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Friday, March 3, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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For Relevant Feedback
An appraisal is being made of "Feedback," the KU book of student evaluations of teachers and courses. One obvious shortcoming has been low faculty participation. "Feedback's" value has been minimal for many students whose future professors have not felt the need to be evaluated.
That is a problem with the idea of its execution. There is a more basic flaw in the idea itself. The booklet's author asks students to rate a one-to-five scale of "relevance" of courses to their future careers. That question if I were asked by someone else.
The question challenges the concept of a liberal education at a university. Because a five is good and a one is bad a course which receives a one in any area, including career relevance, suffers. Were *b*
a trade school and all of us interested solely in preparing for jobs, the question would have some validity. But it's not a trade school and hopefully we are after something more.
By saying a course in Shakespeare will not make an architecture student a better architect, we imply that there is some sort of inadequacy either in the course or in Shakespeare himself. This is ample support.
Four years at KU should have a greater impact than to fit us into our occupational niches in the Great Society. Let's not worry quite so much about "career relevance."
Sisters,
Light Loot
Readers Respond
Sisters, A Little Light...
Chip Crews Editor
To the Editor:
A suggestion recently was made that money from student fees be used to install an artificial greenhouse at the Allen Field House floor—hopefully this suggestion has since been disgarded. However, it is a problem because these deems more desirable to use these funds to improve the campus, and through the matter gradually the responsibility of the student government on the student government can be more quickly (theoretically).
Undoubtedly campus lighting presently meets minimum standards, but recent events have merely limited minimum standards are not adequate. Could student funds be diverted to improve the lighting of campus buildings or to student government work in conjunction with the University administrators to make this happen? This discouraging a further increase of assaults and other crimes at night? Furthermore, as it possible the university will respond to this situation by assigning an officer(s) to patrol on foot the areas on campus that students during the evening hours? It is fortunate that these students during the evening hours? It is unfortunate that they walk on campus safely on a walk on the campus a night, but this situation will not improve on its own; instead, the entire® University community should be prepared for a problem before it deteriorates.
Perry Graduate Student
Navy's Nice
I am responding to the letter in which Mr. Kleiss condemns the system which forces him to remain in the Navy. I am in the school where he was educated Education Program (NSEEP) just as Mr. Kleiss was, but I have not followed his case in detail nor do I know him very well. Nonetheless, it is clear to me that he left a number of things unsaid.
An explanation of NESEP should be included before any judgement is made. NESEP is an opportunity which is presented to students who have outstanding potential and are career oriented. Those who are chosen are given a full four year education in the subject of mathematics at any of 21 universities. Their tuition is paid, their books are provided and they continue to receive their entire pay and benefits. There is a demand for students whose concentration can be given to academic matters. Upon completion of their education these men receive a commission that can continue into graduate school
Nothing is free, of course, so there is an obligation for continued service in the Navy. Nothing is free, of course, so obligation is computed on the basis of nine months service for every six months spent in NESEP Mr Kleiss agreed to come to the University of Pearl's school coming to the University of Pearl's school
I must stress that no one is
"drafted" into NESEP. It is strictly voluntary and in fact applicants are carefuly aware of the candidates are judged as much on their motivation as they are on their academic ability. In order to achieve the aims of the program, the students and the Navy the emphasis is on choosing career oriented men. Apparently, then, Mr. Kleiss expressed strong desires to become a naval officer he was aware of the obligation.
I am not insisting that a career in security should suit everyone, but M$'s remind me that a normal enlistment will be expired unless you cannot work without the of this problem and with considerable savings to the company.
—Edward D. Brady
Also, I would not presume to judge the convictions which Mr. Kleiss expresses, but I can see that he will have a formidable task. It is difficult to determine clear motives when a man goes to considerable effort to establish a short time later condemn it.
Legal Lingo
To the Editor:
My disappointment in the UDK reporting continues to grow. Again and again, articles appear which show shi-lsod researching and poor attention to the details of the report. An example of this is the UDK reporting that Dave Dysart is Director of the Ombudsman Office when Pam Hooper is really the member of an advisory board.
The March 1st article, "51 Sisters Named, Court Order Lists, and Damaging to those involved," the article is wored in a manner which implies served with questions or suffer legal reprisals. This is not true. There are no questions or suffer legal reprisals to avoid answering such questions.
First of all, there is a question about whether the University Judiciary can issue interrogatories because this power is not specifically stated in Regulations of the University Judiciary. Furthermore, the very procedure being used violates the regulations of the self-same University Judiciary. There is an important question to submit to such harassment.
Secondly, the women named were chosen at some random, partly based upon women whose names appeared in the UDK, and partly based on women's issues, speaking out on women's issues, and partly based upon Dyask's contacts with women who spoke to him about his libelous suit. Furthermore, the harassment aspect of the suit when he stated the women named were thought to have "knowledge of who was in the suit," and then there are grounds for serving interrogatories and University Judiciary court orders to between 100 and 150 women, among them Dean Emile Barker, a former sufferer, and Elizabeth Banks, etc.
February Sisters, not all are. The headline misses readers to believe all the women named are sisters and may be evidence to indicate that. This is the kind of journalism that plants bias and encourages one citizen. University services (Ombudsman's Office), in his attempts to harass, frighten, and intimidate other citizens,men.
Thirdly, although some of the women named are self-identified
It is interesting to me that since the suit was first improperly filed with the Ombudsman's Office, it has been full of the names of those involved, have appeared daily. Somehow find it hard to believe that a public through the press is not an additional if not primary motive for the suit. Press coverage is a involvement in controversial issues. For example, a prospective lawyer or anyone interested in becoming known as involved in controversial issues, an office attempting to give students legal services and mediate on behalf that would involve members wounds in themselves in such unprofessional actions aimed at the harassment of some people.
-Diane C. Zuch,
Diane C. Zuch,
Junction City Graduate Student
Ed. note: Although Pam Hooper is Dyssart's first choice to take over his duties as director of the department, he is still, as of today, director.
Better Band
I find it rather ironic that the first dance band the Kansan has chosen to review is one of the best. That's why this is a new avenue of interest our university paper has decided to pick up on? Or perhaps NATIONIAS the only band to play in the newspaper review, newspaper review. Nothing good could be said of the mediocre second-rate bands that haunt this town's dance-and-drinking music and so nothing was said at all.
Mr. Zanatella seems to feel that NATION should be more than "a good dance band" whose choice of dresses would be a dance beat." And yet I was under the impression that those going to the Red Baron were going there for just that reason—to drink and or, to dance, to a good dance band.
Being a concert freak myself, I don't mind paying twice or quadruple the Red Baron's annual nationally famous group. But when I'm in the mood for a somewhat less expensive, yet equally enjoyable experience, I like to play a jazz band, preferably NATION.
In 'closing I would like to ask Mr. Zanatta what type of music he prefers to dance to—obviously a pop band or boring term that certainly doesn't do justice to that type of music). Also, I am at a loss to categorize "Jailhouse Rock" and "Blue Suede Shoes" (two of the group's most enthusiastically used songs) as "sterotyped heavy sounds."
-Rosie Boose,
Wichita Sophomore
Garry Wills
kind of grim and grotesque."
Cornelia Loves George
MIAMI-Those who think there is a new George Wallace point to things that are largely the result of the new Mrs. Melissa Simmons, the微笑er she has her husband and 50 times prettier. In TV studios, she fuses with her husband's brushes dandruff, tits shadow out of his bunch grained face. She's a
She puts it this way: "I like to see him put his best foot forward. He's a very attractive man, but occasionally-it hurts." He puts it this way: "It's pretty bad pictures, that make him look
No danger of her looking grotesque. As she rushed into a studio for a lone appearance on TV, no one recognized her. She is not so crudely pretty that men turn and stare. But once they see her, there is no tendency to look away. She turns back, eyes down at the coke at hand, and checks the microphone before she is asked to.
It is a morning news show, and the interviewers want to get at political issues, but she easily deflects all such questions. He says in his statement of issues to George; he does it so much better than I do. He says, 'I run the office, and you run the home.' He is very strong on the issues; that's what he's trying to ham speak, he's so "dynamic."
She says it with such a throaty inwardly pleasing smile, such modestly lowered eyelids, that–without ever ceasing to be a Southern lady–she
conveys that he's a manly tiger, and that anyone can see him in action just by attending a rally;
"Have you ever heard him speak? He can just bring a crowd to its feet! He's a big stump speaker—and it's all out of his voice. Why? Jaycees dinner in Daytona, they applaud Senator Jackson at the end of his speech, but the interrupted my husband's speech about ten times, and then he said he was going to conclude."
"He can feel the mood of the people. He knows they want some relief, and he has the opportunity to be their voice. If you want to know what he thinks about the issues, you just go to the rally March 9 at Convention Hall."
It has all been so breatlessly admiring that the questioners had little chance to intervene. Finally she is in charge of the room, and a dynamic wower; 'I am afraid our
courtship was a little ole-time,
both have children, so we had a family
courtship. We ate at its house. We ate
at my house—we went out about two
times, with the security people. We had
nothing with four security men al-
ongside.
Afterward, I asked her how she thought the show had gone. "Did you see," she asks me in return, "how I tossed those questions right back at them? Ask them if they had seen George speak, asked them what they thought of him? It is a trick her mother acquiescence out of a polite nod, as she was doing with me even while describing just how the trick works!
I said I had noticed—noticed, too; she got in the date and place of his upcoming main Miami rally. "That was her," she winks at me. "She winks at me. No doubt of that."
Copyright, 1972 Universal Press Syndicate
Smith Hempstone
Laughing at Baseness Is Bad
WASHINGTON—There is this movie playing in our town. You may have heard of it: "It's called a 'Clockwork Orange.'" based on the novel by Anthony Burgess and directed by Stanley Kubrick, which covers of recent issues of Newweek and Saturday Review.
While James J. Kiltpatrick is on vacation, his column will be replaced by that of Smith Hempstone.
"Orange" won the New York Film Critics awards for best picture and direction, which tells the story of a boy who criticizes as it does about the movie.
It all takes place in London at some time in the near future. Kubrick warms up his fans with a song he sang, and gags a gang of four aspiring Charles Mansons (wow!) that, as one is quick to learn, is as nothing but a joke. The gang and a wild ride through the country in a stolen car, during which a number of motorists are caught and admired or famously on their deaths (dig it)?
The quartet of doped-up psychopaths then gains entry into the police force, with telephone to report an accident, administers a crippling beating to him (to the tone of "Singin' in the Rain"), and goes on before his eyes. It really is a gas.
After a little light comedy
of sorts, the leader of
the hoodsmen, playfully
two of his accomplices to assert
another house and Alex beat a
death with a statue of a phallus
(how bout that for symbolism.
At this point Alex gets caught, beaten up by the police.
By Sokoloff
Griff and the Unicorn
The artist, if he would be true to himself and hence to his art, cannot hide or gloss over the risk of being betrayed. Yet he need not revel in sadism and bestial lust, reducing all things to their lowest common denominator and wailing in the face that neither is at the truth about man.
Man is now as he always has been, which is to say not very nice, and that goes for all levels. It is difficult to find the few animals which kills other than to eat and one of the few that slays members of its own species. There is, in short, a lack of affinity, that does not afflict other mammals.
You see it in the aggressive way people drive. You hear it in the roar of the crowd at crowds and you know where they are. You sense it in the empty streets of the cities, where men caught abroad after dark walk quickly and purposefully, looking neither too far nor too close to glimpse of it in the emptiness
There is a disturbing current flowing throughout our society and movies such as "Orange" and "Django Unchained." The code by which men have lived, the social contract, if you will, has become undermined and beasts stalk the streets to stalk the streets are, of course . . . ourselves.
sentenced to fourteen years in prison, is released in two years after a drug treatment which includes sedatives, sickening to him and spends most of the rest of the film getting brutally beaten and forced into a bone-breaking attempted suicide. The film also falsely depicts false and despicable one, that all humanity is so inherently evil that it is impossible, indeed senseless, to try to differentiate decent from deceptive decent conduct and indecent.
That will be unfortunate for man is not himself without the touch of bawdiness, of sexuality, of merriment, which proclaims that man can be but few who would not agree that we have gone too far: Rape is not funny, murder is not a joke, kicking a man into a bloody肛pup, despite what the worst critics may say, is not artistry.
It cannot be denied that Kubrick has talent. Some of the scenes crackle with brilliance and great charm, but they are genuinely funny. But Kubrick's genius is a diabolical one, and given the temper of our generation, it seems to be genuinely funny.
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff.
In all probability we will not collapse into the total social chaos on the brink of which we have been compelled to cyclical rhythm in the beat of men's lives and it is likely that the pendulum will swing back again into a new and blue-nosed person perhaps oppressive social control.
There is a name for what "A Clockwork Orange" represents and it is deprivacy. Having seen it, you walk quickly from the theater, looking neither to the left nor to the right, be human and in the night air there is leathery rustling as of the wings of great bats.
behind men's eyes. There is a hint of drift, of purposelessness in our lives.
Perhaps it stems from the notion of the importance of "doing one's own thing." For if self-expression, no matter what its form or content, is the most important trait that follows that one act is no better or worse than another, that the freedom to commit atrocities is just as important as the freedom to feed a starving child. That is a challenge for its doubtful if the survivors of its worst would applaud it.
It is difficult to assess how deep the sickness runs. But it is pretty clear that there has been a shift in focus from cultural mores, of which the content of television and movies and airport bookshops is merely a reflection of permissiveness, the public gets, by definition, what it wants and many of the things it wants are sordid and are known to be
Copyright, 1972, Washington Star Syndicate Inc.
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