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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 12. 1963
Syrian Revolt Spurs Arab Unity; Military Plan Threatens Israel
DAMASCUS, Syria — (UPI) — A new drive toward Arab unity resulting from last week's revolution in Syria appeared today to have created a threat of increased trouble for Israel.
Iraiqi Vice Premier Salah El Saadi is in Damascus conferring with Syrian leaders on plans to create a joint military command which would link their two nations with the United Arab Republic (U.A.R.), Yemen and Algeria.
Asked by newsmen last night it it would be used as a weapon for the "final obliteration" of the Jewish state, he said, "It will be a weapon enabling the Arabs to regain their freedom and rights and to prevent imperialism interfering in Arab areas."
The Arabs, who have superior
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The House Ways and Means Committee was scheduled to give final action today on the Wichita University bill.
Action Today On WU Bill
The committee unanimously postponed action yesterday after Rep. William Friley, R-Crestline, asked for a 24-hour extension in order to complete some amendments on the bill for presentation to the committee today.
FRIBLEY HOPES to add more amendments to the bill on top of amendments accepted by the committee last week.
In other house action, the State Affairs Committee yesterday approved for passage a concurrent resolution urging Congress to change the Electoral College System.
The resolution, already through the Senate, seeks to allow state electors to split their vote in the same proportion as the popular vote of a presidential election is split.
KANSAS FARM Bureau Representative Clarence Rupp, in urging approval of the measure, told the committee yesterday that all of Illinois' electoral votes went to President Kennedy because Cook County managed to give him a small plurality.
KSTA Officials Talk to Senators
TOPEKA — (UPI)— Kansas State Teachers Association (KSTA) officials will appear before the Senate Education Committee today to "substantiate" the organization's views on education in the state.
Sen. Laurin W. Jones, R-Dodge City, Chairman of the committee, said he assumed C. O. Wright, controversial executive secretary of the KSTA, would attend.
Jones' committee presently is pondering a House resolution calling for a legislative investigation of the KSTA.
He said KSTA officials were eager to appear before his committee earlier the group had asked for a joint session of the legislature to explain its stand.
The senator said he invited KSTA Board Chairman Ray Heller, Neodesha, and Bernice Smith, Garden City, KSTA president, to appear before the committee and "bring along anyone they liked."
Wright recently incurred the wrath of the legislature by remarking that Kansas has one of the most backward school systems in the nation.
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It is generally agreed that any Arab unity movement would cause potential trouble for the Israelis.
The communique proposed that the three, along with Yemen and Algeria, support movements in the "uniliberated countries" of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Libya and Tunisia.
manpower, have always contended that Israel is Arab territory and that the Israelis are tools of imperialism.
The Syrian revolution Friday, on the heels of a similar uprising Feb. 8 in Iraq, has given the cause of Arab unity new impetus.
Saadi did not indicate what form the proposed political union would take.
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Saadi said Iraq presented its plan for a joint military command to the Syrians before it was discussed with the other three potential partners.
He declined to elaborate on a Syrian-Iraqi communique which said there was a "special need for Egyptian-Iraqi-Syrian union at once."
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KU String Quartet Plays Tomorrow
The University String Quartet, which is composed of KU faculty members, will present a chamber music program at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The Quartet features Raymond Cerf, professor of string instruments, and Theodore Johnson, assistant professor of organ and theory, as violinists; Karel Blaas, associate
professor of organ, theory, and string instruments, as violinist; and Raymond Stuhl, associate professor of string instruments, as cellist. John Perry, assistant professor of piano, will accompany the quartet.
The program includes the Mozart Quartet No. 12. K. 387, the Faure Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op. 89, and the Mendelssohn Quartet, Op. 44, No. 1.
HAIL TO THE DEAN!
Today let us examine that much maligned, widely misunderstood, grossly overworked, wholly dedicated campus figure the dean.
The dean (from the Latin Deanere—to expel) is not, as many think, primarily a disciplinary officer. He is a counselor and guide, a haven and refuge for the troubled student. The dean (from the Greek Deanos—to skewer) is characterized chiefly by sympathy, wisdom, patience, forbearance, and a fondness for homely pleasures like community singing, farina, spelldowns, and Marlboro Cigarettes. The dean (from the German Deangemacht—to poop a party) is fond of Marlboros for the same reason that all men of good will are fond of Marlboros—because Marlboro is an honest cigarette. Those good Marlboros tobaccoes are honestly good, honestly aged to the peak of perfection, honestly blended for the best of all possible flavors. Marlboro honestly comes in two different containers—a soft pack which is honestly soft and a Flip-Top box which honestly flips. You too will flip when next you try an honest Marlboro, which, one honestly hopes, will be soon.
There is not a dry eye in Yutah
But I digress. We were learning how a dean helps poor, troubled undergraduates. To illustrate, let us take a typical case from the files of Dean S... of the University of Y... (Oh, why be so mysterious? The dean's name is Sigafoos and the University is Yutah.)
Wise, kindly Dean Sigafoos was visited one day by a freshman named Walter Aguincourt who came to ask permission to marry one Emma Blenheim, his dormitory laundress. To the dean the marriage seemed ill-advised, for Walter was only 18 years old and Emma was 91. Walter agreed with the dean, but said he felt obligated to go through with it because Emma had invested her life savings in a transparent rainhood to protect her from the mist at Niagara Falls, where they planned to spend their honeymoon. If Walter called off the wedding, what use would the poor woman possibly have for a rainhood in Yutah? The wise, kindly dean pondered briefly and came up with a brilliant answer: let Walter punch holes in the back of Emma steam iron. With steam billowing back at the old lady, she would find a rainhood very useful—possibly even essential.
Whimpering with gratitude, Walter kissed the dean's Phi Beta Kappa key and hastened away to follow his advice—and the results, I am pleased to report, were madly successful!
Today Emma is a happy woman—singing lustily, wearing her raincoat, eating soft-center chocolates, and ironing clothes—twice as happy, to be candid, than if she had married Walter . . . And what of Walter? He is happy too. Freed from his unwanted liaison with Emma, he married a girl much nearer his own age—Agnes Yucca, 72. Walter is now the proud father—stepfather, to be perfectly accurate—of three fine, healthy boys from Agnes's first marriage—Everett, 38; Wilhelm, 43; and Irving, 55—and when Walter puts the boys on a lead and takes them for a stroll in the park on Sunday afternoon, you may be sure there is not a dry eye in Yutah.
And Dean Sigafoos? He too is happy—happy to spend long, tiring hours in his little office, giving counsel without stint and without complaint, doing his bit to set the young, uncertain feet of his charges on the path to a brighter tomorrow.
© 1963 Max Sbulman
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