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Friday, October 29,1971
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Countdown '72
More than 2,000 people are expected to attend "Countdown" 72, Young Kansans for Kansas" a voter registration event that will be held in April this weekend.
Hopefully this conference will serve as the much needed spark to start a fire under newly enfranchised young voters in Kansas.
Unfortunately, registration has been exceedingly slow in the state and across the nation. The conference is designed to educate people in the ways and means of getting people to register.
several national and state political leaders will be leading forums and discussion groups in the effort to increase voter registration techniques.
Anyone may attend the conference as a delegate, after paying a $5 registration fee. The conference will be held at the conference and lasts until Sunday afternoon.
However, the most important event on the agenda is free and open to anyone on Saturday night at 7 p.m. in Mike Arehain Field House.
to the Nation" will be examined by Rep. Jack Kemp R-N.Y., a proadministration conservative; Rep. Allard Lowenstein, former U.S. Congressman and leader of the 1967-8 "dump-Johnson" movement and present chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action; Mr. Robert
Lee Grant, a black and former Under-secretary of Housing and Urban Development who was fired by the Nixon administration; and Dune Draper, President of the National Association of Student Governments.
For several years now, students have voiced their complaints with the workings of politics. Now, with the vote, they have the potential power to institute the changes that they have so long sought. Yet, they seem reluctant to take advantage of their new prerogative.
Attending Countdown '72 would then serve two useful purposes. It would educate us in the best ways to see much needed changes brought about, and it would show to the students that we are serious and sincere in our concern for the problems that we so often complain about.
—Mike Moffet
Taylor;Headline;Film...
Workshops on minority groups, women, high school students, what the youth vote means to the state of Kansas, the state convention system, reformation of the parties, and the election law and how it works will be included in the two day's activities.
Film Flam
In addition to the Saturday night forum, the conference will include several workshops, led by both state and national political personalities.
To the Editor:
-Tim Johnson Graduate Student, Film
When Barbara Schmidt castigated "Billy Jack" for, among other things, being too simple for her mind. I was surprised in that film a moving presentation of the complexities of the morality and effectiveness of pacifism and peacefarm Women Ms. Schmidt and Mr. The Confession I am less puzzled but equally applied. She lauds Costa-Gavras for avoiding the matte which she sees as simply appeals to the "masses." Instead she says, C-G gives us issues "well worth pondering," such as how should we maintain "matte" which she sees as simply appeals to the "masses." Instead she says, C-G gives us issues "well worth pondering," such as how should we maintain "matte" which she sees as simply appeals to the "masses." Surely one need not ponder for hours or even minutes to reject the forced confession. The Schmidt see's The Skin Game. She pondering the legitimacy of slavery? I found "The Confession disappointing precisely what we already know: as males can be forced to give a false confession. It certainly is not a flashy film, but it only seems realistic. It takes 18 minutes; long it is actually an hour shorter than that.
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Headline Rap
To the Editor:
I must urge a closer scrutiny of Kansan headlines before they go to press. In the October 20th issue, a prominent front-page bias of the Assembly Votes. Language Requirement Ended. If one read the following article closely one discovered that it was technically incorrect, and frequently misleading headline and the nebulous description of the proceedings one is led to a fallacious conclusion. The College assembly in fact did not end, and it voted to have the
Educational Policies and Procedures Study committee the feasibility of such a move. To achieve this, the requirement has been eliminated is a combination of wishful and irresponsible news coverage.
Please proofread your copy—not only for spelling errors, but also for errors of "fact."
Kathie Thurner,
Oliver CWC
representative to
the College Assem
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Taylor Friend
To the Editor:
I was sent a clipping of a recent article published in the Kansan on a former student, James Taylor; the article was entitled "James Tayler Sold Out." There is a picture of the teacher: "James entered the Milton Academy, a military school, where he spent about five years, and signed himself into $36,000 mental home in Malawi."
For your information, and in the service of accuracy:
(2) McLane Hospital is the offshoot of the Massachusetts hospital that deals with psychological cases—in a sense it is a "mental home"; but first and foremost, it's a first class hospital.
(1) Whatever we are at Milton Academy, we are not a military school.
Thought you might like to be better informed.
-v. O. Smith,
Editor,
Milton (Mass.) Bulletin
broadcast journalism major,
because of the Kansan's
traditional paranoid attitude
toward the electronic portion of
the journalism field, but I wish to
knew more about Kansan in the recent
controversy over its intended purpose.
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I will not be redundant by listing the services the Kansan provides to students here at KU, in the letter published October 25th. What I would like to do is to read the Kansan as a "lab" for reporting students, and those who the Kansan should be self-sufficient.
Kansan Kudo
To the Editor:
This letter may sound a bit
Journalism is a highly competitive field, as are most occupations today. Newspapers and magazines employ the most competent people they can find, and to be competent in journalism requires knowledge of the theories and basics. To obtain employment, a journalism student must be equipped to be keen to leave school. Very few news papers or broadcast stations will hire a recent graduate simply because of their background. Promise is shown in Reporting I. Competence is developed by working on the UDK. I wonder if this student will find lacking in the Kansan. These specifics have been con-
To the Editor:
To those who gripe about the student activity fee subsidizing the UDK I say why stop with a crumbs, a campus library. Why not get the really important things like our public schools? Why should those people who have no children, or whose children are ill or have property tax that supports public schools? Why should our federal taxes go to subsidize school programs? Hooray for self-publication! And good luck paying for your kind of school books and lunches.
Jack Alden, Lawrence, senior
TOPEKA, (AP)—State Sen. Harold Hardy, who a few months ago said he might become a governor candidate in 1972 to give the issues an airing, now says he wants public attention focused on him so he isn't likely to run because they might become obscured.
Herd's Issues
"To launch a campaign for some issues, which turns out to be a losing cause, sometimes hurts the issues," Herd said in an interview. "I don't want to hurt the cause I'm for."
Herd, Democratic minority leader in the Kansas Senate, said last spring he might run for governor as an independent next year. One Kansas editorial writer suggested Herd follow the other in his campaign. John Landsey and switch parties, running as a Republican.
The Coldwater Democrat sounds more like a non-candidate now than he did six months ago.
"I find my situation difficult to size up. He said, 'I know that you have a lot of support. But I’m not sure what kind of support I have. You need the party organization to primary; That’s where it counts.'
Herd confirmed he is not a favorite among some state Democratic leaders, and isn't likely to get their support. His liberal stance in the Senate and open opposition to some measure of Gov. Robert Decking have not set well with some party pros.
"The public is pretty well captivated by slogans, such as drug abuse, law-and-order, tax andld law reform." Herd said. "I don't want to traffic in slogans.
And, Herd wants to speak his own piece, not what somebody thinks voters want to hear, he said.
"I'd rather state what I believe in in specific terms, give the public a real choice.
"I can do this in the Senate. I "introduced bills to produce dialogue. I'm not in the position to exercise official leadership. All I can do is try to persuade people, and I'm in about the same
Herd, who has only seven Democratic colleagues in the Senate out of a membership of 40, said he doesn't believe he is in any trouble with the voters his southwestern Kansas district, as president of the NAACP, "I'm all right," Herd said. "That's what they want to think."
position in the coming legislative session that I was in the last time."
He said the 1972 session "is going to have to find some sources of revenue, but to hold our own" with inflation.
He foresees a slight upward state tax receipts which will be reflected in state revenues within about a month, but adds this will not be enough for the state to keep pace with inflation.
Besides keeping up with inflation, Herd is hopeful the legislature will see fit to restore some of the welfare cuts in the state of a supplemental appropriations of $7 million to $8 million.
He sees the graduated income tax as the best way to raise more money, and advocates adjusting the income tax brackets to bring in an additional $60 million—not just the $9 million the Taxation Joint Assessment and Taxation Committee has approved.
"I don't think the committee went nearly far更近," said Herd. "It needs to be graduated more than that; it needs to produce an additional $60 million from the income tax."
"I'm not talking about increase in the budget that much, but I'm talking about programs from the local level and financing them at the state level—the junior colleges, special technical schools and mental health."
Herd sees some chance of changing the income tax bracket to produce the revenue he's talking about.
"I haven't found that legislators come up here with closed minds," he said, "I think if you want to change anything you have to be well-prepared and present a good program.
"I think it can be done."
Portfolio
—By Pat Malone
Garry Wills
Press Saved Nixon More Court Grief
Mr. Agnew got back to America just in time. You know how he feels about the nattering nabbs of negativity who give in to the pointy-heads of the press. Well, he had a brand-new target on his return. His boss.
The President had cravenly surrendered to a prejudgment on his Court appointments. He was ready to appoint two people, until the press sniffed out the two and roundly called them misfits.
Talk about instant analysis! This was – in the Agnew item—proleneptophesying pre-analysis. It rejected nominees before their nomination.
The process also involved an unauthorized leak. John Mitchell huffed
and puffed over the fact that the Bar Association's list of nominees made its way into the news. Indeed, President Nixon, in an unquicker mishap, is said to have made a foolish wished a pleasant act—but meant to be felt as uneasant—upon the Bar Association. (This, you remember, is one of the 1600 ever Harry Truman's profanity.)
The President is being ungrateful. Even his best friends—except, of course, Mr. Mitchell, who specializes in the use of a fire extinguisher to appointments—think the anticyclone fury saved him from a bruising confirmation battle. The sigh of relief was audible everywhere when he named the president after himself, Lewis Powell and William Behnquist.
Even then he raised some of the old irrelevances by stressing Powell's place of residence (the South-how that does grab you, Wallace followers?) and Mr. Rehqunit's connection with the president, who is indeed, he called Rehqunit "the President's lawyer's lawyer," which is a cruel charge when we remember who
the President's lawyer is, and the strange views he takes of the law.
Ability to function compatibly with this justice Department might in itself be considered a disqualification for the Court. It means that Rehnquist has worked with officials bringing up potential jurors with General Grand Jurists as fishing expeditions, introducing illegal evidence in Chicago, illegally arresting Leslie Bacon, legally detaining thousands last May, making filings charges against Daniel Kahnemann, and binding parole laws to bring about de facto preventive detention while asking for de jure preventive detention, along with extensions of bugging and tapping. Quake a record this Department has made, and if Rehnquist is proud of it, he would have been able to work a working relationship with this Department of Justice could make a man permanently insensitive to justice. One wonders if Nixon consulted his lawyer's lawyer before praising the gunbate diplomacy at Attica?
Still, the two will probably be confirmed. Senators will jump at the chance to approve these men, shuddering over what might have been, and putting up a bill to put up if these two are knocked down.
Nixon will get credit for rising above his attempts to find puppets for the supreme bench—and he owes it all to the press, to leaks that informed him ahead of time that this thing would not go down. If the press had ferreted out more facts about Vietnam, it might not have been retracted and retractively on our blinders there, by publishing the Pentagon Papers. We might not have made the blenders.
No wonder Nixon dislikes the press (and now, apparently, the American Bar Association)—it is a threat. It might save him from that darker self which tries to disregard warning signals. He tells him what happened at the bar itself, self, a pleasant act (meant to be felt as unpleasant) on the A.B.A. But that is better than inflicting such an act on the Supreme Court.
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Beneath the Malmsey Mountains
Beyond the reach of kings
There dwelled a motley crew of dwarves
Who lived on diamond rings
They ate up diamond rings all day.
And played at cards all night.
And anyone who dared to cheat
Was forced to fly a kite
One day they sailed to Malomar
the journey took a year
 Their ship was a harmonica
Their anchor was a mirror
At last they touched the boat to shore
And lied it to a tree
They broke for lunch at two o'clock
With caramels and tea
They wandered East, they wandered West
They wandered in a daze
At last they shook their heads in grief
And went their separate ways
Some joined a safari
To hunt the wildebeest
Others became tailors
Making sukis out of yeast
Some sailed on to Zanzibar
To paint the natives blue
The rest just sat around and stared
Not knowing what to do
They felt the days slip gently
And heard the ocean sing
At night they slept beneath the stars
And dreamed of diamond rings
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
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