The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 55, No. 64, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1968 Page: 6 of 24
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THE OKLAHOMA DAILY. University, of Oklahoma. Marman, Okla
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Scholarship Revoked After Tournament Play--
Former Basketball Player Wants Hearing
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What normal, wholesome teen-
ager wouldn’t be secretly delight-
ed at this apparition, untrue of
himself as he knows it to be?
By pretending it is verity, he can
capitalize on adult panic. In-
stead of playing trick-or-treat
games with grownups only on
Halloween, he can scare them
all year long.
Average Teen-Ager
The average teen-ager doesn’t
take dope, smoke reefers, indulge
in sex orgies, carry a pistol, or
beat up defensless old ladies for
the change in their purses.
The record shows that most
teen-agers are learning more in
school than did any previous
youth group and, in their own
When Amos Thomas,
OSU star forward from Ok-
lahoma City, played in
OSU’s opening basketball
game Tuesday, Dec. 3,
Reese returned to MacLeod
with his problem.
Thomas had played in
the same invitation tourna-
ment at Dungee in March
but was not i______ ________ _ . ,
from the OSU roster which months that I have missed,”
is also under Big Eight con- Reese said,
ferencc rules.
Too Late Now
“MacLeod admitted that
I was eligible but told me
that I was too far behind to
start playing, and he didn’t
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Jones told Reese that it
was completely up to Mac-
Leod whether or not he
played basketball any more.
At this time Reese does
not know if he will ever
je basketball
again, and he has not been
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after he graduated from
Douglass High School, Ok-
lahoma City.
Made Ineligible
His scholarship was not
renewed this year because
of his participation in an in-
vitational tournament held
last March at Dungee, Okla, find
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have time to stop and teach P'aX collegi
me his system,” Reese said. * . -----
called to appear before th<
When I asked him if I "
would be able to get a
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scholarship next year, he
told me I could try out
again next year.”
Up To MacLeod
“Jones recently tokl me
that they have decided to
give me $55 a month which
will compensate for my
room and board, and I will
removed from back pay for the
By LINDA SHILLING
City Editor
A former member of
OU’s basketball squad says
he has a con * ’
would like to take before
the committee investigating
charges of racial discrimi- , . , . -------
nation in the athletic de- authonzed in the Big Eight
partment, if he were asked. ant* 1 might be
Michael Reese, Oklaho-
ma City sophomore, played
on OU’s freshman basket-
ball team last year on a full-
NEW YORK -(API- Curbstone
comments of a Pavement Plato:
What is a teen-ager?
Is he merely today’s demon?
Is he tomorrow’s savior? Is it
possible that he is both?
Condemning the younger gen-
eration has been a popular sport
among mankind probably since
Adam and Eve were served
their eviction notice in the Gar-
den of Eden.
Many Surprises
History holds many surprises
but it has yet to produce an old-
er generation that praised its suc-
cessor generation as one more
promising and more fit to hold
the reins of power. No, the gen-
eral attitude has always been
pessimistic.
Each generation has assured
itself, with upraised hands of re-
jection and an air of profound
melancholy, that the younger
generation is the worst on record
and is surely going to Hades in
a hand basket. This holier-than-
thou attitude has gone on through
countless generations and cen-
turies.
Parade of Pessimism
If this parade of pessimism
were true, surely the human race
would have perished of incompe-
tence or moral malnutrition long
since. Yet. somehow, the earth
still circles the sun as before,
and holds more people who live
better and last longer than it
did when all these dark prophe-
cies of disaster first began to be
voiced.
The teen-agers we confront to-
day across our generation gap
are regarded as particularly ap-
palling. They enjoy the worst
press since Gutenberg came up
with movable type.
And I think ’’enjoy” is the right
word. In our adult hysteria we
have mesmerized ourselves into
believeing we have spawned a
new race of monsters, a youth
that has lost all idealism and
lives only for its own kicks and
selfish thrills.
Hysteria Recognized
Recognizing this hysteria and
amused by it, the kids enjoy scar-
ing the daylights out of their par-
ents by pretending to live up to
this caricature.
Many a grownup now sees the
typical teen-ager as if he were
viewing him in a Coney Island
amusement park distorting mir-
ror. He sees an unwashed, mop-
headed youngster with a mari-
juana cigarette dangling from
his lip and holding a hypoder-
mic needle in one hand and a
smoking pistol in the other.
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way, are as dedicated and as
idealistic as any that came be-
fore them.
The big differences seem to be
that they are less hypocritical,
less differential to their elders,
and since they prefer rock ‘n’
roll, that they march to the mus-
ic of a louder drummer.
Hallucination
One fact of the matter is that
the older generation today is the
most neurotic and terror-strick-
en in history. Hallucination and
aberration have become habitu-
al with us.
Perhaps if we simply quit push-
ing the panic button in ourselves
we wouldn’t be so panicky about
our offspring.
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At a squad meeting at
the end of April, Assistant
C.oach Bub Cronin asked
me if I had played in the
tournament in Oklahoma
inplaint that he City, Reese said.
“I told him that I had
and he said that it was nn-
ineligible.”
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I came back in August
and Coach MacLeod said
I was not eligible, Reese
said. He said he d give me
my tuition and books and
1 me a job.”
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Chilnick, Larry. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 55, No. 64, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1968, newspaper, December 12, 1968; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1829305/m1/6/?q=%22Accounting+Club%22+banquet: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.