Other editors say...
"Ronnie, Boy, I Think You've Done It Again"
The freedom thieves
For all practical purposes, the members of the U.S. population under 21 have lost their freedom.
The Mirror, defines freedom as Salado De Madariage defined it: "He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power."
Are the U.S. government and the mass media, inspired by the chauvinistic tensions of the American people, sacrificing the freedom of a huge portion of the younger generation? We think so.
Last year the Berkeley protestors (Free Speech Movement) were given fines and sentences for exercising civil disobedience.
The peace march on Washington in December, made up mostly of student, was labeled by the mass media, carte blanche, as "fringe radicals" and "pinkos."
The burning of draft cards, a symbolic gesture of disagreement with the administration's policy in
Viet Nam, can now be punished by five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The teach-in movement was effectively stifled by government charges of communist infiltration and manipulation.
The whole American ideal confirmed the right of the individual to speak his mind and pursue his own reality, as long as he was not threatening someone else's right to do the same. What has happened to the ideal?
A young Texas airman was sentenced to two years at hard labor by a military tribunal for participating in a peace march, even though he was off duty and in civilian clothes.
Reader's Digest, Look and Life magazines have efficiently assured the American patriot that the whole Viet Nam protest movement is controlled by Communist agenis.
We are free as long as we keep our mouths shut, stay in step and join a few clubs.
Colorado State College Mirror
The people say...
To the editor and specifically to Philip Weiss Jr., whose letter (published yesterday in the Kansan) expressed "disturbance" about the reading course advertisement in the Mar. 29 issue:
The implicit premise in Weiss'
argument is that there must be some connection between the mechanics of reading and academic passion. This needless to ray, is a patent absurdity.
It is impossible to measure or evaluate one's "academic" zeal
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
AND SOMETIMES MY LECTURES MAY CARRY YOU A MINUTE OR TWO FAST THE NOON HOUR."
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by the method or mechanics he employs in the act of reading.
The fact that Tom Hall wanted to increase his reading speed to give himself more time to play baseball, date or possibly become an occasional drunk, says nothing about his intellect or academic responsibility.
THERE IS A POSSIBILITY that Tom Hall doesn't care a whit about being "intellectual" or being even slightly academically oriented. It is even possible that Tom (and others) see school work as "a bothersome chore for a college student to be gotten over with as quickly as possible."
To imply that attitudes like these are infantile is also absurd. A man is still a man whether he is a baseball player, circus clown, B & G employee, economics professor, published historian, or Dalai Lama.
To assume that attitudes like the ones mentioned are anti-intellectual within the context of another assumption—intellectuality is, after all, above all else and intellectuals above all others—is stretching the role of class to a point of stress!
John Lee
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The Hill With It by john hill
My roommate recently brought a number of white rats in our room, along with a complicated maze, for his psychology experiment.
While watching the rats crawl through the maze, I wondered what the white rats think of psychologists who put them there ...
THE TWO WHITE RATS casually looked up at the excited psychologists who anxiously peered over the edge of the maze, with their ball point pens poised expectantly over their clipboards.
"Oh, brother," said one bored rat.
The other rat yawned.
"Yeah, but as long as we're here, do you want to get a cup of coffee or something with me? There's a little place to eat at the end of this maze, down that aisle there to your left."
"If you ask me, this whole bit is just a lot of Mickey Mouse," said the rat.
"I KNOW WHERE it is," said the other, and they strolled down the maze.
"Say, did I tell you that 'ol Frank Buck up there thinks I'm a girl? Last night he put me in the other cage and—"
"Wait a minute. We better sniff a lot and stuff. You know, look real lost and all. They get pretty disappointed if you just walk over to the food."
AND OFF THE TWO RATS WENT, one of them valiantly pretending to be lost by taking blind alleys and then turning around, and the other one later receiving a nomination for the best supporting role.
All this leads one to consider how other aspects of KU are viewed through the eyes of animals on campus.
Imagine a conversation between two of those springtime robins that everyone points to and says, "Well, it must be spring. I just saw a robin redbreast!"
"Well, what do you expect, lady? A brassiere?" muttered one robin to another who was beside him in a tree in front of Watson Library.
"HEY, MAN, DON'T BE BITTER," said the other robin. "Remember, you're supposed to be a symbol of spring, a reminder of freshness, a new hope for tomorrow—"
"Al right, all right. There's a bunch of characters gawking at us now. I suppose one of us ought to chirp or something, huh?"
"Yeah, I guess so. After you do that, do you want to fly around inside Hoch auditorium and make everyone think we're trapped and can't get out?"
"O K. Hey! Look at that mess down there. I'm glad I get wings."
THE TWO BIRDS looked at the side of Watson library at the sidewalk construction and the students walking through it.
"I'm glad I don't have to crawl through that swampy obstacle course."
"Yeah looks like Parris Island down there. Do you suppose they'll be putting up a repe-swing across ditches, or a scaling wall next?"
"PROBOBLY. Hey, you know what it looks like to me, with all these humans trying to find a path through the mud and construction work?"
"What's that?"
"Locks like a couple of white rats trying to get through a maze. . .."