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Tuesday, August 31, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment These Are Quiet Days
For the 106th year the University has opened its doors to take up the business of academia.
On Monday, Chancellor Chalmers made it official with a traditional opening address delivered in traditional style
These are quaint days. Days without massive campus demonstrations, without fires and bombings, without turbulent community around University.
It's a lie.
It is the same lie that America lived during the Eisenhower years when our greatest problems were incubating, Anger, fear, frustration and despair have moved offstage, but the muttering is there. Only the deaf could not hear it. Only fools would ignore it.
With the certainty of solar mechanics, the University has come back to equilibrium. Peace reigns. Justice has surmounted its oppressors. Happiness is ours.
Yes, with additional effort, with additional time the University will move forward to break the
educational stalemate the Chancellor has spoken of.
But that does not mean that we will have escaped the echoing floods of human suffering.
The roots of turmil oil are untouched. The issues are unsolved.
But the committee reports are in the Kansas Union has been remodeled, the ROTC building has new windows and a new lighting system and two former students, two women are buried.
Important as they may be, buildings for health services and humanities and reclamation of bottles and cans are but small contributions to offset the deficit of the past year. There is much left
So we turn to problems of finance, of internal reorganization, of reordering our priorities. After all, these are quiet days.
One need only read the Meningerin report and the committee report that followed it to see that last year's images were imaged much and changed little.
David Bartel, Editor
The political stock of Atty. Gen. Vern Miller is rising fast in Kansas, but it almost singularly on its hard line enforcement of Kansas drug statutes.
There seems to be certain warm reception to Miller's hysterical campaign on the part of many Kansans who know the drug problem only by the headlines and what they hear over the backyard fence. Miller has cashed on reports and rumored widespread drug use by Kansas schoolchildren to the grade school level.
Miller, who promised to take to the streets to enforce the law, actually hid in an automobile trunk to witness a drug pusher, after a flying tackle.
For those Kansans that were
action flacks this is fine stuff.
The raids usually come in the early morning hours, sometimes with accompanying camera crews and always the post-raid comments. The first time a Kansas is that much closer to totally eradicating the "drug problem."
This is poppycock.
Long hair, sexual permissiveness, communal living and all the trappings of this generation—strange and frightening to many—come rolled in a neat ball of wax, the spectre of the "drug problem."
Stop the supply of drugs and the rest will follow in line, they assume.
rest will follow in line, they assume. Most authorities with an adult view of the situation realize the distinction between hard and soft drugs. A distinction Miller ignores. The majority of those arrests are for possession, sale, or conspiracy to sell grass. Miller's raids have been solved, and in doing so the drug fight becomes a holy crusade with no grey areas—just black and white. Right or wrong. Us vs. them.
The problem is more complex. It demands something more than Miller's heavy cop's hand. If every person who had even smoked grass or every smack freak were behind bars the drug problem would still exist
It can only be solved through information and understanding. Two ingredients like lacking in Miller's Agnew-like polarization crusade.
Tom Slaughter
Came The Revolution?
Perhaps it is over. We lost, and Nixon, Agnew and Mitchell won. We are now held by the national model that the complacent campus is with us again.
Perhaps it so ever. We lost, and Nixon, Agnew and Mittenstein was a haunt being told by the national media that the complacent camp is with us in terms of the local situation; this seems a fair analogy. With a year of training both Nixon and Mittenstein are committed in the spring of 1970 against both Nixon's oligarchy and the far left's anarchy activity at KU during the next year withered to concern about how much football tickets were cost and the format of the Javahwer yearbook.
For a generation that is supposed to be religiously dedicated to social change, that's a poor litany, and first appearances don't indicate any change in the
Members of the class of 72 this summer received letters from their leadership extolling the "apolitical" virtues of the coming yearbook and an "oec-
On the national scene many of the political pundits assessing the tie to be felt efforts of 181/20 year old voters, are predicting a like-father-like-son dintion of the party's support for Hillary Clinton.
In Playboy's 1971 student survey, pollution was found to be the issue of most importance among the students questioned, pushing Vietnam into second place. I'm not discounting the importance of cleansing the environment, but only 33 per cent of the students questioned would say that they opposed Nixon's concept in Indochina, and the fact remains that we are still using more effective means of detoxifying dusts and bombs than we are in America by dumping waste into our rivers.
Another poll taken this summer indicates that the younger generation, which was supposed to be so wary of Nikon's ad man approach to the world, are now coming forward with plans to go.
to China, the President's popularity among 18 to 29-year-olds rose sharply.
In a poll taken July 20-21 by the Opinion Research Corporation, 57 per cent of those contacted said they approved of the way Nixon is handling his job as President. This is an increase of 11 per cent over a poll taken in June before the China trip was announced.
Remember now that this is the fellow that was talking about "bums" on campus after the Cambodian incursion and then three months later came to Kansas State to show everybody he was an alright guy by wearing a purple tie.
On the bottom of one of the Playboy balloons a student wrote: "The people who made up this questionnaire should have planted a garden instead."
For me this attitude seems frighteningly similar to that of the middle aged Leconiuine who sets at the bar in the local post and defends the war.
There are still to many people sowing hatred, too many hungry without a garden; fortunately to be conspicuous to go back to the earth and forget the world.
I hope this is an unduly pessimistic analysis, that far from being complacent, young people are taking advantage of the quietude to evaluate their effectiveness. For while the history of the power of youth is pockmarked with negative messages about adolescence and teenage problems as far as she did without the support of youth, and a non-voting youth at
Now, with the power of the vote, it would seem that it was time to come out of the garden for white and again fight for those ideals that seemed so inviolable.
Then we could beat our swords into plowshares and plant our gardens with a clear conscience.
-Mike Moffet, Editorial Editor
Garry Wills
Garry Willis's nationally syndicated column will appear on this page from time to time this semester. Willis is a frequent associate editor and author of *Nixon for Nigomones.*
'Conditioned' Prejudice Not Condoned
NEW YORK—Angry letters to a columnist tend to be all the same, whatever the putative message. The attack one's patriotism, sanity, and right to express an erroneous opinion. They do this in obscene and ungrammatical terms, and they would do if they would do if the columnist were within reach—though any possibility of actual confrontation is considerably diminished by the use of these letters are unsigned.
letter surprised me. Its tone was one of open and reasonable argument, asking to be understood, and that it is important the writer said that long hair is not important in itself, but as a tool for dressing them. Those who wear it are ungratefully throwing back in our face all the good things we have offered
THE ARGUMENT is true, as far as it goes—and is an argu-
mor or long hair. I can understand and pity men for whom the budge of well will be their property that sexual devils always wear long hair. I pity that state of mind enough to feel that people who that people so conditioned should not be allowed (without children) more children to such nonsenses.
THIS IS WHY I was surprised to receive a calm, grammatical, signed letter on the subject of long hair. With all the serious attention that beset us, no single thing has eicled more or more violent letters than the subject of long hair. It obviously causes a kind of physical revulsion in some people, and it is partisolar, what the Black Mass was to old Europe's cathedral—a blasphemous and unforgiving mockery. It seems also, and perhaps most important, to be an invention of the Jews
It is an argument I have heard a thousand times in other contexts, but it seems rarely resents all those on welfare. The Southerner cannot help thinking Nigerian inferior—he was born in the middle of Africa to protect the South African to consider any social form but the aparteb he was taught to consider an ideal country.
That is why, as I say, the calm
ALL RIGHT, say that is true—and most of the statement clearly is. Hair's importance (such as it will be) is not only in all styles of grooming or apparel. Clothes are a uniform, badge of pride or shame. If the long-hairs wear a coat and tie and their true, simply by going on womenshe desyre pity. But one wonders how the good and true has always been. What is very sight of long hair so debilitates them. What kind of same patriotism frosts at the mouth of a woman? How the "skinheads" are so convinced of their own values, why greet rejection of those values with such confidence, in much resentment?
My cooler and more rational
etter-writer offers a clue. Some of the wilder epistles focused on the homosexual theme—that loathing "quarers." Not the correspondent I have been describing, though—he says he knows that all who wear long hair are not devilies or demonic beings and therefore stand how it might look this way to certain people —in fact, to the one he grew up with. They may not always have hair meant, always and infallibly, hideous sexual unhealthily.
derstandable, but to be condoned
Copyright, 1971, Universal Press Syndicate
HIS CONCLUSION? I should pity the mistaken, understand what has happened and not help their reaction. In fact, given their condition, hostility will be born.
ness. Some people are mistaken, but that it is not their fault. They were brought up to believe such things—"programmed" to it, as it were; and can no more avoid having these ideas triggered in them when they see long hair or a wig. But they can smile at close confinement.
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Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must have their names clearly printed; faculty and staff must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and address.
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
Readers Respond Registration Urged
To the Editor:
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There is a saying that nothing is really permanent, and KU students are well advised to stay away from the next vote in the next few months.
Present Kansas law will allow students to register and vote in elections in their state as their permanent or affixed home. More precisely, the appl
1. Do I consider any other address more permanent than my present one in Lawrence?
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The key word is intention. A student's permanent of affixed home, his fixed habitat, is wherever he intends it to be. And, a student's residence address to be his residence he may register and vote here. A student contemplating registration might ask himself
"That place shall be considered and held to be the residence of a father, when he is fixed, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of remaining."
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If these questions are answered in the negative, and I believe they will be, the student should begin to think of himself as a legitimate citizen of Lawrence. In the com-munication interest in local issues and candidates. And certainly he should register and vote.
3. What if I were not a student? If I were a junior executive or professor of a large firm, and I could reasonably expect to be transferred within four years, would I give my consent to the city as my permanent residence? Would I choose to vote absentee in that city rather than in Law School?
4. In this highly mobile society,
am I any more a transient than
the non-student who has long
disrespect to use his parent's
address?
Larry Yackle Second Year Law
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