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University Daily Kansan Friday, Feb. 15, 1963
Strong Hall Underrated
There are times when the University of Kansas appears to be split in two separate camps: Administration vs. Students.
This situation is sometimes unavoidable. KU's administrative officials must make dozens of decisions daily. Often, time does not permit consultation with all the parties affected by the decisions.
Conversely, the students feel that, on occasion, the officials deliberately rule in a manner that trammels the rights and interests of the students.
RESULT? CRITICISM—too often unfair-by the students, and silent, indulgent sufferance by the Administration.
But yesterday the administrative officials went out of their way to give consideration to the rights and interests of students. And such cases are not as rare as might be concluded from the myth of the Nasty Administration.
The Chancellor's Off-Campus Housing Committee heard complaints from students who were
allegedly refused housing at rooms listed by the University Housing Office. After hearing the complaints, the committee generally agreed that KU students had been discriminated against on the basis of skin color.
They did not have to rule that way. The resulting displeasure among Lawrence landlords easily could prove more difficult to bear than the displeasure of the students involved.
AND IT IS too often ignored by the students that the Administration must get along with the city as well as the student body.
All this is not meant to paint the committee's decision as the most courageous act of the decade. They simply followed the course which they determined to be correct.
This might well be worth remembering the next time the Administration "goes against" the students. It is possible that the Bad Guys are right as often as they are wrong.
—Terry Murphy
At the Movies
"The Bridge," now showing at the Varsity Theatre, presents a scathing commentary on war.
The specific target is German conscription of teenagers during the late months of World War II in a futile, last-ditch effort to stem the tide of Allied advances. But war in general is condemned by association.
THE FIRST PART of the movie is devoted to a description of life in Germany near the end of the war when even the necessities of life were in short supply and continued resistance was sustained only by the momentum of a war machine from which the driving force had been removed.
The lives of the schoolboys who are later to die needlessly are described. They are shown as boys much like those that could be found in any country under the same conditions. They go to school reluctantly, wishing they were old enough to join the army, for they do not realize that a crushing defeat for their beloved Fatherland is imminent.
Much to the regret of their more realistic parents, the boys get their wish and are conscripted into the German army. They get only one day of training, which in itself takes some of the stars out of their eyes, and then they are called into action in a desperate attempt to block new Allied moves into Germany.
A kindly officer stations the seven boys at the town bridge, where he thinks they will be out of danger. This is the first in an ironic sequence of events that ultimately lead to the deaths of all but one of the seven boys.
THE BOYS' DEFENSE of the bridge is a little too effective in view of their scanty training and total lack of experience, but the almost fatalistic development of their situation makes their firm stand believable. It is in the midst of this battle that their idealized view of war, and that of any viewers who are inclined to see war in the same romantic light, is shattered by the stark brutality of men destroying other men. This part of the movie is not for anyone with a weak stomach. No punches are pulled as the gory details of war are spread across the screen.
There is no real standout in the cast, for each major character does an effective job in creating a believable person from the role he plays. In the same manner, no specific aspect of the production stands out. The dubbing is effective—everything is effective. Everything is integrated into a unified whole that will have great impact on all but the most calloused or blase viewer.
Daily Hansan
University of Kansas student newspaper
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Fred Zimmerman ... Managing Editor
Ren Marshall, Bill Shaldon, Mike Miller
Art Miller, Margaret Catheart Assistant Managing Editors
Scott Payne City Editor
Steve Clark Sports Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Dennis Branstiter ... Editorial Editor
Terry Murphy ... Assistant Editorial Editor
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Jack Cannon, Business Manager; Jim Stevens, Assist. Business Mgr.; Mike Carson, Advertising Mgr.; Joanne Zabornik, Circulation Mgr.; Brooks Harrison, Classified Mgr.; Bob Brooks, National Adv. Mgr.; Charles Hayward, Promotion Mgr.; Bill Finley, Merchandising Mgr.
Short Ones
Cultural exchange is a useful contribution to world peace, as long as it doesn't descend to the level of a race in which we and Russia try to out-culture each other.—Bill Vaughan
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.-Ambrose Bierce
History is little more than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes. — Voltaire
Bore: A person who talks when you wish he would listen. — Ambrose Bierce
Marriage: A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.—Ambrose Bierce
Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. — Ambrose Bierce
How To Fail Without Trying
It must have seemed like a nightmare in full Cinemascope.
Last Wednesday, for more than two hours the owner of the Big Buy drive-in restaurant was deluged with irate KU students demanding free chicken.
Undoubtedly, his first reaction was bewilderment. After that, he must have wondered if the car-driving constituents from Mt. Oread had blown their stoppers.
FOR SLIGHTLY more than 120 mad, frustrating minutes customers wheeled up to the microphone and with a happy gleam sparkling in their eyes, they chirped merrily for their promised windfall—free chicken.
Alas, for the students, and alack, for the owner, the promise was nothing more than the result of an ever-so-slight clerical mistake. The mistake was made by a KU advertising student.
The advertisement which falsely pledged free chicken in return for a coupon was correct in spirit, but the facts were slightly out of proper array.
THE OWNER of the Big Buy was offering a windfallbuy one hamburger and get a second hamburger free.
he hedger for Wednesday, Feb. 10, would read something in Invested—$20 (approximate price of the advertisement).
If the man visited by this misfortune believed in profit and loss, the ledger for Wednesday, Feb. 13, would read something like this: Invested-$20 (approximate price of the advertisement)
"Profit"—the screaming animosity and smoldering indignation of approximately 25 or 30 ivate KU students.
THIS MUCH is plain: This could be the Formula for Failure in Business Without Really Trying.
Thursday morning the somewhat stunned victim of this slight clerical error staggered into the Daily Kansan business office. To his credit, he was reasonable and understanding.
This brings to the front something very important for the KU student body to remember: there are others who suffer from the machinations which go on at institutions in the name of Educating Youth.
The sight of a two-block long string of cars filled with students anticipating the delights of free, french-fried chicken-in-a-basket must have been terrifying.
FOR YEAR after year, the owner had worked hard to build up good will. Suddenly, for the nominal fee of $20, he faced destruction. So, to you students who dreamed of free chicken, we ask a special favor; go back to the Big Buy and smile.
You weren't bilked by the owner. It was just a clerical error.
—Terry Murphy
North Africa
By Janice Pauls
Potential For Unity Is High
The recent negotiations for a federation of North African nations were unsuccessful, but such a federation is not without sound basis and probably will be brought up again. Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya are spread across the top of Africa from the Atlantic to Egypt. However, these four independent nations have much of the cultural and economic uniformity necessary for unification. Political differences are the greatest obstacle.
Tunisia and Algeria were originally protectorates of France. On March 20, 1956, independence was granted to Tunisia, and after much conflict and turmoil during the past year, Algeria also freed herself from the grip of France. Morocco, which originally was divided into French and Spanish protectorate zones and the Tangier International Zone, acquired her independence in 1956. Libya, located on the north-central coast of Africa, is also an independent country but remains under the domination of King Mohammed Idris el Senuss.
SIMILARITIES AMONG the countries are many. Most are predominently Moslem. The inhabitants live alike and work alike because the climates and topography of their countries
Libya the main cash crops include peanuts, grapes, oranges, and almonds. In most of the areas, livestock raising is confined to sheep.
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necessitate a similar culture and agricultural program. The crops grown in North Africa are primarily cereal crops such as wheat, barley, and oats. Wine is Algeria's chief export, and in
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"FREDA, HERE, TELLS ME YOU ARE MAJORING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION, MR. PHILLIPS."