man and war--
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
The most cruel animal
What a strange thing war is—how it permeates our whole lives and yet how easy it is to ignore it.
It has been said that the human being is the only animal created by God which wages war upon its own kind. What a sad indictment of the most intelligent animal yet created (or evolved). Yet, when the human animal wages war it is a most devastating, destructive and dehumanizing event.
Once there is a war it is always with us. Take a drive through Wadsworth Veteran's Hospital outside Leavenworth and see. Throughout the rolling grounds above the Missouri River lie countless white stones—the gravestones of countless victims of American wars. Wadsworth is a most beautiful and yet most ugly sight, for a cemetery reminiscent of violent death is never beautiful.
ABOUT THE GROUNDS of Wadsworth wander hundreds of men. In a way they are the most disturbing sight at Wadsworth for they are the veterans.
The words Viet Nam evoke many reactions, yet transcending them all is not the thought that war is with us again, but that war is with us still. The human animal is always fighting. He is a carnivore.
WE SIT HERE on Mt. Oread relatively isolated from war. The draft is wryly referred to as a "McNamara Fellowship." The war is a seminar in East Asian Studies. Our bulletin boards carry posters solemnly describing how to stay 2-S. (In contrast, a Chicago college boasts a billboard warning: "Study hard every day, or even you'll become 1-A."
Our sense of isolation seems to function in direct ratio to the size of the headlines about
Viet Nam. Right now, the war appears to be moving along without us. McNamara has said the U.S. commitment can jump to 305,000 without the reserves. The "Peace Offensive," which seems to have offended everybody, has been quietly dropped. Spring is here and we on Mt. Oread can concentrate on studies, sandbars and sunshine. KU men are even feeling either so isolated or so well informed that only 15 attended a forum explaining Selective Service requirements Wednesday night.
THE SENSE OF isolation is a pleasant one. It is unfortunate though that we must be at all concerned with war, or with feeling isolated. Few, if any, of KU's students in their twenties have experienced war. What's more, few, if any, of us feel any direct relationship to the current war. Yet, here it is facing our generation and forcing us to contribute in the way millions have before us to secure the elusive ideal of peace.
It's not that our generation is any less weak or any less patriotic than those which have gone before. Our men, too, could do just as thorough a job of waging war against our own kind.
Maybe that's the unfortunate thing we're objecting to. Aside from the issue of whether Viet Nam is a justifiable war is the more important issue of killing one's own kind. To us, war is obsolete, and is something obsolete justifiable?
OUR GRANDPARENTS' generation knew World War I. Our parents knew World War II. And now both of these generations and ours inevitably face a third. How intimately our generation will know it remains to be seen.
Man is a most cruel animal. He is the only animal which is consciously trying to make itself extinct.
By Judy Farrell
"ROOF LEAKS, COLD IN WINTER, NEEDS PAINT, AND ITS MY MOST EXPENSIVE ROOM BECAUSE OF TH VIEW-THAT'S A GIRL'S DORM NEXD "DOOR"
It used to be...
March 11,1916
Green, blue, white and red tags were seen all over the campus as the Memorial campaign started. These tags were to encourage everyone to pay his memorial dues.
Each color represented a different class. Money collected by each class was to be used as desired.
back talk
Rock Chalk Revue, 1966, is now completed for another year, yet the four presentations are still being discussed. Many feel that another group was more deserving of the first place laurels.
Closing--question of the hour
YET THE last of the four productions was definitely the most misunderstood. The attempt by McCollum Hall and the Alpha O's was hoped to break "the tradition." Instead it demonstrated how much Rock Chalk has become ingrained in "the tradition."
The last skit replaced the loud and bawdy humor or Max Sennett days with something more subtle and quiet. The obvious campus slams were replaced with discrete cuts of sponsor control and the rule of the big industrial magnate.
The last skit broke tradition in another way too. It was the first time in the 16 year history that an independent living group made its way to the final round of judging.
I know you're as tired of reading about it as I am of writing about it. But too many people have put in too many hours of work on the AWS Rules Convention for me to pass up one last pre-convention comment.
FINALLY, though, it blew a hole in the common myth of the incompatibility of Greeks and Independents. It was a noble try and hopefully both groups will be back fighting with new partners.
When the gavel's rap opens the convention Saturday morning, there will be no regulations governing KU women. Delegates theoretically will start from scratch to write only the necessary rules. It's the one chance in three years to institute a realistic system of regulations for women students.
KU WOMEN ARE a responsible lot; they only need an opportunity to mature in a less restrictive atmosphere. Freshman women often need regulation. Many are sent here by parents (1) because this is the only "prestige" school Matilda could make it into or (2) to catch a white-collar husband. Even for the mature and scholarly freshman woman, the first year is often traumatic as she adjusts to the university community.
However, the freshman woman is no less mature than the freshman man, who should also be restricted. And, acknowledging the values of regulations, closing hours of 10:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. are far too harsh for 18- and 19-year-olds.
IF A WOMAN HAS survived her freshman year, it is evidence that she can navigate her way through enrollment red tape, required busy work courses, endless rounds of unnecessary meetings and other trivia in which the academic community is steeped. In addition, she hasn't yet caught that husband and she might even like to study. In short, she can take care of herself—and she should be allowed to do so.
There is no reason, save the prevailing (and pervading) Bible-belt winds of Kansas public opinion, why sophomore, junior and senior women should have any closing hours at all. Impractical? No, in fact it would be much simpler than it is now. Small living groups—sorotities and scholarship halls—could use a much-simplified key system. Large residence halls could have nightwatchmen let girls in. The sign-out system could be adopted or rejected by the individual house or floor.
Robert Stevens
WE HAVE A LIBERAL dean of women, an administration that yearly seems more willing to grant students their rights.
If sweeping changes are not made at Saturday's convention, the blame will rest solely with the apathy of campus coeds and the 19th century temerity of the AWS house members and convention delegates.
— Jacke Thayer
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Friday, March 11, 1966
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'Primary would benefit all'
Dear Sirs:
What with all the current discussion that is going on concerning student rights vis à vis the administration, it amazes me that no one has yet pointed out the fact that the students at KU are being denied by their own peers certain basic rights of a different nature—their political rights.
By this I mean that we are being denied an effective voice in the one agency of which we all are a part, in which we all have an interest—our student government. It is not the students' interests which are voiced in the legislative chamber of our campus government, the All Student Council. It is not the student's representative who initiates and acts on legislation in this "representative" body.
RATHER. IT is the interests and representatives of an inherited oligarchy which are found in this body. It is the leaders of the two campus political parties who choose the candidates for the
various seats on the ASC. It is the leaders of the parties who choose the future leaders of the party, who will, in turn, choose the future candidates for the various seats on the Council. Nowhere in this endless chain of inner-group selection does the student have the opportunity to select who is to represent him in either the party or in the legislative assembly.
That the present discussion concerning the subject of in loco parentis is largely being carried
Perhaps no one really cares that his political choices are not really choices at all; such apathy would cause one to seriously question the value of even having a student government. This, however, I do not feel to be the case. Rather it would seem that the student is not conscious of the fact that he is being denied a basic right, and that there is an established method of exercising this right. He can choose whom he wishes to represent him.
on by groups such as SLO and SDS is indicative of the fact that our student government has failed us; and it has failed us because it is directed by persons over whom we have little, if any, control, and to whom our interests mean little.
GIVEN A primary election, we could select those who most adequately realize and appreciate our needs. There being no difference in ideology to choose between, give us an original choice in personalities.
All interests could benefit from a system of closed primaries, in which interested individuals, on their own initiative, could seek a party's nomination. The parties would have a sound base of financial support, and the students would have the opportunity to exercise an essential, constitutionally guaranteed, political right. To both parties I say, "Give us a primary!"
Carl Struby
Leawood junior