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Monday, October 18, 1971
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Court Speculation
With two vacancies on the Supreme Court, trial balloons are now floating in the winds of speculation.
of those supposedly being considered for the job is Sen. Robert Byrd, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia.
It would seem plausible that Nixon would avoid any such controversy by nominating a man or woman whose qualifications and past associations were more or less
But the list of qualifications does not end there. He also has a Carswellian attribute or two. He once belonged to the KuKwai Kid former justice Jace Black), and he has also possessed his Bar exams or practiced law.
impeccable, especially after the two stunning defeats that he suffered
The Senate, with the Haysworth and Carswell rejections and the confirmations of Blackman and Burger, made it perfectly clear that they felt the court should be filled with eminently qualified men.
The fact that Haynsworth and Carswell were conservatives did not keep them off the bench, for Burger and Blackmun are conservatives too. The issue centered on qualifications. There can be no doubt that the best interests of the country can be served only with the nomination and confirmation of eminently qualified men or women.
This does not mean that those men must be liberals or conservatives or Southerners or Northerners. The criteria that the Senate has clearly set out for Nixon are experience and ability.
Robert Byrd quite obviously does not measure up to these criteria. Perhaps, as Art Buchwald said, the part of the President is a joke on the part of the President.
Judging from a couple of his past nominations, nobody should be
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Gav Lib
So, why not base all faculty salaries on "need" and forget about ability, responsibility, experience, academic rank, education or publications? Who's going to decide "need?" Bevere hire pronalite who repudiate individual enterprise should be held accountable who will dole out their honey ("Everybody out for sensitivity training so we'll all have the same emotional buzz. Those in doubt as to gender can grow up"). So governor Shultz as Queen bee?
More than enough has been written about the current controversy involving the attempt by a student to recognize as a student organization, and the related question of the manner in which such recognition is used. Nevertheless, I feel called upon to mention an aspect of the situation which has been neglected, at least so far as I know.
It is my understanding that one of the Chancellor's "reasons" for refusing to recognize Gay Lib is that he questions the ap-
To the Editor:
Now, who pays for this bit of welfarism? If one assumes that a PhD is better qualified to teach a course, he should be the guy who labors to pay for the course does, as he is not receiving the best instruction available for students.
THEREBY DEFUSING CHAIRMAN OF- THE JOINT-CHIEFS CALLEY AS A CAAMPAIGN ISSUE.
Extension has a requirement for an off-campus history course. History selects the instructor based upon financial "need." If a graduate student "needs" money from the department, the graduate学生 get job simple.
Salaries
To the Editor:
For a group who professes disdain for the materialistic values of the 'middle class', KU's state supported intellectuals seem to have considerable trouble regarding salaries. Like hod carriers, it be "collective bargaining" here.
To offer a final solution to all of this discontent, I suggest that faculty salaries be based upon the department's position, plemented by expanding the History Department's method of selecting teachers for courses offered by the department of History. Generally, here's how it works.
Faculty Salaries and Gay Lib
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proprietaieness of recognizing an
other's presence and furthering the sexual preference of students. Perhaps I have
misunderstood the discussions of
students.
IF. HOWEVER, this point has in fact been put forth, then I must respond by noting that there are organizations appropriateness of organizations devoted to furthering the religious processes of students such as those recognized by the University (although some of these organizations would perhaps interact with them but primarily religious groups).
Without complete knowledge of the history of either religion or homosexuality it would venture to assume that those who do grove much less suffering because of the latter than because of the former. If students are taught to be sensitive to promote the pernicious influence of religion, then they ought to be free to form organizations to resist the choice of choice in sexual relations
I HAVE NOT dealt here with the question of fees, because I do not know whether any religious organizations are receiving student fee money. It seems to me, however, that if any are, there should be no question that Gay Lib is also entitled to at least a share of this money as well. This once again raises the question of whether there should be a student activity fee at all, or not. This question has been distributed. This question has been dealt with by others more knowledgeable than myself, and I have nothing to add.
If, however, the question of recognition of organizations can be treated separately from the question of funding these organizations, I hope that those decisions on such matters will consider the point I have raised here.
Stan Jones Gardner senior
Reply to Raab
To the Editor:
Dear Cecilia: Your words do indeed bother me. Never, since becoming a student at this institution of higher learning, have you more disguise for anyone I want to tell you I am I felt for your letter of Oct. 12.
You raised a number of interesting points surrounding definitions of "democracy" your secondary audience. You should believe living in a "democracy" as we do, that unless a group, cause or individual is sanctioned by God, it would not be democratic. Should we deem an un-sanctioned cause as undemocratic and therefore american and something more serious will be college student should become involved in.
Like countless numbers of the youngest members closed your eyes to an issue that frightens you, and you have turned to the Christian religion to find answers.
letter you have joined the ranks of the Crusaders.
You are right, Cecilia, we students at KU cannot afford to be apathetic concerning gay lib. We should not be apathetic to be apathetic about Vietnam and pollution. Once more we have the opportunity to prove that the Constitution and its protection of women is not just so much bullshit.
What concerns me, Cecilia, is how we have let the Christian religion legislate. It does not being the majority, living in America, give you the right to impose your own on any other free individual?
You raise the question, has America progressed in the 2,000 years since Christ? In view of our realities, we need campuses including the Chancellor of this seat of higher learning, I would have to say no. We are no closer to understanding our present situation than we were in the time of Jesus.
Joe H. Bullard Lawrence senior
Garry Wills
The discussion dealt with problems of newspaper credibility. Does personal information, or advice on subjective' reporting, hurt the media's credibility? Is that why public resentment is felt against the press? Have people stopped trusting reporters; and, if so, how did they manage it?
Journalism's Credibility
CHICAGO—Playboy Magazine just held a writers' conference here. One of the subjects treated in this article was with one of today's most embattled journalists, Tom Wicker, shedding special light on the
As the conversation went forward, useful points being heard were the ones discussed in terms of evidence. Have the papers got the story right? Does "objective" matter? Are more subtle (more muble) ways of distorting events than does "personal" journalism? Do people trust a journalist? Do pretense to impersonal infallibility? It is easier to distrust Walter Crankite, say than the Agnew's effectiveness in singling
out particular reporters and papers and TV shows for vilifvine).
ALL VERY interesting; some of it enlightening; but much of it beside the point. In this matter they re-role in the early flapping on the late TV after the panel had dispersed. In Chicago they do re-role of the old Candid Man and they have people caught in contrived situations. The astonishing thing is that a man who refused to be astonished. When "unacceptable" things happened, they just ignored them. The man who indicated that he did not happened
People believe what they want to believe, what fits into their world. They are like columnists they agree with, and evidence has little to do with it. In the past, one man liked Pegler, another Lippman, and they went on arguing.
Why hss that situation
hasses us by feeding a new
intensity of feeling in
press in general? I think the
situation is found in the
Candid Carnival shows
things now, things that do not fit our framework of belief. Things that make the mockery of old patriotic stands. or lawlessness. Or rioting authorities. Examples mount; to tell us that people make people increasingly testy. When Will Allen Funt pop up and tell it we all a trick, we can go on. And then really change it. The press keeps saying, despite its own timidity, that the sugar bowl does seem to be empty, and told people who have looked the other way, whistled loudly, and told them that nothing is basically awry.
the national Police Force from 88,000 men to its present 122,000 level.
ANOTHER surprising aspect of those shows was the good humor displayed by the subjects who had been tricked and spied on. There was relief in their faces, not resentment. Their world had been taken over, so they forced to pretend weird things were not happening, as a matter of psychic self-preservation. When the girl who was removed, the trick explained, they collapsed with satisfaction back into their unimaginable world, but had not danced all—just been jiggled with wires. The girl was welcomed, if he would just explain an anomaly, explain away the anomaly.
As one officer at the Training Academy in Washington said in job interview, they've become policeman for the world. We're just training their
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with the mission of training other policemen. For example, the Academy has graduated 383 high-ranking Brazilian police officers who in turn have trained 55,000 and enlisted policemen in Brazil.
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The well-trained local people "are living in an information and do more to guard guerrillas than a baiting of soldiers," says Paulette Cotter.
Most of the foreign police officers trained at the Academy are sent back to their home countries
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WASHINGTON (LNS) — a strategy for fighting guerrilla war in foreign countries friendly to American interests pushed by officials here who have become disenchanted with the results of massive military power strikes.
Both the Department of Defense and the State Department have urged Congressional support to provide more training and equipment for domestic policemen in the eastern Asia, Latin America and Africa.
control and methods of apprehending subversives. The emergence of urban guerrillas, particularly in Latin America, plus the limited results of counter-insurgency anti-government groups in foreign countries have been factors in the new strategy.
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let another. Vietnam-type situation arise again. We have learned the need for a strong police intelligence organization to assist in identifying early the suspect's situation, he said.
If the present budget requests are met, aid to the National Police in Vietnam will be tripped next year and doubled in size.
The strategy for countering insurgency through updated police policies is Chairman Charles of the John Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell Taylor, in a recent speech at the Training Academy in Washington.
Approximately 700 police officers, mostly from Latin America, are trained at the Academy of Public Safety, the Office of Public Safety, a division of the Agency for International Development (AID), the Academy relies on a staff of 16 instructors and the 16-week instruction courses.
Courses in the past have centered on such topics as highway safety, border control and communication. More recently, we have placed on control of insurgency. The Academy now lists courses
In accordance with the Taylor doctrine, the Training Academy has instructed 3,500 foreign police officers in training since the program started in 1982. Located in a former trolley car barn on the foot of the Koy Bridge in Boca Raton, the spacious training academy is equipped with the most modern police equipment, including a motorcade room and movie theater.
Griff and the Unicorn
The Academy now lists courses in intelligence gathering. riot
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