Thursday, March 26, 1964
The People Say...
University Daily Kansan
Page 3
Don't Fence Me In
After three years of standing by and watching the KU maintenance crew do their "busy work," my understanding has reached the breaking point.
I've always appreciated the fact that KU has spent considerable money on its football program, in fact, I have never missed a game in my three years at KU. I was more than happy that KU got its stadium expansion, but the money spent on the practice field west of Allen Field House is a different story.
During the last three years the football practice field has taken on the appearance of the demilitarized zone between East and West Germany. First, a snow fence was erected, and then encircling the snow fence was constructed a barb-wire fence. These fences were to keep subversive individuals from defacing the grass that the "dainty" little football players never mar. Pity the people who walked into this zone at night. Now these two fences have been torn down, and a new 6-foot fence erected. I do not object to this, but the placing of trees every-other-yard around this fence is absurd.
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What would a Kansas taxpayer say if he knew his money was being used for tearing down and erecting fences, and planting trees, around the football practice field, while other spots on the KU campus go untouched. I hope for safety's sake that no one attempts to watch a KU practice this year, land mines may be installed next. With the new fence and trees, Kansas should win the Big Eight next year.
George D. Lasater Wichita junior
Referring to Miss Hughes' noble hymn written in commemoration of the independent Spring Fling, let us say—it wasn't.
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Laws City sophomore
Miss Hughes has succeeded in antagonizing the independents. Her editorial was a personal affront to many of us. We do not feel we should have to be apologetic for being independent, as Miss Hughes apparently would like us to do.
What is her purpose in mocking an attempt by the AURH to plan a weekend of fun? We would like to know where Miss Hughes got her extraordinary clairvoyance. At least she could have waited until after the Spring Fling to see whether on not it sprung.
To paraphrase Miss Hughes' "Independent Hymn."
"The joys of slamming Spring Fling,
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun,
Aren't we glad we're editorial writers!!
Karen Lambert
Leavenworth sophomore
Patty Ashton
Kansas City sophomore
Ruby Trial
The trial of Jack Ruby a week ago in Dallas has brought several moral and practical issues to the light. That a sentence was determined by the jurors is unquestionable; but that justice—or human decency—was upheld is very questionable.
The concept of legal justice has had a twisted development in the Western world. For its ultimate purpose jurisprudence claims the prevention and punishment of crime. To bring this about an example must be made to others of the individual involved in the criminal act. That is effected by the latter's chastisement and "forced-reformation." In extreme acts of criminality—murder, genocide—the law has often believed the individual worthless to society and his death the most salutary admonition to those inclined to commit a like offense.
Now with respect to a felon's being made responsible to civil justice I have no essential quarrel.
But capital punishment is a perversion and not an employment of justice. The law must always be tempered with ethical considerations. The controversy raging today, of whether the death penalty prevents extreme criminality, and the citing of statistics on all sides is, I think, not as significant as the point I propose. And that is, even if capital punishment were proven to be deterrent to murder, etc., it would hardly be justifiable. To take the life of any man for
whatever reason is barbaric since such an act runs contrary to man's nature. Yet men, corrupted by sonorous titles of "justice" and "duty" depart from their original inclinations. Then they prefer to condemn rather than to forgive, understand, and reform.
I was somewhat amused at hearing President Johnson and other American noteworthies, after the death of President Kennedy, espouse "reason", "calmness." Does anyone believe that Mr. Oswald would have been spared death, respite all the "reason" around.
Tvrants of various hues and degrees—Chang, Franco, Nasser, Mao, Castro, Sukarno, and Khrushchev have all spoken of "justice" and "righteousness." But how many, in the same manner as Ruby's jurors, have killed and punished brutally? There may be superficial differences in thought between a Dallas juryman and Chairman Mao, but are there any great differences in their attitudes toward society's outcasts or toward man as a whole? The jury in Dallas has condemned Ruby to death; it has spit upon MAN.
Gordon Sites Wichita sophomore
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