4 Wednesday, December 1, 1971 University Daily Kansan KANSAN commen Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. Late Vacation Blues When I returned to Lawrence Sunday night I realized that I was just as tired as I was when I left. The vacation didn't do much to assuage the fatigue built up over nearly three months of school, This could be because I didn't spend a very restful five days, or because it takes me five hours to get home, but as I started classes I found that the actual many of my colleagues were suffering from the same affliction. This leads me to conclude that the reason the vacation did not successfully relax us is that it falls too late in the semester. We had our last Thanksgiving for 12 weeks before Thanksgiving vacation finally arrived. In the Spring, the semester is divided more equally, with Spring break falling after seven weeks of school, with six more when we return. A more equal division of the Fall semester would be in order. This would put the Fall vacation in the middle of October and would of course do away with the Thanksgiving vacation. The loss of the time during the Thanksgiving holiday would be regrettable, there is no question about that. For most of us, the Thanksgiving tradition is deeply ingrained, and it would be no doubt hard to adjust to the fact that we could not observe the holiday with our families. However, many of us have already made this sacrifice. The closeness of the Thanksgiving vacation to Christmas as well as its financial impossibility for many of those who live long distances from home to make both trips. A vacation more equally situated in the semester would not only provide a much needed break from the grind at a sooner date, but would also be financially more feasible by having it take a longer period of time. In other words, we would not have two large expenses right together. This is certainly not the most important question that has received attention on this page, but it is, I think, worth consideration. If you agree that an earlier vacation might be in order, talk to your State Senator if you have interest is shown, the matter may be considered by the University Senate, and something may be done to change the situation. Mike Moffet Readers Respond Annual; Internationalism; Pakistan Javhawker To the Editor: It appears that a Great Tradition has returned to the University of Kansas in excellent condition. One and cover have appeared punctually, fulfilling the staff's delivery before Thanksgiving. William A. Anderson Kansas City senior Mr. McKernan and his staff deserve a note of praise from their fellow students. May they be successful with their future editions Isolation This accomplishment is largely due to the efforts of Rick Eichner, editor of *The Editor* in determining what Jayman's sales promises for the first time in years. McKenan received a few days before the delivery date indicating that the product was finished but that it would be a week late in shipping. Mr. McKenan promised McKernan flew to Chicago, rented a truck, and shipped to Lawrence himself. It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that isolation is invivable when people of heterogeneous backgrounds come together People inately are different from others there is same background there is To the Editor: isolation. It's therefore a misnomer to predicate the "virtual isolation" (Abdul Said Sami, an assistant professor of foreign students, on the university community. We are unquively to be blamed too, and we have not been able to "virtual isolation." Because we have literally sequestered ourselves to a degree more than Americans are willing to accept, we have been forced by foreign brothers to deny the fact that even among us there is isolation. Despite the togetherness, the relationship has never been any togetherness. We have the African Club, Latin-American Club, Asian Club, etc. This very fact explains that we are clanish, and have a culture that accentuates the American culture. Moreover, very few of us have Americans as roommates. We have them as our neighbors, the seemingly stupid propensity to live among people from our own countries. I myself am not immune to this charge. We have an initiative to extricate ourselves from isolationism. Thus to blame the university community in absolute terms, is like blaming a milk or the price for the milk and beef milk. As a foreign student, I can only hope that we retreat from this irresponsible strait-jacket. I am more likely to support Macley (Carter to the editor Nov. 11, 1971) that the university community has done a lot to break this isolation—people-to-people, people-to-people, personally, my Lawrence host- Zap kids out of trees with point-blank tear-gas, cammasters hold the stumps and thump and sizzle and blind them so they crash to the ground with SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Say you were inventing a comic book character, to be called what. What would you have him do. Growing Up Under the Gun Furthermore, a weird filigree rose above the man's belt, and a sword blade ran down from this Garry Wills Or zoom up in helipopters, to bomb kids with such cannisters like a Vietnamese officer getting individual goops? Shoot his gun off in the air! Pull a hand gun on blacks, cook it, and go 'bang' (thus scaring a man) or into funny kinds of concern? than any historical scholarship as "a Spanish sword." Go into "battle" with students wearing a Spanish sword and a mediaeval mace? And where were such fantastic Well, no, you would not create such an unbelievable fulfilment of all the radicals' most paranoid imaginations. No one would believe I first heard of the thing from chuckling bummed faculty members, she told me in interviews. The local paper has a picture of him wearing a mace on his bell! I laughed politely, but did not winkle. I was surprised by all lots of cuts and security men wear liquid "mace" spray cans now. (And a good thing, too—they are an improvement on any kind Garry Wills examines a "Super P," cop, recently a Captain in the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department. His lesson to be drawn, Wells tells us. xoticite. The thing was lescribed in the paper, with what seemed a star at the right stylistic feel of the thing, rather But then I saw the picture that professor had referred to, and by golly, the mace was—a MACE! a mediaeval ball, with big spikes on it, hung from a chain knitting, slashing, crunching. 100 Noone, that is, but the students of Santa Barbara branch of the University of California. They were from a team called Cop, cop named Captain Jelco Honey, and I went along with the wake, enjoying but not basically going to college. No, none of these wild men but the Sheriff of Santa Barbara Barbara, who was shot and killed more, were included in the statement dismissing Captain Spencer. The Captain in question is protesting his long guilt, which led him to dismiss—which followed upon investigation and angry protests from both sides. He claims that he was objectionable; they were as objectionable in their conduct as he was. Very like, very like. But what does that say about the character of the captain? And, besides, others may have been as super in their own way as cups, but who was as quitically selfish? The military why he wore the sword and mace out into photographic public envelopes military sparkle would give higher morale to staggering troops (badly, it seems, in need of such boosts to their fighting Not, that is, until last week, when the charges were all made over again. this time not by ACLU or CLU7 Tom Hayden (who did happen to be on the campus, dashing up from Los Angeles where he now teaches at Immanuel University) Jerry Abbie Rubin-Hoffman? It is a strange chapter in campus history. Or American There are several morals—and the first one is this. If your children come home from college talking of wild police goings-on, as if the kids had been rehearsed by Hayden or Rubin, don't be confused if their diary guts confirmed by the authorities own report. And the deeper moral? Remember that, in many ways, our children have grown up under them. Even if that has an effect on them, makes them "different," makes them (who will not hope it?) different. poison history. Or our military power. Or even General Patton contended his life in the pearl hand on his pistol—no one hit the record hilt, and no moe any sort. family has done a lot for me. What are we foreign students giving as a reciprocal gesture? Due to the Civil War in Pakistan, over ten million refugees came into India for this year of their life, been the largest sudden displacement of people in the history of mankind —in the forms of -Kwadwo O. Akosh Asante-Mampong, Ghana (West Africa) Junior disease, malnutrition, and grossly inadequate shelter—of a magnitude that is difficult to imagine. small in relation to the enormity of the problem, we believe that a concrete response from the University and the Lawrence area to the needs of the Pakistani could be significant and important. We want to share our concern about the situation in East Pakistan and India with the University and the entire community. We strongly feel that private citizens as well as the government should be prepared to the emergency needs of the East Pakistani refugees. The Oread Friends Meeting has been and will continue to channel the funds we raise among our funds and from others into the project. While the amount of money sent from this community will be After all, who wielded the gun? Honey, only? Or you, too? And I. Copyright, 1971, Universal Press Syndicate Refugees To the Editor: We will be collecting funds in the Kansas Union on December 6, 7, and 8 at and the Hillcrest Shopping Center on December 10 and 11. Contributions can be any time to the East Pakistan Bank, Savings Acct. No. 118302, First National Bank of Lawrence -Members and Attenders of Oread Friends Meeting (Quaker) David Henry. Acting Clerk Sure! I'm a boss, ruthen, crooked, selfish monster! But remember, ... I got YOU elected!" James J. Kilpatrick WASHINGTON - The man brings a reproachful note from General Thomas A. Lane, a warmly respected lieutenant on the ground who closed a clipping of a recent column in which I opposed the prayer amendment in the House, because you were wrong on this issue." Disagreement on Prayer Issue Perhaps so. Most of my conservative brethren, at Human Events, National Review, and in *American Press* itself strongly supported the amendments. Thousands of thoughtful Americans, deeply concerned at the decline of religion as a force on public life, volunteered voluntary prayers be restored in public schools. The House rallied on November 8 found all but half a dozen conservatives voting against exception voicing "no." Arkansas, who is nominee flaming liberal, put presidential politics to the side and cast an especially courageous vote in Yet there was at least some disagreement in conservative ranks. Satterfield of Virginia, a Republican from Mississippi, Cabell of Texas, Steiger of Wisconsin—all of them possessed of pretty fair conservative credentials—otored to the endorsement resolution. Wilbur Mills of Ohio. financing, and revenue sharing with the States. The question fairly arises: How can conservatives, starting from This was not the only issue in recent months on which conservatives have disagreed. There are several ways to sidy for the supersons transport plane. There is the continuing question of China. We are not of one mind on the Subversive Party, and we are not preventive deception, campaign Why and how can conservatives come to opposite views? House prayer amendment? James J. Klipatrick says the answer lies in "a healthy introspection in putting principles to work." On the prayer amendment, for example, one would find no quarell among conservatives who have a concept of divine creation, and opposition. In my own view, at least, these gentlemen were right. the same general body of political philosophy come to opposite conclusions on particular issues? The answer lies not in any fundamentally different argument rather in a healthy independence in putting principles to work. the acknowledgement of divine power, are fundamental to conservative thought. Neither would one encounter the challenge of the church as a stabilizing moral force in society. We are united in believing that Congress should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or allowing the free exercise thereof. It was the same story, to get away from metaphysics, in the matter of the SST. Conservatives argue that it is no proper proposition, that it is no proper function of the Federal government. And an airplane intended for com- So far, so good. Our disagreement arises on the application of these principles to the particular resolution before the House on November 8. Was it a violation of the Constitution? Would it have strengthened the whole concept of religious faith to sanction prayer in public schools? Would the amendment, if ratified, foster a religious dissension? Here we went in different directions. mmercial use. But James Burnham of National Review, for one, believed strongly that the SST was a legitimate exception—that other considerations, having to do with continuing American citizenship, were of overriding importance. We divided on the question. Conservatives respect the prohibition against double jeopardy and defend the principle of equal protection, so they assumed innocent until proved guilty. But conservatives also believe that the state's primary property is the property of the people. Where did we go on preventive detention? Some of us followed Senator McCain as one of our follower Mr. Rehnquist. This is no bad thing. It is part of the nature of conservatives not to be regimented, not to be bound. We are not subjects of King Caucus and were not meant to be. 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