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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 14, 1964
Second to a Talking Horse:
LBJ and "Mr. Ed"
In his TV report to the nation on his first hundred days in office, President Johnson came up against the rating system. He ran second to "Mr. Ed," a talking horse. There is not a word yet from Jim Aubrey of CBS whether Mr. Johnson has been canceled. Or whether the sponsor has dropped him.
THE LOW RATING Mr. Johnson received should not have come as a shock to network executives, since they consider television audiences a mass of boobs. Of course the viewers didn't start out that way, but after ten or twelve
years of exposure to television their tastes have been so downgraded that when it was announced on all three networks that the President would speak and the Mr. Ed would be pre-empted, it was only natural that, out of resentment for having been deprived of their Sunday evening's visit with this horse, they should turn off their sets, sit around sulking in the dark, and wait till next week. Of course there are some Republicans who will argue that the preference for "Mr. Ed" rather than Mr. Johnson does not indicate a downgrading in taste.
— Goodman Ace in Saturday Review
A Choice to be Made?
Research or Teach
"What is expected of a college teacher when he is hired?" The answer would naturally be, "To Teach."
But the administration at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., thinks differently. A professor of philosophy, Woodrow Wilson Sayre, grandson of the President he was named for, did not have his contract renewed because of his "failure to publish scholarly research."
"We are satisfied that you have been effective in the classroom," the dean said, "but the promise of scholarly research has not materialized."
What they want, it seems, is a teacher who will shut himself up in some remote room and work out an absturse or abstract theory which
will be published in a paper under a long name, a paper that nobody but other researchers will read.
I'm not against research, not at all. That is the means by which the world's knowledge has been increased. But I think that teaching is extremely important too, and that anyone who is "effective in the classroom" should not only be allowed to teach, but encouraged too.
And let those who are inclined that way do scholarly research.
The dean might have given credit for scientific experimentation to Prof. Sayre for being one of four Americans to climb Mt.Everest.
-Z. B. Greene in the Topeka Capital
The People Say...
The Demonstration Dear Chosen Few:
You have been instrumental in completely changing the atmosphere from one of apathy to one of general concern. The issues shall not be discontinued. The issues shall be returned to the conference tables for due consideration.
Again I wish to thank those students who took part in the mass demonstrations of March 21 and 28. I want to thank you for your complete cooperation and for the excellent way you exhibited your commitments and concerns for the issues involved. You went beyond your call of duty by exposing yourselfs to possible humiliation, ridicule, and physical violence. These fears could not have been overlooked. However, they were easily overcome by determination and good will.
Fear not our failing to change the atmosphere. For if our demonstrations made no impression on our campus then it clearly indicates that we cannot leave the solution to the racial problem to the general student body.
Again, thank you for your efforts to make this a better place in which to live and study. I also wish to take this opportunity to thank those persons, demonstrators and non-demonstrators, who were thoughtful and concerned enough
to make the many needed contributions which proved invaluable.
Sincerely yours,
George Ragsdale
Kansas City senior
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Sig Ep's Slighted
It came to my attention earlier this week, that in the UDK article on Greek Week, mention of Sigma Phi Epsilon victories were omitted. We won first place in the Pancake race and Mike Bush, of Sigma Phi Epsilon, won a third-place trophy in the walking race. I believe these victories warranted recognition and it is disappointing that they were omitted. In the future, I and the men of Sigma Phi Epsilon would appreciate due recognition of our accomplishments and activities on the Hill.
Robert Guffin Lawrence junior
1964 AEROBLOCK
THE WATERMARK POINT
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"Sure I’m For Equalizing Things"
Fraternities
I have read the news articles and comments on integration in the UDK concerning fraternities and sororites. From reading these articles and comments, one would think the issue to be very complex. However, in reality it's rather simple. With the exception of one (and we all, if we ever read the UDK, know who they are) it appears to be up to the individual house who they pledge. This of course is not true. But this is not an issue at Kansas University. The real impediment to a Negro being pledged at KU is the simple fact that just one member or alumnus (or alumna) can prevent any pledging by simply saying NO. This black ball vote is identical to the veto power the USSR and the USA have used at the United Nations. Thus, until all the members and alumni of a house will accept Negroes, the single vote will prevent their being pledged.
A solution? I have none but time, let's face it, years until people will change the way they feel about other people. Any other kind of solution, at least the ones I've seen, involve the denying one group's right to select for another group's privilege to join.
Fred C. Hamilton
Lippmann's World: Post Cold-War Hopes
Walter Lippmann in a nation-wide hour-long television appearance last Wednesday sounded like America's psychiatrist. His essential message was that there is really very little for us to worry about.
The critical stage of the Cold War which threatens a nuclear holocaust has passed, Lippmann said. Red China remains as a threat, he conceded, but he was quick to emphasize that the Chinese do not have nuclear armaments. Given ten or fifteen years—a sounder economy and a more secure place among nations—Red China will not be a menace. The fat wolf does not roam far from his den.
SPEAKING ON the upcoming presidential elections, Lippmann all but returned LBJ to the White House without a contest. Whoever Johnson picks for a running mate will not influence the outcome of the election. Therefore, the President is in the position of picking a vice-presidential candidate on his personal qualifications. Lippmann mentioned Robert S. McNamara, secretary of defense, and Hubert Humphrey, Senate majority whip, as the two men best qualified.
Significantly, absent from WL's vice-president nominations was Robert Kennedy, who is most often mentioned for that position.
In a Gallup poll published during the holidays, Kennedy was first choice for Democratic vice-president candidate of 47 per cent of a national cross-section of Democrats.
HENRY CABOT LODGE will get the Republican nod if he can get the support of the party professionals, who are unimpressed with his ability as a campaigner after the 1960 elections when he was up for vice-president. Otherwise, Richard Nixon will get the nomination, playing the role of "caretaker" for the party while it rebuilds, according to the noted columnist.
Goldwater and Rockefeller, the only two prominent announced candidates, don't have a prayer.
Tragedy was not a stranger to the Kennedy family before last November 22 when John Kennedy was cut down in the Dallas murder.
JOSEPH P. Kennedy's oldest son, Joe Jr., died in an air crash in the Mediterranean in World War II. His second child, a daughter-Kathleen—also died in an air crash after working in London with the Red Cross during the bombing raids. Her husband, an English nobleman, was killed during battle action in France.
Joseph Kennedy himself suffered a severe stroke the winter before the president's death, and the infant Patrick Bouvier Kennedy died 39 hours after a pre-mature birth last fall.
ONLY RECENTLY Harold Lasky's "JFK: The Man and the Myth" dropped from the best-seller list after holding the number two spot behind "Profiles of Courage" for many weeks.
The national preoccupation with the life and death of John F. Kennedy continues. At the top, or near the top, of the non-fiction best-seller list are the late president's "Profiles in Courage;" "Four Days," AP's story of the assassination; and Jim Bishop's book on a day in the life of a president, written a short while before Kennedy's death.
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KU students might just have made the difference in Tuesday's public accommodations vote in Kansas City.
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The ordinance passed by 1,743 votes out of a total of 89,209 votes cast.
Members of KU-Y and KULAC had spent two Saturdays in Negro districts of Kansas City on a voter registration drive.
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