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Thursday, October 28,1971
University Daily Kansan
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Senate Action Lauded
In action taken last night the Student Senate reversed its decision of a week ago and by doing so restored funding to the University Daily Kansan and changed the composition of the governing board of the Kansan, the Kansan Board, to four students and three faculty members.
The Senate should be commended for first admitting it may have made a mistake last week and then taking appropriate action to correct that mistake.
From the first, the issue has been one of "faculty domination" of the paper and Board vs. more student input.
Critics both within and outside the Senate contend the Kansan is controlled by faculty members within the School of Journalism. Even our most ascorbic criticism would be hard pressed to document one such instance, I submit, rather, that a very special dialectic occurs pitting a great deal of youthful eublence against prodding questions from men who know the business and its pitfalls. In all instances the Editor, a student, is the final judge of the editorial content of the paper.
Of the need for more student input. The Senate, rightly so, feels the Kansan should be controlled by students. With its action last night the Senate has guaranteed that control. In addition, the Senate also established a committee to further investigate the issue of student representation on the board.
By admitting momentary capriciousness and then moving responsibly to correct its action the Senate can only boost its credibility with those students it represents.
—Tom Slaughter
Guest Editorial
By SANDI REED
Editor, Kansas State Collegian
It seems that everyone in this country but the Kansas Board of Regents knows what the phrases "channels of communication" and "meaningful dialogue" mean.
Friday, the board decided to continue a 1955 policy of not disclosing their monthly meeting agenda.
Instead of opening channels of communication, members of the Board of Regents are purposely keeping them closed.
They are, instead, going to continue running higher education Kansas in secrecy at the expense of students.
ONLY THE NINE members of the board of regents and the presidents of the six state colleges in Kansas are notified of what's going to be talked about at each meeting.
Speculation is not to be dreaded by the regents. At least it is one way of opening those channels. And pressure groups shouldn't be feared. They have valid points, too.
Regents do so much of their work outside of the monthly formal meeting that students don't have a chance.
Regents say they don't want to release their agenda before a meeting because it would cause speculation by Kansas newspapers and bring pressure from certain groups.
It's simple to tell that regents make up their minds about an item before it's ever placed on the agenda. Dissent, either vocally or by vote, is rare at a regents meeting. Most of their approvals are unanimous.
OBVIOUSLY, the regents must have scads of information about an item if they all vote in favor of it.
But again, only the regents have that information.
We, as students, are asked to accept anything approved by the regents as valid. It's too bad they
keep their justification for voting a secret.
"We work through committees," they say. Fine, why keep committee meetings under their hats? If they sincerely are interested in students, why not hold open meetings?
Who do they think is interested in education if students aren't?
AFTER THE REGENTS met last month, an editorial accusing them of overt secrecy appeared in the Collegian. As an answer to that editorial, the regents have said over and over and over that the writer did not do her homework.
The regents didn't do theirs
They justify secrecy by saying that the majority of their work is done in committees (of regents) and that students just don't understand how the board operates.
After all, they say, the regents are very busy men.
IF A STUDENT wanted to let regents know what he thought about something they're considering, he is out of luck before he starts.
First, he can hardly find out when or where the regents are going to meet, especially committee meetings.
Second, he has no way of knowing when the regents are going to discuss anything. He can't even write a letter to the regents because he doesn't know what they will discuss when.
Third, if he goes to a meeting he can't get on the agenda because "the regents are very busy men" and don't have time to listen to one student's views at formal meetings as they whin through the agenda.
Let's hope that someday the regents will realize they work in a sterile atmosphere void of the feelings of students.
Let's hope that someday the regents realize that students can contribute their ideas.
Don't hold your breath until the channels open and the dialogue starts. Be prepared for a regent nomologue for a long time.
James J.
Kilpatrick
What Should The World Do With the UN
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—The Security Council last week adopted a wind resolution on South West Africa. The General Assembly this week will vote on the Chinese question. To the players on the scene, these are aba- bruges, and the decisions doubless bring a certain symbolic meaning.
But in their effect upon the real world, do these infinite debates, strategems and full-blown resolves carry significant weight? Do they matter? The candid answer is, no. These are popper resolutions, crusty on the outside, so much hot air within. South Africa will pay no more attention to Wednesday's pronouncement than a Chinese official will do as China will do. The world's greatest hope for peace has become the world's most flabulent bore.
WHAT IS TO BE done with the United Nations? Earl Warren, in an address at
Belgrade last summer, started off with some sensible recommendations, but the former Chief Justice cannot stay sensible long. Before he had finished, he had wandered off in the same old follies. He was once again demanding that member nations provide the UN a certain level of peacekeeping functions". He was urging that member nations "accept the jurisdiction" of the World Court.
Now, granted, Warren's premises are valid. They are the same premises propounded for many years by such thoughtful men as Norman Cousins and Charles Rhye—in brief, that "national" measures no longer suffice on a planet troubled by problems that the seas, polluting in scope; pollution of the seas, polluting in the winds, global communications, the extinction of species, and so on.
YET NONE OF the global thinkers, it seems to me, takes into sufficient account the facts of political life. In the
their vision of nations as they ought to be, the one-worlders lose sight of nations as they are.
Last week's dumbrew in the matter of South West Africa offers a timely case in point. The Security Council has demanded that the "Namibia" but Namibia does not exist. There is no such thing. It is like Camelok, the Land of Oz, and Yoknapatsiapu County. It is known that it is that everyone knows this.
THE COUNCIL'S resolution demands that South Africa yield to an advisory opinion of the World Court. The notion is that a law of rule must be obeyed. But the Court will not issue any ruling, nor fails in force, for most of the members of the Court are no more than ventriloquist's dummies. South Africa will continue to administer the affairs of South West Africa; the EU is powerless over South East Africa, so it is on a larger scale. Is it
seriously imagined that the Soviet Union would surrender its imperative political and territorial interests to the United Nations? Come closer home: Is seriously imagined that the United States will be in any vital matter? Plainly not. That is why the vex exists. That is why the old Cold War Resolution will not be repealed.
THE ANSWER, it seems to me, to is preserve those things the UN can do, and to abandon those things the UN cannot do. There is indeed a great and important role that the UN serves as a service agency, as a conference host for coping with some of the problems Earl Warren mentioned. If the UN confined its labor to preserving the seas, it might be respected; but so much more important and with impotent demands that South Africa must from a territory vital to South Africa, the UN will be treated with contempt. Any such recasting of the UN would demand a complete rewriting of the climate policy. Surely it would be better for the UN to implement modest areas than to be fable in large
(C) 1971
Readers Respond
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McColl; Poll; Trash; Tenure...
To the Editor;
I would like to comment on Mr. Green's negatively oriented and highly unfaltering portrayal of the McColl in Tuesday's Kansan.
Mr. Green did little background research on Dr. McColl and his "interview" was conducted over the phone at dinnertime at the McColle home. Mr. Green neglected to mention the lack of academic background or academic achievements such as the fact
that Dr. McColl was the recipient of the Standard Oil Company award for outstanding teaching, leadership and service to Dr. McColl's expertise in the area of Southeast Asian affairs and an intensive study of Red China
No mention was made of the fact that Dr. McCullah has had other teaching opportunities but chose to stay at KU, Mr. Green and the University of Kentucky, with attitudes two-thirds way into the article and used poor judgement
with the headline: KU Discourages McColl.
Why didn't this article follow the same complimentary format as the articles on Arm Knapper. The Forer and Kenneth Armitage?
I think that Mr. Green did her McColl a great injustice and possibly hurt his chances for his education for the HOPE award.
If this is the kind of con- sideration that is shown to one of the finest teacher-scholars at KU.
By Sokoloff
Griff and the Unicorn
then Dr. McColl indeed has every right to be discouraged with KU.
Linda Greenberg Boston, Mass. Junior
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff.
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To the Editor:
After having read the election results of the recent student poll, we have found what we perceive in slight discrepancy in the results.
We understand that 3442 ballots were cast. However, it is interesting to note that only 3201 students bothered to make a first ballot and 286 students were made by 2871 and 2506 students respectively. One would think that everyone who bothered to vote would most certainly make a first choice; however 2462 students, which seems to be a little odd to us,
The other possibility is that 246 ballots were misaid and consequently were not counted. If the ballot was correct, the whole poll in terms of first choice made could be changed, since there existed less than a 200 vote difference between choices of candidates and trunkers of the poll. We feel some sort of clarification is necessary, lest a credibility gap occur between the representatives and the heaven (Heaven forbid such a thing).
Furthermore, we recommend that the UDK take a poll of its own, in order to see if the student body favors funding the antics of the Student Senate, a topic which the Senate's poll somehow avoided.
We feel that this is only fair, since the UDK has been the source of criticism from the press and time that someone allow the people to criticize that auspicious body. The mechanism of the poll could be to provide official ballots for the Senate and then through ballot boxes distributed throughout campus. The results of such a poll would be about as valid as the Senate's report because it will be non-binding on the Senate, too.
Joyce Hodges, Merriam sophomore
To the Editor:
I would like to know what can be done about putting trash cans at various points on campus. The cans are not in a building, is on the ground or in those brown containers in front of the buildings used for cigarette ashes. It takes a lot of time to pop cans and those items are full.
I don't see why, with all the talk about ecology, there isn't already waste containers on campus. I park an empty can to carry an empty can or paper cup all the way across campus to a trash can, nor do I care to stop and go into a building just to buy an empty can or paper cup.
Therefore if trash still appears everywhere on campus after the trash containers are here, we will blame them to blame but our selves.
There should be trash cans or some form of trash disposal so that it will be convenient just to throw away the garbage while walking across campus.
Harold Hodges
Springfield, Mo.
junior
—Moses Twiggs,
Honolulu sophomore
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To the Editor:
The war continues.
Monroe Dodd KU Class of 1971
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To the Editor:
I found the article "Tenure Based on Teaching, Research and Service" in the Oct. 19th issue of *Teaching*; interesting. However, there was a question left in my mind concerning the department of mathematics. According to Paul S. Mostert, chairman of the math department at first-class mathematician; a professor must be capable of working out his own ideas and producing his own research and teaching through 21 hours of math (required) and helping other students with their problems. I wonder how much emphasizes the department of mathematics on the teacher's ability to teach.
—Lee Knapp, Easton senior
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