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Wednesday, October 14, 1970
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Photo by RUBYE MUNSELL
'Together'Attitude Belies Realities
After reading an editorial in Mondays Journal World, I wonder if the writer was talking about the same University and what it meant that the students here have come to know.
The editorial title, "Together" (how ludicrous can things get) expounded on the "close and inseparable relationship between Kansas University and Lawrence,"—when students and friendly downtown merchants all alike have a relationship existing between the two is the same. Close, hand-to-pocket hook sensation that a majority of students feel after a jaunt down Massachusetts street.
The writer goes on to say that things are always brighter in Lawrence after something "good" has happened (i.e. the reader has read through it), and the word "good" is perverted in this sense.
Not to detract from the football team or their win over our enlightened friends down the pike, but one is forced to admit that he was not by the writer of the article in mention.
When do football victories, however triumphant, balance on a scale with some of the other more tragic problems this season? Did it have to dawdle had to face 'the last several months?'
The pragmatic answer is that they don't.
It is a gross mis-representation of the situation here, to assume that victories on every pleasant Saturday afternoon, are more important than do much to close the town-gown chasm.
The pleasant amenities of a football victory can do little to ease the racial tension running rampant in Lawrence, or the disgust and fear many students harbor for the Lawrence police (vice president), because businessmen have of students that causes them to place armed guards in their stores at night, or the fact that Lawrence reportedly has two of its very own resident FBI agents, or the vigilante officers that talk about because it's not good for the city's reputation, or, or, or . . .
Aside from the excellent sewage-gaswater services the city offers, thecity-university exploitation is one-sided. So now football victories are a sign of the "many things we have to enjoy and share and achieve together."
Tom Slaughter
... And the jackals were getting fat off
the carcass.
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Abortion: Wisdom or Destruction?
Tom Slaughter's editorial "Abortion Laws" called names and indulged in some strange phrases (how can abortion be "shrouded in biological fact"?) in a morally-moral fantasy" without substituting any standards in place of the "fantasy."
To the Editor.
It is surprising that this generation which usually is so quick to see and defend people injured by war or oppression should be unwilling or unable to resist such violence as mass killings and the aged who are injured by indifference, alienation, discord, and indict. Society is cruel to ignore or maltreat babies or children, or to shunt the aged and the ill in society because they are helpless and unwanted. But is it the existence of helpless people which is wrong? By that standard, not only were the Nazis right in their decision to have been even more right to send all prisoners to gas chambers!
An abortion, even under good conditions, is a medical operation involving medical risk to the mother. Wouldn't the careful use of contraceptives be safer than an operation? And isn't it hypothetical of our society to use sex to sell cars and cigarettes, and to deny the most vulnerable members of human sexuality—the creation of new human beings?
Abortions have been performed for centuries; today they are much safer thanks to medical and scientific advances. Another modern scientific advance is the ability of slaughter think that scruples against killing people wholesale are part of an "arcithic myth" which must be scrapped to maintain world population at the American standard of living? Is this standard so perfect?
Every woman who wants "the right and privilege . . . to
determine her own maternal future" it was a fetus once. And every fetus sacrificed to its mother's "self-determination". But her parents didn't give a little hard to see how this doesn't favor the people already here instead of future generations. In the area of conservation, Americans have been fighting against ambitions can crack nature for years afterward. But abortion has us gratify present desires by
destroying future human beings.
ou遥遥 future human beings. Mr. Slaughter, if you want to stay in the world, you have to destroy an unborn child (or a born child, for that matter) to keep a job or take a job, or because she finds the child's existence embarrassing or inconvenient, please say so openly. But don't call it an advance in life, but rather interestingly, societies which have practiced abortion have often also used euthanasia to maintain
a convenient, trouble-free population. As we all get older, we might reflect that if we can be disposed of when we're helpless and unborn, society might be just as clear-sighted and practical in disposing of us once we've contacted whatever laws of us are according to whatever laws of us are valid in another thirty or forty years.
Nancy Perich Daly
415 W. 17th
Lawrence
I've got to hurry or I'll be late for my speech denouncing those crazy kids who think the system is rigged.
TO STUDENTS
"Copyright 1970, University Daily Kansan
Hoover's Letter On Campus Extremists
The vast majority of you, I am convinced, sincerely love America and want to make it a better country.
As a 1970 college student, you belong to the best educated most sophisticated, most poised generation in our history.
(Editor's Note: Hoover's letter to college students is reprinted from the Daily iowan, October 8, 1970. John Edgar Hoover is the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.)
You do have ideas of your own—and that's good. You see things wrong in our society which we adults perhaps have to deal with are outspoken and frank and hate hypocrisy. That is good too.
There's nothing wrong with student dissent or student derision of changes in society over the application of unhappiness over aspects of our national policy Student opinion is the public opinion in our society.
The extremists are a small minority of students and faculty members who have lost faith in the school's political poke fun at American institutions, seek to destroy our society. They are not interested in genuine reform. They take a pragmatic approach and often legitimate frustrations of students to promote campus chaos. They have no rational, intelligent plan of the future for the university or the Nation.
But there is real ground for concern about the extremism which led to violence, lawlessness, and disrespect for many of others on many college campuses during the past year.
By Sokoloff
Griff & the Unicorn
Based on our experience in the FBI, here are some of the ways in which extremists will try to lure you into their activities;
Many are not associated with any national group. The key point is that extremism is the result of extremists but learning to recognize and understand the mentality of extremism which involves violence and destruction.
The extremists are of wide variety; adherents of the Students for a Democratic Party, Weatherman; members of the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), the Trotskyist youth group; the Communist Party's Young Communist Party (YWLL). Or they may be associated with the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (SMC); the War-dominated antiwar
1. They encourage you to lose respect for your parents and the older generation. This will be one of their first attacks, trying to cut you off from you. You'll hear parents ask, "Why don't they "hypocrisy" of your parents and their friends. The older generation has made mistakes but your parents and millions of other adults worked hard, built, sacrificed, and suffered to make America what it is today. It is time that parents and adults disagree with them, but don't discredit their contributions.
2. They'll try to convert you to the idea that your college is "irrelevant" and a tool of "them against the college administration often is bitter, arrogant, and unreasoning, SDN-says, but they can't disrupt the colleges by demanding the right to select professors, determine the course, and set grading standards.
3. They'll ask you to abandon your basic common sense. Campus extremism thrives on specious generalizations, wide use of wordplay and allegations. Complex issues of state are wrapped in slogans and clichés. Dogmatic statements are issued as if they were the final truth. You should carefully follow courses of action suggested by extremists. Don't get involved in a cause just because it seems "fashionable" or the "thing to do." Rational discussion and rational analysis needed more than ever before.
4. They'll try to envelop you in a mood of negativism, pessimism,
5. They'll encourage you to disrespect the law and hate the law enforcement officer. Most college students have good friends who are police officers. You know that when extremists attack police officers they are wrong. The officer protects rights, lives, and property. He is your friend and he needs your support.
and alienation toward yourself, your school, your Nation. This is one of the most insidious of New Left poisons. SDSs and its allies have been using these its flaws. They see nothing good, positive, and constructive. This leads to a philosophy of bitterness, defemism, and rancor. I want you to look for a country more intimately. I would want you to look for the deeper unifying forces in America, the real determination, and sacrifice which are working to correct these flaws. The real strength of our Nation is the power of our society, science which rights the wrong, corrects error, and works for equal opportunity under the law.
6. They tell you that any action is honorable and right if it’s “sincere” or “idealistic” in its purpose, but not the most seductive of New Leaf appeals—that if an arsonist’s or anarchist’s heart is in the right place, then there is something for “humanity” or a “higher cause,” then his act, even if illegal, is justifiable, have consequences. The alleges of the perpetrator does not absolve him from responsibility. His acts may affect the rights, especially those of being a student or being on
campus does not automatically confer immunity or grant license to violate the law. Just because you can violate it with immunity you can violate it with immunity
Along with millions of other adults, I'm betting on the vast majority of students who remain true to their faith but also firm about certain basic principles of human dignity, respect for the rights of others, and a willingness to learn. I am not sure our faith has not been misplaced.
Personally, I don't think the outlook for campus unrest this year is as bleak as some prophets of pessimism proclaim. The solution at some colleges is hard, but certainly not boneless.
7. They'll ask you to believe that you, as a student and citizen, are powerless by democratic means to effect change in our society. Remember the books on this chapter, "The Self-renewal of the creative self-re renewal of this Nation through change." Public opinion time after time has brought new policies, goals, and methods. The reasons for its helpless or caught in "burraccurity" as these extremists call it.
8. They encourage you to hurt bricks and stones instead of logical argument at those who have been in the spotlight, remember an old saying: "He who strikes the first blow has run out of ideas." Violence is as ancient as the cave man; as up-to-date as the Weatherman. This insinuates animosity, polarization, counter-violence—these arise from violence. The very use of violence shows the paucity of rational thought in the SDS, its inability to understand its intelligent critique of our society.
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