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Thursday, June 8, 1972
University Summer Kansan
Is Teaching Important?
Just how important is good teaching at KU? The answer to this question depends upon whom you are talking to.
If you were to ask this question of the students at KU, the answer would be, "Good teaching is the most important thing for me at this university. It is the good teacher who helps you learn what makes him a vital part of what I want to go to his classes and to take additional work in his field."
If you were to ask the parents of our students this same question, you would get a similar answer from them, although they would probably add something like this: "Of course I expect good teaching. That's why I'm paying both tuition and taxes to educate my children."
But what do the Board of Regents and the university administration think about good teaching? An examination of their actions reveals that their answer to this question would be, "There are many much more important." The reason for such a conclusion seems obvious when one notes that of the 39 people who have won one or more of KU's top three
teaching awards, only four will be paid as much as $20,000 next year. This is a scant percentage of a group recognized for good teaching. The percentage becomes exceedingly smaller when one sees that, according to figures released by the University of 138 faculty members and 34 administrators who will be paid more than $20,000 next year.
The figures speak loud and clear. Teaching is apparently not as important as other criteria by which salaries are determined.
One would think that good teachers would be likely to leave the University of Kansas if they were not properly rewarded for their efforts. In a number of cases, this has been so. The HOPE award winners of 1959, 1962, 1964, 1967 and 1971 have left KU for positions paying higher salaries at other schools. What we must not lose sight of is that of the 39 who received the teaching awards, 30 are still teaching at KU. We are probably more fortunate than we deserve to be.
-Rita E. Haugh Editor
Unique Coalition Formed
Early in April a small group of individuals met in Topeka to outline a program for what could eventually become a powerful political force in Kansas. The group, comprising labor leaders and representatives from farm and education groups in the state, issued their recognition state and local politicians through a shrewd and calculated political move; they invited a group of students to attend the first meeting.
By recognizing the potential impact of young people in this election year, the Topeka group opened the door to what may possibly become a unique coalition in state and national political circles. If the coalition succeeds in uniting thousands of blue collar workers and students, Kansas may be facing an interesting election year.
A quick glance at certain important political battles during the '68 and '70 races highlights the effect a labor-student coalition in Kansas might have on the outcome of future
races. For example, the margin of victory for Robert Dole in the 1968 senatorial race was 175,000 votes. In 1970 Governor Docking was elected by 71,384 votes. In the Lawrence area the two incumbent house members won by a combined total of 531 votes over the challengers.
Compare these election figures to the 292,000 young voters in Kansas who will vote for the first time in 1972, added to the estimated Kansas labor force of 120,000, and the impact the two groups could have on certain state and local races becomes apparent.
Regardless of the outcome, this attempt to bring the laborer, student, farmer and teacher together for a discussion of the issues in an election year deserves commendation. One can only hope that similar efforts will begin on a national scale only the time will be the politician who fails to recognize the broad constituent base that such a coalition represents. And isn't that what politics is all about?
Mark Bedner
Summer Invites Reading
Also on the nostalgic side is a big western by Janice Hilt Goles, SIX-HORSE HITCH (Crest, 165 cents). Fictional characters and settings are as Big Holiday, Jack Slade, and drivers of the Overland Stage in this one. It takes place beginning in 1850, after the great war in the West and during the great days in the line lines.
New on the lists is *Kurban* (Pocket, $1.25) and was a Tartar book of the Caucasus mountains of Asia Minor, and he wrote this story about a proud young man from an aristocratic family. His daughter of a rich Christian merchant. There is a culture there and the story is rich and romantic.
Now we come to a group quite different: books about the Everybody KNOWS AND NOBODY CARES (Pocket, $1.25), about one O. J. Jones who leaves wife, school, to go out and find America. Morton (Pocket, $9.50), pensure (Pocket, $9.50) is a tale of the draft—young man, middle class values, sex. Patrick Skene THE CATALOGUE AND FRED DILLY (Pocket, $9.50
each) are sexy and funny,
treating artificial insemination,
sexual experimentation by
scientists and the like.
A nostalgic novel by Helen Tucker, THE BUILT OF AUGUST FIELDING (Crest, 95 cents) will appeal to readers who have watched the film from the tortured contemporary scene. This one depicts more than 70 years of small-town American life, treating a farm boy, his days in college, his first parish, the works and for whom he lives.
Heading the fiction just... James A. Michener's THE DRIFTERS (Crest, $1.75). The drifters have a huge time limit in middle-aged man's view of six young Americans, wandering through Torremolinos, Pampiona, Mozambiquo, and Marrakech, in their experiences. An older volume by Michener also has been reissued. THE FIRES OF SPRING (Crest, $1.25). It's about a boy growing up in a park, discovering sex. It is also minor league Michener, sadly
Still worth reading, however, is SARATOGA TRUNK (Crest, 85 cents). This is one of the most enjoyable courses written by a beautiful Cloe Jarmon and tough Clint Maroon, their adventures in New Orleans and Miami, with the days of great horse racing and competition between these two cities.
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Rhodesia Offers Lesson in Rule
WASHINGTON—it was one of the maxims of Euripides that a bad beginning makes a bad ending. The story of Rhodesia, a landlocked nation with an melancholy chapter, offers an example of the rule in operation. From the time Rhodesia declared her independence from the United States, the blunder has followed in the footsteps of folly. If in the beginning the most elementary precepts of international order and statehood States especially had observed the rules of right conduct—today's miserable impasse between Greece and it never worked out that way.
WHEN NO
MORE
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INVOLVED
THERE AT
ALL AND
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WHY I SAY
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The thought of Euripides prompts a further thought. Richmonds, like the city of York, that unlike conventional melodrama, which pits rights and interests Greek to Greek.
What now? Unlikely as it may seem, a large reservoir of good will still exists between the government and the local communities. There is some hope that the Sirb政府 once, it recovers from the sting of the Pearce report, may voluntarily move its assets embraced in the settlement. But Smith is under heavy pressure from a right wing that has opposed any concessions whatever. The situation will have to drift.
It was in an effort to put an end to this folly that Britain's foreign secretary, Sir Alee Douglas-Home last year worked out an agreement with Rhodesia's minister, Ian Smith. The agreement was not perfect. In Commons on May 23, Douglas-Home fairly described it as "a compromise settlement which by definition must not meet the conditions of war but will gain for the Africans substantial new opportunities."
these sanctions will continue also.
These substantial new opportunities now have been sidelined. With the report of a commission headed by Lord Pearce, finding the settlement for all Africans, the whole delicate structure collapses. Sanctions will continue; and the mockery of
"patently illegal," the United Nations embarked upon a course of falsehood, hypocrisy, and insult. It is clear that she was the sanctions imposed
Rhodesia is a small country, but as Daniel Webster remarked of Dartmouth College, there are many things that can reflect of men's capacity for error that so much that is good and hopeful and right should be sacrificed, in this case, to UN peace, unrealistic, and wrong.
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These were among the rights in conflict when Rhodesia declared independence in 1965. By all the ordinary rules, and by the plain language of the United Nations charter as well, Mr. Kennedy insisted his business of Great Britain. It was none of the business of anyone else, he denounced by Dean Acheson as
right against right. For the past
seven years the notion has been
carefully cultivated in the liberal
culture. The fact that the right is
on the side of the 5 million
blacks, and all the wrong to
quarter-million
whites. It is not.
The European inhabitants respond to these contents by asserting clear title—a title as ancient as the Bible. British pioneers of 1890 found a
Stone Age society. They and their children brought the capital, the tools, the know-how, the fierce ambition that lifted the prenuine darkness. Their taxes and their labor enabled them to Africans of Rhodesia, relatively speaking, good schools and medical care. Blacks are represented in settlement. The Americans assume As for majority rule, the Europeans assert that the principle has been thought to apply only among those capable of governing, and those incapable of governing.
The African inhabitants make the self-evident point that they were there first. Their sheer numbers have become the most today. They have worked the mines and tiled the fields and contributed greatly to the development of their country, unwillingly, the African Rhodesians have inherited English principles of political democracy and the principle of majority rule.
Seattle YWCA Involved In Women's Liberation
SEATTLE—Two years ago the University of Washington YWCA brick building of the landscape building the University YMCA in the campus and are near the University and set up shop in a second-story office suite in the heart of the University District business center.
"It was traditional male relationship before; just what we're fighting against," the director of the YWCA, said.
"We knew from the beginning we would be considered first and foremost with women's liberation and liberating things around here," she said.
"What happens here is really organic—in response to a need. Things start here and move on their own when they are able."
Currently the YWCA has an abortion referral clinic, complete with a doctor and nurses of the YWCA. A newsletter called "Pandora" and a telephone answering service for a women's divorce cooperative that helps women obtain divorces without the expense of hiring an attorney.
The abortion referral service had its beginnings in 1970 when a
group actively backing an abortion law reform referendum was ordered off campus and in the YWC, Schweigeward said.
After the referendum passed, the YWCA became base for about 50 volunteers who provide the names of doctors performing abortion and counsel those considering abortions.
The service extends to providing rides, child care and companionship for women undergoing abortions.
Last year the abortion referral
handled 5,000 referrals,
channeling women to doctors who
will perform the operation for as
much as possible.
"A lot of doctors won't do abortions, even though they're legal, and some of those who will are aborted are women or women of," Schwiesow said.
The most ambitious program is the women's clinic being operated from the CACF's of Boston, which prevents services, which include pregnancy detection, general physical examinations, counseling, general disease detection and treatment and birth control assistance.
$50,000 Department of Health,
Education and Welfare grant,
features women doctors, nurses
and assistants.
The rooms used for the clinic designed by women volunteers. paired with women volunteers. Females also did all of the furniture construction, architectural design and
These activities are not conducted without some repercussions. Schwieser said they had dried up a small group is withdrawing its support because they can't agree with what we are doing," she said.
Also operating from the YWC is a women's co-op garage where females learn to repair and maintain their own cars.
The Seattle-King County YWCA, which is an entirely separate group, also feels some of the pressure from larger programs, according to its executive director, Dorothy Miller. Schwiesow said the national YWCA was doing a lot of some of what was being done at her branch.
"They have a liberal-to-radical stand that calls for an end to discrimination." she said.
"But we're probably the only 'Y' in the whole country doing what we're doing."
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