University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 4.1976
'60s protests still felt, prof says
The protest movements of the 1960s helped strengthen the precedent of civil disobedience in the United States and increased the chances for future unrest, Rex Martin, professor of philosophy, said yesterday.
"Civil disobedience is much more a part of the American tradition than it was before World War II," Martin said. "The idea of civil disobedience has been accepted way of thinking about politics."
Martin presented a paper entitled "Two Ways of Justice Civil Disobedience" *Oct. 9 at the Bicentenial Symposium of Philosophy in New York City, a convention sponsored by the American Philosophical Association.*
In the paper Martin said that civil
disobedience was "perhaps one of the most important contributions of contemporary thought to the stock of traditional civil philosophy."
The paper also discussed a moral justification for civil disobedience and a newer political justification that accepted the government's overall authority. Martin said his main contributions were his ideas on the latter subject.
"This political civil disobedience has become one of the most fascinating trends in Western politics—that is, the extent to which it can distract a dissent and disobedience," he said.
The more traditional view of political civil disobedience is that one either accepts all of a government's laws or completely rejects that government, Martin said.
RELATING HIS ideas to the student unrest at the University of Kansas in 1970, Martin said the participants in civil unrest "had little faith in moral reasons and justifications."
"I don't regard their views as well thought out." Martin said.
Although the students who practiced civil disobedience said they had moral justifications, Martin said, there were some politically influenced justifications.
"They had feelings of moral superiority and moral outrage, and their rhetoric claimed that political demands were beneath contempt," he said. "But I think they were annoyed because they had previously held such high expectations of the system that they appeared to hold in contempt."
Pterodactyl's Egg hatches writers sells well in its adolescence
A magazine with the unusual title of Pterodactyla's Egg is circulating at KU this year, and it's not about paleontology. In fact, it's a forum of the KU Science Fiction Club.
Paula Helm, Wellsville junior and founder of the club, said recently that the magazine, now in its third issue, would cover its first ten months this year, more or less monthly.
She said the magazine was named after "our friend in front of Strong Hall," referring to a statue in front of the building, and she says similar to a paternality.
HELM SAID the magazine was started to provide a way for science fiction writers to get their work published and to give science interesting, reading on a regular basis.
She said the idea came up at one of the
club's meetings last spring and was accepted enthusiastically by the 30 or so people who attended.
The mimeographed magazine includes science fiction stories, articles, drawings, puzzles (the current issue has a word-for-word layout) and Heinlein book titles) and book reviews.
Helm said most of the stories used were from contributing writers, although she and her coeditor, Mur Mimray, Lawrence junior, often wrote pieces for the magazine.
AT 35 CENTS an issue, the Egg has sold well in its adolescence, Helm said.
"in fact, we almost sold our whole print run of the first issue and barely had enough to sell."
John Kessel, Lawrence graduate student and faculty adviser for the Science Fiction Club, said, "The Egg is a typical example of a science fiction 'fanfare.'"
Panhellenic studies plans to improve sorority system
THE COVER OF THE third issue of the Egg is illustrated with a pterodactyl, which has arms and legs and is slashing at a wall. The Egg's head is thrown through space, on some sort of vehicle.
"They do crazy things and have self-mocking attitudes," he said.
Expansion, extension and improvement of sororites could result in increased sorority membership and improved relations among the 12 sorority houses at KU, Linda Pfisterer, Panhellenic president, says.
The 1975-76 Panhellenic Presidents' Council, which includes the president of each society, has organized a task force to research the idea of expansion, or inviting another national society to start a chapter at KU, Pfisterer said recently.
He described it as an amateur magazine designed for both ardent science fiction fans and others with just a casual interest in the subject. Kessel said that most fanzines weren't meant to be very polished, and that some were even crude.
Plasterer said an advantage of this plan was that more women could pledge sororites during rush, which would increase the number of sorority members.
Helm said the Christmas issue's front cover may show a pterotype) tearping apart the skin.
"We must build Panellinic spirit and make the system work as a whole," she ate.
Kessel, who teaches a science fiction study course, said that he thought science fiction fans were very organized and that the large number of conventions they have is proof of their organization. One example he gave was the MidAmericCon convention this summer in Kansas City, Mo., which has writers and writers from throughout the country.
mendations to the incoming council to improve houses now at KU. Pilaster said the goal for improving the present system was to eliminate each house's stereotypes.
Herm said writing contributions would be bonvivally accepted and should be sent to her.
She said that the members of the KU club shouldn't be confused with Star Trek fans, as they are often named for her.
She said that the Presidents' Council had voted not to take action on the plan now because not all of the sororities at KU are filled. Because lower enrollments expected in the future, Panhellenic can't risk not filling a new house, Pflasterer said.
Through activities such as the Red Cross blood drive, sorority life-in-exchanges and sorority-fratremly dinner exchanges, she helped a Greek system have improved, she said.
A second plan is extension, which would allow members to move out of sorority houses into anexes or apartments to make room for new members in the houses.
But she said, the extension plan could be harmful to houses that lost the leadership of their owners.
"This would be more flexible than expansion if there were no interest in the study." **Plastics**
Kessel agreed with Helm that a distinction should be made between the two types of
Each sorority president submitted to Panhellenic an opinion paper based on their houses' votes on expansion and extension, Pflastere said. Incoming council members may review the information and make a decision later.
The Presidents' Council made recom-
"Star Trek fans are just Star Trek fans, but science fiction fans have a broader scope of interests. They aren't restricted to one type of story," she said.
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The mood of the United States today is
the warmest of the late '60s and early
'70s. Martin said,
He said that although the change in the nation's mood was partially caused by the end of the Vietnam war and former President Richard Nixon's resignation, it also partially "a natural relaxation after a period of great emotional excitement."
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"We had similar periods after the Civil War and World War II." he said.
AFTER THE current period of relaxation is over, civil disobedience might occur more easily because of the precedent set in the case that a woman has violated the area of unrest might be women's rights.
"If there is a constitutional amendment banning abortion, I could see that becoming as big of a cause as the things of the '60s," he said.
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"However, I don't think there will be any more civil disobedience coming from the civil rights movement. They've achieved everything they could through civil disobedience. Most civil rights problems now are not with laws or even public policy, but with behavioral habits and residential patterns."
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