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Monday, July 16, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Waterborne Exams Mark KU Course
That's right, KU offers a course in seba diving, and one of the tests took place Sunday at Stockton Reservoir in southwest Missouri. The trip to the lake was necessary to attain realistic diving conditions; before Sunday, the class
members had dived only in the Robinson Gymnasium swimming pool. Instructor John Bluma (center, below) guided the group through their tests, in which divers had to show proficiency in emergency diving techniques. The most difficult obstacle, though, was just getting around in full scuba gear. Navigating with tanks, regulators, life vests, masks, snorkels and flippers over the rough, rocky terrain to the water proved the downfall of one student (right).
Kansan Staff Photos by PRIS BRANDSTED
Nixon Is Urged to Open Up
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon is in trouble with the people over the Watergate scandal and should quickly volunteer to make his papers and himself available to Senate investigators, Sen. Daniel Inoue, D-Hawaii, said Sunday.
Inouye, a member of the Senate Watergate investigating committee, said he would vote to subpoena the papers the committee wanted if they were not
But he said he agreed with chairman Sam
Series Do Want Speakers
There is no deadline for nominations for the Vickers series.
Because of a typographical error in a story about the Vickers and Spencer lecture series, the Kansas incorrectly reported Thursday that nominations for speakers for the series weren't being accepted. Nominations for the Spencer series are not being accepted. The Office of University Relations in Strong Hall before Friday.
Speakers are being sought for the Spencer series from business, industry, science and technology. These categories of speakers, says Katy Virat, graduate assistant to the Office of University Relations, comply with the directions of the Spencer family. Speakers will be employed in chemicals and oil, hence the concentration on the technical fields, Virat said.
Vrital said that, as Sunday afternoon, there had been only three nominations submitted from students or faculty members.
There is no deadline for nominations for other lecture series, because if a speaker is not accepted right away, the name can be saved and used later. Vratisl said.
The Committee members sometimes have to choose speakers one or two years in advance and therefore must anticipate the kind of topic that will be timely at that time.
Ervin Jr., D-N,C; that it would be fruitless for the committee to seek a court battle with the President on the issue if he refused to honor a subpoena.
"THE PEOPLE of the United States will make a judgment on the issuance of a subpoena and a refusal to abide with it," Inove said.
Sen. Lowell Wecker, R-Conn., another panel member, said in New York he thought it would be worth asking the White House would be willing to go to the White House for a private meeting with the President if that would make it easier for the President to convince that he knew of the Watergate coverup.
In a separate appearance, Sen. James Buckley, Con.-R, N.Y., said he thought it was important to preserve the doctrine that there was a clear executive privilege that protected internal White House communications from being disclosed publicly.
"I DO FEEL the White House ought to be leaned over backwards in the provision of those documents helpful to the investigation into the attacks on an internal communications." Buckley said.
Inouye was interviewed on the CBS television news program, "Face the Nation." Buckley appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press." Weicker was a guest on the "Newsmakers" program of WCBS-TV in New York City.
The Watergate committee Monday opens a full five-day week of televised testimony with a return appearance by Richard Moore, the White House special counsel who has disputed elements of testimony by former White House counsel John Dean III who implicated Nixon in the Watergate coverup.
MOORE WILL be followed Monday by
Herbert Kalbach, the President's former personal lawyer and campaign fund raiser. Time Magazine, meanwhile, reported that the Senate Watergate investigators are
taking seriously the possibility that Republican campaign funds were used to help finance the purchase of President Nixon's estate at San Clemente, Calif.
English Trust Their Doctors And Little Else, Poll Shows
LONDON (AP)—Britons harbor little trust for their politicians, union leaders or businessmen. But they truly trust their doctors.
These are the findings of a public opinion poll published by the Sunday Times. Journalists enjoy practically no trust at all, the poll recorded.
Opinion Research Center asked 1,093 people to nominate from a list of 12 professions that they found the most and least trustworthy. They also got a list of 12 institutions and were asked which they thought were the most and least powerful.
It emerged that members of Parliament were not only among the least trusted, they also were ranked among the least powerful, and made up unions, the prime minister and the press.
The queen was surpassed only by the king, and in the interment with the least age in the nation's affairs.
The poll said that doctors enjoyed the maximum trust of 75 per cent of the
They were followed by judges with a 55 per cent trust rating; lawyers, 23 per cent; civil servants; 7; cabinet ministers and union leaders; 6; city fathers; 5;
In Any Age, Bard Has It Pegged
Jerome Kilty, guest director of "The Taming of the Shrew," gave the last lecture of this year's Kansas Shakespeare Festival and Institute on Sunday.
Describing the play, "The Taming of the Shrew," *Kilty* said it was a good example of Shakespearean comedy: old, yet contemporary.
There are no "new" comedy situations, he said. Bianca and Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew"—one the family favorite, the other the least so—the could take from any age and any society.
Kilty said that the play derived life not only from its being contemporary and providing the audience a chance to identify with the characters, but also from the playwright's use of words.
Kilty described writers as creators and actors as interpreters. Directors, he said, were unknown until the late 19th century—it was not until the 20th century that the playwright might have intended.
"The compromise between the vision and its realization is the thing of which in my opinion it is the most important."
Solitude Finding a Source of Strength
I MARVEL AT the wonderfully beautiful sound of human voices.
The hours continue to march slowly by. My feelings of sadness intensely. I sleep a while longer, then dress and leave the room for the first time in 14 hours, for breakfast.
from Lawrence are calling. We discuss what I am feeling.
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I CONTINUE to dwell on a relationship which may or may not be dead, and I wonder whether it is too late. I wonder if they have ever been with them, they inevitable or were they deliberate?
I realize that I have not cried since early last night and begin to wish that I could.
four-year farm bill which was pulled off the floor last week in an effort to find a compromise acceptable to the Nixon administration.
MY SADNESS continues to mount as I contemplate the futility associated with certain aspects of my life. It is 3:00 p.m. Saturday. I am torn between eagerness to talk to someone and the need to stay exactly the same, am, away from everyone, inaccessible.
because they're ring and shuppa.
While the secret sits in the middle and knows.
The other day, a professor recited one of robert Frost's poems and it refuses to leave me.
A KEY ISSUE in the bill, which includes renewal of the food stamp and Food for People program is far from over.
"We dance in a ring and suppose,
**TWENTY-THREE hours have gone by.**
With only 60 minutes remaining I am, oddly,
beginning to feel just as I did upon arrival:
reluctant, this time, to take, leave, anxiety-
ridden and afraid to be overwhelmed by the
world I had shut myself out of.
going to go berserk. I think my therapist knew this all along. The sadness is becoming a part of me. I doubt that I will be able to run from it again.
In the 12 days since leaving the room, I have felt a great sense of accomplishment at simply allowing myself to experience such an extreme extent of aloness. I find myself growing more and more confident with each passing day.
IT IS BECOMING obvious that I am not
Options under consideration include simply extending the present farm law for a year.
I am finding that the more I force myself to know myself, the better I will like myself. What I have begun to find is an all right answer, and it may be perhaps, but searching for valid answers.
At this time I know that any decision I make will reflect my honest wants. They will not reflect my insecurity and fear of being alone.
Twelve days have gone by since I left the cold and sterile room I had so dreaded entering. My feelings still run the gamut of sadness, confusion and uncertainty.
FEARS OF being manipulated and overwhelmed remain but I have found a greater spirit of self determination. I know that there is not a mystical cure-all for finding oneself.
MY FRAGILE world still remains in a state of limbo. Yet for all my doubts about it, I feel a renewed, more realistic sense of hope.
I come to the realization that people are expecting more of me than I want, or please.
parliamentarians and journalists, 4;
financiers and businessmen. 2.
In a mood of "extraordinary cynicism," the Sunday Times said, the electorate lists the media, mamed by the poorly trusted newspapers of the nation's most powerful estates.
Asked who the most mow, 40 per cent replied the trade unions, 33 per cent the labour unions, 26 per cent television, 19 parliament, 18 the cabinet and political parties, 10 large companies and civil service, 6 the law courts, 5 the electorate, 5 the monarch and 2 the stock
But the exercise in isolation has made me know that I can survive as an independent.
That vote was against an amendment by Sen. Walter Mondale, D-Minn., to delay construction pending study of an alternative route across Canada.
In the Senate, a 61 to 29 vote Friday virtually ended environmentalists' hopes of using legislation to block construction of the White House. The U.S.-Alaska's North Slope southward to Valdez.
BEFORE TAKING up minimum wage, the Senate must dispose of a bill aimed at clearing the way for construction of the Alaska oil pipeline.
A similar measure passed the House last month after several Republican attempts to dilute its provisions. Similar GOP efforts have led to bills that come to the Senate floor Tuesday.
Minimum Wage, Pipeline Near Action in Congress
The Senate will open debate on a bill to raise the minimum wage to $2.20 an hour and extend coverage to seven million workers.
The Senate spent most of last week on the bill. The House Interior Committee will burst into action.
By JIM LUTHER Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON—Farm subsidies, the Alaska pipeline and minimum wages are major issues before Congress in the coming week.
THE BILL (itself would grant the Alysakia
Congress' right of way for construction
The House resumes debate today on a
Use of 'Dialect' Debated
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"Take a word like 'queen'," said Jordan. "It has a special meaning for black folks. We are not relating to Queen Elizabeth or 'Queen For a Day'."
"WHITE PEOPLE raid our language all the time. They use 'baby' to refer to a woman, but they can't use the word 'mama'. The experience, the history of white women is so utterly different. On the other hand, a black man says he wants women darling." Those little things show the vast difference between our neopoles.
While some critics can tolerate the lyricism and poetry of black English, attempts to use it in other contexts can lead to trouble.
On a recent TV panel show here, everyone seemed to agree with Jordan.
"We had come to a consensus," she recalled. "I thought the rest was gravel久不 talked about books in black English. They said: 'It's all right if you going to use black English in poetry, but not in anything serious.'"
"In Mississippi, only certain kinds of work that black folks be allowed. Like guess what kind: rough, low, and dirty, shuffling stuff. Black codes ask the northerners: well, what you going to do about your victory? The Congress be upset. They send you to the South so you could move more time: You lost the war, Jake. Slavery's been beat.
IN HER LATEST book, "Dry Victories" Jordan presents reconstruction and the civil rights movement as a discussion between two youths:
"Now the North get angry and get tough about the South. Tell the southerns start them southern states all over again. A Republican, for Congress to approve, or disapprove."
Jordan, Stewart, Dillard and others argue that children will learn better if the speech
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they bring into school is accepted by teachers.
"MY COCEREN is that an emergency situation exists. Statistically, our children are doing poorly in the schools," said Jordan. "When children arrive in public school, they are told they are wrong, that their speech is substandard, a caricature of how humans allure speak. They are tested in a language alien to them.
"I'm not advocating the elimination of proficiency in standard English," she emphasizes, "but if there is some acute stress he the heavy hurt will not take place."
Nick Aoron Ford, professor of English at Morgan State College, Baltimore, Md., agrees that teachers should be more involved in the use of black English in the classroom.
"The public schools are required to teach standard English," said Ford. "I don't have to bone or in the community. All people ought to have two languages. But they have to communicate beyond their neighborhood. It would mean condemning these children to live in a society where there is n
"THE WORST problem of black children in schools," Ford said, "is communication. There is no reason to jump to conclusions that because they are not doing well now, if you give them black English they will do better."
At this point, there is little concrete evidence that children taught in black
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English learn better, although a few pilot programs report good results.
Stewart attributes the resistance of most educators to black English to other reasons.
As Ford points out, black parents,
teachers and even students do not accept
hispanic children.
"Black opposition," said Jordan, "comes from self-hatred as well as a loving concern for children who have to grow up in the reality of this world."
"THERE IS A real勾 fear involved," said Stewart. "People are frightened by the idea that kids not only may look different but may be different. There is nothing in our national rhetoric, which allows for such differences."
The issue of black English really hinges on cultural values and the almost unified opposition indicates that regardless of in-foreign Americans share most of the same values.
The conclusion results to be that the budding idea of an America with a variety of coexistent cultures faces a long winter before it may be allowed to bloom.
"Let's take the New York City reading scores," he said. "Each year they're lower and they agonize over what the reasons may be. They never touch the issue of language differences because it is too bad. They find the reason of school failure easier to deal with."
WHEN IT COMES down to serious
whenever, the issue of values emerges.