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University Daily Kansas Friday, March 29, 1963
Model United Nations
KU's Model UN is a model activity.
This is one of the few KU activities in which a large number of students actually participate instead of just observing. Four hundred students will take part in the Model UN. This hardly is a majority of the student body, but it is considerably more than can actually take part in most KU activities.
THAT THERE is too much observation and not enough participation is one of the more common criticisms of the large university. This applies not only to the academic aspects of university life but to the extracurricular activities as well. Seldom is there an opportunity for so many students to be integrally involved in a single activity.
Although the number of students participating in the Model UN is a healthy sign, the benefits of this activity are much more far-reaching than simply giving a large number of students an opportunity to take part in an enjoyable activity.
Today's and tomorrow's sessions of the General Assembly are just a small part of the activity. They are the culmination of weeks of preparation. This is where the real long-range benefits come in. The Model UN is not just a one-shot activity that is a lot of fun for the participants. The weeks of preparation are as important as the sessions themselves, if not more so.
THERE IS a tendency for students who have never participated in the Model UN to scoff and pass it off as no more than a few students making another unsuccessful attempt to solve some of the world's more pressing problems. No world problems are solved by the Model UN, but an awareness of the real substance of these problems can be derived from the preparation of the participants. An awareness of the problems the real UN faces when trying to solve these problems is also achieved.
This is the most significant achievement of the Model UN—an awareness that goes beyond mere recognition. The United Nations, no matter how imperfect, provides one of the very few means for peacefully working out the international problems that threaten to destroy civilization as we know it. For the United Nations to be really effective there must be a public awareness of the issues involved and the mechanics of the operation of the United Nations.
The weeks of preparation and the two days of general sessions give at least 400 persons the awareness that everyone should have.
- Dennis Branstiter
Sports Column
Without a doubt, a reply to Mr. Clark's shallow analysis of the NCAA championship game won by Lovola of Chicago is required.
Mr. Clark asserts that Loyola won a "cheap championship" Saturday night over Cincinnati. Any competent observer would immediately have recognized the Loyola effort as one of the best given in NCAA play. Special credit should go to Loyola for the fact that their hustle and determination were superb even when behind by 15 points. The turning point of the game was occasioned by what "is colloquially referred to" as guts.
MR. CLARK claims that George Wilson, the Cincinnati center, was mistreated as far as fouls were concerned. However, the only significant mistreatment suffered by him was under the boards where he was consistently outrebounded. His four fouls could easily be accounted for by this fact.
In slanting his article, Mr. Clark avoided several important points. First, Loyola shot only 28% from the field compared with a very warm 48% for Cincinnati. However, Loyola recorded 20 more shots as a result of superior rebounding and aggressive ballhawking. Second, "cool Cincy" missed 5 free shots in the last 5 minutes, yielding to the pressure of the game. However, we heartily concur that too much control rests in the officials' hands. Therefore, we suggest that all fouls be submitted for vote to an impartial committee composed of home and away fans headed by the chancellors of each school.
Jim May
Jim May
Shawnee Mission senior
Rick Duwe
Lucas junior
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Sports Column
Yesterday's (3/25/63) UDK contained a "Scoops on Sports" column by Mr. Steve Clark, in which he regurgitated the bitter pill of the Cincinnati Bearcat's defeat by the Loyola Ramblers in the NCAA Basketball Finals last Saturday night. His commentary reeked so strongly of a "poor loser" and "scape-goat hunter" attitude, that I was motivated to offer a few words in reply.
Editor:
Let me say first, that, being from the Chicago area, I ought to concede some bias in Loyola's favor. Secondly, Mr. Clark may well have some legitimate complaints about basketball officials, but HE FAILED TO CONVINCE ME THAT HIS COMPLAINTS WERE LEGITIMATE! He played more the part of the proverbial disgruntled fan, angry because the breaks went
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against his team. Since this was a result of umpiring decisions called against said team, why not naturally blame these arbiters, the officials? Proceeding from this ill-established premise, Mr. Clark lambasted and ridiculed Loyola into the floor.
IN MY BOOKS, the Bearcats and the Ramblers are BOTH great teams. Cincinnati being rated the nation's top on defense, and Loyola likewise on offense. Cincinnati displayed great skill in limiting Loyola to about 30 points below the latter's commendable season average of 92 points per game. But Loyola's offensive power manifested itself well enough to enable the Ramblers to finally surge neck-in-neck and finally win by a nose at the wire. If the Bearcats are of such greater stature, as Mr. Clark informs us, then why should fouls on George Wilson break the Bearcats' back? Where is the DEPTH of this great team? What were Bonham and Thacker doing?
Such an event often happens, or almost happens, in sport. Witness the American Football League Flavort of 1962, or the Rose Bowl of 1962, where the lightning blitz of Wisconsin's offensive power almost eclipsed Southern Cal's efforts, or the 1530 Pirates-Yankees World Series.
If power of basketball officials is a problem, then certainly it has affected other games than the NCAA Final, indeed, probably a majority of basketball games, since arbitrary decisions are inherent in the system. If Mr. Clark has some really enlightening insights into this problem, then he should consider it in more depth than he has done in his column, and not merely use it as a convenient excuse to vent bile on one particular team that fouled up his hopes and predictions.
Highland Park. Ill., sonhomore
Campaign Tactics
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We just attended a meeting tonight which was scheduled as a Vox-UP debate at Corbin Hall. Unfortunately Mr. Charles Whitman did not show up, but instead UP was represented by a tape recorder to record any Vox remarks. We are questioning the legality of the tape recording and of the purpose for which it might be used. The political tactics of the University Party are again appearing to be of questionable taste.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
UP informed Vox that they did not have enough time to prepare for the debate, but to state from the records, the debate was scheduled for Wednesday night and Vox informed UP about the debate Sunday night. How much time does
Mr. Whitman need? If it takes him that much time to prepare for a debate, he surely will not have enough time to serve as president of the student body.
WHAT ABOUT UP's method of campaigning? Perhaps, instead of using sound methods for campaigning, the shepherds of UP are leading their flock astray by banjo twangening, as has been demonstrated by their "get-together coffees." It does not seem that student political campaigns should be used as "snow jobs" to impress their little lambs with folksinging and "get-together coffees," instead of a solid platform and qualified candidates.
So far in this campaign, the University Party has thrown out charges against Vox Populi and has criticized Vox's efforts in generalities and has given no specifies to which Vox can answer. Vox Populi is not trying to conceal anything and is perfectly willing to answer charges relative to the campaign—does the University Party have any charges which are relative to the campaign?
K. K. Kuntzelman,
Evanston, Ill., freshman
Diana Morphew,
Colorado Springs, Colo.,
freshman
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I refer specifically to two statements under the open-mouthed picture of Peter Allen. He is quoted as saying that a world power like Russia would gain much unpopularity throughout the world if it did not reciprocate such a (unilateral) disarmament move by the U.S.
For months, I have heard such drivel mouthed by many such authorities on the subject. Such unimpeachable experts as biologists, economists, and now one Peter Allen have expounded at length on complex political problems—problems that go as deep as the distrust that ranges itself along the world's borders. But, because Peter Allen said it, you print it. I'll bet if Peter Rabbit had said it you'd print it, same place, same two-column, six-inch, slack-jawed picture.
LATER, YOU quote our vagabond "Peace-at-any-primer" as saving that the majority of Americans support such activities, albeit passively. So why doesn't P. A. run (as soon as he is old enough) for the presidency. He's sure to win by a landslide. Then he can unilaterally disarm. I'm sure K. and Co. would faint with palpitations at the thought of their unpopularity—all the way into Washington, London, Berlin, Paris, and Tokyo.
Respectfully (but not very),
Robert Ash
"We're turning out a CLASS OF CONFIDENT, FEARLESS, OPTIMISTIC GRADIATES - AS AN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING WE'VE FAILED THEM MISERABLY."
THREE SHORT NOVELS, by Joseph Conrad (Bantam Classics, 50 cents).
On the cover you'll see a starkly beautiful picture of an old sailing ship, and what better image to conjure up the tales of Joseph Conrad? The volume itself is a reprint, with new styling, and the short novels are "Heart of Darkness," "Youth" and "Typhoon."
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CANDIDE, by Voltaire (Bantam Classics, 40 cents).
There are an appreciation by Andre Maurois and illustrations by Sheilah Beckett, and the translation is by Lowell Bair. Any KU student who doesn't know the story and theme will have trouble in the Western Civ program.
MAN AND SUPERMAN, by George Bernard Shaw (Bantam Classics, 75 cents).
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Brooks Atkinson contributed the introduction for this most delightful of Shaw plays, and the volume itself is a reprint. "The Revolutionist's Handbook," of course, is here, and the play remains one of the best depictions of how man chases and finally is trapped by woman.
IT ALL STARTED WITH COLUMBUS, by Richard Armour (Bantam, 40 cents).
Here is a gay, amusing, irreverent, unimportant little history of the United States, from Columbus to Kennedy. That description would drive away many who would find this book quite in tune with Allen Sherman, Stan Frieberg and Vaughn Meader.
MESSAGE FROM SIRIUS, by Cecil Jenkins (Bantam, 40 cents).
A murder mystery that won praise from such writers as Agatha Christie and Julian Symons, this is the story of the murder of an English singing sensation and the subsequent attempt by Scotland Yard to unravel the mystery.
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