the inhabitants therein. Indeed, the very logistics of the operation seem to my meager intellect well-nigh impossible to accomplish; avoiding the ubiquitous campus constabulary; achieving an effective isolation of one's intended victim(s) in a building housing several hundred; and evading severe corporal damage due to the hatpins, high heels, tear gas cartridges, karate, etc., that have been developed to even out the physical inequality of the "weaker sex."
IT ALSO comes to mind that, to my knowledge, all residence halls do have rooms which may be locked in case one feels insecure about the competence of the policeman established at the entrance.
Finally, I must concede that I begin to doubt the sincerity of an administration which has so great a concern for the safety of its women students in their
abodes, while the primary access roads to the main halls remain quite poorly lit at night. Of course, Memorial Drive and Potter Lake have recently adopted a quite unusual brilliance at night...
James E. Nickum Wichita senior
Inaccurate
To the editor:
In your report on the meeting of the KU Committee to End the War in Viet Nam (Mar. 9) you mentioned a letter we received from "Lord Bertrand Russell." This is incorrect on two counts. The letter was from one of the officials of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. Secondly, Bertrand Russell's title is Earl, not Lord. There is in fact, a Lord Russell who is best known for his books on German and Japanese war crimes.
YOUR REPORT is somewhat misleading on the extent of anti-war feeling in Great Britain. There has been considerable criticism of the United States' presence in Viet Nam.
LASTLY, your reporter falls into the common American error of using "England" as a synonym for "Great Britain." The subject of my talk was "anti-war activity in Great Britain," not England; the city of Aberdeen is in Scotland, not England.
David Forbes
Scotland graduate student
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Wednesday, March 16, 1966
An open letter to Patrolman Stultz
Gentlemen:
Recently, while sitting docilely in a space dearly purchased for ten dollars, my Volkswagen received a specially printed "Welcome to KU," unsolicited and unprovoked. I would like to thank you, gentlemen, and particularly you, Patrolman Stultz, for the welcome and for opening my eyes.
UNTIL I received your note, sirs, I had not realized just how deeply I had sunk into the pit of college decadence. You have revived me, perhaps in time to save myself. I am ashamed to admit it but your sharp-eyed patrolmen caught me at my worst—with my registration and parking sticker TAPED on the window. Oh! Grievous sin!!
Special compliments to you, Patrolman Stultz, for you caught my fault, the import of which I had not fathomed, where at least six of your colleagues had overlooked it at times when I was coming into the parking lot on football days.
BUT. this is not to detract from the force, for never have so few protected so many from so much. You keep us from (shudder) parking 15 minutes in a ten-minute loading zone, from (gasp) taking any sort of a direct route across town during the daylight hours, and from becoming soft and flabby by driving to campus at night when the staff parking places are guarded till everything closes.
Thank you for catching me in time. I may be reformed. But do not falter, gentlemen, there must be at least 10,000 other students who need you like I needed you. My heartfelt thanks.
-A Sinful senior
Did I say that?
To the editor:
The interview with me in the March 7 Kansan was sufficiently overflattering that some additional remarks seemed in order, if only to balance the ledger.
My first reaction on reading the interview was "Did I say that?" My second reaction was that nobody, least of all me, could possibly be so precious or so goody-good. My third, more tempered, reaction was on the difficulty of ever presenting in words any meaningful view of the whole person.
Some further thoughts about myself: Putting my social consciousness into practice actually accounts for a relatively small percentage of my time. I am often very selfish (and I don't mean this in a mea culpa way; I think it's great to be selfish). I have—hopefully—something of a sense of humor, or at least of the comic quality of life. Most of all, there are many times when I just like to be by myself, reading a book, or experiencing nature, or with my own thoughts, such as they be.
Several minor corrections of fact or emphasis: (1) Much more important than anti-Communism, it seems to me, is anti-totalitarianism, whether on the right or the left. I would hope that radicals would wish "A plague on both your houses" to both of the war camps, opposing both the acceptance of violence and the machine-like deindividualization. (2) The thought of having founded the War Resisters League, along with Jessie Wenace Hughan at the time of the first World War, is flattering, but makes me seem even more venerable than I am. (3) Lawrence CORE is two years old; at the present time we are functioning as a committee of the whole, without formal officers.
Finally, on Henry Miller and my reading proclivities: It would be doing a rank injustice to Nabokov, Faulkner, Joyce, Cummings, Woolf and Rex Stout to name a favorite author. And I am not doing any research on Miller. Rather, it seems to me that people should just experience the man, with all his humor, his fantastic openness, and his philosophy of love and hate and creativity and sheer experience of life.
— Richard L. Burke
Professor of human relations
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