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Wednesday, February 28, 1973
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Town-Gown Politics
Upon entering the University of Kansas students are told that they form an integral segment of the Lawrence community. Students are told that in Lawrence no "toowing all" this so as to rationalize the exploitation that occurs by some sectors of the business community.
Last week the City Commission said that a commission advisory committee should be established to help make important decisions. No mention was made of a student committee, which is dishearning for it reflects the attitude we have been told is nonexistent.
Students should be involved in a commission advisory group. Perhaps the greatest reason is that students have an opportunity to guide the city in a new direction through their votes. This is the first year that students may vote in city elections.
It is no secret that many "city establishment" types are very concerned that the same effect on a fall will be repeated this spring.
There will be 14 candidates vying for the student vote in the city primary election March 6. The six survivors of the primary will seek the student vote in the general election. Who makes it through the primary could very well be determined by the "gowns."
Students continually make attempts to come closer to city activities and the Lawrence community in a positive manner. These attempts should be hailed. The KU Interfraternity Council has joined the Chamber of Commerce in order to increase student participation in the business community. The Student Senate has spent some funds
wisely for the development of services such as the Consumer Protection Association, the Chapman and Volunteer Clearing House.
What attempts can we list by members of the city's official body to draw students closer to the community? Few, if any.
Students are no longer as transient as they once were. Many more students are staying in Lawrence beyond four years. A large population of graduate students, most of whom are married, bring their families to live in this town. All this supports the statement made in a paper on the economic impact of the University on Lawrence. The University is the primary financial resource of this city.
Let us not listen to the idle promises of the candidates, for we know too well that many will be made. Let us express our discontent with city officials, two of whom are up for re-election to the commission, who have not included students on their advisory committee. Let us understand the reasons officials toward students and then vote for those who have demonstrated a true concern for the University community.
Students gave Douglas County new faces on the county commission last fall. Students changed the personnel in the courthouse. Students can and must elect city commissioners who will represent the University community as well as the business community.
The primary is March 6 and the general election is April 3. If you are registered, vote and help bring about constructive change in city government that will benefit all segments of Lawrence, "town and gown."
—R.E. Duncan
WASHINGTON—In the constant campaign to separate the customer from his cash, small businesses pigs to find out how to whet their appetites and, through the children, to influence the buying process.
Millions are spent on motivational research to stimulate youngsters, so they will pester their parents into buying advertised brands. A typical research group, describing its
Ads Aimed at Children Attacked
sophisticated operations, boasts:
sophisticated operations, boasts:
" our new offices have four
laboratories, laboratories, rooms with one-way
mirrors for observing children,
video tape and recording
images at the museum, an
immersion viewing room, etc."
One outfit even uses moisture detectors, placed in contact with the children's hands, to measure infectious responses to advertising.
Jack Anderson
Explains another research group, which claims to have special insight on how to aim advertising at children:
"Remember if it is a multichild family with a child in preschool, there is an awesomely greater chance that there would be in a family where there is a six-year-old just starting school."
Consumer advocate Robert Choate is asking the Federal Trade Commission of investigate the child-manipulation techniques as an unfair business practice. The Federal Communications Commission to investigate the possibility that the commercials, in their very preparation, violate the fairness doctrine, since few parents understand the aids aimed at their children.
"The average child," Chatee tells us, "sees about 25,000 commercials a year and so spends four hours a week watching commercials, but this four hours is much more sophisticated and intrusive upon a child's mind than we had ever guessed."
Incident in Havana
The bizarre story can now be told of what happened in Havana after Pat Gary, the bullet-headed boss of the FBI, ordered his agents to shoot out the tires of a skyjacked Southern Airways plane. The authorities attempt to keep it from taking off from Orlando, Fla.
The details were gathered by Rep. John Murphy, D-N.Y., as part of his research on skivelling legislation.
The story revealed that FBI sharpshooters punctured all the trespass on the mose wheel. They shot it into the hole of a shot copilot Billy Harloyd Johnson and held a grenade at the head of chief pilot William R.
Despite the flat tires, Haas was迫于 attempt to take an靴. On "act of God," he told murphy, provided an airpocket that lifted the crippled car into the air just as the runway ran out.
In Havana, Cuba's mercurial dictator Fidel Castro heard the news and hurried down to the bridge where he was under the control tower. He ringed the area with combat troops, 27 ambulances and seven firetrucks. Thousands of Cubans also gathered to watch the drama
Hass miraculously brought the huge jet to a shuddering halt at the end of a long slide. "I though we would wind up in a fire ball at the fire pit," he said. The skypackers, meanwhile, piled out of the plane and raced in opposite directions for the nearby woods. They left behind $2 million in money, which they had handed out to the patrons with abandon.
The air pirates didn't get far before they were collared by Fidel's finest. At first, they wore white gloves and with hand grooming. Castro himself was close enough to the action to have been killed or injured. They were subdued, the compartment of cheering Cubans.
Then the jubilant Castro grabbed the chief pilot, hugged him, and lifted him into the air.
Shield Laws and the Constitution
EUGENE, Ore.-Everywhere a newspaperman goes these days, he falls into shop talk on "shield laws." This was the main topic of discussion at this month's annual meeting of publishers, held in cooperation with the University of Oregon's school of journalism. In Washington, both House and Senate are conducting hearings on the problem. Dr. Frank CBS, is issuing manifestos.
hurrying away at bills to protect the newsman. I wish they'd stop t, and leave us alone.
The problem, to restate it
One mistake we often make in our business is to suppose that few persons care much about the newspaper business. We cover the affairs of everyone else far better than we cover our own. On law, we may have laws, however, we may have hollowed too much. Not only the houses of Congress, but a score of State legislatures as well, are
print, but this is perhaps the most important two or three per cent. When a newspaper undertakes to expose corruption or insecurity, it often tells the people what they have a right to know of crime in their
briefly, stems from the necessity (as we see it) of a reporter's being able to predict his sources. We use three per cent of the news we three per cent of the news we
James J. Kilpatrick
--communities, the newsman usually is working from sources that have to be kept in confidence.
Until a few years ago, this was seldom a problem. Then the picture changed. Law enforcement to cope with black
revolutionaries, student disruptions, antiwar conspiracies, the drug culture, and new ventures in organized crime. Newsmen often developed experiences in area areas. Prosecutors wanted testimony. The newsmen balked. Along came the Nixon administration, understandably hostile to the press, and now subpoenas, like rainbowes, keep falling on our heads. CBS and CNN broadcasts, so spenons in the first 2½ years of the Nixon administration.
Thus has arisen the clamor for a federal shield law, intended to provide "absolute" or qualified "protection" for those at risk. Two dozen sublugs are being discussed in the House and Senate now.
All these bills, in my own view, should be quietly shelved. We ought to rely solely upon the Constitution, and upon its reasonable interpretation by the Supreme Court, in order to prove that courts, including the Supreme Court, have failed in the past to understand our problem, but judges are not immune to education. The high court's disappointing decision last June was a 64 decision, with Justice Sotterloff having issued the ordinance of the majority's view. This was not the last word.
struggled in vain to define the newsmen and the media subject to protection. their purpose, to borrow from a bill by Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Con.,) is to grant exemption only to "a legitimate member of the professional news media in order to declare a particular reporter 'legitimate' is the power to declare another reporter 'illegitimate.' And while congressmen regularly make these unkind determinations in casual speech, it is a different matter to define legitimacy and the right to be on the effort smacks of licensing, a folly supposedly behind us two centuries ago.
If a shield law is to pass muster under the First Amendment, it cannot exclude any reporter or any kind of "press." A sympathetic Congress might be agreeable to protecting, say, Jeremiah O'Leary, Latin author and expert for the Washington star-News, but one doubts that Congress truly would want to shield Timothy Leary, Algerian correspondent for the Berkeley Bar.
We will be better off, in the long haul, if we fight each case on its merits, as it comes along. A defective statute, no matter how well intended, is paper protection. For an enduring shield and buckler, we must look to the Constitution itself.
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crying "Magnifico, magnifico!" Haas was driven to a Havana hotel in Castro's private jeep by Army aides. Asked what would happen to the skijagers, an aide said: "We don't need bandits in army custody. These two will put into a 48-hour prison cell for life."
The pending bills, as I see them, are fatally defective. Drafters of the bills have
Editorials Draw Fire
attorney general. If you don't like the enforcement of your laws, Mr. Riel, then I suggest that you change them, and that you refrain from chastising a man for his role in the lives of people of Kangan's pay him to do.
perts, including ordained minister Richard L. Fullerton of nearsey NY, who nearly made the funding has made the funding of old people's homes so complicated and expensive that cuts are made in construction, including a $28 million
Witnesses will blame the Baptist towers fire in Atlanta partly on FHA officials who winked at their own regulations and permitted construction under fire protection equipment.
It will be alleged, for example, that the door knobs in Baptist Towers were small metal knobs difficult for the elderly to turn and not the levers recommended for nursing homes. The fire alarm was also so inadequate, it will be testified, that one resident
who barely escaped with her life told rescuers she thought the warning system siren was an alarm clock.
This will be charged at
hearings, which Sen. Harrison
Williams, D-N.J., has scheduled
for this month to begin a
bone construction. Housing ex-
Atlanta Tragedy
a tragic Atlanta apartments - for the - elderly fire, which cost the lives of 10 residents last fall, could have been avoided by a simple smoke detection device costing about $8 per apartment.
The FHA manual on property standards requires that buildings such as Baptist Towers "of eight or more stories having more than two stories built equipped with an automatic fire detection system." The requirement, however, was waived for the Atlanta construction. Excavators later: "We didn't have enough money for everything."
(C) 1973 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Tom Merkel
Topeka Junior
The devices, which could have saved the lives of the Atlanta victims, would have cost the companies total of $13,000 it will be charged.
State of the Union Declines; Students Aren't Far Behind
Copyright, 1973 by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.
At this interval, this morning for instance, the progress and direction of many of the facets of reported be fairly to the public.
By KEVIN SHAFER Features Editor
" NEVER MIND THE PURSE ----GIMME YOUR STEAK AND HAMBURGER/ "
At certain times throughout the semester, many students might think that they would like to know just "what's happening" at the University of Kansas. Certain students may also want someone else to know about the frequency of functions of many parts of this University.
I come before you this morning to report the condition of one of these facets in my annual State of the Union address.
Lawrence (Bopper) Deyton Lawrence Senior
The Kansas Union, as you know, is a facility for students to enjoy during the holidays or to meet you at that very moment this same facility is becoming a place in which students may goof off or simply run.
Way down in the subsubasbement level (where the Pershing Rifles become subsubmarines), students have found a bowling alley. Here male students watch female bowling students and female students may watch male bowling students.
becoming more human. Men,
start thinking and feeling,
instead of being Robert Duncan
robots.
Luckily the infection transforming the Union into a “place to goof off” has not penetrated the skin, and is the most serious level of the Union.
In the basement, or SB, the Union Bookstore has become a haven for wandering students. The security lockers in front of the library are also able to repel the student goof off. Their method is simple.
The hungry students' services,
or the vending machines by the
Hawk's Nest, as they are coming
to school. Infection Goof-Off. Of the
available machines in the area,
two require correct change only,
one has nothing in it and one
has completely out of order.
But in this case that I have administered as a student, I am proud to tell you now that the bathroom in this section of the Union has accumulated some of the best graffiti on campus. Students are reminded, circulation is up over 80 per cent from last year.
A recent survey, done on an ordinary Sunday night, revealed that out of the 110 lockers
In B, or the basement level of the Union, is the world's "thickest noted" bulletin board. More messages, advertisements, named posts and even letters are posted anywhere where else on this campus.
Robot Thinking To the Editor
available for use by the students using the bookstore, 48 or 43.6 per cent were locked or out of order.
Some of the most noted sections of the board include the ad for someone trying to sell an item on a discounted buying discount rent to any female who will be his roommate and a photographically-present power of a lost cat who an attached man says the cat has been eaten.
During my term as a student, a color television set was provided in the classroom to happy to report to you that the popularity of the television has become so great that many, and our students have been added to the room.
lounging chairs and daydream or sleep.
On Floor 1, the goof off madness has reached dangerous proportions. Here students stand around looking at the travel board searching for a name anywhere in the United States that they recognize. Lines have formed at the check cashing line, and lines for nine hours prettening they are trying to cash a check. Some students have even acquired the notion that they can sit in the
We will, I am sure, figure out some way during this term for someone to be able to see the screen on the television.
I thank the commission, the Women's Coalition, the February Sisters and all women's groups for helping start us on the road to
So the next time that you, my fellow students, are in this state of our University, you will be on watch for this enemy of our institution. Be aware of students goofing off.
I am afraid to admit that R.E. (Robert) is an all-tootypical male. However, it encourages me to think that in his fear of the women's movement he moved against it at least thinking. He can see a good thing in the women's movement and says, "Why can't I enjoy that too?" Unfortunately he has taken out his anger by blaming it on her and by lashing out at the Commission on the Status of Women.
After all, it is our Union and they can love it or leave it.
Robert Duncan, you can become aware of yourself, how you react to others, and this sexist society. You can enjoy the same togetherness with men that women are sharing with them when happening right here in River City.
I am sorry that Duncan chose the Commission on the Status of Women as his whipping "boy." Perhaps he should look to himself, to his society and to other answers for his anger and fear.
Thank you, my fellow students.
Men are becoming aware,
"raising their consciousness"
and meeting with other men,
talking about and sharing many of the absurdities suggested in Duncan's Feb. 23 editorial.
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We don't see Carry Nation reborn, but to come to the head of our "Carry Nation" laws. I for some reason didn't know that drink and bingo completely legalized within this state. It's not the attorney general who should decide which alcohol is enforced and which should not.
To the Editor:
In the Kansas of Feb. 22,() again read an editorial criticizing the actions of Atty. Gen. Vern Miller. Steve Riel compared Miller to the ax-wielding Carry officer in a movie, and seemed to think that the attorney general's "elastic arm" was again reaching into places where it did not belong. First Miller confiscated liquor from an Amtrak train, then he raided bingo halls and now he is taking it to himself himself to remove liquor from the skies over Kansas.
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