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Monday, March 1, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
'Now let's start all over again ... from the top.'
Big Brother's Eye
The testimony concerning military spying on civilians produced a reaction of undescribable disgust and horror throughout the country, but it should be especially alarming to members of the University community.
Three former military intelligence undercover men told a Senate constitutional rights subcommittee how the Army had spied on celebrities, politicians, civil rights leaders, radicals and even reporters and that records on the thousands of Americans were kept in a giant central computer.
The good old Army didn't stop with demonstrations and riots. They spied on, among anti-American things, church conventions, and party conventions and union meetings.
1984 has arrived. Nobody in America can be sure that he isn't under the eye of some governmental or military omnipresent eye.
If there is anyone at KU—student, faculty, staff or administrator—who doesn't think such a report concerns him I strongly advise a change in attitude.
If you were present at the 1969 ROTC review disruption, in any capacity, you might be on file with the Army.
If you attended the Abbie Hoffman speech last spring,you might be on file with the Army.
If you stood by at the Union fire, you might be on file.
If you are a member of the Black Student Union, The Collegiate Young Democrats, or the Collegiate Young Republicans, you might be on file.
If you have done anything at all in the last four years other than sleep or isolate yourself, you might be on file.
The new testimony plainly shows all Americans, regardless of their political, religious or social standing, might be called the nation's own version of HAL the computer.
Whatever happened to the quaint notion that the military was supposed to be under the control of civilians? If civilians were responsible for such actions, didn't they ever take a look at the American Constitution?
Apparently not. It seems society has divided into three classes—civilians, military personnel and national leaders, military personnel and national leaders inseparable without a good crowbar.
A cry for public protest seems almost ludicrous at this point. Names and pictures of the protesters would probably be devoured by the Army's computer and nothing would be gained. All I can do is stand quietly in the public place and a sinister character takes your picture, give him a toothy grim. The computer will like that.
Come to think of it, this editorial will probably put me on the Army blacklist, if I'm not there already. So I send my regards to IBM and commend them on the fine job they are doing for the nation's security.
—Ted Iliff
Parking Reform Begun
The way has been paved for critically reform in the KU parking situation.
The KU Parking and Traffic Board last week adopted changes in the parking permit fee structure, ticket policy, and fine structure.
The most significant change will be a gradation of permit costs ranging from $50 for a universal parking permit to special temporary permits prized at $2. The permit prices will be geared to location. Faculty and students will thus be paying more for space in prestige parking areas.
This is a progressive step, and although there will be some grimacing at the increased rates, KU will be charging far less for the privilege of parking than in other universities, such as the University of Illinois, where an annual parking permit costs $100.
Another travesty of the current system will be corrected with the sale of specia student night-time stickers priced at $5. Those students who must work late in campus buildings or who wish to go to the library will now be able to park closer to their destinations without fear of having their cars towed.
Commendable also is the consideration that will be given those less able to pay. provision will be made to provide per-
mitted for students whose stickers they wear their stickers will probably cost about $10.
The Board also eliminated the need for faculty and students to register a vehicle not used on University property.
The fine schedule will no longer be graduated according to the number of offenses, but once a violator has accumulated $100 worth of tickets (either $1 or $10 according to the category of violation) his car will be subject to immediate towing when brought on campus. Please call the police to offenders who continue to flaunt the present rules simply because they don't like them.
For all the progress made last week, there still remains another source of unfairness: the manner in which the zone permits are awarded. As in the past, each applicant will have to "justify" his need for the zone permit he seeks. In the past, this has led to seemingly inexplicable granting of a zone permit to one person while there with equal qualification is set free, although there is still room in the lot. There perhaps should be flat requirements set forth for each parking area—published criteria that leave little room for capricious granting and denial of permits.
The members of the Parking and Traffic Board foresee controversy over their decisions. George Jenks, professor of geography who heads the Board has said that the community will not graciously and with good will accept any rule we change."
This is probably so, but the members of the Board have shown courage and foresight in doing something that needed to be done and their plan merits support.
—Bob Womack
Presidential Hopefuls Sound Off
Candidates' Forum
David Miller
When an organization has consistently failed to fulfill its purpose, there are two courses of action. First, to be sure that all malfunctioning parts of the organization are gone, the organization as a whole may be destroyed—to be rebuilt or forgotten. For the alternative course, the structure as it stands can be internally reworked to weed out the bad, preserving any good points it may have.
Undoubtedly the first course of action is most effective. The destruction of the system leaves the road open for an inflow of new ideas, brilliant and impractical alike. Trial and error and the process of elimination of the practical ideas from the untested idea have been carried over though the final product may be far superior to anything previously tried, there is a certain period of instability.
THE SECOND COURSE of action will lack dramatic sensationalism in appeal and in scope. An orderly change of a few had parts at a time will not be able to achieve the same effect and regeneration of the "system" would indicate
The Student Senate needs to undergo a change. It has failed completely in its infant years. Very few will argue it has been effective in any way. It is the result of an effort that what method will be used to change the Senate.
Though sweeping changes need to be made, they can be achieved preserving only the skeletal structure which guarantees responsible, responsive student representation. The total disregard or damage of this infrastructure and the Student Senate would endanger students' opportunity for any mode of communication.
IT IS UNREALISTIC to assume that the Senate is it now functions provide any such communication, either with administration officials or with the students it is supposed to represent. The Senate is over-structured and is crippled by the excess bureaucracy.
The idea of a body of students representing the students at large is not bureaucratic. It just has never been used at KU. In the past, the only responsibility of a student senator was loyalty to the party that elected him. Scarce few even knew the people he was elected to represent. The ideology of a representative student government has been more a joke than a serious consideration.
SENATORS, when elected to an over structured system, tend to blend into the woodwork and become bogged down in bureaucracy as well. Rhetoric and points of order run rampant. The fault is in the excess rules and parliamentary responsibilities, not the senators or the leaders.
A change is necessary. But that change will be easier and less unsettling if the crippling over-structure is discarded and the Senate is preserved in workable form.
Accompanying the streamlining Senate reform, more work needs to be done in committees. In committees, a small number of interested and informed people can acquaint themselves with problems and issues, hold hearings on University-wide student opinion for direction and subsequent action that meets with majority approval of the student body at large.
THE STUDENT SENATE would need to meet much less frequently, relieving the temptation that plagued the Senate and its leaders to act as a spokesman for the students. In the process of electing a spokesman, students have forfeited any voice they might have had.
What I am proposing through Senate reform is that the same changes that all recognize as necessary be made. I also offer a plan which will accomplish this within the established system avoiding the inevitable cripping instability that radical change may offer.
Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are sub-divided into sections according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must provide their name, year in school and home town; faculty and staff must provide their name and address. Students must provide their name and address.
Letters Policy
Gretchen Miller
This University does not provide a perfect environment for students. In fact, sometimes it seems that students are far down on the list of priorities. For example, there is far too much traffic on campus. Taxas, buses, service vehicles, faculty, students, and staff can drive on campus. Traffic control here is, to paraphrase Robert Welch, a perennial fraud. I propose that we students should give a calmer, more pleasant atmosphere to the central campus by truly eliminating vehicles from it. Jayhawk Boulevard should be closed from the Liaue Lane extension to the east side of Sunflower Road, and from the west side to the Yarra River Lane. No building would be cut off from vehicular access, so maintenance and fire protection would pose no problems. This portion of the central campus should permanently be closed to all motor vehicles, and all members of the University community should get together and do something to improve our University and our environment by paving and substituting dirt, trees, flowers, etc.
ANOTHER STRIKING of diregard of student needs is the absence of any commercial area close to campus. Students are forced to go to campus, which is often complicated than a beer or a doughnut. This is the only major University I know of without some student services close to campus; even KState has
I certainly don't advocate moving 23rd Street up the hill, and we don't need the downtown merchants up here, either. We need a large, student-run grocery store in town, and we block of Oread, for example, where parking R1 now lies, or in some other convenient location) where students can get at it without a car or a major bike. This store should provide not only groceries, but also clothing, food, toys, dresses, small appliances, and other basic necessities.
IT SHOULD, if possible, include restaurant facilities, and it must certainly include a cooperative child care center. This store would operate in true cooperative fashion; members of the University community would be entitled to buy memberships in it for a nominal fee and all profits would be related to members. This project needs the cooperation of both the Student Senate and the University Senate to form a guarantee loans and the latter must release the land and help get the city to rename it (all in the area is now zoned by the City of Lawrence for University use only).
I am the only woman running for student body
imam, and that is an important part of my
campaign. I am at University, where I am not regarded
as serious scholars; by and large, we are expected
to drop out and get married, or adapt ourselves to
man's world and a man's University at whatever
chance.
Women are socialized differently from men; have different biological and social needs, and we should not be expected to fit into a male system or accept our traditional role as Wife-and-Mother.
WE NEED a gynecologist at Watkins—is this such an unreasonable request for nearly half of the University community to make? We need a child care provider who understands that we don't have to spend all day every day with our children when we need education or a job. The society is structured now in such a way that women take care of the children while men work, in reality, that they are required to school and take care of the house and children.
THEER IS discrimination against women in higher education; it is harder for a woman to get ahead than it is for a man. The University should be making special efforts to help women overcome the socialization which urged us never to grow up, to move from being our parents' child to being our husband's child. It doesn't. The sexual harassment of women in Ph.D. programs in professorships, in deanships, if you want proof. In the University administration, why are the policy makers men and the secretaries women?
CHILD REARING WILL be enough to fill up all of our lives. Ten years from the time we start having children, the younger of the two will be in school all day, and past statistics indicate that most of us will be getting jobs then. The University doesn't prepare us to face the fact that we will have to be nurses, or security officers. We want them to fight for stationation. Women need more adequate representation and organization so that we can make our voices heard about some of our special needs.
I haven't tried to offer you a complete list of KU's problems with solutions printed upside down at the bottom of the page. I don't have a whole list of KU's problems, but I do know that this University hasn't faced up to many of the needs and problems of students, and I think that we ourselves are going to have to define those needs and start promulgating solutions if anything is to be done. We are ready to be with you some of the directions of my thinking.
Bob Mvers
I feel that the Student Senate, if it is ever going to become a cohesive, effective body, necessarily has to narrow its scope to those problems common of all students in pursuing an education and become informed citizens. I want them to affect those problems. The domain of the more political and national issues must be left to other campus groups. Certainly all these problems have an impact on the individual student, but I feel it is unrealistic to assume that the Senate is the best tool for addressing those problems at out each problem just because it is a problem.
It is my opinion that past efforts to bring national and timely issues into the Senate have either been frustrated efforts to prove to the student body that the Senate is relevant, or else excercises in self-therapy. Nevertheless, they have resulted in no real changes.
AS PRESIDENT, I will spend a minimum amount of my time as a bureaucrat or legislator. I don't believe that these functions will in themselves make any meaningful difference to the average student. I do not believe that they provide ideas and an initiation of specific action. As a person in a leadership position on the campus, I will serve as a catalyst towards the formation of effective groups of students who will work on specific problems of common concern before they reach the Student Affairs. I will serve as an organizer, a mentor, an advisor, and a facilitator, will help channel these efforts towards like efforts of other groups, one of which might be the Senate.
I am sympathetic to the apathetic student. He doesn't have much reason to trust the functions and processes of student government, simply because they exist too independently of him and don't have that much to do with his everyday problems as a student at KU.
1 INTEND to take these problems of students as students and make them the top priority of student government. I will initiate processes among the students and involve other Student Senators in like efforts and then bring these efforts to the Senate level. I see the Senators acting as initiators of effluxes, taking part in college and college and I see the Senate as being the arena in which we bring all of these efforts together.
The groups that I have spoken of organizing would be groups within each of the schools and colleges that will deal specifically with the problems of that group of students. They will investigate areas of their education in order to help their correction. They also will help publicize these efforts as well as other important information, such as a ranking of the teachers and an evaluation of them from reactions of their past students. They will also attempt to evaluate the courses offered by their schools, the means of their improvement of substitution.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, these groups will help to initiate discussion within their schools of common problems towards a real effort to make changes and also supplement those efforts of teachers and advisers in advisory or committee positions as they attempt to make curriculum and procedural changes.
Though the various programs and proposals offered by the other candidates differ widely, they are all similar to a certain degree in that they advocate changes from the top down. They all either accept or reject all of the ideas of Student Senate or a different stress on what issues the Senate should specifically deal with.
IF AVOID restricting the domain of the problems the Senate deals with, but for a quite different reason. I am the only candidate who proposes to serve as an organizer to deal with the students first and from there to the Senate. In this manner, the Senate becomes a place where these issues and efforts, already begun, come instead of being fully realized; these resolutions are passed for students to rally and ask. That hasn't been too successful in the past, and there is no reason to trust it in the future.
All candidates talk of greater student participation in student government, but I am the only candidate who promises to get that student participation together. They propose to draw the students to and involve them in the Senate func-tion by getting senators out into their schools and colleges and then come to the Senate with action already begun.
Tuesday the other four candidates—Tom Slaughter, Brad Smooth, Walker Hendrix and Lewis Wall—will present their ideas and proposals on this page. The order of publication for each candidate was selected randomly and indicates no preference for any one.
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Those Were the Days
50 Years Ago Today—1921
It was announced by Ferd Gortchow and the Jayhawker, that the 1921 annual "will be the largest annual ever issued by the University." The annual will contain a grand total of 48 exhibitions in last year's book. The Jayhawker will feature a 70-page athletic section, a student section, and "two special illustrated sections, one devoted to the museum, the School of Engineering."
50 Years Ago Today—1921
The Kansan puzzle editor finally came up with the ultimate riddle: Who is president of the sophomore class? And when wary of that question: Who is the president of the freshman class? Mail replies to The Woodworth Theater, Moscow, China.
The ways, and means committee of the Kansas House of Representatives cut an entire building in a new building at the School of Medicine at Rosedale (Kansas City, Kans.) The amount asked for in order to complete the project was also "generously reduced."
The masthead in the University Daily Kansan stated: "The Daily
25 Years Age Today—Taylor
Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen
liked the Jayhawks to their 12th Big Six basketball crown when the
Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news by sending it to the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be courageous; to leave more serious problems to the university in all to serve to the best of its ability the students of the University."
hawkers defeated Iowa State 69-11. This marked the 27th championship for Allen.
It was announced that 1,750 students were enrolled in 65 sections of the 15 different colleges and the largest enrollment the department ever had, and was attributed to the influx of students in engineering and the requirements in science 'feeds'.
10 Years Age Today—1961
Carrie Merryfield, Kansasan
student who taught
if students taking the English
coeficiency examination.
The examination was required by all
students to complete and
completed English 1 and 2.
Dr. R. I. Canutelson, director of the Student Health Service, encouraged students to get their free shots at Watkins Hospital.