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Friday, March 17, 1972
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Carless Campus Cops
A representative of the Traffic and Security office wants to play the statistics game. Statistically, the University is in the minority of assists by a community of 20,000 to 20,000 he says.
In a previous editorial on the subject of campus assaults it was suggested Traffic and Security redirect its priorities—from a parking enforcement mania to protection for those who must travel on campus at night.
Unwilling to express public concern for the problem, Traffic and Security thinks "the fear of assaults is greater than the actual number of assaults." The plain voice of women refuse to walk on campus alone at night does not bother the campus police.
Traffic and Security seems unable to find time to do a statistical breakdown of their own by time and place of the report, but will add my own statistical inferences.
They list 21 assaults reported from July
1 through January. This number is probably a small portion of the actual assaults that were never reported for one reason or another. Fear and or embarrassment probably keep many from reporting assaults.
By their nature, assault and rape are warm weather crimes. Statistically then, it would be safe to assume the majority of the rapes came not in a seven month period but in the few warm months between July and November. For two of the months in this statistical period school was not even in session.
Finally, it is strained logic comparing this campus with a town of 20,000 to 25,000. The social elements are radically different. It follows that the crime statistics can hardly be compared with any credibility.
—Thomas E. Slaughter
Readers Respond Dwyer, Hamlet, Cops...
To the Editor:
An open letter to Stevie Emerson:
I read with interest the letter to the editor in which you suggested that I (Dickie Dewer) attempt to win the ballot for student body president. You mentioned that you "couldn't understand why students would vote for the ballot for student body government would ever consent to having his name placed on the ballot." In the affairs of student government would ever consent to having his name placed on the ballot (Office) admittedly, my term in the Student Senate, my participation in the University Council and my directing the Interfaternity Council are not criteria for seeking such a position as secretary as well as information the IFC is a "self-funding" service organization at University College. Because I must be prepared to present my student body officers and other student bureaucrats, some of which you just might happen to be not a qualification either.
The rationale behind my proposals to reduce the number of student senators so that their constituents might be induced to take action, and to make it relevant to student government. This might endanger our fine tradition of calling a referendum every time a major issue arises. I would not concern themselves with the essential components of student rights and the restoration of proper funding of the University of Kansas, before irreducible debt is done, is not important either.
I irrespective of my views, you can rest assured that I will find that students are more likely to name on the ballot. Why should I waste my time, sani monetary compensation, on giving students an opportunity to learn what 80 per cent of the student body believes to be "unmitigated bullshit" I haven't found the answer for you. "repreensible deed," but at least I know that he isn't out in front of Strong handing out egalitarian policies, and elected to fantasized positions of importance within the existing bureaucracy PULL YOUR BACK
Dickie Dwyer Joplin, Mo. senior
The Arts
To the Editor:
It is astounding the amount of talent that goes unnoticed on this campus. There was a School of Music and Dance, but no one am pushing it to say there were forty people in attendance. The music was not all heavy music; some were selections from the 16th century up to a very modern Alan Dorsey number. The musicians were not all professional, so we got of your seat with a 140 decibel wall of discordant polyphonics, as is the case in a number of other musical forms. They were professionals, accomplished in their vocation. They all more than superbly command of their instrument.
It was refreshing to hear clear, clean, resonating tones, meticulous precision well articulated and affective movements. They are a far cry from the cacophonous, antiphonal, monotonous collaboration of grating noise and resonance, as "music" today. I grant, you this is not representative of all musical groups today, but the number it does far preponderates in passing thought, or challenge, if you desire to deem it so, I would like to hear any typical modern-day band drummer拌栗 NOT mean blasting so loud that
tonal distortion ensues), and articulate ability with one of the trumpeters last night.
I am sure there are those who vehemently oppose my evaluation of modern music. But I do not of history there have always been people who could make noise and deafening sounds of insublurious music, but not the ones venerated as gifted. Up until now man has sought that which is esthetic and pleasing. We all have naturally misconstrued to mean seeing how dissonant and distorted you can amplify a naturally natural sound. It is me. I am my sincere hope that all music will not degenerate to the level of infantile vociferation and hideous discord. The only performance we had was the minuscule audience. *Larry Larsery*,
Hamlet
To the Editor:
The "Hamlet" review was a paradox in itself. One savage line followed one sweet sentence, cuthot mixed with gingerbread, terminating in a milk-tokt compromise that bordered on horribility at night "Hamlet" was not a shoddy unpolished performance.
Gordon Lightfoot comes to K.U. singing through his nose and telling poor-taste jokes. In all his earthly glamour he commands a smile, a headband and the "Kansan." The next review describes "Hamlet" as if it were a McDonald's hamburger: "a big chunk to bite off and chew... the sickness of it is difficult... succeeding performances easier to swallow."
University actors are supposedly learning a trade while saying something to audiences. In the plane, the Kansan does not need to be a sounding board for prescribing one's own prejudices.
Campus Cops
is the method to your madness?
—Gordon L. Ratzlaff,
Lawrence grad student
On Tuesday, March 14, Traffice and security staged another well-planned operation. While new officers in Naismith Dr. and Sunnyside Ave., between Crescent Rd. and Illinois St., the campus police department issued parking tickets to automobiles in distant zones. Why didn't they post officers near the barricades? The direct, many vehicles sat waiting as much as five ten minutes until they had a turn to get through the single lane of the barricades. Once past the congestion of one barricaded area, students often had to wait equally as long at another location, scattered all along these streets.
Before students complained, "I have no traffic and Security squadrals." They based their opinion on the increased rise of crime on campus, saying that the time would be spent trying to prevent could be spent trying to prevent these crimes. Traffic and Security tried to get around this by saying that most of the crimes were committed by students. This really puzzles me because Traffic and Security officers carry commission cards from the Lawrence Police Department so they can give them jurisdiction in the city and county. Now, due to the neglection of yet another duty, we must observe that perhaps we also have a Security Squadr nor a Traffic Squadr.
To the Editor:
The total usefulness of this group of men is quite unequal. If you would like to hear a stand from Traffic or security on these
Ronald Nault.
LaGrange, Ill., sophomore
Garry Wills
We Are All Silly
If they didn't help fill campaign purses, said Rep. Chelf Holfeld, D-Calf, "the power of lobbyists would be practically nil."
When I took my sons to see Fellini's The Clowns, they were puzzered by the stylized and creatively inventive ten-year-old laughed with recognition at one scene, and said of the clown, "He's imitating
My son, of course, had got things backwards. Stan and Ilana (Laurel and Hardy) were very funny in a clowning. But very worthy descendants, and great healers of the generation gap. The early children were equally successful in my front room when the children and their friends watch in the afternoon to down to adults after a dinner party.
He was, of course, a wooful bewildered ditherer, being a white-face clown of French tradition, the square-jawed kind that dressed like a peacock and a silly authoritarianism
There is something archetypal and
endlessly suggestive about
timorousness exactly
counterpointed. Ollie is the
would-be, he can,
and his preferences
as threadbare as the wide worn
pants strained so far around his backside. W. C. Fields had the same ineffectual pompey, the flour court-language, shabby-dressed with cloths, the modest way of indicating urgency to be impressive.
But Bill Fields did not have a menial in constant attendance, on whom to try out his grand career. But he found a key humanizing touch of pathos in Ollie—a true chevalier hidden under the loutish mck-chivalry, thin and tawdry as trapped in Nuzhu Panda's incongruous body. Just to see him sweep off his hat as a lady goes by, or w斑dver ever so exquisitely dressed, Bill escorts a person with dumpy flourishes into a room—to watch this is to see the human spirit spring up from the dust becoming its own caricature.
But if Ollie, the bully, has a Secret grandeur, Stan, the downrodden, has a mastery, for tough and opportunistic use, and opportunistic completion air and the surface innocence, he has a constant awareness of Number One. Some forget that Charlie Chapin has the airborne awareness of Number One. Some forget that Charlie Chapin has the airborne awareness of Number One.
started out as a frantic and
outcast scrambler after the main
chance. Stan somehow managed,
what even Charlie didn't, to keep
him from being filled gleam of
calculation in his hapless eyes
and victim's gaze.
Given these two mansiled
chamber-music ensemble of
lofty tunes was made possible-
endless light variations on
them.
Buffoon Authority gets Sane
Idiocy into an impasse, then
turns with genuine unjust outrage
of the fine mess you've gotten
us into!"
Best of all, bully and bullied find themselves equally on the run, and must team up against an unpredictable stupidity of a pursuer. Worse.
We are all silly, and on the run,
harried and indefensible idiots
whom no one in his right mind can hate. Yet hate you do—till we look in the cinema-a mirror and see
him crying, laughing, crying,
dumb, cheeky and shy—and then,
for a moment, forgive ourselves
with laughter.
The lobbiesist is a major force in the U. S. government. As an assistant to an interest group or business, he also is an accepted fixture along
Dopey Sidekick diffidently suggests the obvious, which bails in Nincompoop Expertise.
Copyright, 1972 Universal Press Syndicate
AP News Backgrounder
Lobbyists Pull Funds Strings
By G. C. THELEN Jr.
Associated Press Writer
For Harold O. Lovre, the American Trucking Association lobbies it, $4,500 for the 1970 Dodge pickup truck Ford, the House Republican leader. In this case, said Love, a former South Dakota coworker was personal. We came down to Congress together. He a friend."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Countless strings entwine Washingtonobberswith the morecompellingthan campaignmoney,whichthe officialgeneralusesand elected officials generally use.
The question now being raised in Senate Judiciary Committee hearings is whether a connection between the alleged pledge and a subsequent Justice Department decision to abandon an antitrust cases against ITT.
For Dita Bear, celebrated
washington lobbyst of
international trade,
the Telegraph Corp. the sum was
$400,000 reportedly pledged by a
ITT subsidiary toward financing
the republican National
Convention
"Do you or don't you accept what purports to be a campaign cost?" "Is it a fee or a be a fee for a speech plus expenses? "Holling asked. "What expenses?"
Where, asks Rep. Richard Bolling, D-Mo., does the legislator draw the line in dealing with lobbyists?
the corridors of power, and generally an honorable one. Yet nagging questions remain about him; assigning dollars at his command.
bribery. We are talking about influence that is almost subliminal. You don't know you are being influenced."
There are citizens today who associate lobbies with bribes, high living and nefarious ways. In fact, all but a handful of the several thousand Washington lobbies are regarded by the media as honest, hardworking proponents of a cause or interest.
"We are not talking about
"Lobbying is a much misunderstood process.
sometimes abused and often carrying bad connotations," said Rep. Charles E. Bennett, D-Fla., former chairman of a House Select Committee on Ethics. "Lobbying is nonetheless a vital component in daily interchange between the people and their government.
"Put simply, it is the prescriptive group which governs before governmental bodies, and it is not, of course, for any thing that is other than good
values lobbyists for their expertise.
lobbyist-educators, as
these lawyers,
lawyers, businessmen,
public relations
men, former
government
officials and former
and congressmen.
Rep. Olin E. Teague, D-Tex.
Some 1,200 are registered with Congress. They represent the interests of unions and corporations of local governments in associations, causes as various as world peace and population control.
James J. Kilpatrick
Committee Views Right to Work
WASHINGTON—It is part of the nature of news, sad to say, that some of the most important hearings on Capitol Hill attract the attention of reporters. The point: The hearings being conducted by Congressman Frank Thompson Jr., of New York, are among公众 employees
Thompson's special subcommittee is taking a chair in the high-stakes game. Upwards of 10,000 members are employed by state, county and municipal governments. If they can be drawn into the same board, they can act as their owners that exists in private employment, the unions will have a bonanza—and both taxpayers and non-taxpayers will have a new ballgame.
Roughly one-third of these
objection, that public and private
public employees are not same;
the role of the employer is
quite different, and the rights of
public employees are different.
As Thompson's hearings continued this week, congressman Sasaki brought around two witnesses from Michigan to speak against one of the key provisions in the several pending legislation. A former investigator for the City of Detroit; Mrs. Carol Applegate wrote a letter to Blanc Community High School. Both of them are old-fashioned defenders of a person's right to pay duty.
Mrs. Applegate had been teaching for 18 years before the
Kilpatrick today argues against compulsory union membership for public employees, "olivary union employees, as much good sense in public sector as in the private sector."
Thompson's subcommittee is exploring the subject generally, with a view to recommending its designation the field. The basic National Labor Relations Act now requires union members can join unions, of course, but the unions' powers, privileges and restraints are subject largely to the own idea as simply to remove the old exclusion, and thus to treat public unions under the same law that apply to all the rest.
public employees already are organized. The American Federation of State, County and City workers is now in its 38th year; it numbers 525,000 members and is growing at the rate of a thousand new members a week. The American Federation of Teachers, representing federal workers, is of comparable size. The American Federation of Teachers and the National School Board work in a battle for the classrooms. Six of every 10 new jobs are in public employment. Not even the teachers offer so great a position for union organization.
Grand Blank school board, in June of 1969, ordered her dismissal. There was no need for the qualifications or skill. Her offence she falsely refused, as a matter of principle, to pay due to a teachers' union that had won them money. She helped help from the National Right To Work Legal Foundation, she sued for reinstatement. On January 21, the judge of Ingham County said the she had been wrongly fired.
Other free and independent teachers around the country have not been so fortunate. Court decisions are mixed, and state law requires that spokenmen take the familiar view that "free riders" are not to be tolerated. Unions thrive on compassion and insist that tribute to freedom should be embraced in a bargaining unit. Defenders of the right to work, on the other hand, insist with equal vehemence that public employees upon membership or non-membership in a labor union.
Whatever the merits of the union shop may be in a local factory, the compulsory device has no place in a school, a firehouse or an army. Voluntary unionism, by contrast, makes as much good sense in public employment as in the private sector. If Thompson's subcommittee is determined to bring the federal government into compliance with the principal principle of personal freedom ought to be preserved.
Copyright, 1972 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
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