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Thursday, February 24, 1972
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The Students' Choice
A recent presidential poll taken by KU Student Vote is probably as accurate a sample of student presidential preference as is possible at this early stage in the campaign.
What the poll did not show was a candidate, Republican or Democrat, with a clear majority of the 1,879 votes cast. Richard Nixon received 19 per cent of the total vote. Senators George McGovern and Edmund Muskie received 12 per cent respectively. From there, 12 other candidates received at least one vote. 39 per cent of those samples were undecided.
The poll did show that 95 per cent of those sampled did intend to register to vote before the next election.
If their peers follow through and, in fact, register and vote—in proportion to the sample taken—their strength could make a winner of the marginal candidates, which is to say any of the candidates.
The Democratic primaries, just about to begin, should single out the Democratic contenders with a serious chance of getting the nomination. It is assumed that support for those marginal candidate groups behind the Democrat with the best chance of beating Nixon.
That man appears to be Edmund Muskie.
Sen. Harold Hughes, at one time a candidate himself, has said he will support Muskie over Senator McGovern. This was a bit of a surprise because Hughes is closer philosophically to McGovern than Muskie. Hughes explains that what the country needs at this point is a Democratic president, and Muskie is the Democrat that can win.
Pragmatically, Hughes' reasoning seems sound. Like 70 per cent of those sampled, though, I support neither Nixon nor Muskie. My candidate doesn't have a chance of winning, either.
—Thomas E. Slaughter
James J. Kilpatrick
Minority Enterprises Progress
WASHINGTON—One of the favorite all-year sports around this town is to rate the bristle factor at the highest levels of a gold medal winner. The former Speaker John McCormack could reach full bristle in 0.05 seconds; Frances Knight, the dragon lady of Passport Office, has reigned women over the women's division.
The story merits a few minutes of your thought. If the desperate problems of our urban minorities are the result of poor housing, they must be relieved primarily through economic opportunity in the private sector. The task of reducing housing or public welfare or makework jobs on the public
a promising contender for the men's title emerged the other afternoon, when some of us went to a departmental office Department for a farewell press conference with outgoing Secretary Maurice Stans. He asked a minority assistance programs had failed so badly, and Stans said they needed more bristle of majestic proportions. The program hasn't failed, said the indignant secretary, and he continued flowering with evidence on the point.
payroll. The answer lies in generating new income sources down in the cities where the people live.
As Paul R. Porter recently has demonstrated, in a perceptive essay on the plight of our inner customers, that black employment opportunities will be created by what might be termed, in this case, the hiring of manufacturers plants aren't moving in; they're moving out. Between 1954 and 1963, Boston plant owners hired 226,434 L. St. Louis lost 268; its subsidiaries gained 349. Milwaukee, 146 plants closed down; 602 set up shop in the suburbs. It is a fair analogy that the trend continues.
These dramatic shifts might be countered, of course, by a massive program to move blue-collar jobs are. It is easier said than done. Everything that is harder for the human problem is easier said than done. Another approach, offering psychological benefits, is the economic benefits, lies in a bootstrap operation for developing an honest business. Over time this approach has great
See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad.
James Thomson.1700-1748
AP Backgrounder
By C.R. RAGAN
Associated Press Writer
Campaign '72 Roundup
Associated Press Writer
Presidential aspirants concentrated much of their campaign firepower on each other, with the Florida primary three weeks away, the issue took on increasing importance in that
In Tallahassee, New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay announces that I am for it, because it is often easy way to integrate our schools.
In recent days the Florida Legislature passed measures by wide margins to put a question on the March 14 ballot askin Plaintiffs whether they would support an antibusing amendment.
"On the one extreme is Gov. George Wallace" of Alabama, said Jackson. "His answer to the busing problem is simple: take
Lindsay made separate speeches to the houses of the Florida Legislature.
Another Democratic aspirant, Sen. Harry M. Jackson of Washington, campaigned in Jacksonville, and criticized Michael Jackson. Ms. Jackson said Muskie, considered the Democratic frontrunner, had been "riding high in the saddle, but now he has come off the saddle to let us know he stands" in favor of busing.
the batteries out of the buses. On the other extreme we have SeN, Muskie and others who don't see the problem at all."
In Charlotteville, Va., Seo-
George S. McGovern, D-S.D,
said but was one of the few
women who play for
living in a segregated society.
He said he was more concerned
about the Vietnam war and
about whether American kids
have a few extra miles" to school.
McGovern also said this particular him to advocate lowering the social security age to 62 for men. Women now receive benefits at age 37.
In Denver Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., also spoke about busing. She said she didn't favor mandatory busing but that the city would "be because of man inhumanity to man."
"Black parents don't want to send their children out of their neighborhood," she said, "but they feel it's necessary if they are to get them the kind of education and care for coping in our society."
"Reducing the Social Security retirement age is an act of humanity and justice," he said in Boston.
Elsewhere along the campaign trail:
formally entered the June 6 New Mexico primary. Secretary of State John Brennan received a personal letter from Nixon along with his $500 filing fee.
MUNK—Rep. Patsy Mink, D-Hawaii, said in normal Ill., that she would enter Oregon's presidential primary.
NIXON-The President
KENNEDY—In Madison, Wis., officials announced they had received a disclaimer from Sen. Edmund M. Kennedy; D-Mass. Edmund M. Kennedy; of removing his name from the April 14 Democratic primary.
YORTY—Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty lost a court battle to remove his name from the Florida primary ballot. Florida election officials placed Yorty's name on the ballot, the basis of which is presumably recognized as a candidate in the state or national news media.
And in Lincoln, Neb., Kennedy asked that his name be taken off the ballot for the May 9 primary.
WALLACE—The governor continued his longest campaign stint so far this year attending the White House and serving in Washington Tuesday and Wednesday. Wallace was to head for Georgia today and Florida Friday before returning to Florida on Saturday. His state's capital last Friday.
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promise. Lyndon Johnson *said* this. So Michael Nixon *was the answer to Stans made evident, that nothing much is moving.*
Wallace, too, has what he needs, the receptive kind of crowd before whom he "lets loose" and becomes himself. He is talking, before them, to TV, where he works as the smartest man in Oregon, but he the smartest man on this television show." He is taking to
OCALA, FLA — This town (accent on the second syllable, "cala") is the city crawled here from Texas; it has disconsole similar "prefah" houses roofed over them like tunnels. The City Auditorium is done in the
--blank tropic-white style, and most of its windows have been poked out.
Garry Wills has been in Florida watching the Wallace fans, and seems fearful of what he has seen. "The theme song is all these displaced persons... have a moment, a homeland.
Griff and the Unicorn
But even in a harsh night rain enough people turned out to fill the Auditorium and leave only standing room at all points of view. We are always present, and this is a Wallace crowd, out to hear him. He arrives trailed by his cove of obsequious hoods and hacks, and appears in a haze of music and Condefederate sulphur—the theme song is "Dixie," and there are dazzling impressions in a wandered Texas have, for a moment, a homeland.
Kilpatrick believes that if the "desperate problems of our urban minorities are to be solved," he will believe primarily through economic opportunity in the private sector." He notes some progress that has been made in Illinois by the Nixon administration.
Wallace on Stage: Crude Deception
He even gets a hand when he
By Sokoloff
guarantees to  minority
entrepreneurs reached $434
million, more than double the
figure for 1969. Over this same
period, government purchases
from minority-owned enterprises
All the same, the departing secretary makes a good case. Bishni hamay may be impressed—but rather impressed by the Nixon administration—but the record of badness is not bad—at all.
Stans is a realist. The dimensions of the inequity, by the term 'reimended', *M minority groups* 17 per cent of the population, "but they control less than one per cent of the sales, representing four per cent of the country's total number of big gains are yet to be made.*
judges: "You quit makin' law.
You go to interpretin' the law."
To the judge who made the Richmond busing decision: "You sit on the bench, and a father at home, you a pluperfect hapicerit."
So Stans bristled. The Office of Minority Business Enterprise, which started this fiscal year with a $4 million appropriation, will fund its work during the last fiscal year, government grants, loans and
Copyright, 1972 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Under the government's prodding, says Stans, the private sector is showing significant growth and Chicanos increasingly are franchised businesses, retail sales, and automobile service workers ago there were only 14 bakeries and dealership; now there are 80.
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff
Garry Wills
tries to be judicious, giving arguments pro and con till the pendulum-motion of his talk sinks to a halt. The point this way: "Foreign aid — there's another thing I am for and against." And damned if they didn't have an idea, he remarks that last year saw the death of more police than any other year in our history. People are just as shocked when they applaud cops at the door who are
very much on duty, bulging with their guns and gras in Wallace shouts "Thank God for the police."
He is telling off the world for these people whom the world has passed by: "They've always distrusted our viewpoint. And sometimes they stultified you, so you said. Let's just give up. But we are going to distrust them. They're going after me, because they go after you."
"If I was talking to 25 people
but it's your speaking here, I just
give you a voice—and there's
nothing the people can't do if they
are there."
And the odd thing is, half of the people in the country have a pretty high average for a political candidate. The bureaucrats are parasites and bambooizers of the government and use them into Vietnam and all our troubles. We are deceived and faced with success. But never faced so crippled as a Wallace crowd is by Wallace.
"We going against the grain. We hitting the foundations. We hitting the big boys. The children belong to me and the people, and we gotta take our children back, and some of our money back, and some of our gonna take our country back, and some of you can go where you want."
Copyright, 1972. Universal Press Syndicate
Readers Respond
The article said that $240,000 was going to be spent on a Tartan Surface for the field house.
To the .Editor:
Jake Parnell came in yelling the other day with a copy of the Kansan. He made me read an article in the bottom corner.
'Sandwich Spread'
"Sounds like a sandwich spread," yelled Jake. He broke the desk lamp in two. "Somebody's got their priorities mixed up. Think how far that money could go if it were used to buy furniture that they already had a floor. This makes me very nihilistic."
"Well, the athletic department still controls KU. Makes me nostalgic." I said.
Jake went out and looked for a riot.
—Richard Louv '71 San Diego, California
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