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Tuesday, August 28, 1973
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Walk Right In
Kick off your shoes, if you're wearing any.
This will assure your initial comfort whenever you begin a Kansan editorial page this semester.
It should also make you more receptive and provide you available vehicles for physically expressing any adverse reaction to opinions appearing here. Nothing like a thrown or rounded shoe for venting wrath, disgust or frustration.
On the other hand, if this page proves as worthwhile to you as we intend, you might put your footwear back on with a slightly different feeling about the paths you choose and those others choose.
In point of fact, this is an invitation to "walk right in" to both the Kansan newsroom and the newspaper itself.
The doors to both are wide open.
Editorial submissions and letters-to-the-editor are emphatically invited, particularly when you can bring your own professional expertise or individual experience to bear.
In the past, such invitations have drawn about as much response from the University community as a scientific science awards dinner
But if you care about being part of the University, if you care about contributing to the entire community, if you financing the university gives matters to you, you can do something about it all right here.
The oft-heralded resources of KU found in its diverse populace demand greater exposure. Fieff doms in the more populace of ideas thrive as the perceived interest, but they are now more detrimental than ever to a
University justifiably crying out for more adequate funding.
free newspaper
Whether it takes ego to make you push your pen or anger to make you thrash your typewriter, use the voice the Kansan provides.
It is a free newspaper.
In a conscious effort to expand the access offered by the Kansan, this page will change somewhat through the semester.
If your submissions will support it, the Kansan would like to devote this space at least once every two days and will be called "The Other Page."
If you believe in the idea of "alternative" or "counterculture" news, The Other Page should be for you.
It should be for a compendium of information on how to do things in the real world, get it right.
This will be neither a traditional editorial assemblage, an "op-ed" gathering nor an "underground" page.
But again, it will not be only for you to read—it will be for you to write. If you want a place to start, glance through the admirably published "People's Yellow Pages," and go from there.
For the moment, then, a final note on The Other Page. As Jack Newfield, an associate editor of the Village Voice in New York said last year, "the New Journalism has been the New writing and bad writing, smart ideas and dumb ideas, hard work and laziness."
Bring your good writing and your smart ideas together, with some extra help from this chapter.
And if you don't wear shoes,
That's okay too. C.C Caldwell
Editorial Editor
The Last Year?
The Last Year has arrived.
For some of us, anyway. Being a senior at KU is like having a date with a semipretty girl who has a phone number you never know what may happen.
The thought that I may graduate on schedule is equally frightening. Out There you can't con Professor Friendly with a lot of noise about the muffler on your car falling off and that's why you're late. Out There they fire you for tricks like that.
Probably it's too early to start looking back. Sometimes, when the nights are chilly and I begin to fret, I can hear an adviser's voice telling me next spring that I forgot to take Western Civilization II or something, and therefore I have to stav at KU an extra three years.
To get along Out There, then, one has to rely on what one has learned at KU. For the most part, in anyway. So: What did you learn here?
Me, I learned a lot of nifty stuff while I was some place other than KU. Some shy persons I knew in the army taught me to how to play poker; high school friends introduced me to drinking; a magazine salesmen showed me how to play pool; and so forth.
As for women, I just noticed that I don't know one damn thing about them, so I guess no one ever taught me anything about women.
Now for KU. Here I've learned about journalism (although several
professors I know would hotly dispute that claim) and also how to park my car on campus without getting a ticket.
I've learned to love hoogie sandwiches, cheap wine, 3.2 beer, one-sided football games, loud stereos playing rotten music, very flaky persons and, most of all, peace and quiet.
I've learned to distrust history courses, glad-handers and anyone who says he's sincere, or going through a trauma or identity crisis, or who tells me I can trust him, or who tells me with more than four ingredients.
I've learned to hate Western Civ, loud sports cars, parking tickets, term papers, discussion groups, cold weather, bars with bands and a dozen worn-out expressions: tight, no blinding, like you, know heavy.
For me, KU has been an experience neatly described by an old Army cliche: a million bucks worth of experience you wouldn't pay a quarter for. It's been enlightening, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking—and very much necessary.
By the time I get out of KU, it's going to take me at least two years to get to the game.
Personally, however, I wouldn't give you 15 cents to go through it all again. Not unless I could get out of taking Western City.
-Chuck Potter Campus Editor
Mail Students Visit the Campus
By SYLVIA CARTER
Why would anyone from as far away as Berlin, Germany, or Coldwater, Mih, go to college at the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, Long Island?
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students, a relationship that will sustain them through independent study."
One good reason is that they can earn their degrees almost entirely at home, wherever home may be. Bennis Panzer, an airline pilot on assignment in Berlin, and Gerhard Strehl, an engineer from Michigan, are here having the off-campus experience. New Yorkers there are more than 500 students enrolled in the "External-Degree" program, one of a growing number of such programs in U.S. colleges.
"THEY LIKE IT, and they work hard while they're here," said William Smith. Tech's dean of continuing education, "They welcome the opportunity to be back on a college campus. I work in library and university as a very personal relationist and is established between the professor and the student."
Twenty of the students visited the Old Westbury campus recently for a two-week on-campus seminar. For some, it was their first time on the campus. For all, it was their second time on the campus and their classmates and the professors; under whom they study by mail and telephone.
External-Degree students who live in nearby Eastern states or on Long Island can take advantage of weekend on-campus seminars. But for those whose work schedules and geographical locations do not permit Saturday trips to Old Wesbury, the two weeks during the summer provided a special opportunity.
"We miss a different point of view, in working alone; he said. Beckett, age 33, is working for a bachelor's degree in business administration, one of several external schools she has attended college education since he had last been on a campus, eight years ago at Ohio State.
Jon Beckett, a United Airlines pilot from
Alexandria Va., agreed that being on
a flight to Las Vegas is not worth the
time.
"It's my first time in a class like this." Beckett said of a government course where the students sat in a semicircle. "I feel more at ease."
THE TEACHERS IN THE External-
al school also seem delighted with
the older students.
"I find it extremely interesting listening to people from different states," said Gary Cordell.
Helfand did encounter one problem. In trying to arrange a liberal-conservative debate on government issues, he couldn't get the tone right — he was entirely willing to take the liberal side.
Pilot Panzer, 33 years old, seems fairly typical of the External-Degree students who came for the two-week seminar. Like seven of her peers, she is a graduate, the maximum of five 60-campus credits.
challenge the material more than a regular class would."
That meant attending class continuously from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. with a break for lunch. The students could enroll in speech classes, study math, and take three credits. Panzer attended class for 30 hours and was expected to do 15 hours of work on his own time, which adds up to the 45 hours that a regular semester-long course would involve—and that's minus homework.
BECAUSE PANZER can put in husry time for the month in one large chunk, he didn't have much trouble arranging his schedule, and he seemed positively eager to attack the two weeks of exhaustive schooling.
"The average high school student who comes to college doesn't know what he wants from life," Panzer said. "I love my job, but this is self-satisfaction and my
surance for me. It's the second chance I didn't think I was ever going to have to go back to college. I really felt there was a void didn't "didn't have it" (a college education),"
"THANKS A LOT."
PANZER, WHO has completed almost half the studies toward a degree in business administration, admitted to two problems. He said that his wife, who is German, "doesn't quite understand our educational system," and when he wasien't on campus, it was especially difficult to study on his own after 12 years away from college.
"I wouldn't say I'm used to it (studying) yet," he said. "It's especially tricky in a new culture, when you could be out having fun."
Panzer said that he learned about the External-Degree program, which is supported by a number of businesses, through an airline pilot's publication.
Strehl, age 25, is working for a degree in mechanical engineering, brought along his 23-year-old wife, Bonnie. She said she was spending most of her own vacation time swimming in a motel pool while he went to class.
"We don't know the people, the surroundings here." Strehl said.
Strehl's company, where he is a tooling engineer, "is completely behind me," he said, and is even paying some of his expenses. And, because the Strehl live out in the country, he said, "this is an ideal way to get a degree."
Streh added, "I'm learning a lot more than when I went to school before. (What I'm learning) is related to work now. I can ask people at work something (in the course material) and I understand. If I had about this kind out of high school, I'd do this it, this way."
Instead, Strehl went to college for a year full time and to night school.
ALLAN STUART, assistant dean of continuing education at Tech, estimates that the degrees the External-Degree students are getting would take 12 years to reach through a conventional evening program, compared to about 3½ years in this program.
For most students, however, less time is required because they start with some credits from other colleges or from work experience. For most college curriculum requirements, Stuart said that seminars—either the Saturday or the one-year variety—are considered crucial, however, to keep the students' interest. At first, at first, he said, the attribution rate was high.
Al Joyner, 34 years old, from Toms River, N.J., another airline pilot, said that he couldn't schedule his flying hours around a regular school program. But he admitted, halftime through the two weeks, "I think you probably get more out of a course on campus, but I'm a lazy person, and I like being able to work when I want."
For these students, it may just seem like a vacation to get back to work.
(C) 1973. Newsdav
China Produces the Collective Novel
By H. D. S. GREENWAY
By H. D. S. GREENWAY
The Washington Post
HONG KONG—The role of a writer, according to the popular Chinese novelist Hao Jian, is to "give voice to the thoughts and feelings of the tens of millions of working people and to serve their interests."
In a recent New China News Agency interview, the 42-year-old author said, "it would be impossible for me to write about it, departed from the struggle of the masses."
It is evident that, in the view of the authorities in Peking, Hao Jian has departed from the struggle of the masses. His 648th and final publication, published last year, is the first full-length novel to be published in China since the Cultural Revolution began in 1966. According to the Chinese News Agency, the first six months after its publication.
The other faction, led by a devout Communist, would lead the village down the bright road toward cooperatives and a collective economy as advocated by Mao Tse-tung.
THE NOVEL TAKES place in a rural village called Sweet Meadow during the early 1950s. Land reform had given the village better land, but the problem was how best to use it.
The plot concerns the struggle between two factions during a period of socialist reform. One faction represents the bourgeois form of individual farming with the hope of regaining private wealth,
THE NOVEL ENDS with the battle joined. One doesn't know how it will come out, for "Bright Road" (Part One) is only the first "section of a four-vOLUME saga Hao Jun intends to write. A second volume was written in 2013, this spring but is not yet available here.
Since Hao Jan obviously enjoys official approval, his novel provides insights into the current political scene. What interests analysts here is the novel's treatment of party cadres who err in judgment and favor a tolerance for individual farming.
Although Hao Jan leaves no doubt that the capitalist road isn't the bright road, the village caddis who don't see the light aren't treated as black villains seeking to betray communism and the people. Instead, they are treated as genuine Communists with sincere, abet mistaken, ideological differences. Yet they aren't ready for collectivization and that individual farming will increase production.
"SOME COMRADES have different ideas from ours," the village告诫 chief ofweet Meadow, who favors the wrong road, "but we have common interests and demands politically, economically and culturally. It is only that we are divided on the ways of
attaining these interests and fulfilling these demands."
Many party cadres who were vilified, humiliated and denounced during the more volatile years of the Cultural Revolution for following the capitalist road have by this time been rehabilitated and restored to positions of responsibility.
although in China will not fail to see that, although the novel's action takes place in the 1500s, the moderate, even sympathetic, nature of the errant c姨 is in line with present policy.
PERHAPS THE MOST spectacular example of this rehabilitation has been the case of Teng Hao-ping, former secretary general of the Communist Party. In 1967, he was a member of the Chinese Communist shechev, Liu Shao-chi, as having advocated a "policy that suppresses the masses and opposes revolution." They were accused of trying to "shelve" Mao, and nothough power from power could prevent China from descending into the swamp of "revisionism."
One famous statement attributed to Teng, which was later used to condemn him in 1967, was：“Private farming is all right as long as it raises production, just as it doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.”
One of the ardent cadres in "Bright Road"
also espoused this motto—lest anyone
breathes too much.
Life of Ideas, Ideas of Life
Bv ROBERT J. DONOVAN
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Over the years, Hale Champion, once state director of the college's athletic department and currently financial vice president of Harvard University, has been peculiarly well situated to observe the contrasts in life between California and the Northeast.
He sees the people of California as tending to be more free, loose and oriented to what is best for them.
The Los Angeles Times
"IN COMPARISON, change comes more slowly in the East. Personal relationships tend to be more permanent, more set. Yet the East deals in greater depth and scope in ideas—not only with ideas of the past, as might be expected of an older society, but with ideas of the future, despite California's reputation for futuristic concepts.
"So many people in California," Champion said in an interview, "are rootless, mobile, sort of on the front edge of the 'now' society.
"Novelty is much more important in California. But this is not really an adequate testing of a lot of ideas. The kind of daily intellectual commerce out there was built yesterday and what is happening yesterday and what is happening it is pretty much concentrated on that span. I find it richer, personally, to have the longer view both forward and backward.
"There are some healthy things about that. I still think the government burrowed in. I dealt with in California was for all of it, but I dealt with immediate progress and was
"I am speaking very much in generalizations," he said, "but in my experience there is not as much interplay in California in discussions and activities.
"I NEVER FOUND California, being more futuristic in the sense of 20 or 30 years out. The perspective is pretty closely confined to now. A lot of public debate is centered around a relatively short span both backward and forward.
The Beacon Street Perspective Meets California's 'Now Society'
not tided up 150 years of political and civil service warfare and didn't lose itself in abstractions of some utiopian community 50 years ahead."
"IN BOSTON, or in Washington for that matter," Champion or observed, "all the people who are involved in large decisions, all the positions—all know each other well. They see each other frequently. You walk between City Hall and Beacon Street in Boston. You see and recognize more of the people around you, and mobility, that is a rare experience.
Champion's first associations with Harvard came with his selection as a Nielman Fellow in 1986 and as a Kennedy fellow in 1994. He was present post as a Harvard vice president, he did a stint as director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority and served briefly as vice president for financial operations at the University of Minnesota.
*Boston is still a city very identifiably ethnic. The neighborhoods are established. You know about them. There is a predice- tion relationship. So here politics are personal.
"California, on the other hand, is a media state. You can't depend on anything to stay in place for any length of time. California is much looser, free-flowing. It changes faster. It has less attachment. People don't have the kind of ties and surrounding pressures that they did in the places they came from."
Because people moved to California and threw off the normal restraints and inhibitions to which they had been subjected in their home towns, "you get a flowering of that eccentricity all over the place," Champion remarked.
"I could riddle my own arguments about East-West differences in 10 minutes, but in the large, I don't think the life of ideas and concepts is strong in California as it is around here."
(C) 1923 The Los Angeles Times
Hao Jan's "Bright Road" was published a year before Teng's rehabilitation, but Bao Jan must have known as early as 1971 when he drafted the book, that there was room for lenience in the criticism of Teng and lesser party officials and that different policies were to be considered only "contradictions among the people" rather than the more mainstream policies. He marked irreconciliable and unforgivable class differences in the Chinese lexicon.
IN APRIL OF this year, Teng, once referred to in official pronouncements as "the second party person in authority," told the Associated Press that he was suddenly rehabilitated. He has since been prominently displayed at official functions and is believed to be destined for an important party position when and if the party Congress takes place later this year.
The rehabilitation of party cadres who had been purged during the more excessive years of the Cultural Revolution began in 1973, when Mr. Mao returned to order and economic recovery. The process was intensified following the fall of Mao's political heir Lin Piao in 1971, and Lin is now often blamed for the excesses of the party and for being beastly to erradicate cadres.
LEST HE STRAY from the bright road himself, Hae Jan says that his novels are circulated in draft form among workers, peasants, soldiers and students. Meetings are held to collect their suggestions, and some readers bicycled more than 30 miles from the commune fields after work to give them comments, according to the news agency.
"Each book was created by collective effort," Hao Jan said. "This is a new author-reader relationship—completely different from the traditional capitalist world. When a novel is accepted by the masses, when it plays a part in uniting and educating the people and dealing bouts at the enemy, I feel I am very proud of this work. People in struggle" he told his interviewer.
Hao Jian born and reared in North China, spent most of his adult life in the countryside. He worked eight years as a rural farmer, then as a provincial newspaper reporter.
Ensuring volumes of "Bright Road" will be watched closely, for—as Mao has said—literature is but the "reflection in the human brain of the life of a given society."
(C) 1973 The Washington Post
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