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Monday, October 25,1971
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Universities Must Change
The post-war funds feast has ended. The battle of the university has begun. For the first time in years, colleges and universities across the country, KU among them, have failed to receive what they asked for in money and, in many cases, have had their requests slashed to bits by hostile legislatures.
There are those who say more money would solve all. Interestingly enough, most of them have a connection with or are within the educational structure. Give us more money, they say, and our faculty will remain, probably without forming a union, and we can begin new programs "return to the business of education."
That, I submit, is pure bunk and those who say money is the only issue are sadly mistaken. Perhaps the faculty would be satisfied with higher salaries and perhaps new programs could be initiated and old ones rejuvenated. But to legislatures must resist the multitude of groups and institutions, those of higher education must seem minor indeed.
The real issue is education itself, what it does, what it should do. Higher education today is perceived as a training system for the white-collar worker, so almost everything about the system is geared toward training.
One columnist has described a degree as representing a reward for hard work and an "iron butt." And he is right. For too long higher education has placed a premium on form—structured courses and regurgitation—rather than on content.
Now a society with more historians than plumbers, a society that can't find anybody to fix the car but half a dozen people that can discourse on the sociological impact of the auto is wondering what sort of
monster it has created. How foolish to lavish money on a training system when its products can't even find jobs.
So the educational community has come face to face with reality. Does it continue to act as a training system or does it remove all emphasis on future rewards and concentrate on learning? If schools concentrate on learning without realizing good jobs were to be had without a degree, would elect not to attend college?
Where would higher education be then? The key seems to lie in what is happening outside the educational community. There. living is becoming increasingly complex, where at the same time people are having more leisure time.
Educational innovation is being aimed more and more at those sort of people—people who work but have enough time to learn and want to do
Perhaps the end result will be that the structure of higher education will be similar to the experimental University Without Walls or to the campuseschool housed in the Empire State Building.
But whatever, if the colleges and universities, KU included, are to survive, they must change, look to leadership, take their role in society is to be ever larger.
However, many schools, KU included again, seem to think that they need only cry like a spoiled child who didn't get his way, and the money flow will begin again so "business flow can continue as usual."
That notion is a relic of the past. Says Calvin Strowig, speaker of the Kansas House: "Higher education has been very reluctant to change their way of doing things, but maybe they're going to have to change."
"business as usual" is no longer good enough. —Dick Hay
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Guest Column
On Freeing Angela Davis
By JOHN WEISMILLER
Angela Davis is in solitary confinement.
However, as a result of her confinement under these conditions, her eyesight is failing, and her health, never robust, is becoming worse.
She has been in jail for just over a year, and for ten months of that time she has been in the Marina, Calif., jail. The cell she is being held in is a small one and has no windows. She has been twice in jail for short "exercise" periods.
FOR WHAT CRIME is this brave young woman being held under these conditions? For being an accessory in the murder of a judge of the Marin County court, for establishing this basis for this charge is that the murder was committed with a gun owned and registered by Professor Davis. However on May 5, 1971, the transcript from the case was made public, and revealed that there is no evidence that Angela Davis knew of the attempt by Jonathan Jackson (brother of the slain Sololeal Brother, George Jackson) to free three young women in the Marin County courthouse.
Since Jackson and Professor Davis were friends, it is not unlikely Jackson
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"borrowed" the gun without permission, in order to keep Angela from becoming involved in the plot.
In spite of this obvious attempt at a frame-up, the state has decided to prosecute Professor Davis anyway, and
Officer of Marin County, and in the face of the resignation of Marin County Administrator, Alan Bruce, in protest of a denial of hail to Professor Davis.
IN ANSWER TO Judge Arnason's
John Weismiller is a 24-year former KU student who lives in Lawrence. He is chairman of the Lawrence Free Angela Committee, a member of the Women's Worker (IWW), and an applicant for membership in the U.S. Communist Party.
despite the fact that California law allows bail in this case, the judge has consistently refused to grant bail. He does this in the face of a highly favorable report from James B. Soerraert, Chief Deputy Prosecution.
refusal to grant bail, there has arisen all around the world a "Free Angela" movement. Sponsored and supported by groups ranging from the National YWCA and the United Presbyterian Church to the Workers and Communist
Parties of the world, this movement is active in raising money for the Legal Defence Fund and getting signatures on legislation for Demanding Bail for Angela Davis."
This petition, which is being circulated on the KU campus, simply requests that the court follow the recommendation of Mr. Soeraert in granting bail, so that Professor Davis and participate to a greater extent in his own defense. It is not an appeal for amnesty, as many people seem to feel.
AS THE MOVEMENT TO Free Angela spreads, support comes from such widespread praise as Honolulu and Lagos, Nigeria, from Perth, Australia (Uman, Puerto Rico; from Tel Aviv, Israel), from Puerto Movement is a movement of the people and the Free Angela Committees are grass roots organizations. They cross racial, ideological and national lines in the first truly international movement. The court will listen to us, but the peoples of the world are speaking out.
In closing, let us remember that the United States is a baseball country—three strikes and you're out. Angela has three strikes: she's Black, she's a woman, and she's a Communist, but must she be out?
Readers Respond
Kansan Defended; Editorial Criticized
Kansan OK
To the Editor:
I cannot, and until I'm fully convinced, will not, accept the disagreements from the disagreements on the purpose of the University Daily
Is it so wrong for a campus newspaper to inform its readers? It is not noteworthy that the reporters on the Kansan often bring out a paper for the students, faculty and staff of this university? Is it wrong for the William Allen White School of Journalism to rank among the schools, a reputation based in large part on the merits and qualifications of graduates of that school? And isn't the absurd structure of the Kansan board structure
TO DATE, I have read broad criticism of the Kansan. To date I have yet to read concrete suggestions for improvement. If I had a chance to talk about the structure and purpose of the Kansan, they should be specific and not criticize for criticism's sake. I thought the days of unimportant "band-wagges" were gone from KU to CRC.
by nine members of the graduate school of economics, those students made a serious journalistic effort themselves up as authorities of the English language. We are afraid that hospice patients have to be under the knives of interns than the English language suffers under the knives of interns. Our reporters. I do not establish myself as such an expert, but I would urge those students to re-read that own embarrassment
In the letter to the editor signed
Constructive criticism is good, indeed necessary, for a free press. There are no place for there criticism should be made, by all means let's make them. If the most important thing on campus is whether an journalism student or journalist works on the Kansan Board, forget it.
CONSIDER the services provided by the Kansan. Think about them. The Kansan is not a criticism. If this newspaper is so disliked, why do so many people读 it to learn of disputes such as the Kansan argument? How students know about such games?
Finally, look at the Student Senate subsidies: the Kansas
Law Review receives money ($2,000), so do the dramatics ($26,760.49) and forensics (vice versa) as necessary. They presuppose additional education for students, although they do not serve a majority of students directly. That argument cannot be used if the journalism "lab fees" are to be eliminated, shouldn't other "lab fees" such as the aforementioned be done away
Somehow, KU would not be the same if the Kansan ceased publication. Dan Reeder
Lawrence Graduate student
United Nations
It seems the prestige of the United Nations is destined to reach a new low, that if Pat Malone and Red China have their way I am, of course, referring to Mr. Trump's diplomatic on "The China Dilemma."
Sure, Pat, Red China with in the million people should be in the reality may even in the Security really the issue. The real issue is the issue. The real issue is
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whether or not Taiwan should be expelled.
Pat says what Red China wants, Red China must get. Now we know where Red China does Red China have the authority to determine who can or cannot be in the UN? Since the United Nations matter, the authority to force the expulsion of any law against a number simply because of political reasons.
If the Red Chinese were to successfully force the expulsion of the Mongolian leader, centred reason, then you've merely made the UN and what it means
For a fellow who prides himself in being a spokesman for inward inconsistent of you to disregard the international rights of Taiwan in order to appease the Comoros, and in being in the UN, but not at the expense of the rights of others. Red Sesame is the world yet. Steven W. Lewis
All-American
Larned freshman
Lawrence was one of 18 cities named finalists in the 23rd All-
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America Cities Award Competition. This award is based on "community betterment through collaboration," mentioned in the newspaper as being on Lawrence's application, nothing was said about any other candidate, and it cannot be ignored that Lawrence has a pretty together counter culture that is working on "community betterment through collaboration."
THEER IS THE Women's Coalition, working towards better birth control, more information on abortion, and also raising the mental health as they are set up in our society. There is the Gay Liberation Front, which brings gay people together to discuss their oppression of women and work on the abolishment of anti-gay sex laws. There are political education groups set up to educate the people about the ways in which the government responds to them and what they can do about it.
There are two movement newspapers, Vortex, comes from the University of OID, is a daily. There is a Food Conspiracy where people can get cheap, healthy dairy products and vegetables in season. There are
now three free schools operating outside of the public school system from Burlington, Blue Rock and Pompton Lakes. These are for children ages 3 through 10. The free high school second semester of this year. There is also a Free University which offers a range of classes to anyone interested.
THERE ARE several working communes both in the city isteb and on farms outside of Lawrence. The Peace Center can run a community life service Committee is very active in draft counseling. Headquarters is open 24 hours a day for people who need almost any kind of information (birth control, immunizations) or tripping) or who just want to rap. They also take care of runaways and crashes and have a drug analysis service to determine if someone is poisoned in a particular drug.
All of these things are working toward "community betterment through citizen action" and I am grateful to all the people in the movement projects. They are a very real and very active part of what the city of Lawrence is all about, and they would like to admit it or not. The counterculture is spreading all
across the United States and I
should take into account the
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Maura Biesemeyer Staff, Watson Library
Bicycles
To the Editor:
This is directed to Mr. Jerry Woolley (Kansan, Oct 19) one of those very rare, courteous drivers or automobile drivers
His comments concerning the disregard of the majority of cyclists for traffic regulations is well founded, even though he has expressed his disregard for pedestrians, automobiles and other cyclists. Laws should be enforced for the safety of the cyclists and pedestrians. But the remainder comments lean to absurdity.
Just what is clutter? How about abandoned automobiles, miles rubber tires stream along every highway, suburban shopping center parking lot, X-zone gasoline station population (as a
bonus, 4 stations at each intersection) and enough super highways now to furnish every house in the Sales with 105 feet of concrete.
But I suppose the highways are necessary to discard our used automobiles upon, aren't they Mr. Wolffey?
A bicycle still is a machine that, unless it is recycled, adds to the piles of waste already enredated on the chemical wastes avoided in bicycling (vs auto usage) as they should be obvious, but the degree of physical waste of a vehicle compared to that of the automobile.
In conclusion, I would mention the utter disregard of pedestrians and auto drivers for cyclists. Many times people have walked right into the path of my bicycle without the slightest acknowledgment of my presence. Automobiles are another matter again!
It is quite an experience to have a car come up so close and seem too far away. I wear a pavement, or pretend I wasn't there, or for a car to approach slowly, inlong a longitude my car has a hand reach out and pin me.
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
—Lorri Sipes,
Overland Park senior
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoleff."
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