Dangerous Parallel In Counterreaction More than once last summer, Regent Henry Bubb proclaimed that there were dangerous and imminent possibilities that the University of Kansas was on the road to becoming another Berkeley. Those rather dramatic pronunciations had the effect Bubb desired, of course. They raised flaming images in the minds of thousands of Kansans, who began to see Bubb as the chief guardian against the forces of anarchy and revolution. It was easy for many to dismiss Bubb's charges as simply another example of hyperbole in a summer distinguished by hyperbole and counterreaction. But there were parallels between what was happening here and what had happened in California's universities and other systems of higher education. The parallels were not in the same vein as Bubb probably intended—that area he believes to be anarchy and violence—but in the potential for counterreaction and repression. Just like Chancellor Chalmers in Kansas, so did the chief administrators of other universities become the easiest available targets for political figures in search of an issue. The situation in California is worthy of at least a cursory examination because of the interesting parallels. There were political issues involved in the removal of J. Herbert Holloman from the presidency of the University of Oklahoma. Holloman, along with Kenneth Pitzer—formerly head of Stanford University, became examples of the lack of job security among university administrators. They were the visible targets for those seeking to combat a general upheaval in society that was reflected by college campuses. In his last campaign, Gov. Ronald Reagan promised to "clean up the mess" at Berkeley. There is evidence that Gov. Docking is attempting to use the situation at KU as one of his chief political issues. He won innumerable votes with his statement last spring that KU would remain open, regardless of the circumstances. As further evidence, Docking was careful not to make any statements that could possibly be construed as directly supporting Chalmers after the unsuccessful vote on removing him last July. Columnist Marquis Childs reports that conservative California regents would like to remove Roger Heyns, chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, because of alleged "permissiveness." Berkeley's situation is complicated by the thousands of non-student "street people" of all varieties who congregate on Telegraph Avenue bordering the campus. Visitors who observe this collection of drug culture refugees, Hare Krishna monks, and runaway teenagers are indelibly impressed with the idea that this university subculture is the University of California at Berkeley, just as many Kansans see the street people of Oread Avenue as representatives of what they believe is a mutation of their alma mater. The case of Angela Davis, the young black revolutionary who is wanted in connection with a courtroom gunfight in Marin County, Calif., was reportedly on the minds of Kansas Regents attending the administrative hiring practices hearings on campus last week. They feared the nurturing of any potential Angela Davises on the KU campus. Because of the imagined possibilities that there might be such revolutionaries on the KU faculty, what kind of repression could result over those allowed to teach and research here? Real and imagined, there are parallels between the situation in California and the current situation at KU. But these parallels lie in the increasing potential for the same kind of reaction in California that resulted in the firing several years ago of Clark Kerr as head of the University of California, and the current attempts of the California Board of Regents, now weighted with Reagan appointees, to aquiesce to public reaction. The Kansas Board of Regents may be beginning to do that too, in their hunt for a convenient scapegoat. But the mass of students and faculty, as well as the institution itself, are the only real victims of this form of reaction. —Bob Womack David Sokoloff 1970 WASHINGTON WINDOW Nixon's White House Makes All the Rounds By EUGENE V. RISHER UPI Writer SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.—Backstairs at the Western White House; Standing in the brilliant California sunshine atop a bluff overlooking the Pacific, President Nixon recently gave some friendly advice to a correspondent returning after 14 years in Asia to take up a new post in the nation's capital. "Well I would by all means not spend too long a time in Washington" Nixon said. "What your tendency will be is to come back and sit in Washington and be surrounded by your friends in the media and of course the political world. That will not give you a perspective that is broad enough." That the President takes his own advice there can be no doubt In his 19 months in office he has demonstrated himself to be the most peripatetic president in the nation's history. A recent check of records showed he has spent only about one night in three in the White House since assuming office. It is a rare weekend that he remains in Washington. Camp David in the Catoctin Mountains—a half hour helicopter ride from the White House south lawn—is his favorite weekend retreat. About once a month in the winter, or more often, he stretches his weekend and flies to Key Biscayne, Fla., seeking the balm of sunshine and ocean breezes. But his favorite spot is here. It is his voting residence. The $300,000 villa he purchased probably will be his retirement home. It and an adjacent complex of one-story buildings on the Camp Pendleton Marine base have been given the name Western White House. Come Labor Day, Nixon will have spent about half the summer here. "I think the main advantage of a place like this and Camp David and Florida, all of which I use, is that moving from place to place changes the perspective so that you aren't in a rut—you don't think in a way that is non creative" he said. "A beautiful place is a place to, well, to clear the mind, and there needs to be a pause in all the heavy concentration." The President, of course, works wherever he goes. A vast retinue of aides and advisers follow him. There are daily intelligence briefings. Courier flights bring documents and more aides for special meetings forming an umbilical cord with official Washington. But getting away provides a break in the 14-hour daily routine he normally follows in the White House. 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