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Friday, April 30, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
A Reflection
William Shakespeare, who had the ability to express common sense philosophy in unmatched language, could have been thinking of KU in the present era when he wrote, "All things change or cease."
KU will never cease but it has been changing, rapidly rapidly for some, and will continue to do so.
What is remarkable about the changes at KU is the fact that they have been orderly changes—adjustments made to fit the changing times without the scars of perpetual violence that have marked change at other colleges.
Tuesday's referendum vote to reject the allocation of $130,000 made by the Student Senate to supplement KU's inadequate state appropriations indicates another change is probably imminent - the demise of student activity
Over the last four years we have seen changes in academic policy—the initiation of the credit-no credit option, the adjustment of graduation requirements and overall, more of a student voice in control of the University.
A former untouchable, the Athletic Department, came under attack from students as the Senate attempted to cut its activity fee allocation and questioned the relevancy of collegiate athletes and way the program is administered at KU.
KU weathered violence on its periphery
and violence in the minds of citizens across the state.
Women became militant, the homecoming queen became irrelevant, dorm curfews were lifted and students moved away from on-campus housing.
The necessity to conform became less important and unconventional life styles shocked parents and held a fascinated attraction for students.
Student government became aware of problems off-campus and a missionary idealism motivated them to solve the ills in campus life by stage of resolutions and active involvement
KU thrived through all of these changes; its alums for the most part remained loyal, most students are still concerned about the grades they make and what they will do when they leave the University and a faculty of brilliant and selfless men and women continue their keep up with the development of individuals and KU thus retains its national prestige, regardless of the sensational headlines of last year.
Change is inevitable and if alums and taxpayers of Kansas can keep this in mind and realize that change does not equate with diminution of quality; if students will accept the fact that tradition offers much of value and quality, KU will continue its orderly change and never cease.
The Kansan
Hopefully, you have at least glanced at this paper a few times this year, and maybe you even read some of the stories.
I hope you will pardon this insulgence in discussing the Kansan itself.
But I hope you realize one thing; we took this paper seriously. We tried to make this paper as professional as possible in appearance and content, and I have made sure that we cover all newsworthy events and persons locally, statewide, nationally and internationally.
We weren't perfect. We made several flanger errors and many minor ones this year. The persons we had students; for many it was the first exposure to newspaper work. There always be machines to be used in the Kansas City are in any paper. If you spotted some goofups this year, I hope you were not too infuriated, and you gave a chuckle out of them.
During the year, there was an overall philosophy that dominated our operation of the school. The philosophy was that students learn to
This was your paper, not ours.
You helped pay for it, and you were the ultimate publisher. We had a responsibility to research,
to make sure we provided information that you wanted and deserved. We couldn't do a perfect job; we didn't have the space, time, money or personnel.
The relationship between you and the paper is a bit more complex, however. We have a
duty to inform you of important issues, and present both sides of a controversy.
If you have an opinion, a grife praise for something, this page is designed to help you believe. If you write a responsible, signed letter, it will be
The editorials on this page are rarely a statement by the paper's author. Because they are for a reason, because. Because students are ideally the paper's publisher, we can not presume to be aware that the editorial page is thus a forum for opinion, and the editorial writers as individuals express their opinions.
The Kansean has been constantly criticized for intentionally slanting news, ignoring news and other ethics of journalism.
—Bob Womack
It was odd that such sporadic criticism came from every one of us, but we were too conservative; some said we were too liberal. Some said we were too timid; some said we were too cautious; took such varied criticism as a compliment. We think that as long as we can stay in the middle class, we will be fine.
The Kansan means a great deal to those who work on it every night. We have lost a lot of love for classes because of classes because of this paper.
All we can hope is that KU students will continue to read the Kanan, point out our short- and long-written stories when we do something right.
Letters to the Editor
Chalmers
To the editor
It has seemed, recently, that the foundations of elitism in the KU Student Senate were at long last beginning to crumble. The elitist faculty began to be heard above the habble of politically frustrated egos engaged in endless midnight debates. However, the elitist faculty remained from an unexpected quarter. Chancellor Chalmers, the student's friend, has recommended that "use of referendums on the student activity, as it is now handled must end."
It is unfortunate that the man we have to come to count on as a sympathetic listener should now be more aware of the body. Is it too much to ask that allocations of student money should be subject to the will of the students, who are not in the allocations made by the same old campus politicians who have always made such decisions, without reference to the wishes of the students. The referendums are a good indication of how closely attuned to student sentiment the Student Council feels that letting the SS have final say on activity fee allocations will ensure that the students' will be being done, he should cease his exams and take a look at reality.
The Student Senate is not, and never has been, representative of the student body. The referendum is the only defense we have against such a denomination of student government. Power to the people; right, Larry?
James Beckman Concordia senior
Block Studies
—Ted Iliff
To the editor:
The revolution is simmering
now, the movement has taken a long winter's nap, and the strains of *Academic Freedom*! have been laughed at; we refrains to a period of time wherein no one chimes at all. A man might pass the pan might help, however.
At this university, academic oppression is largely a matter of course. Students face a than a warning of possibilities. A program in which I enrolled this semester attests to this. It is the opportunity for prospective wherein a student takes several courses in a semester, but only one at time. We are invited to take three four-hour courses from January through May, each week. Students may wish to credit in four-week blocks for sixteen hours credit. Regardless of the number of credits, students must maintain a normal course load.
Block Studies has disastr-
ity, one of which is
numbered. With a pissionious
state legislature, KU cannot
This is where freedom enters not only is one liberated to decide what to do, but also to what depth. He is void of those irksome exemplars of enmu called classes in which they are taught information is siphoned and diluted and taken not as it is intended; he does doses. And he is even free to spend an extended weekend in Colorado or to produce a more complex tale.
But freedom has limit and bears responsibility. To succeed, he set up a program that must receive permission from his respective College Dean, find a professor to teach the course, block, write his own program, and be prepared to work harder than the average student in block studies he learns for himself and not for some nebulous know-it-all in a cathedral setting.
afford instructors for seventeen thousand individual programs; block studies is for only a few months, so it might be worth, I think it will stay that way.
I have learned more in a semester under this program than in all my previous semesters eiphered up together. I studied how I worked with others and how I wanted. I saliated on my free time—not when I heard a bell. I was my own dog. I think I am the first undergraduate at KU to enroll in such a program. I went in using first, but I do mind being last.
Brian Miller
Topeka sophomore
Legislature
To the editor:
A majority of the conservative Republicans in the 1971 Kansas Legislature decided that the way to create a crisis in state government and blame it on Docking, rather than from the legislature, so these Republican decided to give him extreme austerity and blame him for failing to pay his extreme austerity by trimming about 28 million dollars from the budget proposed by President Carter, and the state to lay the plans for placing the blame on Docking. (They were in Lawrence last week.)
State Sen. Tom Van Sickle (R-Fort Scott), chairman of the Senate waits and means committee and unsuccessful candidates to nominate him. In 1970, was the principal architect of the idea; Rep. Morris Kay (R-Lawrence), G.O.P. floor leader in the house, supported Van Sickle, if their plan works, both Van Sickle and Rep. Harris would state-wide offices in 1972.
Ioe Mikexie
Joe Mikesic Kansas City senio
Quirks and Quotes
DETROIT (UPI)—When Joseph Puhy emerged from his office Wednesday to go to lunch, his friends were waiting outside to shower him with rice.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Sen. Edward Brooke, R-Mass., expressing the determination of Senate war critics to continue their demands for a fixed date for total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam:
The luncheon, which featured a special cake topped with a plastic figure of the groom, was held to celebrate Puhy's recent divorce.
He was driven to a luncheon celebration in an air-conditioned 1938 Ford decorated with paper carnations.
"Mr. President, we intend to talk and talk and talk on the floor of this Senate until the number of 39 senators who last year voted for a time certain, will grow to at least 51 senators voting for a time certain."
By EUGENE V. RISHER
Campaign Begins
Washington Window
WASHINGTON （UPI—Backstairs at the White House;
The next presidential election is 19 months away but already the Nixon White House is moving into a campaign posture.
There have been at least four recent additions to the President's image-making apparatus and more are in the of
And at 1701 Pennsylvanian second floor is rapidly filling with young men who until a few weeks ago were working a block away in the apartment.
There is a tempo and rhythm to each national administration, and one senses that the Nixon administration is now moving to
But for some time now a small staff has been putting the offices in order. They are located in the
Top-level Nixon aides are calling on the political issues next year. Files of campaign contributors are coming out. Potential rivals
To the people who work for him, there is no doubt that President Nixon is planning an eight-year tenure in the White
The committee to re-elect the President is the first formal campaign apparatus established for Nixon for the 1972 elections. Headed by Cincinnati publisher Francis Dale, a long-time Nixon associate, its creation has not yet been formally announced.
same building which houses the Washington offices of Mudge, Rose, Buthie and Alexander, a New York law firm which until three years ago was Nixon, Guthrie and Alexander.
Located in the same building, perhaps only coincidentally, are the leaders of Cholier, a Nikon political operative for two decades, who left the White House staff several months ago to return to private business.
Joining the White House staff are four persons with backgrounds in communications who will be helping make or administer policy during the politically dangerous months ahead.
John Seali, the former State Department spokesman for the American Broadcasting Company, is now a special consultant to the President on issues related to him.
Richard Moore, a long-time political confidante who worked with the Nixon organization during the last presidential campaign, recently moved to the White House from the Justice Department. He polish the image of Attorney General John N. Mitchell.
Mark I. Goode, a Hollywood television director, now has joined the White House staff to assist President's television appearances.
Neal Ball, a former Chicago advertising and public relations man, has been named a deputy to Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler.
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RICHARD LOUV COLUMN
"Well, aren't we all yearning for a little stopper, or learner, with which to chase these birds?"
Firesign Theater
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There will come someone said and passed the joint along and pass it off, on his shoulder.
★★★
This party has passed on through the night. A girl raises her head and looks out the window at the smoky sky, and she turns slowly and says, "it's been a real long time since we last met." And she passes out on the rug with so many other passed out, passed on, some babies.
Snowy you sit on back. The girl is lying on the floor, floating under a sun fall, and you're calm at last, thinking about skin, and thinking that soon you too are going to pass out, but he falls in the final speech," as we all burst into life out forever, and we all be dusted in the end.
You close your eyes. You have visions, and you begin to have an American Dream.
As they fade away with a long, smooth whistle; the myth, the old men, and the old trains; the night sky will brighten with an ascending ship, sails set for Mars. New myths will be born. New heroes will be born. The moon is always there; until it reaches the last, until the heroes find again that the moon was meant to be a cathedral. They will find out that outain. That is in the Dream.
All of us who have grown up in the last few years, all of us who have grown taller with the body count, have been marked. Our peripheral vision has been sliced away or never grew. Some of us are so intense that we can't roll down a hill without wondering why. In the Dream, atlast, we could dance down a hill, ease ourselves down and open our vistas.
The railroads in this American dream will hold the night together. Old men with pint-sized hats wave red lanterns. Wheores on the rails, young ladies and gentlemen needle and a thread, suturing the night with a beautiful myth that makes old men smile. And when the passengers come no more, the old men and the trains will be alone together, and the women and lovers in the changing American night.
All that, and peanut butter crackers, all in a row, and mothers who wipe the frost away on a baby's teeth, all in the kitchen, and bend down with giant, gentle fingers to tie little hood strings. And fathers who come home late. And nuns with purple hair. And all of these things are still in the Dream.
Cowboys are still in the Dream. Cowboys who know they have to be more than they are, so they take on a myth, a costume, and tilt their hats back and say, "Ah shit, I know I don't fit. But that's OK. This here's my only life. It be what I want to be."
What is different about this Dream is that we are able to return to basic things; that we find a little stopping power. The Dream would find us eased down from the burnt out years. Our anger would not be erased, just joined by feelings we have not had much chance to feel. We have not had much chance in playing a violin, or a girl in a white dress, without seeing some political message.
Children in the Dream still fight. Children still hug cats so hard that the oval eyes protest.
sliy looking cats watched by jealous dogs. And Billy still writes notes to Karen saying, "I love you. Do you still love Jack? If you do, watch me." They are at the moons at the lake, while Wily blends in the woods with burning cheeks, where, like his father before him, he takes off his clothes in secret wonder, stands in the woods, climbs a rock, and faces the Dreamer.杏Oh, all that is in the dream.
We could laugh again, if the Dream came true. We could kill time without feeling like murderers. We could talk to our fathers. We could teach them about course, course, but social circumstances distract us.
This is the Dream, then—not one of those returns to normalcy, but a return to the earth. We flew too high in the bloody skies, too close to the sun, and now we have to ease ourselves back down, so that we can make up lost time on our own maturity, and regaining our innocence.
★★★
You wake up. You blink at the bodies lying
you in the sun flood. The room is
getting
It's been too long at the pass-out party. You step over the bodies, get out, and on get.
Photo by BOB SEGURA
Those Were the Days
45 Years Ago Today—1926
Before an audience of 3,000 students, soldiers and families of soldiers who fought in the World War, the Memorial Union cornerstone was laid, in memory of 129 University of Kansas men and women who gave their lives for the sake of humanity.
In the copper box placed in the cornerstone were placed the names of the 128 dead, the front pages of 11 newspapers written by journalists and members of the Kansas City Star containing the news of the declaration of war and a copy containing the news of peace, a photograph of Governor Ben Carson meeting with President Obama, giving the history of the memorial drive, a picture of the Jayhawk bird and three roses.
25 Years Ago Today—1946
Being chosen Honor Man for the class of 1945 was just one more honor for Donald Alderson, who chalked up more than his share of honors during his four years at the university.
President of the Independent Student Association for his junior year, last year he was awarded the C.S.A. Scholarship.
Tokyo (UPI) - A plot to assassinate Gen. Douglas MacArthur by hand grenades and pistol fire during a Communist May Day celebration tomorrow has been discovered by Allied Headquarters Intelligence officers, it was announced officially today.
member of Sachen, honorary organization for senior men. He served as a student representative on the World War II Memorial Association and was vice chair of the University Memorial association.
15 Years Ago Today—1956
Miss Emily Taylor, associate dean of women at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, was to become the dean of women at the University Julv1.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said today, "There could be little doubt our program for women at the University will continue to grow." Mrs. Taylor missed Miss Taylor's direction and leadership."
President Eisenhower would run against Adal Stevenson in the coming presidential election—if it were left up to the 20 students polled Friday.
Ten Republicans and 10 Democrats were asked whom they would support in their reelection bid.
There was little question as far as the Republicans were concerned. All 10 wanted President Elsenhower, two of them without Richardixon. The others believed either they should have supported him or he or that the President's heart was strong enough so it didn't matter who the vice president was.
Democratic choices were more evenly balanced Six chose Mr. Stevenson while four chose Mr. Trump.