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Thursday, November 12, 1970
University Daily Kansan
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LETTERS
Less Rhetoric, More Trust Needed
To the Editor:
Regardless of any "unwamed action" that may be in the offing, I feel compelled to comment on what went on at the University Senate meeting last Thursday. I'm not a member of the Senate, listening attentively in the balcony during the entire meeting.
The meeting itself consisted of a parliamentary circus, which, I suppose, couldn't be helped. He distressing to listen to Ross McKinney make his seemingly endless "final point," which was mercifully cut short by an objection in Robert's Rules of Order.
But I wrote concerning the 50 per cent representation issue, which I am a summarer of
Having listened to Bill Ebert's impassioned plea for the passage of his 50 per cent amendment, I must reluctantly conclude that he has been an issue as important as this should not be burdened with a lot of unnecessary rhetoric and confrontation words like "oppression," "making KU keep its hands out" and "ignoring 2,438 people."
Ebert's unfortunate verbosity may or may not have affected his argument, but the obvious emotional nature of his statement did obscure certain important points in the bill. He should have had the spotlight.
The amendment lost an important supporter among the candidates for governor, who self-declared "radical," spoke against it. It blinked its comments on a bill that was
Who Put Hill Into Office?
To the Editor
To the people of the city on
Lawrence, Douglas County, the
state of Kansas, the United States
of America and all other people
who have been blessed with the
powers to choose their own
officials:
Yippe, yippe, yipe for Philip Hill, our Justice of the Peace-elect. When will we learn our lesson, fellow voters? Perhaps Hill's victory will help us individual voting procedures.
**Are they the first to shout, "Hell ye, I voted! I'm an American,"** Or **or people would get off their residences and exercise their right to vote.**
When we are forced to make a decision about candidates we aren't familiar with, we have a variety of ways of choosing.
But Hill has proven we really don't know anything about the majority of the people we vote for, anyway.
We mark it according to the party with which we wish to identify.
Does either candidate's name remind us of someone we like or dislike?
Has either candidate been in show business and did we like the part he played?
Are either of the names Polish?
(Foreigners running our affairs?
Never.)
Perhaps we don't put enough trust in our fellow voters. Sometimes silence is golden.
Or we can just attack the ballot as if it was a true-false test we haven't studied for.
"I'm not saying that Hill is not the right man for the job. That president Nixon aroused the silent majority too soon. Their voices carried Mr. Hill into office. He said he would send me his address, I would like to send him the dollar for his business. One think he's earned it. Poor Bill."
S. Graham Bailey Neodesha senior
of the amendment and its
probability that its passage
would polarize students and
worryome people I think, (un-
fortunately), yet.
Students and faculty are polarized over the representation issue enough the way it is.
All in all, the occlusion of the issue caused by such bogwish (or, perhaps, pottage) as "input," "student qualifications,"
J. C. MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
and "power" succeeding in burying the fact that students and faculty are essentially on the other side of the room. William Silvert spoke of and the right of representation that Ebert spoke of are the same thing. What's needed here is mutual trust and respect (1 heard of the meeting) and in the meeting, though I'm not sure why) if the idea of student par-
tication is to become a reality
ticipation is to become a reality. I said I favored 50 per cent representation, so some might say that I'm backing down. That's probably true, but I also know I will benefit when it serves a purpose, and I don't see how the purpose is going to be in any other way.
Thomas B. Albrecht Kingman sophomore
"When you go through an election with influence as your goal, Forget about the doughnut and keep your ew upon the hole."
Senate Like High School
To the Editor:
The meeting of the University Senate was certainly staged in the correct place. It was in the University Theatre, where I saw some of the best play acting ever performed.
Being a freshman, I supposed that I would finally be able to get into college. My plan was to school government and into an atmosphere at KU that would allow me to study.
between students, faculty and administration. This was all shattered by the tactic of taking away the token 20 per cent and then restoring it in a great display of "good will."
per cent representation was restored, should not die away. We should not give up what is rightfully ours, that is, 50 per cent representation. This proposal does not entail a takeover of faculty powers, as so many students do, but it students a contributing voice in affairs that directly concerns them.
Paul Miller
Alma freshman
Racism Needs Understanding
To the Editor:
In reference to the editorial 'Candyman: Coming Home 1700,' there seems to be a few issues that need unsaid. The issues of ignorance and racism are facts of today's society of which most persons are aware. The article attended well to those facts, in degrading and repressing them, so most tempting, as a college student, to take an elitist attitude and glove in our superiority. But to do that would seem to be simply racism in reverse. Much more is apparent in appearance and language. In truth, however, he too is an individual. It is evident that he cannot understand the situation and the underlying causes of the problem, and it is difficult for us to understand his lifestyle and reactions. It is a source of frustration to everyone that this state of affairs exists.
once said that hate was too great a burden to bear, and (we) could not do anything to suffer. he meant he that we should humbly understand—not
Joyce Shiner Olathe senior
derstandings, in which violence becomes a logical solution and the people are pushed farther into the future. Without compromising objectives, perhaps greater feats of understanding are attained this attitude. Martin Luther King
The point to be made is that onesided, non-understanding, rawness and failure of factions cannot lead to constructive social change, but only to destructive behavior.
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You're driving home from the airport in the rain through singing sweet America again. It's been a long time since you've been out here, we wake up. It's hard to keep in touch with America when you're at KU, but it's hard for me to remember that, that's hard to be in touch anyway. So now you're feeling good because you're in touch again. All it takes is the gas, the car and the bed, so you can stand the ground below you, even if your feet aren't on the ground.
RICHARD LOUV COLUMN
OK, we're students and safe for a while. We've never understood what it means to be a rolling stone. But we're being here. Were only beginning to understand that a country can be rolling as easily as a person, no direction known.
Swish swish the wash of the wipers and the spiz spip of the road and the dark low hills of Kansas.
A lot of us are going to Canada to find America. A lot of us are going to Colorado or Washington to find America. You know now, riding on the Kansas road, that you're just as likely to find America right here. We're standing on a bed of stones, rolling. So America, so's America, no direction known.
★★
Met the Pennsylvania Kid tonight
Passed through Lawrence last year: the Hobo King, King of the Road.
Two friends picked him up on the road from Topeka tonight, where he was shambling toward Lawrence on this endless trip to wherever he was going. An orphan of parents who split, he was dropped in an orphanage. Ran away when he was 16, back in 1925. Of that 1925 dust still rests in the creases of his army coat. He's been so far in 45 years on the road, wearing his cowboy hat with the 30 funny buttons pinned to it and pleasant feathers shooting up like a knight's plume. And his hair down to his shoulders. And his gentle, toothless
He's been fingerprinted in 48 states.
"They've been telling you to hate the dust on your shoes. They've been telling you not to cry when you're alone with the moon, Son. I
Wrinkled, smiling blue eyes and red cheeks from the wind. One button said, "Reading is Where It Is." And as he turned another button, "Reading is Where It Is."
"Now, don't you take me for it. I don't know if I'm right, but the Bible says we're all going to reap what we sow, and I think there is some people 'round who're gonna reap some bad stuff. Gonna be some people killed which is sad and should happen. I don't like that, I am not. You can't do no good, for Christ's sake don't do no harm. But mark my knees. Things have gone too far, and people are miles too far apart."
"A lot of you college girls is gonna see some frightening and beautiful things. You're gotta get to know America a lot better--any time you're in college, it's going to be scary."
Swung his bag up on his shiny, worn-down shoulder.
Like a in book once read about another man, the Pennsylvanian Kid shifted in, backwards as was his way, backwards to the front of
A student. We're students. President Richard M. Nixon, 37th
Senator. We'll use your role (bursary. Burns). Thank you.
You should "hit the books" on her resume.
We'll help you with your definition, Mr. Nixon.
Ameristudent, n—, study, student, America, 1; Person who studies in America. Usually hits both the books and the road. Unarmed and not armed.
That should help you out, Mr. Nikon. That's what most of us are doing, hitting the books and hitting the road, hoping to help someone out, hoping to help you out. We study what we love, and we love America. . . .
Do you ever get itchy, Mr. Nixon? Do you ever turn out the lights, lie down on your lonely twin bed, pull up the covers over your head, and listen to the spiop of cars passing on Pennsylvania Avenue, wishing you a pleasantamas, driving in the night, smelling sweet cold winter coming on?
It must be bad sometimes. It must be, Mr. Nixon, if you have to call up the Kansas Senator and talk for an hour after the ABM vote, just to talk to someone, about football and kids, and you have to use ABM as an excuse to talk to someone.
Wish you could go with one of us burns, Mr. Nixon, out there trying to be free under the good American sky. Next time one of us hits the road, you're going to be scared! Don't tell your cabinet anything. You have to pack, not even a pistol. You can even let your beard grow. And maybe, with luck, we'll catch the smiling Pennsylvania kid in our rain in the rain. We'll pick great stories as we lean forward together into the American night.
By Sokoloff
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Begotten.
Mafia: Violent, Powerful
Monroe Dodd
Member Associated Collegiate Press
By CHARLES W. BELL
PALERMO, Sicily (UPI)
Sicilians have a saying: "The only thing that really works in Palermo is the Maffa."
Rarely has the axiom seeme
to hold back. He knows the
and the men who serve it,
bolder more powerful and more
immune than at any time
of war.
Now, amid whispers of Mafia complicity in high places, the United States has brutal and bloody war over the money "il boom" brought to them.
Bold because no place seems Mafia. Powerful because no government can break it. Implements its victims will denounce it.
The economic miracle which arose in the early 1980s, supposedly under the slander needed to appease the Mafia as much as it did the profit-minded businessman
"Mafia" means many things to many people, but on this trianglestock-shaped island it means a way of life. The rockets and pocketbooks of most Sicilians.
The war is spectacular at times. Four men dressed in doctors gowns and gauze face masks were attacked by Palermo hospital recently and pumped five machine-gun bullets into a man who escaped death earlier in a knife attack. Police said they had over control of a hillside town.
A band of men dressed in police uniforms entered a Palermo murdered four men in a bathtub police said was sparked by a feud over Mafia building contracts. The time Sicily shuddered and kept the city quiet.
Only 47 per cent of the island's population of 4.8 million would leave if Mafia was when asked in a public opinion poll a few years ago. Fascist Dictator贝托尤马斯 Mussolini, whose governments announced ever
If the modern day Mafia organization and leadership is cloaked by secrecy, its history is buried by controversy over its origins.
Some claim the Mafia is several centuries old, a society formed to rid Sicily of foreign exploiters and rulers. Many believe the Mafia began less than two centuries ago, a criminal force of prominent men who simply took the law into their own hands.
Few persons have denounced Mafia members by name. Most of them are dead, executed for their role in the code of omerta, the wilful sheil of silence Sicilians drop protectively over the underworld.
Nobody knows how many Mafiosi there are. One clue to membership came in a 1967 government report stating that the number of members were questioned in the Palermo region in six years alone.
It is difficult, if not impossible, for Sicilians to escape the power of the Mafia since, according to government reports, it controls fruit, vegetable and fish markets, builds industry, building industry, drug traffic, some trade unions and some politicans and policemen.
few months a new and "final" campaign to clean up Sicily
Most experts list Sicilians as the overloads of organized crime in the United States. But the exact nature of any ties between Sicily and U.S. gangsters remains another mystery.
From the days when American military commanders enlisted Mafia in conquering Sicily during World War II to present day charges that the Mafia has contributed to or arslemment in Rome, crime has said higher dividends than many tainian industrial companies.
But the Mafia survives and flourishes, nourished by discipline, cohesion and a philosophy that demands—and accepts—death for failure or reachery.
UPI Writer
By DUSTON HARVEY
The Soviet ecological disasters have a familiar ring:
Environmental pollution isn't monopoly of capitalistic countries, which is one reason that the French government wrtaint artificial caviar.
And Now, Fake Caviar
They are described by Marsha Goldman, an economics professor at the University and associate of Harvard's Russian Research Center in St. Petersburg.
"Rivers that blaze with fire, smog that suffocates cities, streams that vomit dead fish, oil shocks that blacken seacoasts, waves that crush rocks, waves, and lakes that evaporate and die a slow, smelly death."
That's just one example given, by Goldman, who says "comparing pollution in the United States" with USR is something like a game.
The reasons: a reduction of the spawning area of the sturgeon—the fish that produces caviar—will reduce the number of fallen eight feet in the last 20 years as dams and reservoirs have been built upstream, and has become polluted with oil and sewage by refineries and tankers.
The Russians have started experimenting with the natural output of the delicacy has fallen drastically in recent years because
"Any depressing story that can be told about an incident in the United States can be matched by a horror story from the USSR."
The fish catch from the Cayetan and the catfish during the two decades and the output of caviar—a major carrier for Russia—also declined.
FORESTS AT YASNAVYA
Palo Alto's summer home—are
reported near extinction from
their loss by a nearby
chemical burn.
- FISH KILLS have occurred in several major rivers, all of which are considered highly dangerous to the Ukraine and several others throughout the country are classified as dead. In 1965, a careless smoker tossed a fireball at a Sverdlov bridge and it caught fire.
——LIKE THE CASPIAN, the Aral Sea is gradually disappearing. It dropped 3 to 9 feet in a year and diverted for irrigation and hydroelectric buildings were built upstream. Some Soviet authorities fear the 'shallow sea' in the aral sand marsh by the turn of the century.
—CONSTRUCTION of paper and pulp mills on the shores of Lake Baikal are polluting one of
the largest, deepest and purest freshwater lakes in the world. These plants and the towns that grew from them provide treated effluent into the lake, reducing animal and plant life in some sections by one-third
-REMOVAL OF GRAVEL and sand from the beaches of the Black Sea has led to the collapse of the shoreline under the mountains, resort hotels and a government sea have坡销 near Adder
Goldman says these ecological disasters indicate that a Socialist society should be more attuned to its environment in the same way as a nation with a capitalist economy.
Goldman says that many of the usual economic explanations for pollution under a free enterprise model have failed in their failure to include social costs (such as air pollution) as an expense of doing business; the failure to identify free goods; confused lines of authority for enforcing anti-pollution laws; urbanization; and rapid population growth.
"This is especially important for those who have come to believe as basic doctrine that it is capitalism and private greed that are the root cause of environmental pollution," he writes.
In addition, he suggests a Socialist country has special problems of its own that offset the advantages of centralization.
These include concentration of economic power so that mistakes are made. In some states officials almost entirely on their region's economic growth; lack of voters to put conservation measures in place; private property owners who can protest abuses like the building or resort beaches on the Black Sea.
A comparison of the two countries shows it is industrialization, and not private enterprise, that is the primary cause of disruption. Goldman contends. "This suggests that state ownership of all productive resources is not a cure-all. The private greed by public greed is not much of an improvement."
Bad Karma
A salutary hello and fair warning to Vern Miller ... Vern, when you land on Oread—watch the step. This is Rien Shultz's turtle.