Page 2
University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 27, 1964
Multi-Colored
How well we remember:
For a few dollars and cents you can buy taseful (I'm sure) movies-16 and 8 millimeter—of him and his family and his last day with
or if you prefer at any newsstand pick up a booklet in tasteful colors (blue and purple and red) about his life and (wow!) death and if that doesn't appeal why there are hundreds of little mementos—plates and napkins and mounted pictures (four-color in white plastic frames) in life-like poses
And perhaps you can use to buy them the half-dollars bearing his image (a feeble entry by the Government in the competition.)
And if those costs cost too much or you don't read so well you can buy automatic ball point pens (with his head on the thing you push down to write) and even a comic book on his life.
Just goes to show how great a nation we are, to remember a slain President and make money too. —Dean Mills, The Daily Iowan
THE WIDE PUBLICITY, elegant invitations and programs, and the soggy scrambled eggs were paid for by an unannounced fee of one dollar per student.
Prayer Breakfast
Campus Crusade for Christ is busy organizing next year's Student Leadership Prayer Breakfast. At least one Campus Crusade representative has been soliciting opinions and suggestions from KU students to aid in planning future breakfasts.
THE INTERESTING THING about this is that the State Student Leadership Committee and CCFC both deny that Campus Crusade helped sponsor this year's breakfast. Student leaders organized it, Lawrence businessmen contributed funds, and Gov. John Anderson jr., was to be the main speaker, according to the advertisements and invitations.
Actually, KU's Campus Crusade head was the organizational adviser; the Lawrence businessmen could write their contributory checks to Campus Crusade for Christ; the main speaker, listed on the program as "Mr. Swede Anderson, President of the Student Body, The University of Colorado, 1960," is a CCFC worker.
The main message, aside from Gov. Anderson's and Rep. Avery's platitudes, was Swede Anderson's plea for a return to a fundamentalist
Christian doctrine. The reaction of the audience to his talk ranged from indifference to offense felt by members of other than fundamentalist Christian faiths.
Do we have some suggestions for next year's Student Leadership Breakfast? You bet.
FIRST, IDENTIFY the sponsor as Campus Crusade for Christ and the purpose as, according to a CCFC representative, "a return to the faith of our Founding Fathers, the Christian faith that has made our nation strong." (We won't even mention the agnostics, Unitarians, and such among our Founding Fathers.)
This identification probably wouldn't hurt attendance, for who will deny himself the prestige and recognition of being a Student Leader?
Second, invite as speakers no candidates for public office, who threatened this year to turn the breakfast into a political rally.
NEXT, ANNOUNCE in advance the price of tickets to the breakfast.
Finally, and better yet, why don't the student leaders who are supposedly in charge of the breakfast turn it into a meeting which could bring together students of all faiths to consider the spiritual values of life?
—Margaret Hughes
from the morgue
Paint slinging, head shaving, cattle-shearing, and other minor atrocities marked the rivalry between Kansas State College and KU before the peace treaty of 1931.
The student councils of both schools intervened as the rivalry grew more intense, and in 1931 drew up the first peace pact between the two schools. The pact provided that violations of the provisions to prevent personal injuries and damage to property would result in serious punishment meted out by the student council of the school responsible.
The pact was revised in 1936, 1940, and 1947.
The latest pact provided that "minimum punishment shall be restoration of damages and maximum punishment shall be suspension from school for one semester and restoration of damages."
In 1947, a joint committee of eight members, three from each of the student councils and one administrative official from each school, was formed to decide on the punishment.
Also provided in the pact is a joint meeting each year at least 10 days before any athletic competition is scheduled to take place between the two schools.
Dailij Hãhsan
111 Flint Hall
University of Kansas student newspaper Founded 1899 became biweekly 1904, triviewer 1909
Mr. Newcomer goes on to say
became biweekly 1904, triweekly 1908, daily jan. 16, 1912.
Member Inland Daily Press Association, Associated Collegate Press.
Represented by National Advertising Service, 18 East 50 St., New York 22,
N.Y. News service: United Press International. Mail subscription rates:
$3 a semester or $5 a year. Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon
during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays, University
holidays, and examination periods. Second class postage paid at Lawrence,
Kansas.
The People Say . . .
Much to my regret, my letter, "Dear Brother," of Feb. 18, was misinterpreted. I must clear up the more important one first. My statements, "Private organizations, with all their member students, cannot use the Union as do the fraternities and sororities. I know, I tried!" were thought to imply that I had been refused on the basis of race. I did not mean to imply that—nor have I ever had any reason to think that of the Union.
Debate Greek
Now for Mr. David Newcomer's letter, "Propaganda vs. Logic" of Feb 20, 1964. Mr. Newcomer states "Ragsdale immediately identifies me as Greek (this puts me in the out group)." Mr. Newcomer is correct in his choice of the word "immediately." So far, all of those persons who maintain that Greeks should maintain their rights to violate others' rights and that others do not have the rights to try and correct the situation have been Greek. Mr. Newcomer continues "Doesn't he feel that he can support his argument if I were not Greek?" I actually feel that my argument would be your argument if you were not Greek.
Editor:
Mr. Newcomer suggests that the Black Muslims be integrated. This will probably come automatically once the American Nazi Party and the KKK are integrated. I must compliment Mr. Newcomer on his anology between the Black Muslims and White Fraternities. I think that some of the ideas of both are equally as wholesome.
I have never suggested that the Negroes be rationed out on campus and I hope that this shall never be necessary to insure him of his equality. Mr. Newcomer has mentioned, freedom of opportunity, freedom of selection, freedom of association, freedom of choice, individual freedom, but nowhere did he mention EQUALITY.
"Next, Ragsdale states that I misunderstood Coffman's editorial but he doesn't say how." In Mr. Newcomer's letter, "Dear Sister," of Feb. 13, he stated "any extreme measures, such as Coffman proposes are infringing on the rights of the fraternity and sorority houses, as private organizations, to choose their own members as they desire." I will have to repeat this for Mr. Newcomer. Mr. Coffman made NO proposals.
George Ragsdale Kansas City Senior
I
"Boss, I Think The Time Has Come For YOU To Challenge HIM To A Debate"
From Other Campuses Star-Gazing
According to a social worker, most of the students sport from two to four stars. None have the timidity to wear one nor the audacity to wear five.
A one-star youth will not engage in kissing. A five-star wearer will reportedly stop at nothing.
(University of Texas)—The Daily Texan notes:
It was recently reported that British teen-agers have employed a system of wearing stars to denote just how far they will go in their sex life.
As one University professor put it, this is "a far cry from the days when the British used just to muddle through."
Welch-Thomas
(University of Minnesota) — Controversial speakers are not limited to the KU campus. The "Minnesota Daily" commends the newly-initiated Minnesota Symposium as "enlivening the campus community" and "drawing the attention of the campus and public to great issues in government."
A five-session seminar, the Symposium presented debates between such notables as Norman Thomas and Robert Welch. Welch, president of the John Birch Society, said government is "usually evil and always the enemy of individual freedom."
Closing Hours
(University of Utah)—The question of nudity versus morality has reached a climax.
(University of Washington)—Women in sororities and residence halls will soon be allowed to stay out until midnight on weeknights. Those over 21, seniors, graduate students, and junior "honor women" will regulate their own hours.
Two of the three artists involved are instructors in the university's art and sculpture department.
A Chronicle editorial writer charged: "The plain fact of the matter is that the Board of Regents, acting from fear of the opinion of some people in the local community, have used their position to impose their subjective, arbitrary, and completely inexpert judgment of art on the entire university."
Nude Art
Hunger Strike
(Syracuse University)—Hunger strikes are on. Students there last week protested "horrible food" by boycotting Watson, Sims, and Graham dining halls.
The "Syracuse Daily Orange" reported picketing of the dining halls Thursday night. At one hall, which usually serves 900 meal-ticket holders, only 222 students appeared that night.