Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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He won ' t listen, he won ' t change. He tried for a lot of brownie points. He doesn ' t have any other place to come. It was a good speech. I hope he came for the students rather than to use the students. On the whole people supported what he said. Welcome secret police. I liked the points of his speech. I didn ' t agree with everything he said not enough solutions. I feel the student body was responding to the charge to work out solutions to our own problems. We were duped into a good PR job for him. Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time; no one can have his own way all the time; and no one is right all the time. But we cannot stand successfully for the rule of law abroad unless we respect the rule of law at home. ... willingness to listen to others without trying to shout him down. 25

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He came, He spoke, He left It is time for responsible university and college administra- tors. faculty and student leaders to stand up and be counted. Well now really, how often do you get the chance to see the President of the United States in person? Where was the charisma? He looked and sounded exactly like he does on television. Preparations for the communi- cate with students visit began weeks before. Men in gray flannel suits were everywhere. Yes, they were security officers of varying de- grees. When they said plastic IDs and fee receipt cards would be checked — they meant it. The big day arrived and Nixon drew a standing-room-only crowd. But the handful of hecklers changed the complexion of the Landon Lecture. Following Nixon ' s visit K-State Students were sterotyped by the na- tional news media. We were billed as corn- husking cow-milkers and car- toons portrayed K-Staters as ten- year-old morons receiving lollipops from the President. On the other side of the coin, Presi- dent McCain received an avalanche of reactions from adults across the country. Phone calls, letters and tel- egrams ran in the restored my faith in American youth vein. It ' s an honor that we have him. The demonstrators helped to fortify Nixon ' s speech. I don ' t think he said anything that wasn ' t said before. We were used exactly as planned. Rules as far as demonstrating were one-sided.

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Landon Lectures,Convocations present current issues Appearing as a Landon Lecturer, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren told K-Staters that domestic peace in the United States is dependent upon the realiza- tion of the nation ' s 200-year-old promise of equality for all citizens. Otherwise, he said, the alternative is chaos. University Convocations, in addi- tion to the Landon Lectures, also of- fered students an opportunity to hear outstanding speakers. Akabar Abdul Haqq, an associate of Billy Graham, spoke to K-Staters on Man ' s Struggle for Relevance, explaining it in terms of man ' s con- tinual search for God and the spiritu- al part of himself. Other convocation speakers relied on diagnosing the ills of society. Shir- ley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, expounded on the social revolution in America as minority groups demand their rights in society and reject tokenism as a substitute for equal opportunity. Imperialism as an instrument of world politics was castigated by V.K. Krishna Menon, former Defense Minister of India, in a discussion of the rise of Asian nationalism and the political situation in Asia. Bill Russell, basketball star, spoke on the racial problem. He urged ev- eryone to work together. Shirley Chisholm Bill Russell 26