KANSAN COMMENT
LETTERS
In Support of Sam Goldberg
To the editor:
Sam Goldberg is the University of Kansas varsity record holder for the decathlon, and he is variously named as the second or third best decathlon runner in the nation. He is a valuable asset to the track team. However, he is more than a track man. He is a family man, with a wife and a baby. He is a scholastic man, carrying the normal academic
load. He is a political man, with his own ideas and outlooks. He is a moral man. And now he is a symbol.
Sam Goldberg symbolizes the plight of many athletes at KU, and more broadly, the plight of many American college athletes. That is why the New York Times is closely following his struggle with Wade Stinson. For Wade Stinson does not like Sam
Goldberg's politics. Wade Stinson, czar of Allen Field House, controller of athletic scholarships, and wellspring of alumni money for plant improvements, does not like Sam Goldberg's politics. And what Czar Wade doesn't like goes out
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The issue, then: Sam Goldberg is an outstanding track man, but, because of the fact that his athletic scholarship can apparently be withdrawn as Stinson sees fit, he must conform to Stinson's political line as well as to his training norms if he is to stay on the team. And the plight: Sam Goldberg cannot in good conscience conform to Stinson's political norms for track men, but he is dependent on the track scholarship for his bread and butter (and his wife's, and his child's). Also, track is a career for him, and he doesn't want to have give it up at the outset. So Sam has been suspended by Stinson.
The Student Court has already ruled on the case and has directed Stinson to reinstate Sam to the team, and to reinstate his scholarship, but Stinson has not done so. Czar Stinson doesn't want to recognize the principle that he has no authority over an athlete's politics. And in the meantime, as Sam continues the fight to get reinstated, his scholarship is still cut off—in fact, even the water in his Stouffer Place apartment has been cut off. This kind of Athletic Director KU can do without, be he money-getter or not!
Sam Goldberg is a star athlete. All he wants is to be able to run the decathlon for KU without any political hassles from Stinson. He should be allowed to do so. Support him in any way possible, because he needs and deserves your help.
Conall D. O'Leary
Lawrence Graduate student,
Chairman of the Ad Hoc
Committee to get
Sam Goldberg Reinstated
A Memory
My grandfather died several years ago. As is usually the case with me and many of my peers, the full realization of that man's role in my life is just beginning to dawn on me in the mirror image of imperception that has been the legacy of the years since his death.
The memories I hold of my grandfather—memories now somewhat blurred by age—are pleasant ones: painting chipped fences on the farm he owned, more as a hobby than a source of income; rambling through fields of alfalfa in the drab gray Chevrolet pickup (a used telephone van) long before the legal driving age; the fantastic sensation of jumping off a huge haystack, only to fret over the hay that worked itself into the seemingly inaccessible areas of clothing.
Can anyone remember the uncomfortable feeling of a pants leg full of straw?
Memories of many September afternoons, bolting from school to catch the last few hours of dove hunting season (when the .410 shotgun was just my size) with him and his aging dog, Sam who was allowed to come as a matter of courtesy, begin to filter down from the hazy cloud of my mind.
Besides being able to read the pulse of nature in all its moods and conditions, my grandfather understood the sorts of men to which his profession, medicine, sensitized him. I am told he was an excellent throat surgeon, a completely plausible statement if you knew his reassuringly calm countenance.
He was a humanitarian in the fullest sense. If he had any prejudices,he had hid them from me better than any of the "good" men I have known.
Vietnam and the Middle East would—as I remember—have left him hard-pressed for solutions. Yet an authentic humanitarian cannot define issues concerning human beings only in terms of politics and power relationships.
It seems as if I am on a reeling carousel of politics and issues, a carousel that often throws humanity off the spinning platform, strewing a herd of riderless wooden horses to stampede over the values my grandfather assumed were natural.
To those who resent listening to personal reminiscences, and to my grandfather, who deserved these thoughts long ago, I apologize.
He was a good man.
—Tom Slaughter
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WASHINGTON—United Auto Workers Union President Leonard Woodcock discussing the strike against General Motors Corp.:
"We both know what the problems are but are unable to agree on the solutions."
JERUSALEM—Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon saying Israel has no immediate plans to intervene in the Jordanian-Syrian crisis:
"I think that for the time being we have to do nothing, just wait and see how far the Syrians will go, what will be the reaction of the Jordanian army and other armed factors in Jordan."
'Come on gang! It's time for our annual game.'
... and Some More Backing
To the editor:
The date has not been set, but the University Judiciary is going to hear Sam Goldberg's appeal for reinstatement with his scholarship on the track team. The decision reached will affect collegiate athletics here and across the nation. The New York Times is covering the trial and Jack Scott, Ramparts magazine sportswriter, will appear as a witness for Sam.
This case is not an exception. Sam holds the school record in the decathlon and he says what he thinks and feels. The eight charges brought against Sam by the coaches were not accepted as legal grounds for dismissal at his first hearing. The Student Senate gave Sam support in a resolution passed last week.
Sam needs your support and a favorable outcome will benefit college athletes everywhere.
Bud Eberly.
Bud Eberly,
Kansas City, Kans., Junior