4 Monday, September 20, 1971 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment His back has been to the wall on many occasions. At one time or another he has angered black students, alumni, the Gay Liberation Front, the Kansas Board of Regents, students pressing to close the University, and great numbers of taxpayers in the Kansas hinterlands who have begun to wonder just what was going on at KU. This is an impressive list of enemies, by any yardstick. E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., or as he would have you call him—"Larry," begins his third year as chancellor of the largest university in the state, and one of the more distinguished in the nation. In more troubled times, he was also a sure-fire bet for a standing ovation from the majority of his students. The ovations are polite now. I often wondered even during the standing ovation era, whether the applause was for "Larry" or, more likely, vying for whomever was listening that nobody was going to bully this University around. Call Him 'Larry' Last year he was a vote away from losing his job. His head was bloodied. Now he is a little less the forright student's liberal in the chancellor's office. He thinks a little longer before answering student demands. Compromise is his password. It is a disappointing statement in his former sensitivity upwards. He has been politicized. Not more liberal or conservative, but made aware that in Kansas this University is political issue. He is playing the game. He admits he has had to modify his style. Does that leave a bad taste in his mouth? No, he says. We hear him saying, if you can't uproot university, don't say anything at all. University, don't say anything at all. He has mastered the politician's ha- band and mechanically af- fable greeting. He must play the game. He is the University's number one public relations man. That is fine, it brings dollars, of which there are too few now. I wish it did. Tom Slaughter "Sodomy is oral or anal copulation between persons who are not husband and wife or consenting adult members of the opposite sex, or between a person and an animal, or cotus with an animal. Any penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime of sodomy. —Kansas Annotated Statute 21-3505 The young have for years been urged by their elders to "work within the system." But when radicals at Berkeley did just that, and took over the City Council, a national magazine warned other communities to study their charters and constitutions, to make sure it could not happen in their locale. In other words, "Work within within it," so long as we don't work within it. When that happens, we'll change the rules, to make sure you don't win again." Then we are asked why the kids think the system is against them. Outdated Sex Laws "Sodomy is a class B misdemeanor." Why outlaw homosexual acts? Why give them a jail sentence of three years? The reasoning behind such laws and their corresponding penalties seems to be that homosexuality endangers the "moral fabric" of our society. Our lawmakers, one supposes, think that if homosexuality is treated over the heterosexuality of most citizens will be threatened. This is patently ridiculous. For oppression is the inherent philosophy behind any law restricting activities between consenting adults. The only people who feel threatened by homosexuality are The above-quoted statute is entitled "Sodomy," but it would have perhaps been more appropriately titled "Oppression." available there for him. College towns receive many side-benefits from the proximity of a campus—medical and community training schools, with community gardens in ghetto; money coming into town in the students' pockets (or that of their visitors to spend on local businesses) and planting a plant to be serviced by local workers. those who are, for one reason or another, insecure about their own heterosexuality. So why allow the sexual intrigue to oppress others? College Vote: Work Within, But Don't Win Garry Wills Homosexual acts have been recently stripped of their criminal label in several states. Kansas should join these states. Homosexuals have been called sick and perverted, among other less-printable adjectives. Whether they are sick, though, is not in question as to whether they act of self-expressive love for each other should be labeled criminal. BUT THE STUDENT'S absence from his parents' home is not an exceptional situation. He has come of political age in his college surroundings, has more ties there than to his parents' residence, and will use the college locale as a base for seeking employment or further education. These acts should not receive a "criminal" label, if we are the freedom-loving society we claim to be. let is no different from that of any voter forced to use an absentee ballot. But the absentee ballot is designed for exceptional cases—those taken by away work or sick persons using the ballot is presumed to be returning to the place of his vote—a string college students will not be doing in many cases. The absentee voter's home is a real residence, even though he has worked there. It is his long-range interests lie there. IT IS HYPOCRITICAL to say the student contributes nothing, and should be expected to make institutional rights near the campus he has chosen as his residence for four years or longer. (Many "upward-moving" students do not live that long in any one area.) —Pat Malone Some are grieved that the student pays no taxes at the place of the college. Neither does he at home. Actually, he does contribute to the finances of the college site—through his tuition money or through scholarship funds made The campus is as real a residence as the student is likely to have at this age if they are not allowed to register and vote there, then the system has been rigged against him once more, and we have no right to be surprised if he shows hostility. Something similar is happening in college towns, now that the 26th Amendment has made 18 the legal voting age. The language of the Amendment is clear and forceful: "The right of citizens of the US, who are 18 years or older, shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on college communities are trying to abridge that right because of age. NATURALLY, THEY say it is not being abridged because of age but because of residence requirements. Most students' technical place of residence was the school not the same as their actual place of residence (where they go to school 9 months of the year). Those voting for the first time must add to the unfamiliarity of the process a registration card and the unfamiliarity with the local issues of a place they see only during part of the summer (if then). It might be argued that the students' Copyright, 1971, Universal Press Syndicate Readers Respond Endowment; Education; Fun To the Editor: Mr. Laird's comments concerning Mr. Parker's series on the Endowment Association totaly missed by Mr. Parker who read the article, particularly the third—with any care, can see that Mr. Parker has considerable research into the role of the Endowment Association in the knowledge of "economic reality." I would challenge Mr. Laird to define his terminology. Judging from the economic straits in which the United States is located, it is clear that there are many who could define "economic reality" adequately. Mr. Laird's argument that value is determined by an enterprise into investment decisions is highly irresponsible. The money not only wasted on any money invested in money, but it denies any role to the individual or small investor in corporate politics. To say that the tide of democracy is still stemmed only in Topeka and Washington, D.C. is to say that public pressure against corporations from within their own states can be a factor; to say that the individual can act in only one role—that of the voter; thus placing unacceptable pressure on individual action in the United States. Finally, the University will be destroyed soon by a lack of careful reading and thinking in his work. He has also directed and reactionary paranoid displayed in Mr. Laird's letter than it will be to Mr. Parker's boss. The University should not be the sole criterion for University investment. Assistant Instructor of English fo the Editor: Your recent concern with the Endowment Association's investment procedures at least proves you are right. The consistent tedium of what must surely be the dullest in the English-speaking world. If you and your readers are interested in causes less sensational, let me suggest one which has more immediacy because it is very directly him- ting students' access to quality education. The main library has severely curtailed its operating house. On weekends, an ideal and often excellent computer library, the doors are closed at 1:00 p.m on Saturday, not opened again until Sunday evening, from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m. Not only that: they now, the doors close at 6:00. I'm absolutely certain that acquires about this matter will receive an increase in the "No Budget." This should not be acceptable to anyone. When a university community is denied access to student services (disregarding for a moment the aggressive disinterest many students have in providing service to library users during open hours) we're all in very real and very serious trouble. —Alan Lichter Asst Prof, English To the Editor. I would like to take issue with Dick Hay and his descending掌拳 in the educational game. He presents his worn-out theme as if it were a revelation to the blind mass of children, an original about它. The article is worthless as anything but a ventacle that makes no attempt to offer any By Sokoloff Griff and the Unicorn solutions to the many problems he points out. He accomplished nothing by writing this editorial, and I suggest that he has no real grounds for this lengthy criticism of his work. He has devised has devised has been rejected. I agree with any of Mr. Hay's points, as I am sure the majority of the staff are in favor of Mr. Hay found it necessary to harass his time in such an unfortunate circumstance. I would also like to point out that anyone who is really interested in learning is not limited by the guarantee of a pat on the back from a teacher. Learning is not limited by the length or range of experience by a professor, but by the interest and effort of the individual. "Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff." -Leslie Modrick Topeka Sophomor Moreover, not only has an educational radio station no need to broadcast popular music, but it is important for such a station to pander to popular taste any more than is absolutely necessary. If KANU continues to lower its standards it could lose public trust and primary responsibility to be a legitimate educational station, and I can see no reason why it could not, at some future time, be a commercial enterprise to be operated henceforth as an out-and-out commercial station. Why should we allow KANU to masquerade as an educational institution after it has ceased to be one? It seems to me that the commercial radio stations in the Lawrence area do an adequate job of broadcasting popular music. It therefore no need to compete with them in providing this kind of service. After all, any radio listener interested in obtaining a musical opate has a fair number of choices to choose among already. 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