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Thursday, October 21.1971
University Daily Kansan
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The China Dilemma
If the United Nations is to live up to its name, it is imperative that the People's Republic of China be seated immediately.
The United States has finally given its official approval of Red China's seat and has gone so far as to declare that all Russian officials China on the Security Council.
But Red China is adamant in its insistence that Nationalist China must be not only removed from the UN, but also from the United States to be thrown out of the UN entirely.
This presents a dilemma apparently unsolvable by compromise. Unless the Communists back down, the UN must decide which it can support. The United Nations' continued UN membership or Red China's admittance to the UN.
In terms of world power, influence and simple numbers, it is obvious that Red China's importance dwarfs that of Taiwan.
Red China has 700,000,000 people
in 3,691,500 square miles; Taiwan has 12,250,000 people in 13,848 square miles, according to the 1967 edition of the Rand McNally World Atlas. Even more importantly, Red China has the bomb, and Taiwan does not. It is not exactly equitable to boot Taiwan out of the UN, but neither was it equitable to exclude Red China for 28 years from UN membership. It is obvious each year that Taiwan's claim to be the legal representatives of all the Chinese people is patently ridiculous.
Taiwan's exclusion from the UN would certainly weaken the Western bloc's power in that assembly. But the cause for world peace would be immeasurably strengthened by Red China's presence in the UN.
So if we can have only one China in the United Nations, then so be it.
Garry Wills
-Patrick K. Malone
Red China in. Taiwan out.
Celebrating Destruction In Chicago
CHICAGO The city was celebrating a past destruction while it merrily engaged in a present one. The lakefront skyline was lit up with an instantly shimmering mirror, while other men laboriously raised the structures of an evancrest greatness.
It was all supposed to be in honor of the Great Chicago Fire. It is a hundred years since Mrs. O'Leary's Cow. The city, which specializes in parades, outdid itself in a Saturday march-by for the Mayor, then put on a Sunday fireworks show modestly billed as the biggest ever.
CRUCUS HYPERBOLE is everyday idiom here. Drop a hat, the dropping is usually on trained clowns putting up stage-settings for the next routine—their building-blocks are carpenters' horses, and they do their interweaving routes through and
by the Loop. These are orges of self-
graduation for having a Mayor Who
Cares. The majesties all march to the
same drummer.
On, so Sunday, the cow - in explosive neon-light-delayed cute jerks of firecreaker art l- kicked over the lamp, Boom (very plainly blinks) went the chain-reaction sentimental pom-poms in the night, ostensibly to remind us that 18.000 buildings served as powder for such a lakefront show in 1871.
IT WAS HARD TO squeeze the Greatest Show on Earth into the ongoing show that is DaisleyLand-East-Centland-Middle. The Middle America Firecracker Sunday was, in this year's calendar, Pulsatake Sri Lanka; the day after, Columbus Monday. This all gives an appearance of diversity to a city that basically one (because, most importantly, with its Irish Mayor, Richard Daley.
Chicago knows how to keep the
"real" Chicago googles. General Philip Sheridan rushed in with dynamite, at the original fire, to destroy a number of city blocks and save Chicago's nascent "Gold Coast" (still innocently, ever-suprised marked out by a monument)
While all this hoopla went forward, another and more quiet demonstration took place, in honor of the greatest architect of this greatest American city for architecture, Louis Sullivan. There is a Sullivan room to host this strange factory-sculptor—and it is apt located in his best-known surviving building, the Bell tower at Plumpton, plunged into the black orate cave of that building's first stories, just by looking at its braded archway, Cerberan, looking down.
BUT ONCE PAST the constricting test of *entry-with* deliberate reference to ancient other things upon age to ancient other things upon age corrugated office walls both prismed
and regular. The building has its feet in two different eras, spanning them, creating them with a retrospective freezing glance and prospective touch. From the mouth, you could look up. You bought the future by re-entry into the past.
The quiet demonstrations, as you must have guessed, were against the demolition of this microcosmic Chicago in the name of Mayor Daley's microcosmic designs upon the great city of world's largest city locations. The Muni encouraged building after overtopping building in this area, fighting "urban blight" with a mad rush into town, and then crazily up into the air—with consequent jams, growing at a ridiculous rate. He is staging a slow grandiose fire of conspicuous exteriors, creating confugales as pretty (and short-sighted) as his confagulation of Chicago in air-drawn fireworks.
Henry Ford's insight was accurate.
Money hates history, even when it is making it—and destroying it. It has to keep the fireworks going, even when family heirlooms are billed up for a climax to the show.
Copyright, 1971 Universal Press Syndicate
Readers Respond
Copyright. 1971
University Daily Kansan Criticized
To the Editor:
Much of Mr. Bartel's attempted defense of the Kansan's existence was, we think, very weak. Mr. Bartele claims that the $40,000 annual stipend that the Kansan receives from the student body is not a subsidy (or donation) but a payment for subscriptions.
THE KANSAK ITSSELF Cannot believe this argument. Otherwise it would not need to ask the kansai for price itself at some level calculated to bring in $4,000 per academic year and confidently await the cash inflow. At five years old, the students issues an academic year, the Kansaan should have to sell and average of 5,400 copies a day. One major not literary obstacle to raising such numbers is the larger number of people who would share copies and-or read discarded ones.) Since the Kansaan does not purchase itself on a subscription its stipend is a donation or subsidy.
MAYBE THE KANSAN could finance a poll to resolve this question (the funds to come from advertising revenue!)
Of course, some of this money is also a subscription payment, for surely some people would be willing to pay for the paper material that a scientist would then consist chiefly of journalism students and their mentors, relatives and friends of the staff and a scattering of hard-core James J. But this is just a hag speculation.
In any case, whether or not the current subscription price is a good approximation of the market, be denied that the students who couldn't buy the Kansas if it were sold directly are currently subsiding
And there is an additional hidden subsidy. If the Kansan were offered directly on the internet, it would assume that far fewer students would read it. This would make the paper much less attractive to advertisers, which would in turn considerably shrink advertising costs.
We think it safe to conclude:
a) The Kansan is subsidized by a donation from the student body.
(Those who prefer euphemisms for "Kansas" are not subscribed, or can employ some other suitable circumlocus.)
b) Students who don't like the Kansan are subsidizing those who do, just as students who don't go to college. We still subsidize those who do.
nalism students via its subsidy of the Kansan.
(c) Specifically, the student body is indirectly subsidizing the professional education of jour-
Mr. Barlet points out that the School of Journalism "does NOT require work on the Kansan" to be sequentially, however, he draws a rather exalted analogy between journalism students not working on the Kansan and an medical student on the Kansan room. We demand Mr. Barlet's high sense of journalistic calling. BUT THE AROVE analogy, and Mr. Barlet's statement that "journalism students receive the live experience that is essential (our italics) to entering the present-day education of journalists," suggest that the School of Journalism ought strongly to recommend work on the Kansan room, although we are afraid that does, although we are afraid that hospital patients usually suffer less under the knives of interns than the English language suffers typewriterists of Kansan reporters.
We are sure that many people like the Kansan. We are sure that many approve of subsidizing the teachers, but we seem reasonable that these (perhaps more discerning) inexperienced pay for the poor themselves.
Brad Willis, John Fernisch,
Johan Hoag, Simon Hendrickson,
Patricia Freeman, Paul Taylor,
Rosemie Zornone, Rak Hre,
Pimbo Moota
Public and Graduate Students of Economics
To the Editor:
I have followed the running debate between the editorial staff of the UDK and contributors to Letters" column, disagree with the UDK by the UDK. It's kind of apparent what kind of staff the UDK is made up of. I do not want to be taken seriously because I am not "taking sides."
the feeling that it is entirely removed from the realities of our changing, painful world.
BUT WHEN THE UDK published a letter early this week quoting from (at length) the New Testament and printing the book, I also printed pictures of Bob Hope and Nixon side by side, near an article about Hope's performance here—I must remember the student newspaper" is taking. We hear of the归 apathy to our universities. The extent of this apathy is becoming clear. One attribute to it for I have been absent from KU for a year. I generally respected the UDK's editors and efforts as critical, professional, and journalistic. Now I cannot describe the UDK because I have
NOR DO I WISH to launch out as the UDK in purely critical and partisan terms because I think the university's UDK's isolation from the "progressive" wing of student opinion (and favoring the conservative) and the former's UDK's isolation from the UDK as a hopelessly bourgeois, closed-minded juvenile publication. Recent letters published by the UDK's request concerning funds for its court struggle to be recognized as a legitimate student organization were characterized by a bitter kind of humor. The difficulties in understanding homosexuality or of any socially unorthodox behavior. But I have always assumed that if I would be told I would eventually be able to.
The letters to the Kansan demonstrated a fearful intolerance; Gay Lib was openly ridiculed.
I BELIEVE THAT those students who have abandoned hope for maturity in the UDK should be aware of their indifference and indifference and channel their anxiety energy into effervescence. In an attempt to transfuse our anemic student paper with generous drains of inputs from Kansan we are expressing expression. Let us rise above the name-palling call and tortured simplicity. Let us begin to take the Kansan seriously by making them aware.
Ed Dolan
Ed Dolan Overland Park senior
(Editor's Note: Kansan editorial notes have endorsed Gail Lah's views. The author does not censor letters that disagree with the opinions of its authors.)
"Hate mail." Really Mr. Bartel, isn't it a little strong? Or do you dismiss all criticism of your publication as hate mail? I tell you, it's not that bad. Consider a few valid criticisms of the UDK. It seems to me that your reference to screaming in your reply applies to yourself. After all, I wrote one column of fiction in which I quoted four columns in my reply.
school. Our $40,000 goes to win the UDK the Makeer and other awards, not to present us with a machine, but to show that it is not to say that other organizations have also exploited their skills and obviously yours, is the UDK.
To the Editor:
Next Mr. Bartel's allegations:
1. "The student body pays $40,000 a year for subscriptions to the Kansan." Why then are there not enough copies printed daily?
2. "Most of the UDKs are printed daily, do only 12,500 students pay 'subscriptions'?"
HOWEVER I SHALL try to address your hysteria with a cautionary my statement. First, motivation my motivation was quite obvious. I believe students have been exposed to journalism students and the j
If only a third of Kansan money comes from students, why do our friends in the j-school get so mystical over possible loss of staff? If we lose any staffs it gets very anxious about the loss of such funds. I have heard one member of the UDK staff state that the UDK would fall apart without student fundingso my email as you would have as believers.
NO THE FACULTY of the j-school does not control Kansan money. Must I then assume that you are not a Kansan Board or not a j-school faculty? Knowing this assumption to be untrue, I cannot answer. The faculty has no control over the money. As to the 50 per cent student representation on the j-school on the Board are appointed by the Board. You might deny that the faculty would choose students who do not belong to human beings do not appoint those with whom they disagree. I would like your source of information about the j-school to note that the j-school do not require work on the UDK for graduation. Where do your reporters and editors work in the journalism catalogue, among the courses listed for graduation requirements are ones that you understand my knowledge, students are not told of any alternatives to working on the UDK. (My my knowledge is a journalism student.)
Your reference to law and medical schools seems inappropriate for a graduate. PROFESSIONAL schools I assumed that in talking about our subsidies to the UDK we were generally talking about what students would ask us; question the validity of a journalism student's experience on the UDK; I questioned the fact that some students have to finance that experience
back." I seem to have heard that journalism students are taught to write in their classes for high school students. These same students report same students report and edit for the UDK for a person. A subjective person might see a correlation between these two facts.
3. You say that in writing so that the average high school graduate may understand you it is a "conscious holding
4. Your statements that the journalism faculty and Senate leaders are reviewing and maintaining the position mistakenly leads us to believe that some real questioning of the Kansan student body takes place At the last Board meeting this discussion took place between 14 journalism faculty members and one Senate leader. The Kansan Board is not faculty member, but a faculty member are so concerned at the Senate's attempt to change the composition of the Senate that they worried that the Board could become Senate controlled. However, the proposed changes called for the addition of non-Franklin students to the Board. If the Kansan is representative of the student body, what does it have to fear from the representatives of the student body?
You state Mr. Bartel that you are responsible to us, your readers. You print the letters we send you and the opinions we present. So far your only response to our opinions seems to have been directed at those who criticize you. I refer to them as "critics" in Schmidt to our criticism. Other than this, I can see little response to us, the students. (As I write this, I see another letter from a student who misrepresented the IDK.)
I am sorry Mr. Bartel, I have read your statements but I remain unconvinced.
The Kansan editorial page is open to anyone. But, Warning: you may find yourself linked with other critics and distortors. If you are so responsible, open, etc., why are my statements portrayed as disrespectful or discriminatory have a voice on the truth Mr. Barter? — "Karen Evans,"
So Mr. Bartel has chosen to print a long and prominent reply to Ms. Evans' letters. He chose to “in Defense of Our Existence.”
To the Editor:
Lawrence Senior
But he failed to do much defending. Instead he directed a letter to the manager her letter by labeling it "hate mail and accusing her of stealing."
The UDK has operated for years jointly as a "student newspaper" and a journalism school laboratory. Finally this week she caught up with the UDK. Mr Evanes (yes, she's my wife) essentially asserted that the UDK has become more of a laboratory for j-school students than it has a student newspaper. I agree with her.
Seldom has the UDR truly had student desires and interests at heart. More frequently it has been interested only in becoming a teacher Occasionally these two interests have coincided, but the emphasis has been on "professionalism" and the experience available to j-1 students of the UDR. The general student body has been ignored and forgotten.
THE ISSUE, as I see it, I
need a library for my student
newspaper or a Jeschob
laboratory, it cannot be both
still be free of criticism of it
As long as the UDK retains its present structure, student monies are missed and actually the UDK is not responsible to the students. It is responsible to the UDK guard. And who chooses the students?
Three of its members are chosen in some nebulous manner by the j-school faculty and dean. The chairman of the Board is the dean's representative chosen by other board members of the UDK's news advisor and business advisor. Students have no power in choosing these three Board members. They may be asked to do their work by those who have power, but they have no voice themselves.
OF THE REMAINING three members only one comes close to being chosen by students—that is, the student senate. The two other board members are chosen by the Board itself which is hardly representative of the students who claim the UDR's responsibility to
At the best, the Board represents the opinions of three j-children, the student senator usually from the j-school), and two persons whom the majority of the other Board members like. At the worst, the Board represents the opinions of the j-children, the student senators. Does that seem like a group of persons representative of the entire student body?
Mr. Bartel, the UDK is not responsible to its readers, the students. I think that it should be and the only way to do so is to make basic changes in the UDE's structure. That is what the UDE does with spring and as yet that request has not been compiled with.
SO I THINK YOU were wrong
Dan Evans Overland Park
state of great insubordination
..."
"But a new culture was in the nake, a culture that was toromate literary independence is well as political independence, and colleges were soon to adjust. In 1805 he young Hercules, who has strangled the serpents, should goorth in the plentitude of muscular force, and perform the nightly labors assigned him," the college graduate while traveling in Europe in 1803."
-Gil Gillespie,
Wildwood, Alberta, Canada
Graduate student
To the Editor:
After reading "Griff and the Unicorn" today I began to wonder if most of us, after we went to college, great Jayhawk nesting ground high atop Mt. Oread, won't simply wander "off that way, near the great confusion that the developing a new breed of Jayhawk from a new campus will perform the mighty labors assigned him," as indicated in the following excerpt from History of Speech Education in America by Bassuthmich and Richard Murphy?
"Financial difficulties in the colleges prevented adjustment of the curriculum to student interest," although college authorities realized the need for reorganizational efforts. "College was never in a worse state than when I entered it, 'noted a student of the Class of 1788 at Harvard.' The oldfoundation, habits, reverence for antiquity, were everywhere old forms were outgrown, and new ones had not taken their place. . . The system of govern-ment very much as it had done for years before, and the result was a
Has convenience replaced tradition? I was appalled to find myself celebrated on October 11 for its convenience—a three day weekend in December selfish desires will one day completely negate tradition? Thanksgiving has become a day of gluttony of the holiday, which many celebrate on the eve for convenience) in which people see who can not only receive the most joy from who was born on December 25th?
To the Editor:
Halloween has become a time or candy cardholders. Why don't we have an online calendar? Friday in October? That way everyone would have a three-day weekend and if you didn't feel like going shopping, or on a little fishing trip, or visit that relative up north you love to drive up and munch off of.
Why not do that with every holiday? Look at all the three day weekends there would be! Be prepared to think of it, we could move all the holidays up to the first weeks of January and that way extend Christmas vacation. Or maybe we would have Friday a holiday, Why not?
Chris Lockwood Kansas City, freshman
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