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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 18, 1968
Unorganized forever!
"Unmarried-Unorganized" is an unfair term to use in classifying one segment of our voting student body.
Those are crummy words to throw together about anybody. There's nothing wrong in calling someone unmarried, but this makes it sound as though it's because they weren't organized enough.
The phrase is not at all clear. Great migratory herds of unexplained implications abound in profuse numbers around this term.
For example, if you're organized, should you get married? If you're married, does this mean that you're organized?
Maybe that's the part that really bothers me. Since I'm not in this particular voting section, I'm afraid the term implies that I'm organized. It took me ten minutes to find some typing paper. I'm still looking for the typewriter eraser.
The two words smoothly blend together about as well as two hot pepperoni pizzas, one of which having been rubber-cemented to the side of a brick wall which has been built across a railroad track for purposes of demonstration, while the other said same pizza having been Scotch-taped to the front of a speeding locomotive that rams into the first pizza. Hard.
Unmarried and unorganized just don't fit together without these and other disturbing problems coming to mind.
Anticlimatic would be the only way to describe anything else that could be added after that exhausting analogy.
Except perhaps to point out that there are many of us who take a strange but quiet pride in the fact that we are both unmarried and unorganized.
John Hill Assistant Editorial Editor
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Letters to the editor
Noisy students embarass Minneapolis Symphony fan
To the Editor:
KU was very fortunate to have the Minneapolis Symphony, one of the top five symphonies in the U.S., appearing in Hoch Auditorium Monday. Unfortunately, we did not have the good manners to equal our good fortune.
As the last note of the first movement of Brahms' Third Symphony had faded away, the clamor at the back of the auditorium was most embarrassing to both the audience and the orchestra.
While Mr. Skrowacewski waited and waited and waited to begin the second movement, late comers filtered in as far as the first rows.
Common courtesy should have guided these people to seats in the back rows. They might have even waited until intermission to be seated.
The mood that had been set by the first movement was shattered by this rude interruption. After beginning their program, no great orchestra should be forced to wait for its audience to get settled. Hopefully, this rudeness won't occur again.
—Carston Exon
Jefferson City, Mo., senior
—Mary Lee Wulff
Atchison senior
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Due to insufficient on campus parking facilities, stringent regulations must be enforced to insure parking spaces for those who need them, when they need them. As the on campus parking situation is critical, and many KU students feel they are exempt from the law, a system of fines similar to that used in the city is inappropriate.
To the Editor:
A student incurring five parking tickets in one academic year is exhibiting out and out disrespect for the law and is the type of individual who never seems to learn a lesson. There is absolutely no reason to get five tickets, save
for the fact that too many KU students think legs are for stepping on an accelerator and popping a clutch. These have gasoline legs and are appalled at the thought of having to walk 100 yards.
Yes $16 is a lot of money, it is tough for a student to pay and $3 tickets would be far easier on the student's budget. However, if students were mature enough to realize that laws are to be respected—by everybody—there would be no need for such expensive fines.
Columbus, Ohio, senior
—Thomas R. Dawes
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To the Editor:
During a recent College Bowl match, I noticed a serious incompetence on the part of the moderator. There were several consultations between members of one team on toss-up questions. When the opposing team objected to such conferring, the moderator, apparently oblivious to the actions that had taken place, declared that such objections were merely wasting time, and proceeded to stumble through the reading of the next question. Instead of alerting himself for future illegal conferences, the moderator continued to bury his nose in his papers, ignoring repeated violations of the rules.
I suggest stricter supervision of the matches. Either supply another judge to observe the teams, or position the moderator facing the teams (as in the Templin-Battenfeld match). There is no excuse for a direct violation of College Bowl rules to go unnoticed—and unrectified.
Donna Schmelzinger
Kansas City, Mo., freshman
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To the Editor:
The conversion transcribed below was overheard while standing in line at the Granada Theater before a showing of Jungle Book. Perhaps it might be of interest to somebody.
"Who wants war?" asked the dewy-eyed youth.
"Not me, son," said the big-eared man.
"Who wants war " he asked again to another.
"Not me, son," said the man with the twelve whisker beard.
"Does Lockheed want war? Douglas?" he asked.
"We'd rather build fan-jets to Florida and passenger rockets to the moon," they both said.
"Do you want war?" he asked the Redman but couldn't hear the reply. "Does Smithshire, Russell, Park Ridge, Galesburg want war?"
"Well son, it's wrong but we're there and we must persevere and finish it out," the townspeople boomed back.
"Yes," he said, "I see that, but does that make sense other than political—even that?" He received no answer. The boy said, having heard it on television, "Why don't we declare glorious victory and pull out?"
The logistics expert said, "It would take eight months and who would want to be the last one on the dock?"
"Not me, Boss!" said the five hundred and twenty-five thousand.
"It's a silly war," he said.
And everybody said, "Simple youth, it's not silly. It's complex, unfortunate, interminable, patriotic, in our best interest, a muddle, a blunder."
"Then I won't go," he said.
"Oh no, that's too unrealistic. You don't understand. NO ONE does." they said.
"Then," he said, "I won't go." The spirit of Henry Luce said, "You are being unrealistic."
"So be it," he said and dropped out what could have been a very decent civil engineer.
—James J. Bogan
LaGrange, Ill.
graduate student
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