4 Wednesday, February 14, 1973 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. Dubious Kudos Concurrent with the filing deadline at 5 p.m. today for candidates seeking the position of student body president, it seems appropriate that a long-awaited group of award recipients and responsible student leaders of the past year. Let these awards be known now and henceforth. —Attendance Award: to Susie Cowden, Senate Executive Committee member who has attended Student Senate Executive Committee meetings consistently: almost never. —Day Care Award: to the Hilltop Day Care Center staff for overspending its salary budget, as added to the Senate, by approximately $3,000. —Decorations Award: to Gus diZerega who proposed a multicolor "paint-in" for all the mobile classrooms on campus. —Finance Award; to Barbie Downer, chairman of the finance and auditing committee, whose committee has attempted to finance almost every organization on campus by increasing the activity —Emporium Award: to Natalie Roth, chairman of the student services committee, whose Emporium Bookstore has changed its hours more often than the number of books on its shelves. —Legislation Award: to Deborah Brooks, chairman of the student rights committee, whose committee issued four different versions of the same bill on impeachment—at the same time. —Procedure Award: to Kathy Allen, presiding officer of the Student Senate, who, when in doubt of the proper procedure, calls the senate to vote on a resolution to the legislation back to committee. —Reclamation Center Award: to Molly Lafin who successfully negotiated a loan from the Endowment Association for $1,000 for Whomper T-shirts. The loan has not been paid off to date. -Silence Award: to Les Schwartz whose communications committee has not been heard from since his appointment as chairman. —Transportation Award: to David Dillon, student body president, who negotiated a bus contract at a rate of one-fourth over that of last year. —Union Operating Committee Award: to Richard MacKenzie who promised to solve the ills of the Kansas Union food service if he was placed on the Union Operating Committee. He also promised not to accept complimentary tickets from SUA or free meals from the Union until his task was completed. He has broken both promises. —Voucher Award: to Bill O'Neill, former student body treasurer, who signed a voucher for an expenditure of $83 for a visual aid, a model of a male pelvis, for use by the Commission on the Status of Women. Congratulations to one and all. And may the candidates of 1973 be aware of past accomplishments, recognizing that one of them who will with the most dubious award of all: the title of student body president. —R. E. Duncan Smoking Complaint Guest Editorial "Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health." Many smokers find this warning easy to ignore. "Not my health," they think. Let them discover for themselves whether the Surgeon General's warning is valid. A person has a right to a certain amount of self-determination in chosing his personal habits. This self-determination, however, does not mean that others should have to tolerate cigarette smoke in a classroom. Smoke in a classroom permeates hair, clothes and personal belongings; it irritates sensitive membranes, causes coughing, watery eyes and distraction. In this time of great concern with pollution of the environment, must we sit and tolerate those ill-mannered individuals who create within our vicinity an atmosphere equal to and in many cases far worse than a city's polluted air? It isn't their right to inflict this upon us. We certainly have a more justifiable claim to clean air than a cigarette smoker has to satisfaction of a compulsive habit. One might suggest that if a person finds smoking offensive, he can move. But why should he be obliged to inconvenience himself to allow another to foul the air? shouldn't it be the responsibility of the smoker to share the smoke with who may share the smoke and ashes, whether they object to the smoke? At KU there is a recommendation pertaining to smoking in the classroom: "The University Council recommends that each instructor provide some procedure to alleviate the problem of smoking in the classroom, and to report this problem to his or her classes, the council suggests that the request of any student in the class, the instructor shall prohibit smoking in the classroom during the class period." This recommendation was this recommendation was recommended and should be recognised and should be recognised. Failing that, a little tap on the shoulder and a pardon me, but you're polluting my environment might be effective in dealing with an offender. As a last resort, an incense burner, taken to class and placed on the offender's desk, might convey the message. —Steve Ralston Jack Anderson Nixon Strikes Back at Press WASHINGTON—The word has gone out from the White House to "mail" Jack Anderson and the Washington Post. This language was used, according to sources who heard it, by President Nikon's crewcut chief of staff, H. R., "Bob" Halerman. plode angrily: "We got to take care of those people!" But it is Haldeman, according to our source, that the remarks into direct action. The sources are too sensitive to be identified, but they gave us details known only to the President's inner circle. They said the President is interested in the press are often bitter and belligerent. He has even been heard, in reference to the Washington Post, to ex- In defense of the President, they contended his hostility toward the press is justified because of the abuse he gets in print. They spoke of a double standard that many Washington officials had against him. He is badgered and belittled for taking action that would have brought praise for the late President John F. Kennedy, But they contrasted his touchiness and irritation with Haldeman's "solid, calculated" approach. And Haldeman's idea of press relations, they said, is to tell reporters nothing. "He has an absolutely evil attitude relative to press," he acknowledges one source. suggested our sources. It may seem incredible to the public that the White House could be hostile to a press that suppressed him, or overwhelm in both presiden- Amnesty Defeats Rule of Law; Draft Evaders Deserve Justice WASHINGTON — With Mr. Nixon's ice blast the other day, a budding ammesty movement in Congress has curled up and died. There will be no amnesty, consequence otherwise, for quite some time. Outside the halls of Congress, amnesty appears likely to become The Movement for the next several years. After all, the war is effectively over, so far as the U.S. is concerned. The draft What of the others? Many of the evaders, it is understood, are still in the United States. They live a life of anonymity, with names. My mail brought a letter the other day, anonymous but authentic, from a youth in a town near me about as far as he could get from his native Atlanta. He was afraid to go home, and afraid to stay to where he was. "You don't know what it's like to stay on the move." More than 50,000 eavards, it is said, are in Canada, another large group in Sweden, still others in Europe. They are interviewed now and then in the news magazine, about them. Some profess contention in exile; some, according to Tame, are tional elections. A survey of press enduresments last November showed that Nixon-Arnew were 17 to 1 toove McGovern-Shriver. That number does not include those young men who truly had the courage of their convictions—those who sought classification as conscientious objects and served as such, and those who openly defied adoption and went to prison as a witness to their faith. These men have earned respect; they have earned kind of admiration from Martin his bitter foes. And when the last prisoner is returned from Vietnam, few persons would object to honorable discharges and executive pardons for them. If that sounds acidulous, it is meant to sound that way. No one seems to know precisely how many "evaders of military terms" are still alive and ducking. The term embarks those young men who never registered for the draft, those who registered but fled when the summons came, and those who took and then deserted. The number appears to lie at about 100,000. has ended. Cesar Chavez is ok hat; ecology is hard work; black studies are a bore. The country is three of women's rights, equality and smog. For those whose lives are empty without a Movement, amnesty offers a perfect cause: All the Good People, such as Cesar Chavez and all the Bad People, such as Richard Nixon, are on the other James J. Kilpatrick obligation, others had to serve in their place; and some of these others died or were wounded. The most elementary justice demand that evasion and obedience not be regarded as equal at law. But the hostility is deep-seated. Those who know Richard Nixon say his feelings toward the press were hardened during his early struggle for political power. He slashed and slammed his way to the top, stepping over the top of the fence against opponents. By his own account, his early campaigns were "rock 'em, sock 'em" affairs. "anxious to settle up with their Government, but not at the price Nixon wants them to pay." Many of them exude a pietistic arrogance that curdles the cream of compassion: They are willing to lose the country "apologizes" for the wrong it has done them. Those who oppose a blanket, unconditional amnesty are accused of seeking "vengence." Nonsense. The object is not to be taken personally, and you must be just. Because these 10,000 men evaded their lawful There is more. Unconditional amnesty would condone desertion. It would give official applause, but it would not but citizen档案 pick and choose the wars they approve, the wars they disapprove. By extension, we move to an anarchistic society in which men obey or disobey as they please, without the risk of being punished, thus eroded, would disappear. Many of the evaders, we may believe, are among the nation's best and brightest. They are possessed of an idealism that, put to constructive channels, could be of great value. As individuals, in our human relationships, they deserve love, compassion, an attempt at understanding the law of the governmental relationship, in their having nothing come to them but justice. And justice, though tempered with mercy, must first be just. This kind of campaigning, inevitably, attracted counterfeit. Some of the attacks on Nixon were more abusive than his own worst tactics. These attacks were aimed at scandalized young Nixon who scaledyled young Nixon and left some deep scars. His inner bitterness finally erupted after his defeat for governor of California in 1962. He lashed the Nixon administration's faces: "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more." Once in the White House, Ninja's attitude grew in importance and criticized his conduct of the Vietnam War. He complained petulantly to his closest associates that "the papers peddled by him give more space to the enemy than to their own President." (C) The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc. He came to look upon himself as standing almost alone upholphing "America's honor against the carping criticism and the ridiculous press." His attitude not only was reflected but magnified by the people around him, particularly the Haldeman clan. "They had become so angry," said he soon, "and would lose their perspective." Always, the angriest barbs were aimed at the Washington Post. Our sources claimed the President wasn't particularly hostile at first toward us but rather regarded it as "hard-hitting but fair". Not until we exposed from their own most secret documents how he and Henry Kissinger had misled the public about U.S. policy toward the India-Pakistan conflict did not prevent him from us. He became even more enraged when we broke the ITT scandal linking a settlement of ITTs antitrust cases with a $400m commitment to help the Republican convention. His anger at the Washington Post was fanned into a blind rage, said our sources, over its Watergate stories which exposed the cover-up of the illegal espionage operations against the Democrats. The President was heard to complain that "these leaks have got to be stopped." Not long afterward, the administration made instructions to nail us and the Post. The word was passed to the, Justice Department, we were told, to try to make a case against him. He was arrested while gathering news for this column. His notepad and pen were torn from his hands, cuffs were snapped around his wrist and he was thrown into a lock-up. Let there be no confusion about it. Whiten's only crime was digging out critical information from the records in misandering of Indian rights. We will prove in court that he had nothing to do with stealing any documents. His sole interest in them was to extract the news from them. The right of newsmen to report and write critical stories about the government was established in 1789. It had been thrown into prison for criticizing the governor of New York, who re-frained by the Constitution. We don't know what action the Administration intends to take against the Post. It may be an unanticipated piece of evidence, that one of the FBI agents who arrested Whiten mentioned the Washington Post. Copyright, 1973 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Readers Respond able at Malot' To The Editor: Overlooked Reading the University Daily Kansan is an excellent way for a student to keep up on activities of importance both on and off campuses. However, unless it is available to the student, it a purpose is defeated. This reference is directed to those of us who have the majority of our classes in Malott Hall. There are many students majoring in pharmacy, physics and chemistry who never have a chance to get to Jayhawk Boulevard. Although there is a Kansan box outside Haworth Hall, it is either overlooked by the distributor of the paper or is not large enough to serve both buildings. Therefore, it is impossible to get a Kansan without unreasonably going out of the way. If a box similar to that found in Summerfield Hall could be placed in the lobby of the main entrance, one would enter entrances of Malott Hall, another portion of the student body could be reached. Such an action would be greatly appreciated by us and our students at the hours of class time in Malott Hall. Cindy Tasset Pratt Junlor Jane Stinnett Winfield Junlo Pearson To The Editor: As an impartial observer who has seen both sides of the situation, I would like to comment on some of the basic issues that lie behind the recent furor over the Pearson Integrated Agriculture Program. Having participated in both the program and Western Civilization, as well as having listened to the heated arguments presented in the College Assembly meetings of the past few weeks, I draw two conclusions involving PHP and the objections that have been raised against it. First, regarding the concepts of 'advocacy teaching' and 'pralismation', it has been the custom of the headmaster to advocate one specific set of beliefs to the exclusion of all others, to respond with the charge that the Western Civilization Program and the University in general do the same thing on a different level by advocating the adoption of many concepts in a pluralistic manner. On the surface, the two may seem to balance each other, but upon closer examination, the parallel falls apart. First, it is almost self-evident to those who have seen the program in action that it does indeed advocate an integrated philosophy of life that can best be characterized as medieval in its outlook. Second, although there is some doubt as to whether the Western Civilization program is as successful as it is proclaimed to be, the "pluralism" of which it is accused is not justifiable. Students, it is true, are presented with information that are expected to reach their own conclusions with regard to issues involved. In integrated view is presented for their easy consumption; the student benefits in a way meaningful to himself, because he emerges from such which he emerges are his own, and not those of the instructor. Secondly, it seems that there is a basic misunderstanding involved in the discussion of PHIP, with those supporters who are not involved in it having a different concept of what they are defending than do the individuals actively involved. To address this, the current argument centers on the entire concept of PHIP as it might be personified as an innovative educational program. To the PIPH staff, the program is more than just that: being a "way of life" (this statement was actually made in class), it is taught accordingly. By and large, it seems the opponents of PIPH are concentrating their criticisms against this dogmatic method of teaching rather than enticing future students to educate intimation as R.E. Duncan suggested in his editorial Feb. 7. In addition to obscuring the smaller issues, this confusion of understanding is a concern of whether any program so conceived and operated within the guidelines of a public university should be allowed to This last point, of course, will be up to the College Assembly to decide. My purpose in writing Jeff Southard Wichita Sophomore this letter will have been served if the two major issues I have mentioned above emerge any clearer to the reader and assist drawing his own conclusions about the Pearson Program. Cars at Hilltop This letter concerns the parking problem at Hilltop Day Care Center. I met with Lynn Taylor, dean of the School of Religion yesterday, mostly to clarify why the dispute is a dispute. I took along a Hilltop Bible and looked for it, finding it very difficult to believe what happened there. Taylor read to us a letter he had written. He read it one sentence at a time stopping at each period and asking if we needed any clarification. If not, that it is insulting to do this. Perhaps he doesn't know that they let women go to college these days. He insisted that we realize that the School of Religion is private property. And the school seems to have no intention of lowering itself to more human concerns. In fact, when it was suggested that this was not Hilltop's problem or the School of Religion's problem but a human problem, Taylor said he didn't know what I was talking about. I admit to a certain naivette on my part. I really believe that all stuff about compassion and loving your neighbor. I didn't realize that is something that is spotted in Sunday school and family. I don't think it dary when it comes to real people and real situations. But I know now that the School of Religion's lawn is "our grass" and I know that it really anything but straw men. And I know that Taylor is a reasonable man, he told us so at five times, so I know it's true. I also know (he told me and somebody else, and it was written down and read and explained and signed and so it must be so) that the parents are allowed to use the property as a leading place for Hilliop parents and that they are permitted to walk across their grass. So I'd suggest to Hilliop parents that they do just that. Don't worry about traffic jams, or parking on Jayhawk Bivd. And I am very capable to the School of Religion because they did sign that paper and that's what's really important, I guess, to them anyway. Christine Leonard 1125 Indiana THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Published at the University of Kansas daily during the academic year except holidays and examination periods. Subscription rates: $8 a semester, $10 a year. Second admission fee is $25, based on enrollment. Court and employment advertisement offered to all students without regard to color, creed or national origin. Opinions expressed are not necessarily intended to convey any particular opinion. 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