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Keep the faith
Monday morning our new Chancellor talked to us about the decline and fall of the "gentleman's code of conduct" as a standard for University behavior.
Monday afternoon, this same gentleman's code was brutally crucified.
As a result of a committee meeting Monday afternoon, in about two weeks the press will have in its hands the names of 21 students involved in private disciplinary hearings stemming from last spring's ROTC Review demonstration.
When the students were offered the alternative of private hearings, they were promised that their names would not be released. The University and its students trusted in that kind of inter-community honor.
They didn't count on Sen. Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence, and the Senate State and Local Affairs Committee which he chairs. Under threat of subpoena, the group forced Dean William Balfour to release the 21 names and rupture the trust the students had had in their University.
A difficult hour for Balfour, ending a difficult summer, beginning a difficult year.
Dean Balfour and possibly other members of the KU Administration were faced with a visit to jail. The University of Kansas was faced with the displeasure of certain members of the group which allocates the funds for KU's existence.
And since the legislators are the elected
representatives of Kansans, KU also had to think about meeting the wrath of an entire state of taxpayers and contributors to the endowment fund.
There was no moral polarity to provide an easy basis for Balfour's decision. It will be easy for a certain faction to appeal to "the public's right to know." Another group will deplore the breach of promise involved, forgetting the circumstances. Both sides will be guilty of oversimplification.
Sen. Shultz and his committee have violated the gentleman's handshake upon which this University has conducted its affairs for 104 years.
We have entered a new era. Our faith in each other is close to being shattered by many circumstances, including the caprice of the businessmen who attempt to rule us.
Monday morning, Chancellor Chalmers called for a modification in our codes of conduct. "Where necessary," he said, we should "modify formal procedures for judging the infinite varieties of behavior which test such codes and procedures."
To stop the men in Topeka from destroying the faith which can bind a University community, let us take Chalmers' advice.
But a new judicial code and methods of enforcing it will take time.
In the interim, let us not betray each other.
Joanna K. Wiebe
Billy the kidder
So he went to Israel and was lost.
There is something deathly about people who truly live. They seem to be surrounded by a scent of death: standing in the eye of a hurricane, like King, like Kennedy. In the last year of his life the press and Bishop Pike made a great deal of his alleged communication with his dead son. And when he sat in the Kansas Union room and spoke so fast that he fell over his own words, it seemed that he was intrigued and haunted, not by his son or his past, but by the future.
He was talking about his trip to Israel, to bring the Dead Sea scrolls to life. I remember thinking he talked as if his time were running out. Of course that is how he lived his life, as if each day were his last, and death passed him like a ghost ship on a sea too dark to see. And then the sun came up on that sea, and the ghost ship saw him, and the days ended.
As the news of his disappearance went around the world those who had stoned him reached for more rocks. Some thought he was insane, but the truth was he was just mad enough not to be insane. Some thought the angels had lifted him up from the Holy Land. And some thought he had joined his son in suicide.
The same Billy once wrote to a Christian contemplating suicide that no true Christian ever contemplated suicide. (Billy apparently never read about Florence Nightingale, Dag Hammarskjold, St. Paul or any one of many sincere Christians who just never had the bene-
It was during the summer of 1967 that the same Bible-pounder told an interested-if-dumb crowd of Englanders that within one year both the United States and England would be under dictatorships unless . . . but you all know the rest of the line.
So, Oct. 1 is the date!
by Mike Shearer Kansan Arts and Reviews Editor
Rev. Billy Graham, the Jack Paar of religion, says his "friends" in various leftist groups have informed him that Oct. 1 is the date for a mass offensive by a combined hoard of radicals.
Well, just supposing for a moment that Billy does have friends among the numerous groups he considers left wing, there is still very little reason for radicals to expect to see Jerry Rubin crowned Oct. 1. Nor is there much reason for the rest of you to take to your arsenals.
But I like Billy.
In the hot sun he wandered toward caves and a canyon. He found water. Perhaps he had a last communion, alone in that silent canyon, where he met his future. He met it without anyone to hold or shake his hand. He met it only as a human. Which is enough.
Richard Louv
fits of Norman Vincent Peale's wonderful writings).
Then they were in a small room with fifteen people, or was it twelve? Bishop Pike's eyes were moving frantically now, from person to person, communicating lust for the virgin world, celebrating its mystical reality and a chance for a new beginning.
The promise almost seen
I think college students should be on the side of anyone his age who has friends on the left and Richard Nixon on the right.
To keep the preacher's record clean, what say we all stay home Oct. 1 and pray for peace.
But keep Oct. 2 open, kids, in case those prayers fall through.
Then a girl came up to him, and looked at him as if he were Jesus, or Dustin Hoffman, and he took her hand. They stood there, gently shaking hands, and the uncertainty in both of them was gone, and it was replaced by this glass bubble that I thought I saw. KU became irrelevant then. And so did God. The Bishop and the girl were just human, and that was enough.
He was standing there in a group of people and they moved around him like monkeys at the black pillar. The thing is, he was human, Bishop Pike, and that drew the people to him. He stood there, his paunch pushing out, uncertain for a moment which way to go after leaving the podium.
For a brief second he looked tost.
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