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Monday, April 12, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
If the Kansas Legislature has its way—
kick in on operating on nearly the same
budget it created,
The logic of the situation fails me.
The Right of the Stadium lives here.
Justification for the cuts seems to be
that the University should be able "to run a
tighter ship."
Things are already tight—and by the time the Legislature blunches through the bill, the Democrats will have won.
Various Money saving proposals are being considered, among them not mowing university grass, and limiting maintenance to absolutely essential needs. This is in addition to freezing faculty salaries which, in effect, cuts
The Legislature is abandoning the universities
It's legislative form to slash education requests, but in the past the requests
Politics and education financing don't mix.
usually have been restored in the final moments of the session. This time it looks
This time Docking opened a Panda's box that may vex him at the polls in '72.
The Legislature, wanting to jab the Governor, seems to think that the only item Kansans should spend their money on is votes and raises for legislators, of course.
The universities of Kansas, however, can't afford another year of Docking's political ploys and the resulting clumsy vindictiveness by the Legislature.
Unfortunately, the universities only salvation can come at the polls—and November '72 seems pretty remote.
Tom Slaughter
Joy to the world
Ping Pong Diplomacy
The United States has made a significant break through in relations with Red China. Americans are treading on the mysterious soil of China for the first time in more than 20 years.
And just who are these fortunate patriots who are representing our country? They are not career diplomats, not a trade mission, not a religious group and not even a band of peace advocates.
President Nixon is elated, and TV new commentators have chortled to
Our representatives in Peking are ping-pong players. Yes, the United States government has entered a relationship relations—ping-pong diplomacy.
The "dramatic development" has been greeted with as many guffaws as hurrahs. The Red Chinese pingpong team is the world champion, and they probably invited the foreign teams to play exhibitions so that the home team could crush the visitors on home ground. Red
Judging from the wild elation over the ping pong affair, I fear the United States may just settle for ping-pong diplomacy, or maybe checkers diplomacy or even tiddledwinks diplomacy.
We should try to do a little better than that.
—Ted Iliff
Certainly the United States should seek invitations for more Americans to China, and Red Chinese should be allowed to visit here.
Minor Problem
Reprinted from the Emporia Gazette
If North Vietnam had a talented baseball team, the administration would probably be tempted to pit the enemy ballplayers against the Baltimore Orioles as guests of the government (especially when one considers Nixon's infatuation with sports).
national magazine decide it might be worthwhile to send a reporter to each of the 50 states to determine the most pressing problems facing local governments. The two or three most interesting subjects could comprise the majority feature piece in the magazine, enabling its readers to see how things were going elsewhere.
When the reporters returned with their preliminary findings, the editor lined them up and called roll, with each man calling out the top issue of the report to state. The roll call went smoothly for a while.
So the reporters went out, and attended legislative proceedings where they were in session, and interviewed top state officials where they were not.
President Nixon should remember that athletic relations and diplomatic relations are quite different.
Chinese superiority in ping-pong will probably be used as proof of Red
"Indiana."
"State revenue."
"Iowa."
"Rural development."
"Kansas."
"Bingo."
"Kentucky."
"Unemployment."
"Louisi ... Wait. Wait. Wait. Kansas?"
"Yes."
"Bingo?"
"Yes."
"Kansas, where and on what did you spend."
"Kansas, where and on what did you spend your three weeks expense money?"
"In Kansas, sir."
"And you found that the state's biggest problem is
"'
"Bingo, sir."
"And you will explain this how?"
"They like to play bingo, sir, at their churches and lodges and club meetings. And the new attorney general says it is illegal to play for money and that they have to stop. The people are up in arms, some of them at least, and the Legislature is trying to find a way to let them play bingo again."
"And that is the top issue?"
"No problems with, say, welfare, for instance"? "Oh yes, sir, they have a funding problem there," and a feud between the Democratic governor and the Republican governor. But more people are concerned about bings."
"Yes, sir."
"What about education, environment, drug abuse, highways, state revenues?"
"Oh there are some things to work out there yet, but they seem to think they can work them out in the last day or two of the session, after they get bingo settled."
"They spend all their time on bingo?"
"Oh no, not all of it. Like the other day the House took time out to pass a resolution on the Calley
"What does the Calley case have to do with state government?"
"But most of their problems must be pretty minor there, if they spend all that time on binge."
"I don't know, sir."
I see, Kansas, I think you've turned up a story here. And its about time we had some humor in our news.
"It would seem so, sir."
Those Were the Days
Dr. William McKeever told members of the YWCA that a good state of health, a good moral character, a good college education and a good education are the four things to look for in a prospective husband.
45 Years Ago Todav-1926
Miss Evangella Ritchie, a secretary for the stenographic bureau in Fraser Hall called attention to herself and the office when she and several other female employees wore snocks to the office.
McKeever said, "A rich and enjoyable life may be on easy terms and low expense if one will only learn while young to invest more of himself and less of his money as an offering for happiness."
50 Years Ago Todav—1921
The Kansan said, "The spectacular mat work and tumbling of the men was especially well received. The aesthetic dancing of the women's classes showed commendable skill."
The department of physical education gave its annual demonstration "in various exhibitions of gymnastic skill." The program involved over six hundred students.
The Kansas City Alumni Association of the University of Kansas held its alumni dinner which was called by G. H. Bowles, president of the association, "the greatest gathering of former students ever held in Kansas City." The association expressed extreme interest in the success of the Dollar Driver" which was started to fund the building of the Kansas Union and Memorial Stadium.
The Kansan said, "Despite the many attacks made by people of the older generation who adhere to the manners of dress of the 'old school' and who wax hot in their criticism of the immmodesty and impracticability of the modern style of dress, modern dress has seemed to verge upon the practical a great many times in the past few years."
The Civil Rights council of the University condemned the John Birch Society, calling it a "totalitarian organization which seeks to undermine the constitutional rights and freedoms of all who seek, through the fulfillment of their heritage as Americans, the realization of these rights." The Council proposed an investigation into another area of campus discrimination—fraternity living.
The Kansas predicted new records would be set in the javelin throw and the shot put at the annual Kansas Relays. The Kansas also said, "it is likely relay fans will see the quarter mile run in less than fifty seconds—something that has never been done on a Kansas field.
Ten Years Ago Todav—1961
The political science reading room was opened in 12 Strong Hall. The library is a gift from Herman Meyer and Margaret Fuchs.
The revised western civilization notes, "written in an extremely analytical and comprehensive fashion," were sold for $4 and were delivered free. The Senior Class postponed its party at the Big League ballpark.
The Senior Class postponed its party at the Big Barn until April 21.
The Repetitious Turmoil
By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst
Jerash and Ajloun are small Jordanian towns lying in the midst of winey olives, olive groves and small fields of wheat and millet close to the border with Syria. In normal times Jerash also is an attraction for tourists, drawn here by the Roman ruins.
But the "tourists" today are the Palestinian commanders who have sworn to toppar Tjordan's King Hussein and have turned the small island of the capital of Annan into strombolls.
Friends neither of Hussein nor the moderate regime in Lebanon, they have declared that the "road to Tel Aviv lies through Amman and Beirut."
For Hussein it almost could be a replay of 1951, when as a boy of 16 he stood beside his grandfather, King Abdulah Ibn Saud, at the door to the Mosque of Omar and was splattered with blood as an assassin's bullet cut the elder man down.
The assassin was a follower of the Mufti of Jerusalem, a Palestinian and bitter enemy of Abdullah whose Arab legion had seized and held old Jerusalem over the opposition of other Arab states during the first war with Israel.
In Hussein's 50,000-man army today are
some of the same desert warriors who supported his grandfather and upon whom he must depend to save his throne against the Palestinian commanders. UPI correspondent John Bonar acquired dramatic, if inadmissible, relief it on the road leading out of Jerash this year.
"We are the militia of King Abdullah, we have been fighting for King Abdullah ever since."
Blocking the road in front of him stood an aged man with an equally aged Enfield rifle.
And there it was, Abdullah's desert Bedouins still aligned on the side of the Hashemeh kingdom, whether it be in a new country or in another Arab state, includes the Palestinians.
The guerrillas have declared Jordan essential as a base of their operations against Israel and the more extreme already have the North Lebanon and Hussein regardless of arbitration attempts.
Some of the other Arab states, among them Egypt, Syria, Libya and Algeria, and the commands have accused Hussein of waging an attack of extinction against the Palestinian forces.
Hussin himself has told the guerrillas to get their weapons out of Amman "or the city."
The Lighter Side
The Other Side of Spying
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The recent Senate investigation of military snapping on the home front examined only one end of the sygglass—the collecting of information.
Left untouched was the equally active function at the other end—the giving of information.
We know from the subcommittee hearings and other disclosures that information about individual citizens is being compiled in vast quantity by Army intelligence, the FBI, CIA, law enforcement agencies and maybe a half dozen other nony organizations.
Yet almost nothing has been said about where this information is coming from.
In the absence of hard evidence, one must resort to surmise. So my conjecture is that somewhere in the land there is an educational institution known as the Shady EI Inform School.
An inform school, which is not to be confused with a reform school or a charm school, recognizes there is good money to be made as a paid informer for the intelligence agencies.
All too often, these agencies have had to rely on amateur tale bearers or the common garden
Therefore, the inform school was established to provide an elite corps of professional informers to supply data to the agencies. Its students are trained the latest techniques of sutch-icing.
variety of blabbermouth. Which are not your most reliable sources.
The curriculum at Shad Emly It is broad and diversified, including such courses as Rumormongering 201, Finkery H111, Heasray 320 and Canards and Innuendo 412.
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OD Attacked Again
To the editor:
In a letter to the Kansan on February 23, David Doolittle questions the style and ethics of the Oread Daily.
Mr. Doollitt first questions why the Oread Daily, which claims to be a "people's paper," only prints leftist views. To understand why the OD only prints leftist views yet claims to be a "people's paper" we must understand the nature of the new in left America. The new left is a group that is able to power to the people. Rather they are elitist members of a group interested in power over the masses through the use of totalitarian tactics.
From this quote we see that the OD is not above blackmail and the advocacy of planting bombs. One wonders when the students who were left behind were even allowed to grow plants.
And so it goes, issue after issue, the OD blatantly disregards the rights and the will of the majority of students and citizens. What is most unfortunate is that the elected representatives of the students have tolerated if not aided the OD, to the detriment of all.
If we read the OD we will find this to be apparent. In Vol. 4, No. 12 of OD there is an article entitled "Bombs Away," which says in part, 'The triple bombings can only be regarded as a beautiful success.' Meanwhile, River City hasn't had a bombing since the McGrew Realty explosion last August. Come on now gals and guys, let us not forget that our neighbors are careful because our sources indicate KI is at the present backyard and means they've got some volunteer guards in most campus buildings for now. THE PEOPLE, HOWEVER, CAN DO ANYTHING."
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Quotes and Quirks In the News
BUFFALO, N.Y.—After rolling a few games at a bowling alley, a woman from suburban Cheekwawaga discovered in the parking lot that two doors from her 1966 sports car had been stolen.
The caller asked he wanted to "thank you personally. I'm out of a job and I really need them."
Police said the doors were worth $400.
She went back into the alley to await a ride home and while waiting received a telephone call from the thief. "..."
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—The Civil Service Commission has upheld the dogcatcher of a dogcatcher who contended he was totally disabled in an autumn accident.
The rung came after commission members viewed a 30-minute color film taken by a private investigator showing Able M. Gonzales, an ex-convict.
The magazine used a new paper stock, made from all recycled waste paper, to print the issue, which focuses on ecology.
RIPON, Wis. "The spring issue of Ripon College's quarterly magazine is printed on 100 per cent trash."
BIRMINGHAM, England—City Councilman James Eames had lunch with Queen Elizabeth Wednesday when she visited Birmingham. Then he quickly changed out of the formal clothes and into a British rail engineer and guided the royal train back to London.
MARSALA, Sicily—West Germany's Wolfgang Rudy Neumann
Wednesday to attempt to cross the Mediterranean from
Sicily by boat chartered byutschelline.com.
Adverse weather forced Neumann, the world parachute soaring champion, to turn back after 25 miles. He had planned to soar all the way from Marsala to the Tunisian island of Djerba, a distance of 322 miles.
WASHINGTON—President Nixon, in a television address on Vietnam:
"The issue very simply is this: shall we leave Vietnam in a way that—by our own actions—consciously turn the country over to the Communists? Or shall we leave in a way that gives the South Vietnamese a reasonable chance to survive as a free people?"
The people of Southeast Asia can no longer bear this war, and neither can the people of the United States. What we need from the world is a new form of peace.
WASHINGTON—Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., commenting on Nikon's speech.
PARIS-A spokesman for the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris Peace Talks:
"Mr. Nixon puts forward misleading claims in order not to set a date for the withdrawal of all the American troops from South Vietnam. Once again, this shows that he does not give up his dark scheme of militarily occupying South Vietnam for an indefinite period of time. This shows that Mr. Nixon still refuses to end his war of aggression and death and captivity of an ever larger number of American troops."
"We invited the vice president because he's known as such a straight shooter. Besides, there is a lot of space out there."
PORTLAND, Ore.—Portland City Commission Francis Ivance, who invited Vice President Sipro hit the gun at a ball in a
Book Reviews
EXILES, by Michael J. Arlen (Pocket, $1.25)—A portrait of the fabulous Michael Arlen and his wife, Marcia Mercati, and their lives in the twenties, drawn by their son, a superior writer whose work often appears in the New Yorker. The book was later published as Hat," and he and his wife were part of that artificial world where also walked such people as D. H. McKenzie, S. L. Grangerz, the book won wide praise in its hardback edition.
KANSAN reviews
CARNIVAL, by Arthur H. Lewis (Pocket, $1.25)—An entertaining drawn picture of the man who makes midways, goo-goo girls, freaks, snakes, cotton candy, ferris wheels and all that. Lewis visited carnivals for six months, talking about their lives and about their lives. The picture is a fantastic one. Lewis wrote "The Day They Shook the Plum Tree" and that entertaining view of Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania, "Hex."
JACKIE', by Irving Shulman (Pocket, $1.25)—A book that depicts how our one-time first
lady, the present Mrs. Onassis,
has been exploited by the mass
media of the land, Shulman.
angry about the whole thing,
not because he was a reporter,
where so-called journalists pump
out crap about Jackie, her
children, the Kennedys, Onassis,
and everybody else who has
known the wife of the late
President, Bear, hear!
THE RECOVERY OF CONFIDENCE, by John W. Gardner (bought through work by the former senior health, education and welfare, chairman of the National Urban Coalition, and present promoter of the National Urban Coalition) seeking to bring about a more sensible realignment of national politics. Gardner writes about the need for solutions to the big problems.
THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF MADAME LIANG AND THE NEW YEAR, two novels by Pearl
S. Buck (Pocket Books, 95 cents each)—E stories sowhato spawner than the earlier works of the novelist, which included the *Dragon Earth* and the *Dragon Steel*. The *The Seventh* is about three sisters, sent by America to escape Commun China. The second is about a politician, his wife, and a little Korean boy who was the product of an orphanage since many years before between the politician and a Korean.
SAGBRUSH SWINDLE, by Peter Fielder (Pocket Books, 60s, 70s) and his western yawn, his hero usually beat Pat Stevens, the hero of this one. In one this Patt Pights beat Bostock, a big mean range boss.
MINORITIES ALL, edited by Gerald Leinwand (Pocket Books, 95 cents) - A compilation of writings - "hypersonic America," about "hypersonic America," "America and about life here." Writers include Bob Cobidine, Harry Golden, Mahala Jackson, President John F. Kennedy.