Trivia bespeaks a bad weekend
TODAY BEGAN as a bad day preceded by a worse weekend. Inspiration did not spark my nimble fingers when I sat down to my trusty typewriter. I could think of lots of things to write about, but none of them seemed worth two typewritten pages.
WHAT I NEED, I said to myself, is a rationale for writing things in the upper-lefthand corner that require very little research on my part. Yet, these literary gems must be written so as to fake the rest of the campus into thinking that this, too, is a legitimate piece of public service-oriented journalism.
TRIPE LIKE THIS usually has a fancy border around it and is labelled "Ephemera." If it contains humor or Philosophy, I could probably get away with calling it "Starbeams." But the sense of journalistic ethics beaten into me in the past two semesters forces me to be more honest and call it "trivia."
COLUMNS LIKE THIS probably will be appearing from time to time. Unfortunately, I won't be able to take up half the space again explaining why I'm doing it.
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THE STUDENT LABOR Organization will begin circulating a petition this week to present to the Board of Regents, pleading for higher wages. SLO is to be commended on its pragmatic approach to the wage problem. The university administration often cannot take the initiative in requesting state funds for wages—too many other budgets would be cut. But if strong student demands are put on the administration and direct appeal is made to the Regents, this eases the burden for everyone. And it puts the real responsibility for action where it belongs—with the students. Make an effort to support the SLO petition; you may need a part-time job someday.
TO GIVE YOU an idea of how bad my weekend was (or how esthetic I am—take your pick), the highlight was the Hoch film Friday night, "Long Day's Journey into Night." SUA has done a fine job of getting films this year. Coming attractions include Goddard's "Breathless," which will be shown at Hoch Friday. March 23, the Classical Film Series in Dyche will present "Rasho-mon."
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NEWS TO NOTE THIS WEEK: Kansas now holds a dubious national record. Last year, four of the seven persons executed under capital punishment laws in the United States were hanged by the state of Kansas. Perhaps that should be listed as Pathetic Social Comment of the week.
—Jacke Thayer
opinion, fact and fancy
Rules: a time for review?
by Bill Robinson
KU-100 years of growth, progress, academic excellence, cultural advancement . . . and retarded student regulations?
This is our centennial year. We look back on a full century which seems distant and far removed from the present-day campus. We look forward, in the euphemistic terminology of sentiment, to another 100 years which will excel the first 100. Some facts are undeniable—from one building valued at probably only a few thousand dollars, we have, as a university, grown to a multi-million dollar physical plant.
From a church-affiliated group requiring attendance at daily chapel services, we have become a non-denominational, internationally-oriented student culture and society.
But a university society is not unlike any society—the rules which once served the population well are soon outdated and useless. This university can be no exception. Although it is doubtful that we have any truly classic example of outdated regulations as can be found in the ledgers of many city counils, it is equally doubtful that we have changed our regulations as rapidly as society has changed.
What regulations should be changed in an academic institution such as this? Some students would quite probably say all regulations should be changed; others, perhaps those who scarcely realize that regulations exist at all, would say we should let well enough alone—the status quo is plenty adequate. Still others may say that regulations are never changed, rather they evolve with
Quote of the Day: "Always harping does not make an angel." (From Lord Love a Duck.)
the society and are integrated into the society as such.
Perhaps it is time that someone — and student government would be a likely source for such action — support a review and consideration of the regulations of this
university concerning student activity and student life. It is impossible for any person to know precisely what regulations are still in effect or have been rescinded, yet it is not impossible for an inquiring group to dig up the past regulations, as well as the present ones, and consider them in toto!
The time for such an investigation or study is most opportune right now. We have a Council for Progress to guide the next 100 years of the University's life—a group that was created out of the demand for continued excellence. Yet, to date, we have nothing but protestors concerning student regulations. The cry has been answered in other fields—perhaps it is at last time we heard the cry immediately before us. Students are, for the most part, a considerate and thoughtful group; therefore, it stands to reason (at least partially) that there is something that needs to be corrected when so many become so interested in a unified concern.
Tuesday, February 22,1966
This position has been a difficult one for this writer o accept after two or three years of relative complacency, it is a shock to realize that the blindness has been personal, not societal. The possibility is now firmly implanted, however, that perhaps there is something that has been conveniently overlooked. The time has come—probably some time ago—to discover who is right and who is wrong—or if there is a
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right and wrong involved in current student unrest. The time has come for the past 100 years of student regulation to be seen in review, just as the past 100 years of university life are being shown in review.
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The United States number one health enemy is heart disease. Heart and blood vessel diseases killed almost one million people in the U.S.last year.
workable districts and are giving their time to make the collections.
THE RISING rate of deaths is being curbed by research. But it all takes money, money which must be raised by volunteer workers going from house to house to collect during heart fund drives.
Since this week is national heart week, many KU students, working with the Kaw Valley Heart Association, have divided the residential areas of Lawrence into
Student groups organizing the city drive are Alpha Phi, Association of University Residence Halls (AURH), freshman women students, Junior Panhellenic and Sigma Phi Epsilon.
THE ALPHA PHIS will be collecting throughout the week. The freshman women with the help of the Sig Eps have chosen Tuesday and Thursday to canvas. Junior Panhellenic, AURH affiliates and any other living groups or clubs not mentioned in the break-down, will collect Thursday night.
AURH affiliates and other living groups or clubs who wish to sponsor cars and people will rally at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Ellsworth Hall.
After the volunteers have covered their area, they will
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return the envelopes to Ellsworth where a party will be given for the volunteers.
INTERESTED students should contact either John Hill, president of AURH, or Irvana Keegy.
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by mike miller and jim girard
WHILE WE ARE on the subject of politics, we should be sure to lecture on one of the more pertinent political matters, the demographic revolution, commonly referred to as the population explosion. Surely nobody can deny that the world's population is getting out of hand. Newlyweds and other friendly couples are having children at a disgraceful rate. All the popular methods of birth control seem rather tame to your professors for one simple reason: they allow couples to have any number of children as they so desire, but they do not compel people to have fewer offspring than they want.
We have outlined three plans for population control which may seem radical now but will probably become necessary in the next 50 years or so. The first of these methods is merely the idea of planned parenthood carried to its logical conclusion. Under this program, the number of children allowed to any one couple is based on the intelligence of the parents. Since an intelligent couple is likely to have intelligent progeny, smarter people would be granted permission to produce more children than the stupider ones. Before two people get married, an IQ test would be mandatory as a Wasserman is now. Next, we figure the average IQ of both parents. (For those of you who have not yet fulfilled your math requirement, the average is computed by adding both intelligence quotients and dividing the sum by two.) Then we set a scale; average IQ under 75, no children; IQ 75 to 90, one child; 90 to 115, two children; 115 to 150, three children; 150 and upward to 200, unlimited. If a person is any smarter than that, he probably wouldn't get married anyway.
UNFORTUNATELY, this plan has several flaws. For example, a woman might have twins when her quota allows her only one more child. This, then, is our second plan: still employing the IQ scale, people are "put to sleep" (as the humane society says) when they reach a certain age if they have not, God forbid, already met their demise.
If these two plans still do not prove effective, plan number three would have to be implemented. For a thorough understanding of plan three, we must supply you with a little historical background. During the Middle Ages, when the population in Europe was becoming too great for the food supply, along came the bubonic plague to wipe out a bunch of people. Like a miracle, it started in the fourteenth century and didn't quit until it had got rid of one-fourth of all the Europeans.
NOW, WHY can't we just get some other easily-communicable disease with a 90 per cent mortality rate like the plague and let the population get back to a reasonable level? It knocked off forty-three million back then, so it would probably be a fine success now, too. Since the Black Death (as the people then were so fond of calling it) did it, something else can do it now in the time of greatest need. Anybody who is interested in putting germs in the water supply should call the editorial editors at Flint Hall and ask for Pretty Boy Beck. (One gentleman has already sought us out and offered to further our population control plans. He told us his name was Lucifer something-or-other; we forget the last name.)
Today's Chuckle Story: Last week in the Kansas State Collegian there appeared an editorial concerning the movement for the repeal of the ban on campus cigarette sales. It reports, "... At KU, for example, a straw poll taken by the Kansan, student newspaper, showed most students want cigarette sales on campus. A student leader at KU has said the student governing body has not replied because the administration there is against campus sales."