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Friday, February 26, 1971
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It's a Great Feeling
Maybe the opposition is not as good as it's supposed to be, or maybe they are all having bad nights when they play us. Maybe it is our turn to ride the crest of the success wave, or maybe our boat is better suited to the unpredictable currents of the turbulent Midwest athletic sea. Maybe they are bad and we are good. Whatever it is, it is a great feeling.
It is a great feeling to be free from uncertainty and "credible" performances. It is great to be free from having to ask yourself if your team is as good as the other team. Rather you ask if the other team is as good as yours. You don't ask yourself if Stallworth will "get hot," but when it will happen. And you speculate on how many shots he will make from 25 or 30 feet out.
You don't ask yourself if Brown or Robisch will grab rebounds and frustrate the scoring efforts of the other teams, or if Kivisto or Williams will dance rings around over-anxious opponents. You just go to the game and let it happen. You don't wonder about Nash's ability to set up the plays. You don't give a hoot about
the coming attack when Pierre is there in his crouch and his bullying glare and quick darting hands and feet cause the turnovers.
You smile and shout when it hapens. You stamp your feet and clap. You scream in ecstasy. It's a great feeling!
It is a great feeling, and a comfortable feeling, and a satisfying feeling. It is a confident feeling when you can sit in Allen Fieldhouse and watch the scoreboard showing: KU-27, MU-27 and think only of when the big surge will come.
You don't say "Come on Hawks," or "Score Hawks," but "Let's go Hawkes, let's go to the tape, let's take another walk down winners' row, let's settle this conference race once and for all."
You know your team will win, and they know they will win.
You shift in your seat, a bit concerned, after four missed shots, but you are not concerned with the possibility of a loss, but with the fact that your team has not yet begun to lead.
It's a great feeling!
—Duke Lambert
The Children's Hour
By DAVID PERKINS
Tuesday night CBS and Roger Mudd presented a special report on "The Selling of the Pentagon." It was good journalism. It was ten years late.
It told nothing new to anyone in this country who during the last ten years has not been a chronic somnambulist. It reported the elaborate war games that the Pentagon performs for large publics and small groups of business leaders. It showed the missiles being displayed at shopping centers and fairs. It showed all the John Waynes and Jack Webbs in the country lauding the power of the Pentagon, and damning the evils it protects us from.
It documented cases of staged war games in Vietnam, and interviewed newsmen who told of reporting the war "news" in terms that favored the military and supported official views of reality. One newsman ventured that the war could never have been wagged without the collaboration of the press.
They actually said it. Right there on national television. But it's hard to offer them too many congratulations. It's awfully late, Roger. 1971. Would you report those things if the government (I almost said "we") was winning the war, instead of losing it?
But the real story of the show was neither the PR apparatus supporting the Pentagon's death machine, nor the delinquent mea culpa of the press. These were known.
What fascinated you were the people. The anonymous dacron and polyester people gawking at a missile on a shopping center mall. The people in the breakdown bleachers applauding and smiling at the weapons demonstration, at the "minute of madness" when all the weapons unload at cardboard and plywood targets spotted on a Texas landscape.
You saw business executives outfitted in special army uniforms transfixed by rows of tanks, trucks and rifle companies. The old faces callapsed into gleeful wrinkles as they talked about firing the tank cannons and recoilless rifles themselves; told of the matchless experience of "getting your finger on the trigger."
And the young ones. The young insurance executives lauding the good
troops; the young business leader remarking that there are no Romneys in his group, no one who thinks he's been "brainwashed."
And the kids. Allowed to play with "the real thing." Squeezing the triggers, fighting among themselves to get into the tank turret seats, grasping the cannon barrels, murmuring "cool, wow, cool."
They were all so eager. The noise and the concussion and the blaze lift up those perma-pret face. Or they sat in auditoriums and church basements, faces stern, the bodies stacking up in their minds, in the pews around them, as colonels raved on about the threat to their liberties. "The Beverly Hillbillies" was no match.
De Tocqueville wrote in 1840 about the new shape of tyranny that could (would) arise in America:
... a power which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.
The Pentagon public relations game can impress only children, whatever their age, and whether they are children because they have been trained to be, or because they wish to be.
Clearly, the selling of the Pentagon, like the selling of the President, is too transparent a fraud to succeed with any but a public that wishes to be defrauded. It is astonishing that CBS, and the more rigorous leftist press, imagine that the "exposure" of governmental tyranny to a decent public is in the interest of reform, if not revolution.
In a remarkable scene in the movie "If," a history teacher is lecturing a class of bored, inattentive, budding revolutionaries. He is saying to them, or rather, over them, "You came to a ruined land, and you looked for the evil leaders. You didn't think to look for an evil people."
For it is not the fiery blast of a phosphorous bomb on a Texas firing ground that needs exposing; it is the fire that that bomb lights in "children's" eyes.
THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
I'm warning you Hanoi! If you don't negotiate with me you'll have to deal with my friend here!"
Oread Daily, Pakistan
LETTERS
To the editor:
I am astonished at the naivete of David Doolittle, who, though a junior, is still surprised at the maturity of David's daily slogan. That slogan is not only a semantical nullity but an actual meaning of what he up all that is wrong with the OD.
"The Oread Daily is a people's paper and is responsible only to the people," sounds good, after the ability to the people? However, who decides what "responsibility to the people" consists of? The FF has naturally. It is the same as Richard Nixon announcing his decisions as arising from his experience with With one exception. Nixon at least got enough votes to become President while those who edit the Oread Daily are their "responsibility." Thus part of the OD's slogan fits the President it denounces better than it fits that paper. The slogan "Responsible for those who produce the Oread Daily: hypocrisy, because they use a slogan that does not represent the ability to because self-appointment to a
position of "responsibility" is an example of that attitude.
Having considered these points, I will answer Doolittle's campus paper is purpose of this political, social, and racial mood of our University, why not do so in an ethnically and stylistically appropriate way, replying that that is not the purpose of the Oread Daily. Its only purpose is to represent the editor and his friends.
George Johnston Alexandria, Minn. senior
To the editor:
I read a news item concerning Pakistan by the UPI foreign analyst in the Feb. 19th issue. Being a Pakistani student, I wrote that Pakistan views expressed by him which I believe to be misleading. Pakistan has a concrete ideology, on which it came into being in August of 1947. Our correspondent's remark, "If Pakistan should have come into being in the first place" is misleading. Moslems
came from Arabia in the seventh century and ruled the Indian subcontinent for more than nine centuries. Then the power was British, and Britishers who rulled British India for the next two hundred years. When Britishers were exiled, Muslims were divided into two separate countries i.e. Pakistan and India, as a coexistence of Moslems who were in the majority and who were in the minority. Pakistan, thus, was created by a long organized struggle which ended at the end of the nineteenth century.
Now, the point of disagreement is among the political leaders who in turn exploit the people. The point of disagreement is not the creation of Pakistan or any other nation but the distribution of power among the central and provincial governments of both the wings. Nobody, I am sure, can challenge the basis of creation of this divided country, which would exist as a united country for thirteen million Mileses.
Ather Javaid Pakistan freshman
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"SO YOU THINK YOU'RE HOLDING ALL THE CARDS, EH, LYDIA?"
"THAT'S RIGHT, DAN... IF YOU GO NEAR SUSAN AGAIN. I'LL TELL DR. HORACE ALL ABOUT YOU AND PATRICIA."
By Sokoloff
FT. BENNING, Ga.-Lou-
William L. Calley Jr. describing
what he felt when he saw dead
and living his wife, who has
been caught in a mime field:
"Anger, hate, fear, generally
sick to your stomach-heat."
He then turned to the
seem form of hatred towards
the enemy, but I don't think I
ever made my mind or came to any
conclusion what I'd do to the
enemy:
"BUT SUPPOSE THAT THE OPERATION IS A SUCCESS AND HARRY SPILLS THE BEANS. ABOUT YOURSON AND MRS. WILKEN?"
"IS THAT SO, LYDIA? WELL,
WHO WHAT WOULD YOUR BOSS THINK
IF HE KNEW THAT YOU BEEN
SEEING HIS SIN-IN-LAW EVERY.
NIGHT FOR THE PAST SIX WEEKS?
HE WILL BE AS SHOCKED
IF HE WOULD TRIATHIC ABOUT
YOU AND DENA AFTER HER
DIVORCE."
"We know that it's a game played by little old ladies."
CHARLESTON. S.C. —The D.S.C. praised rival the Godson, Mendel J. Davis who won nomination to succeed the late
"HA, HA, DAN... YOU'VE FOREGOTTEN THAT THE OPERATION WILL BE PERFORMED BY DR. CONNELLY, WHO HAS ALWAYS WINTED HARRY AFTER MADGE HAD ABANDONED THE BABY..."
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A
successfully attempting
to legalize bingo in California after
denying it by any underworld
member.
"YES, BUT WHAT EVEN YOU
DON'T KNOW, LYDIA, IS
THAT ROSCDE, PETER'S
BROTHER, KNOWS THE
TRUTH ABOUT THE!"
"Nobody could fill Mendel River's shoes, but Mendel Davis is the man who can walk in his footsteps."
"Copyright 1971. David Sokoloff."
Comment
Reporting Pollution
Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal:
Hedley Donovan, editor-incf of Chief Time Inc. publications, speaking at the Second Inclusion Conference of Wildlife Congress in London;
The fair-minded journalist who would never dream of quoting a Tory spokesman without a view of the same matter will often rush ahead with a very lopsided view of some conference professor or institution immediately comes to mind to speak for "the other side," and that there could be another side.
Then, as it sometimes happens, after something gets printed, another side does come forward, and a customer winds up wounded industry. Head down, very loud noises, a quite formidable spectacle—and not all customers are able to independently enough to stand up against "the interests," as they used to be called. And customers know where the interests make sense. Many assaults on the environment are conducted by thoroughly experienced contractors who create much employment, pay heavy taxes, supply products or services of good quality and keep stockholders reasonably content.
I think another difficulty the
press sometimes falls into is what I would have to call doomsday reporting, which is really counterproductive. There is a tendency for not very much work put done on doomsday morning.
Another difficulty about the doumday vein of reporting is the everything comes out sound, but it is not equally important, which surely is not the case. This leads to a kind of scatter-shot interest in environmental questions, and a lack of any sense of priorities.
The Lighter Side
By DICK WEST
I would make a distinction here between, say, a wildlife species literally facing extinction—there are some species of the desperate accounts of broader environmental dangers, where we occasionally read that water is being irretrievably drained or blankets of foul air are threatening tens of millions of animals; much of this talk is at least somewhat exaggerated. In terms of getting things accomplished, making people feel it is possible to do things things, I think it is useful when journalists and people who get involved by journalists discuss some of the improvements and victories that have been achieved along with the many menaces and issues remaining and still growing.
A Vanishing Breed
Even the most ardent con-
siderate superstar of New Yorkers and that a substantial thinning out would be beneficial to all con-
It is customary to study the mating habits of species on the
At the same time, however,
there is a general feeling that the
species should be preserved on a
plant and can be done without
undust strain.
"The federal's government last summer is gone. New Yorkers want us to save whooping cranes," one conservationist with whom I worked as a biologist.
endangered list, and any study of the mating habits of New Yorkers undoubtedly would fall into the credibility gap.
Anyone encountering a New Yorker in alien surroundings would be instructed to remove the band and mail it back to the investigating group. It is doubtful whether this band would handing program for New Yorkers would be successful, owing to their suspicious natures.
Such a study was attempted a few years ago by a team of researchers who abandoned the project after filing a 13-word report that said: "You wouldn't stuff that stuff on in New York."
When a New Yorker is approached in his native habitat, he assumes he is either about to be mugged or served with a subpoena. This makes him skittish to avoid contact with strangers.
Another step in the preser-
vation is to collect the collection of information on their migratory and nesting patterns. This ordinarily is done
Conservationists would seek out New Yorkers in their native habitats and fasten plastic wrappers around birds around their wrists or ankles.
Nevertheless, New Yorkers are an anthropological curiosity and are worth an effort at keeping extant.
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Those Were the Days
Entertainment for the regular fortnightly journalism tea was old fashioned dancing, in which the department took part. The department was born at the dances by first popularizing them among the students of the department. The dance was held in the news room of the journalism office.
45 Years Ago Todav—1926
"We are sitting on the windowsill of our present-day poetry and looking on it," Miss Charlotte Aiken, of the department of English, said today. She lectured on three contemporary poets—Amy Lowell, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Robert Frost.
30 Years Ago Today—1941
Elmor A. Zich, journalist, arrived today in Lawrence to award the Zich Preservation for Meritorious Work in the Field of Journalism.
He said he wanted to see some cowbies, coyotes and sud huts on this, his first trip west. Zich demanded that his reservations be told to the hotel and ordered that his tent be pitched on the grounds near the journalism building.
"By Behem, Sir, I came West to rough it,
and rough it will," Zildich said.
The Jayhawks won today's game against the K-State Wildcats, 50-45 in overtime play. If the Hawks win one more conference game they will be of at least a tie for the championship.
Second semester enrollment totaled 3,664,
Barsar Klar Klooz said today.
12 Years Ago Today—1959
Today the All Student Council called upon Gov. George Docking to issue a public apology for statements he made against KU students at Thursday. According to the Council, "His charismatic ethics stem from a disturbance between him and some KU students at a political rally in Leavenworth. Evidently our chief executive made no mistake to the students who oppose his views are unethical."
Gov. Docking denied today that he is being unfair to the University of Kansas
"They are trying to accuse me of being violent to KU, which just isn't so." he said.
More than 500 high school students are expected to attend the 2nd session of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, according to Wiley, founder and director of the camp.
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