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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Oct. 39, 1962
Off Probation
Lost in the turmoil of exciting and potent world news and the campus interest in the coming election last weekend was a tidbit which should be of significance in the thinking of every member of the KU family. Saturday ended the two year athletic probation period for KU.
The Jayhawker basketball team was relieved of the two years of restriction levied against it for the reported purchasing of an automobile for Wilt Chamberlain. This penalty was in addition to the one year probation involving the football team and its recruiting practices.
THUS A BLACK SPOT has been removed from the school's name. Not erased, but removed. It should never be forgotten that KU was on probation. But it should be remembered so it might not happen again.
The Big Eight Conference members are watching the pitiful results of what illegal recruiting can bring a university. The Colorado squad has won only one league game, and that by six points over Kansas State. In all its other conference games the Golden Buffaloes have been man-
handled. The principal reason for these many embarrassing defeats is the nearly complete depletion of the front line forces because of the findings of the National Collegiate Athletic Association last spring which rendered players and coaches illegal.
SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY are annually being censured by the NCAA for action taken in regard to intercollegiate athletics. This watchdog activity has helped to keep collegiate athletics at a higher moral level than in the past. The force of such action has been felt on this campus and is now severely restricting the athletic program at Colorado.
The lesson to be learned is a great one, and not just for the people in Allen Field House. Certainly the coaches and others who direct the KU athletic fortunes are more alert and cautious. But each student should take cognizance of the unfortunate Colorado situation and the regained freedom for KU and remember them. Neither should have happened. Neither should be repeated.
-Bill Sheldon
Dirksen Has Margin in Illinois
(This is the fourth in a series of articles on gubernatorial and congressional contests in the 1962 election.)
By Jerry Musil
The romance between President Kennedy and Senate Minority leader Everett M. Dirksen is over, at least until the election is over.
The job of defeating the Republican leader has been handed to 53-year-old Sidney R. Yates, Democratic congressman from Illinois' ninth Congressional district. Yates was elected to the House of Representatives in 1949 and is making his first bid for a Senate seat. Dirksen has spent 28 years in Congress, 12 of which have been in the Senate.
THE ISSUES of the election, according to Dirksen, are the rate of federal spending and, in particular, the record of "timidity, retreat and failure" of Kennedy's foreign policy.
Yates has been attacking Dirksen on what he labels his "do-nothingism" record of measures for Illinois and his votes against medical care for the aged and aid to education. Yates has claimed credit for several federal projects in Illinois.
Kennedy and Dirksen were quite friendly during the legislative session, but the friendship ended when Congress adjourned. Soon after adjournment, Dirksen began making his attacks on the Kennedy record. This is an about-face for Dirksen, who during a debate in the Senate called Kennedy "my President."
THE PRESIDENT joined the battle when he made an appearance in Chicago in Yates' behalf. Although he did not mention Dirksen by name in his speech—a fact which disturbed many Chicago Democrats — Kennedy asked the voters to return Democrats to Congress. In one statement about Dirksen, Kennedy said, "The change of one vote in the Senate would have meant the difference in the medical care for the aged bill, and only one Illinois senator voted for it." At this point he pointed to Sen. Paul Douglas, who was on the platform with him.
Many Democrats felt that Kennedy should have made a blistering attack on Dirksen as the only way to insure Yates' election. But the President obviously was playing it cautious. He does not want to alienate Dirksen, just in case he is re-elected. The Republican leader helped the Kennedy administration in many instances, and Kennedy would like to have that help in the 88th Congress if Dirksen is re-elected.
Yates has been battling against the handicap of not being known outside his Chicago congressional
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district. He has campaigned in about 80 of Illinois' 102 counties. And to the surprise of Illinois political observers, he has drawn relatively large crowds in primarily Republican areas.
SINCE CONGRESS adjourned, Dirksen has been conducting a somewhat relaxed, easy-going campaign. He is relatively assured of re-election and has evidently been taking it easy because of his health.
A voter poll conducted by the Chicago Daily News shows Dirksen leading Yates by a comfortable margin. But there is a large bloom of undecided votes which could swing the election to Yates if his campaign should catch fire in the next week.
DEAL THEM CARDS FASTER GUNTHER — I GOT A FINAL EXAM TO TAKE IN A FEW MINUTES. 4
The real Democratic victory would come from the unseating of a Republican leader. Kennedy did not campaign strongly enough to claim any credit for an Illinois victory. But at the present time, Kennedy was probably playing the smart politician when he did not directly attack Dirksen, since he will be back to lead the Republicans in the 88th Congress.
The Rough Edge
It is a good thing that the political meetings all have numerous posters telling you which party is holding them, because you would have a hard time telling which party was guilty in each case.
We get the impression that if someone would just change their diapers, the radical right would calm down.
We wonder what the TV script writers would do for material if sex was eliminated.
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Kentucky Race Is One of Closest
(This is the fifth in a series of articles on gubernatorial and congressional contests in the 1962 election.)
By Terry Murphy
Take the bitterness of the California governor's race, add the over-riding national issues and transfer the battle to Kentucky and you have the Bluegrass senatorial race between Republican incumbent Thruston Morton and Democrat Wilson Wyatt.
Morton is a hard-line conservative who has served three terms in Congress and also has served as assistant secretary of state for congressional relations under Eisenhower.
WYATT IS a lawyer who served as Truman's federal housing administrator and presently is Kentucky's lieutenant governor. He was Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager in 1952 and was a founder of the Americans for Democratic Action.
The race is still regarded a potential dead heat, but Wyatt has two advantages over Morton, the former Republican National Committee chairman. First, registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1, and second, he has the backing of the two most powerful Kentucky papers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times.
The degree of the Courier-Journal's opposition to Morton can be measured in an Oct. 25 editorial. It began, "Since Sen. Morton deals in innuendo oftener than he quotes verifiable statements and statistics, he is not always easy to refute with plain facts." The editorial went on to beber Morton's opposition to medical care.
And Wyatt himself has hit hard to sever Morton from the coattails of the popular Sen. John Sherman Cooper, who is stumping hard for his Republican friend. Wyatt said Morton canceled the vote of Cooper "on not less than 149 important roll calls in the past six years."
MORTON MINCES few words in stating his charges. While skirting alignment with the far right, Morton has tried to nail Wyatt to an image of the "free-spending, spineless liberals who doom us to bankrupty, both economically and politically."
Before President Kennedy's blockade move, Morton said, "I am sure they will not send to the Senate a man whose election would give aid and comfort to his old ADA friends who represent the policy of soft talk and concessions."
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Wyatt makes a strong pitch on domestic issues. He saves Morton has a record of "neglect and opposition—opposition to better salaries for teachers, better prices for farmers, decent medical care for all our senior citizens."
Another factor must weigh heavily in such a close race. Negroes, who in the past have voted Republican in hopes of improving civil rights legislation, are reported to feel that Morton has been back-pedding on civil rights issues.
President Kennedy's decision to blockade Cuba may have scuttled Morton's picture of the appearing liberals. But being a Republican, Morton should be able to depend on the voter inclination which boosted Nixon past Kennedy in 1960—in some parts of the state by as much as 90 per cent.
AND WYATT HAS NOT failed to grab other problems of Negroes and members of lower economic groups — chronic unemployment, medicine and education. He favors federal aid to all phases of education.
Some observers feel the outcome may hinge on something as simple as the weather. With the Democratic lead in registered voters, Morton is believed to need the large turnout of voters that fair weather would encourage.
Other Congressional races seem destined to leave representation of Kentucky in the House unchanged. Five Democrats appear safe bets for re-election along with one Republican. Reapportionment removed one Kentucky seat.
THE OTHER KENTUCKY race of interest is between Democratic Rep. Frank W. Burke and ultra-conservative Gene Snyder, who has lit the campaign fires with the zeal of an incendiary Republican. As the Senate race, this is rated a near dead heat.
The results of the Kentucky headline races will do more than send either a Democrat or a Republican to Congress. It appears to represent a test of the Kennedy administration's popularity and a measure of the effectiveness of the far right's cries of alarm.