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Monday, September 13, 1976
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Fall elections in doubt
The uncertain status of fall elections for the Student Senate probably has left many would-be politicians wondering whether a presidential candidate have anything to run for this semester.
Fall Senate elections traditionally have drawn some new students, particularly freshmen, into campus politics. Without Senate elections, the only thing left for them to run for is the four freshman class offices.
AT LAST Wednesday's Senate meeting, some senators questioned whether the Senate Code, the bible of student politics, allowed fall elections. A majority of senators off guard because they always had taken fall elections for granted.
The result of Wednesday's action is that publicity for the elections, scheduled for Oct. 6 and 7, has been postponed until the Senate Elections Committee examines the code and Senate Rules and Regulations to see whether fall elections are legal within the Code.
StudEx, after considering the Election Committee's report, may approve it and call a special Senate meeting in time to have the elections as scheduled.
THE ENTIRE Senate is needed to change the Rules and Regulations to include fair elections. The Election Commission's five senators sent to StuDex some time this week.
The matter seems to be a case of nit-
picking. Six new seats, usually opened up to get freshmen into the Senate, and a few other seats, vacated by senators during the fall elections.
But as the legality of fall elections is now in doubt, the nonfreshman seats may be filled by appointment instead of election. Although the Rules and procedures for fall elections, they do have provisions for filling vacated seats.
IF THOSE seats are filled by appointment, the two days of voting Oct. 6 and 7 for the Senate will result in the Senate six freshman senators, and that's all.
Considering the low turnout for the main Senate elections in the spring, maybe fall elections don't make much sense. If so, the Senate would have to figure out some other way to get freshmen involved.
IT'S A tough problem for the Senate, and it doesn't have much time to make a decision. If the elections are delayed by more than two weeks, the newly elected senators may have to miss several Senate meetings.
The time to question the legality of fall elections was during the summer, or last semester. Questioning the elections how has forced the Senate to make a hasty decision, one that might be regretted if questioned later.
By Carl Young Contributing Writer
By Carl Young
After the recent major earthquakes in the People's Republic of China, it was reported that earthquakes were thus clung to an ancient belief that earthquakes always light-shadowed political upheavals or
Now Chairman Mao Tse Tung, the leader and charismatic cult figure of China's 800 millions, is dead. His body was taken, take his place, and, like the shockwaves of an earthquake, the struggle for power in China's upper ranks is bound to send socialist political messages throughout the country and the world.
He united a country that had been divided for centuries and inspired millions with his "thoughts" on every subject from killing files to halting disease to flood control. The Army cannot sail without a Captain"-dedicated to Mao, and surely he was the country's captain and guiding light.
He has been condemned by some for leading a revolution that left millions dead and for causing great internal turmoil in periodic purges, such as the 1968-69 civil war that engulfed millions of citizens. Yet his vast achievements and genius can't be denied.
Mao's death fuels power fight
MAO SAID he always thought of himself mainly as a teacher. From the time he and 12 others founded the Chinese Communist party in 1921, he was a model revolutionary and strategist.
NOW CHINA must choose a new captain. The Russians, with one million troops on
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Readers oppose gun control
I am writing in regard to John Fuller's well-written article promoting "handgun control" in the United States. He suggested that a high percentage of the handguns in this country are used for committing crimes against human beings and other purpose for them such as hunting, target practice, etc.
To the Editor:
An analysis of his statistics reveals that they are rather misleading. Let us assume that the police correct when he states that we have 40 million pistols in the United States and 4,635 homicides were committed with pistols in 1973. This means a large number of people committed a homicide. Therefore, if a ban on handguns was enforced through gun registration and confiscation, 8,604 law-abiding citizens would be freed of one irresponsible criminal.
We might dwell for a moment on "What is a handgun?" Is it not possible that the Supreme Court will announce a future after a handgun ban is passed, define a "handgun" as any gun held in one's hands? (Good by shoots; target rifles or our own hunting, Mr. Fuller.
Furthermore, if Mr. Fuller expects this murdering criminal to register an *turn* in his gun, he is being unrealistic. It rapidly becomes apparent that the wrong way to confiscation advocates isn't to prevent crime but rather is to disarm law-abiding citizens.
Is this a far-fetched
suspicion? Not really—in 1913,
income tax advocates said that
the tax would never exceed one
per cent of one's income.
If Mr. Fuller is concerned with lowering the crime rate, I suggest he continue to support and work more actively for legislation promoting stiffer penalties for crimes committed under current law, would appreciate it if he would refrain from attempting to infringe on our constitutional right to "keep and bear arms."
To the Editor:
Kob Muniyan Kansas City, Kan.. junior
Gun control unfair
Last week I noticed an article contributed by John Fuller, advocating the prohibition of firearms. His ardent plea apparently was occasioned by an encounter with a man copd years ago.
It's too bad Mr. Fuller had such an unpleasant experience, but one would expect that he would have recovered his balance by now. Instead, long after, he is saying that if only you were to show the right measures, such hateful events could be abolished.
The truth, I think is that criminals will always have access to the manpower to supply the demand, not only by robbers, but by the numerous ordinary people who are out there. They're out there of their fate in their own hands.
In this country, handguns cannot now be successfully
prohibited. Like atomic bombs, they will always be around and the realistic person will plan on it.
An effort to legislate them away will create a terribly messy situation, predictably worse than the last "noble experiment" because weapons are not merely recreational.
I could say many other things about "gun control" in the area of individual rights and what we should have on the human dignity of the ordinary citizen. But I know that values of this kind are "not worth the price" these days, and that we need to be simplest, most practical kind, that might be appreciated by even the most agitated liberal.
Eleanor Daly Lawrence graduate student
In short, Thompson captured the true intimacy of the occasion with a few brief paragraphs that flowed into one another, capturing the reader's interest. That's what reporting is about. I am a journalism student, I can appreciate Thompson's work.
I wish to commend your paper, and Courtney Thompson in particular, for a well-written, touching and sensitive account of the funeral for the five young men in the fire at Baker University.
The article and accompanying pictures had to affect anyone who viewed them. Yet, the story wasn't overly dramatic or vague; faults that journalism students tend too often to display.
Funeral story liked
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NO MATTER which factor wins the power struggle, China's relations with the United States and Russia will be hard to predict. Both factions are antagonistic toward Beijing in recent days; might see Mao's death as an excuse to cooperate more with the Russians to ease tensions on their borders. That move would also pressure the United States to take the final step toward friendly relations with China in order to gain recognition, a step that would mean severing relations with Taiwan.
Now, it seems that the Chinese are still too afraid of Soviet expansion to put such pressure on the United States, Detente, or whatever President Ford wants to call it, seems likely to be continued by the new leaders.
AS HARD as China's future courses in foreign and internal policy are to predict, one can be sure that strategists and businessmen in Moscow, Washington and other world capitals will be trying.
They will be trying because China is not only the most populous country in the world, it's also one of the strongest and most united its people, as well as the strongest that will testify, have a deep and lasting faith in their system and the continuing revolution.
They will be trying especially hard because the man largely responsible for China's rise from poverty and anarchy, a man of unquestionably heroic stature, is dead. Men such as Mao don't leave the world without consequence.
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THE RADICALS, led by Mao's widow, Chiang Ching, 62, and her proteges, who played major parts in the cultural revolution, are zealously concerned with preserving the revolutionary spirit that Mao worked so hard to create in his lifetime. The radical himself but was able to compromise when necessary.
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Most China watchers agree there won't be sudden foreign
China's borders, and the United States, hoping to preserve a delicate detente that Mao and Richard Nixon began in 1972, are watching the process with great interest.
The moderates, led by older members of the party, are more concerned with building their party's material life for the people. They are more pragmatic and are willing to sacrifice some revolutionary fervor for a different goal. Between the two factions is Hua Kuo-feng, a neutral who was appointed to China's No. 2 spot by Mao five months ago. It is now clear that he retained the power he has now.
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Within the next year or so, however, either the radicals or the moderates should become more vocal in Mao to fill the void left by Mao.
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policy changes, because Mac's death had been expected and planned for. By the time of his death, he was a mediator between the quarrelling radicals and the actual leader of his country.
In-between times are for waiting
Life is a succession of times,
as the Preacher told us long ago:
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to weep, and
a time to laugh; a time to get, and
a time to lose. What the
Preacher left us sad is that the
preacher was in between times; and we are
passing through one of these now.
Things happen, of course, in the in-between times, but nothing very memorable happens. Across our broad land, candidates are campaigning for public office, but it will be a month before the races heat up. In Washington, the Congress is ordering toward adjournment. In Dallas, there is climactic. And there is no speeding up the in-between times. One waits them out.
HERE IN the Blue Ridge Mountains, we see the tag end of summer. It is nothing much to look at. When I was a city boy, it
When that Tuesday night rolls around, it will be just as the gentleman said—a time to embrace, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing. For there is indeed a time to every purpose under heaven; and before long the method of obtaining the minutes, will coil its strength and strike the elongated hour.
Sooner or later, the larger in-between time will run its course. In my own world of politics, everything waits on November 2. The Preacher did not mention a "time to elect," but he does tell them to return, the quadrennial hour is meat and drink and after-dinner coffee and peach cobbler for dessert.
"— APHER WHICH TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF HEAT AND EXPIRIOSURE WILL ACT ON OR WE OURMANS WHICH HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED AT THIS LAND. THE AMOUNTS OF HUMAN FREQUENCY WILL ALL BE PLEASED UP TO 50 PERCENT OF BOOK POINT JAMMIES WILL HAVE TO WAIT IN HOME FOR 10 DAYS OR GENERATE A SALLON!"
place, to be sure, but my friends in Florida do not know what it is to get out the fur-lined boots and shoes that I have been nesting in the toes.
In these latitudes we are blessed with four distinct seasons, and the blessing—mixed as it is—helps us to get outdoors every day in Hawaii and Florida and Southern California has its undeniable pleasures, but it lacks something in contrast. In another month we will revel in the full-blown glory of autumn, the crisp air and Indian summer days, and the seediness will pass.
ALREADY THE dogwoods are turning; the gums are shedding russet leaves, and one of the Preacher's "times" is at hand—the time of blankets and open fires, the putting away of screens and the flurry of little decisions. Florida is a great
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used to hear it said of wispy old men, unkempt and scraggly, that they had "gone to seed." The fields that were clothed in woodland rose up behind brown; they are sleeveless at the edges like old towers.
the peak of the April blossom, and the crop was to a dead loss. In a dry summer the fields produced poor hay. Now we wait for the restoring snows, but the wait is long.
This is the worst of all times for the gardener. Only a few weeks ago, the vegetable plots were bursting with the sumptuous fruit that prickly to the touch; tomatoes as bright as Christmas balls; okra, eggplant, blackeyed peas, zucchini, peppers red and green. And the corn. The stalks are disciplined row, the ripening ears as ready for inspection as the rifles of Marines.
THIS HAS been a dismal season for our farming neighbors. Rappahannockers—the hill people distinguished from immigrant urban aliens—are mostly cattle people or peach-and-apple people. They are losing their faith, going on faith, hope and credit.
The orchard people have had two bad years in a row. Last year the trees groaned under a massive crop; you could scarcely give your apples away. This year saw a killing freeze at
crabgrass spreads a rough and ragged shroud.
It is gone, all gone. The zucchini crumpled overnight, as if a pup tent had collapsed. The brave company of corn is a reason because this is an in-between time, it is too soon to put the beds down for winter and it is too late to plant anything but turnips. September gardeners who can who can't find anything to do.
By JAY BEMIS
Kansas City's cowtown image lingers
In the aftermath of the Republican National Convention, Kansas City's media haven't been modest about the hikes Kansas City has received as host of the convention.
Letters have appeared from delegates of such states as Hawaii, Tennessee, and Kansas to its hospitality and friendliness.
"By opening up their beautiful city of parks and fountains, Kansas Citians provided the GOP with the ideal setting for an exciting convention," Percy has said.
COMPLEMENTS ON Kansas City from prominent politicians, such as Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-III., are typical comments the general public reads and hears.
KANSAS CITY did a good public relations job in winning its bid to host the convention. In obtaining the national event, Kansas City boasted of its Plaza, many trees, wide
"But far more impressive was the graciousness, beauty, charm and hospitality of the bearland city."
boulevards and availability of hotel rooms.
But such attractions are only in certain areas of the city.
City planners knew that the Battle Exposition Hall, being built in 1928, City's hotel area, wouldn't be finished in time for the convention. Shil, they were publicists to use Kemer Arena.
Kemper seemed suitable enough for a political convention.
I keep TRAN to TELL you GOOD BOOY, THE CONVENTIONS TWO BLOOD DOWN—THIS HERES THE STOCKARD!
BUT WHAT did visitors think of the stockyards and railways surrounding Kemper Arena? Besides all of the stories complimenting Kansas City, disfaction has been reported.
The Economist, a weekly publication based in London declared:
"Though the old stockyards area behind the Republican's meeting place, the Kemper Arena, is now an industrial park, this has disguised neither the smells nor the untidiness of pens that handle 800,000 cattle and a million pigs a year."
THE ECONOMIST also reminded its readers in Kansas City's reputation in the 1920s
and 1930s under political boss Tom Pendergast.
"The speakeasies that sold his stuff bought their protection from the police department," he said. "I was a policeman. I was a policeman. I was a policeman." In return, the policeman was in turn
"The bordello has given way to a massage parlour or two with an appearance of medical-centre sterility."
to contribute 10 per cent of his pay to the local Pendergast club.
And all but Time magazine proclaims that "still nobody who visits the city's Nelson Park on weekends" sections of Oriental works, is likely to think of Kansas City as a mere cow town," the
Economist condemned the city's art.
"A HENRY Moore sculpture of sheep grazing presented by the First National Bank of Kansas City is known as a "piece of sheep," the magazine said.
Time also had criticism. The weekly magazine described the men's team, a year-old $2.32 million area, looked like a giant Styrofoam shoebox with Erector Set scaffolding on the floor.
Many visitors complained bitterly about their hotel accommodations, according to Time.
"Foreign journalists," it said, "assigned the least desirable hotels, gripped about un-creatured, small or unclear rooms."
TIME ALSO said that others found the food "generally bad and pretentious," and that cabs usually use scarce as ocean breezes.
Although Kansas City has gotten its compliments in hosting the Republican convention, the city probably will continue to have a cowtown reputation.