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Wednesday, December 7, 1977
University Daily Kansan
-UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Unsigned editors represent the opinion of the Kanan editorial staff. Signed column represent only the views of the writers.
The University of Kansas Lawrence campus changes by leaps, bounds and
the leaps and bounds are the new buildings that are part of one of the nation's largest university building programs, ranging along the aesthetic scale from Wescoe Municipal Parking Garage to the pleasantly simple Spencer Museum of Art.
the钉器 run from welcomed reland-scaping, such as last year's replacement of the overgrown foliage around an orchard in the manhasset greenhouse entrance to stately Bayle Hall.
Unfortunately, one of those more disturbing fidgets will come soon when the statue of "Uncle" Jimmy Green is uprooted from its display in Green Hall, nestled along scenic 15th Street.
The Kansan does not publish anonymous letters to the editor, but a recent untraceable letter merited our agreement. In the letter, a group called Concerned Students Against the Further Demand of Shariah Law asked us asked about the statute move: "Will he feel as desperate as London Bridge in the middle of the Arizona Desert?
YES, FOR starters, the campus as a whole has a claim on a statue that would be moved from in front of a building nationally registered as a historic landmark (old
Green) to a spot between a parking lot and a glass-and-blotchy-concrete collection of angles called new Green.
Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, has said that the law school needs Uncle Jimmy because law students and administrators commonly have related the statue to the school.
DICKINSON also has said that the statue is useful as a marker to make it clear where the law school is. The large bronze letters on the building and new campus maps are sufficient.
But there is, as the anonymous letter suggests, a larger tradition represented by the statue "The statue should be a teacher together, as partners in education."
Perhaps the moving of this one statue this one time matters little. But added to all the other unfortunate fidgets—including the little blue sign directly in front of the Kansas Union that tells us the building 15 feet away is the Kansas Union—and the moving of the part of a pattern of changes that mar what is a classically beautiful campus.
Law students may find it upsetting that the rest of the campus, especially women, don't miss the glaring hones on the steps of the library. A memorial statue of Jimmy Green. Let it rest in peace.
You say it's harsh, and it stings the face. I say it's the softly float down and cover the ground with glistening white, yet quiet melt away at the human hand. What could be kind?
Quit grinding. It's only snow.
You say it's too cold, and it sneaks into your pants and gloves. I say it's recreational and romantic. What could be better? You can lighten a by glowing fire, especially after frickling for hours on sleds and trays in wet boots. Add a cup of hot chocolate, and the inside of even Scrooge could be warned for an evening.
You say snow quickly turns to
You say snow is hazardous. It clogs the street system and increases the possibility of accidents with hazards and react in a safe manner. No one speeds when snow covers the streets. I can remember times when no one would be cleared or the streets couldn't be cleared.
WAS IT SO BAD, being snugly sweedy-in-resolved to a leisurely day or two of eating, watching TV, conversing or drinking? No, in fact, it was a nice change of pace, a secure seclusion while nature was making the world stand still. You should remember the time when heavy snow had snuffed out that day of school, or a doctor appointment.
Protectors of life to sue Amin
The group is the World Association of World Federalists. Their main concern, according to the Rev. Gerard Grant, is "protecting lives and human beings."
The idea of suing Armin is comparable to grounding an angel in sending John F. Kennedy without a cap.
Poor Idi Amin. Not now only does he have half the world convinced that he is either a dangerous lunatic or merely a deranged man, but an American group wants to take him to court.
Three cheers for snowy days
Where Carter's pleas of human rights have failed, where a pilgrimage of contrite British envoys has fallen short, where the Russians' urges to "cool it" have been ineffective, the association thinks it has the authority to dam it to sue him for his misbehavior.
DESPOTS ARE neither motivated nor persuaded by logic, especially the logic operating in a court of law that dictates that an individual is bound by its rulings. Amendments to the Constitution of Nations or the World Court, let alone the rulings of the United States' legal system.
But the lawyer hired by the association to judiciously pursue Amin is optimistic. The lawyer, Luis Kutter of Chicago, says he is going to help the lawsuit the bait Kutter is going to throw to him.
Dave Johnson
Editorial Writer
Kutner intends to base his suit on a 1976 statute that says that any U.S. citizen can sue a foreign government or its leader for property seized from the state by scale. The statute merely requires that the defendant nation or individual have property in the District of Columbia. Uganda keeps an embassy there, although it has not represented diplomatic relations with Amin in 1973.
ASSUMING a moment that Amiad would not sell his embassy to Yasser Arafat and would allow himself to be marched into court, two results readily come to mind:
- Amin is found not guilty of international debauchery and gleefully departs from U.S. borders saying that, yes, there is justice in America, like AI Goldstein.
- He is found guilty, pays the fine and then declares his intentions to raise the price on exported Ugandan coffee to reimburse the pocket change he lost paying the fine.
Regarding the second possibility, Kutner proposes an American boycott of Ugandan
coffee, which accounts for 90 per cent of Uganda's foreign earnings. The U.S. buys about one-third of Uganda's annual crop. A group of investors would include an American coffee boycott.
SURELY, Amin must be laughing off his虎 skin-knirr by now. The mighty and righteous power of the U.S. court system hardly will intimidate Amin. Nor will it change his steady diet of political execution (some incidents appear to have been more than mere naifery calculation) into a mild, benevolent fare of democratic leadership.
Unfortunately, despite the ridicule inspired by Amin, there is deadly method to his madness. His is the insanity of the dynamite-filled semi-trailer rolling down a mountain pass without a driver. He's a bullocking machine for a billy club. Only he's not funny any more.
While we can laugh about the World Association's attempt to bring Amin to a trial before his peers (although it may be difficult to track down twelve 300-pound cannibals who run banana republics), we can secretly hope their gambit works.
"Please just be patient."
"Law becomes an intangible instrument. I'll get him."
At least Kutner remains optimistic.
We hope so.
ugly slash when cars and trucks begin finding their land legs again. I say that an ugly end creates. Surely you've noticed the smiles on the faces of those who enjoy the beauty of snow. Currier and Ives weren't blown away by it, but it so do I. I could look at a snowy landscape for hours, watching hunks of snow fall from bowed trees or drifts and the radiance of ice-cream-coRE swirls.
the neck. I say it's a joy. It has a nice way of weninging the day's troubles and worries with a pleasant cover of white. The purity of its white existent color is the worst of life's atrocities.
You say it's unpredictable. I say that's why it's wonderful. It's surprising, exhilarating, invigorating, and it never gets old. It's still staying long enough to wear out its welcome, but stays just long enough to change life styles for a day or so. The writers of "Frosty the Snowman" were right; there's something really special about this critically the first snow of the year. It does something to people.
I remember walking down
Naismith Drive during the first snow my freshman year. So intent was I on watching the tracks my boots made in the snow that I ran headlong to the sign that guides visitors to Allen Field House and Wakatsos Home. The head hadn't matter. It was the first snow. Surely you've had similar experiences.
Rick
Tbaemert
Editorial Writer
YOU INSIST ON calling it bad weather. I say its connotations are delightfully gay and warm. You can imagine the snow season's holidays. When Bing Crosby crooned "White Christmas," his heart hardened on this weather, but he cared and good cheer. The same can be said of
YOU SAY snow is a pain in
Johnny Mathis' singing of "Winter Wonderland."
You say snow depresses you. I say you're a grump and a humdum grinch. Try to tell a child rolling monolithic balls of snow into a snowman that snow is depressing. Try to persuade a child to play with snow that building forts and hurling snowballs is no fun.
Perhaps you can't be persuaded. Maybe you'll spend the rest of your life grumbling every time it snows, quietly cursing. "Snow, snow, go away. Come again another day."
If so, it's your loss. As for me,
I'd rather sing, "We've nowhere else to go. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow."
Political cartoons aren't amusing
To the editor:
KANSAN
I am getting sick, sick, SICK of the derogatory cartoons printed in the Kansas for your benefit in Houston. A joke is nice, and I will admit that the cartoons are clever and I am even amused by them (just as I am with the fanciful scribles of young-children). Yes, a joke is nice, but a joke is a joke, people: Put a pie in Shakespeare's face and don't make Shakespeare any mistake doesn't make Shakespeare any
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less of an immortal bard. It is time for you to scrape off the meringue that you've flung all over the women's movement.
Mary Mitchell mentioned in her editorial last Friday that the women's movement scares some women. How true. But you don't realize that bias is being moved by the movement to the press is a
major cause of this? Of course women don't want to associate themselves with groups that are violent or depicted as ugly and violent.
Oil, gas prices hinge on compromise
And the innumerable smaller companies that now are plowing back available cash, including additional borrowing, into exploration, and paying small or no dividends, could raise additional funds by selling common stock in capital markets because of enhanced profit potential.
N. Y. Times Features
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Consumers of oil and gas are receiving a subsidy of $30 billion yearly—the result of the U.S. government's setting the prices for the produced oil and gas below world market prices.
The companies are correct in arguing that the receipt of $1 billion would result in even more exertion.
have an uninterest, naturally enough, would like to have the entire $1 billion for itself (although I do not think the industry believes it has a realistic possibility of obtaining the money prefer to get the extra revenues directly from the oil purchasers, but would be willing to have the government assume the role of equalization-tax collector, so long as the tax was then returned to the industry to finance exploration for new oil
The dozen or so giant companies already have a large net cash flow and pay substantial and rising dividends.
we are currently witnessing a very intense debate on Capitol Hill on what to do about these questions.
CARTER WANTS to capture this $13 billion for the government. He proposes an "equalization tax" on domestic crude oil that would gradually bring its price up to the world level.
This is what the battle now going on in congress is all about. Broadly, the Congress is split down the middle. The House bill supports the president; the Senate billsupports the oil industry.
BY ROBERT B. STOBAUGH
There are merits to the position of both sides.
Yet President Jimmy Carter, the oil industry and Congress are in basic agreement on a crucial rule that would make the oil company should be increased and that they should be at, or near, world levels of $1.25 a barrel, not $9 a barrel. The hike would increase prices paid for the oil company’s $1 billion yearly—half of the $30 billion subsidy.
Higher energy prices are crucial to a conservation program, and conservation is of critical importance to the nation's international political and security positions. Thus, it is in the national interest to find a compromise that would split the billions in surplus that would result from higher prices.
This is especially important for the smaller companies. It may well be why the smaller companies are lobbying much harder than the big ones for higher prices.
The giants, although Carter's political target, have been relatively quiet in this battle. They may think that they lack power in the current political climate and that their best strategy is to tread softly. In addition, they may fear a hostile public pressure or rise in their profits while gasoline prices rise.
FROM THE national point of view, the case for higher prices to the consumer is strong. Higher prices are crucial to a conservation program, and conservation, of course, is of critical importance
to the nation's international political and security positions. The president and Congress agree on
(1) Replace price control with the equanzaun tax on pre-1974 oil (the so-called old oil). Because the tax on "old" oil would be so large, the governmenl could capture three-fourths of the $15 billion surplus.
Thus, it is in the national interest to find a compromise that would split the $1 billion surplus over 25 years.
2) GRADUALLY let 1974-77 oil ("new" oil) be sold at market price markets. Although providing
A fair and workable compromise might well include the following stens;
only a modest share of the $15 billion surplus to the producers, this would help restore industry confidence—a step necessary to maximize exploration and production costs under the belief that it was to买业 at sold prices.
(3) Let post-1977 oil ("new-new") oil be sold at world prices. This is close to the president's proposals. It would reward producers only to the extent that they found additional oil.
What should be done about the $15 billion subsidy that on natural gas? Natural gas is different from oil because gas moved across state lines — about one-half the total— has been subject to price controls for decades, but gas sold intrastate has been completely free of controls.
SO INSTEAD of "old oil" and "new oil" and "new new oil," the crucial split is between "interstate" and "intrate state" gas. (Estimates of the subsidy on controlled natural gas vary widely depending on differing sets of plausible assumptions.) The price for $13 billion is a reasonable approximation.)
There has been little argument over the president's proposals to continue subsidizing consumers using interstate gas found before 1976. This is where the bulk of the natural-gas subsidies exist—a major loophole in any conservation program.
ne right tights instead on the president's proposal to regulate newly found natural gas sold interstate (breaking a campaign pledge), and his proposal to place newly found gas sold intrastate under price controls. In exchange, the president is required to for the post-1979 interstate gas than now exists.
**HERE YOU**, a solution similar to my proposal on oil suggests itself: Place a gradually increasing tax on old natural gas to raise prices to the consumers, but deregulate new natural gas.
The net results of such a compromise on oil and gas would be threefold:
- It would raise prices to the consumer in a gradual manner—a "must" in any realistic situation.
- it would capture a large part of the so-called 'windfall' profits for the government—probably not enough.
- It would provide the industry with adequate inerties and confidence to search almost as diligently for oil and natural gas as would be the case with decontrol of all prices without any equalization taxes—an unrealistic goal in any event.
Robert B. Stobaugh directs the Harvard Business School's energy research project.
Perhaps you are all victims of your own bad reporting, but, for your information, the conference in Houston was not violent. Just last Thursday there was a meeting of KU women who attended the convention. It was open to the public and one of the reporters attended the meeting and press distortion, much discussed at that meeting, was absent from her article. Small wonder.
The Kansan certainly has said enough about the "violence theory" of the women's convention. It is time for you to speak loudly against it, stop libeling it. In other words, if you can't get it right, shut up.
Susan Woodard
Brairie Village juniors
This letter is in response to an ad that has appeared in the Kanas pertaining to the movie *The Man with the Iron Mask* reader's interest with bold descriptive type with phrases like "Skin Flick" and "What the prince slipped on." To roll one's surprise, these phrases are to savor the viewer's appetite for the product; this is the purpose of a script.
To the editor:
the w members of the KU Rugby Football Club see nothing offensive or ludicrous about the kit and the other ads printed in the Kansan. For instance, the Santa Claus tee-shirt company that had Santa Claus extending a sleeve to help him with his middle finger raised. Or the ad the Gay Lib put in about wearing blue jeans if you're gay, which incidentally "defines underwear" and almost was refused.
Wonder why our ad "Dear
nothing if you're horny," was
refused on the week of the K-
day in which the heads of
obscenity and crudeness.
We can't help but feel we were refused on false pretenses and the actual reason was that we do not sustain an unblemished reputation here at KU. To inform those of your staff who may be unknowing, the Board asked Archie Dykes will see the Cinderella ad just as easily as they have seen ours.
Doug Gvnn
Doug Gynn
KU Rugby Club treasurer
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