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Tuesday, March 2.1971
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Miller and the Raid
Many students are dismayed and confused after Vern Miller's public relations extravaganza of last week.
His post-midnight arrival last Friday had been expected earlier last week, yet after the raid there were feelings of shock and some surprise as well. Also remaining are questions concerning his motives and his methods.
Why should the state's chief lawyer involve himself so avidly in the enforcement of the law rather than the prosecution of cases?
Why was such care taken to notify the press while University officials were not informed that students would be arrested in dormitories in the middle of the night?
Will the abundant presence of the press during the raid give those arrested grounds to claim invasion of privacy?
These are several questions among so many others that can't simply be passed off or excused in the name of law and order.
It's also difficult to conclude that the results of the mass arrests will curb the drug traffic in Lawrence.
If the attorney general had not taken such care to ensure that he was photographed frisking some of those arrested it would be harder to doubt his sincerity.
If Miller had to date demonstrated his professed intention to enforce the state's gambling laws, it would be harder to doubt his professed devotion to the letter of the law.
It appears, unfortunately, that Miller is also attempting to make Chancellor Chalmers' justifiable dismay at not being
Miller, however, doesn't seem to have neglected his channels to Life Magazine, which sent a team to cover his activities Friday morning.
notified of the raids a political issue. Miller used a Democratic fund raising dinner Saturday night as a forum to criticize the Chancellor.
There Is an Election
Said Miller: "It was none of their business . . . I was a little surprised at this reaction from the Chancellor . . . I did not know there were any channels that I was supposed to follow in such matters."
—Bob Womack
My attitude is not conceived from the importance of the election. This year's election is a crucial one for student government. Look what happened here last year; think about the Senate's performance, or lack of performance.
By now you are probably thinking,
"That cheeky s.o.b. sure has a lousy attitude toward the elections." You're right.
This may come as a great shock to you, but there is a student election scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.
The fact that 304 candidates filed for Student Senate seats has prompted comments that students really do care. Sorry, I don't buy that. Two days before the filing deadline only 20 persons had filed for the Senate. After it became known that things were wide open, scores of students flocked to the Senate elections committee, not to show their concern for student government, but rather to take
Many of those most excited by Miller's raid "I would like to see Chancellor Chalmers' bow tie bounce around some more," said a man in Junction City) are expressing shock, amazement and dismay at the reaction of those here at KU to the attorney general's raid. Many of these persons blithely break the law every weekend at their Eagles and Elks lodges, and are now fighting tooth and nail to ensure that Miller focuses on the drug laws rather than the gambling statutes.
Although Miller may believe, as he said last Friday, that "drugs are taboo for awhile in Lawrence" he is sadly deluded. If he believes his dragnet, planned with such a careful eye to maximum dramatic effect, will begin to remedy the complexities of the drug situation, he is likewise mistaken. Efforts such as the recently established methadone treatment center here will do world more to fight the problem than Miller's approach.
Until Miller drops his public relations orientation and shows more concrete evidence of his professed even-handed devotion to law as well as some cognizance of the depth and breadth of the drug situation on campus, he can't look for much support from the University of Kansas student body.
The only persons who seem to care what happens to student government were the presidential candidates and a handful of supporters and interested freshmen.
With issues like academic reform curriculum modification, student fees, town-gown relationships, et al., the students should have been more than eager to hear what the candidates for student body president had to say and what they were going to do to make the Student Senate function in the way it was conceived three years ago.
The hallowed student body will once again pit their ignorance against a list of faceless candidates for the Student Senate and another list of semi-recognizable hopefuls for student body president. Oh yes, the all-important race for class offices will also be settled once and for all.
advantage of a sure victory by default
advantage of a sure victory by default.
Unfortunately for those candidates, too many others had the same idea, and now the ballot is a list of persons whose ideas and personalities are known by few on this campus.
How many Senate candidates have you even heard of, and of those how many of them have presented their ideas to you?
The whole situation is shaping up to be a repeat of last year. Last year parties sat up the night before the deadline calling anyone they could, promising to foot the $5 registration fee if they would run on the party's ticket. The result, for the most part, was a Senate full of disinterested students who didn't show up for meetings and eventually quit before their term expired. The turnover rate in the Senate bears this point out.
Here lies the basis for my disgust and dismay with the upcoming election. All the presidential candidates have proposed ways to correct the Senate's faults, and some of the ideas are certainly worth a try.
But whoever is elected president will be hampered by an apathetic Senate as in the past, unless the student body wakes up and at least tries to learn something about the Senate candidates in their schools.
And just for the record, how many of you know that the question of the athletic allocation from the student fees will be on the ballot in the form of a referendum? If nothing else, simple concern about your pocketbook will motivate you to vote.
Regardless of your knowledge of the candidates or the problem facing KU and student representation, go to the polls and vote. At least you'll prove to everyone that you're able to mark an X in a box.
—Ted Iliff
Hendrix
Candidates' Forum
The university administration alludes that we live in a community where people have similar interests (grades) and interests (subjects) that do not exist. The Menninger report on community-policy relations states: Tensions and fears have created a tensions within the university, suspiciousness, with much time and energy taken up with the outward manifestations of these feelings rather than the underlying problems creating them."
The student body, faculty, administrators and townpeople must overcome prejudices and fears that have become more acute since the killings of September 11. We must begin July. We must begin to develop programs and institutions which will fulfill the collective needs of everyone living in this community. The reclamation center is a place for people to come together and more things must be undertaken so that we can destroy the barriers which divide.
Collectively, we must make basic policy decisions to regulate the police. The University of Michigan has been instrumental in establishing community-supported street community in Madison, Wis. has developed a program where city police do not patrol the "hippe ghetto" area. Bobby Scale has also, spent much time talking to policing to help alleviate the problems of military-styled surveillance system.
The Candidates Speak Out
It is all too apparent that one side of the campus which houses many persons in dormitories and sororities feels alienated from the rest of the campus community which is separated by communities and apartments. The fact or the fact that so-called hippies feel alienated when going westward on the campus, enhances into one's living area, breeding isolation.
Moreover, we must start to change the structure of city government as well as rectify the economic problems which affect people in the food, clothes, housing, and transportation) along the lines of the OEO copio in Wichita, a spirit of collective will to solve urban problems. Our service whereby the cost of groceries diminishes 15-20 per cent. Thus, people' s needs are increased. The limited resources can be diverted into other areas. Implicit with changes in police surveillance, 2nd housing and employment, are changes in city government.
Additionally, by compounding student alienation with the divisions within the communities of Lawrence in total, a general appeal to all will furthermore, complications arise as arbitrary law (i.e. The D. of Hebera and D. of Decking Mille) from outside attempts to memorialize the affairs in Lawrence to members of the armed service or the auxiliary police force right now?
At the University and in the community, there is a serious lack of facilities that would aid women in overcoming their barriers to employment. The care center is much needed for women with children at birth control dispersion and a gynecologist are needed at Walkins.
As students, we have one quarter of a million dollars to spend in reconstructing the campus. The programs and institutions will be set up that provide equally accessible services for all of our students; it is the hope of all that the University, the students and the Student Senate take a more active role in bridging the gaps which isolate us from the rest of the community, which isolate school from the community.
The complexities of this university demand much of the students, the Student Senate and the Student Body President. The students of their education—and areregulating more.
Slaughter
It is these complex ideas, and ideals that
I must confront as Student Body 'l'
members.
At the outset, I realize the responsibility and the frustrations that accompany the decision.
Likewise, I think I realize the reality of student government at this university and that it is a fundamental task.
Too often the Student Senate has passed those limits and found itself facing the spectre of its own political impotency. This is a difficult lesson for students to confront problems outside the university.
Immersed in an atmosphere that is heavy with relevance the university should, by all rights, deal with social and political issues. In this action with prudence and realize that whatever power or influence this university possesses diminishes rapidly the potential for change.
recipients
This is a paradox that is indeed perplexing and has no real solution.
Some of the other candidates have proposed extensive revisions in the埋寢acreation of the Senate, and others think the panacea would be found in creating certain committees they call task forces in bringing more people in the committee process.
These are only clever ploys that ignore the larger issue of whether a representative student government can work at all, any large university for that matter.
This is the question would confront
Awareness of representation and organization too
of representation and organization too
This is the question I would confront.
More significantly, the students of this university really want this thing called
I don't presume to have the answer.
Idon presume I have the answer.
Yes. I do know that the students of this university are told—and I do the Student Senate refuses to listen, $nother confident will be found.
I would listen to you, for it is from you
that I derive my position and it is to you
that I draw the line.
if I accomplish nothing else the communication gap between the senate and the House could be solved.
The answer, is not in refined bureaucrats or super committees, (for if it was we would only need to give a civil law case) and the office could be eliminated).
One answer certainly would be for the senate to swallow its pride and admit that (1)
The Senate can no longer afford to
unure you for without your support it is
much harder.
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It is time for basic academic change—change in our philosophy and likewise change in the specific working structure. This is essential, as its purpose the fostering of the individual, and personal growth of the individual. (the Faculty of Brown University)
"Compulsory education is a contradiction in terms, a central miscalculation about the nature of learning." Education which is compulsory—e.g., science, social studies or social demand or the requirements of middle class acceptability—produces neither learning nor freedom. We have learned that courses and disciplines for which we can be instruments of oppression as easily as they can be routes to emancipation.
With this philosophy, let us remember that:
First, there is nothing sacred about the present academic structure. It is not the working of great masterminds or innovators. It is rather the result of a piecemeal, step-by-step compromise on compromise of political and financial resources, which is much more convenience as by a conscientious study of students' future needs.
Secondly, there is no reason to beerna yourself for "a whole generation for lairnography," because of maturity, lack of commitment, escapism and ambivalence. You are not the weak spot. It is the responsibility of the whole group to challenge you. But everywhere students are being body into stooper or steel into stolesterous vastness and speed, the University rushes people to standardized destinations without much consideration of their differ-
Third, we seem to assume that "better schools" mean harder schools; harder to graduate from. This assumption is questionable. But even more importantly, "certification and ranking intrude on their effect and their effect is destructive." How can our human intellectual needs be heard over the fear of the educational assembly line?
Fourth, the University should not be a teacher of objects to fill vocational slots. Its business is to select and classify We are tired of certification and numerical name tags on our students.
But there are things we can do. They work at other schools. They can work here.
1. Delayed Enrollment: Under this plan students would formally enroll two weeks after classes had begun. New students are opened to the convenience of students.
2. Student Interest Budgeting: Student enrollment in a particular department or school determines the amount of funding those department programs will receive.
3 Interdisciplinary Programs This program provides the funding of programs that cross disciplines.
4. Core Studies: This plan is similar to the Urban Studies Semester at USC, during which a student is able to con- centrate on course concentration, specific educational topic.
We have many more suggestions on other student concerns like financial aid and credit cards.
We have tried here to recognize the problem and offer some solutions.
We hope to help in the search for solutions to our community's troubles. Your help is needed. The responsibility for change belongs to all of us.
Wall
Nearly two hundred years ago the English Statesman Edmund Burke said that to intemperate minds cannot be freed from the growth of turmoil and academic misunderstandings seems strangely appropriate to the situation at the University today. The past few decades have the growth of turmoil and academic misunderstandings especially in Lawrence. We have seen peaceful demonstrations, strikes, violent encounters with students and burning on campus. Passions flamed. Intemperate minds have seen fit, when able, to use the University for the purpose of political elections, both on campus and off it.
The problems have now forced the University to a turning point. This spring will decide many things. The University of Chicago is capable of grasping the situation from it under control by itself, or it will be faced with the prospect of destruction from within, rapid or gradual, or the equally devastating future from the State. The situation will not remain the same. It will change, or be changed, one way or the other. The main political ideology has no business intruding into the function of the University. If the University is going to remain a place where an aggressive discussion, it must not allow itself, and it must force into the realm of political action. When the University intrudes into the domain of the State, it must expect retaliation from the State. This does not mean that the University must become an ivory tower, disassociated from reality. It does mean that it should not impose its personal political action in favor of a particular scheme of policies. Administrators, faculty members, members of the Student Senate, people in similar positions, do not possess the necessary skills to beat their personal political prejudices into the heads of other people. The issue is precisely the same as using Regents' candidates to endorse a political candidate, for example.
We propose, as one of our major goals, to use the student body offices to deal with issues that are not specifically/issues which impinge upon our own political prejudices, Kane's City Strikes or political attacks.
We mean to establish open communication between various groups outside the University which have an effect on their teaching, their association, the State Legislature, the Regents, etc. already we have developed operative contacts at our disposal to reach out to people who are interested in student interest has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic. The vast majority of people are anxious to solve the University's problems and want to know what is concerned. Much can be done if the student body and its leaders assume a sincere and concerned approach. Lack of compromises with the past, improving it can do much to alleviate problems of the foreseeable future. The free interchange of ideas between all of these students in their grass, if we will take the initiative.
The offices of the student body president and vice-president have the potential to be used for constructive change at the University. They can also be used as an irritant under the skin of the University student, or as a way toUniversity to sit around scratching its personal parts, hunting for the flea that is biting it, we would have it stridling towards a deeper understanding of the problems which have plagued men in all ages, and requiring programs to meet forces which are now rising or will be born in the ages to come.
Responsible student government, working in cooperation with the University, is a way for students to help can help to do this. If it refuses, or begins to engage in a policy of intransigent emotionalism, it will face the face of T. S. Church's "bang," and chooses to end with a "bang" or a "himper," it will end. And we shall be the poorer for it. Our passions shall be our
Griff & the Unicorn
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Those Were the Days
The Pan-Hellenic Council and the Student Interests Committee passed a new set of rules for sorcity rushing. Among them were rules forbidding automobiles to be used in rushing and the use of bid-wagons to carry around pledge invitations.
Soccer was organized into the University intramural sports program. Dr. Naismith and other faculty members and students en- troduced it, and supported the new addition to the program.
50 Years Ago Today----1921
A bill was proposed to make purchase of the Jaywha compulsory by including the price of the annual in the student activity fee. The bill also proposed to change the Jaywha to
Professor Olm Templin of the department of psychology and philosophy became a grandfather when his daughter Marjorie, born in his house of Cornell University, had a baby boy.
20 Years Ago Today-1951
a one-issue book form instead of the traditional four-issue magazine.
J. J. Wilson, KU business manager, announced the closing date for final bids on the new science building. An aerial photograph in the Kanas showed where the new structure (Malott Hall) would be located, behind (Old) Haworth Hall.
10 Years Ago Today-1961
The KU Athletic Board was considering three proposals for increasing the seating in Memorial Stadium. Suggestions included enclosing the south end of the stadium, adding a covered entrance to the 30-yard lines and dropping the playing at the order to add seats below the original ones.
A KU professor of bacteriology, Cora M. Downs, in an address to the members of the Faculty Corum, stated that "a prevention for cancer will be discovered in time." The predicted that within the next three to ten years a cure for the common cold would be found
Book Reviews
Several new non-fiction titles,
bearing either the Penguin or
Pelican imprint, should be of
some importance to some University
students:
a home, and fascist or totalitarian nationalism.
NATIONALISM, by K. B. Minogue (Pelcam, $1.45) — An analysis and a history of nationalism four types—fragmented countries aspiring to nationhood, pan-Asian nationalism, and nationalism of people in search of
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SOCIALIST VERSE, edited by Alan Bold (Penguin, $1.50)—A man who will not be familiar, those will not be familiar average person, except for a name such as Russia's Yevgeny Yevushenko. In a time, however, he levitated in lewicomenics
BRITISH POETRY SINCE 1945, edited by Edward Luce.
Smith (Penguin, $1.95)—A brand new collection, also marked by the fact that most of the poets are not well known.
ARCHITECTS OF THE PARTHENON, by Rhys Carpenter. Pelican. 42.85.) A faithfully written account which the author argues that the Parthenon was a re-building of a partially completed temple, and much improvisation marked constructions of the great monuments of man.