4 Thursday, March 2, 1972 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. Garry Wills A Polite Scolding A special student, with the help of one of the campus umbudsmen, has taken it upon himself to take up the cause of the University against the February Sisters, who had taken it upon themselves to take up the cause of women in the University. These two self-appointed representatives of the University intend to bring the Sisters before the University Judiciary for violating three articles of the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct and acting against the Code of Conduct adopted by the Board of Regents. Admittedly, the Sisters did violate the two codes when they took over the East Asian Studies Building by disrupting the orderly process of the University, acting disorderly on campus and interfering with the free passage through a University building. However, the orderly process of this University has been much more radically disturbed by past events than by the Sisters' occupation of a building such as the East Asian Studies Building in the middle of the night. Indeed their takeover of that building seems rather timid compared to the bold marches on the walls of the building and the defacing of University buildings. The plaintiffs in the case also complained that the Sisters had uttered vulgarities and that their manner was rude while occupying the building. The February Sisters are not the first, and it is likely they will not be the last group, to behave in an "unladylike" manner on this campus. They are merely the first one to be brought before the University Judiciary for not acting the way the Code wanted them to. These guardians of University virtue want the women to be publicly scolded. They reason that the Sisters' example will dissuade other groups who have grievances against the University from attempting to use them as a weapon in similarly harmless, though unlawful, ways. It might work, but I doubt it. People have been impressed with the response these women have elicited from the administration. The action of this group has caused the problems faculty and student women face on this campus to be presented to the public more dramatically and effectively than ever before. In the crisis-like situation, the action the planning for the Affirmative Action Program seems to be receiving a more serious consideration than it has before. Although Watkins cannot now afford to hire an obstetrician-gynecologist, which is one of the Sisters' demands, there will be space allocated for a women's clinic dealing with the specific health problems of women. The idea of a women's clinic involves students and faculty members is also being more carefully considered. Could these positive steps have been taken without the nominally extralegal actions of the February Sisters? Marilyn Stokstad, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said about the Sisters' action: "I realize that it is an illegal action, but we've been working within the system and have gotten no results." The Sisters have at least gotten the machinery of the system started so perhaps now would be the time for them to become more at one with the system. Let the system salve its ego by scouting them. After the trial is over, they can get on with the system and the Sisters can get on with the serious business of making their demands real. They can make sure that the Affirmative Action Program is progressing, continue to seriously consider the possibility of a child care center and work out some of the specifics for that woman's health clinic. Even a woman in the decision making groups of this University could become something more than just someone who "represents the women." Mary Ward Readers Respond More Quotes; Men Reply Baha'i To the Editor: We have observed with interest the many letters commenting on the station of women as defined by religion. As Bahali's we are religiously attuned to the religious teachings have on society and on the development of individuals. Feeling as we do that each religion gives each religion to meet the needs of the time in which that religion appears, and believing that the need for each religion is social and religious teachings for this time in history, we would like to note that the Bahali 'Faith' is unquenchably declare the absolute equality of men and women as a spiritual truth. Our human humanity has two wings—one is women and the other men. Not until both wings are equally profiled with one wing remain weak, flight is impossible. . . Woman's lack of progress and proficiency has made education and opportunity. Had she been allowed this equality there is no doubt she would be the only capacity. The happiness of mankind will be realized when women and men coordinate and advance equally, for each is the help and慰met of the other." While education of both male and female children is important, education of Babais, the importance of education on women is particularly stressed since parents, and in many societies the mothers primarily, have a major influence on the education of their children. Women who goes to school. Women who have been deliberately kept ignorant and made to feel that they are inherently inferior beings cannot be educated until they attitudes on to their children. The effect on these teachings on the time in which they were given, the mid-1840's, in Persia, is that they are not seen in one example. The position of women in Moslem societies during the last century can be imagined. Tahiril (The teaching of the teachings of our Faith, against the orders of her husband and father, and became the first woman in religious history to become one of the early band of Muslim preachers of the Manifestation of God, such as the disciples of Christ. She became known for the purity of her life and for her knowledge and wisdom. Her last words when she was martyred were "You can kill me as soon as you like but you will stop the emancipation of women." We hope these comments have demonstrated that religion need not confine or degrade women; rather it can have a liberating effect on society, regardless of sex, to become all that they are capable of being. Marie De Camp Prairie Village Senior Prairie Village Senior -Bob Postlethwaite Prairie Village Senior -Sheryl Gitchell Hutchinson Junior -Claudia Kidd -Claudia Kidd -Rick Kersey Mahannten Senior -Bill Borland Lawrence ★★★ Second, we also feel the double meaning of "the popular belief," but what of the popular belief that it is a woman who catches a husband? It seems strange that the word "popular" chasing women, yet you reserve the right of "landing a husband." Men of the KU community also feel that the ad appearing in the February 17 issue of the *KU News* distasteful and dehumanizing. "We will also conceive that the majority of women don't go to a tavern to be feasted upon by the appetites of male chauvinists." Response However, do you really think that it is us to use such high percentage of people? Since you wish to refer to people's motives in the dubious terms of, "the greater percentage", let's use the greater percentage of men. First, since you name your family the KU community, we shall have to assume your generalizations are also directed to the men of the KU community. We shall then that the majority of the KU men think that if a woman goes to a tavern with a girlfriend, she will be inviting herself older; NOT HARDLY! Maybe older men and women might think this, but by definition, information you have excluded them. To the Editor: chasing her "of landing a husband." Finally, don't you think your final line was a little dramatic and unfair? Who is who in women's clothing? "food?" Women wearing short skirts and flaunting their sex. We will stand by them, but we want to combat exploiting and dehumanizing ads, but first we suggest that you cleanse and disinfect the objects you investigate the beliefs of the "greater percentage" of KU men and investigate another one-sided outrage! Ron Kettner Shawnee Mission Senior Jim Fitz Burlington Freshman Steven Golden Grainfield Senior Jack Pearson Shawnee Mission Junior Glen Scheib Bucklin Soph Larry Stigge Washington Soph —Karl Schoettlin S.M. Senior Jeff Steinmetz S.M. Soph Gus Stoppel Luray Junior Philip Roth has written an outrageous, wild, intermittently funny take-off on the present administration. It is called Our Gang, and it has fine moments like this: the presidential preacher named Billy of course) tries to comfort Trick E. Dixon, while a student names William White, the White House, by saying "Mr. President, forgive them, they know not what their sighs say." Boulders And Openers At 20 Paces The whole treatment of the Reverend Billy may be the best thing in the world to help a chapter and verse from Nauhli Websites to be above politics when he is just below it, serving the ends of politicians while cultivating an ignorance that he Roth grasps the dynamics of Billy's credential-system: he gains access to power as a preacher of God to the people, and uses his access to power as a way of impressing the people to whom he preaches God. The proud in station recommend him to the humble, and the humble to the proud. He is God's PR man, who knows everybody because he lives by a life vexed with vice. By continually blessing the institutions he becomes an institution—as American as cherry pie. Take, for instance, this multiple usefulness of Billy. One of the few genuine revelations in Lyndon Johnson's recent book was the story of Nixon's overture to him just after the 1986 election. Nikon proposed a mutual non-aggressive pact of sorts between incoming and outgoing President. The aim of such an agreement with the vice president branch was—Rev. Billy Graham! How turn down the man of God—it would be like turning down God himself. In another part of our OuGau, President Dixon explains how three Boy Scouts happened to be killed in Washington: "Through a long night, our brave soldiers, armed only with rifles and gas masks, canisters and gas masks, face a mob of Boy Scouts, numbering nearly ten thousand." The President goes on television to display the makeshift weapons carried by the street people in camping gear. Just consider all the ways of dealing injury with a Boy Scout knife—the bottle opener alone has a hundred sinister uses. No, not even that TV speech can outrace events. We have just been given a post-Roth version of Kent State that is more double-thought-out and new-spoken than anything in Roth, or Rushter, and that is more Rushter, prominent Right-Wing and star of the "Advocates" sounds as if he had studied Trick E. Dixon's TV speech to catch just its surreal paths and Wonderland logic. Here is the Rusher account of Kent State: "A group of National Guardmen, outspoken to the contrary, retreated uphill under a hail of rocks weighing as much as seven pounds." No mention of shooting, nor of bystanders (who made up most of that 1 to equation), nor of the difference in armor or training. Only of the horrible word of that "rereat"—which, to add excavation detail to the pain, was "uphill." Ever tried to fight with boulders at twenty paces? It’s enough to drive you back to your bottle opener. Copyright, 1972, Universal Press Syndicate James J. Kilpatrick Gutless Wonders Chilled WASHINGTON - On the evening of Wednesday, December 1, the Senate approved an embarrassing, unwarranted and indefensible amendment to the pending Economic Stabilization Act. I have not before enacted an amendment before, in the hope that would quietly go away. Sad to say, it seems to be lingering on. This is the amendment, sponsored chiefly by Senator Alan Cranston of California, that would relieve newspapers, magazines, book publishers, and the radio-television industry from the price and wage controls that apply to everyone else. In the holy name of the First Amendment, the exemption would accord special privileges to the artisans. But we are supposed to have, we ought to renounce it out of hand. It is no justification that a number of other trades, services and artists are exempt from Phase Two—seafood, jewelry, antiques, art objects, and the like. There is indeed something acutely human in Cranson's "simple question." "If all these, 'he' asked, "why not the press?" Wigs, but not newspapers? Whips, but not books? Why taixdermy, but not books? Why taixdermy, but not books? magazines, radio and television?" The short answer, perhaps, is that Walter Cronek is not a stuffed moose, and the communications industry carries rather more economic impact than the sports team. Short answers will not suffice. The tenuous rationalization for this amendment is that newsmen are either golden boys or gulless wonders. It is suggested that we might accept special favors, or be punished. This is how Cronek put it. "The Wage and Price Control Boards will be dealing not only in across the board guideline rulings applicable to all newspapers, all magazines, all TV stations, and so forth; they will be dealing with individual case-by-case requests for pay or price adjustments. . . This does not mean that the danger is rather clearly to different treatment for different companies, and there is at least the danger—all we are concerned about is the danger—of, first, the Board treating a critically different from a friend and, second, a threat of physical harm when he knows he is going to go before a government board and ask for special consideration." This is, or ought to be, non-sense. By this insulting line of reasoning, newspapers and TV news have any tax assessment, zoning regulation, or lawsuit that depends upon some decision by a public agency or official. We ought to be kept in antispeculative dress, so we can usus, and we ought to be spared the burdens of mortal men. Humburt! The amendment is wrong in principle. It has practical defects as well. In its original form, the book has been included "entertainners" in the blanket exemption, on the plausible grounds that the First Amendment restricts playwrights, motion picture producers, and stand-up saturators. who work the nightclub circuit. On reconsideration, entertainers were dropped. But a vast deal of the communications industry is engaged in the dissemination of information ideas concerning public affairs". It is engaged purely and simply in entertainment. Dean Martin in Las Vegas, or Dean Martin on TV, is the same Dean Martin. It is endearing to suggest that he can be a casino and thawed on the tube. Once before, in the matter of the Failing Newspaper Act, I reproached my brethren of the press for accepting special privilege. That exemption (from anti-trust laws) was at least of limited application. The Cranston Company would out an enormous loophole in the application of uniform price and wage controls. Many segments of the industry, I know, are in trouble. Production costs keep climbing. Postal rate increases alone will compel some upward price adjustments. But we of the press must take our lumps like everyone else. So long as controls remain the law of the land, we will sound awfully well and be able to amend, in urging their firm restraint on other men—but not on us. Copyright, 1972, Washington Star Syndicate, Inc. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN America's Pacemaking college newspaper Kansas Telephone Numbers Newsroom—UN 4-4810 Business Office—UN 4-4328 Published at the University of Kansas daily during the academic year except in examinations period. Mail subscription rates: $0 a semester, $1 a year. Acceptance fee: $25 per good, services and employment offered to all students without regard to color, creed or national origin. Opinions expressed are not necessarily expressed to all students. 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