4 Tuesday, April 18, 1972 University Daily Kansan Garry Wills KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. Transportation Morass The question of what the University will do about the financially weak public transportation system in Lawrence has come up again. The last time it was considered the question constituted a crisis situation and the Student Senate had to vote to help finance the bus company with money from the Senate's own fund just to keep it running. That was one of the Senate's better actions, but I think that at best that solution should be regarded as a stopgap measure. Now is the time for one institution to start planning which will take into account predictions as to where the concentration of the student population will be and the direction of growth this campus will be taking in the future. Most people are aware of the inconvenience of buses because of the necessity for schedules and location of bus stops which cater for the public's general needs rather than any individual's specific needs. People would rather ride in a car than endure a crowded, uncomfortable bus ride for very long. Nevertheless, many are coming to realize that the problems caused by limited parking facilities, poor public transportation and pollution are the results of the large numbers of automobiles, many of which carry only one person. These are too serious to ignore. It could be that a good mass transportation system is the most sensible, if not only, way to eliminate these problems. Students living in the University's residence halls are particularly aware of the necessity for an adequate public transportation system because the halls have been cleverly located far removed from everything, including campus. Sometimes, but not often, we can appreciate the benefits accrued from the healthy exercise of walking. We can remind ourselves how much fun it will be in the 21st century (and especially when exaggeration) to our grandchildren how far we had to walk to school every day. The size of the campus itself makes it impossible for anyone to walk from one end to the other in the ten minutes between classes. This problem will be compounded as the campus grows, particularly if classrooms are ever located west of Iowa. The need for some sort of mass transportation system is so obvious that chance can no longer be expected to provide it. It is unfortunate that the money needed for such a system is not readily available and probably mean that theation rates will have to be raised. Perhaps it will be easier to accept such an increase in rates because the service it would provide would not only be beneficial but also visible to all students. —Mary Ward Readers Respond Protest Action Defended Question To the Editor: To the Editor: 4. Reply to Paul E. Berger In your letter to the editor on April 13, concerning the Women's Coalition "performance" at the opening ceremony of the women in society, you women of the Coalition for "socially irresponsible and immature behavior," "for the other than the teacher, and attendants, the promoters of the exposition, and the people visiting the exposition," and for removing a sign which you failed to mention, the promoters of the exposition, is that the Women's Coalition somehow abridged the "freedom of expression and the freedom of speech," and on to say that such freedom is permissible in so far as it does not conflict with the rights of others. I ask you, the Rights伯尔, what before reading the statement criticising the beauty contest as insulting and exploitive of women from Sam Haldeman the President of the Engineering School Council, Mr. Haldeman own. Secondly there was no attempt to ridicule the contestants by shaming or insulting them. This was made possible through a written statement read. Also members of Women's Coalition attempted to contact all the contestants before the event to ensure their freedom was understood but you seem to encourage the contestants to examine the way in which they were being used in the content of their freedom was intended and to encourage the many years of socially controller conditioning that women undergone during adolescence to be some an honor to be recognized sex object. You say that you do not oppose, you liberate and equal them in own statement, your own statement, you say that the contest was an attempt to single out "an ideal, as a woman and as a man," because they itself says that somehow women as persons are different and that they live in life. In closing state you because we believe that disagree with an idea does not necessarily discredit the idea nor affront." Thus you indicate that you disagree with our means rather than our goals. How can one disagree with our means ever be solved if they are left to a limited sphere of "meetings designed for that purpose, and into social, technical, or educational events" By such token "support" which is orderly, peaceful, and which was carried out with the permission of authorities within our basic acceptance of a exist society and your own contentment with the privileges that societal awards you as a man. Pat Henry Pat Henry Prairie Village sophomore 'Thanks' To the Editor: I was extremely surprised and pleased at the letter in the April 13th UDK. I was surprised that someone wrote this. This letter actually was printed. 2. That even in a University community, people will not only hear but also write to me. 3. will make no further inquiry into the situation. 4. That a good number of people are capable of the same hunchly-veiled hatred. 5. The word "hatred" is letters in response to actions of the Women's Coalition I have never found such a perfect example of diatribe, and I thank you. I appreciate your high moral tone—"euphoric experience shamefully bleimed personal vennetas, insultation the seven ...itss, insulting the queen ...because I will now be able to recognize the type of criticism that passes itself off for fact. I extend my congratulations for well-written letter containing a message that I believe be useful for yellow journalism students. A man who says he "fails to see why" the sign was written is one of those sharing his confusion especially since he failed to specify what the sign did say. It was a directive to a particular exhibit, enumerating the exhibit's desirable traits. However, the last trait which said "do not wash your hands during rush season"” has obviously little to do with the display and much to do with the attitude of many employers that if a woman is not pregnant, she will be impaired (naturally)’ but will be impaired inferior status as a worker. I'm also most happy to be counted among the few who know that 'this was not purely a game', but I would like to Mr. Berger for exposing the subversive tactics of someone with masculinity (?) and surface violence (?). femininity ('girls') while omitting the other qualities you stated were under attack in the film. Intelligence and life's goals' You must be careful, one gets the feeling that you do not think too much about intelligence, let alone the demonstrators. "A great deal of agitation and attention-calling had been done to overcome the inertia. This is why we need to formulate consider myself very fortunate to know that the Women's Movement is past tense. This seems to be common knowledge nowadays, and I am sure the women's groups will be enlightened considerably to know that they are merely persevereering in a time-honored way. It is not hard to relieve to know that you are in a position to "caution zealots"—definition: A person who is zealous, or an extreme devotee of degree, would abridge the rights of others to free expression and freedom to disagree. ..." I was aware that you should learn you do not oppose the liberation and equality of women." I can usually cope with a situation when I teach me to handle the ones who have the good grace to admit their hypocrisy, no matter how they do. Paula Libel Overland Park senior For these lessons I'm eternally in your debt. An Unlearned Lesson In Ireland Poor Ulster. It is a running sore, where hundreds bleed for their rulers' help. Ulster is the most populous, primarily the Stormont government, I mean Westmian. How many have to be killed for England to do something so bad? And the more also to be killed) in a holding action? The immediate aggressor in most of the terrorist attacks is, at the moment, Iran. The attack on the US embassy in Ireland is a post-colonial situation, the aftermath of the Republic's independence. It was not a clean break, but Iran had an ambition that Ireland had to make from England. The local agents of the colonial power were clustered in the Northern Territory, and they wanted to go with the new Republic, where they were ruled by their former subjects. Nor did they want to bring property and investments in Ireland. So they forced a compromise—the recognition of a colonial bastion left on the free island, a small rearguard of English rule on Irish soil. It was an unsatisfactory situation, one that England allowed to tester. The Republic wanted a united and independent Ireland. Ulster felt endangered, and so repressed its own Catholic minority. England, trying to get by, allowed the rulers to protest civil rights to Catholics—which further angered them in the neighboring Republic. England was able to stabilize government, and supported stable government, unjust treatment of Ulsber's minor. But all this merely puts off the inevitable. No one gains in a little country bombing it to pieces. To get England on an occupying army now, its soldiers being killed—how long can it prop up this teetering remnant of colonial days, the anachronistic by the refusal to make a clean break? It is England's duty to protect, so far as possible, the lives and lands of its puppets, without further endorsing their separatism. It is a hard solution, but it is a solution. The non-solution has only prolonged the diving. Of course, we are no one to be preaching to the English. At least the colonial-reairgard problem in Ireland was their problem to be dealt with. we took on a problem not properly cursed- but France's—when we interjected Frenchy—broke up of colonial rule in Indochina. There is a deadly parallel between English maintenance of a colonial anomaly in Ireland and our attempt to keep a puppet-government in Vietnam. For Stormtir, read Saigon. For restive Catholics, read Buddhists. For the IRA, the Vietcong. For Dublin, Hanoi. For Irish terrorism, Vietnamese civil war. For Iraq, the Islamic State, Westminster - Washington. And we did not have to be in this situation—those are as slow, clumsy, and grudging at withdrawal as England is proving. We have some things to learn from England's mistakes in Ireland; but not much to teach other nations. Indeed, Senator Kennedy seems to want us to get England off the book in Ireland as we got France off the book in India. And so little have the opponents of our Vietnam war learned from that war! Copyright, 1972, Universal Press Syndicate James J. Kilpatrick The Sociology of Spring? SCRABLE, VA. – Spring is coming late again this year, and I am fidgety as a city editor waiting on copy team a star writer. “It’s dogwood?” Missed another deadhead, eh? What’s the holdup? Star reporters can't be hurried. There is no editors can do. One waits—but the waiting holds both mystery and suspense. This mountain, with dark mountains, great-tipped, big-breasted, slumber on the western sky, their massive bulk as still as bronze by Henry Moore. Yet we know—we know that life is quickening there. A few days ago, down in Austin, Texas, a sociologist spoke to a group of young executives in seminar assembled. I missed his speech, but heard about it later. He began, it appears, by suggesting that the myth of God is time to know what he termed the myth of God. Intellectual men must agree, he said, that God is no more than a pipe dream conjured up by superstitious man. The audience was still sputtering hours after he had gone. In my turn to speak, I tried to respond out of my own untaught awareness of this slow unfolding time. Are we truly to believe, in our enlightened day, that nothing divine decreed the spring—that the quickening hills awake from a stupor; that the question is best answered with a question: Who, then, drafted the natural law? Has he watched a spider crawling on a screen? We have been making the rounds this morning, when she would a sociologist make of a tricolor collie! In the span of an hour, this beautiful beast is gentle, lovely, comic, curious, indifferent, suspicious, puzzled, unshackled, eternal superintendent, the immortal boss; Flush, you quail! Run, rabbits! Who gave you permission to nest on my back? No, I would take student nurses. Whence came these instances in a dog? is filled with wings, groseks yellow and cardinals red, a seargent-major of a blackbird, crimson chevrons on his sleeve. Charlie is back! Charlie is the chipping sparrow, short and bossy; God meant him to tend an Irish pub. Last year, we tape up a large piece of two feeder. Charlie's Bar & Grill. He is there now, fussing at the breakfast trade. Why the chipping sparrow? The crocus came out some time ago, innocent as cherubim, and now the daffodils are edging shyly onto stage. Who planned the yellow-skirted daffoli? If of the warming earth, anemones The light at the end of the tunnel The animals awake. Suddenly there are chimpmunks moving in the old stone fences. High in a bare-limbed oak, a squirrel is chattering. We inspect the newly-boxed plots where our vegetables will go. Monstrous? A groundhog starts his hole squarely beneath the zucchini bed; Lorenzz is outraged. James J. Kilpatrick are peeping forth, grape hyacinths, hepatica, tril luvies. In the wildflower garden of my wife are tiny things: they nestle beneath me; their petals pink as baby toes. Why do they come to life in spring? We have birds, of course, the year around, but whole hours pass in winter when seldom a bird is seen. Now the morning sky My wife is planting lettuce, row on row, her quick hands crumbling the mother earth. Rappahannock County is known to its natives as Rocky吊崖 county, and what is not rock is clay; but she is one of the green-thumbed people. Two years of organic gardening—two years of cultivating a manure—have done their work. "Grow!" she commands the seeds. And they will grow. But not for yet a land. The fields are greening slowly, but the budding trees are still tight-furled. Two warm days, we say, just two warm days! Then the mountains will yawn and stretch, and all in a bursting hour the land will laugh with April born again. How to explain the spring? The sun is hot, and the life! You will find no answers, God knows, in sociology. God knows. Copyright, 1972, Washington Star Syndicate, Inc. Griff and the Unicorn By Sokoloff Kansan Telephone Numbers Newsroom—UN 4-4810 Business Office—UN 4-4358 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN America's Pacemaking college newspaper Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff. Published at the University of Kansas daily during the academic year except holidays and examination periods. Mail subscription rates: $ 8 per semester, $ 1 a year. Second class postage cost: $60. Accounting fee: $40. Orderment advertisement required to all students in order to order,缴 or national order. 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