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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
Vol.86 No.76
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, January 30. 1976
Standard tests draw criticism from educators
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Lawrence may lose train service
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENEI
The horn of the 1:15 a.m. train will no longer echo through Lawrence if Amtrak proceeds with plans to stop passenger service here.
Amtrak's "Lone Star" route which passes through Lawrence at 1:15 a.m., was one of 19 lines listed for elimination by Amtrak officials after 1977 federal budget cuts were made. The Lone Star route is the only passenger train service available in Lawrence.
THE END OF Amtrak service to Lawrence would hurt the city's economy by restricting its ground transportation, Glenn West, executive vice-president of the railroad, said yesterday. More than 5,000 passengers use the train service each year, he said.
West cited monthly figures that show that use of the train service at Lawrence has remained consistent throughout 1974 and 1975. The monthly average of passengers getting on and off at Lawrence was 521.3 in 1974 and 522.9 in 1975.
China traveler
County commissioners and farmer I. J. Stonebuck, protected by a coat he bought during his recent trip to the People's Republic
of China, reminisces yesterday afternoon about the trip.
She visits in China for three weeks with a group of Midwest farmers.
THE FACT THAT Lawrence usage has remained consistent in times of a fluctuating economy is an illustration of the continued need for the service." West said. Walter Houk, manager of Maupinupt student service, noted that his service booked on rail trips had increased over the last three years. But the number of students that use the train is
See AMTRAK page 11
Stoneback reflects on recent China visit
By JAY BEMIS
Staff Writer
A Peking duck dinner awaited Douglas County Commissioner I. J. Stoneback on the final day of a recent trip to China, but it was Russia's appetite that was discussed.
Stoneback told the executive that his account was true.
A Chinese travel agency executive asked Stoneback whether it was true that the United States had sold large amounts of wheat to the Russians.
"Don't feed them too much," the executive told us, "or it'll make you sick. You'll bite you."
TWENTY-TWO PERSONS began the trip
from the second sec. 31, including
Stoneback and hli女友
That was one of many memories the 58-year old county executive had about his recent visit to China, which was sponsored by the Kansas Farmers' Friendship Tour.
However, only 20 were on the return plane that departed from Tokyo last week. The two persons missing were the Stonebacks. Stoneback caught a bit of influenza when the plane was ready to leave and decided to stay an extra day.
While in China, the friendship tour saw
many aspects of Chinese life—several communes, tractor factories, cotton looms, schools, puppet shows, circuses and, of course, the Great Wall.
THE GROUP ALSO saw the Chinese mourning the death of Choi En-lai, former premier and foreign minister of China, who was one of China's most influential spokesmen.
"We saw a television showing of Chou." Stoneback said yesterday, "and a lot of people were crying. He was really loved by the people.
"We went to the Red Square in Peking about a week later and saw the Statue in Honor of the Martyrs of the Revolution. There were thousands of wreaths there, many flowers, but they were very pretty. There were also a lot of people going to the monument."
STONEBACK SAID there were a lot of people everywhere in China.
"In Shanghai I saw the most people I've ever seen in my life," he said. "The streets were really wide, but the bus had to keep honking to get them out of the streets."
"At stores we drew crowds . . . and at apple stands there we would be scores of coppers."
like us. They'd stand there and stare and smile you, and a lot of them started humming.
Stoneback said the Chinese had forms of county government somewhat similar to that in Taiwan.
STONEBACK SAID he learned of Chinese county government in Lyn County, where the Red Flag Canal is located. That's where a canal was built around the sides of a dam, a task that a lot of persons didn't believe could be accomplished, he explained.
Instead of county commissions,
Stoneback said the Chinese called their
bureauces "the Bells."
"They do a lot more planning than we do—planning in areas such as the digging of canals, construction of fertilizer factories, roads and aqueducts." he said.
STONEBACK ALSO said that he wished
him back more time to study
Chinese in the U.S.
"A lot of people here (in the United States) think the Chinese shoot the people for almost anything," he said. "They told us as premeditated war and espionage as premeditated war and espionage."
"Their first offense is considered as sort
Commission called biased
BvRACHEL CASE
Staff Writer
Ann Harlenke was treasurer of the Commission on the Status of Women last year. This year, as a senior, she would have been a candidate for the organization's presidency. Instead she chose to discontinue her affiliation with the commission
of the career committee of the commission last year, agreed that the commission didn't just present the alternatives and let the student decide for herself.
"To be president of the commission, you have to be dedicated to the nontraditional
Harlenske said that if the commission sponsored a panel discussion on traditional versus nontraditional lifestyles, a woman who said she would choose a nontraditional life style would be reinforced by discussion leaders.
IF A WOMAN said she wanted to get married, have children and be a housewife, Harlenske said, she would be asked to defend her position.
"Equal consideration would have made me feel better," Harlenake said. "You begin to feel guilty for holding the traditional values you doesn't make your decisions any easier."
"You don't really need to have a seminar on getting married and having children," she said.
But, she said, equal consideration, if not equal time, should be given to the traditional wife-and-mother lifestyle, if the commission is to maintain its objectivity.
women always expressed their views freely at both last year's and this year's commission meetings. She said she wouldn't have selected a person on who chose a traditional life.
ideology. "Harlenske has said, 'You are the spokesman for that group, and you can't be afraid to get up on the soap box. I didn't think I could believe in what I was saying."
Gruns said that no one would be asked to defend their position if their choice to defend
The goal of the commission, according to Leru Grus, assistant dean of women and academic affairs at Columbia University, was to women of alternative or nontraditional lifestyles. She defined nontraditional lifestyles as a decision not to follow a stereotype role of a woman as wife and mother.
"If a woman hadn't considered the alternatives and hadn't thought about what kind of life she wanted, then some members would probably want her to consider before she did."
analysis
Harlaniek said her disillusionment stemmed from what she called the coming of a new system where anything to help the majority of women at the University of Kansas and the com-
MILLER SAID, "If someone is traditionally-minded, they don't discredit
"DON'T SEE MYSELF as a vanguard for the rights of women anymore," she said. "I don't."
See WOMEN'S page 8
GRUNZ CITED several examples of nontraditional lifestyles. They included a single woman who didn't choose to marry, a family with two working parents and a marriage in which the father accepted primary responsibility for the children.
"ITS LIKE THEY take the matter in their own hands, something that's been going on for years."
"It's a matter of whether a person has considered the alternatives or whether she's doing something because its the obvious thing for her to do." Gruz said.
See STONEBACK page 3
of a petty crime and it's pretty much handled at the communes. The people (accused of crimes) are criticized and have their political rights taken away.
LINDA WEIPPERT, current president of the commission said she thought that
Dykes disclaims isolation charge
By SHERI BALDWIN
Harlenske and Shereee Miller, chairman
The realignment will also assure development of supportive systems, create efficiency under one administrator and reduce the layers between Dykes' office and supportive services by clarifying reporting lines and responsibilities. Dykes said.
RUSSELL C. MILLS, assistant to the chancellor for special projects, is now in charge of the supportive services. Shankel formerly had that responsibility.
Dykes the realignment would enable Shankel and David W. Robinson, acting executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, to devote more time to "major missions" of the University -education, research, public service and patient care.
The administrative realignment gives supportive services, including facilities operations (buildings and grounds), personnel training, and printing service on both the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses, a direct voice to the chancellor's office. University Relations on both campuses also reports to the university president in public information with the Kansas press.
He said he wasn't aware of any power be taken away from him by Dykes, but the didn't been able to talk with Dykes or other members about actual operations yet.
"That puts quite a different complexion, of course, on where I live." he said.
The student officials had charged that Mills wouldn't be able to adequately handle a two-campus job because he lives in New York and Mills said he wouldn't be moving to Lawrence.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes vigorously denied some student officials' charges last night that he cut Executive Vice Chancellor Del Shankel's power and that he would be made inaccessible by recent realignments in administrative duties.
Shankel said, "The only reservation that I have is that II'm not quite sure how this will all work . . . what my relationship with these other people will be."
Shankel definitely knew about the changes before he left for England, Dykes said. Shankel was out of the country when Dykes announced the realignments.
"It was a carefully thought out, carefully considered, deliberate piece of action and was in no way any depreciation of the vice chancellor's duties," Dykes said.
DYKES SAID intensive discussions were held during the period after final so that all problems with realignment could be worked out with his staff members.
MILLS SAID HIS responsibilities would
"I've also tried to make myself as readily available as possible, but I'd be the first to say that I'm not as available as everyone would like for me to be."
Mills said, "The kind of decisions I will handle will not arise that frequently . . . I plan to spend two days a week on the Lawrence campus.
involve supplies, staffing and maintaining a proper attitude among the staffs.
REO LFOLS, STUDENT body president;
Bruce Womer, StudEx chairman; and Jon Josserand, former student member of SenXb, charged Wednesday that Dykes had on public relations through the Kansas press than on University academics.
"1 ACCEPTED THIS job with some reluctance because of previously booked work of this type."
Rolfs said he had difficulty with Dykes attending a weekly appointment scheduled on both Dykes' and Shankel's calendars.
"HE'S NOT MADE the appointment since
'August.' Kofls said, "It's always only with
Susan."
"You can't do anything unless you see the chancellor now. In the past, Dykes have been absent from the appointment because Shankel was administratively responsible for what went on . . . no longer."
Rifsa said Dykes now has more people reporting to him, more responsibilities and demands.
See DYKES page 2
Bv KELLY SCOTT
Staff Writer
Rape legislation is encountering meager resistance in legislature
Legislation that would make it possible for a woman to bring action against her husband for rape is encountering unexactly the bans soiling through the Kansas legislature.
House bill 422, sponsored by Sen. Jen Meyers, R-Overland Park, was passed by the Senate and could be recommended House Judiciary Committee next week.
The bill makes three changes in the stating Kansas rage status, section 21-3502 of the state law.
The bill would:
—Change rape from forcible sexual intercourse between a man and "a woman not his wife" to forcible sexual intercourse between a man and a non-consuming party.
—Raise the penalty for rape conviction.
—restrict testimony about a woman's prior sexual experience in rape trials.
A BILL WITH only the testimony
providence has been not audited by Rep. Mike
Glover, D-Lawrence.
Glover said that he supported Meyer's bill and that his bill would be withdrawn if he could.
be bought, per banknote.
Meyer's bill might not pass either chamber.
located in another portions of Meyers' bill might not pass either chamber. Meyers boardagreg directed the information to a member and a member of the Lawrence Douglas County Rape Victims Support Service, testified before the Judicial Committee last week in support help
IT DELETES ALL sex discrimination from the Kansas law, she said.
Hogard said the bill not only gave women the right to charge her husband with rape, but it also extended rape's definition and made it more likely that is now considered aggravated sodomy.
Aggravated sodomy is a class B misdemeanor, while rape is a class C mistreatment.
THE PROVISION under which married women could prosecute their husbands is intended to protect the rights of women who have been from their husbands, Hoggard said.
Poorer people often live apart for years because they can't afford a divorce, she said. Those women are unprotected against attack from their estranged husbands.
Paul Wilson, professor of law and drafter of the current Kansas Criminal Code, revised in 1970, said he favored a specific provision in the bill that would restrict the right of rape prosecution to estranged couples.
"I THINK IT would be an appropriate safeguard to limit this privilege to couples living apart," he said. "The impact of the Law in that case should have, the right of
Women should have the right of prosecution, however, he said.
Hoggard said the present statue would have to be changed to exclude references to
See RAPE page 3
Name aame
Sen. Rob Bole, center, joins with students and administrators about his recent marriage to Elizabeth, far left. Dole introduced his wife, a member of the FTC, to a
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Kansas Day reception at the Kansas Union yesterday. Dole told the audience that it had been a problem at first deciding what name his wife would adopt. She opted for Dole.