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Thursday, April 15, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
The Berkeley Mandate
Louisiana Congressman John Rarick stood up in the House of Representatives recently and delivered a speech entitled "Berkley—An Experiment in Take-Over for a Red Sanctuary Within the U.S.A."
Rarick is concerned because leftists, blacks, other minorities, "street people" and University of California students did what the establishment has been telling them to do: they pulled the system and pulled off a victory in the Berkeley city elections last week.
Candidates backed by the April Coalition won three city council seats and the mayoralty, and they have called their ballot-box success a pattern to be followed by other similar university cities across the country.
Warren Widener, the new mayor, has expressed amusement over the concern shown by other politicians such as Rarick and Gov. Reagan.
"Now that the radicals are working within the system, they (the establishment) are scared to death," he says.
More than 80 per cent of Berkeley's eligible voters turned out for the election. The April Coalition conducted their campaign in Berkeley with a professional acumen usually seen only in larger cities. The candidates campaigned throughout the city, meeting the voters and explaining their platform.
It appears, however, that establishment fears aroused by this radical
“takeover” are premature and based more on appearance than substance. The winning candidates' announced goals are based on a desire to bring government and its services closer to the people with appropriate reform along the way.
They are proposing abolition of the city manager form of government in Berkeley to be replaced with the popular elected more responsive Mayor. Many radical governmental analysts believe the city manager system is obsolete today.
The April Coalition also wants new city services for the poor including rent control on apartments and new child care centers. Perhaps the most radical features involve the replacement of the old tax by a graduated tax on incomes above $12,000 and more community control of the police department.
Although somewhat hysterical prejudgement has been the chief reaction to the victory of the "radicals" in Berkeley, it is heartening that those who often reject the American political system have chosen it as the best means to accomplish their desired reforms. In the process, Berkeley may accomplish about a government more responsive to all of the people, including the disenfranchised poor, with the working means and desire to forge responsible reform.
—Bob Womack
Petition Power
By PAT MALONE
Kansan Staff Writer
The Nixon administration's campaign to neutralize anti-war efforts has been so successful that it now awards new downeys brings only yawns.
KU students have a chance to change this attitude by working in the town-wide anti-war campaign which begins Wednesday.
We have a chance to unify
young and old in Lawrence against what we call the "Vietnam (woops, it's now 'Indochina) War." We can develop some solid lines of common advice to gown," a problem which has prompted much talk but little action.
The peace treaty that volunteers will carry door-to-door has already been signed by students from this country and from North
and South Vietnam. It now needs to be ratified by all the American people.
If Lawrence residents sign this memo, they will be able to and say, "Mr. Nixon, the people of Lawrence, Kansas want the United States out of Vietnam."
The time to unite against this war is now. At least 200 volunteers are needed to canvass. Let's not blow it.
But it was called off following a poll of the cadets themselves, who voted 2 to 1 against parading, which they feared had violated the "balance of tranquility" on the Hill.
Only the Brave
And it could be just as well. Because if the K.U. ROTC is so gutless that it can be faced down by the sneers of a bunch of whiskered, long-haired, beard-wearing dogs who are the ones to parade, when it has so little to be proud of—nothing, in fact to parade about?
In our opinion an ROTC that quailts before hippies is not even worth buying uniforms for; is in fact worse than having no ROTC at all. Because should our Sovereign State ever have an altercation with, say, the Principality of Monaco, and should Monaco's armed hordes ever appear on our Missouri border under the
Reprinted from the Emporia Gazette
Well, the annual ROTC review at the University of Kansas has been called off, but this time do not blame K.U.'s Chancellor Laurent Chalmers. Last year he was given off because of threats, but this year he was to give them any needed protection.
leadership of Princess Grace, mounted on a prancing, pawing, snorting, palomino stallion, and if in this hour of desperation we looked to K.U. for protection, we would see every man jack of that over-paid, over-dressed and under-sexed ROTC high-tailing it due West, whizzing across Wabaunsee, Dickinson and Saline counties—Sam Brownes jingling and epaulets flapping—kicking jack rabbits out of their way as they scramble across Gove and Greeley Counties to the safety of the Colorado line.
Now we may exaggerate some. But we wish to make the solemn point that, were this state in real peril, we would far rather depend on our defense on K.U.'s Kappas, Pi Phis and Thetas decked out in miniskirts or pastel pink hot pants, and we would on K.U.'s ROTC that cringes before the scowl of hippies. K.U. in our day used to have some fine, red-blooded women. Maybe in these decadent times they are the only ones with hair on their chests.
-W. L. White
HOWEVER, SINCE YOU DON'T SET FIT TO USE YOUR TAX MONEY TO SUPPORT PRIVATE AND PARCORIAL SCHOOLS, THEN I TAKE IT BACK AND GIVE IT TO THEM.
time for bunnies, but it was the dogs who stole the show Sunday
THIS IS THE WAY MY REVENUE SHARING WORKS, FIRST, I TAKE YOUR TAX MONEY AS USUAL
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Ripping It Off
Michael Watts with a damaged radio controlled toy airplane.
About 50 persons turned out for the competition while practice for the tournament Kennel Club Association's annual show at a nearby park drew 1,600 people.
By GALEN BLAND
"I suppose it could look like a real plane from a distance," said Watts as he surveyed the damage to the three-foot wingspan model.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va.
(UPI)—Easter is supposed to be a
FLAILS OF HOFFMAN
Abbie Hoffman recently challenged George Wallace, governor of Alabama, to a boxing match. The proceeds of this match, Hoffman stipulated, would go to the winner's favorite Wallace, Wallace's daughter, whose family has dignity. It may be that Wallace was hard-pressed to think of a charity, much less his favorite one.
The National Education Association criticized President Nixon's plan to broaden federal aid to private school students. This plan, the association argues, will increase money for all-white private schools in the South
GETTING OUT OF DERT
The Ku Klux Klan is having a die-out party. The Grand Dragon (are they called dragons because they breathe fire) said the Klan was drumming right wingers who would resort to organization. First they will probably eliminate all their members who support the Vietnam war.
Didn't a certain southern Senator, maybe it was Strom Thurmond, do a little something for the Nixon bandwagon in 1968? Political debts do get paid off.
By United Press International
KLAN-KLEANING
An Air Force sergeant said it took him only 12 hours to raise $30,000 from servicemen in Vietnam to aid his brother and sister who are stricken by a rare kidney disease.
If this fund-raising had happened in Kansas it would have been bigger news. The attorney general would easily sense a bingo game or a lottery of some kind, those charity-schaden schemes in this clean state.
The Nixon administration announced recently that it was taking moves to help fund employment for women.
ALEXBURY, England (UPI)
THE plane spiraled toward the ground and the passby ran for a telephone. Within minutes five fire engines, four police cars, an ambulance were on the scene.
NOT IN KANSAS
UNEMPLOYED PLOV
The newest status symbol: strike status. It seems the United Auto Workers union's office applies the new status symbol, has its own treating their union very well, the company said. So the office workers went on strike, not only to get more pay, but to bolster the status of their unions without a strike? Look what it's done for the UAW.
What other kind of vet could you find employment for?
Quirks in the News
STRIKE STATUS
TO GO—OR NOT
Sarah Miles, British actress who has been nominated for an Academy Award for her role in "Ryan's Daughter," said she would give a million pounds "not to go to the Oscar presentations in New York or toowed never to go to Hollywood. It seems, then, that she would not go to the presentation. She is."
FARMERS' FRIEND
China Visit Significant
Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kansas, will address the annual spring meeting of the Newspaper Farm Editors of America in Washington next week. A fine choice. Who else?
When they arrived, they found
By PHIL NEWSOM
TYPICAL NEWS ANNUALS
important element, the Red Chinese
scarcely could have done better
than to select the ping pong table
ahead of the conference table as a
relationship with the United States.
Ping pong not having quite the same standing in the United States in the field of international competition that it does in mainland China, it is understandable if an amused smile were the first reaction to the U.S. team being invited to visit China.
"We have," declared the head of the Chinese delegation to the world table tennis championships in Tokyo, "extended the international friendship between the peoples of China and the United States."
But after the smile comes the dawning that something has happened that has not happened in more than 20 years—in years of cancer. In between the two powers has been the more common denominator.
Specific reference to the "peoples" of the United States was significant.
It suggested continuing mistrust of the U.S. establishment as represented by the government in Washington and the state, as formal diplomatic relations remains a long way in the future.
Nonetheless, the Chinese invitation and Washington's quick approval of it, marked a sharp difference by both sides from the recent past.
Of importance also is the fact that it came despite strains brought on by the recent Allied incursion into Laos and that the invitations included U.S. newsmen with no more axe to grind than objective reporting of what they see.
LETTERS KU-Y Explained
The KU-Y has existed on this campus for over 90 years. There most definitely was a religious purpose to the organization at one time, but what we expressed at the hearings was that now there is no religious function involved anywhere in either our activities or our stated purpose. We feel that too often we are judged by either what the KU-Y once was, or by the conception some people have of a Y (YMCA-YWA) in general. Neither of these applies to our present-day situation.
The KU-Y purpose is: To be an open community of students who, with other interested and concerned people of all races, nationalities and faiths, seek through free expression of their convictions and doubts in words and action, to aid and understand their fellow man. To provide opportunities for the University community to combat racism and promote the safety of youth of all ages, to provide a means of student-student and student-community interaction, and to enhance the educational experience of students by providing programs that go beyond the scope of the classroom.
The UDR article reporting the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee hearings for budget requests stated that the KU-Y had refused funds in the past because we were a religious organization and that now there was very little religious function included in our activities. This is not accurate, and we whatew to clear up this point in case the misunderstanding extends beyond that of the reporter.
To the editor:
The KU-Y offers many types of diverse activities, many of which are open to non-members (membership meaning that they pay yearly dues of $2.50 to finance those programs) and benefit the entire campus as freshman Enounter, International Gift Fair, Rock Chalk Festival, Campus Social, the Social Issues Forum Film Festival, and the Urban Plunge. This over 1000 students have participated in some phase of KU-Y activities.
Consider what the KU-V is today, the wide participation we draw from the campus, the significant contribution we make to the campus and the community, and our very real financial need, we feel that our budget requests are both modest and reasonable.
We have operated on a deficit budget for the last three years, which has prompted us to apply for Student Activity fees. We are not asking for anywhere close to a total budget, but only a subsidy which would allow us to receive and meet the difference between our income and our expenses.
Bob Myers Student executive Wichita senior
Investigate Hoover?
Sen. Edward M, Kennedy, D-Mass., said he asked Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., to expand his probe of Army snooping to include the FBI monitoring practices.
Rv MICHAELL.. POSNER
Calls for the investigation of the FBI came from both friends and critics of Director J. Edgar Hoover in the trail of charges by House Democratic Leader Hale Boggs that House and Senate members have been telephone-tapped and spied on by the FBI
Rep. Emanuel Cellar, DN.Y., sent a letter to the Committee, said he would investigate an investigation of the growing controversy with members his
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Momentum is building for an extraordinary congressional investigation into the wiretapping operations of the FBI. The House of Representatives, as well as some hire experts to make sure its telephones aren't bugged.
The House Administration Committee announced Wednesday it would hire an elec-
tric engineer to replace telephones in the next few days to see if any eavesdropping devices are attached. The committee said it would retain the firm to make improvements to an irregular basis in the future.
Kleindienst has accused Boggs of either being sick or "not in possession of his faculties" when he insisted a high-one Hover speech.
Deputy Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst, who has joined other administration officials and Hoover in denying that wretches were used on congregants in cases like this can be an investigation to "clear the air" of snooping charges.
If Ervin does not enlarge investigations Kennedy said he would consider an investigation by his Senate Judicary Subcommittee on Administrative Practices and Procedures.
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Those There the Days
50 Years Ago Today—1921
Students are making better grades this semester than they did last semester according to a faculty office. At the end of mid-semester last November, 120 were placed on probation. The majority made up their work in a satisfactory report report show only 68 on probation.
Students reported as failing more than one third of their work during the first half of either semester are placed on probation before they can be made up by the end of three weeks their probation is ended.
number to 50.
At a meeting of the Ku Ku Khan (a KU spirit organization) last summer, the team made for the coming baseball season. The Ku Kus will have charge of all concessions and stumps at every game his season.
At the regular meeting they will select a pin and consider new members for the Klan for the coming year. At the present the total number is 38, and plans are being made to increase the
Despite the talk of
Dr. Forest Allen announced that season tickets for the six baseball games and the three track meetes would be on sale next week for $3.00. The regular ticket value for the games is $4.75. The discount would make it more get out to the games and especially to the track meets.
Doctor Allen said, "It is the student support we want and not the money. It is hoped that baseball and track will get the support that football and basketball have received."
40 Years Ago Today—1939
He has been a teacher who reduce the budgets of the school system and, in many places, the reduction of teacher's salaries was under consideration, according to F. P. Murphy, a professor at the University bureau of school service. O'Brien also reports that many schools are not lowering salaries, they are just not being raised according to schedule and budget, and are unable to stabilize existing salaries.
"femininity" "feminism" seems to be holding its own in the fashion world, with skirted jeans and framed skirts more seen and more.
The new fashion has all the lines of the old dividing riding skirt, except that it stops 12 inches from the heel of soft silk, and is worn with a sleeveless jacket that ends in a five inch drill at the waist. Both jacket and skirt are fastened with stiffeners like those used on boots.
10 Years Ago Today—1961
10 Years Ago Today—1961 Sherry Zilner, Mission freshman, relays Queen. Other Relays need activities include a Centennial square舞 in Zone X parking lot on Friday night, a parade through downtown Lawrence Street, and Relays舞 on Relays舞 on Saturday night. The University of Kansas Children's Theater will close with three performances of A. A. Play play will be given at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. in the University Theater in Murphy Hall.