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Tuesday, February 27, 1973
University Daily Kansam
KANSAN
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INTERNAL KANSAN MEMO TO STEVE RIEL
Miller Madness
(RE: your editorial of Feb. 22, which addressed the disturbing question of "equal enforcement" by Miller's "Operation Cloudburst"):
The State Attorney General's latest moves to twirl liquor sale or consumption by the drink over the Sunflower State do indeed pose some grave questions regarding equal enforcement.
The random boarding of flights originating or terminating in Kansas by state agents may or may not prove workable. It is certainly neither an equitable approach nor a final solution, in view of the number of other flights that pass over this very sovereign state.
Accordingly, I propose that the University of Kansas Student Senate entertain the notion of providing Vern Miller with a full squadron of suitably equipped, surplus Phantoms, in fitting recognition of his manifest efforts on the taxpayers' behalf.
These aircraft should be emblazoned with appropriate markings, including an international red-and-white circular hammer smashing through the vertical outline of a whisky bottle.
This symbol would make it apparent to any foreign visitors flying the dry skies of Kansas that, although certain of our state laws may be a bit odd, at least we acknowledge the existence of a world beyond the arid atmosphere within these borders.
The Phantoms themselves would serve as emphatic evidence of our sense of priorities and our up-to-date methods of law enforcement.
Each interceptor's equipment
would necessarily include two boom devices which could be extended as the Phantom flew side-by-side with a commercial airliner.
One boom would have a sophisticated 180-degree "fisheye" lens. When pressed against a cabin window of the adjacent civil aircraft, it would provide a reasonable scan of passenger activity.
The other boom would have a robotized black metal hand, backed with a silver star and the admonition, "Remember the WCTU." This iron hand would be clenched and extended by remote control from Miller's Master Moonshine Monitor in Topeka.
Whenever the scanning boom detected evidence of liquor sale or consumption, the Phantom pilot would maneuver his plane to a position opposite the window nearest the offending passenger.
The fist-boom would then reach out, smash the window, unclench, reach inside and grab the astonished scofflaw by the nape of his besotted neck. It would yank him out the window and clutch him firmly until the Phantom returns to the Halls of Justice in Topeka.
Perhaps the Student Senate might adopt this plan simply as an illuminating proposal to the attorney general for the protection of funding open for the moment.
In any case, let us not abandon hopes. Total control and total equal enforcement are within the scope of existing technology.
So up an' at 'em, Vern. Zap the zeppelins . . . scrutinize those Cessnas . . . search the satellites . . . the sky need not be the limit.
What next? Why "To the Stars Through Difficulty," of course.
The logic may well prove inescapable.
—C.C.Caldwell
Searching for a Job
Assuming that you have some choice, which you don't, it is a good idea to decide on the type of job you are looking for.
Job hunting is one of the few things that is irrational enough to make college seem as if it makes sense. The game is played by mailing out samples of your work, and by warning neckties and talking to people.
For most people college is a temporary thing. After four years of sleepless nights, poor health and poor food you are given an aerial photo of the University of Kansas, and then you have to find something else to do. The something else can come in a variety of forms, but for most of us who do not plan to go to Europe or become housepersons—at least not right off anyway—the something else is a job.
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI are probably more responsible than anyone for labeling Montana as the great American Siberia.
Most seniors would suggest that a basic characteristic of a good job is that it not be in Kansas. There seems to be more peer group approval of a job in Rolling Prairie, S.D., than of a similar position in Rolling Prairie, N.J., even some out-state areas that carry negative connotations.
A close friend of mine body filled out an Associated Press application with no geographical restrictions. I told him he was going to be sent to Butte, Mont. Actually, AP doesn't have a bureau in Butte; they are talking about sending my friend to Helena.
It seems irrational that there should be such a desire to get out of Kansas. The Chamber of Commerce is probably justified in telling you to "Shop Kansas first." After all, the people of Kansas are the ones that bought the green house-trailers for you to go to college in, paid the below average salaries for your professors, provided the National
Guard to lend excitement on occasions, protected you from the open saloon and elected Vern Miller. You owe these people a lot. (If this guy is going to judge me and I think as a general rule editorials should, it is shop Kansas first.)
There are several ways this drain on Kansas resources can be halted. But it is unlikely that universities will be nationalized. It is unlikely that the legislature will approve a subsidy for college graduates who are willing to stay in Kansas. It is even more unlikely that Kansas would consider joining the 20th century.
When job hunting young Americans who have been sheltered in institutions all of their lives, are forced to make a decision that could affect them for as long as they live: "Shall I get a haircut?"
But you are not at the depths of your humiliation when the barber presses his clippers down on your head. You hit the bottom a few days later when you don't have any hair, and you still don't have any job.
Women are sheltered from this
awesome responsibility, but they
are not.
Personnel management has developed into a science. You know that, but the guy that is sitting there asking you questions had never taken Business 175 and he has never heard of the Driggs Power Co. case
In the Driggs case, the Supreme Court ruled that using hiring criteria that could not be related to job performance violated of an applicant's rights.
Of course, this was such a shock to the irrational world of hiring, that personnel managers ignored it. The Driggs Power Co. doesn't give I.Q. tests to its coal shovellers, and we're university would have taught us how to neckties or something else practical that would help us get a job.
Eric Kramer
WASHINGTON—The real reason for the rapid warming of Chinese-American relations, according to sources who have been tracking climate change in the United States has used its influence with Moscow to
Housing Backlash
KANSAN
The inattention can be attributed in part to a small attendance at a midwinter meeting of the United Mortgage Bankers of America, a black group of which Travis is president. He claims many couldn't afford to come.
LETTERS POLICY
By JOHN CUNNIFF
NEW YORK—One of the bitterest commentaries on the administration's moratorium on subsidized housing was delivered earlier this month by Dempsey Travis, a black mortgage banker, but it went almost unnoticed.
"Sixty to 70 per cent of all black architects came into being because of the IDD programs, and they'll be going out of business soon," she added.
The federal government says the HUD programs were ineffective in solving the problem of housing the poor. But Travis claims the move to eliminate them has a racist impact and a classist impact that is unmistakable.
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It will set back racial equality in housing by 25 years, he said.
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The result, said Travis, will be demonstrated in more ways than the collapse of black architectural and building firms. It could, he said, invite into more violent friction between white and black.
As this scenario unfolds, be said, the establishment is accelerating the housing abandonment crisis in urban areas through excessively high taxes, poor schools, ineffective police protection—all combining to produce a high crime
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This is how he interprets the motivations and goals of the moratorium:
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"At the same time, whites will go galloping along with their 2.4 million annual new housing starts." Travis said.
"The federal and the city fathers have finally concurred in the fact that a city with a 30 per cent to 50 per cent black population is more likely to be black."
"The best way certain to stop this trend is to withdraw all the movies in the form of suspensions and other ancillary films."
The result, he said, will be forfeiture of property to the city for taxes, to be subsequently sold to an establishment developer. This developer then will build high-income buildings which is a 1973 way of saying "For whites only." "Travis said
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forestall a Soviet attack on China. We were the first to report on June 12, 1969, that hardliners in the Kremlin were contemptuing Americans for nuclear works. Our story has been confirmed by a number of
According to Travis, the market for old housing began to slip as new developments were erected. He now, he said, all of his workers had been let go.
Moscow Got Nixon's Message
Why then did the National Association of Real Estate Boards support the moratorium as necessary, and declare that subsidies "had have the effect of nurturing a permanent income Americans who look to the taxpayer for assistance?"
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"Traditionally," Travis said, "the black and the poor have provided the last profit in housing before it was torn down. Traditionally, profit from the poor was greater than the original profit from the affluent..."
Travis' belief that a plot exists probably represents a large portion of black sentiment, but it may be received by less impassioned minds as biased, and even destructively so. He also points to the fact that Washington leadership and its constituency.
Theirs is an establishment position to support absentee ownership in old, ghetto apartment buildings. Travis said. The realtors who were and still are the architects of white housing in Detroit are fostering a dual market that offers on color and class.
Asked why he spoke in such bitter terms, Travis replied, "I intended it that way. It time for someone to tell the truth."
The three cities—Wadley, Ga., Columbus, Ga., and Winston Salem, N.C.-received the grants in part because each had at least one top Republican official in accordance to the affiliations.
One antipoverty official in the Midwest was told by telephone to lend aid to Philips' quickie investigation by looking for "fraud, embezlement, serious community action programs, but also in "failed" or discontinued programs.
Business Manager
To prepare for what should be an ordeal for Phillips, the young conservative has hired a team of ex-federal investigators to probe programs he and the President want dissolved.
When staff members protested to regional director William Walker and his deputy John Dyer, Gou quotes Dyer as a "cool head" who is realistic and secure the maximum number of grants for our region. . . Dyer felt sure he could not get a grant through what was 'straight down the line Democrat.' Asked who the official would be, he replied it would be Howard Phillips."
at the same time, ironically, officials in the South are stepping forward with evidence linking Phillips to allegations partisan handling of experimental community action programs.
Phillips is zeroing in on the community action agencies, which currently employ 185,000 people. We believe we welfare if the agencies dissolve.
Both Walker and Dyer deny that the grants were made on a partisan, political basis. "We never asked for party affiliations," said Walker. "The list was compiled only to make me appear mayor or congressman in the city that received the grant was not strongly against the experimental program." A spokesman for Phillips denied any wrongdoing.
Affidavits in our possession name Phillips the "selection official" who reviewed and approved three experimental revenue-sharing grants totaling $251,750 to three southern cities.
Specific instructions
oef. official Elizabeth Gouwens sweepers. Good sweepers and that other field representatives were given specific instructions on how to nominate community action agencies for the grants. They were told, she claims, to list the political affiliation of the local officials seeking the grants. Good said. "A number of staff members who have worked with us provide partisan political information of this nature. . ."
journalists with access to the Kremlin's inner politics.
The Russians, meanwhile, are highly suspicious of Kissinger's activities in Hanoi and Peking. The President will reassure Moscow, however, that the United States "might merely put pressure on Soviet interests and not working against India interests in Asia."
This was on Nikon's mind when he sat down with Chairman Leónid Brezhnev in Moscow last week, saying that their national interests in the frankest possible terms. By laying his cards on the table, the president hoped to prevent any misunderstanding that might lead to war.
Those who are familiar with
Breznev responded with equal bluntness, by asking who had made the United States the arbiter of disputes between Communist countries. Nixon replied that a war between India and China would shake the world and endanger world peace.
Henry Kissinger has informed the Chinese of the American Chinese- Russian war. This has improved U.S. standing in Peking.
Foreign Minister Andre Gromyko made a joke about "throwing in Cuba for good measure" and the discussion ended in good spirits. But Moscow got the message.
He surprised Breznevije in warning that the United States would oppose China upon China to be against our national interests. This was another way of saying that the United States might be compelled to intervene.
A week ago, thousands of poor people stood on Capitol Hill to let President Nixon know they were "somebody." In reply, Howard Phillips, the appointed executor of the nation's anti-poverty programs, will troop up in Georgia and all those "somebodies" know why the President is cutting off funds for the poor.
Phillips vs. Poor
the President's diplomatic maneuvers say he is totally dedicated to creating a world where stresses and tension is preserved and peace prevail.
Copyright, 1973 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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Participatory Journalism Alive And Well in Hefner's Jacuzzi?
Lovelace's dog, Rufus, also had sent a card to Hefer, thus prompting several of the guests to come in. The girl coming in sex fads would be bestiality or child molestation. It wasn't a seminar on "Last
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF—Hugh Hefner, master of the butch, was in the foyer of his stone Tudor mansion, greeting his guests. The house, a work of superb craftsmanship and dubious architectural taste, was 25 stories tall with more millionaire, but it now does service as Playboy Mansion West. Hefner, clad in an orange terryclot jump suit with a bunny decal on the chest, was showing the arriving people a Valentine's Day card he d'ill received from Hefner, who gave such a singular performance in "Deep Throat."
--and announced that, if he'd let them, they'd like to lead him off. He said he was willing to be a hostage and they were along the night-lit stone path away from the mansion to the game house where you have a
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The guards, with their television scanners, man the
Fange" and the Al-Bugher fight that had fetched the 80 guests and taxed the capacities of Heilner's L-alike-equipped security men.
"--- SO I COMMANDERRED that BIG JEGT SO I COULD COME HERE TO BE WITH YOU AND INMUSE MSELF IN THE PURE SOCIALISTIC EXPERIMENT AND TO SEE FOR THE PEOPLB'S REPUBLIC AND ESCAPE ONE AND FOR ALL FROM THE OPPRESSIVE PRECISION OF THE RUNNING DOGS OF CAPITALISM, MR. CASTRO, MR. CASTRO? MR.
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gates and make this fountained and perfumed estate slightly less accessible than the White House. If an honest-to-god boxing fan had been able to breach security and race through the gardens and the tennis courts he would have been in the company of a number of people, as she staged to watch the fight, piped in on a special line from Las Vegas and displayed in color on a large screen.
A few of the men, like Lloyd Bridges, came with their wives and left early after eating a buffet of roast beef and paella served by a corps of young men in dark blazers. They keep the bar and kitchen open 24 hours a day to allow you to drink while they bring you a drink at the pool you're skimpy-dipping, they don't say.
Most of the men couldn't be still. They ceaselessly circulated through the living room where Hefner and his retainers stayed playing backgammon, into the living room 15 years's Scandinavian beauty was also playing backgammon, and then back to the great foyer, and into the dining room. Always they were moving on from one side to another across the room looked titer than the one they had.
The ratio of girls, and they are girls, to men was about three to one. Almost all of them were for their looks, and when a woman who did have some other claim to fame would come into the field of conversational vision, she told him that "That bit, she's divoring her husband and naming three men as co-responders."
The girls would try to trap them. They'd come up and say, "Have you been to the Jacuzzi? Oh, you don't know what the Jacuzzi is?" Four of them, two airline friends came up with an organizational relationship, came up to a young stage, stage and couch
choice of the red or the blue bedroom. As they pulled him along one of them said, "Oh, he won't really let us do it," to which her buddy answered, "Well, I just want to participate, I just want to watch."
"That is a form of participation," someone told her. "I never thought of it that way before." she replied.
The girls, for whatever reasons—money, celebration or career—upon the face of the dress room enough to let a different emotion show. She sat on the steps of the master staircase and said, "I don't want to go to bed with you. I'm hugged, nicely hugged," and she paused in pensive emotion, and looked up to say, "The only thing anybody says to me around Bob, what big tits you have."
But mostly the girls seemed to say nothing or "Come to the Jacuzzi."
Adjacent to the Jacuzzi is a building containing a row of disobscoring compartments with piles of towels, soaps and scents. There are showers without curtains but with plate-glass windows.
There you get undressed so you can go over to the Jacuzzi, the stone, vaulted baths where everybody swims nude under the waterfall or in a series of interconnected bubbling pools, and there is no temperature. The lights are low and there is music, a better than average place to plunge into participatory journalism.
So there we floated and talked about the end of the nuclear family, the difficulties of monogamy, the liberating aspect of sex and other glib conclusions that a wise man would regard to some skepticism. I can't give you some advice. There being no way a reporter can handle a notebook and a pen in the Jacuzzi.
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