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Wednesdav. October 2.1974
University Daily Kansan
OPINION
President is like a king
Bv GLENN MEYER
BY GLEEN MEEK
President Ford's
President Richard Nixon has added power to an office that is already too powerful.
City Star, compares the president to the monarchs who ruled England before Oliver Cromwell deposed Charles I
Brian Dunning, a special correspondent to the Kansas
about 300 years ago. He argues that they have much in common.
He says that the president has been almost defiled in the eyes of many Americans, as were the English monarchs in the eyes of the English people. The president has many nonelected advisers, just as the English monarch has nonelected advisers. He dispenses and positions, as did the English monarch. He, like the English monarch, is commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
These are not unfair comparisons, especially in light of Nixon's term in office. Nixon was re-elected on a campaign platform whose strongest features were "George and I" am '11 am the President."
Before Watergate there were many who believed that Nixon was above reproach. There are more people who believe that Nixon was railroaded by the press. When Nixon resigned, even Dan Rather, Nixon's nemesis, was shaken. Even he could tell what the real fact that the selection of
presidents had failed, that a president could actually be deposed.
H. R. Halidman, John Ehrlichman, John Dean and Charles Colson are examples of presidential aides who wielded a great deal of power under the president's authority and often disagreed with his judgements. They were, unfortunately, responsible only to him.
The president's power to appoint cabinet members, ambassadors, Supreme Court judges and other challengers challenged by Congress.
All athletes need equal chance
Relief is in sight for students at the University of Kansas. No longer need they concern themselves with such boring matters as exigency, Student Senate elections, football ticket costs or whether the University Daily Kansan editor should be impeached.
For KU students now have a good, meaty,
controversial issue to discuss. That issue is Title
Title IX is a document issued last summer by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In part, it includes proposed federal regulations that would prohibit sex discrimination in college athletics. More specifically, it would withhold federal funds from colleges not complying with the regulations.
In intent, Title IX supposedly has far-reaching consequences. Some have said it will be the ruin of college athletics. At best, it will bring about more minor sports such as tennis and golf, others say.
I can't understand all this furor about Title IX. Its name alone is enough to send some men into hystericism. Many react the same way as the football player in the comic strip "Doonesbury," who says, "Women should play football only when it has been conclusively shown that hell has frozen over." Others less literate merely grish their teeth in utter desperation.
Maybe it's a simple case of states' rights. The federal government seems to be trying to control us in the same way it controlled busing and affording education, red-blooded American male will stand for that.
The problem however, could be deeper than that. Perhaps the men realize that women also could be good athletes and thus take away some of the male glory.
The only serious problem with Title IX is that it is a little hasty in intent. It's like many affirmative action guidelines that require that positions be filled by minority group members when, in fact, the minority members aren't as well qualified, or, in fact, available.
And that is the problem with Title IX. It makes provisions for women athletes who just don't seem to be around. Women's sports draw notoriously small audiences at colleges.
But don't believe for a minute that women don't want a big college athletic program. Not all women would participate, for sure. I can hardly serve a tennis ball or dribble a ball down a court, and I'll probably do to do that and could, I'd want her to have as many incentives and opportunities as a man.
There are plenty of girls in junior high and high schools who take part in athletic programs that are on a par with the boys' programs. At many of these schools the girls' programs have proved to be as popular as the boys'—both for participants and spectators.
Therefore, boys, beware. Despite your protests some women have already taken over many of your rights. Some work on conspiracy novels for their employers. Others have become engineers or architects.
And, much to your surprise, they may come into their own in college sports. Despite their 'weaker, inferior bodies' and "fraler minds," we would may prove to be interesting and exciting players.
And what's more, men might even find women interesting to watch. They never complain about watching women at the beach or in a bar. Why not on a football field or basketball court?
-Kathy Pickett
Slurs against women attacked
Two fraternity men wearing jock shorts and no shirts walked by Robinson field Thursday, where a women's inter-Collegiate field hockey game was held. They made three comments that Lowerbard;
"Well, it's a very nice sport but it will never make any money. . . That's the most graceless sport I've ever seen. . . How can they wear skirts?"
I would like to answer those questions because I thought they were so ridiculous. Sadly, there are far too many men on this campus who have no experience of having to resent the successes of women.
‘It’ll never make money. . . ’ : Huh! Give it a chance. Give it a little more money. Give it a better setting. And keep in mind that we are international, man woman era in American sports.
“Graceless sport.” You are making the heinous mistake of putting women into the female role and thinking that if they are in sports, they should be in graceful sports. Your coach can make me want to cuss. And I am. Sports are my friends, and competition is the key.
Naismith had an easy time getting basketball started years ago—with men; or whether, economically speaking, football was a breeze from the day it was started. No, hockey isn't a new sport by any means. But economically, it can be.
"How can they wear skirts?'" My only answer to that question is that it is a matter of tradition. It is merely one of the niceties of the game. And, in case you were wondering, they do wear "shorts" underneath the skirts, so if they fall, and they do, they won't be embarrassed for long.
Then ask yourself whether you think Mr.
The president's powers as commander-in-chief of the armed forces are overwhelming and have little authority monarch, can send troops into war without anyone's approval. The recent news of the CIA's activities in Chile shows that the president and his sides can even be involved in governments without anyone's approval. Either of these activities could draw the United States into a war, yet such action is insufficient at least, the sole responsibility of the president.
-By C. S. Groom
Some might argue that an important distinction between the presidents and the powerful English kings is that the king inherited the throne without popular approval, but the crown is chosen by the people. Such a distinction is purely accurate.
Few English kings inherited their thrones. The deposition of several English kings by the opposition of Parliament set by King Henry II between English families to control the throne, made certain that orderly succession was never possible. Orderly succession because the English throne is powerless, not worth haggling over.
The president isn't really chosen by the people. President Ford certainly wasn't the people's choice. He was appointed by a predecessor who was forced to resign. When the president is elected, the president's people are Presidents are chosen by a party system that is beyond the influence of most voters. McGovern wasn't the choice of even a small part of the American people. He wasn't really the choice of Democratic voters. Nixon was reelected by nearly all alternative to McGovern, not because he was the choice of the American people.
The choice of a party's presidential candidate often is a kind of succession. Four vice presidents since 1944—Truman, Johnson, Presley—have become their parties' choices for president. It seems likely that the same thing will happen with Ford. The Republican party is hardly more responsible to the American people than the House of Lancaster and the House of York, who vied for the English throne in the 19th century, were to the English people.
There was some hope that Nixon's resignation resolution would stop or even reverse the trend by increasing presidential responsibility. The idea of Nixon destroys that hope. It confirms the idea that the president is above the law. It destroys forever the conspiracy. Americans receive equal treatment under the law. Worst of all, it increases the likelihood that some future president will take over Nixon's name, accountable either to a powerful few or to only himself.
MY FELLOW AMERICANS, AS YOUR NEW PRESIDENT I AM INDEBTED TO NO MAN...'
300-pound comedienne giant barrel of bad taste
Reporter
She was billed as "the funniest, most lovable 300 pounds of pure sex that you've ever seen." That quote is from an a, proclaiming that Miss Tiy Brooks was appearing at the Lawrence Chase Center. Lawrence private watering hole.
I can't really blame Madison Avenue for the buildup given Miss Tiny. Mad Avenue has
people's intellects. The billing for Miss Tiny offends people's sensibilities.
been known to come up with atrocious lines now and then, e.g., Winston tastes good like a cigarette mustache; U see Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch
Miss Tiny is labeled a comedie in the ads. If your idea of comedy is to listen to bad jokes "doubts" you might like Miss Tiny
Or, if you like to watch a 300-pound woman (42-52-62) do two bumps and grinds, then you be your 58-cannon drum of tea.
Lines such as those offend
Admittedly, I didn't see Thy's entire show. There are limits to what I can stomach. When she announced she would go back her next set I could hardly wait to the exit quickly enough.
Tiny dances, sort of, and mouths the words to some of what radio stations used to call moldy oldies. She performs to the "Monster Mash," "Purple Witch Doctor" (by Alva and the Witch Doctor), by Alva and the Chipmunks) and others in about the same vein.
Tiny is constantly talking to the collection of drunks, curiosity seekers and pool players who compose her audience. Unfortunately, the bantering of words back and
forth isn't printable either. But then again, it wasn't funny.
If all this tickles you fancy,
you're reading the wrong paper.
You're more in the market for
something else than the grocery store checkout line.
I could tell you that should Miss Tiny ever—heaven ford—b回调 to this area, don't go unless you're a masochist with a strong stomach. I won't. Miss Tint tells me much better:
"If you liked my show, tell your friends," she said. "If you didn't let them get taken like you did."
Concert feeds starving
Culture-starved students at the University who want to have
Rv KATHY PICKETT
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By JIMKENDELL
Continuing writer The death-grey masks, frozen in sorrow and anger.
The blaring trumpets calling the living and dead to witness the spectacle.
and Puppet Theater is gone.
It's last performance of the Domestic Resurrection Circus
The heavy, whole grain bread distributed like communion.
Gone. All gone. The Bread and Puppet Theater is gone.
in August in a Vermont meadow celebrated the hope and struggle the same play had celebrated in the field northwest of Allen Field House Oct. 4. 1970.
The Bread and Puppet Theater was for 12 years one of the most innovative dramatic groups in America. Peter Schumann, a sculptor, gave the group its direction and its life
the troupe's life-sized puppets and was the director and author or its plays.
The group's gene grew out of the conviction that both bread and theater are staples that provide nourishing to body and soul.
The plays spoke of hope and grief, and outrage and dreams with gestures, pantomime, the monologue, and as few words as possible.
Schumann was the sculptor of
In the parks of New York City, on the streets, at demonstrations and at fairs the troupe tried to grab people at an emotional level before they had formed opinions.
During the Sixties the theme of the war became more and more important. As street theater became more and more to the people of New York the group sought new audiences.
In the summer of 1970 it moved its base to Coney Island. On a fall tour it stopped in Lawrence.
"Domestic Resurrection Circus" is a play about the
effect of war. It was a disjointed play; hard to follow rationally
The play was constructed through the constant im-
change over the months,
evolving over the years.
But once its emotional essence was clear, it reached out, grabbed you and became a friend. She's always Schumann says theater is.
In recent years the group found itself playing on tours for well-paying audiences in order to survive financially.
This took the players away from the streets and the people they wanted to work with. We held workshops with local theater groups, as well.
The usual result was a compromise: Some free shows, like the one on Monday, would be held in Columbia last April 20, and some paid shows.
Part of the creation was pulling people off the sidewalks to watch for five minutes, maybe half an hour.
Last April the play was about a king who refused to listen to
his counselors and his people. In the end he destroyed everything but himself.
The breakup of the group may allow it to spread its ideas more widely. The members who have been spawned and Schumann again are ex-
He wants to find new people to make plays with-people in his own Vermont town-to express their lives.
Schumann was and is trying to create culture that relates directly to people's lives.
a real musical experience will have an opportunity tonight.
The theater has become a specialty, wrapped in a special package, cut off from the rest of our lives.
The cultural workers who should give form to people's lives and seek to express our most vital longings are forced to make commodities of their work.
Theater and the arts will not again become part of people's lives by competing with television, but by offering something more truthful, more real.
The Lawrence Symphony Orchestra will present its works on Sunday, p.m. in the Lawrence High School Auditorium. George Lawner, director of the KU Orchestra, will be the con-
The symphony is composed of Lawrence musicians from many fields. Some are professional musicians, others are some unsure citizens pursuing music interests in addition to their careers.
If the dress rehearsal Monday night was any indication. the
The other numbers on the program are the "Fourth Symphony" by Johannes Brahms and the "Firebird" by John C. Hilliard, among others of these works has distinctive musical and stylistic traits.
concert should be interesting and exciting. One number being performed is the "Bachlanas de Villa-Lobos," this number features Inci Bashar-Paige, visiting lecturer in voice, as soprano soloist. She is accompanied by the KU cello choir.
sky's later works, it is just as exciting. The exotic and oriental influences in the work add an aura of mystery. And the performance highly professional.
My favorite is the Firebird.
Although this work isn't as advanced in style as Stavin-
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The Villa-Lobos is an entertaining number marked by folk-like themes and rhythms. Bashar-Paige gives a seemingly effortless and extremely lovely performance of the sometimes gay, the sometimes sad. Her performance is marred only by the fact that at times the cellos obscure her part.
The Villa-Lobo is a good context for the story because its employs nationalistic trait that contrasts with the exoticism in the novel.
The classical idiom is represented efficiently by Brahms' "Fourth Symphony." Although Brahms is a Romantic composer who uses Romantic harmonies and orchestral music, he is still a throwback to the Classical era. Most of his symphonic works transmit a feeling of repose, discipline and order.
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This concert is a good opportunity for music lovers to hear a fine orchestra performers who work with George Lawner gives excellent and efficient direction. And lovers of vocal will certainly appreciate Bashar-Palage's performance.
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