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April 23.1980
No smiles for studio
Rappaport Studios Inc., a New York City photography company, apparently has broken at least one of the 10 commandments of business ethics: you shall not make a business thou dost not intend to honor.
About 400 students, according to Vince Burke, Jayawker Yearbook business manager, are still waiting for senior pictures that they had taken by and ordered from Rappaport last year. Originally, a pre-Christmas delivery date had been promised to students who put in an order—then it was January, then March. Now it is April 23 and the promised pictures, some already fully paid for, still have not arrived.
The obvious, but not only question is:
Why? Fortunately, there are several groups of concerned and competent students who answer to that and the other questions.
First, there are the Jayahawk people who have been consistently calling Rappaport since January in an effort to find out what is holding up delivery of the pictures. They kept calling, in fact, until the company's phone was disconnected at the end of March.
Second, there are the people at KU Legal Services, particularly Kathy Ganz, Legal Services intern and third-year law student, who started a local organization of Support when a KU student filed a lawsuit against the company with Legal Services.
Third, there are the people in the Kansas Attorney General's office, who took over the investigation at the
request of the KU Legal Services people. Neil Woerman, special assistant to the attorney general, said the state office has more influence over the New York state attorney general's office than Legal Services did.
It should be evident that there is no lack of effort on the part of home front groups to wage a successful battle in what is looking more and more like a deception. The problems, in addition to Rapport itself, lie in New York.
Although the New York City Better Business Bureau acknowledges that it has received previous complaints from other customers against Rappaport for not delivering pictures, the bureau also admits that it does not know what has happened to the now seemingly nonexistent photographic studio.
The New York Chamber of Commerce contends that Rappaport had a very good record during its 30 years of business. And Richard McCullough, who is serving in holding that "You'll get your pictures. That's all that's important."
If KU seniors finally receive their pictures it obviously will not be to the credit of Rappaport or New York City officials. Those who ordered pictures, as well as those who are conducting the investigation, are involved in an undeniably unsavvy situation. But one can hope that neither group will give up or let up. They should follow all the leads, track down all the complaints, question all the companies creditors, do whatever it takes.
This is one candid camera operation that no one is smiling about.
Blame for rape falls on rapist, not victim
To the Editor:
In the 21 April Kansan, Diane Tehan expressed her position regarding the abortion issue, an issue with many facets of Tehan's position. I wish argument. I wish to respond to one sentence in her letter, a sentence requiring response if not correction. Quoting Tahir, "I realize that women should choose by choice, but the majority of women who become pregnant against their will have done something to cause it, even if they dissuade." The sentence is a contradiction.
The attitude reflected in the above statement cause many women enormous personal pain, guilt and self-doubt. Being a woman with a problem of and of itself dehumanizing and an assault on one's self-hood. Must we add the burden of suspicion from others that the woman who was raped should not be implicated? My hope is that Teban never has the experience of rape and then has to spend these agonizing months trying to come up with how she contributed to the rape experience.
The phenomenon of rape affects most of us. Women live in a continuing, often subtle, sense of fear. Normal freedoms are not their
own, just because they are women. And rape touches men too. Many men live with uneasy feeling that they are being touched when not the woman not. She fears for her safety. He avoids situations in which he might be viewed as a threat. And all of our freedoms are influenced.
The next sentence in Tehan's letter states: "It can't be blamed entirely on states; it may be we need to blame a society that is not so power coercive" A society that systematically trains women in helplessness. A society that divides men and women. A society that coercively force a woman to participate in sexual behavior against her will. The rapist bears the responsibility of his act, but he doesn't. That trains each man to be a potential rapist.
The myth of woman as causal needs to end, along with a socialization process that makes men rapists and women powerless. Women who have experienced rape must be burdened with the attitude of contempt for vulnerability. The agony of rape is quite enough.
Dennis M. Dalley
Dennis M. Dalley Professor of Social Welfare
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For several years, the Kansas Relays have been running their final laps; their collapsed tissue seemed inevitable. Until this year, civic and KU interest in the Relays tend to dangerously low extremes. But the Relays must be retained to keep the 57-year Relays alive.
1980 Relays flourish, if only a little
And although the Relays still have a few hurdles to jump on the comebreak trail, last Saturday's version of the Relays was a step, even if a small one, in the right direction.
the pigment of the Relays certainly was the one that allowed the athletes and empty bleachers were the theme of the 1979 Relays—only 6,000 people bowled to show up at Memorial Stadium, in Rosemont.
As opposed to last year, big-name athletes participated in the meet. But last Saturday, 8,000 clicked the turnstiles. Considering how many community worked to promote the Relay event,
had to be somewhat of a disappointment. Nevertheless, the increased attendance figures represent progress.
MUCH OF THE progress can be attributed to Lite Beer from Mine Brewing Co. Miller spent a considerable sum of
money to attract big-name athletes and to sponsor the Relays. Miller's contributions saved KU from significant financial losses. The university has lost much money on the Relays this year.
To say the least, Miller's assistance was timely. The Relays had regressed from one of the most nation's prestigious meet one year ago, and the RTLM's Miller's credit, the meeting did not become one
IN THE FUTURE, the Rehals will have to survive. The depressed KU athletic can afford any more losses, and without sponsors, the Rehals would prove to be a liability.
KU ATHELITIC officials, while trying to make the meet a financial success, are at the same time trying to preserve the flavor of the Relays. For almost 80 years, Mount Kudzu has played host to the Relays. The tradition of visiting Mount Kudzu important elements and must be maintained.
Relay crowds approached 30,000. But in recent years, the Relays have not come close to matching that figure. In fact, at age 10,000 than 10,000 has been an impossible task.
big Miller commercial. No Miller advertisements were posted in the stadium and the helium balloons did not have Miller slogans on them.
The loss of the Relays would be a significant one. Besides being an athletic event, the Relays serve as a valuable tool for recruiting. High school athletes from all districts attend. Their presence at Memorial Stadium does not exactly hurt KU's recruiting efforts.
It is difficult to understand why the Relays have not gathered more fans. Those who attended the Relays were treated to witnessing a world's record pole vault for 17-year olds and a national record in the 800-meter race, including such track stars as Herman Frazier, Rudi Ruddick, Fred Taylor, Kipsushi Koskei, Terry Porter and many others.
When, in the late '60s and early '70s,
standout Jim Ryn was circled the track.
And besides, on the Relys on that magical April day * Memorial Stadium* has a big room full of sun-bathers, balloons, paints, frishes and fresh spring at KU wouldn't be quite the same.
Black progress is false perception
By STEPHEN A. ALLEN
For the last few years, American has put the concerns of American minors on the back burner. A significant progress has been made, and that blacks are finally seeing the fruits.
However, we have failed to properly judge progress. After all, progress is based on who and when the blacks has been based on their conditions of 15, 20 or 30 years ago. When compared to that of white progress, it has been progress. But is that the best determination of black progress? No! Blacks must compare their condition to that of their white counterparts, we find that progress has been limited.
Guest Columnist
IN ESSENCE, a distinct system of haves and have-nots has developed in black America. The haves are blacks of black America are basically holding their own (even though they remain behind their white counterparts) the have-nots are doing whatever they do in this group that is causing the gap to widen.
Employment is another economic factor to consider. The unemployment rate differential between blacks and whites had been only 0.64 in the black unemployment rate was only 1.84 in the white unemployment rate, which was an improvement over earlier years. Since 1977, the differential has been 2.2 times or greater. Many try to blame the high unemployment rate on the extremely high unemployment rate for black teenagers. However, if you look at government employment figures you will find that the relatively low unemployment rate for black men 20 years and older is at least 2.2 times that of their white counterparts.
From 1975 until today, with the end of the 1973-75 recession, we statistically find that the median income gap widened between blacks and whites. Today, the income ratio has decreased to around 49 percent. In contrast, the median income of black college graduates and black families with two wage earners, when compared with whites, stayed at approximately the same level as in the mid70s. However, because a majority of these do not have such attributes, we find significant declines when compared with whites.
There is data available that discusses several key economic areas. From this information, we should be able to determine the relative importance of investments in relation to their white counterparts.
One key area is income. Black income has always been far behind that of whites. The percent of black students income to white income ratio moved from 58 percent to 62 percent. A large part of the ratio's improvement was because of the high percentage of graduates who received well-paying jobs. This particular demographic group compared favorably with its white counterpart, which did not have a large number.
IT IS INTERESTING to note that the only time in the last 30 years that the ratio has been less than 2.0 was during the Korean war and the later Vietnam War years. Each of these periods had recessions and black unemployment rates reached very high levels. There is further data available stating that the number of blacks in the poverty category has increased and that the percentage of blacks from them colleges and universities has decreased.
All of the previous data shows to see conclusively that the economic gap between blacks and whites is increasing. The decline in black progress began with the 1973-75 recession. At that time everyone suffered. In the past, only about a quarter employment and income at a much greater rate than blacks. This is of utmost importance when we recognize that today the nation is in another recession, that the inflation rate is in double digits and that the nation basically saying our economic future today are due to the programs of the '60s.
THE PROGRAMS OF the '60s have been
reviewed by the politicians, the economists and the public in general. Many of these people have come to the conclusion that these programs were costly mistakes and were not properly implemented in a recent Kansas City Times editorial, the paper saw it fit to discuss a comment made by a foreign career diplomat. The diplomate expressed the opinion that much of the productivity and economic troubles of this program were due to the legislation of the 1960s. It seems that many feel that the human guarantees given to American minorities have destroyed the work ethic. This opinion, which is part of the political discourse, is extremely dangerous to American blacks.
There were bad programs in the 1960s that deserved to be canned. However, there were good ones as well, that are being labeled as bad and their funding cut.
Conservative economists are saying that a 6.5 percent or greater unemployment rate is not an economic economy. If this becomes accepted economic theory, then past history tells us that black employment will rise disproportionately to our share of the labor force.
FINALLY, IT IS important to note that the '60s have been labeled as a period when
blacks progressed further than at any time since the Reconstruction period. But those who knew their American history will tell us that after 1800, progress stopped, and with the passage of Jim Crow laws and the implementation departments and programs, blacks lost almost everything gained economically during that period.
History repeated itself somewhat in the 1850s when again fairly significant progress was achieved, but it was followed by significant declines. This decline was caused by the recessions of 1933-42 and 1946-7.
Although times and conditions are somewhat different today than they were 100 or even 30 years ago, nothing says that history cannot repeat itself. It is clear that America have travelled for years. The commitments America made in the '60s were never met and the economic condition of this nation as well as the American mood currently say they never will be met. Blacks must make a decision to go being going five years from today. It currently looks as though it will be at the same point they were at in the mid '60s.
Stephen A. Allen is assistant to the dean of
the school of business.
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Bv.JONATHAN ETRA
New York Times Special Features
New York Times Special I Care
A new friend, a little of living, so she said, doubled in Beverly Hills) once counseled me to opt for the best. "The best is the best," they offered a. A girl named Jake disagreed: When the cash was theirs, I never did. When not, the lure of the overpriced was frequently hard to resist, though believing it purchased it are two entirely different things.
Society adores expense and will go out on its way to inflate the cost of items, the trivial ones the most.
There isn't much glitter one can affix to necessities—toothpaste, vegetables, extension cords—but ephemera take to plumage.
I am no bird of prey. For two decades, I shadowed the boulevards and spent a month's subsistence on a waste of names. One day, as I crossed 57th Street and Fifth Avenue toward the hask of Bonnit Teller, truth wernied its way from my guts. I mistook his faafy's, my brain howling with insight." "What has Yves. St. Laurent ever done for me?"
Since then I have renounced sophistication and its corollary, reed.
THE FUTURE IS in cheap. As inflation races on, the appeal of the inexpensive approaches the irresistible. Why bother? The answer is more at less and it's generally better too?
If it's more than $4, it's not worth it. That's the limit and I don't concede the tax. Cheap is not an avocation, it's a job.
Take care of the bottom line and the bottom line will take care of you.
Cheap is not more for your money; cheap is more for your soul.
Let me clarify: Cheap is not poverty. Cheap is a choice, an alternative to poverty. Cheap is that sense, cheap is a luxury; the $3.50 wristwatch that works. The 50-cent dinnerware set is molybdenum. The 75-cent bottle is silver.
EXPENSE IS responsibility. Am I振着 todays way? Do head turn when he talks to you? Can I wear the boots? On a once-a-nilous occasion, this is not too grouseme. But for the affluent it is every day, moment-by-moment. In the same way, say the semi-rich, the sometimes financial contenders, we worry (and worry if) about it, about it even when there's little we can afford.
Cheap rules all outigator. But what you buy you wear, and what you wear you love. Everything is for you. The clothes, the food, the furnishings, what you want, fetching, pate for the help, silk sheets no one can wash, silver no one will clean, marble everything stains. When the Hong Kong sandals break, tape them; when the T-shirts tear, make rags. A box of Crayola at 80 dollars buys your average fountain pen by 25 cents.
**WITH CHEAP, no endless selections**
perplex. There are no hidden price tags, no
basket to read. You get what you finger, you
pay what you pay. You buy with alterations, monogramming, lost or
ders, late and improper delivery, credit card foul-uns, shortchanging or theft.
in the higher-priced world, *occasionally* made on the basis of price rarely ring true. All movies are $4.50, books $8.95 and up, a banana from Honduras costs less than an average American movie ticket to judge better from best or worse by the weight of its tag. Not so for cheap, where the system works beautifully. The $2 belt is twice as good as the $1 belt, the 90-minute special than the 26-minute special that the Bester; however, movies do not come to dollar theaters. If they do, they do not stay long. Books, remembered or secondhand, are priced by their interest. At 50 cents, "The Graps of Kissinger" can be a good read. Kissinger is a gyat in 13 cents.
FOR THE RICH, an increase of $2.50 on a $1.90 or $60 on $1.725 is no cause to worry. The lowest price it has ever relieved. It happens quite often. What else is new? Consider the outrage (and property values) at $1.84 for $1.37 to $1.79. Justification is demanded, the reasons better be good, and there's always a chance that someone will pay more.
Cheap likes a fight.
Cheap does not capitulate.
Cheap gets its way.
Advertisements' and photos from yesteryear present the woman of fashion 'denure me and shimmering' in a 'molded gown' by *balenciaga* or Schaparelli. I have noticed that some people wear denure in a gown by Balenciaga. Cinderella's wicked sisters were, I suppose.
demure in their modest gowns. Cinderella
fireplaces in her room. Fireplaces in fire
places in rags. Rags are the only thing for
modesty. Whether they're modest or not,
raok do the trick. In the end it's the modesty
of the person who does it.
CHEAP MAKES a statement. Expense runs with the pack.
Expense buys other people's ideas, but; cheap makes its own.
Some might call this style, some mudding through, some pathetic. The clever claw it opportunity, the hard way out, the one with spine.
Rise to elegance-you are alone.
Rise to elegance - you are alone. Sink into decapravity and the whole world follows you down.
Jonathan Etra is a co-editor of the anthology "Junk Food."
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