On Liberty...and Pot Universities today allow their students considerably more freedom in matters of personal conduct than they did in a former era. And we think rightly so. But there obviously are limits beyond which responsible institutions cannot permit individuals to go. Dean John U. Menro of Harvard College has now made it clear that authorities are ready to take "serious disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal," against students using or distributing illegal or dangerous drugs, such as marijuana and LSD. He received immediate and strong support from other neighboring universities and colleges. ACCOMPANYING Dean Monro's statement was another by the Harvard Health Service, documenting the dangers of taking these drugs. Marijuana proponents often argue that since it is not physically addictive, it is not harmful. But this is far too simple a view. derworld and other) contacts they make, often go on to the use of more dangerous drugs. This report notes that marijuana is "often laced with mixtures of other hallucinogenic drugs to strengthen the effects." The purchaser has no way of knowing just what he is getting. Furthermore, "pot" smokers, by virtue of (un- AS FOR LSD, it was once thought relatively harmless. And some enthusiasts still advocate its use as essentially a religious experience. But now that more is known about its effects, many informed persons see it as "a greater menace to users than even the addicting narcotics." The Harvard report considers it "inadvisable for an individual who takes even one dose of LSD to make a major decision about himself for at least three months." Dr. James L. Goddard, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has seen fit to refer to its unsupervised use as "chemical Russian roulette." Since many students have not been able to see for themselves just how harmful experimenting with these drugs can be, it is up to the universities to speak out. It is their obligation to students, parents, and society-at-large not only to state their conviction but to show they mean it by readiness to invoke their disciplinary proceedings. - Reprinted from the Christian Science Monitor A year for tragedies This year's spacemen have had short lives. Whereas before 1967 the world had never seen an authenticated death of any airborne astronaut, it has mourned the death of four this year. But the tragic waste of money and lives will not deter the American and Soviet governments from advancing and perfecting their space programs. In this light, the recent proposal of James E. Webb, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, seems highly appropriate. He repeated a frequently-made proposal that the United States and Russia pool their efforts to put a man on the moon. HE SAID THAT if each nation had had the knowledge and experience of the other, the two fatal accidents this year might have been avoided. "Could the lives already lost have been saved if we had known each other's hopes, aspirations, and plans?" he asked. Webb's question may well be answered by American-Soviet cooperation. If both nations are as peaceful as they say in planning for the conquest of space, they should have nothing to hide. — Reprinted from the Minnesota Daily The people say... To the editor: In a recent article in the UDK on the cat-screewworm problem in Souffer Flace, it was implied that cats were responsible for transmitting screwworms to children. This is highly improbable for two reasons. SECONDLY, the tiny worms In the first place, screwworms are the maggot-like larvae of a fly which lays eggs at the edge of cores and wounds on cattle and other large animals. When these eggs hatch, the larvae feed in the wound thereby causing the animal's death unless treatment is given promptly. As a result, cats are not even closely associated with these insects. plaguing the children in Stouffer are probably pinworms (seatworms) which are restricted to humans and have been found in only one other animal, a chimpanzee. Therefore they cannot possibly be transmitted to children by cats. Pinworms are normally transferred from child to child by contaminated underclothing, bedclothing, toilet seats, soiled hands, or any other contaminated object which is likely to come into contact with the children. Eggs of this worm have been found on the fur of dogs and cats but in these instances the children are responsible for contaminating the pets. Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years KANSAN TELEPHONE NUMBERS Newsroom—UN 4-3646 Business Office—UN 4-3198 The Daily Kansan, student newspaper at The University of Kansas, is represented by National Advertising Service, 18 East 50 St.. New York, NY. 10022. Postage paid law firm $5 a semester or $9 a year. 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EXECUTIVE STAFF Executive Staff Managing Editor Joan McCabe Manager Dan Austin Editorial Editor Dan Austin, Barb Phillips NEWS AND BUSINESS STAFF Assistant Managing Editor Managing Editors Gay Murrell, Steve Russell Linda Sheelfl, Robert Stevens City Editor Will Hardesty Advertising Manager Ken Hickerson Wide Editor Betsy Wright National Manager Howard Parks Shorts Editor Mike Walker Promotion Manager John Lee Feature Editor Jacki Campbell Circulation Manager Don Hunter Photo Editor Classified Manager Joe Godfrey Asst. City Editor Carol DeBonis Merchandising Manager Steve Dennis Executive Reporters: Eric Morgenthaler, Jay Faust, Jaquit Harrington FACULTY ADVISERS: Business; Prof. Mel Adams; News; Malcolm Applegate; Editorial; Prof. Calder Pickett Lest the mothers in Stouffer feel they are unique in this pinworm problem, it has been estimated that there are 18 million people infested with pinworms in North America alone and most of these cases are children. However, cleanliness and good personal hygiene coupled with chemotherapy will help in greatly reducing the incidence of this parasite. D. F. G. Hilton Dept. of Entomology Official Bulletin TODAY Engel'h. Lecture, 4 p.m. Walter Alberg Assessment Center, Forum Union German Movie, 4 p.m. "Bacon Munchehaus." 411 Summerflr lld. French Club, 4:30 p.m. Panel discussion, Africa & West Indies, by 3 KU foreign students, Jayhawk Room, Union. Classical Film, 7 & 9 p.m. "Lost Yeah at Marienbad." French Dycha Eytel Alba Chi Sigma (Chem. Frater- nia) 7 p.m. Cottonwood Room, Union. Sympsisum-KU Chamber Cho r, 8 p.m. Saworthout Recital Hall. Lecture, 8 p.m. Hendriette Mandl U. on choreography "Vienna Theatre." Murp Hall. TOMORROW Speech I Exemption Exam, 3:30 p.m. Lindt i Ann x. Lecture, 4.30 p.m. Henriette Mandel, "Carl Zuckerman" 112 Blake (left) Lecture, 7.15 p.m. Dr. Jack Porter, "A Hat at Tapology." 119 Strong. GEOLOGY Lecture, S. p.m. Dr. Richard A. B. mison, KU, citr of US. Nati- on. University of Illinois at Urbana. artist looks at Tumisah Archaology." 428 Lindley. 2 Daily Kansan editorial page Wednesday, May 3, 1967 NEW BOOKS A real potpourri—that's this grouping of new paperbacks. At one time a book by James T. Farrell would have been a real literary event; now it's a sad commentary on a talent long since burned-out. The new Farrell is called Lonely for the Future (Deil, 75 cents), and it takes the reader back to Farrell's day, the twenties, and to his favorite setting, Chicago, where the hero, like Studs Lonigan and Danny O'Neill before him, is yearning to burst out and find more than life seems to provide. Farrell, like Sinclair Lewis, never seemed to learn how to write beyond the early books. But the picture of life in the jazz age is valid. To shift to something else, a volume for the student of philosophy—Aristotle, by Abraham Edel (Dell Laurel, 95 cents). Dell has been publishing a series called "Great Lives and Thought," and the Aristotle is the newest in the group. This book, like the others, contains a short biography and some of the most important of the writings—logic, physics, psychology and biology, metaphysics, ethics, politics, rhetoric, poetics. Now to jump to something quite different, Bill Adler's volume called Letters to the Air Force on UFOs (Dell, 50 cents). This can be read on the level of belief or the level of skepticism. Or, as an analysis of behavior. Another one that's nonfiction but quite different from the sensational title is Hendrik M. Ruitenbeck's The Male Myth (Dell, 75 cents). Ruitenbeck is a sociologist and psychoanalyst deeply concerned with the fate of the individual in mass culture land, and this is what he is talking about here. Is American man being emasculated? Ruitenbeck seems to say yes. Now for some light fiction. First there's a comic western called The Ballad of Dingus Magee, by David Markson (Dell, 60 cents). Inspired, no doubt, by such things as "Cat Ballou." My, how things have changed since "The Virginian" and "The Covered Wagon." And another espionage thing, by Noel Behn, called The Kremlin Letter (Dell, 75 cents). This one has a little John le Carre, a little Len Deighton, a letof James Bond, some Man from U.N.C.L.E., and maybe even Maxwell Smart. The genre is running thin. Plus these—a new A. A. Fair, Spill the Jackpot (Dell, 45 cents), in which Donald Lam and Bertha Cool investigate murder again; a new (really old, though) Philip MacDonald, Warrant for X (Dell, 60 cents), which is more or less a standard among mystery novels, ever since it appeared almost 30 years ago; and a thing by James Mayo called Let Sleeping Girls Lie (Dell, 50 cents), which deals with spy and sex exploits of a fellow named Charles Hood. * * SELECTIONS FROM IDYLLS OF THE KING, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, and CAMELOT, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Dell, 50 cents)—A curious kind of paperback that recalls one that combined "Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story." Most of us, probably, will whiz by Tennyson (we read him in high school, you know) to check on the lyrics of the big Broadway hit that's soon to be in movie theaters as well. There's an eternal enchantment to the stories of King Arthur, and even though "Camelot" has some pretty weak places it captures on occasion the magic of its original source, "The Once and Future King." As for "Idylls of the King," the Victorian magic of Tennyson can continue to thrill the reader, even though he's been conditioned by television and the comics to reading matter quite different. ***** ABOVE SUSPICION, HORIZON and PRAY FOR A BRAVE HEART, all by Helen MacInnes (all Dell, 60 cents each); THE MAN WHO LOVED HIS WIFE, by Vera Caspary (Dell, 60 cents); DATE WITH A DEAD MAN, by Brett Halliday (Dell, 45 cents); PARTNERS IN CRIME and THE TUESDAY CLUB MURDERS, both by Agatha Christie (Dell, 50 cents)—This month's detective fiction and thrill stuff. Actually there are three types represented here; the espionage tales by Helen MacInnes, the toutged guy stuff by Brett Halliday, the relatively genteel murder stories by good old Agatha Christie. There's scarcely been a better spy story in the last quarter century than "Above Suspicion," which has a husband and wife all involved with Nazis in pre-war Europe. Damsels in distress are the specialty of author MacInnes, especially damsels unhappily involved with Nazis or Communists and old castles and dark skies and all that. "The Man Who Loved His Wife" is not a conventional mystery, but Vera Caspary's touch for suspense gives it more than routine interest. LINCOLN AND HIS GENERALS, by T. Harry Williams (Vintage, $1.95)—Perhaps the standard volume on Lincoln and his handling of military matters in the Civil War. It is a completely fascinating story that Williams tells, starting with McDowell and the disaster of Bull Run, treating those arrogant men of destiny, McClellan and Fremont, going through the woes of trying to find a general who could win battles (McClellan, Burnside, Hooker and Pope), and proving disastrous in some respects, and culminating in the final successes under Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas. The Civil War centennial is now two years behind us, but books like this still make for engrossing reading.