Ban Tiresome
Kansas State's student government resolution asking the State Board of Regents to rescind their ban on campus cigarette sales has revived a rather tiresome but controversial subject.
What it all boils down to, seemingly, is that students feel they should not be forced to walk or drive off campus to buy cigarettes at high prices. The All Student Council at KU has also voiced some concern over the effect this has had on the Kansas Union's financial situation.
These complaints seem a bit petty. But they come from a more complicated resentment by the students. The ban has not accomplished its purpose, that of discouraging cigarette smoking among university students.
ONE STUDENT REMARKED that the University had a moral obligation to use this ban due to recent findings on cancer. What is this moral obligation? We can't have someone wiping our noses for the rest of our lives. No one is going to ban cigarette sales at convenient places
for us after we leave the University. Why should they? We obviously have to learn to take care of ourselves.
It would make about as much sense to ban the sale of candy, soft drinks, ice cream and other rich foods from sale in the Kansas Union. By hoping we will all stop, or never begin smoking, they are trying to stop something now that will cause ill effects later. How many fifty-year-old men who are 60 pounds overweight began eating rich junk at an early age. This isn't exactly healthful.
This may seem far-fetched, but the number of rather fat middle-aged citizens who die early of heart conditions, isn't small.
STUDENTS WHO WANT TO SMOKE are going to smoke regardless of a ban on campus sales. It is just another senseless rule that accomplishes nothing. After all, the Union still sells cigars for those with that particular habit.
Janet Hamilton
Processional...
Or Why I Stopped Worrying About The Draft And Grew A Beard
And Grew A Beard
Bertrand Russell, known of late,
God of our militant bleat for peace.
Beneath whose star we demonstrate
In tennis shoes upon the street—
Be with us yet—we might forget,
We might forget.
The ROTC and jeerers leave,
The bourgeoisie and fools depart;
Still stand those "facts" we must believe
For in our hearts we know they're right!
(People who challenge our figures usually get
their information from some unreliable Fascist
publication like the New York Times, Reader's Digest, or the New Republic)
Be with us yet—(etc.)
So far-called those multitudes melt away To Viet Nam with gun in hand,
Because they all got marked "I-A"
And laughed at us and waved no signs.
Be with us yet—(etc.)
For unkempt hair and bearded chin,
For draft-board markings "I-AO",
For frantic plea and fearful word,
Thy Mercy's on thy people, Lord (Russell)
—T. Lorent Joslin
— T. Lorent Joslin
"Don't Think I'm Against Democracy—It's Just That You Have So Many Negroes"
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University Forum-
India Club Offers Answer
EDITOR'S NOTE—India Club offers this essay as an answer to all past and future comments on India's position in the fight over Kashmir.
The world press has openly labelled Pakistan as the aggressor in its second attempt of aggression on India's borders in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the first one being in 1947. The world has not forgotten that it was India who took the Kashmir issue to the United Nations, an issue of naked aggression on its territory. Nobody imposed war on Pakistan, but it was of her own making which she was planning for a long time, and in this second maneuver tried hard to occupy as much territory as possible, a technique which she has recently learned from her big brother "Red China."
On August 5 the aggression began by smuggling thousands of fully armed Pakistani infiltrators into Kashmir, some of whom were Pakistani army officers in the garb of shepherds. Pak raised a cry of internal revolt in Kashmir of which no trace was found by the scores of foreign press correspondents stationed in Srinagar. The brave people of Kashmir left no stone unturned in helping the tracking down of these invaders who burnt down several villages. They have not forgotten the deeds of Pakistani invaders of 1947 who massacred people, looted property and brought misery to their land. On September 1, Pakistani forces crossed the international border near Chamb to cut off the Indian supply line. India, on September 6, had to take retaliatory action. Even Nehru, our late prime minister, made it clear that "an attack on Kashmir state will be considered an attack on India like an attack on the Punjab state." Time magazine has given a good account of all this invasion.
IF INDIA IS POOR, Pakistan is not rich. If India is unfortunate, Pakistan is not fortunate. Even in the modern cities like Karachi one can see dingy slums harboring flies and swines. People die on footpaths due to hunger and disease. No one can think of opening the mouth, what to talk of demonstrations. People have not forgotten Hitler and his military dictatorship. Millions of unfortunate Pakistanis have been denied the right to vote for 18 years, saw their first elections this year in January, the outcome of which was that
These unlucky people are still to bear the fruits of independence which they were given by the British when they left India in 1947, creating Pakistan out of Indian land Listen to radio Kabul (Afghanistan) which exposes Pakistan and gives a good account of the bombing of hundreds of Pakhtoon villages. Baluchistan leaders are also in prisons and thousands of Baluch tribesmen have been killed. These brave people of frontier regions have been carrying on their fight for human rights in the same way as the Khampa tribesmen in Tibet against Communist Chinese. These people need self-determination first, before their country's military rulers demand self-determination for other countries' territories. Self-determination cannot be confused with plebiscite.
several people were openly shot down in the streets for voting against the military regime. The standard of living is still much lower in Pakistan than India, according to United Nations figures.
Kashmir is not the only territory considered disputed by Pakistan. Gradually the claims will rise to other Indian states like Hyderabad, Junagadh, Assam and the unforgotten Kutch, whose Rann desert she has tried to label as "Rann of Sind." Kashmiris, whom Nehru promised self-determination, have already done so thrice (once every five years) in general elections which took place all over the country. How about Pakistanis? The people of Pakhtoonistan are crying for self-determination and their leaders have been in jails for the last 18 years.
East Bengal is controlled by people who live 1,000 away. Bengalis who are culturally, socially, and linguistically different from west Pakistanis have been demanding autonomy for a long time. Besides this, millions of non-Muslim Bangalis have been gradually squeezed out of their ancestral homeland. Only last year thousands of Christians were forcibly evicted from East Pakistan, who took shelter in India. World Federation of Churches rendered help to them besides assistance from the government of India.
India has not only accepted millions of Hindu, Christian, Sikh, etc., refugees from Pakistan, but thousands of Tibetan refugees also. What better example can be cited of "Human Degradation" when people in Pakistan are discriminated against on the basis of religion, not to talk of equal rights. How many
non-Muslims hold responsible posts in PAK government?
India, where not only Muslims, but Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., carry equal rights, is a symbol of secularism. Our vice-president is a Muslim, foreign minister a Sikh, besides four Muslims and a Christian are ministers. Mohamed C. Chagla, a devout Muslim and also the education minister, is India's representative in Security Council on Kashmir issue. Muslims occupy high positions in all government and military posts. Indian Muslims have shown gallantry in recent encounters with Pak forces and some have won highest honor awards. It is not only three million Kashmiri Muslims, but the rest of the fifty-seven million Indian Muslims who were the first to offer themselves to fight Pakistani aggressors. They have pledged to fight Pakistan up to the last drop of their blood. They will teach Pakistan what human rights are...
WE HAVE NO PROBLEMS with our neighbors except Pakistan and Red China, who have forcibly occupied large chunks of Indian territory and are sailing in the same boat. India has no desire to destroy Pakistan, but in fact, interested in the good will of its people. If the rulers of Pakistan stop the cry of "Jehad" (holy war) against India, their people will soon realize the poor economic state of their country. Cries of war and annexing Kashmir have diverted the attention of these people. Pakistanis have been infiltrating not only into Eastern India, but also into Arakan state of Burma because of unbearable living conditions in their homeland.
No one will preach nonviolence against aggressors. Thanks to Shastri, they have been dealt with firmly. He has fulfilled the wishes of his people as a true democratic leader. India, in fact, did not have a well-equipped army as very little money was going for defense. Thanks to the western powers for aiding India, India is awake now and it will soon show to the world that it is not Pakistan, but India, which can check the advance of communism in Asia, whose well-founded democracy's success will determine the fate of all nations of the world threatened with communist and communalist dangers. Time has come now to throw out both the aggressors from Indian soil. This is the only solution to the Kashmir problem.
B. P. Saxena,
India graduate student