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Tuesday, December 1, 1970
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Scars Are Healing Slowly
By GALEN BLAND Kansan News Editor
The thinly lit tawenre reverberated with the throaty sounds of "Wicked" Wilson Pickett. A longhair wandered from table to table, talking about a peace march. Above the din of 40 people trying to outshout the music and each other you could hear the barmaid yell, "Another tall one, Bill?"
Bill was in a half-dunk state of reverie in the corner table near the bar. The familiar words aroused him and he slyly shouted, "Yep!" Then he laughed and returned to the discussion he was having with his friend who also set at the table in a drunken state.
The barmaid, oldish, gray and elflike,
brought Bill his beer. He turned to his
compatriot, Dennis.
"Yea," he said, "it was strange over there." He took a long pull from the glass. "But the strangest part was my first kill."
"Well?" Dennis said. "Well!" he shouted. Bill had slipped back into his drunken dream but he quickly awoke.
"I was on my first night of sentry and, you know, I was scared to death, man." His thoughts turned away for a moment.
"We were up on a hill above the beach and in the moonlight I saw about 10 Cong, swimming in the surf and playing on the beach. Man I didn't know what to do, so I ran to the sergeant and woke him up and showed him what was going on. But by that time they had moved down the beach and were out of range."
Something seemed to catch Bill's
thoughts and Dennis had to prompt him again to continue his tale.
"Then something flashed in my peripheral vision. I turned to my left and there was Charlie." He brightened, as if he were there again.
"He should have got us, he really should have, but he was as surprised as I was. He just stood there with his mouth open."
"What'd you do?"
"Well I whirled." He paused. "And then I shot him dead," he said, soilly.
He was smiling but there was something in his eyes that said he didn't mean it. He went on with bravado, though.
"I emptied the whole thing in him. We saw him in the morning and there wasn't much left of him. Did you know I had 600 confirmed kills over there."
"That's a few," Dennis mumbled.
"Yea, that is a few." Bill confirmed. He glanced at the red scar tissue on his elbow and moved his arm stiffly, and then he was lost again, somewhere across the ocean and into the jungle, or somewhere.
"Scar's getting smaller," Dennis said.
"Seer's getting shatter," Dennis said.
"Yeah, I'm almost back to normal." Bill said.
Art Would Help'the Hill'
This country has a few scars and a few scarred. We're smiling and going to football games and being drunk but out there beneath our smiles we're somewhere else. Bill and the country might have a bit more healing to do before we're back to normal. Or maybe this always was a never-never land whose glory was locked somewhere inside the sorrow of a smile.
KU has a remarkably attractive campus that too many of its regular visitors take for granted.
The natural beauty and landscaping of the campus are probably unsurpassed by any other American campus.
But something is lacking in the open spaces (few as they may be) around the campus.
Shrubs, trees and flowers have all been selected with an eye for color and design, so that in both fall and spring they bring splashes of color.
These now-vacant areas could be improved with objects that would distract the eye and capture the imagination.
Not that it is one of the more pressing needs of a university that is already suffering from a shortage of money, but perhaps the talent and resources of the art department and the Museum of Art can produce some tasteful pieces of abstract sculpture to be erected at certain areas around the campus, areas that
are now visually distinguished only by empty patches of dry grass.
One of the most pleasing aspects of the campus of the University of California at Berkeley is a grassy, parklike area, in which several large sculptures of metal and wood have been placed. They provide a visual excitement that complements the landscaping and architecture.
Perhaps similar displays could be created near Potter Lake and in the areas in front of Watson Library. They would at least provide more of a showcase than most student and faculty artists have now for their accomplishments.
There should be a greater effort to complement the abundant natural beauty of our campus with some local artistic creations that might also help to offset the uginess of the temporary prefabricated classrooms that have had to be placed in several disadvantageous places around the hill.
—Bob Womack
(Editor's note): A little more than seven years ago, on Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot to death on the streets of Dallas, Tex. Here he is back at the man whose death rocked the nation.
Kennedy's
By KAREN HOLZMEISTER
Kansan Writer
The first time John Fitzgerald Kennedy came to the University of California at Berkeley football stadium was in November 1940. He was a Stanford student and during the course of his brief visit, the Golden Bears were defeated by the Stanford Indians, their fiercest rivals.
Now it was March 23, 1962, and Kennedy, who had been president of the United States for one year, two months and three days, returned under happier circumstances than in his degree. It was Charter Day, the 94th celebration of the university's founding, and both academic laureates and unread youths were there along with him to witness the graduation. And his advisers thought the forum was appropriate to make a major foreign policy speech, in which
"The Berkeley that Kennedy rode through in an open car was pre-Free Speech Movement . . . unusually sunny with temperatures in the 70s, in which Mario Savio was as yet unheard former."
from."
Kennedy would clarify America's stand on inter-
diction, and the nuclear warrior and the future for world freedom.
The day the President chose to make his remarks was marked by a number of events that amplified his message.
In Geneva, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said the United States would "continue to regard a safeguarded end to nuclear testing as a major objective in its foreign policy."
Jacqueline Kennedy, on a frenetic, triumphant tour of India and Pakistan, "had her first and last ride on an elephant," her husband said. In Pakistan as well, citizens were commemorating the day in 1947 on which their country's leaders decided to separate from India.
French planes and tanks struck back as rightists attacked the French Army in Algiers. French President Charles de Gaulle demanded a "pitiful" defense of armed insurrection in Algiers and Oran.
The Berkeley that Kennedy rode through in an open car was pre-Free Speech Movement. This was the Berkeley, unusually sunny with temperatures in the mid-60s, and often from afar. This was the Berkeley, without student
bussing, where Save Village, a square block of two-story dingy-grey apartments, was rented by Navy families and not serving as a crash-pad for nonpaying vagrants.
John Kennedy came to the Berkeley that had local, inane politicians jockeying for near him to win. He was a dedicated academician about whom the President gaily said: "The New Frontier may well owe more Berkeley than he can afford."
It was the Berkeley and the university where demonstrators carrying placards that protested nuclear testing were outnumbered by banners of welcome. Looking back, while the speech was well-received by the 85,000 to 88,000 persons packed into the building and the President was frequently interrupted by a number no resemblance to the rep party-revival of President Obama at Kansas State University in September.
The last time Kennedy had appeared in the Bay Area was October 1960, during the presidential campaign. It was a whistleblower in industrial Richmond, and his statement, jocose in nature, that his wife was "going to have a baby, a boy, in November."
His policy-making statements will, of course, be longer remembered and more influential than these recollections, reminiscent as are of his style. James Reston clearly defines Kennedy's presidency as "a brief but dramatic chapter in the history of American politics," and challenges the challenges of the states (Mississippi and Alabama), the challenge of the Communists (Cuba, the Congo and South Vietnam), the challenge of big business (the steel crisis) and the constant challenge of the Congress (civil rights and taxes). Also during his administration the Peace Corps was a major part of his agenda, a world nuclear test-ban treaty was completed.
Dream For America
He had both rueful and gratifying experiences in all of these areas before that day in March when he walked to the podium, brushed back his russet hair with the powder and spoke, in essence, of his hopes, dreams, desires.
Kennedy coupled the vision of a free and diverse world with a warning to people of the United States that day: "We must reject over-simplified theories of international life in the theory that American power is unlimited or the American mission is to remake the world in the American image."
"History and our own achievements," President Lydon Johnson said on Feb. 12, 1965, "have thrust upon us the principal responsibility for protection of freedom on earth . . . No other people in no other time has had so great an opportunity to work and risk for the freedom of all mankind."
How some of his visions evolved would be to him, and were to many Americans, a ghastly nightmare. The dissolution of his fundamental principles, if not the fact that he drew out by both Republicans and Democrats.
Vice President Humphrey was in April 1966: "What was said in this declaration was a pledge to ourselves and to posterior to defeat aggression, to give the United States the power of institutions and to achieve peace. Now, those are
"Negotiate?" asked Nixon in 1965. "The lesson of all history warns us that men must negotiate out of their own selfish interests."
LAWNORDER—1980
President Kennedy: "But history may well remember this as a week of an act of less impact, and that is the decision by the United States and the Soviet Union to seek concrete agreement on the joint exploration of space. Experience has taught us mean a negotiated agreement. But we should realize this act for its significance to us in all terms of space science."
"We must reject oversimplified theories of international life in the theory that American power is unlimited or the American mission is to remake the world in the American image."
we can insure our objective at the conference table and deny the aggressor theirs."
broad terms, but these are great commitments . . . I think there is a tremendous new opening, here for realizing the dream of the Great Society in the great area of Asia, not just here at home . . ."
President Kennedy: "Your faculty includes more Nobel laureates than any other faculty in the world and more in this one community than our principal academy." He told me, 1901, and we take pride in that only from a national point of view because it indicates, as the chancellor told us last month, that the great intellectual benefits of a free society.
Martha Mitchell, wife of the Attorney General:
"American professors and educators are 'sidewale diplomats' who are destroying the country. The security is responsible for the troubles in the country."
Yet the ideals of John Kennedy—which, although they may have been better expressed but were not being made him, were those of the ordinary man made him, as Reston stole the keys to attractive human being." Although he had such a short span in the millions of time, he will have lived revered, studied, of which he wrote and was a part.
"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed," he declared, "but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."
Viewing the victory of freedom as virtually inevitable, Kennedy told his listeners: "As men conduct the pursuit of knowledge, they create a world which freely unites national diversity and
'OK. You can come out and take over again.'
There will be "frustrating setbacks" and a long struggle, Kennedy said, but "beyond the drum fire of daily crisis there is asking the outlines of a robust and total world community, founded on nations of strength, independence, dedicated to freedom of choice and union by世来 peace and justice."
"It is in the interests of the pursuit of knowledge that our own national interest, that this national community rests everything on the idea of a modern world where all knowledge has a single pattern, all societies move towards a single model, all problems have a single solution or single destination."
"... the ideals of John Kennedy . . . made him, as Reston simply put it, 'a wonderfully attractive human being."
"Nothing is more stirring than the recognition of great public purpose."
international partnership. This emerging world is incompatible with the Communist conception of world order. It will inevitably burst the bonds of communist organization and Communist ideology"
And on that day in Berkeley, a day which is in itself part of history, he said;
"It is the profound evidence of history and not its passing excitements that will shape our future."
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LETTERS
Who Are the True Greeks?
To the Editor:
In reply, to Marcia Foster's letter in the Nov. 18 Kamanan, I would like to say, first of all, that Mr. Foster was a householder, housing shortage in Lawrence.
Rooms, usually much larger and having only one other person living in them, are available for cheaper. They are cheaper in the university residence halls. By cheaper, I mean room and board are cheaper for the student on a tight schedule than in most Greek houses.
She is right, however, that the Greek system of "housing" and the residence halls are suffering. The student population is looking more to apartment living for students in lower income which residence halls simply don't offer on a small group basis.
In my own experience with Greek living, I have found objection toward the crowded living situation as toward the emphasis placed on active membership. In contrast to disillusioned with the system. In
I have felt often that I am more a member of my house because I at least do more than eat and sleep there, as many of the people do. Even though most of my contributions have been of a dissenting nature and pointing faults in the house I am no longer a member because I cannot come up with enough cash.
If Miss Foster believes that Greek living is worth it, she's wrong. Independence isn't known but you can't guarantee her. Alumnae handle
Greek living involves a responsibility. Many Greeks do not receive or are not allowed or just don't care to take that responsibility, and reasons, why live in a Greek house? Why pay high househouses for benefits of so-called smallgroup living that no longer permits them to stay in the system of 15 years ago no longer exist in the present system on the KU campus. As a matter of fact, the scholarship halls have a permit to accept for the fact they don't have any formalized rituals.
The Greeks claim their ideals are what make the difference. But, if that is the difference, why does money make the difference? How much more do people want Why can they not see that many people are in financial binds that can't be solved by taking membership away and asking for cash? What's next? No longer afford to live in Greek homes into going into debt?
most financial affairs, even to the point of deciding where a donated picture will go on the living room wall.
I don't think the system is worth it. Perhaps the buildings can be put to good use as housing for students willing to work in a cooperative way to live together rather than a system that cannot get past economies to its ideals, wealth thought they are now.
I don't know if I can speak for others who are now hanging in my office, but I am often in Certainly. I miss the house not the building, but the people. But, there are few people in my house where they have ideas, designs, and they are usually the ones have to work for them. When they have worked for them, to the best of their ability, is to say theyeks—no matter where they live?
The girls living in my house now did not turn me away, and I don't think they will. The alumnae, bound by old rules, did. But worse, they, too, have lost their old ideas. That is the sad part.
As Miss Foster later, "God save the Greeks," and I might add, whoever and wherever the true ones are.
Chance Maloney
Chaney Maloney