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Friday, April 20, 1973
University Daily Kansan
James J. Kilpatrick
Opaque Image
Some of the last few (weeks, months, days) indicate that the Nixon administration may have come to view the issue of (crime, war in Indochina, the urban crisis) as a problem more of ending dissent against (crime, war in Indochina, the urban crisis) than of ending (crime, war in Indochina, the urban crisis).
A brilliant strategy; my compliments to the house. Stop complaints by declaring an end to the problems. Amazing enough, this strategy works when executed by professionals.
Public opinion is a massive, ineffable beast of whimsy, but it is a very real and influential power in American society. Public opinion elects presidents, censors motion pictures and dictates the measure of a man's success. President Nixon has unexpected talent for taming and harnessing thisickle beastie, which is now eating out of his hand.
After the 1960 election, few people thought that Nixon's image would gleam 13 years later. Yet Nixon has established and upheld a holier-than-thou image in which many people believe, despite all evidence that the President and his staff are humanly imperfect.
Nixon preaches a New Federalism, in which state and city governments are to be given increased responsibilities. Yet he refuses to inform mayors or governors of his plans. He hasn't
told them any more than he has told the rest of us about his policies and plans for the future. Instead he leaves it to him and he treats Congress: like children.
Even in the Watergate proceddings, Nixon, who has done more than anyone else to confuse and delay a thorough investigation, now condemns 'any attempt to cover up this case no matter who is involved.'
He finally has admitted that a problem exists and has agreed to allow his staff to testify, under his rules, but at the same time he has been careful to set himself on a pedestal of innocence.
Nixon has good publicity men and secret plans, which always help. He sold himself to America in 1968 and is now a billionaire, this country's favorite commodity.
He may be trying his best to solve this country's problems, but he is doing it in such a secretive, self-contained way that alarm has begun to spread. Even true believers have a difficult time when the object of their admiration doesn't demonstrate faith in them.
Yet Nixon has established a niche for himself in history. If nothing was recorded administration may be recorded P.R. success of the modern era.
A man of such talent should have gone into business. Nixon could have packaged dandelion seeds and made a killing.
—Linda Schild
"SHOO, SHOO! BEAT IT... "
McGovern Re-Evaluates Quotas
WASHINGTON—Thousands of college seniors will take their degrees next month in "political science," thus certifying their mastery of a contradiction in terms. Politics is an art, not a science, as George McGovern belatedly recognized last week.
The senator from South Dakota, it will be recalled, once was a full-time professor and was also a prominent member in the effort, a couple of years ago, to bring scientism to the Democratic party. This was, in its way, like asking the Rolling Stones to play Chopin, but the professor is not interested.
As a result of his labors, last year's Democratic National Convention was a marvel to behold. Veterans in the press were clapping and cheering without nothing like it under sun or moon. The new rules had produced a highly computerized convention, in which the delegates were divided by dozens of decimal points, but the numbers were not pols, it appeared, had not been invited.
The Democratic National Committee fed us with fact sheets. Of the 3,194 elected delegates, 1,275, or 39.9 percent, were women. Another 688, or 21.5 percent, were youths. Still another 488, or 15.2 percent, were teachers. Another 488, or 15.2 percent, were Latines. 27 Indians; 12 Oriental and 2 Eskimos, whose percentages, respectively, were e.g., 0.44, 0.445, 0.375 and 0.062. The fact sheets failed to classify the remaining 560 delegates, who presumably were old
males not otherwise attached.
We stared at these statistics in alarm, wondering whether a young Indian girl had been counted once, twice or three times, and we sighed at the symmetrical perfection of the egg carton from New York. We counted the whole numbers being further subdivided into 70 youths, 35 blacks, 17 Latinos, 1 Indian, and 1 Mms, name of Abzug.
The underlying theory, of course, was that the state delegations should reflect the state populations. The theory was half-confused with the practice of Jew, Catholic, Protestant, farmer, veteran, Pole, Italian, student, housewife, homosexual or union man. The reformers, pleading the necessity to take one step at a time, ensured in the platform to do better next time.
Not so. At last week's meeting of the Democratic Charter Commission, McGovern manfully confessed error. He recommended that language be deleted that had created the quota system for women and young people. "I believe," he said, "that delegates should represent people, not types of people."
This is precisely what critics of the new rule were saying last summer. The quota system was not an affirmation of minority rights or democracy. The scheme converted flesh-blood people to mere punchcards, not to be mutilated, folded or spindled. It
McGovern would correct that situation also. He told the Charter Commission that he should assure that "senior party leaders" will be permitted to future conventions, Organizations that run independent slates, such as Daley's for permitted to put together their delegations.
The plan, for all its pretty percentage marks, did not provide demonstrably better representation. The Illinois conspiracy seated was a triumph of political conservatism, the delegation came from the reformers' laudromat free of soil or stain, smelling of soap and starch, but it gave no account to Richard Dale, mayor of Chicago. In consequence, Cook County went for Nixon by nearly a quarter of a million votes.
The professor's proposals brought a howf from Ms. Abzug, who saw them as a "serious" setback to the role of women in the party. His recommendations will please others—notably Jews and old polls. Jejsie despise quotas and old polds clearly on politics and forgetting science, party leaders may regain their ground. And as McGovern knows better than most men, a party that in November lost 49 of the 50 states has a lot of loss ground to regain.
(C) 1973 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Readers Respond
New Election
Senior Election Rerun Criticized
To the Editor:
The handling of the disputed senior class presidential election by the University Judicary has left much to be desired. The committee, called for a new election, is as unfair as it is belated. An examination of the events on and subsequent to election day indicates that the judiciary's decision. The election should not be repeated.
On election day, Dave Murfin's name was spelled "Dave Martin" on the senior class presidential ballot. Did this result in an unfair vote? Mr. Martin, a voters, including me, were notified of the error when they were handed the ballot. In any case, Murfin's coalition (SOS) did not show well at the polls. But that could be successful in winning the support of its class and that its presidential candidate would have been defeated even if his name had been spelled correctly. That would be the Student Senate from his school (Engineering) and was
Since the election, events have made a rerun seem even more unnecessary. After Murfin was turned out of office by his constituency, he was turned back in by the old Student Senate as a holder senator. As such, he is automatically a member of the University Council. Murfin is also voice speaker of the University Council, with these the office already in his possession, it is questionable that Murfin will have time to devote sufficient attention to leading the senior class, should he win in a new election.
The responsibilities Murfim has acquired since the election and a probable defeat in March. make another election appear ludicrous. The just thing for Murfim to do is to withdraw.
defeated with his name spelled correctly.
Bruce Keplinger
Lenexa Junior
Equal Beer
Women, the Women's Coalition and other related organizations on campus have not taken offense at the practice of many drinking establishments in town that charge men higher admission and beverage prices than women. And it is to entice men into these establishments by guaranteeing a large female turnout.
We suggest that the reason these organizations have not taken a strong stand on this issue is because they are concerned about losing the support of many women on campus. In effect, these organizations are condoning this chauvinistic practice.
10 To the Editor:
It seems strange that the Commission on the Status of
If women's organizations are to be considered credible, they must sometimes take unpopular stands, otherwise men might feel that the organizations are not parochial but bigoted. After attending a forum for equal rights also includes assuming equal responsibilities.
seems discriminatory, unfair and possibly illegal. We suggest that women's organizations are in the process of vesting some of their commendable energies into eliminating this chauvinistic practice and thus further the demand of equality among the sexes.
We realize that our stand on this subject will be unpopular and female population. He the male and female population. He the wrong is wrong and this practice
Michael Johnson
Lawrence Junior
Ray Berman
Kansas City Sophomore
ROTC
To the Editor:
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The recent election of local school board officials prompts me to share a news item which may prove to be of relevance and concern in this community and which, I fear, has not received enough attention from who would work to eradicate pervading militarism, I quote excerpts from "A Hidden Threat" (Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors "News Notes", 1973, lst page, article 4).
But he said that rate could not
of the greatest long-term threats we face. During the past year, there has been a 40 per cent increase in Navy high school ROTC units; a 25 per cent increase in Marine Corps units; and a 15 per cent increase in Air Force units. In 1972 it girls in its Junior ROTC programs. The military will soon ask Congress to raise the statutory limit of 1200 high school ROTC units. Now the military is expanding ROTC in surburban and rural high schools. Kansas seems to have more ROTC schools than the past year; CCCO has received many reports of proposals for new universities, and lists of high schools with new Air Force units include many Kansas localities. Local authorities may make high school ROTC compulsory if they wish. . . Junior high schools are technical aspects of the services—how to use weapons, maps, and military equipment.
The rate of increase above the rate of inflation of the cost per student per year at the 41 institutions, Cheit reported, dropped from 4 per cent in the first survey to 0.5 per cent.
Unless peace-minded citizens act, we may expect continued expansion of Junior ROTC in the future."
Henry McCarthy
Lawrence Graduate Student
Higher Education Tries But Funding Is Fragile
Among those which appeared headed for trouble in 1971, the University of Michigan and Knox College remain the same, while Cumberland College, Central Michigan University, Carleton College, Syracuse University, Allegheny College and Harvard University are better. Mesa College, Portland State Univer-
The survey took a second look at 41 institutions first studied in 1971 and found that most had held on a steady financial erosion by freezing salaries, postponing closure or replacement of equipment or facilities, increasing class size and discontinuing research.
The cost-cutting measures, however, "induce that feeling of living on borrowed time," says Riley. She wrote the new report and an earlier one entitled "The New Depression." In "Higher Education" they presented their findings at a news conference Monday.
NEW YORK (AP) -A survey by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education says American colleges and universities have made heroic efforts to cut costs in the past two years and have succeeded in reaching a fragile financial stability.
"The over-all reduction of the rate of increase of costs has been almost phenomenal," said Clark Kerr, commission resident. "The study in this study have made heroic efforts to control their costs."
Cheet, a professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkley, emphasized that the improved financial situation was delicate because it was the product of unusual cuts in expenditure and high costs such costs savings could not be sustained for long or be duplicated in the future.
be sustained without a loss in quality.
city, City College of Chicago,
Ohio University and the Universities
of Missouri, Ohio, Caterpillar,
Oregon, and Costa Rica are not in
as good condition.
In the 1971 study, the commission had found a general erosion of the financial position of American colleges and expenditures were rising faster than income, and the resulting gap was putting most of America's colleges and universities under increasing financial pressures.
But during the past two years, the study found, new managerial practices and organizational relationships developed, because administrative and faculty awareness of the cost-income squeeze.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Of the institutions considered financially stable in 1971, Morgan State, Whitman College, the University of North Carolina, Gulf Coast Junior College, Meredith College and Flint Community Junior College remain the same, although the College of San Mateo has improved. There was a change in direction, however, in the financial condition of Mills College, Howard University, Hamilton College, the University of Texas and St. Cloud State College.
Of those institutions found to be in financial difficulty in 1971, Stanford University, Beloit College, Tulane University, San Jose State University and Huson-Tillson College now are in better condition. Tougaloo College, Boston College and St. Louis University are in approximately the same situation and the University of New York University appear to be in not as good condition.
An All-American college newspaper
Asked to predict trends for 1971-75, none of the institutions in its prospectus improved in its prospects. Twice it diced their situation would be about the same if present trends were different, and believed it would not be as rosy.
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Jerry Esslinger
Griff and the Unicorn
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