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Monday, February 28, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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Crime on Campus
During the 1969-70 school year 16 assaults were reported to campus Traffic and Security. There have been 21 assaults reported to Traffic security since July 1971, again, since July 325, 325 thefts have been reported.
The largest share of these crimes occurred in the central campus
"Traffic and Security sources reported that while a percentage of the crimes could be attributed to students, almost all of the violent crimes and most of the other offenses could be related to people who live in the area surrounding the campus."
-Kansan. Feb. 18
The bogey-man is back.
He generally appears with open arms just as the buck is being passed. Way back when, as a street person, he was responsible for bumings, bombings and student arrests. Today it's assaults and thefts.
In both instances, responsibility was abrogated. The campus police, faced with a crime wave of sorts, lays the blame on non-students—nicely dodging their accountability and responsibility to keep the campus free from muggers, rapists, toughs and thieves.
Instead, the campus police pursue an almost mystical pogrom against the students.
Many women refuse to walk on campus at night fearing rapists—who seem to operate with near immunity on campus.
A year ago the cry was for more campus police. "Put down the rebellion, protect the taxpayer's investment," they said. We now have more campus police, more parking tickets—and more assaults.
If the campus police could put down their ticket books for a time, get off their rears and on to the campus—perhaps those women who afford self-defense lessons could again walk the campus in safety.
—Thomas E. Slaughter
Among the sights taken for granted around the University of Kansas campus are the various statues and monuments. There is a long line of horizons concerning the origin and tradition of these statues.
Probably the most famous is that of "Ucle" Jimmy Green, which stands in front of Green Hall on Jawahar Boulevarde, and the New York School of Law from 1879 to 1919. Funds for the statue were collected during the Million Dollar Drive in 1920 which also funded the Million Stadium. It was awarded at the commencement of 1924.
The sculptor was Daniel Chester French. Charles Eldridge, director of Spooner Art Museum, said, "It is questionable why such a famous sculptor would consent to do a work for what was then a provincial university."
It is the only full length statue in memory of a teacher in the United States.
Statues: An Interesting Part of KU History
"The Pioneer," by F.C. Hibbard, is dedicated in memory of the first people to settle Kansas. It was donated by Dr. Simeon B. Bell, who also donated the first piece of land for the Kansas Medical Center. The base was a gift from the Class of 1920.
It was moved to its present position between Fraser and
Blake Halls after a new Fraser Hall was built. According to male students on campus, the pioneer is said to throw a shovel full of dirt over his shoulder when a virgin walks by.
A recent addition to the sculptures on campus is 'Icarus,' in front of the Space Technology Center.
Elden Tefft, professor of painting and sculpture, showed his conception of the Kansas Jayhawk in the sculpture behind the Kansas Union on management foot high bronze Jayhawk is a gift of the Class of 1966. It formerly stood in the lobby of the Union. A recent addition to the sculptures on campus.
iicarus, in Greek mythology, tried to fly but fell into the sea when he flew too close to the sun and the wax that held his wings together melted. The sculpture represents the willingness of mankind to experiment and to venture beyond known, even impossible.
KU's ICars is made of natural bronze and stands 11 feet high on a granite base. The statue was a gift from the Phillips Petroleum Co. The University has owned it for some time. It was placed in front of the building in the summer of 1970.
Inside Lindle Hall is a bust which could possibly be the cause of many a passing test grade for KU students. The bust is of Ernest Hiram Lindley, chancelor from 1920 to 1939. It is
—Oswald P. Backus
To the Editor:
I must protest the grotesque distortion of my Humanities textbook, and pages on February 23. Any resemblance to the text or purport of my lecture lies only in the fact that some of some the same terminology
To the Editor:
We women of the KU community would like to answer Bill Arnoldi and Paul Johnson in regard to their letter of February 23. They do not censor advertisements before they appear in the Kansan, so we are also directing them to the Stables. No, we do not consider ourselves bait for drawing customers to the Stables. In our opinion, the ad of extremely distasteful and demeaning was extremely clientele of the establishment. It connotes an image that we find extremely distasteful and demeaning. Our woman's motive is to place herself in the position of a product packaged and produced by an agency with no derogatory, to say the least. We feel this misrepresents the motivations of the greater portion of our friends who relax and enjoy their friends at the Stables or at any tavern in
town. This misconception supports the culturally-imposed male and female roles with which we are all familiar.
We believe that part of college learning experience can be nature, which necessarily includes the close examination of double standards. If a man feels pain he is thought of as a typical, well-rounded, fun-loving collegiate. If a woman does the same thing, often resulting in embarrassing situations where she is labelled a "frolicking chick." We think that men who create and believe such women do patronize bars or not food for chauvinistic eats.
—Pam Troup.
Fairborn, Ohio Sophomore
–Genie Godfrey,
Torika Junior
Mary Mitchell,
Baxter Springs Junior
Mar Boyd,
Manhattan Senior
Joan Calder,
Laurence Junior
Anne Horton,
Shawnee Mission Sophomore
-Lynn von Unwerth,
Overland Park Sophomore
Kristin Brunson,
Canahaleo, N.Y. Soob
Playing With Prejudice
Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, campaigning in Florida, seems almost to apologize for the fact that his daughter attends an art show where she would send Anna Marie elsewhere not a quality school she goes to."
Quality--that is the weaker word this year. It allows one to oppose busing while pretending to favor integration. Busing is not issue; say Jackson and it issues, but 'quality education.'
The assumption behind this distinction is that "racial balance" for which Thou Shall Not Bus) is separable from the other (which means you may in extremis, bus sparring). But the poor schools are ghetto schools, and reflect the total social setting and learning situation. The two issues are inextricably mixed, though me
another aversion tactic. The nice thing about a four-square stand for such an amendment is that it puts off any decision far over the long amending process, allowing for inbuilt debate and legal rigidity. In many cases make the motion without fear of any very immediate results.
A good example of this is **Josh**, a student busing from bad schools to good ones, but not vice versa. George Wallace quite rightly snorts "What does that non-position: 'what does that position: against busing.' period." Logically she must some trouble from bad schools, can't be in students from better schools, you must leave the school worse off than it was before.
Jackson's proposed anti-busing amendment to the Constitution is
But all those are flirting with ways to oppose the court and just
voters take out their anti-bus-
pidesjices on the referendum,
and not have to go so far as
casting a vote for Wallace.
But why not, while you are in the booth, make your vote more emphatic? And besides, the referendum could well draw a majority. But a heavy vote was supposed to favor Wallace even before the chance
said that he gives good luck if his nose is rubbed before a test. Judging by his shiny appearance he may be in the Class of 1928 this gift of the Class of 1928 was
made by Bernard "Poco"
Frazier.
other statues and monuments include "Kneeling Pan with Bagpipe" by Ivan Mestrovic, in
insisting fires for Wallace. The college would be a well-publicized anti-bussing strategy session at the White House, and for some of bussing are
The Florida legislature wants to put the issue to a referendum in the March 14 primary, and Gov. Reuben Askew appends an "equal rights" proviso that just two candidates look more respectful. Askew, say his defenders, is also playing an evasive game; he will let
Garry Wills declares some, the doublistele politicians use to justify their anti-bus-support stands. It has been a long segregation at the same time.
All "the attempts to" *sanitize* the opposition to busing, to make it less painful, to force the evaders into more untenable positions. You cannot simultaneously arouse the beast with an exorcism or roar of something very dark in the current hysteria and bad faith that it feeds you to new strength.
of explicit opposition to busing was offered.
front of the Art Museum, and the Oregon Trail Memorial near Lindsey which marks the site where the trail crossed Mount Oread.
Copyright, 1972.
Universal Press Syndicate
Capital Punishment: An Old Question
James J. Kilpatrick
By Sokoloff
WASHINGTON--Last week's decision of the California Supreme Court in death mining that State officials some new questions of law and public policy. In my own view, the decision was clearly
The California court construed California's own State Constitution. The decision is therefore final, not subject to final appeal. It also ruled to California, and serves to nullify only those death sentences that had been imposed by the state legislature with 100 prisoners awaiting execution.
Yet the action of the California court cannot be viewed so narrowly. On January 17 the U.S. Court ruled in four cases (the most heinous of them, ironically, from a different school) to challenge the concept of capital punishment as a violation of the Eighth Amendment. The amendment says that "cruel and insane punishments" shall not be inflicted.
Mr. Justice Stewart made the point during oral argument last month, "One of the things that I learned is that he Amendment," he said, "is that the deprivation of life is expressly prohibited because due process does not apply and their implication is approved when there is due process. And this is why I say that to me it is more difficult to argue now. Now we're not talking about the
The problem presents two separate questions. The first is, Is it immoral, unwise, or unconstitutional? The second is, Is it immoral, unwise, or ineffective? The questions have nothing to do with one another, but how capital punishment, as such, possibly could be held unconstitutional. The Fifth Amendment implicitly sanctions "No person shall be held to answer for his own过失 unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury." Both the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments give further sanction in terms of due process.
Griff and the Unicorn
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff.
express wording of the Constitution."
viewed by some judges as degrading, dehumanizing, or "incompatible with the dignity of mankind," all those evils; yet human slavery was expressly sanctioned by the Constitution and was not only subject to the Thirteenth Amendment. By the same token, to deny women a right to vote is unfair; but it was made acceptable to the Nineeth Amendment.
Precisely. Even if one embraces every activist theory ever advanced about our, more flexible, or "evolving" Constitution, only two adjectives of the Eighth Amendment would be subject to judicial interpretation: Disbemowing a prisoner, or boiling him in oil, might be thus defined by legislative judgment of 41 States is to be discarded altogether, the electric chair and the gas
If capital punishment is to be abolished, it ought not to be abolished by judicial decree. This
Capital punishment may be "incompatible with the dignity of man" says Kilpatrick, but it cannot be held unconstitutional.
chamber cannot be regarded, at law, as constitutionally impermissible.
The California court confused the two questions. The majority declare that, as such, capital punishment, as such, dehumanizes all who participate in its processes". Such "punishment is compulsory" is not a legitimate man." Very well. But these are not arguments of law; they are arguments of policy—they are arguments of a legislator committee room.
We ought to keep these things straight. It simply does not follow that a given practice is unconstitutional because it is
is to vest in judgers the power effectively to amend the Constitution. It ought to be abolished. Constitution, Federal crimes, and by the individual States, as to State crimes. Or it ought to be abolished. Our outright management of the Constitution, reasonably minded may well disagree on the wisdom of capital punishment. As a public policy, perhaps it ought to be abandoned. But "the express命令 of the Corruption," in Stewart's phrase, has to be uphold.
Copyright 1972, The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
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