You want a revolution?
There were people lying in the grass.
And then the revolution came, tripping down the sidewalk. And the people rose from their places and followed. And there was no special reason at all.
Revolution for the hell of it. It was fun. It was fun to carry plastic guns, as much fun as the ROTC units have at war-games. It was fun and funny to pretend to disrupt an election, to pretend to bleed, and shoot, and to kill...
Wednesday's demonstrators weren't really sure why they were having all that fun. Rick Atkinson was asked as the group walked to the Union. "For the revolution," he said, and smiled.
Confusing. But at least you could tell that everybody in the group was unhappy about something.
And Don Jenkins, trying to recruit reluctant Black Student Union members to join a demonstration scheduled for next week, said Wednesday's games were to protest the 'irrelevancy' of the student elections and the Vietnam war.
The reason to hold a demonstration, any demonstration, whether it's for a new type of washing machine, or a new world, is to point out something wrong with the old. To bring attention to something.
Wednesday's children brought attention to nothing but themselves. For some, they were pretty, or funny, or something to make fun of. For some, the demonstration was a way to become anonymous for awhile. And for some it was a reason to miss an afternoon class, because everybody knows that a demonstration is more relevant...
What do they really want? Peace or violence? The cessation of the Vietnam war, or a new American revolution to join?
Why do people want to join revolutions? After all, everyone knows that dying is no way to live, and that people who advocate violence have quit fighting. Eric Hoffer thinks sometimes people join revolutions for the same reason other people join churches, political parties, or any ideological group. We join because the future is uncertain, and there is nothing else to hang onto. So the cause becomes irrelevant, and, in time, the revolutionary becomes irrelevant with it.
By RICHARD LOUV Kansan Staff Writer and JOANNA WEIBE Kansan News Editor
Rapping Left
By GUS di ZEREGA
The New Left is confronted with a crisis at KU and on other campuses, and its outcome will determine the future of the movement and perhaps also of American society. What is new about the New Left? First and foremost is the concept of participatory democracy where, in the words of the SDS preamble, "at all levels the people have control of the decisions which affect them. Men must become free of the manipulation and coercion of society today. The New Left is, in essence, strongly libertarian
It is at this level that the crisis exists.
People calling themselves "new leftists" have grabbed headlines through the use of tactics resembling those of a totalitarian police state. Force and violence instead of reason, manipulation and deceit instead of honesty, hatred instead of peace and love. Such are the tactics of these sandbox dictators.
Wednesday during a demonstration a ballot box was destroyed and some students roughed up. Why? Because, according to Don Jenkins, who took the ballot box, none of the candidates were any good. While it is surprising that Jenkins feels himself so much like God, the issue is more serious than his ego trip.
2. Nobody was being oppressed by the election's being held.
1. The election was free, any student could run.
3. The vast majority of demonstrators had no idea that the demonstration would affect the ballot box. They were manipulated by Jenkins and a few other self-appointed fuehrers.
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4. Students who were not oppressing Jenkins were roughed
Where is participatory democracy? Where in this is there non-manipulation or honesty? It is claimed that the action was spontaneous, but in reality it was planned at the closed door "SDS" meeting where a small minority of SDS people were present. Where is there anything but the attitudes and values the New Left fights against?
Jenkins and his ilk wish to be expelled from school, becoming martyrs in the process. In order to do this they have split the radical community, discredited much of the work done by their less ego-oriented brothers and sisters, and trampled the values they pay lip service to in the dust. This totalitarianism of the "left" is no better than that of the right, we must not allow people's rhetoric to obscure their actions.
In a case such as this when a student commits a crime against his fellow students, those fellow students should have some redress against the violator. Whether his actions were justified in his terms or not he has done harm to all of us.
This is a student problem and punitive action should come
WASHINGTON - Rep. Fred Schwengel of Iowa, who likes hogs:
... quotes ...
"Hogs are beautiful. Some of my best friends are hogs."
FREEHOLD, N.J. - Terrance Weber, a lover of the sea, explaining why he gave up advertising that he would, for a fee, send messages across the ocean in bottles:
"Nothing happened. We only got three responses."
from the students. The Student Senate should exercise its power to do anything it can to condemn the actions of students involved in active aggression against the student body. This action should be able to move to the point of recommended expulsion.
The Hill With It by john hill
TV Guide ratings we would like to see . . .
6:00 (9) NEWS - Violence, rioting, war, blood. Enjoy dinner.
6:30 (5) DRAGNET - Crime Drama. Sgt. Friday, God,
Truth, and Right all four arrest a jawwalker.
(9) JULIA · True Life Adventure. In this week's completely over-simplified and distorted version of what it is to be black in America, Julia is sold again.
(4) PEYTON PLACE - Cereal. Fred confides to Alice that George and Jack love Anne even though Rod and Susan are messing around behind the eucalyptus tree.
7:00 (9) THE DIVORCE GAME - A fun-filled half-hour where happily married couples are selected from the studio audience and forced to split up the furniture, cars, children, and jogging sweatclothes.
(4) SPECIAL - "Airline Safety Today" - Special half-hour discussion on new safety factors in aviation. Panel members are Will Rogers, Wiley Post, Knute Rockne, and Dag Hammerskjold.
8:00 (5) BEWTICHED - Samantha walks down the street and turns into a drugstore.
(9) THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS - Guests include singer Joan Baez who pays a musical tribute to her husband who is in jail for not registering his car on campus. CBS has censored the entire audial part of the show and will substitute the soundtracks from old Walt Disney movies.
(4) LASSIE - Lassie comes to the aid of a ferocious mountain lion and a rabid wolf, savagely kills a litter of newborn kittens, and eats some chickens.
9:00 (4) DORIS DAY - Comedy. Doris is caught at a pot party with the Cowsills, Pat Boone, and Kate Smith.
10:00(9) (5) (4) NEWS - More blood. Pleasant dreams.
10:30 (5) MOVIE - Drama. "Hell's Angels Smash the Heck Out of a Dixie Cup." (1903). Five devil-may-care Neanderthal, hairy-chested motorcycle gang members terrorize and then run over a paper cup four or five times. Wally Cox, Don Knotts, Garry Moore, Donald O'Connor, and Regis Philbin.
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