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Wednesday, November 4, 1970
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
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Congress: Witch Hunt
A federal judge recently prohibited public distribution of a Congressional report on so-called radical campus speakers, saying the report "infringes on the Constitutional rights of individuals named therein."
The report of the House Committee for Internal Security, (formerly the un-American Activities Committee) listed 65 speakers it identified as members of militant, radical, or Communist-oriented groups; that campus speaking circuits were major sources of financing for revolutionary and disorderly activities.
The American Civil Liberties Union had brought suit to win a permanent injunction against publication of the report at public expense.
The federal judge's decision, white not prohibiting members of Congress or anyone else from reprinting the report, is a victory for civil liberties and free speech in the Congressional practice of investigating only for the sake of exposure.
The House Internal Security Committee is one of those self-perpetuating anachronisms, which, lacking something else to do, "exposes" those people whom committee feels are imminent threats to American democracy. Almost invariably they turn out to be products of the left wing.
In handing down his decision, the federal judge said, "There are undoubtedly individuals who would destroy our institutions and form of government.
if any of them are listed in this report, our Constitution nevertheless preserves their right to speak even though their acts may be restrained."
The judge also said he hoped that Congress on its own would limit its investigations to subjects directly related to legislation.
The activities of Sen. Joseph McCarthy provided an example of what could happen when the congressional role of investigation was carried to an extreme degree. Too often, people were branded as subversives in the glare of fornication's publicity without adequate means to answer the charges against them.
Branding certain radicals "subversives" and concluding that allowing them a free platform is equivalent to support of revolution and disorder is actually an effort to deny them freedom of speech.
The university, being a free marketplace of ideas, is exactly where these people should be speaking. Six of the 65 students who attended the conference have spoken at KU in the last two years. Whether they had anything to say of lasting significance or whether they upheld the American system should not be allowed to speak, they should continue to speak or not.
The ruling of the federal court on the distribution of this report at public expense does not prevent the publicizing of its contents. But it does call attention to the need for an innovative and witch-hunt type of activity, of an anachronistic House committee.
—Bob Womack
A Note on the Weather
It was said last spring, that this fall's elections would be the last chance that many students—who until this point had worked within confines of the system—had the creaking old machine to heed the clamor they raised about an illegal war.
What was to have been a concerted effort to provide candidates opposed to the tightened belt into slabs at the tightened belt into slabs at the working man, by the Democrats and counter-punches by the Republicans, aggravating the already bruised issue of the belt.
If this were the last chance to avert total disenfranchisement of the hordes of brutalized McCarthy kids, then the system politic blew it.
Both missed the ideological boat.
The question of the moment, then, is
just how many students have forsaken the system for the underground third- floor?
The answer may have already begun to surface at Wisconsin, Harvard and even Lawrence. Radicals aren't born they're disenchanted with the present order.
There's a lot of frustration around these days, and the air isn't getting any clearer. In fact, it's becoming murkier and more difficult to smoke or smoke (which is mostly steam). They say,
Revolutionary violence is the logical or illogical (whatever your convictions) answer to frustration with classical politics for many frustrated young.
The mood is set, and you don't need the proverbial weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing.
—Tom Slaughter
It Wasn't Even Entertaining
By DAVID PERKINS Kansan Writer
The elections are over; the electorate is safely home again, having proved, if nothing else, the continuing attraction of a third party to the tentative value of this election was fairly low, having faded sometime around August 1968. Perhaps Two Party System incorporated will full something more exciting in its 1977 rum.
Welfare was not much of an issue this year, and where it was it was only discussed in the
"Norman Vincent Peale dragged out the depression to whip college dissenters with, to wit: we really had it rough; we know what life is all about; this is a hard, tough world . . . "
It is increasingly clear that the principal recipients of welfare are not the poor, but the middle and the real welfare programs are not Welfare Harlem, but at NASA Headquarters in Houston, at the Boeing plant in Everett, the plant in Seattle, and University of Kansas. The space program, the military construction industry and the University are the institutional the WPA projects of the present.
discredited terms of the early New Deal. To my knowledge, the real crisis of welfare was nohere an issue.
The generation that matured in the thirties never admitted that the Great Depression was a
result of the nation's inability to accept abundance. The machine manufacture of the 1920s was making too much for the old country through scarcity. Our leaders, out of an interest in profits, and the people out of attachment to an ideal economy, had the depression in order to continue scarcity, thereby vindicating economic and moral distress, the scarcity, the unemployment, relief, the starvation, "the hard times," were all a complete fraud, years before the nation was established by riches, wallowing in its self-made disaster and stumbling around for a solution that would not endure, and anachratic view of reality.
Part of the "solution" was the WPA, which put people to work instead of on relief, but the country never really recovered from the depression until the war, when military spending declined and economy and returned to some a measure of affluence. But the fiction of the depression and of its solution continues today. In the Sunday Kansas City Star, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale writes that college dissenters, to wit: we really had it rough; we know what life is all about; you have no reason to complain; "this is a hard, tough world full of pain," he wrote because Peale wants it to be. He continues to deny the reality—as early as 1930—of abundance.
And the white-collar middle class at NASA, Boeing, KU, GM, and thousands of other institutions refuse to admit that there is no need for many of its products. And they laboriously created to satisfy a bankrupt ethic and an anal psychology that insists that they produce. And not only in most cases is there no real need for their products, but in several ways it is destructive. It is no accident, as even Galbraith has noted, that some of the best-paid producers
are advertising and PR men, who work furiously to make us want everyone else is producing. This charming little fraud must only be cause for a sophisticated chuckle if not for two things.
As long as no one can articulate and enact the means of student involvement there won't be any student involvement. It doesn't mean many Indians have pot-belies from their schools how many schools in Wichita are racially segregated as long as the students at one of the major
In the last five years, I've seen student representation develop from tokenism to the fragile interpersonal and action that we may forfeit this week. Maybe it would be best if we lost our opportunity to work with students on each other through our brothers and sisters. Collective responsibility now could mean that we can blame someone else later.
Next Thursday the issue of student representation on policy-making committees will be reviewed. Last week there was a study of the role students the only important material gains they had made in sharing with the faculty the results of their work. That attempt was successful.
1) Few in the middle class will admit that it is a fraud. They invent ingenious arguments to justify their work on ICBMs, moon modules, Silly Putty, rationale psychology and rhetoric, Shakespeare. They insist quite enough that their work is important, timely, and deserving of three cars in the garage and an
There was confusion over the legality of the article that allowed student representation. More than half of the students' representative and represent the students at that meeting. Sixty student senators were absent that night. After considerable hassle it appeared that each student had gotten exactly what they deserved—the right to do nothing.
potential laboratories for change in the state of Kansas are not a community. Call it what you will, a community of scholars, people with knowledge of future or even a group of individuals with a shared sense of human potential. In any case, in order to make a significant difference in the university power, we must participate. The faculty of this university doesn't deserve to be labeled our parents away from home. They have tried to assume that role in the university we have expected of them.
Mike Farmer
LETTERS We're Payin' Our Dues
Lawrence Senior
economy in rational productive terms, but has led our middle-class "news" papers to report situations of "solution-control industry."
assortment of junk scattered about their "living" rooms. The massive and immeuble jobs of factory workers in the fiction of "necessary production" is perhaps a major cause of the widespread disorder in American society.
Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subordinated 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. Students must provide their name and address.
To the Editor:
Letters policy
(2) This could be afforded if it were not that the planet simply will not bear it. It with its Calvistin middle class is running the planet, turning it, literally and figuratively, into a dung heap. it is only natural that an awareness crisis has not led to reshaping the planet.
It is unlikely that the middleclass will bend much effort to correcting its own madness. It's important and safer to curse cadicals and insults, but it hats. Their mass media distorses and publicized an endless array of trivial or symptomatic problems in conceal the real problem, which they can see any morning, before they go to "work."
Tennis anvone?
'Going my way?'
MAKING OUR CASE
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
By GEORGE LAUGHEAD Senator
Academic 'Poll-tax'
With grade-point averages and hours enrolled minimums being set for students to be allowed to participate in academic committees, we will see the academic equal to the tax and literacy test this Thursday. For example, during the meeting. We will see faculty members assert their right to decide on which committee should receive on which issues they may vote.
Although most faculty members see that the way to best address many problems of the university is by providing students on policy-making committees, the real reason for the problems is deeper, and harder to resolve.
The television child can receive more information at home than in most schools. In fact, education as a formal process usually has to be stopped to watch great events (moon shots, etc.) on television
This modern child takes in huge amounts of factual content in a pleasant, fast and enjoyable way for years from TV. School is the usual process of education is slow, serious, and tedious.
The university, an institution of the Middle Ages, is fighting for its place in this age. Multiversity represent the ultimate mechanical education, of line and book-ordered learning. They do give students of graduates; they do give progressing onetwothreef—BINGO! in the steps of another day and age.
Bad Karma
Todays' congratulations to Richard Loww and the entire staff of of the '70 Jaywalker that finally hit the streets yesterday. After all . . . it's not when you publish, but how.
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They do not prepare one for change, for new media and experience. The reason is universities offer fragmented learning, divided subjects in assembly line style, with little unity or dire-cue.
They should show patterns, interaction, interdependency, and cultural relationships.
We are in a civil war, a revolution, an uprising. The main reason for it is the simple fact that because of new experiences of all sorts youth is a subculture and, like most subcultures, it is strength and repressed by the main-stream culture of this 'country'.
The real battle is cultural-based violence-growing real weapon, education Through it, and with it, one can condition students' think in any way.
Jerry Farber points out the battle is stopping Miss Smith's students. As she grades, we are screaming about needed change, she's putting her student on openminds. The war is to allow all groups to have an equal say in the conflict that affect them directly.
"I urge the faculty not to sell out their academic birthright for a mess of potage called student involvement."
Substitute 'white citizens' or 'states for' faculty; make the issue black权利, or rights; enlist the mentality and the mentality is the same.
Sorry, but that's true, and until you see that, you will be very confused and maybe frightened. We feel sorry for you, but even in this case you will not be less than equal to you in deciding our own futures.
Griff & the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1970, University Daily, Kansas"