Tuesday, May 2, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Council move notable
In a notable stand against the sentiments of the KU administration and the University Senate hierarchy, the University Council last week enders freedom of speech at KU and salvaged the trust of freedom-of-expression supporters.
It is troubling that the Council members had to reaffirm an ideal written into the U.S. Constitution. They had good cause, however. The administration, by unwisely canceling the opening of a Nazi memorabilia exhibit, and the Senate executive committee, by unanimously commending the closing, flagrantly disregarded the intent of the ideal.
The Nazi exhibit closing has brought out both the good and the ugly in the powers that mold the University's rules and regulations. ADMINISTRATORS, with apologies to factions offended by the Nazi display, closed the exhibit and then kept quiet. Eleven days later, they announced they would reschedule the event, and hypocritically reaffirmed their commitment to the "principles of
freedom of speech and expression and the University community's need and right to inquiry even where the subject matter may be controversial."
Carl Leban, who introduced to the council the SenEx resolution commending the administration's move, resigned from SenEx after his resolution's defeat, like a disgusted child who gathers his marbles and goes home.
Other supporters of the closing praised the administration for its compassion and criticized as intolerant libertarian pressure on the administration.
OPPONENTS of the closing, notably KU art curators, historians and the University Council, stuck to the need for enforcement of absolute principles even when the strikes were against them.
The resolution falls this week to the University Senate, notorious for its lack of quorum. Senate members have a responsibility to take their stand and set University standards straight.
Jimmy decision right
The battle of Uncle Jimmy is over. The statue won't be moved to new Green Hall.
For students, the decision not to move Jimmy represents a small, but nonetheless important, reminder that their voices do occasionally count.
The victory, however, came only after heavy politicking that was by no means confined to Strong Hall. The decision was bandied back and forth, touching the state attorney general's office and the Kansas State Historical Society. The society's
director, Joseph Snell, at first said the statue should be moved. Later, he backed down.
Snell's approval was necessary for ripping the statue out of the main campus, where it belongs visually. Political pressure affected his initial judgment; it doubtless affected his second.
Perhaps next time University administrators decide to alter the campus without consulting students, they will remember Jimmy Green.
The Kansas Legislature adjourned its 1978 session Friday amid intercine divisiveness that plaged the statehouse throughout the session.
Infighting dulls session's impact
A use-value appraisal bill that apparently was too far ahead of its time was killed by the Senate after a drawdown. The bill would have taxed land on its productive, rather than market, value and could have provided a balwark against haplopard development of rich agricultural areas in productive resource. Fears, in part rightfully founded, of a tax shift onto the urban parts of the state caused the bill's denounce. The uncontrollable speculative agricultural land doubtless will continue.
However, competency-based education, Laetrile legalization, state assumption of district court costs and the notorious restaurant liquor bill were among the pluses registered by legislators during this session's swearing
THE PILOT project for competency-based education provides for a reading and math testing program in grades 2, 4, 6 and 8.1 and 11. The program will be administered by school districts that have been approved to implement the 1978-79 school year. All school districts in the state will administer the program during the 1979-80 school year. After the second year of the pilot project, the program will be reviewed and the 1981 session of the Legislature will determine competency-based education in Kansas.
Legislators, school district officials and educators have been cautious about the competency-based education craze. The Kansas exploratory program appears to be a good compromise between adopting the new educational concept of teaching and ignoring the evaluation of the job teachers are doing in Kansas schools.
THE LAETRILE bill, which authorizes the use and manufacture of the substance in Kansas, attempts to make a law that would endorsing the use of Laetrile and forbidding physicians from prescribing it. The final version of the bill restores civil liability of physicians for misuse of their prescriptions. The Laetrile issue has been so brawn with
emotional arguments for and against legalization that Kansas legislators, for once, are entitled to a pat on the back for keeps the debates under control.
The $4.7 million appropriations bill for the four-year phase-in of state administration of costs of operating the Kansas Judicial Department has been hailed as a badly needted tax break for counties, which traditionally have been burdened with the greatest taxes and the required to pay. At the end of the four-year period, local government will be responsible for providing only the court space.
One would think that Kansas had
decided to provide each child in the state an annuity of one case of scarcity for life, judging by the neurotic reaction to a bill that allows restaurants receiving at least half of their income from food to place alcoholic beverages on their menus.
SILLY EPITHETS were hurled by dry forces guerrillas against proponents of the restaurant alcoholic beverage bill in a case that raised the list of civilized government entities.
Dry forces bullets forge that Kansas already has more liquor stores than are justified by per capital liquor consumption. The Kansas tradition of importing distilled spirits by the case for private liquor stores is not diminished liquor consumption.
However, most offensive of all are the repeated attempts by dry forces legislators to make moral decisions for
Kansans. The idea that a legislator, whose salary is paid by Kansas taxpayers, is able to find the unimaged man in the kitchen is a glass of wine with dinner is appealing.
THE KANSAS Legislature, hated as one of the most improved by an independent national group and for that reason, is now a major magazine, clearly has finished a moderately successful session. The legislators praise the praise of Kansas.
However, the session was flawed by the refusal of urban legislators to face up to Kaua'a most vital resource, its farm resource. It must use-value-appellation bill.
And the attention paid by legislators to backwater dry forces commandees deserves little more than poker-faced head shaking.
Majority's Jewish persecution long-lived
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To the editor:
in a magnificent self-revelation, the April 24 Kansas offered a cartoon of a hooked nosed Jew stirring joyfully over the body of the KU Administration. The accompanying editorial would have us believe that "crusading" Jews, whose total numbers are one-lenth of one percent of the KU population, had the helpless KU Goliath (whose Board of Regents traditionally has been drawn from the economically powerful of the state and whose influence is crummed in numerous multinational corporations). Again we are offered the image of the circumcertized imposing their incarnation upon the body public, destroying its rights and "the means to truth." An interesting image
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but hardly an original one. Nazism was organized around that hysterical image, as was much of institutionalized Christianity for the preceding 2,000 years.
The truth is that no one requested the banning of the Nazi exhibition but that some merely sought an expression of sensitivity about its timing. Apparently the voices of a few presumed Jews on the ground sent a striking terror in the hearts of the Gentiles. Surely God moves in mysterious ways.
My poor, trusting Jewish brethren who actually believed that reason and morality could be improved by science are sad testimony to the science are sad testimony to the
fact that fantasy is still the most prevalent Jewish disease.
They overlooked (or forgave) Western "Civilization's" implication in the Holocaust, that Britain and the United States cut off Jewish immigration, that Nazi backships of escaping Jews, that Jewish pleas for arms, the aerial bombing of the crematoria and the death camp rail lines went unanswered, that the Holocaust continued with Hitler, that the Protestant hierarchy remained silent. They overlooked (or forgave) historical church teachings of the satanic, subversive, verbs teaching that produced almost 20 centuries of exterminations, explosions, forced conversions.
inquisitions and kidnapping of Jewish children, among other examples of divine revelation. They overlooked (or forgave) the fact that just a few years ago Lawrence Jews were reviled as "satanic" by some anti-Jewish groups, that thousands of the Gentile righteous revivalting at Allen Field House were inspired with charges of Jewish decide, that the lives of Lawrence Jews were threatened by anonymous callers, that the Lawrence Journal World unleashed a fearful attack on Jewish minority trying to take away the rights of the majority." (Sound familiar?!)
The Jewish subversion that evoked these muscular responses was an attempt by a few of my ever hopeful brethren in the Jewish community (First Amendment) in the Lawrence public schools. Shall
I add that my bretherham also overlooked (or forgave) recent Journal-World editorials praising the Nazi military and implying that a light-up conspiracy would have brought up and corrupted the U.S. Congress?
Where was that Kanasan editorial righteousness and other Sunday sanctimony in all of the above events? "Twas the sound of silence. Oh, my silly, thoughtful, forgiving, trusting tormented brothers and sisters, the people of the Book.
Folks of the Kanan, Journal-World & Co.; you deserve a first rate ass kicking. The Kanan editorial lecture (edited last) and its tradition of free speech. Whence comes their moral authority to lecture Jews about free speech? Why are they in the forefront of the struggles for free speech and civil rights. I've been active in
such movements for more than thirty years. I've had numerous trips to southern jails, the first as far back as 148. (Jew Commitee we were called then. I used to be a Jew Capitalismian. I was sent to the Kansan—jails for all seasons.) In invariably, most of my white cellmates were Jews. We used to wonder about the "majority" Connormy in those days. Unca NORM has long ceased wondering. I bought me a book with an any ill name Yodidish redden.
For those of my dear Christian brothers and sisters who have suffered in wars designed to exterminate us; for you who have seen the magnificent teachings of Jesus perverted to oppress us; for you who have been deceived to culture debased to stigmatize us: You too are the victims of the source of our agency. Anti-
Semitism and racism is not a Jewish creation and therefore Jews cannot escape it. We can only seek to survive within it. Semitism is one of the world's and our country of this abomination. There is always time for redemption. For a reason together. And for moral courage.
Norman Forer Associate Professor of Social Welfare
Slow reaction to Nazis tragic
To the editor:
I am apprehensive of other people regulating what I can or cannot say, and is suled by the suggestion that I will somehow be damaged or perverted by an exhibition of memorabilia from Nazi Germany.
Saturday night fever must be making some Lawrence residents delicious. What else would explain why Lawrence resident Marie Lynch, 515 Miltonone Dr., chooses to reheranighens' dico clients as "squirmy, wriggly people"? And would she liken Sheenhans's "a can of worms"?
Shemanians, 901 Mississippi St., is being mirepresented by Lynch. Oh, there are some people who will never be able to live there.
Objectors to disco ignore economics
Lynch, these nightcrawlers need somewhere to go where they can get this energy out of their systems. Don't try to squelch one of the few
tables, but they're not that offensive. Maybe Lynch objects to how disco dancers dance. Lynch, wouldn't you agree that the energy it takes to dance like that is better used on a strobite-lit舞 floor than on the streets of say, (shudder, shudder) east Lawrence?
BUT SUSCH plans for disco expansion did not please the residents who have complained about the late-night noise, traffic and littering caused by vehicles. Shemanis肝害 opened its doors three years ago.
Thomas Gorton, another neighbor at 831 Illinois St., told the commission that the decision of the parking lot would figure in the neighbors' retention of "sanity and health."
At stake are 19 extra parking spaces that Shenanigans says is necessary to relieve traffic congestion. Because of a lack of parking space, the people who frequent Shenanigans, many of whom double as University of Kansas students, do their discernments along neighborhood streets.
totalitarianism") must be understood if we are not to repeat the horror of the Nazi regime on a grand scale. "Bad timing" is no reason to restrict the free access to information.
Lynch also spoke for a woman whose house is adjacent to the proposed park area. "I think such people are worth more consideration than 19 parking lots," Lynch said.
ACTUALLY, Lynch isn't protesting the existence of dancers discos. Her protest runs more along the lines of "Yes, but not in my neighborhood they won't." And so she appeared at the Lawrence-Douglas Planning Community Week to oppose Shenangans' request to expand its parking lot.
Shenanigans has a business obligation to make its business as pleasant for its customers as it can. It isn't unusual for people who have spent the evening at the disco to return to their cars, parked a block or two along the street, and find a broken rearview mirror or snapped antennae. Shenanigans' parking request was an attempt to alleviate those kinds of problems.
Well, who could argue against that? Not the commissioners. They unanimously, and without discussion, denied the parking request. The final decision was Lawrence City Commission at its 18 May meeting.
IF SHENANIGANS and its clients haven't gotten the message by now, then it's quite that loud music damages cognitive functioning. It's obvious that after KU students spend their money at Lawrence businesses in the daytime, these Lawrence proprietor-residents spend their time at night—as long as the students are quiet and squirm as little as possible.
It is no secret to anyone at KU that Kansas City is a mere 40 miles away. Maybe KU students would do well to patronize the night spots and the day spots of the larger city. And students will if Lawrence residents continue to impale them for their enjoyment of the local disco, Sananiagans.
It's no easy task to please all of the people all of the time; maybe in this case, it isn't possible. But the Lawrence City Commission owes it to its constituents and its student visitors to make a better effort than the planning commission did last week.
I am sure none of us who saw the "holocaust" on television would have gone through the exhibit thinking of the period 1939-1945 as "institutional," as Senator Arnold Berman stated. The Holocaust was a tragic period of history, but the Nazi aspect of it ended in 1945. The real tragedy is that now 30 years after the Holocaust were silent when the act was perpetrated. Perhaps righteous indignation is the lazy man's activism. Be that as it may, the exhibit portrays another aspect of an important role for the "self-protection," I am being denied the opportunity to view the exhibit.
IF PARKING at Shenanigans becomes too much of a hardship, not only will Shenanigans lose the business, but late-night restaurants also are sure to suffer. Where are the managers of Joe's JB's Council, Support and other Shenanigans' expansion will count with the city commissioners.
forms of night life available to them in Lawrence.
Live and let live.
Overland Park sophomore
Kristine M. Gerhardt Overland Park sophomore
Extermination is one dimension of National Socialist ideology, but it is not the only one. One U.S. president of the National Socialist movement is essential if similar movements are to be recognized and combated. A curious but less spectacular character of this movement was the utter bannality of its art, a fact that fits the Nazi mentality when this fact is combined with others to depict that mentality. The Nazi nationalists totalitarian Man (see Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of-
To the editor:
What right does the University have to cancel the Nazi Germany exhibit at Spencer Museum?
Series dictated exhibit's destiny
From the radio reports, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, removed the exhibit because of phone calls protesting its being presented immediately after the lecture "Hustle." The question is, however, why should television rule University affairs and events? The administration's decision is almost like cancelling a seminar promoting happy marriages because it's being held on a Thursday. "Three Company."
"Hloacoust" has had its 91%-hour run. To not allow a Nazi would seem to go against much of the moral the mini-series seemed to portray. Allowing an American movie, so why decry it in this case?
Further, the administration is, apparently contradicting its own policies regarding opportunities for free speech and free expression. If KU can allow Arab and Moslem students to peacefully protest the government, it was not the point, it should allow a peaceful German exhibit to be shown in a museum.
Why must the administration give in to a special that was offered by Mr. Obama (over five articles in one day in the Kansas City Star) and, thereby, cancel an art exhibit, most of which are not publicized
Richard Burkard
Richard Burkard
Kansas City, Kan., sophomore
JohnYoung
Otis freshman
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