Camp rules reviewed
Are the rules at his camp as provincial and outdated as everyone seems to think? Are we, as campers, really oppressed?
During the entire first two weeks of camp, the most popular topic of discussion has seemed to have been "the crummy rules at this place." Few of the many complaining campers, though, have given any real thought to the reasons behind the camp regulations.
1) NO DATING OF NON-CAMPERS—If a camper were to date someone from "the outside," the camp would be totally responsible for any accidents or trouble that might occur on the date. Also, "non-camper" is a pretty broad term; it could include anyone from an upstanding college student to a drunken sexmaniac. The camp just can't take the risk.
2) NO RIDING IN AUTOMOBILES—This rule, with a few alterations, has exactly the same criteria as the first rule.
3) NO DRINKING OF LIQUOR—On campus, it would be impossible to regulate which campers drank and which were legally old enough to do so. This part of the rule is reasonable. However, as long as the camper is 18, we feel he should be allowed to patronize bars in Lawrence; in Kansas, that's legal.
4) NO MORE THAN THREE UNEXCUSED ABSENCES FROM CLASS—We came here to learn, and not to be forced to learn. Attendance should be a matter left up to the individual. Instead of regulated attendance, weekly reports could be sent home to the campers' parents, informing them of their child's attendance and overall achievement records.
5) DO NOT PUT YOURSELF OR ANY OTHER CAMPER IN PHYSICAL DANGER—Again, the camp is responsible for any actions that take place during the 5-week session. If a camper, as one witty supervisor put it, "hung from the fifth floor ledge of his dorm," the camp would be responsible for any injuries the camper incurred, and subject to possible negligence lawsuits.
6) REASONABLE HAIRCUTS AND APPROPRIATE DRESS—Admittedly, the camp authorities have been relatively tolerant in respect to this rule. "Relative tolerance," though, is not enough; there should be no dress codes of any kind imposed by the camp officials.
Kurt Andersen
Kamper Kansan editor
Learning, never ending
Thirteen hundred strangers descended upon McCollum Hall June 21. By June 23, no one was a stranger. Everyone didn't know everyone else, but a simple "Hi!" could start a great conversation. Very few people kept their noses in the air. How could they, faced with such an onslaught of friendliness?
People, especially a group like the campers, make life great. After being involved with such a group, one realizes how open and interesting the world could be. If everyone had attitudes like the campers, Society would have few serious problems. Why can't the world understand this? A "hell, no!" attitude never brought anything but frustration to anyone.
With the curiosity and free minds of the teens on Daisy Hill, people could live their lives without hassle. Why do they insist on tightly guarded ideas? Why do they defend themselves so stubbornly, never allowing themselves to change or grow?
Many people don't realize that there is a world beyond their own small circle. No matter how wise and experienced a person might think he is, there is always something new to try. A person who decides he has learned all has learned nothing.
Anyone who voluntarily comes to a camp like KU's Midwestern Music and Art Camp is on the verge of wisdom. The person who realizes he is not all-knowing is infinitely closer to the gist of life than the one who supposedly can learn no more.
Why won't the world see?
-Lou Ann Lee Kamper Kansan reporter
Pollute aptitude test
19K MINIATURE ONLY
THE AB = DE
A CB = C D YARD OF ...
A. AIR-LOS ANGELES
B. WATER-HUDEN RIVER
C. HISTORY-NEW YORK-CITY
D. WATER-MIDDLEFIELD RIVER
1. A ONLY
2. B ONLY
3. A C
4. B D
5. ALL THE ABLE
Scoring
1 or 2—You are an idealist. 3 or 4—You still don't believe the Mets won. 5—You are a farsighted, astute realist.
Music Camp barely stirs KU campus
By DEBBIE JONES
Kamper, Kansan Report
Kamper Kansan Reporter
An invasion is generally an ominous experience. Yet the onslaught of an estimated 1,250 senior high school participants in the annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp is causing few waves at the University of Kansas.
Housed on Daisy Hill, the campers find they rarely come in contact with their college contemporaries. On the other hand their presence, possibly because of the size of the group, is noticeable to KU natives.
How do they feel about this mass migration to their campus? A random consensus shows that most KU students favor the presence of the campers, noting that they add to the general college atmosphere.
According to Cathie Jones, Garnett, junior, the campers "add variety to the campus. It makes it a little more interesting."
Suzanne Van Fossan, Decatur, Ill., senior, feels "it's a great thing for them to have an opportunity to come here and know what it's all about."
Paula George, Hiwatha, senior, agrees. "I think it's good for them to get exposed to a place like this. KU is sort of an action spot right now," said George.
The majority of KU students questioned did not feel that the campers have had any considerable effect on the campus. They noted the summer enrollment and the number of students who travel from all over the nation to study here.
As for the attiude KU students have toward the campers, Phil King, Glasco, junior, observes a "fairly amiable relationship. The ones I see aren't too unlike the college students. It's just like having the freshmen every year."
Marie Shirer, Lawrence, freshman, said, "We have so many groups here—Boys State and Girls State—that I don't think the campers have affected it (the university) by themselves."
Other KU students observed the lack of association between the college people and campers. Males, in particular, noticed this apparent void with regret.
Pete Goodsell, Binghamton. N.Y., junior, laments, "It's too bad they can't associate with the rest of the crowd. They seem to be good kids."
Marguerite Bohm, Tonganoxie, graduate student, rarely meets a camper. "I think that the campers really don't have much contact with the students, but it's nice to see new faces. They're good additions."
Generally KU students are enthusiastically accepting the campers. The majority wish there were more communication and association between the two groups, yet they are happy to make them a part of the campus and find a place for them.
Tempo distribution set for July 22
The camp yearbook, the Tempo,
will cost $5 this year. The book
will be available July 22 at the
Midwestern Music and Art Camp
Office in Murphy Hall. Campers
may order them in advance from
Richard Brummett, McCollum
Hall supervisor. The book will
also be sold on July 22.
The Tempo will be an $ 8 \frac{1}{2} x 1 1$
88-page book. The book will be
vertical this year rather than the
traditional horizontal.
2 KAMPER July 3
1970
The Chi Omega fountain loses another fight against pollution . . .
but not without a little fun.
C.O.'s face scrutiny
The Supreme Court recently handed down a decision on the case of Elliot Welsh II, a conscientious objector. The ruling stated that a C.O. may receive an exemption solely on moral and ethical grounds, without having a belief in a "supreme being." While the decision is a step in the right direction, the system can still only be described as both unjust and vague.
Draft board policies have always discriminated against the inarticulate and the philosophically unintelligent. C.O.'s with a vast knowledge of philosophy and ethics have a far better chance of receiving exemption than the average applicant who merely is opposed to killing and doesn't know why.
Says Selective Service Director Curtis Tarr, "The young man who has the best chance is a major in philosophy at a first-class college." And so it goes with C.O.'s on a religious basis. Far too many draft boards think that only religious fanatics and superactivists actually believe what their religion teaches them about non-violence. Must a C.O. have a signed letter from the Pope before he can be termed as "conscientiously opposed to war in all forms"?
The entire idea of deciding who is conscientious and who is not is ridiculous in itself. No one can really decide for sure. But doesn't it seem that the C.O. applicant should be given the benefit of the doubt?
This overt skepticism on the part of the draft boards has brought suffering on the C.O.'s who are refused exemption. There are hundreds who are now in jail for turning down induction, and far more are exiled in Canada. The flow into Canada has become so great that there are now 23 aid services for the C.O.'s throughout the country, with the Toronto office handling up to 20 cases a day. The stay in Canada is permanent, unless one wants to face several years in prison upon return to the United States.
One young man slipped across the border to attend his father's funeral, only to find two FBI agents waiting for him at the services.
Scott Hamilton Kamper Kansan editor
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