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Friday, November 5,1971
University Daily Kansan
Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Last weekend in Manhattan, about 250 young people of all political persuasions gathered to participate in a two-day workshop designed to educate them in the ways and means of vote
a conference was a success—there were lively discussions of the problems of registration and a demonstration of the program.
Jack Kemp, a conservative Republican congressman from New York, well represented the Nixon administration at the conference. Allard Lowenstein, chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action and a former Democratic congressman from New York provided a liberal
The workshops were helpful and the speeches were informative, but the conference was not so successful.
The conference planning had been hampered from the start by harassment from state Republicans. Leading the fight to underwrite the budget, Gov. John Kerry Macky, Riley County Republican chairman.
Because the Republicans had not been asked to have a part in the planning of the conference, which was handled by the Association of Student Governments (ASG). Mrs. Mowry sought to get the conference removed from the K-State campus on the basis that it was not bipartisan.
Her charge grew out of the fact that the two major speakers were to be Rep. Paul McClusey, R-Calf, and Lowenstein. McClousey is running against Mr. Mowry, who is not Her mrs. Mowry's kind of Republican.
Although ASG asked the Republicans to provide speakers for the conference, they refused, apparently to undercut the credibility of the government. The president and the coordinators of setting up a partisan affair.
Undaunted by refusals at the state level, the conference sent letters of invitation to the whole Kansas Congressional delegation. They received replies from one Republican who couldn't come,
and Rep. Bill Roy, a Democrat who agreed to attend.
In a further effort to get Republicans to attend ASG representatives went to Washington to talk to Senator Dole Chairman of the Republican National Committee. They were unable to see Dole.
The Republicans then said they would be willing to take part only if McCloskey was taken off the speakers agenda. ASG took this suggestion to the governing board of the conference, student body presidents of the state's universities and colleges, which refused to make the concession.
Morty Wewert to the President of K-State,
James A. McCain, and tried to get him to remove the
passport.
The tactics of harassment that the Republicans used were not pretty. Mike Manning, vice-president of ASG and the chief coordinator of the conference, said that the commissionist and his organization a company from
Then McCloskey cancelled out and the Republicans were back in. They provided Kemp to replace him. No sooner had the conference begun than Dole magically appeared on the scene, made a short speech in one of the workshops and held a short news conference and left.
No one can deny the Senator's importance in matters of voter registration, and it was kind of him to work the Manhattan stop into his crowded schedule.
But neither can anyone deny that the sudden appearance of Dole looks like an attempt to capture the spotlight for the Republicans, especially in view of the recent attacks on the conference coordinators from the beginning.
Senator Dole has assured me on more than one occasion that the Republicans intend to get their jobs back.
The truth of that statement and the fact that the republicans intended to use any means whatsoever against us is a very important one.
The success of such tactics remains to be seen.
Mike Moffet
Portfolio . . .
—By Dennis Lingle
James J. Kilpatrick
Kilpatrick Likes Nixon Court Choices
WASHINGTON—The President announced his two nominations for the Supreme Court a little before 8 o'clock and the wire services began calling around Capitol Hill looking for reaction. The nominees were Lewis P. Powell of Arizona and William Reinhouston of Arizona. Did they strike Emanuel Celler?
Celler has been misinformed as to Powell, the Virginian is a man of law, not of ideology—but his brief comment invites renewed appreciation of the time when he was appointed that "it would not have appointed him." Of course not. But Mr. Celler is not President of the United States. More to the point, neither is Hubert Humphrey; but Powell appointed him either. But Richard Nixon is; and Richard Nixon did.
The old New York liberal, dean of the House and chairman of his Judiciary Committee, allowed himself a small sigh. "On the whole, good," But Powell described to him as an archconservative, and "I would not have appointed him."
This is of the essence. On the domestic side, a President's power to nominate members of the Supreme Court is by far his most important power. If he chooses wisely—wisely, if he chooses wrongly—he can he get his nominees confirmed, a President can leave his own lengthened shadow on the law. "We live under a Constitution," said Hughes in the famous line, "but the Constitution is not." He said it was "Precisely. And how do we get our justice, get them by presidential nomination.
It is curious that so many persons in public life appear to be discovering this truth so belatedly. Two factors may account for the sudden banz of liberal leaders when a new president, the first is Mr. Nixon's candidacy—one trustworthy, in this instance, that the President had not been quite so candida. The second is recent history. Mr. Nixon's immediate predecessors—Truman, Elonhower, Kennedy and Obama—seemed never to know what to do with it. None of them was a lawyer. It makes
Powell for 30 years as a great lawyer and a good citizen; he is the best Virginia has to offer, and by the end of his career he will have colleagues, perhaps the best the hat has to offer. Rehqum is possessed of a formidable intellect; he is as profound a student of the Constitution as any Sam Clouse of Fortus, and he is only 47. He will grow.
Nixon's own judgment is that his two nominees share his judicial philosophy. "I would imagine that it may be charged that they are conservatives." But surely it is Mr. Nixon's right deliberately to choose conservatives, just as it was Roosevelt's right to name museums. This is the way the system supposed to work. Mr. Humphrey would lose Powell and Rehquiz—or Burge Blackman either. But Mr. Humphrey didn't win. Wait till next time.
Truman thought of honoring his pals. Heaven alone knows what Elswinhoe thought. Kennedy and Johnson had two chances each, and they used them to reach out for help. Each paid a political debt- White and Goldberg, Fortas and Marsal, Nixon is thus the first President since Roosevelt to exercise his appointive duties. He was also both and deliberately, in the acknowledgment of achieving particular ends at law.
a difference.
If such a power were absolute, our system would fail. The judicial branch gradually would fill up with rubber tubes and connectors to the power is not absolute. It is checked first by the Senate's power to withhold its consent, and second by the device of life tenure. The power is checked also by punishment and by political pressure.
When all the checks and balances work perfectly, we get to the point we have reached just now. Powell and I have been talking with the Court for service on the Court. I have known
The President has acted responsibly in every sense of the word. One deviously hopes the Senate will respond in kind.
Copyright 1971 The Washington Star
Readers Respond
Countdown'72; Bikes; Recycle...
Through their participation in Countdown, 72 the KANSAP and the College Republicans had the opportunity to program for the taste of the Countdown officials, especially the ASG representatives. This is an important part of the engulshing, and brought them to lash out in the press at Senator Hillary Clinton's general. Through some very fine and articulate speakers the GOP was not routed, which threw the entire focus on the drain. As could be expected.
Countdown
To the Editor:
Press coverage of Countdown, 72 has been handled from the first by the staff working out of Manhattan hatched by Mike Manning, vice-president of the U.S. Government's. Manning and the ASG have engineered several similar "non-partisan" conferences which have been stacked with speakers aiming to pump Xion movement among the elite enfranchised voters.
I went to Countdown "72 this past week, and also participated in discussions of the aims of the conference previous week. I learned that this "non-partisan effort had been in the works for many, many months, at the University, highlighted speakers of the conference (Rep. Bill Roy. Rep. Jody Wilson-Rayborn). He had invited him. I also learned that it was not until about five or six weeks before the Republican Congressman Brian Harris was asked to invite Senators Dale and Pearson. Sen. Dale and Pearson are Republicans National Committee, has his schedule filled some six to eight months in advance. Senator Pearson is usually available on his website, but I noticed. The countdown people knew this from experience, and that is what angered the state decided to hold another, more secretive position of the program, the College Republic Clubs across the state decided to hold another, more secretive position of the program, which was secretly panied. After much further discussion and consideration, this decision was made. It decided to work with the Countdown staff and attempt to balance the conference's very high level with some Republican speakers.
when the ASG people lost at their own little game they cried "foul" to the press; and said that they were tired of playing.
This weekend has shown me many things about who will face them, how I will be willingly, and who, when disgusted means of twisting and conniving will, will pack up their assets to save the others that others will see beyond the scade shown to the press and recognize the real significance of this event.
Larry Cook Meriden, freshman
Reclamation
To the Editor:
Two recent Kanas articles concerning the Reclamation Center, one on page 3 of the November 2 issue and the November 2 issue which mentions it in connection with the Kanas, them raise a number of questions.
The November 1 article is in jarring contrast with previous reports that the citizens we were told that the Reclamation Center was operating the dam, but was not supporting the sufficiently. Bill Ebert, Molly Laflin, and others have taken a stand against the citizens of Lawrence for the dam.
Now, however, Gary Jacobs, the SALARRED Center director, informed me that could happen would be for all Lawrence citizens to recycle their cans and bottles for this reason. We don't abrupt reversal leaves those of us who have supported the center as a donor and raises some questions.
4. Finally, is it really true that recycling of cans and bottles in
1. How much of the Center's
how difficult to lift a
sloppy hand; funds such
the reported disappearance of
Center mems from Bill Ebert'
from the paper?
3. How much of the difficulty is due to the Center's director seemingly being more interested in research than in "dissinforming information on legal research, consumer protection, and voter action" than in the hard and dirty job of managing cans of cans and bottles?"
2. How much of the financial support is being a pork-barrel project for friends of student government officers as suggested in the 1970s?
Lawrence is not economically feasible and if so why not?
If the Center's difficulties are due to any of the first three possibilities above the solution should be hired on the basis of ability and not friendship for the selecting committee. The director should institute strict accounting of all funds and should be primarily interested in recycling not passing out pamphlets.
If recycling is not economically feasible then the solution is more difficult because it involves a costly process and should be closed and the manpower and money going into it diverted to more productive industries, goal legitimacy I understand and goals goal require that University concessionaires and hopefully all sellers of soft and alcoholic beverages can be sustainable containers. The Center was accepted as a practical compromise but if it is not feasible the centers should seem to be a good alternative.
The November 1 article hints that the Reclamation Center has begun to change its course but is still open. If an environmental information center is more productive than a station, it will establish a let's do so honestly and openly instead of deviously behind the scenes while continuing to deliver front to front to "continue involvement."
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Quite a number of people have tried to make the center work including a number of Lawrence citizens who continued their activism by supporting activists lost their interest and went on to their next cause. Some interest has been aroused in surrounding towns also. We like to emphasize that some contribution in solving the environmental problems but now it appears we were merely being entertained until we could be more involved in manipulation can only arouse resentment and if it continues will decrease the response to any future attempts by students to enlist community help for any environmental or otherwise.
Roger Burkhart Graduate Student Woodward, Iowa
Club Politics
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
The International Club organizes many activities on this
campus and your newspaper covers some of these activities. I wish to thank you and your staff for their help, though your staff covers some of these events very well. I need to keep the background of some of these events in order that they may truly understand the objectives of the organization, discussions, and movies which have political tones, and more specifically, I refer to the recent Union. Your newspaper covered it under the headline—War No. 15. The Union in the issue of November 2, 1971.
During the past years the International Club was criticized as being an organization which does not student body but organize parties and dances which contribute little or nothing towards better education and nationalities. This criticism was justified especially since last year, some groups refused to attend the Festival because they claimed the club does not give an opportunity to express themselves as cultures they are not meant to be. They felt that it was unfair for the club to ask them to present non-political items at the festival and sing on a stage and amuse a crowd when our hearts are filled with grief about the plight of our students.
The world is bed of robes, there are conflicts of opinion throughout. It is very difficult to form a consensus in the international Festival when these conflicts mean war—starvation, threats of death and institution. However, the introduction of international politics at the Festival will serve no good purpose while the abstinence of tourists from the Festival does produce some understanding of other cultures. The International Club will host an international International Festival program.
On the other hand, during this year the club is catering to those who have never been around and present their culture without some reference to its "politics" by bringing it up.
national or regional clubs affiliated with the International Club. At these forums, these groups will present whatever they feel is important towards understanding their culture, regardless of content of the presentation and as long as it complies with the laws of the country. The International Club will not be held responsible for any controversy arising out of the content of the forums, because we chose to maintain a neutral position on international political issues.
Hence, the club wishes that when your readers read about international Club sponsored forums, they should bear in mind the diversity of interests every group within the diverse international community an equal opportunity to express themselves, and that the Internationals does not necessarily agree with the content of these forums.
Ronnie Sookhoo,
President
K.U. International Club
To the Editor:
Bike Bitch
Traditionally, pedestrians at KU have enjoyed a certain deferential treatment by motorists; that the pedestrian is equally accustomed the right-of-way in virtually all circumstances. Since the beginning of this semester, however, with the exponential increase in the number of accidents across Jawayh Boulevard necessitates the risking of one's life. Cyclists should take example from the tradition of motorists and yield to pedestrians who are occasionally pedestrians).
I would like to urge all cyclists who ride on or near, campus to be more considerate of the health and safety of students especially while riding next to the boardwalk. A small amount of discretion as concerns speed and courtesy would make walking a safer route for the students who must walk.
Greg Wetzel,
Overland Park, Senior
Griff and the Unicorn
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