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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 7, 1968
International House!
KU lacks adequate housing for foreign students.
The Daily Kansan has exposed some of the problems-the overcrowding, the exorbitant rental rates, the distance from campus, the presence of rats and cockroaches, the inadequate heating, the discrimination, and other inconveniences.
The University has taken an indifferent attitude. The disadvantaged foreign student is left to the mercy of unscrupulous landlords—some of them absentees.
For his country and university, the foreign student represents an investment. Except for the brain drain, his country usually reaps the benefit of its investment. But not so reaps this university.
Many foreign students live off-campus because living in residence halls which open and close with each major vacation is too much of a burden for, unlike the American student, foreign students cannot go home to their folks.
Usually, a foreign student stays in a residence hall for a year and moves off-campus the remainder of his stay here.
Many stay with students from their countries or area of the world, and that isolates them more from Americans.
Thus, the University loses. The University's loss is America's loss.
As a universal seat of learning for the exchange of ideas, a university should encourage and initiate opportunities for wider and more intensive contacts among its members. This is why KU should have an International House.
There, more foreign students could room with American students who would like to live in an "international atmosphere." International House should solve the embarrassing housing situation, minimize the chances of making enemies for the United States among foreign students, increase cultural exchange among these students, and give Americans a share of the investment in people of diverse backgrounds. International House should be kept for the convenience of foreign students even during vacations.
— Swaebou Conateh Assistant Editorial Editor
Ground-To-Air Missile
© 1960 HERBLOCK
THE WASHINGTON POST
The Hill With It by john hill
When the world was young, janitors were called janitors. Now they're custodial assistants.
Once upon a time, kids spoke of someday becoming a spaceman. Today, even the dumb kid down the block knows the word astronaut.
In ages past, a public relations man was known as a public relations man. In this enlightened age, he is a communications specialist.
My dog used to bark a lot at what I used to think was our garbage collector. In the wisdom of my advancing years, I have since found out that the guy who takes the trash out of the can and leaves it in his wake all over the street is our sanitation engineer.
These particular euphemisms, a word that just now had to be looked up and roughly rhymes with persimmon, are not really disturbing once you get used to thinking of them in terms of some sort of progress.
After all, as a political figure once used to say, progress is our most important product.
However, the usually progressive city of Lawrence is taining behind Kensas City in the most important product gap.
A recent telephone call to "Information" in Kansas City was answered after a few rings by a feminine voice brightly saying "Directory Assistance."
Once again, the euphremism rears its ugly head if a euphemism has a head. and if, in fact, it is ugly. The dictionary is unclear on this point.
Why is Kansas City more up to date than Lawrence? The Lawrence operators are still operating by saying that old-fashioned, out-dated term, "Information."
These of us who are seeing with civic pride will immediately react to this bit of information.
It's a possibility that Those Higher Up decided that too many people would hear about "Information" and want to know the date of the War of 1812. or the size of the Swiss Navy, and other non-telephone number stuff.
Completely beside the point is whatever reasoning there may be behind the change. Don't forget, it's progress. It's what's happening. Like now, man, or something.
At any rate, it's here, and new, and sounds kinda snappy. Kansas City has it and Lawrence should try to get it.
But maybe these things move gradually westward, beginning in. for example. Uppereo, Maryland, it may sweep across America to the muddy, it's worth mentioning, waters of the Pacific, eventually including Lawrence.
A progress check at Eudora has not yet been undertaken concerning this matter.
Letters to the Editor:
Students criticize referees
To the Editor:
On Jan. 15, M.U. "skillfully" upset KU, 68-67. The game was undoubtedly one of the biggest fares that ever occurred. The referees seemed determined to see Mizzou win.
The referees fouled Jo Jo and Pickles out themselves. Both JoJo's and Pickles' last fouls were really on them and not committed by them. It seems strange that MU.'s Gene Jones committed four fouls himself but managed to hang on his opponents and whack hands despite his handicap.
Rumor has it that KU has become the whipping boy of the Big Eight, and I am beginning to believe it. It seems as though KU has won too much and too often.
An arbitrary team of zebra-striped charlatans have been installed to give KU some "real" competition. Would you believe the conference is trying to subdue a Jayhawk bid to establish a sport dynasty such as the Yankees once had or the one the Green Bay Packers currently enjoy?
Whatever the reason may be, KU has definitely been rooked in not a few but plenty of athletic contests. But in the past, penal ics were only assessed—not forfeits. The wrong calls the referees made were so obvious that even Missouri knew they had two extra men on the court.
Oh well, que sera sera. What are you going to do
Charles Roberts Kansas City sophomore
While living in Idaho, I have always had a tremendous respect
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To the Editor:
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"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties."—Charles Darwin
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"Life is short; live it up."—Nikita S. Khrushchev
for the Big Eight teams, coaches, and officiating. That was before the Missouri game. I still respect the teams and coaches, but the officiating was atrocious.
During the halftime, I decided to count the fouls during the second half. My count for the second half was 20 fouls against Kansas and six against Missouri. I realize that my counting may be slightly off, but I know that the fouls were in a 3-1 ratio. I counted eight consecutive one-and-one free throws against us. I also counted seven offensive fouls against us. That's unreasonable. By the end of the game we still didn't have the one-and-one. I know one team didn't outfiel the other team that much. And this certainly applies to other games where I have seen pro-KU officiating, in some instances. Never quite like this, though. I'm not so much criticizing the calls themselves as the proportion in which they were called.
Most of the blame for this I
place on Mr. Parr. At present, I have no record of his officiating, but I certainly intend to investigate. I don't believe he lives up to the Big Eight name.
In any event, I imagine that Missouri got more points from the foul line than from the field. This is particularly discouraging because they certainly didn't outplay Kansas the rest of the game.
In any event, nothing justifies a 3-1 foul ratio. As of now, I have lost any respect that I had for Big Eight basketball officiating and I sincerely hope that this is remedied in the near future.
Dave Radd
Idaho Falls, Idaho, freshman
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To the Editor:
I suppose it is only natural that what one finds to eat in a hawk's nest is simply offal.
Ted Bower
St. Petersburg, Fla.. gradua'e
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