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Tuesday, April 20, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Problems Aren't Solved
Today is the University of Kansas' tragic anniversary—the Kansas Union burned a year ago today.
The event was the University's baptism by fire, a first look at violent protest. Many things have happened in the year since. There are many people who have been shocked out of their "it can't happen here," shells. Others have overreacted and have been ready to resort to violence to end violence.
It has been a year that tried men's patience. The Union fire, the trouble in the summer, the blacks' strike and the bomb at Summerfield thrust Lawrence out of the sleepy college town era and into the present.
Some will point to this semester as a breakthrough. No violence has occurred. A possible instigator of violence, the ROTC review, was called off by the cadets themselves. Indeed, it has been calm this semester. The only excitement has been the Jayhawk basketball team and Vern Miller's raid. Many people will
We must be realistic. What has really changed, nationally or locally, since the Union went up in flames? Did Docking learn that his curfew was fanning the fires of dissent rather than extinguishing them? I think not, Docking and a host of other law and order candidates were elected last fall.
say that Lawrence and KU have learned their lesson on violent protest.
The ROTC review was canceled. Does that mean the whole question of ROTC on campus is dead? Vern Miller has made does. Does that mean the town is cleaner now?
ne blacks are not striking for Gary Jackson. Does that mean they're happy? It's tempting to believe the whole problem is erased. It is also tempting to believe you won't slice anymore after you get it, but you're sure you've problems that were here a year ago, even if they are hiding now, are still alive and ready to erupt again.
-Galen Bland Editor
Cooling of KU
The cooling of KU seems to be happening.
KU seems to be in-step with the rest of the wild-eyed generation that Time Magazine reports is "cooling."
Now comes the pacified campus.
The pacified campus is drug paranoia, sunbathing and coping with the realization that finals begin in three weeks.
The pacified campus is also boring.
The pacified campus is also boring. The pacified campus is lethargy. Universities generally aren't thought of as lethargic places—it's bad for their reputation.
We have come the full circle of campus radicalism.
Speeches — strikes — marches— bombings—pacified campus.
A friend asked me, "Why do I have to graduate in the summer when there waste is a construction."
Is the calm buying time to heal wounds
received from living in the midst of the
war?
To go the whole route in a year leaves one disoriented.
Political scientists tell us that expression allows civil turmoil. So do feelings.
What do we have now, fear and paranoia—or the new "mature" student? If its fear—we had a hand in its coming. If its "maturity"—the University as a marketplace of new concepts and ideas is dead.
Tom Slaughter
Why Sign?
Have you seen the People's Peace Treaty?
It was inevitable that someone would finally take the initiative to end the war.
The war will end immediately if I sign the treaty, won't it?
and Pooff! The war will disappear.
I'll hold the treaty tightly in my hand—keep repeating "There's no place like Nam," "There's no place like Nam"—click my crimson dino boots three times
It's easy when you get the hang of it. Next, I'll sign a People's Test Ban Treaty with the people of the Soviet Union. No more bomb.
Then I'll sign a People's Treaty to Racism with my black brothers. We'll show Wallace that plain folks can make bad things vanish.
Now a People's Treaty to End Female Oppression could be signed with my sisters. This treaty would establish a moratorium on male chauvinism.
If we would have only known about this
People's Peace, Treaty 35,000 lives.ago
I know the treaty will work. It says on the back, "We pledge to take whatever actions are appropriate to implement the terms of this joint treaty of peace."
Sounds pretty ominous, but it's effective in bringing the power structure to its knees.
By the way—I wonder if Nixon's signature is required?
Tom Slaughter
A Hairy Rebuttal
By TERRY MURPHY
Reprinted from the Chanute Tribune
The Emporia Gazette's editor has, through the ages, found a number of things wrong at the University of Kansas. The most recurring complaint being that its students are young and fail to embrace the status quo for the thing of wisdom and beauty the Emporia editor regards it to be.
A new charge has been filed: the cancellation of the ROTC review by decision of the cadets is proof that the corps is shot through with sissies.
Far better, no doubt, would it be for the students to check out their M-1 riffles, fix bayonets and advance at full gallop into the nearest gathering of flower children, all the better to prove they are worthy of the esteemed editor's favor.
Of course, the Emporia editor wrote in
just, but it is plain that he and many like him would enjoy nothing better than a bloody brawl, a fight to the finish that battles for once and all the issues of the day.
The cadets' preference to forego the review moves the Emporia editor to call them over-paid, over-dressed and under-sexed. Does that mean that, in the Brave Old World, men were measured by the hairiness of chest and lustfulness of lee? It all makes one thirst for the good old days. When Emporia Gazette was edited by a man less wed to doctrainaire condemnation of the young.
I think the hairy-chested set despairs too quickly. Be patient, sir. The hotheads may yet prevail. Then the blood will flow us all hair-cheated types can sleep well.
CARTEEN
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Our Alienable Rights
'Even the friendly natives are getting restless now, sire!'
Bv DAVID PERKINS
If there is anything on which everyone from William Buckley to Abbie Hoffman can agree it is a persistent problem is alienation.
Buckley can agree because the word is no longer Marxian. It has been enlarged to refer to any and all political impoverishment, economic exploitation and militaryizing and certainly one of the new left's most urgent proposals is the establishment of community esprit, whether in classroom, neighborhood or—what else?—community. A good school should good. It is assumed to be in opposition to the oppression of civilization, at least Western civilization, and in the service of "human development," of human development, of what is really important that we all subscribe to this so readily, for nothing could be more false. Nothing more clearly marks human growth than estrangement. The sine qua non of development is loneliness.
GEZA ROHEM, one of the leftist Freudians, would argue that complains against nationalism are search for community, have the
motivation as civilization itself. The great event in man's life is his separation from the mother; our adult enterprises are collossial efforts to protect ourselves from further object loss. Our community, and the culture itself, is in effect a substitute for human nature. The paradox of civilization is that man becomes civilized—forms communities—only in order to remain an infant.
Ortega y Gasset reminds us that it is quite erroneous to imagine that human beings are first aware of themselves as individuals, and then "grow up" in society. In the book he writes, "The 'we' comes first, and then the 'I'. I mean by this that man proceeds to discover his individuality in proportion to the development of his conscious hostility to communism and opposition to traditionalism. Traditionalism are one and the same nsychological force."
ORTEGA NOTES in "The Modern Theme" that the "birth of individuality involves a negation of the world. But the subjective personality, in the real world, in itself obliged to reconstruct the universe through its own resources, i.e. its reason."
Washington Window Narrowing the Gap
By STEWART HENSLEY
UPI Dinamatic Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon, having publicly staked his political life on ending "American involvement" in the Vietnam War, must wonder why there continues to be so much criticism of his policy and suspicion regarding his intentions.
Answering such questions is supposed to be one of the functions of the new "consultant" the President is hiring, John Scall of the American Broadcasting Co. An able, aggressive and sometimes abrasive diplomatic correspondent, Scall would appear to be well qualified to give the President a more candid assessment than that of the general staff with a vested interest in one aspect or another of the current strategy.
One of the "grey areas" involved the matter of just what constitutes "American involvement" in Vietnam which the President says "is coming to an end." His statement that "you should hold me accountable" implies that the end of "involvement" will come by November, 1972.
A rereading of the President's April 7 television report to the nation suggests some points on which clarification might be useful.
Nixon's fat statement that results of the Laotian operation made it possible for him to say that "Vietnamization has succeeded" obviously applies only to ground forces, since all the air support in the Laotian invasion was supplied by the United States.
However, this is promised within the context of a discussion which apparently covers only ground forces since nothing is said in the book.
If this is the case, and it appears to be the President's new consultant might suggest the wisdom of preparing the American public and Congress on this point. Otherwise, the backlash could be politically devastating when the full plan is revealed.
Pentagon and State Department officials have said it will be necessary for U.S. war planes based on Guam, in Thailand and on carriers in the South China Sea to continue their support of Saigon's troops for some time after American ground forces have withdrawn.
The horror of alienation is exactly that: it alienates; it frustrates our attempts at community, our adult infantism; it throws each of us off the毯 and presses us against postulate the absurd notion of a civilization alienating individuals precisely because we wish to deny the reality of our individuality. "our" "radical man," We wish to objectify man, and relieve ourselves of the responsibility of "I."
By Sokoloff
In The Heresy of Self-Love, Paul Zweig notes that the Greek word for "everyone", ekakostas, is derived from hekas, meaning "far-off". He notes that the Greeks were preparing themselves (and us) for their cultural adulthood, when we would no longer be able to know when we would be strong enough to acknowledge our individuality and our singularity. Zweig agrees with Karl Jaspers's assertion that schizophrenia, like mass hysteria in the Middle Ages, is the mental illness of our time. It is a way of learning, not only to the world, but to the awareness of our own solitude.
Griff & the Unicorn
It is remarkable to what degree Christianity has been perverted by the flight from ego, the will to go. It is also remarkable that Christ demanded the heroisom of isolation, not only for himself at Gethsemane, but for every man. "I came not to send peace, but a message to those who were be those of his own household."
"Copyright 1971, David Sokolov"
JUST AS the prevalence of optimistic philosophies is evidence of human suffering, complaints of alienation are increasingly present in pain pains. "Completely unexpectedly, society no longer protects us from ourselves. Our so-called 'de-humanizing technocracy' has not created the conditions for people to be compromised it as a human condition."
The urge to community on the left is both a contradiction and an anachronism. The creation of community to combat civilization has always been an issue. It is clear that leftrists who clamor for community and "getting together" are not libertarian or individualist at all, but traditionalist. They are not open to bureaucracy; they are merely ashamed of it.
Alienation is not to be complained of; it is to be claimed, quite literally, as a birthright.
LETTERS
The Senate and an Angel
It's hard to express an opinion on the present Senate since it has hardly started its work. The last Student Senate did not seem to accomplish all that much. I don't know whether it was because of power plays and factionalism in the Senate or because the Senate was bogged down by its size or procedure. The present Senate is going to have to make sure they don't bills get slowed up in committees, and the senators and officers must be guided by the Senate are going to make sure they don't keep the power of their own interests but use it for the interests of the University as a whole.
To the editor:
One of the areas the Senate could work in would be better community relations with the people of Lawrence. With the student unrest coming to a head, the Senate should have an amicable attitude toward the University. This problem is solved with the establishment of the reclamation center but other problem areas could be explored. The Senate, as a representative of the university, could try to improve the relations between the town and the University.
This is just one of the long and short range problems facing the Senate and the student body. It is up to the Senate to establish better communication with the students, and it is up to the students to be involved with the University in order to solve these and other problems.
Beth Retonde
Kansas City, Mo., freshman
Tina Johnson
Wichita freshman
To the editor:
In the interests of accuracy and culture, I find it necessary to point out a rather inexactable error found in the Kansas of April 14.
George Verhage, in his article, "7-Up TV Ad Stars KU Student," mistakenly identifies the subject matter of the song "Teen Angel" as his basis in the "death of a motorcyclist." This is an unfortunate error which can be corrected by considering the original lyric:
"That fearful night the car was snuck Upon the railroad track. I pleaded you out and we were safe But you were back. Back Teen Angel, can you hear me . . .
What was it you were looking for That took your life that夜? What is it you were wearing in school ring Clutched in your fingers tight . . .
The implications are, of course, staggering
Thomas S. Dyman Geneva, Illinois senior
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Those Were the Days
50 Years Ago Today----1921
Chancellor E. H. Lindsey said, "In athletics a forward looking program is underway under the leadership of Director Forrest C. Allen. The University hopes to establish a continuous policy and tradition in athletics. The advent of the stadium should give new impetus to athletic activities of the university. This will enable that athletic activities are most effective when reinforced by high scholastic requirements."
30 Years Ago Today—1941
A crowd of 5,000 attended the 19th annual Kansas Relays. Archie Harris of Indiana threw the discs 171 feet e-4.8 inches and set a record for the relays. Anthony team set a record in the spartan middel relay.
15 Years Ago Today----1958
Raymond Nichols, secretary to the Chancellor, announced that Ben Hibbs, one of the most successful journalists ever graduated from the University, would speak at KU's 75th anniversary dinner. Hibbs was editor of a 10-million-circulation magazine called Country Gentleman.
Dr. Renan Sinha, assistant instructor in entomology, was awarded a fellowship for fundamental engineering by the National Research Council Fellowships in Ottawa, Canada.
Open house in Carruth-O'Leary and Gertude Sellars Pearson residence halls was attended by 4,000 visitors. J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, called the turnout "tremendous."
The Kansas Jayhawker baseball team extended a winning streak to six games by beating Wichita
10 Years Ago Today—1961
Exhibits were being prepared for the 50th Annual Engineering Exposition to open April 20.
A movie produced by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which was supposed to show Communist inspiration in student demonstrations against the committee was shown in the Kansas Union to Lawrence residents by the Chamber of Commerce. It was a jungle, angry and indignant, but one man said "It's just a bunch of kids blowing off steam, nothing to worry about. At least we know it won't happen here."