Saving the Flag
Now that about one out of every 50 million Americans has publicly burned the flag in a Vietnamese war demonstration, war dissenters are termed "flag burners." Marches are held to honor the flag and ridicule nonconformists.
And in New York, four Yale University drama students will soon stand trial on charges of desecrating the flag during a performance of a Megan Terry play.
THE STUDENTS used the flag as a blanket throwing it on the floor and rolling in it. In defense, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) says that the flag was "used as a prop—to show conditions in society—a legitimate artistic attempt."
The NYCLU is right. Artistic and political use of the flag do have a place in society: a special place which symbolizes a special act of protest. To set the flag up as a deity is not only to limit freedom of speech but also to regard the flag unrealistically.
THE FLAG is a piece of cloth. True, it stands for many things, good and bad. But while there are undoubtedly more meaningful ways to protest than burning the flag, heavy punishment for such an act is even worse.
This is still a society in which freedom should come first.—Reprinted from the Minnesota Daily
The people say...
An Open Letter to KU Civil Rights:
One day approximately two years in the past I watched a KU sit-in on a national television network. KU Negroes and civil rights leaders were demonstrating for better housing, while in Selma, Ala., on the same day Negroes' skulls were being crushed with bricks because they were trying to vote and eat and things like that.
As I still feel, and as I stated in the UDK at the time, KU civil rights participants must have been either cowards or hypocrites not to be in Selma where they were needed, and where there was an issue. Since that time, I have foregone any hope of sincere, intelligent, KU civil rights action.
THIS MORNING a chance presented itself for KU civil rights redemption. Once again the stage was a national television network, as I awoke to discover my two-year-old daughter watching a war . . . on the campus of a Texas University.
This war is one of many, I assume, with which charismatic Negro leaders have threatened the United States for the 1967 summer. Although this Texas war is already history, it served as just one more incident which will eventually abort forever Negro civil rights in America, doing so by distorting the true meaning of the term civil rights. Do civil rights refer to equality?
OR CONTROL?
Well. the American Indians
wanted control, but if the object of civil rights is still equality, then a golden chance exists right now for the KU civil rights movement to redeem itself. This could be accomplished by publicly denouncing and rejecting Negro leaders who are presently destroying the last ten years of civil rights progress through their encouragement, support, or even condonation of violent methods.
If this is done by the KU civil rights organization, by the end of this summer it may be the only such group still free to convene in America (if this sounds extreme, consider the fact that college students during the 1950's—due to federal investigations—were afraid to belong to such extreme organizations as the NAACP).
If KU civil rights were first to start such action, then I think they could possibly recoup their faux pas of two years ago. It's not easy to be first, but I think KU civil rightes can do it. And if they do it, my confidence and support, for one, will be restored. And if they do not do it, and no other civil rights group does, then in the future I will point to the television and say to my daughter, "NIGGER!"
H. S. Dreher Business Graduate
To the Editor:
I have observed several times four KU policemen performing the arduous task of giving a single ticket to a single car that has violated a parking regulation. An arduous task, indeed it must be since such a team is needed!
"What Are You Doing With My'63 Model Image?"
To my understanding more than two officers are not necessary to write one ticket. One would be enough, two is understandable!
Would it not be a better use of the University's funds to have two of these men write the ticket, while the other two patrol parking zones for theft and vandalism? In my own car, a 1967 model, the rear window was shattered to pieces by a stone or some other object, and a week later, the gearshift knob was stolen. And perhaps, when these and other acts of vandalism (like the burning of cars) were occurring somewhere else on campus, two policemen watched, a third held a flashlight and a fourth wrote a ticket to a car that had violated a parking regulation.
I wonder, if this is what we should expect from our Traffic and Security Office.
Victor Hernandez Costa Rica senior
TOMORROW
Official Bulletin
Foreign Students: Complete information forms in May issue of Newsletter & return to 226 Strong. Also return blankets to 226 Strong.
**Lecture.** 3:30 p.m. Dr. J. G. Lund-
hill
"History of the Phenomena"
Program
411 Summer Field.
PARIS — (UPI)— The international edition of the New York Times merged today into the pages of its chief rival for the overseas American newspaper market.
Paris Times merges with the Tribune
In a two-column front page article the editors of the new amalgam said the merger "marks the combination into one newspaper of all the news resources of the Washington Post and the New York Times together with the paper's own reporting and writing staff."
'Cottonwood Review: A reviewer's delight
It was absorbed into the format of the New York Herald Tribune and Washington Post to produce a single combined newspaper catering to Americans abroad.
Daily Kansan
The new daily, also published in Paris, will be called the International Herald Tribune.
UDK Book Review: Cottonwood Review
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editorial page Tuesday, May 23, 1967
By SCOTT NUNLEY
From cover to cover, the spring issue of KU's "Cottonwood Review" is a fascinating volume. Art and photography catch the eye, while at least half of the fiction and poetry is exciting. This is a 25c volume the KU student would do well to grab and keep.
Assuming that most of the poetry in this issue of "The Cottonwood Review" is of recent production, the reader is surprised by the little effect that Mr. Ginsberg's visit seems to have produced. A year ago it might have been supposed that obvious tendencies of influence would have emerged, something more limited than Thomas Kellog's fine poetry:
On the Kaw, among the
refuse of many hands,
A neolithic fort of stone is exposed
In the river cut.
Among the poems in this volume that the reader will remember, John S. Wade's striking portrait of "Charlie Tulliver" rings out a harsh twist and a bitter irony into the reader's face:
But Tulliver
gargles his laughter, and prances up the street. He's happy to be his own beast.
Harry Weldon's longer poem "Annie's Dead" aims at the delicate problem of personal grief from an oblique direction. His brief image of "one grand magnolia./green as a god" holds the position normally reserved for the elegized person, who is never seen directly. From bits of imagery—of funeral, youth, and decay—Annie intrudes on the mourner's sorrow. In sustaining such a potentially maudlin theme, Weldon has perhaps written the major poem of the volume.
Harry Weldon's short story, "No Horns, No Trumpets," displays a similar atmosphere of introspection and gloom, and a similar technique of narration. The young man of the story remains virtually invisible as the sights and sounds of his world flash by. This protagonist lives in a now-familiar world of modern chaos, unable to love and surrounded by loveless people. Because the story is unresolved and unoriginal, it does not succeed quite as well as the poetry.
Of the remaining fiction, the reader will enjoy both William D. Knief's intense and carefully written "It Was a Warm Day" and David Melvin's very warm "You Want Feethy Pictures?" Like Weldon, both authors deal with introspective young males who are experiencing isolation from their worlds. Here, however, the gloom is lightened with whimsey and comedy.
The choice of the eight pages of art and photography is more questionable. Richard Knox's piece showed up to high and colorful affect in its recent appearance in the Kansas Union—but a mediocre black and white setting is not the place to display it.
Steve Dykes' "Oh Pioneers" best survives the translation of reproduction. A rich and motion-filled piece, Dykes' work may function for the viewer as the title suggests. The dynamic portrait is so life-packed it may instead excite more personal responses.
The collection of black and white photography makes more sense in a volume of this nature. Although Larry Schwarm has three entries too many, his coverpiece and selection on page 25 are the issue's finest.
It is always debatable whether a collegiate literary magazine accurately reflects the state of student work upon the campus. Certainly if superior artists remained uncovered they must be outstanding, indeed. KU owes its thanks and its support to editor David L. Stewart and his staff.
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