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GUEST EDITORIAL: "
Follies' Folly
In the four years I have been at this school, I have
seen four Coed-Follies go by. When I went as a freshman,
I realized the name "folly" was really appropriate and I
swore that I would never attend again. Each year this big
night comes up and for a lack of better things to do in
this "Holy City", I have taken the long trip down to Persh
ing. Last year, surprisingly enough, I actually enjoyed the
program, which was mainly due to the Chi Ome,ga skit.
Again this year, I found myself dragging down to the
Auditorium to sit through a show I was pleasantly sur
prised. Each skit was well planned and well presented, and
they were entertaining and enjoyable to all. I would there
fore like to congratulate AWS (Associated Women Stu
dents) and the participating houses.
Yet there is one thing that still disturbs me. Many
months of hard work were put into these skits; each
sorority, led by its skitmaster, practiced an immeasurable
number of hours to make the show a success. But what
is the purpose and the effects of the program? I feel that
the houses should have fun and enjoy themselves while
working on their acts; but instead there is a resentment
built up toward the other participating houses.
I have always prided myself on being a defender of
the sororities against those who criticize their purposes
and goals. Yet this year, I hear sorority girls themselves
make comments like:
"What an appropriate title for the Theta's skit, 'Status
Seekers,' " "the Chi Omegas had their alums write their
skit and should be disqualified," "the Phis shouldn't win,
they're just lucky," "the Gamma Phis, I'm glad they
didn't get a trophy this year," "the Pi Phis think they're
really great now."
Thus doubts and questions have been raised in my
mind. Even though I refute the validity of these state
ments completely, this is what worries me: are they in
dicative of the "teachings" and ideals that sororities give
their members? These statements Infer the idea that the
girls of one sorority are automatically better than those
of another. I disagree with this completely. I feel that the
sororities are wrong to teach this vicious superiority to
their members.
Instilling loyalty and support is one thing, but when
it reaches this point there must be a re-evaluation of the
program. The sororities must redefine their goals; they
must work together in order to do this. Only in this way
can they justify their existence. Sororities are being at
tacked from all sides. They can and must survive, but
only by uniting and fulfilling their real purposes can
they do- this. I feel that all those who attack sororities
will have to do is sit back and watch the sororities de
grade themselves into non-existence. I hope this will not
happen.
Pete Sommerhauser
ERIC SEVAREID
Politics Changed: Campaign
Needs Intellectual Leader
By Eric Sevareld
As things are going with
the New Hampshire presi
dential primary fight, the
country risks being de
prived of the one saving
g r a c e in
the recent
ly celebrat
ed prize
fight the
simple fact
that we
knew the
identity of
the winner.
Should
the increas
ingly fatu- Sevareld
ous contest in the slush and
snows of the Granite State
end inconclusively, as now
appears may happen, then
the bouncing ball of politi
cal chance will have land
ed in double zero. For the
dialogue between the Repub
lican candidates there, plus
the occasional abrupt re
joinders from President
Johnson, have failed to il
luminate and have scarcely
suggested the great issues
involving our country in this
year of portentous change.
It has all been polemical,
all a matter of trying te
score debating points. Sen
ator Goldwater has scoffed
and Governor Rockefeller
has "hammered." It has
been an argument with
neither elevation nor depth.
No one hat even tried, so
far at I have followed it, to
offer a conceptual vision f
what is happening in the
world or within our own
domestic society, The post
war world is breaking up
rapidly; here at home many
of the social premises of af
fluence are breaking down;
but from men who presume
to seek the most critical of
fice in existence, the people
are given no sign to guide
them, no intellectual stan
dard to repair to.
There may be some com
fort In reminding ourselves
that primary contests, like
the preliminary matches in
prize fighting, are generally
of alow order, but it is rath
er cold comfort These con
tenders aspire to the main
vent, and if they possess
resources of championship
caliber we are entitled to
know it now. The prospect
of traveling all the way to
November on the present
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road, which Is not so much
morally low as Intellectual
ly barren, is not only dis
mal but, given the impera
tive need of new definitions
for the American world
role, dismaying.
If the quadrennial dia
logue is to be lifted to a new
level, it may be that we
shall have to wait upon an
initiative from President
Johnson. A candidate who
is also President has noth
ing like the freedom to
wheel and spiel that other
candidates have; and Mr.
Johnson has been struggling
with a crushing burden of
unfinished domestic busi
ness. But the gap between
decisive events in the world
and America's articulated
reaction to them ought not
be allowed to widen much
farther.
So far, we have had from
the President only those
abrupt, turgid disclaimers
and rebuttals of the inform'
al speech to the tax offi
cials, and the short speech
at UCLA. There is little evi
dence yet that Mr. Johnson
possesses the sensitive per
ception that Mr. Stevenson
exhibited in 1952, or the
sweeping powers of synthe
sis that Mr. Kennedy exhib
ited in his last year; but a
people starving for fresh
food for thought will net
be content with scraps very
long,
The political world has
been reshuffled almost
overnight, but the American
people remain at a loss as
to how to start thinking
about this. Men in high
places must start talking
soon about the real nature
of the great Communist
schism what forms it
may take, what safety and
what dangers it contains.
Monoliths, both east and
west, are dissolving, and
we must know what our
leaders think about the com
ing era of diversity and how
America, bound by old atti
tudes, commitments and
systems of alliance, is to
begin to deal with this al
tered scene. There ought to
be fresh examination of
General deGaulle'l true
capacity to help or injure
our prospects. We need
frank re-examination of our
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'Baubles, buses and trucks'
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Following the leadership
of the United Sates may be
for the free world a t a s k
much like searching for the
needle in the hay stack.
And this is the sort of task
that the free world is n o t
very prone to undertake.
Their refusal to do so has
been met with responses
ranging from apathy to hys
teria and all the degrees in
between. Yet it does not
seem to me illogical that
our foreign policy should be
in varying stages of confu
sion. It should not be forgot
ten that in 1929 we started
on a new period of history
so to speak; and that pe
riod ended only with many
years of the bloodiest holo
causts mankind has ever
witnessed. Only a little
over a decade separates us
from those years, and that
decade has be spent in re
construction and rehabilita
tion. I think it would be wise
for us to remember this
and dispense with "over
concern." But, at the same
time, it would be unwise
for us to forget those prob
lems, one of which faces us
at the present.
One of our problems has
been the ambiguity in our
policy with regard to finan
cial relations with coun
tries within the Communist
bloc. For many years it
was seemingly our policy
that the United States dis
approved of any trade re
lations on the part of the
free world with Commu
nist countries. After World
War II, we were deeply en
gaged in the Marshall Plan
to reconstruct Europe in an
effort to thwart the Soviet's
hopes of undermining the
economy of that region. At
the same time, however,
the U.S. was busily pouring
dollars into the Soviet
Union to the tune of over $10
billion. This sort of attitude
characterized our post-war
policy.
More recently the ambig
uity has become even more
evident. With the advent of
the Cuban situation and the
ensuing failure of the Bay
of Pigs invasion, our state
department, after due con
sideration, adopted the poli
cy of an embargo on that
Island nation. This embargo
ranged from strictly offen
sive military weapons to
tangible goods which re
lated to the Cuban economy,
but not to the health and
welfare of the Cuban peo
ple. The embargo was a di
rect statement of our posi
tion with regard to coun
tries having anything to do
with the Communist bloc.
The issue was not nearly
so simple to follow as ii
would seem, for at the sanw
time we were using this
embargo, our aid was still
being sent to countries at
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with the Soviet Union such
as Yugoslavia.
Noting this confusion in
policy, the free world has
taken its own initiative and
has begun trade with Cuba
and other nations within
the Communist bloc. At the
present, England, France,
and Italy all have extensive
trade relations with the So
viet Union. England has
gone so far as to offer its
goods at 20 down and fif
teen years to pay.
Much of our consterna
tion these countries and oth
ers are opening relations
with Cuba. Britain is sell
ing them buses; France and
Italy are selling them
trucks and fishing vessles;
and Morrocco is shipping
them basic rocks and ores.
Sensing that our embargo
was in plain terms a colos
sal flop, the United States
moved to pressure these
countries in other areas.
First, we have withdrawn all
foreign aid to these coun
tries. This, however, was to
little avail as the days of
our massive donations are
well over. Such a with
drawal now has little effect
in proportion to the profits
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Dear Editor:
A letter criticizing the in
tercollegiate athletic pro
gram at this university ap
peared in last Thursday's
issue of the DAILY NE
BRASKAN. It was signed,
"The Observer" and I am
answering this letter for two
reasons:
1) Several such letters
have recently appeared indi
cating that this is not an
isolated case of disapproval.
2) I am on an athletic
scholarship, therefore I feel
a need to defend this pro
gram. The first point that "The
Observer" makes concerns
the subject of athletic schol
arships. He very cleverly
calls these "semi-pro con
tracts." At this point let me
say that It is not my pur
pose to defend the exlstance
of athletics in general, this
Is a subject by itself. Rath
er we are concerned only
with the touchy question of
scholarships. "An amateur
is one who competes for
sport and not for pay." By
this definition, we are all
professionals and deserve
to be treated thus, but I
think people should first re
alize what is involved in
"competing."
I work out two hours every
day, six days a week, eight
months out of the nine
month school year. I have
used myself, a trackman,
as an example. Other sports
may not have as long a
season but workouts may
be more exhausting. (The
swimming team works out
twice a day). With this type
of training it would be im
possible for me to hold a
job, (I've tried) but I would
have had to for my first
two years if I had not had
a scholarship. In fact there
are many athletes who
could not afford school at
all if it wasn't for their ath
letic scholarships. So what
would happen there were no
athletic scholarships?
Sports would become a rich
man's son's pastime.
We have tried for years
to maintain a society in this
country in which young peo
ple will have equal oppor
tunity to advance. This is
one place where ability and
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Letter To The
not position still count, and
we should try to keep it that
way. So in conclusion to this
first point let me say that
if we're going to have a pro
gram of intercollegiate com
petition, we must have
scholarships to keep compe
tition open to all of ability.
Don't you agree, Mr. Ob
server? The second criticism "The
Observer" brings up is the
free tutoring athletes re
ceive. You say this is "un
fair" to other students. The
first thing I would like to
point out Is that when I say
I practice two hours a day,
I mean that I leave my
room at three and get back
at six. It also means that It
may be 8 o'clock before I
have enough energy to look
at a book, and then only be
cause I know I must.
My personal record shows
that I am a slightly above
average student. What then
must it be like for an av
erage or slightly below av
erage student. Many of
these men come from fami
lies whose parents never
had any thought or any hope
of getting their son through
college, until he starred on
the gridiron or basketball
court. Some of these tutored
athletes will just barely
make it through school and
many others won't, but
they've had a part or all of
an education and a start to
wards a life their fathers
never dreamed of. I am not
saying that athletes get or
deserve better grades, (they
don't), I am saying that
they learn under a severe
handicap and if you are not
working under a similar
handicap and still feel that
they have an unfair advant
age over you then perhaps,
Mr. Observor, you should
study more from three to
five in the afternoon.
Now for the third point.
You say that athletics" do
not represent the student,"
yet weren't the students the
ones demanding better
seats at the football games?
This does not sound to me
like the students are unin
terested in athletic contests.
How many students observe
the intramural contests that
the 1963 stockholders' meeting,
Motor Company, emphasized the
program and its accent on developing management talent:
"Obviously, our long-run future will be determined by the develop
ment of our management. Here, every one of us-at all leveU of
recognizes this as his most important function. Since 1946,
has recruited widely varied falpnt talonf tht u
us the required combination
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off. We have develop a rpui
dedicated to seeing it continued and reinforced. Because
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of its lon.-n.n .
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Observer
you say represent the stu
dent way so WCU1
How many would If an ad
mission was charged? As yon
claim, Mr. Observer, intra
murals do offer a tremen
dous opportunity for the av
erage individual to compete;
that's why they exist and
that's why they should exist,
but that Is no reason to abol
ish intercollegiate athletics
as you seem to think, Mr,
Observer.
Intercollegiate athletes are
far superior in quality to in
tramural athletes. They
practice longer, generally
have more natural apptitude
and have a greater desire
for excellance. How are you
going to tell a "competitor"
that it is not worth his time
to become good enough to
compete at an intramural
level.
If we were in a single
move to abolish intercollegi
ate athletics and have only
intramurals, what would
happen? First we. would de
clare an All University
Champion and K. U. would
do the same, and then some
one would say "Ours is bet
ter than yours," and then
we would have a game. The
loser would go home and
practice and then challenge
again. Pretty soon we would
be right back where we
started. This competitive
desire is a characteristic of
human nature and to stop
intercollegiate athletics you
would have to change that
characteristic, and I invite
you try, Mr. Observer.
I am signing my name to
this letter because it repre
sents what I believe. These
are my views, not the ath
letic department's. I con
sulted no one in writing it.
If there is fault, the fault
is mine and no one else's. I
invite comments on this ba
sis. Jim Wendt
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