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Monday, March 5, 1973
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Six University of Kansas departments and the School of Law now offer courses in women's studies.
An advisory committee on women's studies recently sent letters to women faculty members and some faculty men who have expressed interest in women's causes asking that they consider teaching courses related to women. The committee is considering two courses, the letter states, so that "a good selection of courses relevant to women can be offered next year."
I can't remember a course I've had at this University that wasn't relevant to me as a woman. Although none of my courses has dealt primarily with the problems facing women in their role in society, I don't consider any of them irrelevant to me.
I acknowledge that many of the women's studies courses currently taught here are undoubted beneficial. Interest has been high among both women and men students. Some of the classes have been filled beyond capacity. The courses are taught by very capable professors, qualified to enlighten their students about women.
But even though many of the women's studies courses are beneficial, adding others would be a luxury the University cannot afford. The committee's letter suggests that to broaden the range of women's studies courses, faculty members should be added to each Liberal Arts and Sciences and humanities women's courses.
It is ironic that some faculty members received the committee's letter during the week in which the University administration announced that 44 positions must be deleted from next year's faculty. The women's committee proposed a facet of the program to better understand of the University's present financial situation.
The original expectation was that 23.5 faculty positions had to be cut from next year's faculty. Last week it was announced that, as a result of federal funding cutbacks, fewer faculty members would receive career grants, research contracts and Health Service Advancement Award grants. The number of positions in question rose to 44.7.
This cutback could force professors to increase their teaching load to accommodate for faculty vacancies. Some departments might be forced to discontinue courses not offered in the area. How can any department afford to add women's studies courses at this time of financial crisis?
—Barbara Spurlock
But a women's committee is still crying for more courses in women's studies. I suppose some departments could make an extra effort to add some women's courses. To a list that now contains courses such as Images of Women in the Humanities and Women in the Contemporary World, they could add History of Women, Mary Ward, Managing Women and Her Checkbook or French Sidewalk Cafe Conversation for Women. Of course they might have to do away with Geography 6, Business 40 or French 1.
Strauss Pushes for Unity, Revives Old-Guard Politics
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF AP Political Writer
Party Chairmen Plan Strategy
WASHINGTON - Robert S. Straus, a fast-talking Texan who heads the Democratic National Committee, has spent most of the past two months in Iowa and has studied different shades under the same umbrella—and talking to one another.
"It doesn't do any good to get under the umbrella unless you communicate once you get there," Straus said in a recent interview at his Watergate office. "If you're going to knee and elbow and kick when you're under the umbrella, then you're better off not under it."
In a recent two-day stint, Strassis had dinner with Chicago Mayor Richard J. Dale, an early morning meeting with Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, an evening meeting with Sen. Walter E. Mondale of Minnesota and sessions with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Kentucky Gov. Wendell Ford.
Another part of the story is the resistance of what Strauss calls a small, hard-core group of critics who oopen his chairmanship.
Strauss said he wasn't going to worry about them.
"That in itself," Strauss said, "is the story of what's happening in the Democratic party."
A major Straus goal has been to woo elected Democrats, many of whom felt they were left out of party activities in 1972 when the youthful legislators of Sen. George McGovern swept to control and, ultimately, electoral disaster.
Other steps the 51-year-old chairman has taken include;
—An effort to improve relations among the national committee, Democratic governors and the party's leaders in Congress. He is planning to hire a full-time liaison man to work with them.
--Hiring a national committee staff comprising people from all wings of the party. Strauss named Mary Lour Burg, secretary of the party, president in 1968, as his deputy. He picked Kob Keefe, a former aide to Sen. Birch Bayh and a key AFL-CIO operation to the fight that led to the party's election as chairman, to be political director.
—Reorganization of fund-raising activities. Strauss hasJoseph Cole, a Cleveland industrialist and presidential backer of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, as full-time national finance chairman. Peter McColough, a Xerox Corp. employee, has Strauss raise money for 1972 congress candidates, is party treasurer.
—Creation of a new," really meaningful research operation," one that would use computers to provide to Democratic candidates information on issues and the records of their opponents.
A courtship of the leaders of organized labor who stayed neutral or helped President Nixon in the 1972 campaign. A day after Nixon met last week with AFL-CIO leaders in Miami Beach. Strauss was there.
Predictably, the major opposition to Strauss, a graduate of the Lyndon B. Johnson-John Conn school of Texas Democrat politics, has come from the fact that Strauss will destroy the reforms that were enacted a year ago.
"There are those who think that we need monitoring up here, and they're monitoring us," Strauss said. "There are a small hard-core group that our business belongs to. Our job Strass and their business. I wouldn't be satisfied with them."
"But, you know, I learned a long time ago that you do what you think is right. And you don't worry about people like that."
Bush Desires Capitol Hill To Swing to Nixon's Camp
By DON McLEOD AP Political Writer
WASHINGTON — As top man in a party that carried 49 states in the midterm elections, Mr. Bush's congressional minority for the 10th straight time, Republican National Chairman George Bush has an obvious goal: GOP command of Congress after
Bush was picked for his job in the wake of controversy over the way the President conducted the 1972 campaign. He supported the Nations ambassadorship to replace Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan, who was one of those complaining that the White House concentrated on the Nixon team to the neglect of other GOP candidates.
Now our job is to see that some of those people who never voted Republican before they voted for Nixon will vote for other Republicans," he said.
In the month since he took over the GOP chairmanship, the handsome, 48-year-old New England-turned-Texan has moved to make this his comforter. He also is a congressional races will be the principal focus for the next 21 months.
"The President, I think we'll all concede, did remarkably well and got votes from people who had never voted in this election," Bush said in a recent interview.
"Well, we can't relive the past," Bush said. "Now the President's interests and the party's interests directly coincide. He needs more Republicans in the House and more Republicans in the Senate."
Bush has moved to recognize the party's political arm by: -Balancing differing ideological viewpoints by naming Harry Dent, a South Carolina conservative, as party counsel; Rep. William Steiger, a
Wisconsin moderate, as chairman of a commission on convention delegate selection rules; Janet Johnston, a California political alloy of Gov. Ronald Reagan, as deputy chairman; and W. Pat Wilson, a Nashville investment representing the emerging Southern wing, as party finance chairman.
- Combining the party's fundraising and spending operations under Wilson, who reports directly to him. This is an important part of Bud's effort to get financial aid to Republican candidates who need it.
A major theater of operations will be the House and Senate Republican Campaign Committees.
—Promising to do what he can to provide additional financial support for governmental governors, who have been particularly important to political years, and are criving for help.
Despite differences other Republicans may have had with Nixon strategists last year, Bush said, they are in harmony now.
Acknowledging that the party had diverse elements that may be feeding by 1976, Bush said he would keep the GOP machinery neutral.
"Some say President Nixon is not interested in politics any more. That just couldn't be further from the truth," Bush said.
"I don't want it to appear that there's a bias toward a philosophy," Bush said. "The President puts a strong imprint on the party and on this imprint the president is often taken, and they will be defended and articulated by me and others here."
"But beyond that we're not going to try to divide the party by defining narrowly what a good Republican is, because a good Republican in New York is not going to be someone with things than a good Republican in Texas or in Wisconsin or in California.
James J. Kilpatrick
Nixon 'Compassion' Is Realistic
brutal and savage.
What is Richard Nixon? Richard Nixon is an oppressor. Whom does Richard Nixon oppress? Richard Nixon oppresses the poor. Why does he oppress the poor? What does he oppress because he lacks compassion. What else does he lack? He lacks sensitivity also. How does he oppress the poor? He oppresses the poor. How does he oppress certain antipoverty programs he dismantled. What do we call these demands? We call them
WASHINGTON—Several thousand poverty workers descended two weeks ago on Capitol Hill, where they were publicly publicize their cichwellism.
Nixon replied to this malarkey on Feb. 24 in a speech that crackled with common sense. A great many fed-up Americans, who were critical of his must have wanted to honk their horns in apprehension. He took deadly aim on the "almost Utopian commitments" of the Great Society that "in case after amounted to dismal failure."
"Those who make a profession out of poverty got fat," he said. "And those who made the disadvantaged themselves got little but broken promises."
Nixon was talking about, consider the Neighborhood Youth Corps. This well-intentioned
For a telling example of what
James J. Kilpatrick
Viet Vets Are Forgotten Men
WASHINGTON-Contrary to what generally has been reported, we seem to have about 2,500,000 men missing in action. These MIA's are the men who fought in Vietnam, and the action they are lost in is the political coming from the White House.
The Vietnam vet has disappeared, and if you believe what
Nicholas von Hoffman
the Nixon administration wants you to, the war was fought alone by the 60 prisoners of war now coming out of internment camps. They are the only guys who are getting a victory parade. The other veterans are getting their benefits cut.
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The political uses to which the small group of American POW's can be put is next to limitless. For years Nixon offered them as the last excuse for carrying on the war; now they serve as the focus of the discussion and distract people from entertaining the thought that in the end the President bugged out of the war just as he said he'd never do.
The saluting, gulps and God Bless America's fill the air with so much random noise that it's
hard to consider the possibility that Henry Kissinger and Nixon also may have signed a secret agreement or come to a secret understanding with North Vietnam. Perhaps that much-talked about two and a half billion dollars in reparations or another kind of money is actually the price to ransom those guys out of there.
at the remark that, although the north Vietnamese couldn't brainwash them in years of philippine help, do it in a matter of minutes at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Even so they display an admirable unity of honor and other such slogans.
They're worth the money, to be sure, but this clangorous, red, white and blue fuss almost seems designed to make us think that by our actions we'd discharged our obligations to the 2,500,000 veterans who are missing in the Washington action. It's fine for the POW's to have their $100,000 in tax-free back pay—make it $200,000—and it's nice they were offered free cars along with the embarrassing tatto of adulation for "the Commander-in-Chief," but the Commander-in-chief, in his other, more important capacity President, is trying to cut pensions to Vietnamese War armies.
The POW's are suited to the Commander-in-Chief's tastes, but the soldiers are obedient, professional officers. In contrast, most of the 2,500,000 missing vets are a racially polygel borde of conscripted
He's doing his level best to keep the GI Bill educational benefits so low as to be next to useless. In 2014, he tried to power, the Vietnam vet is receiving something like a quarter of the school assistance that his father got when he came back after World War II and the Korean War.
Many of the vets didn't have the money to buy their way out of the war into college, or the cloat to get into the National Guard
On top of that, the Vietnam vet is having trouble actually getting what is owed him. A recent article in the UCLA campus newspaper titled "the vets on campus are finding their payments blocked or delayed for weeks and months." Clearly, the Commander-in-chief is better than others, and best of all, he likes the POW's. POW's brittle
and sit it out. They aren't Nixon's kind of people, and they made it worse on themselves when a few thousand of them marched past the Capitol and ore medals from those fisting fingers them into the street.
The Vietnam vets are ideal for punishment. They're unorganized, and so have no power either to protect themselves or to lobby for their own interests. When they filtered back from Vietnam, the idea of joining the old-line veterans organizations like the American military was different. They are a diffuse mass whom, you might think, remnants of the peace movement would try to help. But the old peacenik crowd is too taken up with rescuing their
POW's by getting amnesty for them.
During the 1971 fiscal year, the corps had a budget of $89 million for its in-school program. The number of young million youths were eligible. Of these, only 95,000 got a taste of the gravy. In the three cities studied by the GAO, 2,367 youths participated in a program that cost $1,757,000.
The Vietnam vets are a good group to kick around. They lost the war, didn’t they? Peace with the enemy was not possible somebody, and it can’t be Nixon or the diplomats or the generals of the North Vietnamese, so who is leading Those guys went over and back home, and they should have been fighting.
Forget them, and let's cheer the 600 real Americans who won this war believe them when they say peacekennels prolonged it with complaints, and Nixon shortened it with threats. They're all back and throats are hoorse, let's scout around and try to find our missing in action.
set up criteria for determining potential dropouts. These were ignored. Examination of a sample group indicated that probably 38 per cent of the youths had thought of dropping out.
Did the program operate effectively for the other two-thirds? No, indeed. In Washington, for example, GAO auditors comment that dropout was "identified dropout potential" with a similar group of nonenrolled years. The actual dropout rate was 18.7 per cent for those who were enrolled. It was not per cent for those who were not.
boondoggle was created under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. It is administered by the Department of Labor. One of its purposes is to provide educational support and residential education for potential dropouts, in order to keep them in school.
On Feb. 20 the General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report on the Neighborhood Youth Corps' operations in 1970-71 in Norfolk and Washington, D.C. The report made dismal reading.
The Department of Labor had
courtsey patrol work station. In their observation, more than half the sampled youths simply were lounging around.
The program was intended to provide remedial education for poor students. Only 17 per cent of them got it.
It appeared, however, that about 54 per cent of the boys were shuffled off to jobs as assistant jantors. In Washington, 40 per cent of the group were assigned to a "courtesy patrol." Their households were to help them and help residents carry grocery, help elderly people off buses, help remove litter and maintain general surveillance over neighborhood streets."
To borrow from Nixon's speech, this doubtless was "compassion that meant well." If this kind of thing can be replaced by "compassion that works," he also says in *The Common Good* that applause coming; and the catechism will be exposed as a lie.
The program also was to provide "meaningful" job opportunities. On the average, 85 percent of students week and earned about $600 during the school year. Most of the participating girls were assigned to clerical work, and had never been unaided from the program.
"All the courtesy patrol members were assembled in the same room with no apparent work to perform," auditors said. "During the entire length of our visit, not one left the room to patrol the streets or serve residents."
The GAO auditors visited a
(C) 1973 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc
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