Photo by Greg Sorber
Photo by Ron Bishop
Tear gas at the tavern—Kimball speaks the next day
Moments before the fatal shooting, police threw tear gas at the youths running toward the Gaslight Tavern. At left, George Kimball speaks to a gathering of newsmen and students about the events of the previous night. Witnesses to the shooting came to the microphone to give their side of the story.
What happened in Lawrence?
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the same senseless violence and destruction?
Or is the process, for KU, a reversible one? No, we can never go back to the way it was before, even if we could remember what it was. Too much has happened, too many chasms have been opened between the people of the community and the University and between factions within the whole of the two. Now, more
than ever, the polarization is evident.
A difference in values is one thing, but if there is no free interchange of ideas between those holding different values, tempered with understanding and a will to cooperate, that difference can only widen into hatred.
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haps both should shoulder the blame together.
At KU, what started as almost a game in the streets between policemen and young people ended in tragedy. And, in the attempt to exonerate themselves, each side pointed the accusing finger at the other, though per-
What both sides fail to note is that the current situation is not a battle of facts and witness reports concerning the deaths of two young people. It goes far deeper than that—it is a battle of responsibility for the entire situation. And it goes further than the incident at KU this summer, and beyond the incident at KU last spring. It is much more than a battle between the "pigs" and the "freaks," more than the struggle between black and white.
It is the struggle between right
and wrong, the struggle between reason and irrationality. The endless rhetoric of "wasted life," "needless violence" and "senseless killing" is just that—wasted, needless and senseless.
It is wasted because people read the news, shake their heads and ignore the message implicit in every line. They see the impending dangers, just as many at KU "expected" trouble, but they do nothing to impede its progress. They look for clues and refuse to heed them; they ask for answers and offer none themselves.
This editorial is no exception,
for it offers no answers. Instead, it asks a question. Hundreds mourned the passing of Rick Dowdell and Nick Rice. Who will mourn the passing of reason?
TREASURY REPORT
WASHINGTON
ury accounts for
through July 13.
Withdrawals
Deposits
Cash Balance
Public Debt 3
Gold
(UPI)—Treas the fiscal year
7,173,402,012.18
5,111,341,558.42
6,861,395,384.22
3777,046,647,076. 13,166,959,405.48