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Thursday, November 13. 1975
University Daily Kansan
Bars on probation
What could have been a divisive confrontation has been averted. Cool reasoning prevailed over emotional pleas at Tuesday night's Lawrence City Commission meeting, and, as a result, bars east of campus will continue to be permitted to sell beer following home KU football games.
It would indeed have been a foolish and dangerous mistake for the commission to have decided against the bars' sales on game days, but it would have been equally foolish for the commission to passively accept the disturbing revelery that had become a part of post-game scenes at 14th and Ohio streets.
The commission and the bar owners, however, were able to reach a successful compromise. An extensively documented alternative to Saturday
closings was unanimously approved by the commission; its impact is equivalent to planning a city that they make every effort to solve their crowd-control problems.
Certainly, their problems of unruly crowds, disrespect for security personnel and widespread littering can be corrected. But this can happen because they do not help during their partying following the Colorado and Missouri games.
A full-page advertisement appearing elsewhere in today's Kansan explains the fine points of the bar owners' plans for crowd control. Although adoption of the new rules will require that some old habits be changed, the regulations certainly don't appear too stiff when considered in light of the alternatives.
Dennis Ellsworth Editor
What he suggested was that his fair-weather friend in the Oval Office was a president who couldn't run the country and manage his own party simultaneously.
Mary McGrory
WASHINGTON — Nelson Rockefeller didn't go quite so far as Lyndon Johnson, who characterized Gerald Ford as a man who couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time—but Rockefeller was in the neighborhood.
Rockefeller always looks best leaning into right-wing boos, and his first post-surrender press conference was the demonstration he wrestled tenure as aardvark Ford's stand-in.
"A MINORITY OF A minority" was Rockefeller's dismissive phrase for the right-wing monster to which he fed himself last Monday without a murmur of dismay at the day he was pleading for his confirmation as vice president.
Ford faces Rocky road
Royal a delight for city girls
It's November, and once again the city of Kansas City, Mo., is playing host to the American Royal, the 77th edition of one of the largest livestock exhibitions in the world.
Boots, barrels, bulls
In the past few years it's been debated whether the show should be kept alive, or whether
this last reminder of Kansas City's downtown heritage should be put out to pasture. Royal Hotel in Kansas City should be continued. They point to research indicating that more money comes into the city during Royal time than during its peak, a month or two a week. In addition, they like to emphasize that show exhibitors return to their homes across the country with the grand impressions of Kansas City.
I CAN REMEMBER attending the American Royal when I was so small that my feet dangled inches above the floor as I sat in the old Royal building's wooden chairs. My sister and I, our hair in piks and boots adorning our feet, would sit through the endless horsemanship classes until the fidges got the best of us. Then we'd take off for "down under" the arena, where the western stores and other exhibitors hawked their wares. Wed a show at the booths exhibits, entering our names in drawings for boots and saddles and cheeses and hams.
kept alive, however. Perhaps I'm over nostalgic, but even now the thought of the Royal and all the hoopla that comes with her is a little misty and sends me on a trip back through time.
We'd walk slowly through the endless rows of horse stalls, swathe them in a flourish, sweaty, high-strung show horses, our eyes widening with
Paula Jolly Contributing Writer
wonder as we gazed at the colorful ribbons that bespoke a successful day in the show ring.
successful day in the show ring.
We also stared in wonder at the boys who were members of the Future Farmers of America, for they were almost a breed unknown to us, city girls that we were. We started and enjoyed them as children and enviwed them for their lives among animals, a life we also wanted to be a part of.
WE ALWAYS KEPT OUR eyes on the time, however, for we wanted to be back at the arena for the high point of the race. We waited in the rain race. Wed's sit on the edges of our seats, my sister and I, talking the contestants' horses around every barrel, gasping if they failed or alipped and running with a lightning dash for the finish.
The very sight of these fearless cowgirls and their nimple barrel racers inspired us for weeks afterward, and we'd save every penny for horse rides at the local stable. When
we tired of practicing barrel racing, we'd stick small tree limbs into the ground and race by at a gallon, leaping far over to snatch them up. We were delighted with our cowboy quality," and we dreamed of entering the race at the American Royal.
My sister and I are both adults now and live hundreds of miles apart, but we both have carried with us a respect for the people who ranches—a respect we might not have developed if we hadn't been exposed to those people at the Royal.
SO ALTHOUGH IT'S GREAT that the American Roy makes money for Kansas City, and although it's wonderful that it contributes to the city's good image, it's even better that it gives city kids a glimpse into the world beyond the city manicured suburbs. It sure influenced two little city girls who galloped through childhood on their way to the adult world.
His hair has taken on a curious ginger-to-cinnamon hue, but he has at least risen from his knees. The long groveling struggle to stiffen up has made him right that he is one of them is over, at least for the moment.
A certain crispness, unacceptable in a vice president who must ever spray his principal hair with colloidal anhydrous or his usually cluttered expression. A steady stream of "yes" and "no" answers bespoke a man who has at last been freed from the seabird sediment, a dartboard for Bo Callaway.
THIS TIME LAST YEAR,
when Rockefeller was whining
and guiding him away through his
confirmation hearings, the town
was a swash in predictions that
Grand Rapids, that the
Rockefeller staff would quickly
take over the White House.
What happened was completely contrary. The Rockefeller self-confidence, Rockefeller self-confidence, for nothing against the
absolute brute power of the Oval Office. The humiliation began.
THE ROCKEFELLER STAFF tried without success to persuade the Ford people to take on Ronald Reagan organizationally. Their thought was to mount a presidential debate, and argue that the upstart would be instantly overwhelmed.
In July, he was labeled Fords "No.1 problem" and "liability" by Bo Callaway, the small-bore Southern politician who manages the Ford campaign and who, significantly, went against him. It could all have been different, the vice president hinted, at once airy and grim. He knows nothing about the President's campaign. The unspoken corollary was the fact that he had to about it. Rockefeller came to Washington to solve problems; the President is brooding over politics.
But Ford preferred to dash through the countryside taking
FORTUNELY FOR Rockefeller, family and political interests have converged currently in a way to provide him a graceful and rather showy exit. He has proclaimed his dissent from the President over New York City, where he fortunes and pride are deeply engaged. While the President continues to kick the Gothamians for their sinful
bows-and potatoes. And being human, he preferred to hear from his courtiers that Rockefeller was his problem. Rockefeller campaigned campaign effort in New Hampshire—predated largely by Republicans who would have gone with Ford if asked—apparently the air alarm and rampage at the White House, rampage at the White House.
A Reagante, unmoved by the Rockefeller exodus at the height of the panic, said dryly, "He had not found anyone. There hasn't been any great march to Gerald Ford since Monday."
WHEN THE TIME COMES that Gerald Ford needs every that veteran, a Rockefeller may give it, but at a price that may cause Ford to wish he hadn't resigned quite so promptly.
Nelson Rockefeller, retired syspont, can make trouble. A dissenting vice president will hardly add to the image of a strong and coping chief which the "gypsy" was supposed to produce. There is no thought that Rockefeller will disappear. With Nelson Rockefeller, it is always, as Republicans know, "au revoir," but not goodbye.
ways, Nelson Rockefeller is going to try to help them.
Gerald Ford has lost excess baggage, perhaps, but he has gained a new headache. Rockefeller has never been able to dominate the Republican party, but he has done much best for its presidential nomination, a certain skill in答拭它.
(c) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate Inc.
Readers Respond / Decision on Shockley lampooned
To the Editor:
The CU-A (Can't understand anything) executive board, following the lead of the SUA (Silly Undergraduate Student Association) not to invite President Gerald R. Week to speak here this week.
CUA-member Liv Inacave, Reactionary junior, said that if CUA-offered Ford a forum to discuss his views as supportive of him and his policies. The issue of freedom of speech, which the board considered when making its comments, has been made by this image. Inacave image.
"If you support economic policy, you ARE economic policy," he added.
ONE BOARD MEMBER, who tactfully declined to identify himself, said, "It wouldn't be proper to sponsor Ford just so we could enlighten the student body."
Two other board members, who talked to Ford by telephone, said he was difficult to explain his prone to manipulating words.
NIXON SUGGESTED possible adverse effects to Ford's talk might include the painting of the Chi Omega fountain, beer drinking students miling about in the streets and collapse collapse. Saturday against Colorado's football team.
Rich尼克 CUA-activities adviser, said CUA-wa was concerned with the speech and the integrity of the intellectual community on one side, and with possible adverse impact on the communist community on the other.
"We must face what effects Ford might have on our comrade brothers and comrade sisters," he said.
Leavne Alone, a member of the January Second Movement, a campus organization that says it is opposed to capitalism and freedom, said extending an invitation to Ford to speak here would be similar to placing a rubber stamp on democracy.
Ford and any other democratic leader is that Ford is accident prone." Alone said.
He added that, in the name of oppression, the group would actively oppose Ford's appearance here.
DARK RED TOLD the board it was the Continental Communist Committee's opinion that Ford represented a threat to democracy, and that Ford had numerous opportunities to air his views through newspaper and magazine articles, but that the victims of democracy hadn't as much power for presenting their opinions.
Red urged CU-A to invite someone to speak who is against democracy, instead of inviting a promoter of capitalism.
A previous Ford speaking engagement was cancelled by SIA, with the group citing as its reason a desire to prevent possible divisiveness here at the University of Conservation.
"The only difference between
Debate supported
Steve Clark Hays junior
I am totally convinced of the good intentions of the parties involved in the decision to cancel the planned speech of President Obama, winning physicist, but I am equally convinced that such an action can only counteract those good intentions. I am amazed at the clear and uncontroversial clear to everyone involved. Personally, I disagree with Shockley's theories (that blacks are genetically inferior to whites in intelligence) because he is unaware of unbound scientific evidence.
To the Editor:
UPON READING THE reasons given for the decision, as stated in the Nov. 11 Kansan, I would have laughed-if I hadn't been crying so hard. I wouldn't have rebultal of all of the fallacious arguments used to support the decision; instead, I will try to
concentrate on the gist of the issue.
First, there is an apparently ubiquitous use of the words "might" and "possibly," indicating that ample thought has been given to the improbable harms that could result from open discussions, but the little that has been learned about the definite harms that are results of censorship (there is no sweeter name for it).
Two logical conclusions can be drawn by me, an average student, from this situation: I know that I should not be in his theories (Heaven forbid!) and certain campus groups are afraid that I might learn of this truth; or Shockley is wrong in my reading; or I don't appear ignorant that I won't be able to decide this for myself, and it is therefore much better to let unbaked groups as the foundation of movement do my thinking for me.
SECOND, THE IDEA that, in allowing Shockley to speak, the University would be supporting his views, is totally fallacious. If this were true, then tolerance will have been improved; a view that I am afraid few philosophy professors would agree with. Finally, the idea that, in spite of cancelling an invitation to Shockley, avenues are still open because they are not equally as wrong. Shockley's theories are the issue right now, but most students, being what they are, will form and confirm their opinions on the basis of blind ignorance and false information. We are available to these students was Shockley's speech.
This whole affair is nothing more or less than a manifestation of a total lack of faith in democracy and its underlying base, freedom of speech. If controversial views can't be expressed on a democratic basis, a democratic nation, where then, may I ask, can they be expressed? Since when do the few have the right to 'cécide right and wrong for the many?'
IF SHOCKLEY IS wrong.
then I submit that no one would be harmed by public exposure of his falsehood; everyone is harmed by the doubts and fears that are the invariable results of repression and censorship, whether it be censorship of the right or of the left.
"I am sure that white racists will use this letter to vilify blacks and black racists will use it to vilify me, but I am less aware of the ignorance than with that form that sawns censorship.
Bernard Johnston Wichita freshman
Fallacy cited
SO WHAT IF SOME groups present creation in a comic book format? If someone made a comic book explaining evolution, that wouldn't disprove evolution. There is literature written at a "audience" that can person read books and magazines presenting either side of the controversy.
the letter of Gowald Schwartz (in the Nov. 6 Kansas) was applauded by "hard-core evolutionists" and booed by "conservatives" who generated little light for open-minded bystanders. I wish to point out weaknesses and inconsistencies in his letter. Schwartz accuses Henry Morris, a professor who lectured her on nationalism theories, of logical fallacy but alips into himself.
To the Editor:
The complaint is made that creationists will never find evidence that contradicts their theory. Of course not. Both creationists and evolutionists can explain every fact of the universe in terms of either creation or evolution.
Some fossils are found to be out of sequence. Evolutionists get around this by postulating that thrust faults caused rearrangement of the rocks. Over time, there were more than seven billion light years away. Creationists then invoke curvature of space to
explain that light took a short-
time and arrived here in a short
time. The problem isn't with
them, but with inter-
interpretation.
IT IS INAPPROPRIATE to reject a theory because it is based on the Bible. Facts don't speak for themselves. Theories are often not true. The ring structure of benzene was literally dreamed up by a scientist in his sleep; yet, it is accepted because it fits the geometry of benzene man* 'is the most famous of all lorical fallacies.
Debates are fun, but when participants wander away from the issues they "generate more heat than light." I have tried to bring attention back to pertinent issues. If I haven't succeeded, I urge someone else to pick up where I left off.
Shawnee Mission senior
The debate involves "ideas as complex as the species question, fossil formation, continental drift, teleology and entropy and the nature of scientific proof. Few people are conversant with many of these topics. If a person can't understand the applications of these concepts, then how can he evaluate the evolutionist's approach to them? Schwartz needs no need to take a critical look at the theory because we see why anyone else should.
Bill Dean
Kilpatrick excoriated
A recent issue of your newspaper included a column by James J. Klibattrick (Oct. 15 Kansan) concerned the Child and Family Services legislation pending before Congress. This column contained so many ideas that made charges that we at the primary sponsors of this measure in the Senate and the House of Representatives, are writing to set the record straight.
To the Editor:
Kilpatrick claims, quite incorrectly, that this legislation is
IT IS NO ACCIDENT, then, that a wide range of civic and religious organizations who are affiliated or tested on it have specifically endorsed it as "family strengthening." These organizations include the Roman Catholic Church, the Baptist Church, the United Methodist Church and the Lutheran Church.
"family weakening"; that it will make government "the prime parent of millions of children"; that it places parents in a "merely advisory role"; that it will lead to the "societization of the American family."
There isn't a shred of truth in any of these charges. If there were, we wouldn't be sponsoring this bill.
Every program would be totally voluntary and specifically limited to children treated in the service. And, parental control is guaranteed by requirements in the bill that every program funded be selected, directed, and supervised by those whose children participate in it.
Reasonable people may disagree about the extent to which a citizen can afford to fund legislation of this kind; which services should be authorized; how a program should be administered; and the like.
WHAT THIS PROPOSAL seeks to do, instead, is to strengthen and support families in their efforts to provide their children-on a totally voluntary basis to education and other services they want for them but too often can't afford. Thus, it authorizes funding for a variety of services, including prenatal health care, medical treatment to detect and treat any hatching conditions and care services for children of working mothers.
But the debates over issues such as these should be based on the facts, and decided on the basis of the d'other especially to totally
To the KU Football Team: Congratulations!
Crowd will change
Rep. John Brademas, D-Ind.
Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn.
misrepresent the purpose and provisions of the legislation under discussion—is a disservice to all Americans concerned about families and children.
This Saturday will be different. Until now, the KU fans have had to accept that they will and have shown their appreciation for your efforts even when you have lost. This Saturday they will come to see a win. They want accept less. They want you to accept less. Therefore they will expect it.
This Saturday you will be subjected to the pressures of a winning team. You have
destroyed the objectivity of the KU fan. The rebuilding year is an August excuse. Injuries are for the benefit of the opposing coach and team. Errors by the opponents were planned to be avoided, but no lack involved. There is the aroma of a bowl game in the air.
Next Saturday, you will have the home crowd that only winning teams can have. Please don't disappoint them.
If you are still savoring your recent past by the time you read this, you are destined to discover how fiddle fans can be successful. Next Saturday, Memorial Stadium will be packed by fans who will do all that fans can do to keep their winner winning. There will be no appreciation for a great effort that doesn't win.
Mike Kimbrough
Lawrence graduate student
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