University Dally Kansan, February 15. 1965
OPINION
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College women's sports still do not receive as much attention or financial support as college men's, but great strides have been made to get women athletes and their programs off the bench and onto the playing field.
Clearer rights
Likewise, not all buildings are accessible to the bandcanned, but progress has been made.
These advances in social consciousness and policy can be attributed to the civil rights movements of the 1960s and '70s and the federal legislation they spawned.
But the protections won during the last 10 years from discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, sex, handicap or age are in danger.
handicap of age last year to clarify the legislative intent of four federal statutes against discrimination, U.S. lawmakers are butting heads over the issue again.
Sens. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Bob Dole, R-Kan., have introduced rival proposals to overturn, in effect, a Supreme Court ruling last year that severely limited the application of federal civil rights laws.
The Supreme Court ruled in Grove City College v. Bell that if a division of an institution received federal funds, only the division, not the institution as a whole, was required to obey federal anti-discrimination laws.
Kennedy, Dole and their respective supporters agree that Congress intended the civil rights laws to apply to whole institutions, not just their parts, but they disagree on how to achieve that end.
In other words, if the science department of a university received federal money, it could not discriminate, but the self-supporting athletic department could.
Dole's proposal would apply federal civil rights laws only to educational institutions receiving federal funds; Kennedy wants to extend federal prohibitions against discrimination to any recipients of federal funds.
While they debate, the Reagan administration, which has already tried to secure tax-exempt status for colleges that discriminate on the basis of race, is using the Supreme Court ruling as grounds to drop investigations of some discrimination complaints and to narrow the scope of others.
Discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, sex, handicap or age is wrong, but a legal technicality has given the federal government an opportunity to provide money to institutions that discriminate. The loophole opened by the Supreme Court ruling must be closed before women, blacks, senior citizens, handicapped persons and others who have suffered from discrimination are sent back to the bench for the rest of the game.
Korean landing
The South Korean government's treatment of dissident leader Kim Dae Jung is another reminder that the United States must be careful of whom and what it supports around the world.
As recent events demonstrate, not every government that calls itself democratic deserves the name. And if the South Korean government cannot tolerate opposition or differing opinions, it does not fit the bill.
While debate rages over who or what sparked the events at the airport, one thing is clear. Kim, because of his political views, is being held prisoner in his home. He is not allowed to speak in public or talk to anyone but a few approved guests.
The United States ambassador and the South Korean government claim that Kim and his traveling companions violated an agreement that would have avoided the problem.
But why should someone have to reach an agreement to be allowed to return to his homeland?
Kim and the North Americans accompanying him say they knew of no agreement. If arrangements had been made, surely someone in the entourage would have been aware of it.
But the larger issue is one of human rights and freedoms. What does the government's refusal to allow leaders with differing viewpoints to be heard show?
It indicates that the government would rather use force than allow people to hear another side of national issues. It indicates that the government does not have the confidence in its position to allow reasonable debate.
South Korea is in the difficult position of having to guard constantly against aggression from its northern neighbor, and its need, at times, for extra security measures is understandable.
But even in this light, the government's treatment of Kim and those who traveled with him is inexcusable.
Kim Dae Jung is a respected opposition leader, not a communist threat, and the congressmen and others who were with him were there to guarantee his safety, not overthrow the government.
The South Korean government should rethink its position. And the United States should do all it can to insure that the basic rights of Kim and others are respected.
Evangelist tells stories of other truths
This weekend and into next week the University of Kansas will again be host to missionary evangelist Charles W. Doss. Doss spent a week in England for months that time I had a chance to talk with him and learn part of his life story.
He was born in India to an Indian government official during the British occupation. He faced severe illness for most of his childhood, and medical aid could not restore him to health. On the night of his 14th birthday, he reports, he had a particularly severe attack of epilepsy; his father prayed that God would take his life to end the misery. But instead, he says, Jesus touched him and healed him completely.
Of course, I know that many readers are thinking right about now that I'm crazy and are reading this
This was only the beginning of a truly amazing life. I spent an afternoon listening to him tell of many other incidents where God's intervention not only was needed but actually was manifested.
BRIAN
WAGNER
skeptically. But what if I went on to say that Doss has钱 on money show instantaneously from nowhere in his pocket or Bible when he had a great need? Or that once, in Jamaica, a man with a large throwning knife tried to kill him, but the deadly-saimed knife was miraculously defected?
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now and shaking their heads as I bombard their minds with things that our Western society has taught us just do not exist — ideas and concepts of God that our universities deny; they reject the existence of God because we can't put him on a graph.
Many readers are screaming by
Oh, well. Since the beginning of Charles' ministry, he has been on 46 worldwide missionary journeys. His traveling has taken him to such places as Peru, Namibia, the United States, Canada, Indonesia, India and Malaysia.
Why, if an omnipotent God exists,
can't be change things that are
beyond our mental understanding in
our temporal surroundings?
In many of his meetings, he has seen God heal all types of diseases and disorders. In one meeting, a patient with a chronic kidney disease Charles relates that fear struck his heart; however, he cried out to God for help, and the man revived.
Those who doubt the man's death should know this: Two medical doctors who happened to be there at the funeral found that he and then testified to his living again.
I know that reading this will not convince many people of these things. But I hope readers will not grow angry at me for presenting this, because it is true to their own. After all, doesn't the University pride itself in the atmosphere of free expression of diverse ideas?
Remember, none of us has experienced all that can be experienced, and no one knows all of the possible knowledge. Don't be too critical, but if you are still skeptical, go to see Charles. It will add to your experience. You'll learn a different view of the world around you. You will escape the borders of this intellectual community, and probably still learn something.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
To the editor:
Paving their way
Susan Harper
Shawnee Mission freshman
This letter is concerning Dallas Petersen and the shower problem. Whoever informed Petersen that every girl in Gertrude Sellarskids Pearson Hall lives on "Daddy's money" is misadvisedinmise. There are more girls in GSP who support themselves than anyone realizes.
Lots of girls here are putting themselves through school with guaranteed student loans, government loans and financial aid, plus jobs around the campus and (be believe it) even on campus with the GSP cafeteria. (Heaven forbid!)
For those who don't know: Oliver, Hashinger and McColm halles cost more than GSP, not to mention Naismith, which is independently run and is much more expensive, according to KU Information. GSP girls are not spending any more money for housing than other students. That we live in a dorm fornotorious for housing "the rich girls" does not mean we all are rich.
Susan Harper
Next time you complain a "red-cheeked GSP girl" complain about the cold showers, instead of making nasty assumptions, consider that this girl may be one who does not depend on Daddy's money.
Amish exploited
Upon this simple story line is hung the film's basic conflict: the simple, rural and pacificist to the tough, urban and violent. Peter Weir is to be praised for his sensitivity in portraying this small subculture which, by his own admission, he learned to avoid the filming in Lancaster County.
To the editor:
The movie "Witness" has been showing locally before packed houses and receiving well-deserved accolades from critics and the public alike. Its plot is deceptively simple—a tough big-city cop comes to Lancaster County, Pa., where he lives among the Amish and falls in love with an attractive widow from the plain people.
However, there is a larger ethical question of which the movie-going public is largely unaware. Paramount Pictures has used, for entertainment purposes, the symbols of a people without their consent, knowing full well that the Amish would not take legal action against them. Can we imagine the oaty if some other people were in this country were so exploited?"
Harley Wagler, interim pastor
The Amish are part of the "defenseless" Christian movement and as such reject the use of coercion and violence. They are often referred to as the "gentle" people. They strongly objected to the filming of a Holocaust movie, which they have since the entertainment industry, in their eyes, thrives on violence and sex, and the Amish find such portrayals abhorrent.
Judging abortion
It is unrealistic, admittedly, to expect major entertainment enterprises to cater to the principles of minorities rather than commercial expediency. Nonetheless, a voice of protest needs to be heard.
We can only hope that through this media attention, the American public will be drawn to appreciate the values for which the Amish are noted: simple lifestyle, mutual aid, industry and pacifism. The Menonites, cousins of the Amish, wish to express their disapproval of the way in which the movie was made, while they value the cultural values which the Amish uphold and acknowledging the artistry of a true master Peter Weir.
Sorry, Tim Erickson. Human beings are not on the endangered species list, as many types of eagles are. That is one reason that, although the murder of a potential eaglet is as gross a crime as murdering a grounded eagle, the same federal protection does not extend to unborn humans.
To the editor:
So, Tim, you may scream in the enlightened darkness until doomsday, and call every abortion murder, but until everyone who considers a fetus to be a living human being routinely holds memorial services for the lifeless clumps of cells resulting from miscarriages, then the right of all women to plead their case before God and nobody else.
The other reason is more important: When a man kills an unborn eagle, that act most likely does not reflect the desires of the mother eagle, nor can we believe that the man's life was threatened by the inhabitant of the egg he smashes. However, when a woman chooses her own life over that of a potential human hunter, or other human life as the knowledge that would be necessary to judge her fairly. Only an omniscient being can know whose life would have been worth more to the universe.
Margot Shortridge
Margot Shortridge
Pleasant Grove special student
Persistent phobia
To the editor:
Homophobia is the irrational, excessive and persistent fear of homosexuality in oneself and/or in others. It is associated with the attempt to maintain rigidly stereotyped sex roles. It is characterized by hatred, rejection or simply ridicule of persons who have identified themselves as homosexuals are merely suspected of being homosexual. It subverts the role of reason in establishing and maintaining human relationships.
Someone who rejects homosexual lifetimes for him or herself is not necessarily homophobic. But homophobia, a fear, is certainly suspected when people are led not just to the rejection of homosexual lifetimes for themselves, but to the rejection or ridicule of homosexual people, to assault on character, acts of discrimination and harassment.
The "Faghusters" debacle of last semester cannot be reduced to a series of sophomore actions that can be made right by one person's apology, however merited and sincere. The T-shirts were not simply produced and put up for sale, but bought and worn. The image on the T-shirt played on a stereotypical female characteristic) To avoid being identified with the image would demand, for men, being macho; to be otherwise would invite the punishment suggested by "busting."
It is not difficult to see what such images do to the psyches of young men and women struggling to establish a sexual identity as male or female, heterosexual or homosexual. The T-shirts were not merely in bad taste; they perpetuated a dangerous stereotype in the form of a joke. They encouraged an atmosphere in which acts of violence against members of the GLSOK were not only possible but real.
The emotions and fear expressed by the T-shirts have tragically persisted into this semester. Members of the GLSOK and their supporters are still being ridiculed in print. Arguments that were offered to us on behalf of our discrimination against homosexuals, as my own, have been grossly misstated in the continuing "dilate."
Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz assistant professor of religious studies
To the editor:
Give him a raise
Only at the University of Kansas would someone write a letter to the University newspaper condemning Mr. Wheeler's team, who had a 15-4 (now 18-4) record.
As an alumnus who watched the Jayhawks lose innumerable close games in many remarkable ways under Coach Ted Owens, I cannot help noticing that although the team has not developed to its full potential, it is winning close games. Teams develop at varying rates, and it is not unreasonable that so young a team should have ups and downs. This team has faced media pressure all year.
I am tired of articles questioning Coach Brown's motives, loyalties and methods. He has the KU program on a sound foundation, and the team is playing the most exciting brand of basketball I've seen them play in years.
I am now in my eighth year as a resident of the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball region, and I have become a fan of Coach Dean Smith's similarities in what Coach Brown is trying to achieve at KU.
I think that KU has the best young coach in the business and that he deserves our complete support. He has fulfilled his promise of giving us a chance to compete and I vote we give Coach Brown an extended contract and a raise.
Incidentally, I am not an alumnus who cares only about sports. I am much more interested in KU's academic programs. So this is not a letter from the stereotypical booster club big spender
Jim Akers KU graduate 1976