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Wednesday, November 12, 1975
University Daily Kansan
COMMENT
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Case misses point
The decision finally came in on the Karen Ann Quinlan case this week. New Jersey Superior Court Judge Robert Muir Jr. rejected the request of Karen's brother, Quinlan, that he be permitted to unpile the respirator that keeps Karen alive.
Those who advocate legalized euthanasia in cases such as Karen's have often argued that Karen is for all intents and purposes dead, because she isn't aware of her surroundings and has always chance to regain almighty awareness because brain death addition, they have said that she has no chance of living a normal life.
On the other hand, critics have raised doubts about the wisdom of legalizing any form of euthanasia. One critic recently wrote that court-sanctioned euthanasia for Karen Ann Quinlan would have awesome consequences. Karen is alive by any legal or moral definition, he said. Her heart beats. She shows brain waves on EEG tests. She occasionally blinks and swims. If she is ill, she is pulled out of the respirator plug, the critic said, it would "for the first time in our history legalize the killing of an innocent person," the critic said.
It's interesting that while the controversy over Karen Ann Quinlan's "right to life" rages, no one connected
with the case has yet publicly mentioned similar situations in which many other defenseless individuals are deprived of their right to life. They, too, have brain waves and heart beats. They swallow. By the definitions used for Karen Ann Quinlan, they are alive—and indeed, they exhibit a much greater potential for living a normal, useful life than Karen Ann Quinlan does.
These defenseless individuals are the unborn human beings who, during or after the fourth month of their lives, are often aborted.
Abortion has been legalized for pregnancies of up to three months, but abortions during the later stages of pregnancy are nevertheless often performed. Individuals associated with hospitals have told me of fetuses whose hearts were beating and were aborted. Yet these fetuses were wrapped in newspaper for the trip to the incinerator.
It's pathetic that so much rhetoric should be devoted to Karen Ann Quinlan's right to life when the abortions of fetuses that demonstrate the same kind of life are quietly aborted. The double standard that was argued in this case should not be allowed to continue.
Paula Jollv
Paula Jolly Contributing Writer
James J. Kilpatrick
Right wing does Ford wrong
The late Alben Barkley used to tell the tale, but the story of the ungrateful constituent Cicero was young. It is the oldest pay in politics, and it has hardly application.
Past upsets also sweet
Pigskin shockers traditional
Some perhaps overly exuberant fans have already been upset in KU football history. Coach Bud Moore even went further; according to him, it might victory in football. period
University of Kansas football fans are basking in unexpected glory this week after the Jayhawks shocked Oklahoma in a 23-1 win last Saturday in Norman, Okla.
HOWEVER GREAT the victory may have been, it was not unprecedented in the up and down history of Jayhawk football. A perusal of old records shows that past KU football teams have pulled off some big surprises, too.
One of the earliest upests resulted in only a tie, but it firmly established the Jayhawk carefulness and determination.
That game is remembered today as the one "that built Memorial Stadium." Until 1921, football games were played at McCook Field, adjacent to the present Memorial Stadium.
The date was Nov. 13, 1920. It was homecoming at KU, and the opponent was powerful Nebraska. Coaching the Jayhawks was the legendary Forrest C. Wainwright in his first as asilid dancer and his only year as football coach.
NEBRASKA HAD forged a 20-10 lead by halftime. But the Jayhawks hadn't started yet. Quarterback DL Donlonborg, later to become KU athletic team, threw back tuckdown passes to the most furious comebacks ever seen by KU fans.
and faculty held a mass meeting and pledged $200,000 to start a million dollar drive for a new stadium. The efforts led to the construction of Memorial Stadium the next year.
The next Monday, students
In recent times, the Jayhawks
David Olson Contributing Writer
have pulled over even bigger surprises. KU triumphantly won its first conference title since 1930 when it downed the Missouri Tigers, 23-7, on Nov. 19, 1960, in Columbia. The Tigers were previously unbeaten and were ranked on one of their records. They had just accepted an invitation to play in the Orange Row.
ALTHOUGH KU later had to forfeit this victory, and another one over Colorado, for the use of an ineligible player, the Jayhawks were the better team on the field that day.
The KU defense held the Tigers scoreless in the first half, then made their move in the third quarter when an opened scoring with a 47-yard field goal. two minutes later, Quarterback John Hadl passed 18 yards to Bert Coan for a touchdown. On the day, scored again from the Missouri two-line-durf to ice the victory. KU scored again on a pass from Roger McFarlane to Simpson, ending the scoring.
KU's victory over Oklahoma in 1964 was a thriller that saw the Jayhawks win, 15-14, on two point conversion with no time left on the clock. Mike Johnson, junior halfback, scored on a reverse to give KU the victory. There was some
excitement at the outset of the game, too. Gale Sayers returned the opening kickoff 89 vards for a touchdown.
IN 1987, the annual battle between KU and Nebraska figured to be an aerial duel between the two top passers in the Big Eight, the Jayhawks' Bobby Douglass and the Cornyn-Kanas prognosticators picked Nebraska by a 24-7 score. Again, the Jayhawks just didn't listen.
All-American defensive end
All-Zook led an inspired
defense that shut out the sun-
sore. At 10-9, Zook made 15 tackles and
10-9. Zook made 15 tackles and
caused a fumble in one of his finest collegiate games. The defense limited Nebraska to 72 points and two players in overweight 239 yards a game.
The nature of Saturday's victory over Oklahoma places it among KU's greatest. Everything pointed to a Sooner win. However, the Jayhawks would have none of it. Battered by a run on Saturday, weave the best barmen Owen Field on May 19, 1975.
This should be an enjoyable week for KU football fans. And in 20 years, we can tell our children that KU actually beat Oklahoma when we were in college.
In the Veep's version, he was campaigning one day in Breathitt County, down around Hazard, when an old mountaineer told him straightout that he was going to support Barkley's opponent in the next election. The Veep was outdone.
"Why, 'Teece,' he said, "the first thing I did, once I got to be senator, was to make your Maw postmistress at Hardsell. I got to go to the university marshal in Lexington, and he can't even read. Last year I saw you got your crop loan, and when your Cousin Lily got in a couple of months ago, I sent her the government book "lau."
"That's all true," said Teece, rolling his good eye, "and i don't want you to think I've forgotten. But, Senator, what have you done for me lately?"
GERALD FORD is suffering these days from the Barkley Syndrome. Over the past nine months, in an effort to please Republican right-wingers, he joined a group of honorary citizenship for Genghis Khan. He lifted their hearty wings with Mayaguez.
He has vetoed a string of big-spending bills. He has denounced excessive federal regulation. He has rejected the pleas of sinful Manhattan. Last month, he criticized critics the head and hide of Nelson Rockefeller. Has he thus won their hearts and minds? Does theoirs is the Barking question what's he done for them lately?
THIS IS THE EARY it is. Nothing on this earth—nothing under moon or sun—will satisfy Mr. Ford's conservative critics. Willy-nilly, they will keep picking at him. He is their Mt. Everest: They climb him because he is there. Some fellow on television the other night was saying that Gerald Ford is the most conservative president since Hoover. I would have written a memoir of servative president since McKinley. No matter. He is Mr. Nice Guy. My troglodyte brothers can't stand him.
The dramatic events of a week ago will not improve matters. In dumping Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, Mr. Ford dumped the ablest candidate in the Senate figure most admired on the right. In bringing Elliot Richardson back from England as secretary of commerce, Mr. Ford has honored a liberal viewed with dour suspicion. In what he said Richardson's spot, the President has boosted the career of an unrelieable whisperperson too clever by half. So what if Henry Kissinger has been taken down a peg? So what if his wife had the family freezer? The disgruntled Right will not be appeased.
My troglodyte brothers can't stand anybody very long. Twenty-odd years ago, they were whipping up it for Richard Russell of Georgia. Then Russell made some overture to me about how I would work as Dick Workers, and it was nix on Dick. For a time, Ohio's Robert Taft was their hero, but Taft made some moves toward public housing. Goodbye, Bob. My below-trogs once had the chance to visit a home I would have disappointed them sooner or later. Now their idol is Ronald Reagan, Mark it down; If Reagan should be nominated
and elected, six months won't pass before the snibing begins.
THIS IS THE nature of the breed. Out on the farther reaches of the political Right, no contamination is allowed. No sin is ever forgiven. In the lexicon of the true-blue trog, accommodation is a dirty word; compartmentalization is more modern and no virtue. The hapless Mr. Ford is now beyond redemption.
All right. Ford had been a disappointment. But considering the cards he’s picked up—inflation, recession, the stigma of Watergate, the scandal of the frustrations that stem from hostile Congress—Ford hasn’t played his hand too bad. He clumsy; he’s inclined to take inep advice; he doesn’t follow through. But conservatives will not make themselves happier—they will only make themselves miserable because they succeed with low-rate and maligning Ford that they destroy his candidacy in advance. He may not have done much for us lately, but if Humphrey wins, Humphrey will do nothing for us at all.
(c) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate Inc.
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To the Editor:
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Please allow me, after a short cooling off period, to correct some of the statements made in the Demand Home Rule," unfortunately published by the Kansas City Star (Tuesday, November 4), and the Kansas State Journal (Friday). Such garbage as this created by James K. Kilpatrick is being fed to the American public through the mass media by someone usually ignorant of the true facts.
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Cindy Long
1. Yes! 30.4 per cent of the Scottish electorate demanded independence at the last general election over a year ago. Since then support has risen even higher.
LONG LONG
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2. Scottish Nationalists are not demanding what Americans "would call home rule." They are demanding total in-dependence, freedom from imperial rule by an outside power—something most nations in the world have by now achieved and something Scots have been demanding the Union of Parliaments in 1707.
4. We do not "want" control over the oil. We are demanding the right to control the development of the massive oil and gas discovered in the Scottish sector on the Continental Shelf.
3. We do not "want" control over our schools, industries and health services—we already have it!
IT IS UNIVERSALLY accepted that every country has the right to be the main beneficiary of its own natural resources, and there is no reason the cocoon should not raep the greatest benefit from what is legally theirs.
The article proceeded to romanticise (contradicting itself in the process) the ideas that, until the discovery of oil,
"actions of home rule or independence were as misty as a Sunday morning in the Hebrides" and that the (Scottish National) movement had been stirring in Scotland for ten years." Take your pick, both statements are rubbish.
The cause for self-government for Scotland was supported from 1919 by the Home Rule Association and Scots National League who, in 1920, formed two groups, came together in 1928 to form the National Party of Scotland.
Since then, support for the SNP cause has grown in strength, carrying 30.4 per cent of the popular vote and returning 11 members to Parliament. After elections, the SNP is now firmly established as a major political force in Scotland and occupies a crucial “balance of power” position in the House of Commons. At the same time it forces the SNP to take more servative and liberal parties into defeat as serious political contenders in Scotland.
IN 1934 a further amalgamation led to the formation of the Scottish National College, which successfully returned its first member of Parliament. Dr Robert McIntyre, at the time Chairman of All this happened considerably more than ten years ago.
There is also no fear that 'devolution could lead to a federal structure, in the American pattern, composed of states and England, Scotland, Ulster and Wales,' because they are in fact totally separate countries and are recognized as such, bearing no connection with anything American and enjoying their national identities.
ON A LIGHTER note and without wishing to dash the dreams of too many romantics,
I consider it a pleasure to be able to inform you that the popular old American misconception of Scots has never been true. We do not, in fact, run around in clans, en clen, or on horseback in claymores and doing the Highland fling. Scotland is in fact a very old, beautiful and friendly country, and at least as skilled as America. Ask any American who has visited there.
Scots demand freedom
People have no right to use the outlets of the mass media to deliberately mislead the audience, or to right to attempt to interfere in
TWO HUNDRED years ago, when but a small part of the British Empire, did the American people consider that their own country had them, were crying "secession" on the streets of Boston?
Would it not be better to attempt to get one's own house in order before insisting that the Scottish people "had better consider the state of affairs when it ends?"
Ken Kilcullen
Ken Kitchener
Edinburgh, Scotland, junior
the politics of a country more than one thousand years older than their own.
To the Editor:
Free speech
The Lawrence Chapter of American Civil Liberties Union (CLU) supports the First Amendment right of William Shockley, physicist and Nobel winner, to express his views.
Shockley has asked to speak at the University free of charge in spite of the fact that his first scheduled engagement was cancelled by persons who felt his ideas shouldn't be heard.
The Lawrence CLU suggests that those persons now attending the University
remember that during the 1960s students and faculty protested for their right of free speech, because they were willing to suppress the views of this man because his ideas may be unpleasant and controversial
The University of Kansas is a PUBLIC university where ideas of all diversity should be expressed and debated. He also helped Lawrence CLU and by others who support free speech that Shockley will be allowed to speak here.
Karen Blank Communications Coordinator Lawrence CLU
"MY BILLFOLD!"