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Weather or not the story behind it
By JOHN HILL
"Wednesday's precipitation probability is 10 per cent."
The objective tone of the UDK's daily weather report is taken for granted.
TRUE, THE FACTS are coldly obtained from an impersonal teletype machine. But the weather is written for publication by warm, sensitive human beings, with their own fears, hopes and dreams.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody appreciates how it is written.
Luckily, however, the moods, attitudes, and personalities of the writers do not influence how it appears in the UDK.
If they did, the little box marked "Weather" would read much differently than it does now.
Suppose, for example, that one of these infiltratively subtle campus communists, that everyone knows continually lurk in the shrubbery or someplace, got his little pink hands on the weather report. . .
"THE U.S. WEATHER BUREAU desires colder weather today for the masses. Increasing capitalistic cloudiness is expected with generally mild temperatures Wednesday, but turning colder by afternoon, when additional coal will
be needed, and the people's wind will be coming from the north."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Or, we could find ourselves with a weather report written by an athletic-minded sports writer. . . .
"The United States' 'Weathermen' rolled out another prediction today, expecting the North Winds to clash this afternoon with Cloudy Skies, resulting in temperatures in the low 20's. Precipitation probabilities look good tonight, with a 60 per cent chance of everything being rained out. The high tomorrow should be in the upper 40's, unless there is an upset.
Also, suppose a member of the advertising staff of the UDK was mistakenly asked to write the weather:
"The U.S. Weather Bureau introduced its new prediction on the market today, calling for about 20 per cent probability, precipitation-wise. Research has shown that temperatures could range from 20 to 30 degrees, so we'll just have to run it up the thermometer, and see who salutes."
Or consider its fate if a hardened, cynical pessimist was assigned to write a brief summary of the weather.
"The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts that today's precipitation probabilities are less than 5 per cent. Ha! Probably will rain like hell."
The people say...
To the Editors:
For some time now I've stood idly by and waited you do your dead-level best to appear coldly critical, worldly wise, and bitingly sarcastic—all those things a successful college newspaper's editor should be—in the great tradition of the Lampoon. For the most part, you've failed miserably. The most grievous example of this failure, and the reason for my writing this letter, for this "poorly represented" student to break silence, is the abination in your February 22 issue entitled "God Bless the ASC."
IT SEEMS TO ME—although Mr. Martin evidently doesn't feel I should be able to think for myself—that for the UDK in general, and seemingly Miss Phillips and Mr. Austin in particular, to call the ASC a farce and a circus rumors of the pot calling the kettle black.
The whole piece in question reminds one of the type of political back-biting that Messrs. Prager's
and Martin's get-rich-quick, reform-student-government-over-night scheme was supposed to have cured.
And the editorial's criticism of the ASC for not letting the measure in question be placed on the spring general ballot is tantamount to criticizing the State Legislature or the U.S. Congress for not placing the bills they receive on each ballot. It is certain that if the students disapprove of the Council's action the effects will be felt in their votes.
THAT IS, after all, what representative government is all about, and if our student government is no longer representative in form, perhaps someone (Mr. Martin?) had better tell us, the students.
The editorial goes on to commend Martin and Prager for what seems to be their saintly virtue. Perhaps high office has worked wondrous changes in these gentlemen, but some of us still remember the Spring Election in which
was, by all reports, the dirtiest and most expensive campaign in the history of student politics at KU.
At any rate, Martin has, as yet, failed to answer the big questions that plague me, and evidently a three-to-one majority on the Council, concerning the measure: How can 14 people represent 16,-000 students better than 37? Why should the vote of a student in, say, Fine Arts count three or four times as much as that of a student in the College? What has proved wrong with the present system? Or, better yet, has it been proved that the Council's troubles are intrinsic rather than a lack of effective, responsible leadership?
In conclusion, it seems that Phillips and Austin would do better, in the future, to concentrate on rational issues rather than indulge in bitter, childish outbursts of pique; outbreaks which, most certainly, have no place in campus politics.
While most members of the ASC are in complete agreement with the objectives set forth in the Martin-Prager proposal, I believe that legitimate reasons existed for voting against the proposed amendment. To assert that a vote against the will indicates a desire on the part of ASC members to "perpetuate themselves in office and not to represent their constituents," is. I believe, a childish statement which denies that there are more sides to a question than the one held by the "omniscient" Phillips-Austin editorial team.
Tiredly,
David King
Stockton junior
To the Editor:
AFTER REPEATED APPEALS by Mr. Martin for the ASC to be realistic, and after being "informed" by Mr. Martin that there were only five people on the Council really qualified to vote on important matters I think Mr. Martin was very unrealistic to suggest that under his plan 14 well-qualified representatives would be elected. If there are only five qualified people on the present Council of 37, why should he think that the adoption of the proposed amendment would have insured 14 A-1 representatives?
True, the ASC could stand to be more efficient and this may very well call for restructure of the present system. But in the case at hand, I honestly believe that we have defeated an amendment which carried with it greater ills than those it sought to correct.
On the other hand, I do believe that the establishment of a strong executive committee, comparable to the "Martin 14" WITHIN the present system could have very desirable results
Denni Moore (ASC—Large Men's Rep)
Official Bulletin
Ph.D. Exam, 10 a.m. Robert
Daugherty, Education, 112 Ba.
SATURDAY
Gamma Delta Lutheran Students
Okakanehra Regional Convention,
10th January (00:10) Iowa State
Dramm "Gidson" and discussion at 2
p.m. at Lutheran Church.
Swimming, 3 p.m. Texas Tech.
N w Robinson Gym.
Basketball. 1:15 p.m. Missouri. Allen Field House. (TV 5 & 13.)
Freshman, 10 v. 8.
Freemason, 11 v. 14.
Basketball, 3:30 p.m.
Gloves, Jc. College. Allen Field
Glove.
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m.
"Straight Jacket," Dyche Aud.
International Club, 8 p.m. Pan I
discussion on factors influencing U.S.
policies around world. Kansas Union.
expand experiential, 8-20 p.m.
"What Happened Love War."
Lutheran Students Assoc., 5:30 p.m.
Jack McCall talks on "The Po-
ople of Lawrence." Alcove C.
Kansas Union.
KU Moslem Society, Lecture. 7 p.m.
"Concept of State in Islam. Dr.
Mubin Akhtar. Stat: Hospital S.
Joseph. M. Jayahawk Room, Kansas
Fud a Club Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Dr.
C F Wainaung, RUd "Ind a s a
an American" Cottowood Room,
Union. All are invited.
Daily Kansan Friday, February 24, 1967
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WELL, MRS. DELANEY, YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO STOP
MASHING POTATOES UNTIL THIS RASH CLEARS UP."
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