4 Thursda, March 1, 1973 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. Defense of Duncan As a general rule, Kansan editorial writers do not reply to letters to the editor. This is because many of the letters we receive exemplify careful thought and sound reasoning. Others reflect a pattern of thinking so hopelessly befuddled that no amount of reasoning will penetrate it. Occasionally, a letter appears in the Kansan that demands a reply, if only because there seems to be hope that the poor, misguided individual who wrote it may yet find his way back to the work of reality. An example of such a letter appeared in the Feb. 20 Kansan. It was written by David Radd. Radd found "something distasteful" in R. E. Duncan's recent editorial which presented awards to some of the leaders of the Student Senate. Radd thought that it was wrong to criticize him for his criticism. "It courageous students, faculty and other members of the University to maintain an uncooperative attitude toward Student Senate operations." This sort of thinking permeated England two centuries ago. At that time, any defamatory statement published about someone was considered libelous. "The greater the truth, the greater the libel!" was the popular saying at the time. It was then believed that someone would be more likely to react violently to the truth than to a lie. Thus, the basis of the law was to preserve order in the society. Criticizing the government was the worst crime, because it shook the faith in the government. There were agencies formulated to regulate publications. In England, there was the Star Chamber. This august body controlled publications by threatening to disembowel, draw and quarter and burn dissident elements. Thus, we can see that there was great impetus for self-restraint on the part of the press. Radd seems to long for the good old days when the population could languish in ignorance. Unfortunately, some of our campus journalists just don't see it that way. These journalists think the public has a right to know that Susie Cowden doesn't attend St. Edx meetings or that Ricard McKenzie to his promise that he wouldn't accept free meals or complimentary tickets for Student Union Activities' events until he had solved the ills of the Kansas Union food services. It is the purpose of the Kansan to report campus events. It is the purpose of the Kansan editorial to comment upon these events. How are the reports of the University become informed about their representatives? As for the complaint that the Kansan refuses to report on the worthwhile activities indulged in by the senate, this could be the result of a failure to read the entire edition. Then again, it's always possible that the proceedings at senate meetings are ludicrous. —John P. Bailey SES Controversy Because of last month's decision by the University of Kansas Memorial Corporation Board of Directors to hand the Supportive Educational Services (SES) program over to the Office of Minority Affairs, many black KU students feel that the system has once again taken away their strongest sounding board. Black students at meetings during the past two weeks repeatedly have supported the idea that in order for the program to serve black at its fullest economic capacity, the SES program has to remain black controlled. Now, the decision to make the program one big organization, which must service all minorities, has caused widespread belief that this has been done at the expense of black students. The program came under investigation in the fall of 1972 when an Indian student alleged that services were not provided to non-blacks. All parties to the controversy, including blacks agree that such a program should service all minorities regardless of race, creed, or color. But the black students insist that there should be separate divisions provided for other minorities within the program. Because black students feel that they have structured this program to the point where they feel it best serves the need of most black students at KU and prospective black students, there is quite a resentful reluctance from within to completely turn their program over to others. The program provides scholarships for qualified minority students. The students argue that a white cannot truly assess a black's need. This, they fear, will eventually eliminate those students who may want to be a part of the program in the future. The program is now out of the hands of black students, and they once again have lost a grip that they so desperately need—a strong voice that existed by having a hand in the economic pockets of the massive system. Black students have had their backs against the wall many times because of overt emotions. University of Kansas blacks once again have taken a stand against the system in hopes of getting their way for a change, and again, they have been boxed into what they feel is a "second-class citizenship." Many of those black students are wondering—will this always be the case? Frank Johnson IRS Practice Being Scrutinized Jack Anderson WASHINGTON — Senator Joseph Montoya, D-N.M., is investigating complaints from taxismen who claim they have been hounded, bullied and browbeaten by tax collectors whose methods would put a loan shark to shame. Many a widow's last mite has been snatched from her by an overeager Internal Revenue Service. Men have been stripped of their livelihoods and with it, the means of paying the government. Monteya will present testimony that agents are trained to presume the taxpayer has cheated; that they are encouraged to claim the taxpayer owes too much rather than too little; that two out of every three dollars in IRS auditor's claims turn out to be baseless; that a tax official is cording to where he lives and how much money is involved; that wealthy taxpayers don't appear to receive as close scrutiny as do poorer taxpayers; and that people of prominence or political pal are given special treatment. There will also be testimony that the IRS sets a 'quota target or plan' for squeezing money out of tax payers who are selected for the IRS to pay a share of their year's figures called for auditors to bring in $68 to $71 for each audited individual making $10,000 or less, $26 for individuals in the $10,000 to $30,000 income bracket and $56 for individuals in the $10,000 to $25,000 range. Tax agents will be quoted as boasting they can find "errors in 99.9 per cent of all tax returns if we want to." Nixon-Wallace Rupture? The peace between President Nixon and Alabama's Governor George Wallace may be coming to an end. The stricken governor reportedly is angered over some Nixon and Wallace reached an accommodation, apparently, on a presidential flight from Mobile to Birmingham in May 1971. No one knows what the two men said in court or on the web after, a criminal tax investigation of Wallace's brother Gerald was dropped. The governor, in return, announced he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination rather than run as an independent, thus assuring the electorate that votes wouldn't be drained away from him by a Wallace candidacy. Gerald Wallace how heads a shadow group, which claims to speak for the governor, who increasingly remains held up in his mansion nursing his pain and paralysis. The Gerald Wallace group, say our sources in montgomery, dispenses state currency. This was precisely what got him into trouble with Internal Revenue before the charges against him were dropped. Despite his militant conservatism, Governor Wallace is basically a Populist who believes in projects for the poor. Apparently, he has also developed a scientific side to his tough law-and-order philosophy. He is eager to see how the criminal justice centers, which would attempt to find a way of identifying the criminal mind and treating it. The Nixon cutbacks, therefore, have upset him. of the Nixon cutbacks, particularly the hold-up of a law Enforcement Assistance grant to the University of Alabama. President Nixon's new defense secretary, Elliot Richardson, has issued a directive to his staff explaining precisely how he wants correspondence prepared for his signature. Mindful that the President appreciates loyalty about all other qualities, Richardson instructed: "Use the complimentary close 'Sincerely' on all letters except on those addressed to the President. In the latter case, use 'Faithfully yours.'" Black September terrorists were placking to hijack an airliner and crush it into downtown Tel Aviv. Our story was based on information that intelligence agencies had picked up on the secret radio bands used by the Arab terrorists. Representative John Murphy, D-N.Y., wrote President Nixon about the plot Faithful Secretary Tel Aviv Plot We reported January 12 that Tel Aviv Plot and his office alerted the Israeli Embassy. This may explain why Israel was so sensitive over the appearance of an airliner over Israeli territory and why Israeli pilots shot the airliner down when it refused to heed orders to land. Copyright, 1973 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Bad Vibes from Clergy By GEORGE W. CORNELL Jesus stressed the importance of the church, Beach said, adding: "Apart from his intention to form a church, the events recorded in the Biblical Acts of Christ are tellible." That book describes formation of the church. Kingdoms Church authorities are taking a harder look at the youthful Jesus movement and are finding some of its methods shallow, devious and potentially harmful. Its energies also seem to be running out in some areas. Another critique came from a Protestant theologian, the Rev. Dr. Walter R. Beach of Washington, D.C., who pointed out that the "Jesus moment" in many organized church, are ignoring a key teaching of Jesus. "The danger is that many young people may be so scared by their experience of being in the far as future religious experience goes," concluded the Rev. Laurence Murphy, a Roman Catholic, after a study of the movement. Father Murphy, director of the U.S. Catholic Conference'sashington, said the movement was "frequently antitrational," frequently very utterly naive." A "very simplistic mentality" is found throughout much of the movement, he said, suggesting that it is "easy to be saved if you love Jesus, clap your hands or hork the focus is on 'feelings, emotions, experiences'." Some 'charismatic' leaders use techniques to persuade and even to coerce young people, he added. --budget their own library accounts. That opportunity should now be extended to hall ads. New women are a steal of women's office as well. "They manipulate their emotional needs and at times quite knowingly, the Bible dishonestly," he said. Dr. Beach, field secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, pointed out that although Jesus emphasized the "centrality of the church," the Jesus movement brushed this aside and largely rejected the organized churches. Jesus, in voicing his objective of founding "my church," said, "The powers of Christ will not prevail against it." Nevertheless, Dr. Beach said, organized Christianity might well follow one example of the Jesus people in going to the market place, into the arena at the market area, where people are." That was also a pattern followed by Jesus' early church. But the Church did so with the intellectual unrest of a pre-eminent theologian, the missionary-apostle Paul. One of the frequent criticisms is that the Jesus story has been generally scornful of Biblical scholarship and theology, insisting that the individual's story represents the Bible is sufficient. "It is assumed with uncritical conviction that anything departing from the purview of their literal fundamentalism is demonic and unsaved," writes theologian Eugene C. Bianchi, of Emory University in Atlanta. "With such a basically anti-intellectual presumption," he adds, "scholarly Scriptural literature lest it interfere" in their minds "reading into the Bible what they choose. Readers Respond To the Editor: AURH AURH Applauded; Reply by Gay I must respond to the rejection of "AUHR intervention" by Dean Emily Taylor, her employee Pam Meador and Oliver representative Greg Brown in the current courthouse hall library fund dispute. I am amazed by the short memories of the hall librarians. It was not until the AURH took the initiative to investigate the use of student residence hall funds that any of us knew that the dean of women's office had been using that money for other things than student organization initiative. It's about time that student organizations made sure that student money is not misused by administrators. In fact, it is about time that student funds are not administered by administrators. Let the students administer their own library money. Their nickels and dimes have created the vending machine profits from their library money has accumulated. For years the dean of men's office has allowed students the educational opportunity to - "ISRAEL) Looks FORWARD TO CONTINUE UNDERSTANDING OF HER VIRTUAL CLIENTS TO ARMS SUPPLIES FROM THE UNITED STATES REQUEST HE FOR HER DESPITEFUL, PARTICIPANTS IN THE AIR, AND HOPES THAT HER REMANUSS WILL BE MISSING WITHOUT DELAY" —— *GOLDA MEIIR* The fact that $1,000 of the money was misused and that almost another $9,000 has been given to the organization indicates the appropriateness of having such monies administered by such a central office. I am pleased that Taylor apparently has been administering pattern is needed. So far as that new process is concerned, it seems to me that this current controversy demonstrates the result of unnecessary bureaucracy. The suggestion that a central committee should decide on future allocations simply substitutes another bureaucracy. As Taylor said, few requests for expenditures had him questioned. That's probably the result of people simply not knowing the fund existed, and not understanding or wanting to hassle with the administrative red tape. That might be OK'd by the central committee, then why have a central committee at all? The money will be better used if it is simply allocated into library accounts and not into the extra sense to requiring an extra administrative step. And because GSP and Corbin are worried about getting their share of this $10,000, we go back in the vending rooms and give them exactly what they contend for profits. They feel ripped off when money is divided per capital. I understand their feeling, even though they should keep in mind that since Oliver, for instance, contains so many more students, they will likely need more resources. Away, why should GSP and Corbin ask other halls to subsidize their library? That's a rip off of the large halls. In conclusion, it must be noted that the AURH is not asking that the misused money be returned to the association, but to the halls of the institution. In intervention, I call that assistance. Whatever it is, if there are other student funds being misused, the appropriate action is for student organizations like the AURH when necessary to correct it. Mike Sundermeyer Ravtown, Mo., Senior Gay by Choice To the Editor: Barbara Spurlock's editorial on homosexual abuse (Kansas, Feb. 26) is difficult to respond to because of the challenges but unfortunate lack of understanding of gay people. Spurlock validly writes that gay people are oppressed and that gay experiences not affect sex behaviors will not affect sex behaviors. However, Spurlock states "A homosexual is not a homosexual by choice." Speaking from my own experience as a gay woman, and from the many discussions I have had with other lesbians and gay men, I am aware that the statement is not true. I personally, along with many other gay people, have considered all the options for me in sexual behavior, and have decided, not on the basis of any compulsion or sickness but simply as a way of saying I love you. That I choose gay relationships. Many people decide this simply because they fall in love with a member of the same sex, not out of any conscious decision to prefer one sex to the other, but because they love a person, and because the courage and intelligence to pursue this love regardless of sex. "Homosexuals are rarely curable, 'Curable' is probably a bad term ..." the editorial continues. The mention of homosexuality as a disease is so engaging to me that I can barely keep up with it. On the other hand, Spurlock does try to redetermine the statement by pointing out that many gay people no longer see homosexuality in these terms, but the point is she made the assertion that it is a condition which can not be cured. Does one generally try to cure oneself of personal preferences? Do we try to cure ourselves of another human being? Do we normally try to cure honesty and openness in our relationships? I don't mean to be overly critical. Spurlock does have some grasp of social pressures and the challenges in understanding is important. I yet I was dismayed when I read her editorial, because I have the feeling that all our efforts have been useless. It seems that people have caught the factual content of what gay liberation is about, and I want to altogether. Being gay, for the 10,000th time, is not a condition, is not a disease, is not a compulsion, is not disgrace, is not immoral, is not a revolutionary commitment, is not a protest, is not destruction. It is a choice of behavior which we want to be responsive to. And being a choice, it is one that can be adopted or rejected at various times in life and with regard to various people. Laws restricting homosexuality thus require the citizens to choose their lovers. I hope this letter will not be taken in the spirit of persona Spurück's good intentions it writing the editorial, but rather it should be taken in the spirit of newspaper which newspaper should provide. Peggy C. Scott Lawrence Sophomore Israel To the Editor: The whole world can breathe easier now that it no longer will have to listen to how much hooler clans are waging war. The latest Israeli move in the Middle East of international terror, in a labyton airliner was shot down and more than 100 people killed as well. An elp along an end to the conflict. Now that Israel has revenged herself on the Arab people for Munich, she can go to the peace table with her head held high. She has retrieved her lost honor as the United States did in its massive bombing of Hanoi. Pressured by governments who feel that the alleged invasion of airspace was not sufficient justification for the act, as Israel will do her part to help the conflict. When Mr. Nixon praises her for achieving a just and lasting peace we can all rejoice at this triumph of honor among nations. Dan Moore Lawrence Graduate Student Athletics To the Editor: Recently a samba was installed in Robinson Gymnastics and, of course, the same locker room. In other institutions that I have attended, this type of action served to generate at least one reaction and some comments. Like most institutions in our society, the University of Kansas athletic complex is sexist. Some examples of this discrimination are a male faculty locker room in a reflection of sex bias in another area, keeping the women inside the men's locker room once it is filled out and closing the women's locker room on Sunday. Unfortunately, no reaction has yet emerged at the University of Kansas. But consider the reaction if only whites were allowed to use the suaña. I feel this situation is but one example of the virtually total lack of awareness of sexist attitudes at the University. Dennis R. Molamphy Overland Park Graduate Student THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Kansan Telephone Number: Newroom—UN 4-4510 Business Office—UN 4-4358 NEWS STAFF News Adviser . . . Susanne Shaw Editor Joyce Neerman Associate Editor Hailey Garff Campus Editor Bob Simpson Editors Roy Wai Editors Joyee Dunbar, Anita Knopp, Hail Ratier Copy Editors Linda Chapau, Glintie Mikele, Robert Schild Assistant Campus Editors Robin Groom, Salt Morgan Assistant Campus Editors Robin Groom, Salt Morgan Entertainment Editors Mary Land Sports Editors Erenson Lyon, Wire Editors Jim Kendell, Cath Sherman, Glintie Mikele Makeup Editors Harry Wilson, Anita Knopp, Hail Ratier Photographers Ed Dallo, Dan Laung, Charlie Cannabla Creators John Barley, Christopher Caldwell, Robert Duncan. 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