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Tuesday, July 25, 1972
University Summer Kansan
KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
A Fall Surprise
For those of our readers who will be returning to campus this fall for enrollment, there will be a special Kansan awaiting you. It will be the book information-packed Kansan ever published; four sections, totalling 48 pages.
We have no qualms about revealing the theme of this special edition now. It will be an introduction to KU: a welcome to the campus for those new to it and a welcome home for those who have been here before.
Because of printing deadlines and staff size, three of the four sections will be written, edited and sent to the KU Printing Service by the end of the summer session. The fourth section, which will be the outside one, will be written and edited just before publication by the fall semester staff. Thus, the first section will contain news stories of a timely quality, while the other three sections will contain
stories about KU and its people that should interest all members of the university community. We have assigned a large number of new stories to our reporters for this issue. However, we have also decided to run what we judged some of this summer's most interesting and best written stories as well. If you didn't read it the first time, you'll see it again. And your friends and new schoolmates will have a chance to discover some of the aspects of KU we explored this summer.
-Rita E. Haugh Editor
So look for the 48-page Kansan at the Field House and in the Union and at the other distribution points on Aug. 24. We guarantee it'll have plenty of interesting pictures and stories to while away the hours before classes start! Knowing everyone a chance to know more about people and programs of his alma mater.
The Sky Is Not Falling
It seems that hardly a week goes by without another warning from some prominent person that the nation is on the road to ruin. Take your pick, we are about to be done in either a) environmentally, b) morally, c) militarily, d) economically, the mode of predicted destruction depending on who is talking and what he is trying to sell. Each cause has its seers as well as its camp sometimes editorial white paper stuck with the subject until something more horrendously catchy comes along. It's a little like the stock market; military downfall may be bullish today, tomorrow moral decay will be a hot issue.
Most informed persons eventually come to regard forecasts of disaster with skepticism that may be as much a matter of boredom as of rational examination. The uninformed, on their part, divide into those who will believe anything if it's scary with the those who are too busy with the workaday world to much care. Yet all of us, to one extent or another, are influenced by the dire warnings that are constantly being voiced, even if we are not immediately aware of it.
The plain fact is that messages of peril and doom are virtually inescapable. To live in the world is to be made aware of the woes of the world and predictions of worse to come. Communications are pervasive, they bring bad news and good, the judgments of experts and the fear of plightful pleaders. There is a vast difference between an ecologist's warning of planetary harm from misuse of resources and a huckster'swarning of social unpopularity from non-use of a particular deodorant.
But each in its way is a threatening message, and each probably contributes to a general sense of concern, an erosion of confidence.
Clinical psychologist L. Douglas DeNike wrote recently in The Times that "we may be becoming the most forewarned, admonished, exhorted and uneasy society in history," given the bombardment of various warnings that daily comes our way. Probably most of the time we filter out or shrug off these warnings, though certainly plenty get through and help feed a widespread if diffuse mood of anxiety. A possible social psychologist have only recently begun looking into the matter—is a gradual demoralization, a distrust or others and eventually of self, a drift toward indifference, and consequent social disorganization.
None of this is to argue that there are not serious problems to be perceived, discussed, confronted, that there are not well-informed concerns about issues and events, or that ignorance is preferable to information. What we do suggest, and particularly in this political season of rhetorical superlatives, is a renewed need for responsibility both in statement and analysis, for measured historical perspective in what is said and in how we choose to hear it. The messages are going to keep coming anyway. What we seek, if any, will depend on the usefulness, prophecies of disaster, respite from assaults on our faith in ourselves and in the future. We have heard them all before anyway, and still the Republic has survived.
—Reprinted from the Los Angeles Times
Founder of Women's Movement Sees Need for Major Reappraisal
NEW YORK--In a major critical reappraisal of the woman's movement released today in August McCalla, Betty Friedan takes issue with some of her critics, whose currently associated with women's liberation
In a statement made on the eve of the article's publication Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique and widely regarded as the founder of the contemporary women's movement said, "I wrote this article only after months of deliberation and fully realize what I have said will cause some harm." These members of the Movement newly conscious of the need to tight for equality for women.
But there are deep ideological differences among us which we cannot afford to obscure in the name of a unified Sisterhood. There is not a single voice, but many voices in the Movement. We openly use the Movement and bring the Movement to be missed, ripped off and being in ways that could wound it beyond recovery.*
INSISTING THAT "men can and must be with us if we are to change society," the principal founder and first president of the National Organization for Peace, has called for a magazine, and Rep. Babb Alega for encouraging
what she calls "female chauvinsim" in the McCall's article.
Referring to Abuqaye's losing the Democratic Primary race against William Fitz Ryan in New York's 20th Congressional District, she said, "Only a female chauvinist would say that no matter how good a man's record—on peace, on women—women must support a female opponent just because she is a woman. That would invite me to vote against her." Liberal media journalists and other men who had supported both women's liberation and Bella Abzug, react with outrage.
"When Gloria Steinem dismisses marriage as 'prostitution' . . . the assumption is that no woman would ever want to go to bed with a man if she didn't need to sell her business or for bread or a mounk coat . . . A female chauvinism that makes a woman apologize for loving her husband or children denies the real feelings of too many women," she said, adding that she disagreed with Steinem's view that a connection between the economic and social profit of men as a group prevented women from achieving equality.
"IF WE'RE a man, I would object strenuously to the assumption that women have any moral or social power."
EDITOR'S NOTE-West Gale
president, president of The Associated
Press, in China to negotiate an
exchange of news and photos with
the Chinese news
agency. He filed these notes
Sunday.
Chinese Buoyed by Soviet Ouster
By WES GALLAGHER
REPEKING (AP)—Outgoing of the Russian advisers from Egypt has been received with considerable satisfaction here, as showing what happens to receiving a friend because of Soviet "social imperialism."
The Chinese recall their own experience when they refused to bow to Soviet demands. Russia and France, in addition, and help it had sent to China.
In conversations, the Chinese emphasized what they consider the key difference in the aid they provided other nations and the ones they helped. They said China wanted to encourage Socialist revolution but that each country must develop its own way and be independent, with respect for human rights, in their eyes, provide aid only if it gives further Soviet control.
CHINA is a land of infinite contradictions and contrasts, defying generalizations or assumptions in general, instant experts. Chinese officials repeatedly refer to the country as underdeveloped, but they conclude there are huge differences between regions and other parts of Asia or in Africa
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★ ★ ★
American computer scientists from Yale and Carnegie-Mellon University are gathering here say they have been prised by Chinese advances in this field—that they are less than half as advanced as the United States in the most advanced
China has a cultural history
of academic excellence in
impressive universities,
thousands of trained technicians
creative scientists, a massive
number of engineers.
THEY ADD that the Chinese are farther behind in manufacturing and equipment and mass-manufacturing techniques, but they believe the Chinese could suit any needed purpose.
computer theory and are rapidly closing this gap.
The Chinese airline is safe because it does not fly in thunderstorms around Pecking or Canton, but the Canadian Canton to Peking, was grounded overnight at Chengchou, the capital of Honan Province. It has also been grounded.
One passenger said that in three flights to Peking he had never reached this city without one grounding. This is apparently due to a lack of equipment for control approaches to the airport.
Chengchou offered a study in contrasts between modern jets and pre-war biplanes or the jet fighters being used as a passenger plane.
CONTRASTS: traveling to a new petrochemical plant near the town of Eckernfort through farming areas where farmers labor with their hands as they have for centuries, using every inch of land. Backbreaking labor is done by immensely hard-working and women carrying huge loads.
Now newsmen have to provide their own transportation. They are not accompanied by armed escorts because many South Africans do not discourage newsmen from going along on their operations.
Given very little accurate information by South Vietnamese spokenmen in the rear, shrunken Vietnamese say "Vietnamese show", correspondents have to go to the front more frequently to find out
You arrive at a plant controlled by computers, built in a crash program and employing 12,000 persons in a self-covered unit with its own hospital, farm, etc. You have problems, problems?, said a plant leader, showing pollution-control devices for both water and smoke.
SAIGON (AP)—The Vietnam war has become conventional and more deadly to the men who cover it.
They go with no clear idea of
Probably the biggest contributing factor to the high toll of Hurricane Haro is the increased use of such conventional weapons as tanks and helicopters, which are as easy to get killed by a 180mm shell fired 15 miles away as it is in direct fire.
Water cleared of pollutants is used to irrigate rice paddies of the connected farm, and to provide tanks for ducks and carp.
A PLANT which was asked what each family wanted in order of priority. He replied, a bicycle that costs 110 yuan, a sewing machine and a watch for 100. The wage month is 30-100 yuan monthly.
Now nearly four months old and with no signs of abating, Hanoi's offensive in South Vietnam already has claimed nearly as many casualties among newsmen as the Tet offensive of August 1945, when 30 wounded, compared to the Tet toll of 11 killed and 32 wounded.
It is always more dangerous on the receiving end of an invasion. Correspondents accustomed to offensive-type operations suddenly found themselves in situations and even retreats.
It is harder to get around the war zone, harder to get reliable information since the Americans ended their ground combat role.
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Newsmen Face Risks In Coverage of War
But there are other factors, stemming from Vietnamization of the war.
American officers used to make sure correspondents were well informed before entering a war zone. Before they were getting into and were accompanied by well-armed GIs and rode in American helicopters.
highway security, no knowledge of friendly lines and enemy positions.
Significantly, Vietnamization of the war has also resulted in Vietnamization of the press corps.
Three of the newsmen killed in this offensive and 16 of the wounded—half the casualties were Vietnamese. Between 1964 and 2007, 30 newsmen killed and only five of the 37 wounded were Vietnamese.
The petrochemical plant is not far from the caves where Peking Mining has held a half million years, was forged in ancient resumed digging there. Three exhibition halls for ancient minerals soon will be opened to the public.
Peking has its traffic problem solved for years. But car and bus drivers move with their horns down—the cyclists may conform politically but they risk limb limb with proterian disaid.
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Peking has supplanted Copenhagen and the bicycle city of London, the work of Worcester, the tens of thousands fill the streets every evening, riding bicycles down the street.
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WITH VERY FEW cars and only a fair number of buses.
Underinindustrialized China may be, but it is not under-developed. Japan will give the competition China will give the Japanese and others in Asia can be seen in a tour of an art center. In Tokyo, you can over a thousand persons in a loft.
type building lacking any air-conditioning. The workers keep to a pace far beyond that usually items ranging from $5 to $10. They produce less than $1 to carved jade items aimed for the $100,000 market. In one room with 30 or more chairs, a worker sat at his bench carved a large jade piece. it will take him two years and be sold for $90,000.
There is some assembly-line work, with each girl adding one factor to vases.
The average wage is about 70
yuan a month. The plant vice
chairman gets 10, the lowest
worker about 30.
"Encountering heavy weather out of Miami, Pegasus."
right wing was struck by a bolt . . .
Skyjack Concern Studied
While incidents of skyjacking continue to increase throughout the world, airline passengers are still not concerned enough to agree on a set of safety measures designed to reduce them, researchers at Ohio State University report.
The study, prepared by Ohio State graduate students Charles E. Boltwood, Michael R. Cooper, Victoria E. Fein, and Paul V. Washburn, reveals that while passengers are willing to accept some sub-bus types, they should be vary considerably among various sub-buses who fly.
Passengers were asked to rank seven possible security procedures according to their convenience, favorability and efficiency.
—All luggage to be transported on airlines should be opened and thoroughly inspected prior to loading.
—All airline passengers should be frightened before boarding.
Anyone convicted of hijacking should face a mandatory life sentence.
—All airline personnel should be trained in close-quarters combat.
—the laws should be altered to enable all airport security guards to fly on planes.
—The government is not likely to invest in the airbus industry.
— There should be a 5 per cent increase in airline fares to finance such measures as locking and bulletproofing the pilot's cabin.
—All airline stewardesses should be replaced with armed guards.
THE RESEARCHERS reported that the two most favorable items were ones that would not affect the passenger directly: life imprisonment for skyjackers and a change in law to extend the authority of airport guards to frisish suspicious-looking passengers. Neither item directly consumed a passenger's time or presented an explicit threat of personal danger.
As might be expected, passengers who were going on international or long domestic flights were more likely to show greater overall concern for security than those going on local international flights. At least once a month or more did not exhibit a greater overall
One additional note: Informal feedback from the survey indicated men saw the replacement of skewnesses with armed forces.
The researchers concluded that airline companies "simply cannot assume the typical passenger has an overall concern for
Griff and the Unicorn
The study was published in the June issue of the "American Psychologist," a monthly journal of the American Psychological Association.
A further breakdown of the data revealed that older passengers (over 30) would favor changing airlines to one with more security. The study found a 46% increase in airline safety.
The researchers thought these attitudes may be part of a general attitude prevalent among contemporary youth, i.e., against stereotypic discrimination (frisking all suspicious-looking people), against high costs (increasing airline fares), and against extreme punishment (imprisoning hijackers for life) and against the implementation of violence (combat training).
YOUNGER PASSENGERS (under 30), on the other hand, indicated they would not change airlines for any reason. They also said they were against frisking suspicious-looking passengers, preventing them from discharging hijackers for life and combat training for airline personnel.
By Sokoloff
concern for security. The 5 per cent increase in airline fares in order to increase security was favored significantly more by those who have already paid their insurance.
"Copyright 1972. David Sokoloff
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