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Friday, February 8, 1974
University Dally Kansan
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Scapegoat Hunting
The public is howling for scapegoats for the fuel shortage and eager politicians are ready to provide them. The number one candidate for scapegoat is the oil industry. D'Arnaud, in DHuth, is willing to play the high priest of political expediency by sacrificing the oil companies.
The House-Senate conference committee on the Emergency Energy Conservation Bill has adopted an amendment proposed by Jackson that would roll back oil prices. The bill was originally intended to give the President emergency powers to deal with the fuel shortage such as imposing taxation or cutting business hours. Congress, however, has become increasingly intent upon controlling the oil industry, especially oil company profits.
About three-fourths of the oil produced in this country is now subject to federal price controls that limit the price to $.25 a barrel. The rest of the oil is not controlled and is seeing for about $10 a barrel. A government amendment would roll back the price on the uncontrolled oil.
Jackson's plan would establish a base price of $2.5 a barrel for all domestic crude oil. In some cases, the price could be higher such as for oil from wells that produce very little or are expensive to operate. The ceiling price for oil from these wells would be $7.09 a barrel. The barrel price would save the consumer about four cents a gallon for gasoline, but it could cost the oil industry billions of dollars.
The oil industry may not be entirely blameless for the oil
shortage. Certainly, the government should keep close watch on the oil industry and, perhaps, methods for more equitable taxation.
Congress, however, should not use big oil companies as whipping boys. If the oil industry is to meet our present and future needs for petroleum products, it will need to invest heavily in building new refineries, finding and developing new oil fields and perfecting the technology for economically producing oil from shale.
This will require capital, and to get the capital, the oil companies need to make healthy profits. A roll back in oil prices could deprive the oil companies of the capital they need to invest in increasing production.
But Sen. Jackson isn't worried about the ability of the oil companies to meet demand 10 years from now. The senator is worried only about his standing with the voters two and a half years from now. Jackson, quite simply, is running for president.
In the aftermath of Watergate this nation does not need leaders who use demagoguery or seek only to pacify the public instead of developing solutions to national problems, who needs leaders who will tell the truth even when it is uncomfortable or politically unprofitable.
Nevertheless, Sen. Jackson is willing to propose legislation that is potentially harmful but politically expedient. Perhaps Jackson was given a higher morality by getting himself elected president at all cost.
—John Bender
By JOSEPH KATZ
Cohabitation Helping Eliminate Double Standard
Special to Newsda
Coed Living Increasing on Campuses
Dr. Kate is director of research for human development and educational policy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y.
The students' behavior is much in consonance with their convictions. More than half the freshmen said that they have had conversations with the seniors and seminars that figure rise to about 7/8 per cent.
The women students tie sex and love more closely than the men, who express a much greater tendency to have sex for the physical gratification alone. But in interviews with students we have found that many young women have become the teachers of men, pushing them to cultivate the emotional and feeling side of their lives.
Do these figures indicate a breakdown in morality? Our data show a high degree of fidelity and seriousness in relationships. We are not surprised that there are much more often serious than casual.
Perhaps our most startling finding is that the majority of women who are sexually active have intercourse more frequently and report higher degrees of emotional and sexual satisfaction than the corresponding group of men.
What have been the effects? Since 1969 my Stony Brook colleagues and I have made periodic surveys of male-female relations on campuses. Our data show that great changes have been taking place in the last decade.
It may turn out that one of the most important effects of the new forms of coeducation will be a much enlarged capacity on the part of both men and women in college, in contrast to other, but for living more affectionate and emotionally-sensitive lives.
The double standard is gone. In our latest survey nearly all college students of both sexes thought that sexual intercourse should be only for the male but for the female as well.
To the dismay of some parents and amid dire predictions from some who consider themselves guardians of public morality, the past few years have seen a great increase in coeducational living and sexual freedom on college campuses.
During the last eight years many college dormitories across the country have been built.
Terrorists Debase World
The Washington Post
At high noon Dec. 4, 1973, a hand grenade was tossed into a crowd on David Street in the old city of Jerusalem hardy more than a stone's throw from the Jaffa Gate.
By Brig. Gen. (Ret.) S.L.A. Marshall
For a small bomb, it did large work. Twenty persons had to be treated for wounds. Their blood was spattered over four store fronts and a half a block of pavement. Among the victims were five Israeli girl soldiers and three Arab youngsters. Next day a 20-year-old Arab confessed to the deed. It was not, in his words, a murder or a liberty. Whether he was strictly a mental case, the other hand, a dedicated soul remained for the courts and psychiatrists to determine.
Considered by themselves, such incidents would not be worth recounting. They are significant only as they relate to the person, their institution, its vice, gosseques and mystery.
Israel became fully embattled on Yom
Kippur. It burst by surprise, its people were
killed and hundreds of thousands of men
saved.
For prior to the David Street expression, the last terrorist act in Jerusalem had taken place exactly eight months before. During the months of October and November, 1973, there was no terror in the streets. Yet if the Palestinian movement had body and purity, the million Arabs directly accountable to Israel, that was the season for a red harvest.
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ever before. For 18 days their armor were fully engaged fighting off the Egyptians and Syrians. The frontiers remained hot as December opened and the army stayed deployed far forward as did many of the police.
Still, not one act of sabotage or terror was staged by the palestinians or their sympathizers in Jerusalem, along the west bank of the river Jordan, to interrupt the mustering and advance of troops. Though the turnuol of war affords the best cover for clandestine violence, the Arab underground, if it existed within the territory, would watch the attacking Arab armies.
Throughout these same years, however, to the free world quite apart from Israel, the militant Iranian has become like the geniola lost from Prior to 1967, the movement was kept alive by a number of disparate groups, none of which had been involved in the war against all law and the civilized order.
Therefore a distinction has to be made between Palestinian legitimists and Palestinian nihilists. All insurgencies draw together strange bird nots of a feather: libertarians, megalomaniacs, social liberals, plunders and assassins.
Then there is the other item that British tanks and armored cars are again deployed around London's Heathrow Airport, and not because of crackpotism out of the brawling in Ulster. They are there to guard against Arab terrorists who have plotted to shoot down a commercial airliner with a Russian-Marine S-7M missile. Its limited range puts
At this writing, two Palestinian airport killers have been sentenced to death in Athens. That was hailed as an act of unprecedented courage by a single court, until it was announced the following day that the sentence would be commuted, lest some people be adopted to bring about the treason of the prisoner. Predictably, that will come about anyway.
Where the Palestinian movement differs from others is that it has attracted more characters that are pitilessly cut-throat than did the Spanish Main in the days of Captain Kidd, despite which, it is still treated with deference by governments that consider themselves moral, just and not altogether craven.
At the Munich Olympics two years ago Israel's athletes were the direct target, though every participating free nation suffered. If their peoples felt shock, it still wasn't enough to bring about collective action. In the interim since, the selection of targets has been pretty much inaccessible because the war was to be expected. For organized Arab terrorism is a dermonic force only distantly related to the Palestine liberation. Israel is a side show. The object is the humiliation and debasing of Western society.
the focus on flight terminals. The same kind
Amsterdam and several German airports.
might suppose that this would have been a major factor in encouraging greater sexual freedom. But our data indicate that the behavior of students in coeducational dormitories is not greatly different from that of students in sexually recreated ones.
It is the ethos of the youth culture, rather than living together in dormitories, that determines sexual and other relations among students.
Ceducational housing seems to have been effect rather than cause, an outgrowth of students moving in the 1960s towards more independence, the right to earlier self-determination and more autonomy for women. Greater sexual freedom was part of the movement, and it seems to have been a response to the new birth-control pill, which considerably reduced the hazard of unwanted pregnancy with its personal and social consequences.
The push began gradually in the early 1960s, with students demanding and getting involved for more information about each other. The dornitories at certain stated hours. By the end of the decade, in many dornitories across the country, some men and women were living with each other.
Ceducational housing has met less resistance than, given the generation gap, one might have expected from parents or grandparents that the whole, have been very friendly to it.
The sexual equality of college men and women is only one facet of their striving for equality in other areas. As many women as men, about 80 per cent, say that having a career is more important to more women than having children.
Economic need and desire for status through marriage are becoming much less important in the choice of a partner, and instead young people are striving more for
the human qualities of emotional security and stimulation. As men and women need each other less for the material goods of life, they can get together more for the psychological values that an intimate relationship can bring.
- Art Suddarth, Newsday
This college generation, as it matures,
may well be pioneers in relationships
challenged by mutual care, respect, joint
learning and the dusive and yet most needed emotion, love.
Impeachment Drive No Conspiracy
Bv WILLIAM RASPBERRY
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON—There is, we are being told, a liberal conspiracy to get rid of President Nixon.
The proof of the conspiracy is that every new bit of damning evidence against the President, whether it is directly linked to Watergate or not, is used to buttress democracy for impeachment. The conspiracy theory also suggests that people come from individuals and groups whose politics are left of center.
Columnist William Buckley Jr. said it again recently, alleging a politically motivated attempt on the part of Mr. Nikon's "enemies" to "formulate a high crime or misdemeanor of which he can be judged cruelty."
These enemies, he said, begin with the conclusion that the incumbent must be removed from office. Then they look for a crime on them.
These enemies, he said, begin with the conclusion that the incumbent must be removed from office. Then they look for a crime on
There was political opposition, to be sure, and some of us wondered about the sanity of a people who would elect the man to office. But no one believed in it.
BUCKLEY ISRIGHT, to a degree I suppose, but he makes it sound a good deal more sinister than it strikes me. What I see is that some of us have concluded, as Buckley suggests, that the President ought to be removed from office, and some are working to make it happen.
But the disclosures that followed the Watergate break-in put the Nixon Presidency in an entirely different light. What some of us slowly came to see weren't just improprieties and repugnant actions, but also a desperate need for the American tradition—an attack on the country, from the inside.
And not because he wasn't our choice for President in the first place, either. For his entire first term, for instance, even while he was shilshalwaying over school integration, killing off the poverty among young blacks and whites in the city, there wasn't the slightest hint of a move to remove him from office.
IF WE WERE OUTRAGED at the allegations of huge cash rip-offs, we were truly frightened by the mindset of a national government willing to enarmen' lists, secret police forces and subversion of official agencies.
It is easy to forget how slowly the conclusion was reached that Richard Nixon was a danger to the country. For most of last year, for instance, it was widely suspected that the President was lying when he denied knowing about the Watergate cover-up.
But he had the benefit of substantial doubt as to any prior knowledge of the Watergate conspiracy, or any personal participation in the cover-up. The general tone among liberals and nonliberals alike was that the President should come clean, get rid of the worst members of his staff and apologize to the people. Impachment was scarcely mentioned.
SINCE THAT TIME, Mr. Nikon has been pursued not by liberal Democrats and "enemies," but by facts and events, more often than not of his own making. His secretly recorded tapes, for instance, were filed in the courthouse on November 21, President was lying; but he wouldn't let the tapes go. Not only that, but he fired the prosecutor who had the nerve to ask for them, and by that act lost two of the most responsible men in his governorship.
And when he finally had to relinquish the tapes anyhow, two of them turned out not to exist and a third was discovered to contain an extra tape. The rest must be destroyed.
He instituted Operation Candor to explain the unexplainable and succeeded in making himself look more suspicious than before on his dealings with the milk lobby, his own income taxes and his real estate. He then sent him a letter to Candor; but by what name did he call the period that preceded it?
THE MORE HE SCURRIED from one untenable position to another, pretending candor, going silent, losing his tapes and his temper and doing everything he could to keep the facts from coming out, the more he took on the appearance of a trampled criminal.
And as a result, some of us concluded that the no longer was fit to be President. The reason we keep waving each new bit of evidence is that we are sure we've seen the light and want everybody else to see it, too.
But that is no liberal conspiracy. It isn't the Kennedys and Humphreys who have been in the forefront of the foreground of those calling for Nixon to step down. It is voices like the Detroit News and Time magazine and Wilbur Mills of Arkansas.
Oh, yes, and the AFL-ClO, which has been generally credited with making possible Richard Nixon's landslide election victory.
Readers Respond
To the Editor:
Film Story Disputed, Abortion Views Offered
In an atmosphere where confusion and inmoendo already have distorted facts and intentions, the Kanas article of January 31st entitled "Censorship: Film Censors Set Threatening Precedent" does little to help the situation.
While the balance of the article is correct, the statements attributed to me are not, and their positioning within the article gives the entire piece a tone which misrepresents the position which SUA took and which damage the image of the University.
To the extent that any statement was made about a "lack of knowledge," it referred to the vast number of rumors and charges that were circulating at the time, which could have been part of fracking down every statement that was being made for verification of verification.
It is absolutely untrue that I had not seen the films in question. The majority of the Board members and myself took a great deal of care and consideration in coming to our decision, including trips into Kansas City to view the "Devil in Miss Jones" before our vote on the matter. In fact for most of us, attending the Film Celebration a special screening was provided the next morning after the lawmakers had complained.
Griff and the Unicorn
by Sokoloff
SOKOLOFF
Charlene Langer
SUA Board member
Carnegie, Pa. senior
While it may be true that I spoke of "buying time" the juxtaposition of that statement with that of Mr. Burge implies that the Board acted on a permanent basis with no objective standards. This is not true. A vote was taken prior to the special screening of the "Erotic Film Celebration," but it did not represent a final policy decision. It is more likely that sense that it allowed us enough time to assemble all of the facts and all of the opinions before making any final decisions on "The Devil in Miss Jones." In a highly volatile situation, where threats or rumors of threats abounded, we felt such "time-buying" actions, rather than a preceptive attitude. The second celebration" was in the best interests of the University and the students of the University.
I must emphasize that the majority of us did see the films in question and we did exercise as much care as possible in reaching our final decision, and only with great reluctance acknowledged the political importance of being part of a state university in Kansas.
Fee Use Protested
To the Editor:
I was very upset about a notice I saw posted in the Union claiming that abortion was every woman's right, and urging us to write our congressmen to protect this right. The notice was funded by the Student Aid tuxes fee, which the student didn't think that this money should be used for purposes that reflect only a fraction of the student opinion.
I am very strongly opposed to legalized abortion. A woman well knows what she is doing when she is in a position of her irresponsibility, stupidity, or her fickiness in changing her mind are valid reasons for taking a life, and I know many other students of the same
Nancy Affalter Lawrence junior
Abortion Supported
Since the January 22, 1973 ruling by the Supreme Court, which legalized a woman's right to terminate pregnancy, a woman was not allowed to have had it developed to amend the Constitution to overturn the decision, and members of Congress are being subjected to intense pressure.
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Senator Buckley's amendment S. J. Res. 119 and Congressman Hogan's amendment H. J. Res. 261 which would guarantee the 'right to life' of all humans from the moment of conception violates the personal freedom of women.
The people clamoring to subvert the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion have exercised their personal freedom and have made their own decisions regarding abortion. But they seek to deny others that power and to impose their choice on everyone.
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All women should have the freedom to choose whether or not to bear children. It is with great concern that I urge response to legislators from all concerned. Urge better family planning programs and clinics so that fewer situations involving the mother and baby are the freedom to choose legal abortions must not be denied America's women.
Kristie Gibson Lawrence senior
The elimination of legal abortions would be a step backward for everyone. Those who are pushing for legislation against abortion no longer need to resort to the welfare of the women in the child.
Bearing children ought to be a celebrated miracle. But in some situations it is a nightmare. Denying the alternative of abortion would result in a thriving underground of butchers and unwanted and unwieldy children.
Hey, man. I'm just writing to say right on Tom Jackson and Ace Johnson ("Beer Use Up, Pot Use Down, Victuallers Say," Feb. 5 Kansan). These gents must have had
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Right On Guzzler
their heads together when they said that pot smoking is over the hill. How right they are?
The advantages of beer-guzzling to pet-toking are ever so obvious. Now, instead of scoring a messy lid of good Mexican grass on your stove, let B1$ more wiseily, like on a case of beer.
Beer is also good for you. Ask any beer-drinker and he'll tell you the same. I don't believe those "quack" scientists who say marijuana is harmless to the individual. I ask them, if its harmless, WHY is it illegal? It seems they can't someone some of the time, but not true Americans like me and Vern Miller who won't fall prey to their falsehoods.
Instead of constantly getting blown on illegal pot, I can joggie down the Hawk and get really smashed on just a few pitches of good o'l 3.2 brew.
So keep up the good work, Tom and Ace! Always keep those golden rivers flowing for it's the American way. In the future, more, and more of us disappointed and disgusted with the error of our ways. One day, we too will see the light, and that light says "Coors!"
Mike Holland Liberal junior
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