Photos by Vivian Waldon
About camp-
BY VIVIAN WALDON
Kansan Staff Writer
A lot of us thought that we'd be coming to a dull, uninteresting, funless camp, but gosh, were we surprised!
There's loads of things to do, go to, and participate in. At least once a week, we get the chance to "boo-gooo-loo" at a dance, watch "out-of-sight" movies, bowl at the Kansas Union and participate in or watch "action packed" intramural activities. Then there are parties, picnics, sing-alongs, hottenannies and even an exercise hour.
We sit on hills, gossip, share jokes and ideas with kids from al over the country. Sometimes we might gather in a lobby and have a good, old "soulful" sing-a-long, or do something weird like slurp jello in the cafeteria or play dead on the dorm steps.
The classes are even fun! They're made so interesting that some kids literally crave them, like I crave chewy, chewy gum drops (ah delicious!).
There are opportunities to display your talents and go to musical recitals and concerts, (be honest, some of us have never been to a concert or recital or participated in one).
How could we have been so one-track minded as to think that camp would be a drag? We should have known that it would be a winner. After all, we're its stars!"
hearing voices—
It is really too bad that I've been pushed into a position which requires that I write a response to the article printed in Tuesday's Kansan regarding the Regent's
decision to maintain the normal academic calendar during the coming election months. It would be much easier if I could really get mad about distortions, mis-
statements, and misquotations in the Kansan, but it has happened so many times before that I've gotten used to it.
To this particular article I must
'Care to rephrase your statement?'
reply, however, because of the importance of the subject, and also because I specifically requested that I be contacted before the story was printed so that any misquotation could be resolved before it was too late. No one ever contacted me. That makes me pretty suspicious.
I have two specific gripes about complete misquotations in the story. First, it is no secret that I, and many others, strongly disagree with the Regent's decision. The lack of understanding with which the Board acted makes the decision highly repressive. There are many other people who are very displeased with the decision. However, at no point in my talk with the two reporters was I ever blind enough to assume that pressure from the Student Senate would change the ruling. All 18,000 students at this university could demonstrate nude in front of Kroger's and the Regents still wouldn't change the decision. They have made a public commitment, and I expect that they will stand by it. Under the circumstances, the Student Senate can (1) make its formal disagreement with the decision known, and (2) work to provide a group of semi-free alternatives through the university. The Regent's decision clearly limits the possibilities. These are the things I told the Kansan, but it just wasn't printed that way.
Second, the article quoted me as saying that some sort of mass demonstration might have to be organized, against the administration, in protest of the Regent's decision. This one's really hard to figure out. The administration and the students are in the same boat now, and any protest against the administration on this issue would be senseless. The object of any disagreement should be the Regents because it is their policy. Any type of mass activity is up to the people and should be left there where it rightfully belongs. I made this position very clear to the Kansan reporters, yet precisely the opposite turned up in print.
I hope that on matters as important as these, the Kansan staff will in the future attempt to avoid such blatantly poor coverage. It would be a little fairer if they did that, since, unfortunately, there is only one official student newspaper. The importance is not so much what others think about the person who is misquoted, as it is what repressive measures might be instituted based on inaccurate quotations.
Bill Ebert
THE SUMMER SESSION
KANSAN
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