4 Thursday, October 8, 1970 University Daily Kansan Anti-Pornography Fight Is an Obsolete Cause Pornography, which has been around in various forms for thousands of years, has suddenly become a national issue after the President's resignation and the Presidential Commission on Pornography. President Nixon has made it clear that the Lyndon Johnson-appointed group is not his "baby" (according to spokesman Agnew), and that he does not approve the majority recommendations for repeal of censorship laws. Pornography as an issue seems to be tinged with a great deal of emotionalism. This is especially true with regard to those contemporary Puritans who see moral collapse on the horizon with the advent of legalized pornography. Americans pride themselves on their basic freedom of the press. Censorship is indefensible in a truly free society. Why shouldn't adult Americans be free to read any kind of material whatsoever or see any film they may wish to see? A panel of psychologists recently reported at the convention of the American Psychological Association that scientific studies had produced little or no evidence that exposure to erotic material had any detrimental effects on character, moral values or marital behavior, or that it caused sexual deviance. In fact, one of the panel's studies found that incarcerated sex offenders had seen less pornography during their adolescence than members of a randomly selected control group of "normal" persons. The commission report recommends the repeal of all 114 federal and state laws against importing, showing or selling erotica to adults. But it also recommends state laws against exposing children to pornography or putting it on public display and a mass sex education program. For years, hypocrisy and a double standard have characterized American society's attitude toward pornography. Public denunciation of the evils of erotica have too often been contradicted by private acceptance of printed and filmed pornography. The commission report, not accepted unanimously by the commission members, has presented realistic recommendations for a modern era. Those who wish to blame changing sexual mores on an increase in pornography are not acknowledging the inevitable evolution of morals and customs Bob Womack Sandbar Parties And Bad Feelings LETTERS We have a problem that we hope you can and will help us with. We have the students of your school to call the "NAMI Sandbar" is the property of Amanda Schaffer. To the Editor: Minnie Hick is off and on renting the field to you to park on for your parties and we do not want or allow cara north of the gravel road. The ground has caused some real hard feelings toward the students and we do not like this situation and do not like to be mean and hateful toward you. The cars have ruined the alfalfa and have also caused the dehydrator to stop to take it because of the trash the students throw in the field. I also take a risk of ruining my machinery with it which also makes us unhappy. Would you please tell them not to park on the field? Keep the cars on the gravel road. We are depending on your help. Also we don't like the idea of the students being charged for use of something by someone who doesn't own it. But most of all money comes hard enough for the students without being cheated and then they have to pay a fee. You see we have given the sheriff consent to tow any vehicle off that street. Mrs. James Cassatt RR 4, Ottawa Letters policy Letters to the editor should be type-written, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are sub-divided and condensation, according to 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. FOREIGN NEWS COMMENTARY Kansan Photo by MIKE CHIBT Missile Crisis Anniversary Raises Questions By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Writer He declared: On Oct. 22 it will have been exacty eight years since President Obama sent tremor of fear through the world with his announcement that the Soviet Union had begun an offensive missile bases in Cuba. known to have a special and historical relationship to the United States and the nations of the Western Hemisphere, in violation of Soviet assurances, and in defiance of American and hemispheric policy—this sudden, clandestine decision to station napkins for the first time outside the country deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted" by the United States. "This secret, swift and extraordinary build-up of Communist missiles—in an area well It was a month later, on Nov. 20, that the President announced Russia's agreement to remove the missiles from Cuba and to prevent their reintroduction in the future. He added: The President declared further that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromky deliberately had lied to him about the bases. "If all offensive weapons are removed from Cuba and kept out, and if Cuba is not used for the export of aggressive Communist purposes, there will be peace in the Caribbean." President Nixon has just returned from a show-the-flag mission to the Mediterranean and a forceful reminder to the unions that the U.S. 60th Fleet, in the Middle East, is in force ever assembled, is in the Mediterranean ready to back up any U.S. diplomatic move. With this backward look into history, we come to the present. Caribbean, Soviet warships are providing an equally forceful reminder of growing Navy naval strength in waters described by Kennedy as having a "special and special relationship to the United States." An aftermath of the 1962 Cuban crisis and the humiliation thrust upon the Soviets was their decision to expand their navy to a capacity of challenging the United States anywhere in the world. Griff & the Unicorn By Sokoloff In the Middle East, the Soviets when they left the country moved and moved their SAM missiles closer to the Suez Caua in violation of the ceasefire Within this context have been these other events: Copyright 1970, University Daily Kansan' And in the Caribbean, the United States took note of increased Soviet activity with a warning that it would view "with most seriousness any Soviet submarine in Cuba." In the Middle East, the Soviets have accused the United States of subjugating peace efforts, and in Russia of fostering a "war psychosis." Whether or not the Russians tend to be submarine base in North Korea, they are nuclear submarines make the stationing of offensive missiles in the waters around Russia. Their "Yankee Class" sub-, capable of hurting a mileile, 1,500 pounds in the United States from positions in the Atlantic, the Caribean and the Caribbean. On Nov. 2, the United States and the Soviet Union are scheduled to resume their talks on strategic arms limitations. In the light of obvious mistrust and probable perfidy, one is inclined to wonder why. 79 RICHARD LOUV COLUMN I would get home through the park after a day of shuffling paper and I would look to efficient and bureaucratic, and there would be small, silent Guild members and the grin. She told me her father was a mailman. She thought kitchens were either in Texas or Mexico. She wasn't sure. I showed her a map. In Staten Park is a statue of Nathan Green, who was a decoy in the south so George Washington's troops could clean up at Yorktown. The Statue of Green is high on a horse, and Green is pointing his finger toward the Capitol. His face looks down at the benches on one side of the park, where some of the unemployed black men sit and look of him, and he looks at them as if to way, "Don't just sit there; do something! Follow me and join the glorious revolution!" Every few minutes a bird will let lose on his head. I see small Greta with pigtails and the grin, standing at the bottom of the steps of where I lived in Washington this summer, in the ghetto, a block or two from where much of the 1968 riot took place and four blocks from where another congressional intern was murdered in the apartment in the neighborhood and each day I would walk to where I worked to view the marble buildings of the government, and at the end of the day would go through the park where the black men would watch with eyes to aid fire and, sometimes rain. The Park was called Staten Park. And I see Jud. I drank beer on the steps in the evenings. The sirens would go screaming past, followed by black children scattering around the street, throwing sticks, standing still, still scattering the stones, and fighting and making funny faces, even with the siren's ringing. The children would sit on the steps, eyes troubled, hands working, but the children still laughed and bounced balls. Jud had been at two Jima and Pearl once, spent most of his time on the steps, resting his foot with a cast, he. He thought Bob Kennedy was still alive, I told him it wasn't so. "Bobby, too, Jud." 'No,' he said, face all screwed up, 'that's John who's dead.' "But he came by here. I saw him." "Alright." I was sorry that I had told him, and he sat sad, with his beer, in the ghetto, and Greta ran past. Jud was very patriotic, and he would tell me about World War II . . . "You alright, Jud?" "Sure, you seen Harry?" One thing I know now, after living in that place while working in the marble buildings for a senator: I know where I would be if I had been borne and raised in that scaled landing, that dirty pit. I would probably jump into rocky, tearing down the walls. That environment pushes you into a place of no return to meaning, or prized you are, because someone came and took the marble away, and left you with the chips, just right for throwing size. I remember sitting out on the steps one night, a silent night, cool enough for the restless neighbors to go inside again. The sounds were gone then, the children tucked inside, the heat loosening its jaws. Only the cars and an occasional yelp from far off. (On the Fourth of July, the city had been filled with the bangs of firecrackers, like some approaching war.) But that night it was quiet. And that night Karen, who lived upaints, laughed and lit her cigarette. She held Dinkelbush the Dog and talked about the day. "I can feel it now. Before, I couldn't feel it. I can feel the dirt. I can feel it feels to be mouse or a rat." she held Dinklebus the Dochtly "I can feel how it feels to watch the walls grow." Busses passed. We sat in the black snow in the summer night, and the city coughed and the sirens began again. I think now about Jud banging on the doors, "Let me in!" And I think of small, silent Greta with the pigtails and the grin, and I bunch up all the hope I have, and send it to her, special delivery. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Kansas Telephone Numbers Newsroom—UN 4-818 Business Office—U4-428 Published at the University of Kansas during the academic year except holidays and examination periods. Mail subscription rates 16 a semester, $10 for two months, and $25 for three months. Compensation goods, services and employment advertised offered to all students, color, ered or national origin. Expressions are not necessarily addressed to the university. 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