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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 8, 1968
Rocky is logical choice
The November elections may result in a large part of the American electorate having nowhere to go.
Both major political parties seem to be supporting loyal party stalwarts—Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson-for the 1968 presidential nominations.
However, the party regulars don't accurately reflect an emerging new majority of voters who call themselves independents. This new independent group, which is the most interested in solving national and international problems, is made up of liberals, moderates or pragmatic conservatives. This group is largely being ignored by both major parties in the presidential arena.
Polls consistently show the most popular possible presidential candidates in each party would be Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. Yet, at this time, it seems unlikely either will be on the ballot.
The nomination of Nixon would alienate the Republican moderates and liberals and anti-Johnson Democrats as effectively as did Goldwater in 1964. And, Nixon won't be able to win the White House with just Republican votes.
The Democratic party regulars' insistence on supporting Johnson is understandable and perhaps correct considering his position as President.
However, the Republican party's insistence on supporting a loser—Dick Nixon—is less than admirable. It's almost as if they are sporting the same death-wish as in 1964.
Nixon supported Goldwater in 1964, something the moderates and intelligentsia will have trouble forgetting. He has a credibility gap equal to Johnson's and is almost as hawkish on Vietnam. The choice of Johnson and Nixon is really no choice at all.
Sen. Charles H. Percy said although Nixon is the favorite presidential prospect of Republi-
Oregon Gov. Tom McCall calls Rockefeller the "most important vote-getter in either party in the United States."
Rockefeller would be ideal for the Republican nomination. Besides his appeal to Democrats and independents, his position on Vietnam is flexible enough to unite Republicans.
In the most recent Gallup Poll, Rockefeller showed twice the Republican support as in a November poll. The poll also revealed Rockefeller has the best chance of the four leading Republican contenders — Romney, Reagan, Nixon, and himself—to defeat President Johnson.
At present, Rockefeller is still standing by his statement he "doesn't want to be president." This is reinforced by a pledge to support Romney as long as he is in the running.
However, former Minnesota Gov. Elmer E. Anderson said he believes Rockefeller would accept the nomination for president and would be the best candidate. This, of course, is if Romey has the good sense to concede when he knows he's beaten.
Rockefeller-for-President groups have sprung up all over the country in response to the growing support for him.
If the Republican party ignores the moderate and independent voter again in 1968, and continues to be controlled by an ultra-conservative wing, the party faces the real danger of becoming a permanent "loyal opposition."
With the growing dissent over Johnson, Vietnam and the domestic turmoil, the Republican party needs to pick a winner. And, according to the polls, Rockefeller is the only Republican with a chance.
— Diane Wengler Editorial Editor
super-torial
New uses sought for fad
It probably started with Superman.
Then came the supermarket. Your car now may have need of a supercharger. And now we have the annual super-bowl.
One would hope institutions of higher learning would be above the above, especially our super-campus. But no.
If you've got more going for you than just being a super-jock, you may be considered a super-stud, with varying degrees of super-cool.
Since this term appears to be with us, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, let us strive to make more practical application of its presence than simply to create new adjectives for peer-group ratings.
Imagine, for example, a conversation of the future between an upperclassman considering next semester's classes and a younger member of the Centennial College who has just finished choosing his courses early.
"Hi there, kid. Are you on your way to the Union to fight yonder enrollment mob?"
"No. m'lord," replies the underclassman blithely, in high spirits, "for prior to this moment I have super-enrolled."
Now that final exams have been extended to three hours over a two week period, we have nothing other than super-finals.
One grading system could really emphasize its conclusions if we adopted the super-pass, super-fail system.
Graduate instructors, suddenly known as super-students, who teach an honors biology lab would find it listed simply as super-frog
But you get the idea.
We can only hope that a few standard, familiar words like mother, beautiful and hemorrhage, will remain untouched during this fad to change everything into the superlative.
Kansas legislators may fumble
Assistant Editorial Editor
- John Hill
The Kansas House of Representatives is dropping the ball.
A bill was recently introduced which would force KU and K-State to schedule major athletic contests with Wichita State University, as soon as it is possible in two or three years.
One of the three men to introduce the bill, Rep. Frederick Linde (R-Wichita) said people in South central Kansas feel the practices of Kansas State and KU, in not including Wichita in their football and basketball scheduling, creates an impression Wichita State has an inferior posture.
It would seem that the legislature for the State of Kansas would have much more significant matters to concern themselves with, and leave the scheduling of athletics to the respective athletic directors of the schools involved.
This bill should never even be brought to the floor for a vote, not because of the right or wrong of the question, but because it is very much out of place.
This is where the responsibility belongs.
Letting the bill quickly die will indicate that our legislators are aware of this.
Any time spent in debate or voting will only show that they should become less concerned with the positioning of athletics and more aware of their own posture.
- John Hill
Assistant Editorial Editor
"What You Need Is Something New, Like This"
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--cents), which is about boats and adventure in the Caribbean.
Paperbacks
Some adventure novels to brighten your spring semester—Las Hope House (Gold Medal, 5 cents), by Williams Ferrest, which is probably what they call a gothic novel these days, in that it deals with a young girl and a wild Irishman and an old castle. Wow. Two in the Matt Helm series, with the Slaygirls and all that jazz — The Menacers and Murders' Row (Gold Medal, 50 cents each), by Donskd Familien. Combine sex, science fiction and private eyes—but that's James Bond, too—and you've got Matt Helm. Now just for kicks we'll note at this point that a new paperback of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz (Gold Medal, 50 cents) is out, with an introduction by the late James Thurber. Doesn't look at all like Judy Garland. E. M. Parsons' Fargo (Gold Medal, 50 cents), which is a western, and what more can you say, is at the drugstores this month, and so is Jack Dillon's A Great Day for Dying (Gold Medal, 50
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"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
—John Arbuthnot
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"What a beautiful fix we are in
now; peace has been declared."
And the criticism of Stanley Kaufmann, A World on Film (Delta, $2.45). This is writing about the movies by one of our most probing—and sometimes annoying — critics, the gentleman whose drama reviewing policies were too casual for the New York Times, where he spent a short time only. KU students interested in the film, and not in just looking at examples, ought to have a look at this one, which may become a standard like the writings of James Agee.
—Nanoleon Bonaparte
"A politician is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground."
Norman Cousins has collected together something called Great American Essays (Dell, 55 cents). Here is a truly worthwhile volume—writings by Franklin, Theodore Roosevelt, Stevenson, James Baldwin, Emerson, Henry James, Thurber, Einstein, Irving, Edmund Wilson, John Dewey, Oppenheimer, Elmer Davis, Jefferson, Mencken, William James and many others.
—Percy Waldo Smythe
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