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University Daily Kansan, April 10, 1981
AAUP will review morality of investments in South Africa
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
The KU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors wants the Kansas University Endowment Association out of South Africa, but is uncertain about act on a proposal by Switsa KU APAUP president, said last night.
Wartz was speaking during a discussion period following the KU AAUP-sponsored forum on "Social Responsibility and the Environment" referred to in the Endowment Association's investments in U.S. corporations that have holdings
in South Africa, a country with a policy of apartheid.
Felix Moos, professor of anthropology, also speaking during the discussion period, agreed with Swartz and colleagues to organize a faction on the issue.
"The KU Chapter of the AAUP has less than 200 members on a campus of more than 1,200 faculty," Moos said. "I would not disagree with anything that has been said this evening, but it's a question of tactics and effectiveness."
THAT QUESTION never was answered, although the 30 individuals in
"How do we become political and when do we become political?"
Senate sends open bottle bill to governor for final approval
the audience pressed for an AAPU
the Endowment Association's investment
The House agreed to the compromises earlier this week.
TOPEKA-The bill labeled as the alternative to raising the drinking age to 21 was sent to Gov. John Carlin yesterday.
State Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita,
proposed the bill, which originally
affected drivers between 18 and 21.
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
The foundation for that conclusion was laid by the forum's first speaker, Richard Cole, professor of philosophy. Using a philosophical format, Cole explained the correlation between morality and the corporate body.
without raising the legal drinking age, asked the House to change the bill to include any driver.
At night, after Swartz conceded that the KU AAUP would continue to review the matter, partly because the forum had reaffirmed that the Endowment Association's investments relating to South Africa were immoral.
Morris said that he supported the change, but that the original bill was targeted to deal with the high alcohol-acid accident rate in the 1921 bracket.
But the Associated Students of Kansas, which supported the Morris bill as a way of toughening state law
can have moral responsibility. Usually the imperative pertains only to people, who are considered moral agents because they command respect.
HE EXTED, saying he would not permit himself to make that distinction. But Jonathan Unger, assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures, was the second speaker and picked up where Cole left off.
"The local issue is whether or not the Endowment Association has a responsibility to promote justice in a particular place and whether that's a strict or discretionary obligation," Cole said.
If a license is suspended, it would be for three months on the first conviction, and one year for subsequent convictions.
Once moral responsibility is determined, so must the scope of that responsibility, Cole said.
"One can say that because corporate bodies are autonomous and command respect that they are moral agents and not subject to the will of others," I am inclined to agree with that view."
said, "The apartheid system practice there has been formally designated by the United Nations as a crime against humanity."
Compromises on the bill, which allows a judge to suspend the driver's license of a person convicted of transporting an open container of beer or alcohol on a state highway, passed the Senate 38-2.
"If one has the responsibility to benevolence, one cannot possibly be benevolent to everyone," he said. "One can be discretionary. One can exercise benevolence in such issues as they are interested in."
"The question is whether corporate bodies have moral responsibilities," Cole said. "It's obvious that they have legal responsibilities, and they're obligated to viliate they have legal responsibilities."
Using facts about the South African government, Unger argued that the Endowment Association had a strict obligation to divest itself of stock in companies with South African interests.
The other change the House made was to give a judge the power of merely restricting a driver's license if a suspension would be a hardship.
The Kansas Beer Wholesalers,
Kansas Highway Patrol and Kansans
for Life at Its Beat. the state's dry
beef, supported the bill in addition to
ASK.
The corporations who invest in South Africa are, in essence, a part of apartheid, he said. Because the Endowment Association invests in those companies and profits from them, it also supports the system.
The U.S. corporations' support is so great that if divestiture occurred, the apartheid system would fall, Unger said.
"South Africa stands alone in the world today as the only country, which is proud of its independence."
Cole discussed the question using philosopher Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative, which maintains that, only an autonomous agent
Responsibilities, such as that of not killing, can also be strict. In other words, one cannot choose to accept or not accept this responsibility, Cole said.
Unger used another moral argument to call for divestiture. Saying that black South Africans are tired of the prevailing racism, Unger claimed that bloodshed would result unless divestiture occurred.
KBI still looking for Med Center killer
Three weeks after a lone gunman walked into the emergency room of the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, where police are still searching for a suspect.
The KBI took over the investigation shortly after the shootings, at the request of the acting director of Med Center police, Jack Pearson. Eleven KBI agents are assisting with the investigation.
"We are still following leads, but we have nothing that even looks promising. Gerald Darner, Kansas Investigation spokesman, said yesterday.
Darner said the KBI had received over 190 tips since the shootings.
"We are still looking for a few people named in some of the leads," Darner said.
Meanwhile, security continues to be tight at the Med Center.
Gov. John Carlin assigned three state troopers to the emergency room for one week after the shootings. The KBI now has one man stationed in the emergency room 24 hours a day, Darner said.
There were two Kansas City, Kan. police officers in the emergency room when the gunman walked in and killed Marc Beck, 25, a second-year resident at the Med Center, and Ruth Rybolt, 48, instantly with shotgun blasts.
Groups clash over gay topics
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A discussion last night between fundamentalists and gay Christians over the doctrine and homosexuality of religious doctrine and homosexuality ended in debate and stalemate.
Members of the Metropolitan Community Church, a predominately gay Kansas City, Mo., congregation, clashed with a group of Lawrence fundamentalists in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union over alleged biblical misinterpretation and mistranslation.
"We don't believe the homosexuality is condemned by the Bible," Fred Conwell, a member of the Metropolitan Community Church, said. "In both the past and present, passages have been mistranslated into condermations of homosexuality.
"I don't think Jesus was terrifically hung up on sun. He worked among the lowly, he sat with prostitutes and he didn't condemn, Conwell I. He wasn't afraid of it. His affinity as a barber to him as the fundamentals make it out to be, I think he would have mentioned it directly somewhere in the Bible."
The forum, sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Services of Lawrence, was organized in response to a February demonstration opposing the GLS-sponsored Valentine's Day dance, a GLS spokesman said.
During that dance, 17 fundamentalist Christians marched outside the Kansas Union to protest the event.
According to one of the protest organizers, events sponsored by GLS are in violation of the spirit, if not the statute dealing with homosexuality.
"We don't condemn homosexuals as people, but we can't condone their lifestyle," Doug Lamborn, a Lawrence resident, said. "In the state of Kansas, sodomy is illegal, and gay dances promote an illegal lifestyle.
"As Christians, we believe that homosexuality is a sin, that one cannot be a homosexual and a Christian. Jesus was a believer in the world, but he wasn't tolerant."
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