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Mondav. Mav 5.1975
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
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'Humpty' needs help
The world is Humpty-Dumpty and the United States is all the king's horses and all the king's men. In apparent defiance of our most well-meaning efforts, the shattered world won't fit together as we would like it to.
Our involvement in Indochina has ended in humiliating failure. Our efforts to ease tensions in the Mideast have proved fruitless. The Atlantic Alliance continues to crumble.
The Third World majority at the United Nations defies us on almost every issue. The much heralded "detente" between East and West has failed to stop the arms race. We and our allies are deep in recession.
Events seem beyond our control. The complex networks that form the fabric of our world civilization are stretched almost to their limits.
The world is far beyond repair by one nation alone. We need cooperation among nations more than ever. Yet the willingness of nations to cooperate is lagging far behind advancing technologies.
The United States seems incapable of taking an effective leadership role to improve the state policies and policies just keep us going in circles.
rine tall of South Vietnam has fired up opponents of detente and insured
that American military spending will continue upward. The more we spend on defense, the popular logic goes, the safer we will be.
We respond to our recession by massive deficit spending and money creation. Our single-minded response ignores both the primary cause of the crisis and the most critical consequences of continued industrial growth.
Consequently, the outlook is for more world upheaval, not less. We can expect an increasingly dangerous future in a world where there is intensified competition for dwindling resources and countries possess nuclear weapons. Such a world seems inevitable.
Our fixated reactions to problems have become part of our problems. We cannot be much help to the world unless we cease being our own worst enemy. Yet socio-political conditions may often frighten us, only frustrate an attempt to deal with our problems on much more than a piecemeal basis.
We need international cooperation now more than ever, yet the human race remains locked behind its many primitive ideologies. When will our minds catch up with our technology?
—Steven Lewis
Black dialect viable
Years ago African slaves from Cape Verde on the West African coast, to the Grain Coast were shipped to America. These slaves were from four ethnic groups, the Negritians, the Felatlabs, the tanamans, and the Maniates; but fortunes varied as such the Senegalese and the Mandingos. Out of this, black life evolved a black language called Black English or BE.
An early form of BE was Pidgin English, used by slaves to communicate with other slaves. A good example of Pidgin English was the language the apeman from Africa once spoke. Another example of early Black English is Joel Chander Harris' black character "Uncle Remus."
"En wid dat Brer Rabbit lip out er de do) and dodge 'mong de bushes, in sot dar watchin' fer Brer Fox."
In standard English, that would mean: "And with that, Brother Rabbit leapt out of the cupboard and threw there watching for Brother Fox."
Today we speak in so many dialects caused by early Black English, geographical locations and educational influences that when someone says 'Wy'*co* she did he*d*. Simple reply: 'Why of course he did.'
We have learned to tolerate and use the dropping of verbs and clustering of consonants. But in
understanding the rewards of English, a problem exists. Today Polish immigrants attempting to speak English make English sound like Polish. German immigrants make English sound like German.
For Africans learning standard English, this phenomenon is compounded because among Afro-Americans there exist many dialects that interfere with the development of standard English. If you're an Afro-American and can't run something down, or cop a plea, or sound off on someone, you are illiterate.
If you're a black in college and you're smart, you can fill your sentences with verbs and draw a parenthetical sentence at will. But no matter how standardized black people become, they can't get away from the nonstandard language of the "Dozens." An African can see a bilingual black person as a communicative genius in our society, and a standard English-speaking black person as an outcast.
And given the choice of being a bilingual genius or a standard English American, the African chooses the latter. American blacks must also use standard English and realize that they are not native for bilingual communications. This raises the question of why there'e an't no reaaw'd fr' communcating with the people. —Dwight Thomas
Kansan apologizes
The Kansan wishes to apologize to Gov. Robert F. Bennett for the errors of fact that appeared in an editorial in Wednesday's Kansan. In the editorial, Bennett was criticized for supporting a pay increase for himself and for suggesting that University of Kansas faculty members weren't earning their salaries.
in fact, Bennett requested that a pay increase for elected state officials, including himself, be deleted from a salary increase bill, and although he has suggested that faculty teaching loads should be increased, he hasn't advocated a strict accounting of their weekly working hours.
7) When I had hired another girl, I was called five minutes before I expected her to arrive. When she wished to remain anonymous) had told her all about us and proceeded to list several untruths. Why shouldn't I warn them that slander is a serious binge?
8) While your highly esteemed newspaper is attacking me, why don't someone take the time to find out that the time to find out that
"DON'T BE SO MELODRAMATIC! MAYBE THE SENATE WONT CONFIRM HATHAWAY."
6) Why would I assure someone they wouldn't be fired when they weren't doing their job? Why would they worry about being fired if they were doing their job?
Readers respond
To the Editor:
The article entitled, "City Investigates Modern Guide," (April 24 Kansas) has raised a question in my mind. Some of them are:
1) Why does the fact that Modern Guide to Buying was notified that our office is in the wrong zone for business rate approximately one-fourth of the front page of the Kansan?
My feeling is rather one of anger at the Vietnamese refugees who fled to the United States. They are among the higher class and ranking people of the country. In Saigon, they lived in air conditioned houses and sent their children to
4) How can a newspaper whose reputation relies on factual information take the word of someone who wasn't even responsible enough to help work most of the time?
2) Why would Mr. Covington talk to former employees "to determine the type of work practiced" when I had already explained who we are and what we do—especially when he is only interested in the city's zoning regulations?
5) What does the fact that I live at the office have to do with my business or the zoning regulations? Is there any woman on this campus who would want almost every person to be made to know where she lives and her phone number?
3) Miss Reece's statement regarding membership dues is incorrect; but then how could someone come to hear a presentation.
Perhaps, it's a very sad thing to look at the negative reaction of the American people toward the Vietnamese refugees. But I am not only surprised at this kind of reaction; indeed, I feel more confident in the only of five Vietnamese students attending KU who didn't go to the office of Dean Coan (Dean of Foreign Students) to apply for the ariflying of my family to the United States. I also decided not to answer the request of a political science professor to supply him a list of South America that the U.S. government could airlift them to America to serve this country.
service works or how our members feel about the money they save?
If the Kansan had done any research on us they would know that Modern Guide to Buying, Inc., is the marketing company. We market The Buying Service. We are not a subsidiary. Our home on us is in Kansas City, the Business of it is in Cranberry, N.J., not in Kansas City. My company does not tolerate any lying or misrepresentation. If anyone feels I have misrepresented either company, contact Ken Hough, President, Modern News, Kansang, Inc., 1123 Locust, Kansang City, Mo., 94141. Liza Small
Office Manager Lawrence Modern Guide to Buying Office
To the Editor:
Refugees
Modern Guide manager protests
private schools. They made profits off of poor people and courageous South Vietnamese soldiers. Now, they flee the country in order to rescue the people who are fighting for their freedom and their lives.
God bless my family and those who remain in my country. I haven't received a letter from my family in about a month. I cried when I listened to the news that no more letters will be delivered from my school to students, my students, my life has depended on what I have in the mail box every day.
Nguyen-L Phu Hue. Viet Nam, Junior
I used to not like the Communists, but in this case, I would say that I would rather talk than to let them listen to the reaction of the American people. I will definitely go back to serve my country because the blood are always Viet Nam.
Nguyen-L-Phu
Straight talk
To the Editor:
Some straight talk from one who finds it very difficult, that's what this is. I haven't appeared in the Kansan yet, so here is I am. I look at everybody else, well-meaning, with a fertile (nearly ripe), better than average, blah, blah mind. Also, I have no sense of direction, I mean, where is he? He's essentially the cause of all this.
I've got ideas, too, like about "Biblical baldardash," even if Jesus didn't really make anybody alive again, he make it seem hardworthy so it seems hardly worth the trouble to talk about. Unc,?
And then this Jayawk, or pterodactyl, all this uproar. Frankly, I'm scared. Take the pterodactyl, he ate fish before humans, or even Catholics, without a pole. Twenty-foot
wingspan, beat that. Your blessed Jayhawk can't even fly.
"So big deal," you say. "Who cares?" Go to hell, Strong Hall, and may God be with you.
I know you think this is meaningless. Fice, is I wish I knew what for's too, but if I did, I'd write President Johnson or Johnson and those big poll-stands understand and know what to do. Whatever happened to Vietnam? Now, there was an issue. Big as life on the job, I've known my posterior orfice from last year's world series anyway. Give me a good Kent State or county tax scandal, so I can write you again. I really know that bygones be okies, but okay?
Alan C. Howard McPherson Sophomore
Crime victims often forgotten
Canoe race
To the Editor:
Some efforts are being made to improve the situation. St. Louis has a program to aid victims in recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Seattle. A number of states,
What about the Christieen Gibson of this world? We read volumes about the Odean seldom we see in our crime seldon are remembered of
The most ambitious program comes from the National District Attorneys Association, which last August received a $966,000 grant from the Law Enforcement Department to see what might be done. A study commission is now at work coordinating data
Traylor pleaded guilty to robbery by force. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He is now jailed at the McAleran Pententiary, where he was convicted of taking taxpayers a cost of $3,600 a year until, presumably, he is again paroled. End of story.
The problem of the innocent victim cries out for correction.
In a nation riddled by violent crime, it is, of course, imminent. Children need to understand how children grow to be criminals and to identify their twisted roots. But I for one, have had a baffful of the bleeding hearts and weep-easies who shed tears for the bravest jails. What will they cry for the Christen Gibsons as well?
Ardmore police arrested one Odean Traylor for the crime. He is 22, the youngest of nine children. His mother died when he was two, his father aban-dered and left the children to the care of parents. Traylor dropped out of school at the ninth grade, worked briefly in a chicken-processing plant, served time
from Philadelphia, Oakland,
New Orleans, Denver,
Chicago, White Plains, N.Y.
Farmington, Utah
和 Covington, Ky. Already a
number of steps have been
taken to help students and to protect witnesses. Some model
programs are taking shape.
"I believe, and taught my children to believe, that accepting anything that we didn't earn would destroy our pride," she said. "And if we destroyed them, they would be destroyed. Today there is so much given to people they don't have any pride anymore."
last year for burglary in Texas.
Three months after he was released on parole, he went to the E-Z Shop.
The White House issued its annual proclamation the other day, calling on us to observe Law Day and to reflect on the importance of offering our reflections the story of Mrs. Christen Gibson. Her name could be Legion, for her role in passing Gibson is a victim of crime.
starting with California and New York in 1966, have adopted laws that to some limited extent serve to aid or to compensate victims. The other states are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Alaska, Washington, Illinois and Delaware. The federal government has appointed a leader Mike Mansfield has introduced a Senate bill that contains some promise.
Concerning the story on the Kaw Valley Rivalry Canoe Race, I feel the coverage of the Kansas was extremely lacking. The amount of space given to the race was incomparable to amount of time, energy and enthusiasm of everyone involved.
By JAMES KILPATRICK
The story comes from Robbie Pitts, Ardmore stringer for the Daily Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. She wrote her story in "The Story of Me," as if she were hammering nails, let me extract the essence.
On the night of Nov. 14, 1974,
Mrs. Gibson was working, as usual, as a clerk in the E-Z
Shop, a neighborhood grocery in Ardmore. About 10:30 p.m., a
young buck came in, presented
(C) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Mrs. Gibson was injured so badly that more than half her stomach had to be removed surgically. A frail woman of 56 pounds and now weighing only 78, her right wrist and her left shoulder have suffered such impairment that she can't work even as a waitress or clerk. When Robbie Pitts interviewed her late in March, she had only one leg. She said tape could be cut to provide disability payments under Social Security. Her savings
completely ignored was the fact that there were 25 canoes entered and KU fought with Haymaker for the lead the entire race ahead and built up a four-minute lead in the afternoon of 'he second day.
a five-dollar bill and asked for cigarettes. When she started to make change, the man knocked her down, leaped across the counter and began beating her brutally. "He didn't say anything, he just kept hitting me." He stole $111, and left.
Maybe the Kansan doesn't understand what the Rogues endured to capture the title for KU. The team started training running and lifting weights. The team captains, George Treu and Dave Alderson, set rugged standards for the entire team to have been done, the story should have included that these people were responsible for finding sponsors (the Jayhawk Cafe and the Dark Hare Tavern in Geeseville) so the race could be run.
were exhausted. She is in debt for medical care, and is reluctant to go on welfare.
The Sigma Omega Beta passed and outran a K-State team on the last leg to capture third place.
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Was this Ho Chi Minh, Le Duc Tho or Radio Hanli? No, the speaker was former president Thieu of South Vietnam assailing the United States for its inevitable fall of his country.
To the Editor:
"The United States has led the South Vietnamese people to death."
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Because of the Kansan's lax and irresponsible reporting, many people have been robbed of the recognition that they possess an admirable accomplishment. KU should be extremely proud of finally owning the traveling trophy that has found its home at K-State the inception of the race. If the Kansan showed half as much spirit as the rest, University would surely benefit.
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Thieu is quick to forget the 55,000 Americans who were killed and are now being counded at Dai Nang, Khe Nang and hundreds of rice paddies across Vietnam. After all that, Mr. Thieu, how can you look in the eyes of veterans with your head up?
John Connors
Overland Park sophomore
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