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Thursday, March 11, 1976
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN Comment
Oninions on this page reflect only the view of the writer.
Don't rush Title IX
When Title IX went into effect July 21, 1975, educational institutions were given three years to bring their athletic programs into compliance with the law. Given this amount of time the institution should be able to evaluate the men's and women's programs and make changes that would eliminate the inequities while meeting the needs of both programs.
But some members of the University of Kansas administration don't seem to want to wait. Although the Title IX Subcommittee on sexual harassment is preliminary report, a merger of the two programs may have already been decided.
The committee, which was set up to examine what constitutes equal opportunity in athletics, has been working since October. Although they aren't recommending what structure the athletic program should have, they examined the inequities that now exist and changed. The report of the committee was to be used as a guideline or supplement when discussion of the structure began.
ALTHOUGH NO ONE has been saying much about it, this is apparently what happened. At a meeting Feb. 3, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes charged the directors of the men's and women's programs to join in an effort to examine the needs of both programs. The study was to be completed in four to six weeks.
Soon after, in an exchange of letters between the men's athletic director and the administrative office, the director was informed that the merger of the two athletic programs was to take place July 1, 1766. According to the letter, the decision had been made at the Feb. 3 meeting.
The decision was made without using the results of the joint study or the committee report. Also, up to this time, the women's athletic office hasn't received any official notification from the administration about the merger.
It's no wonder that there is some fear that the women's program will become
submerged under the men's program. Already the women's athletic office seems to have been placed in a subordinated position in the decision-making process. If the merger takes place as suggested by this report, the women won't be on equal standing with the men's athletic director but will become an assistant to him.
It's hard to understand why the administration seems to be trying to rush the affair. Under Title IX the institutions are given the option to meet the guidelines in the way that they think would best work under their particular situation. Title IX doesn't demand a unified structure, but it does demand equal opportunities under the structure that is set.
It seems that before the merger can be successfully carried out, the two programs must solve some of their differences and develop more common grounds. Title IX allows three years before anything final must be produced, but it does state that this time isn't to be used as a waiting period. The University, though, could benefit from slowing down and using some of the time the law allows. During that time, the committee could finish its work, the joint study could be done and open discussions could be held.
AT THIS UNIVERSITY, the two programs seem to be geared toward different goals. The men's program is a business corporation and is greatly concerned with questions of finances. Although the women's program is concerned with developing a sound financial structure, they don't seem to be striving toward a big-business structure.
Whatever is decided, it must be done in an open fashion, where both groups are active in the decision-making process and both are fully informed of their decisions. Decisions made too early without all the facts can only lead to future hostility.
By Marne Rindom Contributing Writer
Verbal rubbish raked
To all you people who have been talking about detente in your poll-sci papers and dinner table discussions: Ston it.
Haven't you heard that President Gerald R. Ford announced last week that the word "detente" doesn't really apply
As anyone who reads headlines knows, this fad didn't die with Rosewell or the New
By Jim Bates Contributing Writer
any more? It has been replaced with "peace through strength."
Not that this means a fundamental change in American foreign policy. It doesn't, or at least that's what Henry Kissinger says, and he should know. Only the word "detente"
REGARDLESS OF WHY Ford decided to get rid of the word some say it's because "peace through strength" is easier to pronounce and others are more difficult. It says it as many times in a speech, it is still another example of the never-ending challenges passed for political language over the past few decades.
in the beginning, there was exaggeration and flowery oratory. Early American politicians were world-famous for the amount of pure gas they could shoot out. They called—one of their favorite call-so many things "great" and "essential" that the words seemed commonplace and ordinary.
Eventually, the New Deal came along and with it came a new fad: acronyms. Capital
Deal but has lived on into the 1970s. In fact, the fetish has grown as state and local governments—and even an occasional University administration—have Fallen in Step (FIS) with Calling Things by Acronyms (CTBA).
THIS WAS BAD enough. But when government alphabet soup was mated in the 1950s and 1960s with the growing influence of the Pentagon, the results were even worse.
Words and phrases became increasingly longer and more complicated in an attempt to 1) increase the intensity of authoritative pressure, thus enjoining a commensurate esteem factor and 2) authenticate the inervacity of that particular claim. The nam came along and gave Pentagon and government officials a chance to bone their skills through constant practice. It seemed as if the verbal image had reached a golden age.
BUT, BELIEVE it or not,
things actually got worse.
The Vietnam flowering of Pentagonese was merely a fertile
field in which the flower of Nixonian rhetoric could grow.
Who can forget the happy days of that particular point in time! It was the climax of twenty years of political ball. At the hearings, the whole nation got a clean-cut young White House official after another testify to their native tongue. The sad thing was that, because they had spent their entire democratic lives talking that way, couldn't speak English.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The poor men will probably go through the rest of their lives talking that way.
Published at the University of Kansas weekly journals. $10,000 for a second annual periodicals. Second-class postage paid at Lawson's permafter or a year in Douglas County and $150 for a second annual periodicals or $2.50 a semester, paid through the University.
Which brings us back to today and, with it, Fords' "peace through strength" proclamation.
It is hoped that this is merely post-Nikon fallout, and that the equipment are beginning to blow away. It sometimes seems, at least, as though there is less garbage per capita per day than there used
And unemployment is still often called by euphemisms such as "downward adjustments in the job market." That is rarely called inflation and crime is rarely called crime.
Editor
Carl Yount
I can only hope that more people will read and pay attention to such books as "The B. S. Factor" by Arthur Herzog and "Sitttle Speaking" by Edward Newman. Body language, words are the only means of communication we have.
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AND THE SOONER PARAMETERS and the citizens understand one another more. For bureaucratic verbal garbage and the desecration of our noble English mother tongue is the greatest, the most endearing and the most shattering problem to face this republic since it was founded by our illustrious forefathers 200 years ago. In fact, they are the most solennel and dispassionate private species since the importation of the mammal. In fact.
WASHINGTON — The Japanese American Citizens League, after putting up ball for Patricia Heart's alleged accomplice, Wendy Yoshimura, is now trying to secure a presidential pardon for a former D'Aquino. Mrs. D'Aquino is an exceptional person; she is one of that very small band of Americans who have been convicted of treason.
'Tokyo Rose' postwar casualty
wives back home were cheating on them.
AT THE HEIGHT of her fame, this perilous lady was as well-known a hate object as Hermann Goering or Hidekli Tojo. For Americans between 1860 and 1920,nee Iva Ruka Torgor in Los Angeles on July 4, of all days, 1916, was the ultimate Jan.
IN 1949 she was convicted in a
Now, 27 years after her conviction, two reporters from Lie San Francisco Chronicle
By Nicholas von Hoffman (C) King Features
San Francisco Federal court and sentenced to 10 years in prison, loss of citizenship and a $10,000 fine for being Tokyo Rose, the sexy-voiced lady on the Japanese radio whose treasonable utterances were supposed to destroy the morale of American troops in the Pacific during World War II. The patriotic resentment against a Jane Fonda during a performance as nothing compared to the entreaties directed against Tokyo Rose whispering into her microphone to our boys overspecies that their
have interviewed John Mann, the foreman of the jury that convicted her, and he says they only did so because of pressure from the judge. Mann, the jury after four days of arguing was irreconcilably deadlocked when, "the judge said they spent a million dollars you go back there and do nothing we'll have to have this same trial all over again." I was against her conviction
THAT IVA was even in Japan during the war was the result of a foul-up and a fluke. Because
her mother was too ill to go visit an alling sister, Iva was sent by her parents, dispatched in such a rush that she traveled on a certificate of identification instead of a passport. (These documents were from an article by James J. Martin in the February issue of Reason magazine.) Thanks to the customary efficiency of the State Department and sunny other government func- tions, he passed away in his passport and missed the last boat home before Pearl Harbor.
There she was, marooned in Japan, a UCLA graduate in premiled unable to speak the language of her ancestors. She is a professor of pro-war, and-American spirit, kicks out her of his house. She is denied a ration card, her money runs out and she walks the streets until she gets a couple of part-time jobs, one with the Spanish embassy and the other in Tokyo Radio, her ruination.
AT RADIO Tokyo she worked under the direction of three allied officer POW's on shows that were beaten to their fellow prisoners of war, whom she secretly tried to help by wearing a hat and clothing. All three of her bosses, an Australian, a Filipino and an American were subsequently promoted after the war.
Portuguese national, was arrested by the Army of Occupation. After months in jail she was cleared of all charges and then rearrented and held in something close to isolation. She was released early to visit her for 20 minutes a month. During this second incarceration, she was also put on exhibition for visiting members of Congress so the boys could see the infamous treasoness, Tokyo Rose. But again she was treated with great care along the line the Army had doped it out that there was no Tokyo Rose.
In 1945, Mrs. D'Aquino, who had by this time married a
No single female had made the broadcasts attributed to Tokyo, but perhaps as many as 20 different women. The exact number and who they has not been established to this day. Moreover, the same woman is in Tokyo but from a number of places all over the Pacific and Southeast Asia. Hence no way has ever existed to prove who said what or where they said it. **NEVERTHELESS,** the American, the British, into one of its periodic spasms and demanded that the traitorous if non-existant lady be tried. I was hauled out and arrested again. A reluctant grand jury indicted her and the case went to trial, although not until someone used up his peremptory challenges kicking six blacks
and a Chinese off the jury. Even the perfectically Caucasian jurist didn't want to convict when they heard the government's case, California, a state that has a long history of anti-Japanese intolerances.
The trial itself was conducted according to unusual rules. The prosecution was allowed to subpoena witnesses from Japan to prove the facts, so one prosecution witness admitted in open court he had beined to testify. Instead of declaring a mistrial at once, the judge allowed the Federal bench, urged the jury to convict, which they ultimately did on one count of treason, the substance of which was not spoken 25 words of aid and comfort to the enemy on the radio.
BACK TO JAIL. This time for six years and two months, but as late as the closing weeks of the war, she was the Nixon regime were busty at work attaching her wages to collect $2,253 she still owed as a result of the fine assessed her in the summer of 1949."
In 1976 Jerry Ford assures us that henceforth politically unpopular people need not worry about being unfairly spied on by the government and that they can't proposes, that can't happen without the permission of a Federal judge. Sleep tight.
Readers Respond
Hickey's view reads 'confusion'
To the Editor:
John Hickey revealed his own confusion fairly well in Monday's editorial. On one hand he seems to be an advocate of "the historical-critical method biblical scholars have developed." Then he states that he is unaware of the Bible are unreadable to one who tries to read them as a history book."
I AGREE, FOR Hickey and the supposed "scholars" the Bible has been "unreadable." He looks at books looking at words on a page. Hickey sees confusion in the geneology of Jesus, the empty tomb story the parables, and the baffles; because he is confused.
Anyone may understand, if he would read in a way desiring understanding. As a well-read rabbit of the time wrote, "the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they cannot be known, because they are spiritually discerned." (I Cor. 2:14) For John Hickey there is a change first needed.
Wayne Boyer
1974 graduate
1538 Tennessee
Hickey okay
To the Editor:
No doubt John Hickey will receive numerous letters from Christians flagellating him for various alleged inaccuracies in
his column. I'm confident that John will receive all the crass Bible quoting that Christians can dish out for his "infidel" ideas. Yet while one would not see the rationale for a "biblical" attack on such a column, one would likely see of serious flaws in the article.
THE PRIMARY PROBLEM lies in the straw-man fundamental attack he uses to polarize the "believer" vs. "unbeliever" positions. Agreed that the believer has been called Bible dropped down from the sky and therefore is inspired, consistent and infallible, but contra John, I must say that one may still come to these conclusions while using historical grammatical tools to inform an audience of Matthew or Luke concerning Jesus of Nazareth.
Finally, as a last word to those brothers and sisters who consistently castigate infidel articles and issues by quoting the scripture, I would suggest that care nor is impressed by Hezekiah 12: 2 showed on him as authoritative proof. Rafter, one
I would, in fact, say that if one does not begin reading the accounts of Jesus historically committed intellectual suicide. While this suicide often occurs, it does not negate the validity of a consistent text nor the other views concerning the Bible.
must begin on a common ground of authority. To the infidel a suggestion would be looking at the historical person to whom we should perhaps Luke or Mark in the Bible. To the "believer" this ground would be understanding the culture in which we are living and understanding the culture in which our culture is operating.
Bruce Erickson
Bruce Ericsson
Lawrence graduate student
Steve Blair
Ablene lunor
Bible the word
To the Editor:
In response to John Hickey's editorial on the Bible I would like to point out that the Bible itself IS the Word of God and therefore CAN take upon the attributes of God.
I believe (as people have for centuries) that the Bible is authoritative, sufficient, infallible, inertant, and inspired. In fact, 3:16. II Pat 1:21). Most importantly, it must be responded to.
THERE HAVE BEEN volumes written on this subject will not comment on any further. However, I would like to comment on Mr. Hickey's opinion that the Bible is temporal.
The Bible was written over a 1,600 year span (60 generations) by 40 plus authors from every
walk of life (including kings, peasants, philosophers, fishermen, poets, statesmen, scholars, etc.). It was written at many different times in a wide range of languages and it comes to us from three continents and in three languages and it has survived centuries of time, persecution, and oppression. We publish the published book and it has been translated into more languages than any other book. People in every conceivable kind of culture have patterned their way through history with the question of its permanence or relevancy here and now?
IN REGARDS TO the inconsistencies that Mr. Hickey found, I suggest that he reread the gospel, this time looking for the message of salvation through Jesus Christ, which is the central theme of the Bible. In Indiana, I meet everyone. Another helpful book concerning the truth of the Bible and the claims of Christ is "Evidence that Demands a Verdict" by Josh McDowell.
Tim McKeehan
Trenton, Mo., junior
2 tennis teams To the Editor:
The headline reads—"KU Tennis Team gets Fresh Start!" and the opening sentence says "Don't make the mistake of asking members of the KU tennis team to explain why the
Jayhawks finished fifth in the Big Eight last year" (emphasis added). (UDK, February 25, p. 7) One would think KU had only played at that. Not true. The "other" (unmentioned) KU tennis team doesn't need "A different attitude" or "any miracles." It was placed during its last season and will continue the good work
I don't expect the other KUK tennis team to get equal space or attention from the UDK. Instead, I believe and feature-writing policy that ACKNOWLEDGED ITS EXISTENCE! Of course, I refer to the KUK team with which we can all be very proud.
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Professor of Speech Communication
Speech Communication
Letters Policy
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