Election post-mortem
In general, Tuesday's elections were rather heartening indications of a Republican comeback in the United States.
Although the opposition party traditionally picks up House seats during an off-year election, this year's Republican victories were more than just customary off-year wins. The GOP picked up 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate. The House gains in particular opened the eyes of many prominent Democrats.
Just as important, Republicans were swept into the governor's chair in a number of influential states. GOP governorships now include New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, California and Ohio.
The GOP wins introduce a welcomed successor to the lopsided Democratic Congress that
has ruled since 1964. The Republican party now has a chance (if it learns how to use it) to make itself a significant force in shaping Congressional politics—a role it has not assumed since 1964. It can propose alternatives to the Great Society and, with support from the Conservative Democrats, put some of its ideas to work.
Although there is no Republican majority in either house, the Republicans now hold enough seats in the next Congress to thwart President Johnson's efforts to ramrood all his Great Society legislation through. There is a significant opposition now; the climate for political discussion and dissension is much better than it has been these last two years.
Perhaps a more thoughtful effort at politics will now be made. — Eric Morgenthaler
The Pill on campus, revisited
The people say...
To the editor:
Lee Ellis proposed in his letter that Watkins Hospital should make contraceptives available to all those who wish them, married or single. I disagree with Ellis and wholeheartedly support Dr. Schwegler.
True, the question of to whom contraceptives should be given is a moral question. However, it is not a question which should be answered by the individual student, but by the university. The university is a public servant and as such, it must follow the doctrines of the society.
THE MORAL side of the birth control pill question is greatly lessened by that little fifteen-minute ceremony called marriage, and most Protestants, at least, do not consider it immoral for married couples to use contraceptives. Therefore, the question of contraceptives in marriage becomes one not of morals but one of primarily health and finances.
However, the opposite is true for unmarried students. The question of contraceptives and pre-marital intercourse is basically a moral question, and therefore the university must follow the accepted standards of the day, i.e., make contraceptives available only to married students.
It also seems very reasonable that if contraceptives were available to single persons, there would be more pre-marital intercourse. Unfortunately, a person's conscience can often be beaten into the ground, thereby eliminating any individual feelings of moral guilt. Then the possibility of pregnancy looms as the primary restraining factor.
IF THE possibility of pregnancy were eliminated, any remaining restraining factors would be few and far between. Does Mr. Ellis feel that if the possibility of punishment for murder were eliminated, there would not be a substantial increase in the number of murders committed every year?
I agree with Mr. Ellis when he says "premarital sexual intercourse is a moral issue that must be resolved by the persons involved in a sexual relationship." However, the participants in any pre-marital relationships must face the consequences—the possibility of pregnancy—and it is definitely not the university's position to eliminate this consequence.
I would also like to inform Mr. Ellis that there is something called total commitment which can come only through the union in marriage of two people in love.
To the editor:
In the editorial, "Brain drain," the author stated "organizations such as the Alliance (for Progress) Gulf Oil, Standard Oil and many others designed to aid foreign countries are the cause of the Latin American professional exodus."
First, the Alliance for Progress is not an organization. It is a broad idea or concept of partnership in this hemisphere.
YOU CANT find offices of the Alliance for Progress in any U.S. Embassy. The closest you could come is the Agency for International Development which administers some of the programs administered under the Alliance. The responsibility of success of the Alliance lies just as much with the Latins as with us.
Secondly, I don't think that U.S. foreign investment is "the cause of the Latin American professional exodus." The writer cited Colombia as a country "hardest hit" by this exodus due to U.S. competition.
FVE LIVED in Colombia the past two years. U.S. staffers are a small percentage of the total employees in every U.S. company. The Colombian government maintains strict price control on all products and U.S. companies are generally controlled like Colombian companies. Under such conditions, they cannot afford to pay "American dollars" to many staffers. They are
phased out as soon as they can be replaced by Colombians, creating more jobs still.
It is true that U.S. citizens receive a pay in dollars disproportionate to the nationals, but they have to be paid good salaries to take them and their families to a foreign country.
I believe the cause of this exodus stems from problems within the country, not from without.
Tim Evans
Kansas City freshman
James Prentice Columbus, Neb., sophomore
He admits that premarital sex is widespread at KU. However, by treating it as a strictly moral problem, and neglecting its medical aspects, he seems to be abdicating a part of the responsibility of Watkins Hospital for protecting the health of KU students. He leaves many unmarried girls with the grim choice of a forced marriage or an illegal abortion.
Dr. Schwegler caps his unfortunate remarks by making a derogatory statement about unnamed KU professors. He was quoted as saying, "If I had somebody over there who I thought was as far out as some of the teaching faculty, I'd fire him." This statement does not "satisfy the requirements of professional
We are appalled at Dr. Schwegler's statements on birth control, in the UDK.
To the editor:
dignity and good taste," recommended by the Faculty Handbook.
Mr. and Mrs. James Cooley,
Salina seniors
Mr. and Mrs. Angus Wright
Salina seniors
Richard Lobdell
Salina Senior
John Mason
Bellevue, Neb., senior
Official Bulletin
Foreign Students: Sign up now for Nov. People-to-People Tour during vacation. Nov. 25, leave at 12:00 noon from Kansas Union. No cost to students
Lecture, 4.30 p.m. Henry W. Wells,
Cambria "Poetry & Drama in East."
Union.
Graceke Life, 9 p.m. "The cure for
cancer" in The New York Times and
Epiphon House, 1301 W. Cornum Rd.
University Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
"Oliver."
TODAY
Math Colloq., 3:30 p.m. Prof. Phillus, KU, 103 Si.
TOMORROW
Muslim Society, 1 p.m. Friday
meeters hold at Kansas Union
Freshman Football, 2:30 p.m. Missouri at Memorial Stadium.
Library Lecture, 3:30 p.m. Prof.
George Schoolfield, U. of Pa., on Rilke's Last Poetry. West Reading Room. Watson.
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." Dyche Bum
Foreign Fm, 7.30 p.m. "The Age of
Inauthenticity." Hoch Aud.
University Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
"Oliver."
Daily Kansan
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Thursday, November 10, 1966
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"IF IT'S ANY CONSOLATION - YOU HAVE THE HIGHEST ACCUMULATED POINT TOTAL OF ANY STUDENT I HAVE EVER FLUNKED."
STRONG STUFF
as seen by EMERY GOAD
The "Never Give Up" award this week goes to the KU Collegeate Young Republicans who were the only people we saw at the GOP victory party in the big empty ballroom of the Jayhawk Hotel election night.
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When asked to remark on the results of the UDK straw poll of last week which showed Avery over Docking 5 to 1, Tom Cochran, state Democratic finance chairman, said, "What kind of support can KU expect from the new governor when they have backed Avery all the while?"
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The elections had their up and downs for many candidates and for successful congressman Chester Mize, a former KU student. We noticed he rode the elevator down to the basement of the hotel, presumably to leave, but rode back up when some KU Beta's got on and they sang the house song all the way back up to his room.
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With Tuesday's success for several unfavored candidates one KU student wondered what would happen if Bobby Kennedy was elected President. "Where would they put all his children, there is enough for a full baseball team, you know."
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Seems to us like the Democrats are docking on a new adventure in Kansas politics.
New books
Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Street of Seven Stars (Dell, 60 cents), Dangerous Days (Dell, 60 cents) and This Strange Adventure (Dell, 60 cents)—old-fashioned romantic mysteries by a lady no longer with us. She conjured up good plots, and she had luscious damsels in distress, and everything all seemed so clean (in comparison, that is).
Agatha Christie's Sad Cypress (Dell, 50 cents), The Boomerang Clue (Dell, 50 cents) and Dead Man's Mirror (Dell, 50 cents) —more out of the past, by a gal who, it almost seems, will never leave us. Hercule Poirot mainly, that intellectual French chap,
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