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Equality gained as women accept biological functions, lecturer says
University Daily Kansan
Women are slowly becoming free of the burden that their biological age makes them face. Ms. Lizka L. Jenkins, University of Cincinnati professor of philosophy, told about 70 people last night in New York City.
"I think there have been advances for women to gain equality in the past 10 to 15 years, but there are still many questions to be answered," she said.
Jaggar said she thought that because women had been forced into traditional roles in the past, they were expected to remain in these roles now.
Changes in the beliefs of modern radical feminists have brought more women into their ranks, according to Jaggar.
"Radical feminists are taking another look at what the biological functions of women can accomplish. This tempts to ignore women's given biological functions force many women to join the fight."
Jaggar defined romantic feminism as the belief that passivity and motherhood made women the purer sex.
Philosophies exist today that claim biological differences make women inferior to men, garra said.
Tw examples she gave were the belief that women cannot function to full capacity every day because of their menstrual cycle theories of influence of Freudian theories in psychology.
She also said that in the ideal societies of many feminist science fiction writers, men and women shared the raising and nursing of the children.
Men and women should raise the raising of children equally, Jagar said. She read from an article from the New York Times on Tuesday that some hormones to enable him to nurse his child.
Jaggar has published many papers on sexual equality, abortion, and the political philosophies of women's liberation.
Alison Jaggar
Legal defenses claiming insanity obscure the law,KU profs say
By JON BLONGEWICZ Staff Reporter
Several bizarre and highly publicized murder cases have recently raised some questions and caused confusion for both the public and the legal community about its "capacity" and "insecurity defenses," according to two KU law professors.
The professors, David Gottlieb, associate professor of law, and Katherine Meyer, president of the College of Arts and Sciences, White, who shot and killed San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and supervisor John Burrill, recently received John Gacy case in Illinois have led to the confusion about murder and man-
White was convicted of voluntary man-slaughter under a California statute that provided a defense for murder if the
THE PROFESSORS said that cases when the defense could argue successfully that they had been slaughtered or for acquaintance of inference may have broader circumstances and stimulate the public's desire for revenge. Gottliebs said that the White and Gay cases were similar.
defendent could establish "diminished capacity" at the time of the homicide. Gacy last week lost his in-not guilty by reason of the murder trial for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
Gottlieb said that in White's case, "diminished capacity" is half way between murder and insanity.
However, the public is disappointed and angry if the defendant is convicted of a lesser degree homicide, or is judged insane
and remanded to a mental hospital for an crime that appears particularly brutal, he said.
IN KANAS, AND most other states, first degree murder can be proved only if the prosecution establishes that the murder was premeditated and deliberate.
Most legal scholars agree, Gottlieb said, that to establish preemption it must be proven that the defendant did think about the murder for an "appreciable amount of time."
"But what is an appreciable amount of time?" Meyer asked. "Is it five minutes, an hour or 30 seconds?"
Many juries have been persuaded that it takes only a few seconds of reflection for a kill to become presenitated, although the jurors preferred legal definition, the professors said.
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TEMPLETON SAID he didn't expect the Board's decision to close the Washburn issue. However, he said, Washburn's Senate committee has approved the statute because its budget limitations.
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Ragdale said ASK was not in close enough contact with Washburn's Senate.
Liberty Ragsdale, former Washburn Senate president who left office March 17, said the Washburn Senate cut ASK funding because of inadequate ASK representation and increased money. Washburn's student fees decreased $8,000 this year that last year.
"People were unhappy with ASK because they paid money and never heard anything
from ASK." Ragsdale said. "The ASK campus director never worked with Senate."
THE WASHBURN Senate "overwhelmingly" passed a bill designed to keep closer tabs on Washburn's ASK director at its meeting last week.
The bill requires Washburn's campus director to attend Senate meetings at least once a month and to keep Senate abreast of ASK issues.
Bender said the bill was not intended to be hostile toward ASK.
"We don't want to hassle them, we just want to watch them," Bender said.
The bill also provided for taking another vote on ASK membership one week before budget hearings next year.
Engineering conference planned
The 25th annual KU Structural Engineering Conference has been set for March 28 at the Kansas University.
Specialists in bridge design, energy and structural aspects of modern buildings will give presentations and discuss new techniques in the field of structural engineering.
A presentation also will be made regarding structural engineering research being done at KU.
Sponsored by the department of civil engineering, the conference will be dedicated to George W. Bradshaw, KU
professor of engineering who died in 1977. Bradshaw initiated the structural engineering conferences at KU.
IN THE CASE of lesser degrees of homicide, where much of the confusion les, second-degree murder is defined as murder with mallice, but without premeditation. Manslaughter, on the other hand, usually involves a murder without mallice after an act of provocation.
An example of the difference may be found in a barroom brawl, the professors say. A person who is provoked in such a case would probably be accused of a party with a chair, killing that person, probably would be accused of voluntary manslaughter. But if the same person killed someone with a chair without being involved in the murder charge might be second-degree murder.
Sessions will be held in the Forum and Kansas rooms of the Kansas Union. Further information about registration and fees can be obtained from the division of continuing education.
"Essentially the system is saying that the guy who in cold blood commits a slaying is more culpable than who has been wrong, and the other is suspect where in between." Meyer said.
"These laws simply tell a jury. You decide how bad an actor this guy is and punish him accordingly," "Mever said.
GOTTLIEB SAID that perhaps people should盗取 insanity after determining what wrong they have done in guilt, but should instead affect the punishment — where the defendant should be acquitted.
Neither Meyer nor Gottlieb saw less confusing homicide statutes in the future.
"The states will continue to differ," Gottlieb said. "They differ on capital punishment and they differ on this too."
Gottlieb said that there had been attempts to make the application of insanity pleas more consistent across the country, but that there was little chance for change.
Running cockroaches may unlock unsolved mysteries of nerves
By DAVID STIPP Staff Reporter
Soon this semester in a darkened room in Snow Hall a spotlight positioned over a large, black plastic sphere will be switched on and the room running as fast as it can and going nowhere.
The cocktail will be the first guest star on a very special stage—the first two-dimensional treadmill in the United States. The treadmil, which is a sphere 50 centimeters in diameter, will be made to rotate in any direction by a combination of the handles and a computer. It will keep the cocktail in one place no matter how fast it rolls.
In the audience will be William Bell, professor of entomology and writer of research more than $100,000 into the design and construction of the computer-controlled
THE SERVO-SPHERE will let the researchers perform experiments that may answer fundamental questions about the operation of nerves, according to Bell.
"Nerves have almost the same structure and operation in rats, humans or cockroaches." Bell said.
Information which is applicable to the operation of nerves in man as well as insects should be obtained after study of the nervous system of the coccockh, he said.
The servo-sphere will permit the motions of small animals such as cockroaches to be precisely observed.
Cockroaches will be induced to move on the sphere by such stimuli as sex pheromones. Pheromones are chemicals, usually air-borne, used by insects to relay messages in the form of mating. The messages prompt male cockroaches to look for the sender.
BY CONTROLLING the quantity of sex stimuli that was sent, Bells hopes to investigate how cockroaches on the servo sphere stimulate and translate these perceptions into action.
As a cockroach crawls on the sphere, its motions will be picked up by photoelectric sensors that can detect light reflecting off it. This allows you to have a small piece of luminous tape on it.
"To the cockroach it will seem as if it is crawling unimpeded upon a level surface," Bell said.
The cockroach's motions will be fed into a set of electrodes, and how fast the insect has moved. At the same time, the computer will control a set of electric motors that will keep the cockroach moving.
THE TECHNICAL problems associated with the development of the servo-sphere have been formidable, according to Bell. The development of a lightweight sphere ended when a power and light company in West Germany supplied them for use on street lights used as lamp covers for streetlights.
In addition to cockroaches, other small animals may find themselves jogging in the open grasslands. Lillywhite, associate professor of systematics and ecology, is interested in using the servo-sphere to perform exoskeleton movements on small toads and salamanders, Bell said.
"When we get all the equipment set up, it will look like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise." "Surber said.
Jim Surber, Lawrence senior, has developed much of the electronic "in-interface" controls it controls, and the photoelectric sensors. This interface consists of specially designed electronic equipment as well as computer written specifically for the servo sphere.
AFTER PERSISTENT investigations, Bell and his assistants finally found suitable motors in France.
"Our biggest setback came when we started trying to find high-torque, quick-responding motors to drive the servo-motor." Bell said. "The technology at college has changed so that the only subject about which I have been able to find someone to help me at KU."
By DAVID WEED Staff Reporter
Another problem was finding electric motors capable of responding instantly and without any vibration or noise.
The National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation are jointly funding the servo-sphere project.
Burkard Awards honor KU 'celebrities'
"What event features Norman Forer, Darnell Valentine and Don Bambrough?" asks Richard Burkard, Kansas City, Kan., senior.
Only the Burkard Awards Night, Burkard said yesterday.
Burkard billed the awards night as "the social event of the evening," if the nominees attend the awards ceremony next week at the Kansas Union.
"It's halfway serious and halfway tongue-in-cheek," Burkard said, "but it's so terrible to the extent that the winners receive cereal and prizes selected especially for them."
Burkard said the nominees who had called him were unsure of what the Burkard Awards were because they had never heard them. "It was a prank. A prank. Everything on the level."
Categories include Comeback of the Year, which Don Fambrough, Brian Bethke and Norman Forner are nominated for.
The awards night is part of Burkard Awards Week. Burkard said he expanded
the awards from a night to a week to give them more credibility.
He said he held an award ceremony his senior year in high school, and he planned for three years to hold the awards ceremony again, but he was too busy.
Events during the week include a paper airplane throwing contest, a card game tournament and an Othello game tournament.
"But I figured that since this was my senior year I had to do it now or never," he said.
Burkard spent much of semester break compiling a ballot for the awards night, he said.
But Burkard said the response to the week's events had not been good.
"I said limited entries, but in fact no one has responded to my personal ad yet," he said.
"I decided that if I was going to organize this," he said, "I'd name it after myself.
"I didn't even vote. I'll be the master of ceremonies, but my name is about all the glory I'm going to get."
Burkard also plans to hold a Burkard Awards Ball after the awards ceremony.
"I got the idea for the awards four years ago on a snowy January night," he said.
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