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Tuesday, November 18. 1975
University Dally Kansan
A woman Justice
Now that William O. Douglas, the most powerful liberal ever to serve on the Supreme Court, has retired, President Gerald R. Ford is left with the task of finding a successor to fill Douglas's shoes.
It is truly a difficult task, for Douglas was not just a highly respected and influential justice. He has participated in countless court cases ever made by the Supreme Court.
Ford's list of possible successors, which included a Jew (Edard Levi) and several women, came as a surprise to those who expected him to appoint a typical (white, Protestant male) conservative.
Appointing a woman to the Supreme Court would be a wise political move on Ford's part that would probably win him several votes in 1976. It could also be highly beneficial to the Court to have a woman justice, however.
Now that Douglas has resigned, the Court is composed of four conservatives, two "swing" justices and two liberals. The outcome of the decisions on several key questions the Supreme Court will decide this term, including the death penalty and reverse discrimination, may hinge on the political views of the new Ford appointee.
Because women have been part of the political process a shorter time than men have, perhaps a woman justice advocate has less susceptible to political pressures.
Probably the most qualified woman suggested by Ford was Shirley Huf-
stedler of Los Angeles, a judge on the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Hufstedler has been an integral part of the judicial process for some time and is the founder of the legal expertise and experience as any man Ford could have nominated.
The least appropriate woman suggested by Ford was Carla A. Hills, secretary of housing and urban development. Hills' rise to a prominent position from out of nowhere is indeed a "Cinderella" story. Unlike the other women, Hills isn't directly involved in the judicial process. Her role is purely political and her appointment was the direct result of partisan politics.
If Ford appointed Hills to the Supreme Court, he would lose the primary advantage of selecting a female justice—deed freedom from partisan political pressure.
Throughout history, people have had faith in the Supreme Court because it seemed somehow removed from the sordid, dog-eat-dog game of politics. This trust in the fairness and objectivity of the judicial system appoints an experienced, well-qualified female justice, such as Hufstedder, to fill the vacancy.
If, however, he chooses a woman such as Hills, who will act in accord with the politics of the Ford administration, the Supreme Court will be no better off than Hills, the commissioners of the company male justice that Douglas and others feared he would.
Jain Penner Contributing Writer
Jain Penner
Achtung!
This certainly is a small world. Take, for example, a letter that appeared in my book about day. It was from Argentina!
Achtung!
Congrats from the past
"Mein kinder.
The stamps, being mauve and burgundy, aroused my philatelic curiosity. But the contents of the letter were even more interesting. Let me share it with you.
"You have overjoyed my heart so, I cannot say the words to thankking you. We in Argentina have just heard the news of the cancellation of a trip your Kansas of university.
"This man, he say things against the state and its laws, maybe? So, you have crazy people who permit such a roster of rabble to speak mit freedom? Ach, this 'freedom' is relative! Speaking of relatives, I have many friends who wish also gratitudes to express.
make impossible the gurglings of impossible speaker Walter Schoecko. You know, as I knew, that unpopular breeds discontent. Nevermind those which such this 'freedom of speech.'
"Such an action does good to soul of mine. You were right to
"I do not understand the thoughts of the mashugginahs who want this man speaking.
Ward Harkavy Contributing Writer
time and trouble for your fellow country inhabitants who could other things to be doing.
“Another thing to that me has trouble to me for me. You have a thing that is named 'academic gymnasium'. Is it exactly? Is it that anyone say anything he want to in your gymnasium? Gots in Himmel! Such permitting of speaking is hard. I know, there have been.
"This 'academic freedom' must judged to be something only convenient to good state. However, it good 'thing' to call when times say so to do it. But must be used no of all times.
"Another thing that heartens my heart. Those newspapers always get in the way, don't you? These rags that printing of untruths and speakers mit forked tongue also supporting these schweinfus? You later learned it wasn't easy to stop. Newspapers printing only true proof; printing not for good of state and its policy shirts. Beside, what if man writes this with such Schwein to say so?"
"You know happening when such 'freedom' out of control? Good ideas also and always lose when blitzkrieg bad thoughts overcome them. What is this Milton's last name? It must be Elseusden or similar. He the man who knifes and says that truth sell better in marketplace. That's not true, I know.
"This racism I am understand completely. Long I performed such things. This keeping of the schlep
James J. Kilpatrick
Legal service possible disaster
WASHINGTON—The new Legal Services Corporation, launched with great hope a year ago, now promises to become a disaster instead. Legal activists have taken charge. The eager lawyers and their clients same old stand, gnawing away at a noble ideal.
executive vice president of the corporation.
Schoekoon speaking from does job of good to keep inferiors and superiors妙. Mt knowledge, together they might get!
not to let false speakers your not agree with speak.
"If remember that you do,
maybe soon I visit your country.
You doing things I like now!
Nicht wahr?"
attorney Glen Stophel of Chattanooga abstained. The chairman's caustic attitude tilted at the judge. F. Brugge set tongues wagging.
The corporation president is to be Thomas Ehrlich, 38, dean of Stanford University Law School. A socially minded activist, Ehrlich is identified in California with a proposal to compel lawyers from the state to cooperate with client's. A Stanford associate says Ehrlich has a "keen mind and a strong sense of power."
It has all gone sour. Instead of a strong board headed by a skilled chairman, we have a wishy-washy board and a divisive chairman. Such a board could be tolerated if the fulltime staff commanded confidence, but the newly appointed staff evokes dismay. The staff would be to nullified and circumvented. A worse beginning could scarcely be imagined.
"Mein family just return from church where instructed them I did to say plenty 'amins'
President Ford may yet salvage something. Board member William J. Wanklow of South Dakota resigned two
weeks ago, never having attended a meeting. If Ford will nominate a respected and strong-minded conservative in its place, bad beginning made me correct, correcting the maddening prospect isn't for legal aid only, but for legal activism also.
"Please, when other speakers your not liking happen at your gymnasium, throw them out. This will be good, too. This 'freedom' means good, too."
Forgive me, if you will, a personal word: This story hurts. Against the warning and advice of my brother consummate his creation creating the Legal Services Corporation. The idea was to set up a permanent agency to assist the poor in coping with the law—and the idea is sound. To provide a lawyer for the family who cannot cope with the need to help the ignorant old woman who cannot cope with Social Security, to course! the gullible debtor bounced by powerful creditors—to give the little people of our society a fair chance at an obligation of fairness, decency and right.
"Fondestly,
"A. Shickelgruber"
(c) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate Inc.
The chairman, unhappily, is Roger C. Cramton, dean of the Cornell Law School. He doubtless has many good qualities, but the White House was warned in advance that the rampage that晨光-handed Last week's events demonstrated the truth of the warning. Cramton rammed through the election of two radically oriented law school deans as president and
for you and courageous actions of yours.
Much of the blame for this flaço rests upon Gerald Ford. It was his responsibility to find the right nominees for the board and to fight their competition. Ford much interested. Two of his nominees asked that their names be withdrawn; a third nominee lost in Senate committee. Ford indifferently sent two nominees to an 11-man board confirmed. In the nature of things, we expected—and we got—a handful of liberal members. But with Ford in the White House, conservatives had a right to control the conservative majority. It hasn't turned out that way.
"Fondestlv.
At the board's Oct. 6 meeting,
nine members were present.
They voted unanimously for
their nomination. The Cramton presented Bamberger's name, four members balked. They had read a Human Events article reviewing Bamberger's record, and they wanted to see him. On a showdown vote,
former Senator Marlow Cook of
Kentucky and former
Congressman Mel Broughton of
New York vetoed Bamberger. Prof. Marshall Jordan Broder of Texas and
That was what the new Legal Services Corporation was intended to provide. Congress discredited the former legal services program within the Office of Economic Opportunity. Through what was the Green Letter, an investigator, mentor, and caretaker woman Edith Green of Oregon, Congress specifically repudiated the "backup" centers that fueled the radical government last was adopted, we thought we had a pretty good act.
Ehrlich alone might be human. As the weekly Human Events observes, what information he gets from Ehrlich's inception upon F. Clinton Bammer Jr., dean of Catholic University Law School, as his executive officer. Bammer is a former member of the National Aid and Defenders Association. He has been a storm center at Catholic University, where the student newspaper once charged him with "playing with politics and opportunism."
TONIGHT...A MYSTERIOUSLY CLOAKED FIGURE WAS
REPORTED HANDING OUT DIMES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE'
Readers Respond/
Fantastic.
To the Editor:
The February First Movement has really done it. They have established themselves as THE college protest group of 1975 by driving William Skidmore in the process in the put Gibbon Brown and Austin McElroy on page one of the Lawrence Journal-World. They've become known. They've also revealed themselves to be a typical protest group from 1968, raised by suppressing all other voices. is this human rights?
The protesters' one-way interpretation of freedom of speech and their Thursday temper tantrum seem to reveal that they have known what was going on during the '60s campus activism period, or just too blind to learn from it. Their noisy ouster of approximately minus three years, and leaves Schockley's
"All the people must unite," indeed—but the way to get them to do it isn't to antagonize them. The movement's technique of persuasion is like that of the American colonists, when he can make himself understood. It's just as irrational and just as fruitless.
image better. Einstein's theories were decried the same way.
John Mitchell Leavenworth sophomore
John Mitchell
Disruption wrong
To the Editor:
This letter is in reply to the interruption of Prof. Shockley's discussion by a group of students on Thursday, Nov. 13, and the ejection of Shockley from the campus.
right to oppose Shockley's views. It doesn't have freedom to infringe on the rights of others. The dissenters were not displeased, but don't dispute their ideas, we disagree with their actions.
Shockley was present at the invitation of a class and should have been able to express his opinions freely. The protesting students' presence in that classroom violated the Student Responsibilities, which guarantee the right of free discussion in the classroom and prohibits behavior that interferes with University functions. They also violated Shockley's constitutional right of free speech. Regardless of his views, he had the freedom to express his opinions to speak and to speak and the students had the right to listen without unjustified interruptions.
Why did this group think they had to keep Shockley from speaking? What were they afraid of? Were they afraid to let people listen to a dissenting view?
This group certainly has a
Personally, we feel that any intelligent person can see the flaws in Shockley's theories and deal with them rationally. Yet, this group would not allow the director to or discuss Shockley's views.
Such disruptions can't be allowed if the University wishes to continue in a free academic spirit. To allow such actions to take place, it is a dampening of spirit on when the University was founded.
Lyle Elliott
Circleville sophomore
Stephen Lauer
Leasow sophomore
Merle Medley
Prairie Village sophomore
Society's danger
To the Editor:
The genetic theory held by Dr. Shockley has never concerned me as either scientifically important or socially relevant. And yet, the recent action taken by the Student Union Board and the black students who effectively barred Mr.
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Protesters forget lessons
The Daily Kansan welcomes letters to the editor, but asks that letters be typewritten, double-spaced and no longer than 300 words. All letters are printed on standard letterhead according to space limitations and the editor's judgment, and must be signed. KU students must provide their name, year in school and homebound; faculty must provide their name and position; must provide their name and address.
Shockley from presenting his viewpoint should be of concern to every student and faculty member at KU.
When a speaker is not permitted to present a socially unpopular position within the community, or in a community, either due to coercion or the fear of repercussions, the society is in a much more dangerous danger and may otherwise seem apointent.
It would also seem evident that there is a real need for the redefinition of the words "liberal" and "inlectual" to suit their more current application.
This perverted situation has left me with an increased admiration for the singular courage of Mr. Shockley' displays in accepting the alienation of a large segment of
his peers as a consequence to holding a viewpoint which is not currently in vogue.
Michael Stewart Eudora
Thank you for giving us something to brag about down here! We've had to suffer because of the severe weather coverage, the Barry Switzer Show and other Oklahoma propaganda here in "Sooner Country," but now they will listen when we tell them we're doing it. Congratulations on a great win and keep up the good work!
To the KU Football Team and Coaches:
KU OK in Texas
Jill and Dave McCaskill 1975 KU graduates Pampa, Texas
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