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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 12, 1965
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ASC Strikes Again
The ASC has proposed two amendments, one of which would force the University Daily Kansan to accept advertising from only those renters who are on the University housing list. The other amendment states that the Kansan cannot accept advertising containing discriminatory phrasing from any group or organization.
The second amendment has been a part of Kansan policy for some time. We fully intend to adhere to the policy in the future. Perhaps the ASC would save itself a great deal of trouble if they bothered to do research on a proposal before they presented it to the council.
The Kansan, although sympathetic with the demands of the CRC, emphatically protests the attempt by the ASC to dictate the policy of the University Daily Kansan.
IT HAS LONG BEEN A TRADITION and ethical practice for a newspaper to govern itself, to determine and implement its own policy. This includes not only news and editorial policy, but advertising policy as well. This principle would be
grossly violated if the Kansan were forced to submit to the amendment presently before the ASC. Drawn to the logical extreme, the ASC also could attempt to dictate news and editorial policy. This sort of relationship between the student newspaper and the political body of the university is repulsive.
If the minds of the ASC members can project this far, consider the possibility of this situation in a large city. I cannot imagine, by any stretch of the imagination, how the city council would have the audacity to attempt to govern any part of the metropolitan newspaper. It is preposterous!
As a training ground for professional journalists, the School of Journalism teaches students to develop and practice professional and ethical standards. If we are to preserve these standards, we can allow no outside influence, including the ASC, to restrict the Kansan in its determination of Kansan policy in any department of the newspaper.
— Leta Roth
The People Say
Dear Sir:
AS I SAT IN THE WARM SUN-light of a recent balmy day contemplating the hidden mysteries of nature and the universe, a grizzled old man hobbled up to me, brushed off a spot of the ground, and sat down beside me. In the course of our conversation, he told me a story in which your readers might be interested.
"Far back in the olden days to the west of the shining seas there was a beautiful country with fields of waving grain, sparkling brooks, and a happy people. This contented land was bordered by huge forests from which the people gathered wood for their fires and building material. But the forests were inhabited by tigers, and the tigers were the types which multiplied at a phenomenal rate. Soon it became unsafe for the people to venture into the forests, and hard times sat in. Finally a grand meeting was called, and the people assembled to discuss what they should do. It so happened that from among the people there arose a short, bearded man of slight build but with an exceptionally loud voice. So loud, in fact, that he was able to persuade the populace that they should take paper and pens into the forest and negotiate a treaty with the tigers, even against the advice of the nation's elders. Upon the appointed day, the people went forth to negotiate with the tigers. The tigers are now very content in the beautiful country beyond the shining seas."
Dear Editor.
Sincerely,
Brian B. Turner,
Warrensburg, N.Y.
graduate student
CONGRADS YOU KU PUPILS over yer recent victory with them that set-ins you had at Strong hall. Twas with great interest I watched on the TV you all get 'ginnish' hailed (no pum intended) out and sent down the sherriffs office. That must be some perience, huh. Looks like ole Chancellor Wesco finally come round Heres hopin' that them negotiations goes well and all.
We here at KSU just deplore discriminations in our Greek houses.
And I mean DEPLORE! Yes siree. Our Greek majority Student Senate deplores it. Fact is they deplore it so bad that they table any motion that comes up concernin' the matter. Say now that I think of it ole Jimmy McCain thats our president sorta like you alls chancellor, but not quite. Anyway, he deplores it, too. He jests sets around his office all day deplorin it unless he's signin some contract for one of them unemployed right wing speakers to appear, or makin apologies all over the place bout them damn few liberal professors that make them terrible scenes or rite nasty columns about our community and its lack of culture or something. Dont you all fret none we done already got rid of them. Cant have none of them pinkies runnin round here, shucks no that jest wouldnt be right (again no pun intended). Well you all have to excuse me I gotta go study some more. Jest thought Id let ya know hows I feel. Golly you sure do know how to raise a ruckus. Like I said I gotta go now. Gee whiz.
May the good Lawd bless you all,
Lawd bless you all.
Jim Davis,
K-State junior
To the Editor:
I WOULD LIKE TO VOICE
some ideas that Bobetta Bartelt
seems to have overlooked in her
editorial on Rock Chalk.
Firstly, I do not deny her the right to her opinions. But I think that she needs to be informed about the efforts of the Rock Chalk staff and participants in the skits, especially before she editorializes on them.
Secondly, I think she failed to give proper recognition where it is truly deserved, to the students in the skits. She failed to mention the fact that the skit participants are also students carrying a full load on the hill, that these students no doubt sacrificed free time as well as study time to produce the skits that almost everyone (apparently with the exception of Miss Bartelt) enjoyed, or that these students aren't paid for this service as the staff members are.
To my way of thinking Miss Baret's editorial, although a free expression of opinion, is in no way characteristic of public opinion of Rock Chalk Revue. The 10,000 people that filled Hoch Auditorium on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights seem to be a more accurate indication, at least more so than that of a person who fails to see where recognition is deserved.
As a participant in the Sigma Chi-Delta Gamma skit, may I take this opportunity to congratulate and recognize all the other students in the four skits who made the 1965 Rock Chalk Revue the fine production that it was.
Rusty Calkins Wichita senior
DailiYfansan
IT MUST SEEM TRITE TO REiterate arguments and haggle old positions so far that ideology comes to replace the vacuum of thought that frustration surely generates amongst the weary contenders for justice. But some things are true; they are disputed when the sanctimonious atmosphere of fear and privilege that enshrine their opposites as social idols are ever so slightly reviled by the muddy suggestion that the King is embarrassingly naked.
111 Flint Hall
The argument is wrong-headed and distorts the character of the problem by goring the opponent on the horns of a false, and, in this case, ironically hypocritical, dilemma. You suborn your principle, it is unctuously proposed, by requesting the Greeks to lose the right of "choice of association" in the process of guaranteeing membership to some Negroes.
To the editor:
I persist in the belief that Chancellor Wescoe is not insincere or evil, but it is difficult to understand his dismay that people should question the "constant" "American" assumption that "rights should not be taken from some and given to others."
The real question is and remains, whose rights are being taken from whom? What has precedence? Do fraternities and sororites have the right to hide their certain practice of racial discrimination behind the right to choose whomever they wish? If so, then the demonstrations of the last few days call into question not simply the covert racial policies of fraternities and sororities but the whole meaning of their existence. Everyone who is not morally browbeaten by the system knows it; the Chancellor should know it.
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The burden of proof in the dispute between the CRC and Chancellor Wescoe falls, then, on the Greeks. Some way must be found to establish a judiciously or by executive test that the rush system does not discriminate by race. If the Greeks have to alter their system to do it, let them pay the price. They do not exist from eternity and their privileges are mutable by law and principle.
David A. Lee
A. Lee Lawrence graduate student
"Me Strong Man"
A Slice of Cam-Pi
The problem is now supposed to be out in the open. I can't believe this.
I can't believe that the year and a half I've been on this campus, racial discrimination has been the undercurrent of hostility and unrest that it is being made out to be.
The problem has been out in the open. It's in the open all over the country. If the problem was not in the open last year, where did all the news about CRC come from about this time a year ago.
I SAW A SIGN during the demonstrations, as a matter of fact, I saw a lot of them that said, "Racial Discrimination Exists at KU." You're darn tootin' it does.
Not only does it exist at KU, it exists all over the country. It has existed since time began.
The prevalent question in my mind is, did the demonstrations accomplish anything? I don't think so.
I CANNOT BELIEVE that what two days of demonstrations brought about, a visit to the Chancellor's office by the officers of the CRC could not accomplish.
Sure, if I may use the term, "negotiations" are under way. It sounds as though we have reached a cease fire and the terms of surrender are being discussed.
The basic fight is one of attitude. An intelligent means of com-
batting this attitude would accomplish more than all the sit-ins and demonstrations one group could service in a lifetime.
The demonstrators were orderly. Accolades for that
The administration, and Chancellor Wescoe especially, deserve the highest amount of praise.
THEY HANDLED the sit-ins very logically and with great tact. One of these days people will learn that the administration of any body has a purpose. If you want to accomplish something, work with the administration, don't fight them.
If nothing else, maybe now, part of the problem can be solved and a few intelligent steps forward can be taken.
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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE, one of the more interesting aspects of the first two days of the week were the journalism students who were either working as correspondents for different news media or those who were working for themselves.
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THE PSYCHOSEXUAL MAKE-UP OF SNOOPY: A body of men met in Europe last week to discuss the comics as a social force in America. Now certain comic strips are known for their supposedly social and political commentary of the American scene. Good grief—if this neo-Freudian kick is carried too far I'm going to get a neuroris just worrying about what shoe goes on first in the morning.
Jim's Little Gem: "It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another."
Jim Langford
Brotherhood
(Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a speech by Chancellor Wescoe, printed in the December 1962 issue of Palm, the fraternity magazine of Alpha Tau Omega.)
"IF OUR FOUNDERS WERE TO WRITE a constitution today, I fervently believe that they would want ours to be truly an international brotherhood acknowledging the dignity of all men. I believe just as fervently that we would be fulfilling their basic concept, their greatest dream, if we had members principled as they were and we are, encompassing all American men who are committed to what we are committed and stretching to the lands of the eastern hemisphere across the broad Pacific."