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Tuesday, December 12, 1972
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Regent Appointment Cause for Rejoicing
Feminists rejoice, we finally got a woman Regent. Actually, from the information given in newspaper articles about Mary Prudence de la Marmot, the widow of people to rejoice since she seems to be a very capable woman.
Although I wanted the new regent to be a woman, I doubt that anyone will be able to notice much of a difference in the way most of the problems are handled. Assuming that the Regents base their decisions on the type of rational thinking that can be appreciated by most men—it is likely that it will also be appreciated by more women—the Regents will not be a noticeable depressing sensitivity or compassion just because the Board of Regents has a female member. If her opinions differ from those of the other Regents it probably has more to do with the fact that she is a different person than that she is of a different sex.
I think there are personality differences based on sex, but I do not think they constitute as sharp a distinction as stereotypes would have us believe. Most of the women that I know do not rely on intuitive thinking to solve their problems. They are not as silly, sensitive, compassionate, passive or cunning as those (Which is why I avoid paradox—after all, how can one person be both passive and cunning?) Most of the men I know are not as impassive, domineering, resolute, stalwart or as rational as stereotypes claim all men should be. These stereotypes
seem to derive from the combined efforts of male and femal entrenchment to deter a grand plot to make the sexes in comprehensible to each other.
Even though I do not believe the personality differences to be as great as they are supposed to be, I still think there is a need for women in policy-making positions. It is likely that Hutton will have a better understanding of some of the needs and desires of women students and faculty members. Child care centers will probably sound less like a luxury to someone who has tried to have a career and to fulfill all of the duties America expects of its mothers. Hopefully she should be able to remember the older women who are coming back to school. She can be instrumental in correcting the gap between the salaries of male and female faculty members. Her womanhood will make a difference when the specific needs of female students is an issue.
She also offers to the young women of this state the model of a successful woman. She shows that it is possible to be more than a grammar school teacher in the educational system of this country. The more women that are allowed to hold high positions in government and industry, the more acceptable it will be. Maybe some year another woman will be selected as a Regent—and the fact that she is a woman will not be part of all the headlines.
Mary Ward
The Flavor of a History Pie Is Not in the Headline Crust
By DON MAYBERGER
Some events are so devastating in their impact on the world that they come to be regarded as landmarks in the journey through certain periods of time. Such events are represented by black headlines that accompany them, are pointed at and examined by historians and sociologists in order to extract a story or from an era or decade
Headline: "President Is Slain from Ambush."
So blinding are these headlines that make it to the often never makes it to the first news here in smaller form that much of the real flavor of a certain era has left us. News events form the skeleton that provides the shape of history, the story of the meat on those heads. Headline: "President Isai Sain
Perhaps few noticed the irony of a feature that said that Vaughn Meader, the comedian whose stand-up show sold 5 million record albums called "The First Family," was searching for ways to destroy his image as a P.K. imitator. His book, *The Paper*, the paper hit the newstand.
While Ellsworth, Iowa, turkey raises were preparing to ship 1/4 million turkeys for next week's Thanksgiving dinners, a farmer helped himself by himself beset with family problems, ended his step-daughter's sixth birthday celebration by killing her, his wife's family members or his wife's family turned him on gun himself.
And in a letter to the editor,
Walter Berkowitz, citizen, urged
the construction of fallout
sites to save 100 million
Americans.
On that infamous Friday, while the nation pondered the meaning of life and death, the aging man who fell on the 73rd birthday. Millions mourned the death of the nation's youngest President but few saw the small article telling of the death of 18-year-old Robert 'Ermer of Chicago' O'Hara with his head in a plastic bag filled with airplane glue.
"... Congress has again voted billions for the moon and it eliminated appropriations for space exploration. This is like a man deciding to cut down his cost of living and the first thing he does is cancel his life insurance, his fire insurance, his accident insurance, etc., etc."
Headline: "Khrushchev Quits Red Helm."
Meanwhile, other leaders were having their problems too. Harry Wagner, a spokesman for about his Kansas City hospital room recovering from injuries in the shooting, Washington President Johnson attempted to prevent any fall that he might suffer from Republican policies. In 1959 arrest of White House aid
Walter Jenkins on morals charges
Headline: "Power Loss Paralyzes Northeast."
In Kansas City, L. lwrence Kipton, former Chancellor of the University of Chicago, has been called a power loss. Misguided idealism on some college campuses, he may cause, say a real disservice to students.
Rep. Mendel Rivers was telling newsmen that he had heard estimates that a Vietnamese demand require a $10 million boost in the defense budget for 1966, while at the same time Robert LaPorte, a young Roman citizen, died of death after turning himself into a human torch outside the United Nations building to protest the Vietnam War.
Headline: "L.B.J. Will Not Seek Re-election."
Dr. Timothy Leary, frequently the high priest of the church, was the responsible for the banner headline of the day, was denied a review of his 30-year prison term and moved marjuana from Mexico.
Theaters across the country were filled with crowds who asked, "What do Doll's?" But in Lebanon, Ore. a movie house operator went out of business because of "a desperate need" for sex films. The fault, he said, was "so much sex, violence and crime woven into a majority of today's film fare."
And the Rev. Martin Luther King Jihot that he might lead many militaries to attack peoples at the upcoming Democratic and Republican
Even while the gunsmoke still filled the Memphis air, the Senate was forced to make a measure proposed by President Johnson to control the sale of ammunition.
Headline: "Shot Kills Martin Luther King."
The nation and the nation's businesses are preparing their own business for Better Britain were finding their own businesses preparing for an upsurge. They listed Robert Carr as a candidate in a necklace with Richard Nixon.
The front page news rendered the books' odds meaningless. In Pearl Harbor, a 20-year-old man was injured after being picked up, after being taken off, he offered to share a joint of marijuana with his benefactor and was promptly arrested. The driver, it turned out, was a policeman and charged the sailor in possession of illegal narcotics.
Headline: "Robert Kennedy Fights for Life."
>ured black paint over draft records.
And in Vatican City, the Vatican announced that it would devote a half hour of radio time per week to pop music.
"Beat music—on which we suspend artistic judgment for the moment—represents never an ideal bridge toward the young.
The F.B.I. began a search for a young couple described by her as "weird and dirty looking" who had walked into the office and
During a Honolulu television show, mother spotted her runaway wrestling match. She called the police and the 17-year-old was taken to a local hospital.
Headline: "Humphrey Concedes to Nixon."
Mrs. Hunter Wallace of Pinston, Ala., said she heard "radicals" in some cities would attempt to keep voters down from the 76-year-old rumored to be late along when she went to vote.
Today's movie: "Gone with the Wind."
But while those two Americans collected rocks nearly 240,000 American lay dying in cancer Washington the House passed a measure permitting states to treat services under the medicare卡
As Americans were watching the fuzzy billion-dollar live telecast from another world, the elderly had to close a close. The years had often been painful to live through and many found solace in the realization that at least one of the goals of New Frontier had been met.
And in Grafton, Ill., the Boys Club closed its doors because of the high costs of operation.
Garry Wills
Headline: "U.S. Moon
Triumph."
James bond. h叉 westerns. JFK had kames Bond. Nixon has Patton. That movie drags much of its plump three hours, but Nixon sat through it several times during a particularly tense period of his own life—the time of the Cambodian "incursion."
Nixon Idolizes Movie Patton
Mr. Nixon does not lack intelligence--only taste. Yet his comments about John Wayne movies as a type of American justice show that his intelligence is not at home in the symbols of Hollywood. So it is quite possible that he missed the satirical edge of this war, and he has Patton. He seems to have read this anti-war movie as favoring war, the mystical war fanatic as a hero of determination.
If he did, then this abbreviation in a man otherwise fairly perceptive is revealing. What caused the odd feeling of identity with a man so little like him in most ways? Patton like an athlete, flamboyant and ill-assured, and ill-assured. One can understand her-worship for a Patton—but what basis is there for identification with him?
Recently I stayed in front of my TV set through the film's medium and all those tawdry commercials wondering how Richard Nixon—would endure this more than once.
Part of the answer—and one of the movie's better touches—is contained in the omnipresence of a man never seen on the screen. Patton's destiny lies, throughout, in Eisenhower's hands; "Ike" is a name sounded constantly, with almost magical effect.
That name is the trump card played by Omar Baridley at several turns. It alone compels the recalcitrant Patton to crumble in the key episode—the public apology for hitting a gun and killing his son at last gets his chance to join in the invi'ion of Europe, Ike is the dea ea machina of his delayed deliverance—and Patton does not
know whether to curse or bless him.
The resentment that Patton feels can never be expressed. His fateful is fathered to another man's wife, and it becomes a free of him, on whom he depends, whom he cannot attack, yet from whom he undergoes his worst humiliation. Checked by Ike, he is struck in his heart. There is irony in that familiar
name used always for a figure so awesomely remote that the cameras cannot, in their long slidful exercise, find him even once. He is Jehovah to Patton's Job-toying with his creature in ways about equally constructive and destructive.
Did Nixon intuit any affinity with Patton in this respect? How could he fail to Eisenhower has always been the off-screen power
in Nixon's career, the name he had to invoke and not curse, even though his own worst ordeal was imposed by Koe's fat — the wounded man who had endured and crippled Nixon for even though Eisenhower knew before he underwent that Nixon was clean "as a bound tooth," so.
The one humanizing touch allowed the cinematic Patton—in
a movie with no name women's parts is*prug affection for a misfist hound. He walks off with this awkward leashed appendage into the dubious haze of muted glory at the end. And by that time the albino nut had become, for me, his mate. Timahoe. I suspect another viewer also made that identification.
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Here Are Last-Word Letters
Miss Francke claims that she respects our right to seek personal fulfillment. However, she fears that she will not be able to exercise that right will ultimately end up "contributing their share to the national crime problem, and thereby creating a problem," i.e. consider that to be a personal affair. If Miss
Francke
To the Editor:
As a black person, I need obligated to respond to Ann G. Franke's letter (Dec. 5). It contains certain implications which, if allowed to go unauthorized, could prove to be dangerous.
Miss Francie has got it all mixed up. We didn't initiate the process of bringing shame and no one is going to occupy the lower rungs o: society's ladder and struggle to make a living doing jobs that no one else can do. I realize that they are there because their progress has been blocked by this racist society—"challenge, fulfillment and happiness" in scrubbing floors and cleaning toilets. (I would choose not to brother who, if given a chance to rise from one of these positions, would pass it up.) The shame of being forced to work as a junior in an art school with white-created Stepin Fetchit stereotype of the drawing, foot-shuffling, cremoid nigger who was suited for any other type of work.
Francke really feels this way, maybe she should go out and round up some cohorts with her, but the chapter of the KuiXu Kian I am certain that she would agree that this would be the best way of "dealing" with organizations that have become THE ZC and the Black Student Union.
Jonathan L. Parker Kansas City, Mo.. Freshman
Stone
To the Editor:
Kenneth D. Stone's letter to the Editor (Nov. 29) misinterpreted the reason for my favoring someone from the academic side of a university and tried to position at the position of Athletic Director and for opposing the appointment of a coach or former athlete with views of a good athletic program: "1) (financial success and national status)" versus "2) (the interests of the individual athlete, not the interests of the team) interprets my remarks as being in favor of (1) and says that he is in favor of (2). He writes, "athletics for athletes, not for teams; or the Treasurer's office."
I agree with Mr. Stone, albeit I would like to say "athletics are for students" instead of "athletics are for athletes." It is this very agreement which the Athletic Director or coach former coach as Athletic Director. My experience with coaches has led me to believe
that they are much more apt to be established in a national reputation than they are toward looking out for the interests of the individual.
Of course, it can be argued that the coaches do look out for the athletics' interests. After all, they are interested in training table, housed in the athletic dorm, overly paid with athletic scholarships, coverage of sports facilities, advised by athletic counselors, taught by athletic tutors, diagnosed and treated by athletic professionals. Occasionally they have test scores and grades falsified by Assistant Coaches. Also, there is a corps of drugged (steroids), stimulants and pain killers) by athletic druggists. At some schools, the assistant investment goes so far as to ask athletes to sex. At the University of Florida, for example, "Gator Getters" (a special squad of girls) are an integral part of their efforts to recruit athletes.
Coaches say that all of this builds character. Behavioral scientists, on the other hand, say they don't. In general, if of character—it tends to create an unhealthy dependence relationship. I agree with the behavior of these students because a program is bad for the students. Further, I think that a coach is more likely to perpetuate this kind of program than someone from the academic side of the school. There is no reason, among others, I am
opposed to a coach, former coach, or any other jock being named Athletic Director.
Mr. Stone also admonishes me for using "invasive invertebrates." I assume he is referring to my use of a term that I cannot term to be an invasive. Just as I take it as a compliment when jocks call me an "egg head," I assume that they take it as a form of egg heads call them "jocks."
Robert R. Sterling
Arthur Young Distinguished
Professor
Bubb
To the Editor:
I am sending you a copy of my letter to Regent Henry Bubb the founder of Incinlab. If the letter sounds angry, that is only because it is.
As a devoted graduate of the University of Kansas, I care a great deal about the future of this department. My first job was sequentially, I was shocked that Laurence Chalmers, a fine administrator with whom I enjoyed working in 1971-72, was removed office because of his divorce.
By that standard of obsolete morality, Senator Dole should be impeached. But perhaps his politics are more in agreement with the power structure of Senators, who appear to be veiled, if not overt, enemies of the University.
Refer to your recent statement on the appointment of Mr. Nielsen, as well as Mr. Nichols is undoubtedly a fine man, but he is not the best candidate for the position nor is the chancellorship some kind of reward based solely on a period of University service as you implied by your com-
Over the years, you have consistently revealed your ignorance of the University's role in behalf of the interests of the University of Kansas would have best been served if you rather than passed.
Marilyn Mitchell, Ph.D. Kansas University, 1972
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