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University Daily Kansan, June 16; 1980
Opinion
The search begins
Trying to find a new chancellor the caliber of an Archie R. Dykes will not be an easy task, but active student, faculty and alumni representation on the search tree could help organize the issue of finding a new leader for the University of Kansas.
Jordan Haines, Board of Regents chairman, has said a search committee of four students, four faculty members and four alumni probably would be selected to help recruit applicants for a new chancellor.
One element missing from the proposed committee is a member of the Classified Senate.
Although the Classified Senate was not given full recognition by the University last October when it was acknowledged as an organization, it has shown its imitability and support for a classified pay plan recently approved by the Kansas Legislature.
Classified employees debated the plan with local legislators and wrote several letters to Gov. John Carlin. They also informed KU administrators of the plan's changes and how they would be best implemented on campus.
Without the loyalty of the 1,500 classified employees on campus, the University could not function and it would lose its
position as an important employer in the Lawrence community.
The Regents should allow at least one qualified employee on the search committee.
Another important guideline for the Regents to follow is all Affirmative Action rules for hiring personnel.
Since its beginning in 1972, the Office of Affirmative Action has not had an opportunity to monitor the selection of a University chancellor. The select committee brought Chancellor Jones to KU was well under way when the office was created.
However, the Regents should seek to involve the legislature and a permanent one.
The best insurance for finding a suitable replacement for Dykes is individual participation. Only 12 or 13 KU representatives will have the opportunity to be on the search committee, but students, faculty, classified workers and alumni can write letters with suggestions to the Regents.
The next Regents meeting is Friday. The means used to finding the best possible chancellor should reflect fair representation, accordance with hiring practices and campus and community recommendations.
MANNELY THEERHAMNEWSLEADER @ROBOCBYCHICAGO TRIGEME
Islamic world unity a myth
By KHALID SHAH
New York Times Special Features
When I was a small boy 37 years old, going my religious instruction on the whitewashed-brick floor of the village mosque in Milak, Uttar Pradesh, India, the idea of the "brotherhood of Moslems," stretching from the Rock of Gilbarrat to the jungles of the Philippines, was a golden legend that nurtured us and made us feel stronger as a people than we really were.
It is only in the most recent years, even months, that for the masses of Moslems the myth has been shattered and the underlying hostilities among a multitude of diverse nations has revealed Islamic unity to be an ephemeral notion.
Today, the Islamic world is in turmoil. Most of the unrest is not the result of antagonisms between East and West, nor conflicts between the industrialized and developing worlds, not even the Palestinian problem in the Middle East. The most result of antagonisms among Moslem themselves.
present come from the same region or even the same village.
Because my name happens to be Shah, many of my American friends teasingly advise me to wear a button proclaiming "I am not Iranian." But that is quite harmless when compared to the most horrible and insulting any gathering of Moslems, except perhaps the most homogenous—that is, when all those
There is fighting in the Sahara between the Moslems of Algeria and Morocco (just a border-oil dispute) and conflict between South Yemen and Yemen that has threatened to explode into Saudi Arabia where the monarchy has obviously been in jeopardy since the assassination of the Taliban in Fallah, not to mention the occupation of the Grand Mosque in Mecca that ended early this year.
Farther east, Iran and Iraq are at odds. The Kurds in Kurdistan, a region that includes parts of southwestern Turkey, Iraq and Iran, are prepared to fight all three for independence. Afghanistan has been invaded by the Soviet Union, and its forces consist of Moslems from central Bangladesh has tried to stem the intufux or Moslem refugees from neighboring Burma.
Recently, an Indonesian correspondent at the United Nations was criticized bitterly by Moslem colleagues for trying to establish an Islamic journalists and writers' association. Fellow correspondents from Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey and Iraq were among those who attempted to give Moslems their professional sounding board, complaining that he was not a good Moslem because he ate pork.
A Turkish writer and I were discredited by the authorities because our wives are Jewish, and o'Pakistan is a Jewish nation.
sneered at by members of the same group for eating during the fast of Ramadan.
In fact, it has been proclaimed by representatives of the government of Saudi Arabia that anyone does not say his prayers the required five times and attend special services on Fridays, shall be considered a "non-practicing" Moslem and not questioned in any event or association attended for Moslims.
There is an unfortunate proclivity among Moslems to honor self-proclaimed holy men. In this context, the importance of this tendency is unduly apparent in a religion where the impossibility of the emergence of a new prophet is its most important tenet, and of any human being is strictly prohibited.
But the Saudi Arabians have 'proclaimed themselves—or at least the ruling family has proclaimed itself—the keepers of Mecca and, hence, the keepers of the faith.
Islam was conceived as a religion of equality. A religion that emerged from a pagan system of a castes, discrimination, oppression of women and abuse of the impoverished, Islam has always had as a major article of faith the equality of all men and women before God. This means that merchant and truck driver, servant and king were not the same group as those structured so that rich and poor are interdependent. Alas, by abuses by class, sect and nation continue unabated.
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The city of Islamabad, the 21-year-old capital of Pakistan that was literally blasted from the earth in 1980, is home to those Moslems have of the emergence of their nations from fuedal medievalism. It is a unique amalgam of modernity and a sense of Moslem spirituality and represents the architectural heritage of the Islamic world.
an imam, or priest, from Islamabad University, who gave religious instruction to my family when we spent three months there in 1977, summed up the tragedy of 20th-century Islam as a society that has been so-called Islamic republics that have come into existence today," from Tunisia to Malaysia.
"It is not Jew vs. Moslem, or the developing countries vs. the industrialized world that keeps the Islamic nations in turmoil." he explained. "It is, rather, the inability of Moslems today to follow the most elementary article of brotherhood of man."
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Warranties guarantee protection under law
By CLYDE CHAPMAN
Consumer Affairs
How do you know that a product you buy will contain those things that the seller or manufacturer said it would? For example, how do you know that a $28.50 toaster will be made in China or that a manufacturer said that the appliance would make toast. In legal terms, what the seller or manufacturer did was promise a toaster would make toast, and that promise is called warranty.
There are two basic types of warranties: express and implied. Express warranties are given by the manufacturer and service people, and are in writing, usually on a card or in a note to the customer. The manufacturer makes various promises in the express warranty regarding the quality of the product or the terms and conditions under which the product will be repaired. What a manufacturer or service person includes or uses is an express warranty is entirely unto them.
MOST EXPRESS WARRANTIES contain the following clause: "This warranty is expressly in lieu of all other warranties and representations, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a purpose, the warranty of non-inherent defects, the clause takes more rights away from you then theexpress warranty originally offered.
Implied warranties guarantee the right to receive what is expected of a product. The implied warranty can be a strong weapon in the fight against defective merchandise, but manufacturers and service people are concerned that if their implied warranties are not in writing, they are, however, imposed by state laws on any business establishment that sells products.
These state laws require sellers and manufacturers to make certain promises to the consumer. Even if such promises are not in writing, sellers and manufacturers are bound by law to uphold them. What the manufacturer guarantees is warranty is determined by state laws alone.
EXPRESS WARRANTY can be useful. if a manufacturer or service person refuses to honor an express warranty, asserting your right to claim damages of the problem. However, the implied warranty possesses the type of broad protection that covers most problems. Rights can be demanded under the implied warranty even if the manufacturer attempts to take them away.
The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, a federal law passed in 1975, guarantees such protection. This act discourages manufacturers from eliciting warranties from suppliers that if a written warranty is received from the manufacturer or seller for a product costing $15 or more, it is illegal under state law for the warrantsor to eliminate your rights to the implied warranty. The act requires that manufacturers make a statement regarding the nature or workmanship of the product or any statement to
the effect that the product was detect-free or any promise to repair, replace, refund, or take other action if the product failed to meet the requirement, a act should apply to most consumer products.
THE ACT'S EFFECT on the implied warranty is broad. If any written warranty is given, it contains an implied warranty, which cannot be eliminated by the manufacturer.
There are two instances, however, when the act would not apply. If there was no express warranty and the manufacturer simply eliminated the implied warranty in writing, there was no express warranty and the law would not apply. Also, if all that accompanied the product was the term "as is," the buyer would receive a warranty for any future promises. Aside from these two exceptions, all products costing more than $15 carry an implied warranty.
Sections 2-314 and 2-315 of the Uniform Commercial Code provide buyers with the implied warranty. Every state except Louisiana has adooted the code.
SECTION 2-314 of the code requires all goods to be "merchantable." While the law provides an elaborate definition of merchantable, the word means that if what is bought does not meet reasonable expectations, it is not merchantable. Section 2-315 adds a more specific promise to the implied warranty under certain circumstances. The product must be used with judgment that a particular product is fit for a particular purpose is relied upon. In such cases, the product is implicitly warranted to be able to perform for a particular purpose.
Before the Magnuson-Moss Act, effective remedies for breach of implied warranties were unavailable. If the seller refused a money back demand, the buyer was forced to go to court. Regardless of the outcome of the case, the buyer would have to pay lawyer's fees.
The act now provides the buyer with attorney's fees, an important remedy if the implied warranty is breached. If the buyer must sue to obtain a refund or replacement, the salesperson who sold the defective merchandise must pay the fees.
A SIMPLE EXAMPLE of the implied warranty is the case of Mindell v. Raleigh Rug Company. Mindell bought some floor rugs from the company, which were manufactured by the GAF Corporation. After the tiles were installed, they began to yellow. The court ruled that "a product, such as tile, which discloses shortly after installation, is merchantable as required by the law," and that no warranty can be only durable, but also hold its pattern and color for a reasonable length of time consistent with the degree of quality selected." The yellowing of the tile, the court concluded, was a breach of the implied warranty, which the GAF Company was required to give to Mindell.
In the case of warranties, both express and implied, buyers now have a tool which can give satisfaction when dealing with defective merchandise. It must be you, the buyer, however, who brings the law to bear on the seller or manufacturer.
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