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Thursday, March 7, 1974
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
White Males Lose Out
For some time there have been jokes about how one has to be a woman or a member of an ethnic minority group to get ahead these days. The difference now is that people are no longer laughing.
According to a story in the Wall Street Journal of Feb. 28, white males in the middle management levels of many large corporations are frustrated by what they consider to be reverse discrimination. A growing number of these men believe that they are being passed on from man simply because they are white males while less qualified non-whites and women are moving up the corporate ladder.
Of course, some of these complaints may be imagined. Undoubtedly, the white male may have certain preconceived notions about his abilities and he may not be willing to admit that there are women or blacks better qualified than he for promotion. How much pressure is discrimination is imaginary is difficult to say, but there are instances of real discrimination as well as imaginary ones.
Marco DeFunis Jr., for example, graduated with honors from the University of Washington in 1970. He went on to the University of Washington School of Law and was rejected both times. After the second rejection,
There is something patently wrong with a system that discriminates against a person on the basis of sex or race. There is something equally wrong, however, with a system that doesn't encourage a person to advance to the limits of his ability. Nothing is achieved by replacing one inequity with another.
The issues present in DeFunis' case pose a dilemma. If the affirmative action type of programs which fostered this reverse discrimination are allowed to flourish, it may destroy the concept of advancement by merit. Completely rejecting these programs, however, might stifle all opportunity for advancement for blacks and women. Neither situation is desirable.
peruis sued the law school, and during the trial it was revealed that the law school had been giving ill-fitted minority group applicants.
The court ordered that DeFunis be admitted, and he is now in his last semester as a law student. His case, however, has not been settled. The case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court which recently heard oral arguments. DeFunis' case has stirred a great deal of interest and it could be as important as the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation landmark.
John Bender
Students Go On Streak
There's something really unnererving about sitting down to write an editorial about streaking and sneaker shredding, so you steer the streakers dashing past the room.
Just what is the point of this mad behavior?
They went by in a blur, prompting an outburst of excited comment in the Kansan newsroom: "Didia see that?" "Jeez."
The recent warm weather has been pleasing, but it's hard to believe that anyone would be so pleased by it that he would feel compelled to run around outside in the nude.
One must hope that the two streakers didn't dash around the campus after leaving Flint Hall. If they did, they probably scared the hell out of several rape-conscious KU women.
It's possible that the streakers are all members of some sort of weird nudist colony track squad. Even so, one would think that they
could find a spot slightly more than the campus to praesides
The question remains, however,
Why streak?
Presumably, the point of streaking is to do something outrageous without endangering people and without breaking too many laws.
KU could charge $4 a person admission. The turnout probably would raise enough money to lower the activity fee.
Better still, let's make all of the streakers transfer to the University of Colorado. Then they really would be the Buffers.
Chuck Potter
Herbert M. Baus, a Republican, is founding partner of Baus and Ross, the insurance firm; minority member of President Xincong victorious California campaign in the 1960 presidential election and was involved in many other Nixon efforts. This is his open memo to President Clinton.
By HERBERT M. BAUS Special to the Los Angeles Times
You still have a choice. Whether to depart the scene with honor or to end the Republican tradition as its last elected president, rupturing a nation that has weathered two centuries of storm and strife by seeking to save your job at the cost of becoming a symbol of moral turpitude and duplicity in high office.
As one who supported and rooted for you in every race you've run—and worked for and advised you in many—I suggest the time has come for you to bow out. This is not only the best but now the only way for you to maintain that patience that has been your constant goal.
Your innocence or guilt is no longer the paramount issue of the unfolding drama that has become the crucial event of your life.
The paramount issue has become whether the country will be ripped apart by your impeachment for a colony of crimes that are not being prosecuted—office—or whether you will go away, quietly.
Given the sorry circumstances, my advice—and I speak as an old-all—is that you stay in place.
Memo to Nixon For Good of All, It's Time to Quit
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Criticism Accepted
We at KU-Y would like to thank Linda Doherty for helping us, via her Feb 28 editorial "Rock Chall Integrity" to generate our nationwide evaluation of Rock Chalk Revue.
Liberal Mentors Scorn Athletics
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
Mr. Hal Ritter's excellent article of Feb. 28 does much to bring to light some of the problems facing athletes who attend our University. However, he fails to mention the additional "up hill fight" created by liberal mentors who find little value in athletics and personal health. For example, such mentors can offer guidance on a university campus," and "If one can be anything else, can be always be a jock," don't help a bit.
Now, Plato wrote in regard to the education of youth, "Send them to the master of physical training so that the bodies may better minister to the virtuous mind." Unfortunately, the negative attitude of liberal mentors regarding athletics and public education is carried into the public schools by teachers trained at the University.
Socrates remarked, "No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training . . . what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is Well. even our most artificiate liberal men are still too much difficulty in arguing that Old Socrates was nothing more than a "dumb jock." Really.
Edward J. Paris Lawrence Special student
As the sponsoring group of the revue, we accept the criticism about the lack of responsible management. In our efforts to respond to that criticism we have arranged
Thus, after forty years of public education dominated by the liberal view, one finds American children doing poorly in physical education when compared to, say, Japanese children.
Edward J. Paris
for an open meeting to evaluate this year's experience and to set guidelines for next
The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. March 19 in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. Representatives of all participating groups in this year's and past years' revues are invited to attend. Any interested individuals or groups on campus are also welcome.
Eleanor Burchill
Obscure Discourse
KU-Y coordinator
As a professional social work has consistently clarified its view that such an identity with professional expertise does not need to contradict the major goals of public service by restricting the development of services necessary to insect service needs, p. K-3).
To the Editor:
Never have I seen a review that more completely missed the point. From her disappointment at seeing "amateur" productions, one can imagine her as a small town Kansas girl coming to the big city for fame and expecting the likes of Broadway.
A few days ago I received my copy of this year's University of Kansas Bulletin. In leafing through it I came across the graphic headed Social Work as a Profession.
Could someone please explain to me what this piece of gobbledygook means?
W. Keith Percival
She doesn't understand that Rock Chalk Revue isn't an attempt to insure big-time chance to be participants, rather a chance to be funniest participants in college days of the 50s when so many
I would like to comment on Gloria
Ibarger* on the Rock Chalk
Reuben* in *The Lord of the Rings*.
W. Keith Percival Associate Professor of Linguistics
Review Misses Point
To the Editor:
I had not previously seen any reviews by Tranbarger, and that is easy to understand. She lacks both the necessary understanding and talent.
I went to Rock Chalk Reveal with several friends, and none of us were disappointed. Perhaps our expectations don't match Tranbarzer's, but so what?
colleges put on so many skits. Everyone enjoyed them then.
After reading this revue, I felt as pained as she must have been when she wrote it, and I'm left with just one question: Is Gloria Tranbarger for real?
A problem that I think needs attention is the lack of accessible telephones on campus to report an emergency during the evening and night hours. During the day one can easily summon help from the police, request an ambulance or report a fire by just entering a campus building and walking to the entrance on the weekend, the evening or night, however, then just about the only place to seek aid is in Hoch Auditorium.
My suggestion is to place a series of emergency telephones at strategic locations on campus. These phones could tie in with either the KU dispatcher or with the Lawrence dispatcher. If this is impossible, then an alternative might be have a few emergency phones installed on campus—but those needing emergency help better have a dime!
Bahalrawapur, India Graduate student
Emergency Phones
party and your country. Let me take them in order:
Abdul Riyad
Yourself, you cannot live with this thing,
and you cannot live without it—for it is with
and of you 24 hours every day. It will erode
your health, your mind your soul.
To the Editor:
If one person were saved from a fire or automobile accident or if one building were saved from destruction by fire, then the initial expense of installing an emergency phone system on campus would certainly be worth every penny invested.
Stuart E. Schwartz
Wyoming, Pa. graduate student
Your party. With a little more Watergate, forget it. Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., finds a decisive 10 per cent drop in party support. Vice President Ford's old seat, a former Democrat who had lost all previous elections, but called this one a Watergate referendum and demanded your resignation. Pennsylvania's 12th District, the most populous in the nation, drained. In the wake of all this, most California Republican gubernatorial hopefuls have run for cover, including your confidant, Robert Finch, because they have been "too close to Nixon." Clearly, with a little more water, you could shrivel up, never to see a renaissance.
gives the House no choice but to impeach. Only you can哎 a national trauma—by resigning. In this fashion you can resolve your seventh and supreme crisis, and turn over it to a vice president who would assist office with clean hands and a clear head.
Your country. Because of this cancer, you cannot concentrate and you cannot lead. The energy crisis, mounting inflation, a roller coaster stock market and a world full of countries waiting for the United States to falter—all these could explode from the heat of the Watergate crisis, compounded by its paralysis of the presidency.
I remember with admiration the political miracles of your brilliant career—an unparalleled witness to the great works of art.
how, in 1946, you emerged from nowhere to unseat a popular congressman, Jerry Voorhis, and, only four years later, trimmed a politically puissant congresswoman, Helen Gahagen Douglas for a Senate seat. Then Eisenhower made you his running mate. After you narrowly missed the presidency in 1980, I remember how in 1962 you hit bottom when Pat Brown upended your gubernatorial bandwagon, but in 1980 you rose back to the big prize, parlaying that into the huge landslide of 1972.
How did you do it? By fight and drive and grit—and by being "Mr. Republic" all those years. You were everywhere raising money and stumping for GOP congressional, senatorial, gubernatorial and other aspirants.
Thus, Richard Nixon, could you win your ultimate victory by triumphing over yourself. In your resignation speech, you呼喊: "We are the century-old English Poet Richard Laverne."
"No man could have done more effective work than you—to return a Republican to office."
All through the years, you've said—and done—what was right. Surely you remember the Congressman Nixon of 1960 saying, "It's time to quit pussyfooting on the issues. I want the people to know where I stand."
The courageous thing to do now is, above all, to save your country. At last take your people off the spot. Anybody can bring the courage to save the tribe here to go down alone to save the temple.
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By DENNIS DUGGAN
Post Office Gets Weird Complaints
NEW YORK—Consumer advocate for the U.S. Postal Service, Thomas W. Chadwick, can expect a lot of angry phone calls now that postage rates have risen once more — from $1.25 per stamp to $10, 10 cents, and the cost of air mail stamps from 11 to 13 cents.
But Chadwick, a former South Carolina newspaperman, is used to complaints. Of the two million complaints the Postal Service received last year, about 30,000 were for violations and staff of 49 specialists for handling. Some were dillies.
"A friend of mine called me at 10:30 in the morning a few months ago and told me that he had lost his mother-in-law in the mail," he said during a recent visit to New York. He was in town for his wedding, cremated, and her ashes were sent by parcel post from the funeral home to another state. I managed to locate the parcel-with urn - in Chicago and got them to send it to Iowa. It was the funeral home's mistake. They should have received it by registered mail. It's much quicker than parcel nest.
Equally exotic was the call Chadwick got from a woman in Las Vegas.
"She was rawing, and it was five minutes before I could figure out what she was saying. It seems that the postman on her route was delivering her mail directly to her bedroom. When we followed up, we found the house was a bordello, and the postman was a regular visitor. He was transferred to another route."
The biggest change in the system took place on July 1, 1972, under a congressional approved Reorganization Act which transformed the system into an independently run operation and thus the year the system is expected to be efficient.
THE NATION'S POSTAL SYSTEM has changed considerably since 1775, when the Continental Congress named Benjamin Franklin the Postmaster General and paid him $1,000 a year. The man who now runs the sprawling organization of 700,000 employees is Elmer T. Classen, former head of American Can Co., who is paid $80,000.
The system generally has a red-ink operation. In the fiscal year 1973 the Post Office run a up deficit of $13
Why the big jump?
million. But that's nothing compared to its projected run in the red this fiscal year of $858 million.
Chadwick places it on a decision by the Cost of Living Council not to allow a postage rate hike in January. "We have to keep up with inflation too, you know," says Chadwick.
The system's $11 billion budget is feeling the pinch of wage increases granted to the postal workers last summer. (Wages rose from $7.6 billion to $8.5 billion this year, and in February it dropped to $1.1 billion and utilities and rental costs were higher.)
AMONG THE MOST FREQUENTLY heard complaints are delayed delivery, damaged mail and lost mail. Chadwick admits that in an attempt to cut costs, the service put a freeze on hiring for a year in 1973.
"We encouraged people to refuse and didn't replace them. It was very trying, and I must admit it did contribute to a decrease."
The postal system was slightly embarrassed three weeks ago when a California subpoena calling for President Nixon's appearance in a California trial dropped out of the memo. The letter said the president found that the document was mailed late—Feb. 6, instead of Feb. 4, as first thought—and that a substitute Washington, who simply neglected to deliver the certified, first-class parcel.
Despite that incident, Chadwick claims the service is operating better these days.
And complaints are down. In January 1973, Chadwick said, "We had 2,000 complaints—a record for us. This January we had only 30 complains. Nationally, com- plicates were 26 per cent from what they were the previous year."
The system now has 42,000 post offices, and the old patronage system under which politicians rewarded their followers with postmaster jobs is a thing of the past, says Chadwick.
But people who like to send freak mail are still around. "Someone once sent a pumpkin from Connecticut to Washington, D.C. They didn't bother wrapping it, just put a sticker on the address on it. It arrived in perfect condition, though."
Griff and the Unicorn
by Sokoloff
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