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Tuesdav. April 6, 1976
University Dally Kansan
KANSAN Comment
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Secrets threatening
I wasn't exactly thrilled last week when Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said that the University's final Title IX report might be used as an "internal study document" and, therefore, kept secret. After all, I am a journalist.
BUT IT WOULD be wrong for me to react with screams of outrage and cries of indignation. Remember, he only said it "might not" be released. If the press shoots its whole defensive war any time there's a tentative threat to the first amendment, it may not have anything left when a really serious threat comes along.
The Student Senate resolution passed last Thursday that asked the administration to release the report is probably all the reaction the present situation requires. It's sufficient to let the administration know that at least some people think the report should be released.
AND ALTHOUGH the Senate's other journalism-related action, a petition to Shankel asking him to instruct his subordinates to "comply with reasonable requests for information," was initiated by a misunderstanding with the dean of women's office about who was authorized to release what information, it still signaled a concern with openness in college government and administrations.
But if the administration announces that it definitely won't release the Title IX report, it will be time to get worried. For the last several years, federal racial and sexual discrimination guidelines have had more to say about the way this university is being run than most other legislative action combined.
The University's Title IX report, which must be turned in this summer, will have a lot to say about how the University is run in the future.
FOR THE ADMINISTRATION to refuse to release a report that would affect as many people for as long as the Title IX report will be wrong. The workings and procedures of college administration are hard enough to understand when they are public. Students and faculty at least have the right to try to understand.
Not releasing the report could hurt the administration as badly as it would the students and faculty. It would create a sense of suspicion about the administration's motives. An innocent cautiousness on the part of the administration could make it look like it had something to hide, even if it didn't.
NOT RELEASING the report would create confusion and mistrust as actions are taken and allocations are made to "comply with TITLE IX" because those directly affected by the action would have no way of knowing where the compliance would eventually lead.
The administration is probably hesitant to release the report because it's afraid of what the reactions to the findings might be. Their past experiences with discrimination reports make such fears understandable. The administration believes it has a responsibility to keep things as calm as possible, especially during budget time.
But not releasing the report won't keep things calm. All it would do is make things worse for everyone concerned.
By Jim Bates Contributing Writer
In the last few weeks the candidates have discovered that the road to the White House is getting rougher. Cameron Johnson, a Democrat, week. Sen. Henry Jackson, Washington Democrat, was spit
On the Primary Trail
Udall has been spending a lot of time and money in the state.
Primaries sift out candidates
The Republicans haven't campaigned in New York, but after his surprise loss to Ronald Reagan two weeks ago in North Carolina, Mr. Ford is working hard to assure me of a victory in Wisconsin.
THE CANDIDATES are all getting tougher. Udall has said that he can be a nice guy and has expressed himself more vigorously in recent week. He sees the campaign as his opportunity to campaign. It is now or never, so
Ford too has been pushed into action. Reagan has substituted television exposure for personal campaigning here. He has been known as the North
By John Johnston Contributing Writer
upon by an onlooker. Alabama Gov. George Wallace was haunted by demonstrators in wheelchairs who were masks of Arthur Bremer, the man who tried to assassinate him in 1972
THESE EVENTS can be forgotten, but the harsh realities of the campaign aren't easy to separate the men from the boys, and the candidates know it. Today's primaries in Wisconsin and New York are being viewed with suspicion. Utah, Arizona Democrat, will soon be forgotten if he doesn't win in Wisconsin. And the campaign of Jackson will be in trouble if he doesn't capture New York.
Carolina victory have caused concern among Ford supporters. The president has been emphasizing the need for in-house staff and expenditures. After attacks by Reagan that the United States was resigned to being number two in world power, Ford has pressed the point that we're one and should stay there.
THE WORD HAS spread that Hubert Humphrey is beginning to make a new mark. The neonator has been supported lot of support towards Udall because his advisers think Carrie Clinton will be coped soon or it will be too late.
today's balloting, There are 66 delegates up for grabs in Wisconsin and 274 in New York, which is nearly one-fifth the number needed to win the nomination.
There's a lot at stake in
THE EXPERTS are predicting a close race between Carter and Udall in Wisconsin. Udall has received the support of six of the state's seven Democratic representatives. The Republican labor coalition, which includes the United Auto Workers, the Communications Workers and the public employs unions.
But Carter's momentum and heavy advertising have combined to give him a slight edge over the Packers. Wisconsin victory and a close second-place finish in New York would give Carter a lead that could help him win.
JACKSON SUPPORTERS see their projected victory in New York as a *springbounce* for the driver's seat. However, the experts say that Jackson's victory won't be nearly as great as he has hoped and that he will have Carter in total delegates.
Jackson is looking for strong support from Jews in New York. The Jewish support of Jackson has always been strong
because of his stands against the Soviet Union's treatment of Jews and his support of Israel. The Jewish vote in New York will account for about 20 per cent of the total, so Jackson has concentrated a lot of time on the effort there. It's not just votes that Jackson is after; either, he is asking Jackson to vote on the first one million dollars Jackson collected for his campaign.
THE MAJOR ISSUES in the New York campaign have been unemployment and the role the government should play in helping financially troubled New York City. Jackson and Udall both friends of labor, an activist firm that promising federal aid for the country's largest city and the jobless who live there.
The New York primary is the wackiest of 50 state plans for selecting delegates. The confusing system was changed only once, in 1974, to give presidential candidates to appear on the Democratic ballot. Carter is taking a case against the delegate selection process to court because some Republicans have been stricken from the ballot.
UDALLLED ALL candidates with 192 supporters on the ballots. Jackson has 184;
Carter, 141; Fred Harris 101;
and Wallace, 16.
Wallace has just about dropped out of the running for the nomination after his losses to George Wallace. He continues to attack Carter viciously, but admits his defeat when he expresses pleasure that he expresses the burden can be held for him to adopt some of his positions.
When the balloting is finished and the results released tonight, Carter should still be the head coach in nomination on the Democratic side. The question is how much of a lead he'll have. If both Jackson and Udall can capture the whole complexion of the campaign would change. However, if Carter can continue his winning journey today, the team may not be much of a contest.
On the Republican side, the Reagan advisers are conceding the loss of a huge state of delegates in New York, but hope to fair better in Wisconsin. If Ford can come home with a victory, the majority of delegates there too, Reagan's sole victory in North Carolina might be as forgotten as a freak accident.
Year of 'exquisite' eating differs from expectations
After living alone this summer and eating most salami sandwiches, I was really looking for a place to dine on exquisite food. My hopes hinged upon one of my new roommates, Bob, who had
down in a comfortable apartment to a splendid table laden with delicacies, we have been forced into the student slum district by the housing shortage. Our apartment looks like an
Our apartment looks like an overgrown shack on the outside
By John Hickey Contributing Writer
developed a minor reputation as a gourmet chef. I had eaten his food and it had seemed to taste up to its reutation.
UNFORTUNATELY, SEVERAL factors intervened to distort the actualization of my vision. Our food this year has been made much more delicious, tasty and economical. However, instead of sitting
There are also logistical problems. Bob's work schedule prevents him from cooking any more than he can prepare during the week. Thus he plans
and has all the modern conveniences of the Depression on the inside. Indeed, we have found it difficult to cook on our antiquated and malfunctioning stove. The oven isn't level, probably because the floor is too cold to handle, then that wasn't any problem during the winter months—we had to use the oven for heat.
THEN TOO, there is the problem of storage space in our tiny cabinets and in our tiny refrigerator with its crackerbox freezer. We managed to convert a couple of closets into pantries.
We also encounter a problem
common among students—
they are too busy to cook,
crab, lobster, shrimp, steak or
cognac. In fact, almost
everything we cook is from the
grocery store or section of the
 grocery store.
the menus and Tom, my other roommate, and I end up doing most of the cooking.
AND, ALTHOUGH we don't have BOB's expertise, we can usually produce acceptable dishes. Bob being accustomed to baking is rarely completely satisfied with anything we cook.
He also has some strange ideas about what is acceptable to serve, the way it should be served and who should wash dishes. It seems chefs don't understand how we are doing the cooking, Boh is still the chef. Cups are always accompanied by saucers. Glasses go at the tips of knives, plates are to be situated one inch from the edge of the table. It's no matter that we live in a dump and eat on plastic dishes, they would still be properly served.
TRIPS TO THE grocery store are interesting, too. Anything the average college student buys to provide a quick, easily prepared meal is to be eschewed. We don't buy: soft coffee, burger helper, frozen dinners, prepared foods, cookies, candy, white bread, beer, cake mixes, instant puddings or corn.
All of those things are junk foods, Bob says. Tom and I want to know what could be wrong with corn. Isn't it a standard American vegetable? But they don't eat it on the Continent, Bob answers, reaching for his knife. He quotes something about corn being a kind of maize eaten in America and fed to hogs.
TOM AND I found that
because all the meals on our menu took at least two hours to prepare, we were often in a bind when we had important things to do. We suggested cooking hamburgers because we always have hamburger meat on hand. Bob, however, thinks that hamburgers are American junk food. What do you think we are operating here, a McDonald's?"
It has been an interesting year of good food and cooking experience. but if I ever have to take a photo, I think I'll start using paper.
'YOUR BOUFRIEND!?
Abstention a strong sign
WASHINGTON—The New York Times reports that students and other enthusiasts are failing to volunteer for this year's political campaigns by running in the immediate past presidents are widely seen as a satyromaniac, a megalomaniac and a kleptomaniac, this outburst of indifference shouldn't surprise
BUT DISILLUSIONED people are vulnerable to manipulation. They still carry the faith within them, as they make clear when they say "if only we had a candidate who can represent us or the possessor of any number of other virtues.
minister in fact, that they are gulled, fooled, tricked, misaligned and misinformed by their subordinates, that their orders are ignored. In other contexts it's been frequently suggested
These disillusioned Diogenes are relatively easy to trick. The original model went about with a lamp in the daylight looking up at him, but not really either that he claimed unique powers of moral perspicacity for himself or, as was the case, he was demonstrating there were other things.
SINCE, EVEN if you could define it, there's no way in the world you can tell whether another person is sincere or not. You can tell by the public interest, the game consists in figuring out what outward manifestation of behavior will sucker embittered idealists into imagining they will have a job Gov Jerry Brown, going home every night to his unfurnished apartment, his bowl of brown rice and his pallet of straw after hours of work serving the poor. Peanut testifying that, as he prayed on his knees in the
Georgia governor's office as William McKinley once did in the White House, he sturp up a personal, very intimate relationship with his savior? Or will it be the thought of Jerry
By Nicholas von Hoffman (C) King Features
physical and mental handicap to attain the dignity and fatherly judgment that come to them. Judgment is important, because retiree is large enough and who appears nightly on the television in a dark suit next to the Great Seal of the Republic? JERRY FORD HAS reminded us that praiseworthy character doesn't have much to do with anything in a president. Personal probity in high office can be a great burden we have after we get our teeth cleaned. A madman in the White House might push the red button if his aides let him, but other men, who are adjudged quite sane, offer themselves as candidates and talk about the possibility of doing just that all
We are so impressed by the power of the presidency it doesn't occur to us the office may dominate its occupant. The constant plaint of recent criticism has much done, that the huge structures which they administer in law they don't ad-
that presidents gravitate toward the Pentagon because the military is the only chain of command that is the least bit responsive.
"WE MIGHT PONDER how ceremonial and illusionary the office may have become. Is the president more of a good-looking corpse than a chief executive, an Army commander, or a lawyer? Law is limped by the proviso that he never use his power? For a president to function as we've been taught to think he does, he would have to stage a sort of coup d'etat in government. If we set aside the appalling vision of government that Nixon nourished, we could see that what he was trying to do function presidential. In so doing he appeared to us to be a copilot, a man of interest in government. If Nixon failed to run the government for evil purposes—or to be fair, many of us think are evil purposes—what makes us think that another man can run the government against us?
closer to the mark to think of a president as one who presides, who can unleash his Mikado's power only for policies and over which he has no control and only marginal influence.
THE FAILURE of so many politicians to keep so many campaign promises can't be owing only to their rascality. There's no reason to think our generation of politicians are more corrupt and dishonest than they were in Grant's administration 100 years ago. If they weren't corrupt, it would because the government's bigger. But the most troublesome figure isn't the crooked politician. It's the honest ones, the men and
women elected to office who couldn't keep their promises, who failed
They offer the best reason for not volunteering, not contributing money, not voting. When honest, energetic and intelligent people can't do the job, perhaps the fault is with the job. Then the worst case is that people to these offices, to stop telling each other if only we could find the political equivalent of Jesus he'd pass a miracle and make the damn thing work. Apathy, laziness and disillusionment aren't the only reasons for not volunteering in circumstances abstention can be a powerful political statement, much more powerful than participation.
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