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Tuesday. March 7, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Garry Wills
KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
"And remember the cute little stories in the textbooks about me. The Happy Yellow School Bus?"
Dole's Ploy Fails
Kansas' Junior Senator, Bob Dole, captured headlines again last week as he tried unsuccessfully to secure passage of a strict antibusing amendment to the omnibus higher education act.
Last Wednesday Dole almost pulled off a slick maneuver that would have attached the "Griffin amendment" on busing to the education act. This amendment directly challenges the authority of the courts to order busing to achieve federal standards for authorities from withholding educational funds as a means of pressuring school districts into busing.
The Griffin amendment had been passed earlier when many Democratic senators that oppose the measure were absent on presidential campaigns in Florida and New Hampshire. However, the amendments remain valid when the presidential aspirants returned to the Senate.
Dole introduced the bill again late in the day in the hope that the opposition had again dwindled. As Dole proposed the amendment, Vice-President Agnew slipped into the chair, probably to break an expected vote. It was clear that the antibusing amendment was attached to the education bill.
Dole's plan was foiled, however,
as the opposition had not disappeared. The amendment lost, 48 to
47.
Done has always styled himself a liberal on civil rights issues. His action in support of the Griffin amendment clearly contradicts those claims. For no matter how unsatisfactory busing may be, the fact remains that until neighborhoods integrate, some transportation of students is going to be necessary if schools are to be integrated.
The whole situation smacks of little more than out-and-out politicking. If the Senate were sincere in its desire to integrate America's schools, antibusing legislation would not even have been considered. The courts have not come by their decisions to order busing lightly. It is simply the only way schools can be integrated as long as neighborhoods are segregated. Politicians with the same social science realize that busing is inapparent, and have sought to capitalize on that fact with antibusing legislation.
Consequently, it looks as if America is on the verge of taking a giant step backward in the struggle to comply with the constitution and provide integrated education for her youth.
Fortunately, however, the Griffin amendment failed, and was replaced by the less stringent (but still undesirable) Scott-Mansfield amendment. Also, the bill is now in a House and Senate conference committee, and is yet to be fully approved.
Kansans would do well to write to their senators, imploring Dole to reconsider his stand and praising the president for opposing the antibusing measure.
The battle for equal educational opportunities started in Kansas with Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education. It would be sad indeed if we were given credit for reversing the progress that has been made since then.
Hopefully, all American citizens who believe in the Constitution and the necessity of equal educational opportunities for all of America's children will make every effort to be a proponent of basing amendments do not succeed.
—Mike Moffet Associate Editor
The curtain rises on a dimmed scene, depicting the upper story of a dwelling house. Stairs led up to an ominous black opening into the atic. At times a child emerges from that opening, stunned and in disbelief, able to say what has happened to him.
Tragedy Played Too Real
At first these reverents seem to be children of the motherly woman who receives and comforts them, trying to be children of their own darkness. But soon the number of returning children rules that out. The children are here by some other than them.
After a while, enough children emerge from shock to mourn together in corners and try to cope with their fear. From these disjointed contemptions, we find ourselves drawn to the woman, it becomes clear there are many children left up in the attic.
1. don't know," the woman answers, honestly. "They were sent up before I came here."
"Why?" the children finally get up their nerve to ask.
"Why don't you bring them down?" one of the bolder boys says.
Visibly getting up her nerve, she goes toward the attic stairs, and disappears up them. After a while she returns, bringing a flock of children with her.
"We'll try."
There is a happy mulling scene that only gradually turns sour, as some people do not find their friends in the crowd and want to help. Why all the children were not brought down. The woman answers: "I thought it a matter of honor that we not show ourselves licked by whatever it is up to. I left some to show we are not afraid."
"But we are afraid," they chorus. "Bring them back!"
"I don't know why you are complaining," the woman continues. "I did not take them up there. I am bringing them down."
"But not all of them."
"I can't even be sure if the ones I saw were all of them. Some may be captives
of whatever power reigns up there, left some of those I saw, in case some unknown ones make their way out—so they wouldn't feel deserted."
"Don't you think the ones you left feel deserted? Besides, what can they do, if others reach them, that the others could not do on their own?"
"You don't understand the true horror of the enemy up there."
"But I thought you said we have to show we're not afraid of it?"
"Why is that?"
"Anything else would be a bug-out."
"What's the matter with that?"
"That is not because it lacks fearfulness. The more fearful it is, the less fear we should show."
At this the woman started hitting out in all directions, hurting the very ominous she had comforted before "You or radicals." "Or radio-licits." And at her own mention of that word, even more fearsome than the threat from the darkness above, she went hysterical, and shot four of the children in her care.
"We're not a great people. We're just people."
Guest Column
Copyright, 1972, Universal Press Syndicate
Action or Intellectual Morass?
By PATK. MALONE
BY PATR. MALO
Guest Columnist
The world of books is a nice, safe, unchuttered world. It is populated by ideas, thoughts and intrudes, who rarely intehrude.
In ostensibly preparing ourselves for society, we more often retreat into intellectualism. We avoid for as long as we can the encounter with, in James Joyce's words, "the reality of experience."
The University of Kansas is, for the most part, immersed in that world. Students, especially in the liberal arts college and the graduate school, read books purportedly about society and people, and go to class and talk about those books. We perceive as a cloistered university environment—through the opaque covers of books and scholarly magazines.
We are overeducating ourselves. We get our B.S.'s, and then we must get our M.S.'s, and then, of course, our Ph.D.'s. Graduate schools all over the world teach students burrowing their heads into the world of books. And when they get the last obtainable degree, they find that our society does not meet their knowledge; it needs to be taught to them. Ph.D.'s. But we get our bachelor's degrees, and, not knowing what we want next (or, often, knowing that we want to go for as long as possible the great leagues), we go to graduate school.
Our society, for the past twenty years or more, has shown a crying need for social change, a need to reevaluate our intents and values that make truly meaningful the words freedom, justice and equality.
Students of the '60s responded not at all; they retreated into unconsciousness. In the '60's we responded, we reacted, but too much was happening in our actions; it was a period of social activism but also on an intellectually subconscious level Our thoughts were there about what we did not like and what often than not, our thoughts about what we really wanted instead were wague and only hastily felt.
Now in the 70s, our voices have quieted, and some of us (but far too few) are working for positive social change. But many of us now are retreating in a different direction, into intellectual discourse, and we can in our university on a hill. We and we discuss, and we discuss.
"Think as men of action, and act as men of thought." This was the advice given our generation
by Max Lerner Brandeis
University professor of American
Civilization at the Robert F.
Kempner Symposium
at UMKC recently.
Lerner put it well. In the '60s, we acted too often as men of thought, too often as men of thought. There is a middle point of real social consciousness and social acclimatization seem to be skipping over it.
Readers Respond
As our society crumbles around us, we study it, read about it, and analyze it. We analyze everything it does, the nothing it does, we be labels "the generation of thinkers?" For our own sake, I pray not.
Ombudsman
To the Editor:
Kampus Kops; To Larry; Kids
Primarily in response to a recent "comment" in the Kansan office of the purposes and scope of this office, we issue this statement as the official position of the Omaha Office at the University of Kansas.
1. This office is under an ethical duty to accept any complaint brought by any student or staff member at this university.
gation to the person or group seeking his services.
2. If, after careful consideration, this office feels that the particular complaint is not one that would lend itself to a mediatory effort, then it is the duty of the Ombudsman receiving the complaint through with whatever action the office as a whole decides on.
Dave Dysart
Wichita Third-Year Law Student
For the Ombudsman's Office
1. The Ombudsman, as law students, are under a moral, ethical and professional duty to obey the law. It is under the same charge when it comes to enforcing them by accepting a complaint pertaining to a violation of such laws. This is why every lawyer by his profession.
5. The fact that a particular Ombudsa man acts as counsel for a student does in no way mean that the Ombudsa man is himself or merely a counselor, one way or the other—he is simply fulfilling his professional obli-
★★★
Larry
4. If those laws are thought to be vague, unjust or oppressive, then they must be strenken on or changed—not broken and ignored. If one chooses to change the law, it is not accepted. It accepts the consequences. If one disagrees with this, he disagrees with the Constitution of the U.S.
To the Editor:
An Open Letter to the Chan cellor:
It is baffling to me that you could somehow see yourself fit to deliver a speech to the American school in Chicago this March 5 entitled, "Achieving Equity for Women." As administrator on whose campus this month she scant progress in "achieving equity for women," it is doubly ironic that you are chairman of the Committee on the Status of Women and that you committed yourself on Nov. 17, 1971, to appoint an Affirmative Action Committee by Jan. 1, 1972, amount of time. It was obviously only after the action of the February Sisters coupled with additional committee work in light of the gross sex-based inequities turned up by the study of faculty salaries. Paralleling the administrative hierarchy it needs, the committee positions to be saturated by males with systematically higher salaries for men compared to females filling the same positions.
Your concern for the status of women strikes me as being mere lice service offered to placate the women of KU in an effort to sidestangle tangible action. Yet you will never see the progress of achieving equity for women even as you have been a prime example of bureaucratic foot dragging. Hopefully from a man pushed to progress you will find that your efforts would belf his roles within the AAHE as well as the University.
Ann G. Francke
Ann G. Francis
Prairie Village Sophomore
Day Care
o the Editor
I am not a February sister but I have been working on the company for over 25 years and baby-sitting cooperative for women's education and family "children".
There are several day-care centers in operation in Lawrence, where there are more than 20 children. These centers normally charge between $15 and $25 a week for care of 3 to 5 children, and a toddler's center, run with funders' funds and staffed by only one child. These full now with waiting lists, but the infant care center charges $25 a week for its servic
On a national level 1 in 10 mothers is listed head of household. One in three of these fami- lies have children. There are women I know personally who are not students now that they cannot afford baby-sitting care; one woman on the Uti- linary team; one on the low salary her low salary on day care. I am
sure there are other women in this position at the University, but in fact, no University office or department has been concerned about finding out who of faculty, children, and students have children, or how they are
In my meetings with the Student Senate and its committees no one has doubled the need, now, two years after the zero months to 5 years. A cooperative organization in which parents shared responsibility for all children and for the center would be better. It would demonstrate that when a community problem arose like this one, people of different ideas, political persuasions, sexes and ages could work together to solve the problem.
I believe this emergency cooperative babysitting center could be established in our school with a lot of hard work and a minimum of money we could meet this problem head on. Thank you for reading this
Judy Castle Special Student
Kops
May I comment the Kanan for the excellent editorial (Tom Slaughter, Feb. 28) on the ineptness and corruption of our Traffic and Security Division. If assaults have been rapidly increased in recent years then why haven't they made an honest and concerted effort to
To the Editor
The campus police would rather launch an all-out campaign to frustrate students with tickets generated by the university, which in turn generates revenue for the university, which in turn generates revenue for the expense of the student's fees. Students also receive tickets like Green Stamps for the most miniscule and petty excuses ever invented, while forming their own bills to pay their real responsibilities. By fingering the blame for campus violence on non-students, they exploit the obligation to combat it.
By Sokoloff
The issue in question is one of priorities. Which is a greater crime, parking one's car on an unauthorized improper sticker or by stealing a 10-year-old girl near the Campanile, which actually occurred a year ago, to protect the Security Division's sense of priority is so corrupted that miking the students' wallets is more dangerous than protection to all people on campus at all times, then radical reform of parking laws coupled with a shake-up of personnel in the health safety thing for all concerned. It's about time to end the highway robbery of the students, and not just the police, should security. As it stands now we should call our police police, the Bureau of Extrusion, Apathy and dishonor, but also fitting add but also rather fitting.
combat them? Why? Because there just isn't any room.
Griff and the Unicorn
Carl Horowitz
Lawrence sophomore
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff.
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