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Thursday, October 30, 1975
University Daffy Kansan
Money and crime
An answer to the problem of rising crime may be found in economics, a recent study says, and that's something to think about.
Issac Erlich, an economist at the University of Chicago, says his research shows that communities with better police protection, greater conviction rates and longer prison sentences can deter crime. Even more important, he says communities with high employment also enjoy a lower crime rate.
Erlich explains that the economist views the problem differently than the social scientist. The latter's view is that crime can be reduced by psychological rehabilitation of the criminal. The economist, meanwhile, sees the criminal as weighing options: Can he get away with his crime? What are his reasons for turning to crime? What are the alternatives to crime?
The economist sees the potential criminal weighing the costs and benefits of crime against the costs and benefits of paying it. The measure is the risk of getting caught.
Erlich's argument makes sense, at least when dealing with crimes committed for money, including burglary, robbery and mugging. As a sage old professor once to the root of a problem, "chereche la buck." The need for money or financial gain can be a prime motivating factor for a criminal. In his own mind, he may decide that criminal means suit his goals better than
legitimate activities. Of course, psychopaths who murder or terrorize without reason are excluded from this argument.
This economic view could lead to an entirely new approach to crime prevention. If high employment means less crime, increasing economic opportunities could have a direct effect on the crime rate in communities.
If government and industry can create enough jobs, the marginal worker may keep a steady job rather than turn to crime. Creating new jobs isn't easy, especially these days. But economists agree, high unemployment, particularly among young adults, will surely lead to a high crime rate.
However, merely the creation of jobs won't erase crime. Acts of violence defy reason; further study in this area is vital if we are to minimize those acts. We can also crises of economic opportunity can be attributed to limited economic opportunities.
Violent crime increased 11 per cent last year; crimes against property increased 17 per cent. Each year the crime amount to nearly $75 billion.
We can begin to change those figures if we concentrate on creating new jobs and opportunities for those who need them. Common sense dictates that if you want to work at jobs they find satisfying and rewarding, they won't turn to crime.
David Olson
Contributing Writer
Crosby Noyes
Kissinger old detente foe
Yet quite certainly the severest and most articulate of all the criticisms of a calculated policy of detente with the Soviet Union is Henry Kissinger. He wrote a number of writings on international affairs produced during his earlier incarnation as a Harvard professor, Kissinger repeatedly and emphatically underscored the futility and indeed the danger of trying to pursue a foreign policy of détente or relaxation of tension with our ideological adversaries.
The extraordinary transformation in Kissinger's thinking that coined with his colleague in 2014, to public official has been extensively- and somewhat maliciously-documented in a recent critique by Warren Smith, the secretary of defense for informer Defense
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continuing dissent
with the politics of detente
in the Middle East.
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works, Kissinger convincingly
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to take control of about world domination at its face value, urging that the
defense of the free world must
be based on credible power in
both nuclear and conventional
WASHINGTON - The Chinese aren't the only ones to deploy Henry Kissinger's concepts of detente with the Soviet Union.
The secretary of state is confronted with a growing number of critics here and abroad. Conservatives in the State Department, Jackson accuse him of making deals that give the Russians what they want in the way of nuclear weapons, Western technology and food, without provoking the United States in return. Our allies complain of a lack of concern for their interests in his transactions with common adversaries. Russian dissidents berate him for his role to champion the cause of freedom within the Soviet society.
In this period of the late 1960s and early 1969s, Kissinger ridicules the notion that personal diplomacy—and particularly summit meetings—can accomplish anything when informed in formal matters. It is true that the writers pretend that problems of the complexity of those which have rent the world for a decade and a half can be solved in a few days by harassed men meeting in the full light of publicity." And he mustn't compromise its principles in the hope of buying a period of peace.
"Those ages which in retrospect seem most peaceful were least in search of peace. Those whose quest for it seems unending appear least able to achieve tranquility. Wherever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the
Kittens master people training
Feline arts
Of all the creatures that slither, stalk or crawl on the face of the earth, none has life so easy as the house cat.
Unlike their uneducated, uncultured relatives, the bedraggled alley cats who slink from trash can to trash can in search of food, the house cats in the neighborhood tendood greatly how to maintain control over the people they own. By the time a litter of kittens is ready to go out into the world, any self-respecting
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mother cat will have them well versed in the feline arts.
There are two basic lessons a kitten must learn if he is to become a successful house cat. The first is how to be cute. The kitten must know how to widen his eyes, how to meow appealingly and purr affectionately how to play and move around. The kitten move swiftly enough to nuzzle the hand his owner raises to strike him when he breaks a vase or knocks over a lamp.
The second basic lesson is humility. For a time, the kitten
must act as though he is grateful to his owner for everything–food, affection, even kitty litter. This means subjecting himself to such degrading things as purring, even when he is held in an uncomfortable position, and then the things must be endured, however, for they are stepping stones in a path that leads to a life of luxury.
When he has secured a place in his master's heart, the kitten has become a full-fledged house cat and is ready for the takeover. There are many ways a crafty cat can let his master know who the new boss is. He can start by totally rejecting his owner or allowing nothing less than his master's favorite armchairs. (If he's really brave, he can demand half of his master's pillow.)
He can ignore all of the cat toys he used to play with and begin digging through trash sacks for bottle caps, old newspapers and other treasures to toy with instead.
If his master isn't paying enough attention to him, the assertive house cat will be quick to learn that his master is reading a book or
newspaper, the cat will lie on it. If his master is trying to write, he will just fall, fails, the crafty cat will resort to the old standby that's guaranteed to bring his master to work. He'll sharpen his claws on the sofa.
The assertive cat always lets his master know exactly what he wants. If he's been getting that cheap, six-for-a-dollar, Brand X cat food, he will go on a hunger strike. His master, a dog, will immediately rush to the store and buy three or four different types of taste-tempting cat food.
Every now and then, any self-respecting cat gets a little tired of eating cat food. A brief strife between the two kinds of chicken or "people tuna," but a smart cat won't keep it too long. Even the most ardent cat lover, unless incredibly fed, will try to feed his cat caviar for long.
Another thing the house cat will put his paw down about is litter box sanitation. If his master has been negligent, the house cat may assertive cat will resort to drastic means to call attention
to the problem. One or two "mistakes" on the floor should be enough to make even the most thoughtless master take pity on his pet and change the litter.
At times, the meow can be even more effective than the parr. No matter touches the wall or that sad, it pewed “mellow”. No doubt he will stop what he’s doing, bend What’s that?
The smart cat will learn to meow in different tones of cat
As for detente as an end in itself, Professor Kissinger saw it as a temporary strategy to
voice so his master can distinguish between "Pick me up." "I want to go out," "I'm hungry" and "bored."
primary objective of a power or group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community. Whenever the international order has acknowledged that certain principles can be applied even for the safe peace, stability based on an equilibrium of forces was at least conceivable."
If the house cat plays his cards right, he'll never have a care in the world. Like finicky Morris, he'll have his people waiting on him hand and foot (or rather paw and paw). Even though the house cat is a true human entity, he demands constant attention from his masters, he rewards them amply with loyalty, love and a lot of patience. After all, they're only
Today, this reasoning is completely out the window. "Detente," said Kissinger in 1973, "is an imperative. In a world shadowed by the danger of escalation, it is an rational alternative to the pursuit of relaxation of tensions."
further long-range Soviet goals. "...Pieceful coexistence," he wrote, "is never advocated for its own sake. It is justified with the modern device to overthrow the West at minimum risk."
it owns down to a question of which Henry Kissinger you want to believe. But quite certainly there is no more to the mental metamorphosis that has taken place than the usual adjustments involved in the scholar-turned-statesman. For those who have doubts about the present course of American foreign policy, Professor Kissinger is a most eloquent witness against our present secretary of state.
(c) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate Inc.
MEDIC! MEDIC! HOLD IT. HOW MUCH YOU CHARGE AN HOUR?
Readers Respond/Honors classes valued
To the Editor:
As one of the 620.7 "bright" students at KU, I would like to take this opportunity to tell Lee Gerstenhaer that his existence and presence are excused. I am very sorry that he views himself with pain and puts other students on my same category. I have a much higher opinion of the human race: I think each one of the 20,000 is
quite capable. However, I am not about to apologize to anyone for being more intelligent than me, and give the gift and I view it as such.
I believe the honors classes at KU deserve the "more experience" and sincere "You didn't study years of education in the public school system. I have been told not to work up to my
I have found the honors classes at KU interesting and stimulating. For the first time, I feel I am getting a quality education. The credit for this goes to the skilled and dedicated instructors I have. If the other students at KU can let me and 619 7 others like me have good honors classes, I am sorry. It is our right.
capabilities because it would "disturb the class schedule." listened to the seventh explanation of something that I understood the first time and done sheets and sheets of homework I didn't need to do in order to learn -and have had great patients. Why have I been subjected to such treatment? So the Lee Gerstenhabers of the world would have an education suited to their needs. Why can't I have an education suited to mine? Would Gerstenhaber really desire much and as fast as I can from the teachers best able to teach me?
Lise McElwee
Overland Park freshman
Senate lazy
10 the Editor:
Student senators don't appear to be responsible.
In the Oct. 23 Karsan we had picture on page one, "Red Sox, Reds and Senators." These senators were "performing" the important business while watching the World Series on television.
Because of Agnew, Nixon and Watergate, it has become increasingly difficult to take government seriously. I think student affairs of state shouldn't be considered or acted upon during a ball game. Student government should be a part of the election, is usually just plain hard work. Seemingly, a lot of new and even old student government members think that
I nope that our student senators, representing us students in OUR government, won't in the future try to see the university work for them, the tube, but will work for the University and not for their own personal whims and pleasures while conducting public student senates.
Jeffrey L. Latz Lawrence graduate student
representing the students of a college or university is a lark, a Sunday drive to Potter Lake or a party at the Dwuff尔磨林 Htt
Women athletes
To the Editor:
We were pleased to see in the Homecoming edition of the Kansan the articles concerning women's intercollegiate athletics at the University of Kansas. This program has been ignored by the Kansan too often in the past.
Your article described the program as being "skeletal three short years ago," but this program had sent and conducted national tournaments. We feel there are two reasons why
women's athletics grew into a strong program.
In the fall of 1972, the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation hired two women in the branch of women's intercollegiate athletics. Thanks to her efforts, funding of the program was increased many times over. She served as a delegate on the branch of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women in regard to scheduling and policy, and gave leadership to the team that had been lacking in the past.
The Kansas University Endowment Association was a major supporter of the women's program during those "skeletal" years. During the years in 1974 it supplied funds for an Indianapolis individual who qualified to attend national tournaments.
Due to Drysdale's two years of determination and initiative, coupled with the Endowment Association's generosity, a group of college athletics at KU was built into a strong viable program.
Sara J. McBride
Lawrence graduate student
Judy Raney
1417 E. 15th St.
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