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Monday, March 29, 1974
University Dally Kansan
KANSAN Comment
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Grad options rife
The University of Kansas is a highly diversified institution with abundant resources and countless opportunities for students to receive a liberal education, an education that gives them the freedom to plot their own future. Yet, when May 24 arrives and the graduates file down the hill for commencement exercises, how many will be totally satisfied with their education and ready to commit themselves to the careers they've trained for?
THERE are innumerable paths we can follow. But too many of us wear blinders and head down that one path we've prepared for without ever seeing the crossroads. We come to KU and pass through campus, leaving us with a lot of time. We enter our specific programs and become glued in until that walk down the hill.
As students, we should constantly be asking ourselves whether we are really considering all our options. It's impossible to experience every profession and then decide which is best for us. But it is important that we keep all options open and that we constantly reexamine our positions. Education is a life-long process. It doesn't end when you receive your diploma, so you shouldn't lock yourself into a category and proceed with tunnel vision.
THE SYSTEM WORKS against those who want to experience a wide variety of occupations. It usually takes years of training before you even have the opportunity to enter a particular field, much less decide whether it meets your needs. But even under these limitations, the options are there for those who seek a degree in computing, you can talk a diverse schedule of courses; you can seek out those instructors who care about students and can advise you wisely; and you can use the University's vast facilities to research areas of potential interest.
After graduation you can continue to examine your options thoughtfully and experience new areas of interest. If you lose interest in your work don't be afraid to pursue an education. Change should not be feared. It should be viewed as a challenge.
A meaningful life requires an open mind, a mind that views change not as time wasted, but as knowledge gained. As students we should be searching for a way of life that will best satisfy our needs, but we should also remember that the search doesn't end when we leave KU.
By John Johnston Contributing Writer
Overcoming everydayness
Wouldn't you agree that Being-in-the-world is primorially a unified phenomenon and as such is the basic existential for being You don't want You don't want You don't want to talk about Heidegger. Who's Martin Heidegger? You aren't interested in philosophy. How can you say that? Don't you realize that Heidegger does fun activities be constitutive for any further philosophical or theological system.
NO THANKS, I don't care for a cold shower, nor do I find today warm enough for jumping into water. I didn't think I'd and wouldn't eat that if I were.
When one comes from a two-hour session of the Heidegger seminar, which is taught by Gregory Schurfeider, assistant professor of philosophy, he helps students by stimulating conversation about For or the weather; he wants to deal with the structure of Being.
It's amazing how few people are really interested in learning. Being at every party I go to one will talk about Heldeger. Most people won't discuss philosophy at all, and only a few will argue about religion. A poor philosopher to do?
SCHUFREIDER'S COMPETENCE and unrelenting
enthusiasm elucidate Heidegger's landmark text, "Being and Time" and allow the student to enter the archee and esoteric consciousness of the philosopher.
myself; I'm not even a legitimate student of history. I am often long to realize that Heidegger had something revolutionary to say, something that was primordial and fun.
By John Hickey Contributing Writer
Now I'm no philosopher
I CAN'T EXPLAIN even the most primitive elements of what Hedgerday was talking about, and how ontology is so complex and intertwined that one needs a newly defined technical schema to understand Schafrider has trouble explaining it to his seminar after
requiring great diligence and patience just to understand what is going on without so much as beginning to decide whether he is right. Thus it isn't surprising that not many people are able to discuss Heidelberg.
WHAT IS surprising and even upsetting is that so many people are afraid of doing anything having to do with philosophy or theology. There seems to exist a hostile attitude with philosophy or theology.
the students have spent hours grappling with the text on their own. Heidegger himself uses more than 400 pages to write "The Time," and it all is published as an uncompiled fragment.
workers to concern themselves with ultimate questions. Going to work, paying the bills, planning a vacation and looking after the kids were enough to occupy most of them. But in a world where things are not as night expect more. Clearly we aren't all philosphers.
Indeed it is an awesome task
SOCIETY NEEDS people to devote themselves to producing goods and services. The disturbing thing is that such practical everyday concerns threaten our well-being, philosophical realm into exile with a group of intellectually elite professors. This tendency isn't, of course, a new one. The masses have never aspired to a high consciousness, but educated people have been willing to learn themselves with fundamental questions.
I don't mean to say that reading Heidelger will raise the question into an alpha state. Neither is studying philosophy the only way to break out of what Heidelger would call "average
APPROACHING A piece of music or a work of art aesthetically, considering an ethical problem in all its depth
and setting about the actualization of a religious concept are other examples of ways to express average everydayness.
When one listens to music, to example, too often the music is "turned on," but the listener is only passively listening. He is actively involved in doing something else, such as reading a newspaper. To encounter a piece of music in the aesthetic mode it might then listen to it as one can imagine 18th-century man who had no recorded music and only heard good music played once a year might have listened.
TO DEAL WITH an ethical problem in its depth might be to forget all ready-made cultural evaluations of the problem and consider the fundamental bases for the possible answers with respect to applications. To live religiously and work out theology within the factual horizon of possibility of one's own life.
Callaway 'scandal' result of harmful Watergate acid
After all, only when ontology becomes theoretically transparent can ontology-existenziell be used in formal justification. Right?
WASHINGTON — The Watergate experience is about what awful acids they used to warn in freshman chemistry. It
improprieties involving Callaway. Within hours Callaway virtually asked the teacher to temporarily leave of absence.
By James J.
Kilpatrick
(C) Washington Star Syndicate
keeper bit. Lately, time scarcely dites it. Lately the acid has been eating at a thoroughly decent American, Howard H. "Bo" Callaway. It's a sad business all around.
THERE WAS a time when we gave at least lip service—and usually more than lip service—to an old concept. This was the concept that a person, charged with some offense, should be regarded as innocent until proved guilty. There was also a moment to mitigate when we clung to Hewlett Kissinger has called "a minimum level of confidence" in persons in public life.
Ten days ago the Denver Post broke a story that Colorado's Senator Floyd F. Haskell would hold hearings on certain alleged
CALLAWAY SERVED as a member of the Georgia House from 1958 to 1966, and then from 1973 to 1974. May 1973, as secretary of the Army. He served in that capacity until July 4, 1975, when he resigned to be manager of Lord's campaign. Now he's out.
The corrosive effects of Watergate have terribly damaged those civilized Americans years have passed since that taint of corruption began to unfold. The acid still eats at human relationships. We live in a society where acid fumes of suspicion. As in a dream, I hear myself saying to an old friend, "If you've left a smoking pot, Bo, I've got to it. It was a hell of a thing to say.
ON THE MORNING of the 18th, when I interviewed Callaway, his eyes were red from tears or from sheer anger. He asked the lawyer's face, his face a study in misery. Bo is a West Point man, which is to say, a man of honor. He earns insists that he has done nothing criminal, and he argues these charges like a wound.
The story, briefly, is that in 1970, when he was simply private citizen Callaway, he and his brother-in-law, Ralph Mankiewicz, a land owner, are tract of land near Gunnison, Colorado. They obtained a joint-use permit from the Forest Service to develop a ski area on Crested Butte mountaintop. Including the investment of others, it's now an $11 million proposition.
Ford expressed his "full faith" in Callaway, but promptly suspended him. That was on March 13. By the 18th, the word was all over Washington that Rogers would be on the Night of the 18th, a local TV station reported flatly (and erroneously) that the White House had "announced" Rogers Morton, former comedian and secretary, would replace Callaway as campaign manager.
IN 1971, CALLAWAY and Walton applied for a supplementary permit to develop skirts on adjoining Snowgrass dams in western Minnesota and languaged while the Forest Service studied a comprehensive plan for the whole East River area. In January 1975, the service finally said and no: Snodgrass could be hired for five years or ten years. Callaway by this time was secretary of the Army. Callaway and Walton did what any other businessman would have done under identical conditions. The objected and asked for review.
Several months passed. On July 3, 1975, the day before he was to become Ford's cameraman, he confirmed in his Pentagon office with three Department of Agriculture and Forest Service officials. He insists he did not "summon" them; two of the officers were sent to Georgia. But he did press his request for reconsideration, and
WAS THIS A gross impropriety? It doesn't seem so to me. Hundreds of members of the State House are private business and professional interests while serving honorably in the House and Senate. No conflict of interest exists. Other charges against Callaway, involving a permit to arrange charter air service to Gunnison from the southeastern states seem equally dubious. The former governor of Callaway can even hope for exoneration. Meanwhile he lives under a cloud that casts a shadow like a stain; and neither Ford nor a political press make the acid go away.
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Editor
Carl Youns
in time the Forest Service reversed its earlier position.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
To the Editor:
New match-up slights independents
Readers Respond
In the March 10 issue of the Kansan, I read that, in the interest of fairness, KU-Y, Panhellenic and the Interfraternity Council had come up with a brand new way of alluring all book Chancellors. After reading the article, I have to wonder what fairness has to do with the new system.
FIRST OF ALL, Rock Chalk is supposed to be a University-wide event. If so, then all segments of the University should be correlated on a change How are they flowed through AURH nor ASHC was asked about the change. This hardly seems fair.
Had these other bodies been consulted, some interesting complication with this new system would have arisen.
Young team
Associate Editor Campus Editor Yael Abahakhull
Betty Haleyman
Associate campus Editor Greg Bessel
Assistant campus Editors Stewart Branwyn
Photo Editor David Crawshaw
Staff Photographers George Miller Jay Koehler
Warner Allen
Business Manager
Bert Bessie
Fraternities traditionally participate in Rock Chalk, so perhaps they can decide on the following year. Residence halls need to take some things into consideration, particularly the overall interest within the hall.
Assistant Business Manager Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager Classified Manager Debbie Service National Advertising Manager Bob Katterman Assistant Advertising Manager Carol Bailard Assistant Advertising Manager Carol Bailard
Unfortunately, next year's theme has not been announced, so how can these living groups commit themselves to spend the summer at Rock Chalk skit? It the theme turns out to be "Viva Las Vegas" or "Showgirls in Paradise," the whole effort is hopeless anyway because they are afraid that kind of production.
Secondly, unify fraternities, the people in a residence hall cannot very easily commit that hall to do a show the next year. You would first have to know that you are to be sufficient interest within the hall the next year. Unfortunately, to some extent you
don't even know who will be in the hall the next year.
IF THESE problems are not sufficient, what happens if a sorority or fraternity is unfortunate enough to be paired with another student might be able to throw in a thousand or two with no sweat, but a residence hall would have a bit of difficulty matching that sum and a scholarship hall would afford only so much fairness.
In the interest of fairness, KU-Y gave the residence halls a little time to think the problem over. They gave them two whole days! Furthermore, no formal mess was announced. The only mention I ever saw of the whole mess was in the Kan萨. Such low-key advertising can save money, but does little for the fairness idea, particularly when KU already knew which bread was going to compete before the story hit the paper.
forth some of preposterous opinion. One of your most recent offerings, "The Primal Urge" (March 9) has to be one of the best opinionsated ignorance ever published outside New York City. Pretenacious in tone and imbecile in style, it resorts to sophomore psychoanalysis to create a spotlight on American public opinion.
THE WHOLE impetus for the change came from the IFC, reportedly because of complaints on the way some fraternities chose their participation problem, why did KUY-change the rules for all the groups? Why not just reprimand the fraternities involved or make a policy that deals with the Greek system alone? Or if a University-wide change was implemnted, would the University in on the conversations? It's only fair!
THE GROWING disillusionment with detente is not, as Jim Bates solemnly urges, an outgrowth of some immature streak in our national culture to do with the "We're Number One!" mentality as Woody Hayes does with Alexander
Peter Orazem
Manhattan junior
Detente useless
To the Editor:
The 'Kansan Comment' column has been a never-ending source of amusement to me. The writer, the writer, the writer, the more smugly he puts
Solzhentysen. On the contrary, it's largely a widespread recognition of the bad faith consistently displayed by the Soviet Union. It is a perception shared by both traditionally liberal publications like "The New Republic" and "Commentary" and the more common traits like "National Review" and "Human Events." Overseas, concern about Soviet aggression is voiced by an even wider spectrum.
THE SHIFT in the international balance of power toward the Soviet Union is also changing. The United States is changing in public opinion on
defense spending. Apparently Mr. Bates would prefer the West to adopt an orchid-like approach toward Russian imperialism in order to return to a “cold war mentality.” No amount of rhetoric or rationalization, however, will prevent the fact that running for president in the United States and its allies. The only real question left is how and when the Kremlin will take charge of a newfound military superiority.
Mr. Bates takes great comfort in the rather shopworn view that we have nothing to worry about so long as the United States has enough nuclear weapons "to destroy the world
several times over." Any steps taken to prevent our conventional forces from withering away, would be, in his words, "chidishl" This, in itself, reveals a forening navate on terrorists for the neighering "eggs" in the nuclear basket, we would deny ourselves any flexibility in dealing with the confrontations that are sure to come in the years ahead. Faced with Russian expansionist drives threatening our national interests, we would be left with distasteful choices: abject surrender or atomic holocaust.
Dwight Sutherland Overland Park 2nd year law student