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University Daily Kansan Friday, Sept. 29, 1961
A Lesson in Tyranny
The Communists continued to seal off East Berlin this week in an effort to prevent East Germans from fleeing to freedom in West Germany. One of the primary reasons for this action is the tremendous drain on East Germany's manpower that these refugees have represented over the years.
BUT WHAT IS PARTICULARLY WORTHY of note here is the underlying cause of the tide of refugees that has flowed from East to West Germany over the years. The East Germans had a way of comparing the communist and the free world while they had access to West Berlin and could gain information about the West. What they saw and what they learned, in West Berlin and in East Germany made millions of them flee to West Germany through West Berlin. A large percentage were young people.
What did they learn and how had they been forced to live that they felt compelled to flee?
THEY FOUND THAT COMMUNISM WAS not the wave of the future, as their Communist masters had told them, but a wave out of the dark past. They found that it was not a "peoples democracy" that has been established, but rule by a new imperial aristocracy: the Russian Communist Party.
The East Germans quickly learned that this aristocracy controlled the armed forces and the
government of the country. And like all controlling aristocracies, it used them to suppress all opposition to its rule. Neither the youth of East Germany nor anyone else had the right to question the aristocracy's rule. After all, the triumph of Communism had been divinely ordained (by Karl Marx) and was therefore unquestionable.
The perpetuation of this divinely ordained rule was another reason for the erection of the barricades that now bar access to West Berlin. Whether or not it caused East Germans to flee, the information that filtered back to them from West Berlin aided in their lack of belief in the Communist system.
The barricades that cut off the East Germans from West Berlin have effectively stopped the flow of refugees out of East Germany and keep the East Germans from using West Berlin to gain information about the free world.
THE PROBLEM THE SOVIETS MUST NOW resolve, barring revolt, is whether they have sealed the East Germans off tightly enough from the West to begin the twisted process of indoctrinating the next generation of East Germans effectively without significant outside interference. This is the only way of insuring any kind of stability in their East German satellite and the Soviets are well aware of it.
William H. Mullins
Why Jack Is a Dull Boy
It seems that the many and varied campus organizations active at KU testify to the wide scope of interests present in the KU student body. These groups can be classified as professional, religious, honorary, political with even a few just plain intellectual ones. There is a place for everyone except the recluse or the extreme introvert in at least one of these groups.
OF COURSE, THE NUMBER OF CAMPUS organizations is constantly in a state of flux as new groups are being formed and old ones fade from the scene. This year particular interest has been drawn to the new groups being formed. Two organizations have already been formed and two others have stirred much controversy with mere mention of possible plans to start groups.
It is interesting to consider the purposes of these groups and try to predict their eventual success or failure. Newest among the two most recently formed student groups is a club whose activities few will want inscribed on their transcripts. But the popularity of the purposes of Students Interested in Pleasure (SIP) can hardly be disputed as the group had 250 members just a few minutes after it opened its membership.
CERTAINLY THE KANSAN does not wish to criticize the student in his few hours of entertainment. But, it is hard to understand the phenomenom of student behavior which causes students to react so violently in favor of an obviously non-intellectual group when some of the more educational and intellectual clubs suffer because of membership difficulties.
Last Tuesday the newly initiated Presidential Ferum got off to what was described as a shaky start with a group of 30 students. Few issues are more important than those that come from the White House. It seems that college students, supposedly in pursuit of knowledge, would be happy to have an opportunity to take advantage of some of these campus organizations to broaden their perspective.
BUT. THIS DOES NOT SEEM to be the case and KU students in many instances are more interested in the West Coast Swing than in the Western World and its problems.
Some seem to be dedicated to the often quoted sentence, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Many forget that the same logic works in reverse: "All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy." —Ron Gallagher
What. Liberals on the Campus?
Editor:
From the Daily Kansan, I learn that two of our perspicacious and patriotic KU boys have learned of the ominous situation in the political science department here at the University, and to some extent in the department of economics, and have vallynt volunteered to explain the situation to the people of Kansas. This has cheered me more than anything since McCarthy died, for I have been worrying about the political science department for many years; but unlike these precocious boys, I had not the courage to say anything about it.
IT HAS BEEN GROWING worse, for not many years ago there was a conservative in the department. I had thought that there was one there yet—a real genuine, rock-ribbed, copper-riveted Republican—but the boys doubtless know their facts. It presents a baffling problem, really, a problem in all universities, for it appears that when men learn a great deal about political science they turn liberal. We could get uneducated men, perhaps bar tenders or salesmen to teach political science, but they might turn liberal too, and the students would probably not listen to them. If these two boys were willing to serve in the department, that might be the best solution; but probably they would not want to serve with a dozen or more liberals around; they might not be safe there.
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But these precocious young men have apparently not seen all that should be reported to the people of Kansas. Not only the political science department and the economics department, but many others are infested with liberalism: English—I once knew two socialists in this department—history, foreign languages, psychology, education, philosophy, journalism, fine arts and chemistry. I even know a professor of engineering who is a liberal, although in other ways a fine man and to my almost positive knowledge there are three or four liberal deans in the University. Unfortunately education seems to have a strong tendency to develop liberalism—professors get a habit of reading. Really, boys, you haven't seen half of the problem;
our University is rotten with liberalism.
IT IS FORTUNATE THAT these public-spirited adolescents are willing to devote their time to the education of the public because of course the professors are incapable of doing it, McCarthy is dead, The Un-American House Committee is busy with student riots and revolutions, and Goldwater is far away and is busy training his Ichthyosauria and Dinosauria for the protection of American freedom and democracy and for the 1934 presidential campaign. Messrs. McLwaine, Stanley et al., are our last line of defense, our only hope for cleaning out the cancerous liberalism that infests our dear old KU and for preserving our democratic way of life. Perhaps the best way to do that would be to have these boys, with the help of the John Birchers and Senator Goldwater, draw up a schedule of views and opinions that professors would be permitted to express.
John Ise
Professor Emeritus of Economics
EATON'S FRIDAY CARTOON
"ITWOULD NEVER work out for us Charlie-We don't like the same radio stations!"
The Poetry Corner
MODERN MAN
Love fled, Mind stung him like a snake; he could not Force it to vision's will.
He tracked the orbits of the stars, yet could not Travel his own thoughts' world;
Entangled in the labyrinth of his science
Lost count of good and ill;
Took captive the sun's rays, and yet no sunrise On life's thick night unfurled.
SCIENCE AND ART
The object of science and art is not knowledge,
The object of the garden is not the bud and the flower,
Science is an instrument for the preservation of Life,
Science and art are servants of Life,
Slaves born and bred in the house.
EAST AND WEST
In the West, Intellect is the source of life. In the East, Love is the basis of life. Through Love, Intellect grows acquainted with Reality, And Intellect gives stability to the work of Love. Arise and lay the foundations of a new world, By wedding Intellect to Love.
(Editor's Note: The above are translations of poems of Muhammed Iqbal, the founder of Pakistan concept of poetry. They were submitted by Aslam Faridi, Pakistan graduate student.)
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