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Wednesday, September 25, 1974
University Daily Kausan
OPINION
K-Straight outdraws Snob Hill
We say they're from K-Straight, Nixon's favorite high school or Old MacDonald's farm. We say we are from Snob Hill, Harvard on the plains or Athens on the Kaw. For the last three years they have been rednecks and we have been socially aware individuals. Hogwash.
This spring students at K-State gave 910 pints
individuals from KU could only give 798 pints.
For the past three years students at Kansas State University, which has an enrollment of about 15,000, has managed to donate more blood in fall and spring semester blood drives than have students at the University of Kansas, which now has an enrollment of more than 20,000.
If students at KU are all they purport, then why was it that the Red Cross couldn't find any sponsors for the spring blood drive? The Interfraternity Council (IFC) finally took it upon itself to sponsor the drive just days before the drive was to occur this spring. Students from other colleges, promise free beer to donors and establish contrived competition between living groups to create enough enthusiasm to muster even 706 pints, despite the Red Cross' already providing free blood to any
Surely socially aware individuals don't have to be bribed into giving something that they ordinarily should give out of sheer humanitarian instincts?
KU student and his immediate family in the United States.
Apparently they have to be bribed. It's time for the fall blood drive, and Charlie Rhoades, coordinator of the drive, says free beer again is being offered along with the contrived competition between living groups. The Endowment Association is backing the drive financially this year. Rhoades has made the already painless process of giving blood easier for the student with appointment scheduling and numerous areas around campus to register and donate. He has even stuck his neck out and challenged K-Straight to match our quota.
So, okay all of you relevant individuals, go make an appointment today through Friday and then roll up your sleeve next week and give a man an amount of man's inhumanity to man this year.
Jeffrey Stinson Associate Editor
Choose your judge: Vern or God
By STEVEN LEWIS Contributing Writer
I was faced Monday with one of the most difficult decisions of my life. I had to decide whether to go hear Vern Miller or Bill
saw it, my choice was between the temporal and the spiritual—the short run versus the long run.
Obviously, I wasn't going to be able to make the decision on my own. So I decided to see a law student who is a friend of mine. Law students, of course, all that is logical and analytic.
"Tony, what should I do," I asked.
"First, we should examine the principles that are involved here and decide which principles are governing," he wrote, "what would be the advantages of going to hear Bill Glass?"
"Well, Tony, I could have spiritual well-being and a
secure, happy place in the hereafter."
"All right, and what would be the advantages of going to hear Vern Miller?"
"Let's see—Vern will probably be the next governor of Kansas. If I went and applauded a lot he would be pleased with me. I could have a secure future here on earth."
"Okay, Steve, what we have here, then, is really a conflict between spiritual and civil authority. Your real decision is between God and Vern Miller. Now, we have to weigh the
consequences of snubbing God as opposed to the consequences of snubbing Vern Miller.
"Let's see, Tony, not only could Vern continue to enforce the new laws, but he would influence new laws and appoint people who think the way he thinks to high offices."
"Right. Now do you see who you should go to hear? Who should you fear the most—God or Vern Miller?"
“Of course! How could I be so dumb? I’ll go see Vern Meller. From Vern away from my hide, and God will still be after my soul!”
It's a long tough road to the top of the heap. As a freshman you have to study more to make the transition from high school to college level subjects. You still have to hit the books as a sophomore to stay out of that second-year slump. But by the time you're a junior, you can afford to spend a few hours taking in the world around you. And when you'll be a senior, you can take a breather and prepare for another long haul.
Seniority system
Repressive tactics must be challenged
By JIM KENDELL Contributing Writer
Citing government misconduct, U.S. Judge Fred Nichol dismissed five felony charges last week against American movement (AIM) leaders Russell Means and Dennis Banks.
The dismissal adds one more trial to an astonishing number of important political trials since 1969 that have ended in acquittals or dropped charges. These include the Chicago
Eight, the Panther 21, Angela Davis, the Gainesville Eight, the Soledad Brothers and the Seattle Eight.
A few days after the dismissal, William B. Saxbe, U.S. attorney general, asked his experts to find out why the government was losing so many political trials.
To AIM the issue was the treaty of 1868, which gave the Indians all of South Dakota west
It doesn't take an expert to see a pattern in these cases. All were poorly constructed—characterized by payoffs, and retreats. The pattern is one of political repression.
The charges against Meanton were based on their leadership in the area of the kcupsation of Wounded Knee S.D., beginning Feb. 21, 1973.
To the government, the issue was three counts of assault, one of theft and one of conspiracy.
The AIM trial is a fine example.
of the Missouri River, and parts of Nebraska and Wwoming.
In April, shortly after the trial began, Judge Nichol nearly dismissed the case when he learned that the government had tapped the only telephone line into Wounded Knee.
Ninety-eight court days of testimony and 79 government witnesses failed to produce any concrete evidence to connect the defendant with the specific acts cited in the eight-page indictment.
Three witnesses testified that the government's star witness, Louise Movey Camp, was in formation when he said he was in Wounded Knee.
Camp's mother, a negotiator during the stage, testified that he was not at Wounded Knee when he called he was.
Camp's wife testified that Camp told her the FBI had promised to provide him a job, a house, $200 a week and to drop all charges against him if he would testify for them.
The defense stood on the Indian's treaty rights. One of the five defense witnesses, Frank Kills Energy, an 80-year-old traditional Sioux leader, testified in favor of the treaty, testified on the importance of the treaty to his people.
The dismissal of charges ignores the treaty issue, but it does bring government repression into sharper focus: the wiretaps, the lies, the payoffs.
Political feasibility blocks inflation solutions
By RICHARD PAXSON Contributing Writer
About two weeks ago, a report on the CBS Evening News told of the plight of West Coast stockbrokers in this time of depressed market activity. The correspondent reported that some firms had fired more than three-fourths of their brokers. Some of those days of three-hour, four-martini, $50 lunches are gone.
These brokers, sinking in this sour economy under $100,000 mortgaged houses acquired in the gravy days, now eat lunch in small carry-out sandwich shops. The $2-a-shot bar cars on commuter trains are now ample. But one broker said tedium pales as bad in 1929, when several brokers jumped from the windows of their skyscraper offices.
Then, last Saturday, came the story that an Indianapolis investment adviser, reportedly despondent over bad advice he gave to clients on mining companies, 14th-floor apartment. Americans should ask whether this is an isolated incident or the
beginning of vindication for those who say the country is in an economic recession and on the way to depression.
Its importance is probably not either of these extremes, but as an indication of increasing concern about economic conditions.
Repression is swirling wider and widest each day. Unchecked it soon will concern all them, whether they want it to or not.
More than 75 per cent of those surveyed in a recent Gallup Poll
That old demon politics is preventing the government from taking the necessary steps to keep it going. Ford has apparently placed his
said inflation was their chief concern. President Ford's pledge to end inflation before the nation's bicentennial has also made the economy the hardest hit of the if the印纺ifications made last week by politicians are supposed to lead us out of this economic wilderness, then we can look forward to buying a bushel basket of foil with a bushel basket of foil bills by the end of this decade.
faith in fiscal policy as a means to that end.
Although Ford said he wouldn't make his secret plan to end inflation public until after his economic summit conference, many observers think he's already made it a reality spending. This is an admirable step, but it is likely to be ineffective.
On another front, Ford's request that Congress delay planned pay increases for federal employees has met with opposition from public employees unions. All of these special interests undoubtedly want a lower rate of inflation as long as they don't cut budget cuts. "Do unto others but not unto me" is their creed.
Even the President, or perhaps most of all the President, is free from fear because of anticipation of proposed budget cuts, education and union lobbies are demanding that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare assure students that cuts won't come from programs in which they have an interest.
Sen. Thomas Eagleton, DMo., said last week that the
If reducing federal spending to a significant extent isn't politically possible, then what else could the President do? He took over the role of fiscal policy, which is, dare I say, suggest it, increasing taxes.
This step is also politically infeasible. For a politician to suggest an increase in taxes is too much, and the suicide Shortly after Ford took office, a rumor that he was considering a tax increase caused such a storm of protest that he immediately issued a statement disclaiming any such suggestion for this year or next year.
An old political proverb says it's better for a politician to be caught in bed with someone else's wife than to increase taxes. And so Ford is left with monetary policy.
Some inflationary pressures could be alleviated if the money supply and decrease the money supply and increase interest rates. This is also a politically volatile issue, which affects the effects on the housing market.
system's rigid policies of monetary restraint and high interest rates were preventing companies from family to own its own home from being realized. Eagleton advocates injecting even more money into the system, exactly as regulators do to be turbulent in inflation.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., is among the politicians guilty of screaming recession every time some anti-inflationary step is taken. He has said that "scorned earth" policy that would cut government spending on social welfare programs.
All politicians, especially Sen. Kennedy, must realize that there will have to be some scorched earth if runaway inflation is to be brought under control. Any anti- inflation plan will bring with it some increased unemployment, a higher interest rates on consumer credit. All are politically unpopular, but all are necessary.
John Kenneth Galbraith put this problem in perspective last week when he wrote that any
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I've had enough, for the moment, of worrying about inflation, amnesty and pardons, and the various crises around the world.
It's time to consider a subject
By CRAIG STOCK Production Editor
This year there is more suspense than usual. Three of the four divisional races are up to 15 points each, while League's eastern division, the race is right in keeping with the nostalgia trend. The New York Yankees (remember them?) may get the top of the standings again.
Baseball may no longer be the national pastime, but something about the old game has still been useful in suspensions every September.
Although they bear slight resemblance to the Bronx
closer to my heart this time of year—baseball's pennant races.
In the National League's eastern division, a tight main race has had to compete for attention at the base running of Lou Brock. Brock has put the base back into baseball by taking bases almost at will from opposing teams.
Bombers of former years (they're not even playing in Yankee Stadium this year), the Yankees have scrambled to stay at or near first place all year.
And though they're out of it now, the Philadelphia Phillies made a respectable run for the title before phading away.
In the western division of the National League, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds are batting first in the league. They faded and the Reds won the title.This year the Dodgers seem to be holding on, thanks largely to the efforts of Mike McCarthy, who could have made Iron Man McGinnity look like a slacker.
The Oakland Athletics seem safe in their usual spot aton the
standings in the American League western division. The Kansas City Royals, strong contenders in July and August, mismanaged another slide into fifth place to fifth place in recent weeks.
But even in the American League west there has been some excitement. The Texas Rangers had, until this year, two games against the Giants they brought from their days as the Washington Senators.
But this year the Rangers, like the once-phantile Phillies, looked like contenders rather than dormats.
And, of course, this was the year. Babe Ruth's "un-retired record" of 74 career home runs was shattered by Henry Aaron.
The temporary results may be painful, but they are the unavoidable side-effects of the only anti-inflationary steps that are more than political rhetoric.
So, it seems to me, that reports of baseball's death, like those of Mark Twain's, are exaggerated. There's still life in the granddaddy of American sports.
And for the fan whose team has had one of those years he'd like to forget, there is always next year.
administration, conservative or liberal, Democratic or Republican, that wants to fight inflation must apply the classic tools of fiscal and monetary policy.
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Watergate, after all, began as the systematic surveillance, infiltration and disruption of the Democratic party.
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The repression of militants,
Watergate and Chile are tied
together by a cynical disregard
for democratic rights.
Abroad, Chile is the latest known victim of the same kind of dirty tricks made in the United States.
The ethics underlying dirty tricks—grab away with as much as you can, but don't get them. You must be challenged directly.
If most Americans buy the line that the Wateregator era is over, the administration will be able to step up repressive tactics without public scrutiny. But the defense of all our demands against constant skepticism and scrutiny of our government.