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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. March 22, 1961
Hail to Thee ...
Let us now praise famous men.
Whether you dislike the stress placed on intercollegiate athletics today or not, it's like the old reb said as he watched Lee sign at Appomattox: "It's here."
And until someone comes up with a better way to work it, it will be here for a long time. It's all relative anyhow. Everybody is doing it on about the same level, whatever "it" is. So let's measure it from there.
THREE YEARS AGO KU was in pretty bad shape (footballwise, that is). Not only wasn't the team winning but hostile feelings were rampant within and without the school. Team members paired off against each other, the team was against the coach, the coach was against the alumni, the alums were disgusted with the team, and George Docking didn't like anybody.
Then up the valley rode Young Jack Mitchell, fleet of foot, keen of eye, and savvy of football strategy. "Give me three years," quoth he, "and I will make thee smile on the autumnal Saturday afternoons."
THE BOY FROM ARKANSAS CITY and former OU renegade had finally come home. Three years later the job was done. Fans did smile. They laughed at TCU. They chortled at
K-State. They roared at Colorado. They hystericked at Mizzou.
Despite the odious error by the NCAA and the bewildering action of the Big Eight (we won't go into that again), it was a wonderful season and a great team.
Next year looks better, and the year after that, ad infinitum. In fact, it was considered that as long as Jack was around things would continue to look better.
That's a long time. It's kind of permanent.
So KU signed him up for a lifetime of hustling blue jerseys over Memorial's sod.
BUT KU ACQUIRED AN INSTITUTION, not a man. There isn't a more popular figure in the state. Most of the time football doesn't have anything to do with it—it's Jack at the Rotary Club, Jack at the Alumni meeting, Jack at a high school convocation, or Jack at a church youth group meeting. Everywhere he goes, left behind is a clan of devoted friends and fans.
He also teaches a pretty mean brand of football.
So, congratulations to Young Jack on his permanent position and may each year be filled with more friends, more success, more glory for KU, and a couple of 250-pound tackles.
— Frank Morgan
Editor:
Life in Zone A
And all other persons who do not have to park in Zone A: You don't realize how lucky you are! You are not one of the many students and university personnel who must park in that mud hole seven days a week, four weeks a month, nine months a year. Unfortunately, I am.
Of course, I realize it's probably better than having to park in the street, but some people do not agree with me; each weekend many residents of Joseph R. Pearson move their cars out of that miserable lot onto the street. I suppose they get even more tired than I of wading through four inches of mud each time it rains, getting stuck in a combination of mud and snow in the winter, and fighting the grimy dust that settles on your car from KU's "dust bowl" whenever it is dry and windy.
Perhaps the University is really trying to remedy the situation. Maybe it helps to dump truckload after truckload of dirt out there to make a larger mud puddle. I would think, however, that pavement or gravel would be better. But then maybe University officials are right when they say it would cost too much to pave the lot or spread gravel.
But, of course, revenue is coming in. Everyone who suffers with Zone A must only pay four dollars a year for their sufferings.
Tom Harrington
Prairie Village Junior
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New ACLU at KC
Editor:
Those members of the university community who are interested in conserving and enlarging civil liberties and civil rights will be pleased to learn that an affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union has recently been organized in Kansas City.
... Letters ...
The Board of Directors of the affiliate has invited all interested parties in Lawrence to join. In order to be a member of the affiliate it is necessary and sufficient that one first be a member in good standing of the American Civil Liberties Union. If there are enough interested parties, it may be possible to form a Lawrence chapter.
There is one limitation to membership in the ACLU. Let me quote from one of its publications: "The ACLU needs, and welcomes the support of all those — and only those — whose devotion to civil liberties is not qualified by adherence to Communist, Fascist, KKK, or other totalitarian doctrine."
According to its recent publications, the ACLU has taken the following positions on important issues; it is working to curb the House Un-American Activities Committee; it is opposing censorship of movies; it opposed the Apalachin conviction of twenty alleged underworld leaders; it opposes the celebration of religious holidays in the public schools; it is opposing impeachment proceedings brought against two Puerto Rican legislators who are members of a Catholic party; it tends to oppose loyalty oaths for state employees; it opposes any impediments to the right to vote. These represent just some of the concerns of the ACLU.
Will all those who are currently members of the ACLU and are interested in the Kansas City affiliate, as well as those who are interested but not yet members, please contact me.
Charles Landesman
Asst. Prof. of Philosophy
Anti-Birchers Reply
Editor:
We were interested to read the letter from the "only true John Birch member on campus." We feel, however, that he may have been guilty of a few errors.
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The "Blue Book" fails to present the John Birch Society with a constitution because no organization under the complete and sole leadership needs one. On page 158, Welch does define the Society as a "monolithic" organization, and, on page 159, defines democracy as "a deceptive phrase, a weapon of demagoguery, and a perennial fraud." Beginning on page 163 he describes the mechanics of the organization.
THE SOCIETY OPERATES through small chapters (10 to 20 persons), each chapter under an appointed official whose duties are clearly outlined. Dues and method of payment, number of meetings a month, etc., are outlined on pages 164-165. Front organizations are discussed on 86-94.
THE CLAIM IS MADE that the Birch group is not "McCarthyistic," and the use of such tactics is piously disclaimed. We strongly suggest that "only true" re-read pages 95 and 96 of his Blue Book where Welch outlines a perfect smear campaign based on the assertion that the victim is by "at least some of us believed to be a Communist." The campaign is to be carried on not by the presentation of evidence, but by asking questions "which would be devastating in their implications" (Welch, op. cit. page 96)
"True member" claims that the "Blue Book of the John Birch Society" is based on U. S. government documents. Mr. Welch gives no credit to any such documents anywhere in the book. As a matter of fact, he doesn't give a single reference to any source except for the poetry he quotes.
Reed stated, "I've never heard as much as a whisper that Eisenhower was a Communist." We maintain that the implication on page 176 of the "Blue Book," decrying the "kleig-fighted fraternization of the President of the United States with the Butcher of Budapest," is clear.
UP Platform
We are glad that the John Birch Society is able to circulate 8,000 assorted books, and would like to suggest two more: "The Blue Book of the John Birch Society" and "The Politician" by Robert Welch of Belmont Mass. (All quotes from the 3rd printing of the "Blue Book of the John Birch Society," copyright 1959 by Robert Welch unless otherwise indicated.)
1. Dynamic and informed leaders whose approach to student government is constructive and cognizant of the needs of the students which it represents.
The University Party offers the KU student the following:
I. PREAMBLE
2. Qualified, representative, and experienced candidates for the approval of the voters.
3. A platform broad in its scope which at the same time does not lose sight of the need for solid, practical proposals.
Michael W. Dunlop
St. Louis, Mo., junior
Eryll F. Hoff, Jr.
Wellington Senior
Robert R. Redding
Washington D. C. Junior
Craig A. Robertson
Joliet, Ill., Senior
4. The party presently in control of the ASC and the student body presidency has enjoyed that control virtually unchallenged for the last three years. If two party student government is to function properly it is clearly time for a change. The University Party earnestly hopes that the voters will grant that change and that our candidates will be given the chance to demonstrate the leadership of which we believe they are capable.
II. We consider the following bills the most important of those initiated by University Party representatives in the past year.
2. The creation of a Human Rights Committee.
1. An improved and acceptable civil rights resolution.
3. An outline for selecting and financing student delegations to off-campus student conferences.
4. Legislation for Stop Day 1961.
III. We have presented the first five of the following and will continue to support all of the proposed legislation listed below.
1. The creation of a Merit Commission to insure impartiality in the appointment of A.S.C. committees.
2. Legislation to enact adequate financing for the AWS.
3. A bill providing for the reorganization of the Publications Committee.
4. A bill providing for the bi-monthly publication of A.S.C. Newsletters to be posted in all organized houses and on campus bulletin boards.
5. A bill establishing for the first time an effective procedure for student initiative, referendum and recall.
6. A revised version of the Student Bill of Rights.
7. A revised version of the A.S.C. Secretarial Staff Bill.
IV, CAMPUS AND LOCAL AFFAIRS; Because we believe in a dynamic Student Government the University Party proposes these measures for the consideration of the voters and the 1961 A.S.C.
1. We believe that the constitution of the Associated Students should be amended to provide for a presidential veto for all ASC bills and resolutions subject to overrule by a 23 vote.
2. We believe that the Student Body President should appoint the three executive secretaries provided for in the Constitution of the Associated Students. The capable filling of these positions would undoubtedly improve and facilitate the operation of the executive branch of Student Government.
3. We believe that bills 15 and
16 of the Constitution of the Associated Students concerning the World University Service and The Student Leadership Training Council should be put into effective operation rather than being completely ignored as in the past. WUS should be the starting point of peace and youth corp activity.
6. We believe that the present football seating problem could be alleviated by opening more stadium gates and providing adequate personnel to serve them.
4. We believe that the Associated Students should have observer representation on the Lawrence City Council and on the University Senate.
5. We believe that certain A.S.C. committees in the recent past have been inefficient and apathetic. We therefore propose to increase membership of some committees, reorganize others to provide for membership continuity and experience, and provide regular committee progress reports.
7. We believe there is a great deal of ambiguity in the present student disciplinary structure, and that a working committee should be established to clarify and report on the disciplinary procedure for the student body.
V. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: We cannot accept the assertion that the student is only an observer of world affairs and must accept the social and political environment imposed upon him. We feel that students as potential leaders of the future, not only should investigate and discuss the problems which confront our nation, but that they are qualified to express opinions on these important issues.
1. We urge more student interest in and support of the National Student Association. We especially commend its policy of encouraging free research, publication, and discussion by students and faculty alike. We cannot approve of those societies which seek to repress these basic liberties.
2. We recognize and abhor discrimination in any form against a man because of his race, color, or creed. We realize that discrimination is found throughout the United States. We believe this discrimination belies our words and democratic ideals to all the world. Therefore, we urge every student to take an enlightened interest in discrimination and to use all legal methods of peaceful resistance against it.
The following is a revision of section V, clause 3 of the platform of the University Party.
3. We believe that men are more alike than different and that contact between peoples is the best way to reach mutual understanding. We believe that many young men and women of our nation are dedicated to the elimination of human poverty and misery. We therefore support the American Peace Corps and the various Student Exchange programs as effective methods to relieve the tensions which exist in our fast-changing world.
We submit the above as our platform for the Spring,1961 elections, with the goals in mind of active and effective student government.
Worth Repeating
What must occur in the classroom in order to promote openness, activity and depth in the student's mind? First there must begin in the classroom a dialogue—a dialogue between professor and student, between student and student, but most importantly between the student and himself. This dialogue must be open and frank. It must represent the meeting of idea with idea, but more significantly of personality with personality: for there must begin in the classroom a relationship between members of a community, an academic community that understands itself in terms of its academic life. This dialogue must begin in the classroom, but it must extend into the entire life of the student—into dormitory and fraternity, into social life and religious life, into his other classes and his extracurricular activities. The dialogue must penetrate all areas of the student's life, but it has its beginning in the classroom.—N. F. Tennille
New England is the Authorized Version of America.-David T. W. McCord