Love or 'Like'?
In today's society the word love has come to mean a new way of life. It has transcended the boundaries of home and family and special friends. One is told to love everyone and everything—no matter what, no matter who.
Something you learned in Sunday school? Yes, but the modern code of love brought on by the psychedelic-minded Hippies leaves no room for variances of any kind. For example, there should be no distinction in love for parents from love for a Vietnamese soldier or even from a flower along the roadside. Utopia is but to love a leaf.
"LIKE" PLAYS TWO roles in our world today. The first is one of introduction. It is a feeling of this nature that focuses your attention on one individual or several. Think back to your childhood when the kid down the street had a particularly fancy doll or catcher's mitt. You wanted to play with it because you "liked" it. You visited their house because you "liked" to and have been doing so ever since. You were introduced through "like" to the love of a best friend.
In a world where hate has so long been the ruler, love should indeed, come into its own, but let it mean something. Let's not strangle "like" in the process.
The same is true for a boy or girl friend. It is not love but "like" that holds the relationship together through those first few dates. It may be love thereafter but it was "like" that made you first notice those big green eyes, that strong appearance.
BUT THEN, THERE is also "like" as the goal.
From the time one is born there is that innate feeling of love in us towards our parents. It takes seed from the first time you were hugged and nourishes on things such as praise, understanding, and, yes, even punishments.
Put, it is an instinctive love that must grow to more if it's to have any direct meaning. We must therefore learn to "like" our parents, something not instilled within us; a feeling only to be cultivated through desire and as much an achievement in life as the given love of one individual. It, too, is utopia.
Love is wonderful, but far too generalized. "Like" is sincere and strictly individual. Love is life but "like" makes us enjoy living.
— Jan Burkhalter
Time Grows Shorter
All of us came to KU with a purpose this summer. For many it was to learn.
But have you thought of the goal you are reaching for here? There is one that each of us has, but has it been attained?
We all owe our parents and teachers something for sending us here. They allowed us to attend with the hopes we would learn and achieve. Not all have lived up to these hopes.
Skipping classes once won't keep you from your goal, but continued missing of class and refusal to do work will. In life there is always a goal which everyone seeks, whether it be material or spiritual. It is up to the individual to keep his sights on his goal. It will not be attained by putting things off until tomorrow. Tomorrow may never come.
If the confidence and trust others have in us is not justified, then there is no one who can help. No one can work for the individual, it is up to him.
Perhaps it does not matter to you whether or not you accomplish anything, but in the few days remaining there is still time for those concerned. This last small effort can be part of a step forward to your goal.
— Maria Ochoa
Grin and Smear It
The food at Oliver Hall is supposedly the best in camp. The flies in the scalloped potatoes must have been chef's specials.
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Despite the obvious, army hats at camp cannot be signs of militant patriotism. One boy wore an army hat and a sweatshirt saying "Get Out of Viet Nam."
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It's easy to see how Jim Ryun holds several world's records. To get to class in the time allowed, you have to be a distance runner.
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Americans have a new battle cry. They used to yell "Give Me Liberty!" Now, they simply say "Give Me."—Builders Exchange Bulletin
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It's easy to decide which people are cultured. At camp concerts, they're the ones remaining after the first two numbers.
"Musical Chairs" and the camp bank are similar. In "Musical Chairs," you hunt for a chair. At camp, you hunt for the bank.
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The camp "Hippies'" political machine bears a great similarity to the story of the Pied Piper. Someone blows his horn and all the rats follow.
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The narcotics fad is growing. First the Rolling Stones, then the Beatles, and now Dame Margot and Rudolf Nureyev, the ballet partners, seem to be involved. The way things are going, psychedelic drugs will soon hold a place on the New York Stock Exchange.
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At the end of the Fourth of July fireworks at Memorial Stadium, a rocket was sent "a mile high with a burst diameter of one mile."—Would you believe a half mile?
—Don Hollinger
—making it through the bank line in less than one hour.
Happiness Is...
—receiving above a 3 on room inspection.
—getting a hot meal at 12:30.
-waiting in the lunch line for half an hour without having a counselor get in front of you.
—firding an unoccupied shower.
—receiving at least one letter a week.
—an even ratio of boys to girls.
—remembering all the camp regulations.
—finding a seat in Oliver Dining Hall when there's a movie showing.
—not having an accent.
—being elected to Camp Council. —Bea Barth
Time Excess: Problem for Music Group
After four weeks of camp most instructors are wrestling with the problem of class truancy. They have become so engrossed in luring students to classes that they fail to notice that some campers do not have enough classes to attend.
Most students have courses scheduled from five to six hours a day. But many among the 750 music campers have less than three classes daily. True, they must allot time for practicing, but they still have up to four spare hours each day when others are attending classes.
2 Kamper Kansan editorial page Friday, July 14, 1967
THOUGH THE MUSIC campers enjoy their hours of freedom, this situation is certainly not ideal. Parents did not finance cross country journeys and room and board to provide their children with vast amounts of spare time. Nor are many campers satisfied with their schedules.
Presently, possibilities do exist for schedule expansion. Students may sign up for theory or conducting classes, or for private lessons at $5 an hour.
Some campers have filled in their schedules with classes in another camp division. A small charge is involved, and the courses must be adapted to the individual's schedule. However, this opportunity was not publicized at registration, and many campers now regret that they were not aware of it.
IN PLANNING for future years, numerous possibilities arise to solve the scheduling problem. The camp should organize a system of minors in which students could take courses in another camp division at no additional cost. The music curriculum could expand to include more technical practice and ensemble courses. Also, the recreational program could be augmented to include instruction in tennis and swimming.
The success and value of the camp must be acknowledged. But success and perfection are not the same, and mistaking them can only block progress.
Bonnie Solow
UNDERSTANDING COPS
KINGSTON, England—(UPI)—Brian Minton, 28, was ticketed seven times in one day for various traffic violations, but after hearing his story police took up a collection to pay his fine.
Minton said he took a drive to cool off after having had a row with his wife.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"DON'T WORRY ABOUT BURNING THE "STUDENT SPECIAL" —
JUST GET ME A GALLON OF CATSUP."
So Long, Chums
In the few days of the two weeks remaining in the 1967 Midwestern Music and Art Camp, thoughts will cross many minds like: "How will I say good-bye to all the people and things I have come to know and like so well here this summer?"
It is true that in the past four weeks all of us have come in contact with people from all parts of the country and with different backgrounds. Casual acquaintances and some lasting friendships have been made, each leaving their impressions on us.
Each person came here expecting to acquire something, some bits of knowledge, some experiences that would improve him as a person and make him more able in the school year ahead.
FROM THE START there had to be much give-and-take in everything. Everyone had arrived in a new and strange environment not knowing, at first, what to do or think except "if I make a friend this place won't seem half so lonely."
Then classes started. The most obvious example of the give-and-take process is that of the Music Division. Hundreds of musicians from all over the country have come together to create a sound, a unit. Things such as this have been experienced by students in all divisions. For a time sounds will be made and heard, then all will go their separate ways.
FOR MANY THE closing days of camp will be filled with mixed emotions. Most are happy at the thought of returning home to their families and friends. But then we turn around and look at all that will be left behind—our boy friends, girl friends, professors. All of them, people that we will probably never see again. Yet, each has served his purpose. Each has made us just a little bigger and better individual for having known him. And even though the memory of the face or the name will fade, the experience will remain.
In the final two weeks of camp, campers might well look around them to see how they might best benefit from any opportunities that could still afford them some valuable experiences. Marco Renfow
— Marge Renfrow
Don't Jump The Gun
In several of the dorms the students have taken the campaigning for Camp King and Queen to heart, but a bit premature.
LeRoy Esau, assistant camp director, said that at this time no official campaigning is to be done and that decisions as to the time date and regulations of campaigning will be decided at the next Camp Council meeting.
It is good to see the students eager to participate in camp functions, but restraint should be shown until all are given equal opportunity. — Bob Green
kamper kansan
The Kumper Kansan is published on four Fridays of the six weeks session of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. Written and edited by students enrolled in the Journalism Division of the camp, the Kumper Kansan expresses news and views of the whole camp. Editorial opinion is an expression of the writer's
Co-Managing Editors Mark Cerkovnik, Marge Renfrow
News Editor, p. 1 Jill Brandt
News Editor, p. 2 Maria Ochoa
News Editor, p. 3 A Lelia Bundles
News Editor, p. 4 Matt Kubik
Feature Editor Cheryl Bowman
Photography Editor Deann Favre
Copy Editors, Reporters Students of the Journalism Division