Meet Mr. Shultz The man in the rust-colored suit stepped up to the microphone, and opened his mouth to display a remarkable ignorance on a number of topics. It was easy for the hundreds of students massed in the Student Union ballroom to laugh at Sen. Shultz's malapropisms. We all know there is no such word as "hierarcacy." And we had a feeling Shultz meant to say "frustrations" but it came out in the colloquial term, "flusterations." His verb tenses were a little flusterating, too. As he clumsily tossed around nouns and verbs to form facsimiles of sentences, we became aware that the virgin soil of Shultz's mind has been sparsely seeded with knowledge. As we all know, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. In an elected public official, a little knowledge is a crime against his constituency. I wonder why the people of this district believe Shultz is educationally equipped to represent them in Topeka. On certain specific questions concerning KU, he had only a glimmering of knowledge. He asserted incorrectly, for example, that two suspended students were still on the KU payroll as students, when in fact they are not employed as students. He appeared to know little of certain recent historical events. Previously he stated he "would be flattered with a comparison to Joe McCarthy. I agreed with much that he did." But Wednesday evening he could not say what part of McCarthy's actions he agreed with. After all, McCarthy did a lot of stuff. "I watched it on T.V." Shultz said. When asked for a definition of academic freedom, Shultz would not admit that he couldn't provide one. He hedged around the issue by saying such definitions have already been attempted by many persons. Apparently his interest in University education does not extend to the philosophical basis for its existence. Shultz appears to feel threatened by those with more education than himself. Example: In response to a question about the funding of University operations, Shultz drawled, "Taxpayers, boy." The "boy" he referred to is a balding, married graduate student who is also a veteran. The student as nigger, anyone? Another consequence of limited knowledge is the dividing of life into either/or proposition. "I'd rather be fighting the Communists in Vietnam than in the wheatfields of Kansas," Shultz has said. But the most dangerous offspring of inadequate information is unqualified moral certitude. "My conscience is clear," Shultz asserted. I do not doubt that. Only with the admission of floods of information—a deep drink at that Pierian spring—does the heart entertain doubts. Joanna K. Wiebe Letters to the Editor "The people's choice" To the editor: This letter concerns an editorial published in the Kansan on Oct. 2, written by Gloria Vobejda. Her new approach, that is to pay off the Saigon government, is plainly absurd. Why would Thieu and Ky ever want to leave their "dictator's Utopia"? To quote Thieu, "I have no reason to leave. I am doing well." First of all, they are probably set up very well from the black market and embezzlement. And just in case they have to leave unexpectedly, don't you think they've got fat Swiss bank accounts? They are the self-elected "legal government" of South Vietnam through the so-called "fair" national elections of '67 which we supported. They have the power in South Vietnam and they've used it to weed the political field of all opposition and rig the elections. The U.S. can't demand anything from Thieu, because he supposedly represents the people of South Vietnam. If we tried, he would holler "Wolf, wolf, I am the people's choice." In '71 he will be the people's choice again, by the same "fair" elections. Even if the United States could kick the present Saigon government out, what would we put in its place? Thieu has made sure that there is no one but Thieu. Why anyone wanting to resign from a high-paying job with an excellent future and fringe benefits for a pension would be absurd. Thieu and friends have taken care of themselves fairly well. But I wonder who takes care of the people of Vietnam. We've let the dictators prosper and the people be exploited. The people we came to help have been long forgotten. Maybe they can straighten out the mess after we leave. After what we have shown them of American democracy, I wouldn't blame them if they all turned commies. October 15 Mike Lohman Freshman To the editor: The student members of the University Council are to be congratulated on their stand against the "official rebuke" to John Wright for his participation in the demonstration at the ROTC Review last spring. As is so often the case, the students showed more sense than the faculty. Michael J. Maher Associate Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology Off the wire By United Press International BRIMFIELD, England — Malcolm Eckley says his singing fattens up his pigs. Contented by Eckley's renditions of "Nellie Dean" and "Onward Christian Soldiers," the 632 pigs on his farm have won 1,111 awards over the last four years. "It's a known fact pigs like noise," he said. ** SALINAS, Calif.—Mark Hall, a husky six-footer with a red beard, is running for the post of president of the Association of Women Students at Hartnell College. Wall, 19, said he wanted to fight apathy on the campus toward student affairs and figured his candidacy might create an interest among students. SANTA ROSA, Calif.-The Kawan Springs once site of a resort, were plugged up by the great earthquake which shattered Northern California in 1906. Another earthquake rocked the area last week—and the seven springs are flowing again, forming pools and streams of running water. Well, what did we say yesterday that we have to deny today? 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Wwie Campus Editor Joe Elland News Editor Ruth Rademacher Makeup Editor Ken Peterson Sports Editor Jay Thomas Wits Editor Martha Mangledsort Arts and Review Editor Mike Sheuer Women's Page Editor Linda Loyd Photo and Creative Editor Mike Rieke Assistant News Editors Donna Shrader, Steve Haynes Assistant Sports Editor Joe Childs Assistant Editorial Editor Judith K. Diebold Assistant Graphic Editor Rick Jenkins Assistant Photo and Graphics Editor Mike Freeman Assistant Women's Page Editor Viki Hysten BUSINESS STAFF Business Adviser ... Mel Adams Business Manager Jerry Bottenfield Assistant Business Manager Mike Banks Advertising Manager Jack Hurley National Advertising Manager Rod Osborne Classified Advertising Manager Larry Anselmer Promotion Manager Reagon O'Neal Circulation Manager Todd Smith Dear Mr. Editor Oct. 3,1969 Dear Mr. Editor Thank you for the picture of the ducks in your paper. Two of them are old friends. The dark one is "Winnie." the brown and White one is "Twaddles." We put them on potters lake because we didn't have a good pond for them at home, they seem to be happy now. Thank you again Mari ( 8 ) and Marc 1) Lancaster