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Wednesday, April 21. 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Off the Treaty
The Peoples Peace Treaty will not stop the War. It won't even slow it down.
There is no sense in signing, then, unless you are also one who writes Santa Claus.
There is a term journalists use to describe writing about far away people, places and things—Afghanistanism.
Many student editors have endorsed the Treaty. They say, "If the government won't stop the War—we'll stop the government."
Who are we trying to kid?
We'll sign this treaty, and before you can say Afghanistan—the war will end.
Face it, as long as the politicians of Kansas don't have to confront this "solidarity" against the War, it will continue.
Peoples Treaties are folly; in fact, they make it easier for the hawk politicians of the state to shift the blame for the War.
Write Mr. Claus early this year.
Bob Dole would be more than happy to abdicate his responsibility to the people of Kansas for a mythical treat with the students and people of South Vietnam.
Tom Slaughter
'Duke' On the Warpath
Gather 'round buckaroo. General John Wayne is going to tell us how a good red-blooded American thinks.
Apparently, all those times that we sat on the edge of our seats munching popcorn and milk duds watching "The Duke" wipe out the latest Apache uprising, we were being fooled. I mean, I always thought John Wayne was an actor.
But it has now come to light that he was apparently a believer in that old Americanism that made him rich—"the only good Indian is a dead one."
Said Wayne in Playboy's May interview, "I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them (the Indians). There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."
There's some real patriotism for you.
In the session that has come to be infamous for its accomplishments a bill permitting Indians to hunt and fish in Kansas without a license has been made law.
But just in case this line of reasoning doesn't alleviate all the guilt feelings you
No doubt this was a move that made the welfare cut possible. I mean, surely there are some Indians on welfare and now the state won't have to worry about feeding and clothing them. The Indians can just set out in the Kansas wilderness to find such staples. The buffalo population is of course reduced somewhat compared to the time before the paleface, but there are plenty of ground squirrels and prairie dogs.
may have harbored about the "American's" treatment of Indians, the Kansas Legislature has come to your rescue.
Of course if the Indians get too greedy we have only to call John Wayne.
—Mike Moffet
The Bill of Goods
Two astronauts were among the visitors to Lawrence over the weekend, and they were prominently displayed at the KU Relays and at the annual Engineering Exposition.
The two astronauts accepted the cheers of awed spectators in Memorial Stadium and later narrated a film of the exploits of the Apollo 14 flight crew.
Although it naturally wasn't billed as such, their visit could well be termed "The Selling of the Space Program," should CBS choose to extend their recent documentary effort.
They were brought here by Rep. Larry Winn, who likes to bring astronauts to Lawrence and who is a member of the House Committee on Space and Aeronautics and an ardent backer of the space program.
It is through subtle, seemingly innocuous publicity efforts such as these that a government sells its spending programs to an unsuspecting and admiring public.
Although for a while it was the ambition of everyone to see a rock that once graced the surface of the moon, even those charismatic trophies have begun to lose their glamour for the jaded American taxpayer.
"Sure, everybody would like to walk on the moon," says one of the astronauts. This may be so, but most people would prefer to be able to ride safely on an efficient mass transit system through unblighted cities with unpolluted air first.
—Bob Womack
Vets Speak Out
Hundreds of Vietnam veterans marched in Washington, D.C., Monday to protest the war, and they were immediately faced with a most unusual decision that defies logic.
The protestors were denied admission to Arlington National Cemetery. They had planned to hold a memorial service for men who died in Indochina.
The protestors are not like the regular contingent of anti-war demonstrators. They wore military clothes they had from Vietnam, and they had seen men die in war, many of whom are buried in Arlington. The refusal to let them hold the service seems almost ludicrous.
The growing number of veterans opposed to the war is yet another indication of the stupidity of the war.
A few years ago it was fashionable to argue that the war should continue so that the dead soldiers would not have fought in vain. It's good to see that such arguments have become obsolete.
If men who faced battle and risked their lives are angrily opposed to the war, who is left to defend it's continuation? The answer is only a few self-centered militarists and blind politicians.
It is a shame that so much believed by so many is ignored by so few.
—Ted Iliff
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THE MIEWALKKE JOURNAL
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LETTERS
ROTC, International Club Concert, and Legislature
To the editor:
-Ronald J. Wiens Inman sophomore
I am an Air Force Cadet at the University of Kansas. I was fascinated by the words of Mr. W. L, White in his "Only the Brave" editorial. I wish to make the following comments:
1. Backing away from a needless confrontation at the risk of possible loss of face is not acceptable to you until you unwillingly defend a nation.
2. "Hippies" do not wear beads too often these days and do not scowl any more than other people.
3. Your statement that ROTC is undersexed is made, hopefully, without supporting evidence!
To the editor:
In reference to a Kansas article in the Thursday, April 15 issue bearing the title "Legality Questioned in Club's Elections," I would like to make a very important rectification, as President of the International Club.
I would like to mention that no proxy votes were accepted in the April 9 elections of the Club. The Iranian Students who argued the legality of the use of proxy committed the error of confusing "proxy vote" and vote "in absence". They have been accepted by the ICH under customary law. It simply means that a member can leave
signed ballot with the election committee if he is unable to be physically present at the time of election, whereas a proxy vote implies that power is given to a person to represent and vote on behalf of member of the Club. The election committee has not accepted such procedure and, in the absence of a proxy vote, the Iranian Student Association members based on illegal use of proxy votes is invalid.
I do not question the goodwill and integrity of the Mr. Hassan Khami, President of the Iranian Student Association, when he and his members questioned the election of a new president and elections. The entire problem arose from an error in the definition of a proxy vote.
Guy Dallan
Bangui, Central African Republic
senior
To the editor;
Our generation claims to be an enlightened one in its revolutionary efforts to increase political awareness and to take action against oppression, placing its values in a humane perspective. This is exemplified in demands for an end to the war, increased awareness of our responsibility to the end to racism, and all the rest.
In the light of the audience's reaction to the Ace Trucking Company at the K.U. Relays Concert Saturday night,
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Ovetovsky's observation that laughter is an unconscious unmasking suggests that we ought to re-examine what we claim to believe, especially our beliefs in the almost exclusively enthusiastic laughter and participation of the audience in the almost exclusively skis and improvisations of the Ace Trucking Company cast in shadow. We thought that we had gone beyond the ridiculing of sex, but the audience seemed to respond gleefully to the sexually exploitative attempts at humor, or ridiculing of homosexuality.
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By Sokoloff
To the editor:
I am dismayed at the recent editorial policy of the Kansan that condemns the Legislature for neglect of the University. To the contrary, the Legislature has provided KU with means to raise vast sums of money. We need merely declare the University a private club, sell liquor by the drink, and sponsor Bingo games. The university should raise can build twenty story Humanities buildings, cut tuition, and fully fund the Athletic budget.
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
Class Officers Blast Yearbook
Out of the first scheduled meeting of the Board of Class Officers for the academic year 1971-1972 came the following critical analysis of the Jayhawker Magazine-Yearbook. The meeting was held on Thursday, April 8, 1971. All Board members were present with one exception. This report represents the unanimous opinion of this group of elected representatives and we ask that it be weighed accordingly.
General Remarks
It was the consensus opinion of our group that the Jayhawker for the academic year 1970-1971 is a disaster. While we realize that we have not seen the "box" in its entirety we base our criticisms not only on it but also on its tardiness. We generally feel that since the Jayhawker for this book has a political issues and toward aesthetic literature it has become considerably less appealing. We do not deny the facts that political problems have had an increasing role in our campus and that aesthetic prose and poetry are beautiful in their own right when used in a scholarly context, so it fails to recognize the significance of politics and aesthetism to a campus environment, our feeling that if an individual student wishes to read about politics or to read aesthetic poetry he can find an ample supply of it in the Oread Bookstore. It is also our feeling that if a student wishes to buy a book about politics we should recollection of what happened during one of his years at the University, and he should be entitled to purchase an unbiased, apolitical yearbook.
David B. Pittaway Overland Park junior
Points of Criticism
cover the box be done away with. book in the book not in the book - cover protects the book in the rain). especially when a student must carry it home in the rain). The opinion of our group that the business practices of the staff in school are so poor that complaints were registered on behalf of Oliver Hall and the AURH.
Aside from the general criticisms expressed above, we offer the following specific points for consideration:
3) It was the opinion of our group that the tardiness of the book served only to amplify the poor business practices of the staff and that this also served to detract from any hard work which the staff has done.
4) It was the opinion of our group that the Jayhawker does not represent the majority of students. This should be evidence from the
5) It was the opinion of our group that the first edition should be devoted to freshmen and new students as in the past.
6) It was the opinion of our group that the Jayhawker should try to include as many students and activities within its pages as possible.
7) It was the final unanimous opinion of our group that the 1970-1971 Jayhawker was disappointing and a waste of money.
Recommendations
The Board of Class Officers for 1971-1972 submits the following recommendations to be considered by the Jayhawker Board:
1) We recommend that the Jayawaker Board strongly consider the above criticisms in light of next year's edition.
3) We recommend that if the yearbook is changed as we have requested that the Juyahawkier Board promote it to the students and teachers.
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2) We recommend that the Jayhawker Board request that the School of Journalism reconsider putting the Jayhawker under academic supervision similar to the University Daily Kansas. We feel closely aligned with what we think the students of this campus deserve.
4) In the event that the Jayhawker cannot be put under academic supervision we recommend that the Jayhawker Board use great discretion in selecting editors and a business staff who will attempt to change the yearbook into what we have perceived as an effective one.
Conclusion
We do not have the intention of unjustly criticizing the individual staff members of this year's Jayhawker. Indeed, we realize that many of the problems connected with the current edition may be without merit, or that they do not accurately reflect the distribution of the yearbook. However, we believe that the decreasing sales of the Jayhawker over the past two years can be closely correlated with the increasing emphasis on politics and social issues in our community. We are an unbiased recorder of people and events on our campus. Finally, any of our resources in the promotion of the sales of a new yearbook.
The Board of Class Officers John Mize, Chairman
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Those Were the Days
50 Years Ago Todav—1921
The Annual Engineers' Day Parade descended upon the campus this morning breaking up classes with its usual efficiency and excitement for creating laughs for the entire hill.
Civils, Mechanicals, Chemicals, Architects,
Electricals, Miners and R.O.T.C. claused in a good-natured rivalry and each department produced two or three clever floats. More than 1,000 people watched the parade on its downtown route.
20 Years Ago Todav—1941
Tickets for the baseball and track season went on sale this morning by the Ku Klu Kau for $3.00 which is $1.75 less than if the tickets were bought at each event. Dr. Phon Allen asked for support for the baseball team in its encounter with Kansas State on Friday.
Dr. Allen said, "We are going to do our best to make it a clean-up day for the Aggies." Every person that can get out should be down at McCook field both days shouting their beads off for KU, and showing the Aggies that KU is on the map."
30 Years Ago Today—1941
Over 5,000 people attended the Annual K.U.
Relays and watched Archie Harris from Indiana break the relay record by tossing the discus 171 feet, $6\frac{3}{4}$ inches, just three feet short of the world record.
It was announced this morning that Ben Hibbs, one of the most successful journalists graduated from the University will be the featured speaker at the 75th Anniversary dinner. Hibbs was the editor of Country Gentleman.
10 Years Ago Todav-1961
Bands were playing in the streets of Cuba this morning and the people were following close behind in wild jubilee. An announcement was made by Cuban Premier Fidel Castro that the assault by counter-revolutionary exiles had been crushed and killed in a fire last week in control. The announcement came just 72 hours after the rebels invaded Cuba.
A $89,000 grant was given to the University by the National Science Foundation for the study of the dynamics of the Great Plains Bats, Bates, assistant professor of aeronautical engineering is director of the project, which will begin this month and last for two years.