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Thursday, March 18, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Legislators Feel Pinch
The Kansas Legislature was thwarted
the legislators in nearly $50,000 of the
salaries of the legislators in nearly $50,000 of the
I don't pretend to understand all the intricacies of government in Topeka, especially in this session, but it is easy to see that a raise for the legislators this week wholesale cuts are being made elsewhere in the budget, would be extraordinary.
A few Democratic Legislators cried foul ball when the governor axed the raise—claming he promised them smooth sailing for the pay hike.
The Republicans, in the driver's seat in this situation, fired a few well-placed salvos at the governor and the democratic legislators sponsoring the bill.
The same legislature that is about to slash KU's already austere budget wanted to more than double its own salary. Justification was to improve the legislature by paying it more.
Too bad—for all the boys in Topeka,
KU, too, has its money problems.
Gentlemen, until you quit spinning your wheels with titillating issues like bingo and get down to the brass tacks of this university's needs, and those of the state as a whole, any talk of pay raises will be wasted wind.
Bingo is a volatile issue, but the finances of the University and the state are in sore need of your careful attention.
Tom Slaughter
The Closing of the Chalk
By MIKE HARRIS
People of every shape and form came to the Chalk for its last day. Every informer who had worked in this area was there, each pusher, from the dude who worked in it, to weekly to the little street dealer, was there too. All were trying to understand.
and PAM KUDA
Vern came back, and the Chalk will not be open anymore. Saturday was the last day; it was a beautiful day.
Everyone was cool, no trouble, just a quiet closing. Saturday night, two Lawrence policecem demonstrated a lot more guts than most were willing to credit them. At midnight the doors closed, people moved to the sidewalk in front. The police asked the crowd to move, no trouble, just move. So they offered them a beer and relocated at the parking lot down the street. A keg, a bonfire and a lot of grass helped soothe the frustration.
Why has Vern chosen Lawrence? There is so much crime here. Legend tells us that the last homicide was over a checker game. Two 87-year-old men got into an argument and one fired a shot gun at his friend and missed, the other fired a pistol and scored. All this was witnessed by a 78-year-old man. Why Lawrence?
What will we do without the Chalk? I mean, it was ours and now they have closed it. Public nuisance? Yea, fat chance.
Rumors float around about a law and order convention held in Wichita while Miller was sheriff. Miller criticized the rest of the state for the level of politicization in the police and liquor by the drink. At the conclusion of his speech, two members of the
The Chalk was the only place to go if your girl told you to get lost. The atmosphere just made one feel free and easy. Something always happened to make you laugh. One day a Salvation Army guy came up to you and really something; people sitting on the sidewalk to watch a Salvation Army band. That was too much.
Lawrence delegation left the auditorium and went to a private club and were served drinks, hustled by hookers and asked to play roulette. Well, they went back to the convention and reported these happenings and embarrassed Miller, so he hates Lawrence, and the Chalk is closed.
He just will not leave us alone. This spring people will not be sitting in circles in front of the Chalk sharing the killer sitting, laughing, crying and smoking.
The mass insanity that made the Chalk will be missed. It was wild and free. Free like no other place in Lawrence, but the Chalk isn't open and Saturday night its people lived its legend. The center of the "drug culture," the Chalk closed to the sweet smell of burning leaves and quiet contentment of 100 people totally wrecked. The beer flowed and joints were rolled, a life style Vern Miller may never understand, a life style he fears and wishes to stop.
But life styles may not be stopped, they may only be changed by the people, and this was the message the Chalk offered. And let live. We're sure going to miss you.
The Lighter Side
What will we do? Go to the Gaslight?
We don't know, because Miller could declare Baskin-Robbins a public nuisance if he wanted to. So we can close any establishment in Lawrence not by a boycott, but by being there. Far-out.
By DICK WEST
Have an Okratini
For years, when I developed a craving
tendency, I had to go to the bar and mix a
matrinh.
"There is no law that says you have to drink the martini the olive is soaked in." she pointed out. "Why don't you take a nap?" She asked, and it back up with gin and vernmouth?
Then one evening not long ago when I
was especially olive-hungry, my wife hit me
with a flicker of anger.
"That way you will have olives already pre-sauced and ready to eat the next time you eat."
WASHINGTON (UPI)—I'm kind of a nut about green olives. Next to pomegranates, they're my favorite fruit. But for some strange reason I only like them after they have been soaked in martinis.
She didn't have to draw me a picture. I thanked her for the suggestion and had fun with it.
Actually, it worked better in theory than in practice. A pre-soaked olive quickly becomes over-soaked as it marinates in the martini. This causes a subtle taste change that is disturbing to a true olive connoisseur.
For the best results, I found, an olive
must soak for exactly the amount of time it takes to drink the martini. No more, no less. And since drinking time varies, the only way you can be certain of getting a perfectly soaked olive is to actually drink the martini.
So I have gone back to the old-fashioned way of soaking olives. Its time-consuming, sure, but in matters such as the one I don't believe in compromising with quality.
In New York, a Tex-Mex restaurant has invented a cocktail called the "okratimi." Essentially it's a martini, but with a pickled okra pod instead of an olive
This does not mean, however, that my wife's idea is without merit.
I am one of those suffering millions who basically hate vegetables. One night at dinner, which featured lima beans and asparagus spears, I tried drunkering me in a martini. Believe me, it was a whole new taste thrill.
Upon learning of this, I was struck by a flash of inspiration.
Now suppose someone introduced a line of vegetables that had been pickled in gin and vermouth rather than the conventional pickling compound. Would that not knock the "ho, ho," right out of the Jolly Green Giant?
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To the editor:
Reply to Ebert, More on the Miller Raid
After having read Bill Ebert's essay "S near, Yet So Far Apart," I felt that it was useful to show that the alienation of which he speaks, with its accompanying loneliness, distrust, etc., is not a universal feeling (and in any case I'm hope not the only one), do not share his feelings. The essay represented to me an attempt to pin the blame for our failure in the doctrine of competition over cooperation, "“entrenched power interests outside,” et. al. Frankly, this is, in my opinion, no passing of the social back
Now, I'd be the last to deny that things are pretty rotten in the world, country, state, and city today, but I do not agree that this gives anyone a good reason for being in such a position himself. Yet, Bill articulated in his essay a very well-known and popular point of view held by many people today. Roughly, it is not that we are anonymous and menacing "they" is oppressing an equally indefinite "us," and therefore, the "we" is alienated from understanding of alienation has been increasing. Alienation is ultimately internal and not entirely dependent on external forces. For example, who is the most alienated person of all the workers, the worker, that victim of capitalist aggression? It is one of the racial
minorities? (Remember to include the total community, not just the young. (No, none of these young are educated.) 'educated' to be alienated. Alas, it is the student—the recipient of the American dream, the lucky one from college. Moreover, while seemingly having all the advantages, the young educated do not market on alienation. Perhaps meaning about our alienation soothes an aching social concern.
Another way of saying the same thing is that only humans can dehumanize society. And we don't want to dehumanize qualities and powers to institutions, we add greatly to our dehumanization. That is to say, when we expect the military to understand us, and industry to care about us, we cannot help but be disillusioned. No university was ever relevant, even though our military has never understood anyone, but some commanders have. Industry has never given a chance for people to some industrialists have. To expect the opposite will inevitably lead to disappointment and the feeling of alienation.
The second fallacy about modern alienation is its choice of objects. Today, among most of my contemporaries, alienation is an industry, big business, the military, and the university is virtually a moral obligation, and dissent from this alienation is all the nepotism ofjection is that all the above-mentioned things are just that—things, and a person cannot be threatened if we understand just that, most of our alienation would vanish into thin air. The proper attitude toward those institutions is high-handed, good or evil depending on the people directing them. Hence, the proper object of alienation is a high-handed administrator, a bad-handed hikilist, a bad-hilled militarist, i.e. a person.
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff.
John Neibling Lawrence senior
Referring once again to Bill's essay, I submit that alienation is not properly understood by some people. The hope behind the writing of this letter, although a remote one indeed, is that a proper understanding of alienation will be accessible in our imagination of my generation.
By Sokoloff
I feel I represent a silent student in college, in campus, who upon voicing their own opinions would be contrary to popular thought, and therefore would be resistant.
Upon reading the March 3rd issue of the Kansas, I began to wonder where the other side of the story is.
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The exploitation of incidents such as the "drug raid" and other such occurrences is something we news media, but also by our own school newspaper; showing us the agitation of the students on this campus. I cannot commend Vern Müller's tactic, 'sometimes enough he managed to involve a woman in the post office were needed and managed to leave out those who should have been notified. However, the fact that she was involved with who were arrested were breaking the law, something which the students of today too often ignore, contributed to post bail for the offenders. I couldn't help but think what if this were done for an innocent person? Union? Both incidents caused hostility and condemnation from the general public. I tend to be a little different reaction.
One person remarked that the students were all only approximately nineteen years of age, this seeming to be an excuse for innocence and therefore a failure to represent and heard, but when blatant defiance of the law is shown, how can we expect to be listened to?
A few random comments about the great drug raid rally by a neutral instructor (I don't use or sell drugs but neither do I believe that the state is best served by a man more interested in his investment than in working for the people of Kansas).
It is amazing that a number of people on and near the campus use and sell drugs but whenever they are caught with any in their possession it was planted. If Miller wanted to plant anything why didn't he plant some heroin, when up a deficiency in the raid?
There seemed to be a general agreement with the last speaker that having everybody pay six cents for a meal, and having athletic tastes of a majority is horrible, but that it is a wonderful idea to have everybody pay $20 a person. The prisoners who are too stupid to hide their supplies when they know a raid is scheduled. (I am uncertain whether the money could be sufficient to dismiseralize 18 out of 30 who are not students.) There were two main points brought out by the rally: (1) that the police discriminate against the street arresting those people who break the law, while those at the rally feel that they have the moral right to disagree with; (2) that everybody should object to Miller's alleged violations of the
Before we can expect to change, the laws we do not agree with, we have to demonstrate the ability to respect the laws of the country from perseverance and motivation, not frustration and violence
Griff & the Unicorn
Pamela Higgins Overland Park senior
George Johnston Alexandria, Minn. senior
To the editor:
My roommate and I are seniors at the University of Kansas and consider ourselves straight people, not street people. We are
To the editor:
Mr. Miller:
No raids have occurred in other places in Kansas of which we are aware. We do believe that you will be arrested just as it was just Lawrence and that you had to start somewhere. Power to you. We only hope that Manhattan, Wichita, and another gets equal time in publicity and print.
we appreciate your success efforts in making Lawrence a cleaner and safer place to live. Our grieve is that KU in the past ground and trodden over by the press (nationally and locally) and by concerned, but ignorant parents who believe all that they see open their eyes to see for themselves. Your recent raid has started people to knock our university itself. This is probably there is a drug problem in the Lawrence community, but the percentage is far less within the university itself. This is probably where there is a drug arrests. So why is the news coverage so slanted in placing the blame on the university instead of within the entire community? DORM RAIDED, why not "Lawrence raided—only small percentage of university students right minds would send their children to a university where drug use appeared so common on our hampers our KU enrollment, but also prohibits a lot of students from receiving what we feel is an excellent education." So you can bump
KU likes the full court "press." but only in Allen Field House!
content with going to classes,
cramming for tests, and getting
an education. We consider ours
selves fortunate to be so close to
getting a college degree and are
quite proud of being called RU
students. We feel our university
is the best around and we love
a part of it.
Those There the Days
Coach Karl Schladademann and eighteen track team members left for a track meet with Missouri. The coach declared that an upset was the only way KU could win.
The first round of games was played in the state high school basketball tournament, and five of the teams that advanced were winners by default when their opponents didn't show
50 Years Ago Todav—1921
It was announced that the first subscription turned in to J. W. Baugmentner, chairman of the Stadium-Union Drive, a pledge of $100 by a student.
The Business Office and the Registrar's Office reported that a total of 243 students were employed by the University. The VMCA opened a new office and several job openings and no one to fill them.
40 Years Ago Today—1931
A fire caused an estimated $500 damage to a laboratory in Snow Hall. The cause of the fire
Total registration of the University up to
March 1 was reported to be 5,874, showing an increase over 1930's 5,747.
The KU debate team returned from a tour of Eastern universities, and the team's director, E. C. Buehler, said KU was gaining a reputation for good debating.
25 Years Ago Today—1946
Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen Jr.姚玉雄 is getting ready to meet Henry Ibai's Agigas in a playoff for the NCAA 50th district championship. The Jayhawks are the underdogs. "It's a thousand to one shot that we can beat the Agigas," Allen said.
Students were upset by a shortage of tickets for the basketball playoff. The athletic office erred and took 300 more orders for tickets than it could fill.
A new dance and recreation room in the Union was officially named the "Elbow Room." in a contest in which the winner got 1,269 credit at the Union fountain. Rejected content included "Wreck Room," "Rumpus Room," and "Ping-Pong Palladium."