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Wednesday, October 21, 1970
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Was Game Prayer Appropriate?
The invocation given prior to the football game last weekend was at best in bad taste, and to say the least, a gross mistake.
Shades of Madelyn Murray.
Mrs. Murray, who spent a good part of the last several years mucking about the United States searching for a place to live, is also one of many perhaps the most vocal opposition to
forced prayer next to the Supreme Court, which reaffirmed this stand with the 1982 Engle v. Vitlae decision banning forced prayer.
Whoever was responsible for the prayer was not sensitive to the fact that the audience, however homogeneous it may have appeared to be, was not entirely of the Christian faith, or even any faith at all.
It is strange that a university admittedly committed to non-partisanship would allow such blatantly partisan activity, while a good portion of the crowd was forced to stand by in livid acquiescence.
Perhaps, as a friend of mine said, they should have saved the prayer until the ashes were dry.
—Tom Slaughter
LETTERS
Hope For a United China
To the Editor:
With regard to the article,
Erikson displays an extremely
prejudicial attitude toward
Taiwan has been a part of China and is a province of China although it is some 100 miles off the coast, and is a state of the United States and is some 1000 miles off the U.S. coast. It is surprising to see that the Chinese have arrived from Chinese, and even ridiculously places the Chinese among those who "colonized" China. They are also in Portuguese, and Japanese. As
early as the Min Dynasty, Chinese began immigrating to the island of Taiwan and to South Asia. Most of them were from Southeast Asia, and they settled on province on the mainland to Taiwan). They are the predecessors of those we call Taiwanese today. The dialect of Taiwanese is called Fukiense. Taiwanese are not different from the 'Mainlanders' in any aspect; race, cultural background and the language, only they settled in the island more than a century ago.
Among those "mainlanders" are my parents, who are fortunate enough to escape from the
Communists' hands. They then moved to Taiwan, where I was born, brought up, and educated. I feel that I am completely a Chinese, but it's not important thing is, I am not for that reason. I hate to see my country separated by two governments. The ideas of "one China and one Taiwan" and "two China" are most unbeatable to me. I would like to have a United China and it is been our hope.
The "return-to-the-mainland ideology" seems impossible to most people. But those Chinese in the regime and who enjoy freedom in the regime
the free world cannot forget that there are millions of their fellow people living in the dark behind them, who never know that some day in the future, every Chinese in the world can breath the free air and enjoy life in a world where everyone is safe.
Erickson also states, "Diplomatic relation and communication with Red China are necessary for a fruitful and successful independent development of Taiwan," referring to Canada's recognition of the Peking regime. I certainly do not think that there will be any change in "fruitful and peaceful future." Americans have already tasted
the bitterness of talking with the communists, and Canada will soon find out this fact, too. Being a Taiwanese or Chinese—myself, I don't see in any way that Taiwan's independence is necessary. Instead, we Chinese work hard toward the ideology of establishing an integrated, free and peaceful China.
Like most students at KU, I came all the way here from the other side of the earth to learn advanced technology. I am greatly disappointed to see a single article like "Crickson's."
Taipei, Taiwan, senio
Hslang Huang
'Surreal' Writing Noted
To the Editor:
It is unfortunate that the abortion controversy railing in the Kansan letters section was based on the article by Mr. Slaughter. His articles are always engaging: from paragraph to paragraph one can never be whether it is his thought or his prospe that is so hopelessly ruffled.
*Abortion, for one, has been so shrouded in biological fact and moral-religious manfact that the reality of the issue is lost, and it remains a question.*
Surely no one else has ever used those words in quite such ingenious formation. I'm sure there's a meaning there somewhere, perhaps two. Is it, perhaps, that Slaughter is more brilliant than we had as constructed this paragraph to represent aborted quintuplets?
But the readers' replies have kept apace. Never have thought and language been made such strangers. Though I suppose we should slaughter and company; if television or al really is replacing the print media, their writing eases the pain of its passing.
Awaiting your surreal rendering of other important topics of the day
David Perkins
Kansas City graduate student
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 form 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.
The Ideologic Gap?
Hey man . . . You change the world your way . . . I will do it my way!
SUA Funding Myths Corrected
To the Editor:
My purpose in writing is to reply to a letter published in the Kansan on September 30. The letter contained misleading information about the funding of Student Activities and the Kansas Union.
It has been my experience at the University to hear students continually attempting to reveal their experiences of "real way things are" or "the real truth." However, these reveals many times are communicating nothing but myths. The university presents as fact presented as fact is perpetuated. The uninformed student becomes the misinformed student. The erroneous information becomes accepted as truth and often influences wrongly attacked. The most recent example of this process was the above-mentioned letter to the editor. I would like to quote three of the statements made in the article and then reply to those "statements".
(1) "The union is a building, not funded by the Student Activity Fees."
(3) "Finally, the Student
(2) "Only two of its (SUA)'s activities are taken care of by student fees—the movies and speakers series."
The union as stated above, is not supported by the activity fee; however, it is partially funded through the campus privilege fee. In a conversation with Vice Chancellor Keith Nitcher, I was impressed that the $46 campus priviledge fee matches semester, which each student taking more than six hours pays as a part of his enrollment fee.
Senate is a student governing body, that considers the request of any organization, such as SUA . . .
"The uninformed student becomes the misinformed student. The erro neous information becomes accepted
(2) $10 for the Student Health Service
The breakdown of this is as follows:
as truth . . ."
(3) $1 for hospital improvement
(4) $15 Union Eee
(4) $15 Union Fee
(1) $12 activity fee, with the Student Senate responsible for allocation.
Half of this union fee is used to pay back the debt incurred by the building of the union additions and major improvements. The team goes to the union for operations, maintenance, repairs and capital improvement. This latter $7 per student represents about 5 percent of the union's total income. All other allocations are made, including that to the SU Presently, SUA receives an allocation of $12,500. It should be made clear that SUA receives this allocation from the University Operating Board, which is composed of representatives of the University administration, faculty, alumni, 3 SUA officers and student representatives who serve as the Body President with the concurrence of the Student Senate Executive Committee. Students have a voting majority on this decision. The Student Senate does not allocate funds to SUA as stated in the letter to the editor.
students, then appropriates this $12,500. Within the SU budget, many programs, such as the Music and Recreational clubs, poetry屋 the Civilisation Film Series and receptions cannot be self-supporting in addition, many programs can be self-supporting films can be self-supporting. Some programs, such as Festival of the Arts, The Coffeehouse, the World Travel Fair, small companies must be partially subsidized.
This is by no means a complete analysis of the union's income or expenditure, but I SUA. However, I hope it has cleared up some previous misleading information. I would like to remind you that letters to the editor, any facts which are used to support an opinion are indeed facts and not opinions.
The SUA Board, composed of 12
Irv Robinson
Prairie Village,
Senior and vice president,
SUA Board
'Pull the plug? Do I look like I'm crazy?'
Campaign Degenerating
"I wasn't horn with a silver spoon in my mouth."
-Kent Frizzell, Republican candidate for governor.
"You can always hire a good lawyer." Democrat candidate for governor.
These remarks are indicative of the depth and perception in the candidates' mouthings during the current Kansas gubernatorial campaign.
The race itself has begun to degenerate into meaningless name-calling, and the voter has to search for any substantive discussion of the issues.
The recent Republican charges of a conflict of interest in the Docking administration have been countered by a group of lawyers who paid his personal property taxes on time.
Frizzell advertizes that he has worked his way to the attorney generalship and implies that Docking is a poor little rich kid.
The Democratic nominee for attorney general accuses his Republican opponent of appearing "to aid in the defense of a convicted felon," because the Republican senator has gathered evidence for a future criminal case against an employee of the felon.
Frizelle declares that 18- to 21-year-olds are not mature enough to vote and, when asked about the need for gun control as a weapon in the war on crime, answers
with a worm-out cliche: "Guns don't kill
as such. People with guns kill
people."
The Republican state treasurer, with much ballyhoo, discloses at a Republican fund-raising dinner (of all places) that the state has paid $1,715.19 in "private club and bills" for Docking so far this year. The vigilant treasurer uses the funds to pay employees. He also spent $30,000 on the governor's airplane trips this year. What an issue!
Frizzell, in a moralistic and indignant tone, proclaims that Docking has appointed a man to a state agency on children and youth who has been a member of the Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography and "has a permissive attitude toward pornography." God help us!
And of course there is the biggest issue of all—"campus unrest." The only issue here is, who can threaten the quickest installation toward any "campus uprisings?"
The gubernatorial campaign in Kansas has almost become a caricature of itself.
The meaningless cliches of a Frizzell are matched by the defensiveness of a staff, but refuse to check themselves as a campaign gradually slides into the mud.
no one in Kansas is benefiting from this
one-away and this includes the candy
that's being sold.
—Bob Womack
When you graduate from Never-Never Land and venture out into the big, cruel world, you will be expected to do more than learning the language, second-hand political palabu. You will be expected to produce, and to do it on time. You may consider those "discriminatory" professors to have well start preparing, because you can't put it off forever.
James Beckman Concordia senior
To the Editor:
Griff & the Unicorn
I must agree with Messrs. Rainey and Platt in their belief that "all universities discriminate academically as bright as others." Well, so does the world, people, so does the world. You cannot avoid the standards just because you think they are "too high."
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