4 Tuesday, April 2, 1974 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. BSU Needs Openness, Direction Although whites and blacks have come to coexist in relative peace at this University and it's no longer fashionable to talk about racial problems, the University of Kansas still has them. Most indications, for example, are that racial tensions were an underlying factor in fights that led to the closing of intramural basketball games to spectators, although there was disagreement about the location. And there were a few brief incidents at intercollegiate basketball games this year that indicate subsurface tensions. The band folded up and departed immediately after one game because of harassment from black students sitting behind it, and black students harassed and picked fights during the K-State game with some white students who sat, adixtent to the blacks' section. Beneath such manifestations, however, some black students view themselves and the University in adversary terms. "You're a student in a university." A student. "Racism exists here. It's plain, and everybody knows it." What almost no one seems to know, however, is what the Black Student Union is doing about this. Black students, as the aggrieved minority, had the option of choosing not to set out to fight racism here by forming the BSU. And they got solid results in the early going. Under pressure from the BSU, the University has established a black studies department, has recruited black faculty members, has set up a minority tutoring program and has formed an administrative office to deal with minority affairs. Somewhere along the line, the BSU seems to have lost steam. But whether that actually is the case is hard to determine, for the BSU refuses to tell inquiries reporters what it does these days. The reason for that, former BSU leaders say, is that controversy and adverse publicity in the early going led the BSU to solve that problem by talking to educators when doing so suited its propaganda purposes. Such a policy means that white students hear about the BSU only at funding time, which is now. Michael Moore, BSU chairman, told the Student Services Committee of the Student Senate Sunday that the BSU's purpose was to work with black students in solving their problems at this university. His remarks indicated a rather anemic and poorly planned program, however. His description of current services for black students by the BSU included the opportunity to discuss black problems at KU, an effort to develop different points of view of the world and special entertainment. The BSU request for funds proposes to continue a program of tutoring for black students in the Lawrence schools, to send members on recruiting trips to junior colleges and high schools in Kansas and Kansas City, to start a BSU newspaper and to sponsor a careers program to introduce black students to high schools to professional possibilities. However, Moore was unable to document under questioning by the committee the calculations that led to the BSU's request for $4,800 to fund such a program. Indeed, the BSU's record in activity fee funding indicates consistently poor planning and inefficient management. Aside from the suspension of $1,734.56 of the BSU allocation in 1972-73 for irregularities in a food program, the BSU has spent only $38,108.75 from allocations of $50,915 in the last four years. Such frugality is admirable, but it raises questions about how clear an idea the BSU has of what it is doing when it asks for money. And the BSU has a long history of asking for a lot more than it gets or spends. In 1972, for example, it requested $35,350, received $18,030 and spent $13,818.14. This year, it requested $17,125, received $935 and has spent $89.27 as of March 22. Those figures combined with charges of poor leadership from some black faculty members lead to a conclusion of tragic inepitness in the BSU. Whether such a conclusion is valid remains unknown because the BSU won't tell outsiders much about itself. The element of tragedy enters all this in the unfulfilled potential of the BSU. Black faculty members suggest that a revitalized BSU could play a leading role in recruiting black students to KU, in teaching courses for students who bring to the University and in developing cultural and intercultural awareness. Granted, the BSU is trying despite its limitations to recruit black students and to offer remedial educational programs. But as a closed organization for blacks only, it does nothing to develop those cultural and intercultural awarenesses, to reduce racial tensions. "I don't think the anti-white approach is the solution," says one black faculty member. "The BSU could be a very viable student organization on this campus working with SUA and the administration toward a common goal—making these black students successful in life." Before such a vision of the BSU can be realized, however, the BSU will have to open up. If the BSU is actually less stagnant than it appears from the image, then it will eventually have left it and has left if it continues its course of introspection. And that would leave the racial situation in exactly the same position it's in—an uncomfortable Bob Simison "OH, YES, WERE EXPECTING HIM IN JUNE. SAY, IS THAT FELLOW ST CLAIR ANY GOOD?" Readers Respond Josh Has Answers on Sex, Future To the Editor: "Josh" is Joshua McDowell, a traveling representative for Campus Crusade for Christ. I've heard portions of the two talks that he will be giving here, so I thought it would be in order for me to explain something of what Josh will say. Tomorrow night he will be speaking on the topic, "The Future Tellers." He will probably deal with several phases of Biblical prophecy, including prophecies from the Old Testament, Messiah's coming, and prophecies yet to be fulfilled in terms of the present world situation. Josh usually takes an example of an Old Testament prophecy and shows how its fulfillment is a historical fact. His talks allow one to see the reliability of the Bible. Thursday night's topic is "Maximum Sex" or "Love Is Still Possible in a Junky World." This is a fantastic talk on the nature of human sexuality and how one can be sexually fitted to the maximum extent. Josh points out that much of the passion has been taken out of sex, and that as a result people are not being fulfilled with love. He argues act is not only a physical relationship but also a "soulish" and spiritual one. If one of these two is missing, the relationship is diluted. His discussion of this important topic is really beautiful, and I advise married or married unmarried, to attend this talk. Alan D. Jarboe Salina sneor Dog Rules Supported To the Editor: Something must be done about the dogs running loose on campus. One morning between classes, we witnessed the following scene: A young couple and their small child were playing a game of Waltson Library when a large dog run past snarling viciously and took a lunge at the child. This in itself is absolutely terrifying. But what was even worse was the fact that the owner of the dog was running into spaces behind, with no control over her dog. We own two dogs ourselves and love them very much—enough to keep them penned or on a leash. If you don't want to keep your dogs under control for the dog's sake, at least do it for the sake of the citizens of the community. Jana Trent Stan Trent Lawrence seniors Thanks for Column To the Editor: I would like to thank Senator Paul Hess, KU law student, for his very informative newspaper column that was printed in the Kansan weekly. I felt that Sen. Hess' articles focused on the pertinent issues of the recent legislative session. His column gave good inside information about the issues he faced in Kansas. Again, I would like to thank Senator Paul Hess, particularly his students, know about their legislature. Streaking Phenomenon Sweeps Nation . . . Sally Shears Hutchinson freshman Breakfast Blahs The Los Angeles Times To the Editor: By OSGOOD CARUTHERS I have just read Alison Gwinna's review of Lawrence's breakfast spots (Wed., Mar. 27) and almost lost my lunch. When Gwinna says "Lawrence provides too many good breakfast spots to pass up," one wonder if I should read her article or what I almost did after reading her article. So, once again a Bacchanalian fad has swept across the land, faster than wildfire, faster than one can streak through a Disneyland ticket booth. Unlike other such aberrations, this one has the exciting qualities of velocity as well as variety, humor as well as hubris and risk as well as ribbidity. The best that can be said of Bob's Our Place Cafe and Shorty's Cafe is that the food (I use word with some reservation) is well lubricated. As for Samboo and J.B.'s, the atmosphere can be quite pleasing if your taste tends toward the putrid. Remarkably, Kings has managed to combine both these savory characteristics. There are Vietnamese and English wines being served at the Holiday Inn, and Gwinn has obviously never experienced the sensual delight of wringing out one of Joe's freshly baked glazed doughnuts. The older such fads, usually concentrated among the collegiate, took more time to spread their influence: *Goldfish-gulping* was slow in gaining a general swallowing of them. It had worked for a jarming had little else to recommend it than the most ungratifying form of group-peuropeg therapy. But they died out as slowly as they caught on because the non-native people (Keepers etc.) kept trying to suppress them. Streaking is the latest revival of the ancient rites of spring to clutch the imagination of the young—the young ir spirit as well as in age. It is not, however, an entirely new phenomenon. The first recorded grand protest streak, of course, was performed by a beautiful woman with long golden tresses who rode her horse (barback, no doubt) in a blue outfit and wore tresses to protest the heavy taxes imposed by her husband. Legend goes that city got The earliest form of streaking is as old as mankind, but it was rather the reverse of what we see today. Through the Garden of Eden—and out into the cruel world—with their fig leaves on! Driven by shame into a judeo-Christian hood, this process decreed the wearing of some kind of cover. And, of course, it was that very Jebrow- imposed sense of shame that gave the future art of streaking its excitement—its panache! I once saw an early Victorian-age example of streaking in reverse, too. It was a classical pornographic engraving—a prize in the portfolio of a collector of such memorabilia—of Empress Catherine of Austria, inspecting her palace guard. The reverse switch here, however, was that she strode past the formation in full imperial regalia, silks and ermine and crown, while the guard stood at longest possible attention without a stitch on. That, it seems to me, was a form geared to the tempo and mores of the time. its tax exemptions, her husband placed a heavy toll on horses passing through coventry. And Peepping Torn, the only man at the nude Lady Godiva, was struck blind. There are some philosophers today who have diagnosed the new streaking craze as politically oriented—a protest form of disillusionment. It is the long dissollution and an end to the cover-up. All of this fresh spring activity has provided a great deal of diversion and supreme amusement in these trying times. But I fear that the tad is doomed to an early death, not because it can do one thing, despite a few nusher cluckings by certain jurists, deans emeritus and moralists, the whole concept of stealing has been enthusiastically hailed by some old ladies in high-beaked sneakers to collars and vices in high-choke collars. - THERE ARE GRANTING IN A PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTORY REQUIRED TO THE PROVISIONS AND PROTOCOLATIONS OF OUR SOCIETY, WAS THAT And this is what is worrying the superannounced streater-watcher. All of this applause for the latest youthful paddillo is not enough to warrant a form of exposure as the relief alternative to the other more disturbing forms of youthful exuberance we have witnessed in recent years is a form of permissiveness that is not always desirable. Purple-haired matrons with sequined hearing aids aid the bearded psychologists and smurking TV anchormen in ennumerable scenes of the exciliation of risk—of doing something daring and dangerous—will be gone. ... Psychologist Predicts It's Here to Stay Gastronomies beware! If you want a good breakfast in Lawrence, eat at home. If you want a brunch in Baltimore, eat at home. Paul Bindirm is a Los Angeles psychologist, and the self-styled father of mute psychootherapy. He has personally worked with children their first experience in social multity. LOS ANGELES—Streaking is healthy, and I predict that it is here to stay. It may change form, but its essential ingredient, sanctioning of public寅吮, will remain. By PAUL BINDRIM Special to the Los Angeles Times What began as a rebellion against the traditions of society and spread as a fad will continue because if contains two elements which make it alive no matter how much some people want, they are a person who dares doff his clothes in public is surprised to find that the experience is thoroughly pleasant and joyously releasing. In addition, he gets one up on his friends, whom he admires, but afraid to follow suit. The streaker urges others to follow him, and a chain reaction By PAUL BINDRIM We of the older generation must put up a stalwart facade of moralistic disapproval—else this delightful form of "airing" youthful emotions will once again be displaced by more energizing stimulation such as rioting and plotting Maoist revolutions. Our culture's ban on the removal of clothing in public is harmful to us all. Through such a custom we learn to feel ashamed of our sexual organs, of our bodies and of ourselves. These damaging feelings affect our lives even though they generally remain unconscious. Seeing a streaker, however, often makes us unequities of the body, like nudity and awakens strong, through ambivalent, feelings. We fear exposing ourselves, and at the same time anticipate the release that exposure may offer. In the workaday world, in the interest of industrial efficiency, we ask people to keep their private lives to themselves, to fill in the gaps and to assume that the product is more important than the person producing it goes unquestioned. Relationships are reduced to impersonal games in which clothing labels are displayed, for reactions may be expected of the players. In some respects, streaking is like opening a Christmas package. Until we are ready to open it, we have broken it for us. If we made we have broken a lifelong tradition, and either benefit or lose by the experience. If nothing else, we will gain insight into a cultural value by When the first solitary stranger, whoever he was, stopped running long enough to ask someone to join him, he changed a fad into a movement that stands a good chance of surviving. It is not the removal of clothing from his clothes or the society without clothing that makes the difference, and that is pretty hard to do when you are running alone. However. Faces are trained to become masks that cover up in the same way as clothing. We learn to hide our humanity, our tears, our suffering. Empathy is lost as emotion becomes hidden. begins. when 1.343 University of Georgia students streak en masse, we no longer have streaking in its solitary form. What we have is tacitly sanctioned public nudity. Michael Sternlieb Up to the present time, the police have wisely maintained a low profile, and all streaking has been accepted as harmless fun. Tensions have been lessened by a sense of humor. But if an attempt is made to repress the activity, I predict that it will either be tolerated or ignored, ground to reemerge as a form of social protection. It fits in so well with the philosophy of passive resistance that it is surprising that it has not already been used in this way. What does streaking mean to society as a whole? Streaking seems to be the innocent and spirited expression of intelligent people who are tired of always being loaded down with clothing and the social role it imposes, of people who want a few more hours of leisure and a lot of orderly social processes and struggles that we all take so seriously and that at times seem so meaningless. Lawrence law student ] Next Shortage: Food 8y TOM WEISHAAR Kansas Staff Reporter Next year's food crisis will make this year's energy crisis seem like fun. No gas just makes people stay at home. No food makes people die. Of course, you might say we have a food crisis right now. Food prices have been rising for more than a year. The rise has been blamed, at one time or another, on the government, the grocers, the farmers, the Russians, the beefers, the meat packers, just because everyone could possibly have a hand in it. The real cupril, however, has escaped the pointed finger. The real cupril is people. There are more of us now than ever before. Even so, world agriculture was keeping up with rising population. Then they got rich and they get rich they wanted to eat meat instead of bread and vetagels. A high-meat diet requires five times more protein than a balanced diet. Eat the grain, then we eat the cattle. Because people around the world demanded more meat in the last few years, much more grain was used for meat production. Suddenly world agriculture could not keep up; grain became more scarce and prices rose. We complained, we screamed about inflation; those of us who had been eating meat ate less of it. Those who hadn't eaten eatment simply ate less But nothing seems to help much anymore. The world's cupboard is nearly bare. And everyday there are more of us. The people who had been eating bread and vegetables eat rice and beans. And the people who had been eating rice and beans? They just don't eat as much. The price of these foods is more than 100 per cent in the last year. Here in Kansas we don't really suffer much. Prices force us to eat more bread and vegetables, but we survive. It would be nice if yelling at the government would make more food, but only hard work and good weather can do that. And even then it's a race against an increasing number of stomachs. solutions. At any rate, don't blame the grocer for high food prices. It's the people's fault. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Published at the University of Kansas daily examination periods. Mail subscription rates: $8 a semester, $15 a year. 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