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Wednesday, October 13, 1971
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The New Underground
As I walked through the stadium parking lots Saturday, I noticed a slight change from the pre-Vern Miller days. Those enjoying their tailgate drinkers were being much more careful about display of the evidence.
No bottles were sitting on fenders for all the world to see, and gone were the loud enticements to "celebrate the victory."
So the fans have gone underground. The theory being that if you aren't blatant about it, the authorities will leave you alone. And the theory works. And selective enforcement of the law continues.
Vern Miller is still busy enforcing that part of the law that he thinks enhances his political image. And he is backing him right down the line.
They are threatening, while at the same time ignoring the stadium drinkers, to start cracking down on the parking lots outside local bars.
Miller does not get such support from the natives when he hits the folks for playing the slot machines in their local fraternal organization.
But we're supposed to be satisfied nevertheless, because Müller is busy using the technology.
we can be satisfied because it is no more fair than before. In the first place Miller is still refusing to make the same efforts to arrest the stadium drinkers as he does the pot smokers. Furthermore, seems the gamble worth making anyway, because the adults, although arrested, have the money and influence at their disposal to laugh the whole thing off as they
carry the slot machines back into the local post. Take the Iola flasco. There, after some slot machine busts, the judge ruled that the machines were just another form of that now-legal sport bingo. Then there was the Doggie Bingo issue. In Wichita, the righteous ought to stop this licentious game with an injunction. They got the injunction, but sorry again, it was too late, the game was over.
With such precedents, what do you suppose will happen in Great Bend?
The whole thing will soon be forgotten. Kids will continue to get busted for pot smoking, and the folks will continue to praise the arrests, saying that old Vern is all right because he's getting rid of all the rifaf at KU, and, as one alumni told me, at least the drunks at the stadium put their booze in Thermoses now.
And whenever the charge of selective enforcement is brought up, we'll hear about the slot machine arrests. The fact that the cases are rare and the tickets expensive with "not guilties" for both pot and slot players, will be overlooked.
And the fact that Vern Miller knows full well that such cases will be resolved in different ways—with convictions the rule for the kids, and acquittals the rule for the adults—will also be overlooked. An everybody he bewareds. Any everybody he kid who lost $100 for a bond and more for a lawyer and spent a year on probation and now has a drug arrest on his record.
And the political plum will still be Vern's.
Mike Moffet
James J. Kilpatrick
Brazil's Brighter Side
Rio De Janeiro-A great deal has been written in recent years on what might be termed the "bad side" of Brazil-military coups, by jute by ruinous inflation, censorship of the press, and terrorists. Brazil has not, as they say, had a good image.
The story has another side; and without minimizing the darker aspects, it may be useful to have a look at some remarkable achievements. Charlie Brown, the luckless hero of "Pennants."
once philosophized that "there's no heavier burden than a great potential." Brazil knows the feeling. For nearly a hundred years, since her independence in 1898, Brazil has been accolled for its courage, its number of encouraging ways, she is creeping on it now.
Last week the Congress at Brasilia was to receive from the Ministry of Planning a new set of social and economic goals for the country. The ambitions; some of them, one is told, are probably unrealistic. It seems unlikely, for example, that even the most prodigious labors of agriculture illiteracy and contain inflation to the extent the planners project.
Yet the record of recent years reflects amazing progress. In 1964, when the disastrous Goulart regime was overthrown, Brazil's inflation was running at 93 per cent per year. It was chaos. Today, as a result of skillful management, it has dropped to roughly 19 per cent. The goal is to hit 10 per cent by 1974.
Iteracy continues to impose a crushing weight. Some 37 per cent of the people can neither read nor write. But a crash program, known as "MOBRAL," is achieving dramatic results
Through an ingenious system of tax incentives, industries are encouraged to invest in vantage to assist in the education of young workers. By 1974, if everything goes well, illiteracy will have been cut to 2 per cent.
Other reforms are proceeding apace. Tax collection, in the days of Goulard, was a farce; only 10 percent of taxpayers' tax returns. Now a vigilant
JAMES J. KILPATRICK
government is gathering income taxes from more than six million persons. Throughout its history, the Amazon provided almost as remote as the moon; the Amazon provided the only highway. Now construction is well advanced on roads that will allow travel to the country's prodigious riches.
Brazil's gross national product is soaring at 9 per cent a year. Exports passed $2.7 billion last year, almost double the figure for 1964. Industrial output is rising steadily, and in such areas as agriculture, machinery, assembly, output is rising spectacularly. Over the past seven years, an energetic housing industry has produced
629,000 units; the figure compares with 120,000 in the preceding quarter-century.
Countless problems remain. Yellow fever, small pox, and malaria have been eradicated, but parasitic diseases still claim a heavy toll. Here in Rio, the stench of raw sewage lingers (but there are times, a visitor reflects, when the Pomacan doesn't smell so but either he has named mosaic promenades in ill repair. Old galls still yawn between the very rich and the very poor.
But one is told repeatedly of a great hope and an abiding concern. The hope lies in Brazil's people, who suddenly have developed a pride in country; it is curious what a world soccer title can mean to national morale. The countries, Democracy, as such, is almost unknown. Brazil is ruled by its military, and the government doesn't pass-flow around. "When we're not told to print a story," says a leading author, "there's no argument. We don't print it." Yet the military pressures from industry, from the Church, and from world opinion.
Relations with the United States are fair. Brazilians are almost as sore as the White House at Wilbur Milp仕, as the result of a coffee sniff, and they often face vacinations in the sale of arms. Mostly, one is told they are much too busy to worry about foreign affairs. They see their great potential; they are getting a handle on their future; and they look confident to peace and not violence. Not many movies in this biennial can say the same.
To the Editor:
Kansan Ripped; Record Tiff...
Billy Jack
Copyright 1971 The Washington Star
Readers Respond
For several days now debate has raged between Miss Barba Schmidt and several readers concerning the validity of Miss Schmidt's critique on the movie "The Hunger Games" where either defend or reject her on the basis of this critique, for I have never seen the movie.
It is revealing to note, however, that Miss Schmidt, who is quick to criticize others for their work, "I always seem to take criticism herself."
—Roger A. Kendall,
Leawood freshman
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Smiling Doc
To the Editor:
Since the UDK article appeared Tuesday, October 5 concerning my position at Watkins Hospital, I have been mummated with remarks that say "I am seemingly 'sour',' self. The remarks ranged from "Is this Watkins" to "Don't tread on me." Also caricatures of the face work in the major face in Watkins' print my likeness to be confused with the spirit of the hospital, might I suggest a visage of the "smiling" or at least a free plum for Watkins Hospital. We of Watkins Hospital are trying to give the best possible service to the student-patients in older limited facilities. True, at times, the wait may be lengthy, but until we obtain facilities are built, we shall coerced to work with a "smile."
improper use of student activity fees and then overlook what seems to me the improper use of much larger allocations.
Respectfully,
R. L. Carnahan, M. D.
Watkins Hospital
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Kansan Funds
I personally resent having to finance other students' educations to such a great extent. Of course, some other groups receive allocations to further their education but none to the extent of the J-school people. All TV-film workshops are held by TV-film work at some time on the UDK (it's required for graduation.)
One of these is the $40,000 we donate each year to the School of Journalism to finance the apprenticeship of *SJ* students in the UDK
There has been much talk over the $600 allocation to the Gay Liberation Front. It seems rather unrealistic. But it emphasizes the allocation of the
To the Editor:
Of course, the journalism students would be quick to point out that the UDK serves the students. I would submit that this information is part of what if you have read some of the recent editorial pages of the UDK you may have noticed the letters by Bill Ebert and Rosemarie Downing expressing discontent with their representations in the newspaper.
Part of these problems between the personal interview and the articles printed in the UDK, come. I believe, from the personal interview, that seminary students are taught to write so that the average high school graduate may understand them. Now, you may consider your own somewhat more information than the average high school graduate.
Indeed, if you compare the indeed to the editor in the Oct. 11 UDK with those of a metropolitan daily, you may notice a considerable difference between the levels of mentality expressed in each. But the UDK does not write for the 17,000 students whose activity fees support them, but prepares for their future careers in the journalism trade to what I consider our disadvantage.
Further, we give the UDK $40,000 without it meeting the necessary qualifications for student groups receiving money under the Senate Code and Senate Rules. The Senate requires control of the money by students. The UDK is governed by a faculty controlled board. This is possible, Charles Oldfather says, because the UDK is a journalism school laboratory as well as a student publication. We have had to control the money but the school (i.e. the faculty) controls the money.
To those of you who complain of the misuse of the student activity fee for GLF, consider the greater misuse for the UDK.
—Karen Evans Topeka senior
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RecordBusiness
to the Editor :
Last Monday I decided to go to
the Kansas Union Bookstore's record sale to view the "fantastic collections" of records that were on sale.
Unable to resist such bargains,
I purchased a record. Returning home and removing the record from the dust box from the album, three things quickly became apparent. First, the record was not inside the dust box. Second, there were assorted smudges and fingerprints (mine on)
record surfaces. Third, someone had evidently sharpened a rock on one side of the record.
While I realize that $1.18 is an inexpensive price for an album, the Union could perhaps be more honest in their advertising by using "fantastic collections of packaged, used records for sale."
Get them while you can.
Harold Dillenback Lawrence, senior
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"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff.
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