ramblings-newspaper reports. The festival was the number one topic for this week's University Chamber of Commerce meeting.
We need a 'bitch-in'
The University of Colorado, the University of Nebraska, East Carolina College—they all have one. Nebraska calls it Hyde Park Forum, the other two call it a "Bitch-in."
ONE OF THE campus political parties included plans for such a forum in its fall platform and was much maligned for so doing. Actually, the suggestion for such a forum was one of the more original ideas in campus politics in recent years. But the party's application of the program to KU did seem a little far-fetched.
RAMPANT APATHY is an inherent drawback in any constructive program on this campus. There simply would not be enough people to keep interest high on a weekly basis. But if a
Brickbats
THAT'S WHEN the brickbats began to fly. CU president John Smiley said neither he nor the Board of Regents had any inclination to change the policy of issuing contraceptives to married students only.
DR. FRANK HOLDEN, director of the Student Health Center, added the frosting to the cake. He referred to the student senate as "a bunch of kids trying to shake up the administration for a laugh," and added that "referendums have no effect on us." And, the Colorado Daily commented, that's too bad.
Student government at the University of Colorado is having its problems. And it all started when the senior class president, Monty Mathias, introduced a resolution calling for a student referendum on the sale of contraceptive information and services in the Student Health Center "to any student wishing to purchase them."
THE RESOLUTION passed the student senate, was vetoed by the student body president, and the senate immediately overrode said veto.
TOPICS FOR active student discussion are unlimited; the cut system, academic freedom, women's rules, general university regulations, campus elections, political parties, enrollment changes, course and faculty critiques — even, God bless it, school spirit.
It's all very interesting, especially when one notes that our ASC has reservations about getting cigarette machines back on campus.
"bitch-in" were held once a month on a specific topic—or once a semester for general gripes and discussion—interest would probably hold.
HERE'S HOPING the political parties have the guts to face down the chortles, and will try to institute some type of student bitch-in soon. Who knows how many demonstrations such an animal could avert?
-Editorials by Jacke Thaver
Impossible
It sounded almost impossible when the story first broke. With Earl Warren guarding our constitutional rights, how could it happen?
THE IOWA STATE Supreme Court recently unanimously ruled that seven-year-old Mark Painter must remain with his grandparents. Grandma and Grandpa Bannister, the court said, would provide the child "with a stable, dependable, conventional middle-class, Middle West background." They also teach Sunday school.
MARK'S FATHER, Howard Painter, has remarried since his divorce from Mark's mother and is employed as a Job Corps photographer. But, the court said, not only is Painter a job-hopping newsman, but is "either an agnostic or atheist . . . has read a lot of Zen Buddhism" and is a "political liberal." This holder of a master's degree in graphic arts would expose his son to a life that was "unconventional, arty, Bohemian and probably intellectually stimulating." It's hard to beat an indictment like that.
PAINTER, of course, has legal recourse beyond the Iowa court. His comment to newsmen following the decision, 'tho, seems a bit naive: "... Only in Iowa could something like this happen."
OH, I don't know about that. . . .
Fringies fake out Seattle C of C
Some of the local fringies at the University of Washington are planning an International Bohemian Festival to begin Mar.17. They figure the festival will last at least a month and probably will include art exhibits, poetry readings and concerts.
MEANWHILE. back in the business district the natives are growing restless, the school's
A LOCAL festival organizer predicts that more than 3,000 Bohemians will go to Seattle for the event. He said the festival will serve to "unify the Bohemian sector of our population."
I'll bet it unifies the rest of Seattle, too. . . .
"We Get A Good Response From Nearly Everywhere Except North Vietnam And South Vietnam"
Saith LBJ a week or so ago: "I think the country overwhelmingly supports the position we have taken (in Viet Nam). I believe that the members of the House and Senate do likewise."
Second thoughts?
THE GENTLEMAN doth protest too much, methinks. At least, after this past week, he's probably having second thoughts about that second sentence.
More objections when it was he
The United States Air Force has begun a new campaign against Communist infiltration through Laos to Viet Nam.
"WERE going to turn the Ho Chi Minh trail brown," one source said. And to do it they are using spray chemical defoliants.
THE SUGGESTION for that tactile sounds vaguely familiar. But it runs in my mind that there were a lot more objections to it when he suggested it.
2 Daily Kansan Wednesday, February 23, 1966
(Editor's note: The following article appeared in the February issue of Motive, a Methodist church publication. It was written by Anthony Towne of The New York Times.
ATLANTA, Ga.—God, creator of the universe, principal deity of the world's Jews, ultimate reality of Christians, and most eminent of all divinities, died late yesterday during major surgery undertaken to correct a massive diminishing influence. His exact age is not known, but close friends estimate that it greatly exceeded that of all other beings. While he did not, in recent years, maintain any fixed ebode, his house was said to consist of many mansions.
The cause of death could not be immediately determined, pending an autopsy, but the deity's surgeon, Thomas J. J. Altizer, 38, of Emory University in Atlanta, indicated possible cardiac insufficiency.
Word of the death, long rumored was officially disclosed to reporters at five minutes before midnight after a full day of mounting anxiety and the coming and going of ecclesiastical dignitaries and members of the immediate family.
UNABLE TO BE in Atlanta owing to the pressure of business at the second Vatican Council, now in session, the Pope, in Rome said in part: "We are deeply distressed for we have suffered an incalculable loss. The contributions of God to the Church cannot be measured, and it is difficult to imagine how we shall proceed without Him."
In Johnson City, Tex., President Johnson, recuperating from his recent gall bladder surgery, was described by aides as "profoundly upset." He at once directed that all flags should be at half-staff until after the funeral. It is assumed that the President and his family, including his cousin, Oriole, will attend the last rites, if the international situation permits. Both houses of Congress met in Washington at noon today and promptly adjourned after passing a joint resolution expressing "grief and great respect for the departed spiritual leader." Sen. Wayne Morse, Dem. of Oregon, objected on the grounds that the resolution violated the principle of separation of church and state, but he was overruled by Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, who remarked that "this is not a time for partisan politics."
PLANS FOR THE deity's funeral are incomplete. Reliable sources suggested that extensive negotiations may be necessary in order to select a church for the services and an appropriate liturgy.
Reaction from the world's great and from the man in the street was uniformly incredulous. "At least he's out of his misery," commented one housewife in an Elmira, N.Y., supermarket. . . News of the death was included in a statement, without comment, on the third page of Pravda, official organ of the Soviet government. The passing of God has not been disclosed to the 800 million Chinese who live behind the bamboo curtain.
"PUBLIC REACTION in this country was perhaps summed up by an elderly retired streetcar conductor in Passaic, N.J., who said: "I never met him, of course. Never even saw him, of course. But from what I heard I guess he was a real nice fellow. Tops."...
Dr. Altizer, God's surgeon, in an exclusive interview with the Times, stated this morning that the death was "not unexpected." "He had been ailing for some time," Dr. Altizer said, "and lived much longer than most of us thought possible." . . Dr. Altizer also disclosed that plans for a memorial to God have already been discussed informally, and it is likely a committee of eminent clergymen and laymen will soon be named to raise funds for use in "research into the causes of death of deities, an area of medicine many physicians consider has been too long neglected."
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