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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Nov. 2. 1960
Unfinished Business
The University administration deserves a collective kiss on the cheek from the women who no longer have to travel en masse or peer fearfully behind every bush as they walk to campus.
THE QUICK ACTION by University and town officials (who also are deserving of praise) in getting street lights put up on Oread Avenue and Louisiana Street benefits every woman who has to walk those streets at night. The new lights are far brighter than the ones now in use on those streets, and should be an active deterrent to those who in the past have made the short walk from residence halls to campus an experience to be dreaded.
It has been proven that, all other factors being
equal, an area that is well-lit has a lower incidence of crime than one that is dark. We think further proof of this will be found in a drop in complaints of molestation, loitering and assault along what used to be a dismal, dangerous street.
WE ARE NOT CONVINCED that the job is complete, however. Reports indicate that women on the west side of campus are forbidden to walk alone down streets leading from campus to their houses. We will investigate these reports, and try to determine if a situation comparable to the Oread-Louisiana disgrace exists. If it does, we shall bring it to light, sure that we have the cooperation of the University in our efforts.
Bill Blundell
But Theis Charges Are Damaging Schoeppel Leads in Kansas
By Bill Blundell
Democratic charges of conflict of interest made against incumbent Republican Sen. Andrew Schoeppel are placing the veteran lawmaker's Senate seat in jeopardy as he fights for a third term.
His opponent, Frank Theis, has mounted a sweeping attack on Schoepel's record. The points Theis has been assaulting with particular vigor lie within the area of domestic policy. Schoepel has been stressing the importance of national defense.
Schoepnel Off Balance
The incumbent has been on the defensive throughout the campaign, but most political observers feel he will retain his seat, although the vote may be far closer than he finds comfortable.
Although Theis has been hammering at the Schoeppel record in domestic affairs, perhaps his most damaging salvos of the campaign were fired when he recently accused Schoeppel of conflict of interest in the senator's position toward Alaskan statehood and in certain actions taken by the federal subcommittee on surface transportation, of which Schoeppel was chairman.
Theis has suggested that Schoepelpel channeled federal contracts to clients of a law firm in Wichita, a firm that lists Schoepelp as a partner. Schoepelp has insisted that he no longer has any interests in this firm and shares in none of its profits.
ANDREW SCHOEPPEL
Theis also has suggested that Schooppel's record in voting against Alaskan statehood might be connected to the interests of the Colorado Interstate Gas Company, another client of the same law firm. Theis says many of the larger oil and gas firms were opposed to statehood for Alaska.
Proof Lacking
But Theis' accusations have not been followed up by any concrete proof of misconduct on Schoeppel's part, and the latter appears to be weathering the storm.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Theis also has raised other questions which may have decided influence on the voters. He has publicized Schoeppel's senate attendance record, which shows Schoeppel ranking in the lowest 10 percent. He has also attacked Schoeppel's stand on civil rights; which he terms "similar to that of the most reactionary of Southern senators."
Schoeppel, in turn, has been too busy issuing answers to his opponent's charges to lay before the public a program of his own. He has veered away from discussion on civil rights and most of the local issues currently of interest in the state, and has attempted to keep the campaign on a higher level, with ventilation of national issues taking precedence.
No Experience Comparison
"SAY WORTHAL - ARE YOU SURE IT'S RAINING?"
Thus far in the campaign, Schoeppel has failed to capitalize fully on his greatest advantage; experience. Schoeppel has been Kansas Corporation Commission chairman, governor for two terms (1942-46) and U.S. senator since 1948. Theis has never held an elective office.
If Schoeppel has had wide legislative experience, This has him overmatched in political acumen. The Democratic nominee has been national committeeman from Kansas and chairman of the state party organization. He is credited with reviving two-party government in Kansas and is said by some to be responsible for George Docking's two terms as governor. He is a skilled and energetic organizer who has functioned within the state party apparatus all his political life.
In these closing days of the campaign, he has used every political tactic in attacking Schoeppel, who has been satisfied to stand on his record and parry the Theis attacks as they come. The result has been a campaign that to date has been fought along personal lines and lacks broad discussion of basic issues. Theis has been the aggressor, but veteran political observers think Schoeppel's defense will be adequate to insure a plurality for him in November.
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"Isn't Fall the greatest? All the autumn leaves . . . "
From the Magazine Rack
This Was Auschwitz
"... to imagine what it was in the early 1940s all this desolation must be crammed with people, with human bodies, some living, some dying, some dead—a perpetual, continual, well-nigh unbearable over-crowding; Crowds fighting for a drop of water from taps that barely drip; crowds fighting for a few moments' use of the primitive closets already running over with excrement; five or six men attempting to share one blanket in the depths of a Polish winter; starving crowds fighting for their food and, in the end, sometimes overturning the whole vat of watery soup, to the amusement of the guards' crowds of women trying to find their clothes in the darkness of their huts when suddenly ordered to parade, and, not infrequently, being set upon by Alsatian dogs; crowds of the dying, too many for the mock-hospital; crowds of corpses, too many even for the massive incinerators; crowds, everywhere crowds, being screamed at and struck and harried by the supervisors and guards, and always, save in some of the torture-chambers, the sight and sound and smell of these huge masses of human beings, the great majority of them starving, filthy and sick. So constant was the shuffling of feet between the huts that in all those square miles no blade of grass grew.
"NEXT MUST be added the back-breaking work and the endlessly protracted roll-calls, standing to attention for hours on end in driving snow or dust or rain, and so the perpetual physical exhaustion on top of the exhaustion of starvation.
"Then the fear and omnipresence of death, the greasy smoke pouring day and night from the crematoria; the prevailing wind carried the stink of burning flesh across the women's camp.
"Then the terror of the Kapos, these real criminals, usually men convicted of crimes of violence or sex, who were in charge of the male inmates, or the convicted prostitutes who controlled the women's camps. It was with these criminals that the people thrown into the camp came most in contact, who plundered, bullied, screamed at and tortured them most directly, both in the huts and out at work. (In other Nazi Concentration Camps the Kapos were Communists: But whether Communists or criminals, they were invariably German nationals, most of whom were in these camps from 1933 to 1945 and who created a powerful hierarchy.)
"AND BEHIND the Kapos the ever-present and terrifying whims of the SS, who would finish off a dying man outside his hut by thrusting the ferrule of a walking-stick down his threat; who would create the finest symphony orchestra in the world from the Jewish musicians in the camp, and compel this orchestra to play stale dance-music for 10, 12, and 15 hours on end; who would set their dogs on the women; who would order the prisoners to entertain them by performing sexual orgies, while they drank and watched; who would throw a prisoner's cap into the forbidden zone by the wire, order him to retrieve it, and shoot him whether he did or not. The catalogue is endless.
"Such, very briefly, is what life in Auschwitz was like. This was the world, it must be remembered, which Rudolf Hess created, over which he presided, in which he had absolute power. It was a place of madness. . . ."
(Excerpted from "A Portrait of Hell" by Constantine Fitzgibbon in the June 6, 1930, New Leader.)
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