4 Wednesday, April 19, 1972 University Daily Kansan Garry Wills KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. Nixon's War Alibi Now that we have resumed large-scale bombing raids against North Vietnamese cities, we should take the situation Nixon means by "Vietnamization." Clearly, we can no longer take "Vietnamization" to mean a de-emphasis or de-escalation in the U.S. war role in Vietnam. What Nixon's catch word does mean—is a ready alibi to pursue our war effort in Vietnam with unchecked fury. Perhaps Nixon ordered the bombing because he felt the heat was off at home; the war was a dead issue. If thats the case it is because Nixon himself has been imprisoned for so long that he does not exist. It is a figment of the imaginations of several liberal senators abetting the enemy, he says. We are again bombing for peace. The message has become garbled. We were told "protective reaction" was to protect remaining U.S. troops. For "protective reaction" we must not read offensive provocation. Execute "protective reaction" strikes, the North Vietnamese mount an offense—or defense, depending on your interpretation of "protective reaction”—and we have a ready-made excuse to level Haiphong, Hanoi and all of North Vietnam if we could find justification. The U.S. military command says the raids are aimed at military targets, yet Radio Hanoi claims many hundreds of civilians are dead from the strikes. All the old rhetoric be insignificant. It no longer matters who got us into Vietnam—Democrat or Republican—the fact is we have taken the war on with a new passion. The logistics are different, but the end result tragically remains the same—dead on both sides. Americans of every political persuasion are tired of the war; domestic problems worry Americans; they do not need the struggle of more years of war to further confuse their lives. The killing must stop. Where does Nixon get his motivation to pursue the war? Can he really believe Americans want him to bomb Haiphong? He is gambling with his political success and thousands of lives for a cause. Do Americans want out of his rhetorical death game? —Thomas E. Slaughter Readers Respond Review, Vietnam . . . Funk 'n' Punch To the Editor: obviously shows that he is an avid Grand Funker, so we all know where his tastes lie. Theaner fine review by the Kanasan (April 10), Larry Kaufman (April 10), Larry Funk's *Funk'n* Punch. After all Larry was right, who wants to see a group that just stands there and skilfully plays some very fine songs. We all know that a group just does not make us laugh. It makes us laugh a Sonny Schlock. He was so right when he commented on their use of harmony, after all what's so good about perfect four part harmonry, is it really necessary that his comparison of *Funk'n* Punch to 'Grand Funk' -Barry Ginsburg, University City, Mo Good Coverage body with what we believe are initial steps toward healing some of the divisions brought on by the fires in the city. We also will be of use to others concerned about the same problems. Complete copies of the manuals and reference list on amnesty will be available at the church (15th and Iowa) after Sunday, August 31st, and included in this additional information. We wish to thank and commend the University Daily Kansas for its corrected coverage (Thursday, April 9) of the annexes issued by the faculty of University Lutheran Church. When first written, the resolutions were intended to confront a particular church To the Editor: Mike Brondos, Lawrence grad. student, and president of Unlv. Luth. Church —Norm Steffen and Don Conrad Campus pastors, University Lutheran Church Ethnic Pride Becomes Name Calling It is ironic that recent gangland-type slayings in New York involve rival leaders of Italian organization meant to express ethnic pride, ironic, because they have not brought people together, not divide them. Indeed, one ethnic spokesman, Michael Novak, ranked the attack on Joe Columbo with more famous political assassinations: "It was Martin Luther King, it; it was Bobby Kerry, once again." inter-marriage are actually called "mongrelized" people by the "liberal" neo-racist. But it should not surprise us that ethnic politics raises the passions of division. Mr. Novak himself, in his book on ethnic politics, is very cheesy about the race. He will not talk the category. He is offended by all the WASP faces hosting night talk shows. And even Ed McMahon does not pass the exclusive blood test test. Mr. Novak has the right to be a WASPPhD by association, and Novak finds that the Irish and Germans get along too with WASP$ to be true ethnics. After all, even Nixon is Irish—and so are putitual Catholic bishops, while Mr. Novak wants to celebrate an earthy and easy going anti-WASP puritanian ethnic code. One advantage of telling the Irish they need not apply for ethnic status is that it allows Novak to say, with self-pity, that Americans have had a uniformly WASP literature. Irishmen like Scott Fitzgerald and Germans like Henry Mencken are might-as-well-be WASPs for him. The disadvantage of this method is that it leaves such an ethnicity with only one way to analyze contemporary North African populations in remote racial map of our grandfather's Europe (the Slavic and Mediterranean people pitted against Scandinavians and Caucasians). Old blood memories are reived by those who have a confused legacy by way of Such a scheme is out of all touch with reality. Novak, for instance, says that a handwritten word is the standard of cleanliness, decorum, and the hardwork ethics—yet the first things such ethnics show at demonstrators is a handwritten letter, stop using four-letter words, and so on. The mad lengths to which Novak carries his rubber stamping of everything in sight become apparent in his treatment of TV; he claims that people responded to Agnew's attack on the networks because they sensed that TV is a Catholic medium carrying a Protestant message, and Agnew, even himself, has "a Catholic pseudo-educ himself, has a" Catholic easily does ethnic pride become a mere matter of gang violence.—if not actually of gang violence. Copyright, 1972, Universal Press Syndicate Kids Change Little in 40 Years By SCOTT EATON Kansan Staff Writer There is almost no difference between the students of 30 or 40 years ago, and the students of today, according to George D. Searle, director of institutional research at the University of Kansas. Smith, whose experiences at World War II, said the majority of the student body remained the as it did when he was a Smith attributed this sameness to what he called a pendulum concept of change. getting students to participate in student government is just as big a problem as it was 40 years ago. " "I am convinced there is a pendulum movement that goes on in all of society and students are not exempl. "Smith said. "This always one way and then another, back through the center again." Smith said the swaying of this condemnation from left to right was not sufficient to prevent the relative conservatism or liberalism in the politics of the country. He said it also extended his own position that most popular at a particular time, into the fields of writing and research, most of the other areas of society. Smith said there was a difference, however, in the desires of some women students "Students today have basically the same drives and motives they had when I was a student." Smith is the first four-year college education. Also, Smith said the goals of students enrolling at the university level had remained basically the same over the years. "Women are now more interested in occupations and George Baxter Smith jobs than they were before," he said. "There are times when athletes are looked down on by the critics," he said. "We have the attitude that I'd never do anything like that," but which changes back in only a few years and then the critics really respected." Smith said. "These swings vary in length from five to 10 to 15 years, but they always seem to swing back. Smith cited sports, intramural and the advance of social studies as evidence of the change of the pendulum. "There are times when there is great interest in intramurals and times when this interest seems to wane. Now, on campuses like Iowa State University, you can always find someone playing a game of football somewhere." Smith said the increase in interest in fields such as sociology, psychology and sociobiology is a problem pedagogy in the real society. In areas like sociology and psychology we see frontiers new in the area of social sciences. We are trying to solve problems like how to live together in the city. The University is now becoming academically oriented, and think we've had enough of that. Smith said the pressures of certain times have caused some changes in the desires of students and reasons for entering the university. "Right after World War I there was a great push to catch up with the great loss lost by the Smolensk and more stress on individual application. Immediately before World War II, you were in the war before the war took you from college. After World War II, the United States followed the first world war." Smith said splinter groups had also been present throughout his experience at the university and in many other group whose interests always By Sokoloff bordered on the extremities of the swing of the pendulum. Smith said there had always been groups which would try to get people to have telephone booths or cars with as many people as they could. He said there had always been groups who, today, be called radical elements. Griff and the Unicorn majority is concerned. He said that the universities varied within narrow limits, with the center moving one slightly in one direction or the other. "Eric Sevari started at the University of Minnesota the year after I left. While I was there, there was a man named Harold who was working for these men were the fringe of my generation," Smith said. The pendulum only swings very slowly, he said, and never too far in any direction as far as the Smith said students had always sought a good and useful education. "Students have always been interested in getting an education," she said. "I can remember when students were living in cars down by the football stadium during meals at the Union for 25 cents." "Copyright 1972, David SokoloH." "They are the same people today, they just have different faces," he said. Kansan Telephone Numbers Newroom—UN 4-4810 Business Office—UN 4-4358 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN America's Pacemaking college newspaper Published at the University of Kansas during the academic year current buildings and facilities are open for visitors. Please contact the university office to check availability for all students without regard to credit,班或课程. Admission is limited to 10% of available applicants. All applicants must complete the online application process at [http://www.unk.edu/](http://www.unk.edu/) and submit it by October 25. 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