University Daily Kansan, October 31, 1980
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THE SALT PROCESS carries enormous symbolic importance, especially to America's European allies, Numa said. He said that a recent visit to NATO headquarters in Belgium helped him to realize the value that Western Europeans attach to SALT.
Scrapping the treaty would damage American interest and would be very damaging to the armed forces.
"The most important part of SALT II is its overall symbolism," Nunn said. "I think that we have some moral obligation to pursue arms control in the hope, even if it's only a hope, that
someday mankind will come to its senses about restraining the growth of these kinds of animals.
Nunn said the Senate needed to agree on a long-range, coherent view" concerning ACA.
Many senators who oppose SALT II probably do not object to the treaty itself, Nunn said, but have misgivings about the president's direction on national security and foreign policy.
ONCE A GENERAL agreement is reached on a policy path the nation should follow, Nunn said that passing the SALT treaty or any defense measure is much easier. Reagan does not realize this, he said.
"Reagan cannot build a consensus on foreign
policy and national security policy based on a third of the Senate," Nunn said.
The Senate's opposition to SALT points up to the need for such a policy consensus be said.
Nunn said he was optimistic overall about the future of the United States and the West versus the Soviet Union, citing the Soviet's substantial demographic and technological problems.
"The Soviet Union is like a magnificent sailing ship, an awe-inspiring sight," Nunn said. "But let that great ship strike a rock, and very quickly it will vanish forever beneath the waves."
"The United States and our alliance is more like a rubber raft. It looks funny, it moves slowly, but it's stable, and it's very difficult to sink."
"Children, who are the furthest from death,
become the representatives of death and death
is the greatest threat to humanity."
By mocking death in this way, children learn to fear it less, Hanson said.
The inversion ritual also may be an opportunity for powerless members of society, such as children or the poor, to vent their aggressions, he said.
By dressing their children as evil spirits, Helson said, parents in past societies had tried to enforce this notion.
Hanson suggested that rituals of inversion served several purposes.
Halloween
'Very often in society, when a group is put
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down, you have a festival in which the high are brought low," Hanson said.
Felix Moos, another KU anthropology professor, said that adults had similar opportunities on holidays such as the French Mardi Gras or the German Fascinating.
Halloween gives children a chance to let off steam, he said.
BOTH HOLDAYS end the day before Ash
Wednesday, the beginning of a 40-day period of
church attendance.
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On the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, the people of many Christian cultures have a final
Wildcat fans celebrating a victory in Memorial Stadium.
In his native Germany, Moos said, Fasching is notoriously a day when men drink themselves to insensibility and women cheat on their husbands.
"It's a day for one big bust," Moos said. "Then people return to being sainly—or their own self."
On Mardi Gras, masked revelers parade through the streets signing and dancing.
Rivalry
"People do things they wouldn't ordinarily do if they are anonymous," he said.
The professors all said all three holidays were escape valves that societies created to relieve the tension between high- and low-ranking members.
THE K-STATE FANS, contemptuously referred to as "Aggies" by KU press and students, launched their own version of the blitzkrieg.
"An occasional reversal of status may be a means of forestalling rebellion," Hanson said. You could almost say that Halloween is a night to play with, and you can in our society, have a chance to strike back."
When the game ended, they were enthusiastically met by KU students in "one of the worst on-field student brawls ever," according to the Kansan.
remain in the winning school's possession until the next year's contest.
In an effort to provide an alternative to
postgame fight games, the UFC has
encouraged unfairly colored relation.
A "challenger trophy," shaped like a goal post to commemorate those goal posts that had been destroyed by enthusiastic fans, was chosen by a team of KU and K-State student council members.
The trophy was to be awarded to the victorious school after each KU-KState game and was to
Elaborate negotiations finally were completed on the eve of the 1940 game during a sumptuous "peace banquet." The student governing bodies of KU and KST-age, drawing on student activity from a previous semester, copiously opiumed of steak and potatoes while they solemnly proclaimed "peace in our time."
The outcome of the game? K-State won 200, and not a whimper was heard from the KU spectators at Manhattan, some of whom had been kicked out. A passenger train from Lawrence to the game.
Fear not, however, for treaties are indeed like bread—they are made to be broken. The “peace in our time” agreement lasted only a bit longer than while Chamberlain’s did. It was abated after the war but John Kasten and KU fans took to the trenches in the aftermath of another KU-KState battle.
Broadcast building planned
Architectural plans are in the making for construction of a broadcast journalism building on West Campus, Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said yesterday.
Wiechert said the building would be south of Moore Hall near Iowa Street.
Funding for the project was furnished by $4.5 million gift on Aug. 8 from Ralph "Bud" Weir, a Junction City broadcast executive, and his wife Barbara. The Weirs are KU alumni.
An architectural program lists the expected needs of the building, Wiechert said, and is made by representatives of the people who will occupy the building.
Wiechert said an architectural program was given to Kiene and Bradley Partnership of Topea, the company that will draw the plans for the building.
The building will have space for academic instruction and studio space for radio broadcasts.
Three radio stations will be housed in the building: KANU-FM, the University's public radio station; KAKI-FM, a non-commercial closed-circuit service that provides news, feature stories and entertainment programs for blind and physically handicapped people.
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A Concerned and Effective Voice for KU
Listen to what the University Daily Kansan says about Willie Amison:
"... Amison has shown a vocal sincerity in his campaign. The 32-year-old elementary school teacher admits that he doesn't know everything, but he seems more than willing to learn and study the complexities of Kansas issues and then make decisions based on his constituents' needs and concerns.
Amison is offering his services and willingness to learn to the people of the 46th District. He deserves an opportunity to put his enthusiasm to work."
University Daily Kansan, Tuesday Oct. 28, 1980
Amison For Representative, Bill Halvorson, Treas. Paid Pol. Adv.
October 22, 1980 Sun Publications, Inc.
Vicious attacks distort Winn's strong record
In a Sept. 17 Memo, I charged Dan Watkins with running a low-road, deceiptive campaign against incumbent Attorney General Will and wrote that "he should be above this attractive military establishment who should be above this sort of deceptive, single-issue politics."
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by Stan Rose, Publisher
I should have known better. In the month since that column was written, Winn's opponent has been responsible for enough mudslading to convince me that he less Congressman from the 3rd District of Kansas.
My criticism of Watkins' tactics is shared by former Kansas Attorney General, Curt Schneider, who was Watkins' boss for about two years until 1976, when Watkins, a staff attorney, left to join the Carolin cam-
Watkins, who never held an elective office, has had the colossal gall to pass himself off as qualified to start at the top, wooing voters with some of the driest years in state in more than 30 years of newspaper publishing.
Schneider, a Democrat, who was defeated in his bid for re-election by Robert Stephan, is now in private practice in Topeka. He gave me this appraisal of Watkins by telephone Monday:
"I don't think he has the maturity to be a Congressman. Dan is a person who perceives himself as an idealistic young liberal. I know a lot of idealistic young liberals and I wouldn't put Dan in their class."
"The bottom line for *I'll be viciousness.*
"I don't like to bear the brunt of viciousness and I don't like to see anybody, regardless of party, be the object of such viciousness."
With the aid of one that hotshot, out-of-state advertising agencies that specializes in the moral equivalent of character assassination, Watkins has worked with an effort to discredit seven term Congressman, Winn.
Instead of challenging Winn's stand on issues or proposing a constructive platform of his own, Watkins has resorted to flooding area radio and TV stations with his goofoff. As Watkins tells it, Winn habitually missed roll calls and committee meetings, indulged in cushy, paid vacations to foreign lands, shirked his responsibility to the folks back home for three months by accruing commitment to the UN, and failed to initiate legislation
The facts about Winn's attendance record as furnished by a Congressional Quarterly study are that Winn has one of the better attendance records in Congress, averaging more than 90 percent. As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Science and Technology Committee, as well as three subcommittees, the record shows Winn's attendance averages between 75 and 80 percent.
What's amazing is that Winn's committee record is that high, considering that a recent government sponsored computerized study on Congressional reform showed the House and Senate held 11,000
conflicting committee, sub-committee and special meetings in a two-year period.
While Watkins, a Democrat, says in hindsight that he would have turned down a Carter appointment to the UN had he been in Congress, he would have been a rare exception. Distinguished Democrats who have served at the UN include Hubert Humphrey, John Koehler, Mike. I can imagine how much mileage a fellow Democrat has given up criticizing any of those men for accepting such an appointment!
Former Missouri Congressman Jeffrey Hilsenon, a resident of Johnson County, puts the Wattins' attacks in better first-hand perspective than I can. In an attack to the Sun dated October 14, Mr. Hilsenon writes:
"The bottom line for Dan is viciousness."
Curt Schneider
Former Kansas Attorney General
"Since Larry Winn is made of the Foreign Affairs Committee, he should have made every effort to serve as a delegate to the United Nations . The President picks only members from the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House. It was certainly in the national interest that Larry Winn served in this position in 1979. It
not only gave our United States government good representation and a good Midwest view, but also gave Winn great exposure to the United Nations so that he helped them determine its needs and problems in the coming years."
As for Watkins' accusations that Winn has somehow failed us by not directly introducing more legislation and getting it passed with his name on it, Hillelson points out: "Initiating bills and considering new legislation are primarily the work of the committee system in which he was involved. He has had a major influence on what comes before his committees. To say otherwise is a 'cheap shot' or lack of knowledge of how the Congress functions."
In a lengthy letter to Winn, which Winn forwarded to me at my request, Rep. Clement Zablacki (D-Wis), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said, "As a member of the Congress, particularly as a lawmaker in the House responsible for legislation dealing with foreign relations, foreign travel is not a right — it is a duty."
"I sincerely hope that the irresponsible charges leaved at you do not dim your enthusiasm and participation in our foreign affairs, problems at home and abroad."
This may help set the record straight on Larry Winn's qualifications as well as his opponent's lack of them. Winn is a responsive, dedicated and able Congressman who has served his constituents well. He learned the right to another term, and votes of the 3rd district should give him a resounding vote of confidence.
My statement of a month ago that Dan Watkins may yet have the markings of a (someday) U.S. Congressman is that "I'll vote to pass" the bill.
The Kansas City Times Tuesday, October 21, 1980
Larry Winn in the 3rd District
The race for the seat in the 3rd Congressional District in Kansas is one of the best in years. Larry Winn, the competent Republican incumbent, is challenged by an unusually attractive young Democrat, Dan Watkins, who is working hard and making an impact.
Yet for all his good qualities, Watkins is conducting a campaign that is unfair to Winn and wrong for the territory. Perhaps Watkins sees his best chance in a traditionally Republican district through a negative approach that almost seems to advocate a queer variety of isolationism.
Thus Winn is criticized for trips taken as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and absences in Congress because of his duties as a congressional delegate to the Unit.
ed Nations.
We doubt that the people of the 3rd District believe in a head-in-the-sand view of the world, tempting as that might be. Americans are aware that events in the most obscure corners of the globe can shake the economy and the lives of all of us. For an Eastern Kansas representative in Congress to have some expertise in those matters is all to the advantage of the nation, the state, and the 3rd Congressional District.
Larry Winn's performance as a representative of his constituency is difficult to fault. His role in the international affairs of the country is all to the good. We recommend his re-election.
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