Questions remain
The decision Tuesday to allow women undergraduates to live in off-campus unapproved housing is a welcome one, and hopefully is an indication that the administration is receptive to further changes in student regulations.
HOWEVER, several questions might be asked about the change. First, how important are the dormitory bondholders in determining dormitory policy? According to Emily Taylor, dean of women, one reason that few girls have been permitted to live off-campus has been protection of the investment made by bondholders on the dormitories. A fear seems to exist among administrators that if KU women were given the option of living in a dormitory or elsewhere, a sizable number would choose the elsewhere.
THE SECOND question is what was the importance of the questionnaire on which the Student Personnel Council supposedly based its recommendation? On the one hand, the policy requiring undergraduate women to live in dormitories seems to have been based on the wellbeing of bondholders and on the other hand, the policy is changed after a questionnaire indicated that most women felt "off-campus housing should be a possibility."
WITHOUT commenting on what this seeming fear indicates about the quality of KU dormitory life, it should be noted that the idea of compelling students to live in a dormitory in order to protect bondholders is not within the mainstream of American liberal thought, although it may be sound economic policy.
IF THE REASON for originally forbidding off-campus housing was protection of bondholders, it would seem that they should have been the ones questioned. Nor should the apparent results of the questionnaire come as a surprise.
THE IDEA of 21-year-old women living in apartments without supervision is hardly a revolutionary one in our society and it is a rare person among college students who believes that adult women should not be free to live where they please.
THE NEXT QUESTION is if women's dormitories are locked to keep people out, then why are keys for those who live in the dormitory regarded as a privilege and not a right? Many apartment buildings in large cities, for example, have outside doors that lock automatically for the same reason that KU claims makes hours necessary. But the people that live in those apartment buildings are given keys, and are allowed to use those keys to come and go as they please.
THAT SYSTEM, allowing those who live in the buildings to use a key, has apparently worked in those cases in which it has been tried, and can no longer be considered in the experimental stage.
ONE FINAL QUESTION is what role did the students take in the development of the new policy? The primary responsibility for new student regulations should rest with the students, yet here, apparently, the major moving force behind the change was the dean of women, not the president of the AWS. If students lack the drive and ability to develop and promote their own regulations, then probably they need all the protection that the administrators of this university can provide.
—Justin Beck
the people say...
Urge policy changes
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about student apathy at KU regarding the university's in loco parens regulatory policy and its revision. May we say in reply to a recent editorial in the UDK by a defender of the current policy that the way in which a university functions is not only the concern of the administration, faculty, and a few "over-intelligent upperclassmen," but also of the other members of the academic community, in particular the students themselves.
SINCE university regulations govern students at a critical period in their young adult lives, it is their responsibility as adults to examine and evaluate these regulations, and to do what they can to change them if they are found wanting.
ONLY BY combining practice in regulating their own private lives with their classroom activities can students reap the maximum benefit from the educational opportunity which KU presents. Otherwise, they are cheating themselves by their own negligent attitude of non-involvement. Robert E. Nunley, professor of geography:
IN PARTICULAR, we urge all undergraduate women (including married women—who are required by the current AWS constitution to abide by the present sign-out and closing hour regulations) not to squander the opportunity presented to them by the upcoming AWS Rules Convention.
Gary M. Maramell, assistant professor of sociology;
Howard Kahane, assistant professor of philosophy:
Donald C. Fummons, assistant professor of philosophy;
Richard Cole, associate professor
philosophy;
of philosophy;
Errol E. Harris, distinguished professor of philosophy;
edward S. Robinson, chairman,
department of philosophy;
Herman D. Lujan, assistant professor of political science;
Felix Moos, associate professor of anthropology;
Margaret Brown, psychology research assistant;
Rose Lynn Sherr, psychology teaching assistant;
R. J. Smith, West Plains, Mo.
senior;
Hank Bisbee, Toledo, Ohio, senior;
Vijera Mirkovich, Kansas City sophomore;
John C. Roper, Garden City
junior
senior;
Walt Bliss, Omaha, Neb., senior;
Marsha Babicki, Topea senior;
Michael Jennison, Wiesbaden
Germany, junior;
Mike Miller, Wichita sophomore;
Richard Ladish, Merriam junior;
W. W. Rimmers, Lawrence grad-
udent;
David Berkowitz, Wichita 1st year law student;
more;
Klonda Speer, Scottsville junior;
Mr. and Mrs. Gail Weber, Mc-
and Olathe seniors;
Sibyl Smirl, Lawrence sophomore;
Cune and Olatne senior;
Paul Dickens, Lawrence senior;
Valerie Vandenberg, Wichita seni-
Bob Ruth, Walnut Creek, Calif.
senior.
In Monday's UDK, the Dean of Women stated that the purpose of closing hours is not to lock KU girls in the dorms but rather to lock other people out, and so that the girls won't have to feel uneasy about living behind unlocked doors all night.
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MAY I suggest that if this really is the purpose of dorm closing hours, then perhaps Dean Taylor would be interested in a much simpler solution.
LOCK UP the dorms at any hour you want to. Dean Taylor, but give each of the girls one of those marvelous new devices known as a KEY. Then there will be no need to require the girls to come in at night by any specific time, and no worry about having
the girls living behind unlocked doors all night. Simple?
Howard Kahane
Assistant professor of philosophy
young radicals hopeful sign
The young radicals whose personal statements have appeared in The New Republic these past weeks are marvelously, and problematically American. They are mystical militants, articulating the authentic miseries of the poor even while maintaining some of the attitudes of the middle class. They are also one of the most significant, hopeful developments in recent American life. I do not emphasize their importance as an uncritical compliment. They have already been subjected to quite enough journalistic flattery, and some of the mass media would probably like to package them as they did the Beats. Moreover, I have differences with the young radicals and have on occasion been puzzled, exasperated and even saddened by them. Yet the happy fact remains that the emergence of a personally committed generation seeking basic social change is momentous. They are a minority of the age group, to be sure, but a creative, activist minority who should place their stamp upon the times. Eventually, and it will probably try the anarchist spirit of some of them, they are going to lead adult movements and change this society. Whatever their shortcomings, the New Leftists hold out the hope for a renewal of American social criticism and action.—from "The Mystical Militant"
by Michael Harrington in
The New Republic, Feb. 19, 1963
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Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 24, 1966
She feels exploited
... The Kansas Union has a monopoly on food service on the campus. This must be one explanation why the food is so poor, the prices so high, and the Hawk's Nest's tables always so dirty and seldom cleared.
Mr. Burge has always maintained that the student union is not run for profit. He's right. But what is generally not understood is that the whole union is supported mostly on the profits made from the concession stand, bookstore, and food service. Therefore, it is correct to say that the Hawk's Nest is run for profit, and at the expense of defenseless students. I pay a student union fee every semester. Why, then, should I continue to pay for the union with every book and hamburger I buy?
In addition, the thought of student workers serving me there for 70 cents an hour (I worked there two years for that wage) is just more than my tolerance and forbearance can stand.
Eileen M. Wilcox Lawrence senior
Other demonstrators reply to Hill, UDK
The article covering statements made by Richard Hill and the coverage given by the UDR of the counter-demonstration at the Defense Department blood drive, appalled us as counter-demonstrators.
NO SPACE was given to statements of our purpose. No space was given in describing reactions of people involved, with the exception of Mr.Hill who spoke with the power of sheer ignorance. Finally, no coverage was given to our relation with the Blood Drive.
LET US ASSURE all who read the article that we had no intention of beintung or mocking the Blood Drive. Every member of the group gave blood. It does not then seem realistic to state we would downgrade a project in which we ourselves were involved. The purpose of our demonstration was to belittle and downgrade the idea that our blood, going to wounded Americans or others that may need it, is a weapon of politics.
NO RATIONAL persons will ever state that blood has political aspirations. It is simply not possible. What he will state is that blood is used to relieve suffering. What difference does it make that it is being used in Viet Nam. Blood can save lives, Vietnamese, Australian, Russian, or American. It makes no political distinction. A wounded American soldier in Viet Nam may be a pawn—as some people insist he is. Nevertheless, blood is needed in Viet Nam. We realize an obligation to other Americans, military or civilian, who are in Viet Nam regardless of their political views. It would be murderous to let Americans die for lack of blood simply because of differing political views. Likewise, much of this blood will be given to wounded civilians being treated by our troops.
AS AN afterthought, an ironic future possibility may very well come to pass. Perhaps, if the war continues, an anti-blood drive demonstrator may one day need blood originally belonging to a "flippant, mocking" counterdemonstrator. The irony is that it will be given to him. You're welcome, Mr. Hill.
—Names withheld
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