Friday, May 3, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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SEN. MARK O. HATFIELD
Day Camp seeks to remove unrest
Not even those closest to the problems in this town really know.
Lawrence, which has a sizeable population of low-income Negro families, is as potentially explosive as any other small American city, some have said.
The Lawrence Day Camp program, which would be supported mainly by funds received in massive drives downtown and on the campus, is an effort to stave off possible unrest.
The camp would provide jobs for more than 60 teenagers from low-income families in North and East Lawrence, and full-day care for more than 200 children from these families.
Do KU students care about this program and the problems of the undereducated and underprivileged people of Lawrence?
They care $504.12 worth. But "that's not enough," said Mehmet Gurkaynak, Biga, Turkey, graduate student, and treasurer of the student fund drive. "We should get at least $10,000," he said.
The goal set by the student fund drive organizers is $15,000—one dollar for every KU student. If funds continue to trickle in at the present rate, it will take another 90 days to complete the drive—and by then KU students will be
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scattered across the United States for the summer.
One of the reasons students hesitate to give money may be that they don't have much of it. Gurkaynak added that it wasn't a lack of social awareness which makes the collection boxes fill so slowly. Most of the students contacted for funds or help in soliciting respond enthusiastically, he said.
A faculty drive, aiming at $7,500, is attempting to contact every KU staff member, and a two-week-old downtown campaign has received $36,000 to date.
Hatfield attacks war conflict based on myths
By Bob Butler Kansan Staff Reporter
Myths about patriotism, dissent and the Presidency need to be exploded, Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore., said Thursday.
Speaking to about 1,200 persons in Hoch Auditorium, Hatfield, a leading critic of the Johnson administration's policy in Southeast Asia, tied these myths to the 1968 Presidential campaign.
"Should we be entertained by a candidate or stimulated to think?" Hatfield asked.
"Are we going to ask for those who develop opinion or those that merely reflect it?
"It's much easier to accept than resist, to keep silent than speak out. I think our society is in need of a Voltaire—one who pursues value and reason."
"Somehow today patriotism is thought of as being projected from the administration in Washington," said Hatfield. "It is called national unity" as if we were all required to line up shoulder-to-shoulder to show our support for our boys in Vietnam. This too is a myth.
Hatfield pointed out several myths that he believes presently prevail in America. Most relate to dissent over the Vietnam war.
"Somehow in America we have developed the myth that only one man is equipped to evaluate the war in Vietnam. The President alone knows all the facts, all the behind-the-scenes activities. You and I are told that we must yield to this one man, and I submit that this is a myth." Hatfield said.
Hatfield also discussed America's definition of patriotism, as a "myth."
"True patriotism is not unity, it is not supporting bad policies to show a false front. The true patriot analyzes and develops his criticism—he does not accept blindly what one man says to do or think!"
Hatfield's last "myth" concerned the viewpoint that, unless a person has an alternative to every situation, he has no right to dissent. Hatfield said that when delegates from the newly formed United States of America met in Philadelphia for a Constitutional
Convention they had no guarantees.
"These men knew only that the Articles of Confederation were not satisfactory." Hatfield said, "and that something needed to be done about it. There is no reason to feel that a man cannot speak out unless he can say 'I have the answer.'"
Hatfield then launched an attack against the draft system. "We are told that a good education is an important part of our democracy." Hatfield said, "How it is, then, that next year the draft will leave our graduate schools with 70 per cent fewer students?
"The whole draft program is inequitable, and there is no way to make something equitable if it is inequitable to begin with. In '64 both parties promised more equitable draft laws. And what happened?" asked Hatfield. "President Johnson appointed the Marshall commission to study the draft, under the guidance of a task force composed of his budget director, Mr. Smith, Robert Strange McNamara and Gen. Hershey."
Hatfield said the draft was more characteristic of a totalitarian than a democratic system.
Finally, Hatfield urged Americans to realize they are not going to make friends by giving aid to governments that are interested in "jets and military strength," but by "dealing with the people's needs."
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