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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 18, 1964
Independent Hymn
Sprung Fling
Following is a Hymn to Independents, to be sung either to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "Pop! Goes the Weasel."
Outshone for years by the glorious Greeks, Thwarted in our attempts at togetherness. Exhausted trying to find a function for AURH, We have emerged victorious. We have overcome our problems. We have challenged Greek Week. We have become competitive and united.
Hail Spring Fling.
We sing praises to thy goals and activities.
To thy 24-inch traveling trophies.
To thy inspiring spirit and participation.
To the gymkana in Lewis parking lot.
To co-ced volleyball (with alternating swats).
To thy bicycle race (past the --- ---- fountain).
To thy hot dogs, baked beans, and orange juice.
To thy egg toss, "bod" race, and pie-eating
contest.
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And now to speak of thy highest glory:
The Duck Race.
Oh crowning event of the weekend!
Oh 12-point Duck Regulations.
How we have suffered in the friendly game:
Girls kicked in the ribs and drug into shubbery.
Boys locked in closets to keep them from stealing.
Gangs of freshman boys roaming Engel Road at closing.
The joys of duck guarding and ducknapping.
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun.
Aren't we glad we're Independents!!!
— Margaret Hughes
The People Say . . .
Regents Benevolent
On Monday, March 16, a day which will long be remembered in Kansas history as an occasion of great humanitarian benevolence, the Kansas Board of Regents, in their infinite wisdom, voted to ban the sale of cigarettes on state operated college and university campuses effective April 15.
This letter is not written in outraged protest. Who are we to question the informed and intelligent decisions of such an eminent body of men? In actuality, this is no protest at all; we would like to lend our support to what is perhaps the most enlightened decision since the stadium expansion. This dynamic action will serve not only to protect the health of our student bodies, but will also serve to promote a resurgence of that morality upon which our nation, state, and universities were founded.
This decision could not have
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come at a more opportune time, for it is quite in keeping with our President's war on inflation and poverty. It is refreshing to realize that the Regents have grasped the essence of this renewal of economic advancement. This policy decision will prove a great stimulus to local business and thus to the community as a whole.
Years from now history will look back upon this decision and say, "Here, here is where Freedom made her stand!" It is hoped that this action is but a prologue to the complete abolition of this evil practice. Then, and only then, will this triumph be complete. Let us all unite in prayerful dedication to this high moral end.
David W. Harrop
Kansas City, Mo., sophomore
Richard A. Lobdell
Salina freshman
Marvin D. Nestler
Atchison graduate
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Sigma Nu and Hypocrisy Too
The idea, it seems, is to get a Negro into a Greek house. But doesn't this amount to endorsement, on the part of the Negro who may one day gain entrance into the now "white-Christian" brotherhoods, of the very thing he is ostensibly fighting against: prejudiced discrimination?
Exclusiveness is not only a characteristic of fraternities and sororities, it is a guiding principal. I see
nothing wrong with being discriminating and exclusive if the criteria are defensible on rational grounds. But what is rational about racial, religious and social prejudice? Is the Negro fighting merely for his turn to put thumbs down on the next guy who "doesn't quite fit in with us?" I would hope not, for that would be very much like kissing the hand that slugs you.
Jack Klinknett Prairie Village junior
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UDK Ad Flops
Gee, thanks to the great cooperation of the UDK advertising department, we almost had a complete "floop" at the Latin American evening sponsored by the International Club last Saturday, March 7.
The first ad announced our Combo Caribe in big bold letters as Como Carabi. Some people wondered whether we were going to have a Swahili spelling contest or a Polynesian bean dance. Then, five days after the program was presented, the feature story appears in the paper. Better late than never, they say, but that is stretching it a little bit too far.
By the way, please spell my hometown as Placetas, and not Placentas! I was born in that place, but not from it.
My best wishes to the staff in their future endeavors.
Ramon A. Mayor Cuba graduate student
Early Marriage Stampede Leads to False Choices
The great American stampede into early marriage is characterized by at least two major side effects: first, what might be called the "marriage blackout." This is a phenomenon in which the young woman's vision stops completely at the point of marriage. Beyond that point she loses sight of herself as an individual human being. Second, and corollary, is the "false choice," the idea that a young woman in this society must choose between marriage and a career.
IT IS AN IRONIC, though easily observed, truth that girls who do make a commitment to education and to personal development almost always find marriage opportunities within their own level of accomplishment. These marriages have a far better chance of success because they are between two whole people and seldom pose the false choice between being a partner or being a person.
What underlies the urgent drive of today's young women to early marriage as an end rather than a beginning? Many things, of course; but we should not overlook a seldom-mentioned fact: America, more than any other enlightened society in this last half of the twentieth century, puts a social stigma—overt or hidden—on the simple fact of a woman's remaining unmarried. The hue and cry is led by women. Men could hardly care less. In fact they are developing a real respect for the women with courage enough to stand against the pack.
IT HAS LONG BEEN a part of the American cultural myth that fathers are unanimous in wanting "my boy to have it better than I did." The same attitude is seen in most mothers toward their daughters. It goes something like this: Avoid the dangers inherent in years of education and years of work. Marry as early as possible without appearing to be frantic, and try for the best prospect of suburban prosperity and security.
The fact is that many American families are experiencing a declining level of education to the point where both parents are college-educated but many daughters are unlikely to be. The real mother-daughter relationship in this great American mating spectacle has been little understood outside the psychiatric world. It has received much less attention than the mother-son relationship. There is mounting evidence that Mom's memory of her own working years, her own escape from singleness, her vanity for her daughter's popularity are all fairly strong shoves toward early marriage.
For public scrutiny of the American woman, 1963 was a banner year. In addition to the very impressive report of President Kennedy's commission, there was a flood of magazine articles and books, ranging from the best-selling handbook Sex and the Single Girl to the virtually fact-free vision entitled The Feminine Mystique. Out of it all certain things emerge clearly:
WOMEN AROSE as women in the middle of the nineteenth century.
They demanded, as they should have, certain basic rights.
Having achieved these rights, they have been almost finicky in the selectivity with which they exercise them.
Rights to own things are very popular.
RIGHTS TO DO THINGS, such as become well-educated, vote, run for office, enter the professions, are handled like old-fashioned jewelry; they are valued but they lie unused in a drawer.
jewelry, they are "right" which women have always had, frequently scorned, never fought for, is the one to which they now rush in fevered haste, the right to get married.
Perhaps it is time for women, married or unmarried, to arise as individuals committed to perfect themselves as human beings wherever they are, whatever they do. In this direction lies what is called happiness. There is no mystique about it.
The Atlantic Monthly
ONE NIGHT WE
GOT HOME FROM
WHAT I THOUGHT
WAS A PERFECTLY
LOVELY EVENING
WITH MY NEIGH-
BORS AND I FOUND
THAT CHARLIE WAS
ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS WITH ME.
WELL, I FIND ITS BEST WITH CHARLIE NEVER TO LET THINGS SIMMER. SO I SAID, "WHAT'S MY CRIME TONIGHT, CHARLIE? I THOUGHT WE HAD A PERFECTLY LOVELY EVENING."
AND CHARLIE BLEW UP AT ME. "DO YOU EVER LISTEN TO YOURSELF TALK, PHYLLIS? MY HOUSE, MY CAR, MY CHILDREN! WEVE BEEN MARRIED FIFTEN YEARS AND IVE NEVER HEARD YOU SAY OUR! ISN'T THERE ANY ROOM FOR AN DUR' IN THIS MARRIAGE?"
WELL, I MUST SAY
THAT TIME HE
REALLY REACHED
ME. HALF THE
NIGHT I SAT UP
WORRYING WHY
DON'T I INCLUDE
CHARLIE IN MY
LIFE?
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