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Thursday, January 21, 1971
University Daily Kansan
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KU's Financial Woes
Our money-conscious legislators in Topeka are now gathered to determine the fiscal future of the state, and one has to wonder how the University of Kansas will be treated financially in this session.
Many Kansans are probably anticipating a substantial cut in KU's budget, but for different reasons. Evidently there is a large contingent of citizens who think the University should be spanked financially for the "no-nos" committed since last spring and fall.
Others may see a need for drastic spending cuts at all levels of the state, and all state universities could suffer in the name of economy.
But unfortunately the spotlight is on KU. Those closed-minded citizens seeking revenge can joyfully point to the trouble here and the fall enrollment lag, which fell just short of expectations but can in no way be branded as a reaction to last spring and summer. They can haughtily clamor for a budget cut, just to teach the miscreants a lesson.
The blatant stupidity of such thinking deserves no discussion, and hopefully none of our state representatives have such ideas.
At a recent Topeka Press Club meeting, House Speaker Calvin Strowig (R-Abilene) and Sen. Jack Steineger (D-Muncie) said they expected no punitive budgetary action toward KU in this session.
They proceeded to explain how finances would be tight throughout the state, and spending would have to be curbed.
They said they also expected funds to be appropriated for private colleges in the state facing financial crises.
Although this idea has merit in itself, it creates a possible danger for KU's financial future. Even though legislators upset with KU may hesitate to cut our budget for vengeance, they may use economy and private schools as a rationalization or cover-up for slashing our appropriation.
The legislators should be urged to consider the budget request with the University's needs in mind, and any thought of using money for punishment must be discarded.
Punitive budgetary action would not solve any problems and would certainly create more for KU.
-Ted Iliff
The Rational Response
The intention of Gov. Robert Docking to ask the 1971 Legislature for money to hire more guards on state campuses is the proper answer to recent violent events at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. The request by the Board of Regents that the governor and his budget staff restore 15 million dollars to the higher education budget is a rational response to a matter of equal urgency.
Reprinted from the Kansas City Star.
But the performance earlier by the regents who seem to hold Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers personally responsible for everything that goes wrong at K.U. or in Lawrence was in another category. No one questions that the explosion Friday night at Summerfield hall and other acts of violence have upset students, their parents and the people of Kansas, as well as the faculty and Dr. Chalmers.
Yet somehow the regents seem to be saying that Chalmers had better fix things up or else. One says that he can be doing more to reduce the injuries and property damage. Another says, "I hope you (Chalmers) realize that you are losing the support of many taxpayers and many alumni . . . by the way things are going."
It is not clear what Chalmers could be doing outside the structure of what the regents, the governor and the law allow him to do. Nor is it clear why Chalmers should be losing support because of the way things are going any more than should the regents themselves. No individual or group can be blamed for the acts of psychopaths or the dislocations of society that build up over many generations. Chalmers is not losing the support of the overwhelming majority of students who are at K.U. trying to get an education. Nor is he losing the support of thoughtful parents and alumni.
chancellor had asked for law enforcement help to prevent the very sort of thing that happened. He got two local policemen and one agent from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. That would seem to be a measurement of the inadequate resources offered by government and the need of better provision from the state now recommended by the governor. But the weakness hardly can be blamed on Chalmers.
In his recent letter to Gov. William W. Scranton, who headed the Commission on Campus Unrest, President Nixon repeated some words from his Kansas State university address: "To attempt to blame government for all the woes of the university is rather the fashion these days. But really, it is to seek an excuse, not a reason, for their troubles." The President also said that "Nothing would deliver greater power into the hands of the militant few than federal attempts to punish institutions for the deeds of a minority."
These same points apply in another framework at the University of Kansas. It may be politically fashionable and easy to blame the chancellor; for all the woes of the university, but it is an excuse born out of panic and the ability to pass the buck. And nothing would deliver more power into the hands of the fanatical fringe than to throw about ultimatums to the effect that people will be fired unless trouble ceases.
Chalmers is not liked by the extremists because he commands the respect of the great majority. Surely the regents and the governor aren't putting the future of the chancellor and the university in the hands of whoever decides some dark night to throw the campus into an uprar. The challenge is to handle a difficult situation that is a world-wide phenomenon, not to put heads on platters if you don't happen to have easy answers.
Before the explosion Friday the
"OH GOOD! ANOTHER BOOK ON HOW TO SWIM!"
Enrollment . . .
What a Headache
What a headache. I've nau headache ever since enrollment.
Here's the background. As a graduating senior, I found that I had taken all my requirements and I had nothing left to take but hours. Naturally my thoughts turned to a carefree spring visit to a museum with a focus toward the old argument of "make your education relevant."
Wrong. Headache, number three. I couldn't find them. They were there all right, but they were all offered at the same time. We went to the doctor after hours of pouring over that precious enrollee's handbook I found the desired number of courses at the desired times in the desired buildings that seemed to promise an addition to a course without seriously threatening my graduation . (whew!)
Headache number one. Do I get my diploma a dumb blonde or do I get a high school diploma and semester making my education relevant? Well, the old noodle reasoned, if I could find a course in college that covered education relevant" and offer subject material that extremely interesting, should have no trouble, right?
Headache number four. I'm still one hour short of graduation.
Have you ever tried to find a one hour course when you are not
All was going well until I smuggle*trot into class to hear my first lecture on Current Plastic, Pickling Peaches, Headache number six. I found that, although it is not so listed in the timetable, this is a SENIOR SEMINAR in the art of pickling peaches and there was a pro at picking peaches except me.
There is no question in my mind that I have to get out of that SENIOR SEMINAR if I'm going to graduate. Headache number one is getting picked up my drop slip in the department headquarters on the north side of campus and track down my instructor in his office on the south side of campus and then take it back to department headquarters. If you don't pick the 'add' process is the same, only in east-west dimensions.
musically, artistically
athletically inclined? But I
finally found one, and to avoid
friction between me and my
daughter, call it Current
Developments in the Art of
Picking Peaches.
So its back to headache number one for a whole new cycle.
—Robin Stewart
Headache number five. The actual enrollment process. No explanation necessary.
Women's Rights: Diapers and Double Standards
By MARILYN McMullen
Last year saw some radical attempts by militant and non-soon-
born activists to obtain the intangible quality of equality with the male sex. One woman demanded a position on the ground in the limelight played for, and failed miserably at a task she could not possibly perform. Thousands of women marched through the city, screaming epithets and demanding their rights. The general male reaction consisted of disgust. Maybe it was justified
And Kate Millett, the militant women's libid, had her Ph.D. published and christened it The Women's Liberation Book, say it's an angry book, and in it she advocates the overthrow of the "patriarchial system" of American politics and denounces the powerlessness of equality from within the system.
Urban and suburban alike have requested and demanded state-run 24-hour-a-day nurseries to cater to the needs of newborns rearing and allow them the opportunity to work outside the home. New York and Kansas reformed their abortion laws, but they still do not permit Residency is a requirement in Kansas, not to mention the tape and expense involved in medical care for physicians before obtaining an abortion. And the backlog of cases in New York became unconquerable, leaving many too dead to appease and depress, and still pregnant. Only Hawaii has kept up with its
Few if any women wish to be thought of as amniotic sacs whose sole function is to have babies and care for them. There
caseload, and provided liberal legislation providing for abortions without a residency requirement.
A woman should certainly ask a job she desires (that she can perform adequately) and she should pay. But she's hung up with a sexual role that seems endlessly to cloud the issue of women's income.
It's easy to frustrate and infuriate a woman these days, and frustration brings reaction—in other words, frustration comes because a woman knows she is disfair to mankind, she is not disheveling paid a salary equal with that of her male coworker) but beyond that, in the lives of the women's librarians especially the female, are facing a devastating identity crisis. In men it is manifest as a reaction to the lack of respect many women it is evident in a quasilogue denial. Last year these manifestations crystallized, and the women who they that they might be worked out.
It's too easy to turn to the Bible find references to the subservient role women are supposed to take in world and cite the obvious examples of male dominance over the female. The good Lord didn't make men as he made women so they can the ability to think and reason.
The message to Hanoi was clear: Negotiate while the
is a lot more to life than caring for children and changing them, but thanks to contraceptives, are now able to determine their own sexual roles, and that is where the great need for contraception exists.
A man must be terribly self assured to accept a woman as an intellectual equal, and even if this person is too attached to mental shuffling and repressing not to let his wife be in bed, would he be in bed, unless, of course, she is a complete buffalo. That’s madening to a woman, especially when her husband there’s little more infuriating in life for a woman than to endure catals from her walks down the street.
And as long as men (and the legislature) deny women pay equality and think of them as sex objects, women will become more radical, creating a vicious system which will get nobody anywhere.
That age-old double sex standard is falling by the wayside. Women want the same sexual freedom men have always expected, but they don't idea that men can play around, but that women must be virgins until their wedding nights. And if unwanted pregnancy should occur, many are demanding that they should provide free abortions.
Why do men fear this mental castration? Where is there evidence of it? It seems to be an ungrounded reaction
Behind Nixon's Viet Nam Policy
BY ENGENNE *WRHME*
Backstairs at the White House: When President Nixon began formulating his policy on Vietnam one of the most difficult problems he faced was how to entice Hanoi into negotiations at the same time it was pulling out American forces.
By EUGENE V. RISHER
On its face, Hanoi would have no incentive to negotiate if it could achieve its aims simply by pulling out. It was pulled out. If there be to any hope of negotiating an end to the conflict, the North Vietnamese had to be convinced that the Americans would still settlement were less desirable. So he came up with the scheme of gradually withdrawing U.S. troops while building up South Vietnam and presenting North Vietnam with the spectre of a strong and determined foe less likely than the Americans to take a more direct edge at the negotiating table.
The central thrust of American policy in Vietnam is the same as it was when Nixon took office two years later. The involvement in this unhappy war.
Americans still have enough training to fight the Defense Secretary Melvin Laird named it "Vietnamization" and assumed responsibility for security.
Vietnamization is the vehicle for carrying out that policy. It is the stick in a "carrot and stick approach" of the impact of the VC Cong vying politically with other groups for political control in Saigon.
But with the Communist refusal to go for the carrot, there are now indications the stick is being turned into a club.
No longer are the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese free to operate out of sanctuaries inside Cambodia, but the government pleaded not to send American troops back into Cambodia—he is, in fact, restrained by law from visiting Cambodia. That south Vietnamese forces will continue to act as surrogates
Also, Nixon has authorized flurries of bombings inside North Vietnam for Hanoi but would Johnson agreed to stop bombing North Vietnam if Hanoi would not accept the orders. Vietnamese cities, respect the Vietnamese city, due to contain table in Paris.
Nixon has added another
warrior, he says. *any time* North
Vietnam develops a capacity to
increase the level of fighting in
where Cambodia needs help against Vietnamese Communists there.
By Sokoloff
Griff & the Unicorn
So it seems that Nixon has apparently feeling it is time to up the price to the Communists not for peace but for a continuation of war.
more powerful than women, and rape is a man's crime. A woman has yet to forbly rape a man. If she gets caught, the child she receive child support? What about pensions? If the provisions are made for women to earn more than adultery, the laws might be just in many cases. And the old stigma of men seeking divorces for reasons other than adultery should be abolished in many ways from the libelation of women.
A small start has been made in bringing equality. The future holds hope, and maybe a few answers.
legitimate requests by women, and if you feel that threatened, perhaps they better take a look at the person bested by a woman, they take it was a sexual affront. But women who want to be best, they want to be enamored.
This is the way it has been so far. It has been while and ridiculous attempts by a (very small number) to assert (taken for legislation, and very progress). The frustration is still felt. The threat is still manifest.
If women obtain equal rights, will rape laws be repealed? This is not an equality issue. Men are
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Those Were the Days
50 Years Ago
Plans were made for a barbecue to boost the stadium's atmosphere at the Memorial Stadium. After the barbecue the men began clearing the ground for the new stadium, beginning down the bleachers at McCook begin.
The Men's Advisory Assembly announced they would study a new system that would limit office-holding to a certain maximum for each student.
The number of students actually enrolled in classes was 3,234. That number was 219 less than had begun the year, George O. Foster, resistor, said.
40 Years Ago
A bill was introduced in the Kansas legislature to put fraternities on the state tax
The basketball team faced winless Grinnell that night in Robinson Gym.
Responding to a notice from the state fire marshall that all houses more than two
stories in height must be equipped with fire escapes, rooming roomkeepers and apartment house owners hired a law firm to investigate the matter.
The Jayhawk basketball team, after
turning their first nine games in tell-
ow, won the game.
25 Years Ago
Housing for 80 men students in the basement of the Thayer Museum might be ready by the first of the semester to meet the faculty of the Raymond, Nichols, executive secretary, said.
Terry Herriy, College sophomore, was editor-in-chief of the Bitter Bird, a new carousel.
A lack of interest had postponed the advanced courses in ROTC until the next fall, Capt John Bradley, commander of the army unit at KLA said.
The winter issue of the Jayhawk had been edited by labor strikes. Hanna Hedrick edited.