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University Daily Kansan Thursday. November 2, 1961
The ASC Budget Trouble
The All Student Council encountered one of its greatest problems of the year when it tackled the problem of organizational appropriations Tuesday.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
At no time in recent years has it been necessary for the council to chop requests as it did at the meeting the other night. But when requests exceed resources this becomes necessary.
No more than the normal number of organizations requested appropriations this year. However, the total amount requested was somewhat more than has been requested in previous years.
THE $1905 REQUESTED BY PEOPLE-TO-People is the largest factor involved in upsetting the balance of previous years. This is the first year of People-to-People's existence on the campus and thus the first year it has requested an appropriation. The ASC granted the People-to-People request after a short period of debate and made no attempt to trim it.
The recent disaffiliation with the U.S. National Student Association relieved part of the budgeting problem. NSA has in past years received the second largest ASC appropriation. People-toPeople replaces NSA in this position. AWS has long received more funds from the council than any other organization. Efforts to trim the $2,590 AWS request ended in tabling the request at the Tuesday meeting.
When the ASC meeting adjourned Tuesday evening it appeared that it would be necessary to severely cut the AWS request and further trim the requests of some of the other organizations.
BUT YESTERDAY THE FINANCIAL DIFFICulties of the ASC and the organizations it sponsors were solved with a whisk of the check writing hand of the University. The assistance was offered after Max Eberhart, Great Bend
senior and president of the student body, met with Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and explained the financial bind the ASC was in.
The chancellor, after checking the requests of all the organizations applying for ASC funds, agreed that student government and the organizations involved could not be effective under the limitations of the present budget. He agreed to allow the ASC an extra $1,100 to meet the financial needs of the council and other groups.
Without the chancellor's concern for student government the ASC would still be pondering the solution to a budgeting problem that threatened the activities of the ASC and several other campus organizations.
HOWEVER, THE PROBLEM MAY POSSIBLY be a continuing one and may very well appear again in future years.
Chancellor Wescoe made it clear that the extra help given the ASC this year will not be available in the future. If the activities and sponsorships of the council are to be properly financed in future years it might be necessary to increase the amount now taken from the student activity fund. The council now receives 40c from the activity fund for each person fully enrolled at the University.
INFLATION ALONE WILL SOMEDAY necessitate an increase in the amount the ASC receives. The ever expanding activities of the council will also make it necessary to either seek a permanent increase in the amount of money received from the activity fund or from another source.
The ASC should investigate ways in which a revenue increase can be made to avoid a reocurrence of what happened this fall.
Ron Gallagher
The Bone in Nikita's Throat
The conflict over the right of free and unrestricted access by American military personnel to East Berlin has filled the news columns recently and great attention has been given to just what the United States and her European allies should do to enforce those rights. All this tends to obscure the basic fact that this right is really a secondary issue. It merely represents the continued pressure of the Soviet Union on the Western position in Berlin.
IF YOU THINK BACK, YOU WILL remember that Khrushchev once called West Berlin a bone in his throat. There were specific reasons for that attitude. The most important one was that millions of East Germans had fled through West Berlin to West Germany. This both condemned the communist government of East Germany and drained it of valuable manpower. Another reason was the propaganda effect of West Berlin; it embarrassed the East German
regime by providing a contrast that showed the greater material wealth and freedom of West Germany.
Khrushchev's method of removing the bone in his throat was to build a wall to separate East and West Berlin and cut off both the refugee flow and any communication between the two parts of the city that might embarrass the East German government.
THIS ACTION SOLVED HIS BASIC PROBLEM. He will continue to apply pressure on West Berlin, but the bone in his throat has been removed. The bottling up of East Germans' discontent may result in internal difficulties for the East German regime. But as Khrushchev has demonstrated in Hungary, he has the brute force to suppress any violent eruptions his East German puppets cannot handle.
—William H. Mullins
An article that appeared in the UDK Oct. 25 announced the formation of a NEW, non-politically aligned student group that is trying to find ways to stimulate student interest and concern in today's very complex and confusing world political situation. I should like to clarify several points that were mentioned in this article.
Student Group Explained Editor:
Daily Hansan
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Tom Turner ... Managing Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Ron Gallagher ... Editorial Editor
I AM DEFINITELY NOT the organizer of the group. I am merely a participant. The problem of student indifference to the troubles besetting the United States and the entire free world was introduced to the Human Relations class by a member of the class as a passing comment. However, discussion was spontaneous for a definite problem was recognized in this subject by the group.
The group is not organized in any specific manner nor is there any recognized leader of the group. There is no general policy for action as such but merely a roundtable discussion of various types of action that could be pursued to create student interest.
OUR GROUP URGES K.U. students to become actively concerned about the future of our nation. There are many active and enlightening forums and organizations here at the university which deal with national and international problems that are available to students. We are trying to stimulate student interest in any or all of these groups by increasing our comprehension of the world events which affect each of us.
We feel that with an attitude of indifference we offer to the Communists an advantage which our massive military defenses cannot hope to deal with.
WE OFFER NO organization with set beliefs or goals; we offer only an attempt to stimulate the awareness and concern of the college student in the area which sovitally concerns us all. The preservation of our rights and privileges.
Bob Williams Wichita Senior
"ARE TH' BOYS TAKING US TO SEE THIS PICTURE IN A THEATRE OR A `DRIVE-IN`?"
From the Magazine Rack
KU
The Control of War
By I. Yermashov
The new American doctrine of "limited" or "acceptable" war is designed to "safeguard American metropolitan territory from a nuclear counterblow, yet, simultaneously, enable the United States to use war as an instrument of its policy." It would aggravate world tension, "thereby driving upwards the curve of military appropriations and arms deliveries." It would restore the balance between the Air Force and Rockefeller interests on one side, and the Army and Navy and "the House of Morgan and its allies from the DuPont empire, which jointly control the key centers of the steel industry and the manufacture of the latest types of 'conventional' arms," on the other. It also appeals to the German tycoons.
Vain apprehensions, say the authors of the "new doctrine." They have taken care of everything. To begin with, diplomatic relations between the belligerents must be left intact! No one had ever thought of this "wonder" before... But that is not all. In order that both sides shall play the game fairly the belligerents submit to inspection. The inspectors see to it that the adversaries do not shower each other's rear with nuclear bombs and that they do not apply any of the "forbidden holds" just as the referee does in the boxing ring... Last but not least, the rules and regulations provide for breaks in the hostilities at regular intervals for establishing "political contacts," meant evidently for the purpose of sounding out possible cease-fire and peace terms...
This doctrine, an attempt to escape the theory of "the nuclear blind alley" or balance of terror, would rule out all "strategic weapons" but not short-range rockets and "tactical" atomic weapons. "Other restrictions rule out the bombardment of cities, industrial plants, and communication arteries, and the use of airfields for raids deep into the enemy rear... Just one thing is unclear. How to secure observance of these rules and regulations, even if we assume that all states put their signatures to them?
W
It is a specious doctrine, based on the false assumption that so complex and cruel a phenomenon as war may be governed by a set of rules and regulations and that it can be placed within a legal framework similar to that governing, say, commerce.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in its recent report, "Developments in Military Technology and Their Impact on United States Strategy and Foreign Policy," had not the slightest intention of refuting the "new doctrine." Their purpose was different. What they wanted was to emphasize the importance of nuclear weapons and so back up the interests of the major monopolies. But by putting forward the sound idea that there is no distinct line between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, and by stating that a "small" nuclear war may rapidly become a "big" one, they invalidated the whole theory of rule-making, which is really nothing more than pure bluff...
What the learned flunkeys of the American and German imperialists call "small" or "limited" wars are actually . . . "worldwide nuclear wars only camouflaged by means of a different, less 'terrifying' label." Wherever the nuclear explosion occurs—in the "local" tactical or "universal" strategic theatre of operations—it will be the starting signal for a worldwide nuclear holocaust...
The only real way to secure lasting peace on earth is to destroy all armaments, scrap all existing stockpiles of atomic and hydrogen weapons, and bury the concept of war once and for all.