Tuesday, March 16, 1971 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment Answers Yet to Come A taxi driver in Washington related hi special version of the economic problem we'd been hearing so much about or Capitol Hill: "Well, I suppose you guys all got your tickets to 'Hair,'" he said. No, we said, we had already seen it. "Must really be something," he said, but I can't see paying $10 to see a half-ton of beer. "Hell, I used to pay the whores $25.00 and they'd take off their clothes and jump in the water." Everybody, the congressmen had been telling us, was feeling economic pressure. It was Nixon's biggest problem, they said. The College Grill in East St. Louis, Illinois is a long way from Capitol Hill. There, "Momma," a 300 pound waitress-cook with "good" tatooed on her wrists was trying to make some money and teach her daughters how to use it. For her, the problem wasn't in Washington, but rather in her talk herself out of the suspicion that her daughters would end up thebut of some taxi driver's loke. But people like the taxi driver have for generations felt economic pressure. For these people the problem didn't start with the problems of Congress and it won't end with them. Student leaders headquartered in Washington told me that my generation could find the cure for the disease of a 12-year-old with an upper jaw joint followed by a night of hooking. They said we had a head start on our elders and consequently,we could use the same methods but accomplish much more. But I knew they were wrong when I met Rita and Ellen, two members of my generation that I'd met so many times before. They were in a bar in Washington. I guess they were feeling the economic pressure too. The band was bad and they wanted something to drink. Two foreigners got taken: two scotches for Ellen at $1.40 a shot and two beers for Rita at $1.00 each. The drinks bought the Argentinians nothing more than 30 minutes of one-sided conversation. Not even a dance. She sat with her back to him staring at me. "What sign are you?" she asked. Ellen lied about a skiing accident, saying her ankle was weak. Rita was just rude—dancing with a blood crew-cut kid and talking to the guy that bought her drinks. "You know, in the stars." "Scorpio," I said, "but I don't really believe in those things." "Oh I do," she said. "My sign fits me perfectly, I'm very religious." "Christian?" I didn't tell her that her religion was a building—a bar with a loud band, attended Mondays' when "chicks get in free." "No," she said, "I don't believe in churches. I have my own. I mean what is a church but a building?" FCC Ban Goes too Far You see, it's just as far from that bar to East St. Louis as it is from the Capitol and the State House. I wonder how many FCC officials are well versed in rock music and how many musicians are well versed in rock music. After several years of a laissez-faire attitude toward rock music, the Federal Communications Commission finally PURITAN ethic to radio music last week. Another problem is the ruling that language should be written in another meanings also should be written in the same. If the stations don't scrutinize the man, they play the FCC said, they may not their phones. The FCC warned all stations to curtail the broadcasting of songs condoning or glorifying the use of narcotic or hallucinogenic drugs. Among the songs cited are "Gun," "Mary Jane," and the Easy Rider soundtrack and the old standby, "Puff the Magic Dragon." The ruling is subject to ridicule for many reasons. One problem with such an order is the complete ignorance that he has of the rock music; also jockeys have concerning rock music. Anyone can find a hidden meaning to anything if he tries hard enough. A good song performed by talented musicians may be banned by a station or the FCC because some "deep thinker" says he thinks the words have double meanings. As Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary mentioned recently, the plague of message searching could spread to almost anything. For example: "O say can you C," C referring to cocaine; "By the dawn's early light," the song obviously being junkie after an all-night binge, and so on. The FCC seems to be way off base on the ruling. Very few popular rock groups record songs advocating the use of hard drugs. Many songs concern the use of marijuana, but such use is widespread, and the harm of marijuana has not been sufficiently proven to most young persons. Besides, I doubt that many persons smoking grass began the practice simply because some rock group sang about it. The overall result of the FCC decision may be that radio listeners will be denied the opportunity to hear good songs because marijuana or narcotics are mentioned or allegedly implied in the lyrics. Rock fans are too sophisticated to be satisfied with a constant stream of love ballads, and the expressions of other ideas and concerns should not be hindered by a bunch of old fogeys who forbid something because they don't like or understand it. —Ted Iliff Student Voters, Workers To the editor: We who fancy ourselves as highly progressive proponents of an enlightened university structure—where we all on March 4 were philosophizing about the possibility of changing the structure of modern society, or why we should be patiently for spring break? In any case we failed to lay our own values clearly on the line. We never years to express our ideals of a university and its priorities and thus our attitudes toward our students and its priorities voting we allowed a majority of 2,855 students to force their concept of a university centered around the edifying institutions of our community. We have no one to blame but ourselves. Neither the Establishment nor the Kansas Board of Education held responsible. At fault lies our own innate apathy and stupidity Ruth Anne Dick Newton senior editional calls a working man; a liar; a drunk; a griper; a judae. Yet the author never considers how people are treated on their jobs. Does a worker have anything to gripe about? You're damn right he does. Bosses pay the lowest wages they can get away with, and keep fewer jobs available than people who want them, so that if you leave the company fire you and get someone desperate enough to work for less. When profits might go down, the bosses lay people off to cut staff who are left work harder so the same work gets done, and tell them they need not axe it too. The capitalist greed for money that makes life so easy. Mr. Bland also slanders unions. He says that unions are no more important than a piece of paper in a man's pocket. But in fact, workers' unity, which is what unions are all about, is the only thing people can win against the bosses ruthless drive on profits. I think Mr. Bland owes an apology to the working people and students of Kansas for the misbehavior he editorial. It's time that students begin to think about the reality that faces working people, and not just as victims, who they get out of school. Let's put the blame where it belongs, on the boxes, and unite with our partners to fight our common enemy. The editorial implies that for working people money just *flows*. In this is a life. Workers work damn hard for what little pay they get. Most Kansas family either work two jobs, or family either have to work just to feed, clothes and house their families. This letter was written collectively by members of K.U. the Kansas does not recognize it and collective work, it refuses to print anything that is not at an individual. Therefore, the letter is signed with only one name. Laanne Nyberg 'Sorry, kid, but we have certain priorities.' GENTLEMEN, I'M HERE TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THE SST. SEC. OF TRANSPORTATION ER AR FINE CHARILE! NOW TELL THE WHAT WE LEARNED FROM OUR ENVIRONMENTAL WELL, SIR, WEE . AH LEARNED THAT OUR STUDY WON'T BE COMPLETE FOR ANOTHER TWO YEARS. THANK YOU, CHARLIE. NOW GEORGE WILL TELL YOU HOW BOOMS AND SIDELINE NOISE WILL HAVE ON PEOPLE To the editor Mr. Bland's Wednesday To the editor: Mr. Bland's THE MIWAU KEE JOURNAL TUE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1973 As students of this University, and as temporary residents of this town, we are the ones who would be not of the ilk of those who luckly have strong parental support, we become accustomed to the expectation that it will become a dull throbbing one, so maybe forgiven, after a while. But this doesn't happen. Instead the pain becomes sharper. After eyes are softened by our tears. But cry as you may, protest as you are inclined to, the wheel keeps on turning. The Circle Theory Threaten the bill collector, an even got downstream, and die of the th company manager; on about i vain, my suffering friend, for th Ignore your bills, don't oper your mail; the wheel still keeps turning. Not the perpetual motion of the business cycle, of rising prices and of rising costs; of wages pushing up prices and prices pushing up wages, but the perseverance of the grinding to powder our seeds of protest against confinement in this high-priced town. Let the merchants call it what they will, let them talk about the town growing and their business activities being expanded to meet the need extra facilities. Our own is self-exploitation. Witness the ups and downs of the national economic scene, they say. Even though this tiny community is of primarily English origin, its national economic scene is still very much a part of our lives. There can be no pretense that cost demands have made it necessary to increase prices and provide the most supportive argument is that wages are higher, that production costs have increased and a "nominal" lift in productivity. You are one of us who receive an occasional pay envelope, you, like me, will be hard put to un-understand this basis for this assumption. Granted, we would be less of academic community if we were not interested in national affairs. But do the strictures of somewhat financial times have to be felt so that when the signs are less noticeable in other communities not many miles away? And it is difficult for me ask And it is difficult for me to repress the great urge to enumerate the number of things that have always overpriced in Lawrence. But I don't self, and give two examples: using and gasoline: "Food to meats" and "toys" screams. But you calm yourself, and let them turn one over in "Why," you ask, "in view of the fact that the argument is usually put forward that business ventures are better suited to student population of the University of Kansas totally in the summer special summer rates for slimest Why is it necessary, if you students are not the economic prop of this community, to reduce gasoline usage in summer months? And why is gasoline normally between five and eight cents per gallon cheaper in places like Olathe, Topeka and Kansas city too! Of late, Lawrence has received much publicity, both state and city, and in the past he pused-intellectuals we are, love it. Swollen hearts and shortsightedness. The big story is that our outils of film about our Union fire, the search and destroy campaign against marjuaña, jungle, and rallies. And then they came down here, walked into the jungle of heroin, cocain and other the big trees, and cut down the trees. Lawrence is the center of activities and attention. The circle around her all thinks of coming in to land; but they are in for a surprise, the moneyman men have been opening the hub for a long time pony. —Duke Lambert THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Kansan Telephone Numbers Newsroom--UN-4 4810 Business Office--UN-4 4358 Published at the University of Kansas daily during the academic year except for special occasions. *Accommodations are a year* second class payment paid at Lawrence, Kan. 60444. Accommodations, goods, services and employment offered to all students without regard to color, even national or international. Sponsorship is not necessarily necessary. Contact Information: Office of the Registrar of Degrees NEWS STAFF News Advisor Dial Brinkman NEWS STAFF News Adviser . . . Del Brinkman Editor Assistant Editor Manager Editorial Staff News Editors Copy Chiefs Scratch Editor Artists and Reviews Editor Masters Edition Assistant Campus Editor Assistant News Editors Journalist Jim Forbes, Dave Henry, Jim Hood BUSINESS STAFF Business Adviser . . Mel Adams Business Manager Activist Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Associate Business Manager National Advertising Manager Cultural Bundle Manager Circulation Manager Portfolio Manager David Huek Active Huek Associate Young Jackson Young National Advertising Manager Mike Butlerd Cultural Bundle Manager Jim Lange Portfolio Manager Bv GALEN BLAND A Champion Died Last Monday WASHINGTON—Security, I hight in the House and Senate office buildings. On my way to an interview with Rep. Garner Shriver, I was stopped by a security officer. I was carrying, I had no bomb. "Who's gonna win that fight tonight?" the policeman asked. "Has to be Ali. Nobody can touch him." I said. "You're right there. That Smokin' Joe will be coming in with his head down and Ali will lift it up for him. South of the capitol, on a construction site, two black workers talked about the fight of the century. "All's just too much for that, pipaqueh. He's been screamin' it all along. He's the greatest," he said. "They went back to work." The news bulletin on TV (Joe Frazier has won a unanimous decision over Muhammad Alli) wasn't enough. The picture on the screen was too much—Alli on his back and another fighter above him. not the point. Ali was coming off a three year layoff—that's not the reason he was there, since his Miami fight with Liston. He had been said many years ago, was the one who was. A 7-1 underdog, Aliston stunned the fans by jabbing Lister silly and winning when Lister didn't come out of the box. He faced a farce, a force. The second fight and poor Aliston was going to get killed and it was only two minutes into the fight that the "phantom punch put Lister flat on his back. The fight was close—but that's Then things started happening. All fought more fights than most of the players, some somewhere along the line sportcasters called calling him the "greatest." Watching him play the game, he painted a picture. He was not the "Float like a butterfly, fling like a bee," he said and did. He toyed with his opposition, stung with the punch they fell. Boxing had changed. typical plodding, booming heavyweight, but a floater with a double-clutch shuffle. And there was All the all time screaming he was the greatest and had no marks on his face. He set himself as a superman, a man who could walk through the followed him, you got to believing he was that. He was never knocked down or even close to it. His moves in the ring were poetry in itself. When Ali hit the floor in the 18th round the myth was shattered, the magic spell broken, a superman was just a man. "When you've been the best in your field for so many years and then you're beaten, it's hard to take," Al said on TV the day he was assassinated, a civil rights leader is shot, and two weeks later it's forgotten, it's old news. That's me, old news. Life goes on. "What's that." Letters Policy "I bet all my money on Ali. I always have—on every one of his fights. I don't believe it. He must've steved the fight." All said he thought he had won him a victory, but probably came next year. But it can never be the same. A champion died last Monday. A boy was murdered in a Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must attend school in a school and home town; faculty and staff must provide their position; others must provide their name and address. Griff & the Unicorn By Sokoloff "Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff." Those Were the Days 50 Years Ago Today—1921 Plans were underway to buy a small press printing of the hope-d-for R.O.T.C. balloons. The KU Dramatic Club sent its second play this year. "The Importance of Being Earnest" is in progress. Dr. James Naismith, head of the department of physical education, went to Karaas Students not wearing the red, white, and blue emblem that proved contribution to the "Kansas Stadium - Union Drive" were to be "challenged and subjected to a merciless punishment" to reach their classes. A "team of 10 women" were to be the special policewomen for the event. A student book store was to replace the recreation room in the Kansas University. ac MARKS TOWARD A TEAM Organized housework by the All Student Council to answer phones with the name of the house and "Beat the Aggies" (Oklahama A M at Sullwater). cording to Henry Werner, dean of student affairs. It was to be 28,000 square feet. An advertisement offered the "an exhibition of William Allen White" for $3.75. Sullivan C. Richardson, writer, photographer and trail blazer of the Pan-American highway, was on campus lecturing and showing films on South America. He had run down the uncompleted Pan-American highway from Detroit to Gane Horn in 1940. 10 Years Ago Todav—1961 Pictureers of the 10 semi-finalists for Jayaphure Queen were sent to movie star Paul Newman, who was to pick the queen and her four princesses. Work began on clearing an area for $1.5 million women's dormitory immediately south of Lewish Hall. It was as yet unnamed. Wichita University into the state school system was killed in the House Staff Affairs Committee of the Kansas Legislature.