Chalmers speaks on protests
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said yesterday that as next week's moratorium approaches, people would be looking for new content and new meaning.
"I am afraid that accelerating moratorium activities will make it increasingly difficult to find new material to present," Chalmers said. "I would hope, however, that the thrust that was provided by the previous moratorium would continue."
Chalmers said that moratorium activities ought to follow a community approach by having as many panel discussions as possible.
Chalmers reiterated his belief that KU's moratorium was a good supplemental experience to a student's formal education.
Don't neglect education "I attended the panel discussion at Ellsworth Hall for the last moratorium," Chalmers said. "I have never seen a more thoughtful or penetrating discussion by panelists anywhere.
"I hope, however, that moratorium activities will not interfere with a student's formal education," Chalmers said. "Technically, moratorium means to postpone and not to suspend. I hope that both students and faculty—the latter especially—will remember that and try to fulfill the education that their fees have paid for."
Chalmers said that as moratorium activities increase, demands upon the participants would increase, at the expense of other things that students may wish to do.
"It is one thing to indicate concern," Chalmers said, "but it is another to make sacrifices for that concern."
Matter of individual concern Chalmers discussed the impact that the press has had in affecting moratorium events. He said that the news media had been credited with having more influence in increasing participation than they actually had.
On the whole, Chalmers stated, it is a matter of individual concern; students who want to demonstrate will do so anyway. There is no real need to publicize events excessively, because anyone concerned knows when and where things will take place.
Much criticism has been leveled at students participating in the moratorium by government officials. Chalmers said that he could not agree with that criticism.
"I support the Bill of Rights, since it is one of the critical elements of the Constitution. The right to march and assemble peacefully was not violated in the last moratorium so I can see no reason why the moratorium should not continue," Chalmers said.
ANIMAL INDUSTRY
MANILA (UPI) — Some 900 pesos ($225 million) were invested in 1968 in the production of livestock and poultry in the Philippines, according to Animal Industry Director Anacleto B. Coronel. He said the big investment has given the Philippines the most modern and most progressive poultry and swine industry in Southeast Asia.
6 KANSAN
Nov. 7
1969
Car flips; driver uninjured
By NILA WALKER
Kansan Staff Writer
"Conscription," according to Arlo Tatum, "is a law passed by middle-age men to use the bodies of the young for the purposes of middle age."
Photo by Clifford Roth
The driver of this 1969 Mustang escaped serious injury when his car flipped over and crossed the median into the opposite lane on Naismith Drive. The driver was William Willis, Wichita junior. Conditions at the time were clear and dry and the KU Traffic and Security Office said a report on the accident would be issued sometime today.
One of the basic reasons for the inequities in the draft law, Tatum said, was the fact that it existed substantially unchanged since enactment in 1940 when World War II was approaching. Although understandable at the time, Tatum called the present draft a "wartime measure in time of peace and an act of war against draft-age men."
Tatum, the executive secretary for the Central Committee of Conscientious Objectors, is not a young revolutionary. He is himself a slightly bald, bespectacled middle-ager adamantly opposed to the draft in any form. Describing himself as a "oneman agitator rather than a oneman revolutionary," he spoke Thursday night as a part of the SUA Minority Forum.
Tatum speaks against the draft
Convinced a generation gap exists, Tatum said the draft contributed to its hostility. Older generations, he added, regretted the sacrifices they made during the Depression and resented the freedoms given ungrateful youth.
Noting the social injustices resulting from draft laws, Tatum said that military service cyphons off potential leadership in the ghetto and prevents the poor from attending college because part-time study is not considered an exemption.
Local draft boards have been assigned physically impossible
tasks, Tatum admitted. He said that many classifications were randomly assigned without examination of the individual case and that even appeals were decided without personal consideration by all members of the board. Enforcement of laws even as they now exist, however, would cost
millions of dollars for extra employees.
to believe the United States can be the world's policeman."
"It is politically possible to end the draft when it expires in 1971," he continued. "I hope movements begin all over the country to encourage President Nixon to do what he said he would do—end the draft."
Abundant manpower facilitated involvement in the Vietnam War, Tatum said. "With the rate of men now going into service, we could become involved in three Vietnams. One must be pro-draft
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