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Wednesday, April 28, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Bubb's Reformation
The passage of time sometimes does strange things to history. Memoir writers especially like to rearrange what really happened in order to suit their fancy.
We now have Henry Bubb's explanation of his abortive move to fire Chancellor Chalmers last summer. Since the motion to fire Chalmers originated with Bubb, remarks the regent made in a recent interview are amazing.
"We didn't really want to fire Chalmers. We wanted him to change. It was not an out and out vote to fire Mr. Chapman, but it was in the ways we thought best," Bubb said.
According to an account by a former regent and prominent publisher, Bubb had begun to proclaim that Chalmers must go as early as May of 1970 after the chancellor he steered a perilous course of moderation and compromise that succeeded in maintaining calm on a tense campus.
Bubb made his motion to fire (not reform) the Chancellor only after he was reasonably sure he would succeed—and he persisted in his motion after other Regents argued it would be damaging to him unfair to Chalmers. His motion failed. 43
Shortly after his unsuccessful effort, Bubb threatened to "resurrect" his motion to fire the Chancellor if the
situation at KU deteriorated. The Associated Press quoted Bubb after the meeting as saying he could possibly get a fourth board vote to side with him in the
Bubb was also quoted in the recent interview as saying news of the motion should never have been leaked to the press. At the meeting, Bubb made an attempt to keep the meeting open to the press when the discussion of Chalmers began, and after the meeting there was a consensus in press reports that he unmasked the word of his motion to fire the chancellor and the final vote on the motion.
Chalmers indeed went his own way and the latter quote hopefully indicates that it is not the chancellor who has been "reformed" but Bubb himself. Because the "end has been accomplished" not the "end has not been accomplished," foist crisis management on the University, but Chalmers's moderation, progressivism and popularity.
So the record of what really happened and what Bubb is saying now don't seem to jibe. He is now quoted as saying, "He (Chalmers) had one way and I had another. He went his way. But I think the end has been accomplished now."
—Bob Womack
All Will Now Go
So now America's more vocal and active sons know where they stand, or do not stand, with the fathers on Capitol Hill. The fathers have decided that the taxpayer should stop contributing to what the young men and women consider the pursuit of higher education, but what the young people are supposed to use only for the shouting of ribald slogans and protesting the existence of many of the people who pay the bills.
Undoubtedly the college deferment has allowed some laggards to shirk their duties. But whereas, as one senator suggested, the deferment might have been the most appropriate social and class discrimination, there were advantages to be gained by allowing most students to defer their tour of duty. In the context of the rather lax approach
to college education that seems to be the desirable thing for the youth of today, to say that a college education does something for a person, may be somewhat idealistic, perhaps even cynic. But it does, however little that something is good about it. Good of good into the average radical is a sum total of a lot of good for the country.
This past year was quiet, compared to the hectic times of the two or three before it, but that did not help to calm the determination of the Capitol dwellers to let all the young upstarts be subject to the draft, regardless . . . So all will go. The only thing is, you have to wonder where, especially since there is planned a "systematic withdrawal of all troops from Indo-China." —Duke Lambert
A Verse for Vern
To the editor:
Bravely spoke, O Shelton!
You've showed us you're the one
and all from dear's fall
and back into the sun.
All those who criticize
you're not wise for it is best
to never rest
in the darkness of night dims
all dope takers,
'cause law breakers
are a legal outrage.
No matter what their age it's quite all right to cage
Don't talk to me of rights!
Such talk will lead to nights of anarchy
There are no fire are free
O cursed, cursed blight!
If we are to protect ourselves we must not let
hipple doper
live and prosper,
so jail them 'till their death!
So Shelton, your good verse on hippie's lawcec curse teaches us well we still keep it well before it gets much worse.
Stan Ketchur
Stan Ketchum New York, N.Y. Junior
DAVIS, Calif. (UPD)-Linda Dankman of Sacramento, one of a pair of coats at the University of California at Davis who conducted a sociology experiment in which she observed the aggressive roles on dates.
Quirks and Quotes
"After a while, when they (boys) saw us as the aggressive sex, they became docile, very calm. We afraid to talk to us at one point."
MANCHETER, N.H. (UPI)—William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester N.H. Union-Leader, rejecting an invitation to visit
"Any American newsman or businessman who visits Communist China or in any way entices him to fight against supplying the bullets and guns used to kill American soldiers in Vietnam must have a head as he would in patriotic ball and be as devoid of patriotic feeling as Benedict Arnold."
WACO, Tex. (UPD)—Students at Baylor University have elected Miss Delilah Bear as spring holiday queen.
The new queen is the school's mascot, a $ 3 \frac{1}{2} $-foot-tall bear cub.
Miss Bear received twice as many votes as the other nine candidates combined. At her last interview, she received a case of soda non-
SHAKER HEIGHTS,
(UPI)-Robert L. Vitek Jr., 19,
sat out his three-hour gig at
the undisclosed day to
attend an uncleished event.
Judge Manuel Rocker handed the youth the unusual sentence for calling a policeman a pig. Vikex also was fined $100.
The judge became secretive, because he was not asked to announce newsmen asked permission to accompany Vitek to the designated piggen and to take part in the trial.
RIVES JUNCTION, Mich. (UPI)—Mrs. Leonard Spooner is hopping mad because one of the girls she was killed was felled by the midnight skulker, who have been chopping vegetables lately in southern Michigan.
"I don't want this to become a Roman circus," said the judge.
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (UP1)—St. Charles University discovered Wednesday they inadvertently have been exposed to a large supply of chlorurates.
About half the 100,000 barricaded bunkers held by civil Defense authorities have been stolen, witnesses told a county official.
"I wish I had a man-eating dog or a bull to let loose," she said. "I need that sign in the summer to shade the cows."
The court ordered the rest of the pills removed.
Jones, who married his second wife seven years ago, has five sons and nine grandchildren from a previous marriage.
LIVERPOOL, England
(UPI)-George Jones doesn't
think he and his wife will be
much older. When he and
77, he figures three are enough.
Jones' wife June, 31, has given
birth to twin boys at Liverpool's
Parkadeley Hospital. They
are the parents of a 3-year-old girl.
'Take care of you in a minute, madam, as soon as I finish this demonstration.'
T. M. All rights reserved 1974 THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
Student Influence Needed
By STEVE HIX Communications Committee Chairman
Students **are** complaining about what the legislature has done to our budget. The Student Senate wants us to pay activity fee money for teacher's salaries. The state legislature has held back on funds to the University two years ago, and the Hall, and now the budget. What
can be done to avoid this from happening again.
It appears that students attending Kansas University are constantly facing conflict with our state legislature. Maybe the student council through better communications with House and Senate members.
If the Student Senate were to allocate approximately 2,000 of its $400,000 budget toward informal lobbying at Topeka.
perhaps our budget would rise once again. Professional lobbying by students is an illegal act, but taking a legislator or regretted to dinner once in a while to express student opinion is not. If the students are not being paid such an act, it is a legal action.
Tonight the Student Senate will decide where your activity fee will be spent. You need not be a guest to attend. Come express your views.
Dr. Roy Praises Marches
By DR. WILLIAM ROY United States Representative
Second District, Kansas
As many of you are aware, this is a time of demonstrations here in Washington. What is hap-
pening? What will happen to Capitol Avenue and on the steps of the Capitol is of importance to Americans wherever they may live.
Many of us are dissatisfied with the progress of "winding down" the war in Indo-China. Many people are expressing dissatisfaction by appearing personally in Washington.
The current period of activity began last week with the arrival of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Five of the Kansens in
the group visited me in my office.
The great majority of the veterans who came to Washington actually were veterans of duty in Vietnam. I was impressed when a men who spoke with me. They knew what they were talking about.
They were some of the men who were sent to fight this tragic war. Now they are home, appealing for an end to the conflict before any more of their buddies or 10,000 who have already been killed.
John Kerry, a leader of the Vietnam Vets, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that the man who will be "the last
man to die in Vietnam." And on this unknown soldier's behalf, he asked for an end to the war, now. It's a powerful argument.
Several additional groups are scheduled to come to Washington before the demonstrations end. It is important to distinguish among each of these groups, as everyone is as peaceful as the veterans were. If a few marchers do provoke violence, let us not permit their actions to tarnish the appeal of the many others who view our views calmly and rationally.
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All Americans want this war to end. There are honest differences as to the means to the end. The veterans are trying to end it by marching; I'm trying to end it on the floor of the House of the President. I can't end it by letting me and other officials know how you feel.
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The end of the war will not be a sufficient condition for solving of all our problems; it is, however, a necessary condition.
I ask your support in helping to end the war, so our men can be released from prisoner of war camps, so veterans can concentrate on returning to civilian life, so young people can once again find faith in their country, and so we can help to solve the problems which are worsening while the nation bleeds n Southeast Asia.
LETTERS
Dole,the Student Senate And a Letter to Nixon
To the editor:
I was accorded the privilege of attending the Wednesday evening meeting of the Student Senate. My purpose in attending was to request funds for a project of an organization of which I am the president. Having been assured by a senator of a place on the agenda at 7 p.m., a colleague of mine and I were seated and ready for discussion at that time.
What ensured that evening was very noteworthy. Never in my lifetime have I waited so long, buried in mounds of bull roar bespeaking such bureaucratic blindness, as I waited last Wednesday evening. Such a flagrant, downright ludicrous display of the blindness of this senator, I must have been fed even as bad as it is there, in our state Legislature. Whenever he is, and dislike even calling him this title as much as it must embitrarse him in light of the Senate's mischief, the parliamentarian must immediately re-read "Robert's Rules of Order" thoroughly. It could do more to ensure that I never chattering, pass or fail motions in less than an hour or two's time, and even allow student senators to get to sleep nights prior to 3:15 a.m.
While the Senate wasted everyone's time—mine, too, I fear —I must compliment them on their sense of humor. Most adults don't laugh too much at themselves when they're making asses of themselves, but our readers do. They are making headlines, motioning, and in summary —boil roaring far into the night.
Bill McMurray St. Joseph, Mo., Senior
I believe that Senator Dole can be an effective Kansas Senator while GOP Chairman, for these reasons:
Senator Dole personally reads and signs virtually all of his mail and answers or acknowledges every letter within two or three days: Mr. Dole returns home to his Kansas constituents on the average of two weekends a month: Senator Dole has a district office in Dodge City and in Kansas City to serve as a liaison between Kansans and himself; Mr. Dole is one of the few U.S. Senators whose mailing lists are included in the Senate's annual elections, a peculiar interest to each of his different groups of Kansas constituents; and Senator Dole is usually available for personal interviews.
To the editor:
- Joe Mikesic
  Kansas City senior (and former
  intern to Sen. Dole)
Open Letter to the President
Mr. Nixon, thousands of Vietnam War veterans have joined the ranks of the "efte sntob" in demanding an immediate withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. What are you going to label this corps of U.S. citizenry? Try a concern and frustrated cross-section of America
Recently, Mr. Nikon, I accused you and your administration of dividing this country. I apologize. This weekend I witnessed thousands of uneducated and educated, black and white, wealthy and poor, and young and old veterans march together in our nation's captle to plead with you for an end to the war. And, in San Francisco, I saw veterans lead a parade of a half million college students and blue collar with their arms linked. Take notice. Mr. Nikon, your club of silent citizens suffered a considerable loss in membership last weekend.
You have united us at last. But where is your famous victory sign, Mr. President? Its absence from television screens and front pages exemplifies the irony of your case. The unification for which you so vigorously campaigned for, is a victory without hurrah. Mr. Nixon, who was on the ground for the war against Iraq, war against your policies, and most positively against you. They are tired of hearing your ambiguous rhetoric about honor and heroes.
My judgement of you, Mr. President, is not significant. But, can you continue to shut out the judgment of so many you were elected to represent? Many of those, of whom I speak, include the thousands you sent me. I am sorry, Ms. President, that we now have come home to ask for you an end to your war.
Listen, Mr. Nixon, they are speaking for the country. They are asking for a final chance to salvage any pride and conscience this year.
We have been stripped of any honor. We can only hang our heads in shame because we found out about the My Lais and we know who the real executioners were. And, Mr. President, please don't insult us when there are there no heroes in a war without reason, only statistics.
-Vicki Bullard Tulsa junior
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Those Were the Days
50 Years Ago Today—191
The decision was made because of the garb's impressiveness and traditional value. The caps, gowns and hoods were also to be worn at commencement exercises.
on the gymnasium a afternoon parade preceded the festivities.
A circus may also be to be held in the evening at Robinson Gym. The W. J. A. Hum Dinglin circle was to feature side-splitting comedies, original shorts and a huge tent was to be set up on the gymnastium floor.
The faculty decided to wear academic costumes at inauguration exercises. The vote was in favor of wearing caps, gowns and hoods as opposed to caps and gowns only or no costume at all.
An afternoon parade preceded the festivities. The parade featured clowns, elephants, a tiger pushing a lion in a wheel chair and a curious ostrich which craned his long neck from right to left.
Admission to the circus was 50 cents.
35 Years Ago Today—1936
The luncheon featured a speech by Dr. F. C. Turner, who remarked on each member of the squad.
Ray Ebeling, high scorer for three straight year in the Big Six conference, was chosen honorary captain of the 1936 champion Jayhawk basketball team at a luncheon held at the Eldridge Hotel.
Heavy rains changed the Dust Bowl into a mud paddle. It was the best rain in two years. It raised the temperature and the humidity.
The Hill fraternities, sororities, Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce and faculty sponsored the second annual Mid Western Band Festival to be held in April.
The Festival was to feature 3,000 to 3,500 band members from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois, Nebraska and Missouri. The program was to be highlighted by marching contests by bands and drum and bugle corps, twirling contests for drum majors and a Festival concert.
25 Years Ago----1946
Entries for the all-University extemporaneous speaking contest were due today. Speakers in the contest were to speak on one of three subjects about which a short question would be given 30 minutes to prepare for the contest.
The 1947-48 Jayhawk staff positions of editor and business manager were selected by the Jayhawk Advisory Board. The YWCA also selected its cabinet members for the next year.
About 500 unsold copies of the 1946-47 K-books were made available free of charge. The K-book was a student handbook which contained a school notebook and a reference material about the University.
Ten Years Ago----1961
Reasons supporting the Western Civilization course were listed by Prof. Walter Sandelius, acting director. The course was only in its second year and was already receiving substantial feedback.