Thursday, March 15, 1973
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Nader Blasts Abuse By Big Corporations
By BILL GIBSON Kansan Staff Writer
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader charged that mental health and consumer protection were threatened by corporate and political irresponsibility in a William C. Manninger Memorial Lecture Wednesday at Washburn University.
"We are headed for dangerous times if huge corporations and bureaucracies carry out decisions with vast powers and those who make the decisions are not held accountable." Nader told a capacity audience of 1,500 in Whit Concert Hall.
"When General Motors does something wrong they are punished by fine," Nader said. "The law is shaped by the institution. The impact only strikes the corporate shell and does not affect the behavior of individuals."
The build-up of consumer abuse and silent acts of violence such as pollution must have been taken to prevent further harm.
Nader bitterly attacked the Nixon administration for insensitivity to consumers
"The Nixon administration is not concerned with the Volkswagens and Corvairs still on the highways, which tip over and cause fires. The victims have no organized resistance."
The press has helped make Nixon a monarch figure, Nader said, through subservience in press conferences, lack of public support and general government intimidation.
"To understand the Nixon Administration you must read Orwell's '1984'," he said. "Lies are called truth, war is called peace, violence is called dollar is called a victory for the economy."
KU Escort Service Suspends for Break
Operation Escort, an organization sponsored by Preshing Rifles and designed to aid students on cross-walks at night, will visit from Friday, March 16 to Sunday, March 25.
A spokesman for the organization, David O'Rourke, Overland Park Senior, said that during the last two or three weeks, the operation had averaged 30 calls a night during the week. That average drops to 15 or 20 calls on weekends.
O'Rourke said that the largest number of calls received in one evening last week was 32. The smallest number of calls received was 25. The vast majority of all calls are for escort to classes, the library, or to tests, he said.
The calls apparently are not connected to the weather conditions because the average does not drop significantly in poor weather, O'Rourke said.
"The real tragedy is that there has been no reudition of this."
Nader claimed that car manufacturers were using environmental blackmail to get them to buy environmental standards by claiming they would have to shut down their factories.
A legal double-standard benefits corporations. Nader said.
"It is illegal for an individual to relieve himself in a lake or stream but corporations relieve themselves in lakes and streams all the time," he said.
Nader predicts no severe boycott this car but hopes or a greater effort by the city to improve safety.
"What people want to do, they won't do because they don't think they can," he said. "If just three per cent of the people fight city hall it can have a decisive effect."
The Congress, Nader's newest source of investigation, is the only institution that can curb the President's increasing powers, and the most important recommended constitution to redress the balance.
Final Survey Of Buildings Nears End
The University Committee for the Architecturally Handicapped, which is nearing completion of a survey of about 100 buildings on campus and in the city, will probably make a formal report the week beginning March 25, according to Robert McDermott, assistant in psychology and chairman of the subcommittee conducting the survey.
Harris said the program had resulted in curb cuts, in the lowering of a phone booth to accommodate paraplegic, and in the lowering of large rampers in various campus buildings.
The committee has been applying for state and federal funds to make the improvements that the survey will recommend.
The committee is working on composing a braille map of campus and on raising the letters in building identification signs so the signs can be used by the blind.
The list of standards for removal of physical barriers was taken from guidelines provided by New York's state architectural services, and from the booklets, "Design Standards for the Physically Handicapped" and "Making Colleges and Universities Accessible to Handicapped Students," according to Harris.
The survey is being conducted by a group of 10 occupational therapy students under the guidance of Barbara Rider, assistant professor of occupational therapy.
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