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Tuesday, February 15. 1972
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Go or No?
As Campaign '72" shapes up in Kansas, the race most shrouded with intrigue centers around James B. Pearson's bid for re-election to the United States Senate. Who will be his opponent?
Many political pundits believe Governor Robert Docking will oppose Pearson this fall, and if he does, a close race is expected.
The fact that Docking hasn't made his intentions public is causing some consternation among state Republican leaders who are eager to single out a target. In a Lincoln Day dinner for Republicans in Independence, Kan., Sunday, McDill (Huck) Boyd, Phillips publisher and G.O.P. national committeeman and G.O.P. leader, the "Fairness Committee" owes it to the people of Kansas, and in particular to the members of his own political party to end this charade and tell the people what just be is running for."
Adding credence to the suspicion that Docking will run for the Senate is the existence of a "Docking for Senate Committee," that has been accepting contributions to finance a Docking Senate bid. The committee has not been disavowed by the governor.
A Docking Senate candidacy would make an interesting race, as traditional roles would be reversed. Pearson, who is known as a moderate—liberal Republican would be facing a conservative candidate that is a member of a nationally liberal party.
However interesting the race might be, a Docking success would Kansans would then lose the only active senator they have in Washington.
Pearson's reputation among U.S. senators is a prestigious one. His name as a co-sponsor on a bill means that he has experience in passage and therefore he himself
can also garner important cosponsors for legislation that he deems important to the people of Kansas.
Kansas' junior senator, Republican National Chairman Bob Dole, has unfortunately become just that: Republican national chairman. His reputation as a Nixon hatchet man has negated much of his effectiveness in the Senate. His is not a voice of moderation, and therefore his sponsorship of a bill often serves to alienate many Democrats who are frequently Consequently a bill with a Dole co-sponsorship may not be able to gain the broad support necessary for passage.
Docking, who has been described by members of his own party "slightly to the right of Louis XIV," would, if elected, hardly enhance the Kansas congressional delegation. As governor he has proved time and again that he's anything but a demagogue. He lack of experience as compared to Pearson, certainly make him an unacceptable candidate.
Moreover, his record as governor is nothing to shout about. If he decides to run for the Senate, he probably will leave the state on the verge of bankruptcy, with visible deterioration in all state services, most notably higher education. Such a move hardly harmed governorship or praiseworthy springboard to the United States Senate.
Hopefully then, if Docking does decide to make the race, his candidacy will serve both as the death knell for his not-too-illusious team. The second confidence for James Pearson, an able and dedicated Kansas senator.
-Mike Moffet Associate Editor
Game Day Report
Editor's Note: Every year, it seems the rumor between KU fans and those of the institution up the Kaw becomes more and more pronounced. In the interest of a fanbase, Kansan presents this fan profile from that university's student paper, the Kansas State College. It is hoped this piece will help students to dialogue between residents of "Sobb Hill and the 'Cats'"—as they are affectionately called.
Ask yourself what kind of K-State sports fan you always wanted to be, and then listen to George Maness, senior in accounting, probably the most fanatic basketball K-State ever has seen.
"Part of being a loud fan," Maness said, "to is satisfy your drive to be a crowd pleaser. And I love to please the crow."
Maness is known to his friends as "Big Guy." He stands 64'', and he once played basketball for the Golden Tornadoes of Coffeville. But Big Guy never made it a basketball star.
By Brian Berlin Collegian Reporter
"It was shaky at best," Big Guy said with his roundback career. "I always thought I had the ability.
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"I always looked forward to
"i, he continued." My old man told me college would be the
huge life and I took him at his word.
"I came up here because I
loved it," he said at a school.
At Academyville most kids went to the University of Kansas, so I went to K.State. I've never
got a chance.
BIG GUY tried freshman basketball here, but didn't make it.
"I was smart enough to realize I wasn't good enough to walk onto the same floor with Big Eight guys," he laughed.
So Mannecided to be a fan than a player," Big Guy explained. "I let my emotions take over."
But supporting the team wasn't enough. "I just got tired of sitting at home listening to the game on the radio. I had to be there. I can't explain it! I just had to be there!"
"I try to make every road game that I can," he said. "I missed two football games. One (Oklahoma State vs. K-State) because I had a guard meeting. Another time, when was broken down and I couldn't get anyone to go. I couldn't understand it."
road game at Tulisa my roommate and I went down in a '59 Pontiac with a busted fuel line. we tapped it up and struggled into Tulisa and made it before kickoff.
"Some old K-State alum was sitting behind me telling me to sit down," he recalled. "But that happens at every game."
"Their liquor laws were very lenient," Big Guy added. "They just smiled at us and told us to have a good time.
"I had a field day that night yelling obscenities about Missouri Valley football (Tulsa conference)—how it was a second-rate football conference. They have no support."
BIGGUY relished the road trips he made this year. "The first
BUT THE best trip, Big Guy claims, was to the Missouri vs. K-State game in Columbia. There Big Guy and some friends serenaded the football team with eight song the night before the game.
"There were a lot of comments about my antics after that game, he laughed. We couldn't even get away with it upon myself to lead a few chants, especially since one of the guys passed out and I didn't have anyone to talk to. After awhile, they gave me a bit and got behind them."
"Columbia is always a good time. People there still like to party. Kinda like K-State people."
"Walking away from the game we got on the Holton alumnus bus and started leading them in an ordination of the K-State fight song.
"At the risk of sounding a more hedonistic, has a damn good time," George said. "The Cats won. Everybody was happy. I think we supported the team. The team needed the win. Any time K-State wins, it's good for the school."
AND BEING such a fanatic K. State fan, Big Guy hesitantly described what he called his father at the University of Kansas.
"I attended KU for one semester. Everybody there
backed the team if the team was winning. But if it was obvious they had a real good team, they didn't have care. They didn't go to the games.
"The people there try to be fashionably intellectual. They try to put football as an artificial endeavor, when actually you can back your team and go about college seriously if you wish."
Kansan Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
His philosophy about being a fan is simple. He likes sports and he likes the emotion.
"I think the main value of sport is for fun. But it really provided emotional ups and downs, especially in life to do—well, life's fun to me but there's not the emotional ups and downs that sports provide. It's kinda like they say on television—the bestest of victory, the argoment of defeat."
"1 THINK K-State fans are big," Big Guy said. "Any more, the rah-rah thing is going not fashionable to openly be played for your team. But here at K-State, most of the fans really care.
"I was talking to my old friend Kirk Grady, an Oklahoma University coach. TheOU-KState game. He said it was really amazing that a team could be 40 points down and I had to learn the learning. Nobody left the stadium."
"K-State is where I want to be—everyone is sports conscious. They're behind the team. They get down on the coaches sometimes, but it's only because they care.
"The sport itself, to me," he went on, "is exciting. The action! K-State sports are exciting because there's more at stake than the game. I think that's the secret to college athletics. Without sports, what would a person have to live for?"
ABOUT HIMSEL as a fan,
Big Guy said: "I like to think that
I'm the best Cat supporter among
students. I can take the good with
the bad. I never boo the Cats.
A guy out there on that field is not
playing for money—he's doing
the best he can."
"It's been readily apparent on the road games that I am the number one Cat fan, but it still always wanted to be." We always wanted to do.
And then Big Guy grew serious.
"I think having a good time and being a Cat fan and being a great Cat support are part of a good life and are all part of my philosophy.
"Maybe I represent something that's in the past," Big Guy said solemnly. "Maybe I'm just an anachronism."
James J. Kilpatrick
What About Busing?
WASHINGTON—This miserable business of “busing” with all its implications and consequences, may yet tear this country apart than the issue of Vietnam. From California to Michigan to Pennsylvania to Florida, wherever a wandering newspaper the bitter question constant comes up: What about busing?
Resentment is greatest in the South, which ironically has tried the hardest and shown the most effort to achieve desegregation of the schools, but Southern anger is merely the tip of the iceberg. The presidential aspirant who fails to recognize this hazard is likely to be a screech. Opposition to busing is massive, passionate, and widespread.
No other issue touches so many American families so close to the heart, Vietnam, Mideast, the.
future of Formosa—these are problems far from home. Welfare reform, deficit finance, revenue sharing—these are specialized concerns. Even unemployment had promised to be the universal springs of discontent, have come to be affections a man learns to live with. But when a child is shipped off to a distant school, solely because of his race, he has been black spokenen, no less white, resent the process. William Raspberry, brilliant young columnist for the Washington Post, commented the other day that "virtually no one wants bussing on the level it would take to integrate the schools inropolitan areas." He continued.
"I, for one, will be willing to take one step backward, to honest desegregation. That is, let us move forthrightly against any
attempt at official discrimination.
But at the same time, let us
the humiliation of chasing
after rich white children.
"And it is humiliating. For one thing, it says to black children that there is something decent when we hear something that can be curiously by the presence of white children. Some of us don't believe that. Some of us believe that given adequate resources, financial and educational opportunities, they cannot beat our children on matters what they call their happens to be."
My own impression, for whatever it may be worth, is that the American people, both North and South, have come to accept the constitutional principle that was fashioned nearly 18 years ago in the Bureau of Education. It will go to the Court still convinced that Brown was band law—a willful perversion of the clear meaning and intention
of the Fourteenth Amendment—but the principle no longer is challenged. That principle, quite evidently, engages in discrimination by race,
The vice in these busing orders is that they triample upon the very principle that Brown sought to establish. White children are required to wear uniforms and are shipped there, and on out the West Coast yellow children are shipped somewhere else, and these brutal orders are imposed not for "a quality education"—that is, they are imposed so solely as they are impeded to achieve "racial balance," which is to say, they are imposed so solely because of the color of the children's skin. School board schools thus are compelled to impose the Supreme Court in Brown said they could not do: They are compelled to assign children to schools by reason of their race.
humiliation that Raspberry so clearly defines. In place of "honest desegregation," we impose a dishonee integration, hateful or disloyal communities, of schools of parent-tacher communication, of human relationships themselves. Instead of quieting racial antagonism, this cruel and can only make tensions worse.
Thus we return full circle to the
The Supreme Court can, if it chooses, take appropriate action to stop this folly in its tracks. It would be quite in character for the Court to say here, as it has said in other areas of the law, that its opinions have been misapplied—that "equal prosecution" means that demand "racial balance." If the Court fails to act, outright constitutional amendment will have to be pursued.
Copyright 1972
Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1972. David Sokoloff.
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