THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No. 83
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Friday, February 11, 1972
KU Faculty, Staff Worried About Wages
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Sanders' Talk On Problems Women Face
BY ANITA KNOPP
Kansan Staff Writer
Marlene Sanders, ABC news correspondent, said Thursday night that, in view of her women's movement events at the White House, she aren't in need of "consciousness raising."
Referring to a speech made last week by feminist leader Robin Morgan, which called for consciousness raising among women so they could realize their oppression and reject it, Sanders said that attention-getting tactics work.
This week the February Sisters, a women's rights group, has been meeting with student leaders and faculty members to discuss issues such as a day care center funded by KU.
Kansan Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
Sanders has known Morgan for some years and has interviewed her several times. She said that Morgan's ideas have radicalized with each interview.
Sanders became the first woman to anchor a network news program when she took over anchor duties on ABC's Saturday Evening News last April. Thursday she served as the co-director of the news media and the women's liberation movement. She appeared as part of a Spring Symposium sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women. She has produced documentaries on Women's Education, women in religion, and child abuse.
Sanders said she disagreed with Morgan on tactics and goals of the women's movement, and that she didn't bother with the difference between different aspects of the movement.
"They are united on the goals of liberalizing abortion laws, equal pay, and day care centers," said Sanders. She said Morgan divided the movement into three areas—the conservatives, the women's liberation advocates, and the radicals.
She said she was a correspondent, not a spokesman for the movement.
"Journalists have to be objective and keep opinions out of reporting." Sanders
In regard to the events of last week, Sanders said that the February Sisters were not justified in attacking the photographer.
"You can't control what's being reported about you," she said. Even as an active supporter of women's movements, she sympathize with mistreatment of the press.
"Man is not the enemy," Sanders said. "Female chauvinism is no better. I believe, as Betty Friedan said, 'man is a victim too.'"
Sanders said she has experienced many frustrations in gaining her position in a predominately male field. She is one of the newsmen among a field of 200 men.
She said she had been excluded from many good news stories because she was a woman. For example, she was kept from doing a Joe Namath story because "women just don't know anything about sports." Prior to working for ABC, Sanders said, she had been a writer for a sports broadcast.
Lincoln Day Reminder of An Era
An austere view with a stormy background makes this state of Abraham Lincoln a poignant reminder of his simple life and his stormy years in the presidency. The
statue is located on the lawn of the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka, Saturday is
Ellsworth to Continue Policies on Visitation
The Ellsworth Hall Contract Review Committee and the administrative housing board reached an agreement Thursday to review the installation policy and to keep the coeducational floor arrangement in the provisions for the 1972-73 Ellsworth Hall
Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, said that a statement of understanding, which will serve as a guideline for residents and businesses, should be strengthening the hall's internal government, judicial board, communications and programming, would be put together within the next few days by the three representatives of Ellsworth.
David Dysart, Lawrence third-year law student and mediator in the controversy, said that the negotiations opened up channels of communication which had been blocked by the plaintiffs in the future this would encourage students to be more candid with the administration.
"We hope that this case will set a
Susan Whitner, Lawrence freshman and secretary of the Eilworth Hall Review Committee said that the committee was pleased with the proposal.
precedent of mediation rather than the conflict that has resulted in the past over policy issues.
The Ellsworth Hall controversy stemmed from the earlier decision of the housing board to reduce the hall hours from 24 to 17 and to eliminate the教導性 floors. The board members said that they were convinced that freshman students, freshman women in particular, were not capable of handling employment with no controls and without a strict program for self-discipline.
The board members also said that a resumption next year of the 24-hour open visitation policy and continuation of the current program will problems already experienced this year.
The statement of understanding is intended to alleviate these problems.
U.S. Stops Peace Talks; Anti-War Rally Planned
President Refuses Further Concessions
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The United States indefinitely suspended the Paris peace talks Thursday in a storm of invective over an anti-war meeting scheduled this weekend at nearby communities accused the United States of honouring new military adventures in Vietnam.
President Nixon told a news conference in Washington, meanwhile, that he will make no further concessions at the talks with Iran. He said he would negotiate in a manner he judges serious.
The indefinite postponement infuriated the Communists, who charged the United States harbored the "intention of torpeding the conference" and displayed an "arrogant attitude" in putting off the next session.
The Viet Cong delegate said U. S. Ambassador will William J. Porter's "arrogance was absolutely unpardonable" and accused the U. S. delegate of an attitude "unworthy of a representative from a country like the United States."
NIXON TALKED about halting further concessions to Hanoi under present circumstances in discussing a New York news conference. Nguyen Van Thieu said there was a split between his government and the United States over the latest Nixon peace agreement.
In an important news conference at the White House, Nixon said the Communists had not yet responded formally to his Jan. 25 eight-point peace proposal and there would be no further concessions on the part of the United States until, or unless, the other side joined in genuine negotiations.
In that news conference Thien said that South Vietnam would make no further peace concessions despite Secretary of State Obama's assurances of flexibility in the allied position.
Thue confirmed a rift between Saigon and President Nixon's administration over the latest allied peace plan. He sharply criticized Rogers, saying that if the secretary meant what he said, "It was a situation of Vietnamese sovereignty."
"I will talk with Mr. Nixon about it," he said to television interview with Doc Wheeler.
Nixon said all Paris peace proposals by the allies had joint Washington-Sanion approval and added that any future proposals that would be made would be joint proposals of the government of the states and the government of South Vietnam.
He described as courageous Thieu's announcement, simultaneous with the unveiling of the eight-point Nixon plan, that the South Vietnamese chief would voluntarily resign a month before any elections resulting from a peace settlement. He discounted speculation concerning a Washington-Saigon rift,
ORGANIZERS OF THE Versailles meeting say it will attract about 1,200 delegates from 80 countries. Formally, it is called the Paris World Assembly for Peace and Independence of the Indochinese Peoples.
Stephen Ledogar, the U. S. spokesman, called the gathered "a North Vietnamese-organized show." Under questioning, he told reporters that he had no claim, but he could not divulge it.
Ledogar said the United States called off the negotiating session because the
antiwar conference would "befoul the atmosphere."
"God knows how long it will take before the effusion dissipates," he added, when asked about his plan.
Porter, addressing the Communists at the 14th session of the talks, declined to set a date for the next session as is the custom at the end of negotiating sessions.
We will notify you when we have determined how soon a meeting will be desired.
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Doubt on South Viets Suggested by Buildup
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The sudden buildup of U. S. airpower in the Western Pacific suggests the United States has less than full confidence that the South Vietnamese army can adequately protect the remaining American troops in the war, during any major new offensive.
It also backs up President Nixon's warning to Hanoi that "I shall fully meet my responsibility . . . to protect our nation" and the event of a North Vietnamese offensive.
U. S. and South Vietnamese warplanes to the air in large numbers Thursday in intense raids to counter increased attacks in the central and northern provinces.
Military spokesman said U. S. Navy and Air Force jet fighter-bombers flew 85 strikes in South Vietnam, compared to a total of less than 10 in the past four months.
For weeks, intelligence reports have indicated the enemy was moving troops into position and otherwise preparing to launch possibly widespread attacks in Vietnam starting about Tet, which falls on Feb. 15.
Propeller-driven Skyraiders and subsonic jets of the South Vietnamese air force fweer another 85 strikes, many of them in the central highlands and coastal lowlands where an enemy offensive has been predicted.
The targets were suspected enemy troop concentrations, bunkers and supply trails. Some strikes were in direct support of allied ground troops batting Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces around the districts of district towns and military camps.
U. S. reconnaissance jets also ranged over North Vietnam to pinpoint supply buildings in the event President Nixon ordered another bombing campaign against the North.
As the U. S. withdrawal has progressed at an accelerated pace, American troops and bases in Vietnam have become increasingly vulnerable.
U. s. ground combat strength, once about 10 divisions, has been cut to 11 battalions for security duty. The bulk of the 133,000 U. s. troops left in Vietnam are trained chiefly for logistics and other support functions, not for infantry duty.
Price Board Freezes Private Utility Rates
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Price Commission Thursday froze all private utility rates across the nation and gave the government 10 to sharpen its utility price guidelines.
The freeze means that virtually all electric, gas, telephone, telegraph, railroad, airline and intercity bus and trucking rates will be held for up to 30 days at whatever rates were legally in effect at midnight Wednesday.
It temporarily blocks about 900 requests or increases totaling billions of dollars, but it's not a big problem.
Publicly owned utilities, such as public mass transit systems and municipal water operations, are not frozen. Their rates may go up.
Price Commission chairman C. Jackson Gracey Jr. said the temporary freeze was ordered because the panel's three-and-a-half-year regulations have turned out to be too tuggy.
He said the commission will hold four days of public hearings, its first open session on any subject, beginning next Feb. 22.
Residents and Industries Protest 'Tax Grab' Northwest Annexation
By MARK BEDNER Kansan Staff Writer
Kansan Photo by T. DEAN CAPLE
KPL Clings to City Limit Annexation protested
The conflict arose during a City Commission meeting on Feb. 1. At the bench steps toward unanimous agreement, the land despite protests from residents of the area and from officials from the Calgary Chemical Co. and Kansas Power and Light
Officials from KPL warned that the annexation, although it would bring $633,660 additional revenue to the city, could result in a 13 per cent surcharge being assessed Lawrence residents on their monthly electrical bills.
Controversy continues to surround a recent City Commission decision to annex the old courthouse.
Austin Stedham, division manager of KPL, pointed out that it would be unfair to spread the cost of the new taxes to the 200,000 customers KPL serves outside the Lawrence area and that, as a result, the surcharge would be levied against customers regularly. The increase would affect all city customers, including the University.
CITY MANAGER Buford Watson said that the city would initiate court action, if necessary, to prevent KPL from assessing the surcharge.
Residents of the area then requested Douglas County Attorney Mike Elwell to review the complaint.
state statute that empowers the county attorney to challenge the validity of city annexation, the residents sought Elwell's assistance in preventing the city from annexing the land. Elwell remained on the city council until she left from the state attorney general's office.
Meanwhile, the city agreed to delay the second and final reading of the motion to annex the land at last Tuesday's Commission meeting. The delay was intended to provide opponents of the annexation time to prepare their case against the move.
Opponents have insisted that the City Commission is making a "tax grab" by annexing the large tract of land. Many residents of the area complained that the city imposed $385 per cent if the city annexed the land, would force them to move from their homes.
Few of the residents were willing to discuss the case and waited for a final decision.
GEORGE ALLEN, attorney for a group of residents opposing the annexation, said he believed many of the residents were "unhappy" to "see this case through its finality."
"I will recommend that the residents of the area in question who want to go on record as protesting this move by the city do so." Allen said. "The others will have to decide for themselves what they want to do."
Kansan Photo by BECKY PIVONKA
Serene Atmosphere of Spooner Encourages Student's Endeavor
Cyd Millstein, Kansas City senior, seems to find Spooner Art Museum a conducive atmosphere for studying. Actually she serves as a guard for the museum and is taking advantage of the time that must be spent by getting in some work on classes. As
the third week of classes ends more and more students are finding that midterms are not all that far away, and even if they can't do it in the art museum, they are beginning to hit the books.