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Friday, December 10, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Christmas Message
The conflict between different approaches to the liberty of man and mind or between different views of human dignity and the right of the individual is continuous. The dividing line goes within ourselves, within our own peoples and also within other nations. It does not coincide with any political or geographical boundaries. The ultimate fight is one between the human and the subhuman. we are on dangerous ground if we believe that any individual, any nation or any ideology has a monopoly on rightness, liberty and dignity.
—Dag Hammarskjold
This message came to me on the first Christmas card I received this year, and certainly, it was appropriate.
But the ambiguities of the season detract from the hope that it holds out for the victory of the human over the sub-human.
Despite the seasonal pledge to peace, war persists. Despite the seasonal pledge to charity, commercialism is pervasive. Despite the seasonal pledge to good will, bigotry continues.
Nevertheless, Christmas renews
in the hearts of many, confidence in the humanity of man. The hope that man will persist in a quest for peace, for charity and for dignity is secure in the promises of the season. The human spirit is revitalized.
The mandate of the season is optimism, with an eye on the goodness of man yet ever mindful of his weaknesses. So have a Merry holiday in the knowledge that we all must hope for a better world.
—Mike Moffet
Guest Editorial
To Continue Excellence
By DAVID MILLER Student Body President
During the past semester the Kansan has carried many stories concerning the University's financial difficulties. KU students and staff have pointed to the problems are present as the results of inadequate financing.
Faculty have received no salary increases while their counterparts in bordering states all received increases. Of the 23 public institutions which grant 200 or more doctorates a year, the University of Kansas ranks last in average assistant, associate and graduate secretaries, custodians and the like, work for 5 per cent less than their counterparts in other state agencies.
The average cost of library books increased 12 per cent last year while funds increased zero percent. The cost of first class postage has increased 33-1-3 per cent. The cost of paper, ink and other necessary supplies has increased but the University has had to cut these expenditures by 5 per cent or more
All of this means that the overall quality of instruction at KU will decline. We will be unable to compete for quality faculty and students.
The prospects for next year seem no better. The State Budget Director has recommended only a one-tenth of one per cent increase for all state schools. The costs continue to climb and the threat of a faculty exodus remains. KU simply can not continue to offer quality education under current and proposed financial conditions.
I believe it is the responsibility of KU students to carry the message of our difficulties to the people of Kansas. We must believe that if Kansans become aware that one of their state's greatest assets is our prospects for adequate state financing next year will improve.
I hope you will find some time this vacation to tell your parents, neighbors, legislators, journalists, and community leaders of this situation and enlist their efforts and support for higher education.
The University of Kansas has prospered because former KU students have been committed to excellence and progress. The burden on our shoulders to continue this tradition. Surely we can do no less.
Garry Wills
Whitewashing The Nixon Whitehouse
The whitewashing strategy of Drury is displayed in this interview when the author refers to Moynihan's famous recommendation to the race issue be given a period of "benign neglect." That comes out in Druryese as "the
Allen Drury, the quasi-novelist who writes fiction much stranger fact, served up part of his newest volume in our last look at Look Magazine. It is a loving ride through Nixon's White House, touching base mainly with Right Wing types who unnahit (or inhabited) it—men who trust a fellow Rightest, and spoke a little too frankly with him. The book offers an interesting material on the Right Wing of the White House, where Drury expends most of his whitewash.
The second interview of the Look excerpt is with the man who used to be called the administration's one liberal—but don't let that tag you fail. This interview, with Daniel Patrick Moyhairian, is enough by itself to justify a redefinition. D.P. (Pat) Moyhairian is really the Right-Wing J.K. (Ken) Galbraith.
idea of reducing public hysteria in the approach to social problems"and who could argue with that?
Moyhain, who wrote Nixon a memor
just before he became President,
saying the Vietnam war was already
lost, still goes along with men trying to
win it. He says: "Kissinger is ex-
trarionally brilliant, but he is stuck,
and the President is stuck, with the
end result of other people's mistakes." The
result should not let oneelf get stuck with
other people's mistakes.
Predictably, it is harder to soften Spiro Agnew's words. After Agnew has attacked the idea of American cutting and running, Drury asks why the President is withdrawing, however grudgingly, from Vietnam and other countries in the Middle East, answer "he is in a bell of a position. He has the press and the media and the liberals and the academic community and all the rest after him all the time."
Does that mean the President's policies are not the President's policies, but concessions to the worst enemies of
such policies? Apparently so. Agnew implies that the country is really run by Senator Fulbright, who victimizes poor Richard Nixon, then walks away from the shamles with Nixon catches the blame for Fulbright's mistakes: “Of course, Fulbright is going to get away free. Events will never catch up with us,” he said by the time the results of what he advocates afflict this country.”
with Richard Kleinderat, John Mitchell's heir apparent in the Justice Department, who explains that Nikon's toughness Democrats just don't have in them: "We haven't had the problems in that area that the Democrats had, such things as Watt, Detroit, Washington, Chicago, and New York, a Democratic administration and logically they should not occur under our administration, because the Democrats are obligated for a lot of these groups, which vote overwhelmingly for them, and therefore they hesitate about
putting things in order when these groups create disturbances."
A flaw in this "logic" is that the worst such "disturbance" was in Detroit, and the woman who fatally "hissed" there about "putting things in order" was the then-Governor and this-administration Republican, George Romney.
But even more disturbing is the open admission in this argument that blacks are bought of as more clients of the D.C. Department than a Republican administration on the grounds that it can keep blacks down because blacks have nothing to expect
As Kleindienst puts it, "They can't threaten us because they vote against us anyway." He is saying, to the blacks, We don't need you; and to the whites, For us for because we don't need them. That shows what real forces live and are under the semi-dark, under the President's recent 'liberal' protestations.
Copyright, 1971 Universal Press Syndicate
Portfolio
... By Susette Newman
--viewpoint concerning this matter, if reasonable (as I believe is true in this case) should be response in way and way toward its recent regard.
The Semester's
To the Editor:
Last Letter
Aside from a lack of know-how and first-hand experience, the team is responsible for when determining the membership of the Promotion Committee.
It is assumed that members of the Promotion and Tenure Committee are qualified to serve in this field because they experience in this field and their past record in rendering judgments. Most students, on the tenure track, possess knowledge and experience necessary for making well-qualified promotion recommendations for the instructors.
Finally, and this time from a practical point of view, do fulltime faculty have time to formulate formal task-ask that of making promotional recommendations? Let's be both honest and pragmatic in addressing the definition of their name, lack the necessary experience and time to make the decision as to whether our instructors should be promoted.
Sherri Wright Prairie Village, Freshman
Griff and the Unicorn
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