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Friday, February 15, 1974
University Daily Kansar
KANSAN
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Vern in Wonderland
It was wall-to-wall cops, man.
Vern and Dave and the KBI anc. the
Lawrence Department and police,
the officers who were simply, all over the place.
The street people had been itchy all night. Their favorite bars were the ones in New York.
They came belreling into Lawrence about a 4 a.m. Tuesday, all 12illion or so of them, with arrest warrants and runs.
The whole thing was downright weird. Cops were nowhere to be seen. Two were drinking coffee at 2 a.m. at the Holiday Inn, both of whom were wearing rims parked outside. The truckers were, presumably, asleep.
Then, zap! Vern and the gang made 30 arrests in 25 locations and herded them all downtown. ("Book im, Dan.")
by 7:30 a.m. the county sheriff's office was still mass confusion. Some of the people arrested were still around, waiting to be arraigned or booked or whatever they do to you. Some of them looked nervous, some of them just grinned sourly.
One young man was semi-amused. "It's 4 a.m., man, and I can't believe you guys bust in, with guns and all. I had a closed full of guns, they must
have thought I was gonna shoot it out with them, ha, ha."
County Attorney David Berkowitz looked haggard.
"Why do you keep calling them agents?" Berkowitz said, beginning with the effects of a police officer night. "They're law enforcement officers."
"How many agents were in the raid, Mr. Berkowitz?"
But there is something significant about the timing of the raid. Legislative hearings on KU's budget requests began Monday in Topeka. It would be fatuous to suggest that the raid was deliberately timed so as to harm KU's chances with the legislature, but the timing is at best unfortunate.
It would be equally fatuous to imagine the legislators giving much weight to the results of the raid, but it is also difficult to imagine that the raid will be completely out of their minds.
Later: "Is there anything significant about the timing of the raid?" Berkowitz and Rex Johnson tried to be frightful, smiled. Both of them said no.
Whatever the result of their
action, you should note that the
raid did not help help KU
Chuck Potter
And her well-meaning freels tell her to run no risks, to insist on her freedom to restrict her freedom of movement, that they themselves would despise.
Rape News Needed
Every woman is the victim of the rapist. She may have never even looked at a stranger on the street, she may have never been approached, much less attacked, yet she is still the victim of the rapist.
Every time she refuses to walk alone to her car at night, every time she decides that it really isn't worth going to an evening class since she can't find someone to take her or walk with her to campus, she is the victim of the rapist.
The woman lives the life of the citizen of a police state. Often she faces a self-imposed curfew of darkness, and to break that curfew means fear and running the risk of attack.
The ill-conceived idea that one woman who is raped wants to be raped, either consciously or subconsciously, still lingers, and the physical rape a woman endures is often less tragic than the mental rape she faces at the police station or from society.
So the woman is caught in a daze. She leaves her house, she is traveling unprotected, she is
considered partially to blame; if she stays very carefully at home, she restricts her freedom. Neither option is satisfactory to an adult.
Newspapers and radio stations are able to provide a partial solution to this double bind. By communicating the area in which a rape occurs on campus or in town, the news media can give women a defense against rape—knowledge of which areas to avoid—while at the same time not restricting their movement.
That the local news media doesn't provide such information is an indication of the stigma attached to rape—such a stigma, in fact, should not be used to rape over the radio or to print it in the newspaper is almost taboo.
The media should freely print or broadcast news about the predictable areas of mugging or robberies; printing such news would be regarded as a public service.
To hesitate to print news of the area in which a rape has been reported is a great disservice to the public because such news gives people an illusion of being without fear and allows them to be a little less the victim of the rapist.
—Carol Gwinn
Readers Respond
Human Liberation Sought
To the Editor:
I surely hope Mr. Bender's editorial on the women's liberation movement was intended to be humorous. Even if it was, lost a good deal of its intent humor in the writing. Mr. Bender demonstrates his great insight on the matter of social change.
It is quite obvious that he believes economic concerns to be the final goal of liberation. Apparently women may attain economic benefits on the job market, irrespective of the fact that employers are still discouraged from thinking of careers as doctors, lawyers, or pilots. So such 'exciting' demands as changing our workplaces and possibly do good, according to him.
In fact, may I suggest that Mr. Bender look at a few children's textbooks and talk to some liberated men and women before he attempts to write any subsequent humorous editorials on this subject. I'd like to laugh next time.
He also inadvertently demonstrates the fear some men harbor, that liberating women means that men will become more oppressed. If he knew anything about the women's movement, he would know that a good substitute for "women's liberation" is "human liberation." Certainly casting suspensions on the skills of women who work with and care for children does not further Mr. Bender's cause, whatever it might be.
Mary Kesler
Mary Resier Lawrence graduate student
Outspoken Machismo
Why is it that quiet men always shoot their mouths in print? Could it be that their parents, textbooks, teachers, presidents, principals, television stars, comic strip
To the Editor:
Why else would intelligent and apparently reasonable men preach to women all over Tuesday's Kanan editorial page? Maybe they would remind them to remind themselves of their superiority.
characters, employers, encyclopedias,
band leaders and coaches have drummed
Frankly, men, as sole dominators, have a rather poor track record. male preachers teach male buffalo-hunters and male factory-builders to dominate the earth. male legislators give subsidies to male land-developers and male automakers to make it easier for buffaloes to appease male munitions-makers, male economists, and male saviors-of-thepeople
I do not imply that women would have some things differently. But it might be healthy for our country to find out. Unfortunately, we will never convince women to run for high office until we stop telling little girls that they can aspire to be doctors, but not doctors; or until we stop telling students to school board, but not for the Senate; or until we stop allowing men to dominate our jobs, our country and our bodies.
Unfortunately, women generally lack the confidence necessary to undertake a public campaign, unless they use the masculine language and imagery that women's movement, in part, seeks to build confidence in ourselves as persons. It is not easy, and is not aided by thoughtless, grounded editorials which tell us we're not good at soap opera addicts who can't even cook.
it is not better to join ranks, as humans,
than to continue to seek domination over
one another. We have wasted too many
time and money that we don't waste
the minds of our women as well.
Nancy Harper
Lawrence graduate student
104 of Faculty Fired at Southern Ill.
By BART BARNES The Washington Post
CARBONDALE. III.—In a confrontation that reflects many of the deep political, economic and philosophical divisions in post-secondary education today, Southern University here has fired 104 faculty and professional staff members, effective June 15.
University officials say an extreme budget crisis is to blame. But ramifications of the dispute extend to such gut issues as the absence of a college system of tenure, an almost sacrosanct institution in which college faculty get paid, and the lifetime employment after passing a probation period.
Since 1970, many colleges and universities, faced with declining enrollments and financial squeezes, have laid off faculty as an economy move.
seeking a court judgment that no one's civil rights had been violated.
But the intensity and complexity of the fringes at Southern Illinois make the situation here unique in many respects. The students are so focused that a classed file a classed action suit against six of them
The dispute includesensure by the Faculty Senate and a call for the removal of the University president, a figure in midwest Republican politics for a number of years and an aide in the 1968 presidential campaign of President Nixon.
Dismissed faculty and staff members, many of whom have been at SIU for more than a decade, see in the fringes suggestions of a campus political purge and a milialateral restructuring of the University away from the campus into technology and industrial training.
At the heart of the controversy is SIU's president, 45-year-old David R. Derge, a former vice president at Indiana University and a political polster and consultant who directed the president's polling operation in 1968.
Derge, who in two years at SIU has gained a reputation as a hard-nosed administrator, was paid $83,000 for polling done in the 1968 campaign and afterwards by President Gerald Ford. The Republican Kalmbach, Part of the money came from the so-called "dirty tricks" fund, money left over from the 1968 campaign, although no official source can be account for every cent received.
Firing of the 104 faculty and professional staff, he said, was a matter of simple economics. Enrollment at SIU has dropped 20 per cent since 1970, from 22,625 to 18,043. There are now about a million number of campuses across the nation in recent years—the Illinois board of higher
education made deep seashes in SIU's budget request for the next academic year. This left the University administration with no choice, Dereg said, but to lay off faculty and staff. There was no purge, he insisted. When the axe did fall, however, it fell suddenly and without warning. It also fell without regard to tenure.
Of the 104 fired staffers, 28 were faculty members with tenure status, a fact which has brought vigorous protests from the American Association of University Professors. The AAUP also charged that the decisions on who would be fired were clear, and that there was no chance for any meaningful participation by the faculty in those decisions.
It was Dec. 13, less than 10 days after the SIU administration was informed of the pending budget cuts, that letters went out to the department payment would be terminated as of June 15.
Many, like William H. Evans, a full professor in the English department, had no more warning than a telephone call from his department chairman the morning the letter arrived. "He just told me my name might be on the list," recalled Evans, who left a tenured position at the University of Illinois in 1968 to accept the job at SIU.
That night, when he picked up the evening newspaper, Evans saw his name on another
"--- DEN OF RUFFIANS!"
list—a list of the six defendants in a lawsuit filed by the University.
What the University was looking for in
what the University was looking for in
a declaration that a bonafide
financial emblem.
The point of the suit, be said, "was to get a resolution of whatever legal problems are involved as quickly as possible. The only way we could our legal opinion was to cast it in terms of an adversary lawsuit."
Under attack and criticism at universities and colleges across the nation, the defenders of tenure argue that it is the main safeguard of academic freedom, a protection for faculty against being fired for political beliefs.
Outcome of the Carbondale suit is still pending but it could have major implications for other institutions faced with similar situations.
With the ending of the draft and the Vietnam war, stabilization of the college-age population and a general calling into gear for a higher degree, enrollment at a number of campuses dropped since 1970. This has been accompanied by reduced budgets and mass loss of faculty in both public and private colleges in states ranging from Wisconsin to Texas.
As Robert Harrell, the fired English teacher and president of the Cardabone company, it is the issue is simply "If they can get an assistant, I can do anything that damn well please."
There is a pattern in the firings, Harrell contends, of getting rid of those who have used to "make trouble on campus," like the women whose students were being discriminated against.
Foreign language teacher Vern Anderson, he said, was fired after serving on a number of faculty committees that issued recommendations critical of the University. One such case involved an antwar teacher and the committee Anderson served on recommended he be granted tenure, a recommendation rejected by SIU.
There was no attempt to abridge academic freedom or tenure. Durg insisted of us who are academics are valued even more than those who do not. No one wants to see anyone lose a job.
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Alternative Wedding Appeal Grows
Newsday
Nontraditional weddings are not newing, of course. In the '60s, people were being married under water, while she skydived, and in the '70s, couples had a guest was likely to be a cow as a person.
By FRED BRUNING
NEW YORK-Having dipped their own candles, fermented their own wines, and custom-bladed their own yogurts, they've created a more profound brand of do-it-yourself cooking.
At first, the alternative wedding may have seemed just a passing fancy of an unorthodox generation. But, it seems, the students are more inclined to campus turmul and political pyrtechnicals.
And so, it is not surprising that, in recent months, three books have been published on the subject of how to work out your own kind of wedding.
"To those young people who, in their search for honesty and integrity, are thinking through the meaning of their wedding ceremony," so reads the book by Jane R. Lovett, "Write Your Own Wedding." The book is coedited by Mordecal L. Brill, a rabbi and psychotherapist; William H. Genne, coordinator of family ministries at The University College; and Sister Marlene Halpin, academic dean of Molloy College in Rockville Centre.
"Kids come casually—sometimes with hesitation or embarrassment"—to the idea of creating their own wedding, Sister Christine. "We give them ideas to prime the pump."
Underlining the interest in individualized weddings is a deep concern for candle and meaning, she said. "The whole tenor is of honesty. Many young people put that idea into their different prayers. Some even write the marriage creed and thereby say:
'In these terms we make the marriage
women.' They include the idea of honesty
and trust.
Basically, a nontraditional wedding can be nontraditional in two areas. On the wife's side, the bride's side may be more traditional.
Arthur Dobrin, who wrote "Getting Married the Way You Want!" with Ken Briggs, Newsday religion writer, said that people would realize the options available.
Indeed, do Dobrin, leader of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island, the options are varied. "Legal requirements are minimal—simply that you obtain a license. What's required in the ceremony is that you be given a set of change vows and that the person officiating say the couple is, in fact, married. Beyond that, there are taste and religious
requirements, no legal ones."
Like the other books, "Getting Married the Way You Want," suggests how a couple can write their vows and stage their own ceremonies.
Recently, Dobrin officiated at the wedding of a university art teacher who was married in his classroom. "It wasn't a gimmick," Dobrin said. "Art and the art couple. It would be gimmicky only if it was not an expression of their personality."
He mentioned another unusual wedding, one that took place on a fishing boat in the Great South Bay. The bride and groom—his nephew and brother—cascade from dissimilar backgrounds.
"They wanted a setting where everyone would feel on the same level with everyone"
*I thought they were going to be in an empty room.*
fishing boat because no one (among the guests) had experienced a wedding there
"And it worked. Everybody related with everyone else. There wasn't much room to get away from each other so no cliques were formed. The couple created a celebration and broke down boundaries between people."
Dobrin said he believes that the people who design their own weddings are not doing so in an attempt to overthrow them. He instructed him to print on a paper moment in their lives.
"The wedding should reflect the people who are getting married," he said. "If it doesn't, the people are like mannequins being pushed through a process," with no feeling of their uniqueness as human beings.
Wrong Number Exposes Energy Woes
Newsday
Rv ED LOWE
NEW YORK-Joy Sachs finally broke down, crying. It all got to her. The truckers, the gasoline shortage, the fuel oil shortage, the temper shortage, the federal government, people who vibrate and the New York Telephone Co.
Joy Sachs is the secretary who answers the phone at Charles Yulish Associates Inc., which is a Manhattan energy consultant firm for utilities, big corporations and federal and state agencies throughout the country.
It has a subsidiary that produces and sells energy-related educational material to anybody who wants to buy such things. The thing is that energy is energy information service (E.I.S.)
For the last two months some of the telephone company's information assistance operators have been giving the firm's phone number to callers who want to talk to the Federal Energy Office in New York, or to sell at the federal energy office in New York. The result Charles Yulish savs:
"I have heard the most untimely stories I've ever heard in my life. I had a 4-year-old kid call and ask, 'Don't you have a daddy?' Then why aren't you letting my maddy have gas to come home from work?' I had people calling saying that they could solve the entire energy crisis, because these energies are much less expensive than this energy. I had people calling and speaking with muffled voices, like through a handkerchief, asking if I would care to buy a
Griff and the Unicorn
by Sokoloff
tanker-full of no. 2 (home heating) oil.
"sixty per cent of the calls are on price
giving. The psychology of these is really
interesting. There's a rythm to these calls,
and they go from 25 to 100, obviously called five other numbers and
gotten nowhere—and you have to let them
get their two and a half minutes out before
you tell them they're got the wrong number.
So what happens here come I am not the
right number."
"Then, there's the usual spectrum of people who threaten you. They say, 'Listen you — if you put me on hold I'll come here and break all your — windows.'
"The most frustrating part," Yulish continued, "is dealing with the telephone company. It's like Franz Kafka is running the phone company. My secretary, Joy, broke down crying this morning trying to figure out how to deal with your operators that we're a private business, and you get, 'I'm sorry, we're not authorized to do that.'"
Yulish and his secretary, feeling sorry for the callers, tried to direct them to the energy office, but the number changed three times.
Telephone company spokesman Philip Spain said that federal officials had asked him to be involved in Energy Office number, which was set up to field complaints and solve problems. Barbara Howar, an energy office spokesman, said that she never had heard of the complaint.
Meanwhile, Yulish's marketing vice president, Ron Gossing, came up with a solution to the problem.
"He said," Yulish related, "Why don't we just become the Federal Energy Office and let them do what they want."