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SOMEWHAT POMPOUS AND USUALLY overly optimistic editorial statements of policy appear each semester as the divine right of fledgling editors. So we would like to indulge ourselves and discuss what we believe to be the proper concerns of page two of the University Daily Kansan:
DURING THE PAST 18 MONTHS, the conflict on college campuses has shown that today's student is restless in the contemporary world and unwilling to accept traditional solutions.
HOWEVER, THIS CONTROVERSIAL unrest is natural in a university that challenges its students. An academic community should seek conflict, not contentment. Here at KU, the problem has not been too much unrest, but rather too little.
Students have a responsibility to think for themselves and to protect those wrongs which they perceive. Further, a university which insulates its students from taking responsibility for their actions cannot expect those students to produce responsible protests.
IN AN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY, the newspaper likewise assumes a responsibility to challenge tradition and to seek alternatives. If the university's problems are not presented here, they may never be presented at all.
PROBLEMS DO EXIST AT KU that have not yet been faced by the community as a whole. The role of the university to its students and faculty—and its responsibility to society—needs continual reexamination. Discussion is needed on the forms the university is to take in a changing society, from the feasibility of a resident college to the quality of its graduate school program.
EXPANDING STUDENT POPULATION puts new burdens on administration. What functions should be performed by personnel deans? Can the physical plant be efficiently operated, despite legislative reluctance to increase per capita expenditure? Is the provost system an improvement, or a bandage where an operation is needed?
STUDENT INSTITUTIONS ALSO need reform. Student government provides the most striking example of students' inability to cope with their own problems. The All Student Council was designed to be powerless and sandbox politicians have not sought the creative power necessary to adequately represent the students. Political parties have ignored important
campus problems and often have promoted inept candidates.
THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE of campus life demands continual inspection. Having built the Daisy Hill "residence halls," the university now must learn to live with them, although they largely are unsatisfactory for a university community.
THE STEREOTYPES REINFORCED by fraternities and sororites are obsolete in twentieth-century urban society. Social exclusion perpetrates attitudes which will slow solution of technopolitan problems. Membership criteria generally exclude the new, creative, imaginative thinkers.
APATHETIC CONTENTMENT seems more prevalent in the Greek system and the monolithic residence halls. The community has a responsibility to seek correction in systems which dull the otherwise bright minds of their members.
FINALLY, THOSE WHO EXPECT to find impersonal impartiality on this page will be disappointed this semester. While we will provide diverse opinions on this page, the upper left-hand corner will be personal, partial and, hopefully, fair.
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free opinion needed at risk
A GOOD NOMINATION for "Star-Spangled, Red-White-and-Blue-Blooded American of the Year" would be Rep. Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.). (The nomination would have to be for 165, since his immortal statement was made in December.) In a televised interview, Rep. Teague said:
"If you ask me,"—and it's too bad someone did—it's time to stop talking about freedom of speech and start talking about treason a little bit."
REP. TEAGUE, was, of course, commenting on the opposition to U.S. foreign policy in Viet Nam. His feeling about the critics of American policy is not unique, but was perhaps stated in an unusually forthright way.
The opponents to the Viet Nam war have been subjected to a great number of invectives and pressures. A group of students in Michigan lost their college deferment and were reclassified 1A by the Michigan Selective Serv-
sage and enforcement of unduly firing of teachers, and the pass-of the Selective Service Act, the ice; a teacher at Kearney State Teachers College in Nebraska lost his job in the middle of the semester; a student in New York was arrested and charged under a new law providing a fine of up to $10,000 and imprisonment for as much as five years for burning a draft card—a piece of paper which is entirely unnecessary in order to draft a registrant.
THOUSANDS MORE who have expressed disagreement with American policy have been called everything from "fuzzy-headed" and "Vietnik" to the sinister traitor."
Although the name-calling and attempts at character assassination may be deplorable, they are part of the rough-and-tumble of the public expression of opinion in the United States. But the use harsh laws in an effort to suppress the expression of opinion is quite a different matter.
REP. TEAGUE'S suggestion that "it's time to stop talking about freedom of speech" is one example of a dangerous kind of supercharged patriotism. It actually is about the most "un-American" attitude a citizen—and especially a public servant—can take in trying times.
The true patriot should be concerned, above everything else, to protect and preserve the liberties which have made America a great democratic republic. He should never tire of "talking about freedom of speech," because that freedom above all others has permitted the American people to fight through the great issues they have faced, confident that every point of view was given a chance to plead its case.
SOMETIMES THE multitude of voices may seem to sow confusion; sometimes we may feel that our enemies (or even our friends) will take the caterwauling of our debates as a sign of weakness and indecision. But that is a risk freedom takes.
At the heart of the democratic principle is the belief that somewhere in the multitude of the voices of the people is hidden the pearl of truth and justice. It may even be in a combining of voices, a compromise of many opinions. But the truth is there, and if we give it a chance to be heard, it
The judicial board of Purdue's Associated Women Students voted last week to abolish women's hours. The board's proposal stated that a system of no hours was preferable to a change in the hours system because the latter would only allow women students to stay out later. It was felt that a no hours system was the only one which could be justified on a philosophical basis.
Purdue votes for no hours
will be discovered and will lead us in the way of strength and vigor.
2 Daily Kansan editorial page Tuesday, February 8, 1966
OUR HISTORY has shown that ours can be a strong nation—strong enough, even, to crush nations which speak with but one voice and seem to pursue a clear, unified purpose.
Perhaps we have not always served truth and justice. Men are fallible, even when they act democratically and concertedly. But it is not mere chauvinism to suggest that perhaps our republic has more consistently served truth and justice than have other nations.
THOSE WHO champion freedom of speech do so because they believe that truth and justice have power—power to preserve our nation and bring it prosperity and felicity. And they believe that only by searching it diligently can these gems be found; if a single corner is proclaimed "off limits" in the search, a potential repository of truth and justice is lost.
-Walt Blackledge, ACLU president
America!
OH BEAUTIFUL for spacious
skies
All filled with smoke and dust
For purple mountains'
majesties And streams that wane and must
(Chorus)
AMERICA! AMERICA!
What man has done to thee.
And from thy good each
brotherhood Outnumbers space by three. OH, BEAUTIFUL for Pilgrims' pride As highways choke the view Society's cup will drink you up From sea to shining sea.
(Chorus)
AMERICA! AMERICA!
What man has done to thee ...
Stripped for good your lovely
woods No wildlife do I see.
— Mary Dunlap
Plans For Panda
MOSCOW — (UPI) — A British zoologist on a matchmaking mission to Moscow went calling on a giant panda Monday and pronounced him in "perfect condition" to become a father.
Dr. Desmond Morris, director of the London Zoo, indicated he would recommend to his board of directors that they arrange an international mating between Moscow's panda, An-An, and London's lady panda, Chi-Chi.
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