The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, June 18, 1971
KU Society Offers Class In Meditation
Three classes in transcendental meditation will be offered this summer by the Students' Center for Spiritual Awareness.
The classes will consist of an introductory lecture, an explanation of the technique of meditation and four lessons in the practice of meditation. One class has already begun; other classes are scheduled to begin July 6 and July 20.
KU advocates of transiental meditation don't promise instant straight "A's" and a cure for all physicalills, but they do believe that meditation will make a person more perceptive, more efficient and generally happier.
Dave Ballon, a member of SIMS, explained the technique of meditation as "pursuing as thought to its source." That source, he says, is below the level of normal consciousness.
Photo by MARY ARNOLD
In the practice of the technique, a meditator focuses his mind on a sound, a sound which Ballou says is "personalized and evokes no meaning in the mind," and then "follows" the sound at lower and lower levels until he reaches its "energy source."
In this manner, Ballou says, the mind is strengthened by exercise.
Meditation is not to be confused with concentration, says Ballou, for concentration keeps the mind at a fixed level. He says the mind can be freed by making the mind down to the "source of thought."
Although the mind is active during meditation, which is usually practiced for two 15-20 minute periods each day, the body is at rest. The brain does not respond to meditated conductors based on Robert Keth Wallace of the department of physiology at UCLA, oxygen consumption and heart activity were lower during short periods of meditation than was normal during longer periods of deep sleep.
Lawrence a favorite summer resort, but it does provide a variety of interesting scenery. The Wesco Hill contractor has added a new bench in the tunnel this week and a paint job is on the way.
The recent 392-foot boardwalk constructed on Jayhawk Boulevard may not make
World's Press Praises Times, Criticizes Nixon
By United Press International
Disclosure of a secret Pentagon study won international editorial praise for The New York Times this week. There was sharp criticism of the Nixon administration's efforts to halt the publication as well as of the U.S. role in the war.
U. S. District Judge Murray Gurfein ordered the Times not to publish the last two parts of its five-part Vietnam series. The government had charged publication of the series and supporting documents endangered the country's security.
"The action President Nixon decides to take over the publication of the McNamara papers could hurt him more than their contents, said the London Guardian in an interview. The headline over a news dispatch on the injunction said, "Nixon Succeeds In Gagging Paper."
The contents of the Times' dispatches on the study ordered by former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara made front pages of newspapers in Europe and Asia. So did the administration's court injunction against the Times.
In Australia, the Sydney Daily Mirror said
editorially that the disclosures of the way the wore
was escalated and Australian troops brought into it the put in the war in a new dimension.
"The secret Pentagon papers . . . reveal that the Australian government had a blindly uncritical—even willing-to kill in President Johnson's hypocrisy, the "Mirror said. It makes clear the people of Australia have been killed and bring no comfort to the relatives of the 470 dead and more than 3,000 Australian soldiers who have been mained in Vietnam."
The French Communist newspaper, L'Humanite, published photographs of newspapers of Aug. 6, 1944, quoting then President Johnson as promoting only "limited retaliation" to a North Vietnamese attack on a U.S. warship in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The official Soviet news agency, Tass, said in a dispatch from Washington that the documents "confirm the United States deliberately escalated and broadened the war in Indochina and misled the American public in giving its reasons for doing so."
"The White House is trapped in the lie on the origins of the Vietnam War." I. Humanteau
A hearing is set for today on a proposal to make Gurleilin a order stopping publication of his book.
Michael D. Hess, chief of the government's civil division, filed the order. He asked Gurien to force the Times to turn over its copies of classified documents for inspection and copying since the Times has refused to do so voluntarily.
The government request listed two specific reports: The 47-volume report entitled "History of U.S. Decision-Making Process on Vietnam Policy" and another classified document called "The Command and Control Study of the Tongkun Gic Incident," done by the Defense Department's Weapons System Evaluation Group in 1965.
prohibiting publication expires Saturday
Hess said the documents were important to the presentation of the government's case and its implications.
U.S. Officials Worried Reports Help Soviet
Gurfein told the Times to bring its copies of the secret reports to court.
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Times attorneys told Gurlein at the time they feared scientific tests of the documents might allow government sleuths to find the copying machine and discover the source. attorneys said the First Amendment protection from disclosing confidential sources.
Gurteen refused to make the newspaper turn over the documents Tuesday when he
The newspaper accompanied its first three installments with numerous texts of high-level memos and caligraphs, which it said were "printed verbatim, with only unmistakable typographic errors corrected." There were messages, transmitted in code, between Washington and Saxon or other U.S. diplomatic and military outputs in Indochina.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—U.S. officials are worried that the New York Times' publication of secret government messages about American involvement in Vietnam might make it possible for the Soviet Union to conduct coded communications sent during the 1960s.
Since the text of each message was accompanied by the name of the sender, the receiver and the date of transmission, of the texts sent in the Times texts against their interceptions.
No one knows how many of these messages may have been intercepted by the Soviet Union, but security experts at the Pentagon and elsewhere assume that many of them
"You may rest assured that no one is reading this series any more closely than the Soviet embassy," said one official in commenting on the Times' publication of a secret chronology tracing the full-scale U.S. participation in the Indochina War.
Military and diplomatic codes are changed frequently to thwart deciphers and it was almost certain that no codes used by the States during the period covered by the secret war history, as published by the Times, are still in use today.
This would provide Russian cryptanalysts with a "plain-text" - a decoded version of code sent in plain text, which the deciphered, officials said, other coded messages sent with the same cipher - perhaps to entirely different areas on entirely different subjects – might be easily understood.
Earlier, Times Publisher Orchus Alszerbler who cut short a visit to London to return for the court proceedings, said the Nixon administration might try to benefit newspaper about escalation of the war by previous Democratic administrations.
For these reasons, verbatim texts of diplomatic and military messages are almost unreliable.
Nevertheless, one source said, “There’s no way for us to know what damage has been done.”
might have been intercepted.
Audio-Reader Helps the Blind
"Our whole premise is that those who are blind or handicapped can become an conversational and knowledgeable about current events," Pattie Spencer, director of Audio-Reader.
Audio-Reader will broadcast a daily twelve-hour radio program of the spoken word for physically handicapped persons who, for one reason or another, cannot read.
Audio-Reader will be the second program of its kind in the world. The only other such program is sponsored by the Minnesota State Services for the Blind.
One of the newest services offered at the University is Audio-Reader.
The programs will consist of readings from contemporary and classical literature, music, and drama.
Those who qualify for the program will receive pre-funded receivers free from the program.
A 19-year ago tonight, Rick "Tiger" Dowdell, a 36-year-old black youth, was shot and killed in Brooklyn.
Report Summarizes Town-Gown Views
Bv TOM JOHNSON
What followed were four nights of fires, sniping, confrontations between the police and young people on Oread Avenue and blacks in the east side of the city, tear gas, ramming rumors, a second former student shot dead, another student and a police officer. And many people, in all of the diverse groups of town, tnew fear for the first time.
In September, the Lawrence City Commission took what they must have hoped would be a tension-reducing step and contracted with the Meninger Foundation of Topeka to "carry out a project in Police-community Relations."
Approximately 180 citizens participated in a series of 10 workshops held in a Topeka motel. The participants in the 24-hour workshop were 45 members of the Lawrence police force.
"The goals of the project," the foundation's final report said this week, "were to bring members of various community groups together to address the problems that lay beneath disturbances in police-community relations, and to make recommendations for the solution of these
The steering committee for the workshops and the groups they represented were: Ernest Angio, representative of "citizens"; John Conard, representative of Haskell Institute; E. Laurence Chalmers Jr, KU chancellor; John Conard, KU administration; John Narrerum, representative of the "Sweet" business community, representative of the business community.
John Shepard, police-community relations officer; John Spearman, representative of the black community; Richard Staxwalt, chief of the Commission; Richard Reagan, commissioner; Lyle Sutton, elected representative of police community; Cynthia Turner, representative of the black community; Baford Watson, city manager; Susan Ridley, Raleigh Zillow, representative of "citizens."
The problem areas raised in the meetings varied from broad, governmental social policy to housing; from racial discrimination to the news media.
As might be expected, a large portion the Menninger report dealt with the police
department—both its internal and external relations. But the report also highlighted areas of interest to the University community.
According to the report, "Specific concerns (emerging from the workshops) with regard to the delivery of services" are listed.
"a Most participants felt there is still a significant town-tension, in spite of the fact that it's not."
b. Most participants—both from the University and the community—felt that, even though there are many different groups within the University—administration, faculty, teachers, graduate and university students—many people in the community tend to them as one group and consider all of them citizens and not really citizens of Lawrence.
c. Many participants felt some groups within the University contributed to the problem by defensively withdrawing from the community and leaving the community in ways perceived as hostile.
“d” It was felt, also, that some Lawrence citizens blame the University for the existence of the street community and for a lack of public engagement. Even even communist. The drug problem also is
often blamed on the University, which then becomes somewhat of a scapegoat. ``
Staff members of the Meninger Foundation also interpreted and described "concerns of specific groups" as reflected by representative of community sub-groups who took part in the workshops.
Street Community
The Street Community has a wide range of opinions, but to the extent that its point of view can be summarized, one might say that it sees itself as more concerned about people than things, more interested in substance rather than hypocritical. It sees itself as opposed to violence and favor of political change that enhances freedom, preserves the rights of others, and deals with the problems of poor people. It also sees itself as withdrawing from the unnecessary 'and even self-destructive' culturalistic culture. In that sense, the Street Community is different enough from the general culture, to be considered a subculture or a 'counterculture'. It sees itself as 'doing its own thing' and hurting no one, and it considers its protest and sometimes shocking language as honest and non-violent. It feels that it is
See REPORT, Page 3
Washington (UPI)—War critics in Congress, defeated again in their latest attempts to legislate peace, were left this week under pressure from Democrats and the House and a Senate move to kill the draft.
Sen. Mike Grawal, D-Alaska, urged antwar forces to join his campaign to draft the talk to death by flipping until the current draft law expires at the end of this month. Sen. Alan Ladd, of Calif., added “entending the draymay be our out chance of speeding our exit from the war.”
The main problem, says Miss Lelaurin, was to organize routine health care for the infants so the staff of the center would not be overburdened by diaper diaping, feeding and bathing the infants.
Senate, House Reject Antiwar Amendments
The house was voting today on an amendment that would express its desire, without the force of law, to pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq. The administration was expected to be soundly defeated.
The center, which is housed in a two-bedroom apartment, is divided into separate areas for feeding, diapering, playing and sleeping. Three staff members are assigned
The greatest number of infants in the center at one time has been 10, but Miss Léa Latourin is the only one to have been born.
Senate war critics, led by Sena. George S.
A compromise proposal by freshman Sen-
Lawton Chiles, D-FF, to fix the deadline at
10 a.m. on Friday.
McGovern, D-S.D., and Mark O. Haffield, R-ge,
lost 55 to 42 Wednesday on their进攻 to cut off further appropriations U.S. combat in or over Vietnam after Dec. 31.
It is financed primarily by fees paid by parents, although the department contributes to its operation. The maximum fee for an infant who stays at the center full time is $25 a week. Parents who leave their children at the center part time save $1 an hour on to 25 hours.
It was a better showing than the dows expected and an improvement over September's initial attempt to cut off funds for the war. That proposal lost 55 to 39.
The votes represented a thin foreign policy victory for President Nixon. But they also indicated the Senate, while not yet willing to take the unprecedented route of cutting funds for an ongoing war, was losing patience with the administration's Vietnamization policy.
The center was begin as a pilot program during the summer of 1958 and became a pilot hospital.
Take one medium-sized apartment and four adults. Add ten children, all the under age one and mix well. The result, believe it or not, is not necessarily pandemonium.
A group of graduate students, under the direction of a KU professor, have found this recipe can make a successful infant day care center.
The KU infant day care center, directed by Todd Rissel, assoc professor of human development and family life, and supervised by Dr. Robert J. Dijkstra, the department, is designed to provide for maximum efficiency in caring for the physical requirements of the infants so the staff of the center can spend more time giving kind of personal attention the infants need.
Infant Care Streamlined
Although the number of day care centers is rapidly increasing as more women leave the workforce, they are still the very young children that are injured. The reason is not that infants do not respond well to group care, but the amount of physical care required economically unfeasible.
Easier by the Dozen?
each child's activities. The recording procedures help the staff evaluate the effectiveness of the center, enable them to keep the mother appraised of her child's behavior and activities, and form a basis for the training of new staff members.
to the feeding, diapering and playing areas. The fourth staff member acts as a supervisor to ensure safe handling.
The children spend most of their time in the play area, which is partitioned off by low walls. The children must be members stay in the play area with the children unless one needs diapering or feeding. Then the appropriate staff member visits the child while the other two remain with the children.
The staff training aspect is an important one, for Miss Leaurain and her associates believe it is idealistic to assume day care centers will be staffed by professionals.
Mothers contribute to the efficiency of the operation by providing daily schedules of the child's regular feeding and sleep times.
During the day, careful records are kept of
It is their hope that through the use of well-developed routines and the delegation of special duties, day care centers for infants and toddlers can be made available for the parent and beneficial to the child.
Staff Member Briefs Mother on Baby's Day
... infant day care center combines efficiency and TLC