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Monday, May 7, 1973
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
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Energy Conspiracy?
An energy crisis is planned for this summer and you, the consumer, had better slow your car down, eat less hot food and turn off the light in the bathroom—the oil companies are doing all they can.
Is it only a coincidence that:
is only a consequence
—Oil companies will be selling more gas at higher prices than ever before?
—The independent stations, which start the gas wars, are going to be destroyed.
—Ecologists are being blamed for "a lack of refinery capacity"
—The average American car is built to cruise at Mach 17.
-It takes more gas to make less smoke? (Japanese cars don't do it that way, but they don't have American know-how.)
—Congress will have to decide whether to allow the Alaska pnp into Alaska.
-Amtrack is cutting back on its passenger service? (No place in the country is now more than 500 miles from the nearest Amtrack depot. If you do catch the one train that leaves at 4 a.m., chances are that it will leave at 6 a.m.) You can you can you can a freight going in the direction you intend to travel.)
Highway trust fund money used for mass transportation2
—The Civil Aeronautics Board charges higher than the would have charged the two.
If this doesn't have you worried about a conspiracy, let's take a look
at what the Nixon administration is doing.
But nationalized oil interests don't make big political contributions and neither do government research studies on alternative energy sources.
It would be interesting to see how severe the energy crisis would be if there were serious talk of breaking up the GM-Chrysler-Ford corporation into 37 separate corporations. A hint at nationalizing oil interests might also bring some results.
Basically, the administration is searching for more tax loopoholes for the people who will make a killing off the energy crisis and allowing them to use its present 'antipollution' devices for an extra year.
So, it looks like we have a mandate for an energy crisis.
When John Q. Consumer drives up to the pump this summer and they tell him he can only buy 10 gallons (enough to drive his 490-cubic-inch, air-conditioned, luxury fire-belcher around the block), he will demand that we keep Alaska to round up the residents and pick them on a reservation in Oklahoma so the whole state can be turned over to Standard Oil.
—Eric Kramer
It may not be an actual conspiracy, but if it is not, it only means that Detroit and the oil companies don't believe that they don't even need a conspiracy.
Merger Complaint, Room for Recreation
Minorities
I would predict that in the year to come we will see a cutback in minority faculty, programs designed to aid minority students, and that this will result in less minorities in university. This will set the minority groups back educationally at least 10 years. I hope that the minority students of the University will band together and fight this action being taken, as part of the program of all the students, faculty and staff at the University.
Readers Respond
To the Editor:
I have nothing against women's rights or Gilmam. But as one who has knowledge of what KU was, like prior to 1963, I predict that this is allowed to happen minority students will have lost everything
I was shocked and I am sure quite a number of other students are stunned by the Chancellor's decision to combine the Office of Minority Affairs with the Office of Affirmative Action. Since its inception, the Office of Minority Affairs has done much to aid the minority students and is vital to the interest of those it serves. I would doubt that Shirley Gilham has any conception of the work of the minority students. In fact I believe that the action to be taken is another affront to the minority students, blacks in particular. First there was the problem with the funding of the education of the minority students are having a cutback in funding of the Black Student Union and other minority group funding Now we have an attempt to do away with the Minority Affairs office and the guise of combining it with the Affirmative Action Office.
Janice Shelby
they have struggled for over the years.
Janice Shelby Kansas City, Kan., Senior
Misuse
To the Editor:
A possible misuse or mismanagement of the University's recreational facilities has come to my attention.
Persons in the University community, for whom I presume these facilities are intended, are often them increasingly inaccessible.
Students and faculty often must wait for hours to play tennis on campus because of local businessmen, newsmen, housewives and high school students who repeatedly already crowded tennis courts.
On almost any night that swimming in Robinson Natatorium is for you, there is a significant number of swimmers are not students.
The problem does not stop there.
One recent weekend when I walked into the sauna in Robinson Gymnasium, I found two area attorneys sitting in the sauna, trying to look inconspicuous. The two men, incidentally, are neither students nor teachers but also staff. The two juveniles jurists simply were the University's sauna after having played tennis on the University's tennis courts.
It's about time the department of athletics and recreation, the athletic board or someone handed down a ruling on whether the University's sports faculties are authorized to whether students, faculty and
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What then? We are driven inexorably to an alternative answer, and it is the saddest answer of all. We are driven to the surmise that these dedicated and loyal servants did not report to Nixon because they assumed were doing what the boss wanted done.
"I know that it can be very easy," said the President, "under the intensive pressure of a campaign, for even well-intentioned people to fall into shady tactics." He did not mention Nixon's own record, in the campaigns he personally directed, is not free of "shady tactics." He himself, on the record, has known times when his zeal exceeded his judgment. His Monday night speech was on Saturday, and he is a fighter, blood-up, deaf to the bell.
Loyal but Misguided Zeal
James J. Kilpatrick
Given so aggressive a master—a master now so preoccupied with great affairs of state—what would these loyal ales say to him? What does he ask? He doesn't need to know. It better is not to tell him. If he asks, say things are fine, chief, fine. In time, as the situation gets out of hand, confession and disclosure become more difficult. Panic sets in, and bad judgments turn to disasteral judgments. His audience received, looks up at last and is appalled.
afoot. This I cannot believe.
By this time most Americans are as sick of the Watergate story as small town residents are sick of the smell of the local paper mill, but some things have to be lived with. We are living with the Watergate for months and years to come.
As the charges, revelations and rumors have pile up, one great question had hung like a mushroom cloud in the sky. Did he know where to go? Did he know Democratic National headquarters? Did he know of the several secret funds? Did he know even generally where the money came from and where it went? did he know who was behind these tricks?" Did he know of the cover-up?
free his mind for the total concentration demanded by his job.
In his emotional speech Monday night, Nixon implicitly answered the question: He did not have one. One has to say implicitly, he does not have one. One is comprehensive. Perhaps it could not have been. "Watergate" has become a generic noun, gathering in its poisonous connotation everything from the bugging of a pipe to the water leakage. He could not have denied everything, because "everything" is not defined. But the thrust of his speech was clear. He was "appalled" and "shocked" by the break-in that he witnessed on the bottom of "this whole sordid affair."
I may be naive, though I am getting pretty old to be naive, and I accept the President's assertion of his own non-involvement. It is entirely plausible, given the personal and political situation that I have had in office, and indeed delegate his whole campaign operation to John Mitchell, Maurice Stans, Jeb Magruder and others, so that he could
All right. This gives us a picture of a President so far ahead in the spring and summer polls that his re-election is never in doubt. Now and then he asks about the campaign organization, how it is going, and where he wants to go. Watergate burglary, and alarms go off in his head. He orders an investigation, but repeatedly he is assured by trusted aides (principally), we may assume, by John Dean) that he has nothing to worry about. Washington Post is cracking with sensational disclosures, but he "discounts" these newspaper stories. The Post has hated him since the days of Alger Hiss. It is not until the middle of March, 1973, nine months after the break-in, that he at last is safe. But the truth is still vulnerability some of these charges were "painfully but decisively, he acts."
Very well. But, alas, one mushroom cloud yields to another. A second question, not so plausibly answerable, takes shape: Why didn't he know?
One answer is that the persons to whom he had delegated campaign responsibility were themselves ignorant of what was going on. The answer strains credulity to the breaking point. On this hypothesis, we must assume that John Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldenman, John Mitchell, Maurice Stans, Jeb Margrüder, John Dean, Charles Colson, and James Clouseau all list goes on and on—that all of them were deaf, dumb and blind. We are asked to believe that none of them knew or suspected that anything unscrupulous was
"The man at the top must bear the responsibility," he said. "I accept it." That responsibility may be the heaviest Nixon ever has assumed; but if he now carries it bravely and honorably, he and his high office may yet emerge from the ordeal tempered and strengthened by the fire.
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Young Mayor Takes On Madison
WASHINGTON - Paul苏利曼 was in town the other day trying to get the money for 22 buses out of the airport. He also spotted a spirtation. In the course of
I wasn't going to have a Republic spy in my office. They told me I'd have to give the Nazi chief a whip. 'Okay, but put his desk and chair
Nicholas von Hoffman
"It was a Federally paid-for job so who cares how the money is spent?" Soglin asks. "I do, plus
People drawing a salary and not working is of more than passing interest to Sogil, who, for the first time in his life, recently fired somebody for nonproduction.
WASHINGTON-Army recruiters, under pressure to meet enlistment quotas, have signed a memo recently "rejected" for the draft. They include recruits with organic heart disease, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy and even a drive with missing trigger fingers.
padded around the department it seemed to Soglin that only about half the people in the joint were dozin any work.
had been arrested twice in demonstrations.
"Actually, I was arrested three times, but nobody knows about the first one," said Sogil, a low-key fellow who beat the radical rap by campaigning on local issues and replying to the nasty names shouted at him by telling Patti Walker that she had the late great third-base coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates, used to say, "Call me anything you want, but don't call me late for dinner."
This, plus a good precinct organization and an intelligent campaign, got him a $3,000 donation to do it. So do Itsgin want $,000 in the hole, but as the mayor says, "Fortunately everybody loves a
"Everybody wants jobs, all my old friends, and nobody understands there are no jobs," he explained with lubricious good humor. "Not to mention that the Teamsters are trying to organize the dog catchers—ooops! the humane officers, I meant to say—and the meter mails. That's the kind of labor problems I have." He added, "We've teamed up a good lot. There will be no word getting back home that Soglin was badmouthing them out of town.
Soglin is the mayor of the country's 114th largest city. His age would make him a minor leader in Iraq and radical. During the campaign the incumbent mayor pointedly reminded the voters that Soglin
Jack Anderson
Soglin, who is 28, isn't a special assistant to the mayor. He is the mayor of Madison, Wis., a city of about 670,000 with budget and 1,800 municipal employees as well as being the state capital. Elected just a few months before the arrest in the question of how to run good government at low cost.
winner. There were a lot of people who didn't have an opportunity to contribute before the race, and even those haven't taken their money."
in the hall. He's not going to be sitting in here in the mayor's office.'
Instead, Madison had in an inaugural ball at which 2,000 people showed up,押$2 a ticket and proceeded to deflect. "We had a helium好 time. Everybody was there, prominent attorneys, street people, firemen, policemen and joint officer of a local nudie joint."
Army Fills Quotas with Rejects
These military misfits were discovered in Wisconsin, the only state where an investigation has been conducted. **Army Recruiting Command, Hampton, Va., told them they had no reason to believe the recruiting procedures turned up wrong.** They also elsewhere. But they admitted
that enlistment standards are the same in all 50 states.
Robert Levine, the Wisconsin Selective Service director, recently ordered a statewide survey of the men enlisted in his state since Dec. 1, 1972. He found that 75 of those accepted for service had flinched from physical or mental tests for the draft.
With the help of publisher John Lavine, whose newspapers in Chipeppa Falls, Portage and Oystercatcher, we have broken loose the results of the Selective Service survey. Two men had been rejected for the service, and two missed trigger fingers; two suffered organ heart disease;
two had serious psychiatric problems; two were afflicted with epilepsy; two had 'deranged shows'; one was holding a left thumb; still he had three pins in his left hip.
All of these deficiencies, according to military spokesmen, are sufficient to disqualify a man from military service. The Wisconsin survey also found that 17 men accepted by recruiters had military background and basic intelligence tests. In a letter to Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., Levine offered a possible explanation:
"The recruiters operate what is called 'dumb-dumb' school for
volunteers who flunk the intelligence test. This consists of a full-day cram course covering previously given intelligence tests. Predictably, most men pass on re-examination."
Just a few weeks ago, defense Secretary Elliot Richardson, currently in charge of the Watergate investigation and President Nixon's nominee for attorney general, informed Congress that the draft could now be released. The all-volunteer effort, "The factor which may have contributed most to volunteer increases," he said, "is the improved recruiting program."
One of Lefevre's inspectors told us that such a "refresher" courses YMCA rooms in Milwaukee. Many "current enlistments," he wrote, "are failing to meet the requirements, quality for the armed forces."
At the Pentagon, a spokesman said that "dumb-dumb" courses were once an accepted practice but have recently been outlawed.
Many of the men disqualified in tests for the Wisconsin draft, he suggested, had corrective
deficiencies. But the Levine investigation, he said, has turned up what may be fraudulent recruiting practices. "There will be a very careful investigation of these cases," he promised.
"DON'T WORRY WELL PATCH HER RIGHT UP!"
George S. Bush
President Nixon showing his compassionate side while embroiled in the Watergate scandal, quietly sent Alabama's Gov. George W. Bush to the film 'Sunrise' on the island of Franklin D. Roosevelt was born, the film documents his successful fight against crippling polio and his rise to the presidency.
Migraine Weapon
Confidential plans are now under study for a riot-control machine that sends out beams strong enough to give migraine-like headaches. This futuristic weapon, proposed by advanced Pentagon scientists, is aimed at making electrical prods., dogs, gas, water and clubs” as a riot-dispensing device. Still in the design stage, the system would use sensors and computers to make sure that only the rotters get the full blast of the electricity range from noiseless high frequency beams to a racket intended to drown out agitators. The proposal is called nonlethal, but the confidential documents describing it warm that sound can be heard developed to prevent catatonic fits in schizophrenic individuals, or even death.
Copyright, 1973.
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
If Sogil is financing his politics with small contributions and trying to cut the working people's taxes, he isn't flying a plane to the conference of mayors meeting in San Francisco in June. I'm doing it all. I've already declared National Labor Day when I get back I'm going to declare Apple Butter Week. I'm doing everything traditional mayors do," he assures you, but this makes it easier for him to do these traditional mayors don't do.
For one, he's taking on the real estate interests. By preventing construction on the city's outskirts and by refusing to let property owners convert new homes, he hopes to force them to restore and remodel inner-ring dilapidated residential structures. For the time being he's stuck on what to propose for public housing. The Nixon cuts on public housing or raise the rents, which were just raised not long ago.
On traffic and air pollution, Mayor Sogin is willing to offend the automobile owners by making downtown parking prohibitively expensive. Hence With aid of his new police chief who, he says, has a very hairy moustache and a very good attitude, Sogin is out to make the cops stop wasting money spying on political dissidents and spend on catching the people they thought about mailing police dossiers on political to their subjects, but he dropped that idea when it occurred to him that some people's mosses would be out of joint if they found out the police hadn't heard they were talking to them at the moment he is tending toward just burning the material.
Just how radical Soligin is could be called. He calls himself variously "a liberal clothed in radicalism" or "a mellowed radical searching for political identity, waiting for a great change in his role and define me." With the big politicians in Washington and the little politicians all over the country quuing up in front of grand-jury rooms and getting their identities handed to them with their indictments, maybe it's better to be defined as a criminal rather than deviant reputation for honesty and 22 new buses for the taxpayers to ride in, Soligin could even get re-elected.
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