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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 25, 1962
The Test Demonstrations
The march in Lawrence and on campus yesterday protesting the resumption of nuclear testing by the United States is evidence of the increasing concern of students with the nuclear arms race and disarmament. But it is doubtful if the march did anything more than provide such evidence.
Charles McReynolds, the Coffeyville graduate student who organized the march, explained the reasons for the march in this way:
"The resumption of testing serves no useful purpose. It will only bring more testing by the Russians.
"A defensive posture based on nuclear weapons is not adequate because it cannot be used . . . if we are willing to use them this contradicts our own fundamental values of respect for human life.
"Nuclear war is no longer capable of protecting human life or human freedom. We clearly have no choice but to seek alternatives to nuclear war."
THE LAST paragraph of his statement is the key to his actions and those of the other demonstrators across the nation who are protesting the resumption of nuclear testing and the nuclear arms race. It is a statement that no reasonable man would disagree with.
Yet the march will do no more than call attention to the problem, and the problem of nuclear disarmament is a complex one involving many factors. The difficulty the negotiators in Geneva have always experienced in their attempts to reach an agreement on any phase of disarmament or the control of nuclear weapons is clear evidence of this. And aside from the technical problems, there is the complicating
factor of bad faith on both sides at one time or another. Another problem that must be dealt with is the probability that Communist China will have nuclear weapons within a few years.Many other nations have the capacity to develop nuclear arms.
Thus, while demonstrations may call attention to the problem (if it can really be said that people are not aware of it), the real contribution that any group protesting nuclear testing and the arms race can make is to inform themselves and others on the details of the nuclear weapons mess and on the possible alternatives to the nuclear arms race. An informed and realistic pressure group is far more effective than a group of demonstrators.
THIS APPROACH makes it more difficult. It means that instead of demonstrations on moral grounds (which tend to be ignored by officials who have to deal with the concrete realities of the situation), the groups concerned with nuclear testing and disarmament would try to find programs that can be seriously considered by the men who are charged with national security.
The chances of any peace group suggesting a program for nuclear disarmament or a test ban that would be adopted as national policy are slight. But such ideas and informed pressure groups are the only things likely to have any effect on national policy. Moral arguments will not have any decisive effect. Only realistic arguments taking into consideration the concrete events and situations of the nuclear arms race and the uneasy relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States can or should be expected to have any effect.
—William H. Mullins
Costich Praised
It was gratifying to find in April 16's issue of the UDK an intelligent and realistic letter about "discrimination" at KU. I think it would be very beneficial for the members of CRC to consider carefully Mr. Costich's comments.
While the CRC raves on about discrimination, the solution they propose to the problem is one which tramples over another Constitutional guarantee. While they propose to legislate how each of us at KU shall live and with whom we shall live, they fail to mention that legislation of this sort makes freedom of choice an entirely untenable position.
WHILE THEY make a major issue of the fact that discriminatory clauses do exist in the constitution of three or so Greek houses they fail to consider the fact that this leaves approximately forty houses with no discriminatory clauses, but where in fact discrimination does exist. I know of no fraternity or sorority, with the exception of those which are entirely Negro at KU, which has a Negro member.
If the CRC should be able to force the elimination of discriminatory clauses from the charters of the groups that have such clauses. I believe that these would walk the path the forty other groups have laid out. I submit that this would be a very hollow victory for a group which is truly interested in eliminating discrimination, for discrimination would still in fact exist. I further submit that any "solution" brought about by force would be shallow and without meaning.
I AM against discrimination which is based on such meaningless grounds as race or religion. I would propose that the CRC consider carefully the fact that with understanding, fear becomes less and less real. The only way to fight discrimination is through education. I believe that any group really interested in improving racial relations should work in an educational capacity.
Being students, we all realize that the desire to learn is stimulated more by an instructor who is respected. I believe that the CRC, through its petty bickering and immature approach to discrimination, has completely eliminated itself
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from the position of respected educator. For that reason it has rendered itself completely useless in eliminating that discrimination which is of any consequence, that which exists in man not that which exists on a scrap of paper in a fraternity's records. I believe that the CRC has discredited a great truth, and that the time for self examination is past due.
Al Kremske
Chicago junior
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Kansan Recommendations Criticized
Having read your recommendations for the ASC elections, I feel that it is very fortunate that most graduate students do not read the Daily Kansan to make up their minds.
To your summary of my "qualifications" I might add that I am being supported by Action. As you might know, Action is taking stands on controversial issues and I strongly endorse the majority of them.
YOU STATE in your introduction that "each candidate was questioned by seven Kansan executives." Unless communication was established by telepathic means, I would like to inform you that I have yet to meet with six of your executives. However, doubtless there is sufficient carbon paper in your office to take the place of your missing executives.
(Editor's note: Krause is entirely correct in saying that he was only interviewed by one Kansan executive (the editorial editor). This is true for the simple reason that he was in the hospital when he was interviewed and seven people cannot visit a patient at the same time; hospital regulations forbid it. He was either asked or he discussed in his interview the same questions that the other candidates were asked and he filled out the same questionnaires. Krause is the only candidate on whom the Kansan gave information who was not present at the interviews conducted by the seven Kansan executives mentioned in Monday's editorial.
Hans Krause Caracas, Venezuela graduate student
However, Krause was given the opportunity to complete an essay test on student government. He was the only candidate that the Kansas
interviewed who was unable to answer any of the questions. The questions asked were: Name as many ASC committees as you can think of. Who is the present student body vice president? List three things the ASC has considered this semester. What activity is the HRC presently engaged in?)
KU. Faculty Criticized
Editor:
A former teacher has mailed to me a copy of the Kansan in which the senate committee's recommendation on discrimination appears.
IT IS SURPRIISING that the faculty committee turns its back on sociological evidence that no majority group learns about minority groups unless the two are placed so that they see each other closely. Rather, the committee would take the step long-ago discarded in group relations—evolution, verbal persuasion.
It is interesting that the University of Kansas faculty in 1962 cannot do what the University of Colorado and several other universities did years ago, namely order every fraternity and sorority to throw out discriminatory clauses and abide by domestic processes in deed as well as in promise.
But it is not surprising on second thought. Kansas is Kansas, and the condition of mind even affects the faculty. What a pity.
Boulder, Colorado
Evelyn Whittaker
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
By S. F. Rude
THE INFINITE MOMENT, by John Wyndham. Ballantine Books, 35 cents.
A grassy plain had taken its place, a plain that extended as far as I could see. I looked closer. The street light was gone, the alley was gone. There was nothing there. A sixth sense told me something had happened.
The door knob blinked a blue eye at us as we entered the hallway. We entered the room and saw the curtains whipping in the wind streaming in from the window we were sure we had closed before we left for the movies. I went to the window to close it and caught a glimpse of the backyard. The line of garages behind the apartment was gone; the seven garbage cans usually arranged in helter skelter fashion had disappeared. I looked closer.
Perhaps it was the genetic continuum. My grandmother, I have been told, was psychic. (Or was it psychotic?) Anyway, I felt something was amiss and I beckoned to my roommate who looked out and gave a knowing smile, a smile that said nothing but told all. At last I knew: He was playing with the dimensions again. Dissatisfied with calculus and the same old stuff about differentiating and integrating, he had linked his studies of math, philosophy and metaphysics and here we were. He motioned to me to sit down and he began slowly, as though talking to a child:
"S. F.," he began, "you see since you cannot determine the motions of the factors in the continuum, any pattern of motion must be illusory, and there cannot be determinable consequences..."
If you enjoy science fiction and this sort of continuum palaver, then it all might be comprehensible. Otherwise, uh uh.
From the Magazine Rack
Military Businessmen
At the request of Democratic Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois, the Defense Department has made public a list of 721 retired military officers employed by 88 of the 100 companies which hold 74 per cent of all defense contracts. Douglas inserted the list in the Congressional Record along with these comments:
"There is great danger of high officers leaving the armed services and going into the services of big contractors, thereafter dealing with their former comrades across table.
"UNDER THESE circumstances and with such a high proportion of negotiated contracts, there is a very real question as to the degree to which the public interest is furthered.
"I point out that these retired officers in many cases know the plans of the Defense Department and the general inside operation of the Defense Department, even when they do not actually negotiate the contracts."
The list inserted in the Congressional Record by Douglas and re-published by The (Madison,
Wis.) Capital Times of Nov. 13, 1961 (10c—The Capital Times, Madison, Wis.), names only those officers holding the rank of Navy captain or Army Air Force colonel and up. It is also incomplete in that when published, the following firms had not yet reported:
General Motors, Pan American World Airlines, Standard Oil Companies, and Motorola.
All of these have retired officers on their staffs.
IN ITS PRESENT form, the list shows that the companies employing the largest number of officers are:
Bendix Aviation Corp., Boeing Airplane Co., General Dynamics Corp., General Electric Co., General Tire and Rubber Co., International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Philco Corp., Radio Corp. of America, Sperry Rand Corp., United Aircraft Corp., Westinghouse Air Brake Co., and Westinghouse Electric Co.
(An article in the January 1962 issue of The Californian)