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Does Michigan care about Louise?
(Editor's Note: For those of you who tire of the Kansan's daily offerings, we are printing two of the editorials which received national ranking in the editorial division of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation contest.)
By Andy Marein
Louise is dead.
She was 25 years old when she died, but her mental age was about three. Louise was a Mongoloid idiot. The cause of her death was officially listed as bronchial pneumonia. But by the time that condition was discovered, there was little hope.
At 11 p.m. Friday, Louise was brought to the hospital building at Lapeer State Home and Training School at Lapeer. Her skin was blue from oxygen starvation and she was coughing badly in a futile effort to force the fluid out of her lungs. Thirteen hours later she was dead.
Who cares?
The doctor who attended her did, but by the time Louise reached the hospital, the pneumonia was too far advanced.
Louise's attendants cared. But there are only
four of them. Four for the 240 girls in Louise's cottage. All the girls in the cottage are about three years old mentally. Three-year-old children make a lot of noise. It's hard for so few attendants to see everything. They said they didn't notice anything unusual about Louise Friday night until she suddenly turned blue.
The institution's administrators care. But they will admit that Lapeer is critically understaffed. Louise's cottage was the most understaffed and least sanitary of all.
Legislators say they care. But they will tell you privately that the taxpayer just isn't interested in spending much money on mental health. There's no lobby for retarded children.
Do the people care? They are horrified when they hear about what happens to a girl like Louise. Then they forget about it when the tax question comes up.
The National Association for Retarded Children says retarded children can be helped. But first someone must care. I care—Louise was my sister.
— Michigan State University
We shall not be moved
New Member Of The Study Group
Yes, Jimmy, there are children.
Sheriff Jim Clark of Selma, Alabama, the world's leading exponent of moral disarmament, trudged to Denver Thursday to give us "the other side of the Selma story."
He spoke to about 600 people in Denver, about half of whom had the good taste to walk out before he finished.
Clark attacked LBJ, the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, the United States government and two small children he saw holding hands in a schoolyard.
Clark stoutly announced that the latter activity "shocked" him. (It seems the little girl was white and the little boy wasn't.) But perhaps Clark shouldn't have just announced his revelation of the scene. Perhaps he should have asked why a little Negro boy and a little white girl might be friends in a Denver schoolyard.
Yes, Jimmy, bigotry is taught. You may think it is a God-given instinct to brutally club a Negro woman who asks for her constitutional right to vote. You may think lynchings, floggings and night rider terrorism are innate to the human spirit. But they aren't Jimmy. You were taught to hate.
You see, Jimmy, you saw those little kids as a symbol. But they only saw each other as people. No one taught them that your friends should be of a certain race, religion, section of town or political party.
No one ever poisoned their minds with bigotry. No one ever fed them the slime of racism. No one ever silenced the muted voices of their consciences—the feelings inside them that instinctively caused them to act decently. No one ever told them that color determines a man's worth or they had the right to murder anyone who didn't know his place.
Oh, yes, Jimmy, you know no one has taught them these things. That's why you're here, isn't it? You will try to tell those kids that they shouldn't be friends. You'll try to teach them to hate.
You'll try to undermine the decency of those kids, Jimmy, and you'll fail.
Hitler failed, Jimmy. Torquemada failed. Pharaoh failed. Throughout history those who set the world aflame with racism, bigotry and hatred have been destroyed by their own evil in the end. They failed, Jimmy, and you'll fail too.
University of Colorado
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"SEEMS TO ME THAT THESE TEEN-AGERS ARE COMING TO COLLEGE A LOT MORE OPINIONATED THAN THEY USED TO BE."
She protests directive
I wish to add my name to those of the faculty and student body protesting the recent directive issued by the Office of the State Comptroller which uses coercive measures to obtain racial information.
To the Editor:
I also want to question the statement of the University administration that all the racial information had been received. In agreement with the faculty member for whom I am a research assistant, the letter requesting the information was not answered in protest.
Mary-Ann Arnold Lawrence graduate student
It is also disappointing to know that the Chancellor of the University did not take an immediate and strong position against the directive and the coercive measures it employed.
2 Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 12, 1966 editorial page
The people say...
Thanks to UDK:
To the Kansan staff:
What city editor Tom Rosenbaum described to us as an effort to cover the campaign from an event-by-event approach proved to be an effective way to interest students in the often all too esoteric aspects of campus politics and student government. Not since we have come to this campus have we seen such a singular, extended example of good, careful reporting.
We would like to express our appreciation to all the members of the UDK staff for their fair and thorough coverage of all the events leading up to and including the All Student Council and student body officer elections. Your concern to get correct information and to double check every statement we wished to make was most impressive, especially in view of the fact that the UDK and ASC have often not enjoyed such harmonious relations in the past.
-Kay Orth
Jim Prager
E! Dorado junior
Annandale, Va., junior
Motorcycles beware
To the Editor:
Motorcycles, BEWARE! Spring has enthused the campus police to the point where they are, starting today, enforcing the state and campus regulations concerning cycle parking. This means that for the first time in six months, the campus police are treating motorcycles as identical to cars. That is, cycles must now be registered, purchase $10 zone permits, and park only in the regular zones just like a car.
But alas! The police are but enforcing the law as it now stands. So, let's change the law to realistically face the exploding number of cycles at KU. Let's let cycles park in bike racks, or in cycle racks of a similar nature so that regular full-sized parking spaces won't be diminished. If cycles must have zone or rack permits, then let's let them buy them for $2 instead of $10. After all, state cycle plates cost only half as much as regular car plates; cycles take only 1/5 the space to park and weigh only 1/7 as much.
— John Charles Trewolla
Shawnee Mission sophomore
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