University Dally Kansan, November 13, 1981
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Socialist blasts U.S. policies
By CATHERINE BEHAN
Staff Reporter
The working class can fight social welfare cuts and a growing "drive for war" by forming their own socialist Socialist Workers Party said last night.
Socialist Thabo Ntweng, 34, said,
"The Democratic and Republican parties don't have the majority of people at heart. The only way to make a break with that is for working people to form their own party."
And that is what Niweng was trying to explain when he ran for mayor of Cleveland in 1979, he said, though he lost to Democrat Dennis J. Kucinich.
"It it was so much to win, but to tell the people that voting for Democratic or Republican parties wouldn't solve their problems." Ntweng said.
Ntweng spoke to 45 people at a
meeting in Fraser Hall sponsored by the Marxist Collective and the Young Socialist Alliance. He spoke about what he called the "rising tide of revolution," and the economic policies of the Reagan Administration.
"Both the Republican and Democratic parties are responsible for the offensive against the people of this country," he said.
"As they prepare for war, they want to break the 'Vietnam syndrome'—the opposition to war in this country."
The offensive, he said, took the form of cutbacks in social programs and plans for war on any country the U.S. would thought that its citizens would allow.
He said the "quest for war" was the reason the government made sweeping cutbacks in social services.
"People have to be naive if they
believe they are building war materials just to look at, he said. "They have to come up with a plan."
He said the "loose lips" or slips of the tongue made by Secretary of State Alexander Haig—about going to war against a country—were not slits at all, but were planned methods to see how the public felt about going to war.
Ntweng said he became politically active during the Vietnam War, when he organized protests against the war. He said he became a member of the Workers Party in 1860 because of the war and the civil rights movement.
Niweng, who now works in a socialist bookstore in San Francisco, said the Reagan Administration was attacking everyone with cutbacks and that the rich would be carried out for the rich and would be carried out for the rich at the expense of the poor.
Coalitions meet, discuss attendance, experience
Attendance, experience and involvement in student government were the main topics last night as presidential and vice presidential debates in the Perspective and Working Alternative meetings faced off in a candidate forum.
The forum, sponsored by the Association of University Residence Halls, featured Loren Busy and David Cannatelle of Working Alternative and David Adkins and David Welch of Perspective.
"I'm very disappointed with the overall performance of Student Senate this year," Adkins, Topeka junior, said. "We are approximately 30 students present."
Adkins and Welch, Topeka junior, said the budget process should take up a smaller part of Senate's time and that issues such as pre-enrolment, faculty salaries and federal budget cutback should be addressed.
Busby, Hutchinson junior, and Cannellaite, Opelousas, La., graduate student, said that Senate should deal issues beyond Senate reorganization
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"Right now, Student Senate is a self-perpetuating body," Busy said. "All the legislation we deal with is internal."
The representatives for both coalitions said they had members with experience, but were looking to change the Senate's outlook.
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Although the University of Kansas and K-State compete athletically, Acker said the two schools should combine talents academically.
"We compete on the football field, but there is a lot behind the scenes where we have a good division of labor to help the state." Acker said.
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Duane Ackerman, president of Kansas State University, told the Lawrence Kwaiis Club yesterday that the two universities could better serve the state of Kansas by working together.
He cited programs such as the joint Ph.D. curriculum in computer
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The two men take turns giving the main address. Yesterday it was Acker's turn, so Budig introduced him.
"I delivered the sermon at Manhattan and Duane passed the hat," Budig said. "Today, as I'm working the crowd..."
Budig said Kansas needed its institutions of higher education.
"We are here today because we believe in our system of higher learning, 'he said.' It is a priceless tool. We believe it needs to be protected."
The two men couldn't resist a little football talk to complement their discourse on education.
"Our biggest task is a continuing service—to maintain and hire outstanding faculty," he said. "That's the reason why Dr. Budig and I are working together across the state of Kansas."
"If they're good, praise them," he said. "If not, tell them."
"I wouldn't be surprised if the University of Kansas has a bowl
Acker said teaching students was the main concern of the two schools, and for that, they needed outstanding faculty.
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Acker said it was important for students go give their teachers some response about the job they were doing.
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