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Thursday, February 25, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
The Campaign That Isn't
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To date, the only remarkable thing about the KU election campaign has been the overwhelming apathy.
Hopefully, most students are aware that the election will be held March 3 and 4, and are planning to cast their votes for student body president, student senators, and class officers.
If you don't yet know who is running for each of the offices make an effort to learn the names of the candidates and get some idea of what they are likely to do once they are elected.
Why should anyone care who is elected to these offices? There are the most obvious reasons: The newly elected student body president and student senators will be speaking for you when they pass resolutions and they will be influencing the course of events on this
If you have not been satisfied with the direction and activities of the Senate this year, this is your chance to do something about it.
The wider implications in this election involve those outside the University community who are watching the degree of interest and commitment students show in campus political affairs. They are reasoning that if students can't even show a modicum of interest in campus voting, why should they condone their participation in local and state elections?
The Soviet Jews
campus next year to a degree that merits greater voter interest.
—Bob Womack
So make an effort to read something about the presidential candidates, and to learn about the candidates for the other offices. More than a few political plums are riding on this election.
By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst
The Kremlin has denounced the world conference on Soviet Jewry in Brussels as a "fresh anti-Soviet provocation."
Sponsors of the conference say they are trying to bring public opinion to bear on the Soviet Union to permit to Soviet Jews more cultural and religious freedom and allow more of them to emigrate to Israel. It is doubtful that either side speaks wholly for Soviet Jewry.
It is a highly complicated problem whose aspects include;
The Soviet Union's pro-Arab policy.
The lack of a Jewish national territory such as accorded others inside the Soviet Union. Georgians, Armenians, Ukrainians etc., who not only are permitted to administer their own territories but are encouraged to develop their cultural heritage.
Leftover effects from Nazi propaganda, especially in those areas of German occupation in World War II, such as former Polish territories and the Ukraine.
Personal anti-Jewish prejudices attributed both to Stalin and Nikita Kruschev.
Add to all of these a background of historic anti-Semitism, and from the whole may be gleaned some understanding of the problem's size.
Authorities indignantly deny the existence of anti-Semitism. And it is true that Jews still are prominent in science, literature, theater, movies and medicine. Others live well and hold good jobs outside these professions.
Generally, only those who are of no particular use to the state are permitted to leave, and they must first obtain an exit visa.
It is also true that freedom to leave the Soviet Union is not regarded as the God-given right of all Soviet citizens.
Within the Soviet Union many books are published against Judaism, as well as against Christianity and other religions. But the Jews say that in the prejudiced popular mind, the "evils" attributed to "Judaism" or to "Zionism" may be transferred to Jews as a whole ethnic group regardless of whether as individuals they are atheists, communists, and culturally integrated into the general community.
And since there is no official admission that anti-Semitism exists, nothing is done to combat it educationally as was done before the war.
There are no trials of alleged anti-
Semites, no lectures or books denouncing
anti-Semitism.
The word "pogrom," literally meaning "slaughter" but historically connoting a slaughter of Jews, originated in Russia and was part of czarist policy.
It was not anti-Semitism in the racist sense but was employed against a minority group to inflame national passions for political reasons.
Jews who converted to Christianity were acceptable and treated as equals.
were acceptable and treated as equals. Before Stalin, Bolshevik policy was vigorously anti-Semitic and serious efforts were made to educate the people toward acceptance of the scores of non-Russian nationalities within the Soviet Union. Attempts to stir up national animosities were severely punished.
Lenin had warned the country against Stalin's exaggerated sense of Russian nationalism. During and after the war Stalin removed Tartars, Kalmuks, Chechens and Germans from European Russia to the east. In 1948 he dissolved all Jewish cultural institutions—schools, libraries, theaters, newspapers—which have not yet been restored.
And a fierce Stalin-divided campaign against "rootless cosmopolitanism" removed many Jews from national cultural life.
Quirks in the News
By United Press International
PURDY, Wash. (UPI)—Washington state's new women's prison was designed as a facility without barriers or penitentiary walls. But when the first 32 inmates arrived Monday, the 1.4 million facility had been built by Southern California manufacturer blamed the recent earthquake for the shipping delay. But it will soon be safe to sleep on mattresses on the floor.
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GLENWOOD, III. (Ill.)—Gary Garrison was 83 years old when the same day President Nixon turned 58-Jan. 9, 1973. So he sent his good wishes to the White House.
Last Saturday, Gary received a
note signed by Nikon, saying it was a pleasure to discover a natural birthdate, and hoping Jary had enjoyed turning 9.
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NOTTINGHAM, England
Jenkins, who just england
as the big moving van ran to
John Graham's house and men
beginning it loading with all his
goods.
When Graham showed up hours later, a neighbor asked him why he had not said anything about planning to move. Graham said in intention of moving—then discovered the theft of all his possessions.
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day he bit a berman shepherd's ear because it was the only way he could get the animal to release his hand.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPP)—Police Monday放赎 a stolen automobile that had been abandoned by a repentive thief. The car was found on a city street with a note lying on the front seat.
Mrs. Betty Timpson, the dog's owner, was ordered to keep the animal under proper control.
'I am returning the car to Jesus Christ. I was again reborn in Jesus Christ. I have no other choice but to return this car to his place.'
★★★
SOUTHPORT, England (UPI)
—Tom Grime told a court Mon
"But I'm staring within THE LAW."
This is a declaration of independence.
According to that mental process, those who step out of the line are supposed to be idiotes or hippies, or worse yet, both.
RICHARD LOUV COLUMN
You're walking through low hills, unsure exactly where you're going. The sun is up and storm churned in. Panthers far away. You're with the pack on your back and watch from a high cliff down toward a canyon. In that canyon are thousands of millions of arms waving toward you. They were in sorrow. They were in sorrow. They were in sorrow.
Anywhere you go in this culture, you find the walls pressing in. It's hard to forget how fortunate fact that each professor, each radical, each Young American for Freedom, each parent and each person wants you to be just like him. Only when that process becomes overrated is it not that the eccentricities from each sap, does it become evil. Only then does a country become a hall of mirrors. It happens before.
As much as most teachers deny
we're taught from kindergarten to
become parodies of parades.
World War II has been to become
the suburban cycles, blinded
by the world. We can't expect anything except what lies down the middle, straight ahead. The process continues. We live out
the window, we watch, and we picture window into another picture window. We see only the reflection of ourselves. We see out
the window, we watch, and we copy our friends. We copy our parents and those who complain loudest about their parents'
appearance. We cry for a neglect on their own children. Lines of houses, from which lines of eyes watch, on their windows across toward other picture windows, which run in a line down toward the plastic
The heroes are dead. The war drags on. Black and white strain at each other's throats. The dream is over, says John Lennon, but maybe not. Maybe the dream has only gone under the wave, to be crushed. Maybe the dream has just become more personal, and less collective.
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We have reached the crest and turned under.
But as you watch, the Hell's Angles move in with their pooles and their knives. One black man will never gain wave at the
sky. He goes down, hands flailing at the pool cues. Woodstock has turned into Altamont.
We made a mistake when we thought we could leave the line if we did it collectively. There was a reason to believe that nation in our mind, dear parents, but we found out finally that the kind of loneliness that is borne by people is to be lonely.
Like anything in which all faith is put, Woodstock fell. Just as others made Christ more important than what he said, and just as some still expect Christ to address their problems, we expected the Woodstock culture, and finally found that it wasn't so.
Like all religions, Woodstock was a beautiful and well intentioned life. There is no safety in there. There is no safety anywhere.
How many of our友们 have stayed up late with our友们 and listened to him tell us of all the things he had, or he had done. We're out here between east Eden and west Lawrence, trying to live out our friend's dreams, or if he never dreamed, to at least dream that it was possible for them dreams, and thereby live out his. Trying to live out what he wished he had done but never did, all the times he almost did, but didn't. He wanted to be a fighter, but didn't. The time he wanted to hitch like Santa Fe, but didn't, all the time he wanted to make love to his world, but didn't. All the times he wished to use his short time, but somehow didn't.
It's our turn now, and sure, this short, short time will be repain. We have the wealth, provided by our fathers, and we have the wisdom, provided by our fathers; two excuses to use our freedom. And we'll use it, for him, and all the others who Wanted To, but never did. We'll surely make love, real relationships, real world, in these, our own ways.
In the Course of human events, in this strange way we, will pause in room and look into the little picture window to the blue square light in the living room. Just before you see it, the square light will be our father's gentle hand sad lying softly on the couch arm while we will watch the stars in the sky, and sad, that we should pass this way not able to go in, but he not able to watch for another minute and watch for another minute. Then hand in pocket and moving away, not caring about the new shores under the stars.
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LETTERS
To the editor:
I read the letter to the editor by Mr. Stan. Phillip in the book "A Friend of Myself" and was unpleasantly surprised to see a KU senior misate and twist around so many things I said at the beginning of February 10, 2017. Please allow me to correct a number of totally false statements in Mrs. P.'s letter.
Reply on SST Panel, Watkins Doctors
1. I do not work for the Boeing Company. I don't understand how Mr. P. can misstate such an easily verifiable fact.
2. I certainly did not admit that the SST would raise the water vapor content of the stromphere by a percent. As a matter of fact, if the water content can one easily compute that the SST will raise the water content of the stratosphere by only 2 percent. I also pointed out that the increase in water vapor content are much, much larger than 2 per cent. Here is another
4. I did not say that, to quote Mr. P.: "the SST will travel subsonically on all the real payoff most is of the time." The real payoff runs the inter (not intra) continental runs, where "the SST will travel at supersonic speeds, longest runs where the SST will thus spend most of its airspace. The SST will be flown across the continent in only a very few seconds and then only at subsonic speeds.
distortion of the facts by Mr. P. 3. I don't understand why Mr. P. gets so upright about the quest of scientific achievement being a science fiction novel. SST. First, the SST is not a scientist but an engineering achievement. Second, I never advanced that argument myself and to the best of my recollection, any of the other panel members.
5. I was amazed to see that
6. Mr. P. says that one of my graphs shows, by a clever cleaver the clearest means of travel. TheMr. P. is fuzzy in his thinking is evident when he d few lines later in his letter he admits that jets are better for the trip.
7. Mr. P. says that some of $m_n$ graphs came from a Boeing report entitled "The Attack on atm" for one or more years, but for one and I did not even show that one
Mr. P. was correct when he stated that traffic predictions have been proven wrong. Indeed they have. As a matter of fact, drivers have been depricted the long term traffic growth. Air traffic has grown more rapidly than the most optimistic predictions of 15 years ago. I don't believe that people are in mind when he wrote his mind.
8. Mr. P. states that the SST is emarkered for several billion dollars. Another falsification. I pointed out that the government is requested to put up a loan of $10 million each year which will be repaid with interest.
Dr. Jan Roskam Professor of Aerospace Engineering
To the editor:
As a followup of the article in the Kansan on Friday, February 19, concerning the ratio of women
I would like to reaffirm the fact that the unrealistic starting salary, assigned to this position by the Kansas Civil Service, is the primary obstruction to the recruitment of high quality staff members and if unchanged could be retained at the ultimate closure of the unit.
The staff selections are based upon medical competence and training, as well as integrity and ability to relate to young people. We feel that the sex education programme is appropriate to these characteristics and not inconsistent with it is not considered inappropriate.
Raymond A. Schwegler, M.D.
Director, Student Health Service
Griff & the Unicorn
during the panel discussion, so I wonder how he knows) none of my graphs are from that one. I should get to his source information straight. By the way, the "report" mentioned here is a one-lamphlet which anyone can access at any time. Commercial Airplane Division.
physicians in the Student Health Service facility, I would like to emphasize further the basic philosophy of our staff selections.
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
Those There the Days
45 Years Ago Today----1926
Today the Jayhawks won their last road game, beating the Washington Bears 25-22 in a two-game series and race. There are only two home games remaining for the Hawks. If "Phog" Allen's team brings a championship to Mt. Olentau it will be the four straight announced win.
30 Years Ago Todav—1941
The cast of "Once in a Blue Moon" was forced by bad weather to cancel its engagement in Kansas City. The players from the Dramatic Club were invited to perform during the celebration of Drama Week in Kansas City.
The Men's and Women's Glee Clubs performed today in Hoch Auditorium to a crowd of 1,000. Together, under the direction of Douglas Tarbet, graduate, the clubs sang the
traditional "I'm a Jayhawk" and the "Alma Mater."
12 Years ago Today—1959
The Committee of Special Projects recommended today during a meeting of the Alumi Association that plans for fund-raising and the Memorial Union be started immediately.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee today recommended a total of $945,548 in merit salary increases for the faculty of the University of Kansas. This amounts to an increase of about 4.68 per cent. The Board of Councilors for a raise of 10 per cent in faculty salaries.
As of today 247 works had been submitted to the four-day Symposium for Unpublished, Unperformed Compositions, according to Dr. Merrill Rowe. The team in school had not expected so great a response.