4 Tuesday, October 12, 1971 University Daily Kansan Hoffman OK To the Editor: I would like to take issue with some of the comments made concerning Ackhoff Ahlman in Tom Sills's editorial, "Old Hawffern." Readers Respond *first of all, he is not a Moliotoc cocktail-throwing anarchist as some would like us to believe. If one would take the time to read some of his works, as "Revolution for the Hell of It," you will find events beneath awards and ideas beneath the sorcery and wii. It has become fashionable today to ridicule the leaders of the radical youth and their labelled frauds and exploiters. People who make comments such as "I want you locked into the matter sufficiently." One of the charges against Hoffman was that he exploited the situation for money Well tell me, who isn't偷窃? James Taylor isn't coming to KU for the good of Kansas. Another charge is that Hoffman is a fraud and doesn't have the money to pay for his writings you'll find some. Actually, who really has an answer? Do you? Do I does? You have an answer to our problems? The prevailing mood here at KU appears to be one of apathy; tempting to give some thought to what's going on. We are more concerned with getting good feedback and the degree and we'll content. There seems to be a change taking place—social protest is going out, and conformity is being practiced. You're cycling back to a period of stagnations similar to that of the fifties. And the finger of blame always points to people like you. The situation should be placed on all of us. ees, at least Hoffman tries—that's more than can be said because he wants us to must keep one thing in mind—if it weren't for our "explorer"们—the Abbey Hammers. Dick Gregorys and the French cartographer Cartneys—the Vietnam was still could a valiant crusade and Woodstock just a dream. Gay Lib Jerry Perkovich, Chicago, Ill. sophomore To the Editor: This letter is directed toward Harold Lowe, in response to his letter in Tuesday's University Kansan. His letter states that he has learned about the nature of the (Gay Liberation) Front if scientific evidence could be produced that proves or gives evidence that homosexuality is a normal type of behavior. "I would be interested to know if scientific evidence presents heterosexuality is a "normal" type of behavior. Is it an unnatural act to be able to express a desire for love and love? If you consider "normal" to be naturally occurring behavior, then attraction for the same sex is not a normal people. Or do you use "normal," as synonymous to "norm," as being derived from the median age of gay men. Conforming to a norm is a dehumanizing process; standardization of human emotion and expression is a denial of the As for those who wrote in attempt to ridicule the efforts of our nation, they might seek meekness your fear than to confront your feelings toward that fear. But if you want to meet the same sex is a natural and fully human emotion it is admit that these feelings can be expressed by people like to consider themselves as natural and fully human. Your worst fear and your best fantasy. Sharon Mayer, Rossville junior More On Gays To the Editor: This is concerning the recent dispute about the Gay Lib receiving money from the university. This case against the University of Kansas, at any cost, we students at KU should not be apathetic about this issue. We are not accustomed to many issues and therefore we are letting a certain minority rule us. Is that student democracy? What concerns me is how we can ignore it without even considering the consequences. I would like to quote from a number one best seller about this condition: "Since earliest times men have seen the earth and sky and all God made, and he knew everything external power. So they will have no excuse (when they stand before God at Judgment Day)—Yes, at Judgment Day they wouldn't admit it, they wouldn't admit it to worship Him or even thank him for all His daily care. And after awhile they began to go on a mission to help people who didn't need what and what He wanted them to do. The result was that their foolish minds become dark and confused ... and let them do all these evil things, so that even their women turned against God's natural plan and indulged in sex with each other, men doing shameful things, having a normal sex relationship with women burned with lust for each other, men doing shameful things, getting paid within their own souls with the penalty they so richly accepted. So it was that when they gave God up and would give them up, with penalty for these crimes, yet did them anyway, and encouraged others to do them, too. "Well," you may be saying, "be careful about." But wait a minute! You are just as bad. When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are not punished, so do these very same things." These words were written by St. Paul in the Bible almost 2,000 years ago. And has our society not learned to treat others not? If these words bother you, they should. Wake up America! Our world is degenerating and becoming more rotten every time we lose our weakness to succumb to an organization such as Gay Lib which will not contribute to the advancement of our university or community until they and we also turn from satisfying our own egos and desires to giving glory to the God made us can we only experience true happiness and liberation. Cecilia Raab Kansas City Sophomore FORT WORTH—The old proj job, flapping down from Oklahoma City, flops into Love Field like a crow on a clothesline. Suddenly it is Tuesday so it must be Thursday the fall lecture season: Tonight, Texas Christian, tomorrow Texas Wesleyan, next week Swineae. Students await, and a zest for combat returns. Nothing more man's wits than to hone his arguments on the sophomore mind. Old Guardsman Turned New Leftist James J. Kilpatrick TONIGHT'S MAIN event features a debate with Karl Hess, the Old Guardman who became a New Leftist. Ten years ago he cofounded the Republican intelligence He was a key figure in drafting the GOP platform for the 1964 campaign; he served at Barry Goldwater's side in that brave speech, "In Cause that I will Triumph," provided an eloquent restatement of distilled con- HE IS BEARDED now, in the Castro fashion. He comes on stage in a khaki cap, guerrilla style; desi bent shoes) denim pants and an oversized shirt with a turtleneck flying like a flag. A shoulder knapsack, fashioned from a cartridge case, contains his worldly goods. This essential showbit, the outward and internal signs of inner grace. sensitive doctrine. Hess in those wears as coated and tied and clean- shirt he himself, a man of impeachable proprietie. But he had a secret witness. The debate proceeds, and a small prayer creeps into my heart. We are less auspicious for the world war beeper without them; but the He thought himself into an intellectual change of life. In an act of monastic rejection of the world, he moved off the old ways, and moved his few possessions—bags, baggage, dreams, and vision—onto a car with a wheelbarrow and a wharf Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of Spring your Winter garment in repentance fling!* He must have become a wholly happy man. JAMES J. KILPATRICK Lord have merely on them, too. In the jungles of the New Leaf, Hess is a milk-white unicorn, pure and free from all traces of anger by inner lamps of goodness. Copyright, 1971, the Washington Star Letters policy It would be pleasant, one of these shirts, shorts or skirt, in a climb, on the houseboat, and come back to the real world. Our side has need of Thus he gazes with a blue-eyed innocence upon the Black Panthers. They are "a very atypical group," denies that the New Leaf seeks power in any form. "We want freedom." He is appalled by the way government and big industry: "The people must again take hold of their own lives." He dreams of the workers would own the factories. Each neighborhood, each community, would manage everything. Everything would be decentralized and brought close to the people. His individual purpose is to see individual liberty restored. Hess thinks of anarchy, and he thinks of Jefferson, Paine, Henry, Adams, Granted, the founding fathers certainly were revolutionaries, alfame with real courage, but their oppression. But anabaspe? Tea in Boston harbor, shattered glass on Georgetown streets; Valley Forge and May Day; George III and Chase-Manhattan—in the city of Philadelphia illusion, distinctions vanish and only mephitic gas remains. DEBATING HESS is like debating a Mother Superior. Nothing much is gained by recalling the report of a House committee's moderate majority concluded, among other things, that the Black Panthers "pose a physical danger to police" and "provide an insurgent revolution." A less tolerant minority found the Panthers a "subversive criminal group, using the facade of politics and subservient ideology as a cover for crimes of violence and extortion." THIS COMPLICATED worries cannot be governed by town meetings; society cannot be fed without industry served by a thousand village blacksmiths. Liberty depends upon order, not on the use of campus, dedicated to violent suppression of opposing views, despise the freedom that Hess reveres. As he himself once stated, "The authoritarianism that binds all leftist groups. At the end of their vistas, Burke said of the sans-serif sees only the gallows waiting. Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are sub-divided into sections according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must provide their name, year in school and home town; facelift and home office; position and position; others must provide their name and address. Photo by Hank Young Garry Wills The Rise And Fall Of Camelot NEW YORK—Reent and for- coming books, along with the Pepleton Papers, dispel what little glamor was left over from "Camelot"—which is just as well. Working ourselves free of tax, our journalist is or should be, a matter of high national priority. The line of defence for Kennedyism was first struck off by the U.S. campaign against Nixon—the argument that Kennedys are slow maturers, but when he tried to quick studies. In other words, they learn slow until they learn fast. Thus Jack Kennedy, who would come into his own as President; or, raw during the Bay of Pigs invasion, would be unable to invasion was the first indication that educating the Kennedys could be an expensive national expense. The advantage of this argument is its adaptability—you could use it on our missile builders, but not in the Vienna meeting, on the face-off with Khrushchev over Cuban missiles, on the edging of Green Berets toward Vietnam, just as we did with Saddam. Failures themselves were turned into credentials. Each bad today must guarantee a bright future. We match the will more than any Kennedy in office. For the explanation of Jack's fallings was handed down, like old clothes, from one Kennedy to another. Teddy may not have given a chance to learn what Senate would sober him up—or if not that, then Chappaquidick would (or if not that...) But then the Kennedy that came in the middle. The callow anti-communist committee, or the gangster committee, of the McClellan committee, would widen his horizons as he managed a presidential race. He would acquire responsibility in the Justice Department. Or the Bobby of the "Get Hofff" days would acquire responsibility into wisdom as a Senator. Yet a group of his young defenders claims that only when he ran for president, he would learn how to speak to the young blacks and to working people in a way that drew them together. Perhaps Bobby does remain a missing link between hardhats and what he just he had to seem, at the time, if he was to win the game. He played for Victor Navasky in a brilliant new book, shows how RPF projected the right image at each moment of his game to reverse that image as part of his next step up. Navásky's book is not an attack on Nashy's economy—an effort to unify Kennedy—but an important point that "the Kennedy's were an excellent species of the conventional rather than unconventional political party with tradition." They have used, and so strengthened, the conventional politics, even when their leadership transcend it. They believed in "the system" very deeply "the papa, after all, had taken over the prizes from Harvard to Hollywood. Navásky's book shows how empty were the souaring hopes the raised audience betrayed a rhetoric that had already betrayed reality. The Schlesinger rhetorical formula was from performance, our wishes from the Kennedy's ambitions. Not that the ambition was evil. We expected too much from enchantment, not because of any faults within that clam. 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