KANSAN Comment
The 84th KU senate
Although KU's Student Senate has done an admirable job in formulating the best university foreign policy in the Big 8, little has been done to deal with the pressing problems facing the university community.
The senate has remained bogged down in what seems to be mountains of committee red tape. Most of last spring's campaign promises have been delegated to committees, which will probably not have the chance to report findings even as late as this spring due to an already trivia-packed agenda.
Ask the following questions to the average student senator and chances are highly probable that you will receive the following answers.
ansan: What is being done to revamp disciplinary and judiciary procedures at the University, specifically the University Disciplinary Board?
Student Senator: Our disciplinary-judiciary committee is studying the problem right now and will report its findings to the senate this spring.
Kansan: Specifically, what is the Council on Humane Education and what is it doing?
Student Senator: The Council on Humane Education was Che.
Kansan: What is the senate doing about the problems plaguing Watkins Hospital?
Student Senator: The Watkins Hospital committee is presently studying the problem and will report its findings to the senate later this year.
Kansan: What about the cooperative drug and grocery stores ISP promised in its platform last spring.
Most of the problems facing the senate are
Student Senator: The senate is working on a program to turn the Kroger Family Center into a giant co-op. Our Kroger Committee is, however, facing problems that it will try to solve this spring.
problems that have faced the University for years, and for years they have been bogged down in red tape.
The results of last spring's election, clearly indicated that students were rebelling against the traditional Joe College president and a senate full of Joe Colleges and Betty Coeds. Students felt that a new breed of campus politicians could solve the ever-increasing problems facing the University.
They voted in the work-shirt blue jeans set, but alas, it's become the same old story, with deeper shades of hypocrisy.
What the student senate needs, Mr. Awbrey is a boss, not a leader. What the student senate should do is perform, not give committee reports.
It is time that ISP solve its factional disputes and PSA die-hards relent and relate. It's time to get those committee reports presented and get things going.
Democracy, the principle on which the senate supposedly operates, is a slow process, but shades of Eisenhower, Mr. Awbrey and senators, it's time to get things done.
It's time to revamp the disciplinary procedures, before another Schultz fiasco occurs. It's time to get the student body interested and involved in the Council on Humane Education. It's time to get something done at Watkins Hospital before students are two-a-bed and it's time to take concrete action on the cooperative drug-grocery store campaign promise of last spring.
We have the constitutional power to get things done. We have a very cooperative chancellor and we have a semi-cooperative Board of Regents.
Unfortunately, what we seem to have in the greatest quantity is lip-service.
Judith K. Diebolt
"Now wait just a minute," you say. "How is it possible to change the nature of man? Do I want to have my nature changed if that's what it's going to take to get to the root of the problem? For that matter, what is the nature of man today which needs changing?"
Joanna Wiebe posed this question in ending her editorial "The one among thousands" which appeared in Oct. 17's issue of the U.D.K. She also asked who would be os naively idealistic to believe that men no longer will fight if we can end the Vietnam War. It sounds as if she believes man's problem lies much deeper than our present involvement in Vietnam, going on to say, "How can we strike at the root of this evil and conflict forever? The very nature of man must be changed."
"How many of those wearing black armbands on Oct. 15 are ready to begin on an exploration of the roots of the evil?"
Somewhere along the way, man's inherent character, or "nature," seems to have gone bad. We appear to be on the road to destruction. The late Winston Churchill speaking at Zurich, Switzerland, some time ago said: "This generation may well live to see the end of what we now call civilization." Peter, Paul, and Mary expressed it this way: "How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?" Will he ever know?
There was a man a number of years ago who, like Joanna, said that unless man's nature is changed, he is lost. This man even claimed to have the power to change a man's nature, or so to speak, his "heart." How can just any man have the power to change the very nature of others? An ordinary man can't, but he claimed to be no ordinary man. He said he was sent by the One who created us, to make possible a new relation-ship between the Creator and man. It is recorded that he laid his life on the line for man; said something about dying for our sins. After being put to death, he somehow didn't perish, but is said to be at large; said something about living in the hearts of men. How? He goes on to say that he stands at the door of a man's heart. If any man hears him and believes in him, he promises that man a new life, a new nature. "For if a man is in Christ, he becomes a new person altogether." (11 Corinth. 5:17) A man's old nature would give way to a new one. Thus, his very nature would be changed.
Readers' write
To the editor:
"So he made those claims," you say. You don't really see where it concerns you. Maybe it doesn't. Possibly you are the naive idealistic person Joanna spoke of, thinking the solution lies with the end of the war. That's your option. But for anyone looking and desiring an answer to man's basic problem, namely himself, this man offers a solution. It's hard to find good solutions anymore in a world that's troubled and full of questions. How good of a solution is it? The man proclaimed it to be the best life possible on this earth. That's leaving himself in a pretty shakey position. What if his solution doesn't work? He could look pretty silly in the eyes' of man. But he also left himself completely open to anyone who wanted to try His solution.
Me? I want the best. And you?
Jesus Christ was no fool either, Joanna.
VFW vs. doves
The right and privilege to peaceful demonstrations has long been recognized by students, though condemned by right-wing organizations as "Communist-inspired" or "revolutionary."
The disrepancy is Not that the VFW, or any other group should not have the right to demonstrate as much as anyone else. Doesn't it seem like something more than a coincidence that
Rick Pendergrass Assistant Campus Editor
The VFW, represented by commander-in-chief Raymond A. Gallagher, has announced "Operation Speakout," a week-long demonstration in support of the war in Vietnam.
We emphatically stress the right to peaceful protest is a right granted to everyone. So, Mr. Gallagher, if you can get your mythical "silent majority" off their pious apple pies, more power to you, and may the better ideal emerge victorious.
Dave Lee
Minneola sophomore
We wish to use this clever device against the Veterans of Foreign Wars, that illustrious body of stout-hearted patriots, sworn to uphold democracy and protect our cherished land from the dreaded Communist Plot.
To accuse a person or a group of confusing the issue is often an easy way to skirt the issue, because, like name-calling, it usually leaves off at that point, with no explanation of how the issue is being confused.
(Thoroughly confused?)
All of us hope the pro-war and the anti-war demonstrations don't collide, because that could lead to an explosive situation. As the Moratorium leaders said before Oct. 15, and then proved that day, the Moratorium is meant to be peaceful.
this sudden announcement for a pro-war demonstration come so soon after the October 15 Moratorium? And doesn't it seem odd that Mr. Gallagher would plan the demonstration to fall on the date of the next Moratorium?
We have listened with unsteady patience for years as right-wing organizations have vehemently denied they were "reactionary," but if a reactionary could be more clearly illustrated, it would no doubt set a precedent.
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