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Friday, October 11, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
Rv Photographer JAN SEYMOUR
L. A. Flash Exhibit at the Museum of Art. Continues through Oct. 30
Unconditional amnesty needed
By JACK McNEELY Contributing Writer
Vietnam war resisters have greeted President Gerald R. Ford's offer of amnesty with either yawns of uninterest or cries of outrage. The yawns come from those who have built new lives in exile and won't return to America under any circumstances. The cries come from those who want to return but refuse to live a life.
"The question is, who is responsible for the abrogations of the Vietnam war? Well, we aren't the war criminals. We were right, and therefore there can't be any penalty for us as in Ford's proposal."
"Who should seek amnesty, we or the people who ordered secret Cambodia intelligence from the Phoenix program and the Vintages program."
Those comments come by way of the Associated Press from war resisters living in Sweden. They are typical of news reports on the state of war.
Ford's amnesty is no anomaly at all. It is an offer for mutual backscraping. It is a kind of plea, bargaining. Ford
is saying to the exiles, "We'll let you come home if you'll assuage the pangs of our conscience by pleading guilt. C'mon, fellers, tell us we were right in fighting the Vietnam war."
But Ford is dealing with a curious breed of man. He is dealing with men who put their convictions above all else. Such men aren't likely to compromise. They already have made one difficult choice based on their convictions. Now Ford asks them to make another. The question is, will their desire to come home outweigh their convictions?
All indications are that it won't. Resistance groups overseas and in Canada are organizing a boycott of Ford's ammeny. There has been no rush to be first in line at draft boards.
The exiles won't come home until the United States admits its guilt for the war by declaring unconditional amnesty. Until it does the nation must look at the specter of its exiles, point no unrelentlessly at the blood on our hands.
Jack McNeely Contributing Writer
BY STEVE LEWIS Contributing Writer
Famous fan advises Vince
For the University of Kansas Jayhawks, the football contest this weekend against Kansas State is a welcome breather. Consequently, the outlook for the State-Wildcats isn't bright.
But what is this? That ineffable coach of the Purple Pride, Vince Gibson, is taking advice
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"Is this Vince Gibson?"
"Yeah."
"You probably won't remember me Vince, but I'm Dickixon. You know, I'm the kid who bought Ferry Ford what he is today."
from a notorious K-State fan! Let's listen in on their telephone conversation.
"Dick, why of course I remember ya. Ya picka chure right here on my wall. It's right
"I'm flattered, Vince."
"You haven't heard?"
"Say, Dick, why's ya taking time out of yer busy White House schedule just to talk to me?"
between Bear Bryant and Lynn Dickey. You has on a purple tie."
"Why shore I heard, Mr. President. Everyone round here tells me yiel economy redress was real good, Sorry I didn't getta hear it first hand, but I was out workin with da boys."
"Whatever you say, Vince.
Anyway, I called to give you a plan for winning Saturday's game against Kansas."
"Why that's real homely of you, Dick. I could shore use some help. Those Jayhawks, they has anotherowerhouse."
"I know, polis this week. I read the poll this week. Your game against the Jayhawks was be about as evenly matched as was the police media I sympathize with you, Vince, and I want to help."
"I shore is glad to hear you're
"I think the fans want from you what they wanted from me."
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"Impeachment or resignation."
"I don't understand, Dick. I ain't done nothin. I ain't responsible for what my players ain't never told 'em to lose."
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"Dick, I can't believe what ya just said! Why it would be wrong! Do ya really think it'll work?"
"I'll do it. Golly, Dick, KU is shore gonna be the Big Blue this weekend!"
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"What you need to do, Vince is get a whole bunch of manure and spread it all throughout the football stadium. Spread it on yourself, all over the team, pass some out to the fans. In other words, spread it like Purple Power. Spread it the most smell like a feedlot. Believe it. Jayhawks won't be able to walk straight, let alone run the football."
"I'm all ears."
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"Fine, Vince. Gotta go now.
Pat's calling me to dinner.
Chow!"
By ERIC MEYER
Do it with a little style
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whistle and making the power station manager very angry (he said the whistle chain was government property), the students marched on the ROTC building.
They asked the Navy ROTC commander to dismiss classes, but he told them his men needed the "valuable training."
And, of course, there are always the purple dyes in KU fountains, the changing of "KS" on a Manhattan hillside to the stealing of the widest Wildecote at the statue "Uncle Jumpy" Green, in front of the KU School of Law, a brilliant shade of purple.
These minor pranks happen practically every year. Yet they shouldn't be allowed to interfere with the game.
I saw a farmer football team
Step out upon parade;
They faced the guns of Kansas
Where the whole darn battery
played;
They fell like wheat, they came not back;
At night a dirige was played,
For there were no agriculturalists
Rivalry is fine, but the two universities never should be considered rivals academically. They have different roles, different missions. And that's why we want universities to have valuable roles in society. And both should keep their respective missions.
-KU Weekly, 1902
Attached to our brigade
That's the way a University of Kansas editorial writer viewed the first football game between KU and Kansas State University, played Oct. 7, 1902, in Lawrence.
KU won the game 16-0 and now holds a 48-19-4 lead in the series. Yet, despite the seeming onesidedness of the series, the KU-K-State rivalry continues to be one of the fiercest and most closely watched rivalries in the nation.
And, from the very beginning pranks of all sorts—ridiculous and serious—have accomplished the KU-K1E game.
Most of the pranks have been harmless. Some have resulted
only in slight damage to buildings and other property. But there also have been some potentially dangerous incidents, like the pelting of the KU band and fans at Manhattan two years ago.
But as long as KU and K-State continue to support their respective roles and missions, the team is well prepared and "Silo Tech" will continue.
The rivalry between the two schools first climaxed in 1929. Raids between the schools began more than a week before the game. Eighteen KU players caught in Manhattan were gifted scrimmats and forced to entertain K-State students at a pep rally.
三是 really got out of hand that same year when five KU students were jailed by the Manhattan sheriff after two of State's prize cows were found in KU. "Shu" added on their sides.
"Their appearance—" an irate K-State official was quoted as saying, "sleek and fattened to thrill thousands of farm observers at the American Royal—was ruined."
KU's day also was ruined; it lost the game 6-0.
in 1930, and on several other occasions thereafter, the children were repeatedly prohibiting pranks of any kind. But, eight years later, after KU
After the war, fans once again turned to football. KU blanked the Wildcats 27-0 in KU's first postwar homecoming game in 1945. The following Monday, a jubilant KU student body ran into the office of KU. But the student council turned down the plan. So about 2,000 unhappy students decided to strike.
upset K-State 27-7, Jayhawna rinsed fined the goalposts from one end of the field and a "fist-swinging mellee" developed when they tried to get the other goalposts.
The rivalry died down somewhat during World War II. In 1942, KU won 19-7 before a crowd of only 7,000. The 1943 match was the last of Big celler, was won by KU 25-2 with only 3,000 in touch.
The students marched to the chancellor's office, where they met with his secretary. Finally, the chancellor appeared and told the students a strike would indicate that the student government system was a total failure.
Still not satisfied, the students marched to the University power station to blow the whistle that indicated the end of each class period. After breaking the chain on the
And that's what it should be a friendly rivalry.
"Hey, wreck Silo Tech."
Do it with a doughnut
Managing Editor Kansas State Collegian
By DAVID CHARTRAND
It has to happen.
I was making my afternoon coffee run to the Union. The lady at the doughnut counter asked the inevitable.
"Who's gonna win?"
"Ma'am?"
"Saturday. You know, the football game. We're gonna beat those Jayhawks, ain't we?"
Ob. for crying out loud.
My hair was sticking straight out; there were sleep marks on my face and I hadn't shaved in three days. I passed little
"I'm crying out of
my days, going bad
enough. I awoke five minutes
before my first class and had to
go to the gym," she said in
cold laffers and no socks.
"Are we gonna beat KU?"
children on the sidewalk who took one look at me, dropped their lurch pails and ran down the street crying.
Hell, I didn't even know whether I was going to live until lunch time and this doughnut had to come out. We are going to be KU and I are going to be KU.
“What, ‘ma’am?” I queried.
“What? Have you and I been
named to the kickoff team or
teammate? Have you give me my
doughnut, huh?”
And being a doughnut lady,
she doesn't have to worry about
starting a fight if she asks you
who you're supporting for governor. She doesn't ask.
But it wasn't her fault. She's just a doughnut lady. She has to talk about something while she's standing there helping you between the glazed twists and the cinnamon-with-raisins.
She doesn't have to feel guilty about selling doughnuts instead of leading some panel discussion on overpopulation or U.S. militarism in Indochina or economic stagflation.
That woman can get away with just saying, "Are we gonna beat KU?" For that she gets a kick in everyone like her doughnuts.
So it just depressed me. For years now I have considered football and basketball games a waste of time and effort. It just seemed I ought to be solving the world's problems instead of flushing my system with peanuts and punt returns.
to come here tomorrow. to town and make everyone—including myself—expung the emotional mess that they live for one day, then I'll be the wimpy tween们 in them.
Then this doughnut lady walks into my life. In an instant, it's clear how just importance it is for the University of Kansas
If just for one day, nothing matters—not Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon or Watergate; then I say let's tear up the town. There's a few scars from the game two years ago.)
If all this tension of caustics and cries that so often ruin the day can be relaxed—albeit only in the worst cases, it beats an overdose of Exxedrin.
We're ready for you,
Jayhawks. Please, please hurry up.
And if the trip in makes you hungry, I know a lady who makes a pretty mean doughnut.
Lennon's fate in limbo
By GERALD EWING Contributing Editor
John Lennon's future as a resident of the United States is currently in a state of limbo, thanks to the U.S. government.
But if the Board of Immigration Appeals has anything
"Why the hell are we even here!"
By Kansas Photographer DEBRIE GUMP
Possession of marijuana is on a list of illegaluses used by the Immigration Board to screen immigrants. The president of the United States,
The Board of Immigration Appeals ordered Lennon to voluntarily leave the United States by Sept. 8, 1973, or be prosecuted case currently before the Court of Appeals in New York.
to say about it, Lennon won't be in this country much longer. In it he will be expelled for reasons that will be quite petty and luffedbound.
The reason the federal government gives for his "undesirability" is that he was convicted of marijuana possession in Great Britain in 1968.
It seems the real reason for deporting Lennon dates back to 1972 and is founded on his political beliefs and actions.
Further, his conviction is considered void in Britain because the policeman who arrested him there is currently in prison for planting drugs on people and then arresting them.
Columnist Jack Anderson reported in early February 1972 that Sen. Strom Thurman, a former Army General John Mitchell informing him that Lennon was planning a massive peace conference in 1972 Republican Convention, then planned for San Diego.
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Lennon's plight is just another in a series of moves taken by the Nixon administration to suppress political thoughts and actions contrary to their own.
It is too much of a coincidence that one week after the Thur-
day's migration problems began. On Feb. 29, 1974, the Immigration Service declared Lennon an enemy and ordered him to get out.
And considering that possession of marjuana is a crime, you should be convicted of the petestive crime should be kicked out, including all of the people involved in the death and Richard Nixon himself.
If the government adheres to the theory that criminals are an undesirable element of America then a massive purge should come forthwith, reminiscent of Stalin.
The Chicago Seven and the Gainesville Eight are other examples of the Nixon admissions's attempts at political suppression.
The case is now in the hands of the Justice Department, which will review several more years, because, as we all know, the Justice Department won't admit even in the pettest case.
So the persecution of Lennon will continue regardless of his wrongdoing. What is disheartening is that Lennon is needed in this country, both for the political reasons and for the political views he promotes. We should feel privileged to have him want to live here.
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