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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Presidential Poll This Week at KU
82nd Year, No. 81
Wednesday, February 9, 1972
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Kansan Photo by DAN LAUING
Man's Best Friend Turns Foe on a Cold Winter Day
Pamela Magatain, Arlington, Va. sophomore, had a difficult time yesterday trying to catch the bus. The ice conditions didn't seem to slow her down, but an admirer did. One of the many dogs that regularly survey the campus latched on to her scarf long enough to
make her miss the bus. Perhaps man's best friend is trying to tell us that his bickle for coat isn't always as warm as our synthetic
KU Required to Submit Program Showing Equal Opportunity Plans
By ROBERT E. DUNCAN Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas will have to submit to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare an Affirmative Action Compliance Program outlining plans of equal opportunity for minorities in research. Karen Keesling, assistant dean of women.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. announced last week that the three vice chancellors in charge of major areas on the Lawrence campus-academic affairs, business affairs, and student affairs—have detailed plans for affirmative action.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said Monday that the chancellor would announce further changes to the university's programs returns from Washington D. C. this week
The chancellor will appoint a committee to assist in the review of the University's audits.
WILLIAM M. LUCAS, professor of architecture and urban design and chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx), said the meeting was sent a list of persons recommended for the committee in November.
SenEx will also recommend to Chalmers several nominees for a newly created position that will deal with the concerns of women on campus.
The new staff position and the creation of the Minority Affairs Office, formerly the Office of Urban Affairs, are part of affirmative action plans.
LABOR REGULATIONS STATE, "An acceptable affirmative action program must include an analysis of areas within which the contractor is deficient in the skills needed to perform the work and further, goals and timetables to which the contractor's good faith efforts must be directed to correct the deficiencies and, thus, to increase materially the utilization of minorities and women, at all levels and in all work force where deficiencies exist."
Keeling, a member of WEAL, said that complaints about discrimination have been sent to HEW, the department responsible for contracts to educational institutions, by
The University in the next several weeks will be finalizing its total affirmative action program and then will submit it to HEW for review and approval.
WEAL members at more than 200 institutions.
Senate OK's Proposal To Stop Dock Strike
Tentative Agreement Made
By The Associated Press
Despite a tentative voluntary agreement in negotiations by labor leaders, the Senate voted Tuesday to end the 122-day draft strike by compulsory arbitration.
A 79 to 3 roll-call sent the bill to the House.
The vote in favor of the emergency dock strike proposal requested by President Nixon came after the Senate rejected 42 to 39, an amendment to provide a permanent machinery for setting disputes in the transportation industries.
Debate on the compulsory arbitration bill was under way when announcement of a tentative agreement to arbitrate a lawsuit voluntarily reached the Senate floor.
The tentative agreement will be submitted to a committee representing locals of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (LWU) and to individual shippers, said private mediator Sam Kagel.
Asked whether the agreement was the result of White House and congressional pressure, the 70-year-old Bridges gave an emphatic "No."
THE COMMITTEE WOULD set the date of a membership ratification vote and decide whether there would be a return to San Francisco. The committee will meet in San Francisco Feb. 12.
Asked by reporters whether he could recommend the agreement to his members, Bridges replied, "I don't want to discuss it now."
A new contract would run until July 1, 1973. Kagel said.
When he made the announcement, Kagel was flanked by ILWU President Harry Bridges and Edmund Flynn, president of the Institute of Fortune Association, the employer group.
Flynn said the agreement was produced by "a desire on the part of both of us to
Flynn said, "We are satisfied with the terms, or we wouldn't have agreed."
Kansas Senate Approves Party-Legislation Liaison
The measure, introduced by the Senate's Committee on Elections, later was given preliminary approval despite an attempt to delay the vote one day to allow amendments.
"You are going to marry the political parties with the legislature by statute."
Sen. Steadman Ball, R-Atchison, said the bill "provides a liaison between this legislature and the parties that is badly needed."
Among provisions of the bill are sections to put the pro president ten or minority one in.
Sen. Richard Rogers, R-Manhattan, who explained and then defended the bill to the Senate, said it was designed to create "at least some dialogue between legislators on our political agenda."
minority leader of the House on the state executive committee of each major party.
work out a settlement."
Steiniger told the Senate the bill would result in legislators becoming more responsive to political parties than to people, and said the legislature was "embarking on a dangerous, unusual and undemocratic precedent."
TOPEKA (AP)—A heated debate in the Kansas Senate was sparked Tuesday when Jack Steineger, D-Muncie, described a bill which would restructure political party organizations as a "statutory shotgun marriage."
NEXONHAD asked Congress to order an end to the strike to dissolve what he said was a threat to the nation's over-all economy.
In the House, a proposal for a 60-day injection to bring a partial end to the cancer.
The Senate compulsory arbitration bill sent to the House provides, however, for an end to the arbitration procedure when voluntary settlement of all issues is certified by both sides to the secretary of labor.
Details of the settlement were not immediately disclosed, but Bridges had said earlier that the retroactivity of a lawsuit against him was the last major issue to be worked out.
THE STRIKE WAS the longest in the
first six years and the first
six years with a threepound.
The strike, called by the ILWU last July 1, ran for 100 days before Nixon invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to interrupt the work stoppage for an 80-day cooling-off period.
Nixon said the strike cost the United States $600 million in export losses. Some economists put the overall cost a nearly $2 billion.
The walkout idied 24 West Coast ports and choked off shipments to Hawaii.
The 80 days ran out last Dec. 25, and the union resumed the strike Jan. 17.
Nixon Proposes Tax On Sulphur Pollution
When the opposing sides returned to negotiations Jan. 31, Kagel, a veteran negotiator in port labor problems, was called in to assist.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Nixon has proposed his first pollution tax, a levy on the sulfur emitted from the monsters of factories and power plants.
Administration spokesman said the tax would encourage industry to meet regional targets.
To the extent that they don't, however, the sulfur tax could be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices for electricity and other products.
The sulfur tax was one of six legislative proposals promised in a special message on the environment, sent to Congress Tuesday.
Nixon said he would propose a measure encouraging states to take control of the location of highways and airports by 1975. Those which failed to obtain federal approval of their plans by then would start losing federal highway and airport land and land-acquisition money from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
EACH YEAR they delay, their federal and in these areas would be reduced an additional percentage and would be distributed to states with approved plans.
Nixon also proposed to discourage the development of coastal wetlands by removing the eligibility of projects located in coastal areas. Such efforts benefits available to commercial construction.
Two other proposals would seek to control the land disposal of toxic wastes and the soil runoff from construction sites. The federal state population under federal guidelines
Still another proposal would for the first time, make the harming of an endangered species of animal a federal offense, subject to criminal penalties.
It also would seek to protect species on the verge of becoming "endangered."
IN ADDITION to the legislative proposals, the Nixon message announced a motion to amend the law.
environmental field, including;
A complete ban on the use of poisons to control predator animals on federal land, much of which is used, under permits, for the grazing of cattle and sheep.
—An order for development of standards to protect farm workers from pesticide pollution
—An order for preparation of energy-
saving new insulation standards for masonry.
—A request for the design of a coil.
The sulfur tax would require payment of 13 cents per pound of sulfur oxides emitted from smokestacks when primary exhaust protection protect public health have not been met.
Nixon proposed the designation of 18 federal parks, nomuments and recreation areas as wilderness areas to protect their natural condition.
And, at the same time, he announced that 20 parcels of federal land have been declared surplus and will be transferred to state and local governments for park and recreational use as part of a continuing program.
KU Employes Plan to Lobby Legislature
A group of KU employees planned to meet at the state capitol building this morning in an effort to help raise salaries for University faculty and staff.
The group expected to receive the support of faculty and students.
According to a statement released Tuesday, the group is working to build "a better University for the students and the community of Lawrence."
Six Faculty Members Copplaintiffs in Gay Lib Case
By MARTI STEWART Kansan Staff Writer
For the members of the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front, the fight for University recognition is a personal endeavor. Many students and faculty members, however, have expressed support of the front although they themselves are not members.
six members of the University of Kansas faculty were coplan-
nies in the front suit, which was heard in a United States District C
Court.
the front's action involved just one issue, freedom of expression. It is assumed, he said, that the only reason for abridgment of the right to dissent would be have a disruptive influence on the society. He thought that the front's disruptive and that their freedom of expression had been injured.
"They weren't going to burn down buildings." he said, "or interfere with my classes or anyone else's classes."
David Willer, associate professor of sociology, said his support of the front's action involved just one issue, freedom of expression.
WILDER DID NOT think that recognition was symonymous with endorsement of homosexuality. He said his support of the front page of *The Washington Post* would be a surprise.
John C. Wright, professor of psychology and human development, also thinks freedom of expression is the basic issue in the
"My support stems from a commitment I have to freedom of speech," he said, "and to the basic civil rights of students, which I honestly believe are infringed upon, not necessarily by individuals, but by entities like the University, who may feel as if they are acting in loco parens or who feel that if a number of people in the general population agree to prohibit discussion it is their duty to prohibit it.
"The principle of freedom of speech is not tempered by the content. It's absolutely independent of the content."
**WRIGHT HAIRT** he was not taking the position that the University had acted out of malicious discrimination, but out of calumnies to him.
He said that the aim of the group was not a matter of someone exploiting someone else, that the front was not soliciting.
"There is no evidence," Wright said, "that homosexual behavior among consenting adults harms anyone. There is no evidence that talking about homosexuality, communism, neo-facism or anything else harms anyone."
He said there was good evidence that the exchange of views was helpful to society
"I'm sure that people in Gay Lib have some motivation to justify their life style and to gain acceptance by everyone else, besides wishing to have meetings," he said. "Whether it will have that same effect as I would, or whether that they will be given the same opportunities as everyone else."
"in a free intellectual community people ought to be able to decide for themselves," he said.
Wright said he thought one motive of the front in its request for recognition was to gain social approval of the community.
MICHAEL J. MAHER, associate professor of physiology and cell biology, sees the issue as a very complex one that can be discussed
"On the simplest level," he said, "students should be able to have any kind of organization they want without administration information."
"I also feel strongly that there shouldn't be any restrictions on an individual's sex life, particularly when it 'bewind two consenting
adults. Gay people have been heavily repressed, legally and socially."
Maher said the most important and most radical aspect of recognition of the front was that it would force people to re-evaluate societal and female roles. In this respect, he said, gay liberation overlaps other groups such as women's liberation.
"Males and females are socialized into roles and there are stereotypes of what males and females should be like," he said. "If you want to deviate from the roles you have to fight. Gay liberation raises serious questions about the structure of society. It also raises consideration of sexual roles and what they mean and what they do to people."
MAHER, WHO was originally listed as the faculty adviser for the front, has been associated with the movement for quite a while. His association with members of the movement has made him reject the "societal view that homosexuals are sick." he said.
"Having many friends who are homosexual makes me realize that they are not sick," he said. "The sickness comes from society. Homosexuality should be recognized as an accepted variance of sexuality, and the government could do away with oppressive laws dealing with sexual behavior."
Arthur Skidmore, assistant professor of philosophy, said he had two reasons for signing the complaint.
"They said my signing would help their cause and I thought it was a just cause," he said, "I also felt that I had been a victim, along with everyone else, of thought control. It is not up to the Chancellor's office to decide what ideas are acceptable and not acceptable. It injured everyone. I felt I had been personally injured."
SKIDMORE SAID that he thought the Chancellor had acted out of
Skidmore said thought control should never be an option the Chancellor considered. He said matters of free speech and due process should take precedence over any other considerations. He said he did not have a concrete opinion about boraxalexa.
expediency and not out of principle and that he had taken the course that would cause the least unhappiness to the governor, legislators, Regents, faculty, students and groups of students. In doing this, Skidmore said, the Chancellor had not caused any of these people great happiness, but had minimized the unhappiness of most of them.
HE SAID he thought the Chancellor's strategy was not only wrong but also fairly dangerous. If the court decision goes against the front, he said, this will set a dangerous precedent for nonrecommendation of otherrows and for thought control.
"Is it an equally valid form of sensual love between people or a perverted form of love? I don't know how to look at it. It ought to be legalized, though. It doesn't do anybody any harm and I think all crimes without victims should be taken off the books," he said.
"The problem has to do with the reasons why the University doesn't recognize gay liberation," said Donald Marquiz, assistant professor of law at the university.
"If we have recognized groups," he said, "and they are organized around certain ideas, what reasons can there be for them?"
Marguis said it was difficult to accept the reasons offered by the University as the real reasons for denial of recognition. The "sexual proclivity" argument did not seem a good argument in light of other groups recognized by the University, he said.
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