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Tuesday, October 28,1975
Strike overzealous
The National Organization for Women has called for a nationwide women's strike tomorrow to protest what N.O.W. spokesmen call a "system that continually ignores, oppresses, rapes, brutalizes, imprisons, confines and restricts all women." The organization has asked all women not to:
—Work in or out of the home;
—Spend any money for groceries, services or transportation;
—Volunteer for anything;
-Provide any support to nonfeminist political causes, candidates or issues;
-Ensure that the community supports the cause.
- Suspyst act the role
- Support the image of women in the media.
ALTHOUGH N.O.W., which wants men to realize "that women support the system of security, shut downs the country, it expects the strike to cause a substantial slowdown.
Those of us who have a jaunied view of the militant feminist movement assert that the slowdown is already in effect.
Rules and regulations intended to grant women the equality they deserve have been twisted into an administrative gantlet. A successful running may take months to complete, thus depriving an institution of effective and efficient deployment of manpower, if my sisters will excuse the expression.
ATTITUDES THAT WERE formed to bolster a sagging spirit among the women turned away from equal opportunity have been exaggerated into a fierce competitiveness that only creates cacophony between the sexes. What should be a nation of men and women be forced to confront on the appearance of a battleground of "male chauvinists" and "bra burners" working claw against claw.
Examples of the creation of two separate societies can be found in the news daily. Businesses have been
started with the intent of excluding male executives, such as Flowerfield Enterprises, an all-women worm-raising business in Michigan, and the First Women's Bank in New York; professional societies, such as NOW; professional organisations on the status of women, as well as several male organizations, indicate an unfortunate tendency to separate rather than unify the sexes.
THE LANGUAGE HAS been perhaps the most brutally attacked by the sex levelers. The Bureau of the Census, in line with the general levelling sentiment, changed the names of 52 of its 441 work categories. A foreman is now a blue-collar worker supervisor, a lumberman is a timber cutter and logging worker, a lawn careman is a landscaping assistant, a lodging quarters cleanser, a charwoman is a building interior cleaner and a maid is a private household cleaner.
It's only a matter of time until a freshman becomes a freshperson and chairmen become an extinct species. The women's movement has dwindled because there still exist blant carryovers from the day when it was a man's world.
HOWEVER, CAN THE remaining emotional and legal discrimination justify the current corruption of common sense?
The N.O.W. strike may be just the catalyst needed to bring the movement back to its senses. Women have had their share of problems to overcome, but they have been successful because of the justness of their cause and their commitment to help them strike by overzealous women when many are happily standing on the job might be proof that calm determination is mightier than the hysterical shriek.
Debbie Gump
Associate Editor
Shoo,flies,don'tbugme
"Daddy, why do we have to live in these stockades?"
"Well, son, it's a long and tragic story. Not many humans know it. Long ago, in the year 1957, what seemed to be a chance event led to events began its inexorable march toward destiny.
The father pulled a tattered, yellowed and fragile piece of what looked like newsprint out of his pants pocket.
"This is the only record we have of that fatal fall of 1975," the father said to his son while he carefully unfolded the ragged clipping. "You see, there seemed to be an unusual pattern of scratches on Entomologist denied that this was so. They attributed the number of flies still around to the unusually warm weather
Bzzzzz . . Bzzzzz . . ..
"In what they called 'Strong Hall', whatever that was, the drones had飞-king contests. Journalism professors swapped
and the absence of a heavy frost.
Ward Harkavy
Contributing Writer
The father stopped for a minute, dabbing his teary eyes with his shirt sleeve.
many a fly in those days,
sometimes 20 or 30 before
lunch."
"If only they had known," he sobbed, "before it was too late."
"Okay, son," he said, "I think
"Please go on, daddy," the son pleaded. "I must know the true history of my species."
you're old enough to know what happened after that."
"What was that?" the son asked.
they kept coming there and more all the time," the father said. "There were files everywhere; people were here, and we had not appeared. The first frost came and they were still there.
The father tried to gather his thoughts. "Anyway, people were killing files right and left. But there was one difference."
scared, though. The word 'fly' disappeared from the language.
"They were still there when the first snow fell. But now there were millions and millions of them. Why they picked Lawrence, Kansas, no one will ever know.
"The next part of the story is hazy. People must have been
"Lord of the Flies" was banned; 'Fly Me' ads were hastily taken off the air. Hitchcock's "The Birds" was withdrawn from distribution so as not to induce panic across the country. Hand buzzeres were no longer used, and they have angered the flies. Even zippers were no longer referred to as "flies."
"But none of this appeased the flies. They were interested in just one thing: absolute and utter control."
McDonald's. Somehow, they discovered that by eating large amounts of McDonaldland cookies and Egg Muffins, they would grow at an astonishing rate. Not all the flies did this; because as the flies grew, their brains shrank.
"But, daddy," the son said. "Flies are so small. How did they get control of the country?"
"It was incredible, son," the father said. "They sent selected files on command raids to
"So what the files wound up with was an army of huge files—stupid but deadly. The war was thus doomed to bondage."
To the Editor:
"Watch out, daddy!" cried the son. "Here comes the human swatter!
It is our firm conviction that any individual or group of individuals who purposefully and willfully try to propagate an alien, atheistic ideology among the Arab community on our
Splat!
Favor Sinai peace
The son took his cap off and absentmindedly scratched his antennae.
The Egyptian Student Association at the University of Kansas strongly disagrees with
"We may have been big, daddy," he said with a smile, "but we weren't stupid. Long live Musca!"
Mary McGrory
Brown thrust into national view
WASHINGTON—It will be interesting to see how the Democrats handle their hottest debate. He is not a candidate for the presidency, which is already eccentric. But he is something even more menacing to the President than as the term is understood.
Edmund G. Brown Jr., is the 37-year-old governor of California, he has last missed a visit, and while he has stayed home minding the store, he has achieved an odd kind of national recognition. People know his ability to think hardness, common sense.
Readers Respond
Brown has grasped the great reality about the American voter—that he is sick of limousines and lies, that he couldn't care less about ideologies and would vote for a
I read with chagrin the news of the raiding of the Rose R. Morgan house on Missouri Street. It seems to many that if the house, a gift to the University by Miss Morgan, had been taken through the years, the label "unsafe" couldn't have been an excuse for its demise. With the Schools of Architecture and Engineering at the disposal of the University, the maintenance and repair of one little brown house on the campus has been too great a challenge for the administration.
The Egyptian Student Association cannot help but wonder about the ideological adolescence of some of the members of the executive committee of the Arab Student Organization. The lavish living standards that some of the Commanders in this organization maintain leave no way for one but to be extremely perplexed and utterly puzzled regarding the seriousness of their slogans and the extent of their commitment to them. Driving late model American cars and living in an "imminent" neighborhood certainly isn't the best example for "the masses" in the Middle East to follow in a "people's war."
Ada Sage Laverty Class of 1929 Alma. Kan.
To the Editor:
both the totality and the particulars of the views expressed by the speaker of the Arab Student Organization on Oct. 17 in the Kansas Union, who, in our view, unjustifiably assumed the role of the spokeswoman for the all the Arab masses' and described them as a military Sinai agreement between Egypt and Israel.
So, perhaps, the "little wild wood" beyond the house site that Miss Morgan loved so dearly, will disappear—also, no doubt, because of her reason. Having known Miss Morgan well, I feel she would have felt not only dismayed, but also betrayed, by the demolition of her cherished home, which even for many through the years.
Concerning Professor Shawl's letter of Oct. 16 and his views on the lecture given by Henry Morris on evolution and creation, I think that a few points should be clarified. If we are to serve our useful purpose is a fallacy, Morris' lecture has certainly caused a few people to stop and think on this issue.
House razing deplored
campus ought to be looked at as agents of a destructive force bent on the dismantling of Arab unity and the liquidating the Arab cause for the benefit of an evil foreign power.
Moreover, we request that the Arab Student Organization consult with ours before attempting to speak for all Arabs.
The Egyptian Student Association at the University cannot accept and will not tolerate any leftist or communistic acts which may endanger Arab unity or jeopardize the achievement of Arab national goals.
We are looking forward to years of productive cooperation between our association and our sister one, the Arab Student Organization, on the basis of promoting better understanding and mutual intellectual correspondence whose sources Arab Ideas offer ideas, not Mao's Red Book or Marx's *D* Books.
Ahmad Abou-Helwa President, Egyptian Student Association
Creation lecture
Wouldn't a debate have brought more public awareness of the evolutionist's viewpoint and that of the creationist? Perhaps the real reason for taking the stand of "no useful purpose" says that at least one person is unable to support his position.
Secondly, the lecture itself didn't deal with the subject of religion. There was no attempt to prove the existence of God or to push a religious viewpoint on religion. Sometimes questions dealing with God or spiritual matters were raised from the floor. Morris sought to present what the evolution model says, what the creation hypothesis says, and what theories stack up against the observed scientific evidence of our universe. The best theory (in anything) is the one that makes the fewest assumptions about reality. This was to have been the basis of any debate and was the basis of Morris' lecture.
The evolution model, as well as the creation model, are theories based on observations corresponding to Morris, the educational system should present both theories and let the student decide for himself, after hearing all of them, his faith will support.
Zen Buddhist if he would bring down his fuel bill.
BROWN'S WAY OF life irritates politicians; it is strictly fraternity-busting. He lives in a $200-a-month Sacramento apartment and dresses on a mattress on the floor.
"If he wasn't the governor, they'd arrest him," shorts a New York politician who is tired of being about the admirable anchor.
James Lee Paola Senior
Brown first surfaced in California politics in the campaign of another anti-politican,忍辱负伤的 peasant activist. His race for governor was close-run. Initially a heavy favorite—he is the son of former Gov. Pat Brown, a kindly, charming minister and conventional office-holder —Jerry Brown lost ground supposedly because voters worried that the ex-seminator was humiless, arrogant and deocrinei. Now, they are mad about the boy.
HIS LATEST APPROVAL rating is 89 percent. Since California voters are roughly divided among Democrats, Republicans and Independents, Brown has obviously won the hearts and minds of all but the hard core of the right.
He has done it largely by not doing things: by not going to governors' conferences—he considers them a waste of time; by not automatically okying big budgets for education and welfare budgets he considers some of them a waste of money; by not allowing lobby for Los Angeles as the Democrats' convention site—probably another waste of time in his singular calculations.
BROWN'S NAME RARELY comes up when the roll is called of Democratic possibilities in party circles. But when, the governor binsinations, compromises and retreads are exhausted, someone mentions his name, and sighs that Brown, in his beat-chevy, and Gov. Mike Dukakis of Massachusetts, who govern the state, have somehow arrived where the voters are.
Brown made an appearance on "Meet the Press" a week ago that is still being talked about causing cussing among hopeful characters, he refused to come to Washington—the panel had to
go to him. He turned in a firstclass performance.
The young governor was neither defensive, nor effusive. He was crisp and articulate, eloquent and blunt, specific and abstract, perfectly in command and discipline and learnness; he said Americans are too materialistic. He doesn't believe for a minute in the perfectibility of man or the ability of government to solve all problems. He doesn't think government must be willing to govern government must. He is the first candidate to voice a belief in original sin on national television.
He was talking about the fundamental values. He suggested a recognition that "human nature is constant, it is weak, it needs a type of government that recognizes that mankind is really brought down by its own instincts."
He was asked what he looked for most in a presidential candidate, and he replied promptly, "First and foremost, a clear mind; an ability to think and speak clearly."
He demonstrated them qualities. But a "clear mind" makes some politicians nervous. It denotes intellect, independence. It means a man can't be managed, don't play
ball, won't call up the county chairmen. Brown says he wants to represent "that 50 percent that don't vote, . . . out of clear sight." He doesn't do doing isn't worth commenting on one way or the other."
The other aspirants, who realize that "politician" is a bad word, pray that Brown will trip or fade away.
But if Americans see much more of that clear mind, the Democrats may have to confront a serious problem, a contender who meets the mood of the American voter, and who comes from the largest state in the Union.
(c) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate Inc.
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Outreach courses not perfect
Bv PHIL McKNIGHT
Director, Office of Institutional Resources
The growth of our academic programs off-campus marks the beginning of a significant new chapter in the University's history. These programs will provide students and faculty with both opportunities and challenges because moving east to the Kansas City area can be difficult, with patterned, although many students who commute might find it hard initially to appreciate these more subtle problems.
Understandably, those who commute will focus on the obvious savings in time and gasoline caused by having the professor drive 50 miles to Linwood and drive 100 miles to Lawrence. Unfortunately, this isn't the only problem to consider.
For one thing, courses usually involve books as well as teachers. Although texts can be obtained off-campus, library books can't be so easily found, par-
It is possible, of course, to synthesize various readings for students in a lecture, but this can't match the process of becoming involved at a higher cognitive level with the original source's concepts. Considering graduate courses in particular, there is no substitute for the resources of a good graduate library.
icularly books for graduate courses. Until arrangement can be made for providing such sources, providing students access to books will be a major problem.
One solution to the problem might involve the resources of the community and school libraries in the area. For example, a small Community College has several excellent collections in the social sciences, and the faculty and staff have indicated a willingness to help us make our students more aware of them. Such programs can be particularly useful in the bibliography of the books on our list that are available there, or could involve the
For the faculty member, the weekly
preparation of extensive bibliographies.
Obviously, for courses involving labs,
museums, collections, etc., "moving east" is a more difficult matter.
Another problem for students and faculty is providing adequate advising. Office hours are going to be difficult to provide and to schedule, given the distance between students and faculty, to say nothing of the driving distance and time involved. At this point, the rationale for residence requirements might become clearer. We could establish an lawward WATS line from here to advising.
At this point, then the problem isn't simply saving gasoline. Instead, the proper question to ask is "What kind of resources are necessary for students to complete the course?" many cases, the answer will necessitate an on-campus course, at least for now.
trips to Kansas City usually require more preparation to provide students with information and concepts not otherwise available because of the lack of books, etc. Time spent commuting and added fatigue from the late night return also present challenges to one's efforts to get ready for class or service on campus. Many of us think that teaching an evening class in Kansas City seems equal to a second full-day's work.
As compensation for such activities, departments should consider reallocating research assistants' time so that faculty members teaching off campus or in the field must be during those semesters to help them make up for the research time lost.
In sum, as we provide more educational opportunities to students outside Lawrence, we must provide them with resources comparable to those on campus. Also we must not make such activities unusually burdensome.