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Tuesday, April 13. 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Purply Pride
Athletics win again as they so often do when it comes to donations to our universities.
Kansas State University will have a new "country club-like" facility added to its football dressing rooms at a cost of about a half-million dollars. One report is that a single contributor doled out a half million for the project.
This is believed to be the largest single donation to the university. Undoubtedly, And it all goes to advancing the fury of Purple Power—
The public and other friends of the university pay to see their team "hit and hustle" but how often do they put
out a single sum of a half-million dollars to improve a department to gain more Rhodes Scholars and Woodrow Wilson Fellows?
The endowment association last year hit up alumni to pay for artificial turf* at a school that should be expert in playing the best football grass possible.
K-State may lose its reputation as an a school yet and Sloe Tech will be fere
K-State Athletic Director Ernie Barrett has said the next major goal is to build a new basketball facility east of the new stadium at a cost of about $5 million. A new outdoor track would follow that, he says.
But does the school really want to become Jock U.?
A Barb for Dave
Two statements by the new student body president:
"I'm very concerned about the University as a whole and student government in particular. The University has suffered many black eyes over the past few years and what I'm concerned about is that the student government was allowed to ever wear it. It needn't direction if it is ever going to have credibility with the student body."
"I think the student body president ought to be a free agent to do what he wants and what he thinks best. The president has been strongly tied to the Senate in the past. I wanted to change the Student Senate structure so that it could operate with or without a president. I don't want the president to be forced into a situation where he has to speak for the whole Senate."
YOU MAY take my hand but don't expect me to lead you.
You may shout that J. Rabbleborous
Boltomus is a fool, but don't say that I told
you.
You may take what I say now, but take note that I shall change my mind about what I say a few paragraphs later, after all, I am an honorable fellow, I am making a great sacrifice for you slobs out there!
Of course the president of the student body ought to be concerned with the University as a whole and not be expected to sit behind the well-polished desk our generous Regents have bequeathed him. Of course the University has provided that thank you in the past, and contributory to that in no small way was the fact that student government was, indeed, "going the wrong way."
Consequently, the student government has for a long time been needing new direction, a point no one seems to dispute. And whether or not the student government has, or ever will have, credibility with the student body can best be gleaned from a look at the voting turnouts for recent elections.
As a long standing member of the student political scene, David Miller knows well the need for redirection of the student government along more concrete lines of thought and action in University matters. This should forever be the aim Student Senate, but it has for so long been called "kayedycky," that it has sought to save its large dawdling in superficial politicking and playing at personality cults.
ADMITTEDLY, THE Senate has severe limitations imposed upon it by its very environment. Anybody, that sets out to function effectively in a given sphere can do so, but only as a body . A BODY, not several parts that make an
anatomical whole occasionally, at the whim of a head or right arm.
Miller is advocating dissension within his Senate ranks even before he and they can get together to try to work out some measure of agreeable approach for the issues (all old) that they will be confronted with as the new school year begins. It does no good to talk of new approaches and the need for change, if the very core of one's suggestions serves to kindle dissent.
Bill Ebert's sojourn is over. Amen. Let us refrain from weighing the good of his administration against its bad. Aubrey's most basic failure was his inability to be a member of the Senate, so Miller cannot believe that he will not be found to be lacking in the same respect, he has decided that he will not even try to be a part of the Senate.
IF THAT WILL be the case, then we can conclude that Miller's term will be even less effective than Ebert's. He has, in effect, admitted that if he tries to get together with the Senate to work out any credible and creditable reforms, he and his staff constantly be at loggerheads. They will be, for example, cannary any kind of legislative achievement(?) into one year of free-lancing is beyond my comprehension.
Miller says, "I don't want the president to be forced into a situation where he has to speak for the whole Senate." Well, Ha, Ha to that, Dave old boy, or should it be 'rah, rah?' Maybe you intend to send them all to the residence halls and sororities to all our investees at all the nattering nabobs and lumbering nincompoops!
Miller says, "I couldn't go to graduate school and be president at the same time. The office of president is too important." Well, bully for you, Dave old boy. But how are you going to explain this big sacrifice to dad when he points out that a few paragraphs later you cry that the office of the Student body president is nebulous, and that there is no code of reference from which the president can work?
And again, Dave old boy, what if dad asks about you wanting to be a free agent, at the same time admitting that the president is only a member of the student body, so he can't speak for the student body, has no veto power and has no control over funds?
The office of president is indeed one for the holder to do with as he pleases, and to make of it what he wants. So think, Dave, how much of a cohesive force will a free agent president be on the already, and potentially delinquent senators. But before you throw a tantrum and demand your freedom, here . . . take a barb!
—Duke Lambert
News Briefs
NEW YORK (UP1)—Howard Samuels, the head of the Offtruck Betting Corp., said Sunday he had made 100 more betting partners because of the land office business at the nation's first two part-mutual betting companies opened Thursday. Samuels said the city-owned company would break even "earlier than they expected" and have doubled the take if we had
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The world teeter-tetter endurance championship was shattered Sunday by two Gardena High players who got on opposite ends of a Tuesday and went up and down
more facilities." Samuel said he expected to be taking bets on races at Aqueduct Racetrack or at Rosewell by early next month.
Like the goldfish swallows and telephone booth stuffers of profiteering, Mr. Adams and Donald Ball, both 18, found it difficult to explain why he stopped calling.
for 124 consecutive hours.
"It looked like the easiest book to read," an Amazon.com book of World Records. "Did Ball. "Besides, we didn't have anything else to do over the summer."
Calley Trial Raises Questions
By GILBERT RAIFORD
non-military Prostessor for Social Welfare Predeened the final convict and sentencing LS. William Calley was established back in the days of the trials of Adolf Eichman in Israel and those of his ill-fated compatriots in Germany. Also, it was established in the case of General Yamashita, who, by the way, was executed not because he was an enemy anyone but because his sense of morality was not high enough to cause him to protest the atrocities perpetrated by his countrymen!
During those days the world came close, with unheralded unanimity, to proclaiming war as a singular vehicle designed to protect and encourage those who would destroy human beings in following expansionistic and racist policies. There was a resounding condemnation which tended to redefine war and no longer was credence given to the staid and much too licious cliche that "all is fair in love and war."
THE WAR TRIALS following World War II established that man has a higher authority regarding the commission of devastating immoral act than that of his mortal superiors. There was universal sentiment that certain acts of war, no matter who issued the orders, could be considered categorically and unequivocally wrong! It was hoped that with this recognition would come a universal demand for a clear definition of the "enemy"
This, in a nutshell, is what the Calley case is all about. While it plays havoc with war definitions, it is extremely important since it now sets the stage upon which logical and reasonable people can question illogical and unreasonable orders. For the first time in the modern history, it forces upon each man a personal responsibility for his individual acts that would have been ignored when he enables him to commit grossly immoral actions relying upon the "Charge of the Light Brigade" philosophy that "it's not for me to reason why. . ."
and a clear definition of the participants of war, i.e., those directly related to planning for and engaging in war activity. As far back as the ratification of the Articles of the Geneva treaty such definitions tended to preclude the premeditated and systematic killing of civilians.
If the world is to survive the struggle of man against man, we must indeed begin to "reason why"—collectively and individually. I suspect that the main cause of the pervasive world conflicts is directly contributable to the fact that very few men reason at all—most preferring to be told what and how to do; seldom, if ever, do they question the why.
ANYWAY, THE Calley, case brings us to a most uncomfortable moment of truth: who are, in fact, the enemy in Vietnam and for what very specific and itemized reasons? And who are the war participants and what
evidence identifies them? To be sure, these questions remain only glibly addressed and no reasonable explanations have ever been issued in response to them. Surely it is not enough to simply say that we are stopping the spread of communism—this is much too vague defense at all; and if LL Calley has any defense at all, he honestly could not identify the immorality of his acts based on the hazy definitions of our involvement in Vietnam.
Still, not to prosecute this lieutenant to the fullest extent of the law is to ignore the few forward steps taken during the German war trials. To ignore these steps is to eradicate the man may go on forever perpetrating ghastly injustice in other with impunity being might—not right.
CONSIDERING THE overwhelming gravity of the crime, Calley's projected punishment is hardly more than a slap on the wrist. While I personally would ask for nothing more, I cannot, in great deference to the innocent victims of his ghastly acts, ask for anything less! And while I personally grieve that being singled out while others who are at least willing to justify go free, this grief is not so blinding that my knowledge exonerated. To the best of my knowledge a trigger man is never released simply because the big bosses go free. The emphasis is concentrated upon getting the bosses—not releasing the trigger man!
LETTERS
Miller's Raid, Disputed Islands, Plagiarism
To the editor:
The Miller Raid of '71
Confiscated and busted many a one
Who now is yelling "Unfair unkind.
"You failed to catch the mastermind!"
Law enforcement late at night
Revealed before our biased sight
The profit-motive behind the
"ass
And escapism baring bare its lazy ass.
"Down with conformism, profits and gain!"
Shout the pushers each criminally sane.
And little minds, repeating the ey.
Conform and escape, seduced by the lie
Of "revolution and freedom and new life style."
When children are denied their pot and glue!'
And civil disobedience is the brave man's "other."
Threats of violence once pulled down the law
And justice fell beneath the tyrant's paw.
But to argue that an officer should be the judge
Conformist cowards, each and every one
Evil laws should be changed one way or other
who opposes the Miller Raid of 721
On grounds "a riot will certainly ensue
And ignore the law so the wellborn son may fudge
Belch from their thoughtless minds the middle-class bile Of "Costum-tume, mids, and
illegal repression,"
Will give up all to the escapist bourgeois Hun.
So I say
"The law is bad, immoral even,
That takes away my right to the
grass and gin!"
"Long live the Miller Raid of nineteen hundred and seventy-one."
ligur repression.
Support with their riches the
pusher's concession.
10. defend those who have broken the law.
In the name of profits and having a ball.
seek to subvert freedom and the process due
Jim D. Shelton graduate student
Meeting on the lawn in front of Strong Hall,
Some psuedo-facist loudly
shouting "outlaw!"
role in the resuscitation of Japanese militarism. We denounce the actions of the States to give Thao-Yu Tait Join to Japan in 1927 as part of the Ryukus. We will not permit any violation of China's territorial rights.
The fact that Tao-Yui Tai belongs to China is indisputable. Japan, with outright support of the Chinese government, has been resorted to armed aggression to secure these rights. In recent months, U.S. government's conspiratorial
A geophysical survey shade in 1968 for the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East from the United Nations revealed that the subsulfur of the continental shelf in the Yellow and East China Seas may hold rich oil resources. The Japanese government was confirmed in 1969, the Japanese government claimed the islands and ordered Ryukus Security Forces to Tiao-Yu Tai. Chinese fishermen have evicted foreign fishermen.
We can not remain silent when brute force replaces justice.
aggression becomes a reality. We can not remain anathetic
To the editor:
I read with interest the letter to the Kansan of April 7 written by Maurine Firner, who purported to enlighten "the now german nation" contributions of the past two generations. Unfortunately, Mrs. Firner apparently forgot to include quotation marks in her report.
jurisdiction over the Ryukus. But Tiao-Yu Tai is not part of the Ryukus.
you may remain apathetic when peace is presented at a demonstration in Washington, D.C. is scheduled for Washington, D.C. for your support and participation.
Join us now. In the book of history it will be written: We did our part in bringing peace to this world.
Upon reading the speech enclosed in their graduation annotations, seniors must have been surprised discover that Mrs. Finer obviously educator English words so much that she appropriated them.
KU Tiao-Yu Tai
Action Committee
P. O. Box 72, Lawrence
There is, of course, a fine line between admiration and plagiarism.
To the editor:
Griff & the Unicorn
Tias-Yu Tai (TYT) were mentioned by the Chinese and were mentioned as early as 1403 (Ming Dynasty) in a sailing map. have since been been a tradition refuge for Chinese fishermen.
The Tiao-Yu Islands lie 120 miles NE of Taiwan and 570 miles SW of Japan. They are eight small islands.
in 1985, Formosa together with all other territories in a permiting to it was ceded to the Cairo Declaration stated that "all the territories Japan has taken from China are to be returned to the Republic of China." In the following year, the Japan Supreme Court ruled that the Japanese government had made Taipei, Taiwan and not the Ryukus. The Potsdam agreement that the Japanese sovereign rights of TTY Nations of the Chinese people The United States-Japan Peace Treaty at the signing of the Riyadh agreements these provisions. Here the United States is given administrative
Phyllis Thomas Topeka senior
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By Sokoloff
**WITH PAIN HE GOT UP TO HIS FEET**
THOUGH FROZEN TO THE BONE
HE CRAWLED TO THE NEAREST HARDWARE STORE
AND BOUGHT AN ICE-CREAM CONE
A GENTLE SNOW IS FALLING NOW
THE SUMMER WIND BLOWS CHILL
I SHIVER NEAR MY PHONOGRAPH
PERHAPS I ALWAYS WILL "
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
They're trying to break us up, old buddy!"
Those Were the Days
50 Years Ago Today—1921
A strange looking box arrived at Snow Hall for Dr. B. M. Allen. It contained four live aligators from New Orleans. They were to be used by Dr. Allen in his paletontology classes. The teacher partner has asked for their bones which will be used in his comparative anatomy classes.
Congress should adopt a resolution declaring peace with Germany immediately, President Harding recommended in his first message to Congress today. "Such action," he said, in no sense be construed as a desertion of the allies."
25 Years Ago Today—1946
The men who made the atom bomb today
would be armies for world control of their
dread brain-choc.
"I repileable time is ticking away, and
the world is threatened with a perpetual war
with me."
The scientists said other nations could develop the bomb in three to eight years and warned that an unrestrained arms race would lead undoubtedly to an atomic war of unpredictable destruction.
"The educational system is failing the youth of America. It is fashioning sparrows and pushing them out to compete with hawks. Why on earth should we be taught this foolishness about honesty, truth and fair play?" -Kansan editorial.
10 Years Ago Today—1961
A Soviet air force major, Yuri Gagarin, rode a space ship around the earth and returned safely today. The feat signalled man's first conquest of space, and a noted British scientist at once called it the "greatest scientific achievement in the history of man. Eventually it may open the planets to exploration by men from earth."