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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, November 1. 1961
Party Platforms Weak
Campus political party platforms have been published, but no one really knows where Vox Populi or University Party stands on any issue.
Both platforms avoid firm stands on civil rights and NSA. UP completely ignores both issues, hiding its head in the sand, hoping someone else will clean up this so-called "discrimination mess," and "do something to take care of NSA."
VOX MERELY CONTINUES its "faithful support of the Human Rights Commission, the ASC and the administration in their investigation and action on discriminatory practices which the KU student might encounter."
But what are they really saying? What does the Human Rights Commission in Lawrence believe? By what policies does it operate?
DOES VOX POPULI actually say what the plank on Civil Rights means, or is Vox filling space with platitudes that sound good and make no one in particular angry?
Reaffiliation with NSA will be an issue on the campus again, whether the writers of the platforms realize it or not.
Each party says it is concerned with campus issues, but fails to recognize an important issue now.
BUT VOX IS NOT ALONE in writing empty planks.
One plank in UP's platform is concerned with the KU-MU dispute, yet they are aware, or should be aware, that a committee has met with MU delegates, a considerable amount of correspondence has been done, by both the student committee and the administration, and that more meetings are scheduled before the KU-MU football game.
If necessary, this committee will be continued in future years, so the UP plank has little bearing on the present situation.
BOTH PARTIES FAVOR a pre-enrollment plan, but neither suggests such a plan. Are we to assume that ASC members, if elected, will immediately begin work on a pre-enrollment program, and if so, how? UP also reaffirms the need for a stop day, a day between the final day of classes and the first day of final examinations.
Stop day has been taken for granted by many professors and students when finals begin on any day except Monday.
BOTH PLATFORMS ARE the result of long hours of consideration and the ideas of many people. Perhaps fewer people, with more definite ideas are needed on the platform committees.
Vox and UP are not criticized here for what they have done.
The party members feel it is a good platform, but many students do not think so. These students do not want to be in a party whose platform is filled with pretty phrases, designed to get the votes during election. They want a platform they can understand, one that is clear on every subject and one they can quote accurately and concisely when they are asked:
"How does your party stand on Civil Rights or NSA?"
Carrie Merryfield
Other Schools Handle Housing
By A. C. Miller
The problem of housing discrimination at KU is not unique, nor is the solution to that problem a reality.
In a telephone interview with Polly Parrish, the dean of women at the University of Colorado, it was learned that the problem of listing renters who discriminate on the Housing Office list has been solved.
SHE EXPLAINED, "The Colorado Board of Regents and the State both have regulations concerning housing discrimination.
"These regulations," she continued, "say that in any kind of student housing there shall be no discrimination on the basis of color, race, religion, or national origin. This applies to both campus and off-campus housing."
She said, "If students report instances of discrimination, we investigate, and if the report is true the renters are removed from the housing list."
WHEN ASKED IF removing names from the list had created a housing shortage, she replied, "No, for we have found very few cases of discrimination. In those cases where we do investigate discrimination, the people involved
are usually willing to comply with the regulations."
Dean Parrish added that the Board of Regents has also mandated social houses (fraternities and sororites) to comply with its anti-discrimination regulations by 1962.
Other information received from the National Student Association's Student Government Information Service points out that many universities have experienced the same problem.
SCHOOLS SUCH AS Cornell, Columbia, the Universities of New Mexico and Illinois, and many others have found effective means of solving the discrimination problem in off-campus housing.
For example, Cornell University has taken a strong stand against discrimination practices. The Guide for Landlords presented by the university to Ithaca, New York, landlords carries the following statement:
"The University expects approved residences to take in students without discrimination. Residences which discriminate against students because of race, religion, color or land of origin will not be listed in the Off-Campus Housing Office."
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- Obtain statements from the house owners about their policies regarding the selection of members.
- AT THE UNIVERSITY of Illinois off-campus housing discrimination aroused the student government into passing a resolution calling for the University Housing Office to;
- Create an additional criterion of approval, that renters who discriminate be kept from the housing list.
IN APRIL 1961 the New York Times published a study made by Edward Rutledge, housing director of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination, which disclosed that some of the most prominent educational institutions in the United States have broadened their efforts toward bias prohibition.
Such colleges as Yale, Harvard, Radcliffe, the Universities of Washington, California, and Minnesota, San Jose State College, Marquette University and Ohio State University have developed non-discrimination policy requirements for listing off-campus renters.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.—Henry David Thoreau
Short Ones
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of the ruling class.-Karl Marx
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To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue—Charles Kingsley
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. . . It is a part of nature.-Herbert Spencer
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All beauteous things for which we live by laws of time and space decay.-William Johnson Cory
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"I'll stand on mine if you'll stand on yours!"
International Jayhawker Arab's View of Algeria
Ali Mouhsine, Morocco senior
As the Algerian Revolution enters its eighth year progress towards a solution to the problem has been essentially nil. The paratroopers and the Foreign Legion still carry out their daily arrests and executions. Jails are filled up, concentration camps are crowded, and yet the cry of Algeria is heard by the peoples and nations all over the world.
THE OCCUPATION OF THIS NORTH AFRICAN nation started in 1830 and since then Algeria has lost her identity as a free nation. The Algerian people have been denied their inalienable rights. Moreover, the French authorities claim that Algeria is an integral part of France. However, the Algerian people have a culture of their own, of which they are proud and to which they hold strongly. The French tried to destroy it by different methods including assimilation; Arabic schools have been closed down and the Mosques transformed into churches or gambling centers as in Algiers and Oran. But the most important thing, the consciousness of the people and their determination to live as a free people rather than suffer an eternal foreign rule, has survived. The people of the United States had a similar situation that brought about the well known American Revolution. More recently the French people themselves went through the same experience during the German occupation: NO ONE ANYWHERE LIKES TO BE DOMINATED BY ANY FOREIGN POWER.
IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT THE exports of France to Algeria are not by any means the teachings of the 1789 French revolution. The war of Algeria is a plague to France and the future relations between Algerians and Frenchmen are becoming more and more troubled for friendship does not grow on bloodshed. The Algerian people represented by the F.L.N. (Front of National Liberation) are determined to fight a war they hate. They want an end to the present police state government, the release of all political prisoners and the restoration of all civil liberties, in short their independence. The Algerian problem is not the concern of France alone but of the whole world and particularly of the people who stand for the abolition of colonialism EVERYWHERE.
There is probably no more shameful part in the history of American religion than its complete abdication from any effort to help American slaves — it only undertook activity when asked by the slavemasters, who thought religion might help keep the slaves docile.—Nathan Glazer
Worth Repeating
Poetry is a part of you. You don't create it. You listen to it, and you give it form . . . It is a lonely art that must be self-taught. — David McCord
Who — aside from certain big children who are found in the natural sciences — still believes that the finding of astronomy, biology, physics or chemistry can teach us anything about the meaning of the world?—Wax Weber
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