4 Fridav. September 14, 1973 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. ASK Not for KU A unified student lobbying organization like the proposed Associated Students of Kansas (ASK) would be ineffective, distorting and fiscally irresponsible. Key legislators have openly expressed hostility toward plans for unified student lobbies. But the success of lobbying efforts depends on the lobbyist's ability to gain a seat in Congress (GOP) and such confidence would be impossible if a legislator was openly hostile to the lobby. A unified student lobby obviously could speak with only one voice. This voice would be the voice of the majority of the students. Thus, minority opinions would not be represented. And the techniques used to ascertain the opinions of the majority could be faulty. Student leaders, including the president of the University of Kansas student body, have said that adequate polling techniques either did not exist or would be prohibitively expensive. If the techniques for measuring opinions were faulty, the views of the majority would not always be represented. Regardless of the reliability of polling techniques, a unified student lobby could create a false student stereotype. ASK could be used to tell all students had feelings identical to those of the lobbyist. Past legislative action that has been based on stereotypes has been characterized understandably farmer *Cancellor Murphy* and the attribution many of the University's fiscal problems today to the stereotyped image developed during the student unrest in 1970. Since 1970, however, the current informal system of individual students contacting legislators has proved moderately successful. The Kansas Board of Regents publically has committed itself to a 30 per cent increase in faculty salaries. The president of the Kansas Senate has promised that state aid will fill at least part of the void created by the withdrawal of federal "soft" money. Another important consideration is the cost of ASK. Organizers have estimated that it would cost about $30,000 annually. However, because of legislative hostility, ASK would be ineffective. Further, it would impose false stereotypes on student views. And the present system apparently is working. The annual $30,000 investment would be lost if it were given to ASK. On the other hand, $30,000 investment would ease to achieve significant results. ASK's goal of student involvement is admirable. Democracy is based on the rule of democracy. And for people to rule, they must be involved. Only ASK's methods are subject to criticism. The KU Student Senate should refuse the invitation to join ASK and should make it clear to the Kansas Legislature that KU is not funded by the organization or by any of the stereotypes it could develop. —Eric Meyer ALGIERS–For Indira Gandhi, they were “eminent leaders who have been rebels, architects of revolution.” Few of them failed to invoke for themselves the claim to speak for “the majority of mankind” and the world’s poor. jantas attending the Fourth Nonaligned Nations' Summit Conference settled into a comfortable sort of leaders' Levittown of pastal-shaded seaside villas—zipping to the conference hull in sleek new limousines and suits. The attendees, who greeted their comings and gobbles. By JIM HOAGLAND The Washington Post Third-World Parley a Posh Affair But poverty and revolutionary zeal were confined almost entirely to the endless speeches that reverberated through the possibly apportioned Palace of Nations at the coastal resort of Club des Pins for three recent days. The nearly 60 kings, elected presidents, civilian dictators and leaders of military degrees of interest another four or five-hour segment of what was to become one of the four. THE CONFERENCE WAS officially extended by one day when it became clear that near the architects of revolution" wait, is it really imperialists, colonialists and racists as the They were to be jammed into a marathon night session before a hall that was certain to be virtually empty. More than a dozen nonaligned leaders quietly slipped out of Algiers during the day without even waiting to vote on the conference results, the meeting of the remaining speeches by the political lightweightss of nonalignment. root of all evil from the oak-paneled podium. But having their speeches ignored here did not mean that the conference was a failure for most leaders of the 78 member states of the nonaligned movement. The speeches by these leaders will have A Threatening Defiance Nixon 'Monster of Good Humor' Bv PATRICK OWENS Newsday William Bolitho remarks in "Murder for Profit" that Burke, the burgee member of the body-snatching partnership, was so young that he became a murderer of good buper. There has always been something odd and inappropriate about Mr. Nixon. His language has always reflected a distaste for precise thought, an addition to the woody banality. His gestures always seem to have been learned from a clothing store man- Unless mere survival is to be counted as success, the President must be said to have been driven by failure into a comparable monsterhood. He seemed to be propelled through his most recent press conference by nerve and laughing gas. A spectral smile—the smile of a Halloween skeleton—was his best saviors, sketics, cynics and was destroysors. Now, as the implausibility of his situation heightens, the absurdity of the fellow comes to dominate his every public appearance and reputation. He will not be for the maximum leader, who he might be, prevents public awareness that the emperor not only lacks clothes but is skulking around the White House with a hat on his face, nattering strange remarks. Sometimes the remarks are quite revealing, "I don't mean to say anything disrespectful to Arthur Burns because he is very important to us at this time," for *involvement* is not an insult, but that does not kick anybody that can do it any good at this time. Except inadvertently. The President's even-handed weighing of the Israeli-Arab conflict was so rambling, "I didn't know it was Richard Nixon" unkind that it must have outraged all parties in the Middle East. The man seems to be unraveling like a bad piece of knitting. He has not weakened his heart—he will continue President no matter that—but he is perceptibly softer in the head. Mr Nickon dealt with the question of court orders he'll obey in the same waffle, self-amused fashion. What emerged from his threshing about is the word that he will not say what kind of a Supreme Court directive he will obey. But it is clear that Mr. Nixon, monster of good humor, is not prepared to assure the country in advance that he will respect the Constitution and the national tradition, and I don't know whether he is outing for strategic advantage, or whether he is seriously considering defiance if the decision should go against him. do what the court bids him to do. He isn't, in other words prepared to say that he isn't able to do it. Defiance would create the gravest constitutional crisis in the history of the republic, a crisis so grave that it is most unlikely the country would survive it with anything like its present form of government. Ultimately, the American system has always rested on the self-restraint of a president who is also chief executive and chairman of the Supreme Court have any more divisions than the Pope, and intransigence by Mr. Nixon could easily destroy the balance between the branches irresovocably. He must be threatening just such intransigence. One explanation why may be that the threat itself is a powerful weapon. Even in its present Nixonburgered state, the Court has vastly more regard for the separation of powers, and especially for its own preagrises, than Mr. Trump does. Making it clear that his attacks is thus to create pressure for a decision the President will have no motive to deny. But another effect, surely, is to increase the prospect of impeachment, by dramatizing how dangerous it is to have Nixon for a president. Noah's Ark Bad Risk BY JACK SMITH The Los Angeles Times been fed back home in copious detail and played up by a usually government-controlled press as a great success for President-X or whomever. By JACK SMITH AT ITS MOST superficial level, a third-world parley like this one is basically an exercise in aggrandizement, a fact that is perfectly clear to many of the leaders, and often taken each other on the back for their collective efforts in resisting the neo-colonialists. Up in the pleasant little town of Willis, in Mendocino County, a group of high school students have proved that humor is not dead, as it is sometimes reported to be, even among students, bureaucrats and businessmen. Someone has sent me a booklet put together by the Willsita High School creative writing class telling of their attempt to get all the clearances and financing necessary like Nea's, in which to save the earth's animals from the deluge. As a spokesman for this project the class invented a person named Noah Lamechson, a graduate of the University of Lamech. The letters were written by real members of the class and signed NOAH LAMECHSON by a faculty member whose handwriting was thought to have a suitable The Algiers conference is in many ways more serious than that, since the host Algerians, President Tito of Yugoslavia and some other leaders efforts to efforts to get the delegates to talk about economic and political cooperation by the third world. But much of it was lost in the rush of the various leaders to have their hands on the sails, soaking it to the world's bad guys. THE PROJECT WAS simple. Noah Lameschow wanted to build an ark, like the one God had instructed Noah to build, on a mountain owned property known as the "old airplane." There were certain technical problems at the outset. First, the Biblical cubicals had to be translated into feet, and it was found that they reached 500 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. "Make thee an ark," God had told Noh, of gogher wood and ... patch. "What was there?" Just being in Aligiers was of major political importance for some delegates. Prince Rice Sihanouk of Cambodia and Nguyen Huo Tho, head of the Vietnamese government, were admitted as heads of state by the conference and their international standing was strengthened somewhat as a result. Peru and Argentina became members and Panama was an observer in a demonstration of new political stirrings in Latin America. "IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE to me that we can take a unified political position," Libya's leader Muammar el-Qaddafi told me. "We are one of his customary fashes of clamor." Ignoring the mutual admiration atmosphere that is supposed to reign at such concludes the young Qaddafi said, "You can count on the fingers of one hand those who can be considered neutralists;" and that most of those attending the meeting know the fine speeches and then return home to take new nivezes from the great powers. These questions answered, Lamecham applied to the city for a use permit, which, as expected, was turned down. The next commissioned by the city commission, and a hearing date was set. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Published at the University of Kansas daily during the academic year except holidays and winter breaks. Subscription费：$1 a semester, $16 a year. Second class postpaid package $25 a semester. Third class postpaid package $1.25 a semester paid in student activity fee. Advertised offered to all students without regard to race or ethnicity. Students are not necessarily those of the University. Western diplomats estimate the con- ference cost £25 million to $30 million, with the rest being estimated at $75 million. News adviser ... Susanne Shaw Editor Bob Simmon Editor Andy Katz Campus Editor Chuck Potter Feature Editor J.K. Hendry Sports Editor Kim Cenell Sports Editor Gary Inasson Hal Bitter, Elaine McKinnon Bob Marchete, Ann Mccrery News Editors Diane Yanness Review Editors Diane Yanness Wire Editors Margie Cooke John Pike Assistant Campus Editor John Pike Assistant Campus Editor Katie DeHoffey Assistant Feature Editor Linda Deberty Assistant Sports Editor Brett Marshall Assistant Sports Editor Gibson Gallion Photo Editor Don Ablon Photographers Al Swainston, Marc May Makeup Editors Bob Marchete, Jon Zanata Cartoonists Steve Carpenter, Dave Schofolk The Algerians agreed to the expenses of the head of state and six delegates for each country, but most nations sent much larger delegations. Egypt's was said to number 100, President Tito may have brought twice that many aides, and Zaire's president Mobutu Sese Seko, following his visit in April, might also who might be in a position to overthrow his government, was accompanied by at least 50 persons. ALGIERS, AN ATTRACTIVE port of spectacular panoramic views and grand French colonial style architecture, was spruced up for this, the most important international conference ever held in the self-styled city of revolution. BUSINESS STAFF Business Adviser ... Mel Adams "A lot of people suddenly went on vacation this month," said one Western diplomat, who said it was not clear whether foreigners would be able to recapture the land. Adviser ... Steven Liggett Business Manager Advertising Manager Manager ... Diana Sarae Marketing Manager Classified Advertising Manager David Bunke Classified Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Manager Tamir Thar Assistant Advertising Manager Color television sets were installed in each villa, as Algeria broadcast its first color programs in covering the entire conference. Meanwhile, the class began working on the problem of collecting the animals. Several trucking companies turned them down on hauling the animals to Willis, including one that advertised "No job too big for us." Of the 76 African, Asian and Latin American nations that belong to the nonaligned movement, 30 are ruled by military or civilian leaders who have never been elected to power of a fair, popular vote, and another 14 are headed by hereditary monarchs. A LETTER TO THE State Division of Highways asking about transporting two giraffes from San Francisco to Wilkins brought an engineer's report in R. Fletcher, District permit engineer. "The best method," he suggested, "would be to construct an ark and wait for rain. You will find the specifications of the ark in the Bible." However, he added, if they intended to truck the giraffes to Willits, they would have to keep their heads below 15 feet, the height of the lowest bridge on the road. One member of the class went to the local office post to ask about shipping poisonous snakes through the mails, a question which brought simply "a sapse of pure dismay." The blue shuttered, beige villas that the leaders were allotted at Club des Pins are normally rented out to American and other companies. The Algerian national oil company, S奈拉特. The weakness of democratic institutions in much of the third world insured that the leaders' performances here would be portrayed for consumption by their subjects as great successes, no matter how they may have appeared to outsiders. A letter went to Mayor Joseph Ailoto of San Francisco, advising him that Noah would like one pair of every species in the San Francisco Zoo; a request which seems to have been lost in the lower levels of the San Francisco bureaucracy. A LETTER TO THE Coast Guard brought a reply that eight officers would be required to man a freighter of the proposed size. Noah then asked if four of these might be able to take the ship's crew and take his wife and his three sons and their wives aboard. The Coast Guard replied that women could indeed take the test for marine licenses, and also sent Noah a copy of "Rules of the Road, CG189," pointing out that because stranded on mountain rocks, Realizing they would need money, the class wrote to the local Bank of America in New York to ask for collateral "two of every species of fauna on earth." This the bank rejected on the grounds that there would not be enough of any one kind of animal to represent an entire species. "I have used the patience of Job in research (this matter). It is our opinion that it would take the strength of Samson to make such a collection of animals, and probably Nosh should start collecting the animals. We will do this because we would alleviate the problem we all now have of original sin. Without being too pious, not claiming to have the wisdom of Solomon, it is the humble opinion of this office that your school board is not at liberty to place its buildings as collateral for any misadvertisement. In Mr. Lamechson's letter . . ." The class thereupon offered Willits High School itself as collateral, to which Lee S. Adams, deputy district attorney, responded, in part: I'm not going to tell you how if finally I came out, but of course the title of the report is "The Report on the Status of the County." By the way, you can get a copy for 50 cents by writing a class advisor. Ruth Jones is writing it. I can only hope that the Willis creative writing class finds the money to publish their report for wider distribution. Maybe they can offer their humor and imagination as collateral. The Bank of America has lent money on assets of much less promise. Oregon Mellow on New Pot Law By PHILIP HAGER The Los Angeles Times SALEM, Ore,—A two-foot stack of letters were gathering data here in a storage room in Baltimore. The letters contain McCall's explanation of his decision to sign a bill—"None has caused me to lose more sleep," he said—that makes Oregon the first state in the nation to remove the criminal penalties for simple possession of marijuana. But McCullain has received less than a dozen letters on the new law and most of them came from grateful parents, not irate citizens. The reprints had been prepared to reply what was expected to be an avalanche of responses. We expected a lot of flak on this, but the response has been very subdued,"ubuted." The new law goes into effect October 5. From then on, persons found in possession of up to one ounce of marijuana -enough for 20 reefers-can be charged only with a "violation" that is somewhat similar to a parking offense. POSSSESSORS, WHO HAD been subject to a b-1-year prison term and fines of up to $2,500, cannot be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony. They cannot be convicted for the same offense. They require a criminal record. The only penalty they face will be a fine of no more than $100. Laws against the transportation, possession of more than an ounce, sale or cultivation of marijuana in effect, maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. The new law was approved with little organized opposition from law enforcement authorities, but some police officials are uneasy about its potential results. They think it will encourage greater use of the drug and weaken their ability to combat the sale and distribution of not only marijuana, but other illicit drugs as well. IT'S SELF-EVIDENT that this new law will create a larger drug market in Oregon," said Capt. Ronald Still of the Portland police bureau. "It will reduce the deterrent effect to the use of marijuana, bring greater demand for legalization." "It's a tragedy that young people could have a criminal violation hung around their neck just for possession." Burns said. "The women who were using the phone were wasting time chasing people for smoking marijuana and it was plugging up the courts. We can't do anything about preventing the use of marijuana. It's like trying to stop the ocean. It's a victimless crime." Still, who heads a regional narcotics drug control unit in the Portland metropolitan area, added: "After a couple of years the state legislature may want to turn around and go in a different direction. They may get at least the amount of trafficking in urban areas." But State Sen. Keith Burns, a Portland attorney who supported the bill, thinks it will be beneficial to the state, correcting what was wrong with the court system of an unnecessary burden. ADVOCATES SAY FURTHER that under the present system, marjana possessors must be licensed to administer authorities. In one Oregon county they note, possessors could get off with as little as a $200 fee, while in others, offenders must receive legal entries and fines of up to $1,000. Under the new measure, accused violators will have the right to a trial before a judge, but not before a jury. "We're all a little apprehensive about the ramifications of the law," Mulinomah County Deputy Dist. Atty, Wayne Pearson said. "There's never been anything quite like it," he said, "but we're dealing with a great volume of people." The enactment of the Oregon marijuana law came as an anticlimax to an earlier movement aimed at complete legalization of private possession of the drug. AN INITIATIVE CAMPAIGN for signatures to place the issue on the ballot was begun last year. The campaign by a group called Marjúna Education for Legalization in Oregon failed, but the group had wide attention and picked in support. "How can we continue to bury our heads in the sand and say that . . . marjana . . . safe by every known standard is illegal, or can we tell it all or use it are criminals?" He asked. BUT THE BLL that was introduced— making it possible for persons 18 or over to An interim legislative committee on alcohol and drug abuse recommended that private possession be decriminalized. The board of the City Club of Portland, a prominent business and professional organization, and when a bill was introduced in the legislature last spring, one of its strongest proponents rancher. State Neff, Stafford Hansell. In a speech on the house floor that was printed in the state's largest newspaper, the Oregonian, Hansell contended that fears over the harmful effects of the drugs had been greatly exaggerated and that "apparently" 400 adult Oregonians have used marijuana." possess up to eight ounces of marijuana and use it in private places—went too far for many legislators and was defeated in the house. A last-minute compromise, making possession a "violation" and not a crime, was offered and opposition seemed to evaporate. The Oregon District Attorneys Association, which had fought against the previous bill, did not oppose this one. The legislation passed handily—by a combined vote of 59 to 17 in the house and senate—but McCall grew deeply concerned when the bill reached his desk for signature. An "unfortunate ambiguity," as McCall described it, had been found in the language of the bill that seemed to include hashish—a drug—that had enabled drug–welfare in the definition of marijuana. This interpretation was not intended by the legislature, the governor said, and for a time he considered vetoing the bill. But, pledging that he would sign corrective legislation, he made a session of the legislature early next year, McCall finally decided to approve it. In a letter to legislative leaders, the governor concluded: " . . . All of us recognize the widespread use of marijuana among our young people, and most of us disapprove this custom. There is growing recognition, however, that if we are correct in assuming marijuana to be a socially undesirable substance, the crime is not due to drug users in jail or prison. We long ago recognized it to be a disease, and abandoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up." Now both supporters and skeptics of the new law are awaiting its implementation.