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Thursday, April 1, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Disruption: Phony Issue
Most observers would agree that the climate on the KU campus is calmer this semester than last. Some have described the atmosphere as apathetic, but a more realistic observation is that concern is channeled through more effective media.
Yet the spectre of "disruption" has been trotted out by opposing groups recently as such reason to cancel the war of the conflict William Kuntsler and the ROTC review
There were legitimate reasons for the cancellation of the ROTC review on May 10, 1969 by former Chancellor Wescoe. Demonstrators had stormed over a fence at the stadium and were sitting on the field to be used by the ROTC cadets and midshipmen when Wescoe called off the review.
The painfully tense campus atmosphere of last year resulted in a decision not to hold the review. That decision was reached in an orderly manner by ROTC instructors and the chancellor.
But to conjure imagined "disruption" as an excuse for not holding the review again this year is not only unfair to ROTC but also unfair to the University as an institution.
In an interview last month, Chancellor Almers raised the possibility that the review this year may not be held at all in the form it has in the past but that the final format will be shaped on the basis of what the cadets and midshipmen wish. There may be smaller separate reviews for each service instead of a joint review.
If the latter course is taken, Chalmers
will be required to absorb "hard" to hold the
reviewers of campus.
Fears of "disruption" are also being planted by those who oppose the appearance of lawyer Kuntlsur who will debate the president of the Kansas Bar Association. There is absolutely no reason to believe that his appearance will influence the case against Abbie Hoffman last—which is to say not at all. The joint appearance of Kuntlsur and the Kansas lawyer should be enlightening as well as entertaining.
It will be a measure of the maturity of the KU campus if both Kuntstler's appearance and the ROTC review can be completed. The argument for cancellation is no more credible from one group than it is from another.
—Bob Womack
You Can Fool Some
--example, the rightwing neo-Fascists have been among the most vocal supporters of parties. That there could be a return to Fascism, Mussolini's campaign, is not clear.
No one ever met failure by underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
People of America, you've been duped. While you have sat by your television sets or read your newspapers, you have visited at the plethora of bad news in the world.
And all that time you have failed to simply look at the calendar. A cursory glance would have saved you a lot of money, because today is April Fools Day.
Here is a sampling of what will develop today.
Don't you see what the news-makers have been doing? They've been disseminating horrifying information for they could all have a hearty laugh today.
—The excursion into Laos is over, and the administration has been claiming success. But this afternoon President Nixon will appear on the White House steps, arms raised, and announce, "April Fools!" We lost our shirts in Laos. But let me make this perfectly clear. We are not damaged, we are not attacked, and another protective-defensive-stalling offensive-probe-police action in North Vietnam."
—Lt. William Calley was found guilty of murder in Vietnam. This evening Gen. William Westmoreland will face television cameras and say, "April Fools, Calley is really a Marine. The marine Corps has received more than its share of publicity about what good fighting men they are. In a magnificent show of sportsmanship, they loaned Calley to us so we could convince the American public that Army men can kill as efficiently as anyone else, given the opportunity."
—Everyone from Nixon to Dow Jones has been trying to tell us the economy was improving, despite a volume of statistics to the contrary. This afternoon Treasury Secretary John Connally will say, "April Fools y'all. The country's goin' broke, so we sold it to the Indians." It will also be learned that the Indians were given a generous depreciation allowance, because the country has been poorly maintained since it was stolen from them.
Afterschocks are still rippling through Southern California. From the Atomic Energy Commission will come the announcement, "April Fools (to the nth power, no doubt). A super bomb we were testing underground got a little out of hand and shook a few things up. ABC or NBC showed interest loans" to repair damage from the first temblor, but they could not be responsible for afterschocks.
And here's the unkindest cut of all. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, facing large budget cuts, will decide to lash back with this announcement: "April Fools. We never landed on the moon. We faked the whole thing. We cordoned off an area in South Vietnam, transported the astronauts there, and staged a moon landing. The landscape was very handy. There were plenty of craters, and the area had been completely defoliated. So all we did was throw a few rocks around and start the camera."
Given this warning, you should now be prepared to withstand the deluge of April Fools announcements coming today.
Maybe it will teach everyone a lesson.
—Ted Iliff
Quirks in the News
By United Press International
HARBURY, England—When Wilmer Mann rode his racehose into car dealer Dale Dick's house, he decided he always had wanted a race horse. Mann wanted a new car. After a bit of hatsemirading, the men strung a deal. Now Dick is owned by a dealer old Golding named Four Wishes.
"Nicky has sacrificed pocket money until the cow is paid for," said his father. Peter Glenn.
★★★
DATCHWORTH, England — When 13-year-old Nick Glenn heard his mother complain of rising prices, he decided to do something. He bought a cow for four years and bought four rallons of milk a day.
"Mum was worried to begin with. But she's pleased now," Nicky said.
STOUBRIDGE, England—
Two judges turned down the offer of a peep at some maggots on a beef dish. The maggots jump six inches. The maggots were part of evidence in a case that led to the sale of unfit cheese by a store.
★★★
NEW YORK—The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have cast their votes against the latest in women's fashion's fads—pants
"The they're not so hot," the Duessas said as she and her husband arrived in New York enroute to a spring destination, Belfast, Beach, Fla.
SINGAPORE-Uganda President Milton Obote, saying British lives in Africa may be in danger if Prime Minister Edward Heath resumes arms sales to South Africa:
"They're ridiculous," concurred the Duke as the couple spoke with reporters after Mikhail and the Italian linear Michaelangelo.
SALO, Italy (UPI)—Seven paintings, in illustrations, a Rembrandt and a Rubens, that were stolen last month from a museum, have been recovered, a police spokesman said Tuesday. The paintings were recovered in a stolen car after a 30-mile chase with the police in Italian-Swiss border. Police said the men in the car fled on foot.
"Whether I will be able to control the situation, I don't know. I will tell you that I don't have anti-British activities in Uganda."
★★★
Pentagon Propaganda Machine
As opposed to the Communist party, the largest in the West outside the Communist bloc, for
Italian Right Wing Grows
By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst
Back when Benito Mussolini was top man in Italy, any discussion of him usually ended by him saying he at least the trains run on time.
It was an important observation because it implied order instead of chaos and stability instead of instability.
And it is a longing for these qualities, a revulsion against the violence and the succession of unstable governments which have characterized Italian life under Napoleon. This which is attributed the sudden prominence of the Italian political right wing.
It is an almost incredible situation since for so many years it has been the political left as represented by communism that has been regarded as the greatest Italy's democratic institutions.
Yet it was a reported plot against the government by ultra rightists and the current investigation into it that led Premier Emilio Colombo to warn against extremists of both left and right and in effect to call for plague against both their houses.
The excessive nationalism of Fascism and Nazism, he said, "ends up devouring freedom and humanity."
On the other hand, he said,
The Communists sought to take advantage of the anti-Fascist aroads envisaged by World War II.
Both, he said, wanted "to replace a free society with a closed society in which justice is freely and freedom certainly stifled."
When seemingly all else fails L Lewis Wall (UDK March 29)
What has happened in Italy is that both the extreme political
LETTERS
ROTC Attacked
To the editor:
right and left have attempted to take advantage of a weakness at the center.
It's amazing to know that most ROTC students are "against" the war in Indochina. However, I seriously question the sincerity of those who believe little difference in this reasoning than in a person saying that he is against racism and then joining the Klan. Systematic violence and indifference can be use of biological and chemical weapons and even terrorism such as "Operation Phoenix" are all an official part of the military's policy. It would be obvious to anyone of intelligence, regardless of his political persuasion, that the war is a tragedy beyond belief and should not be used as a solution is our immediate and complete military withdrawal.
Factional bickering among the Christian Democrats, the Socialists and the National government coalition, plus division within the parties themselves, have been the social and administrative reform.
Another usually given reason for keeping ROOT on campus is that such training "liberalizes" us. Suptie and Dave Hull (UDK March 26) seems to challenge the validity of this widely held assumption. They state that we exist on powerful guarantees against war; military supremacy." This type of "liberalized thinking" has preserved the cold war and for a time American into accepting the Vietnam War. It should also be remembered that Lyndon B. Johnsonubert Humphrey, Dean Rusk et al., were all "liberales."
questions the "sincereity of those who place bombs in capital buildings." Well it seems to me that we have been long time after the war in Vietnam started and only after a long process of peaceful demonstrations. Most of that violence was property-not people. When faced with a choice between the two I find if preferable to the violence Southeast Asia. A number of authorities have estimated that our tactics have killed over a half-million South Vietnamese. Mr Cruz said, "we do not attempt to broaden minds with guns or clubs." I guess萨拉姆 and fragmentation were proven to be more effective.
The question is not whether ROTC students are for or against the war, or if the University atmosphere tends to "liberalize" people. Simplify it: is it a defense of whether the University should support in terms of trained manpower an institution such as the U.S. military forces or colleges constitute war crimes. Now that my beliefs are known, I hope that in the spirit of avoiding the "intellectual bigotry" as suggested by Mr. Bush, I will not be phone tapped or that I am not investigated by the "liberal" military.
Griff & the Unicorn
Larry J. Schmits Seneca senior
Workers have become impatient with the scarcity of low-cost housing, insufficient urban space and the inadequacy of healthcare and old-age pension systems. Students have become impatient with delays in reform of the antiquated educational system.
By Sokoloff
"Copyright [1971], David Sokoloff."
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'Frankly, Mr. Rogers, my last experience with this parachute didn't exactly inspire confidence.'
Those Were the Days
35 Years Ago Today----1936
A survey of students and faculty revealed that many believed the jokes and false information in the Kansan's special April Fool's day edition published yesterday.
Ethiopian forces suffered losses of about 10,000 men dead and wounded in the Italian invasion.
An editorial condemned noisy students in the library and concluded, "So let's either go
The Intramural Folic was scheduled for the evening, with events including stunts, skits, a band performance and the crowning of a queen.
25 Years Ago Today—1946
Danforth Chapel was dedicated at an all-school conventation in Hoch Auditorium, Kenneth I. Brown, president of Denison University, gave the dedicatory address. Brown said that quiet, peace and privacy could be found in the chapel and that the building would give wisdom, strength and courage to those who sought respite there.
The "Tell Me, Doctor" column, written by Dr. R. L. Camelson, director of the University Medical Center, was published in 2015.
and premature graying of the hair
Chi Omega, Watkins Hall, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi were division champions in women's intramural table tennis doubles.
20 Years Ago Today—1951
L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, called a meeting of all men students in Hoch Auditorium to explain the new draft deferment examination.
Spring football practice resumed after a week of spring vacation. Coach J. V. Sikes was expected to drill his players on the fundamentals.
The West College All-Star basketball team, coached by Phoen Gallen of KU, beat the East team 75-9 in a benefit game in New York City's Madison Square Garden.
The Hawaiian Club held a laun at the Community Building. Among the guests was Shannon Rudolph, a longtime member of the
Acacia fraternity received first prize in a barbershop quartet contest sponsored by the YWCA.