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Wednesday, September 15, 1971
University Daily Kansan
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Docking Balks at Reform
After the 1968 fiasco in Chicago the leaders of the Democratic party decided to avoid some of the challenges in in in in anarchistic convention, process
Their goal was to make the choosing of a presidential candidate a more democratic business. Unfortunately, these much needed changes will not have their desired effect on the Kansas delegation or of Gov. Robert Docking's entrenchment in the ways of the past.
At Chicago in 1968, according to the Democratic National Committee, 13 per cent of the delegates were women, 5.5 per cent were black and 4 per cent were under the age of 30.
Furthermore, a third of the delegates had been all but chosen in 1967. Consequently, the tumultuous events that marked the pre-convention season of 1968 were not the same. No wonder Hubert Humphrey was the candidate, with his talk of the "politics of joy."
In order to avoid a reocurrence of that farce, the Democratic National Committee set up some new rules for next summer's Miami meeting.
In terms of race, sex and age (between 18 and 30), the delegates are supposed to be roughly proportioned to the numbers in the population at large.
Also it is not supposed to be possible for governors or national committeeemen to stack the deck by planting friends in the delegations.
The unit rule, the favorite son, floor demonstrations and other ludicrous games are also supposed to be part of the past.
Too bad, Kansans. Docking has other ideas. He must have liked the floor demonstrations. At the national governors conference, Docking said the new rules will result in only slight changes in the bill that has traditionally selected delegates to presidential conventions.
He also said he was leaning towards presidential aspirants Edmund Muskie and Henry Jackson, and he expected to have friends in the Kansas delegation who would reflect his wishes.
So, as has often happened, there was too much hot air blowing in Kansas for the winds of change to have any effect.
—Mike Moffet
College Elections
Tomorrow 165 graduate and undergraduate students will be elected to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences College Assembly.
With the addition of the 165 students the Assembly will compromise 715 members including all regular faculty of the College and the additional students. Student representation in the Assembly will then be 20 per cent of the total voting membership.
This student representation is the direct result of a bitter compromise reached in the University Senate last fall. The 20 per cent compromise was reached only after student leaders abandoned hope for a proposal setting student representation at 50 per cent. The thought then seemed to be the compromise was better than
nothing, which considering the vehemence of some faculty opposition was the odds-on favorite.
The committees of the Assembly will deal with educational policies and procedures, budgetary matters and planning, faculty promotions and tenure and evaluation and advancement of instruction. Students are encouraged to consider the discussion of individual cases or in the final vote concerning promotions and tenure, but may participate in formulation of general policy.
Clearly, the clout wielded by students could be significant in all but completely student-faculty polarized issues. After last year's committee once again hope the committee succeed then was not an eleventh bour boast.
Tom Slaughter
James J. Kilpatrick
Philadelphia Politics
Editors Note: James J. Kilpatrick presents a semi-regular column in the Kansar.
PHILADELPHIA—In Philadelphia, nearly everyone knows the name of Frank Rizzo, but outside Philadelphia, not too many know him. The Tatcher Longstreet. This is a pity, for Longstreet is a remarkably vigorous specimen of a breed that is almost extinct. He is a true blue Republican and there aren't many of them left.
Rizzo, of course, is the city's former police commissioner, a no-nonsense cup with a tongue as blunt as a blackjack. He emerged from a bitter three-way Democratic primary back in May with his party's nomination for governor. He has been a member of the November general election.
At the moment, with the campaign yet to get seriously under way, Rizzo is the odds-or favorite. His favors, it is said, are keeping him under wraps, but he doesn't want his cotton-pickin' mouth shut. If he can be restrained from referring publicly to some of the city's "black citizens as 'baboons,' an appellation he has been known to mutter in the past, perhaps the rancors of May will succeed." The Democratic machine should roll him safely home.
This is the conventional wisdom, and if you play percentage baseball you have to put your money on Rizzo. All the same, the makings are here for an interesting upset. In this off year, only a handful of major elections are scheduled for Philadelphia players, the Philadelphia mayoralty race is just about the only game in town. Can a ribbon clerk take an old pro?
The metaphor is unfair to Longstreet, but to know this amiable fellow, and to ponder the sweaty climates of politics fought in Philadelphia style, is to ask a question you boy like you doing in a place like this? The answer is that Longstreet, who is 50 and four times a grandfather, though he doesn't look it, genuinely loves Longstreet. He does not necessarily believes that he might put things back together again.
It seems unlikely, but it might
be so, Longstreth is white Republican, and Quaker, in a city whose politics are dominated largely by blacks. Democrats have won the presidency behind. But he has some things going for him too. Granted that in Philadelphia, nearly everyone knows Rizza, it's equally true that nearly everyone also knows Rizza, and also knows him in a favorable light.
Longstreet also expects to benefit from the deep division in Democratic ranks. While Rizzo won his match in May, he claimed less than 50 percent of the vote and he left some bleeding wounds behind. The ad-攻力最大 Major James H. J. Tale offers some fat targets for Republican attack. Longstreet hopes to pick up at least 100,000 defecting Democrats.
The Longstreet family came to Philadelphia in the 1600's with William Penn. His great-grandmother, an active abolitionist, was helping slaves through the underground city during the century. Longstreet himself, following in her footsteps, has been a dedicated friend of the city's black population; he has every reason—especially against Rizzo—to expect overwhelming numbers who will cast about one-fourth of an expected 800,000 turnout.
Longstreet's biggest handicap, oddly, may be that he presents to nice an image. He is a big gay-6 feet. 6 inches in height; pounds are 190. He is American end at Princeton in 1939, a decorated lieutenant commander in World War II, a former Chamber of Commerce officer, who wouldn't swat a fly. If he can learn to grow a little, and practice a few mean faces in the mirror, he might yet persuade a majority of the voters to entrust with the demanding office he seeks.
If the city's Republican organization can produce another 150,000 votes, the arithmetic of that number is too difficult. To be sure, every candidate doodles these scratch-pads sums. The malanchy truth is that the city has a racial, religious and ethnic animosity that old patterns
offer small guidance. Contemplating the enigmatic slogan, "Rizzo means Business," both the point and the Italian-American gets the point.
(C) 1971 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
"Okay, quick." Build a platform under me.
Readers Respond
Readers Respond Series Critized; Women Excluded
In my view the series of articles dealing with the Kansas University Endowment Association constituted a highly irresponsible piece of journalism. The writer displayed little or no economic reality or the role of the Endowment Association.
To the Editor:
Indeed, should the writer achieve his apparent goal of requiring the association officers they could only be just that) in its investment decisions, in the long run much greater harm will have been done to the University than it would place on state funds by Topeka.
If Mr. Parker's real goal is to stem the tide of industrial pollution, Topeka and Washington, N.C., should be his choice. Perhaps however, the real motive is the destruction of the University.
Roy D. Laird
Professor of Political Science
To the Editor.
I would like to quote from a circular that was distributed to all faculty members yesterday (Thursday Sept. 9, 1971) concerning the Lawrence Jayhawk Quarterback Club.
'MEMBERSHIP: Open to all persons desiring to learn more about the K.U. football team and program. Women are also invited to join and learn more about the K.U. football from Coach Fambrough'.
I would like somebody to explain this Freudian slip!
This puts women not only outside the category of persons but indicates that there is an athlete in football that they do not know.
Christine Leonard,
K.U. Alum,
University Staff
Busing Attitudes Change
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP)—Opposition to busing as a means of integrating public schools has declined slightly, but most are against it, according to a Gallup Poll released Sunday.
The poll, taken Aug. 20-23, indicated 18 per cent of those questioned said they favored education from one school district to another as a means of achieving success. Seventy-six per cent opposed it.
A similar survey in March.
1970, reported that 14 per cent favored busing, while 81 per cent were opposed.
Kansan Guest Column
Gallup noted that evidence of the keen interest in busing is likely to be increased by 125 persons interviewed said they had heard of the issue. This far exceeded the number for many other domestic issues. The latest poll reported one of the sharpest increases in support for busing among people, Twenty-three per cent said they favored busing as opposed to 13 per cent in last year's poll.
Nixon Next in Kowtow Tradition?
Guest Column
Rv TIM WILLIAMS
Imagine a person reemerging into the world after fifty years in prison. He must feel being made over the acceptance by the leader of one world power of an invitation to marry. How might he be a little incredulous.
Tim Williams, a first year graduate student in Asian Studies, is a British subject teacher. He made trips to Canton, Peoples Republic of China in 1966 and 1967. Here he studied the current developments involving The Peoples Republic.
If he was then informed that this is the result of a group of men and women hitting a little white celluloid sphere back and forth with a saw, they would wood, one must expect him to go back into hibernation post haste.
FEW OF US, unfortunately,
are able to go with him, forcing
us to try to make some sense out
of it. We should be an incredible
treatment.
Traditionally, China conducted her foreign relations on the assumption, not always unwarranted, that all foreigners must be permitted to travel to Peking in order to pay tribute to the Son of Heaven. Once in the presence of the Emperor, the tribute bearing a feather was the ceremonial knocking of the head on the ground nine times. In 1793, Lord Macartney considered this to be behaviour unbelfitting an envoy of His Britannia to attend events refused to perform the kowow.
SINCE THEN, China has been carved up by territory-grabbing barbarians, some of them supposedly firm in their belief in their manifest destiny, others openly self-seeking.
Generalissim Chiang Kai-shek bagging the consolation prize of Taiwan. The U.S. had unfortunately put its money on the Generalissim, and attempted to use the government by proclaiming it to be a bastion of democracy in Asia.
Even before the foreign nations had finished their inning, the Chinese began their own process of rebuilding their Kingdom. Communists, Nationalists and sundry individuals with an eye on the Imperial throne battled for the right to come cut on top, with
Bastion it may have been.
Democratic it was and is not.
Neither of course is the government of the People's Republic. The People's Republic is, however, the government for about 80 million people, which can be compared to white to about 12 million. Most other things being equal, this fact alone would seem to present a reasonable argument that the government in Peking is more representative of the people of China than the government in Taipei. The problem before the northern Norwegians is whether they should have a seat, but rather should sit in that seat, particularly in the Security Council.
PRESIDENT NIXON now appears to have realised that the U.S. backed the wrong horse in 1949. For this he must be applauded. This writer visited Washington was constantly assured that the people of America were, and presumably still are, the friends
of the Chinese people, and are not responsible for the aggressive acts of the government in Washington. Now the governments are at least Friendly towards each other, talking to each other in public. It should not be assumed however, that this indicates a speedy "normalisation of relations", whatever that may mean. This will be able, in the very near future, to travel freely in China.
The United States will not entirely renge on its obligations to Taiwan, and Peking will not accept a two-China policy. It has been suggested that Peking and Taipei should be left alone to solve this problem for themselves, hopefully arriving at some sort of compromise which will allow Taiwan to become an island in area, necessitating the sovereignty of Peking. While it is unlikely that this will come about while the present leaders of either China remain in power, it is to be hoped that such a solution is not far off.
It is interesting to note that since the partial relaxation of tension between Peking and Washington, at least two things are important. Communist stores in Hong Kong have increased considerably, and
an international scramble has begun to recognize the government in Peking. Are we then planning to move there, whereby barbarian leaders
travel to Peking to kowtow to the Emperor (or Chairman) and barbarian merchants are allowed in China, leading posts on the China coast?
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