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Tuesday, April 4, 1972
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
Garry Wills
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Wrong Way Proposal
The only part of the University of Kansas Parking and Traffic Board's proposal to make Jayhawk Boulevard and Memorial Drive one-way streets that encourages me is that they are going to present it to the Student Executive Committee for action. The committee gives the committee the chance to react negatively and suggest the whole thing be forgotten.
Admittedly, this proposal could earn Traffic and Security some revenue since they could eliminate at least one of the traffic control booths, allowing the person who manned that booth to ticket illegally parked cars. Their job in regards to traffic would probably be easier because they would only have to be concerned with traffic going one way. The problem with this plan is that all the other members of the campus community would be inconvenienced.
The campus bus service would be adversely affected by a one-way street system. Bus riders would have to wait longer for a bus coming from the east since buses would be delayed before they could get on Jayhawk Boulevard to pick up students waiting in front of the buildings.
Students would no longer be able to catch buses going west on
Jayhawk. A student wanting to go directly to the residence halls would have to go away from the main campus and wait somewhere on Memorial Drive. It probably would be less trouble and faster just to walk back to the halls. Considering that buses are very expensive, any change which would decrease the number of bus riders should be avoided.
It is unlikely that bicycle riders going from Blake to Marvin would appreciate having to peddle all the way around Memorial Drive. It is more likely that they would just walk their bikes. If enough people decided to do that it would cause more congestion than already exists on the sidewalks while classes are changing. Perhaps then some sort of traffic plan for the sidewalks would have to be initiated.
The group other than Traffic and Security which would benefit from the plan would be those people who manage to get campus passes and want to go east on Jayhawk Boulevard. The only consolation for this group is the rest of us if the board's proposal is approved would be that from then on we would only have to look one way when crossing the street.
Mary Ward
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To the Editor:
I would like to make a few comments concerning the recent photojournalism show exhibited at the College of Design students who were unable to view the show I would like to say that there are very nice many photographs.
The only unfortunate thing was that the photographs became subordinate to the hanging and the work of a semi-aimate. Such fine photographs, including the grand prize winners, were sent to their wall with large staples. Those students who received their prints after the show found a set of photos they had been hung. This may
seem trivial to some but it's a disgrace for those students who worked very hard to produce such professional looking work. I don't think the photojournalism department can find someone a little more competent to hang the show. If you have any trouble get in touch with me. I think I can do a better job than what was done this year.
Bruce Krug
St. Louis junior
★ ★ ★
dissatisfaction with the theatre and cinema reviews of Barbara Ransom. But to this time, I have tried to dissect them. They are which an effrontery to the performing arts, its participants, and a source of misrepresentation who have not seen the productions and a source of their own experiences. But such crusis, insensitive and senseless statements as that appearing in the "Trial of the Cat" film by Michael Mackenzie, the "nine" who sacrificed their freedom in 1968 had little effect on the war or anything else they protested; are too fannier to us as someone to separate us from such flying dung.
to the Editor:
Hardly should you find this the first letter expressing
Catonsville
To the Editor:
Henry McCarthy Boston Graduate student
Unsolved Pot Dilemma Remains
Don't say the Shafer Commission did not accomplish anything by its report on marijuana. It made President Nixon talk sense on the subject, which is quite
The President said a thing could not be legal and illegal at the same time. The Commission had recommended that private consumption of marijuana not be punished, though public or private consumption should be the substance, should remain illegal.
the substance, about female mRNA. but how is one to enjoy the private (legal) smoking of pot without at least a couple of friends? Apologists for the Commission searched out parallels—and could find none but the equally illogical legal status of prostitution, pornography, and gambling. A seller of obscene material
(or of one's body) is bailed, but not (in most cases) the buyer. The number runner may be caught, but not the person who plays the numbers.
In such cases we do have an unfortunate parallel with the new Commission's recommendations—a tagging moral desire to punish a defendant who violates interest that profits by continuation of the law, Corrupt police, pimps, and organized crime are principal beneficiaries of the laws against the criminals who do not prevent the moral offenses they are aimed at—they simply compound the putative evil with further notes of violence, corruption, and exploitation. They are all good examples of purtion in the determination to spite its own face.
These new proposals would keep the very worst feature of the present situation—the need for our young people to get into contact with illegal channels to obtain marijuana. These changes will make their drugs "drugs" and for other criminal activities. Those busily at work in and through these channels do not want their trade legalized;id capone want Prohibition repeated? "Straight" America plays right into people's hands by its determination to keep the marketplace market, where its sale could be like that of alcohol or tobacco.
The supreme example of this kind of law was Prohibition. The costs of crime and disrespect for law had to become truly staggering before the punitive legal moralists would give up on that one. The costs are stagged in more detail. But American have succeeded, to this point, in ignoring them. It is no wonder that
The Commission proved another thing—that growing scientific knowledge is not bias. The putitarian American hostility to marijuana is not based on any data about its harmfulness to any body but actually considered wrong—like gambling.
And we seem never to learn our lesson: that attempts to legislate private morality harm both the nation's morals and its law.
Copyright, 1972, Universal Press Syndicate
He Tries Harder. By Golly
James J. Kilpatrick
WAUSAU, Wis.—Over a long period of years, it was said of Hubert Humphrey, even by those who fought him hardest, that he was the nicest guy in the league. If you will bear with the metaphor, he was the cuetal kitten in the litter. The big news from the courtroom campaign is that the kitten has grown up to be a cat. My goodness, he has grown up to be a titer.
This is not the Hubert Horatio Humphrey he used to know. Four years ago he sputtered more. He apologized more often. He tended
to excuse this and to rationalize that. He was busy defending Lyndon Johnson. He was putting the best face on thinings.
Dear friends (he is fond of saying, "dear friends"), you should meet Hubert Humphrey in Wisconsin. He is on the attack. The polishing rag of 1968 has turned into the woodcraft of 1972. Nixon price and wage controls are a hoax. Nixon's ideas on taxation have been monumental sham." Nixon's approach to economic policy is "s somewhere the other side of McKinley." Here in Wisconsin,
Humphrey is slugging away, in hours a day; and, in the pentagonally square circle of pins, he wins winning points in every round.
Pentagonaally squared for this reason: 12 names are on the Democratic primary ballot, but only five count. These are the candidates in the Georgia McGovern, Jackson and Wallace. John Lindsay, the mayor of New York, also is running. He demonstrated his dedication this week to help with a farm family at Marshfield. Monday morning he rode the
"Of course I'm not in his pocket . . . and it's simply a coincidence that my friend's in the other one."
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
manure spreader around their farm. His Honor is not exactly with it.
Humphrey is totally with it. He made 13 appearances on Tuesday. At one of these, a TVinquired asker him to define the differences between Humphrey in 1968 and Humphrey in 1972.
"Oh, my goodness," he began. This is a Humphrey beginning. "Oh, my goodness! There are so
many differences! After the 1986 convention, I felt as if I had been through an earthquake. I was swept away by it and left Grand Canyon with my fingernails. This time I feel beholden to the happy I have been carry by my family's sad lead.
He feels happy and he looks happy. The Humphrey of 1960 was a tough campaigner. The Humphrey of 1960 described as tireless. The Humphrey of 1972 is exhausting. He goes off to a factory before? a.m. popping like a cork from champagne. And he never stops its drawbacks. Its drawbacks. He is promising too much, talk too much, pausing too seldom. But the effusion has its advantages also: He is sparking this cold and warming his warmth and vitality that evoke
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff
His warped tongue grows tired; commander-in-chief comes out as commander-increef. He reaches for a constitutional allusion and his mand says 1787, but his quivering mind calls into question befuddles a question that deals with tuition vouchers for private education. But late at night he is still jabbing at Nixon, still fighting, still saying, "Let me tell you what is the greatest thing in life." The answer is most of the guessing out here that Humphrey will lead the field today. If a heavy Republican crossover vote should materialize, George Wallace may well finish second. Expectation is expected to edge out Muskie in a contest. Jackson is given a respectable shot at four or five place. In this freazied free-for-all, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, who has spent most of his life as Number Two, is the most astonishing news. He intends to be Number Three. Asking everyone is trying hard, he is the guy who is triring harder.
spontaneous response.
Humphrey may be Golden
Bantam corn, hot and buttered,
but I prefer my goodness, my
goodness, is honest corn.
He is gee-whiz, bygosh, and by-golly; and, accepting an invitation for a TV interview, he is, "Boy, can I use the free use of my library before hundred be beautiful, but inarticulate children at a Catholic school for the deaf and he delivers a 20-minute speech that is a small gem of homepsion for oldersters at a home for the elderly and a veteran TV newscaster is moved to tears.
Copyright, 1972 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
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