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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 18, 1965
Sniff More Deeply...
There's something both eerie and laughable about being told you have only one chance in four of living. After all, when you're 19 and having the time of your life, you have a right to live. My first reaction was, "There but for the grace of God and my usual luck, would I be a medical statistic."
BUT SOMEHOW a realization of the odds slips past the blithe, it's-not-happening-to-me exterior and burrows into the subconscious.
PEOPLE have a new fascination. I notice how nostrils move when they breathe, mouths when they laugh or smile, brows when they furrow, fingers when they work.
The change comes like Sandburg's fog, "on cat feet." Walking past the Campanile and down to Potter's, across the lawn of Flint, or into Danforth, it's there. The sun shines brighter, the grass is greener, the flags snap louder, the wind blows freer—the silence is deeper. The lilacs nod in understanding and I sniff more deeply.
I really understand for the first time why a race can't wait and the cry must be "Freedom, NOW!"
I hear the pigeon coo and the squirrel chatter incessantly outside my window, no longer with irritation.
I know why the world's disinherited are apathetic when I see the overflowing grain elevators on farms whose owners don't believe in foreign aid. Or when I see the soulful eyes of an undernourished child in a Kansas City slum.
NOW I GET ANGRY when vote-conscious,
conservative politicians in Congress and state legislatures don't support education, fair housing foreign aid, medical care, urban renewal and antipoverty laws.
Now I get mad at narrow minds who knock the Peace Corps, calling it a haven for debt- and draft-dodgers.
Now my blood pressure rises when university administrators, supposed arbiters of enlightened education and free thought, toady to autocratic state legislatures and uninformed public opinion. Usually at the expense of the rights, freedoms and best interest of their students.
NOW I AM REVOLTED by social-conscious, brown-nosing college coeds, and the BMOC who thinks he is the coolest head around because he's an Alpha Beta Finka and his dad is president of Putt-Putt, Inc.
It's amazing what changes a tentative moratorium can wreak in a person's outlook. Perhaps my own generation both encourages and disappoints me most. If I might not be around to help out, I like to think that my contemporaries will try to erase the prejudice, ignorance and apathy that engulfs us all.
"It takes life to love life," the admonition of Edgar Lee Masters, has a new and ironic meaning for me.
I THINK I'll spend the rest of my time helping other people see that the grass is greener and the sun shines brighter.
Sniff more deeply, for the wind blows free.
— Anonymous
Guest Editorial
King's Face-Saving Is Costly
Has anyone figured out just what is going on in the mind of Ralph King?
If so, please let us know, because us poor folks up here on the hill have been totally mystified to date.
LET'S LOOK at the record: It all began early last semester, when a sizeable number of students, many of them members of the KU Civil Rights Council, got fed up with University inaction in the field of human rights, and took to direct action in an attempt to settle their grievances. The sit-in that was staged resulted in the arrest of 110 students who refused to leave the Chancellor's office at closing time.
Chancellor Wescoe suspended, then reinstated, the demonstrators who had been arrested. He also said the University would not prefer the civil charges of disturbing the peace.
Somehow, though, County Attorney Ralph King didn't see things in a conciliatory mood, so the charges remained. As things stand at this writing, three demonstrators have been tried and acquitted; 107 more still are to stand trial.
WHAT THIS MEANS, providing that Ralph King doesn't wake up to reality, is that there must
be a long series of trials, each with a jury of 12 citizens, in which Chancellor Wescoe, his assistant James Gunn, and a number of other persons must appear at each session, and each will end in a verdict of acquittal.
Courts of law are governed very largely by precedents. Yet for some mysterious reason, Ralph King seems to have failed to see the precedent in the three acquittals.
CERTAINLY Ralph King would like to be able to save face, and it is probable that his determination to continue the prosecution is based on what he considers to be a lack of face-saving alternatives. But somehow it is just plain unreasonable to think that one can look better by losing 107 cases on top of the present total of three.
If Ralph King continues to insist on trials for the demonstrators, we can conjecture his gravestone:
"Here lies Ralph King, one-time county attorney whose claim to fame was losing 110 straight cases in the Probate Court of Douglas County and bankrupting Douglas County in the process. May he rest forever in judicial peace."
Tim Miller
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Economic Discipline Keynotes Brazil at the Crossroads
In fact, under a succession of presidents beginning in 1956 with Juscelino Kubitschek the idea seemed to be to spend as rapidly as possible despite the fact that the cruzeiro rapidy was becoming worthless and inflation was leaping ahead at a rate close to 100 per cent per year.
By Tim Newson UPI Foreign News Analyst Brazilians have never liked economic discipline.
By Phil Newsom
UHP Foreign News Analyst
In those years of boom and bust a favorite saying was, "God must have been a Brazilian because he loves us so."
THEN A YEAR AGO. as the country teetered on the edge of bankruptcy and total chaos, came the bloodless military revolt which installed in the presidency Gen. Humberto Castelo Branco, a non-political career soldier.
Castelo Branco announced as his goal economic development and
Brazilians still don't like economic discipline, but the tough Castelo Branco and his equally economics minister, Roberto Campos, have been doing a job.
reform without inflation.
Since the beginning of the year Brazil's inflation rate has been dropping steadily until in May it totaled only 2.9 per cent, compared with 7.8 per cent in March.
AS CAMPOS AND Castelo Branco applied their bitted medicine without regard for political consequences, grumbling became inevitable.
Farmers complained that prices were so low, it was not worthwhile harvesting the crops.
CERTAINLY BRAZIL is at the crossroads. A too-drastic slowdown in the economy could turn economic stabilization into a recession.
But the government has warned that Brazilians will have to live at least another year with austerity.
@1965 HERBLOCK
THE WASHINGTON POST
"Fights Aren't What They Used To Be Anywhere"
BOOK REVIEWS
THE WORLD OF ZEN: AN EAST-WEST ANTHOLOGY, by Nancy Wilson Ross (Random House, $3.95).
Here is a remarkably beautiful paperback, in a form that puts it almost in a class with hardbacks. The printing is something quite remarkable; there are ample illustrations; the subject matter is both ancient and contemporary.
Nancy Wilson Ross has been a serious student of Zen Buddhism for several years, and has had a special interest in the arts of the Far East. This inspired her to assemble the anthology. She notes that there are two schools of Zen training—the Soto and the Rinzai. This book is devoted largely to the method of the Rinzai group.
Here are some of the things you can find in the book: an introduction to Zen, with analyses by several persons; the essence of Zen; the arts—painting, gardens, poetry, ceremonial tea, architecture, and "the No drama"; humor; Zen in psychology; the meaning of universal Zen; and Zen and the West.
A DOLL'S HOUSE AND OTHER PLAYS, by Henrik Ibsen (Penguin Classics, $1.25).
THE WORLD OF VENICE, by James Morris (Pantheon, $1.95)—A beautiful study of the romantic city on the Mediterranean. The writer looks into modern-day Venice, its people, its life, and takes the reader back through the city's fabulous history. Here is an exotic city built on water, a city of magnificent buildings, a city that has disease and rats underneath the beautiful facade. There are maps, but how the book could use some photographs!
Though the highly familiar "A Doll's House" is the lure for this volume, Penguin deserves praise for giving us two of the lesser-known plays by Ibsen—and praise for the striking cover, a detail from Munch's painting "Agony." The other plays in this collection are "The League of Youth" and "The Lady from the Sea."
The first is a comedy that preceded "A Doll's House": the second is a non-protest drama that appeared in his later years. "The League of Youth" has been described as "Peer Gynt in politics." But there is no fantasy here Ibsen's central character is modeled on a politician of the time, and there also is a merciless portrait of the playwright's father. "The Lady from the Sea" is a quiet and sublime play built on a story of a pastor's wife who left her home for a Finnish stranger.
As for "A Doll's House," here is the most celebrated of Ibsen plays—a striking protest in behalf of women's rights, dated today but still packing power and drama.
NOTHING PERSONAL, by Richard Avedon and James Baldwin (Dell, $1.50).
There is irony in the title of this book by two great artists of our time, photographer Avedon and author Baldwin. This essay on the American soul is an extremely personal statement through Baldwin's poignant narrative and Avedon's compelling photography.
Only Baldwin could have created the moving essay on the pathetic aspects of the American outlook—despair, fear, fatalism, anxiety and unhappiness.
Avedon's haunting illustrations are stark, in some instances horrifying interpretations of American life. He includes patients in a mental asylum, the generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution, famous figures in American life and anonymous couples as his subjects. His lighting techniques capture the essence of his subject's soul. The photographs could stand alone but are even more meaningful when supplemented with Baldwin's text.
The book is pessimistic in outlook, but its message is important for all Americans who need to be jolted out of their complacency.
The book is a real buy. It was first printed in hard back at $12.50.
THE MISEDUCATION OF AMERICAN TEACHERS, by James D. Koerner (Pelican, $1.25).
Some will say, "Ho, hum, another blast." Others will read it as the absolute gospel. And others will become righteously indignant and deny that anything this man has to save has any validity.
It's a two-year-old book. It was financed as a special study, and is not sensationalized muckraking. It's writer was once at Kansas State. What Koerner attacks most strongly is the teachers college. He sees weak faculties teaching weak students in courses that are almost meaningless.
The work Koerner did took him about two years, and he spent time in teachers' colleges, schools of education and interviewed many students and professors. He studied course outlines, transcripts and study programs.
Koerner, in essence, would wipe the teachers' colleges and the schools of education off the map. Subject matter, up; methods courses, down. It is an old refrain. It has many adherents, and many opponents. There's reason to believe that the argument will be here for many years—still unresolved.
HENRY IV, PART ONE. by Shakespeare (Signet Classics, 50 cents) Another in the striking series of Shakespearean dramas—bright covers and considerable scholarship.