University Dally Kansan, February 26, 1981
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Don't upset Senate, organization reps told
By ROB STROUD Staff Reporter
A good rule of thumb for Student Senate funded organizations is to not do anything that might upset the Senate, but if there are problems from several organizations last night.
At a meeting sponsored by the KUY, members of student organizations concerned that their Senae funding might be cut off because of their groups' political activism, were told to stay with them so that happening. But they were told to be careful of what they printed for campus distribution.
The senators would not specify any guidelines on what the groups should in-
"If student organizations tried to use a little common sense and not go overboard and not try to antagonize the Student Senate, then everything will be
OK," Loren Busy, Senate Finance and Audit Committee chairman, said.
AFTER THE MEETING, several groups representatives said they were satisfied that their organizations would not be cut off at the budget hearings that begin Monday, but they expressed excitement that a change its funding philosophy to exclude politically oriented groups from future request hearings.
"It sounded like there would be the potential for cutting off free speech." Laird Okie, member of the KU Committee on South Africa, said. "There doesn't seem to be anything imminent, however."
Okie and others at the meeting said they thought the senators had evaded the issues. They said that Busy, Bert Coleman and Bren Abent, student body president and vice president, had not given a clear picture of what they thought the Senate philosophy could be.
Abbott said that he had also kept a file of material printed by student organizations that the average student would not want his money soen for.
Abbott said last week that KU-Y's fundings of the South Africa committee and an anti-draft group fell under that category.
Last night, however, Abbott said he did not know of anything that any Senate-funded organizations had printed that he would try to curtail.
Abbott said guidelines should be established to limit student funding of future material that blatantly ad-dresses only one side of a political issue.
ABBOTT SAID that groups should not use student funding to advance one-sided political opinions.
"I don't think that's where the average student wants his money to go," he said.
THIS SUGGESTION brought strong
objections from organization representatives.
"The very idea of setting up guidelines threatens censorship," Pam Johnston, KU-Y-coordinator, said.
Others pointed out that although their groups did present only one side of several issues, there was nothing to bother them and that these points from forming groups of their own.
LAST NIGHT, ABBOTT seemed less willing than he was last week to implement funding philosophy changes.
Last week, he suggested holding a referendum to determine whether or not to cut off Senate funding to politically oriented groups. But last night he indicated that the referendum would not have much of a chance of passing, and he said that he would not propose such an action.
"I'm not saying my solution is perfect," Abbott said. "I won't even advocating a solution because I have no idea what one might be."
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary defines doublethink as the "keeping of two contradictory ideas or opinions in one's mind at the same time and the conscious belief in both of them." One example of doublethink occurs in the world of sports. The collective recognition that "amateur athletics" should differ quite markedly in both spirit and tactics from "professional athletics" is overridden in both athletic domains by the hordes in pursuit of the Almighty Dollar. This endless safari has resulted in the recruiter, letter of intent, and athletic scholarship fulfilling the same function in "amateur athletics" as does the contract, salary and in "professional athletics." The public, while recognizing that these two athletic realms differ neither in practice nor purpose, sustains the myth of their dissimilarity by accepting and using the terminology peculiar to each.
Another example of doublethink is the governmental policy known as "Affirmative Action" which requires educators and employers in both the private and public sectors to actively favor members of previously discriminated against groups in decisions on admissions, hiring, and promotions. Although "Affirmative Action" was conceived in the battle against racial and sexual discrimination it practices and on these very forms of discrimination by simply choosing as victim a different racial and/or sexual group. Despite all the hallucination to the contrary, the practice of discrimination continues unabated.
Yet another example of doublethink is the public and legislative apathy in the face of the machinations of the nursing home "industry." At a recent Kansas Department of Health and Environment (H & E) administrative hearing Hearing Officer J. Howard Duncan (with H & E Secretary Joseph Harkins concurring) described the following "operational problems" as being "not outside the range of reasonable normalcy for a skilled nursing care operation. These problems include delay in unscheduled bathing of incontinent patients, delay in feeding residents that (who) require direct assistance, infrequent servicing of catheter bags, infrequent cleaning and filling of bedside containers, improper storage of food in residents' rooms, occasional presence of mice and cockroaches, inadequate inventory of linen, and unattractiveness of diet." (The preface to a book entitled Seeing Through a Kansas Nursing Home shows how these "operational problems" affect the nursing home patient.)
Here we have what Hearing Officer Duncan characterizes as a typical "skilled nursing care operation" failing to respond to the most basic needs of its clientele. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, unhindered by either a sense of duty or decency, aids and abets such negligence—indeed abuse—through its unstinting support of the status quo.
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For the epitome of doublethink we must turn to that institutional chameleon the Supreme Court and its 1973 decision legalizing abortion on demand. I can think of six loving, sacrificing mothers (each had undergone the abortion procedure at least once) with whom I have talked at some length about this subject. How will they (and many other women and men) react when, despite the best efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, the Organization of Women and others of it, the truth about abortion finally sees out. Although in that latter case the Supreme Court refused to consider the question of when human life begins it nevertheless legalized a procedure which has exacted of some eight million babies the ultimate sacrifice. Just another reactionary pronouncement you say? Consider for a moment the following excerpt from a recent issue of Newsweek magazine.
"Infants are clearly developing acute senses by the sixth month of gestation, according to pediatrician J. Berry Brazilon of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. When pregnant women (wearing abrasives) respond) enter rooms with bright lights and harsh noises, the fetuses are startled. In contrast, soft lights and sounds attract them. These responses are quite independent and unrelated to the mother's reaction."
Instead of balancing out floundering corporations, or building shopping malls, baseball stadiums, or motorcycle parks our governing units should be using public funds to help, for example:
After reading this passage how can even the most dogmatic proponent of abortion still define the fetus as just another part of the mother's body to do with as she wishes. The signatories to the Declaration of Independence held that "governments are instituted among men... to secure... certain unalienable rights... among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The 1973 abortion decision was both an exeercile act of appeasement without logical foundation and, according to the Declaration of Independence, the ultimate dereliction of duty.
In each of these four examples of doublethink an acceptable thesis is used to describe its actual antithesis, to be important that the American public, lailing in front of that Great Soporific the television set, continues to tolerate it and duplicity in the name of progress? As the price for such departures from principle (if left uncorrected) will be $10 million more than the sacrifice's cribs, playpans, and schoolyards the answer is yes—our failure to respond is of the utmost importance.
1. The thousands of children, ranging in age from seven to seventeen, who are raising themselves in the streets of this country's shelters.
2. The 1 to 1.5 million runaways who leave their homes annually
4. Battered wives.
5. Our beleaguered elderly of whom there are many in our metropolitan areas
3. Battered children
6. Our dependent elderly most of whom are found in nursing homes.
However, our political system spurs such constructive use of productive potential i.e. capital and labor by responding with ever-increasing sympathy to almost any use of accumulated capital. This governmental pragmatism, while profitable for entrepreneurial plumps, pornographers, and like-minded decadents, works against the need of ignoring the needs of a growing segment of the citizenry. The fundamental problem facing this country today is the definition and distribution of work; to paraphrase the late Jawaharlal Nehru: Capitalism with its private funding and socialism with its public funding are means to an end, not the end itself.
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