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Thursday, March 4. 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
A Definition of Power
Senator Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri has introduced a resolution in the Senate that would define more clearly the making roles of Congress and the President.
Eagleton's proposal would limit the war-making role of the President, who is now given broad authority under the State Council for institutions established by past chief executives.
In Eagleton's view it is "critically important that we clearly specify the areas in which unilateral presidential military action is constitutionally acceptable, and necessary in the present-day context."
The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war and "to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions." The President is named as commander in chief of the forces and given the power to make treaties with the consent of the Senate.
To their credit, the founding fathers framed a Constitution that has survived since 1789 with only 25 alterations. The flexibility of the document, based in brevity and generally stated principles, accounts for its timelessness.
But because of this flexibility debates have arisen, particularly in the last few years, with regard to the limits of legislative and presidential authority in committing American troops to the Indochinese War. Eagleton's resolution seeks to set definite limits to presidential war making power.
Eagleton's proposed resolution would require the President to be specifically
authorized by Congress before committing armed forces to hostile action; allow the chief executive to enter a country when a clear and present danger exists to the U.S. or its forces or to repel an attack; require the President to report the circumstances of a troop committal of insurgent troops in a war that troops without prior congressional authorization—Congress would then decide within 30 days whether to continue or terminate the hostilities. The resolution would also prevent the President from rescusing prisoners of war by invading a country with which the U.S. is not engaged in hostilities unless he receives a congressional authorization. If attempted a rescue if the P. O. W.'s were being held in a belligerent nation.
The resolution preserves the President's necessary power to react in time of attack, although it limits the degree to which he can interpret a treaty.
The essence of Eagleton's resolution lies in its assertion of congressional power to approve the committal of American troops to hostile action. It would serve as a brake on the executive branch, which has in effect been conducting a full scale war in recent years without congressional approval.
There appears to be little justification for fear that the power of the President, which has grown considerably in recent decades, will be usurped. Eagleton's efforts to tighten the loose Constitutional definition of executive and legislative power.
—Bob Womack
Shark and Minnow
Reprinted from the Parsons Sun
Reprinted from the Parsons Sun
Vern Miller's big bust in Lawrence, in
the making ever since he took to the
hustings last fall, finally came off.
The attorney general assembled one of the most massive forces of law officers in the state's history for a single occasion, where he observed a shark and came up with a minnow.
"We actually didn't find as many drugs on campus as we thought we would," he said soberly in the dawn of the gigantic raid's aftermath.
The former Wichita sheriff, who had pictured Lawrence and the University of Kansas to the entire state—and indeed the nation—as a den of drugs and a seat of iniquity, even acknowledged the shortcomings of his tremendous overkill.
Of course he didn't. He had spread the label about K.U. and its students far and wide. Apart from a few extremists, they are bright young people, our best products, and it is an honorable institution. Only self-serving politicians would try to make them out to be otherwise.
Whether it was necessary to recruit an entourage of 150 officers plus for middle of the night raids in Lawrence, with the expectation that every jail within 50 miles would be filled to over-flowing, will be left for later analysis.
But the results are plain enough. Thirty young people were arrested and charged with various offenses. One dozen were identified as K.U, students, which is far different from what Miller was telling voters from the stump before November.
Since the Lawrence campus has some 17,000 students enrolled (the figure is higher, but give Miller the benefit of the doubt), the arrest of 12 students comes to
a batting average of 0.0007 of one per cent. It is a feat which would have william
Kansas, of course, wants laws against drug sales and possession enforced. No right thinking citizen would have it otherwise. There is a matter of perspective, however. Miller put a figure of $2,000 on drugs seized in Lawrence. A raid carried out by city and county officers without fanfare near Parsons recently, aided by a federal agent, netted an estimated $750 in narcotics.
It appears in retrospect that Lawrence and K.U. may have been better political issues than fruilful targets for Miller's debut in the big time. A minnow is seldom regarded as an impressive wall trophy.
As modest as is Miller's average at the plate to date, even it may not be the final figure. The payoff in this business is on convictions, not arrests.
This is something about which Miller's electronic tub-thumpers in Wichita never bothered to inform the populace as they had been accustomed to wide stature through their film clips.
Having fulfilled a long-standing political promise, now out of the way as something of a cathartic for the system, the attorney general hopefully will conduct his affairs in a manner befitting the loftier portions of his rhetoric.
That course will win general approval, bingo enthusiasts to the contrary notwithstanding. But let citizens gain the notion that a man in high station is using the power of his office for cheap and shoddy ends, and approbation can turn to dust quicker than he can say fair and equal treatment under law.
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Wescoe Hall, Pakistan, Parking, OD
To the editor:
I was extremely shocked to read the article published in the magazine February 19th under the headline "A Pakistan Divided." Phil Thomson, under whose name the article was written, is quite ignorant of the history of the creation of Pakistan, and his remarks that it is a country that has been born in the first place are quite startling to me. The idea of the creation of Pakistan might not be so surprising outside world, as has been observed by Mr. Newswom, but it was a crucial thing to have done, whose customs, traditions, religion and way of life had become dominant Hindu majority over there. It will not out of the way to give certain facts which I think about a separate homeland.
I'm really sorry to see the choice building site across from Strong Hall wasted with a four month delay. You probably not be adequate by the time it is completed. If the funds for the twenty-five story building are sufficient, you won't build it a few stories at a time if funds become available? One way to insure that funds will be spent is to suspend the entire athletic program until the University's academic needs have been fully met. Taxpayers and taxpayers and alumni with entertainment when they will not provide an adequate classroom space, or teachers' salaries?
To the editor:
Stan Rubin Prairie Village senior
The second tragedy Mr. Newsm has referred to is an unbridled population growth in East Pakistan. I fail to see how such a catastrophe could become the cause of the break up of Pakistan, since West Pakistan
Anglo-Hindu conspiracy to systematically crush the Muslims of the sub-continent. The great Hindu upsurged the great Hindu uprising. Muslims were sullenly aloof from a world-wide awakening. It was then that Sir Sayyid Ahmed Minusma, with ignorance and bigotry to awaken his community to a reawareness. The attitude of the dominant Muslim nation who had the backing of the people then at the helm of affairs, forced the Muslims of that part of the homeland where they could preserve their culture, their traditions and their religion. The Muslim homeowners met the same fate as the Muslims of Spain. They struggled hard to achieve their goal and against all odds and conspiracies.
Pakistan was created by the joint efforts of the Muslims of East and West Pakistan. Their Muslims a complete code of laws, complete customs and traditions are alike wherever they are. The bond is unbreakable. A strong Pakistan can exist under all odds, even in the most inhumane circumstances, an unfriendly India lies between East and West Pakistan.
I would like to look at what my friend Mr. Newsmass has referred to, the problems we see between these are actually tragedies, to see whether these problems exist only in Pakistan in the past, and to see how far these so-called tragedies can influence the world, which has been visualized by Mr. Newsmass.
is an agricultural area and meets the food and grain requirements of Pakistan. East Pakistan are proud of this accomplishment of their fellow
Mr. Newswson has referred to exploitation as being a tragedy, with particular reference to the recent灾事 in East Pakistan. He argues that government took all necessary measures that were available to them to help the cyclone victims. To exploit opportunities and ill-wisheries of Pakistan themselves want to exploit the situation to their own ends and to create hatred between Pakistan by malicious propoanda.
The recent election in Pakistan brought forward two leaders, namely Mr. Zulkifil Al Bhutto and Muqirub Rehman from East Pakistan. Although these two men have different manifestos, this does not mean that they are Pakistani. Both men are Pakistani. Mujibur Rehman wants autonomy, not separation, as some outsiders have hagging ears for his leadership, as there is in all countries, and different policies do exist, but none of these policies include the separation of East Pakistan. As such, it is my faith, as it is the faith of all Pakistanis, that Pakistan has come to stay and it will live among all odds and in its present form.
Mohammad Abmad Iqbal
Lahore, Pakistan,
special student,
Kakatian
Students, Association
To the editor:
I do not think Dr. Wedge is dumb, irrelevant, redundant, paternalistic, optional, beside the point, or over the hill, nor I do
think he should be oppressed or a
member of any congregation,
member of any conspiracy to
opress faculty, nor am I aware
that I am at least on the part of
the student.
What I am well aware of is, however, a growing feeling on the part of Dr. Wedge (in his nineteen years of college) and his colleagues is called to question the lack of an evening parking situation is just a small facet of one's experiences at KU, but it strikes me as being a real problem for our students underlying Dr. Wedge's protests and my own. Since we're assigning labels these days, may we also consider "traditional chauvinism."
I have been led to believe that the main reason behind the failure to implement open evening parking on this campus and the faculty would have to. It since has been pointed out already that relieving security personnel of evening parking patrol would help with the problem of inadequate evening campus security, and since having restricted evening parking doesn't solve the evening parking problems anyway, one solution is to provide a reaction to open evening parking by the faculty would be a reaction against breaking with tradition and the traditional reverence for neglected parking signifies them to.
I have a lot of reverence for Dr. Wedge and his colleagues and I am grateful that tradition is important as long as doesn't become ridiculous. What seems ignorant and thoughtless is not the unreasonable and ridiculous
So, Dr. Wedge, you and your colleagues and we students will go on being harassed by evening parking restrictions (and now it is clear that parking fees pay deeply for the privilege), but tradition will be served. The campus will continue to be unsafe after dark, but tradition will be served. Students and faculty are required to attend the educational interchanges, by evening parking restrictions, but tradition will be served.
situation, as restricted evening parking seems to be, simply because those who teach me the rules of driving apparently hold tradition above it.
Stephen Buck Decatur, Ill. graduate student
To the editor:
I agree with George Johnston's general comments concerning the Oread Hall. Further I propose that "all that is wrong in MEDICAL MD" is summed up in a two word investment, MENTALPOLLUTION!
In this case mental pollution consists of questionable news items and opinions twisted out of context with tacit paranoia. Apologists may say 'they (the editors of the OD) are just doing their own thing' but then so are the people who beer cans along the roadway.
The wide readership which the Oread Daily appears to enjoy is a sad comment on the intellectual environment in some quarters of the country, of which it is symptomatic of that environments atrophy.
Craig G. Heatwole Wisconsin graduate student
Reprinted from the Salina Journal
So Kansas's White Knight, having squashed bango in the church parlor, now blows the pot at Lauren.
The scenario was straight out of the Prohibition Era:
The political promise to clean up the campus. The night-time raid by swarms of agents, armed not only with warrants but with cameraman and reporters for maximum publicity.
The proud report of illicit drugs found, including marijuana growing in a flower pot.
The revelation that undercover agents have been long at work.
The promise that the clean-up only has begun.
Goody gum drop!
That is about 006 percent of the K.U. enrollment. Nevertheless, the university will again be advertised as a center for drugs and hippie culture. What a shame!
Quirks in the News
It should immediately be noted that of the 30 persons arraised from bed and jailed, only 11 were
But is such grandstanding the way to end the abuse and cure the evil?
According to Arthur H. Fldtter, chairman of the Matrimonial Committee, 60 per cent of all marriages in the country are married with the help of such institutes.
Now The Journal is four-square against drug abuse.
FRANKFURT, Germany (UPI)—Boy still tells girl but matrimonial agencies also play a role in helping him find his spouse.
When Brown, 46, diagnosed the trouble, the motorist, a Malayan woman, told off to see shortly—you keep the car out can't be bothered to get it fixed."
GLASGOW, Scotland (UPI)—A patrolman Andy Brown had a shock when he went to help a member whose car had broken down.
BEIRUT (UPI)—When a hog ran amok killing six goats in a southern Lebanese village near
Natahiyet Township, a hurried
bishop of Ankara, came when he
got to the area with his gun,
he found the villagers had
killed the pig and were just sit-
ing there.
for the enemy. By nightfall they had not found one.
EVORA, Portugal (UP1).—The animal was Monday and stray dogs and cats are to be caught and destroyed because, they said, the animal filled the streets and parked on the street.
A team of expert dog and cat catchers spent the day searching
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Griff & the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
Those Were the Days
45 Years Ago Todav—1926
The University of Kansas Glee Club was the first performance in the college section of the national glee club contest in Carnegie Hall, New York.
25 Years Asa Todav—1948
Work on Watkins Scholarship Hall had been progressing rapidly. The brick work on the ground floor was nearly completed.
The Union snack bar began serving a 35-cent plate lunch.
Columns that were to support the first floor of the Kansas Union were poured.
Dr. Sybil Woodruff of the home economics department spoke on the broadening field with career possibilities for women in home economics.
Part-time Saturday job openings for men
Noel Coward's "Hay Fever" opened in Fraser剧场.
5 Years Ago Today—1956
were announced. The jobs paid an average of 50 cents an hour.
The track team won their fifte consecutive Big 12 indoor championship in Kansas State.
KU debates compiled a 14-2 record at the College of Thomas Invitational Tournament.
A portrait of Dr. James Naismith was presented in the University andung in Allen FFII.
A Kansas Relays parade theme contest was announced. Prizes were two tickets to the Hitchens from the Campus Hideaway and $8 worth of merchandise at the Rock Chalk Cafe.