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versial area. And we can all offer our thanks to the sororities for so well carrying out the obvious wishes of the KU student body. But most especially let us congratulate one another for so clearly expressing our mutual disinterest and unconcern about opportunity for other students.
At the first sign of another issue of equal import, may we all react with the same equanimity and clearness of purpose so beautifully shown in the last.
Disgust
In attending Thursday afternoon's right-wing political discussion in the Union, I listened eagerly to the explanations of Mr. Braun and Reverend Hatch about their political convictions and reasons for Monday's picketing of Czechoslovakian Reverend end Opocensky. Shortly after the program began and continuing through until the end, I was shocked by the immense lack of consideration given these KU guests by the mocking, "all-knowing" audience.
Marsha Dutton, Colby senior
It is sad that some university students have no ability to act in an intelligent and level-headed manner, even though they do not personally agree with a speaker, despite how unpleasant his views may seem. Emotional and intellectual maturity has as a prerequisite, COURTESY.
Chuck Stewart
Westwood Hills freshman
Back to Earth Editor:
In response to Miss Hughes' editorial on Feb. 13 in the Kansan, concerning the Watkins-Summerfield dinner: one can only be grateful that the Real World has been forewarned by the far-seeing Journalist of its impending fate. The semi-conscious intellectual attempting to find Truth cannot be considered a great danger to the Outside as long as the Outside still has such concern for its well-being exhibited.
The People Say. .
It is, however, to be noted, that logic is strangely lacking from Miss Hughes' pungent comments, and it is with difficulty that any reader can deduce Absurdity from the two premises of Swift's imaginary land and the Watkins-Summerfield scholars.
It is not here my intention to attempt a defense of the Watkins and Summerfield scholars: these members of the "high campus intelligentsia" are well able to care for themselves and are probably busy laughing at the editorial in question. Rather, I would like to point out a few things about the Real World for Miss Hughes and those like her who feel that the university is somehow an Unreal World, an Inside as opposed to the Great Outside.
University students are not in any sense preparing themselves for Life. Their participation, or lack of it, in the affairs of the community in which they live is identical with their participation, or lack of it, in the community in which they live after leaving college. They are involved in Life up to their eye-teeth, as they attempt to understand what this Life is that they are living. They are most concerned with the way in which they live, the meaning of the world and nation in which they live, and the possibilities for their life. Because of their concern about these questions they have come here to study, to question, and to explore their life. They are as surely discriminating or fighting discrimination as those people Outside, but they are, at least ideally, attempting to discover why they are discriminating or fighting.
Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1964
The Real World, Miss Hughes, is here, at the University of Kansas, at the Summerfield-Watkins dinner, and even, strange though it may seem, in the class on Metaphysics or the Tragic Spirit. The Real World is not something which is with great hesitation dreading
the entrance of the college student in it; it is the one in which the college student is now living. It is obviously an error in understanding which prompts such hazy musing as exhibited in this editorial—the student is well aware that the University in which he lives is not isolated from life. Perhaps the only individual at the dinner in question who failed to participate in the life being lived was the busy newspaperwoman taking notes.
May I suggest that the next time an editorial is assigned, Miss Hughes explain her own views on the merits of working experiences for the college student, or better yet, on the meaning of a University. In other words, something concerning the Real World as it Really is, rather than simply an exercise to show how the Summerfield and Watkins scholars are apart from it.
Incidentally, in deference to the academic world in which KU scholars are involved, it might be well pointed out that Swift's imaginary nation was called Lilliput, not Laputa.
Vickie Sheldon
independence senior (Editor's note: Latapu is indeed the name of Swift's floating island; Lilliput is his kingdom inhabited by LITTLE people.)
In your issue of Feb. 5, under the heading "P-t-P Refuses to Submit Required Budget Report," my statement as quoted seems to have produced some misunderstanding. I now wish to clarify any doubts in the minds of all those who may be concerned that my statement was merely a condemnation not of the P-t-P, but only of its representative. I felt that the representative's attitude towards the All Student Council would certainly be harmful for the cause of P-t-P. My statements should not be construed as a condemnation of P-t-P, which has always enjoyed an amicable relationship with the International Club.
I-Club
Ali Hassan
Al Hassan ASC Representative from the International Club
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Le Cercle français se rejuftra mercedre le 19 février à 4 h. 30 dans la salle 11 de Fraser Hall. Madame Denise Recht aura une petite causerie, et on servira des installations. Tous ceux qui s'intèressent au français sont cordialement invités.
TODAY
People-to-People Brother-Sister Party.
7:30-10 p.m. Flame Room, Dine-a-Mite,
Christian Fellowship 7:54 p.m.
Forum Room, Kansas Union,
Richard Wolff.
Lenten Bible Vigil. 7 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
Timely Topics, 7:30 p.m. St. Lawrence
Cemetery, 85 West Rd. The Foundation
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Episcopal evening prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
St. Anselm's Chapel, Catenbury House.
Latter-Day Saints Institute of Religion,
4:30 p.m., Pan American Room, Kansas Union.
Catholic Masses, 6:45 a.m., 5 p.m. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
Psychology Club, 7:30 p.m., Parlors A & B. Kansas Union. "Role of the Psychologist in Business and Industry"—Dr.C. T. Deeble.
Christian Science Organization, 7:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel. Everyone welcome.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
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