Tonight on the ASC: political lung cancer
The All Student Council, may it someday rest in peace, will hold a special meeting tonight. You should all go.
YOU SHOULD GO because the student legislators will discuss a resolution to support a bill now pigeonholed in the Kansas House that orders cigarettes to be sold on the KU campus.
Without a doubt, the supporters of this ASC resolution will cry that the cigarette prohibition by the Board of Regents is stupid because KU students haven't stopped smoking since the ban. There will be vague hints that the Regents are legislating our morals. Possibly, a junior-grade lobbyist for the Kansas Union will remind us that our Union has lost money since the fag ban went into effect.
You should all go to this meeting, if for no other reason than to thank God that the Board of Regents and not the present ASC is running this University.
ALREADY, THE ASC has, in the space of two semesters, twice voted on a similar resolution and twice defeated it.
To pick up a dead horse such as this and kick it, smacks not only of stupidity, but foul political ambition.
When the previous Councils discussed the cigarette ban, intelligent advisors explained that the Regents were not legislating student morals,
but rather removing the University as an agent for a commodity that, admittedly, is a detriment to health.
However, that is all history.
THE REPRESENTATIVES in the Kansas House who introduced the command to sell cigarettes will find that they have made a most gievous error—allowing the political Legislature to exercise direct control over the nonpolitical university—and will be properly reprimanded.
But our ASC, whose members new flounder for their political lives, will ignore the Regents' logic and the constitutional iniquities of the cigarette bill.
Unless wiser and more concerned student leaders prevail, the rank-and-file ASC members will rally "for the student good" and, since they are our representatives, ridicule all of us before the state.
Definitely, you should all go to this "emergency" meeting of the ASC. With a little bit of luck, you will see intelligent deliberation replaced by an attempt to find an issue popular to student voters.
ONE WARNING. HOWEVER. Democracy gone awry is not enjoyable to contemplate, much less watch. —Dan Austin
The people say...
To the Editors:
Your editorial "The Big Bite" states incorrectly that the editor of the 1366-67 Jayhawker "could get a $1,000 bonus."
The All student Council bill sets the salary of the editor and business manager of The Jayhawker at $1,000 each—$100 a month for 10 months. If the Advisory Board recommends, the All Student Council may pay from Jayhawk-er funds a bonus up to $250 each.
The maximum compensation is $1,250, not salary plus $1,000.
Within a month the Advisory Board will seek applications for the editorship and business managership of the 1967-68 Jayhawk-er. Any student in the University can apply. Some members of the Board have been disappointed
that journalism students, who by training and career interests might be expected to be interested in the challenges of these positions, do not apply.
Several students who have done work on the University Daily Kansan this year are only juniors. Perhaps some of them will become interested this spring in The Jayhawker of next year.
Sincerely,
Tom Yes, Secretary
Jayhawk Advisory Board
To the Editors:
I wonder how many instructors find themselves in my situation every semester: in the second week of classes the Bookstore
does not have three of the four books my Department ordered for a graduate seminar 14 November. Two weeks before registration I was notified that one book is out of print. Last week I was told that a "routine check" was being made with the publishers. Today (14 February) I learned that mistakes had been made in the transactions with the publishers and that the books would be here in a week to ten days.
Everybody makes mistakes, but no responsible management waits until the zero hour to start routine checks. Since the Bookstore is so powerful that it cannot be held accountable to chairmen and deans like the rest of us, I intend to avoid such problems with seminar books in the future by taking my business elsewhere.
Yours sincerelv.
Beverly M. Boyd.
Assistant Professor of English
Door Prize
Official Bulletin
Latin American Education, 4.30
pm. Prof. Burt English "Nicaan agua"
Elections in the Cort music of Foam-
blowers at Holbrook, Jayhawk房,
Uplin. Coffee served.
Inda a Club Lecture; Dr. C. F. Wennaug, KU. "India as seen by an American." Cottonwood Room, Kansas Union, Sun., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.
English Dept. Address, 3:30 p.m.
Prior, Robert Hinnan, U of Rochester;
"The Enchanted Circle." 104 Carruth-
O'Leary. All are welcome.
TODAY
Indoor Track, 7.30 p.m. Oklahoma State, Allen Field House.
State, Allen F. Id House
Sophomore Congress Meeting, 7:30
p.m. Forum Room, Union
Experimental Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
College Life, 9 p.m. Alpha Gamma Delta, Collage: Studs nuts speak.
TOMORROW
Moelem Society Friday Prayers. 1
n.m. Kavess Union
Experimental Tribute 8:20 p.m.
On What A Lovely War!
In Commun.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
7 Discussion on Personal Bible Study
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m.
"Straight Jacket," Dyche Aud.
"Straight Jacket" 7.30 p.m. The Ter-
Film Series. DYC n.m.
race   Postgolfmen, ulen.
Gymnastics    7.30 p.m. Colorado
N Basketball
N w Robinson Gym.
French Poetry Reading, 8 p.m. M.
Film Series, 7.30 p.m. "The Ter-
French Poetry Reading. 8 o.m.M.
P'- M'- Viola Forum Room, Union.
Experimental Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
"On What A Lovely War."
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Daily Kansas editorial page Thursday, February 23, 1967
UDK review- Tolkien revisited
By SCOTT NUNLEY
The Road goes even on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can.
"The Lord of the Rings"
J. R. R. Tolkien's first novel of Middle Earth, "The Hobbit," appeared in 1937, intended apparently for a youthful audience. By the time his second novel, "The Lord of the Rings" (1955), had appeared in three volumes, both Tolkien and his audience had aged.
"The Lord of the Rings" is Tolkien's masterpiece, a thousand pages of enchantment and adventure. Time has passed in Middle Earth, the hobbit-hero Bilbo Baggins has grown old and passed the burden to his favorite cousin, Frodo. The evil that men and elves had once defeated is now ready to move upon them again.
A MAGIC RING is the key to the struggle. Forged for the evil Enemy before his menace was revealed, 20 rings are abroad in the world: 19 to wield power, and one to rule over them. This One Ring must be destroyed—and it is Frodo's fate to attempt it.
The mood of "The Lord of the Rings" is romantic, often ebullient, but underlaid with sadness. Before mankind entered the world, a Golden Age prevailed. That age will never return. Each onslaught of evil taints the world further and saps the strength of the elder races: ents, elves, and dwarves.
Yet Tolkien's novels are not pessimistic. It is possible to achieve moments of victory, of honor and glory, and to slow the decay. "The Lord of the Rings" concludes at the opening of a long era of benevolent order. This victory may be temporary—Middle Earth survives today only in dim legends—but it is glorious.
The race of High Elves had offered the world an example almost angelic in nature. Their mixture with men had begun a race of world kings. Elvish leaders had preserved the lore and glory of the past, but now must abondon a tainted world.
TOLKIEN'S WORLD is scarcely less complex than today's: it is certainly as difficult to determine evil and to conclude an honorable peace. The age of man is beginning with all its weakness and confusion: those few who retain the old virtues now stand out in contrast.
Tolkien's novels are in the tradition of Germanic heroism. French romance, and English fantasy. He is the heir of "Beowulf." "Le Morte D'Arthur," "Alice in Wonderland." With the touch of the expert, Tolkien creates languages and cultures subtly reminiscent of historical ones. Even a wall-map of Frodo's travels can be purchased. Middle Earth seems to escape the fingers of its maker and become alive itself.
"The LORD OF THE RINGS" creates the world from which today's world is derived. It was an era of marvel and excitement, of song and game and love, of enchantment and beauty. But it was also a time of overwhelming evil and the constant threat of defeat. If Tolkien is able to complete "The Silmaril" and other writings he has begun, Middle Earth will develop new complexities.
"The Hobbit, "The Lord of the Rings," and "The Tolkien Reader" are a rare gift to literature from a man of uncommon talent and vision. Here are all the elements of the classic, the timeless values of lesson and delight. Readers of the Sixties who pass up Tolkien while he is still creating his world are narrowing their own.
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