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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, June 18, 1968
Open discussion
"If this is your brand of Christianity and your free America, take that rebel-Jew Jesus out of the book and shove him off the cliff."
"All God's children may have shoes but while my brother and I stood there singing that hymn to Him, we were both barefooted."
So stated two of a panel of four black Nationalists invited to address a public affairs conference held recently on a midwestern college campus. Participants from over 40 Christian colleges were invited.
Shocking? Perhaps. But is this the answer—this free interchange of ideas and sardonic verbal barrage? Or is it better to find these issues being debated in less intellectual and less aesthetic environments with bullets, stones, clubs, and knives? Is there a choice?
Many irrate parents of college students are
openly contending that such panels are a direct violation of rights on the part of such colleges to inflict such views on students. They say these are alien to what the colleges spell out in their promotional material to prospective students.
As rebuttal these same parents contend it is not a matter of such remarks being impalatable for the digestive tracts of students but rather an infringement upon a young adult's sensitive imagination where the power of suggestion can too easily influence a fluctuating mind.
Then what is the answer? Have the colleges the right as educators to use such grass root movements which left some one thousand future citizens with an indelible impact?
Is there another answer?
-Jackie Raymond
Publications Advisers Institute
b. s. the editor
This week b.s. (the editor) stumbled across a copy of the KU Student Handbook. Maybe someone is hinting he should be brought up to date on the rules of the University, but not withstanding, there are also many interesting(?) facts included in the handbook about dear Ole KU.
The original choice of site for the Great University of Kansas was the little suburb of Ogden, commonly referred to as Manhattan. But Governor Robinson, in 1865, vetoed the idea. Just think one veto kept us from becoming farmers and made us snobs.
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The famous Rock Chalk Chant originally Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU. But, A. R. Marsh, an English professor, suggested the yell be changed to the present words to produce sharper, better, zippier enunciation. Now the State Geological Survey wants to make chalk the state rock, after all Alaska's is gold. Just think of all the ado because one professor wanted better, zippier diction.
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KU's colors are the result of a feud between the Crimson of Harvard and the Blue of Yale. Our first colors were maize and sky blue, copied from the University of Michigan. But after Col John J. McCook, a Harvard man, gave money
for KU's football field, students and faculty talked of making KU's color blushing red. Naturally, Yaleites on the faculty protested so much that the blue was added. Thank heaven those two school colors were not maroon and orange.
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Many KU traditions have not survived. At one time KU has had a Hobo Day, a Doc Yak show, the Freshman Frolic, the Soph Hop, the Junior Prom, the Senior Cake Walk, and even a nightshirt parade. Now all that is left are such traditionally labeled events as Greek Week and Spring Fling. However bad the name, however, all are better dead.
The University of Michigan also gave us an opportunity for theft in the title, chancellor. President was not a dignified enough title for KU's founders for this "Athens on the Kaw," so they went north for a better one. But it could have been worse. They could have gone across the ocean for premier or even skyward for god.
Next week b.s. will dig out other little known facts about KU. However this time they will be the ones that DID NOT make the Student Handbook.
Letters to the Editor
told us to do impossible things,
but fortunately He also told us
that He would do these things
for us. He wanted to live His
life through us. Six years later,
I can only say it works. If anyone has a better solution, speak up.
Donald Hess
persecute us. When confronted with the claims of Christ in my sophomore year, I was extremely skeptical for the simple reason that I was so self-centered I could not even love my friends. To be honest, I did not particularly like myself.
Shawnee, Kansas
Humanly speaking, Christ
Another is Joel Lieber's DEEP BLUE (Dell, 95 cents). A thriller of the sea, concerning a lifeboat adrift in the Atlantic and the people aboard it. Ten passengers, sinners all, naturally. "How the Fishes Live" was the original title, and obviously that sounded too zoological.
Carlene Hatcher Polite (that's the name) has written something called THE FLAGELLANTS (Dell, 75 cents). The author is a Negro, and her story concerns life and sex in Greenwich Village. It is of some note that the author was once a Playboy bunny. One, apparently, with a brain.
Americans have a heart problem and a transplant is the only answer. The surgeon? Might I suggest my personal one. Almost two thousand years ago a young radical, who also met an untimely, violent death, told us to love our enemies and to do good to those who
In this political year there arrives Stephen Longstreet's SENATOR SILVERTHORN (Dell, 95 cents). This one is about a Jewish politician and his loves and his career on the eve of the Republican presidential convention. "Advise and Consent" started this somewhat frustrating literary genre, and the political novel is now a pretty hot item.
Much different is Noel B. Gerson's THE ANTHEM (Crest, 95 cents), which is the kind of historical novel Costain and Shellabarger were writing two decades ago. The hero is one Philippe de Montauban, ordered by Henry of Navarre to make a secret mission to Pope Clement. Set aside several days for this big one.
For lovers of spy thrillers there's Alistair MacLean's THE SECRET WAYS (Gold Medal, 75 cents). MacLean never really misses. This one is slightly dated, considering recent developments in the cold war, but it's an exciting iron curtain tale about a British agent and a British scientist in Budapest.
First, Alvah Bessie's THE SYMBOL (Dell, 95 cents). It stands as a kind of triumph in a way that this book has even appeared, for Bessie was one of the Hollywood Ten (those reds!) of two decades ago. "The Symbol" is about Hollywood, and if ever a book appeared to be about a famous personality (in this case Marilyn Monroe) it's this one. The heroine is called Wanda Oliver, and Wanda's story is a tragic one. Mucho sex, too. This is as necessary these days as the paper the thing is printed on.
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Last week students and faculty alike were jarred by yet another national tragedy. Questions abound such as "Is our country sick?" "Who's next?" "What can be done?" and predictably, a commission has been commissioned to study the problem. Several months from now it will no doubt issue an impressive statement telling us essentially what we already know all too well: violence results when passive hate becomes active. All of this may result in various efforts to keep passive hate passive (e.g. effective gun control laws).
As you sit there under the air conditioner this summer, thinking you should be working on "that paper," there are some giddy delights to distract you. New paperbacks. Here are some of them.
Editor:
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The opinions expressed in the editorial columns are those of the editorial staff of the newspaper. Guest editorial views are not necessarily the same as those of the opinionors expressed in the Summer Session Kaman are necessarily those of the University of Kansas Administration or the Kansas State Board of Regents.
Unfortunately, discussion, or even treating the symptoms, will not cure the disease. Ask a cancer patient. The cancerous disease we are faced with cannot be cured by commissions, laws, or federal aid programs.
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