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Wednesday, June 21, 1972
University Summer Kansan
Kansan Photo by STEVE CRAIG
Angela in the Red Press
One of the prerogatives of being editor of the Kansan, along with sleepless nights and irate phone calls, is being on the mailing list of many different organizations. They range from TV Guide reprints to PR releases from Eastman Kodak. Perhaps the most interesting, however, are the varied types of propaganda: Gramma, the official organ of the central committee of the Communist party of Cuba, posters from Czechoslovakia supporting the "day of solidarity with youth and students struggling for nationalism, for independence and peaceful coexistence." This week I received the March issue of the International Union of Students magazine, which is published in Prague each month. Scanning through it, I found some rather interesting statements, which I quote:
"The Free German Youth of West Berlin, at its Fifth Congress held last December 18-19, called for . . . the freedom of Angela Davis."
"Young workers and students of Ulan Bator (Mongolia) recently attended a mammoth meeting to protest the illegal
prosecution of Angela Davis. . . Participants in the meeting expressed warm solidarity of the Mongolian youth with Angela Davis and passed a resolution demanding that the United States immediately release her from prison."
And yet another: "The Secretariat of the International Union of Students, in the name of millions of students throughout the world, wishes you all the best on the occasion of your birthday. Employing all efforts to mobilize world student movement for denouncing the imperialist conspiracy against you and all democratic and progressive forces in immediate release. Militant Greetings." (This telegram was from Warsaw to Davis on her 28th birthday.)
Since it took until June for the March issue to arrive, I'll be up in the air until September waiting for the June issue. I'd like to find out how the Communist youth of the world reacted to the discovery that the imperialist conspiracy acquitted Angela Davis.
-Rita E. Haugh
Editor
Editor
The Impossible Mission
The black sedan drew up to one of the corner soft drink stands that serves Washington tourists during the summer. It was night; the stand stood unattended. (Naturally.) A sinister figure, wearing a dark suit, jumped from the sedan and approached the stand. He inserted a dime in the slot and looked around, then pulled the tab from the aluminum can. He slowly raised the can to his ear.
"Mr. McCord," the voice from the can ask for your mission, should you decide to accept it.
A slight smile crossed the man's face. "no," he thought, "but it makes the direction hopeful."
The voice from the Pepsi can, no doubt donated to the re-election committee prior to April 1, continued . . . "is to gair entrance to the Watergate Apartments and proceed to the sixth floor. Should you encounter any difficulties, you are to call the Watergate phone and is prepared to swing weight with the management if you need her."
"Once you gain entrance to the floor (unconventionally?), you are to proceed to the office of the Democratic National Committee. You can't miss it; it's the only janitor's closet on the floor," the voice said.
The man looked nervously over his shoulder. "This is a bigy." he thought.
"Good old Martha," the man thought,
she really taken the country into her
bosom.
"After you have entered the D.N.C.," the voice directed (not unlike the old D.M.Z. days, chuckled the man), "you are to locate the file labeled 'Project Concern.' It has come to our attention that the Democrats are staging a convention in one month. You are to find out who the promoters are and who the honored guest is to be. No one seems to know around here, and it is imperative we find out soon," the voice said somewhat Dolefully.
"Pay particular attention to the files marked N.C. (for non-candidates), S.C. (for skeleton closet) and A.C. (for accounts closed) if there is one. It is our hope they will provide some information."
"Also you are to remove a file marked 'The Yellow Rose of Texas' and return it to headquarters. We have reserved a new cabinet for it here. It is a rather large file, so you may need a wheelbarrow," the voice said Agnewstically.
"Lastly," the voice was fading, "you are instructed to leave behind a copy of 'Six Crises' for the chairman of the D.N.C. Remember the purpose of your search and destroy but to begin building the bass for a generation of lasting peace."
"And McCord," said the voice, "should you or any of your agents be captured, the director will disavow any knowledge of your mission. Good luck, James."
The man jumped to attention, his hand over his breast, tears streaming from his
As the black sedan drove off, the Pepsi can began to fizzle and soon self-destructed. All that remained was a black spot on the side of the wastebasket, near the sign which read, "Please keep Washington clean."
"Dumb de dumb Dita," the man whistled as he placed the can in a nearby room.
Mark Bedner
Vice President Quiz
This year two national con-
ferences are planned, and inter-
esting parties to promote the office of vice president. How much do know about the msz who will be in charge?
2. Who was the only vice president from office? Who was the president to be nominated by a congressman, than by congressional candidates?
1. What vice president presided over the Senate while under an indictment for murder?
4. What vice president managed a hotel on the side while holding office?
to confirm his nomination to the Supreme Court?
7. What man was the only vice president to ever take the oath of office in Havana, Cuba?
6. What vice president had a city named after him?
5. What vice president had the shortest term in office?
11. WHAT VICE president once met
him, the more I have thought over it,
the more I would would a great deal rather be
would a great deal rather be of history, than vice president."
10. What vice president found himself presiding over a Senate that had not long before refused
8. Who was the youngest man ever to become vice president?
9. What was the name of the person up drunk at the inauguration and announced that he didn't know what procedure (about the only thing a vice president is obliged to do)
12. What state has given the country the most vice presidents?
13. Who was the last vice president to be born in a log cabin?
14. Who was the first vice
president to be married in office?
15. What vice president was
the first vice president he
graduated from law school?
1. Aaron Burr, V.P. under training in New York and was under induction in bark New York and New Jersey for the death of Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. president.
2. John C. Calhoun, V.P. under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, 1825-December 28, 1832. Calhoun had supported the Nullification Dostine, an anti-slavery leader with Senators friendly with Jackson. These Senators began insulting Calhoun indirectly in
ANSWERS
their congressional speeches, and he got fed up and quit.
3. Martin Van Buren, V.P.
under Andrew Jackson, 1833-37
4. Richard M. Johnson, V.P. under Martin Van Buren, 1837-41. He was also the first of three southern vice presidents to be
5. John Tyrler, V.P. under William Henry Harrison, March 4, 1841-April 6, 1841. He became officer when Harrison died in office.
7. William Kim, V.P. under Franklin Pierce, March 4, 1853 reopening from tuberculosis, which killed him a month later. 8. John C. Breckinridge, V.P. under James Buchanan, 1868.
6. GEORGE M. Dallas, V.P.
under James Polk, 1845-49. Citizens
tired with his help in
setting them into the Union
9. Andrew Johnson, V.P. under
Johnson, March 14th.
8. Lincoln, March 14th, which
became president after
Lincoln's assassination and was im-
perial.
10. Adalai E. Stevenson, V.P.
under Grover Cleveland, 1838-97;
11 Theodore Kroosevelt, V.P.
under Grover Cleveland, 1838-
41; September 14, 1901, With
McKinley's death he became the youngest president—he was 42. 12. New York with nine.
15. Richard M. Nixon, V.P.
under Dwight D. Eisenhower,
1953-61.
14. Alben W. Barkley, V.P.
15. Eleanor M. Blankey, Barkley married Jane Haladey of St. Louis in 1940. He was also our olds V.P.-72 when he took
SCORING
13. John Nance, Grace V.P. under FDR, 1933-41. He was born on Nov. 22, 1868, in Blossom northwest Texas. Grace, the first to be sent abroad on official business, represented the U.S. in 1935 at the inauguration of the Quezon on the Philippines.
0-1 Average
2-3 Good
6-1 Average
2-3 Good
4-12 You must teach political science
over 13 Have you ever thought of running for office yourself?
This information is taken from "Not Exactly a Crime" the Our Vice President Agnew* by Richard Curtis and be published to be publish by Dial Press on ill.
Environment Needs Complex Solutions
By RUSSELL L. ACKOFF
Professor of Systems Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
As awareness of the extensiveness and pervasiveness of our environmental problems has increased, public pressure to find solutions has also increased. Problems have also increased. Perhaps in no other social problem-area are we as prone to seek panacas as we are in the environmental area; but com- plaining seldom have simple solutions.
Even simple proposals for handling environmental problems can be spread support. Few people are willing to incur any part of the cost or inconvenience that they want. Hence there is more interest in helping people pay for than in finding ones that work. Proposed solutions tend to be aimed more at punishing people, improving the environment.
Although we have, or can easily obtain, solutions to most of the technological aspects of environmental problems, we do not know how to solve them with solutions to the social, economic and political aspects of these problems. There is a critical lack of relevant problems. There is a critical lack of relevant information required to find such solutions.
WHEN AND WHERE panaceas have been tried, they have failed. Little has been learned from these failures with the intention of learning anything from them. In fact, such efforts are not even conceived as trials, let alone tests, but rather as implementations of solutions effectiveness is not in question.
Therefore, it is doubtful that there is any one solution that will
work in every community. For this reason any solution that is adopted should provide a process to which it will be proved systematically with experience and (2) of adapting to the conditions in which it must operate. More precisely, a proposed solution should have at least the following characteristics:
1. THE CONDITIONS to be corrected should be specified and measured before the proposed solution is implemented.
2. the intended effects (exposed in measurable quantities) to be achieved by they are expected (the 'due' specification is specified before implementation).
3. Determination of the actual effects should be made at the "due dates" and compared with the intended effects. (Interim progress should also be made to aid in system management.)
In brief, every proposed solution should provide for learning and adaptation based on experience, a periodic, if not continuous, evaluation and feed-back control. Proposed solutions should be flexible enough to be modified to suit different needs and assure objectivity, the evaluating body should be completely independent of those either who are beneficiaries or those plebangement the program or who stand to benefit or by lose it.
4. The "due date" measurements should be disseminated to facilitate public discussion and a decision should be made on the need to modify, or terminate the program. Discontinuation (not continuation) should be automatic unless there is a positive intervention by the testing body that initiated the program.
"We're winding down the hot war."
"And winding down the cold one, too."
"Thus it follows that we must crank UP the of Pentagon budget."
Historical Feature
Dress Codes Persisted in 1968
Dress codes are not something far in KU's past. As recently as 1968, women were revising them.
An article in the April 18, 1966 Kansan detailed the changes in the dress code being made in different living groups. The office of the dean of women had prescribed a dress code in a book. The Official Policies for Women's Halls "The code was:
Lunch—slacks and bermuda may be morn. No curlers allowed.
Dinner, Monday through Thursday—campus clothes,
cleaning skirts and sweaters or bermuda shorts
Friday and Saturday—slacks or bermuda and covered curlers are permissible. Sunday dinner
BREAKFAST-HOUSE or coffee coat except in coil beds, where campus or casual clothes are worn. Covered hair curlers may be worn.
requires dressy clothes and heels and hose.
The code was changed, mainly in the residence hills, after the ruling body of the living group and the office of the dean of law. In GSP, Corbin, Hashinger, Lewis, McCollum, Oliver, and Miller the code was changed. Douthart was in the process of the code, and none of the sorts had changed their codes.
BASICALLY, THE change allowed slacks, shorts or other "casual clothes" at dinner. Hashinger and GSP provided for "casual clothes" at lunch and "nice" slacks and shorts at dinner. Both lunch and dinner were permitted accept on Friday and Saturday.
Miller Scholarship Hall permit-
ment or shorts at a
college or university.
Bidden. "Grubbies night" were
Friday and Saturday, and then
would be the next day.
Lewis and McCollum allowed curlers during Saturday lunch, if they were covered. The rest of
shorts for lunch and dinner but not curlers.
Douthart's revised code, which had been sent to the dean of women, would allow slacks and
OF the sororites, Alpha Ch Omega, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Chi Omega and Delta Gamma allowed slacks and skirts (dresses, skirts and sweaters or blouses) were required for all evening meals except Friday and
Saturday and a dress-up meal in the middle of the week.
The other sororities required dresses for lunch.
Today, there are no dress codes in college and many students attend scholarship halls, although there may be a specified meal at which members are expected to come.
25 Years Ago, U.S. Advised France to Get Out of Vietnam
WASHINGTON (AP)—The United States told France 25 years ago the Vietnam war was playing into Communist hands. Parts to be “most generous,” in seeking an early solution.
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff."
This was disclosed Tuesday when the State Department removed the secrecy label from a batch of official documents.
He urged France to be "most generous in the attempt to find an
"We fear continuation of the conflict in the region, and we are faced with real Western democratic powers in Southern Asia and lead to the very eventualities of which we have been unable to handle."
DECLARING THE UNITED States had "no solutions or plans to intervene," then Secretary of George C. Marshall predicted:
THE CEASE-FIRE offer was reported to have been sent by a Vietnamese messenger bearing a letter of invitation for French Overseas Minister Marius thet Messenger. The messenger disappeared and the French said the letter from Ho never was received.
early solution which, by recognizing the legitimate desires of humanity, provides peace and deprive anti-democratic forces of a powerful force.
According to the U.S. consul in Hanoi, James O'Sullivan, Ho at al-Asad, said he propose a cease-fire on all fronts with troops returning to positions defined by an agreeable agreement and been reached on April 3, 1946.
THE SUMMER SESSION
KANSAN
News Advisor . Del Brinkman
Editor .
NEWS STAFF
News Adviser . . . Del Brinkmae
BUSINESS STAFF
Rita E. Haugh
Business Manager Business Adviser ... Mel Adams Doug DeTraz