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Wednesday, April 2, 1975
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Gift of art museum
Once again the University of Kansas will benefit from the generosity of Helen Foresman Spencer. Mrs. Spencer is donating most of the funds for a $4 million art museum, which Chancellor Dykes predicts will be one of the finest university art museums in the nation.
The Kress Foundation of New York has generously agreed to supplement Mrs. Spencer's gift with a $250,000 grant.
The new museum will be named for Mrs. Spencer and will be situated west of the Kansas Union. It will have classroom lessons and an art library.
The new museum replaces Spooner Art Museum, which is in such poor repair that many valuable objects cannot be displayed there.
Mrs. Spencer has long been a promoter of art. She has been a member of the Art Society.
Gallery in Kansas City, Mo., and she sees much future cooperation between Nelson and the new KU museum.
Mrs. Spencer's generosity should encourage aspiring artists to come to KU. Artists serve an important function in society by providing us with new symbols with which to think.
Artists give us new ways to view the things we often take for granted. They help us throw off old habits of thought. Certainly the Soviet artist who is writing an expression is official recognition of the potential influence of artists.
American artists are free to create any new symbols they desire, and the rest of us are free to try to translate the languages in which they speak.
We are indeed fortunate that art has such a good friend in Helen Spencer.
Steven Lewis
By DON SMITH
Sanford valiant dark horse
By DONSMITH
Kansas Renorter
In past years, a southern politician needed only to treat blacks with a modicum of sanity to gain a national reputation for being liberal.
If the southerner also had the distinction of not selling out to the special interests of his state, he was even occasionally
mentioned for a possible position on the Democratic party's national ticket.
However, as national politics have become more conservative, southern Democratic politics has begun to head in a direction that is unmistakable. The pacester of this trend has been Terry Sanford.
Soon, Sanford, 57, the former governor of North Carolina, will seek to begin another trend—that of being a viable and responsible party for the Democratic party's nomination for president.
Sandford is president of Duke University in Durham, N.C. He is considered a moderate liberal and has been an influential Democrat since he was elected governor of Georgia, an anti-immigrant his candidacy for president at the end of the current school year.
Although Sanford is known by few Democrats, he could put together a campaign similar to the 1927 effort of Sen. George A. Woodward, D.-D., to lead to the Democratic nomination in summer 1976.
WHAT SANFORD WILL surely lack in campaign financing and endorsements should be quickly updied by his main asset of political courage. Sanford's career clearly depicts that strain of courage.
five percentage points in a state rigidly Democratic.
Bucking strong opposition, Sanford as governor set up the North Carolina Fund, which assisted community groups in establishing day care centers for welfare mothers.
However, not only did Sanford endorse the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, he seconded John Kennedy's nomination at the convention. Sanford wound up defeating his opponent by only
When Sanford became governor in 1961, he was faced with increasing civil rights demonstrators had moved into the streets and were hosed down by some North Carolina lawsuits. Sanford advised those moves that would discontinue that practice.
IN ADDITION, SANFORD was the first southern governor to call for employment regardless of race by both private and governmental agencies.
Sanford's successes in civil rights are more than a decade old and seem far removed from 1975. But one needs only to compare Sanford's record with the governor's southwestern, Go George Walkerons, to appreciate the importance of Sanford's walkersons.
campaign, Sanford became president of Duke University in Again, Sanford a co-owner and mentor proved to be an asset.
After retiring as governor in 1965 and later helping manage the 1968 Humphrey-Muskie
In 1960, when he ran for governor, the polls showed that he would defeat his segregationist opponent. All he had to do was refuse to endorse the Democratic national ticket.
Following the Nixon-ordered invasion of Cambodia, the Duke student body president called a meeting at the strike? Terry Sanford.
Refusing to call state police to disperse the protesters, Sanford instead told the students, "I hope you do try to take over the Allen Building (the administration building), and if you do, take me away. I think it was a month trying to take it over and haven't been successful." There was no campus violence.
More importantly, Sanofi was appalled by the invasion and said, "My position against the Cambodian invasion was stronger than the students' at least every bit as strong."
IN 1972, SANFORD campaigned in the Democratic primary in his home state and was defeated by Wallace. He later aborted his campaign for governor, and thinks he will do better next year because he's starting earlier.
Recently, Sanford has been chairman of the Democratic party's charter commission and the Democratic convention.
Sanford is guarded in his remarks about possible campaign issues but he has said that further American aid to terrorists should be stopped and that CIA activities should be scrutinized.
He is opposed to further aid to South Vietnam and Cambodia because it is contributing to a "needless slaughter" and won't alter the outcome of either war. Sanford also says the CIA should return "to reporting, not interfering."
AT BEST, SANFORD's candidacy represents a dark horse effort when compared to the well financed and directed campaigns some of his opponents. Many Democrats aren't satisfied with such front runners as Sen. Lloyd Bentson of Texas and Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington. The Democratic party might search for a challenger whom they could rally at convention time. That candidate could be Terry Sanford.
HI, JUST GO TO ABOUT YOUR ROUTINE, GO TO WORK, EAT YOUR LUNCH, TALK TO A FRIEND, EAT SUPPER, GO TO A MOVIE, GO TO BED, YOUR IPS, FRI, AND CIA WAIT YOU TO ENJOY YOURSELF"
ROTC milieu changing
Editor's Note: This editorial feature was written by David Burpee, a recent graduate of the master's program of the School of Journalism and a captain in the U.S. Army.
"The main thing is an attitude of letting each person do his own thing," Martz said.
The Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC units at the University of Kansas commemorate their service by lieutenants and enigns each semester. This semester will be no exception, yet the men who receive their commissions in the U.S. military are recent KU military graduates.
The attitude has changed, he said, to the extent that many people wish they had completed a ROTC program.
THE MEN WILL be unique because their training began with the nation at war and ended with the nation at peace. They will be unique because they have been young men eligible for the draft and ended with the draft a rusting piece of machinery.
Another aspect of change during the past four years was described by Sam Roberts, Jefferson City, Mo., graduate student and an Air Force ROTC cadet.
They will be unique because their training began in an environment hostile to their ambitions and ended in an environment tolerant of their ambitions.
They are also unique because of the contrasts between their first and last years at KU and the difference in number and general University classes.
"IN MY FRESHMAN year I was almost afraid to walk on campus in my uniform," he said. "Students often used abusive language and spit at me."
Paul Martz, Villa Park, Ill,
senior and a Navy RCOT cadet,
said last week that one of the
most striking differences
between his high school and
senior years was the attitude on
campus about ROTC.
"At first the program was very traditional, but as the Vietnam War expanded and as agitators grew more vocal, the program shifted to a volunteer force attitude," he said.
The cadets said ROTC had given them important advantages that weren't available on their regular courses of study.
He said examples of the change included relaxed hair regulations, fewer requirements about wearing the uniform, less marching and a liberal attitude in ROTC classes about discussing topics critical of the military.
THE COMMON ADVANTAGES they listed included tangible items such as travel, summer camp training, better possibilities of a job after school, and more paid monthly to cadets during the last two years of the program. Intangible items they described included increased self-confidence, the close friendships developed and the individual instruction available because of the small classes, time for interaction between a cadet's military education in ROTC and his general education in University
"The freshman today seem more enthusiastic than my class and seem to have more of a sense of direction."
ALLEN SCHMIDT, Hays senior and an Army ROTC cadet, agreed that ROTC was more accepted now than four years ago. The program in the program seemed different from his freshman class.
"We had a large class when I was a freshman because ROTC was used by many students to avoid the draft," he said. "After the draft ended, everyone but us dropped out, and fulta dropped out of the program, but that has changed drastically now."
THE PROGRAM HAS NO sacred cows," he said. "Cadets can be critical of any subject or status will not be affected."
classes, they said, centered on the fact that at KU, it is only the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that doesn't give some credit toward graduation for ROTC courses.
According to Schmidt, a ROTC student must sometimes cram as many as 140 hours of course work into four years. A result, he said, is eight semesters of increased work loads or an extra semester of school for the student.
sity," he said. "We are losing credit for what I think are good classes and effective instruction."
All three cadets said there was less emphasis on technical or professional skills. ROTC, to bring in certain training, limits the teaching of certain necessary mechanical skills to drill or laboratory periods.
Roberts said he was disappointed the courses didn't count toward graduation because, in his opinion, they were as academically challenging as most of his other classes.
"I feel my ROTC classes were as good as those received anywhere else in the Univer-
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'American Heritage eschewed by Indians
PLACE YOUR HAND across your heart. Feel the beat. Listen to the beat. You see, your heartbeat is the same as that of the Indian. Yet, you Founding Fathers and forbears down to the present lacked other ingredients of the hearts of men: compassion conscience and empathy. And elements aren't found in their almost complete lack of human concern for the inherent rights of and welfare of the original inhabitants of this Land.
In 200 years of your American Heritage, the Indian has suffered, and still does, from the Indian influence imposed on them since the Founding Fathers, who ironically took the major step of releasing themselves from their colonial tyrants, capitalist, colonial tyrants,
MARCH 1 OF this year marked the official United States Government opening of a 22-month celebration of the 200th birthday anniversary of the American Republic.
Editor's Note: This guest commentary was written by Ken Powlas, a Wisconsin Oneida Indian who lives in Iowa and a graduate of Mitch, is a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs at KU. Mr. Powlas calls it "an Indian view of the American Heritage that I believe needs going to the American public."
These days I often hear the patriotic drum-beat of your American Heritage. Yet, daily with each waking breath I hear and feel another kind of beat. It is in dissent to your beat.
More than 600 Indian tribes
Do you hear the dissident beat that I hear? Why don't you?
Why can't you? Why won't you?
Is it because you don't care?
Because you are uninterested?
Because you are apathetic?
Some of these same Founding Fathers perpetuated this lack of feeling for the Indian heartbeat and for the Indian spirit. The Indian from the coverage of the Constitution, Believe me, the Indian hasn't been ecstatic about the third class citizenship that him subsequently in 1924.
During these next 22 months Old Glory will get an extended work out. The oft-repeated resurrected spirits of the Founding Fathers will make Lazarus look like a piker. Patriotic oratory, parades, pagentry and marching bands will be seen on stage steady drum beat roll of the Revolutionary Era will reverberate and echo in every rock and cranny of the Nation.
LISTEN TO THE dissenting beat undercutting your patriotic roll. I hear and feel it every time. My father, my Founding Fathers didn't hear nor feel this dissenting beat. Why else would they relegate the American Indian to the status of a beast when they invade as savages in their Declaration of Independence?
During the 200 years of American Heritage, every one of the hundreds of Indian leaders in good faith, by Your Government and solemnized with the Great White Father has been broken beginning with the year he negotiated in your fabled year
have vanished from this land during your American Heritage. They went the way of the dodo bird. In many cases they perished as the result of too much trust in and kindness for your forebears. The remaining 200 tribes are waging a nowar war of tribal survival in your country, which fetters them with an impossible vice-like bureaucratic dictatorship.
MORE THAN 3.5 billion acres of land have been lost by the Indians during your 2020 year. Around 15 percent of the $3 million remaining acres of reservation land (about 250,000 acres lost annually) are taken from them, the end result is Indian may well be in sight.
of 1776. Not one such treaty has ever been broken by an Indian tribe.
This coverup is the National Disgrace of your American Heritage. All of Your Great White Fathers, Congresses and Judges deceitfully and cleverly with mumbo-jumbo information escaped the obligations of their Government to live up to each and every treaty—whether with Indians or foreigners. Your American Heritage here is a sham display of damned little honesty and absolutely no conscience when it comes to making legal up to its moral and legal treaty obligations.
YOUR 200 YEARS of American Heritage of paternalistic capitalist tyranny of the nineteenth century bered—at least by Indians—as one continually marked by murder, rape, robbery, suffering, disease and very limited rights for the Indian peoples.
During your 200 years of American Heritage, every tribe
has had more than one "Trail of Tears." The Cherokee were not the only mistreated, vanquished tribe. Their tribal subjugation alone was bad enough.
Coming to the present, what Indian pride can be engendered by a culture of segregation? It puts the Indian on the map of human misery.
PARDON OUR BLACK arm bands during such National Holidays of yours as Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and Easter Day. Pardon us also whenever you fly Old Glory uside down we fly. Old Glory uside down we fly.
We Indians will content ourselves daily in our celebration with the Great Master and Mystery of Life. We will daily thank Him for letting us survive another day. Perhaps, by Your 400th Anniversary of independence, if there are any left, the Great Spirit will have seen fit for the surviving tribes to have an Independence of their own to celebrate—daily not once a year or every day in the hereafter.
'PRESIDENT THIEU SPEAKING...TALK FAST'