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Editor-in-Chief Ron Yates
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Now that Kansas is "the abortion mill of the United States" according to one legislator, there are a couple more bills before the Kansas Legislature that need study by interested parties.
Two of those in question are the student demonstration bills now before the House and Senate. The bills say any student at a public-funded institution faces expulsion if he fails to obey the "lawful order" of a peace officer during a demonstration.
The bill in the Senate is now being rewritten to include faculty and some state employees.
While a lawbreaker, whether student or not, should be punished for his actions, these particular bills place the student in double-jeopardy. He can not only be punished by the courts, but also, again, by the state with forced expulsion.
Other criticisms of the bill include the arguments that it violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution through unlawful prior restraint, its terms are vague, and that it violates the rights of free speech and assembly.
The issue can be examined and argued to no avail, however, there are two avenues of action. Whether or not either of them works, one can only tell by doing. The first is a letter to one's state representative. The second, a little easier, is to take an extra 10 minutes some day and walk over to the Kansas Union where the Collegiate Young Democrats have a petition against the bill. This petition can only succeed if large numbers of students sign it. Twenty-five names aren't going to convince anyone. (ATJ)
A voice from the establishment
Mike Shearer, my Kansan colleague (assuming I have been admitted now to at least quasi-staff status), wrotethe other day a long commentary that damned almost everything in our middle-class Midwestern state. In the course of this disquisition he observed that "no age group has more knowledge of current events or more enthusiasm for politics than does the 18 to 21-year-old group."
Well, he may be right. In that he is quite a bit younger than I am he obviously knows much more, and he does tend to speak in authoritative tones. My guess, however, is that he is wrong. My guess is based on many years' teaching, dating back to a year or so before he was born, incidentally, and on giving current events quizzes in all that time to my brilliant young students. By and large, over the years, these students have done miserably.
Even today, when Youth Reigns, there are students who are grossly uninformed or misinformed about current events. And their "enthusiasm for politics" does not make them informed. I have great enthusiasm for KU football and basketball and know practically nothing about either subject. Today's students, from my independent investigations, aren't even any better informed than those back in the Silent Generation. The Silents, as a matter of fact, knew a great deal about current events, and they had enthusiasm, too. They didn't feel a compulsion to tell everybody that God had singled them out as the Messiah of the 1960s, however, and few of them felt constrained to wear badges of identification in the Great Causes.
I gave a little quiz—a very unscientific little quiz, I admit—to two of my classes. I give it every year, and I hereby apologize to my students for revealing to the world what my students don't know. What they
mostly don't know is history and literature. Which, of course, are irrelevant. I know that word, too.
My three readers might be interested in seeing how certain people were identified by members of the most brilliant generation in the history of the world (this does not necessarily disprove the argument advanced by Mr. Shearer, but it suggests certain things, at least to me):
George Washington's cabinet included John Adams, Madison, Sam Adams, Franklin, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
Charles Summer, Robert E. Lee and "Jackson" were Union generals.
Grant, Davis, Burnside, Old Hickory, Sherman and Sheridan were Confederate generals.
Lincoln's vice presidents included Pierce and Andrew Jackson.
FDR's vice presidents included Herbert Hoover, Al Smith, Barkley, Johnson and Coolidge.
Now I know that these are not sweeping matters, and they don't compare with the latest information on pot and how to make fire bombs, but let me continue.
Presidents in the War of 1812—Jackson, Polk, Jefferson, Monroe, Adams, Washington, McKinley and Taylor.
Presidents in the Mexican War-Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Buchanan, Taylor, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Taft, William Tyler and Garfield.
Presidents in the Spanish-American War-Teddy again, Hearst (somebody being funny?), Grant, Jackson, Cleveland, Pierce and FDR.
Presidents in World War I-FDR, Harding, Monroe, Coolidge, Hoover, and, of course, Teddy, who really got around.
And now for a few books:
And now for a few books.
"The Pickwick Papers" was written by Mark Twain, Franklin, Ben Jonson, Sam Johnson and, of course, Thomas Pickwick.
"The Count of Monte Cristo"—Hugo, Douglas Fairbanks writing under a pseudonym, Hemingway and "Sarte."
"Leaves of Grass"-Frost, Dryden, Wordsworth, the Jefferson Airplane, Johnson, Hemingway, Emerson and Thoreau.
So it goes. Composers, painters ("American Gothic" was done by Wike, Rubens, Homer, Rockwell and "Sargent"). Christopher Wren was a character in "Winnie the Pooh." Frank Lloyd Wright invented the airplane. Carole Lombard was a composer, a bandleader and a convicted U.S. spy. Edwin Booth, of course, assassinated Lincoln. William Powell used to dance down the stairs in the movies and also was a U-2 pilot.
Chester Alan Arthur succeeded John Garfield as president and was Eisenhower's secretary of treasury. Henry L. Stimson urged that planes be used to fight wars. Winslow Homer did Whistler's Mother, was a blind poet, and discovered penicillin. And the members of Nixon's cabinet—let's not go into it.
Yes, some of you students can give me a test that I'll fail, too. You've had the mass media since you gave up pablum, and that exposure to Miss Frances, the Cisco Kid, Harold Robbins, "The Fox," and detailed instructions on how to sniff glue undoubtedly has equipped you to run the world. But not yet. Not quite yet.
Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
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Laugh-In
In a letter to the Flambeau on Oct. 3 of last year Dr. Chalmers indicated that "... as long as our students, faculty members, and administration continue to work together to build an even greater university, it will be difficult for me to visualize a greater challenge elsewhere."
Chalmers lauded
It is obvious that Dr. Chalmers sees at the University of Kansas a greater challenge, and perhaps a greater potential.
The question, then, is why he chose to accept the position at the University of Kansas and leave Florida State.
His resignation, however, does not come as a suprise to student leaders or faculty members. It has been known for some time that a number of institutions have offered positions to Dr. Chalmers. Rumors have circulated throughout the year that his resignation was forthcoming and that he would not be at Florida State next year.
With the resignation of Dr. E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. as Vice president for Academic affairs, Florida State has suffered an incalculable loss.
Dr. Chalmers has long been regarded as one of the most scholarly and most able administrators in Florida. His presence on the Florida State administration has been a sign of academic strength to our faculty and student body, and has heightened the prestige of our university.
His move is obviously one from a university beset with political interference, a strong reaction against change and a budget insufficient to maintain the level of educational quality necessary to become a "great university." He is moving to a university that prides itself in academic excellence and progressive change. Unless the educational system of Florida is revitalized, removed from unnecessary political influence and furnished with funds adequate to establish a progressive academic program, men of Dr. Chalmers' stature will continue to trickle away to "better" institutions.
(Editorial reprinted from the Florida State Flambeau)