Tuesday, July 12. 1966 Summer Session Kansan
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More opinions from our high school campers Do campers Now-a time Some errors Much ado about attire have rights? to revolt of the draft
If my memory serves me right (and it seldom does) there is a section in the Bill of Rights concerning "Protection from unlawful search and seizure."
Teachers have been pounding the American Constitution into our heads for 12 years or more. It would be tripe to say "practice what you preach." But it appears that in this institution of higher learning that some people have forgotten this trivial bit of information.
As one faculty member put it, how many parents would have let their kids come to this camp had they known this could happen?
Recently in Detroit, Mich., the City Council passed legislation prohibiting an officer of the law from stopping and searching a person unless he was under suspicion of committing a felony or other crime. Are all the residents in Templin Hall under suspicion of this sort? Were the custodians' the cleaning women's lockers checked?
OF COURSE everybody obliged and kept quiet. However, many were somewhat upset. This was practically an accusation of everyone searched. They might as well have said, "We suspect every one of you."
Recently, because of several reports of LOST money at Templin Hall dorms, the counselors were asked by their supervisors to check all the locked drawers in each room.
It's not too comforting a feeling to know you're a suspect for anything.
This is not saying that the staff is guilty of anything. But it is no more ridiculous than halfway accusing 530 boys.
—Mike Walsh
Sockless boy a great issue
Parents are getting worried, neighbors are beginning to talk, school administrations throughout the country are clamping down. The results will be disastrous to the entire country's well being. It's bound to cause the United States to disintegrate from within. What is this horrible thing which is causing our country to fall apart?
In the world we live in today, with the problems which exist in every single city, the school officials are bothering to make up rules (and enforce them) about how long a boy may wear his hair.
Teenage boys want to wear shoes without socks.
IN NEW YORK, teachers aren't allowed to walk through the halls alone, because students are waiting to jump them in some schools. In another school the teachers are escorted to school each morning and back home again in the evenings for the same reason. Unimportant ideas such as how much greasy kid stuff a student uses aren't even thought about.
Margaret Sloss
IT'S JUST THAT rules such as these, in the society we live in today, are trite. It's a waste of time to make up the rules and enforce them.
With the problems which are facing not only the adults but also the teenagers of today. I don't believe that whether a boy wears socks is an issue that should be as built up as it is being now.
Teenagers used to have a favorite argument—that of "the loss of freedom of the individual." But I don't think that is the point.
People, listen.
Revolt.
Rise up.
Revolt against today's young adults. The people commonly called teenagers. Tear them apart. Tomorrow they will run your world. Break every creative idea that their minds possess because they may create a world better than yours. They may attain peace.
Educators, listen.
Rise up
Revolt.
REVOLT AGAINST polka-dot shirts and individualism. Bear down on white boots and high boots. Kick pregnant girls out of high school. Discriminate against married teenagers. Lash out against draft card burners. These forms of expression are creating a world contrary to yours. Therefore, you consider them wrong so squash forms of expression.
Parents, listen.
Revolt.
REVOLT AND HOLD on to your children's apron strings. Keep their eyes and ears closed to today's vulgar happenings. Leave them in a dream world. Watch them closely. Do not allow your children to stay out after midnight. It is demoralizing. Criticize even if you cannot understand.
Your road is rapidly aging. Try to change this. Their new road may be better. They may attain magnificent goals.
Teenagers, listen.
Rise un.
Revolt against people, educators, mothers and fathers who will not realize that their world is changing. They may not accept the fact, but you must. Your individualism helps to create tomorrow's better world. Cast aside those who cannot lend their creativity, knowledge, and energy. We may create a better world, a world of peace.
Rise up
Revolt.
—Cindy Byram
LSD-illegal or illegal?
I believe LSD should be legalized. Fads come in and then leave as fast as they came, and I think that this is the case with this drug. Although this fad is very dangerous and has caused, in some cases, death, it should wear itself out. But it can't if the law prohibits it. It just provides a greater temptation for the victim to use the deadly drug if he can't get it legally.
Up until a few months ago, the drug LSD was relatively unknown, but today it has become the most talked-about drug on the market. It is becoming the main controversial subject on the college campus. In California, its use has been prohibited. This is also the case in Nevada. This is wrong.
At the University of California at Berkeley, LSD has become a "big deal." There are many parties where the drug is the main event of the evening. But college kids are always doing things like this, maybe not necessarily with drugs, but they're always looking for fun or a good time.
In conclusion, LSD has been introduced into American society and if we can't realize the dangers it possesses, then we might as well realize that it is here to stay.
Rich Howe
When a young man who is a junior in college, on the dean's list and president of a company which has just begun to flourish, is pulled out of his work and sent to Viet Nam, a revision in the draft laws of this country is needed.
This year many young men who are really brilliant students have been taken out of school only to peel potatoes in a swamp in Viet Nam or some other foreign port. At the same time, many even younger or older men have been overlooked while they loaf around their house without a job or even a high school education. Others have their diploma but are not attending college.
ANOTHER GROUP that is prevalent in this country which the draft never reaches is the young men who, although they want to enlist, are deferred for various physical or mental reasons. Often the reason for deferment is a slight physical defect which would never hinder the person's fighting. But nevertheless, he too is kept from joining the ranks of fighting men.
Many proposals have been introduced into Congress, but as yet no hope for a revision in the policies can be seen. The men in Congress do not seem to think that it is wrong to ruin one
Dress in school has always been the subject of heated discussions, but this past year it has raised a storm of controversy heard all over the country.
It all started in the fall when thousands of teenage boys showed up for school in shaggy hair. Principals turned the students away in droves, with orders not to reappear until shorn. When several students refused to do so and took the matter to court the press began to sit up and take notice.
IN MOST SCHOOLS girls wearing "grannys" were ordered home to change and, in one case, the principal of a junior high school in California cut off the bottom of the skirts on six girls' "grannys."
Other student non-conformists took to wearing boots, long dangling earrings, and other "Mod"
man's education while those who do not care for one are left alone. The possibility of drafting all men at a certain age whether in school or in spite of physical defects should be considered as well as drafting only those men who are not maintaining at least a "B" average in school.
But whatever revision is decided upon, if any, the worthwhileness of it can be determined only by how many students are left in college.
clothing. When this situation arose many principals and schoolboards took it upon themselves to set rules for dress in their schools according to personal taste.
The question arises as to the legality of such a move. If a principal or school board should happen to dislike a certain style of dress, by a simple veto they could prohibit the wearing of such a style. The style may be socially acceptable in other schools but not in "theirs."
Janice Moyer
JUST SUCH A CASE arose in my town recently concerning one junior high school. The principal in this school was setting rules to be enforced only in this one school. In every other school in the district, including another junior high school, there was no dress code. Upon checking with the superintendent it was found that the principal was going beyond his authority.
My solution for this would be to call a meeting of all concerned so that everyone would be able to hear the other sides of the story. These people then could decide the best solution. Too often adults refuse to meet people halfway-on the grounds that they are not mature enough to act and think clearly. If only given a chance teenagers could prove that they are worthy of being treated like human beings.
—Joyce Lapekas