Editorials
'There's Also The Problem Of Warheads Here At Home'
Name of the game
The Kansas Physical Education corporation, which administers intercollegiate athletics at KU, has decided the Student Court is a new sport. So the corporation has extended its responsibilities and now rules on decisions established by the court. It did not matter that the court issued an order that university identification cards would suffice for entrance to the basketball game Wednesday night—it was part of the game.
The court decision was ignored and only students with season tickets were admitted.
THE JUSTIFICATION FOR the maneuver by the board of directors of the corporation was explained by Wade Stinson, athletic director. He said the "Physical Education Corporation is not a party to the dispute—the defendant is the Student Athletic Seating Board, which is not a part of the corporation."
Of course the Student Court was not a "part of the Athletic Corporation" either, but that didn't matter to Mr. Stinson or the board of directors.
It was the corporation that set the $4 price for season tickets, acting under the authority of the Student Athletic Seating Board. The seating board is a branch of the All Student Council and the council did not grant prior approval of the price increase.
THE COURT OBTAINED a restraining
order which prevents the sale of tickets until a hearing Saturday. The court later modified its ruling and said the tickets could be sold but the money collected was to be held in escrow. After the court issued the order that student ID cards and a current fee receipt would admit students to the game Wednesday night, the corporation board members overruled.
The Athletic Corporation has undermined the powers of the Seating Board and the ASC. It has usurped the power of the Student Court and has violated the University's contract with students as stated on fee cards.
A FINAL TOUCH TO the coup d'etat came when Mr. Stinson added, "The less said about this, the better."
The Student Court may attempt to exercise a role in university affairs, but Mr. Stinson holds the key to the field house. The Student Court may hold the key to student justice, but the Athletic Corporation holds the power to usurp.
The issue is not the $4 season ticket, but whether the student court has real power. The answer to the question would seem to be an emphatic NO. It's only a game. So why not change the name of it. Instead of Student Court, call it MONOPOLY. And the members of the court can go play one version, which the Athletic Corporation plays another.
Robert Rollins
The People Say...
ticket outrage DEAR EDITORS:
A few weeks ago I was one of the unenlightened minority to vote for a "representative" (I use the term loosely) to the ASC. In the future, however, I shall take my place among the ranks of the apathetic multitude.
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I READ TODAY that our "new" ASC has taken action supporting the sale of student tickets to basketball games and raising the price of student football tickets. I was interested that "several of the new members expressed concern over the issue because . . . their constituents are against the additional prices charged for student athletic seating." They are concerned, but vote against the wishes of the people they "represent" anyway. It appears that instead of representing the student view to the administration, they represent the administration's view to the student.
I fail to understand the justification for the price increase
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Sibler
in the first place. In the letter from the ASB, we were all told that KU's greatly improved team (now nationally prominent) has brought "increased demand for better seating," which of course must be paid on. If this is the case, do we get a rebate if we fail to gain national rankings? Shouldn't we in turn be paid for faithfully attending what Jack Mitchell contended were football games this fall?
THE OTHER REASON for the increase is to pay for a stadium expansion. Is that all? Will the prices be lowered or removed when the stadium is paid for? Do we need an expansion? Were football tickets in such demand this fall that no one could find a ticket? How many times was the stadium completely full this year? Before we get a bigger stadium, why don't we get a football team?
Jan Parkinson Prairie Village senior
Kansas justice
What happens to a KU student who carries a sign with a dirty word on it in an antidraft demonstration? He gets arrested for "gross public indecency," bond is set at $500 and later, after he is forced to withdraw from school, he gets a 30 day jail sentence, or, if he wishes, two years probation.
WHAT HAPPENS TO KU students who show obscene movies? Nothing, because this is a matter for KU to handle.
It's called Kansas justice.
Justin Beck
Daily Kansan
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Friday, December 3, 1965
HERBLOCK
THE WASHINGTON POST
University Forum Ian Smith-gambler
Why has Britain refused to send troops to Rhodesia when there is an act of rebellion there? The answer is obvious. The white minority group in Rhodesia, the element that constitutes the act of rebellon, is of "the kith and kin."
More than the mere refusal to send troops to Rhodesia, there is every indication that Britain will let Ian Smith get away with his illegal act. Economic sanctions, oil embargoes, British Broadcasting Corp. transmitters to Africa, token troops for Zambia are all visible acts of self-justification that have neither sincerity in them nor any great use as solutions for the problem.
IF BRITAIN CONNOT send troops into Rhodesia now, can it send troops a year or so later when the economic sanctions and other punitive and enlightening measures fail to have their effect? That is more than unlikely, and that is the situation we are fast approaching. That is why I say that Britain has let Smith get away with a rebellious act simply because he is of the kith and kin representing the interests of fellow kith and kin. In fact, I will even say that Britain has condoned Smith's action and is now putting up some form of opposition to quiet the indignant world and placate its own conscience. Prime Minister Wilson went so far as to tell Smith that if he should declare UDI (unilateral independence), Britain would not send troops to Rhodesia. Smith get the message and he is just waiting for another appropriate moment before he takes up his final step—get rid of the seeming lceal judiciary and governor.
ALREADY, THE ORGANIZATION for African Unity, (OAU) is meeting specially for Rhodesia. Recent reports of African attempts for a strike in Rhodesia show that all is not going fine for Smith down there either. The time honored statement that the natives are restless adequately describes the temperament of every African today. And they have every reason to be restless too, for not only do they know that Smith would have been arrested and put in prison the moment he mentioned UDI if he were a black nationalist, but also that their own kith and kin is suffering unjustly at the hands of a fiendish and a foreign minority of self-seekers and gamblers. As Smith himself said, "I always win my gambles." But maybe it is because he has never gambled with black Africans, or else he would have known better than gamble on UDI.
Swaebou Conateh Gambia junior
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