KANSAN COMMENT
Sharing the Blame For Ren's Actions
There are times when rhetoric and a rousing calling to arms are insufficient editorial answers to certain situations and circumstances.
A remark made by Sen. Reynolds Shultz, Republican candidate for Kansas lieutenant governor, presents just such a situation and demands an answer.
In a speech that he gave last week in Manhattan, Shultz said that Lawrence "didn't lose a thing" when former KU student Rick Dowdell was shot to death by Lawrence police.
In any circumstance, the minimization of the loss of human life is grim evidence of a gross lack of sensitivity by Shultz and an affront to the integrity of those who
We find these remarks morally repugnant, and especially deplorable when they come from a candidate for a responsible state office.
choose to remain silent.
Shultz is no stranger to criticism or rebuff. Yet simple criticism is not at issue here. All voting Kansans—and especially members of the Republican party—must decide whether they will share the responsibility for these remarks by passively acquiescing to or even supporting their author.
We believe that it is time for those who cannot condone violence (by institutions or individuals) publicly to repudiate Shultz' statement, and in the words of President Nixon last week in Manhattan, to "stand up and be counted."
—Monroe Dodd
Editor of the Kansan
Cass Peterson Assistant Editor
Tom Slaughter Campus Editor
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LETTERS
Revolution in Lifestyle Where Real Battle Lies
Reactionaries seek to save through repression of change. Radicals seek to destroy through idealism. Both are ignorant of the real revolution.
To the editor:
Both fail to realize that the revolution is one of creative living. The revolution is a lifestyle which creatively manipulates social resources to alleviate all areas of human suffering, and so permit a degree of enlightened living, materially and spiritually.
This remains the common goal of all our ideologies. This goal originates from the conviction that this world is not the best of all possible worlds.
This inner conviction needs no ideology to direct it to a goal. It needs no speaker or demonstration to advertise what is self-evident or to direct an individual to fulfill someone else's dreams.
The conviction first arises from the understanding of the needs of the immediate environment. If there are as many seeking change as those who declare themselves to be, this indicates change in all directions, among all environments.
Where ideologies and mass movements fail, the revolution will not. For it neither approves nor dissapproves of any institution, ideology or dream. Approval and disapproval only declare ignorance of what is and what can be.
The revolution is all-inclusive and positively oriented. This is the essence of its strength.
Michael Nagel
N. Y. N. Y. Senior
'What will you give me to get your lady friend back?'
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