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Thursday, December 9, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Happiness for All
The great exodus begins soon. To our hometowns, to our friends' hometowns, and maybe even to all of these we will go traveling
Some of us will not come back. Some of us are leaving the educational womb forever.
To those December graduates, I bid farewell. May you find a peaceful niche in our violent world. May you find order amid chaos. May you find happiness and prosperity. If you find the world not to your taste, try to change it; perhaps if your search fails, you can seek and find through creation, forging a new peacefulness, a new order, if not in
the world outside then in the world inside yourself.
To those coming back in January, have a restful and happy vacation. You'll need it.
To those December dropouts, the same words apply. Farewell and good luck. It's cold out there. Keep warm. Perhaps you can find a meaningful reality outside the University that you could not find within it. Or perhaps you can create a better reality.
—Pat K. Malone
May we all be happy.
4 Sports Proposition
As intercollegiate athletics have grown and flourished at this University, so have the problems and responsibilities associated with such big business—in this case the athletic teams. The man that is nearest this business here is Wade Stinson, director of athletics.
For Stinson athletics is business first and sport second. Perhaps this is not the way he likes it—but this is the way he must live with it.
The rub is—athletics, by its nature, should be more than just coming out in the black on the last line of the balance sheet. It is a mix of many things that can not be bought: a potpourri of psychological drives, the drama of the conquerer and the realization of self-examination and other more secure elements buried far back in the human ancestry and mind. The nature of athletics, in its pure sense, does not lend itself well to financial
prostitution and pandering—no matter what Lamar Hunt says.
Wade Stinson has a job that should not exist. There is not a pair of rose-colored glasses in existence, though, that can change the facts.
When confronted, Wade Stinson gives straight-forward answers as he sees them. You wonder though, if a man in the business of buying and selling sport—two million dollars worth a year—sees it the same way you see it with a child, particularly because he is trying to deceive you—but you doubt that he perceives a line, even a faint one, between sport and business.
Wade Stinson is probably as good as they come at buying and selling sports, perhaps his critics, of which I am one, simply can not accept sport as business.
—Thomas E. Slaughter
Garry Wills
President Nixon is still telling people that what the country needs is a renewal of spirit—that he wants his interview with Allen Deury.
Nixon's Locker Room Manner
revive. Nixon also makes that clear; as in his recent visit to the Washington Redskins football team, meant to assure them they can still win one or two for the Gipper.
Few can argue against spiritual renewal. But it does depend on what spirit you want to
For Nixon, "spirit" means the winning spirit, a refusal to be
Number Two. The decline in American spirit he equates with a lack of competitive determination to dominate the world. He tells us we must shake off any self-doubt. He has even clenched out that dubious moral bogeyman, "The fall of Rome."
teaching us nations that refuses the task of leading others cannot even govern themselves. Loss of trust thrust internal decay.
In other words, the spirit of Nixon is talking about is the imperial spirit, the will to rule, to dominate, to conquer. The realities of American empire have always cloaked in non-religious "national interests" for us, "self-determination" for the Free World (our friends), "containment" for the Communist World (our enemies). But the reality of empire in the postwar can be put very simply: our goal is to American predominance in every non-Communist sector of the world.
This predominance could be economical or ideological, or both at once. It takes many forms—American "presence," or a client relationship to us, or a common front against our enemies. This is the kind of American imperialism that led some UN diplomats to rejoice when we were voted down on the Taiwan question.
No wonder Nixon was disturbed by that joyous outburst. He had to sacrifice Taiwan to his Wilson concept of big government, and foreign policy is not at odds with the kind of empire we have maintained; indeed, it provides a basis for it as Wilson proved in Mexico). But "The American has been imperial, should be forever—for the sake of other nations, and for our own sake."
The imperial fate is an inbult one; and if Nixon is going to talk about "the fall of Rome," he should go back to the great critic long decline, Edward Gibbon. The Englishman, the Roman Empire does not attribute the imperial crumbling to a loss of nerve—just the opposite. It failed by winning—as it did by Gibbon's trace the moral again. The latter was been wisely observed that, in a light of precaution, all conquest must be ineffectual unless it could be universal, since the circle must be involved in a larger sphere of hostility.
Empire must support itself by extending it, itself—until, the story of its own success itself. The story that UNU denies is the sentence of Gibbon: “There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obidence remote countries and reasoned opposition to their inclusion and acceptance.”
The story writ large in the Empire itself Gibbon finds an intrigue in the private fate of antiquities, and considers his actual forces as the instruments only of his future greatness, and his success was the immediate cause of his failure. We need Peter's Principle in empire—the "winners" build themselves up, and up to make their defeat a big one when it comes. If we have lost that spirit, we are better off with the more hope that Nixon's locker room pops tells us to recall it.
Copyright, 1971, Universal Press Syndicate
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Burt's Bummer
Finance; KU Blacks; Taiwanese Independence; Fast
To the Editor:
Your "Guest Comment" in Tuesday's Kansan was, to say the least, disconcerting. I noticed lacking its traditional little statement that each editorial column reflects only the columnist's own opinions its authors have taken for account of the column for your page lead the reader to believe that Mr. Carlyle's ideas (if such you can be called) coincide with those of the columnist. The Kansan has said that it represents the students and, by Mr. Carlyle's own estimate, 30 per cent of those students who are left with the conclusion that the almost one-third of the out-of-state representation on the Kansas editorial staff thought it was a bad idea, reflected the column without comment.
Let's forget for a moment the advantages of encouraging out-of-state students to come to KU. I move more the "cosmopolitan" idea, and I think of ideas, the fact that non-residents are subject to more stringent requirements for admission for which helps raise the University's reputation, and that it exposes many individuals to the state of Kansas (a state which suffers from a 'hitch' image and steady decline). But students tend to settle here. Let's concentrate instead on Mr. Carlyle's
It doesn't take a mathematics genius to figure out that after following the B-C formula for solving our financial problems the Kansas would be spending more than less. Not only that, but the Kansas taxpayers would still be financing the educations of other
If one accepts Mr. Carlyle's 30 per cent out-of-state student figure and that 19 per cent of the students from student tuition, then the elimination of the out-of-state student population means the loss of about 10 per cent of the "wired" students, non-resident students already pay tuition fees more than twice those of residents). If we then get rid of the "wired" teachers teaching staff to the tundra of 30 per cent, that does not mean that we get a situation where KU has only 70 per cent of its expenses. The students only a minority percentage of the total University expense and I doubt that the highly paid professors would be among the students at our point, we have a reduction in revenue of 10 per cent and a reduction in expenses of, say, up to 15 per cent. Now, Mr. Carlyle's staff's salaries at 20 per cent so they won't leave Kansas. Of course, it is tough to cut support students doesn't get rid of floors washed or cleaned to be kept.)
parents' children who intend to
leave the country (leaving the taxpayers, to fulfill Mr. Carlyle's nightmare, to wait entertainers for doctors and dentist patients).
—Frank Slover,
Frank Slover,
Lawrence graduate student
Editor's Note. The omission of the statement that "Editorials columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the editor" is an editorial page was inadvertant. The views expounded in the guest column by Bert Carlyle are not attributed to the Kansas author staff.)
I, too, severely question that
May I react to the article in Monday's UDK concerning the state of the black students at KU, and describe such a large subject, the article is extremely short. The bulk of it is history and the article only gets more detailed as you go through four paragraphs where it makes the generalization that "there has been a shift in attitudes from one of isolation from the University community to one of relation and association with the academic community on this on the opinions of two black (?) students, one of which. I understand, is a prisoner of the Association in Jayhawk Towers.
Black Isolation
To the Editor:
generalization as any kind of reflective norm of the black student community at university, unless they are starkly isolated from a mean small, a isolated "some." My own observation of the the University students is that they are still very much isolated in the University community and could not relate to indicate what they want to do. The University is whole even they wanted to because the University as a whole still cares the University as a whole still caring and associated with them.
I make two points here. One is that many black students do not care to commune with the African experience, and they exist. The University is geared to the needs of white America and capitalist America, if it is indeed true. It is a good for America is not necessary; precious little goes very far in dealing with the needs of the black population in America or a good for America is not necessary—not as blacks—not as America exists today). If many black students have adopted a role in this university's active role in creating a role of active change which is becoming more concerned with the Lawrence black community than with the University interest to black America, rather than with the University which has proved most resistant to the absence of black students in the past.
My second point is that the "University as a whole" still cares little about relating and
associating with black students. The institutional racism at university camouflaged for the sake of dealing with adequately in a short letter, but allow me to say few words about individual racism, particularly familiar with—the racism of KU students. White KU students are well known for espousing liberal and occasionally radical opinions on melts away. Underneath it all there is little understanding of racism in America or apologetic Americans have to live with. Whenever black students at KU attempt to demonstrate or build trust among the first to be intimidated are white KU students. They can possibly sympathize with blacks and group of blocks is threatening.
I assert that the problems at Ellsworth or Oliver, in particular women, be the students instead of being threatened by the black groups there were supportive as you would be them to be, they might underestimate you is happening among black people and the real need for black identity as a group among black people hostility and fear of black groups among white students as anything that contributes to an atmosphere of irritation from black students.
In summary, I feel that the rea- fact of life under which black students have to live at KU, and
which the article failed to realize, is that blacks may have gained some measure of acceptance at KU, but it is on KU's terms of one-it-time, and not as a group. It is likely diversity or by white KU students.
Bob Myers, Wichita senio.
Chinese Dilemma
To the Editor:
In reference to the University of Kansas December 3, we would have to count the distorted and misleading arguments made by Mr. Hsiang
First of all, the most significant implication of the expulsion of Chiang Kai-shek regime from United Nations is the element of the long-term controversial issue of the legitimate Nations. This indicates two important things; first, Chiang Kai-shek regime can manage its mainlanders nor 12 million Taiwanese. Second, Taiwan is Taiwan, China is China. The situation is unmistakely mixed up with the China issue again.
Talking about the legal status of Taiwan, we must go back to the Sino-Japanese War (1895) which led to a military coup in Japan. After World War II, General MacArthur authorized the Chinese Nationalists to occupy (militarily occupy) the country and establish power. In 1951, the Nationalists'
By Sokoloff
Griff and the Unicorn
Peace Treaty was signed with Japan in San Francisco which terminated Japan's "right to rule" of the country, then the legal status of Taiwan was left in limbo. Subsequently many countries, such as America and Japan, also officially recognized the peace treaty of Taiwan remains unresolved.
Despite Peking's cry of the "territory of Taiwan province," as claimed by Mr. Hsiao Huang, Taiwan has never been a part of Japan. Mr. Yoshimoto Sovereignty belongs to the people who reside in a territory.
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
The overwhelming majority of the people in Taiwan do not want to live under the totalitarian regime, and the police state of Chang Kai-shek. Therefore, the real issue is not Taiwan independence or the so called "reunification of China" people in Taiwan. If a poll were taken now to determine what status the people in Taiwan want for the island, I am sure that at least about half of people of independence. Of course, such a poll is impossible since just the mention of the words "independence" and "striction" of Taiwan will distractively accused as a communist move by the Chang Kai-shek regime and sentenced in military court according to 'slaver' ever-martial law.
Finally, we would like Mr. Hsiang Huang to learn to distinguish ethnic origin and culture from politics and to choose the best way to claim anyone of Chinese ancestry as Chinese no matter how far they are removed from China. I surely hope that Mr. Hsiang Huang would not call Anglo-Saxon American English, or call English as American origin or Indian. We are of Chinese origin but we are Taiwanese!
We would also like to remind Mr. Hsiang Huang that calling self-determination "a betrayal by a friend" is not a good idea, be thought of as a "brotherly
discussion and mutual consideration."
Post-doctoral Research Assoc Chemistry Department
Fast
We, the staff members of the campus ministries at K.U., give our full support and enrol students in our program on behalf of the poor to be held this Thursday, December 9, by students in several of the dorms. As individuals and families, we ourselves serve for the major meal that day and to send the money saved to the Emergency Service County (in care of Douglass County State University). We urge others to do the same.
We also need to find ways of translating our knowledge and concern into legislative and legal levels. The most pressing issue at this moment is the restoration and rebuilding of our state in Kansas. We hope people will write Governor Docking and their legislators, asking that this be done.
To the Editor:
A major task before us is to educate ourselves and others about the presence of the poor and their problems in the midst of the richest society ever on the world scene. Until every person receives the crippling effects of the poverty cycle, not one of us is fully free.
The concern for others in need is that students must be through the collection of food and clothing by students is just great. But much, much more needs to be done.
The Fast is a worthwhile tool that can help you get our thoughts together about the poor and to give some help to meet local needs. But let us also use it.
Mary Beth Kelly, Paul Baumann,
Dolores Heidrick, Dusty Stokz,
Bill Culter, Bad Dawalbe, Otko
Joseph Hunt, Adam Meyer, Jerry
Cerratt, Conon Donraid
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