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Wednesday, June 28, 1972
University Summer Kansan
KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Voter Registration Debate
Mike Manning, the young candidate for Secretary of State, showed his colors at a Town Hall meeting Monday in a Tewksbury Hill Shade House. Incumbent Secretary of State didn't show. Jack Briar, an assistant, did.
Manning, the challenger, appeared to have done his homework well. He cited studies and registration experiments from other states that emphasized the need for an active Secretary of State to vocational education and voter participation. Manning said the office could be a driving force in the creation of easier voter registration procedures. It sounded good to me.
Briar, on the other hand, disputed Manning's contention that the Secretary of State was the chief election officer in the state and could initiate the local registration drives. He insisted that the local county clerks were responsible for the registration procedures.
A contradiction?
Not only does the Secretary of State appoint the clerks in the four large metropolitan areas of Kansas,
the Secretary also wields a great amount of influence on the election laws that are submitted to the Court for mature each year, according to Brian.
Would the chief election officer of the state please stand?
The contradiction is heightened in a statement released by the Secretary of State's office in late April which criticized the Governor for taking credit for election law reform. The statement, released over Baiti's name, began "As the chief election officer of the state I"
It seems to me that what we have here is an official who doesn't want to be one and a young challenger who does. Or perhaps we have an official but doesn't want to appear that way. It all seemed so confusing.
Maybe Briar was right when he said that the key to the race for Kansas Secretary of State this year is recognition, not voter registration.
—Mark Bedner
New Paperbacks Reviewed
Here are some of the summer paperbacks you'll be seeing on the shelves:
Madison Jones' A CRY OF ASSENCE (Pocket, $1.25) is about learning to beginning when a young black is murdered. A prominent woman blames it on our trash-thrash her mother had her own son. Considerable moral commentary accompanies the action and suspense in this book.
Terence Lore Smith's TheINE THIWE CHOO T DINNER (Pocket, $8 cents) is a racy suspense novel about a guy who
becomes a cat burglar. It's headed for the movies.
Donald E. Westlake's I GAVE AT THE OFFICE(Packet), 95 cents) presents us a television show that takes place at a New York restaurant but more importantly goes to cover the secret invasion of a small island in the Caribbean, Westlake's basis is a recent popular film.
Stanley Ekin's THE DICK HUNT
about an all-night disc jockey and the special guests who come on to show it reads a series of stories.
Ruth Doha MacDougal's THE COST OF LIVING Pocket, 95 cents) presents a suburban woman accused of murder in a supermarket.
Eleman Elford Cameron's
(Pocket, 90 cents) BEEP,
gothic—a pretty heiress and
dunes and much fog and a
marshland.
Harry Cressy' KARATE IS A THING OF THE SPIRIT (Pocket, 95 cents) is about a karate cult—a beauty queen, a B-12 gymnasium, the boss of the clan, all of whom meet on a beach for their kicks.
Editor's Note: On the edge of the impenetrable southern Philippine pine forest live the Tassaday, a tiny band of people known until last year. A newsman who accompanied an expedition of scientists to the home of the Tassaday earlier this year tells in the following story:
Tasady Menus Reported
By JOHN NANCE
TASADY FOREST, Philipines (AP) The great island and recent visitors from the space age found ways to bridge cultural gaps.
The Tassaday, who make fire by friction and have never been outside of their house, intrigued, aweed and puzzled by much that modern man has so far shown them. But some of it they want nothing to do.
And for their 20th century visitors, adapting to the Tassaday's jungle brought buffeting challenge at mealtime, for exam
ROASTED MONKEY head
with brains, beetles, grubs,
tadpoles, stream crabs, frogs,
berries, nuts, leaves and flowers
on side dishes for the
Tasaday.
They go with staples—ram-like roots, palm pith and the core of a larger tree that is made into a chewy flat cake called natak.
One visitor to the caves voted unhesitatingly in favor of the cave creation, a curious cultiveer heart. The nakat was arkinite to munching a gum
Manuel Elizalde Jr., the 35-year old Harvard-educated Filipino who left the expedition, had a near brush with mouse brain.
AS PRESIDENT of Panamac, a government-supported foundation, he insisted that Zade has over the past eight years sampled a distinctive variability in the men's heights; "several items whose origins I didn't know when I late them and I knew."
a rasaday woman proudly presented him the monkey head during a visit to the caves and waited
The Tadassay were similar); the Tadassay foods. Rice brought the most favorable responses. Sugar was out; bread caused a screwing up of the dough.
Clothing styles also were incompatible. The Tasday orchid leaf gairns and hearty skirts offered a fresh off-the-shoot of economy and availability.
But for the outsiders, even relatively small patches of bare skin are welcome in the outdoors for thorns, bugs, leeches and raspy vines that the Tasdany used to eat.
THE STONE-AGE people looked skaked at heavy boots, and they were viciously prevented one from digging in with his toes on slippery ground.
The Tasaday hands, soles and knees were like tough leather from the exposure plate on the men's back, however, that he was having trouble keeping his balance on tough trails because his toenails were broken.
The Tasday huddled together around fires in their caves when it was cool. If it was chilly, some warm saisons on them would warm saisons on them.
During the first heavy rain, the visitors frantically rearranged their feet and used a dig drainage ditches. Three Tasaday men squatted and watched One mentioned, with laughter, that the Tasaday caves never leaked.
THE TASADAY found flash-lights intrigued. Although they knew their immediate area intimately, the lights lighted to be able to light up the night. To these cave-dwellers, the only trouble with the flashlight was that no matter how hard they tried to bobble up bubu it wouldn't start a fire.
Four fingers and thumbs in two circle places placed against the wall depicted in contemplates depicted one photographer, complete with a "lit" to indicate light.
ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPHER, using a long lens became two fists, one in front of the other; extended from the forehead with an accompanying "gazee" noise account for a different shutter sound
A leaf for a pad, a stick for a pencil and stiffly upright posture is often used to assist an anthropologist. A pipe smoke was caricatured by Balayam with a bent branch attached to the remnants of a bottle with studied nonchalance and blew out smoke depicted by a fluttering fingers in front of his face.
The best came with a portrayal of the expedition's physician with a bag. Entering the cave meant sneaking into the slippery rocks for the doctor. Batayah-the-doctor stumbled, in backwards, losing an image of the cave and crestfallen by the mountainside. He gamely returned, stumbled again, and finally he himself saw the cave, breathes, and goggles-eyed.
Historical Feature
Laundry Rooms Needed During Housing Shortage
The shortage of housing space for KU women once necessitated making laundry rooms into living quarters.
The laundry rooms in Hashinger Hall were converted into rooms for upperclass women, the Oct. 8, 1964, Kansan reported. Though the rooms were somewhat smaller, they had bunks, beds, mirrors, desks and dressers were moved in to make them habitable.
The laundry rooms were opened when the Dean of Women's office received late residence hall contracts.
"There were a few technical difficulties at first. The girls didn't have their own mailboxes or intercoms, but everyone's cooperating and things are fine." Assistant resident director, said.
"These girls couldn't have come to school this semester if we didn't found living quarters for them in the laundry rooms," Mary Watson, resident director, said. "Our waiting lists were not filled of the conditions before they came to school."
"Most of the parents were thrilled because their daughters could come back to school," Delp said. "In general, the laundry rooms have proved to be more comfortable than the triple rooms in Lewis Hall."
Mary Kay Amoneno, Shawnee Mission junior, said she liked the rooms very much.
'It is different from everyone else,' she said, 'something unique. There is a big closet and lots of cabinets space, so there's more space than
Politics Ends Some Marriages
By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Writer
Politics and marriage aren't always the most compatible bedfellows.
Martha and John Mitchell are the latest in a list of political couples, both Republican and Democratic, with reported martial problems.
Sen. John V. Tunney's wife Mieke filmed for divorce earlier this month from the California Democrat.
Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas,
Republican national chairman,
was divorced in January by his
wife who after 23 years of marriag
WILLIAM PROXMIRE announced a year ago that he and his wife were separating after 14½ years of marriage.
Rep. Paul N. McCloskey, R-
Tampa Bay, the Republican presidential nomination this year, announced June 16 and his wife of 23 years
the then-Sen. Eugene McCarthy, like Tunney a Roman Catholic, left his wife in August 1869. 20 years after they were
Mrs. Mitchell, whose husband, John resigned as attorney over his relationship to Nikon's re-election campaign, said Monday, "There is no reason that Mr. Mitchell is going."
**SPEAKING FROM A sate at a Westchester Club Country in Rye. "cops and robbers game" and claimed he had been beaten up.**
Phyllis Dole, who was divorced earlier this year from the senator and who now lives in Virginia has been quoted as saying:
"A political wife has to decide, 'do I put my husband first or my child?' Do I leave the child with a woman? Can you pass a pagenail trail with my husband?' My idea was that you can make over a dress or a cake, but you can make over a child, so I can make over a little girl. Maybe I was wrong."
DOLE, HOW IS 15 up for rejection in 1974, has been quoted as saying "We will judge me on the basis of what I’ve done in Congress and not on that."
Mrs. Proxmire said that politics did not break up her marriage.
She added in an interview, however. that politics did do
special things to a marriage,
"both in pluses and minuses."
Among the minuses, she said,
were the strains that "result
from living in a goldfish bowl and
the long separations."
POLITICS ALSO interferes with family life "a great deal," she says, while very disappointing to the young people." She and Proxmime had two children from previous marriages and a son of their own.
When Proxmire was divorced from his first wife, the former Elise Rockeeller, in 1953, he said, "Doubtless, the exacting political life provoked enduring conflicts in our marriage."
Penn State Offers Gardening Course
From Kansan Press Services
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—A garden course offered by Pennsylvania State University during the summer session has been rated relaxing and economical by students who are taking advantage of it.
The university, for a fee of $3.25 for the summer, has made available 50 to 60 foot plots, which are now sprouting peas, lettuce, and other vegetables.
Melvin Kulichk, Baltimore graduate student in political science, said Melvin was a nice change for someone who grew up in the city.
"When you have two kids and live on $60 a week, the things you grow come in handy," Michael Duffy, McLean, Va., graduate counselor at Johns Hopkins University.
The Duffys rent a food locker and plant enough vegetables to last an entire year. They have planted corn, peas, lettuce, tomatoes and potatoes.
To Abigail McCarthy, the 1968 presidential campaign "brought almost unbeatable emotional strength and disaster to our family."
Masayashi Kuwata, a Japanese graduate student in fuel science, is trying to grow an American squash and cantaloupes, as well as other vegetables.
"We are doing this for enjoyment and recreation," Mrs. Kuwata said. "We must save money, too."
IN THE EPILOGUE to her recent book of memoirs, "Private Face, Public Place", Mrs. McCarthy wrote, "Gene left our home in August 1969. He had long since come to the conclusion that I belonged to life - long fidelity and shared life - was no longer valid."
Not everyone views the strains of politics as harmful. Marvelvilla said, "You're not a liberal, Indiana said, 'Politics is unique in that it's something that a husband and wife can share so tightly together if they choose."
Bayh, who had been an announced candidate for the nomination, withdrew last October, saying he wanted to be "a length period of breast cancer from surgery for breast cancer."
Wardell Pomeroy, a well-known counselor, said he wasn't sure politics put more pressure on marriage than other professions, but added, "It does do some things to the negotiation. It allows the negociator in the woman as well as the man."
ALTHOUGH SHE enjoys politics and likes campaigning, Mrs. Bayh admitted there were others who didn't care about one of the professions that can put a strain on marriage," she said. "They want 72 hours every day."
"JUST AS IN the movies or in
Marriage counselors see in politics the same marital problems as exist in professions like show business.
business, if the politician begins to rise he will sometimes leave his wife behind him. The man who grows and the wife downgrades.
Almost everyone interviewed was politically separated, stemmed not from increased pressure, but from a changing sense of agency.
"There are no more problems than there used to be," Mrs. Bayh said, but "with changing at least 40 percent, it is able to be more out in the open." Pomery added: "Politicians now can get divorced without the penalties that use to be at risk of the political penalties that is."
Readers Respond
CIA Resident Complains of Control
To the Editor:
As a resident of the CIA House, I am pleased that the Kansan finds it interesting enough to have an inaccurate item, which I believe should be cleared up. I like the fact that it is not present there, but I feel that it should not be ascribed qualities that it does not possess. Notable are two: control of the house by the Kansan.
The CIA is not regulated by the residents. The CIA House is owned by the University of Stellenbosch and is affiliated Association (UKSA). The board of UKSA has a contract with a group called the Co-operative Council to operate op) to operate and to do research in the CIA House. A majority of the board members of UKSA were employed are in human development. In
fact, two people, Keith Miller and Rich Fellock, are in both groups. The residents of the CIA House have no voice in the contract between UKSHA and the ones do they elect Coop members.
The rules that govern the CIA House are set forth in a handbook that is written by the Co-op. When a resident moves into the CIA, he must be approved by the Co-op, which in part states that he will be abide by the rules that are outlined in the handbook. The handbook also changes by a three-fourths majority vote of those people at the weekly house meetings. Since the five Co-op meetings are held and meetings are allowed to vote, their opposition to a proposed amendment to their handbook makes residents to make a change without the approval of the Co-op.
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
wonder if it is not really an experiment that is designed to help absentee landlords run their business, repair, cook and presently we are even painting the house. We do this not for money, but for points. Our rent money must pay for our own property in addition pay $250 per month (profit?) to UKSA. Once this system is perfect, every slumlord in Lawrence will use it and call his property a "com
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff."
In my more cynical moments,1
In addition, the Co-op revises the handbook between semesters according to its own wishes. It also considers its "asked" for "asked" not to its liking.
—Stephen J. Schroff CIA Resident
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