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Wednesday, October 6, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Conservatism shocking
Polls are weird creatures. I thought that I had figured out how the majority of students at the University of Kansas planned to vote when, all of a sudden, a poll by my own newspaper, the Kansan, the bushes and scares the hell out of me.
Maybe the fright is unwarranted. A poll is, after all, just a sampling. Not all of the 24,000 students were questioned, and not all of them answered. Does the poll accuracy within 6 per cent
WHAT SCARES me is that 48.4 per cent of the students in yesterday's poll said that they were going to vote for Ford. I had thought Jimmy Carter, who won a large majority of respondents, would win by a large majority in a liberal University town.
After all, if the 1972 election had been decided in Lawrence, George McGovern would be President and no one would care if Jimmy Carter was raising peanuts or posing in the nude for Playgirl.
College students are supposed to be liberal. They aren't suppose to even pretend to like a conservative like Jerry Winnery or there is that poll, shattering that theory.
ONE THING the poll did do was support the idea that most college
students aren't Republicans or Democrats, but are independents. Almost 44 per cent of the students polled they didn't belong to either major PRIKY.
However, the poll did blow another theory of mine. I had thought that the independents would lean to Carter or my favorite. Gene McCarthy.
No such luck. About 41 per cent of the independents said they favored Ford and only 23 per cent said they leaned toward Carter.
THAT POLL really stunned me. I had thought that there had been a little drift toward the right among students here since 1972, but not enough of a shift to give a Republican a solid plurality of the vote.
Maybe the poll means that KU students have swung around the political circle and are now mainly conservatives. Maybe.
I'm not willing to say that just yet. The poll did have flaws. Right now I am inclined to ignore the poll and go back to my own theories of how college students will vote. I may be setting myself up for a big disappointment when the Douglas County election returns are analyzed, but I doubt it. **By Carl Young**
Contributing Writer
Last weekend I thumbed through the 1970 edition of the Jayhawker yearbook. Like all young guys, I had a few chuckles about the way things were. The guys' crew cuts in group photos brought a few grims, and so did it with his skirts and patent leather boots.
But there was nothing comical about the seven pages of copy devoted to the turmoil that rocked this campus during the spring of that year. Here, at Alabama College, Mr. Hoffman of the Chicago Seven blew his nose on an American flag in Allen Field House, a professor said Chancellor E. Lawrence Chalmers displayed "physical courage" when he spoke to most of the student body. In August 2014, Memorial Stadium and David Awbrey, student body president, was arrested for a curfew violation.
BIGGER NEWS was made when the Kansas Union burned, the Kansas National Guard was pressed into duty in the area of 12th and Oread streets and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation thought to possibly the possibility that "outside agitators" were on campus.
I was just a ninth grade in Pittsburgh junior high school when "campus unrest" was making the news, I suppose I heard about what was going on up here, but I had more im-
These are the good old days
KUAC fumbles off field
To most people suffering through enrollment this fall, the new student football ticket system seemed a little silly.
THE SILLINESS didn't stop there.
I arrived at the stadium about
Staff Writer
Confused students had to fumble through a stack of computer cards, buy a small sticker for their KU-ID cards, trudge down to Allen Field House the next week and stand in a long line while the same student gets an enrollment was dragged out again. Only then did they get that small, red season ticket.
As 1 painfully discovered Saturday, the student who is forgetful enough to leave his KUID at home when going to a gym bare bars himself anew to the things and arrows of the system.
By JERRY SEIB
1 p.m. Saturday, Having been previously trained to enter Memorial Stadium only at the gate below the section in which my seat is located, I dutifully approached Gate 34.
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My driver's license bears a nice, full-color picture of me, for which I paid the State of California just such an occasion. My driver's license also bears my signature, which, strangely enough, exactly matches the one I received as a positive that I am me, I thought.
Wrong. The attendant at Gate 34 informed me that he couldn't let me in without a KU-ID. He said I would have to go to Window 15 to get the matter resolved.
GATE 24 is on the east side of Memorial Stadium. Window 15 is, of course, on the west side. I turned back and saw the seeshore end of the stadium, I turned the logic of the system over in my mind. It got a little messy.
When I paid for my ticket at enrollment, I went to great pains to prove that I was KU played against me on my fees in full, that I was member in good standing of the junior class and that I loved Nolan Cromwell. I was rewarded with a small sicker shirt and a wristband. That paid for a football ticket. I signed it to prove it was mine.
gotten that little sticker, I wouldn't have gotten a football ticket.
The sticker entitled me to pick up my football ticket at the field house. If I hadn't paid my fees and paid for my football ticket, I wouldn't have gotten that little stick. And if I hadn't
BUT I had a football ticket in my hand. If I have a ticket, I got that little sticker on my KU-ID. And if I have a ticket in my hand, what difference does it make if I have that little sticker.
And if it doesn't matter whether I have that little sticker on my KU-ID, what purpose does my KU-ID serve at Gate 34 other than to identify me? And if its only purpose is to identify me, why shouldn't my driver's license do just as well?
Window 15 put a stop to such musings. Here I was told that I would have to pay $2.50 to get into the game. I was assured I could get my money back later in the ticket office.
THAT WAS just about half of the $20 I paid for the entire season ticket. As any of my
friends can attest, the days I carry $8.25 in cash are few and far between.
But I had made a timely trip to the bank earlier in the week. I flipped the money onto the desk and touched its vengeance as I could muster.
Had it not been such a hot day, and had my apartment not been such a long walk from the park, I would have withheld the money. 88.25 in protest.
portant things to worry about, like remembering my locker combination. As I now recall, the news was devastating to my parents. They couldn't believe that KU could have fallen victim to the criminal schemes of what they thought could be no defense, a handful of hoodlums imported from one of the coasts.
AND HAD our team been the caliber of K-State's, I might have forgotten the rest of the season as well. But we are, after all, undefeated. I gave in to the system.
I guess the Kansas University Athletic Corporation realized I would. Try as they might to drive away students — and they must know that each of them they must know that a winning football team brings complaining students into the fold every time.
People who were in school here during 1970 tell me they weren't really afraid. There was a good deal of tension, they say, but no one actually feared that he would get shot going to class. Tension, however, made it difficult to communicate with people you didn't know. No one knows what you're feeling. That sort of tension just doesn't exist at KU now. We crowd into buses, share tables at Wescoe Terrace and jog after dinner, never questioning the
KU'S PROBLEMS that spring, especially the burning of
WELL, THAT was quite a while ago. I'm in my fourth year here, and I've yet to know what is happening in the world like or to wonder who put the
Mary Ann Daugherty Contributing Writer
seemed to have taken a back seat to other crusades. The most important crusade now seems to be a private one for each student. Being able to get a handshake than jumping on a bandwagon to save the world and, in the process, destroying it.
THE UNIVERSITY is no longer the place for expanding radical philosophy, breeding subversives and underscoring wonders or understory problems right with the way we live. Many still want to challenge timeless problems, but people have seen the wisdom of within existing social and political change.
PERHAPS events like those that took place here in spring 1970 are cyclical. Maybe the Union will burn again and maybe national guardsm will have to forfeit a free weekend. But if history is any indicator, we don't need restless weeks and people will get on to writing their term papers and cramming for tests.
We don't have to worry about one day sending our kids to KU--not if we can pass them our notions that college is the place to get an education and not to combat all mankind. In fact, we will be happy we can have to worry about is that one day someone will look back on us and laugh at our overalls and painter's paints.
the Union, troubled them deeply. It was always assumed that I would attend KU, but suddenly, my parents were here, sending me here. Surely there were other schools in towns where people didn't flink spiked boards in the paths of police cars or drop Molotov cocktails on them, more deadly than gum wrappers.
These fears were real to my parents and many others who sent children to KU in the years following spring 1970. Sure, the school year was gradually ceased, but parents remembered what had hap-
bullet holes in the rear of some fire truck. I guess there is a lot I haven't known at KU. I haven't even been to the police, duty policemen working up to 20 hours straight or students trying to take over the chancellor's office. To tell the truth, I don't think I've missed
When I look back on these years at KU, I realize I am here during a profitable era for both students and the University. By the time I arrived, the turmoil was gone, but I remember antwar sentimentations don't burn deeply in the minds of those on campus and such concerns
Lie isn't perfect at KU in 1976. We still have our problems. Questions we come up are often about whether University Events Committee is illegally restricting free speech, and we have our running battles over what the price of a season football will be. But these are little compared to what has gone before.
existence of some radical Bogie Man.
"Put it over in Fiction."
Reader tells all to confront Moonies
To the Editor:
While walking down Massachusetts St. the other day, I was approached by a smiling teenage boy with a basket of flowers. He held a camera and gave them out as an expression of love and asking for a donation to support his church group. I had to ask what group before he admitted it was the money he had saved from taxes, he said, went toward spreading love and "The Word."
I confronted him with the facts that Reverend Moon had personally absorbed millions of the church's funds and had invested in New York real estate, Washington banks, and
and funnelled large sums to the South Korean dictator, Chung Hye Park. I also mentioned that his flower children followers had been easily duped and asked him to refrain without-question. He said that news stories about Moon had been distorted by un-Christian reporters who had not witnessed this discipline of God in action. I subjectively observed that he was full of shit, and he ran away.
I walked on and met a couple of people who had accepted the Moonie's flower gift, one for a 75 cent "donation," the other for a gift that connected the smiling boy's pleas for church aid to Moonie.
are you so concerned about freshman-sophomore politics? I know who I am and I also am a coach. You are a teammate. Horse Rally. The only dif-
Smith was unable to supervise this event because she was busy sipping cider in the Kansas City area. Clearly, the University exists to
money, Caryl Smith couldn't get paid.
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I caught up with the Moonie and followed him. Whenever he approached someone with a camera, I always wondered that his organization was a
Barry M. Shallinsky
Overland Park first year law student
farce and told the potential donor where the money would go.
I walked to the police station to file a fraudulent solicitation complaint but was told there was nothing wrong. He had been on public property.
So, these flower children will continue to rake in $20 or $30 an hour from unwary people for the sacred moon stash. I suggest that anyone approached by a Mounie sassar campress them off the street. If the solicitation is made on private property, such as a shopping center parking lot, a complaint should be made to the store owner, who will gladly evict the worker when their actions are based on lies and half-truths.
Help send Moon back to Korea, preferably to Pyongyang
Ed Bolstad-Summers
Clay Center senior
Not Malott
As a member of the research group mentioned in Jerry Seib's Sept. 28 article, I would like to thank him for mentioning our work on environmental mutagenesis. We are, however, not members of the Malcolm Hall team, but we have high stop Haworth Hall in the room with all of the windows covered with brown paper.
To the Editor:
Todd Shenkenberg Lenexa senior
Rally defended To the Editor:
Who are you Peter Orazem (Kansan letter, Oct. 4), and why
ference between you and me is that I will present a more accurate appraisal.
The assumption that the beer was being used to buy votes is ludicrous for the following reasons. First, the purpose of the rally was to relay issues to freshman and sophomores, who might not be reached otherwise, and to inform atmouses. Having attended the rally I can accurately say this was accomplished. Second, nowhere in the Senate code are rallies or beer prohibited. So loosely written rules are subject to any crackpot's interpretation. Third, student government officials and rallies are an integral part of any "real" political campaign.
Knowing that you don't stay for the rally, you really have no basis for support. If you wish to launch a vigilante Campaign Ethics Committee I would suggest you look at some of the down Jayhawk Boulevard as a source of carnival atmosphere.
Daniel Sullivan
Daniel Sullivan Louisville, Kv., sophomore
I think it is my duty to admonish the University Events Committee for failing to protect students from violence before Saturday before the Wisconsin game. About noon, members of the band disturbed my Civil Procedure class, forcing the alumnus class 10 minutes early.
Of course, I realize that Caryl
Double standard
To the Editor:
satisfies the needs of parents and alumni. Otherwise, the Union would give away free cider and sweet rolls paid for with cash. They also only students are on campus. And certainly the band wouldn't have been allowed to play on Jayhawk Boulevard on an orphanage day, a vacation day, Mom and Dad wouldn't have been there to listen.
I submit, however, that by allowing music to disrupt Saturday classes, the University is defeating its long term purpose of creating more alumni. If law students are disrupted, and don't graduate, and can't become alumni, and don't drink free cider, how can they be given money? As we all know, alumni exist to be coaxed into giving money, because without their
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If Courtney Thompson is trying to be another Woodward or Bernstein, she has succeeded in imitating the style of their second book. It seems rather realistic and surrealistic faction with their personal prejudices and partialities are continually represented as a factual source of information concerning decisions of the Women's Club. The clique must be having a gay old time getting worked up for each coming story that the Karasan will snatch up. It seems absurd and unfortunate that the Karasan can find front page room for these frivolous stories that would be adequate coverage of the women's sports events.
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Cassie Strom
Omaha, Mab. junior
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Eureka senior
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Omaha, Mab. junior
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