4 Wednesday. December 4, 1974 University Daily Kansan THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OPINION MAU DIN 1914 Chicago Sun-Times "EVERYBODY NEEDS A POWER BASE..." Rockefeller is supported in attack of far-right group There are times when a columnist sincerely regrets having written the truth. What pains me now is a vicious publication put out by the press that specializes in organization that specializes in scurrilous attacks on anybody with a mentality more human than Marie Jonette's. I confess I am pained that conscience compelled me a month ago to write that vice presidential nominee Nelson Rockefeller never were innocent generosity but glaringasures of his wealth. That somebody at Liberty Lobby would mail me free this sinister diatribe, for which they milk the average sucker 50 cups, suggests that the Liberty Lobbies think I will use their demagoguery to further torpedo the Rockefeller nomination. Well, I'm just old-fashioned enough to think you still can judge a man partly by the enemies he mames despite his own strength. Rockefeller's family have made in beclooding the integrity of some public officials and financing a book that besmirched the reputation of an opponent, it went on to be lent to the demagoguery of the Liberty Lobby and people of similar ilk. Although it has recommended several needed changes, the special committee appointed to study the University of Kansas Athletic Correspondence (UC) has shunned most of its responsibilities. KUAC group shuns its duties In its report, released a week before The committee was content to discuss a few minor committee matters. details. However, of the recommendations, most of which dealt with the composition and operation of the KUAC Board, three are noteworthy. The committee recommended that the director of women's intercollegiate athletics and the chairman of the Student Senate Sports Com- KANSAN editorial Letters Policy Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must provide their name, year in school and home town; faculty and staff must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and address. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper All-American college newswire Kansas Telephone Numbers Newsroom—UN-4-818 U.S. POST OFFICE 4-4-818 Publicized at the University of Kansas weekdays and on academic year except holidays and exam- ination Lawrences, KA, 60415. 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Editor Editor Eric Meyers Eric Meyer Associate Editor Jeffrey Stinson Conv Chiefs Campus Edito Jill Willis Copy Critters Carol Gwinn and Bunny Miller Associate Campus Editor Criog Stock Assistant Campus Editor Derrick Elworthy Assistant Campus Editor Alan Ansel Chief Photographer Debbie Gump Editor Jim Edler Makeup Editors Jim Kendall, Sports Editor Mark Mitchell and Associate Sports Editor Mark Zegwang Associate Campus Editor Jim Sheldon Business Manager the lunatic right have convinced me that, despite Rockefeller's aid of the AAF at Goldberg and book, and Rockefeller's gifts that seemed to be transparent efforts to buy them, they have been confirmed by the Congress. Sales Manager Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager Alain Battier Diane Brown Classified Manager Gall Johnson National Advertising Manager Debbie Arboree Assistant Classified Manager Steve Brownbock Promotions Director Terry Kaka Marketing Manager Kathleen This country can't afford even to appear to knuckle under to the harangues of political leaders of a man who, whatever his mistakes, has set a pretty laudable example of devotion to public service and of patriotism use of great wealth. Business Adviser Mel Adams mittee become ex-officio members of the KUAC Board. This change would reflect the growing importance of women's athletics at KU and the Student Senate's increased concern about funding of intercollegiate athletics. The committee also recommended combining KUAC's standing committees into a single Finance and Budget Committee that would supervise the construction of the budget and be responsible for the submission of the budget to the board. This change would be important. But the board must be willing to take greater control of its budget than continue to be spoon fed KUAC's annual multimillion dollar budget by the athletic director The recommendation that may have the greatest impact is the one urging the opening of athletic board meetings to the press and public. KU students and faculty finally may be able to know how decisions are reached on such controversial subjects as ticket prices. The committee failed in its first and most important charge, which was to identify areas of the relationship between the University and the athletic corporation that need to be redefined. The committee dismissed the concern of many players because the role of the athletic corporation in the University is disturbingly unclear. It attributes any concern about this relationship to "ignorance." The report concludes that because Big Eight Conference and National Collegiate Athletic Association rules state that the athletic corporation shall be under University control, it must necessarily be so. Charles Oldfather, former University attorney and chairman of the committee, should have known the difference between "de facto" and "de jure" control. The athletic corporation remains under the control of the athletic director in fact, no matter what the law may say. The committee should have recognized this and suggested some remedy. Another recommendation of the committee would require students to appoint one woman and one minority member among their representatives on the board. The faculty would be required to include two women and one minority member among their six representatives. Each argument about the merits of this affirmative action program should aside, the question remains about why several of the alumni representatives shouldn't also be women or minorities. The report states that this quota system wasn't extended to alumni because of the "tradition of allowing the Alumni board to determine its policies in that regard." Past experience indicates that tradition isn't to select women and minorities as alumni representatives. If such quotas are necessary to ensure representation of groups formerly discriminated against, the policy should especially apply to the selection of alumni members of the board. As an editorial on this page last September predicted, the KUAC study committee failed to live up to its potential. The members of the committee should be commended for their efforts, but it was not got carried away with athletic rah-rah rhetoric that obscured a frank discussion of the issues —Richard Paxson Contributing Writer You get an idea of who's most desperate to stop Rockefeller when you look at an editorial in a magazine. You also carry the headline, "Rocky's and international communism. "Both seek to destroy the in- classroom. The class is no room under the wall." Supercapitalism for the free Congress would be wise to end quickly these efforts to poison water in the Hudson River stream. It must make a decision or Rockefeller immediately. This venomous publication specializes in using poisonous questions, reprinting an article that begins with the caption "Bloody Oil," and asks: "Did Nelson A. Rockefeller make a rocket for China?" North Korea and North Vietnam that fueled the Communist war machines that killed over 100,000 American G.I.s?" war Against the Middle Class. Why Does Rocky Support the Commissions?'' Other bold headlines say "Rockfeller—Red Trader," "Rockefellers" & "Financed Rocky." And "Rocky's Coverup for Hiss." Rocky Policies"—a story designed to illustrate how "the average working man in New York fared badly under the wildly spendthrift administration of Rockefeller." These poison-pen artists of laborer or for the free-enterprise small businessman." The editorial says, "There is no difference whatsoever between international, monopolistic supercapitalism Liberty-Lobby smear artists wouldn't give a working man the sweat off a billard ball, but they did. "Working Men Declare"working Men Declare Readers respond To the editor: Regarding Evie Rapport's recent editorial, "Mental illness out of shadows," I know Rapport had the best of intentions when she wrote it. However, she is grievously misinformed and the community she belongs to the community a disservice by printing only one side. "Mental illness" is a label put on any behavior or belief that deviates too far from society's norms. On the label "mentally ill" it applies to a person, who is taken to require to be killed seriously. It follows that the label "mental illness" and the concept for which it stands can be useful tools for the validation and preservation of the status quo. Psychiatrists will tell you this isn't so, but they aren't in position to judge impartially. Their very existence depends on acceptance of the term "mental illness." If mental illness were accepted concept, psychiatrists would be out of a job. most psychiatrists make quite a bit of money. They have a lot to lose if the status quo is disturbed. I don't claim that all (or even many) psychiatrists are concerned with investment; I do have a large investment in the status quo and thus are motivated to believe in it. "What will happen to you when you will be your heart." I submit that most mental states that are now labeled "mental illness" are simply not "mental illness". Further, another submit that society doesn't have the right to force any view of reality on anyone. The very suggestion much more often is used by therapists already know this very well.) Virtually any action fits the reality-view of the doer. If that action is taken, it occurs on a society, that action may be considered insecure by that society. Consider, for instance, the "paranoid" child; if he is the class scapegoat, then his paranoia is totally justified! I don't suggest that many people don't experience real suffering as a result of their unorthodox reality-views. I don't believe that this suffering seldom is alleviated in mental hospitals. Rapport's claim to the contrary, many mental hospitals that have no special dirty, unkempt and hideous" Beating of inmates by staff is common. In one of the hospitals listed above, inmates have been used on inmates. Kansas doesn't have "much to be proud of in its mental health program." The main result of this program has been that it is less likely that approved reality-view on those who would dare to deviate. Mental health professionals should dare to break out of this authoritarian role. To do this, they should help their patients understand the lives and realities, rather than enforcing societal norms. Valerie Voigt Birmingham, Ala., senior Requirements To the Editor: Those who have ventured opinions on the revision of the language requirement have become accustomed to no one in American education now appreciates how extreme we have become in our educational practices. One might develop more fruitful language requirements in the following considerations. The shortest duration of any foreign language program in Germany is that of the four most prestigious high schools in Kansas in a recent year, 108 offered German, but seven had a four-year program. Of 18,254 pupils enrolled in Spanish, 11,250 were freshmen, 5,485 were sophomores, 1,227 juniors and 289 seniors. The seniors were by no means all enrolled in Spanish Nor is it correct to assume that the American approach revealed in these statistics affects foreign language alone. The same findings will be encountered in history, physics, chemistry, biology, even in Europe. When a typical high school student comes to the University of Kansas, he has taken a seventh grade Kansas history course, an American history course and a year of world history. However, a typical European, whether bound for college or not, covers recorded events in many countries present in three two-year courses. Worthy of notice are the elitist year programs, nine-year programs, conclusion of the last years with readings in Westminster and Westminster civilization program. In order to be sequential, courses in English must begin with composition and grammar and require that students write a theme at regular intervals so they can improve their good writing improve. Our approach to all subjects in America is comparable to a system in which coaches and high school boys devote the freshman year to football, the junior year to basketball, the junior year to track and the senior year to Ping-Pong. We are the eternal beginners. Now you wish to do away with the foreign language resource here. In my opinion, we have it here. It out point that our students have been trained to scorn long-term intellectual pursuits of children. Foreign language, as the worst offender, obviously can't be appreciated or approached by American students. They shouldn't be made to suffer from the comprehensive high school's attempt to produce scatterbrains. You can thus conclude that we should reduce our present language requirement from two years to one. Why be so foolish as to hope for acceptance of the view that long term endeavors to master a subject, even as pleasures, are superior to fun? Why, one would have to know a lot more than just something about the attitudes of the rest of the world even to think about the matter. The first step is further reduction of the language requirement, and to insight without detail. We can then learn to imitate history, math, lab science and other requirements later. James D. Bono James D. Bola Lancaster graduate student Devil story The members of the Stull Extension Homemakers Unit protest the writing of an article about a woman haunted by the devil. Our people who were born and raised at Stull have never heard of such a legend. We think an article of interest is the vandalism in the cemetery. To the editor: Catherine Nichols Catherine Nichols President of Stull E.H.U. Correction The Kansan inadvertently placed "sic" after the word "illogicalism" in a letter from Carol D. Worb publish Nov. 1976 that he have appeared only after "hapismism" in Worst's letter.