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During my frosh week, our campus paper, Imprint (which is a rag anyway, but that's a different story), published a "how-to" guide to sex in the dorm rooms. It featured silly-looking cartoon figures, fully clothed, and the advice was more comical than graphic. Nonetheless, it was banned in the residences, mostly because of the fact that that was the area that the parents of the frosh would be moving abouts in. It was a hot issue on campus at the time, but I think msot people have long since forgotten about it by now.
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I once drew a cartoon for the high school newspaper that showed the librarians playing cards. A librarian was peeking her head through the door saying, "Count me in on the next hand! Billy came in with a book 12 weeks overdue!"
The caption read, "Ever wonder what happens with those overdue library fines?"
The cartoon wasn't allowed to run, because it was deemed 'too controversial'
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And here I always thought I was living in the Conservative Christian capitol of the world by living in Kansas!
Of course, I'm not that surprised by the Lawrence high schools. After all, Lawrence is home to the University of Kansas, which has a massive school of Journalism, and at the University level, they like pushing the limits quite a bit (I say this as a former student there, so I know). No doubt some of that daring and mindset trickled down to the local high school.
But the Salina high school event truly was a shock, as Tstorm pointed out.
Yeah, I'm not surprised by the Lawrence schools' papers doing something like this either--a lot of my friends worked on the paper when I was at LHS, and I'd say it was headed this direction at that point.
But Salina?!
By the way, for a piece of Kansas triva (which will be interesting only to FarmGirl, screechowl, T-Storm, and myself), do you know why Winfield, KS doesn't have any liquor stores?
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Noeman - No, and I probably should know that trivia. I'll bet it's in my book, which I have no time to consult right now.
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You know, I went to school with a guy named "Bender" He was *really* bad news, if I recall. The sort of person I could have imagined growning up and doing something like that. I wonder if these Benders were his ancestors?
In answer to your question, Nope!
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Then, perhaps it was the fear of drunken clerks:
quote:Winfield Courier, August 23, 1883.
YOUNG MEN WHO DRINK.
We notice that the businessmen of this city who don't believe in prohibition and think moderate drinking is all right, don't keep their clerks and employees very long after they get to drinking. Several clerks have been discharged because they drank. Men who drink and get drunk sometimes, do not want drinking clerks. They know the other vices always follow in the wake of a drink, and it may not take a drinking young man long to become a gambler and a thief. We have had occasion to ask businessmen to give employment to young men as clerks, and usually almost the first question asked is: "Does he drink?" Recently a young man who we would be glad to assist, asked us to give him a letter recommending him as a salesman to a friend of ours. We could not recommend him because we knew he drank and sometimes got on a spree.
Actually, I have unearthed that Winfield is the hometown of someone special. But in my ongoing quest to reveal Kansas as the den of iniquity which it is, I read about this crime spree:
quote:Winfield Courier, August 23, 1883.
CHERRYVALE ROBBERY AND ARSON.
We have a sensational report from Cherryvale about the robbery, and burning, about two weeks ago, of the residence of Conductor Titus. Last Saturday Dr. Moore, a dentist and prominent citizen, and Mrs. Titus, the conductor's wife, were both arrested and committed to jail charged with the robbery and arson. The money, $900, has been found buried in the yard and it is stated that plenty of proof has been discovered of a liaison and conspiracy between the two prisoners.
There is also report that "an Arkansas Valley editor postmaster has been arrested for allowing his affections to wander off and entwine themselves about the buxom form and palpitating heart of a fair damsel who is not his lawful wife."
Kansas, we hardly knew ye.
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McPherson, Aug. 24. There are at least two prohibition towns in Kansas, or at least towns in which no liquor is sold openly and above board; and these two places are Winfield and McPherson. The former being the home of Senator Hackney, there is of course nothing surprising in the fact that prohibition prohibits there.
Hackney is the fiercest and most uncompromising prohibitionist I ever saw, not even excepting St. John, and is very free in his declaration that a prohibitory plank should be put in the next Republican state platform. Whether or not the anti-prohibition element in Win- field is afraid of Hackney I cannot say, but it is very safe to assume that he would make it very sultry indeed for any member thereof who should so far forget himself as to open out a gin mill and begin the sale of liquor unblushingly. No one presumes to deny that whiskey and diverse other beverages cannot be obtained in Winfield, but there is no open sale of the same. Although the town has but one policeman, the embodying of the city marshal and street commissioner in the one person, there is no place in the state more quiet and peaceable than Winfield. There are no rows, no drunken men staggering around, no disturbances of any kind; the farmers, when they come in to sell their produce, do not seem to worry over the fact that there is not a saloon on every corner. It should not be judged from this that Winfield is a dull town by any means, for it isn't. There is not a livelier town in the state, nor one which does more business in proportion to its size. In fact, in proportion to its size, there are very few towns in Kansas which do as much business as Winfield. Therefore, if Winfield is busy and growing, and the prohibitory law is enforced there, why can't the law be enforced in other towns of the state? If the law in Missouri is strong enough to shut up the saloons on Sunday, it is certainly strong enough to close them up every day in the week in Kansas.
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Well, that wasn't what I was thinking of as the reason. I've been told that the reason Winfield doesn't have any liquor stores is that a woman was fundamental in the building of Southwestern College in Winfield left the city quite a bit of money, on the condition that they never allow liquor stores within the city's limits. I'm not having much luck digging up online documentation about it, though I haven't given up yet.
That's a great site by the way, CT--I'm having a blast reading through it!
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I have nothing really to add to this, I'm just stunned I didn't clue into the fact that Eaquae Legit goes to my school. Wait, you're the fellow that asked about IRS, right?
Anyway, the chap that drew the pictures for said article is Evan Munday, who I was living with during the "incident". Probably the best thing to happen to his career, all publicity being good publicity. Anyway, Evan and I are going out tomorrow night and I'll have to remember to slip "The Laurier Position" into the conversation.
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My own hometown newspaper (The Mount Hope Clarion - no web site) runs a weekly column called "100 years ago today" in which it runs snippets from the same newspaper 100 years ago (duh!).
It is always SO entertaining to read.... some things (opinions) they printed then certainly wouldn't be allowed journalistically today!
I'm so proud that earlier you linked to the Kansas State Historical Society web page. I was instrumental in the development of THIS page of that site. In fact, I typed every single entry in the officer database that site links to. And am very good friends with the web developer at KSHS, Matt.
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I was the editor of my college newspaper in my senoir year. It was like rolling sand uphill with your fingers to get people to submit articles because we had no journalism class the first semester. I ended up begging friends and my stable of unrequited lovers to do book reviews, cartoons, take pictures and do interviews, etc. I remember a particularly funny article after the maintenance crew misspelled 'parking' when they repainted the 'no parking ' section. It said "No Parning". We interviewed people to ask them what 'parning' was. We didn't get to print many of them.
It was a Presbyterian school.
Anyway, the most controversial thing I managed to get into it (other than revealing my lecherous Prophetic Liturature proffessor's middle name) was a cartoon of the college president. He had a habit of always sticking stuff in the waistband of his pants right at the small of his back. Usually a book or his daily planner or whatever. I think it was a habit he'd picked up in the military.
Anyway, the cartoon had the caption "If Mr. _____ had been an artist" and it had him with an easel sticking out of the back of his pants. We cleared it with him first. He had a good sense of humor. But others thought it was disrespectful.
Times have changed. *polishes cane*
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Oops, I was wrong. I was just talking to C, who lived in Winfield at one point, and she said that it was two women who put up the money for the construction of St. John's College (now defunct) in Winfield on the condition that Winfield not have liquor stores.
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I don't remember asking about IRS, but I might have, since my sister just got ringed last week (and the next day as well when her boyfriend - also a UW grad - proposed).
But well, I never clued in that there was another person from UW here. What faculty?
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