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The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No.76
Wednesday, February 2. 1972
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Guest Lecturer, Abraham Kaplan, Develops Topic of Modern Day Loneliness
Abraham Kaplan, billed as philosopher, psychologist, teacher, humorist and humanitarian, borrowed from many sources in literature and human study to show that the loneliness of today is only one symptom of a broader problem. We do not something quite apart. Kaplan, speaking at the Humanities lecture
series Tuesday night, warned that "if we are incapable of being human with each other in times of disaster, we are headed toward disaster." Kaplan will be a guest on campus for several days. (See story, page 3.)
Shootings, Bombs Follow In Londonderry Aftermath
BELAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Violence, death and protest gripped divided Ireland Tuesday as guerrillas retaliated for the victims of Londonderry's Blood Sunday. "A sniper killed a British wounded in cross-fire. The man was gravely injured in cross-fire."
Strikes and boycotts throughout Ulster and the Irish republic to the south spearheaded a surge of anger by Roman Catholics mourning the 13 who died in the Lindderry clash between civilians and British troops.
In Dublin, capital of the republic, an explosive device shattered windows in the city on Monday. About two dozen persons were believed injured. Two thousand demonstrators marched on the Embassy, burning a flag and mock coffins and bricks and fire bombs over the walls of police stations.
Northern Ireland's Prime Minister,
Brian Faulkner, charged the republic with
using a distress fund set up two years ago
for Catholics in the north to "buy guns for
murderers." The republic's prime
minister Jack Lynch has ordered Catholics
Britain pull its troops out of heavily
populated Catholic areas in the North and
end interment without trial.
The British government named the nation's top judge, Lord Chief Justice Sir John Widgery, 60, to undertake an inquiry into the Londonderry killings.
British Prime Minister Edward Heath told a packed House of Commons in London the judge would start work immediately. His aim will be to get at the truth behind a welter of charges and countercharges springing from the fatal confrontation between paratroopers and civil war marchers. Heath's remarks
opened an emergency debate on the government's policy in its six county Northern Ireland province. The Commons squeaked a motion attacking that policy by a 304-266 vote, then approved Widgery's appointment unanimously.
The British soldier was shot dead in Belfast almost as Heath spoke. The woman was hit later in a cross-fire between guerrillas and British troops in the fashionable, largely Protestant Mount Pottinger district of Belfast.
Vote Possible Today
Committee to Consider Kansas Abortion Law
Bv SUE ANN STOUT
and JIM KENDELL Kansan Staff Writers
The Senate Judiciary committee may come to a vote today on bills to repeal or amend the law.
In bearings Monday Sen. Lester C. Arvin, R-Rose Hill, charged that the present law allowed virtually any woman to have an abortion on request.
Arvin is the sponsor of a bill that would repeal the 1970 abortion law which permits abortions when a panel of three doctors votes in favor. Arvin's proposal is physical or mental health of the mother.
Janet Sears, assistant dean of women.
The other hall, sponsored by Sen. George Bell, D-Kansas City, would eliminate mental health as a ground for abortion and prevent a time limit on termination of pregnancy.
Arvin contends that the term "mental health" in the abortion law is so vague that doctors are forced to grant abortions almost on demand.
who works with the problem of pregnancy counseling disputed his contention. She pointed out that repeal of the law would harm those women in favor of abortion.
"It is not a matter of majority versus
minority. Soars said." We must protect
our children.
Karen R森, Wichita sophomore, and Susan Lorninska, Sayville, N. Y., sophomore, members of the Women's Coalition, said that under the present law, no doctor could be forced to perform an abortion unless a woman has to permit an abortion in its facilities.
"The abortion law as it now reads should not offend anyone, as it does not require anyone to have an abortion or any doctor to perform one," a Coalition member
In hearings Monday, Arvin also said, "This act has surely allowed a new industry to come into being, an industry which allows those from outside the state to use our 'life and death' and criminal knowledge of what in their state would be a crime."
Student Heads Appeal For Support of Budget
Loninska again disputed Arvin's stand.
David Miller, student body president,
appealed to area legislators today to support the Board of Regents' 1973 budget request of $176.07 million. State Budget Director Henry Bibb, has recommended the budget be cut to $151.55 million.
Miller's appeal came in a letter sent to the 12 state Senators and 36 state representatives from Douglas, Leavenworth, Wyandotte, Johnson, Shawnee, Franklin, Miami and Jefferson counties. Each of the student body colleges sends their state colleges and universities sent similar letters to legislators in their areas.
The concerns listed in Miller's letter were:
—faculty salaries
—classified employe salaries
—"other operating expenses"
"While all states bordering Kansas provided 2.5 to 7 per cent faculty salary increases for fiscal 1972," said Miller, "Kansas faculty received no increase."
CLASSIFIED EMPLOYES, according to Miller, "should not be asked to work for less than their counterparts elsewhere in state government."
money available will not meet expected increases in cost.
Operating expenses has been a category often cited by Miller as one in which the
"We simply cannot continue to provide teaching materials, purchase library books, print catalogues and use telephones on the same dollar total used in 1971," he said.
Miller quoted a statement by Regent Chairman Paul Wunsch in which Wunsch said increases in general revenue funding for state colleges and universities were 2.6 per cent in fiscal 1971 and 1.7 per cent in the current fiscal year.
According to Miller Wunsch said, "Can you wonder why we ask, 'What does Kansas intend for its institutions of higher education?' "
She said that she saw no great influx of women in the area, and abortion was cheaper elsewhere.
Arvin and Bell were among 18 witnesses who appeared before the committee Monday. A majority testified in favor of the liberalized law.
A study by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization says:
BRUSSELS (AP)-Easy abortion and increased use of contraceptives are pushing birth rates down in Communist Eastern Europe and governments there are worried about it, a western study showed Tuesday.
Three Plans Proposed
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Red Satellite Birth Rates Take Drop
"It is reckoned that 60 per cent of all pregnancies are aborted in Hungary—probably in the S. R. s.r. —44 per cent in the C. S. r. —Czechoslovakia and 23 per cent in Poland.
The Soviet Union eased its campaign against abortion in the mid-1950's. The study suggests it was because the death rate had gone down and Soviet leaders wanted to get more women into jobs. It adds that the downward swing in births since 1945 gone further than expected and that attempts may now be made to reverse the trend.
"The Church in Poland heads the opposition against easy abortion and seeks to impose a system of contraception."
The birth rate in the Soviet Union dropped from 36 per 1000 in 1938 to 17 in 1970. It was then about the same level as before and only slightly higher for the rate for southern European countries.
In Romania the laws against abortion were tightened more recently, sending the birth rate up from 12 per 1,000 in December 1966 to a level of 40 in 1967.
But the spread of contraceptives and illegal abortions brought it down again to 83 per cent.
Insurance Bills Examined
By CHRIS CARSTENSON
Kansan Staff Writer
The House Insurance Committee is expected to hear testimony this session on three bills that could give a through overhaul to the multimillion-dollar business that affects virtually every Kansan who drives a car.
Expert Says Groundhog To Have Sunny Day
By ROBIN GROOM Assistant Campus Editor
Robert W. Herr Sr., governor of the Slumbering Groundbog Lodge in Quarryville, Pa., predicted last night that the groundbog would not see his
As legend has it, if the groundshadow sees his shadow after emerging from a long winter's sleep on Feb. 2, then six weeks of winter weather will follow. If the groundshadow doesn't see his shadow, it is an indication that there will be an early spring.
The slumbering Groundhog Lodge is the official groundhog-watching station in the United States. Today marks the 6th year of observing.
Herr said at 7:15 a.m. EST, the men of the lodge would go out to seek the groundhog and that by 9 a.m. they should be able to report their findings. Herr said the groundhog's behavior was a true indication of what the weather would be like.
"The groundhog is a sneaky animal." Herr said, "and we think Jack Anderson is the greatest snop around."
which is taken on per person basis, the said.
Honorary Liaison to the lodge later today, including an honorary member, Jack Anderson, Washington syndicated
"So far it's been 100 per cent correct." he said.
Two of the bills would establish a no-fault system of auto insurance for Kansas. The third plan, introduced by the House Judiciary Committee, opposes a no-fault system, but would still change changes to the existing auto insurance program
At the moment local state legislators appear hesitant about giving support to any one of the insurance plans. Rep. Pete Rogers, an insurance managee, said of the House, "she said a little premature" to comment on the plans. He did say, however, that the insurance committee probably would concentrate on the internal interim special interim committee of the legislature.
This bill and the one proposed by the state insurance industry would establish a so-called "no-fault" insurance system for Kansas.
The theory behind no-fault insurance is that it speeds settlements by eliminating the need to decide who was legally liable for more compensation can be paid to victims.
Proponents of no-fault insurance say auto litigation unduly burdens the courts, prevents quick handling of automobile accidents and handicaps the handling of other litigation.
KEN KLEIN, executive secretary of the Kansas Bar Association, refutes this notion. According to Klein, Kansas courts are handling tort claims arising from automobile negligence without burdening the courts or the processes of justice.
A random pool of Lawrence insurance men indicated they would favor a change in the auto insurance system, but most had no such requirement. No na-fault insurance system for Kansas.
UNDER A NO-FAULT insurance system, no blame is assessed in vehicle accidents. A driver's own insurance company automatically pays his medical expenses even if the other driver causes the wreck. In addition, the injured party is denied any right to sue for additional costs. The insurer may require or severe financial loss. Present Kinsley no-fault proposals apply to bodily injury claims and not to property damage.
Harold Krogh, professor of business, more accurately defined no-fault as a system that builds onto the present tort liability plan.
A report compiled by the Kansas Bar Association revealed that in the last fiscal year, 348 cases were filed in Kansas district courts out of 35,403 total cases and 29,628 civil cases. This would represent a less than six per cent of all cases, and only 6.8 per cent of those cases.
Another aim of no-fault is lower premium rates. But according to Krogh, it would be hard to tell whether insurance would definitely go down under a no-fault plan.
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According to Lewis, the fundamental
mystery of the large system should be
continued or discarded.
What is significant, according to Philip Lewis, president of the Kansas Bar Association, is that premium costs to Kansans are already relatively modest. Kansas has the fourth lowest premium costs in the country.
Kansan Photo by DAVE BLISS
Black Theater to Present 3 Plays
The character Mr. Jones strives to maintain his position as the instructor of an English class while an unimpressed student listens. Jones is one of the characters in three plays that will be presented by Black Theater, part of The Experimental Theater. The three plays, titled "Happy Ending" and "The First Miliant Preacher," will run Feb. 24 to March 6.