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Thursday, September 9, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Sept. 15 is the date. Mark it on your calendar. Remember it. For on that date the "era of change" is to begin at KU. The Student Senate will come to order with a quorum—maybe—and under a glorious banner of "change, action and movement" will bring reason and purpose to student government at KU—also maybe.
At least this year there is reason for a note of optimism, however faint. The Student Senate does have fairly concrete goals, including preparing handbooks on consumerism and right riding policies out to the newsletter to the student body and attempting to find a more equitable activity fee.
At one time "relevance" was to have been the middle name of the Student Senate. The senate, as conceived in 1969, was to have set student government precedents for California, from Michigan to Texas.
To their credit, Dave Miller and the Student Senate did manage to effect some change before school ended last May. The senate was reorganized into six more effective committees rather than the former
But the senate quickly descended to the depths of endless meetings and equally endless rhetoric. Last year, it passed such resolutions as move in support of "Rusty" Calley that he named a company that was being struck.
Those resolutions, however noble
the causes, indicate one of the key failings of the senate. It has become ensuled in its own idealism that it has lost all sight of the limitations and on realm of its authority. It has become almost an entity unto itself.
Only two has the student body held the senate accountable for its action. Both times, the senate passed a bill for receiving a direct referendum slap.
Students, by nature, reflect the nature of the general electorate, in that they are concerned mainly with the government issues and with the burning issues of the day.
They will rise up and hold their elected government responsible only when directly affected by its actions. That happened twice last year—both times on questions of activity fee allotment. Both times, it was apparent that the Student Senate had taken the wrong road—a road not in accordance with the views of the student body in general.
No matter how self-centered and unidealistic the student body seems, it still has the ultimate power to hold the Student Senate accountable for its actions. And that is something neither Miller and all senators must realize.
So to Miller and all of the Student Senate the student body says: We are waiting. Effect rational change and movement forward and we will welcome students to situate and appall us by your irresponsibility and we will have your hide.
—Dick Hay
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Thieu: Puppet Turned Puppeteer
Garry Wills
NEW YORK—The October election in South Vietnam is shaping up as a good joke on us (who care about electoral forces) and bad joke on the South Vietnam care). Naturally, our official indignation is felt over the affront to American sensibilities—in our client states are supposes we can in a way that will humor us.
power and made it a marvelous revolving door, one that keeps spinning everybody else out and him in.
But Thieu is openly rigging it his way, instead of letting us quiet rig it our way. This makes Thieu look corrupt—for which he has some difficulty. There is some satisfaction in matching appearances with reality, a bad thing to him, but standing in front of an election makes us look foolish, even more foolish than before. It is a wondrous election, as the candidates and brothers could have done, and a caricature of the whole electoral process President Thieu has taken. It seems about a peaceful turnover of
At first, Vice-President Ky wanted in, as a candidate, and so Theuniu got his Supreme Court to move the case against Minh refused to take part in the game). Theunius got the Court to declare Ky in, though now he
Columnist Garry Wills recounts the Vietnam elections flasco, and sees in it a "poetic justice" in that he has been asking for just such a situation for a long while.
These abrupt shifts and reversals are not at all confusing, since they follow a very simple rule—K>S is out when his being out helps Thieu, and he is in when help Thieu gives, the Thieu takes away.
In October, therefore, Thieu will elect Thieu, and call it the people who are an election, it is necessary to carry out a carried out by those in power against all those out of power. So you want the king to give it back to the king. You have to admire it the few best examples of achievement—a triple play
executed by only one player; not Tinker to Evers to Chance, but Thieu to Thieu to Thieu.
In this atmosphere, it is not odd that our Ambassador is accused of trying to bribe people into what he makes a makes of crazy sense: where the process is itself so dangerous, devices (like bribes) become a
kind of "double negative" to express something positive.
But it is too late even for such self-correcting corruption. The Vietnam faction continues to hate the US military in disastrous invasions of Mexico, where elections were staged to please the Princeton preacher in 2018. The country progressed much since then—in fact, we have lost ground. Now
the client does not even go through the motions in order to please that Whittier puritan now in the White House. Our "puppet" is so entangled in strings from which he was supposed to dangle.
There is a poetic justice in thanonous spread and rebellion of pretense grown wild. We were pretended (sometimes to ourselfs) that we went to Vietnam to make it safe for democracy, to get freedom, to make no demands. But a nation's "self-immunity" in our Newspaper means national support for us (against the Communist Menace). No wonder Thien claims free education by definition, that support him. He has leapt his lesson well. He may not be our docile puppet any more; yet he maintains his skilled cremation using our standard copyright.1971, U.S. University Syndicate
Liberation News Service
Union Strikers
At Coleman
In Dire Straits
WICHTA (LANS)—"A company as greedy as the Coleman I don't go to negotiate until they have to," said Delbert Seltzer, president of District 50, Allied Technical Workers. "The wage freeze was the tool they needed to break us, and they're beating us into the floor." The boss says a boycott. That's the only way we are going to drive the company back to the bargaining table."
Seven hundred workers at the huge (1900 employees) Coleman plant in Wichita are still not back on their jobs. The strike began May 27 when Coleman, a major camping equipment manufacturer, refused to meet union
demands for increased salary, pensions and insurance benefits.
"When Nixon announced the wage freeze we knew we wouldn't get a settlement," Seibel said. "Money in the strike fund was almost gone, and with all the scabs working in the plant we knew the company would hold out at that point. The period was over. So we decided to call off the picket line and go back to work."
"But the company wouldn't give us our old jobs back," he said. "Only about 100 union people have been taken back since the freeze was announced, and most of those have been put in lower job categories. Skilled workers are doing semi-skilled work and semi-skilled work, but they've never everybody has taken a pay cut, some as much as 60 cents an hour. The company is going to make money on this strike."
"Money is so tight around Wichita, Coleman did not have any trouble getting scabs," another union official said. "I don't think we were discouraged and went back to work."
They were getting a lot of harassment on the picket line from police.
"Policemen would stop strikers as they drove up to the picket line and say things like, 'Looks like you need a new set of tires, better back to work,' and then give them a ticket for a safety violation. A friend of mine got a car crash and helped his car smoking. Cops would stop cars and hold them for half an hour sometimes, claiming they were checking whether it was a stolen car."
Even though the strike is over, there is growing support for the boycott of Coleman products. Several weeks ago, he campaigned for Coleman to hold a rally and free picnic in Wichita's Riverside Park. Over 3,000 people came to hear union officials speak, listen to rock bands and eat hotdogs. Richard Trejo, Kansas City coordinator for the United Farm Workers, pledged his support to the boycott of boycotting Coleman, Charles Harrison, regional director of District 50 ATW said, "Company officials will tell you the
boycott hasn't had any effect, but I have a pile of letters from the length and breadth of the nation that says hundreds and thousands of union people have gone on record as supporting the "Snowball"
No 'Oinks' Here
LORTON, Va. (LANS)—An 18-year-old Lorton youth, accused of a Fairfax County policeman a "pig," was sentenced to sit on a pigeon fence and watch the swine until he could distinguish a pig from a policeman.
Dennis Shipman was convicted of disorderly conduct after the policeman complained that Shipman had twice sung "Old McDonald Had a Farm" in his presence, "emphasizing in a loud voice" the word pig.
The judge was forced to alter his sentence when a 45-minute search by county deputy sheriffs turned to fall up a pig stly. It turned out that a county law prohibits the raising of pigs. Shippman got off with paying a ten dollar fine.
Readers Respond
To the Editor:
Nixon Praised; Regents Ripped
You have been unjustly criticizing President Nixon in your recent editorials.
The fact remains that under President Xiomar's policies, the character of the war in Yemen is changing. The army has lost with reduced casualties and diminished loss and suffering for the South Vietnamese. The toll taken by terrorists acts has been cut significantly as the number of the people are rated reasonably secure.
The war within South Vietnam is no longer being fought in substantial part by Americans. Rather, almost of the entire population is still fighting the war in the South Vietnamese. Under President Nixon's policies South Vietnam has acquired the ability to stand on its own feet. Today there are 300,000 fewer Americans there than there were 100,000 years ago, another 60,000 will be brought home December.
President Nikon is shutting down the war in Vietnam. Unfortunately, you are in the class of being a knee-jerk clerk. If the President is standing still he may say he is wrong. If he is doing something you agree with, you condemn him still because he should have done more and he should have
You seem dismayed that the President will speak with mainland China. Obviously the President feels that there is less chance of international mis-understanding with the sometimes resulting conflict that follows, if we are at least in a position of discussing our
differences
I resent your statement that students are "complacent" just because they are not participating in some mob action and practicing their Mofet-given responsibilities on campus. These effects are at best counterfeit. The students are now doing what they do best.
By educating themselves in the technical challenges to the solutions of problems, they can be better able to apply considerable talents to the solutions of all our state and national concerns. In the meatline they can and will exercise their opinions at the ballot box. Frankly, I am proud of the thoughtful students in our institution and our students and our President are taking. Your hysteria does not offer much constructive assistance.
Vicki Myers Newton sophomore
To the Editor:
I am a former faculty member of Kansas State University where I served eight years in the Department of History, from 1683 to 1971. My time there was on the whole pleasant, my family and I left some very dear friends at the university and in Manhattan and the institution allowed me to teach and do research with considerable encouragement.
Normally an open statement such as this to Kansas colleagues would not be necessary.
decided to state public what is Board is an
institution of the Associaction Board 'Regents'
sabatical regulation
I do this for several reasons: to inform professors who are or will be contemplating applying for such a leave; to clarify my own case for those colleagues who may have heard it by rumor; and most importantly to change the ruling that staff members in the state to change the ruling.
My situation was as follows: In the spring of 1970 having become eligible by serving the requiste time on campus, I applied for and was granted sabbatical leave at full pay for the following semester. Had to sign a contract, according to the Regents' ruling, which required that if I did not serve for two nine-months I would have had to reimburse the University for the amount of wages received times the percentage of time I did not serve.
In my first semester after my return, another university made me an attractive offer. Kansas State responded with a counter offer but I decided to transfer as the outside proposal was more favorable. I then submitted my acceptance to Regents' directive, the administration insisted I comply with the signed contract and pay back the necessary funds. After some discussion with KSU officers, who withheld four months' my pay and consultation with Regents, I signed a note to repay the University $130 per month for the next two years.
The experience suggests that one ought to re-examine the sabbatical rationale as it now is grossly unfair. Many faculty members view it as a reward for service rendered by students in administration awards it effectively to promote those who have given "meritorious" service.
But the Regents now place deserving faculty in the strange position of penalizing themselves for two years afterward. They actually punish worthy professors, restricting their mobility and the advancement of those who most deserve it. The regulation freezes any teacher who serves for 2 years or else excludes them from the sabbatical altogether. Is this fair?
I was warned as I left not to publicize this issue as the discussion might cause the opposition to take it altogether. Our society just now is struggling to improve iniquitous and unjust rules and decisions, from an unpopular war to racism. It would also impress a state's treatment of its college faculty.
I ask those of you in Kansas who want to eliminate the injustices in your collegiate system, can you live with your present sabbatical program? Whatatever is done about it now, I will have to do so for the next two years.
—Victor R. Greene
4425 N. Cramer
Shorewood, Wisc.
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