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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 28, 1963
Disarm and Improve
Approval of a resolution last week opposing the orbiting of nuclear weapons in outer space by the United Nations General Assembly was a further step toward world peace. The decision is an important solution toward the slackening of international tension. This action, as Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said, is another advance in the disarmament process.
But this step is not enough. There is a need for complete disarmament, in a reduction of national arms to the level of such police forces as are essential for international order only. There is a need also for the establishment of a strong world police force and, as Grenville Clark has said in an article in the Saturday Review, "peacekeeping and dispute-settling system" with the necessary "minimal amount of law and organization" to prevent any "large scale organized armed conflict" between nations.
THE POSSIBILITY of this armed conflict became more apparent and acute in the mad race for armaments among the big powers. Each of the nations wants to beat the other at having larger armies, more and more destructive weapons and even greater power to harm others.
Our economy and people have been affected by this arms race. The United States spends billions of dollars to develop better arms necessary for national defense. If this race is abolished, many underdeveloped countries could be supported with the same amount of money.
There is good evidence for believing that the prevention of undue population growth is probably impossible until disarmament is achieved. There is also good evidence for believing that disarmament could pave the way for effective population control within a few decades.
necessity is no more unrecognized. The 17-year period after World War II, regarded as one of failure and frustration because of many protracted and sterile efforts toward disarmament, has produced necessary adjustment and gestation. It was during this period the world began to understand that peace will require not only disarmament, but also some kind of legislative, executive, and judicial institutions on a worldwide scale. These institutions are considered necessary for the maintenance of internal order in local communities and within nations.
BUT THE PROBLEM of the arms race or the
Reflecting this gradual enlightenment, the year 1961 included the March 17 statement of all the prime ministers of the British Commonwealth calling for "total world wide disarmament" and for a "substantial and adequately armed" world police force; the McCloy-Zorin agreement of Sept. 20, whereby the objective of "general and complete" disarmament was unequivocally accepted by the two superpowers; and President Kennedy's United Nations' speech of Sept. 25, in which he summoned the world to a "peace race" based upon total national disarmament.
ALSO, PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S administration has canceled out or dismantled a vast and varied arsenal of strategic weapons planned by the Eisenhower administration.
Some nations have expanded public education and discussion, hoping to develop a far better informed public opinion with respect to the kind of world organization required to achieve and maintain disarmament.
- Vinay Kothari
Total disarmament would open the way to a tremendous improvement in living standards and the consequent stabilization of peoples. Let's hope more people and nations do realize the importance of disarmament.
“Half Step! Half Step! You Keep Marching Too Fast”
Return The Bell
Editor:
After reading Mr. David Perry's letter pertaining to the TKE bell in Thursday's Daily Kansan, and
Drastic Reform for College Athletics?
(Editor's Note: The following article appeared in the Oct. 20 issue of the New York Times Magazine. Entitled "Gown and Gridiron," the article was written by Fred M. Hechinger of the Times education staff.)
The demise of big-time intercollegiate football and other athletics is prematurely predicted quite often when college presidents make self-righteous speeches and contradicted as soon as there are alumni in the house. It may be symbolic of the durability of the sport that a week ago Yale's new president was told of his election to that post while he attended the Yale-Columbia football game.
the president of one large state university, not long ago, when pleading in closed session with a football-minded but otherwise tight-fisted legislative committee, said: "Gentlemen, please let me build a campus of which our football team may be proud."
Despite their ability to survive criticism and to weather scandals, college spectator sports remain a legitimate target for question by educators who believe that higher education priorities are being perverted. More important, there are indications that the college scene itself—especially the quality and purpose of its students—has changed more than the football boosters (and partisans of other exhibition sports), realize or want to admit. This must have been what the faculty and a few courageous leading alumni of Ohio State University had in mind when, two years ago, they braved the wrath of the football-dedicated and vetoed competition in the Rose Bowl.
Subject Dissected
In the October issue of "Liberal Education," the journal of
the Association of American Colleges, published last week. Louis B. Perry, president of Whitman College, in Washington, dissects modern big-time collegiate football.
Mr. Perry, an economist who was educated at the University of California at Los Angeles and at Yale, calls big-time athletics "a hangover from the days of the hip flask and the coonskin coat." He warns that the whole collegiate athletic program may be doomed unless remedial action is taken.
That a good deal is involved in college sports was driven home last August when allegations of a "fix" in a game between the Universities of Georgia and Alabama led to an award of over $3 million in damages to a coach who said he had been libelled.
Mr. Perry charges that, since the most outspoken boosters of spectator college athletics are the alumni of a bygone era these essential new facts of life are overlooked:
(1) In earlier days, many colleges "were often begging for students." The football atmosphere was important in painting an attractive recruiting poster for fun-loving "Joe College," for whom a degree was the byproduct of a gentleman's C.
By contrast, today's better high-school preparation before college and tougher employment competition after graduation require full-time concentration on the main event—study.
(2) The idea that there is big money that can be used to support education in inter-collegiate games is increasingly held to be a sentimental fallacy. In many institutions, Mr. Perry warns, intercollegiate athletics are actually subsidized, with education dollars although this is eamouflaged by claims of the intangible public relations, fundraising value.
Apparently underlining this point, the Very Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., then president of Fordham, last year rejected revival of football which the formerly big-time football institution had abandoned in 1954 because of continued financial loss.
One Prediction
(3) The drawing power of professional teams, Mr. Perry adds, has hurt college gate receipts. This, in turn, heightens the temptation to try to recapture crowds and dollars by way of Bowl Games spectaculars. This increases the danger of commercialization and interference with academic schedules and college life.
Dr. George L. Cross, president of Oklahoma University, said earlier this year: "As time goes on, the entertainment services provided by college football will be furnished more and more by the professional teams. He predicted a slow decline of college spectaculars—by attrition rather than as a result of the courageous leadership of college presidents.
Mr. Perry betrays a parochial attitude found among some college educators when he says: "College and university administrators should breathe a sigh of relief that the high schools have taken over the problem."
He is, of course, accurate in his observation; but high school; and unhappily junior high school experts, too, are seriously concerned that the even earlier obsession with uniforms, marching bands, out-of-town or evening games is a still greater menace to education.
Teen View
As for girls, a national magazine recently quoted an above-average teenager who was elected cheerleader: "I guess there's nothing left to do in high school. . . that was all I really wanted."
This is especially true when schools put new stress on quality education. A combination of academic and athletic pressures is, as many parents report, simply too much. As in college, furthermore, inter-school emphasis often deprives the majority of students of the chance to participate in physical exercise and to develop aptitudes in sports which remain a life-long asset.
Few high school observers therefore would share Mr. Perry's belief that the problem can be solved by getting it out of students' system earlier. But in a more realistic appraisal of the campus scene, he suggests that collegiate athletics might be saved through reforms.
Among these, he adds, should be more effective limitation of the length of seasons and of practice periods, elimination of post-season games "regardless of the siren calls of promoters" and integration of the athletic staff with the teaching faculty, in terms of tenure, rank and salary. He urges the elimination of athletic scholarships and of double standards in admission. Finally, he calls for an end to all separate budgets for intercollegiate sports, thus placing them under the colleges' financial control.
especially after reading that the official word on having the "traditional" bell seems to be "NO." I would like to make a few comments on this bell and the controversy which surrounds it.
Some institutions have been moving in such directions; but in many places, these reforms still sound like Utopia or Judgment Day—depending on one's point of view.
Last year (first semester), I was Publicity Chairman for the Jay Jane Pep Club. It was brought to the attention of the officers of the pep clubs that for some strange reason, school spirit seemed to be lagging at KU. Indeed, we were even criticized from some quarters for this apparent lack of pep.
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Now that I am no longer an officer in Jay Janes, perhaps I have no right to speak up, but in this case I think it is necessary. Picture this, if you will: KU has come from behind to make a touchdown. The crowd goes wild, they begin to wave their arms in the "traditional" manner. The cheerleaders and pep clubs are "traditionally" frantic with yelling. The Jayhawk mascot skips around showing his enthusiasm. The band is playing, the drums are beating—all in the "traditional" fashion. But the also "traditional" ringing of the TKE bell is mute. There is definitely something missing this year when KU makes a touchdown in Memorial Stadium, and anyone who has attended football games in the past knows it.
If Mr. Lonborg and the others who seem to be concerned with school spirit at this school are really concerned, then I challenge them to return the bell. If the pep clubs can show their co-operation, why can't the administration also show their co-operation towards the same goal of better school spirit? Since Pinkerton men and KU police with dogs are already stationed in the end zones, why should there be any question as to the security of the bell? Either we trust the man with the dog to guard the end zone, or he is surely being paid for wasting his time.
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