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Thursday, April 29, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Proteus and the Censor
Call him Proteus. He changes very quickly.
Chancellor Chalmers has been the kind of chancellor who would want all sides of an issue shown to the students.
He now criticizes the Kansan for voicing its opposition to the allocation that was voted down in Tuesday's referendum. He says he has an interest because our allocation would be if the referendum was successful.
The Kansan had an interest in the referendum. We thought it was wrong. We editorialized against the allocation but we left room for opposing opinions.
Chalmers believes the Kansan should have kept quiet. He would like to silence the press because they played a part in defeating the allocation which he was in
Chalmers was in favor of having a referendum last March on the Senate's non-allocation to the Athletic Department. He said nothing against having a referendum on the allocation to the University until the referendum was over and the allocation to the University had been beaten.
Chalmer seems to say the Senate, who debated the allocation for three hours, knew more about the issue than the students who read about the allocation for five days. The Senate, in their three hours of debate, did not discuss any of the arguments against the allocation that the Kansan and others raised.
Chancellor Chalmers used to be the
kind of chancellor who would want all sides of an issue shown to the students.
Call them the Censor. That's what they want to be.
The Student Senate wants a different Kansan. They showed this Wednesday night by changing the constituency of the governing body of the Kansan, the Kansan Board.
What changes would they make in the Kansan? They probably would not want the Kansan to oppose allocations they had supported.
many of the members of the Senate seemed to think the Kansan is molded and, perhaps, censored by the journalism faculty.
As is often the case, the Senate did not know a thing about what they were voting on. The moves made last night by the Senate—the change in the Kansan Board and the cut in the Kansan appropriation—were the first moves by anyone this year to reprimand the Kansan for its editorial position.
I've always heard that the press should be critical of government. It is hard to be critical of a governing body when they are going on in the face everytime you cross them.
But it must be done. It will be done.
Proteus and the Censor—may they live happily ever after.
-Galen Bland
Editor
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LETTERS
To the editor:
Miss Res Ipsa Replies
I am writing you in connection to the article covering the Law Queen Contest by Doug Everly. Be engaged as an educator, like "the 'suggestions' that you have printed in this slanted article. I will report your reports and your reporters what is well written in an article you would stop all unrelated slanted articles from appearing on our website figure of contestants in a beauty contest? 2) There was no T-shirt category. We the girls, would not wear any T-shirts they furnished a cover-up T-shirt. No real difference than a short skirt. 3) As for the indecency of the girls' ideas to come out together (which was not mentioned in the article) to prevent the snake skin degrade or embarrass any of us
As the contestants, we tried to keep this contest as a beauty contest and not as a "main attack" on them. But if we all the girls she wrote apology because you slanted the article toward the respect of girls being in charge of pageant. If you want to respect girls then why degrade the girls who honestly wanted to win a competition? And American girls want to. As for the title Res Ipsa Lquorist, Latin is a very old, respected language and the meaning can be taken in various ways. Your mind out of the gutter. Also
in fairness to all the girls who know the true story I hope you will print an apology or my letter.
Diana L. Brown
Miss Res Ipsa Loquitor
Overland Park sophomore
referendum Tuesday. It takes a great deal of cooperation from many people around the campus to run any election. The election takes place the last several days has been most appreciated ... thanks!
To the editor:
To the editor:
I want to thank publicly all those who helped to run the
Tuck Duncan
Chairman,
Student Senate
Elections Committee
The Student Senate What a Farce
Everbody grips about the Senate's ineffectiveness and ridiculous procedures. And they are right, but no one seems to have the formula
The Student Senate was a good idea when it was created almost three years ago. I am sorry to say that the actions of the previous Senates and now the bungling of this Senate have sounded the death knell for meaningful student government.
Wednesday's meeting was a classic in Senate stability. About 60 educated candidates politicians showed up for the ratification of the constitution.
The meeting was particularly nauseating for me and other Kansan staff members because the Senate ripped us off in a most disturbing manner.
The Senate passed an enactment reorganizing the Kansan Board and cut $7,000 from our allocation for next year.
The substance of the action is primarily a matter between the Kansas and the Senate, but the procedure and thinking behind the actions is a perfect example of the flagrant ignorance and inepititude of the Senate.
Almost no Senators know how the Kansan operates, the problems of the power, or even what the Kansan Board is or does.
And yet the august group was condemning the Kansan for being "victually dominated, censored and not responsive to the students."
How could Google Laughter, David Abrew and other middle-aged idealists be so dumm sure of themselves when they'd even knelt to the ground?
The Kansan debacle is just another indication of the inherent incompetence of Senators. They don't bother to educate themselves about issues and organizations, and then they act as all-knowing potentates when voting on budgets and other matters.
And many of the other Senators were just as ignorant. And yet they thought they knew how the Kanan should be managed and super-
—Ted Iliff
Other complications render the Senate ineffective. Some Senators love to hear themselves talk, and meetings last after midnight because of their babbling. To make things worse, several Senators set themselves up as parliamentary and party leaders, and their speeches even more.
David Miller is to be pitted. He is a hard worker who had some feasible ideas for making the Senate effective. But he is forced to work with his colleagues.
I must admit that once in a while the Senate overcomes its own ineffectiveness and does something worthwhile. But as long as the students at KU allow a bunch of brainy toys to vote in Senate meetings, we can't stop doing so. We should only for free exotic ballots wits grasping for some kind power.
I strongly encourage every student to attend a Senate meeting next year. Don't go on an empty stomach; you might get dry heaves.
Those Were the Days
50 Years Aged Today—1921
In the process of organization was a permanent corporation to take care of many matters in Kansas Memorial Corporation, which would control and direct all matters concerning collection of pledges, furtherance of the mission and memorial construction.
The University of Kansas Memorial Corporation was composed of eight board members selected by the executive committee on a night. They were: Chancellor E. H. Lindley; Professors W. J. Baugaardner and C. C. Williams; Thornton Cooke and Nichols of Kansas City Jury and Judge Smart of Lawrence.
The Kansas City Star defined the word "jazz" in the following manner: "Jazz-a vulgar word for vulgar music."
40 Years Age Today—1931
W. L. White, son of William
Alen White, was married in New
York City to Miss Katherine
The definition was not half bad. Yet you fail to understand why the definer describes "jazz" as music.
Klinkenberg, a member of the editorial staff of Time Magazine.
The last train to cross the track of the Leavenworth and Topeka railroad was to leave Leavenworth tomorrow morning.
Miss Klinkenberg was a student here in 1922 and a daughter of Mrs. P. H. Hagen born brother M. Akira Khona Theta.
After the last trip to Oskaloosa the road was to be junked.
It was purchased by the Société de Construction. The price represented about one cent on each dollar of appraised cent.
25 Years Age Today—1946
Couch "Rad" Dugan's Jayhawk baseballers took two games from the Kansas State team. The Knicks made Manhattan to make the record read three victories and one defeat for the season. Both games were decided in the ninth inning.
Tonight, tomorrow night and Wednesday night relaxation and plenty of laughs could be had from the play, "The Skin of Our Teeth" presented in Fraser Theater.
"Maybe freedom is the ability to choose whichail you want to be in."
RICHARD LOUV COLUMN
Jules Feifer
At the pre-induction physical bare-assed men-boys paddled around in lines with sad eyes, whimsy eyes, wondering how they got there were they felt like baboons or walking catkins.
"Gentlemen..."
Gentlemen! I don't see any gentlemen here. We all look like river rats.
... listen up. I'm General Creighton Abrama. I welcome you to the Kansas City induction center. You are about to enter upon a great mission for your country. After signing the loyalty oath you will pee in a cup. You will then go to station 8 where you will take a written exam, not unlike those you've taken in high school and college, which will test your mental and moral acceptability. You will be given a complete physical Now, if you all cooperate we can get you out of here by eleven. Let's see if we can run you through in record time."
OK.
"Pick up your enrollment cards at table 8." OK.
"Have you ever been a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the Massachusetts Committee for the Bill of Rights, the New Brothers for Peace . . . "
"Have you ever desecrated the flag?"
"Nah."
"No, but I once peed in a cue."
"Don't be smart."
"I'm not, or I wouldn't be here."
First, or Permanently here:
"Now on to the audio-visual tests."
"What?"
"I said on to the audio-visual tests. Listen up."
"Remove the giraff."
"What?"
"What's wrong, can't you hear?"
What's wrong, can I you hear?
"That's enough, son. Get moving."
OK.
Oh, say can you see which table William Calley was moving to when he went into the little village?
★★★
Sitting in the row I tried to remember who it was I had ever met, who had tried in a simple way to avoid table hopping.
I remembered an old lady in Arkansas City, who lived alone for ten years, stashing her poems and clippings, listening to the Beatles, reading Eldridge Cleaver to her Baptist Book Club (and not telling them who the writer was). And I remember some cowboy downs there. After the fairs or the rodeos they would come into the Blue Cue, a teenage bar, drink beer and tilt their hats back in old cowboy fashion.
One night there were two cowboys who told me great, tired stories about the rodeo. One of the cowboys was eighteen or nineteen, with glasses too large, and ears that stuck out.
"Why are boyscoys boyscoys?" I asked after awhile.
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KANSAN
"Cause . . . " said the young one, his energy
TRAPS NEED FRESH BAIT, by A.A. Fallet (Pock, 75 cents)—Another in the endless series of whodunts involving big fat obnoxious Bertha Cool and little skinny charming sex. Donald Grey wants to be some of the easiest-to-take of all mystery novels.
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"You want to hear something?" he leaned forward, twanging softly. "I'll tell you why I like what I'm doing. Now, just imagine this." He was being very careful. The words had to be just right. "When I was in Montana, when I was young, we used to ride the fence. Sometimes we'd camp in a nice spot and Charlie, my friend, he'd dead now, would play his guitar like you see in the movies. In the movies they sing to keep the cattle quiet. But we sang to keep ourselves quiet and calm. There were wolves and bears in the mountains then, and sometimes they'd come down. One night the wolves circled the cattle and us for an hour.
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WAITING FOR WILLA, by Dorothy Eden (Crest, 95 cents); MARKY IN HASTE, by Jane Lange (Crest, 95 cents); THE LUTE PLAYER, by Norah Lofts (Crest, 95 cents)—Three for the romantic heart in "Waiting for Willa" and "Marry in Hastie," with the second set in modern-day Stockholm and involving a woman and her mysterious cousin, the second a thriller about life in Regency London. The story slowly moving through the list of the great queens of history, writes here about Queen Berengaria and Richard the Lion-horse, and the lute player, named Blandell.
He sat back. "Now, we weren't going to stop them. We weren't no heroes. In a flash we were up in a tree. We just climbed that tree and unlit it all passed. Then we got down again."
MY COUSIN RACHEL, by Daphnie du Maurier (Pocket, 75 cents)—One of the first of the great mysteries of Gothic. This is the story of a young man's love for a beautiful, mysterious woman, and both young man and reader seem inseparable. But as was a good one or a bad one.
NIGHT SONG, by John A. Williams (Pocket, 95 cents) A fine book about the life and death of a jazz musician, by one of the Negro writers in America. In the book, you record the American jazz scene and the conflict of black and white.
"Now," he smiled, "imagine this in your mind. We were scared out of our pants. Finally the wolves went away, but just when we were calmning down again, something set the cattle off, and they headed right for us, a whole herd, a real stampede."
"Don't you ever feel stuck, moving around, no real home."
"I have a home. Sarnia, Canada. We just follow the circle every summer. Can't think of anything else I'd rather do. Don't hurt nobody."
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reaching a peak; he had to pause. "Cause we don't want to be anything else." He said it, listening to himself say it, and nodded an ear with himself. The old cowboy just smiled.
The tail cowboy sat straight as a gun barrel, his eyes moving back and forth. The whore sighed and poured some more beer. The young cowboy ducked down a little, while the old one looked slightly toward the wall, holding his cards, putting them all on the table.
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"Oh..."
"Don't you feel out of place? Like you don't fit?"
He put a cigarette in his mouth.
"Nah." He sat smiling
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"was that being a good citizen?" I asked.
"Nob." He grilled.
After some more beer we didn't talk so much.
One of the more famous town wheres came in on the arm of a tall, gangly, gamster cowboy dressed all in black with little silver thread swirls and a wide black hat. We all ended up in a booth. They were playing cards. The whore was proud. She was a giant, topped by a black bubble. Little round red dots were on her shoulder. The cowboy's, was white. She looked like a mine, moving her pudgy hands in beautiful flourishes.
True to the image, the tall cowboy kept his cards close to his shirt. How strange and good, these people choosing their jails, living out their self-images.
"What if you can't find a tree," asked the whore.
The bar was suddenly full. School kids were crammed together, separated only by their beer and cakes, and they walked together in unison. The players in unison. Unison. Jack's flash, he'a gas.
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"Who knows," he laughed. We laughed. The whole wood drew its breath.
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