Issues become an issue For once in the history of KU politics a smile might not be enough to win a presidential election. A handshake won't do it all either. It seems that issues have taken something of a precedent over personalities in the present campaign. Candidates are making the rounds of the living groups but in addition to the traditional handshakes and smiles they are talking about issues, some of them important to the student's life at KU. The issue-oriented campaign has even received criticism from some quarters because the campaign is too issue-oriented and doesn't say enough about the candidates themselves. This criticism may be somewhat valid in itself. One argument against the issue-orientation concerns the fact that the candidates seem to agree on most of the major issues in the campaign. There is really little choice in this respect. The argument continues to say what is needed this year is not so much an issue, but a man who can effectively take charge of the new student government and make it work. The question is, which candidate can take command and make the issues reality? This may be a valid argument, however, there seems to be little need to have a man who can take charge who either doesn't have a program, or has a bad one. Hitler was a strong leader but few people would care for his program. But the argument was right in one sense, a strong leader is needed, one who can make the Senate Code work. This is the year when students become actively involved in university governance. KU has one of the most progressive forms of student government to be found in the United States. The Senate Code can make student involvement important and effective administration of the code by elected student officials will make it more than the extracurricular activity student government has been in the past. (ATJ) ...quotes... By United Press International By United Press International CHICAGO - Harold Kulak, shouting to his brother, a disabled Marine veteran, in an effort to get him to surrender the apartment from which he poured sniper fire, grenades and bombs for six hours: "Frank, this isn't a combat zone. The war is over . . ." WASHINGTON - Chiarman Vance Hartke of the Senate Commerce Committee, commenting on filmed tests in which a Volkswagon collided headon with a full-sized car: "Just by the laws of physics, we know that a small vehicle, crashing into a larger vehicle, is apt to come out second best." Kansan Telephone Numbers JN-4.7454 Business Office-JN-4.4358 Newroom--UN-4-3466 Business Office--UN-4-4358 Published university journal of academic year except holidays and examination periods. Mail subscription rates: $6 a semester, $10 a year. Second class postage paid at Lawrence, Kan. 66044. Accommodations, goods, services and employment benefits are free to color, creed or national origin. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of Kansas or the State Board of Regents. Executive Staff Executive Star Editor-in-Chief Ron Yates Business Manager Pam Flaton Edition Editors Steve Haynes, Robert Entriken Jr., Don Westerhaus, Maria Babcock, Sandy Zahradnik News Editor Jonas Webb Assistant News Editor Tom Weinberg Editorial Editor Alan T. Jones Editorial Writers Alison Steimel, Judi K. 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Any person possessing any intellectual integrity finds such a query inconsequential since the Learning Process never ends, from the moment of birth until you reach Table 8 of enrollment for that Great Graduate School in the Sky. c. Hell, I've been tired of school since I wouldn't give one of my teachers a drink of my milk when she was gagging to death on my graham cracker. 2. "Say there, tiger, you all set to got out there and set the world on fire?" a. No. b. I think I'd prefer a change from university life. c. My shrink says I can't because of my Smokey the Bear fixation. d. Is it insured? 3. "Will 'ol Uncle Sam be breathing down your neck?" a. No, my purse has a double hernia. b. I'm classified I-H, and won't be called up unless the world goes to hell in a handbasket. c. My draft board and I are having a little tiff and we aren't on speaking terms; we're both waiting to see who calls first. d. I consider myself somewhat opposed for semi-moral reasons to selective service so as a quasi-dissenter, I boiled my draft card. e. Yes, but I won't mind being drafted.I'm insipid. 4. "What sort of good, solid, career-oriented job do you have all lined up?" a. Night watchman at an abandoned Edsel plant in Dogwalk, Montana. b. Plastics. c. I've got a great job all set up—expenses paid, room and board, travel-I'll be carrying a rifle for a large company with an active branch office in Southeast Asia. d. I have a good job with IBM. This is a recording. e. Job? U.S. can't ignore facts "We can afford neither to blind our eyes with hatred nor to distort our vision with rose-colored glasses. The real world is too much with us to permit either stereotyped reactioning or wishful thinking to lay waste our powers." By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst President Nixon to NATO foreign ministers. Scarcely to be ignored even through rose-colored glasses were these: The entry of eight more Soviet warships, including four submarines, into the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar, bringing Soviet strength there to about 40 vessels. The continued presence of between 70,000 and 100,000 Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia and the threat that those numbers might be increased. Continuing maneuvers by combat-ready Communist Warsaw Pact forces. These maneuvers have been almost constant since before last summer's invasion of Czechoslovakia and have ranged throughout the East European bloc from East Germany in the northwest to Bulgaria in the southeast. It would not be wise to ignore a warning coming from Communist Yugoslavia which sees the Kremlin leadership as frustrated by events in Czechoslovakia, itself weak and divided and therefore capable of irrational acts. These were among the elements facing the Western allies as NATO entered its third decade and ad President Richard M. Nixon addressed its foreign ministers meeting in Washington. In its first 20 years NATO had successfully accomplished its first mission: security of the free world on an are running from Norway to Turkey. Although France had withdrawn its military arms and Canada had announced its intention of reducing its own forces within the organization, both remained active politically: despite dire predictions of NATO's imminent dissolution as recently as a year ago, its 15-nation membership remained intact—and, it is to be hoped, a little wiser.