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But an indignant public, with a significant majority of college students, isn't going to forget them. And surely by now Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is aware of the wrath it has caused in the pretext of being the guardian of national morals.
Write to CBS
The Smothers brothers have consistently created probably the most imaginative and inventive hour currently showing in the vast wasteland of the national malaise. But to stay imaginative and inventive, they also were part of the times, drew their material from the front pages and made social comment.
CBS would ostensibly rather have TV portray a sort of idyllic never-never land of primeval innocence safe from sex and dirty words, and politically untouchable, a land of our country right or wrong and plenty of apple pie.
The Smothers Brothers said good bye Sunday night.
Last night, Tom Smothers said that he and his brother believed that social comment could be communicated through entertainment. From the reaction of the
CBS seems to believe that it must protect Americans from controversy. Since much of America is hypnotized by the box with rabbit ears and rely on it for not only entertainment but education and everything else, CBS is taking a lot of responsibility.
Does the network plan to shape the view of America after its ideas on what is right and proper on television? Does CBS have a right to refuse needed social comment and satire from a nation it has already partially hypnotized into indifference and apathy?
nation to the cancellation of the show many others think so too.
While we watch the box, is Big Brother watching over us?
If you'd like to protest the cancellation of the Smothers Brothers Show and ask for its rescheduling write to the President of CBS:
Frank Stanton
51 W. 52 St.,
New York, N.Y. 10019.
Come on, CBS, if Lyndon Johnson can take the ribbing in stride, you can too. (AMS)
Letters to the editor
Resurrect Smothers show
I'm sure that many of the students at KU are concerned over the recent cancellation of the Smothers Brothers.
To the Editor:
It seemed like an attempt by CBS to protect itself from all views which differ from their own. The Smothers Brothers were subjected to three censors, more than any other TV show; it is only normal that they would balk at such censorship.
The Committee is a group of high school students who are working toward the "Resurrection" of the Smothers Brothers. We would like to urge anyone who is interested in maintaining quality television programming to write us at this address.
Sincerely
Jim Buchanan
The Committee to Resurrect
The Smothers Brothers
Box 5
Washington, Kansas
To the Editor:
Black girls have been added to the pom-pon squad as might have been expected. The power structure is always willing to concede demands that cost little and have little chance of increasing the power base of blacks in America. But why doesn't the BSU demand that the administration at KU recruit more black students and provide the necessary elements that would enable these students to succeed at KU. Black athletes are already given this treatment. But then of what use would more black students be to KU?
Some of us secretly wish the BSU would not always restrict itself to token demands that can easily be met with token concessions.
Herbert Harris Graduate Student
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
First; Why is it that you print political cartoons exclusively
from the Milwaukee Journal?
Isn't it true that these political cartoons always have a leftist theme? Are you trying to influence the student body to be more liberal? Who died and left you our guardian?
Second: Since it appears that a percentage of my bookstore rebate is to be used as a scholarship fund, I should like to ask if I am not in fact being taxed by the student government. I am not opposed to the purpose of the fund, I only ask that I be shown where the student government has been legally empowered to tax me.
John W. Egyed Pittsburgh, Pa., junior
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(Editor's note: The Kansan entered a contract with the Milwaukee Journal last fall to purchase a year of the cartoons of Bill Saunders. We don't have more than the cartoons of Saunders and those of Jules Feiffer because we don't have enough money to puchase more. If you don't like the opinions of these cartoonists, you're free not to read them.)
Dimensions Isn't it strange?
By WILL HARDESTY
Isn't it strange?
Isn't it strange how "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" has gone straight to the top of the charts? While the Fifth Dimension has had other hits before, they haven't had any that rocketed to the heights which this one has. Everyone on the campus probably knows the tune. Many have bought it and many have 5D albums.
But isn't it strange how, if one of the 5D girls were to go through rush, it is quite probable she would not be pledged (that is, of course, if she just went through and didn't say she was in the 5D). In fact, it is quite probable she would be treated as politely as is possible when the rushers are very embarrassed and nervous and do not know quite what to do, and then she would be ushered politely, quietly and as rapidly as possible out the (back) door.
Or suppose one of the 5D guys went to any of several bars in town (not the least of which would be one of the very popular ones with the fraternity-sorority types on campus) (one which has an ornithological name). In these places, 99 chances out of 100, he would be the only black there (assuming, of course, the management would let him in) (a fact which is doubtful in some of this select list of places). He would also be looked at as if he were getting a little uppy and didn't know his place. "What are you doing in our bar, black boy?" is what the faces of the patrons would say.
Isn't it strange?
But isn't it strange how, if any of the BS&T were to stop any of thousands of KU students and ask the student for a light, it would, if at all, be given only begrudgingly.
Isn't it strange how a nine-man group called Blood, Swat & Tears could come out of nowhere after a rumored break-up and have a single as popular as "You've Made Me So Very Happy" and an album as successful as "Blood, Swat & Tears"?
And isn't it strange how if one of these persons were to go to the aforementioned bar (or a number of others, for that matter), he would be looked at with a combination of amusement, resentment, disgust and distaste?
And isn't it strange how if one of the members of the group were to walk by The Steps in front of Green Hall comments would be thrown his way such as: "Is it a boy or is it a girl?" "I think it's a boy—it has a beard."
Isn't it strange how KU students have an unbiased mind and judge others on their merits and not their looks—as long as the studnets don't have to associate with those they judge?
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