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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 14, 1968
Student rights violated
A favorite topic of conversation among university professors in faculty clubs—the professor's equivalent to the locker room or smoky caucus club—is the idea of academic freedom.
No one would deny the inherent goodness of academic freedom or its necessity to achieve intellectual honesty.
However, Assistant Professor Mark Mandelker's preference not to teach three ROTC students for the sole reason of their military affiliation cannot be justly categorized as a matter of academic freedom.
Rather, it appears to be a matter of rudeness, the total lack of concern for students who don't agree with his pacifistic sympathies.
Although Mandelker didn't refuse to teach the ROTC students but rather "requested" they transfer to another section, he is, in fact, forcing them to leave his section. Any sensible student would flee for fear of his grade after such an affront.
Mandelker's blatant discrimination of ROTC students- is illogical considering every man of draft age has to consider some sort of military or civilian service and ROTC is one sensible alternative. Just because a man joins the military doesn't necessarily mean he condones war or "killing people."
Mandelker has misused his academic freedom to severely restrict one basic freedom a university student should enjoy—that is, the right to take any subject he is academically eligible to enroll in.
If Mandelker is so insistent on not teaching ROTC students something they could use to "kill people," he should not teach at a university which has a military science department. How can he justify teaching only the students he feels will use the knowledge in a way he condones? In a university situation, military or pacifist views should not be a prerequisite to education.
Diane Wengler Editorial Editor
Group opposes Smith's envoy
This editor and a group of African students and their sympathizers will march down Jayhawk Boulevard to demonstrate in front of the Kansas Union today against H. J. C. Hooper while he speaks before the Minority Opinion's Forum.
Hooper represents that group of people in the world—call them racists, red-necks or what not—who believe that the Caucasians are a superior race. He comes to us an agent of Ian Smith's white minority regime in Rhodesia for whom he helps run an information center in Washington, D.C.
He and his backers in Rhodesia are among those misguided disciples of the so-called "white civilizing mission" which has done much harm to the world's dark races throughout history
In Rhodesia, for instance, there are 300,000 whites and 4,000,000 black Africans. The white men came there as miners in the fashion of Cecil Rhodes and as tobacco farmers in the fashion of most of Rhodesia's modern day white citizens. Through fraud and shady deals with the Africans and their chiefs, they established themselves in positions of power and wealth which they persistently refused to relinquish or share with the Africans, the original inhabitants of Zimbabwe.
Instead, about two and half years ago, despite enlightened change in such neighboring countries as Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya, Smith led the Rhodesian Front, consisting of die-hard segregationists, to declare unilaterally, Rhodesian independence from Great Britain.
Using the United States as a precedent, they
merely succeeded in making a parody of this country's Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Until now, no country has recognized Rhodesia's independence.
Rhodesia refuses to recognize the right of the black man to have votes and to cast them in free elections. Rhodesia has black leaders—Joshua Nkomo for instance—behind bars or in exile.
And so the country remains an illegal regime. Great Britain abandoned the right to exercise its authority to wrest power from Smith. Africans blame Britain for refusing to use force against its kith and kin in Rhodesia.
Instead of heeding Africans' protests, Britain took the Rhodesian case to the United Nations where the world's nations agreed to impose economic sanctions against Rhodesia and enforce an oil embargo. Even though this has damaged the Rhodesian economy—the tobacco crop has lost its markets and Rhodesian currency is worthless outside the country—it has not crippled Smith and his lackeys.
The reason is due to the activities of sanction busters from South Africa, France, Portugal, the United States, Switzerland, and Japan.
Their activities help to riddle the efforts of the world community and strengthen Smith. In disgust, African guerrillas have started operations in Rhodesia.
We share their hopes and aspirations. To register our disapproval of Hooper, Smith and company, and their bag of archaic ideas, we demonstrate.
Swaebuon Conateh Assistant Editorial Editor
The Hill With It by john hill
(Reprinted from one year ago)
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