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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 30,1964
No Issues:
No Endorsement
The UDK breaks with tradition this year by not endorsing a candidate for student body president.
As was pointed out by both Bob Stewart and Marshall Crowther, there is no basic issue in this campaign other than the question of whether there should be a change of executive administration from Vox to UP. This is, at best, a perfunetory issue which is elementary to any contested election.
Both candidates appear intelligent and have considerable experience in student government. Either one would present a good image of the University.
There is nothing remarkable about the Vox and UP platforms. There are, of course, differences. For instance, voters must choose between the Vox apprentice
system and the UP freshman leadership program; the voter must decide whether he prefers government emphasis on stadium seating by Vox or a teacher evaluation program by UP, etc.
However, an endorsement as such does not seem called for because we see no basic conflict between the philosophies and ideas of the two candidates. In other words, we find no ground on which to either disagree or agree with either candidate.
Until there are basic ideas and issues at stake in the campus spring campaigns until KU elections become something more than a matter of personalities and politicking-an endorsement is not warranted.
- UDK Editorial Board
A Poet's Peace Treaty
Peace has been the dream of man through the ages. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of peace oration, some of it quite eloquent. However, none seems to me to approach in poetic beauty the speech of the Indian, Deganawida, on the formation of the Five Tribes peace:
"I, Deganawida, and the Confederated Chiefs, now uproot the tallest pine tree, and into the cavity thereby made we cast all weapons of war. Into the depths of the earth, deep down into the under-earth currents of water flowing to unknown regions, we cast all weapons of strife. We bury them from sight and we plant again the tree. Thus shall the Great Peace be established."
This Indian orator had a speech impediment. According to Indian belief, he was of virgin birth. The legendary Hiawatha, who was supposed to have been reborn through Deganawida's spiritual powers, was speechmaker for the orator.
The peace pact sealed by his words stood for more than 200 years among the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Cayuga, and Onondaga Indians. — TC
Copy from the "Last News," a fundamentalist four-page newspaper:
"At four o'clock this morning an elderly gentleman was seen angily tearing down his newsstand on Times Square. 'I'm burning all this trash so that maybe God will have mercy on my soul. I've peddled this junk for 20 years and I know it has ruined the lives of thousands of young people—but maybe there is still hope for me."
In the flag, a four-star box says "FINAL."
from the morgue
As the climax of the revolutionary spirit against the University Senate grew among the students during the year 1919, resolutions were adopted unanimously at the "indignation" meeting against entire control of student affairs by the Senate. The resolutions demanded the right of the students to have a voice in their own government.
The indignation meeting was called at Fraser Hall by the law students who burned the Senate in effigy in front of Green Hall on Feb.19,1919.
In addition, a resolution for University convocations was also unanimously adopted. Fraser Hall Chapel was packed with opponents of the system of control. The percentage of women was unusually high.
In the meeting, many speakers said that a majority of the Senate members were in favor of student control but they allowed themselves to be overruled by a minority that considered students irresponsible.
BOOK REVIEWS
THE JESUITS, A HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, by Rene Fulop-Miller (Capricorn, $2.45).
First published in 1930 as "The Power and Secret of the Jesuits," this work has special value to the student of history as well as the student of religion. Fulop-Miller does not attempt to set forth a history of the Jesuits so much as a portrait of the famous worldwide organization of Roman Catholicism.
The author demonstrates how such an organization has become of international influence and describes the controversies in which the Society of Jesus has been involved—Loyola himself, the question of free will, and so on. He writes of the Jesuits in time of war and revolution, of the Jesuit explorers, of the conflict with science, and even deals with such subject matter as the fictional Grand Inquisitor of Dostoevsky.
JOHN PAUL JONES: A SAILOR'S BIOGRAPHY, by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little Brown, $2.45).
Here is a beautifully edited, bound, and printed paperback. Beyond this, here is one of the most remarkable biographies of recent years (it appeared in 1958), a book that won the Pulitzer prize in biography and continued to enhance the reputation of our leading historian of America on the seas.
Morison immediately and automatically rejects what he considers the considerable nonsense surrounding our No. 1 naval hero, a man who has captured the imagination of novelists and readers for many generations He admits to knowing much less than the novelists who can willingly and easily fabricate romances about Paul Jones. Yet he writes, as always, in a style as swift-moving and as entertaining as that of most of our better historical novelists.
Reciting the amazing career of our hero of the Revolution seems pointless; this is what Morison does in a biography of great sweep. Much remains unknown about John Paul Jones, but Morison is able to chronicle the rise from obscurity and poverty to naval eminence and some controversy, including Russian involvements, and finally death and burial in France.
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GUY MANNERING, by Sir Walter Scott (Everyman's Library).
This, the second of the Waverly novels, is less a historical novel and more a novel of life in Scotland as viewed by Scott. It was published in 1815, and was, despite its lessened gothic trappings, still a romantic novel.
Guy Mannering is a young Englishman traveling through Scotland, who casts a horoscope for the Laird of Ellagowan and sees catastrophe for the Laird's family. And catastrophe follows, especially for the Laird's daughter, Lucy. Back comes Guy Mannering, from India, to the rescue, and into all kinds of skulduggery he becomes involved.
John Buchan regarded "Guy Mannering" as one of the top three novels by Scott. Even though the exciting settings of the other books has been abandoned, this is a novel that will appeal to those who like stories of missing heirs and damsels in distress.
Dailijl'Fänsan
111 Flint Hall
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