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Tuesday, April 6, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Vote Harris and Spearman
Both Harris and Spearman offer perspectives that are sorely needed in the field.
Vote today for J. Oliver Harris, city commission, John Spearman Jr., school board—and vote yes for the police-fire tax.
Harris, instrumental in creating Hope Plaza, stresses unity. Unity, at face value may not say much—but applied to the fear, hate and paranoia witnessed in the last year the slogan commands significance.
John Spearman Sr. served as a member of the Lawrence School Board, and offered the board a sensitive role in the management of the Lawrence Concerned Black Parents,
A vote for the police-fire tax would supplement the departments and ease the strain on the men during periods of turmoil such as last spring. The need for a vigilante "auxiliary force" would also allow a larger well-trained police department.
A unified University vote for these men would bolster their chances significantly.
Tom Slaughter
Kunstler on Campus
Reprinted from the Indiana Daily University of Indiana, March 29, 1974.
Attorney William Kuntsler may not get the social revolution he wants, but he seems to be causing some changes on campuses he visits.
Today's elections hold a special significance for Lawrence—the present a chance to begin proving the "recon-idence of university and city officials read as fact
Spearman knows of the problems facing students in the Lawrence schools and is brave enough to speak up.
It seems that some of the older folk get so upset about the fiery Kunstler rhetoric falling on "impressionable" student ears and counseling them to turn against our government that ... well, they're willing to subdue us. The argument is supposed to stand in order to prevent the appearance of persons like Kunstler on campus.
This incident should be of particular interest to us here at LU., for we are currently facing our own Kunster-inspired controversy.
At Murray State University in Kentucky, the president and the Board of Regents have been trying all semester to figure out some way of preventing Kunster's appearance on the campus. His speech, part of the Student Government's "Insight" series, could not be banned legally, the university officials found. So they announced that they were simply barring the entire "Insight" program, and all of its speakers—including S. I. Hayakawa, president of San Francisco State University; Dr. Charles Hurst, president of Malcolm X College; and Philip Abbott Luce, a leader of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). (Ironically, while these three speakers probably will not appear, Kunster is speaking off campus at Murray tonight.)
The Education Committee of the Indiana House is studying a bill which "provides that university facilities, tax funds, and fees shall not be made available to persons or organizations advocating violence or civil injustice," according to the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce legislative calendar.
Some observers believe the bill was largely inspired by concern about Kunstler's speech on the I.U. campus last fall.
The subject has been the subject of two fiery Board of Trustees' meetings since Kunstler's appearance. The general expression of the trustees has been that the line has to be drawn somewhere. And keeping speakers such as Kunstler off campus is precisely the line some trustees seek.
It's not inconceivable that some trustees would approve of this measure before the House committee.
How, then, one asks, to reach them? First, of all, you have to talk in basic terms. You have to make it clear that to be against the bill is not necessarily to endorse Kunstler or what he believes. It is simply to be against an effort by students to control teachers and students on Indiana campuses can see and hear.
To anyone with even an elementary understanding of civil liberties and tolerance for ideas with which they disagree, such a measure is outrageous. In those who support the measure do not possess such an understanding.
The Lighter Side
But those who make that argument must be made to understand that a far greater danger is created when they attempt to arbitrarily set limits on who can and can't speak on a university campus.
Most of those who support the bill would probably agree that a university is supposed to stimulate free discussion and inquiry. But, they might say, the talks of men like Kunstler do not fall within those bounds. They advocate violence and revolution, the bills' supporters would say, and it is intolerable that university funds and facilities be used to promulgate those views.
By DICK WEST
They simply must recognize that all of the rattings, all of the exhortions to violence, even all of the violence perpetrated by all of the radicals everywhere could not equal the damage caused by the attacks, and they cannot be exacted by bills like the one now under consideration by the Education Committee of the Indiana House.
A Phone Call for Daddy
"Do you mean you want to talk to my father on the telephone?" Spoken incredulously, with rising inflexion.
The 27th time the phone rang the other evening, the call was for me. My teen-age daughter, who works at 36 calls, answered, as always.
My whisper:
"Your father. Is your father at home?"
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The night the telephone call was for daddy:
Long pause "... Hold the line a minute. please ..."
"Hello, may I speak to your father?"
She found me in the parlor where I was working on my anthology of "Best Loved Poems from the Congressional Record."
Her eyebrows were arched in wonderment.
"Daddy, there's a man on the phone and he says he wants to take his phone out, credulously, with rising inflation. He became frozen in astonishment."
"There's nothing particularly disturbing about it," my wife said. "It's just that the children and me have it has never been so bad."
"Why would anybody be calling adder, my son said. He began to cry when he realized he was when he feels his security is threatened by some strange man."
"Now cut that out," I commanded. "What's so upsetting about somebody wanting to talk on the telephone?"
Are you sure you heard him correctly?" my wife said.
"It has too happened before. I distinctly remember getting a telephone call in 1936."
I went into the bomb shelter where we keep the telephone and phone lines open. Sergio Cato, my boomerang teacher, calling to cancel the next
"I tried to reach you about a hundred times before," he said, "but your phone has been busy for the last 11 days."
"Yes, but that was before the children were born."
"Yes, she on out on dates occasionally. But she and her boyfriend are not going to say to each other when they're together. So they come home with her."
I hung up and went back into the parlor. My wife and children were huddled together apprehensively.
"I know," I said. "My daughter was on the line."
"Doesn't she ever leave the house?"
"It's okay," I assured them Wrong number."
'Well, they said the new Post Office Department would be more efficient.'
Mr. Lowe says it rests on people like Peter, the baker's apprentice, and two of his friends who make bread together. They make bread because Nancy is convinced that store-bought food has no nutritional value (This is objectionable with this concerner girl) it has
Mr. Louv raises the issue of the manual laborer who has dropped out of college, but he ignores the question of a baker's apprentice how to cook. How does he relate to his fellow workers, the high school dropout, beer-drinking TV watchers? Does he have any experience styling a Jack Nicholson in "Easy Pieces" (without access to his family's more urbane surroundings) or does he comprise an educated friend and entertain them at social gatherings with anecdotes about the good, pure life down at the shop? What wonder if Mr. Louv now leaves? Mr. Lou nowhere tells us. Perhaps he should tell us about these things. We are merely ignorant readers seeking the answers to the educational editorial pages of student newspapers. Mr. Louv complains of formula writing (some fine poetry has been written by for-profit companies concentrate on the actualities which cause and shape the news. Walter Lippmann touched on this sort of question in "Public Information" and information elite to supply unbiased data. The question still presents itself who has the right to say what the facts are; what is going on? How does the news rest?
It is nice to see that Richard Louv is still practicing his own style of journalist as intutior and author. He has been the opportunity to perfect this technique, usually only found in the decline of Norman Mailer and the more loosely edited sections of his work. He can also make of Mr. Louv's pieces make enjoyable reading; some are mildly irritating or downright galling. The "Column" which appeared in a book by Louv was an example of the latter.
To the editor:
LETTERS
Now I know that Mr. Love is a very sensitive individual and in his sensitivity he makes some mistakes. For example, these are that most holders of bachelor's degrees are grossly overeducated for either the jobs that are available or the jobs they need; and that he revelation to some. To those who have been following current (establishment) literature on employment and education it is important, but a cliche nonetheless.
Louv Column, 'Julius Miller'
more efficient.
been given no play by the media,
and she has certainly considered
such facts as the increase in life
spans and average heights during
the years of increasing con-
struction of these valuable
foods.)
Mr. Louv's Naney is a pretty thing with golden hair and the Van Norton character hakes up his look, and thinks it is a heavy thing to do and then takes her off to the bedroom to make other things, but doesn't seem ready for it. Maybe she would say that Naney is a golden girl who has decided not just to be good-looking but also to be handsome. She is spiritually hip and has done so by transferring her focus from football to awareness and adventure. There are an array of stories she would call the whole situation a familiar manifestation of the age old sex and power game—with
Not Mr. Louv. He takes this teen queen gone cerebral and Snortin. Norton at their house most often at the interpretation and calls their hackneyed activity the basis for news (In a way it is the basis for news but not in the elevated tone). Louv perceives and reports it.
... cause it is important. It is the struggle for identity, the desire to rule the world through humanity, the human being as a commodity. Wars have been fought for it, lives are run by it and Freud has linked it to the propagation and destruction of evil. What it is important, but noble? I don't think so. When the basis for the news is being explored, perseverance it seems, which Mr. Lou lacks. By giving his particular view space in your columns with no balancing opinion, you are not immune to criticism. The average editorial writer comments on the news, Mr. Lou comments on human nature. The audience ill-equipped to handle this change of pace. He needs a chance to catch his breath and learn the assumptions and rules about this gmo-derived gripping journalism which takes as its premise: "I have access to the media, therefore I feel is true just as long as I can put it into words."
Lawrence graduate student
Frank Slover
Friends, students, countrymen lend me your ears.
To the editor:
The evil that men do lives after them.
I come to bury Vernon, not to praise him.
Griff & the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
The good is oft interred with their bones.
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
So let it happen to Vern.
The noble ones hath told you
Vernon was ambitious
and grievously hath the people of Lawrence felt it.
If it were so,it was a grievous fault.
He hath brought many captives downtown to jail
Where did the general
whose ramsons did the general coffers fill.
Did this in Vernon seem ambitious?
bitious?
When that the doors were broken,
When that the doors were broken. Vernon hath crept.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff,
But we all know Vernon was ambitions.
And Vernon is an honorable man?
fom Blake
Overland Park sophomore
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Those Where the Days
50 Years Ago Today----1921
Ira Clemens, president of Southwest Intera Coal Operators, was to be here the next day to speak on the history of the Kansas coalfields.
In the city elections Mayor George Kreek was elected to another term. The voters also approved a $455,000 school bond for the building of Lawrence High School.
The Kansas baseball team invaded Sullivan Okla. to open the baseball season in April.
Plans for the student election to be held the next day had been completed. Students were to vote for members of the Student Council and class officers. Members of the secret Black Helmet Society, outlawed by Chancellor Lindley, were not allowed to vote.
30 Years Ago Todav—1941
The KU Track Team captured places in three events at the Texas Relays. The Hawks placed second in the half-mile relay. Bill Beven tied for first in the pole vault with a 12" performance, and Dick Edwards took second in the 3,000 meter run.
The Junior Class Prom was to feature B Crowsb and his dibiand band.
The Kansas Legislature appropriated funds for the construction of Lindley Hall. Construction had already begun on the ROTC building and the engineering lab. Plans were made to construct a north wing for the Kansas Union.
12 Years Ago Today—1959
Marko Nikezi, Yugoslav ambassador to the United States, was to be here that Thursday and Friday, the Kansas reported. A spokesman on the Yugoslavian role in world politics.
Martha Crowley, Pittsburgh senior, had been named chairman of the steering committee in 1983.
Bill Alley, Olympic bound javelin thrower for KU, beat the college record by 13 feet with a throw of 270" l' at the Texas Relays. Alley, also a NOTC glove, threw a hand gremade and a NOTC disc, resting on that event. The previous best grease record was 290 feet set at Ft. Benning, Ga.