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Wednesday, February 26, 1975
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Teachers fight time
It's 10 minutes after 10 in the morning. The teacher is coming to an important conclusion in his lecture. Most of the students busily write the only sounds they hear while scratching on paper and the teacher's voice.
Someone notices the time and closes his notebook with an audible slap. Somebody else learns from the floor, managing to drop one in the process
the noise of the book disconcertes the teacher. He almost loses his train of thought, but continues the lecture.
Most of the students follow the first student quickly, noticing the time and starting their preparations to leave class. The students shuffling feet, closing notebooks and picking up books and coats begin to add up.
A student in the back cranes his neck, trying to hear better. He shushes those around him, but few take heed.
Another student tries to ask a question but the noise level has become too high. The teacher breaks his lecture to ask for a little quiet.
The noise lessens a little, but preparations to leave continue. The class has become a crowd with a low murmur echoing around the room.
The teacher tries to struggle through the rest of his lecture. He notices he's lost the attention of more than half the class, who are clever and smart, and their books gathered up and are waiting illly for the class to officially end.
The noise increases again. The teacher's voice can't or won't battle the increasing din. In defeat he concedes he was almost finished anyway and he, too, puts his papers away.
The students rush out noisily. The teacher gathers his materials and
Five minutes later the whistle blows. Class is over.
—Tom Billam
It was hard to find anything wrong with last Saturday night. After all, any night KU beats K-State by 38 points has to be a
But there were a couple of incidents before the game that detracted from the atmosphere of the game. One of them was taken to court and sentenced to student diving for a Frisbee on the Field House court.
Frisbee fights mar game
Frisee-tossing, although entertaining at times, could be dangerous, especially when the basketball players are on the floor.
But surely there has to be a better way to control Frisbeethrowing than by chasing after them and engaging in fistfights with them.
THE OTHER INCIDENT involved the same usher and another student. The usher had confiscated a couple of Frisbees that had been thrown on the floor. The student, in a display of infantile exuberance, tried to kidnap the usher. The usher proceeded to hit the student and knee him in the groin.
Ushers, according to the dictionary, are persons who escort people to their seats in an
arena. But far too often ushers are absent when they're needed to resolve seating disputes, to be restrained, or to enforce the no smoking rule.
The program, "Attack on Terror," the FBI versus the Klan, a national conspiracy to displace the Klan, the kleagle said.
Ushers, if they're doing their jobs, shouldn't have time to be Frisbee policemen and sparring
The kleagle told reporters that "all kind of forces are trying to degrade the Klan and
By Craig Stock Associate Editor
partners, especially when there's a capacity crowd.
Pity the poor Ku Klux Klan. The hooded bigots are worried about their bad image. Their low-voltage cerebral powers don't seem to enable them to unleash violence by all Americans. And the Klansmen don't like a bad press.
we know that. This movie is part of that, just a bunch of lies. But you can't keep a good thing because you can't keep a good thing down."
The West Virginia state kleagle (whatever it is) says that CBS' recent dramatization of Klan activities in Mississippi in the mid-1960s was a "bunch of lies."
and integration, but we don't hate them. We believe colored people belong with their own kind."
A Florida chapter of the United Klan is conducting a study on how the Klan isn't such a nasty organization after all. But the words of the Klansman betray the success of their kind of patriotism.
A Grand Dragon of the
chapter said the Klan believes
that its leaders are better
society and we have ours. We
are still against intermarriage
It's obvious that the klansman belong with their own kind in their own place. But their robots hats might get singed there.
Buildings and Grounds employees at KU don't often get complements for their work, but they deserve thanks for their job of work and ice removal during the past few weeks.
The alternating freezing and melting spells, combined with layers of sleet, ice and snow, will be a tough task for sidewalks treacherous. But the B&G workers have kept sidewalks and streets scraped with salt and ice from steps to make locomotion safer. Thanks!
This may become the planet of the apes yet. An organization called the Free the Apes Movement, or the Ape Liberation Army, wants to take chimpanzees, gorillas and baboons out of cages to take over menial tasks for man.
THE SELF-PROCLAIMED founder of the movement, Gary Nasack, a sophomore at the
university of Wisconsin— Milwaukee, says there are many jobs apes can handle.
The Ape Liberation Army's 40 members think apes could be used in jobs from riot control to bertending.
Nosake admits he isn't an expert about apes... "I have never personally known an ape, but certainly would know it. I sure are sure there are jobs that could be better handled by the simians.
"WE STILL THINK there are many jobs, factory work for instance, that aps could perhaps be cheaply than humans," he said. "Think about riot control. Think about how a bunch of bunch of people would feel if they saw 10 gorillas coming at them."
I THINK NOSACEK'S idea has a lot of merit. Apes can certainly find places on college campuses and in the army. The Army could use them to gorilla warfare. Indeed, it is rumored that apes already hold important positions in government advisers to President Ford.
And—I'll say it before you can--there's always a spot for an ape to write a column.
Readers respond
To the Editor:
The University of Kansas has long been noted for its standards of excellence in many fields, including athletic programs. Each sport has its own assets and each holds a certain prestigious position in the minds of students, alumni and other sports fans. It is only natural that the sports holding the greatest prestige, namely football and basketball, should receive the most funding publicly. However, the other sports shouldn't be ignored.
Ticket achievements deserve recognition
THIS YEAR'S KU track team is one of the strongest in recent years, yet, the amount of publicity it has received from the Kansas hasn't been at all adequate in regard to the excellence of the team. It is disheartening enough to perform in home track meets with rows of vacant seats everywhere; but when the actions of the team participants are the same at the school newspaper, the feeling of nonsatisfaction is compounded greatly. So far this year, at least one Allen Field House record has been broken by at least one KK team member, as the teammates its opponents every meet.
THE FINAL STRAW, which prompted this letter, was the specific lack of publicity of the team, namely the United States Track and Field Federation national championship, meet at Oklahoma City (u-9), the U.S. State-Wichita State-Ku triangular meet at Allen Field House. The USTF meet, in which more than 30 teams participated, was won by KU, the triangular meet held last Wednesday.
Mediterranean unrest a threat
TO UNDERSTAND HOW rapidly the situation has deteriorated, it is necessary to look back only two or three years. Then the Mideast, at least, and Greece was outwardly stable under the heavy hand of the colonels. Turkey's major grievance concerned cutbacks in the opium harvest, Italy, and Spain, but no serious problems. The oil-producing Arab states had not flexed their muscles. Far to the south, nothing especially ominous could be seen in Egypt, Rhodesia, and South Africa. THE NATO alliance was more or less secure.
By JAMES KILPATRICK
In recent months, those who follow foreign affairs have been pretty well absorbed with the Mediterranean East—with Israel and North Africa—and with Greece and Cyprus. The news is as sobering from the Mediterranean West. With skillful diplomacy and with luck it will be possible for everything goes sour we are in for a very bad time.
IT IS ASTONISHING to reflect on the rush of events. In the Mideast, these few years have seen war, an oil embarger, and a bombing campaign quadrupled. In Greece, revolution. On Cyprus, a Turkish invasion. In Portugal, a revolution. Two years ago, the Algerian, the Southwest Africa, and the Mozambique are in friendly hands. The southern Atlantic and the Indian Ocean are not so hospitable now. Our Sixth Fleet will trail it all in darkly troubles water.
The trend of events in Portugal cannot be ignored. I was last in Lisbon in November and it was apparent then, even to this inexpert eye, that the Communists were mounted on the back of other parties, drunk on the heady wine of political freedom, were flapping their newfound wings. The Communists, cold sob,
were moving with disciplined skill.
THE PICTURE HAS grown steadily more ominous. Under the shrewd leadership of Alvaro Cunhal the Communists have tightened their hold on Peña Norte and on Portales, in 12, several hundred thousand workers bearing Communist banners staged a massive rally for "unicidade." Two days later, the governing military council yielded without a fight to oppose the purposes, despite some subsequent concessions, the Communists have won a single central trade union. On Jan. 25, in Oporto, the Communists again showed their strength; after defeating Palacía de Cristal of the Social Democratic Center. The army looked the other way.
PORTUGAL IS SMALL, but it is strategically mighty. If the Communists succeed it will be better. Portugal loses NATO's losses its western garrison and the United States is denied its base in the Azores. Already the Portuguese press, dominated by Communist media, anti-American opinion. The April elections (assuming they come off as scheduled) may not indicate Communist power at home, but the power is there, rich, financed, cunningly wielded.
Three months ago in Spain, one found many indications of Communist activity. Here, too, the unrest grows at Generalitat and power. Communist infiltration of the trade unions is widely reported. Our air and naval base agreements with Spain expire in September. How will they be repaired at all?
Italy's economic despair adds to the gathering gloom. With inflation raging at 25 per cent and the civil service more chaotic than ever, Italy heads to a worst-case scenario for the certain prospect of Communist gains. If one looks toward the southeast, one sees
little but the ionan, the Aegean, and the Anti-American Seas. By cutting off aid to Turkey, a blundering Congress has wasted $4 billion without winning the Greeks. A Cyprus solution has been made
have him. Please check to the Dardanelles and back around from Syria to Morocco. He finds nothing but trouble.
Perhaps these are among the conditions that prompted
Kissinger's recent appeal for bipartisan support and understanding on Capitol Hill. If ever wise heads were needed in foreign affairs, wise heads are needed now.
[C] 1975 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
'IN THE TRADE WE CALL IT WINGING IT'
THE KANSAN CHOSE not to report either of these meets in detail, only stating that KU won the USTF meet and that the triangular meet referred to there would be the following day.
In the future, we hope that more attention will be given to basketball's success in the track team and other non-revenue sports even though their prestigious position isn't as dominant as that of football and basketball.
It is the duty of the athletic teams to strive for excellence on the athletic fields and it is the duty of the University Daily report these performances. Bill Martin Mazon, Ill., Sophomore George Mason Clarksville, Ark., Sophomore Los Angeles, Sophomore Bill Andrews Glen Ellyn, Ill., Sophomore
Watkins
To the Editor:
Last Saturday evening (Feb.
22), after a three-car accident
on Iowa, I was taken to Watkins
Hill Hospital, back, back,
shoulder and neck pains.
So many times when Watkins is mentioned, students immediately think of hours spent waiting to see a doctor, thermometers nurses and tests for anything and everything.
Well, this is one student whose experience with the Watkins staff members impels her to express her gratitude publicly (or the efficiency, kindness and dignity embodied in their treatment of me.
With so many caring and competent people on this student health services staff, I feel that KU is indeed lucky.
Cathy Johnson
Cathy Johnson Independence Kan Junior
As Catholics from birth, we have suffered 18 years of indoctrination. Forced to chant God knows what in a strange language, to eat crackers and drink wine in the early morning, to teach us syllogisms, to syllogisms, we barely escaped with our minds intact.
To the Editor
Catbolicism
Because of James K. Murray's letter in the Feb. 20 Kansan, we feel compelled to make this confitfee.
As Murray implies, the Church is a mighty financial institution. The beatified bookkeepers in the bowels of the Vatican, however, would have everyone believe differently. Accounts are tied up in property and buildings that make up the churches, schools and monasteries.
THEY ASSERT FURTHER that the pastor of St. Gervase's parish in Podkun, R.I., could no more get his hands on those assets than America's poor could get their hands on the world's largest GNP. Bunk. Quite obviously. Father Theobold could sell his school to support his school.
World domination is indeed the goal of Christianity and especially of the Roman Catholic Church. The first step in this process is to document its toes in their knees by overpopulating them, by denouncing artificial birth control and abortion and by its moral taboo against it. In the West falls the others will follow by the domino theory.
MURRAY SHOULDN'T assume that the inquiries ended years ago. Even today, the Church rewards its faithful with canonization and punishes its dissenters by eliminating them without work account for hundreds of relics of the same saint in churches around the world?
WE BEG ALL enlightened persons to make the sacrifices necessary to liberate Catholic Christians; Save them from "canalized" thought and ecclesiastical imperialism. Teach them the gospel of the true Trinity—John B. Skinner and Russell and B. F.Skimmer.
As Saint Paul wrote, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." Purdue University Purdue Kevin Fogarty
Kevin Fogarty
Kansas City, Kan., Freshmen
San Pedro
To the Editor:
We're writing because we too wish that contributing writer Stephen Buser was back with the villages of San Pedro and not spending the winter with us and the Kansan editorial page.
Joel Green
Lawrence Senior
Charles S. Harris
Lawrence Junior
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