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Wednesday, February 16, 1972
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Trampling the Law
I see gangsters and hoodlums loose in America. They take the body of the law, twisting and manipulating the particular cause or political philosophy.
Their crimes are not committed at gun point in dark alleys but in the cold neon light of conference rooms and offices. A car far from hovering police helicopters.
The recent attack on a Kansan photographer by a group of February Sisters was such gangsterism—the work of hoodlums—and puts them in league with others ostensibly but hypocritically committed to human rights. Such an incident reveals the philosophical bankruptcy of such groups—who profess individual freedom as long as it does not conflict with their vested interests.
Americans in particular seem to suffer from this malady - selective gangsterism. Mayor Richard Daley loosed his police force on innocent bystanders - often in blatant disregard of law - defended the law. John Mitchell, sworn to protect this nation's laws, illegally arrested and detained thousands of protesters in Washington last spring. Richard Nixon, a strong proponent of law and order, fights an illegal war in Southeast Asia. Vern
Miller used the law—yours and mine—as a personal tool attempting to close the Gaslight Tavern. The residents of Ellsworth Hall saw their rights bypassed by a group of administrators—who claimed "special circumstances" allowed them to deny what they could not deny. The University administration oversaw how brake the University's laws—and refrain to recognize the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front—deciding it seems, that the Constitution does not apply to homosexuals.
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Sadly, the list could go on and on. The February Sisters et al. demand, by right of cause, a franchise on the law. Richard Nixon tells me Americans no longer respect the law. He is right. It is the demagogues—Nixon, Mitchell, the February Sisters, though, that have eroded faith in the law. Criminals of this sort have made the law a dirty word, hated and despised by many who need its protection most. The law is part of our national heritage—designed to protect human rights—and now tragically rubbed in the filth of hypocrisy.
And Richard Nixon and the February Sisters demand their right
—Thomas E. Slaughter
Readers Respond
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War, Wills, Women, Woes...
Vietnam Myth
To the Editor:
Byron Edmondson, your response to my letter to the editor provides a good illustration of how the myth about a trade of an army was turned into a release of prisoners of war developed. You have chosen a few phrases out of context from the first point of the Provisional Army's operation July 1, 1971, seven-point peace proposal in an attempt to support your point of view. In order to understand the sentence from which it is first necessary to read the two sentences which precede it.
The first of these two sentences requires that the United States surrender unconditionally. "The United States will end its war of aggression in Viet Nam, stop the policy of 'Vietnamization' of the war, withdraw from South Vietnam and dismantle all U.S. weapons, weapons, and war materials of the United States and of the other foreign countries in the U. S. camp, and dismantle all U.S. weapons." WITHOUT POSING ANY CONDITIONS WHATSOEVER (emphasis added). "Not only would acceptance of this position be a defeat for the President but it might also cause the South Vietnamese army to use military action to waken from the S. forces whatever was material need or want. The South Vietnamese army is in a far better position to inflict heavy casualties on U. S. forces than on Gurkha forces or the North Vietnamese Army."
The second sentence reinforces the tone set by the first, framing it as a more persuasive MUST (emphasis added) set a terminal date for with-
Now we come to the sentence from which you quote. This sentence tells what the PEG will accept, and it accepts their demands. It appears to be an attempt to conciliate so that the tone set in the preceding sentences will be appropriate. The document sets a terminal date for the withdrawal. the parties will at the same time agree, on "not simply a release of American goods" instead on "the modalities."
"B. Of the release of the teo parties and the civilis captured in the war (including American pilots captured in North Viet
In other words after the withdrawal date has been announced agreement on how it to be done and on how military and civilian prisoners are to be released. In "discuss" actually once the United States sets a deadline for troop withdrawal there will be no unconditionally unsettled issues anything, especially since the United States will seemly have already unconditionally captured in the because might be problems in securing the release of the "civilians captured in the because might be held in South Vietnamese government and not by the United States. American plots of mention of "American plots of mention of North Viet Nam" introduces an ambiguity about the release of all prisoner in Southeast Asia.
"A. Of the withdrawal in safety from South Vietnam of the totality of U. S. forces . . .
Columnist
—Kenneth B. Lucas,
Hutchinson Graduate Student
To the Editor:
We had chosen not to write a criticism of Garry Wills' column *War in the somewhat optimistic hope that those old enough to read the February Kansas would be able to attempt at humor or simply ignore it. Now, however, the author has printed a letter that, of all things, praises the column for exactly those qualities that it is most
Since the Wills column considers a number of points separately, we shall examine it in the same format.
Despite an occasional worthwhile column, Wills' work is generally of low quality, full of misinformation, analyses and obviously not the work of a first rate mind. He reacts to issues emotionally and an adequate attempt to analyze the situation he is discussing.
from United States withdraws from South Vietnam by six months after agreement. Wills that have been made to troops will be withdrawn only from South Vietnam. Since the United States had no troops in the war, it immediately difficult to withdraw them. It is a moot point as to whether the United States has had any U.S. forces there certainly it does not have many. In any case, how could the presence of U.S. troops in those countries maintain goal withdrawal? Villain mastery within their own house "unless Wills believes that these two unhappy houses" includes those two unhappy
2. Return of captured soldiers and civilians. Willis objects to this giving up its bargaining point. Since the United States and the South will be taking the same bargaining point, we should bargain points as well, and the balance will remain the same.
3. New and free elections: Here We attempt to confuse the reader with the idea that his discussion of this point say anything about the elections. His only point against free elections is that they are not rigged it. He believes this despite the fact that Thieu would resign before the election, the election would be independent, and the dependent group representing all political forces in South Vietnam N.L.F., and the election would be international supervision 4. Retreat is a most point whether it was the Geneva accords or the non-compliance with their provisions
5. No foreign interference—hence withdrawal of Hani's troops; Wills says Hani claims South Vietnam is not a foreign nation. However, Hani holds that the government and revolutionary government and thus implicitly acknowledges the South's independence.
7. International supervision of the withdrawal: Wills has two objections to this point. First, he suggests that no nation may if there are no nations neutral in respect to Vietnam, then what is wrong with the withdrawal? Second, Indochina, which consists of Poland, India, and Canada* Only
6. General cease fire: Wills makes the same objection as he did to point five.
the most dogmatic anti- American would accuse even Canada of being a U. uppet politically. The second objection is that the terms Nixon used are subjunctive interpretations. Mr. Wills does not seem to realize that Nixon's peace plan is a proposal for negotiations and that definitions were outed during those negotiations.
8. International supervision of Indochina's future. Again Mr. Williams wrote to Leigh "leave the Vietnamese masters of their own house." Here Wills is at his worst, distorting the U.S. view of Vietnam and thus this nature can not be mere misunderstanding of the situation but must be malice aforethought. He made a "a major reconstruction program throughout Indochina, including North Vietnam." In the next section he writes, "a means, $7.5 billion to Indochina with $2.5 billion of that to North Vietnam. That's an attack on them," the mastery of their own house? Wills concludes his columb by saying that the speech sounded even better than it did in Washington. Rather, it was the Wills column and the Pritchard letter in praise of
George Johnston, Alexandria. Minn. senior
-Kent Wilson,
Prairie Village, Kans. senior
swing back: "the criticism of Hoover is merely a matter of his age—no case has been made that Hoover should not do some people their best work at advanced ages—justice Holmes opinions then, and I was able to bring Admiral Hyman Rickover seemed to be over."
Fuller on Sex
So Jackson has come full circle—from mandatory retiree to public producer in public life—and, along the way, his casually said that no other charge has been incurred by him. Age, actually, of course, he is
Garry Wills
To the Editor:
Thinking Man's Wallace
ORLANDO, FLA. — It is hard to be the thinking man's Wallace. Senator Henry "Scoop9" Jackson is proving that as he was raising his daughter, Wallace issues when sanitizing them of the Wallace personality.
This involves, one need not say, considerable waffling. Take the issue of law and order. Jackson
"No," he answered, "I don't think that's a goal (of the election). One cannot go for the Wallace people and criticize one of them on the other hand, one cannot be thinking man's anything and side
with Hoover; so he had to waffle.
"I think it should be a policy in future — in fact, not only a policy that would be mandatory at a certain age." Does that sound like an implicit criticism of Howe for hanging someone with usefulness? Then it is time to use
Considering ecology, overpopulation, women's liberation and the February Sisters, one of the minimaides of kuckmaster Fulcher who has undergone an order of change. Comparing the average size of the early American family of pioneer days, the same effect of a pliotation of women, with today and our improved life expectancy. Fuller's sees mixed clothing trends, the amount of new shirts she wears, the increasing female nakedness all as "nature supplying a negative urge that diminishes our capacity to make babies." Fuller says, "We're not surprised to see women getting naked, because the more naked they are, the more they tend to discourage the sex urge. But man's insultable curiosity
"Few people," says Wills, "like Periba who is well-wisdomed. Perhaps it's just as well, judging from some of the other things Wills has to say about Senator Periba."
spouts his little bits of personal
things this topic on busing,
and wails at the crowds.
crowds Wallace is attracting to
cheer both crime and buses off
But then he was asked if he would join teammates in replace J. Edgar Hoover, or whether that should be a goal of the Party running
quietly criticized, even on the guardian's image rather than on a country for failure to cooperate with the local law enforcement official.
So Jackson was asked what he thought of Hoover's publicly charging Daniel Berrigan of a crime for which, as it turned out, he had been an official. "Well, 'I' am a prosecutor, and anyone who is would be in trouble if, every time a case is dropped, . . . men, impute the crime," he said to the wild Hoover charge (which named an organization not involved at all in the acts alleged) was perfectly justified? Not quite. "The Berrigan case was handled," that's an understatement."
Not only an understatement, but a wishy-wishy statement perfectly attuned to Jackson's dewrapped and droopy-ided skirts taken over 500 billboard vacations by a sun-tan lotion to proclaim "Scoop For President." The only trouble is that few people know what or who a Scoop is. (The sounds like an ice cream cake.)
When he was asked, here, for the difference between himself and Wallace, Jackson answered: "I'm a Democrat. I never put my foot in the door to keep people off my side." His foot in the bus door, Only it is a pussyfoot, not Wallace's firmer tread.
Copyright, 1972 Universal Press Syndicate
Griff and the Unicorn
I therefore must call upon the University to initiate a most logical and most desperately important step in the births, the complete integration of the sexes. I must ask for compulsory, integration in the abolition of separate restrooms, the abolition of separate physical classrooms, the abolition of separate locker rooms and facilities, the opening of integrated nude swimming classes, theClasses during summer session, the institution of a program to take nudity out of the classroom and women's liberation will be achieved through wiping out all differences of the sexes.
—Charles Kenneth Novo-Gradac, Bonner Springs senior
"Copyright 1972. David Sokoloff."
Language
To the Editor:
It has come to our attention that the University is questioning the validity of the foreign language requirements toward a new program, which appears to be incongruous that such a controversy over this requirement occurs at this same point in history in which students have been crying for the need to educate the whole person. We personally feel that a lowering of the language requirement would add another stumbling block in the process of admitting students to the individual and his acculturation into society—a process which, for many of us, takes a new direction as a result of the opportunities it provides in the requirements at the university.
We have long known that it is imminently desirable that any person who represents the United States of America in any official or commercial capacity should work with whom he or she is living and working. Still, every day in the past one thousand or so
days of our living in Germany, we have been continual witness to arrogant Americans who refuse to help their German hosts. We have watched countless misunderstandings take place because we do not understand a basic German vocabulary—Americans who have lived as a guest in this country, who are high-ranking officers in the U.S. military, and some supervise German citizens. Perishers years ago we "go by" with such arrogance, but we are definitely aware of the economic tables are turned, and the American living in Europe today is discovering with swift enthusiasm their makes a few rules of his own.
It is an enigma to our European friends that Americans have a desire to visit and experience any part of Europe without a country in their own country which they hope to discover. Small wonder! It is not unusual for a German family to study Italian twice weekly for themselves, so themselves the pleasure of vacation at an Italian beach only a day's drive away. This self-imposed language study is, of course, in addition to the already requirements set by the schools.
However, our main purpose of writing is not to ask that our College Assembly keep the American image abroad. We save the American image abroad. We ask that this requirement remain because required exposure to another country will help us to look at our own domestic possibilities and problems with new perspective. Some of the most meaningful experiences in foreign languages are understanding of one's culture come through this language study. A foreign language conference covering the entire person. Here it seems it's not casual dropped!
Dr. and Mrs. Howard G.
Johnson. III
(Patricia Edmonds, BME '62,
KU)
Jayhawker
To the Editor:
I wish to clarify the article concerning the Jayhawker which appeared in Monday's edition of the UDK. The winter edition of the Jayhawker is in fact late, but the Jayhawker was in approximately four and a half weeks. I was quoted incorrectly as saying the delay was caused by the printers. This is not true—the fault is mine, and I apologize for the number of things which occurred that I did not anticipate.
A second important factor
occurs when the material contained within the yearbook. If there are areas
which occluded the material, I would be a tool
sacrifice quality to meet a
schedule set down in September.
Finally, I want to encourage students to offer any suggestions or ideas for what they would like to have in their yearbook. Our office is in the Union Building, and daily from 11.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
—Rick McKernan,
Goodland Junior,
Jayhawker Editor
Dean Taylor
To the Editor:
Certain instances have occurred throughout the process of hiring and assigning new Hall Students and the Housing Board of the Administration that have given the impression to the management that the buddman Office holds some sort of hard feelings or has a personal vendetta against her. Nothing can be said.
We wish to officially set aside all conjecture, tumor or false evidence, and source, and reiterate that the Ombudsman Office feels that Dean Taylor has been very diligent throughout this dilemma. It would be unfortunate if the effectiveness of our office in dealing with the Dean of Women is now been jeopardized in any way.
David Dysart, Lawrence 3rd year Law Student
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