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Thursday, April 22, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
World Sportsmanship
In the evenings, after he has put in long hours contributing free labor to help harvest the Cuban sugar crop, Fidel Castro plays table-tennis. He is supposed to be one of the better players in his inner circle. In 1965, after he had demolished another player 21 to 12, Castro was reported, by a British journalist, as saying that that was one thing "we can do well." He was referring to a question about the dominance of the Asian countries in the sport.
The Asians played hard, Castro said, because they meant to win every game. In the Communist capitals, table-tennis can be a dog-eat-dog contest at times, because it is a game that the people can become proficient in, and anyone can be the national champion.
Perhaps Fidel Castro would like to challenge President Nixon to a game of table tennis. Nixon is an avid sports fan, and if Castro had the slightest knowledge that the President could play the game it might enter his mind to stage a championship battle in Madison Square Garden. Mao Tse Tung is a little too old for that sort of thing. It would not do for the beloved leader of the People's Republic of China to lose to the "fascist" president, so Mao lets his common men beat the common men of the "fascist" U.S.
Beating the cream of U.S. table-tennis players on home ground has provided a great moral and ideological boost for the Chinese. It must have been an intoxicating potion for them to take; after all, the enemy was the U.S. Mao and Chou and Lin Piao must be sitting back and dragging on their opium pipes and wiggling their toes. Heady stuff!
But potions have a way of dulling one's resistance to particularly distasteful ideas. Nixon perhaps is hoping that the Communists might have had long and
satisfying pulls on the table-tennis pipe, and are now willing to be agreeable. Nixon might have hoped that North Vietnamese leaders would view this new development as a reason for instructing their negotiators in Paris to be more cordial, and congenial at the peace conferences. But just to make sure, Nixon came out a few days later with a softer touch on the U.S. position with regard to Communist China's world position. He even called the country by its proper name.
More opium in the pipe.
Perhaps now there will be more willingness to compromise in future U.S.-Chinese or U.S.-North Vietnamese talks and issues. Nixon is playing the part of the guy who can lose and still smile, and by so doing he is putting the ball in the Chinese and North Vietnamese court.
Their turn to serve.
But if the Communists are playing this one as they usually play their table-tennis—according to Castro—then there is no guarantee that there will be reciprocal sportsmanship. And they never did show much regard for world opinion.
This is developing into a best of seven series: Game one the U.S. lost on the green table tables in the People's Republic. Game two was conceded by President Nixon when he recognized the right of the communists to nationhood. Game three, has to go to the Chinese because they are now sitting back on their hunches, enjoying the suspense the Western world is going through, enjoying their advantage. Game four? Nobody knows, but the U.S. had better win it, or Castro is going to get a bull horn and shout 90 miles of water, "Game four. Yer out, U.S."1
—Duke Lambert
Thanks to B&G
By CLANCY SCHMIDT Kansan Staff Writer
Spring is a time of the year when we can all fully appreciate the caretakers of our campus. The University of Kansas campus is something to see and enjoy. The buildings and grounds employees who are responsible for the upkeep deserve a special thanks, especially at this time of year.
We should graciously put up with the traffic congestion to bypass newly painted crosswalks and curbs for they are among the finishing touches that
brighten the hill. The tractor spraying fertilizer occasionally interrupts our rest on the grass but the end result is worth the hassle.
The tulips in front of Hoch Auditorium are a pleasing contrast to the drugery of green boards. Now many classes are held on the lawns in an attempt to enable students to soak up some of that good sunshine and fresh air out of hot stuffy classrooms.
Thanks again to those people from buildings and grounds who make the hill what it is.
By United Press International
Quirks in the News
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UP1)—Beasing on the draw landed William Rials, 23, of Pomona, Calif., in jail on charges of trying to rob a small grocery.
Banister had time to pull out a pistol of his own. He held Rials for the police.
Clerk Steve Banister told police Rials tried to reach in his pocket to pull a gun and got his hand caught in the pocket.
SALISBURY, Md. (UPI)—The Wicomico County animal shelter has scores of unwanted dogs, free for the asking. But somebody has broken into the place and stolen the staff's mascot, a mongrel named Dumb-Dumb.
CINCINNATI (UPI)—A restaurant patron eavesdropping on the conversation of a couple at a nearby table heard a discussion of plans for "a $100,000 bank iob."
He quickly called the police. Officers took the young man, an Indiana
physician, and his woman friend into custody for questioning.
The suspects were quickly released. They explained they fabricated the tale for the benefit of the snoopy man sitting near them in the restaurant.
LONDON (UPI)—When gunmen invaded a bank Tuesday and ordered customers to the floor while they scooped up cash, window cleaner Ron Meredith kent on cleaning the windows outside.
SEATTLE (UPI)—The University of Washington has found a way of improving attendance at its baseball games—six pretty batgirls wearing shorts.
Attendance has jumped from past years, when there often were fewer fans in the stands than players in the dugouts.
Meredith, who took in the whole scene from his ladder, said: "I thought the raiders might panic if I made a move, so I kept on cleaning."
'Looks like the recipient is readv. too.'
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Event No. 2 was the discovery that DDT was playing hob with the balance of nature, plus finding its way into human tissues, where it tended to claim square-offs, resisting all efforts to lodge it.
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John Prohodsky
El Dorado sophomore
To the editor:
Praise from Vern, SUA, Campus Litter
They will claim that the students do all the work, which is almost true. They know where to go and what to do. They are the backbone of SUA. They put in more hours than people realize and don't have enough opportunities possible. They are the people who are directly or indirectly responsible for the non-academic events on campus.
The Division of Consumer Protection has brought to my attention the case of Kansan of Wednesday, April 14, 1971, in which you pictorially display and comment on the experience of Mr. Lawrence. It is also interesting to note that you have included in your Daily Kansan a complaint that Mr. Lawrence had sent to Student Affairs. This technique, procedure, and practice may be helpful in correcting inadequate displays or pictures. Off campus housing was inadequate when I was at KU, but it appears that it hasn't changed a bit.
I feel that there are three people at the University who deserve recognition for the contributions they have made to the University and students. These programs, which are probably some of the best in the country, which are run for students by students. They are Mrs Katherine Glele, Mrs. Chery Kloeel and Kent Longnecker Union Activities advisors.
The Lighter Side
To the editor:
Thus a case can be made that the big mess American cities are in today stems largely from the fact that Now consider the second event.
the move to restrict or ban the use of DDT.
By DICK WEST
The Saga of DDT
This almost happened in the case of DDT. But only almost.
WASHINGTON (UP1)—Occasionally, but only occasionally, events unfold in a sequence that maximizes maximum benefits to mankind.
With DDT, the yield per acre of farm products increased tremendously. Which caused a lot of people to mow the farms which caused a lot of people to mow the farms and into the cities. Which caused even more overcrowded.
The first event, you may recall,
was the discovery that DDT
made a marvelous pesticide.
Caused the bugs to fall right off
and wormed revolution's agriculture in this country.
The sequence here, as you can see, ran backwards insofar as the benefits to mankind are concerned. Had event No. 2 occurred first, event No. 1 would not have happened. Event No. 2 was spared a heap of trouble.
Event No. 3, however, could hardly have occurred at a more fortuitous spot in the sequence. I refer to the recent report by two Washington scientists that DDT may cause infertility in women.
Although the evidence was not conclusive, it was sold enough to convince the authorities that she have happened if event No. 3 had taken place before事件No.1。
Thanks to our experience with DDT as a pesticide, and to the subsequent findings as well as cellular drawbacks, there is now little likelihood that any pharmacy will fit out a DDT birth control pill.
To the editor:
And what we can perceive is about half of the women in America using DDT for contraceptive purposes.
It was, however, a near miss, and serves to remind us once again that the only thing we use from science is dumb luck.
By Sokoloff
Griff & the Unicorn
"Copyright 1971, David Scholoff."
significant litter problem. "Why, there are some disposals . . . and besides, no one has complained before . . ."
As the 70-71 scholastic year reaches its end, any constructive student activism on the K.U. school is labeled as an anti-climax to nothing. After the Kent State attack against the Cambodia invasion, the Jacksonville killings, and the Earth Week activities of last month, students this year are apathetic. But perhaps, that branding is not entirely inclusive. Campus staff administration are indeed guilty, too.
Is this a petty complaint? One cannot call it petty when an out-of-state visitor comments, "Oh, I forgot to unkempt." It's a little thing to ask, but it may be the first tangible issue of the year. The team's decision to bring Jayhawk Boulevard would perhaps bring a new pride to our students and it would definitely convince. How about it, people?
Have you ever bought a candy bar or coke at the Union, walked outside, and participated in a long and hopeless search for some sort of trash disposal? Have you ever tried to placing your cups and wrappers in the UDK box between Dyke and Green Halls.
K. U. students have faced disappointment after disappointment this year in the fight for change. I would like to propose a new and simple battle that we can wage and win.
Deborah L. Brooks
Leavenworth Freshman
Today I became disgusted with this process and decided to take some "constructive" student action," I went to Building and I found that the staff was unfortunately, the staff there fails to acknowledge any
'Something for you and something for him. What could be fairer?'
Those Were the Days
"The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals the University holds; to play no favorites; to be kind; to show compassion; to courageous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all to serve to the best of its ability the students of the University."
50 Years Ago Today—1921
20 Years Ago Todav—1941
30 Years Age 1949-1989
A great pig to chase was to be released as the last event of the Dandelion Day celebration the next afternoon, the Kansan reported.
Americally and agriculturally inclined dandelion diggers were to pursue the slippery swine, and to insure the criter's safe capture the Men's Student Council had offered a $5 reward to the man who brought him back alive. All students were eligible to compete for the prize.
The M.S.C. hadn't even excluded the members of Phi Kappa Psi and Kappa Alpha Theta, although they had had previous pigging experience.
Pauk Vanley, business senior, who had charge of pig arrangements, said that the smoothed individual which had been obtained by his employer and was as rangelay as an Arkansas razebock.
The hog was in the process of being washed and dried, after which he was to be covered thoroughly with good, rich, black transmission grease.
10 Years Ago Today—1961
JERUSALEM-Adolf Eichmann told the world he would admit his guilt as a war criminal if the victors of World War II adhere to the terms and agree to stand trial for war crimes.
"As long as there are two standards of measurement, then I do not consider myself guilty, but on the contrary—not guilty," he said. "I had received just like they'd be, declared
The words and voice rasping through the quiet Jerusalem courtroom were those of the Israeli lawyer who was convicted of six million Jews. This was the second day of Eichmann's tape recorded testimony.