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Wednesdav.March 27,1974
University Daily Kansan
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Intellectual Hotdoggers
One breed of student that is often even more ludicrous than the campus streaker is the classroom exhibitionist.
The classroom exhibitionist is an intellectual rather than sexual show-off. He has a claim to vast knowledge that is usually unfounded, and he constantly strives to demonstrate how objective his students, there is almost always at least one exhibitionist in every class.
An exhibitionist is one who flaunts his "talents" in order to attract attention. In sports he is referred to as a hotdog and characterized by cocky self-affirmation and superfluous dramatics.
The studious exhibitionists are no more refined or less ridiculous. They strain at the leash to answer even the most obvious questions. Their antics are a carry-over from grade school days when eager children competed for gold stars by raising their hands, snapping their fingers or bobbing up and down to attract the teacher's attention.
The classroom exhibitionist is easily identified. His arm muscles are like a spring that is involuntarily released at the end of every question. His hand remains aloft even while others are speaking. When someone answers rhetorical questions that require no answer, you know that you are in the presence of an exhibitionist.
Here are some types of this vocal breed:
HYPER-INTELLECTUAL: He often has useful contributions to make but gets tangled up in a framework of ostentatious intellectual jargon. He says "cognizant" when he means "aware," for example, and every other sentence ends with "if you will." "what have you" or "per se."
FOLKSY JOE: He reacts to the hyper-intellectuals by affecting an
CAPTAIN CLICHE: His discourse is one long string of
ultra-casual country style, loaded
with personal humor and peroginal references.
"Yeah, you know, it isn't real cool but, you know, really man, I can tell."
Often the discussion merely distracts from the lecture since the exhibitionist is more concerned with his own wisdom than anyone else's. The exhibitionists rarely listen to each other so that the discussion becomes a disjointed experience. This is why so many discussions and conversations degenerate into idiocy.
But the classroom discussion is a valuable teaching method that is often overdone. And, according to one concerned professor, the better students are often not the ones who participate in the discussions. That function is taken over by the exhibitionists.
After so long it becomes automatic. The inane chatter rolls easily out of your mouth while your hand, almost unconsciously, picks up the drink. Once the drink is put on hold obliquely lights a cigarette.
SUDDEN EJACULATOR: He will blurt out a quip periodically whenever he feels the impulse. He is the sort of fellow who honks his horn while at the drive-in movie. Never let him distract you. That says (or return a honk) or he will be less inhibited than ever.
It's so easv.
To quell this degeneration, the exhibitionists need to be patiently and firmly restrained. This is difficult for instructors, who, like the hosts of crack-pot radio talk stations in New York, ist without offending him. But the value of class discussions depends on it.
I don't need it, you say. I just like the taste of it.
A Case of Alcoholism
—Bill Gibson
Of course, these characters add some spice to class discussions. There is nothing more dull than a classroom of somnolent mutes who sit like contented cows, chewing and gazing dreamily in the distance.
Not you, though, right? You only drink beer. But ask someone from Alcoholies Anonymous how many drinks they drank in the past year and progressed to other stuff.
But you don't drink in the morning, so you're okay, right? That wasn't the case. You're night and the case you drink every weekend don't mean anything.
But you never seem to feel well and your mornings are full of half-eaten eggs.
So you're sitting there, wallowing in your own eloquence, reminding yourself to drive carefully, and all the time you're turning into someone you think you never will be: a drunk.
physical indignities. You're always wondering how to tell someone something and they're never happy when you do.
You're telling yourself that maybe you should cut down a little—it pays to be safe. And you'll never go drinking with that Harry fellow again, he always gets you in trouble.
And your car—the dents in it show how often you drink. But none of those dents came about because they were dark that night, and you were tired.
Anyway, you're too young to be a drunk. There's no such thing as a 20-year-old alcoholic. Everybody knows you have to be at least 35 or 40 before you can possible become a drunk.
So why worry? College students brink beer, bobbedy worries about
So keep drinking that six-pack case on weekends. You're okay.
Drunks are always other people.
Chuck Potter
NEW YORK—Remember the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962? It was a time when war between the United States and the Soviet Union seemed possible, and indeed some thought it would break out in a matter of days.
By ROBERT SOBEL
Gold Investors: Beware of Risks
How did you feel at the time? Did you fear for the future of mankind, or were you more concerned for your own safety and that of others? How would you respond to June's war again? October, when war seemed imminent?
The last question might appear bizarre. After all, when the very continuation of civilization hangs in the balance, why worry about it? In 1962, the volume was in the 2- to 3-million share range on most days in 1962. Yet volume topped 4.0 million shares on Oct. 19, went to 5.7 million on the 22nd to 6.1 million on Oct. 26, and fell back to 42%, as the averages declined steadily.
Yet the bears who sold on their initial fears and then purchased the same stocks when the crisis was over made money. Some of them made a bit of it.
I remember speaking to several bears that October. They were selling because of the war scare, getting out of stocks and into cash. The idea seemed absurd. If war didn't come, there was no cause for fear. And if it did, there was no reason to have cash, since the kind of war anticipated at that time was so heavy they sold, in a near-panic atmosphere.
Try to understand their reactions. They may have been foolish, but they weren't stupid, and there is an important difference between what they acted out of reason, but emotion.
There is a moral to all of this; investing is an emotional as well as intellectual exer- cise. What's the point?
These reflections are preparatory to some observations about what has happened to gold in the past few years, when its price was near $1000. The stocks have gone from pennies to dollars.
Harry Browne, who says that people should buy secluded country places for safety during the coming collapse of the Western world, has a book on the best-seller list-"You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis." There is even an outfit in Nevada—the Survival Foods division of the Nevada Coin Exchange—that has carried the panic
mass emotions and delusions can make you a handful of points.
thinking a step further. For $258, the firm will sell you a year's supply of condensed food ("if need be you can fit it into your pocket. If need be you love you when mass starvation begins.
But wait—and think. If the dollar does become worthless and famine stalks the land, will your gold stocks and coins be worth having? Probably not. Now consider the case of the fellow who said his shares of IBM on the eve of what he firmly believed would destroy mankind—IBM included to be wise it made no sense, but it proved to be wise.
U.S. to Be Arab Piggybank?
Today we are in the midst of a flight from paper money. Governments grind out paper money by the reams. Prices continue to rise. And so investors seek out goods that are limited in supply and may rise in price at least as fast as the inflation rate.
By ERNEST CONINE
The Los Angeles Times
How far should foreigners be allowed to go in buying up America? Even a year ago, the question would have been absurd. But no longer. Not when the world will soon be awash with enough Arab oil money to buy foreign direct investment corporations, or even whole industries.
Member Associated Collegiate Press
Growing public concern is reflected in the fact that three congressional committees already are studying whether foreign aid should be outlawed or tightly controlled.
For many centuries, gold has been a repository of wealth and value and so, once more, people want to own the metal again in one form or another. If you do have some gold, it is worth more today than it was last year at this time.
There was a situation a lot like this one in 1635, but the commodity was tulip bulbs.
The situation is ironic.
BUSINESS STAFF
The bulbs, newly imported into Holland and scarce, caused a sensation. The Temper Augustus, Admiral Lieken and Viceroy Cloak, the famous joke of oaken could be had for 250 florets.
Ever since World War II, American investment dollars have been flowing into other countries. U.S. companies manufacture cars in England and Germany, electronic components in Hong Kong and Mexico, drugs in Peru. IBM dominates the computer market in Europe. DuPont operates 80 plants in 10 countries. American companies are also operating in Canada's manufacturing operations and 60 per cent of its oil and gas industry.
NEWS STAFF
Stop. Reread that last sentence. What does it mean? In practical terms, it means that gold can be traded for more dollars today than a year ago.
Other nations—even large ones, such as France and Britain—freed from the danger of becoming U.S. colonies. There was no feeling in this country that we had
The end of the speculation came, according to one version, when a sailor saw a Semper Augustus at a stand, pick it up and put in the water. The keeper was irate but the sailor was puzzled.
The price of gold is around $100 an ounce.
Ridiculous. How can a bank of metal that is primarily useful for filling teeth be worth that much?
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“This thing worth $2,000 florim?” he asked. “I thought it was an onion. How can a man buy that?”
If the nations of the world suddenly abandoned gold as a monetary standard, what would happen to its price? My guess is that it would go up. But Mr. Stern says: "I say that I certain denomination is not in the cards—yet. But this is a highly speculative situation, and while recognizing the gold value in gold stocks and coins, I would advocate the use of even speculators, to avoid that market.
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That day, the market for tulip bulbs broke down, causing one of the first financial crises in modern times.
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That is the crux of the matter. Gold is valuable because it can buy dollars, not vice versa.
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Suddenly that is changing. Although direct foreign investments in the United States ran only $38 million in 1971 and $708 million last year they sputtered to an astonishing $3 billion.
The Japanese, for their part, have purchased hotels in Hawaii and farmland in the Midwest. They are buying into U.S. coal mines, and are planning a steel mill in New York. In the last three or four years, they sourced $200-$300 million into Hawaii alone.
British interests have bought into such well-known companies as Gimbel Brothers, Grand Union supermarkets and Travelodge motels. A French tire maker and a German diesel engine parts company are planning plants in South Carolina.
And now the Arabs are coming, their pockets bulging with billions of dollars in oil revenues that cannot be usefully absorbed in the industrial development of their own
And this is just the beginning. Thanks to the massive oil price increases imposed by the Arabs since last October, they will have an estimated $50 billion more to play with this year than they had in 1973. Barring a substantial fall in prices, the Arabs may have a $40 billion investment by 1980, compared with only $6 billion as recently as 1970.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Adnan S. Khaskoghi, a Beirut-based Saudi Arabian, has already purchased two California banks, and that other Arab interests are looking at banks in this country. The Kuwahati have helped finance a $100 million office-hotel-shopping complex in Dubai, and the Shah of Iran, non-Arab Middle Eastern country, recently bought a large office building in New York.
Walter Levy, who is perhaps the world's leading authority on oil and the Middle East, says that the Arabs' massive new buying power "could conceivably result in foreign takeovers of important companies and industries."
Korean Seeks Christian Unification
Moon, in years past, has been held in low esteem by the established churches in South Korea. The Rev. Kim Kwan Suk, head of the Korean National Council of Churches, denounced Moon's achievements as "... a paeido-religion more evil than satan." However, Moon's mother is the New York City Mayor John Lindsay and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, among others, remains untarnished. In fact, many of the college students who attended the institutes at Moon's Tarrytown estate are practicing
Religion editor Kenneth L. Woodward asked in Newsweek (Oct 15, 1973): "Would you believe that the fall of man occurred before Adam's back? behind Adam's back"—that Jesus' mission as the second Adam* failed because he was killed before he could find a perfect wife?—that only righteous parents who form faith with God can save the world, the coming kindestion of God the Father?"
Moon recently shifted his international base of operations from three rented rooms in a Seoul ghetto to a luxurious, 22-acre campus with free college followers bought for $850,000. Included in the estate is a plush mansion for Moon, age 53, his wife and his seven children. Also on the grounds is an elaborate training center that youthful leaders of his One World Crusade.
In essence, that is the gospel according to Dr. Sun Myung Moon, a Korean evangelist and the founder of the 2 million member Unification Church.
groups. Won won fame for his mass
marriage in 1790 married 777 couples in
mass wedding.
According to a piece of the crusade's literature, there are bases of operation in every state and 12 foreign countries. The headquarters for Kansas is in Manhattan.
Kansas City and Wichita newspapers recently carried full-page ads proclaiming "New Hope for America." Dr. Sun Myung
Bae, executive director of Inkster to Watergate, Forgive, Love, Unite.
"My mission," says Moon, "to is to try to unite all Christians into one family before that."
Moon, born in North Korea, said that he was, at the age of 16, called by Jesus to "fulfill God's providence." In 1950 Moon escaped from a Communist prison where he worked. He later moved to Taiwan. Relocating in South Korea, he formed several religious and anti-Communist groups.
In Wichita, only a week ago, Moon's followers requested donations from stores at shopping centers and department stores as part of a statewide solicitation campaign. In New York City Moon's discipline has been the largest messages about narcotics, wayward children and the demise of the American family.
Mark Pierron of the Missouri headquarters in Kansas City disclosed in a telephone interview more of the basis for Moon's theology. Pierron said, "The book is elaborated from revelation and prayer and study of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon."
Protestants, Catholics and Jews. However, Moon says that in time they will have to make a choice between their original faiths and his movement.
In reference to the Unification Church's doctrine which says only faithfully married couples will be welcomed into the Kingdom of God, Pierron said, "To be most complete God is to be married. Man is not complete who is single. Man remains single is to remain only a part of a wife."
Dr. Moon's theology has brought disagreement from biblical scholars. According to an instructor at the Kansas School of Religion, the idea of adultery as the worst sin is "contradictory to the gospel tradition."
Moon also teaches that adultery is the supreme sin.
The instructor used the example of Mary Magdalene, who was discovered in the act of committing adultery and was forgiven for her adultery, endowed by Jesus in the Gospel of John.
Responding to the statement "the fall of man occurred when EVEN" literally means that man's dam was built.
instructor said that view was "a naive literalism that doesn't really deal with the truth of an argument."
Although the disciples of this cult seem confused by Moon's metaphysics and have difficulty satisfactorily reconciling Moon's philosophies with basic biblical principles, their failure to recognize the pledges to assure them—and their offspring—a place in God's family circle.
Chuck Alexander Wichita freshman
Stevenson's misgivings, has introduced a bill designed to prevent foreign takeovers in the energy and defense industries. Rep. John H. Dent, D-Pa, will go even further, prohibiting foreign ownership of more than $10 million of any U.S. corporation's voting stock.
Some influential figures on capital hill are not convinced, however.
It is on these grounds that the Nixon administration argues against any legislative restrictions on investments by the Arabs or anybody else—plus the obvious fact that such action would invite retaliation against U.S. investments in other countries
The specter of Arabs sitting in dozens of American boardrooms, robes flowing and ceremonial daggers in their belts, is almost certainly overblow. But practically every major country in the world has laws giving the government a veto power over foreign aid, a monopoly on the economy—a veto power that is seldom invoked but that can be when needed.
There is a bright side. All that money coming in will help keep the U.S. balance of payments out of the red. It will provide capital for industrial expansion at a time when this country's capital resources are strained. It will create jobs for workers.
Sen, Adil E. Stevenson III, D-III,
worries that foreign ownership of natural resources such as coal, timber and farm lands would result in diversion of scarce foodstuff and materials overseas instead of into the U.S. market.
Rep. John E. Moss, D-Calif., sharing
Aside from laws limiting foreign ownership in radio and TV stations, air carriers and U.S. flag merchantmen, the law protects protective statutes. Perhaps it's time we did.
K
Reader Responds
Army's Promised Benefits Elude Hapless Volunteer
To the Editor:
The statement that all Lawrence area applicants or enlistees have gotten exactly what they asked for gave me a big laugh. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
Your recent story, "Volunteer Army Qualified Success," gave me pause to consider the sources of your information. I see they were Army officers and recruiters with a
My son dropped out of KU a semester but work because he was bogged down and not sure what he wanted. His draft number was 40. He informed the board that he wasn't going to play in the tournament.
People at the draft board and recruiting station told him to enlist, as he would get a choice of what he wanted. He did enlist on his advice—one more naive young man for
He was put through several days at basic of being told that if he would only sign up for another year or two, he would have many more opportunities. This he didn't do. For it Asnell was going to live in New York.
He asked for business or clerk training. He received training chosen by the Army. He is trained to launch sophisticated ground-to-air heat-seeking missiles. He is also qualified to drive and operate a gamma goat, an advance radar unit for the missile launcher. The job market for that, I understand, is quite limited, to say the least.
He was sent to Germany and spends most of his time standing guard duty, so I suppose you could say he might qualify for security or night watchman.
He has a wife, whom he finds he's isn't really able to support on his Army pay. He has applied for a bartending job, from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., after which he would walk the two miles to where he lives and be ready to walk back and report for duty in the early morning. That could be called a training of sorts, if he gets the job.
He decided to take advantage of the many educational opportunities the Army offers. He applied for a correspondence course in accounting. It was cancelled, along with most of his education.
The dollar, as everyone knows, is badly devaluated in Europe. The Army promises a cost-of-living allowance to compensate for living conditions in other countries where the monetary system is different from that of the U.S. That was allowed a few months but has been taken away. When prices are at an all-time high and climbing weekly, they
They stopped early out to go back to school because the whole Army seemed to be returning to school. I wonder why, with such magnificent free opportunities.
I would only like to say to the recruiters and the success of the volunteer Army—Lisa Luck!
Audrey L. Williams 1042 Wellington Rd.
Griff and the Unicorn
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