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Friday, October 23,1970
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
This to Our Visitors: Above All, Freedom
We are disparate of nature. We will clash when we want and we will let well enough alone when we want. We will usually escape our travails and we will not be used as either front line troops or cannon fodder, unless one or the other can be of benefit to us.
The University of Kansas cannot hold us to anything that we think we are able to do better without the University's guidance. Yet we cannot be made to rebel against that University by a cadre of radicals or a clique of our fraternity or a student government or a campus newspaper, because we will rebel if it suits us intellectually and pragmatically and we will conform if it does not suit us to rebel.
On cool autumn nights, when the wind blows hard enough to drown out all but the clicking of leather heels on sidewalks up and down the slopes and across the moonshadow of the campanile, we will think and dream and remember. We will put aside the anxieties and the hurts of yesteryear and merge history with ourselves and history will do our bidding, there in the moonshadow of the campanile.
Our books will guide our minds into the revolution ahead or into the glories of another age and sometimes into the pits of a laborious hell, but we will not constrain ourselves long to agony or to apathy.
Beer taken in a dimly-lit tavern that suits our political or moral whim, marijuana smoked in a dimly-lit den that suits our mystique or our inner qual, love made in a dimly-lit room that hides
our guilt or satisfies our longing to give and receive will lift us from our infernal selves to the eternal everything else.
The maclstrom will not grasp us and wrench us to the seabed unless we damn well please. We will worship our icons, whether they are in the form of icons or iconoclasm.
Thus, we supersede you when we reject your banal attempts to calssify us. But we grovel in the mire below you when we classify you, because we say we abhor stereotypy and you may never have said it.
No, it isn't the same as when you were here. Some of us have beards and unruly long hair now. Some of us have seen fit to abolish homecoming queens and some of us like the idea. Some of us are glad to forego lawn decorations.
Some of us are disgruntled about the passing of tradition, because we realize that religion isn't the masses' only opiate.
You must remember, however, that the genre to which you affix that mark is not classified according to decade or contemporary social foment. It is the genre that is of every era; it is youth-becoming-adult.
Certainly, from dust we sprang and to dust we will revert when our time is due, yet we will continue to think that we can do better than you. That is the mark of our genre, the mark which you may burn on to us and which we will accept.
For one reason or another, we welcome you. Please, understand us and heed our admonition:
We are free.
—Monroe Dodd Editor of the Kansan
LETTERS Variety of Ideas Lauded
To the Editor:
I would like to commend the editorial writers of the Kansan for making this year's editorial page an interesting part of the paper. The writers, Tom and Bob Kapselman, job model occasion, Cass Peterson, have introduced numerous subjects and have presented them from various points of view. This is what makes an editorial page useful. It gives the different frames of reference from which they write preserve the idea of freedom of thought and expression through diversified writing. Paper that exercises a virtual mallealistic monopoly here at KU.
Frankly, this is the first year I can remember that I have not felt that a small group of editors of a single particular mentality effectively controlled the opinion of the Kansas. But this year, there was a new editor in this form. Slaughter, on the one hand, and Womack, on the other, display in their respective editorials a quite different frame of reference. And as an occasional writer, Mrs. Peterson wrote for the page. This diversity of opinion is vital to the individual's ability to make a choice on any issue that may confront him,
especially in a time when both left-wing and right-wing political dogmatism attempt to control our minds.
I sincerely hope that the fortunate turn of events that followed will prove that opinion will render all sections of the Kansan, especially the new
"Making Our Case," an open forum in which the readers will always hear more than one editorial opinion.
I congratulate this fall's Kansan editorial staff and urge it to continue its present policy.
John Neibling
Hiwathe senior
Hiawatha senior
Once again students are confronted with attacks on their integrity and maturity. This time the antagonist is not Vice President Obama, it is it Gow Docking or Atry. Gen. Frizzell. No, this time it is nine elightened members of the KU faculty and I for one see this attack today these men need a "effective" letter to the Kanstian public stated that if students are given 50 per cent representation on all University committees the situation chaos. A comparison was made between the University of Kansas' consideration of more student power and "cogovernment in America and in the professors, as am sure professors must realize, is not Central America and any comparison of the two areas lacks validity.
Students 'Confronted'
To the Editor:
Finally, I urge all members of the student community to attend this Thursday's University Senate meeting and see exactly each and every faculty member's hands on student representation.
Russ Weiland
Overland Park senior and
Student Senator
Russ Welsh Overland Park schools and
If At First You Don't, etc.
The letter in Wednesday's Kansan entitled, "SUA Funding Myths. Corrected." the wrong spots, because of typographical errors. The writer, Irv Robinson, Prairie Village senior and vice president of the team broke down the $48.50 a semester privilege fee, but the errors caused the breakdown to total less than $48.50. The letter should be
" (4) $15 Union fee.
"(2) $20 for the Student Health Service.
(1) $12 activity fee, with the Student Senate responsible for allocation.
"（3）$1.50 for hospital improvement. (4) $15.00 for hospital improvement.
Letters policy
Letters to the editor should be type-written, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are submitted in a single document 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 contact information. Students must provide their name and address.
"AND THIS IS THE WRITER WHO CREATES OUR POLITICAL ADS FOR TELEVISION."
Refusal of Kimball Called 'Flagrant Violation' of Rights
To the editor:
On the evening of Oct. 20th a party barbecue was held here in Lawrence by the Democratic
Party of Douglas County for the purpose of hearing candidates of the Democratic Party speak. One Democratic candidate, however
Griff & the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
BALLAD OF THE MASKED MAGREET
THE MASKED MAGREE,
FROM THE MOUNTAIN MALIP,
HAD A HAT AND A CAPE,
AND A SWORD BY HIS HIP,
IN THE DARK OF the NIGHT
HE'D GO FEARLESSLY FORTH
TO WANDER THROUGH WOODS,
AND THE FIELDS OF THE NORTH
BY LURKING IN FORESTS,
(THE LEGEND HAS TOLD
AT LAST HE GOT SICK,
WITH A TERRIBLE COLD.
THE POOR MASKED MAGREE,
(THE LEGENDS DO SAY)
WENT BACK TO HIS HOME,
IN THE HILLS FAR AWAY.
HE HUNG UP HIS HAT,
(The STORY HAS SAID)
USED HIS CAPE FOR A BLANKET,
AND RETIRED TO BED.
Copyright 1970, University Dally Karsar
was not allowed to speak, Jarvis Brink, County Chairman of the Democratic Party, who was in charge of the meeting, refused to attend the party's candidate for Sheriff of Douglas County, to speak, saying he would "physically restrain him," and ordered him to leave. I feel this is a mistake in democratic principles of free speech and a slur on the name of the "Democratic" Party. It was painful to sit and listen to the speeches telling of freedom and should work within the system.
At a time when we are all竞赛 about free speech on a national scale, aware of what is happening localally with not again much delicatural of it.
Dan Conyers, Florence junior and
Multiversity Demands Better Resource Use
Recent articles, letters and public pronouncements have been disturbing to a number of faculty who have dedicated a major portion of their life career to involvement with students. I perceive a massive challenge in the curriculum of our university (and the unique opportunities of the late twentieth century university need all the resources (ideas) that can be mustered. Rather than dwell on actual, imagined or potential polarizations, let me make a few observations that may lead to a more effective utilization of the information resources that constitute the nearly 20,000 minds at this university.
(1) Traditional dichotomies based on age, academic experience and the like must be rejected. Neither age nor academic prowess are the criteria for admission to college. We should 'faculty' or 'students'. It is unfortunate that the education establishment has contributed little to our realization (a realization that should be recognized).
To the Editor:
(a) Faculty are students(1) of one the most respected members of my profession is a man who is most affectionately known to his student friends as 'the world's oldest graduate student.' He has no Ph.D.）
(c) The faculty does not teach. Students learn the faculty structures, but all too often destroys learning experiences.
(b) Students are faculty (1 often learn more from my 'students' than from respected colleagues; my courses of 200-plus students constitute a 'resource' for the learning process that I could not match in a decade of study.);
(d) Learning is at once a cognitive and emotional experience (conversely, emotional experiences structure learning. Similarly, learning about oneself is learning of high order. We have been taught that students should be taught by teaching the cold results of research to students in plaster of wisdom. Faculty must replicate the same emotional excitement they feel in their own processes of discovery for effective learning by the student. Moreover and equally exciting, as we all learn content, so too we are learning about
(2) In Africa, Western advisers are often called 'airplane experts. The potential contribution of any individual to our mutual learning and personal growth is not a necessary function of time spent in the university, age, credentials nor any other surrogate. All we can say is that there is some broad probability function of learning insight flow that focuses more sharply on what we now call 'faculty' than youthful 'students'. This is as much a function of experience and motivation as we find our calling in the academic world, others become 'science' at that the wide, wild world" (to quote an old college refrain). In some, students are not transients, any more than anyone else.
(3) The challenges of the university within our society demand innovation both within and without the university system. If there is any broad goal common to all our individual roles in the system, it is to be more collaborative than individualistic as he might, rather than some limited subset of potentialities. If we fail to demonstrate this openness in our actions toward ourselves, we shall fail in our passing of this rare trait to the next generation of 'society's decision makers. If we fail, we fail to build the intellectual capacity that helps us to all grow, both during our time on the hill and thereafter.
(4) There seems to be a broad pan-African trait that in East Africa is this termed the baraza. There is no simple translation of this term, which is half-way between "court", "meeting" and "meeting of the tribune". In some African cultures, problems like problems. Let there be no doubt: I am not willing to attribute differences in the University to 'problems of communication'. We do have healthy and exciting fundamental differences that will not be overcome by communication. But we can learn from each other and understand the differences. This helps us overcome our weakness. We can create a multitude in the true sense of a greater variety of ideals, ideas, and experiences for all concerned. To me, one of the benefits of the technocracy is its provision of increasingly greater individual choice. Let us exploit this resource. Most important, it also means that no advocates, no heroes or villains, simply the exploration of ideas.
(5) We fail to use the totality of our resources for effective change. Whenever we unintentionally (or otherwise) alienate the spirit of anyone, we lose at the same time his potential contribution to all our growth. It has intrigued me during my short tenure in the academic environment and disciplines, offering so little of their supposed expertise to the importance of them in spite of the baffid fact that few university faculty have any training in educational methodology no workshops are offered to expand our experiences; that the ecology 'thing' had to come before we finally recognized our joint venture with Lawrence, Kansas, America . . . on Spacehip Earth Everything we criticize in the "real world" is also based on a real-world reality. This coercion by force, security in secrecy. For over a year we learned about proposed budgetary changes in the university by "rumor" reported by dems from the chancellor to chairman's meetings. There can be no blame in all this—we are victims of the culture of which we are a part, because the chancellor could right now acknowledge a group of the most intelligent (willing and reluctant) on campus to serve several functions:
(a) explore without limitation ideas for the evaluation and
performance of the university towards goals yet to be stated;
(b) carry out a case study on community to gather their ideas and criticism (and I am not
referring to hearings or any other Robert's type structures of
(c) challenge all our imaginative minds in a multitude of areas—many of which were outlined at convocation;
Quite frankly, the chancellor as 'head beagle'—indeed, all of us—have failed to utilize other in our interdependency.
(d) to achieve consisence in diversity for open experimentation, evaluation and implementation of innovations before votes
Finally, if I may allow a professional bias against to surface, geographers are characterized among other things by their obsession with scale. We have now tried the town meeting - it failed. We have now tried the school meeting - it failed. We have hum-drum day-10-day activities. Let us then try a middle scale—the barraza—hopefully not very structured, as a means of sharing each other's ideas, intellect and person. Like it or not, the university is a system—the faculty,' y' students,' and 'administration' are but very different, though they are all equally important in researching the resources, indeed the humanity, that constitutes each other.
C. Gregory Knight
Assistant Professor of Geography
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