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Friday, October 9, 1970
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Another View On Abortion
The world is full of somber figures. The figures of overpopulation, however, are only one set of statistics. There are also the figures of needless deaths and senseless killings. Do the unborn children murdered by abortions not count in the continuous deluge of statistics simply because they are never seen and never heard?
There are other means of curbing the population problem. Birth control as a preventive measure against too many children is a necessity; birth control as a means of planning for the proper care and support of children is a luxury.
Birth control as a method for avoiding children is the privilege and right of those who do not want children. But to murder a child already conceived is the lowest form of premedicated slaughter.
How strange it is that those who oppose the killing of soldiers in war and protest the murder of college students in a confrontation with police or guardms are the same righteous individuals who promote abortions as a "right" for every woman and a "humane" way to end an unwanted pregnancy.
There were few who were not shocked and dismayed by the recent statement of a politician that Lawrence 'didn't lose a thing' when a local youth was killed last summer. How many of those express shock and dismay at the idea that the world doesn't lose a thing when an unborn child is killed?
How hypocritical are those who denounce one man for his low regard of
the sanctity of human life, yet hold that
sanctity in such low regard themselves.
Perhaps it is true, as many people claim, that a child does not assume the identity of a human being until it is born, or until a "specified number" of weeks or months have passed in the gestation period. Perhaps it is true—but what man takes it upon himself to determine the moment when a living creature becomes a human being? Can any man afford to take that chance?
If statute law has given the woman the right to determine whether or not she shall bear the child she has conceived, surely it is only fair that moral law must give her the responsibility for the life she will take.
If legalities ascertain that life within the womb is not too precious to be sacrificed, why do legalities protect life after birth?
Yet despite the arguments of what some may consider to be the wild-eyed believers in the sanctity of life, legalized abortion is on the way in. The only hope now is that man, who has never distinguished himself as a champion of life except in the rhetorical sense, will at least consider most carefully the weight of the responsibility he has delegated to himself.
Man has made the laws and man can change them. But to change so enthusiastically the most basic law, that of life itself, is beyond understanding.
Cass Peterson Assistant Editor
LETTERS
Homecoming Queen: Disbelief
I can't believe it! I have just finished reading an article printed in today's Rocky Mountain News; the headline read, "Homecoming Queen out at Kansas U."
To the Editor:
May I direct, through you, a question to the 1970 Campus Homecoming Committee?—Just how much energy is expended in selecting a homecoming queen?—The article stated that the students of the students to 'rechannel their energies into more socially oriented and academically relevant programs." Now really
Sadat: Egypt's Leader
By United Press International
If anwar Sadat had
to be grateful for in the
summer of 1952, it was his
decision to 1952.
The two had been close friends as young second lieutenants stationed at desert outposts during the late 1930s. Their friendship deepened and their relationship became clear that Nasser, a year older than Sadat, saw in him a logical successor.
Under the regime of the late King Farouk, he had been hunted by police for alleged involvement in an assassination plot. He was served time in prison and been a member of the outlaw's Muslim brotherhood.
That record helped thrust him into the inner circle of nine young army officers who held up the monarchy on the monarchy the night of July 22, 1952. A fellow-plotter and revolutionary was the man 51-year old Sasid that was to succeed Ferdinand II in Egypt—Gabriel Nasser.
Sadat is a good-natured man with a bushy moustache and let-black hair.
After a period of political instability, Japan's steady rise to power and world attention in the early 1980s. He emerged as a durable yet volatile nation.
During World War II, he二let outspoken support to Nazi Germany, even plotting to bring Egypyt into the war on the Axis side. He was arrested in November 1942 and charged with treason. When his internment got him dismissed from the Erwinn army.
Years later, Nasser interpreted his actions as "patriotic activities."
If I thought that the selection of a queen required so much energy that it detracted or lessened the energies expended for "socially oriented and academically relevant programs," I would be disappointed. I was well-intentioned committee. However, I seriously doubt that benevolent social acts or relevancy in education suffer in any measurable degree during this time. What disturbs me, though, is the fact that, in the hands of a few, a long held tradition, established and maintained by many, has been abolished. What distasteful social traditions which have been established over the years that we could well do without. But is a homecoming queen considered a dangerous or traditional "In what way?"
In closing, I would like to take the opportunity to express a very
personal opinion: Traditions are one of the many ingredients that help to keep the social and cultural aglow. What authors have had to about societies who choose to ignore or abrogate tradition is not new. The committee might like to re-examine the following books on the topic of "energy" from the selection of a 1970 Homecoming Queen to more academically acceptable pursuits: *Lords of the Flesh; Golding; Anthem; Rand; Farnenhurley* 41, Bradbury; 184, Orwell.
May I congratulate the Homecoming Committee on a decision which will undoubtedly benefit students of Kansas one more year of Kansas one more year either decrease or eliminate altogether their annual conferences which have helped in the past to finance academic expansion.
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as colleagues of the gentleman harmed by this libelous act, we sincerely hope that the people will look through the Oread Daily
Questioning Oread Daily
Jeanette McDonald Taton
734 S. Fliamngo Court
Denver, Colorado
KU Class of 1961
An article in the Oct. 7 Oread Daily was printed under the name of a fellow law student, who did not送你或 have anything to say about it. The Oread Daily has turned an attempt at levity into a smut smear. The Oread Daily has overstepped its responsibilities to present true and accurate events to the public. The Oread Daily could see useful purpose on this campus by exposing hidden issues to the people. But lies, irresponsibility approaching libel articles or violations of what "the people's paper" should stand for.
to the truth.
to David Dysart
Wichita First Year
Law University
David Rhodus
Kansas City First Year
Law Student
To the Editor:
'How come you're still free to run around killing people?'
FROM OTHER CAMPUSES
President's K-State Speech
From SCHOLASTIC
The University of Notre Dame Wearing a purple and white tie (the school colors), and at one point linking his campus to the University's football team (which recently staged a backyard after years of defeat and gloom), President Nixon delivered the first Alf Landon lecture at Kansas State. As he had previous visits to American campuses, he chose his audience well and was justly rewarded with several five-minute standing ovations. Reading over the text of "Times" (17 September) we noted a frighteningly Evangelical tone—the President sounded suspiciously like a preacher talking to a group of enthusiastic students but unexcused passages:
When Palestinian guerrilla
hijacked four airliners in
flight, they brought to 250 the
number of aircraft seized
Griff & the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
'Copyright 1970. University Daily Kansan'
since the skyjacking era began in 1961. And as they held their hundreds of passengers hostage under threat of murder, they sent shock waves of alarm around the world. The consequences of violence and terror and its use as a political tactic.
That same cancerous disease has been spreading over the world and here in the United States.
After listing bombings in Madison, destruction of research facilities, and shootings of policemen and judges, and accompanied by scattered outbursts of "What about Kent State," Nixon said.
The destructive activists at our universities and colleges have been allowed to drown out my text at this point reads, "The voices of the students who allowed to drown out the responsible majority." That was not at Kansas State, but at Kansas State.
I can truly say to you here
I am proud of America and of
America. And the heart of
America is strong. The heart of
America is good. The heart of
America is strong.
Much applause. After several similar passages, Mr. Nixon ended his speech and told the students:
It will give you—will give us—the sound and responsible leadership that the great promise of America calls for, and in doing so you'll give me the knowledge fervently hopes for: the knowledge that your generation will see that
promise of the American dream fulfilled.
Read it over several times: the words are carefully selected. Like any good rally speaker from Jerry Rubin to Carl McIntyre, the president designed his speech for a particular audience with particular backgrounds and particular comments of a Kansas State professor as reported in the Times of 29 September, are to the
point. The President, he said, learned this: "Appeal for civility to a basically homogeneous crowd raised on the white middle-class American dream, and the response is applause. Speak with the president explaining preacher in fundamental country and ovations follow."
Perhaps what the President suspected after his crusade with Billy Graham in Tennessee, he now knows for sure.
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