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Monday, March 29, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Another ROTC Review
The not-so-annual ROTC review is
accepted for April 29 in Memorial
Sidium.
The review has been fuel for the fires of dissent on this campus for the last three years. One year the review was suspended and the year the review became faced possible disruption.
Two years ago it was an issue in itself—last year it was canceled in the wake of protests following the Cambodian invasion.
In both instances it was canceled to antagonizing already delicate situation.
The political situation at the University this year is just as delicate, perhaps more so. Repression, real or imagined, is common in conversation.
It would be unfortunate for a function
as insignificant as the review to spark
renewed tension on this seemingly pacific
It is not simply a question of the right of ROTC cadets to hold an awards ceremony, but rather to issue the demand for weighting the facts with maturity, perception and sensitivity.
Some would call moving the review a concession to radical threats—I call it common sense. To hold the review here, dares disruption.
The ego satisfaction in defying not worth the threats or complication
The review could be held elsewhere.
This was done at Kansas State last year.
The review should be held—but not here if it portends renewed turmoil.
Thank SUA for William Kunstler
william Kunstler is coming to KU thanks to the SUA Minority Opinions Forum and already criticism has been leveled against the SUA's decision to sponsor Kunstler. But I would like to commend SUA for being able to bring Kunstler here. He is an intelligent lawyer and has much to offer students—especially in the area of civil rights and protest.
—Tom Slaughter
In an editorial in Thursday's Lawrence Journal-World, it was stated, "In some instances, violence and unrest have accompanied or followed the controversial Kunstler, and in other instances schools have banned his appearance on their campuses because of this."
It should be pointed out that in some instances violence and unrest have accompanied or followed the appearance of President Nixon. Surely the Journal-World would not contend that the President should be banned from speaking—although it might not be such a bad idea.
Whenever a person who is recognized as a radical—especially a nationally known person—speaks or appears at some campus and the speech is followed by any type of violence, the radical is blamed. It doesn't matter if the radical appears a whole week before the violence, it is still his fault.
Abbie Hoffman spoke at KU and then the union burned. Abbie was at fault
A cause and effect relationship is immediately established. But that
relationship has no basis in fact. It has basis only in rumor and belief.
What is frequently overlooked by those who create this cause-effect relationship is that many students, even a majority, are unhappy with our "system." There are problems in the curriculum and they are willing to do so without the prodding of any national radical.
There are very few students who are willing to use violence just because a national radical speaks. In other words, it is very difficult to show that there is any relationship between the speeches of a radical and the amount of violence.
Sure, violence may frequently follow the appearance of a radical. But does it seem logical that Kunstler spurred students at Isla Vista to burn the Bank of Santa Fe and told them in his speech that violence was an "unsound tactic?" I don't think so.
Also, it seems improbable that Abbie spurred any KU students to violence last year when the crowd at Allen Field House and he described Lawrence as a drag.
Kunstler should be heard. He's not a bomb throwing revolutionary. He does not encourage violence. He is a top graduate from the Columbia University law school who worked for years in the South on behalf of the American Civil Rights Movement in civil wars that knows the law and he abides by it. In short, Kunstler is trying to see that the law is enforced, but in a fair and just manner.
Dan Evans
LETTERS
Another ROTC Review View
Ah! Spring is come at last, and with it all the usual anti-ROTC diatribes which arise when the weather hits the upper 70s. Once again we are subjected to those who would have us cancel a ROTC course on our own so hard adolescents strutting in circles in their freshly pressed uniforms."
To the Editor:
Whatever else one could say, it would seem that this is at least preferable to die-hard adolescents strutting around in blue jeans and unpressed sweatshirts mourning four letter words to passers-by. And as for the argument that ROTC students are "institutionalized murderers," I would question the fact of those who place bombs in capital buildings, bio-puter centers (and bystanders), and destroy scientific research centers to gratify their peace-loving natures.
As a matter of fact, from my knowledge, ROTC students are generally among the least violent people on campus because they have a history of violence when they leave and are not wasting their time picketing Strong Hall.
We do not attempt to "broaden minds with guns and clubs," but we certainly do not succeed in broadening minds by burning things on campus where people refuse to do what we would like them to do.
this University realized that warfare, no matter how much you like it, is a part of the infinite variety of human existence. A sordid part, no doubt, but one which has every prospect of continuing for the duration of our lives. If ROTC can contribute to broadening the military of our country and infuse it with a wider variety of ideas, then I have no qualms whatsoever about supporting it.
That is the epitome of adolescence, and some never outgrow their nascent puberty. In fact, those who would unilaterally declare that ROTC has no place on campus whatsoever are onlySYsummarized in a growing phenomenon up here—and that is intellectual bigotry masquerading under the guise of political liberalism.
L. Lewis Wall
Shawnee Mission junior
RICHARD LOUV COLUMN
Its hard enough I know
To find the strength to go
Back to where it all began.
A friend in Colorado is baking bread now. Hides in his little house as the mountains look down in serious, mystical anger. Right down the street from Pete is another Kentucky Fried Chicken. The pines bend, counting their days. The wind likes what Pete eats. Pete bakes bread like mad, trying to beat all that.
David Crosby
"Why do you bake bread, Pete?"
Because it's healthy.
"Why is it healthy?"
"Because I feel like I'm doing something, I'm getting down to sometime."
People I know who begin to bake bread always do it when they say, "Ah, Christ, I am so tired of looking at the paper, I am so tired of floating with my feet off the ground with dope, or academia. I want to do something that my ancestors were happy doing."
He is an English major. Now school is finished for him.
'What are you going to do, Pete?'
"What else you do with an English degree?" he grins, and I remember long high school talks about saving the world and becoming politicians or United Nations representative. I remember long hot afternoons with my sister talking to me about "What do you want to do? I don't know. What do you want to do? I don't know. Go fishing? What do you want to do?" Back and forth, for an hour or more. If he had ever answered that he wanted to be a baker's apprentice I would have gotten mad when he said "What would you have trained from. Gone fishing. Tangled up."
The world, stubborn bastard, is still unsaved. And wise, bastard wants to be a baker's assistant.
"I would like to be a baker's apprentice."
"Oh."
The need to make bread is a new extension of survival. The need has taken other forms. Some choose dope. Some choose collective living. Some choose insanity. Some choose politics. And some choose to try all five at the same time. It is difficult in the same room with the person who chooses all five.
But finally the need comes round to basic actions like baking bread; basic actions that move you closer to the source of things, that make the sun go down and come up easier.
Baking bread. (While you sleep. While the earth turns. While little babies are shocked to find they are alive. While Johnny Carson looks at the wrong camera. When men move toward jets, to drop bombs on little babies shocked to find they are alive, but not for long, half a hour, a half Dream away
I sit here watching Bill Van Norton poke the ball of dough around like he used to do his teddy bear. He pounds and flops it, and watches Nancy grease the pan. Nancy has long blond hair and pretty eyes, far off watery. She is teaching Bill Van Norton how to scoop ice cream. This is my bread. Take drink, this is my wife.
Store bread has no food value, she says,
"Omnigram bread is a nearly complete food, she says.
It is less perishable than bread."
grandmothers dance in your head; grey hair, with a touch of purple, in the sun, bending down to approach the oven. It will not be long. She has so short a time before her hair turns grey. She will eat good bread while she can. She shuts the oven door. So it will be done.
They eat the bread. With real butter. In the sun.
They made it themselves.
(Journalism is like bread. There is so much of it that is so easy, impersonal, made to fit a mold, the echo of sad history. Why can't there be a time and space set aside for journalism that reads like a letter home? Descriptions of things almost indescribable, upon which the news rests.)
Finally, the bread rises. It smells like Spring when Nancy opens the oven. Her hair falls like sun as she moves the hot pan to the table, shaking her handles later, blowing on them, little blisters coming up.
Nancy and Bill Van Norten are going to bed now. They are full of healthy things. They are trying, at least trying, to get down to something real. There must be something solid around here, something solid, something big or giant door. They'll probably come out smiling, full of another kind of wine and bread. They are trying:
A Post Script.
Two nights later.
Ah, another Answer not complete. Bill Van Norten came home drunk and cursing, "She and I can make bread," he loudly said, "But we can't make it together."
Tomorrow they'll try again.
He spun into his room, alone, and slammed the door behind him.
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WASHINGTON (UPI)—Sen.
Mike Gravel, D-Alaska, about the
bomb blast at the Capitol:
"This is probably one of the most outrageous bombings that I have seen," said outrageous mainly because it struck at a building venerated by the enemy.
did it had to be criminally deranged."
"Same enemy, Same fight Workers and students must unite."
DES MOINES, Iowa (UP1)—A placard held by a protester as President Nixon's motorcade named Monday:
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By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
Because of the big backlog of government orders, the firm has to invest in a substantial amount of private business. Nevertheless, old technology is no match for them.
Last year, while the economy was rising, the company added a third shift to meet the demand for cost-of-living and unemployment
The company, which catches to a number of commercial organizations and government agencies, has been operating double shifts almost from the start of the Vietnam war, when it joined the original American troop build-up with "military adviser" labels.
The Lighter Side
By DICK WEST
'Soft Soap' Business Booms
If, for example, a drug company president is summoned before a congressional committee to answer charges about a drug maker who will furnish him a few euphonious substitutes for "ineffective."
In addition, the firm gets many calls for euphemesis in the fields of pollution, welfare, tax loopholes, federal subsidies, cost overruns, boondocking, congressional nography, teenage louliness, narcotics and illegitimate children.
The current boom in embassiemission prompted a 195-year-old founder and proprietor, Amos W. Goodsound, who took me on a tour.
"When a client brings us an expression that has harsh connotations, we run it through the Island and innocuous. Watch this."
Goodsound took the word "recession" and stuffed it into the small end of the machine. There was a faint whirring noise and seconds later the phrase "readjustment" emerged.
"When I first started this business, it was a hand by hand," Goodoound said. "With automation, we can blankize up to 20 disagreeable
"After a phrase has been blanded, we may add a little sweetening, or sugar-coating on the client's taste."
I said, "I didn't realize making euphemisms was so simple."
"Sometimes it isn't," Good-sound said. "On a really tough job we may have to use five or six cases of soft soap."
Those Were the Days
A seismograph in Blake Hall registered a slight earthquake. According to a weather observer, the earthquake probably occurred 1500 miles southwest of Lawrence, in southern California.
The law team beat the engineering team by a judges' decision of two to one at the annual Engineering-Law Debate held in Fraser Chapel. The topic of the debate was labor's role in industry management.
25 Years Ago Today—1946
The date for Dandelion Day was announced. The day would include YWCA refreshment stands set up on campus and a two-hour street dance
sponsored by the All-Student Council and Jay Janes.
A campus campaign to promote interest in and raise funds for the $500,000 World War II Memorial was announced.
Fiorello H. LaGuardia formally accepted his new job as director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration to Americans to stop wasting food and help the starving peacons of the world.
10 Years Ago Today—1961
A Lawrence barber who previously refused to serve Negro customers agreed to open his shop to all persons according to the Civil Rights Council's Committee on Barber Shops.