Mitchell goes to Ramparts—
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"It certainly could be said that I bought my way into the magazine," Mitchell said. "But they have tried to convince me—and I have allowed myself to be convinced—that the kind of understanding we have between each other is outside any financial interests."
Mitchell came to KU last fall after attending graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. He said he turned down an opportunity to go directly to Ramparts because "I had to find out what it's like to pursue a Ph.D. I've enjoyed KU tremendously. I might come back."
Mitchell said the agreement with Ramparts was that if he made an investment in Ramparts, Keating would give up some of his control.
Praise for Keating
Mitchell said he has "deep sympathy and praise for Keating. I can't understand why he attempted a coup." He explained that Keating tried to reinstate himself in a managerial position which he had voluntarily given up.
Keating lost touch with Ramparts, Mitchell said. As Ramparts is presently constituted, it's not Keating's style, he said.
"Keating doesn't have the sense of a story, in the modern way."
Ramparts is a difficult magazine for Mitchell tc describe.
"I hope it will stay free of labels and resist being called the 'new left.' I want it to embrace those things in the so called 'conservative movement' as well as the radical world when it sees a higher moral purpose served by it."
Mitchell wants the magazine to "be as ready to listen to Barry Goldwater as it is to William Fulbright."
The Times is guilty
The New York Times has boosted Ramparts, Mitchell said, because the Times is, in part, "guilty that it is not exposing things as deeply as it could." He said Times writers like James Reston and Russell Baker have "such warm and important ties with Washington officials that they're dedicated not to rock the boat."
Because Ramparts is published 3000 miles from Washington in San Francisco and because it doesn't have ties in the capitol, "Ramparts is irresponsible," Mitchell said.
"You can call it irresponsible and sensational, but I think that is perfectly fine."
Ramparts is "not always my style," Mitchell said.
"I don't like everything they do. But they don't like everything I do either."
Mitchell said he wants to create projects for Ramparts that will permit it to build a better society as well as to criticize it.
'I'm tired of muckraking'
"I'm tired of muckraking. I think muck-
'I'm tired of muckraking'
raking must go on, but it can't go on consistently because it's too wearing and tearing on the people doing the racking.
"I want to tell everybody to move out of New York and Los Angeles and come back to Kansas. I don't think Kansas will be the better for it but I really appreciate this way of life.
"I don't like apathy, but you can't have everything."
Ramparts wants to compete on the "money market" with magazines like Time and Life, Mitchell said.
"Maybe we'll be as big as them someday."
Ramparts editor visits KU today
Robert Scheer, managing editor of Ramparts magazine, will speak tonight at 8 in the Kansas Union Forum Room. The topic of his speech will be "Toward a New Patriotism."
Scheer's visit is sponsored by the Kansas Peace Union and the KU Vietnam Committee.
Scheer is a spokesman for the "New Left." He made an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Congress in 1964. He has traveled in Southeast Asia and is preparing a book on the Vietnam Lobby to be published this summer. He is author of "How the U.S. Got Involved in Vietnam."
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TODAY
Baseball. 1:30 p.m. Nebraska. Quigley Field. Doubleheader.
Muslim Society Friday Prayers, 2:30 p.m. Union.
Navy ROTC Spring Review. 6:30 p.m. Allen Field House.
Popular Film. 7 & 9:30 p.m. "Americanization of Emily." Dyche Aud.
Experimental Theatre. 8:20 p.m.
"The Wicked Cooks."
International Club. Spring Dance,
Hotel Eldridge. 8:30 p.m.
Lecture. 8 p.m. Robert Sheer, Managing Editor of Ramparts Magazine.
"Toward A New Patriotism." Forum Room, Kansas Union.
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