4 Wednesday. December 9. 1970 University Daily Kansan KANSAN Kansan Staff Photo by STEVE PRITZ Above the Blur, Reason The course it will follow is being plotted in smoke-filled rooms in Strong Hall and in various tetes-a-tetes designed to accommodate the ideas of a select enclave of students and faculty who will decide the modus operandi of our protest. Like some dervish gone mad, the whirl of political sensitivity-awareness that is becoming predictable at this University creaked into gear Monday. We owe Gary Jackson our support—but the support of blind men drawn automatically to the hoopla of countless rallies is politically impotent. To think that attendance at a few rallies fulfills our responsibility to Jackson, however tenacious, affirms the ideological castration that the regents have forced on this University. The immediacy surrounding our actions demands that we make some sense of the facts seen in a blur from our spinning state, and formulate some concrete, effective political action. This climate of immediacy, though, must not affect the rational construction of an effective political mechanism. It is too late to brake the whirling course we are following—but we must nurture a rational mentality, or lose the essence of the issue in dizzy confusion. Tom Slaughter The Will of A Minority? The Student Senate will decide tonight whether to reduce the student fee allocation to the Athletic Association from $6 a semester per student to 50 cents a semester per student, to go to the "minor" sports. At their meeting last Thursday, the body came close to making the cut, but because of the lack of a quorum, was unable to complete the action. If the measure to cut the athletic allocation succeeds, students will have to pay a total of $30.50 for both football and basketball tickets as opposed to the total of $21.50 now paid for both tickets. The first question is whether this is actually the desire of a majority of students or of a minority within the Senate. We will apparently be denied this information because the Senate members who are pushing this cut have successfully resisted attempts to authorize a student referendum on the matter before the cut was approved. The Senate apparently thinks that all support for the KU athletic program must be shifted to those who buy season tickets. No less than 70 per cent of the student body did, in fact, buy football season tickets, but it would be hard to deny that a larger percentage attended at least one game, for which they bought individual game tickets or used another student's ticket. The loss in fee money must be replaced by an increased student ticket price, because the Athletic Association must have the funds to continue to meet its obligations, such as the east side seating addition at the stadium, built after students demanded better seating in 1962 and agreed to help retire the cost through ticket sales. It should also be pointed out that student athletes were moved from Joseph R. Pearson residence hall to Jayhawk Towers this year, not for extravagance but as an economy move. The Athletic Association pays Jayhawk Towers less to house and feed the athletes than it paid for the dorm facilities. If the majority of students do wish to remove athletics as a funding priority, they, rather than a small group in the Student Senate, should make this authorization, justified or not. More shocking than the lack of justification for senators choosing athletics as their target, are the implications in the attempts to deny a student referendum on the subject. —Bob Womack By DAVID PERKINS One of the more comic aspects of the New Left is its anti-intellectualism. It is comic not only for the verticality of the characters and the writing (that is, that it is more complex because those in the New Left who extol the virtues of their glands, while ridiculing intellectual rigor, themselves to be in conflict with American society. Kansan Writer Love Is An Idea! The Mind Matters Actually, of course, they are carrying on in a perfectly ordinary fashion one of the nation's oldest and fondest traditions. The history of this tradition is surveyed in Richard Hofstadter's "Anti-Italianism in American Life." (Kropp, 1963), and it must be borne here with a review of the past. But try to imagine (and it will be difficult if you have any learning at all) the monumental imbecility that would lead someone to imagine that by attacking intelhe, we might be fighting Nixon. Or Mitchell. or The Pentagon. For surely no people agree more enthusiastically. "Yes, let's do banish this imp-wristed logic; yes let's do avoid this hemp-polar parlor games and put down these cerebral parlor games and slide down on some old-fashioned heart-thumping, blood-sparting emotionalism. Right on!" I can't imagine why anyone on the anti-intellectual left would oppose the American political system, or its most prominent bolt, the Vietnam War. The United States has been plagued by the bloodless touch of intellect, Hate, it national hostility to intellect, channeled through our democratically moronic leaders—Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon—that got us into the war so awkwardly (stupidly), conducted it so savagely what, and aburably (guess what). Anti-war propaganda is not understandable, the great horror of the war for. LETTERS Poor Logic In Senate? To the Editor: I am writing to express my concern over the Student Senate's latest campaign in the name of relevancy. If I have a chance to participate, I attempts by the press to explain the confusion and results, and-or lack of results, of last week's meeting, then I feel that someone is on the wrong track. A successful campaign will eliminate that portion of our activity fee that goes to support the major sports was passed. That action was taken on the grounds that people who did not have an active role in the football and basketball should not have to pay for those who did this seems to be legitimate, fair reasoning, but there is another side that was apparently wrong. Because the senators who happened to attend the meeting. What about those students who do not attend the productions of such groups as the University of Iowa or the mistaken, the remainder of the activity fee goes to support other forms of entertainment than the university's students. The student be obligated to pay this portion of the activity fee if he We have already established the fact that what one does not take part in as a spectator, one should not do so monetarily. Or does this principle only apply to those who do not wish to attend sports events? I am not sure if the Senate is absurd or simply hypocritical. does not wish to attend these other productions? If the Senate is truly interested in eliminating this requirement of financial support of all of KU's activities by each student, not altivate the entire problem with each student seems that if each student had the option to buy an activity card that would admit him to any or all university events depending on what each individual wanted to pay for, that conflict would be resolved. That is why the formation of the budget require less time and work, the principle of paying only for what you get would be established. Doesn't this idea seem to be a little more objective than the one being considered by the Senate? Tom Robinett Kansas City, Mo., Senior THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Kuwait Telephone Numbers Newroom—UN 4-810 Business Office—UN 4-838 Published at the University of Kansas during the academic year except holidays and examinations period. 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As long as you support what is your own plan, you are going to succeed. America's predilection for anti-intellectualism, then, assumes wide appeal for the mindless doctrines of the New Left. But why, you may ask (aw, come) on would, you other bayer deserting the antioffensive intellectuals? One way is to consider of another basic Americanism, capitalism. The New Left (of which the anti-intelllectives are only a part) holds massive new markets. In order to keep selling junk, one has to keep inverting new markets and changing what the "anti-capitalist" Rubin and Hoffman are; the same old anti-intellectualism in a new package, being sold to the same old anti-intellectualism in a bottom package and sailing on a cloud of hashtags. Griff & the Unicorn The irony of the New Left's glandular revolution is that it will ultimately herald a new intellectualism. Dime-store dionysians like to talk a lot about inventing new feelings as opposed to telling others how they've congratulated for maintaining yet another American tradition by assuming that thought and feeling are opposites, but the fact is otherwise. They are mates. The opposite of emotion is indifference, and the opposite of thought is stupidity. New feelings are also new ideas. We need a new intellectualism because the programs and proposals of the sincere left require more refined judgments than we are used to. It will be aided greatly by the university system, which has a strong commitment to provide construction employment, while at the same time keeping large masses of the young out of the labor market, will unavoidably educate people. The monster created to operate complex ABM systems is no longer interested in such toys; it wants the job that was built, of building nation without killing a people. Such great programs in the service of life, of Eros, will require equally great intellect, an intuition, a deep understanding. But Yahoos doesn't let, and possible only when the Yahoos of left and right vanish like the evolutionary failures In "Civilization and its Discontents," written in 1930, Freud predicted that a great wave of Eros, a "love generation," would rise to meet the gathering forces of death, of Thanatos. But that Eros is not spasmatic. It is love of man, not of God, and not of baboons. Love me, love my Fissure of Rolando. "Copyright 1970, University Daily Kansan" "Please continue. What were you saying about ethics, integrity and high purpose?" MAKING OUR CASE The Nasty Cosmic Force By STEVE EMERSON Student Senator, Oliver College Two attitudes seem to dominate every campus discussion about the Student Senate. The first advances the claim that the Senate is a worthless organization structured second asserts that the Senate is essentially a valuable organization whose efforts are continually thwarted by the Nasty Cosmic Force. Secretary James by the Board of Regents, the administration, the faculty, and student apathy. As a roundabout way of denying either of these outlooks, I would argue that the Student Senate has a tremendous potential, but is not fulfilling its obligations to students, and that this is why I am mis-organization and mis-direction of time and energy. Although any legislative body's work is largely done in committee, it seems requisite that the assembled body must be sufficed to decide what work must be done, and that only an enthusiastic Senate can, in turn, motivate its committees. As a result, the Senate meeting knows, the assembled Senate is neither an inspired nor an informed body. Committee reports are informed, but the abbreviated form, as if the Senate has no interest in what the Committee on Unorganized Housing or the Human Relations Commission of the Chairman readily makes it known that the only purpose of a Senate meeting is to act as quickly as possible on matters at hand. Given time, the average senator is poorly informed about what activities are being performed on behalf of the Student Senate, and even less informed about the reasons to benefit the student body. The group that should be responsible for activating and coordinating the Senate's latent support for Mr. Bush president and vice president of the student body and the members of the Student Senate Executive Committee (StudEx). In my opinion, this group has assumed that role is imminent to effect a perceive the initial sluggishness of the Senate as indicative of its unwillingness to work, and partly because of elitism on the executive's structure's part. The change in productivity rarely productive, and is not the intention of this article. But it seems true that this concentration of power and involvement in the student group is the inevitable effect of simply overwhelming the capabilities of this small group while denying the potential of the larger group, which is the Senate itself. The student body states that he will move to disband the Student Senate if such a move could be passed, it is as much a testimony to his failure as a motivator and it is as a reflection of the Senate's failure as more responsibly. Even if student government can restructure itself to better use the potential that exists in the assembled body and its committees, and thus allow the executive structure time to act as the motivator and coordinator of students directing those finite energies toward the most desirable goals still remains. Students get screwed by the hundreds when renting apartments; each semester, many seek work at low wages, and even larger numbers are unable to earn the money they so desperately need; financial loans, grants, and work-study programs continue to shrivel; marchcharge charge exhibitant for his university services; health service is inadequate; in general, the well-being of students continues to be threatened by increasing the Student Senate focuses its attention on this section or that section of its bylaws, argues about the legitimacy of its membership in parliamentary games. It takes no great insight to realize that a body that spends an over-age amount of time examinining will fail to serve its constituency. If I could digress from an otherwise general discussion to suggest one specific improvement, it would be the devotion of the Task Forces to accomplish specific goals rather than continuing the proliferation of standing committees. For instance, the ad hoc Senate committee should include a can and bottle reclamation center has been created to perform a specific function, then disband. Such goal-oriented Task Forces stand a much better chance of accomplishing goals within a committee which often stagnates. I realize, and am sorry, that this article has perhaps been too broad to suggest specific actions to take. We want to effectively organize the Senate and efficiently direct the energy toward achievable goals, but the purpose of this is to say I believe the culture of the Senate is reversible. Letters policy Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are submitted in a spirit of respect according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must provide their name, year in school and home town faculty and staff must provide their name and address, must provide their name and address.