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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 21, 1964
Looking Back
Editor's Farewell
Seniors, it's almost over.
A week from Monday, we will walk down the long hill for the last time as undergraduates.
We will soon be snatched from the womb of undergraduate life.
The cold, cruel world awaits.
It is unsophisticated—uncollegiate if you will to feel a bit nostalgic about the last four years. This is our last chance to view these years objectively, however. Soon we will join the great society of tall tale tellers, the alumni.
Amid the strain of pre-final cramming, we have a lot to remember. Some remember the riot after the football team romped a highly favored Missouri team when we were freshmen. And the local pubs which were so badly damaged they couldn't open that night.
For others, it will be the English pro, the Western Civ., term papers, hour exams, finals.
Others will remember the Friday afternoons at the local tavern.
Still others can look back on their campus activities and the many friends they picked up in their four year removal from reality.
For many others, it will be the nights at the sandbar, talking in Zone O, or raising Hell at one of the dancing establishments.
Some of us might even remember some of the things we have learned in the last four years. Not only from text books and lectures, but from working with people. No one can boast they got the most out of their education at the University of Kansas without including a little credit to non-academic human relations.
For others of us, memories will focus on our work on the University Daily Kansan. Many have criticized, most of the rest have damned our little daily effort. Those of us who have been closely associated with it can only hope that our mistakes have not been too embarrassing. We will also hope that some of our bald editorial statements might have stirred a little thought, provided a little entertainment, and most of all added something to the college careers of our readers.
Now, as our undergraduate careers draw to a close, we are able to give the last four years a quick skim. We are about to break and go our separate ways—graduate school, army, marriage and some hardy soles, to work.
We may still gripe at lousy grades, lousy professors, lousy administration, and yes, perhaps even a lousy student paper, but when all is evaluated, it's been kicks.
-Mike Miller
The People Say
Thanks
Editor:
Now that the school year is coming to a close and the SUA Minority Opinions Forum has presented its last event until the fall semester, I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to the following: To the UDK staff for their excellent cooperation in covering the forum's events; to Prof. Clifford Ketzel for the fine cooperation he has given as faculty adviser; to Chancellor Wescoe for his firm stand in behalf of academic freedom and freedom of speech; to Katherine Geile in the SUA office and the Kansas Union staff for their help in coordinating and making available the union's facilities; and, finally, to Lee Byrd, Jim Masters, Dave Michener, and Bert Rinkel for their assistance during the Rockwell visit. All of these people played an important part in helping to make this the best year for the forum yet. Let us hope that it can go on championing the cause of freedom of speech for many years to come.
Laird M. Wilcox
Chairman, SUA Minority
Opinions Forum
Praises
Editor:
Before graduating I must take this opportunity to write one last letter to the UDK. I cannot think of anything occurring lately, more worthy of praise than the Chancellor's Review of the Reserve Officer Training Corps last Friday.
It was most thrilling for me to stand on the sidelines and watch the men, many with whom I have studied these past four years, pass in review. The Chancellor's words were well deserved by these men who have accepted the responsibility of leadership in the free world to preserve the freedom that most of us have known since birth.
After having completed 21 hours of Naval and military science as a non-ROTC student, I can say from experience that the major emphasis in these classes was on keeping the peace and preventing war, through understanding of our way of life, a technical skill in a chosen
field, and the methods used by the enemy of the U.S. within and without to subvert and destroy our government. I have carefully weighed the evidence on the side of those who believe in standing by with a picket sign for peace while the reality about them points to their folly, and have decided to cast my lot with those who choose the officers' corps of the United States as a career.
Again to all those who took part in the service review, I salute you, for because of you and those before you and those who will come after you, I and my family will rest in PEACE tonight.
Wallace D. Johnson, Jr.
Jamaica, New York, senior
Surprised
Editor:
As an Israeli and an interested party in the problem of the Middle East, I read in great interest the summary of the Model UN which was held on May 2nd.
It is very surprising that the resolution proposed by Brazil that "peace keeping forces should be sent to Israel" passed through, specially when reading the preceding paragraph "the Arab bloc walked out of the General Assembly, leaving with a declaration of war against Israel." It seems that the peace keeping forces should be sent to the Arab countries, to prevent them from preparing the war against Israel.
Regarding the problem of the Arab refugees, let me quote Mr. Emil Ghoury, secretary of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee who wrote in the Beirut "Telegraph," September 6, 1948: "The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab States in opposing partition of Palestine and the Jewish State. The Arab States agreed upon this policy unanimously, and they must now share in the solution of the problem." The State of Israel had expressed its agreement to pay compensation to the Arab refugees, but on the condition that they be resettled in the Arab countries which are more than a hundred times bigger than Israel. Not to mention the property of the Jews
who were compelled to leave their homes in the Arab countries after the establishment of Israel. Their property is much larger than that which is claimed by the Arabs. But it seems that the Arabs really do not seek any resolution for the problem.
I hope that the preceding explanation will help some to understand the problems which were aroused in the Model UN.
Ada Pelleg Tel Aviv, Israel
Answers
Editor:
In answer to Miss Tanis and Mr. Butler; your argument seems to head in all directions from the "middle." But who are you? Let's see if you can be described: You are white, middle-class, and Protestant, facts which mean little to anyone except the white, middle-class. Protestant extremists who frantically clutch at themselves in incoherent efforts to "stay pure." No one is attacking you for your color, economic status, or creed but many attack those of you, and I suggest rightly so, who would sanctify these qualities beyond all reason.
You must have been evolved earlier than your fellow human contemporaries for you have already advanced to the physical state characterized by lack of hearing, sight, and empathy—as you say, "we are waiting to hear something." What a blissful, ivory tower existence you must enjoy. I don't mean to appear frantic, but surely there is much in this world to hear! Like all animals, human beings learn sensitivity to those aspects of life which are relevant to their survival and thus you "hear" the rumblings of inter-racial marriage or the muffled creaking of communist subversion. That you choose to describe yourselves as white, middle-class, Protestants goes a long way toward clarifying where your loyalties, (and your fears), lie. If you were to describe yourselves as human beings in a world of brothers what then might you hear in this world full of sounds both of joy and of pain?
Jack Klinknett
Prairie Village junior
HERBLOCK
First appeared May, 1962
Ten. "I'm Eight; I Was Born On The Day Of The Supreme Court Decision"
Graduation
You're graduating. In the age of great challenge, you go out into the world—to spread your enlightenment across the face of this earth, to hawk your knowledge in the marketplace.
You did get a degree. You did learn. The two are synonymous. Or are they? There must be an overlap there somewhere. Good luck, best wishes.
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College Summer Life
What do college kids do in the summer? Bright kids, clean kids looking for excitement and work between semesters.
Some follow the golden harvest north across the belly of the land. Others, maturing scientists, work in industry trying out their new and half-learned skills. Some lay down their books, pick up hammers and shovels, and breathe sweat and dust in the boiling sun.
A few lose the summer lolling on the lip of Daddy's pool and racing their aquamarine Jaguars on asphalt strips in the moonlight. And, some migrate to the Golden Gate Bridge, disappear among the sleepy buildings, and emerge as beatniks sipping Chianti and philosophizing.
More try the Mexican summer—its Hispano-Indian allure—and acquire a perspective that persists in its influence. For some, the salt air and a languid vessel or a screaming jet to the old world.
And for still more thirsting for the excitement of the shimmering city far from Pumpkin Center will come the experience of being faceless and unseen, and, when summer is over to forget the cruelties of the city canyon, to remember only the shimmering dream.
Then will come the end of a desperate summer affair that never would have worked anyway.
And so summer comes on.
Lee Stone