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Wednesday, March 24. 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Sweet Victory
KU's victory at Wichita Saturday after a tonic for the school and its supporters.
Not only because KU will now go to Houston for a shot at the NCAA crown but because of what basketball success has done for a beleaguered campus.
Perhaps Chancellor Chalmers said it best when he commented that KU basketball success has a "salutary effect" on the University.
After a painful year—from April through December of 1970—of tragic conflict, the infections success of the group is an oasis of happiness and glory for KU.
After a year in which the national media focused attention on this campus as a setting for worse things than actually happened, students have become the happy faces of KU players and fans.
Those closed-minded people throughout the state who pictured the University as a place where wild-eyed bombers and radicals bent on mayhem were abroad in the night may readjust their image of KU in the light of its self-proclaimed burning support the team is getting from a nonradicalized student body.
KU's recent success ought to be evident enough that the athletic program has a relevance that transcends the amusement of hard-core sports fans.
Perhaps, if only briefly, the sweetness of KU's basketball success has reunited a divided campus within itself and established more affectionate ties between the University and the rest of the state.
Bob Womack
Put Up or Shut Up
Apparently Spiro Agnew has run out of things to say, because now he's starting another round of "Beat the Press." And this time he is even getting back from the administration's new showpiece, Sen Bob Dole. Flunky see, flunky do.
Spirio is not pleased with CBS's war coverage and a documentary on the Pentagon. He says the network is doing the same thing against the administration.
Isn't that just too damn bad. Nixon and his crew of tight-tipped aides are in the midst of one of the worst press-government relationships in history.
No one is getting any information from anyone at the White House or the Pentagon. Simple every-day information that was readily available during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations is now almost impossible to get.
A segment of a recent educational television show was devoted to the problems of the White House press corps. Representatives from major news organizations in the country complained vigorously that the day of the White House reporter is one of boredom and monotony, because they all have to wait in a room until the mighty Nixon decides to throw them a crumb.
He is not talking to them on a formal basis, and he doesn't even chat with them off the record, as his two predecessors did. Photographers have the same problem; when a foreign dignitary or another newsworthy guest is at the White House, the photographers are allowed only a few minutes for pictures. Those pictures are all posed and there is no possibility for an interesting photograph.
On a broader scale, the White House has decided that what the public doesn't know won't hurt them. The war in Laos has been described as everything from a mission to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail to just an attempt to destroy some supplies. The incursions are described according to the way things are going at the time.
The Laos incursion is probably a failure. The South Vietnamese troops have suffered heavy losses. American helicopters have been decimated. The Pentagon and the White House keep telling us otherwise, and it now is almost sure that the administration is lying to us. Not misleading or covering up, just feeding the media a pack of bald-faced lies.
Facing this problem, the media have been forced to go to anonymous sources for the news. Sometimes the sources are inaccurate; most of the time they seem credible. It's not the best way to gather news, but what else can the media do?
Nixon, Agnew and their cronies better realize that accurate, complete and responsible reporting can only be accomplished with accurate, complete and responsible information. If the ad campaign does not work at the press, the public won't believe anything the administration says, if that hasn't happened already.
The White House has absolutely no right to criticize CBS or any news organization while the information embargo exists.
In other words, Mr. Vice President, put up or shut up.
—Ted Iliff
The Governor's Burden
If it is possible to foresee every eventuality of a stated policy, escape valves can be left loosely closed. If the consequences are less important than the act, then it makes good sense to face the consequences as they arise.
The consequences of tight purseestries are now arising and Gov. Robert Docking has to face them. Make or break, they are his responsibilities. Whether his decision to face the consequences is good sense can only be known through hindsight.
The Governor's budget proposal is exemplary of the struggling, low-income, middle-class head of the household who wears a clean shirt daily but eats poorly. His hair is well groomed and his clothes are clean but his innsails hurt.
As head of the governmental process in Kansas, Docking strikes a well groomed, dashing figure. The look of Kansas, his clothes, reflect an outward tidiness that belies the grumblings within the body, noises from the universities, the short-budgeted departments, and more recently, the legislators themselves.
Everyone needs money, and it is human to expect that a man looks longest and keenest at that which affects him directly. The Governor issued a strong warning about the need for deliberating so extendedly on the question of their pay increase. How
strongly can be judged from the fact that he spoke to them directly instead of resorting to his usual ploy of reaching them through the media.
It must be rather embarrassing for one's wife to look so long and hard at her already bulging shopping list while at the same time she is offering between 1 and $1\frac{1}{2}$ per cent of a stale donut to the beggar at the back door.
But this all depends on your priorities. After all, if it is important to provide more security for a community that can well be made secure by present available forces, then by all means that would be the course to follow. But at the same time it should not be done at the expense of another's priorities.
Docking must have one of two things: either a most able and far-seeking team of economists at his disposal, or he must have a very broad set of shoulders with heavy padding to bear the burdens and to soak up tears of this state. He may have both. More power to him, and more power to the paws in this political chess game—if they can live through the pressure. Pawns outlive their usefulness and are swept off the board. Knights are the ones who hog all the glory.
—Duke Lambert
Free-dumb, Free-dumb
Ry DAVID Perkins
Kay Hair DP Perth_
in KAY YAYH cultural centers, public and private groups are making fresh stakes upon pornography by organizing desperately to stop the showing of the stage-play "Hair", apparently unaware that such effeminate act constituted the first act of the play.
The city passed new obscenity measures and immediately closed the number of new neighborhood peep shows. Undoubtedly timed for drama and the morning raids, the raids also allowed those arrested time to post bail and reopen their shows without missing
Though duplicated in other parts of the country, and often accompanied by drawbacks on women who dope-smokers, it would be rash to imagine that these raids constituted the dawn of a new repressive era. If anything, they were ineffectual, they seem more like a last gasp. The peep show and dope raids have been openly ridiculated in the media, even by observers, or oppose abuse and drug use.
That kind of old-fashioned censorship (repression) of obseversity, political protest and drug use is so hard to swallow. The Vern Miller is a ludicrous throwback. Except for the convulsive attacks noted above, the sort of repression common to the police is less intense. Compared to that time (at least on the face of things) our age seems almost licentious. And for some that has proven confusing, it is easier to protest the rigid figure of 1950's conservatism be befuddled by the gas bag of modern technology. When you hit it, it just collapses. But bulges out somewhere else.
The "Nation" reported recently on a meeting between Henry Kissinger and several anti-war critics. Many of the critics responded repeatedly, founded by the calm, 'reasonable' Mr. Kissinger, and a few were moved to remark in the same way that he'd seem like such a bad guy.
This new reasonableness and tolerance has put an absurd face on much of the old protest. Many demonstrators elaborate stage plays, and are often accounted successes because of the meticulous coordination between the protestors and the audience. The trial of Angela Davis is quite serious, one's outrage at the charge is considerable muffled by a view of the well-dressed protestor in the cushioned courtroom, and it is dampened by extinction at the sight of a group that was charged with free political politics, free the Davidis' outside of the building.
Herbert Marcuse calls this "repressive tolerance." Though he spoke eloquently for sexual harassment, he was alarmed at the form it took in the 1980's. Sexuality had indeed been free, but only to become a form of coercion and sex office and sales girls, the handsome, virile junior executive and floor walker". Marcuse wrote that the culture of the economy (or more broadly of a market culture); effected a "de-erotization of the en-
tertainment," became a property of the culture, and not of the natural world.
In modern circumstances, the older Christian hostility to the sexual revolution has been the new liberality, for at least prevents the revolutionary force of sexuality from being compromised. The anti-Semitism of 1950's hero was the sexual
deviant, his modern hero is the
frog who is a victim of torture,
his refusal to participate in the
new "tolerated" sexuality or,
more incubately, in any of the
following:
When 7-Up advises one to "turn on," the drug culture has been appropriated by the market because it creates ceases to be revolutionary or "bip" and becomes reactionary. When w. K. or Y or Z movies play in theaters, the drug culture gadaffing shopping center crowds, sexual liberation has been liberated by the market culture because it ceases to be personally liberal.
But repressive tolerance has had great success. It is highly respected in America, and responder in his tie-dyed shirt and leather fringe jacket, hair past his ears, driving his new home and recalling names: Marina Kirk Jr., with his stash in a Moroccan leather pouch in the glovesbox, a peace decal in the rear window of his bumper, reels repressed.
De Toequeville noted that government (General Motors no less than Washington) would soon discover that 'it is especially difficult to provide minor details of life. For my own part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in great things than in little ones, if we were possible to be secure of the road without possessing the other.
On the night of March 18, 1971,
students of the University of
Kansas were free to watch-in
the gymnasium. The NCAA
NCFA play-off game in Wichita.
Very pretty girls with very
modern long hair and very
modern short skirts did some
very modern pelvic dancing as
they played.
There was much cheering. It was done lustily and freely. The score was 78 to 77. We won.
LETTERS
Basketball Fans Air Their Gripes
To the editor:
As an avid fan of KU's sports programs, it was with displeasure that I heard our pep band at Wichita de membres of both the Houston and Drake teams "salted" with the "Wheaties" "tune." As a fan, the conduct from the stands always reflects upon those students at the University of Kansas, where the majority of ridiculous such performances as that of Mr. Huff, who contributed 20 points, or Mr. Welch, I feel the bounds have been overstepped.
Kermit Johnson Lawrence graduate student
To the editor:
I am sure that all KU fans will agree that the announcers for the Kansas-Houston game (TVS) should becommended for their excellent job of presenting the most biased view of a basketball game in the history of televised sports. It is a terrible shame that the superstar's of the great Courage team were cheated out of a win, not because of the way they played ball, but because of the two hour all out effort of the team, which I believe has been accomplished and definitely be theirs for the best supporting role of the Houston How the Jayhawkers ever "squeaked" by the Courages for a win after all the successful "tough plays" by the Courages and the "lucky breaks" of the Hawks is so amazing that I can not believe we were fortunate enough to lead for at least the last 15 minutes of the game. When the Hawks gained a ten point lead over the Courages the anthem was so much more slippery shaped up and made four good comments about KU. Our share of the game long however, for the fantastic Courages made a thrilling comeback and "threw a scare into KU", which I am sure anybody who was blind and listening could detect. Somehow they overlooked the fact that Houston拥 our number of turnovers and us many of our points byway of foulos and goaltending. Of course these futile efforts by Houston weren't because they were behind several points and scared, or they were a great, hustling defense. Despite our victory, I hope that all KU fans will take the time to write to the network and comment them for their excellent job of running our team into the ground.
Joe Callison
Kiowa Freshman
To the editor.
I was in full sympathy with Rick Cowden's condensation of the horridly obscene production of "Lysistrata" perpetrated by the drama department until I read the line "Russell and Miss Green have possibly the最 meatiest parts in the show and play them to the fullest."
Mr. Cowden obviously couldn't resist inserting a phatic pun or own (and the blatant reference to tumescence) which exhibits his own base nature. His "review" was apparently more than an airy phrase of titillation and a poor excuse to repeat the crudities in "Lysiastrata."
Mr. Cowden's flairant abuse of the printed paper for self-fulfillment and self-solicitation should be condemned by all decent people on this earth.
Bill Montz
Lawrence sophomore
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Occasionally, a girl can still be found asleep on the Senate couch or an ex-compete chairman found studying Yiddish in the room, but the office is no longer the secret home of the campus politician.
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By ERIC KRAMER
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The election is over and the Student Senate office has a new president and a new rug.
Now a secretary sits at a desk facing the door and asks people if they are ready to enter. The average population has been reduced from 50,000 in 1987.
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By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
Those Were the Days
55 Years Ago Today—1916
35 Years Ago Today—1936
KU students were to dress up between March 27 and April 4 with 90 million other people in the United States to celebrate the spring dress-up; according to the Kansas. State officials seemed to have crystallized into a nationwide movement called The Spring Dress-Up.
The Botany Club was contemplating naming all the trees on the campus and was investigating the cost of name plates. These plates, fastened to the trees, would bear the scientific as well as the popular name of the trees.
The first severe dust storm of the year hit Lawrence at sundown. It reached Kansas City at 7:30 p.m., reducing visibility to a mile in a few minutes. Wichita reported a quarter inch increase in dust over Homes were clinked air with wet newspapers and rags. Breathing was difficult
The Kansas Peace Forum, a new peace newspaper published in Lawrence, presented a 15-minute news broadcast and musical program on radio station WIBW in Topeka at Sunday. The time was obtained through the courtesy of the Topeka Peace Council.
and throats became sore, according to the Kansan. Motor traffic halted.
10 Years Ago Today—1961
Calder M. Pickett, dean of the School of Journalism, would attend a foreign policy briefing conference in Washington, D.C., on April 3 and 4, the Kanman reported. The meeting was conducted by the State Department for broadcasters and newsmen in public affairs.
The Laotian crisis worsened with the Laotian government reporting in Vientiane that nine "new" battalions of Communist forces had been deployed in Laos. Meanwhile, SEATO military leaders in Bangkok, Thailand, drew up new defense plans against Red aggression.