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Friday, February 5, 1971
University Daily Kansam
KANSAN comment
The Campaign Begins
The candidates have filed for student body president and another year's festivities are about to begin.
A TV commercial keeps coming to mind. "If you're this apathetic about student government, how do you expect to take an interest when you get the right to vote?"
In the 1969 elections, a noble record was established. Nearly one out of every three students participated in the election.
In the next election, KU students, being strong traditionalists, voted to not break the record. If they had, it might have tarnished the former record. (For reasons similar to these, no doubt, Dave Robisch decided not to break Wilt Chamberlain's one season scoring record last season.)
Out of the 17,000 students who could have voted in last year's election, only 4,260 took the few minutes to have a say in who runs their school. Bill Ebert picked up 1,940 votes to win the election. This is 45 per cent of the votes but only 11 per cent of the student body. A mandate at the least.
Lament of a lost election: "The 4,200 turnout was bad, not nearly enough for us to be elected," Dave Miller said after he was defeated last year. It could just have
well been said by Peter George. Apathy elects.
Many of us have been screaming for a part in our government for many years, 18-year-old voting age and all that. We've been so busy screaming for a voice in government that we have forgotten to speak with what voices we have.
Apathy, however, is not the only cause for the slim turnouts at our elections. Something must be said about candidates whose only issues are slurring other candidates and slinging rhetoric. Somehow the issues are always muddled and in the end, in the voting booth, it is just a choice of faces from the paper or impulse (much like an unprepared-for multilele test).
The Kansan will try to force the issues. Get the beliefs of the candidates and present them to you. This is our responsibility.
You must study the candidates. Know what they stand for and vote for the one, if there is one, who will truly represent you. This is your responsibility.
And if only a third or less of the eligible voters actually cast their ballots, don't complain about anything that happens next year.
Galen Bland Editor
The Demise of a Fan
By CRAIG PARKER
Once a sports freak, always a sports freak, I used to say. But time has a habit of eroding even the most firmly held convictions, and the sad truth is that another of KU's hard-core sports fans has finally succumbed to the plague of relevancy sweeping across the campus.
When I was a freshman basketball freak, My hero was Jo White. I'd talk of his moves, of his offense all day. And dream of his defense at night.
Ted Owens, Gale Catlett, Miranda,
Were wonders at coaching B-ball.
But they couldn't come close to the to
The demise began with a lamentable incident which occurred shortly after a KU-Okahoma State basketball game early in 1968. So moved by KU's narrow victory over the stubborn Cowboys was this writer, that in a vindictive display meant to pay witness to KU's superior court prowess, I came within a hair of savagely attacking a probably well-intentioned, if somewhat obnoxious and disgruntled, O-State fan.
But they couldn't come close to the top. KU lock
Wade Stinson—the king of them all.
That virtually uncontrollable outburst caused me considerable consternation for some days afterward, and provoked a reconsideration of exactly what was important to me and what wasn't.
His empire spreading with coaches renowned.
His palace made famous by one called "the Stilt"
Such riches, such glory, support from the fans
The following bit of doggerel is offered, then with apologies for form, as a reminiscence of more carefree days not regrettably gone. It was inspired by the boos and catcalls verbally hurled at Wade Stinson during his two most recent appearances on KU's basketball court.
Who'd ever guess that his kingdom would wilt?
Since then, things have happened; our values have changed.
We've come to love sports less and less, Oh, we still can appreciate Robisch's touch
Stallworth's rebounding and Russell's finesse-
But the jeers and the boos at the emperor now
(And right in his own domain!)
All amply attest to one obvious point—
Things never will be quite the same.
It is just another case of the President's disregard for the right to information guaranteed in the first amendment. Who knows how many other operations like the present one have been conducted in the last three years.
wise? Nixon has decided that the operation is none of our business, a decision that violates the shaky trust in his de-escalation program as well as the people's right to know.
Many citizens are getting fed up with the administration's offensive deescalation policy, and if Nixon doesn't start leveling with the public, he'll be in big trouble in 1972.
It seems President Nixon got sufficiently burned last spring during the Cambodia operation to learn a lesson.
So Long First Amendment
—Ted Iliff
News from the area has been completely shut off, and the only thing known by the public is what the Russian press is reporting. They say the South Vietnamese and American troops have entered Laos to combat Communist infiltration.
Now he has cleverly instructed the Defense and State Departments as well as the U.S. command in South Vietnam to shut up about the operation in northwest South Vietnam along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
How are we supposed to know other-
Science Today
'I find the defendant guiltv. Now, let's proceed with the trial.'
By DELOS SMITH
URI Science Editor
Statistically it also is established that gestational and birth stresses are more likely in older women and in older women having four
His theory is that nature intrigues all human beings to be rightful, and that chance stresses either during gestation or at birth, he argues.
Stresses Produce Lefthanders
NEW YORK--The leftwenders of the world are going to be displeased with a newly published theory of Paul Bakan, a psychologist, and he will no longer come from no small number of them.
In spontaneous abortions, the result of extreme stress, the rate is least for female fetuses and fewer at death or soon after birth. And the frequency of left-handedness is greater than among males and twins.
Bakten tried to make his ex-friend less inconsequent, and the others became accidental stresses which might cause a shift to lefthandedness and an increased risk of meningitis and twins encounter more stresses in gestation than in pregnancy.
Lefites always resent any implication of freakishness. But he is not obligated to originate lefthandedness are "inconclusive," Bakan said, including one that it is the work of his gene and therefore is hereditary.
than half-250—had been lst or
increased with the counts for leftover
difference were "significant" by
standard statistical analytic
Reporting to the technical journal Nature, Bakan said they 'support the hypothesis that hand-heldness and birth order which suggests a relationship between left-handness and neurological insult associated with prenatal or delivery factors'.
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Among students at the Simarua university, Umbatabu British College has a faculty member, he found 85 men who had gone to school 96 had been 1st or 3rd in order birth when 39 were 2nd or 3rd which Bakan designed "low birth" classes.
or more, he said. All this made him wonder how many lefties were first in the birth order of his children, and how many were fourth or later.
His "controls" were 553 righties,262 boys,291 girls.Less
Guinea Plot Thickens
Commentary
Bv PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Conakry Radio, were carried out in a "carnival atmosphere"
with a added this bit of colorful detail.
Plots and reports of plots come quick and fast against Guinea's powerful executions of which Crown Radio boasted dealt only with the richest in Africa but remains one of that
"The people spat upon and stoned the bodies."
In August of 1858, on the eve of Guinea's independence and in the presence of President Charles de Gaulle, Toure had seethingly rejected an offer of continued visit inside the French community.
If Toure's own and Conakry Radio's rhetoric seemed likely to prove costly to Guinea it would not be for the first time.
Nor did it seem that this
sponsored savagery would go far
toward relieving the isolation
which its members Guinea
won in their fight.
Throughout Africa and the rest of the underdeveloped world it was discovered that annoyed French pulled out their technicians and cut off their aid and for Guinea it was the burden of a long downhill slide.
"We prefer poverty in freedom," he said, "to riches in slavery."
Toure's unpredictable nature, his fears and suspicions, the scores he scored to persons within his own country and colored his relations with all
He has accused neighboring Senegal and nearby Ivory Coast of plotting against him. After an earlier sharp turn to the left, in
1961 he suddenly demanded the recall of the Russian ambassador and turned to Peking for help.
His relations with the French have been up and down. Prior to independence after World War II, he was a soldier in the million in Guinea. Toure accused the French of plotting against him but after the death of Gaulle relations appeared to be good. Then, since have gone into another decision.
Despite his hatred of imperialists, which should put the United States at the top of his list, the United States that may bail him out.
The World and Import-Export business has grown by investing some $110 million to help develop Guinea's bauxite reserves, among the richest in Africa.
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"Job interviews," the sign read."Sign up now."
Suddenly I realized that I would graduate in four months and I had no plans for my future. So I signed up.
When the time for my interview rolled around I found myself nervously waiting in the office of a teacher who told me up sheet told me that almost every one I knew in my major was also interviewing for the job.
The door opened and a friend of mine, visibly shaken, stumbled through the office.
"Are you a bigot?" she
screamed. "Passed me the
describe yourself in jovial
jectives. What are your goals in
life? Do you think you'll ever find
the answer?"
"Huh? What's the matter with you?" I confusedly inquired.
"That's what they asked me," she muttered, shuffling on out of the office.
I lit another cigarette, and she smiled. "Two lit cigarettes, two lit cigarettes I tried to imagine all the unanswerable and embarrassing questions they were asking."
(How is my sex life? I might qualify as errand girl. huh?)
Finally the door opened and my name was called.
"Ha ha. So you want a job with us? Ha ha. Sit down."
"You really aren't so bad, you know," he said, still chuckling as he looked over my references. "Just that the job opportunity is good and judging from your resume we don't have anything open that you would be interested in. As a matter of fact, we don't have much of anything open, and I have hundreds of applications."
The obvious thing to do was to ask why they were even holding up the phone, brave enough to ask it. I finally concluded that the interviewer had been knocking around in this room and nothing else, nothing to do, so his boss sent him on out the road to hold the traditional interviews. What a
"Take it," he . . . yelled delightedly, as if he had solved all my problems. "Take it and run!" he called the office shaking his arm.
I admitted that I had a vague promise of a job with another newspaper.
What is a nice girl like me going to do in a situation like that? I wonder if I ever WILL find anyone to marry me.
I pictured myself grabbing my diploma and rushing down to a greasy spoon to wash dishes.
-Robin Stewart
Rv DICK WEST
The Lighter Side
Impenetuous young lawyers
tradition were urged to attack the
system within the system—that
which they would be, which
which time they will be committe
them themselves and
will have enough seniority to
the antisleniority group rejected that advice, however, on grounds that getting old takes too long
Griff & the Unicorn
The Seniority Siege
WASHINGTON (UP1)—AIA-
designating congressional com-
mittee chairmen withstood the
last assault, it obviously is
becoming one of the most
strongly held positions.
So unless some way is found to keep the vinegar, one sage of the seniority system will continue. The aging of beer and cheese already are available, but the aging of wine and cheese already are old-fashioned, natural way.
In my judgment, the seniority system would have been overly lenient, and Mr. Clinton's session of congress had its opponents offered a reasonable offer.
Under the system they
That argument is specious, if not downright laughable. When it comes to casting up the best man, the greatest benefit of having a reliable than the aging process. If the House of Representatives were composed of the 43 oldest members, we wouldn't doubt there would be any noticeable loss of quality.
Others are convinced the should be supplanted by a more competitive examinations administered by the Civil Service
Still, others advocate a
leadership test. The committee
walks across a California oil slick
and the last member to sink
It appears then that the seniority system will prevail until a better replacement is found.
Most congressmen, having been elected themselves, realize this. Consequently they saw no need to represent a manner of designating chairmen.
proposed as a substitute, com-
plement to the argument being that this would produce more capable chairmen than the seniority
"Copyright 1971, University Daily Kansan"
Those There the Days
50 Years Ago—1921
A Kansas School of Religion was to be established for next fall. Classes would be taught in English and Chinese.
A her fell casually to "Hell Week" when a rather manly pratermant who was looking for a sheep strayed off the road. It. police nabbed him and threw him in jail. He was set free after paying the farmer $1.50
The KU basketball team dropped two games and Saturday to the Kansas State 31-18 and
40 Years Ago—1931
A bill providing for the taxation of all
It was said that the first attempt to control dances on Saturday night with chaperones was not successful. The crowd sought to avoid the chaperones by moving to the center of the hall. The more "conservative" dancers were pushed to the outside.
fraternity and sorority organizations at Kansas educational institutions was recommended for passage by the Tax Committee of the Kansas House.
10 Years Ago----1961
Two KU students were released on bond from Johnson County Jail where they had been detained.
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Knute
Boehner were to speak at the community
football game.
Tickets for the Dave Brubeck Quartet's concert on Feb. 19 went on sale.
Floyd W. Preston, associate professor of petroleum engineering, and his family were among 42 Americans released by Portuguese rebels aboard the cruise liner Santa Maria. The KU basketball team bounded back after semester break to paste Air Force 78-22. The team was in second place in the Big Eight and preparing for its game with Colorado.