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Monday, February 8, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Crossing the Straights
"K-Straight," the banner was em- embroidered. "Nixon's Favorite High Scho-
What an absurd accusation to make at a basketball game. Thousands of people are screaming "Wreck Silo Tech" and "Go Hawks" and then cheering a sign that says K-State is straight.
However, I must compliment the creators of the banner; for it was funny and to a degree accurate. (I was there when Nixon stepped to the podium wearing his purple pride tie.) But the implication, that KU is more sophisticated, that our studentry is less interested in what might be called the Nixon ideals than our brothers and sisters down the Kaw. Is false.
For I was also there when the Student Senate at KU was discussing the possibility of changing the activity fee. The senators thought that on such an important issue they should seek student opinions. A referendum on the issue was proposed and then rejected because in the last such referendum only 3 per cent of the student body voted. That referendum was a clear indicator of only one thing, who happened to be walking by the polling places on voting day.
So they decided to hold open hearings on the issue. The hearings were announced in the Kansan, and one person showed up. At least five front page articles on the issue were printed last semester in the Kansan. One of them, in the December 7 issue was accompanied by a spokeswoman, the Director, and the headline "Five Cut Would Raise Season Ticket Price." The response to this was practically nil.
The response came only after the dastardly deed was done. Then the furor
began. Letters to the editor, petitions, etc. It even looks as though we're going to have a student referendum on the issue.
The senate is being castigated for not representing its constituency. Now in all honesty, who is at fault here? Certainly it can be不air to lay the blame on the few student senators who spent many hours in class and formulating an activity fee approving a bill, when student concern at the time amounted to ignoring the issue.
For a time, student concern was dead at KU, apathy abounded, and we call K-State straight. But you say that even though it is belated, student involvement has, since the passage of the appropriations enactment, become a part of the controversy now. And I would agree.
And what is the issue? How much we're going to pay for our football and basketball tickets. And we call K-State straight.
One other issue this year has provoked the ire of the KU studentry to the same degree—again an after the fact furor—the change of format in the Jayhawer yearbook. It seems it doesn't conform to the "traditional" mold. And we call K-State straight.
Then there was the matter of student representation. Dean Gorton warned the faculty, "Don't sell out your academic record" and of pottage called student involvement."
Pottage being, according to Webster,
"vegetables or vegetables and meat
cooked to softness and seasoned." I'm not
so sure Gorton wasn't making a pretty
fair analysis of the condition of student
concern at KU. He almost won. And we
call K-State straight.
—Mike Moffet
Regent Choice Praised
A more balanced Board of Regents is viewed by many in Kansas as imperative, and for this reason Gov. Docking's appointment of labor leader Carl L. Courter of Wichita as a member Courted is a welcome step in the right direction.
At the time the appointment was announced, Docking said he has tried to "balance the board with men of various concerns and backgrounds" but his co-appointment of banker Thomas Griffith in Manhattan did not fulfill that assertion.
Counter is president of the Kansas State Federation of Labor (LF-ALCIO) and is a director of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. He has worked for the Boeing Company in Wichita as a machinist for 11 years.
It was unfortunate that at the time of Griffith's reappointment, Docking said (as he often does) that he would not be "intimidated," citing as an example of intimidation in an attempt to extort Griffith. This Docking statement was
However, his appointment of labor leader Courter is welcome. Courter did not attend college and he will represent many Kansans in this respect. Fears that he will be a "hard hat" law-and-order man appear to be premature prejudice not based in fact.
made after the Shawne county attorney had said the extortion attempt had no connection whatever with the urgings of various groups that Griffith not be reappointed to the board. But politics being politics, at which Docking is a master, he knows "I will not be intimidated" statements win votes.
Speculation now centers on whom (if anyone) Docking will appoint to replace Arthur Cromb of Mission Hills, whose term expired Dec. 31. If the governor does choose to appoint someone else, he must commit to a new role and continue his expressed efforts to achieve a more balanced and representative Board of Regents.
—Bob Womack
NO, NO, MR. FULBRIGHT WE HAVEN't HAD "ADVISERS" IN CAMBODIA...WE HAD SUPERVISORS!
AS SUPERVISORS THEY ARE THERE TO CHECK ON THE USE OF AMERICAN MILITARY AID.
THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL TUE JULY 11, all rights reserved
RAPPING LEFT
Funds in Student Hands
By Gus DiZerega
By Gus Diczeke
The bye-bye selections are just around the corner, and we will probably be treated to another annual display of promises and rhetoric. Yet unlike last year when the senate held promise of achieving tangible cloudy, lazy and incompetent senators who frequently prevent a quorum are only a part of the malady. At least as serious are the actions of the regents who have been careful to emasculate the opportunity. An important instance is their continuing domination of student fee allocations.
The issue of fees is a vital one, for it is money which provides power in this state. To date, all that has been proposed is bluster and bluff—this writer, it must be asserted, has shown that cities have not worked, but there is an approach that might help us regain financial control.
1. ) Student discipline has been divorced from student
The senate could approach the regents with the suggestion that if the regents were to grant total money for a new senate, the senate would foot the bill for campus vandalism (excluding bombings where no one knows who does it). This adds a number of consequences.
responsibility. While students rightly want control over their own discipline, the issue is that they pay for teachers, payers, not students, must foot the bill. The campus attitude toward vandalism could well change when the money to pay them out of student programs.
2) . Since money may then be available for a variety of student action projects, the position of action organizations with students will strengthen while irresponsible groups, who to date have substituted building painting and similar programs for thought, will be forced either to change or acquire from their own community.
3. The citizens of Kansas will no longer have to foot so much of the bill for campus violence and assaults, demanding intervention by reactionary forces. It could well means a more peaceful year for the country.
In the coming election, hopefully, the aspirants to office will discuss and advocate this and similar programs which have a chance to be implemented rather than trying to excel each
Nothing is negotiated away in this proposal; if we want the fruits of self-rule, we must also accept the responsibilities.
Letters policy
Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must use a standard font and style of print, faculty and staff must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and address.
other in rhetoric and pious moralizing, revolutionary or otherwise.
CORRECTION: Last semester this column suggested the Prof. Richard Cole was negligent or not informed in "in" hearing. The testimony I based this conclusion on turned out to be false though I wasn't aware of the hearing (which was confidential). Cole acted above reproach throughout the hearings andOLUMNist深est regret regrets the error.
--waiting for trains.
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There is no point trying to get to Medicine Hat because the MAMHRT no longer stops there. The MAMHRT determined by drawing cards from a stack labeled "ICC decisions and other disasters." The ICC determines the game, but passengers only throw them to pass time while
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Each player selects a marker designating him as a passenger on the Moose Jaw, Railroad and Railroad (JM&M) Marker is placed on space labeled "Moose Jaw." Object of game is to get from "Moose Jaw" to "Tamptico" before the MJMH&G goes to Commerce Commission (ICC) suspends passenger service
Train Game Sure Loser
WASHINGTON (UP1)—As a promotional gimmick, the Southern Railroad has devised a new board game, similar to "Monopoly," that is based on its freight operations.
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I doubt any American railroad would have the nerve to devise a game based on its passenger boat. I wonder if visualize how it would be played;
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Here are some of the key cards:
—Station already is closed. Lose next turn.
—Ticket office already is closed when you reach station. Remain in place.
—When you finally board train, it pulls onto a siding to await repairs. Remain in place.
—Conductor tells you the dinner is 10 cars to the car. You walk back nine cars and discover that there are more than 10 Medicine Hai, remain in place.
- Railroad reports a $3.2 billion deficit on passenger operations and petitions ICC for a fare increase. Remain in place.
—ICC approves $3.5 billion fare increase. Go back 10 spaces.
—Railroad reports deficit has risen to $3.7 billion. Lose next turn.
—As train leaves *Moose Jaw*, news arrives that Moose Jaw, Medicine Hat and Tampa has merged with the Pocatello, Walla and Winnepah (FWW&W). Return to Moose Jaw.
—Conductor announces that Tampico passengers are being
rerouted to Winnipeg. Go back 10 spaces.
—Train arrives in Saskatoon.
Railroad patents ITC to change its name to Moose Jaw, Medicine City. Saskatoon. Go back 10 snacks.
Passengers' baggage arrives in Tampico. Lose next turn.
LETTERS Two Laments
To the editor:
Bob Winnah's editorial printed in the Feb. 3 issue of the Kanan deal with the general public's lack of recognition of President Nixon's substantial revenue accumulated during his first two years of office. The report concludes that, "Mr. Nixon's unforestalled campaign promise to unite this nation."
Being dischanged with the Nixon Administration as a result of last spring's incursion into Cambodia and because of "variety of reasons". Mr. Wormack spoke of, I must admit that I had failed to know about them before the compilations, including all of those mentioned in the Wormack editorial.
However, I must take issue with Mr. Womack's comment which indicated that Nixon's critics should overlook Spiro Agnew. This man has been the President's beggest deterent in his so called efforts to unite the country.
Vice President Agnew's comments these past months on everything from the press to efface snobs has done something to enrage a vast segment of people in the United States and enlarge even more the gap between those very citizens Mr. Nixon promised to umbrella
This brings me to question Mr. Nixon's sincerity when he says he is (unifying the country, although Mr. Agnew is) not a spokesman for this own president. This is because the public known as president is a spokesman for the President and one is a fool if he fails to recognize that Mr. Agnew is, in fact, revealing the true feelings of him.
If President Nikon's sincere wish is to remove these "barriers between himself and the people," then his wiest move would be to remove Sprog Agnew from the Republican ticket in 1972. But then, he would have no scapegoat for his true views. would he?
Vicki Bullard
Tulsa junior
To the editor:
Mr. Womack, you are right when you say rhetoric has overshadowed the solid record of the Nixon Administration thus far. But, perhaps if Mr. Nixon had sent his vice president on missions to speak on these positive accomplishments rather than criticizing American policies and actions, he would have made segments of American youth, not to mention his bombardment of adjectives on congressional liberals, this would not be the case.
In Debt to David
One year ago February 5th, David Gore, a KU student was killed in an automobile accident in Lawrence. He was a very good friend of mine, and a roommate for two years. I've tried to think up something I could do or say, but it is extremely difficult to meet the perfection you require of yourself in a situation like this. However, I write this poem which I will help your understanding of my intentions.
I can't Dave I tried and tried
great solemn inspiration. But they didn't want to know you
Amid visions of huge silvery monuments from which so many could glean solemn inspiration.
Just your activities, did you belong to this or that or "Where was he from?"
Yet for a year I tried to tell them.
Something profound or monumental, something perfect But I failed
Even for your family I could scarcely produce but a trickle of trite description.
Yes, I could speak for myself of bright lights and somber faces late at night.
of neatly stacked books on a desk, an empty bed, and some clothes that no longer had an owner.
of finding your bent and twisted watch half-covered with dust along side of the road
not seeing your father then, pain seeping through his weathered face of seeing your mother being so strong, so poised, sustained by a deep,
of leaving them and the intense blue-black sky, rimmed with orange
and dotted with a single star
to be wilted.
But these weren't you, just earthly currents from the vacuum you left behind.
Yet this is all I have to offer you and them, Dave
God heaves it, isn't much.
Along with crystal, frozen memories that no 120 foot-per-second metal-alcohol monster can erase
And the absurdity of it all remains, often trapped in my throat, colling its long tenacles around my gut
I tried for more, Dave
I really did
For their sake.
Christopher Thomas Kansas City Medical Student
Rocky Boosts Nixon
WASHINGTON (UPI)--Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who wanted the two Republican governors to return Richard M. Nixon, is becoming one of the more prominent cheerleaders for the Republican presidential nominee.
The President may not yet be the hero of the GOP Eastern establishment, but he must enjoy the applause from his chief adviser. Mr. Bush is governor of New York and his former rival for party leadership.
One obvious reason for Rockefeller's change of mind is the conversion of Nixon from a nominal to an active advocate of sharing federal tax money with the states without strings on its
In his message to Congress urging revenue sharing to the states, Governor Joe Biden government, Nixon spoke of a need for diversity in the federal system, of using the states as a hub for innovation and innovations into government.
"If a state government lacks the needs of its poor people by using own taxing power—if it prefers to escape by letting the national government do the taxing and the needs of the poor state—the leadership of this state puts itself in an exceedingly poor situation," he wrote of federal power. The preservation of states' rights—in short—depends upon the exercise of these rights.
Since 1962, New York and many other states and their cities have become the most crises and multiple tax increases. Now as a leader of the revenue share crisis, Rockerfeller wished the federal government to which the federal government owes billions to be allotted to the states without bureaucratic regulation.
Those There the Days
50 Years Ago Today----1921
Rockefeller was using a similar script in his 1982 Harvard leece forecast about the future of baseball, but longer is what he said then.
so yeah age isn't
a woman's skill. She was scheduled for a woman to show that women did support the basketball squad. The Kansean reported that every University women who had any loyalty for KU must be present.
Dr. John L. Aapp, a well-known writer and lecturer, published a convocation on "Social Optimism."
40 Years Ago Todav—1931
A bill through which the state legislature would finance the construction of a bridge halls was passed out from committee favorably. Under the plan, revenue from the residence of the president went to the state to repay the debt.
The Silver and Gold, Colorado University's newspaper, conference hall, contains 42 of the top students at Colorado drank alcoholic beverages and that 30 per cent of the coeds did (Prohibition was still in effect).
A soda fountain and women's recreation room that would be partitioned from the rest of the Kansas Union to be added to the Kansas Union.
$25 cash in grand prizes were at stake in the mid-winter open golf tournament for KU students at
the Lawrence In-Door Golf Course.
A lack of high school teachers throughout the country was reported by the teacher's placement bureau.
10 Years Ago Today—1961
10 years Age 1 course—1981
The All Student Council passed a resolution on discrimination and inhumane treatment. The resolution outlined principles that recognized injustices to blacks and encouraged legal action rather than demonstrations.
Eldon Ward and Dick Reamon led KU swimmers to a first place tie in a triangular meet in Robinson Pool.