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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesdav. Mav 8.1968
A simple windmill
Conversation is cheap.
Through bull sessions, group planning, or personal daydreams, the average student is a great one for assuming a Quixote-like self-image, ready to some day charge the windmills of poverty, disease, hunger and ignorance.
Put your money where your mouth is.
A number of KU students have taken an active part in helping in the underprivileged children of Lawrence through the Day Camp Fund.
The cost of sending over 200 Lawrence children from low-income families to a 10-week summer camp is $46,340; the student body goal at KU is $15,000, or a dollar per person.
This, of course, is a little unrealistic; you couldn't get everyone at KU to agree to continue breathing together over a five minute period, let alone to give a dollar a piece to a good cause.
Hence, $1.00 OR MORE from each student is requested. Thus far, just a little over $1,000 has been collected, or about seven per cent.
This amount does not include one of the more sensible moves undertaken by an organized living group in a long time.
Ellsworth Hall, which has social funds that carry over from year to year, will give $1,000 to the Lawrence Day Camp from this amount, a move which was independently voted upon and passed by each floor.
The students who volunteer their time to run the collection tables set up on campus are ready to show some of the facts that go with these figures, and some of the more human reasons for helping the underprivileged children of the Lawrence community.
A firm, inward resolve to strike a blow for God and truth and right Someday is fine until giving a dollar is too much to ask for a cause that is as simple yet important as this one can be with student help.
John Hill Assistant Editorial Editor
Association: great as usual
By Will Hardesty
The Association is back with BIRTHDAY on the Warner Brothers—Seven Arts label.
It's hard to miss when you pick the Association and this album is no different. It is excellent. The Association is a group of excellent, original and creative musicians—and these qualities show through on the album.
It is kind of a worship service and sermon on life and love.
The call to worship is "Come on In." "Come on in/You know you're welcome here./Come on in/It's been a long cold year/... but now we're back together/Come on in."
A soft melodic prelude called "Rose Petals, Incense and a Kitten" follows.
The first prayer, "Like Always" states the problem. I'm all alone, out of gas, no money, rent's due, missed another payment, just like always. Trying to win the affection of a girl is the only thing which keeps me interested in life. Please, girl, notice me, care for me.
Evidently she does for "Everything that Touches You" turns to love. She is a "Toy-maker" bring joy to those around her, particularly he who loves her.
The second side gets down to the preaching after a hymn called "Barefoot Gentleman" about life and death.
"Time for Livin'" is a plea to slow our lives down. "Took off my watch/Found I had all the time in the world/. . . I layed down all of my
hang-ups forever/I looked around/And saw what sweet things can be found/Simply by takin'/Some time for livin'"
"Hear in Here" is a tremendously rhythmic proclamation of, "I'll tell you what to do/And how to live your life./The changes will make you new/And take you where you're going to./It's all up to you."
"The Time It is Today" says the time is now; "Time to find our way."
"The Bus Song" is great. It is all about frustration—at being a salesman and not making sales—at missing a bus. "People reacting/All of them acting/Out emotions for a thing/That passed them by./And what else/The people are standing/They're not understanding/Whether to laugh or cry./Time has passed them by."
The sermon finishes by saying, if you will take it easy, slow down, find yourself, everything will be all right. When you've done that, "The dark has passed/Now it's morning/A birthday morning"—a happy new day has dawned.
The benediction is offered by the last line of the song—"God bless this morning/This birthday morning."
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Colours is a new group with their first album, COLOURS. just released on Dot.
Color this album to sound like an imitation of the Beatles—in rhythm patterns and harmony. Don't color this album good. Don't color it bad. Color it mediocre grey.
New Paperbacks
An important new paperback that should interest the more scholarly University students is called China in Revolution: History, Documents, and Analyses (Premier, 95 cents). It was edited by Vera Simone in the Political Perspectives Series, and it shows thought concerning the continuing Chinese revolution, going back to Sun Yat-sen and coming up to the present. Among those represented in the documents are Chiang Kai-shek, John K. Fairbank, Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, Edgar Snow, Joseph Stilwell, George Marshall, Albert Wedemeyer, James Gavin, Lyndon Johnson, George Kennan and Hans Morgentau.
Also of some interest should be a new edition of A. J. P. Taylor's famous book, The Origins of the Second World War (Premier, 75 cents). Taylor carries the reader back to the First World War and the treaty of Versailles, and he rejects the simplistic notion that Hitler was largely responsible for the conflict. The book appeared in 1961.
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"It became necessary to destroy the university to save it!"
Letters to the Editor
"Voice:"
To the Editor:
some pros and cons on its motives
In witnessing the great spectacle Monday morning, I confirmed my belief that the University of Kansas is in danger of being overrun by a very small minority group—namely, The Voice. That such a movement could arouse the alarm and emotion it has aroused in the past week, is beyond all imagining and reaches the dimensions of the twilight zone.
As an undergraduate in this university, who came here out of choice, who will earn enough credits to graduate and move on, I can consider myself nothing more than a transient. The premise that a dedicated faculty and a very well qualified administration is working against my interests, seems completely un-justified and unfounded.
Just what are The Voice's motives? To bring KU into competition with Berkeley and Columbia for the purpose of creating a state of anarchy? To discredit the administrators by forcing them to prostitute their principles? To create two separate factions, thus splitting the vote in all governing bodies?
I urge all those who love this university for what it is—a fine educational institution—to stand up and be counted, for it is a sad day when 1700 signatures can influence (or possibly destroy) a
system which serves ten times that number!
Terry Sumner Kansas City junior
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To the Editor:
"The University is not for the students" (quote, unquote Francis H. Heller) we are told that as "transients" the students should not and can not expect the administration to do anything more than, "take the opinions of the students into the highest consideration." This means, of course, that the opinion of the student does not really matter. The University finally and flatly exposed its true attitude toward the student and thus exposed the reactionary basis upon which it continues to exist.
The current confrontation between students and administration deserves a lucid explanation and accordingly, we would like to present the issues as we personally see them and the case for which we stand.
At the functional level is the question of "student voice" and the right to meaningfully implement their desires within the institutions which to varying degrees control their lives. But as a necessary consequence it is imperative that we examine the University's responsibility to human beings, both individual students and the society as a whole.
Whether it is the case against
the military and the ROTC, general dorm procedure—including the whole concept of dorms, curriculum requirements, or student representation on various committees concerned with student affairs, the central issue is do students as human beings have the right to assert meaningful influence over the environment and institutions they live in. Moreover, does the obvious transient nature of individual students negate the more clearly obvious permanency of students as a society with unique social and structural problems.
One of Senator Fulbright's complaints is that the Senate has never and is not now being consulted about such things as Vietnam. And indeed, why should the Senate be consulted, not simply because the Constitution makes some mention of the Senate acting as an advisor to the President in these affairs. The answer seems to us to center around the human issue not a structural discussion. Vietnam in the last analysis is people, not things, and as such people have more than a right to enter into the decision making process—they are duty bound to make the abstraction of "American foreign policy" address itself to human problems and human beings. The difficulty, of course, is that the President has all the power, which does not operate in the interests of people, but of
concepts vomited out of an endless line of computers, which daily "game" back and forth to win, but never in consideration of what or at what cost.
As a result the American people have a Vietnam without ever first, clearly having the entire issue presented to its representatives and secondly, find their representatives excluded from the decision making process.
Our situation at KU, albeit on a far different scale, is not unlike the situation of our hapless friends in the Senate. We have the ASC, but without becoming overly cynical about this blatant travesty on the whole concept of human influence over their environment, we would say that a part of the demands would give real power to the ASC and thereby end its sterility.
It is, in the last analysis, a question of power and procedure and since the people who implement power are not willing to "discuss" themselves into a more disadvantageous position, it is the duty of people wishing a voice in the affairs that affect their lives to disrupt the institutional procedures in which they have no meaningful influence.
In the larger sense, KU and its students and their conflicts are a microcosm of the society at large. Institutions by nature are amoral and until human beings assert direct control over the abstraction
of bureaucratic violence, then we as people can expect nothing in the future that is not now a part of the absurd history of Western Man, where societies led by "realists" all too often were consumed by the structures they so willingly supported. Dean Heller is absolutely wrong to dismiss this university as amoral. KU must and we believe will address itself to moral man not amoral institutions.
But we cannot expect any structural change to begin with the present paternalistic elite. We, as students, must produce the necessary impetus to change the existing structures, or to create new ones. This must be the focus of our protest.
One final thought — massive non-violence and civil disobedience is not a zealous disregard for Democracy and its procedures, it is an attempt to disrupt the institutions over which no other control can be exercised. It is a recognition that human values are not defined either by a roll call vote or a computer. It is furthermore an exercise which although outside the normal channels of communication, finds its foundation in human empathy and therefore provokes the "majority" to procedurely address itself to human beings.
Rick Atkinson
Belleville senior
Bill Hansen