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Friday, March 30.1973
University Daily Kansan
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Statistical 'Milestone'
Crime is an urgent and serious problem in this country, despite recent huzzazs from Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst. For the first time in 17 years the number of serious crimes reported to the FBI has declined. The attorney general has said the decrease is "an important milestone in the fight to restore order," a tributable to the strong efforts of law enforcement officers throughout the nation."
But this "milestone" still marks the highest number of violent crimes reported to the FBI since that book to record crime statistics in 1900.
The bulk of a 3 per cent downswing in crime in 1972 consists of crimes against property. Larceny, burglary and auto theft have decreased. But robbery, murder, rape and aggravated assault are still increasing. Your car may still be拍下 but the firearm you left it last night. The problem is getting safely from your door to the curb.
Throughout two presidential campaigns, Nixon promised a fast and effective war against crime. His administration made a major effort to stop drug traffic—indeed, it is still doing so regardless of the advice of presidential commissions. But no president has ever rehabilitated addicts, who are blamed for almost half of big-city street crime.
Nixon said he would fight crime by increasing the number of convictions, but at the time of his reelection, convictions were being obtained for only 80 per cent of those arrested. Courts and jails were too
crowded then to handle even that 80 per cent.
Kleindienst's enthusiasm for the strong efforts of law enforcement on sex offenders.
During the 1960s crime moved to the suburbs, where it developed the habit of trailing affluence and mischief. It seemingly incurable addiction to youth.
More than half of the arrests made annually in U.S. metropolitan areas involve persons under 25 years of age. In urban areas, cities of less than 250,000 inhabitants, the figure is more than 60 per cent.
The rippon—of persons, places or things—has become a byword of the counterculture. Drug offenders have added to youth's high arrest record. But permissiveness cannot be ignored. "They're '80s," 60s. Persons under 25 have always committed the largest number of offenses in all categories.
During the last decade a greater percentage of Americans than ever before was young. That percentage is now on the decline, however. The post-World War II babies are finally maturing.
Population trends are not solely responsible for fluctuations of the crime rate. Neither is Nixon solely responsible for America's salvation. In light of recent Watergate disclosures and the shadows of other possible scandals, he should look to the salvation of his own house.
Nixon has a bad habit of declaring victories—of winning his battles by proclamation. His administration has made much of decreasing trends in crime, but the problem has yet to slither into obscurity.
—Linda Schild
"HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE THAT THING TO TURN INTO A BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS?"
Deflated Diet
The price of meat is rising,
So let the buyer beWARE.
Eat eggs and cheese and deep sea fish
Instead of the normal fare.
But even protein substitutes
Are soaring off the charts,
So maybe you should eat some fruits
Or scrawny chicken parts.
"Try it you like it," Nixon says of cheese. But I've tried it until surfeit, and my palate isn't pleased. I find myself reflecting On a tasty-looking pet, So I better start refraining or The Office Cat'll be it.
Steve Riel
'Equal Sauna,' Unequaled Heat
Although it may make you feel as if you've never been closer to death, you've never lived until you've been
Kansas Staff Writer
KU students, faculty and staff who didn't have saunas installed in the basements or backyards of their homes during the sauna status-symbol craze of the Sikites now can sweat it out in barbaric luxury in a Finnish-style sauna installed last month in the south-western of the mester's lock room in Rolanson Gymnasium.
The sauna, installed Feb. 13 and opened two days later, could be described as having operated at full capacity for the last week.
The University's new suna is not necessarily a steam sauna, although it can quickly be turned into one
by dashing water onto its heated sauna stones. Like the saunas that the Norsemen bathed in 2,000 years ago, it heats up to a swelling 185 degrees Fahrenheit. The humidity is controlled so it will not go above 20 per cent.
The humidity in KU's sauna actually is controlled to stay between 5 and 20 per cent. If water was splashed onto the sauna stones, the temperature in the sauna would seem to rise sharply. But the flash sensation that resulted, called "loly" by the Fins, would be caused only by a sudden increase in humidity.
Instead of the open flame of an authentic Finnish sauna, it has electric coils that deliver 900 watts to heat the water.
The sauna, placed in the shower area of the men's locker room, is six feet wide, 12 feet long and seven feet high and it accommodates 10 to 12 bathers at one time. It has a wall covered redwood and has an exterior of marmor veneer.
Inside the sauna, the bathers use a double tier of saint benches, arranged in an L-shaped, for seating while SWIM.
In addition to the redwood, the sauna stones, in a metal tray above the electric heating coils, give the sauna an earthy smell. This sensual suggestion of earthiness is achieved by an indoor-outdoor carpet on the sauna's floor.
The University originally had ordered a smaller sauna value at $3,000. But when the company from which the University had ordered the sauna failed to deliver within 10 days as a contract had specified, the University was offered, at no increase in price, the larger sauna that it now has, which is worth $3,600.
The centuries-old Finnish sauna ritual consists first of a flagellation done in fun and with birch twigs, then a 15 minute or longer sauna and, finally, a dive in a snowbank or an ice-cold pond. Fins still say that they consider only two places to be sacred—church and the sauna.
Local bathers, however, might be just as well off to settle for a 10 to 15 minute sauna, with a warm, soapy shower being the only preliminary stimuli and a jump into a cold shower the somewhat less frigid finale.
Merely the thought of an intentionally prolonged exposure to an 180-degree-sauce, even at a low level of humidity, is hardly understood, let alone enjoyed by the persons who wilt on Massachusetts Street when the weather turns cold. Yet if not, just as the old Kansas farmer says, "I can't just the temperature that counts, it's the humidity."
That's why sauna is at least as physically bearable as a mid-summer shopping store, not to mention the
In every faculty and staff member of the University. Soon after it was opened, the perspiration parlor was plagued with a problem. The sauna, which originally had been intended for exclusive use by men, was placed in a drying area inside the shower stalls of the men's locker room.
frugality of sauna over shopping. KU's sauna is free, by the way.
When the word got around that the men's locker room had a convenience that the women's locker room had a convenience.
And now the sauna is freely open to every student and every faculty and staff member of the University.
The cry did not fall on deaf or soggy ears.
On March 13, exactly one month after the sauna was installed, it was announced that the sauna in the men's locker room would be only open to women from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursdays, with justification. At those times the sauna area is partitioned off from the rest of the men's locker room by three, white plastic shower curtains and is guarded from the inside by a female attendant.
Female bathers, however, must still dress and shower in their own locker room, which is several feet across the hall from the sauna. They have been advised swimsuit in suits while in transit from one area to the other.
The athletic department is said to be considering the installation of another, perhaps smaller, sauna in the women's locker room whenever funds for it are available.
But presently, on the other side of the sex curtain, males in Robinson are rumored to have proposed moving the only existing sauna to the women's locker room. The move is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., on Tuesday and Thursday.
Furthermore, the March Brothers, who, incidentally, are in season again, reportedly consider that women in the men's locker room constitute an invasion of their privacy and plan to protest by occupying the southeast corner of the women's locker room.
To date, no special sauna bathing hours have been reserved exclusively for the KU Gay Liberation or
Now, putting all this malediction aside for the moment, let's consider what the sauna is all about.
After a person enters a hot sauna, the pace of his heart quickens, until it pumps almost audibly while circulating blood throughout the body. The skin soon becomes flushed and marbled by all the extra vascular activity. You may even fear that your blood will boil, as water doesn't boll until it's 212 degrees Farenheit.
Then the sweet glands are given the go-ahead, and soon rivulents and tributaries of perspiration are formed.
A sauna, unlike a steam bath, is usually not enervating, but it affects various persons differently. Some persons are hungry after a sauna. Some like a human prune ready for the Idle Hour Rest Home. And others feel cold and deep. And yet others feel charged up enough to sit in a sauna they could never force themselves to even think about
During the sauna's first week of operation at KU, a student from Mexico City fell asleep and languished in it for 1½ hours at a cool 150 degrees and even lived to talk about. Although he was as shrived as a sun-bleached chile pepper afterwards, he said he just had to drink a lot of water.
Although a person in worse physical condition than he might have fared or fried so well, even a Mark Spitz could get the shakes and suffer from excessive stress or he strokeback after too long a sauna, doctors say.
The record for voluntary incineration in KU's sauna though, is said to be held by a student who one week survived 10 consecutive 15-minute saunas without incurring apoplexy or any other noticeable side effects. He did, however, miss several of his classes the next week because of an acute case of dysmorphia.
To enjoy a sauna, you don't really have to be a practicing masochist, however.
Should it a suna bather fall asleep or fall forward in a taint while bathing, he would be advised to steer clear of the water.
especially designed to swing outward when pressure is applied to it.
However, if a bather can get inured to the 180 degree plus heat, he has only to let himself be immarmed by the water.
Despite the outcome of isolated incidents such as these, sauna is generally considered to have a mentally as well physically relaxing effect. Sauna has been claimed to be beneficial for persons who have either been graded a string of midterm exams or who simply want to wind down from the old eight-to-five syndrome.
The sauuna sweat-o-rama is also said to be a good treatment for all those unusually acne blemishes, but it has no relief and pores. Some physiologists say that 25 to 35 per cent of people come out through skin pores. If this is so, open up those pores and give sauuna a chance to put out of business those manufacturers of products for acne blemishes.
As a weight reducer, sausage is effectual only if you don't drink enough water to replace what you lose in peanuts.
Some persons use sauna as a cure for colds. It probably doesn't cure anything but your hide, but it does.
Sauna can be an effective sobering-up device or treatment for hangover, however. If you've had too much alcohol in your drink, you may be in a sauna. While in the sauna, you may feel like a boiling over and you probably wouldn't be far from doing just that. Regardless of how you feel, though, you'll benefit from a sauna because a radiator at temperatures well within those of a sauna.
Sauna also has been used as a treatment for arthritis, barbisal and other similar ailments, but no evidence exists to support its use.
Signs posted outside KU's sauna warm baths-to be that a person in poor physical health should consult his (or her) doctor before using the sauna. Sauna bathing can be harmful for persons who have either high or low blood pressure or disorders or diseases affecting the heart or lungs.
Also, children should not bathe in a bain at as light a temperature or for as long as an adult would. The
medical reasoning for this is that a child's perspiration glands are not as developed as an adult's are.
Other sauna "dont s" include the following rules:
Don't sauna until an hour after you've eaten. Don't make you blood overwork while it's digesting food. Bathe now, eat later.
Don't take or wear anything metal into a sauna. Severe burns can be received from red-hot jewelry.
Don't take cloth that contains synthetic fabrics or elastic into a sauna unless you want the fabric to really shrink or the elastic to permanently loose its grip on you.
Don't wear contact lenses, glasses, hearing aids
in teeth in a spa. Some plastics may melt in
sauce.
— Don't exercise or do anything else barbaric in a sauna. We'll get enough exercise running back and [you] want to do it.
— don't bathe by yourself. If you want to have a stunning good time, sauna is also helpful. Otherwise, you can just fall asleep.
-Don't eat, smoke, read or think. Relax.
—Don't eat, smoke, read or think. Relax.
Try the sauna. It's free, and you might even like it
James J. Kilpatrick
Nixon's Silence Condemns Him
WASHINGTON - It is time for those of us on the political right, drawn by instinct toward the president, to join the Republican party, to face up squarely to the long-summing battle over the issue. The crisis is emerging.
For understandable reasons—reasoned roots in human nature and in the partisan spirit—many of us have tended to avoid the issue. Since the first ITT case bleep up a year ago, contempt for these defensive battles. These have been months of embarrassment, discomfort, bewilderment and shame. We have apologized,
One thing has followed upon the beels of another. There was the settlement of ITT's antitrust case. There was the milk deal, the wheat deal, the carpet deal June brought Watergate. Now we learn of the Veco deal. A rich merchant made a pretty title: She is Mrs. Ambassador now. ITT, it develops, once seriously proposed to buy from the CIA a million dollars' worth of subversion.
Griff and the Unicorn
minimized and justified. Both in public and in private life, Republicans have shown surpassing loyalty. But loyalty has its limits, and mine, at least, have been reached.
Bv Sokoloff
This has been a year of charge and accession, of inundendo and suspicion, of images that linger in the mind: Dita Bear in a buffet line, would-burglaries in a bank, would-hack money, cash money—hand-delivered in packets of $100 bills. The tragic tale has been played on a shadowed stage. Characters come and go, their roles unclear, their lines obscured, their evidence clearly fit if still unsure.
Those of us in the audience, mystified and anxious, have prayed for some burst of cleaning light, some blazing sunshine that would burn the hair of our dogs. They have prayed in vain. Denials firm have been followed by denials not quite so firm. Events that should have been explained have gone unexplained. The White House has been a record of evasion, dismessing, expostulation and silence.
The anguished heart will not be stilled: What in the world is wrong with Richard Nixon? One of his biggest mistakes back 29 years to the time of the "Nixon fund" and the Checkers speech, that he above all men would be keenly sensitive, will have an appearance of impropriety. Clean as a hound's tooth! That was the standard Dwight Eisenhower fixed, and to that he Nixon once willinglyIMPLIED
No such telling phrase he
come from Nixon's tips these pas-
12 months. An ugly charge was
voiced a year ago; The In
By the end of June, ten days after the news of the Watergate bugging burst upon Washington, Mr. Bush admitted that this was no "caper." The astounding, dismaying truth began to emerge that in high fashion had known, or should known, the squalid, disgraceful and inexcussable
ternational Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, caught in a crucial antitrust prosecution, hanged wangliable a favorable settlement out of court; in return, or so it was implied, ITT had made a career offer toward a Republican convention in San Diego.
In the face of such a charge—a charge of corruption—it was not too much to expect an angry and explosive reaction from the President himself. We should have had instant documentation of the facts, full exposure of the truth, complete access to every person and every record, and if we were to be in danger, we should have heard the sound of rolling heads. Nothing of the sort occurred.
affair. Yet that truth emerged in bits and pieces, not with the eager help of an outraged President, but against a wall of hostility, indifference and resistance.
It is late, but not too late, for Nixon to exert his personal leadership in clearing the air. If he fails to grasp the seriousness of the situation and to respond effectively to it, he will yet forfeit much of the respect he has fought so long to earn.
Recent revelations of the Vesco deal are for me the last straw. it is incredible, simply incredible, that the President's advisers made it possible to order or made one telephone call or opened one door, at the suggestion of a man in serious trouble with the Securities Exhibition Committee, to breath of this $200,000 campaign contribution must have reckoned of impropriety. But the blind monkeys on whom the President relied could see no evil and bear witness to how they could smell even no elitist.
(C) 1973 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
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