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Friday, September 15, 1972
University Daily Kansan
James J. Kilpatrick
KANSAN comment
A Vote for No Vote
The manner by which the new chancellor is to be selected has predictably brought cries for student involvement in the process. Most people agree that here should be some student representation. For the most part, the argument is what per cent should be involved. One of the more ridiculous suggestions so far has been the one calling for all the students to vote for the chancellor. Faculty and staff would be included in the vote, but since there are more than 20,000 students, it is easy to figure out where the power would be.
There are several problems involved with a process by election, the biggest one being that most students don't vote. This, of course, will hamper any attempt at a takeover by students. I do not know what the faculty and staff record is, but the fact that the large majority of students do not vote has been proved in every referendum and election the Student Senate has held. It is obvious to me that one thing students do not want to be bothered with is elections of any kind.
Enthusiasts for the vote a-chancellor plan will say this is student apathy. It is apathy, but I think people have as much a right to apathy as they have a right to involvement. Perhaps what is even more significant is that they will continue to be apathetic, so it is senseless to devise any plan which depends on an involved student population.
Another problem with the suggestion to vote for a chancellor is that there is no idea how the voters' decision will affect the Board of Regents decision. Irrespective of how the new chief exec is selected, the Regents are the men who will be held responsible to the State of Kansas for the person they choose as Chancellor. The final choice is their theirs and it would take an act of the legislature to change that.
I cannot help but wonder how the voters will become informed about the "candidates." Will men campaign for the office? Imagine the types of campaign promises that could be offered. Promises of higher money allocations to certain large departments and abolishment of various graduation requirements are just two possibilities. It could be at least as much fun as the presidential campaigns. I hope this is not what the group who devised this plan had in mind. I suppose they think a few newspaper articles would familiarize everyone in the University about the men selected by the search committee to vie for the position. (By the way who gets to select the search committee?)
If everyone read those articles,
which would be unlikely, they would certainly learn a few things about the people, such as where they got their degrees and past experiences. But it would be impossible for a reporter to know and relate to the readers whether the man being interviewed had the kind of experience, skills, temperament and character to head this University. This kind of knowledge requires much more time and study than most reporters can take. It is likely that they would be at least as uniformed as voters in city, state or federal election. They will probably be even more ignorant of the men they are voting for since even the information people can gather from political campaigns will not be available.
The major business of this University is learning, and students are the group held responsible for this. Therefore, students should be involved in the committee that looks for the new chancellor. However, there are many other activities at a University, and the people involved in the research, administrative and teaching areas have to be able to find a man who will be competent in leading and working with them.
Most students do not have to work with the chancellor. Those involved with the student government do but not too many others. It is unfortunate, but most students will probable never even meet the chancellor. Consequently, students do not have to worry too much about being able to work with the person who is chancellor. Many of the administrators and faculty members do have to work with the chancellor on a daily basis. If the decision is made to elect the chancellor, it is likely that their opinions will have even less of an effect than they do now.
Probably most of the members of the University community really do not know what is expected of a Chancellor. It seems to me that the best way to select the man for this job is not by the votes of a few thousand uninformed voters but by a committee made up of people from all areas of this complex organization. This committee should include some of the people who have worked with past chancellors and will have to be involved in the process to involve some students as well faculty and administrators. I cannot believe that a large number of students are needed to make the needs of students known. I do not think the people from the other areas of this University are so deaf to student needs that for them to hear anything it would be to shout by a large group of people.
—Mary Ward
Guest Editorial
By LINDA SCHILD
Rating the Censors
The only justification for the Motion Picture Association of America, with its rating system of R's, S's and GP's, is that its ratings offer some indication to the public of a film's content. The association has no business in censorship, but its influence appears to be reaching out in that direction.
At the end of next month, Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" will disappear from the theaters for a short lobotomy, during which two scenes will be bloodlessly and intimately removed from the movie's celluloid frames.
Not that this operation will significantly alter the film's offering of sex and violence or in any way change the general theme. It will just change the picture from an X to R rating: children under 17 (18 in Lawrence) admitted with parent or guardian.
The two scenes to be cut, according to the Sept. 11 issue of Time magazine, amount to a total of 30 second. In one, the movie's anthroher, Alex, rushes through a bedroom romp with two willing girls; in the other a group of soldiers is shown raping a girl. How cutting these two drops in the ocean is to make the film pure enough for viewing by the young is beyond my comprehension. The first scene is one of the only humorous parts of the movie; the second I don't even remember. If the censors are serious in all this, I can think of at least one much more "explicit" scene they might choose to cut instead.
But the fact stands that this gougong away at the soft frames of the movie was not intended to change the movie's message or the style in which it is presented. In gaining an R rating, the film will no longer be
barred from some theaters or from the advertising pages of some newspapers. The reason Kubrick and Warner Bros, agreed to the censorship would attract larger audiences and larger box office returns.
Kubrick tries to make a valid point in "A Clockwork Orange." The film is thereby very different from a skin for skin's sake film. But in the process of "protecting" the public and raising questions, here through what actions prior restraint, little difference is noted between art and obscenity.
Kubrick has every right to choose his mode of expression in his films. The fact that he has given in to economic temptation at the expense of his own creation leads me to believe that the public is taking the rating system of the Motion Picture Association of America much too seriously, and is too eager in granting it new powers. The Association is a reference agency, not a God hurling down sacred law.
The question of quality has been the guardian angel of the written word in censorship cases. Prior restraint is not tolerated by the print media, as was recently demonstrated in the Pentagon Papers escapade. Motion pictures have joined literature to fill an artistic and intellectual niche in society. Why, then, is it seemingly necessary that a film be subjected to a censor's once-over before it is fit for human consumption? If this becomes the rule, not the shaky exception, I shudder for the future of artistic experimentation in the film industry.
Meanwhile, I pray for the souls of Warner Bros. and Stanley Kubrick, who are shielding to censorship they have not encouraged a trend in that direction.
WASHINGTON-Gloria Steinem came striding into the NBC studios Sunday morning, trying to look frowny, and failing badly in the self-conscious effort of being an eminent Women's Liberation movement, she was on hand to defend reproductive freedom, among other things, before The Press. She did her usual cool manner and did not I dumro. The Miles leave me—not exactly cold, but acutely uncomfortable.
Steinem's Fanaticism Unnecessary
There is a kind of fanaticism here—an obsessiveism that goes beyond dedication. It works a catalytic effect upon a good and commendable movement, and transforms it into something approaching a cult. The self-consciousness intrudes in irrelevant ways.
Why is Ms. Steinmei Ms. Steinem? it is because Miss and Mrs. have become contemptible titles: They identify women in terms of men, not in terms of women. Because the Mrs. insult. It surely is not intended as an insult—it is no more than custom, no more than civility—but there it is. So Larry Spivak is instructing the panel to address questions to our guest as Ms. Spivak. But the Mrs. because the Miz takes him back to his childhood in Tennessee when that was the way boys addressed married ladies.
work pants and a brown turtleneck sweater? She is so attired, one assumes, because this is show bit, it role-playing: Fidel Castro in fatigues, Léo Durocher in a sports shirt, Bobby Fischer in the suit that he slept in. It is a long-sleeved to say—no insult is intended—but endured; it most attractive woman; good level eyes, lovely mouth, trim figure, slim hands long-fingered. But the assumption seems to be that non-liberated women tend to dress up, out of some self-abasuring desire to please men, so liberated women must dress down. Ms. Skienen is conspicuously liberated this time, she has a mirable way to be, but it is as if a guy who were nuts about jogging came to high tea in his sweat
Why is Ms. Steinem wearing blue
The self-consciousness ripples out. All politicians and most male writers have gotten edgy about the very mention of man or men. There was a time when you tested a new typewriter by writing, by writing. Now is the time for all good people and all of their country "Chauviniam! Now is the time for all good persons . . ."
This absurdity attained a marvelous peak earlier this month in the September issue of "Grass Roots," national publication of the People's Party. Here we were solemnly advised that Dr. Finley C Campbell of Indiana had been elected a co-spokesperson at the St. Louis Convention. Indeed, and Marge Buckley of California had become co-spokepeople.
It is too much. The women's liberation movement, as best I can understand it, deserves aplause and support: of course women should be
free to find social and economic fulfillment in terms of their own humanness, but why the gimercakery of blue jeans and spokespeakers? Are we supposed to equate the burning bra with the torch of freedom?
month with a fully liberated woman who is at one and the same time Miss Kip patrick, a retired artist and teacher, and also Mrs. Kilpatrick, wife, homemaker, mother and grandmother, and we would have thought it hilarious to draw up a pre-fabricated garden plot or moving the lawn. It worked ten happy years in Richmond with a woman who was wife, mother, and topnotch editorial writer. She would come back for every funny, such business pretty funny. Such relationships.
Maybe the self-consciousness is a phase, like hiccups, that has to run its course. Perhaps all the emphasis on bisexuality serves a useful purpose, as anthropologist Elaine Morgan makes clear in her recent book, in reminding readers of the public appeal to this course, the descent of woman. But I wonder, all the same, if the rituals and trappings and the hyper-sensitivity of the professional libber may not have their counter-productive aspects? They may be making many women more conscious of the privileges they enjoy and more determined to hang onto them. The Equal Rights Amendment, to ratification in a hundred days, has been spending since March 22. Only 20 State legislatures have bought it. Ms. Steinem and her upright cohorts have yet a way to go.
(C) 1972 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Jack Anderson
Nixon To Soften Cuban Stand
WASHINGTON—We reported in an earlier column that President Nixon has rejected the idea of including Cuba in his campaign to reduce East-West tensions. This is still the word go out from the White House. Now, we have elected the election, we have now learned, he may modify his hard line toward Havana.
The detailed planning has already started for ending the boycott against Cuba and resuming trade relations. The United States will join the Organization of American States votes to lift the boycott. But if the United States should reverse its attitude toward Cuba, this could be expected to have an influential influence upon the OAS.
The President is less interested in concessions from Havana than Moscow. During the Moscow Summit, the Foreign Minister Andrei Grimyko offered mischievously: "We'll pull Cuba in for good
The wisecake masked genuine Soviet misgivings on Cuba. It's costing the Kremlin more than $2 million a day to keep Fidel Castro in power in Havana. They would like to reduce the burden, which a normalization of Cuban trade would help to accomplish.
Patman's Probe
President Nixon is now willing to restore commercial ties with Cuba in exchange, say, for a loan of the Soviet line in Vietnam.
dreams, the soybean tycoon whose $2,500 cash contribution to the Republicans has been traced to the ringleader of the Mission Impossible crew caught breaking into Democrat headquarters.
Meanwhile, he has ordered his staff to investigate whether the $25,000 was a political payoff in exchange for the bank charter.
The cash was picked up in a safety-deposit box of a Bal Harbour, Fla., hotel by GOP fund raiser Kenneth Dahlberg on April 9. This was two days after the cut-off date for reporting campaign contributions; thereafter, all contributions were accounted for under a new law.
Dahlberg, however, didn't report the $2,500, arguing that it had been left for him in the safety-deposit box before the deadline. The money was conserved because the bank which was turned over on April 11 to President Nixon's chief fund raiser, Maurice Stans.
We have obtained a photostat of the check, which it shows it went through in the mail. Barber Associates, Inc., at the Republic National Bank, Miami,
The same check was subsequently cashed by Bernard Barker, who recruited the second-story squad that was arrested at gunpoint inside Democratic national headquarters during the early morning hours of June 17.
Fla. A notation on the front of the check states: "FBI has original copy, 7-7-72."
Not long after Andrea put up the $25,000, he applied for a national charter to establish the Ridgedale National Bank in a shopping center in suburban Minneapolis. The bank holding the business of soybay oil outfit, the Archer Daniels Midland Corn.
The charter was approved in 88 days, which insiders say was unusually fast. In his letter to the Federal Reserve Board, Patman the chairman of the bank trodden the authority to issue a national bank charter to a
holding company.
Nixon and Youths
President Nixon was so cheered by the youth turnout for him at the Miami convention that he has called for similar youth shows in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City.
His young leaders, however, are engaged in a blistering feud over campaign strategy. The youth issues team at the Republic National Committee is "the last bastion of credibility among the young set." The youth division of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, however, wants to accentuate the positive.
This has led to a battle of memos, which White House aide Charles Colson has been called on to arbitrate.
Some White House interns are so fed up with the feuding that they won't work with the young Republicans in either committee. Instead, they are campaigning against them. The new youth rallies will be organized by energetic Ken Rietz, youth chief at the re-elect committee. The impressarios and Mike Viner, who are lining up pre-Nixon celebrities favored by the young. *Copyright 1973*.
Copyright, 1972 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
"THESE HANDS ARE CLEAN"
Readers Respond
Wescoe Hall 'Repulsive'
To the Editor:
To my knowledge, no one has discussed his feelings, either positive or negative, about Wesco Hall. Perhaps some persons have no feelings whatsoever about the clichets, I and a small number of friends with whom I have discussed the matter bluntly contend that this building, when completed, will be one of the most inhuman and most visually striking buildings on campus. Few practices.
extensively research users' needs, including feeling, before going into sections, instead, most of these architects design by and large intuitively, only consulting a small office administrator.
Few practicing architects
Apparently, the architect of Wescool Hall is not one of the few. How many students, the majority of persons who will use the building, do you know who were consulted by the architect? I know no one and, I am sure, most of you similarly agree. Furthermore, how many pictures of the building did you see in either the Journal World or the Daily Kansas? I saw only two pictures, one in each newspaper last fall. Perhaps, if more pictures of the building during its progress were posted on a website, more student and public feedback and more positive feelings would have resulted.
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Rather, the building, especially the one-story part nearest Jayhawk Boulevard, instills in me a feeling of imprisonment if we feel a feeling of repose when withdrawn from another to say that he would like to throw a grenade into one of those pillbox-like windows on the back side. It seems to me that especially the building for the next users needs demand next time users needs demand the design and construction of a campus building, we, the students and as the public, should take the responsibility to let the how it should appear about
C. Wayne Olander
Architecture, Computer Science
and Systems Analysis
a Year Student
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