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Wednesday, April 14, 1976
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN Comment
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Mix private schools
Since the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, the federal government has been in the process of actively intervening in public schools to achieve racial integration. Now the Justice Department is urging the court to exert more enforcement assistance to public schools. The court has agreed to review a case involving two black students who were denied admission to two all-white private schools in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.
THE JUSTICE Department decided to file a brief as a friend of the court because it thought the growth of all-white private schools could lead to two school systems—one white and rich, the other integrated and poor. The specific law at issue is an 1866 statute broadly guaranteeing all citizens equal rights.
A few years ago it would have been a simple matter to line up all librarians in sight to support the broadest court decision possible for extensive desegregation of private schools. But now that intervention of the federal government into private affairs has become associated with the ominous presence of Big Brother, this issue will require more painful deliberation. Certainly neither librals nor conservatives have dissolved into closet
racists over night, but they have begun to take action. The government in regulating private affairs,
THUS THE ISSUE has become clouded. If government can intervene in private schools, what are its limits? If private schools are immune to desegregation, are public schools consigned to second-rate status? The 1866 statute says that all persons shall be free from compulsory contracts. That could presumably apply to private schools, provided the court finds the statute constitutional.
Racism has proved to be extremely difficult to overcome when it has lain hidden deep within the minds of individual citizens, expressing itself subtilly, yet forcefully. Effectively it is not always possible to situation discriminates is often difficult even when the facts of the case are clear on their face.
Such pragmatic considerations will probably enter into the court's decision. But no matter how difficult may be the implementation of the constitutional law of the land, racism and unequal educational opportunities are too fun-loving and illiberally threatened by tradition for segregation, even in private schools, to be tolerated.
By John Hickey Contributing Writer
Letters Policy
The Kansan welcomes letters to the editor, but asks that letters be typewritten, double-spaced and no longer than 400 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the
editor's judgment, and must be signed. KU students must provide their name, year in school and hometown; faculty must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and address.
"Hello, I'm John and I got your name from the uh .."
"BOCO Computer Date Mate right?" was the response.
Date match incompatible
So began many an unsure computer date call. Some of the conversations improved, others struggled along until the end. For some matchups, the phone call was the only contact established. Others arranged to meet with the person this was done to see what type of person a computer would decide was a compatible match.
FOR THE 1,200 students involved in the matchup, the whole affair got off to a rocky start. First, a delay in obtaining the names caused some to believe that the project was a hoax and was convicted of unauthorized university students out of $3.50. Finally, the names arrived the evening before the day of the scheduled dance. There was hardly any time to get anything arranged.
But the舞衣 was carried out as scheduled. Of the 400 people there, some were with dates, others carried their lists and for matches, but many seemed to just wander around.
EVERYTHING DIDN'T end with the dance, though. Since then, many matches have met in various places and have been played. One thing that has come from the matchups is that people have discovered which areas of campus are most adaptable for finding someone you've never seen or encountered. That discovery that, when meeting in crowds, carrying a fencing foil can be as effective, if not more so, as wearing a red rose. If someone has met you with the matchup, I can say that it has been interesting. I did it for the fun of it and it has been fun. I've met some nice guys even though I didn't get matched up. (One girl) claims she did. At least he was a close enough fascimile to make her happy.) I also didn't get matched up with a friend of my fifth-grade class (this also happened to me).
with was someone who was more compatible with me when he was a stranger. When he called me up and spoke part of the time in an English accent, sometimes in a German accent,
What it led to was a meeting with him and his friend during which it was revealed that his friend's major accomplishment was eating a MacDonald's hamburger in one bite. What the
By Marne Rindom Contributing Writer
and 80 on shared interests, but
it's the 14 on attitudes and
values that makes them totally
incompatible.
THE GAME SEEMS to be coming to an end. The number of phone calls is dwindling and it now appears that if I want to talk, only eleven people on my list may have to take the initiative.
and sometimes with no accent at all, I should have left well enough alone and hung up. But I didn't.
My list contained, like many of the female participants, the maximum of 15 names. Many of the male participants received only four or six names. This was because the woman who completed the application, 2.6 men completed it. There were 191 participants.
meeting showed was that on a compatibility scale of one to one hundred, two people can rate 93 on background and appearance
mostly male, who received fewer than three names and will be refunded their money.
PEOPLE SEEM to be loo- at the experience with varying reactions. Some are glad it's finally over, others are still boping to meet the rest of their matches.
I didn't go into the affair expecting to find "Mr. Right." did it because of curiosity and for some excitement. And after I learned he was doing the bad, I think it was worth it. After all, I might have gone through life never knowing that there is someone who can act as a hamburger in one bite—of course, he had to fold it first.
"CLOSE BY THE STURY BATSHAN THE BALL UNHEEDEN SPEED, 'PRIMARIES DINT MY STYLE',
SAID HUBILE, 'STRIKE ONE, THE UMPIRE SAID.'
Job hunt disheartens seniors
It's that time of year again. The flowers are blooming, papers and tests are cropping up and the average senior at the University of Kansas is frantically searching for a job.
Not that this is any recent
dergling an economic recovery during the past year, but most experts are predicting that even fewer jobs will be available for workers who work in a fact, one said smugly on TV the other night that it used to be
By Betty Haegelin Associate Editor
Supposedly we've been un-
concern, KU seniors have always looked for jobs. But not when a competent group had to search, really search for employment. And maybe never before have they had to search so fran-
that all you needed to get a good job was a college degree and reasonable aptitude in your field, and that you must graduate, he said, must be able "to walk on water without falling" and must have friends. My friends were not amused.
And neither was I. I realize that a university is not a trade school and its graduates shouldn't feel that they're entitled to a job automatically. But after four years of hard work, you're in the right courses, even when you'd like to take pads—you should be able to expect something from the system.
Don L. Smith, the Kansan's Washington correspondent, and I have been developing a theory in recent years and I think it's finally time to test it on the public. Our theory is very
and you're devouring an incredibly delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you might feel that you've got the ball first and 10 on the other team's 15-yard line. On the other hand, if
In my biased research, a majority of this year's crop is still searching. Most of my best friends only one has landed a full-time job for next year. It's not really that my friends are incompetent, but that there just seem to be any jobs opening up.
I don't find it at all humorous to pull into a gas station and find a KU French grad pumping petrol. Neither am I overcome by great gales of mirth upon seeing you compared to an elementary education major's—one who has found a job, that is.
Sometimes their despair is well-hidden. They can laugh at their predicament, recall the number of letters they've sent and tell by their checkbooks which they've spent on resumes.
simple. It's based on the idea that life is like a football game. When you look at your life as a football game, it’s often much describe your feelings and the situations in which you find yourself.
Some even make wagers on when they're likely to land a job . . . always taking the negative of the bet. Then there are those who don't talk about it. They're tired of having to tell their parents, "No, I haven't heard from anybody yet," and even more friends by making up excuses that sound like excuses.
But all the same there's pain behind the laughter and bitterness in the silence. One one's ego is helped by a letter that says you're not wanted, no matter how nicely its phrased. And a placement director telling you that you should have
FOR EXAMPLE, if you've just aced a midterm in biology
you're taking 20 hours of classes this semester so that you can graduate and then with two weeks to go you're informed that you need 22 hours, you have your defense backed up with have your defense backed up against the goal with a first down on the two yard line.
Gridiron politics faces fourth and 45
After awhile you start thinking in these terms constantly. Your life is a football game. But our research has indicated that a more highly developed application of the football theory is found in politics. In looking at politics you have to consider how people egg" question. Which came first, politics or football?
MANY PLAYERS have made the transition from football to politics. Jack Kemp, former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills and a member of U.S. House of Representatives, Howard Cassel has been considered a possible candidate for the Senate. And everyone knows of President Ford's link with the game, how he turned down a job at Fox News and how he played one too many games without a helmet.
In politics there are ratings
By John Johnston Contributing Writer
and polls and betting, just like the NFL. Predictions are another big part of both football and basketball. Prudential College Scoreboard, you watch Walter Cronkite's Election Night Results. Both sports have underdogs and have no political analysts are just like their counterparts in pro football. They don't know anything, at least not as much as they do in the NFL, but their own variation of the draft.
IN COLLEGE football, jocks often have the reputation of not having much "upstairs." Most college players also hold true for politicians.
Of course the political world has its rookies and its veterans, too. There's always a guy like Jerry Brown trying to break into the line-up. There are others like Hubert Humphrey, who
have been knocked around the league for years, but who just love the game so much they never play at home. Also those politicians who are team players and those who are simply in it for their own glory. That old master of the hidden rules was an example of perfect example of the latter.
STRATEGY PLAYS just as big a part in politics as it does in football. The coach and manager are essential to a winning candidate. If you want to make it to the playoffs and eventually the Super Bowl, you have to test the defense of your team. You need to find a weakness. And when you find that weakness you have to hit hard and fast with the right play.
THE FOOTBALL theory has really crystalized in recent weeks with the resurgence of
In the world of international politics, defense is the key. This may be the point where the United States defeats the football analogy. They forget that global politics isn't a game. If you push the other country back so far that it thinks it's fourth grade, you shouldn't stay with the ground attack. They'll go with the Bomb!
that famous old cheer, "We're Number One!" Ronald Reagan has challenged the defensive statistics of the United States, and had been called to defense. He has said that we're the toughest, and we intend to stay that way. Democratic hopeful Henry Jackson has also gotten into the act. He says that if he were to be selected as vice president into Lebanon to help keep the peace there.
a job is no substitute for the real thing.
In fact, the statistics of the game probably hurt as much as the statistics of a hit, suggesting to know that you're among some distasteful numerical nuisances, and perhaps being drawn to articles such as this.
For it's being written by one of those "lucky" persons who isn't searching for a job. You see, I'm among the growing region of seniors who are oiting for grad school, either because they want to do something or we want to do something that requires further education.
My case, naturally, is among the latter. At present I'm agonizing over a choice between two law schools; heckly two law schools, that's how it seems. I'm only putting off for another three years the mad
dash for a job. Law, so I'm told,
is another of the many fields
that is simply being glutted.
So how do you win such a game? Do you simply lie and say you never really wanted to work in your field anyway? Do you check out the job prospects before ever enter the school or college? Do you ask to sigh with it and take your chances with what you've got?
Of course, nobody but we unemployed or soon-to-be-unemployed seniors have to be at the forefront of the market will surely improve by the time that the rest of you graduate. And even if it doesn't, you've got it all planned so you'll be one of the lucky ones to be the job or gets into the graduate school your choice, right?
Sure, buddy, sure. Anything you say.
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