4 Monday, May 8, 1972 University Daily Kansan James J. Kilpatrick KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. A Learning Experience With this editorial I end my association with the Kansan. The relationship has been a good one. I count the hours I have spent working on the Kansan among the most valuable and rewarding of my life. I think most of the people that have worked with me would render similar assessments of their time spent as Kansan staffers. Also, I think, most of us are proud of what we have produced as a result of our time and effort. However, there are some no doubt that would disagree with my evaluation of the Kansan. These people have made their feelings obvious through criticism in letters to the editor, conversations with staffers, even in speeches on the floor of the Student Senate. They believe the Kansan has not been the active, vital and generally good publication that I believe it has. Some of their criticism has been justified, some not. That the Kansan does not always provide complete, thorough coverage of the campus is true. That the Kansan intentionally ignores certain campus factions with whom the editors disagree, that the Kansan is dominated by the faculty of the School of Journalism and is therefore not a student publication are false accusations. Such criticism usually comes from the students, and it has been matched by criticism from others of a somewhat different tone. There are those on campus and across the state who believe the Kansan has often been too free, too liberal in its editorial stands, too critical of prominent people and institutions. With such criticism coming from both sides, I am satisfied that the Kansan has been doing what a good newspaper should do. If we have tended to offend the extremes on different sides, there is a good indication that we have somehow found middle ground and therefore presented an adequate account of events and issues. Nevertheless, the Kansan is far from being perfect. It always will be. But hopefully it will always be in the hands of students who strive for perfection, students who understand that no side of an issue has a monopoly on the truth, students who realize that the real lesson in their experience is that though they learn more and more, they have never learned, and never will learn, enough. —Mike Moffet Associate Editor Readers Respond Dole,Peaceniks,Senate... To the Editor: No. Bus I would like to congratulate Gus dieZegea for straightening the image, and I will represent the resolution for the removal of David Miller and Louis Scott It's too bad that Mr. diZeroga was forced to use a bitter personal attack on Mary Ward in order to clarify his position. I think that by his letter in the Kansan he is showing just how deep he feels about Zegega talks about inflated eges. What kind of an ego does he that he feels it necessary to have a damn letter in defense of himself. Did he absolutely feel it was necessary to resort to name calling, and to show a total lack of courtesy to Ward? Robert Pavlic Lawrence junior Mr. diZerega comes across in his letter like a child throwing a ball and hitting the teacher. Mr. diZerega is not a sample of our "leaders" here at KU ★★ No Killing To the Editor: Once again we have witnessed the futility of confronting our representatives in Washington with the facts as we see them in the media, acknowledged and taken into consideration. Once again the administration has most important importance in the balance of power 'between governments are theoretically acting. I am not so exact) rather than the people for whose benefit these amazing to see how easily these politicians can ignore the lives of their constituents, otherwise destroyed and been satisfied that at least they are not marginalized. Enough people are dying horribly for us to consider it once again. Please think about it. Valerie Kelly Vaterie Kelly Columbia, Mo. senior ★★ To the Editor! No Respect Congratulations peacenaks! At Senator Dole's speech you showed Kanans the value of our educational system, especially the introductory remarks, some of you laughed when the speaker mentioned Dole's war wound. You descranted the men who died in Vietnam and the backs. You cheered when Dole asked if you approved of North Vietnamese invasion and interruption of the interruption of the speaker showed you are not for free speech—unless that speech is spared. You had brass conduct kept those who wanted to hear the Senator from hearing their speaker, bridging their right to know. You showed a bigot; utter disregard for a free society. The Nazi salute you gave was appropriate—you talked at home at home at Hitler youth rally. Don't cry next year when the legislature refuses to grant more money for KU,1 along with other Kansas taxpayers. don't want to see another dime extra approportion are the shining exemplary product of that education. You say, "Screw the President, screw Dole, screw Docking, screw the American way of life" Why don't we just vote at the Communist North Vietnam where you can be among friends"? -Marion J. Schroll Topeka junior No Increase To the Editor: In light of your recent budget decision concerning the funding of school student councils, we feel compelled to write. At the urging of the Student Senate, schools within the Universities endeavored to cost the purpose, supposedly, to be decentralized funding of student organizations and return the activity fee to the students. Architecture through the organization efforts of several devoted people succeeded in washing a representative council The original line apportionment of $75 per full time student with the minimum, to say the least, and far from any substantial percentage if the senate is sincere about its demands of decentralizing budgeting. In addition, student senate then saw fit to cut the apportionment to $25 per semester, nearly $20, to approximately $2.5 per full time equivalent student per semester. The reasoning they gave was that the councilse were not organized. We feel that the reasoning was applied across the board to all school councils. Schools that have set up councils should be given As it now stands the Student Senate would not even consider any change in their now standing leadership of student councils. This is indicative of the Student Senate's lack of responsiveness to challenges. Student council of the school of Architecture would like the Student Senate to justify drastically reducing our original cost at the same time increasing the student activity fee by $2.00. —Sue Peterson Student Council President School of Architecture WASHINGTON--More than five million children now are attending private elementary and secondary schools, and relatively few exceptions, these schools are in grave financial trouble. The question must be faced: Is there any way, under the Constitution, to provide for all of our total educational system? Aid For Private Schools The problem arises, of course, because the great bulk of the private schools are church-related. An estimated 65 per cent of the private school systems are churches; schools; other denominations also maintain elementary and secondary institutions. Thus far, every effort toward public relief of their plight has fawered on the rock-like principle of separate separation of church and state. This was the objection raised a month ago by a three-judge Federal court in nullifying Pennsylvania's latest effort to get around the church-state barrier. Pennsylvania tried again, with an approach that appeared to hold great promise. The State undertook to take it over when he left schools, but to the parents. In this fashion, it was hoped, the State could avoid the "entanglement" with religion that had drawn the courts' fire before. But on April 6, speaking through Chief Justice John D. Clark and III, a District court again said it. It was immaterial, in the court's view, that the State funds were intended to aid the parents. The effect, nonetheless, is "to aid the schools." And even if this were not so, Judge Lord continued, "it would still be found that the State funds were provided to parents in providing a religious education for their children." From every standpoint, in my own view, the court's decision was highly regrettable. Pennsylvania was at a loss over the fact that a same system long approved by the Congress for veterans. Under the G.I. Bill of Rights, a veteran receives direct grants from his college education, and he is not eligible for Fordham or Notre Dame, so what? If the States are to be prevented from providing relief, a rescue operation might be attempted at the Federal Department. A Burke of Massachusetts introduced a bill proposing income tax credits for the parents of children attending private schools. Significantly, Burke's co sponsor is Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee; Under the Burke-Mills plan, an eligible parent would continue to pay his education expenses at the school. These might amount to, say, $200 for the year. In computing his Federal income tax, he then would be per person based on the sum, or $150, from his tax payment. Burke argues, with much soundness, that the private schools "contribute the indispensable element of diversity to our educational culture." They provide some competition, however modest, to the monopoly the state maintains upon shaping the minds of children. They help to preserve "fundamental values" from being he contents, government itself has contributed to the crisis in private education through the mounting tax burden imposed at every level. The Burke-Mills approach may not provide the best possible answer, but at least it is more useful than any event, some workable solution must be found—and swifty—or private education is done for. Burke describes this as "the most appropriate trope." The word no is too strong. AP News Analysis By WILLIAM L. RYAN N. Vietnamese Well Prepared Hanoi reckoned coolly on taking advantage of weaknesses it detected on the other side. Last January, Hanol began talking again about a "new situation." Lt. Gen. Song Hao, chief of the North Vietnamese army's political department, wrote that the new situation lay AP Special Correspondent The Vietnamese offensive suggest that Hanoi has understood its enemies better than South Vietnam's leaders or Americans asserted the North Vietnamese The North Vietnamese had read antiwar protests in the United States as an enormously important factor in their favor, and as long as five years ago were planning to capitalize on such developments. For a long time they punched, but perhaps Saigon wasn't listening or preferred to dismiss it all as proaganda. The current offensive would have been impossible without Soviet supplies. There is good reason to believe that Soviet help was increased substantially even after agreement was announced in October for President Nixon to visit Moscow in May. in achievement of "a victorious offensive position." North Vietnam, he said, "is faced with a new situation with many bright prospects." He saw new strength of "strength" directly ahead. Haniel left the period of Nixon's visit to Red China come and go without striking, and South Vietnam breathed better. Then, toward the end of March, Hanoi welcomed a delegation from Moscow, a high-powered team led by Mr. Haenong, by the deputy defense minister. Its makeup fitted in with reports from diplomatic sources that the Russians had promised much more hardware to Hanoi. At the same period, Hanoi was host to the Soviet ministers of merchant shipping and administration and the Soviet minister announced that 340 Soviet ships had called at North Vietnamese ports in 1971 and delivered a million tons of cargo. That, he said, would increase in S shortly after the Russians left, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, Hanoi's veteran military strategist and defense minister, launched his campaign to force it. If it could overrun enough territory in the South it could, perhaps, spell the end of the Saigon regime. Nhan Dan at the start of this year spoke frequently of prospective military, political and diplomatic fronts. "The United States is strong but has basic weaknesses," the military but very weak politically. Because of its political weakness it cannot resist its military arrows. To which, after the offensive had begun, a party central committee report added: "We have successfully won the sympathy and support and increasingly great assistance of the fraternal Socialist countries and of the anti-Semitic group, including American progressives." Griff and the Unicorn The North Vietnamese leaders have been at war a long time—it has been 25 years since they first encountered them, and have been accumulating experience—perhaps including the experience of letting their enemy help determine himself, and internal political confusions. The Hanoi leaders haven't always been right in their projections. It would appear they By Sokoloff spearhead the attack. This time they're not taking that chance. 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