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Wednesday, March 20, 1974
University Dally Kansan
KANSAN
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Great Democratic Hope
Liberal Democrat William Roy is challenging conservative Republican Robert Dole for a Kansas Senate seat in a critical election should measure the success of the Kansas Democratic party.
Rep. Roy of the second Kansas congressional district has a moderately liberal voting record and has consistently opposed Nixon administration policies. He plans to use the Watergate scandals as an issue in his Senate campaign. Sen. Dole, who was Republican Party Chairman throughout most of the Watergate capers, has almost always supported Nixon administration policies.
Roy is an attractive candidate and a tough campaigner who will nonetheless need vigorous support from Kansas liberals, Democrats from Iowa and others appointed by the Nixon scandals to defeat the popular incumbent, Dole.
But the fact that Roy has a chance of winning at all in this rural and Republican corner of the country, and encouraging phenomenon.
It used to be that a Kansas Democrat, liberal or otherwise, was the political black sheep of the community. He would either hide his political affiliations under a cloud of nonpartisan declarations or defiantly take his place in line with the state's other freaks.
I RECALL THE TRAUMA of being the only child to declare a preference for John Kennedy in a presidential straw poll in Mrs. Peepers' third grade class. The vote was followed by a lengthy explanation by Mrs. Peepers which denoted the falacies of supporting that young Catholic Democrat and which was delivered with a great show of strained objectivity and tolerance.
Quite simply, if a Kansan didn't make friends with Republicans, he didn't make any friends. And when that young Catholic Democrat narrowly won the election, the bitterness in Mrs. Peepers' class was more than charm or wit could compensate for.
OF COURSE, THE RE have been successful Democratic candidates in Kansas. George Docking, Robert's father, was a strong candidate and earned two terms as governor in spite of his Democratic
affiliations. His son has succeeded in more gubernatorial elections than any other Kansan. But Robert clung to his job only by behaving more like a Republican than the Republicans.
Roy is the only successful state Democrat who offers a distinct alternative to Kansas voters. His political views are seemingly not suited to the constituency he would be representing. Yet, he is a hard-working and charismatic congressman who defies the traditional mediocrity of the Kansas congressional delegation.
Vern Miller, who announced his candidacy for governor last week, is another Democratic maverick who will probably succeed, not because he is a Democrat, but because of his extensive publicity and tapping of the state's hyper concern for law and order. Miller's election would give little comfort to many Democrats, particularly those from the left wing of the party.
THESE MEN HAVE succeeded on the strength of their personalities or because of short-term issues. But, little by little, a party organization has been formed to Democrats have begun to assert themselves,
Roy defeated Chester Mize, an ultramoderate and mediocre incumbent, in a stunning upset in the Championship and enhanced and articulate campaign.
BUT DOLE WILL not be so easily out-maneuvered. Dole is a competent campaigner, has a solid base of support in western Kansas, and has been actively campaigning for re-election since late last year.
Roy would serve the state and the nation better in the Senate than in the House. His success would bolster the state Democratic party, thus encouraging the development of a healthy two-party system in the state. And Roy would articulately represent many Kansans who have not been recognized by the Republican monolith.
But it is a dubious risk to abandon a relatively sure House seat and challenge a popular incumbent Senator. A liberal democratic position in the Kansas delegation is a valuable rarity which should not be recklessly abandoned.
-Bill Gibson
Dykes' Diploma Plan
Indeed, the deteriorating quality of postal service is one factor that makes the idea so attractive. There's obviously plenty wrong with the way it loses a subpoena addressed to the President of the United States.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes has come up with another good idea, one that's simple and attractive and bound to secure him the undying loyalty of University of Kansas seniors.
The idea is to get diplomas to graduating seniors the day of commencement. The University has been sending forth its graduates to languish weeks or months while wondering whether the mail will ever bring their diplomas.
And the Associated Press reported just last week that a letter mailed by a Civil War soldier 110 years ago had finally been delivered (although it was delivered to the wrong place).
Distributing diplomas to seniors at commencement time would save the University hundreds of dollars in postage, not to mention advertising for them. The labels and envelopes. And surely there's some expense in per-
forating all those stamps with the KU logo.
But the factor that most makes the idea attractive is simply that it would be nice to walk off the hill after all. The girl originally came to get—a diploma.
There could be nothing more anticliacactic than to receive in the mail a few weeks into the summer another of those KU envelopes with a KU-perforated stamp on the outside and a form cover letter on the inside which says, "Dear senior: Congratulations. . ."
Of course, there are obstacles to this proposal, as usual. The bureaucracy is worried about such things as getting final grades in early enough and checking to see that all fines have been paid.
That would be like getting another piece of junk mail, a rather ignominious way for something like a diploma to arrive.
But surely those obstacles can be overcome. That's what administrators are for, and we have those all over the place. So let's use diplomas instead of diplomas for delivery May 20 instead of June 20 or July 20.
Bob Simison
Players Better Off Without Shrink
By PETE ALFANO
Dr. Arnold Mandell is a short, scholarly-looking man who has spent the past two years with the San Diego Chargers as the only team psychiatrist in the National Football League. During that time he has reached the conclusion that he might be one of the players to be better off without. He felt partly responsible for their 2-11 record last season.
While Mandell will no longer pace the sidelines with the Chargers' two team physicians and coaching staff, he will speak as a consultant. Why the decision to leave?
"I have decided that pro football is the place for a psychiatrist," he said. "I found that by helping to alleviate a player's pain, I can make him happier but perhaps not as successful."
"ITHINK IT'S better for players to shore up their anger and frustration during the week so it can be discharged on Sunday. It may be better for the team in every way if I don't help them talk their problems through." he said.
Mandell, known by the team as one of the bone, brain and body boys," has been called "the most important."
personality types for three years. He found the sport to be as violent as advertised. He also said that coaches have to add a help planner to help prepare players for that violence.
"Football is like going to war," Mandell said, "But in this country one of the psychological problems coaches now face is the parallel growth of the peace movement and the growth of football. On one hand our society is questioning war; we don't want to fight. We look for beauty and we try to be careful. We care about the welfare of others."
"But there is a contradiction with football, which ascribes to a Darwinian theory," he said. "It the survival of the fittest and natural selection. Coaches who are the most successful are ones who can win against players, not against players. They have to hang a sword over their players' heads and get them off their philosophical meandering."
MANDELL, WHO heeds the psychiatry department at the University of California at San Diego, claimed that the flower child was not a competitor. An athlete can't be both, be said.
A super athlete might be able to compensate, but most would find it increasing.
difficult delivery blows. They start helping their opponents up; they say a friendly word and then give the impression of an attack.
Mandell doesn't have a ready explanation for the growth of two opposing philosophies. He said he thought that perhaps football fans didn't realize the severity of the sport. Sitting in the stands or in front of their team, Mandell was removed from the physical confrontation.
"I was never really a fan until I started working with the Chargers," he said. "I remember being on the sidelines for the first time during a practice and watching a power sweep coming right at me. The running back and the linebacker collided and the running back fall. Only his tips were moving, and I remember thinking, 'I've just seen a murder.' I don't know whether the game is awful or the game realize how hard the hitters are. They see it as an elegant chess game on TV, I wanted to run off the field."
DURING HIS tests and observations of the Chargers, Mandell said he discovered that football players comprised a wide variety of personality types. After playing his last season, spanned a 18-year period he was able predict what position a player was
psychologically suited for between 70 and 80 per cent of the time.
Broken down by positions, here's how
Mandel characterizes the average player.
"Given equal physical abilities, such as height, weight, strength and speed," he said, "we could predict the psychological variables. We found that we can refer to a player's personality traits according to his positions."
Quarterbacks—"Their arrogance is incredible. They are apt to say, 'Heat up the water, I don't want to walk on it while it's cold.' Now that more and more coaches are callingples, that trait may be declining. You may get another type of quarterback—a religious man who thinks he has a direct line to God. He humble to God, but may be afraid. He is almost never, he is anxiety free and always feels he can succeed Lord. He can take instructions better than the other type who is anti-social and unfeeling."
RUNNING BACKS*—"Fallbacks are honest, tough, no-nonsense, hard-working and blunt men. Halffbacks are sneaky, elusive, tricky and diplomatic types. Both are aggressive but while the fulback will stick to him, the halffbacks will stab in the back."
WIDE RECEIVERS—"They are elegant and vain, highly individualists and isolated females."
LINEBACKERS—"They are anacyluse, intelligent and highly controlled. They'll kill if given permission. Linebackers are the ones who would make excellent assasins. They're always behind enemy lines and they don't hesitate when it comes time to pull the trigger."
DEFENSIVE LINEMEN—"They will kill
on, but only for the fun of it. They are
unaware of their own mortality."
DEFENSE BACKS—"They occupy lonely territory and tend to feel alienated. They are more depression prone. They are aggressive but are always getting beat up because of their size. I did study and found five or six had suicidal depression."
"The players are rather unsophisticated about that," he said. "It's merely a nonroutine task. If you fail, after each has been put through physical and psychological tests. They are probed for their weak points—even humiliated, to gain acceptance by their group."
Technocrats Break Down Morality
These diverse personality forms type a cross-knit football family which Mandell Wardell and Chris Doyle have worked together.
Special to the Los Angeles Times
By MARTIN E.MARTY
Marty is a professor of religion at the university of Chicago Divinity School and an Associate Professor of Religion.
More than anything else, the Watagate affair represents a profoundly unsettling breakdown in morality—and resolving the issue is essential to our national mental health.
For the series of incidents which we collectively call Watergate represent not only the "old immorality" but also the "new amorality". In the past, we have been able to deal with the former; the latter has presented us with something new.
Whatever else Watergate has been about, it has not been a matter of conventional immorality. This is not to say that timetested ways of looking at traditional justice are not relevant—the public, for instance, should considerable sophistication in the way it recovered from the "Agnew shock." But that shock was based on a reaction to the idea of hands dipping into the tills; problem solvers would define, even if they are hard to foresee.
Similarly, Americans have shown impressive degrees of outrage over reports
that presidential homes in California and Florida have been extravagantly improved at taxpayer expense, and that tax breaks on these properties or guileful fund-raising techniques have skirted the edges of legality. These, too, we have had experience at coping with, and in the future they can be faced with new vigilance and new scrutiny. We now are unbound by extraordinary preachments or punishments.
BUT MANY OF the other happenings in the past two years seem to range outside the field where morality and immorality have long done battle.
I was in Austria last spring when the details of Watergate first started to come out. At that distance I found myself trying to reconstruct what happened across in the memoirs of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and planner. Speer quoted a 1944 London Observer article, which, unwittingly applied not only to Speer but also to the witnesses before the Ervin committee.
The London Observer predicted that doctrineina and evil people like Hitler, Himmel, Goering and Goebbels would soon be killed. A German person like Speer, with unknown but certainly conventional political opinions, "very much the successful average man, well-dressed, civil, noncorrupt, very middle-class," symbolized "the pure technician, the classless bright young man without background," who lacked "psychological and spiritual bailout"—individuals of this age with their way and would "long be with us."
Such people and their practices are at the heart of the Watergate problem. The 20th-century doom-sayers like Orwell, Kafka, Jacques Elul and Simone Well had to adapt themselves to technohorror would come. And, and at least for America, the prediction has come to pass.
IN RECENT administrations, such technocrats had begun to make their way, and by the time of Watergate they were in command—a kind of "inner government" that was often unseen in thrall to 20th century fiefs; technology plus propaganda plus administrative efficiency plus managerial accomplishment plus down-the-line loyalty—but minus the political belief, they saw themselves the sphere of debate or responsibility.
Lost to them was regard for the person.
Gone were possibilities for the random
event or the humane happening in their "zero-defect system." Beyond reach will open encounters between antagonists, and give way to new challenges. Unchecked, such policies would have led us to a post-political order where everything is integrated into everything else, and all decisions are made with care.
America still has the resources for countering episodes like Watergate—but those resources have fallen into disuse. The first case was a failed campaign other. The three branches of government are out of balance. And the nation's subcommunities, made up of combative movements and loosse associations, are ill equipped to meet the moral dilemma posed by the scandals.
However, if we choose simply to agree that "one year of Watergate is enough," we will demonstrate to ourselves, to the world, that we are still in a kind of morality or amorality. By following the President's advice and ignoring this sordid mess, we would admit to everyone that, from now on, anything other than this would have to do is talk a scandal to death.
The moral air, therefore, must be cleared, or it will behold us all.
Griff and the Unicorn
Readers Respond
Winn Promotes Rape Control Bill
To the Editor:
I have followed with interest your series of articles chronicling the increasing problem of rape at KU. Needless to say, I continue to find the statistics alarming.
In November of last year, I cosponsored a bill in Congress to establish a National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape. The center would be responsible for financing and conducting research and demonstration programs into the causes.
bv Sokoloff
consequences, prevention, treatment and ultimately, the control of rape. In conclusion, rape laws in the center would be assigned to study existing rape laws with the ultimate goal of drafting a model rape law. This bill is currently pending approval from the state statute and the Commerce Committee.
In addition to education, changing present rape laws is a matter of great importance. All too often under our present system of justice, the victim of a rape is intimidated when she does her part as a good citizen. In many states, the laws dictate that corruptions be punished and the crime is for conviction. On the bright side, however, a District of Columbia judge ruled in January that such evidence was unnecessary.
In my opinion, women must be encouraged to report these offenses to local law enforcement officials. The shame that they often feel must be eradicated. The establishment of a National Center would have as one of our courses, the counseling programs, women would be taught that reporting the crime is the only way to apprehend the perpetrator.
I would like to commend the actions of women's groups at KU and Lawrence community law enforcement officials for their cooperative efforts in educating and counseling women in the community and on the campus.
Rep. Larry Winn Jr., R-Kan.
Hopefully, the passage of this important legislation, and the continued efforts of local citizens, will help our nation move forward. We can do this by system for dealing with rape victims and will lead to a more effective law for dealing with agents of this crime. It should at least help us move toward adequately protecting women's rights to physical security and safety.
To the Editor:
Lawrence graduate student
Better Gift Suggested
However, a better gift to the University would have been the beginning of a fund to purchase a new learning system. We wouldn't have had the members might someday be able to go walk on campus at night in safety. We didn't really need more bushes and trees and really need some flowers.
The senior class of 1974 deserves a vote of thanks from the student body for voting to purchase trees and shrubs to help hide the uly lines of Wesco Hall. It should be a source of consolation to us all to know that we will not see it but don't see as much of Wesco Hall as we did.
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