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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 12. 1965
Senior-Gazing
Most seniors become absorbed with the idea of walking down the hill into the stadium about this time every year. You often see them drifting toward the Campanile, gazing fondly down the winding sidewalk toward the stadium.
The gazing is well-deserved. Not many students can graduate from KU with little effort. Even some of the so-called "puds" become difficult when tests begin. There are not many students who care for a pud education. That became outmoded when our society started demanding more than a high school education for the better jobs. It became passe when students began to realize that a college education was, in part, a venture into self-understanding.
The University adjusts its programs to the students. The professors, on the whole, are liberal
with their time and knowledge. The "publish or perish" mania has not yet hit KU, thanks to administrative foresight. Much of the discontent on the campus, especially this semester, is a result of the idealistic teaching of the professors. This is as it should be.
"THE NORMALLY PLACID" University is rarely intellectually placid. The number of Rhodes Scholars and Woodrow Wilson fellowships attests to this fact.
Although it is highly unfashionable, it is hard to keep from being nostalgic about leaving KU. The seniors undoubtedly will be quite happy to escape the assignments, the tests and the term papers. But they will also miss the intellectual excitement and enthusiasm of the KU atmosphere.
— Leta Roth
Agriculture Poses Problem
By William Anderson
By William Anderson United Press International
BRUSSELS — (UPI) Deciding who pays for the Common Market's agricultural policy is the biggest single question facing the six-nation community between now and mid-vear.
It is a $2.5 billion a year question—by far the most expensive bill ever to be presented by the community's executive commission to the member nations of West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.
Deciding who pays what and who gets what is going to strain the relations between "the six" and notably between France and the others in the coming weeks.
Subsidies and other artificial aids to farmers in the member countries must be leveled out if they are to be free to compete with each other in a single market. At present West Germany's food producers are the
most heavily subsidized. French farmers get the least state aid.
Wants Subsidy Control
The community's nine-man executive commission has moved that subsidies be taken out of the hands of individual governments and run by it. To do this the commission needs money.
It has suggested all levies on food such as grains, from nonmember countries such as the United States, go into a central fund. The commission headed by professor Walter Hallstein would administer this fund with democratic control being provided by the European parliament.
So far so good. But this would guarantee farmers their income, but not industrial workers.
So the commission has gone one step further. Tariffs and levies on all industrial imports should also go into the central fund giving it an income of nearly $2.5 billion a year by 1967.
Has Double Purpose
Community financing of exports of agriculture and manufactured goods would come from this fund.
France thus finds herself in difficulties. On one hand she wants to be sure the community will subsidize her large exports of agriculture. But President Charles de Gaulle has frequently said he will not accept central or supranational control. He dislikes even more the prospect of extending the largely consultative powers of the European parliament to control expenditure of the central fund.
France would like to get agriculture subsidies sewn up and then, only then, discuss other aspects of community financing.
Other member countries have said they will not just hand over disbursement of such an enormous sum to a nine-man commission without some parliamentary control.
The People Say...
Dear Sir:
Dear Sir,
I WISH TO REFER TO MISS Ruth Adam's letter which was published in the UDK on April 29,1965 regarding the resolution passed by the Model UN.
Mr. Nasser has sent troops to the Yemen Arab Republic based upon an official request by the Yemeni government (as the U.S. gov't. sent troops to Lebanon on July 14, 1958 by an official request of the ex-President Camille Chamoun).
Also, the reactionary governments of Saudi Arabia and Jordan have been supplying the Yemeni Royalists troops with money and supplies. (Time, March 8, 1963, p. 38). Further, Great Britain has sent "Mr. Anthony Boyle, who was aide-de-camp to the British High Commissioner in Aden . . . as an unofficial military adviser" to the Royalists in the mountains. (Time, August 14, 1964, p. 27.)
In such a case, Mr. Nasser is acting on behalf of the official Yemen government (which is also recognized by the U.S. government) to preserve the peace and doing his utmost effort to the progress of the Yemenites. However, it seems that Saudi Arabia and Great Britain do not like to see any progressive regime in the area.
I sincerely hope that I have given a true picture about Mr. Nasser's efforts in Yemen.
Sincerely yours,
Hanna S. Dallal
Beirut, Lebanon,
freshman
THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT in promoting the art form of modern jazz. I offer my criticisms because of my participation in the art form.
Door Sire
Firstly, there are no dedicated Jazz musicians here in Lawrence, Kansas. Secondly, students who are interested in becoming jazz musicians do not meet every week to explore the intricacies of the art form. Last and not least, discrimination works both ways. I will assume that the article is directed to the general public with the "kicks" band in mind. For all interested, define "kicks."
Yes, Miss Ellis, there are many obstacles to overcome if one is an aspiring young musician. However, one ought not to compare stage band activities with courses in piano, voice, pottery, design, etc., etc. The essence of modern jazz is improvisation. To improvise effectively is to communicate to the audience. To learn the art of improvisation one must be committed in total to the art form. How many students practice five hours a day, analyze compositions in the jazz idiom, listen to the masters of their own instruments? If the university did hire a jazz faculty, how many students would enroll in the curriculum? Is there a market for jazz in Lawrence, Kansas? If the Oread Jazz Festival is an indication of the popularity of jazz here on the campus, forget the idea of a jazz faculty for "jazz training."
There is need for a stage band program in the music education curriculum. Future music teachers, students training for performance, composition majors, and all students enrolled in the music curriculum would benefit much from listening, analyzing, and playing
Clarence Awaya Honolulu, Hawaii, senior
some of the beautiful harmonies, intricate rhythms, and jazz standards. I doubt if many of the students enrolled in the music curriculum would be able to analyze the music of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Paul Bley and the countless creative musicians on the scene. The experience would be invaluable to the aspiring young musician.
I'm in favor of having a stage band program with a professional jazz musician in charge. As far as having a jazz faculty for 'jazz training' is concerned, forget it. The time has come for all students interested in the various art forms to combine their efforts and form a Contemporary Arts Society for the encouragement of the creative process.
Dear Sirs:
I WAS SORRY TO SEE THE ST.
John News editorial of March 18
reprinted in the Kansan on May 7.
I hope the lack of information
expressed by the editor is not typical
of the people of St. John.
Sincerely,
Karen Shoop
St. John, Kan., senior
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Leta Roth and Gary Noland ... Co-Editorial Editors
"Any Guess On How Many Have Joined Up With The Communists Since We Moved In?"
Absence Breeds Revolt
The question is why, and I think I've got the answer. The reason the college students are doing so much demonstrating is that there is no one in class to teach them anymore and the students have nothing else to do.
There has been a great deal of discussion about campus revolts spreading across the nation. It is obvious that the students are restless and it's making our educators nervous.
Almost every full professor is either writing a book, guest lecturing at another university, or taking a year off to write a report for President Johnson.
The students pour out on campus heading for the administration building to protest to the chancellor of the university who, unfortunately, is away trying to raise money for a new business administration building.
When the students arrive at class there is no one in front of the room, so usually a Socialist student takes over the class and tells the students it's about time they revolted against the system.
Therefore, he has turned over his course to a graduate instructor who is either working on his Ph.D., traveling on a Fulbright scholarship, or nicketing in Montgomery.
The vice chancellor is at the state capital testifying on a new education bill and the dean of men is at a convention in Phoenix.
In the meantime the chancellor flies home to see if he can settle the matter. The students present him with a petition demanding the release of the arrested demonstrators. He is about to do this when the board of regents holds an emergency meeting and votes to back the chancellor in meting out punishment to the "ringleaders."
So he arrests the ringleaders of the group (those standing in front) and this plays right into the students' hands because now with the arrests they have something to demonstrate about.
The dean of women is addressing a garden club in the next state, and the only one left in the administration building is the chief of campus police who isn't quite sure what the students are yelling about.
The faculty, made up of visiting professors from other schools, votes to support the students' position.
He therefore resigns and accepts a grant from the Ford Foundation to make a study of higher education.
The state politicians call for an investigation of the student demonstrators to discover if they were communist-inspired.
Finally, the governor makes a statement pledging full support for law and order, whatever that means.
By this time the demonstrators start petering out.
The students begin wandering back to class hoping there will be someone to teach them something. But even the Socialist student who started the demonstrations is not there. He's been booked on a lecture tour to talk about free speech at other universities.
So everyone decides to go to Washington and picket the White House over its policy on Viet Nam.
— Art Buchwald, Cedar Rapids Gazette
BOOK REVIEWS
THE NIGHT IN LISBON, by Erich Maria Remarqu (Crest, 60 cents)
Well, Remaque has us back there again with the flotsam and jetsam he wrote about so movingly just before World War II. This is one of his slighter books, in size, at least, but it is frequently suspenseful, in the significant mood of Graham Greene, and the story will move many readers.
The setting is Lisbon, 1942, where
two survivors of the Nazi terror are meeting. One of them tells to the other the story of his flight, of the growth of love for his wife on the journey out of Germany, of the tragedy of his experience. Though he is sometimes slick, Remarque always tells a good story, and has been doing so now for almost 60 years. Trouble is, it's too often the same story.
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