University Daily Kansan, March 5, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
O'Connor to speak tonight; admission to lecture is free
Sandra Day O'Connor, associate justice of the Supreme Court, will speak at 8 onight in Hoch Auditorium as part of the J.A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture Series. Admission is free.
O'Connor, 53, was the first woman to be appointed to the nation's highest court. She is also the youngest member. Francis H. Heller, Roy A. Roberts distinguished professor of law and political science, said that President Ronald Reagan appointed O'Connor in September 1981 in part because of her conservative views.
"Justice O'Connor and Justice William Rehnquist and Chief Justice Warren Burger constitute a trio who generally are in agreement on most issues. They feel that the activist role of the Supreme Court should be sharply restricted." Heller said.
or be only restricted. He further said, "The court, they feel, ought to defer not only to the judgment of Congress when it comes to federal statutes, but also to the judgment of state legislatures when it comes to state laws."
Fire said to be set by picture thieves
A paper fire was set early Thursday morning in a KU fraternity by the same people who stole the fraternity's composite picture worth $650, Jack Greenwood, the fraternity's president, said yesterday.
The small fire, which was set a few feet away from where the composite was hung on the wall, proved harmless for members of the team. The fire spread to the rest of the building.
Delta Chi Fraternity, 1249 west Camps Road, Brooklyn. But fraternity members were puzzled about why the fire was set and why the fire alarms were pulled during the rather commonplace theft of a composite picture, he said.
Often, Greenwood said, some sorority members will take a composite and return it within 24 hours, but the composite hasn't been returned yet.
The members who discovered the small fire were able to extinguish it and didn't report the blaze until they reported the missing composite to Lawrence police on Saturday, Greenwood said.
Education chief wants elected bodv
WHITEWATER — State Board of Education Chairman Gordon Schultz said Saturday that he opposed legislative attempts to make the Board of Education an appointed, rather than elected, body.
Schultz said the board would become too politically oriented if its members were appointed.
members were appointed. His comments came just one day after the House approved and forwarded to the Senate a resolution that would make the board an appointed body. The resolution, which is aimed at changing the state's constitution, would be placed on the November ballot if passed by the Legislature.
Legislature Under the resolution, the governor would be responsible for appointing the board, which would become a nine-member body. However, not more than five members in the same political party as the governor could be appointed.
Lone Star Lake skiing schedule set
Recently, the commission adopted a water-skiing schedule for the lake, which is southwest of Lawrence.
As spring approaches, the Douglas County Commission is preparing for spring and summer recreational activities in the county, including events at Lone Star Lake.
Water-skiers may use the lake from May 28 until Sept. 3 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
tuesdays and Thursdays.
Skiers can be on the lake from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.
The days also are included in the schedule: May 28, June 10 and 23;
July 1, 14 and 29, Aug. 11 and 26; and Sept. 1.
July 1, 14 at 2a & 3a.
The county commission sets a schedule for the water-skiing season so
they can pay you, also fish on the lake as well.
ON THE RECORD
THE JAYHAWK BOOKSTORE, 1420 Crescent Road, reported $200 worth of damage to the Jayhawk that hangs on the front of the store, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects in the incident that occurred Friday night.
occurred Friday night.
THE RAMADA INN, 2222 W. Sixth St., reported that two plants, total value $300, were stolen early Saturday morning from the lobby, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
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Although her plan would not reduce the federal deficit, it would be roughly $250 billion less over three years than the deficit in President Reagan's budget, Kassandra said.
Kassebaum wants 1985 spending freeze
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Sen, Nancy Kassebaum said yesterday that she would propose a federal spending freeze for fiscal 1985 and seek a $20 billion revenue increase over three years to prevent the deficit from soaring higher.
"It's being viewed as the most severest (budget plan) that's been presented," she said in an interview yesterday. She first outlined her proposal during a speech Saturday night in Larned.
Following the freeze, federal spending for two years should be limited to 1 percent less than the inflation rate, she said.
THE SPENDING FREEZE, she said,
would be across the board, including
entitlement programs and defense.
"It items to me this is a simple but equitable approach," the Kansas Republican said. "I frankly doubt we are going to do anything that drastic with the budget this year. But it's out there, and we have it there for discussion."
An aide said the plan would probably be presented to the Senate Budget Committee in late March.
The plan calls for revenue increases of $10 billion in fiscal 2016, $30 billion in fiscal 2017 and $40 billion in fiscal 2018.
The senator was reluctant to say whether tax increases would be required. However, one of her aides on the Senate Budget Committee said tax increases are possible.
"She would not rule out a simple surcharge," said Guy Clough, one of the senator's aides who was contacted in Washington. "We're not anticipating that happening."
PENDING BEFORE THE Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Ways and Means Committee are proposed revenue increases of between $40 billion and $50 billion, Kassebaum said. She said she would wait until after Congress decides on the proposed budget, then demanding her own revenue-raising proposals.
"Ninety billion dollars isn't that much over three years," she said.
She said that she supports defense spending and criticized defense cuts instituted under the Carter administration.
Kassebaum said the revenue-increase proposals currently before the
two Senate committees would, in part, close some tax loopholes.
Kassebaum said the nation's defense would not be jeopardized under her plan because of existing appropriations.
"Regarding defense, it's important to remember that there is a great deal of money in the pipeline already," Kassebaum said. "Freezing in defense would cause the Pentagon to look at some needed belt tightening.
“If we feel and believe we're in a significant budget crisis, if we’re going to do something that’s going to have an impact, it’s going to have to be equitable.”
Sleep-in dates were 18th century custom
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
In today's society, though, Quadagno said, family influence plays an important role in the culture.
Parents asking young men to spend the night with their daughters is a fairry from instructions to have her home early, but that was the dating custom 200 years ago, according to a KU associate professor of sociology.
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Most young men would be shocked by that type of invitation today because society places more restrictions on acceptable dating patterns than when America was colonized, Jill Quadagno, associate professor of sociology, said recently.
Three hundred years ago, young people's selection of marriage and dating partners was totally free from parental and societal restraint, she
never arranged marriages without consulting their offspring, as did upperclass European societies, parents influence whom their teen-aged date through informal mechanisms and attitudes she said.
And parental approval still appears to be important to some students.
"It makes a difference to me what my mom says. Her judgment is important," said Tammy Flagler, Overland Park sophomore.
Quadagao said that parents indirectly influenced their sons and daughters by choosing the area where the school is and what schools their children attended.
Tim Shaver, Salina junior, said that
what his parents said about women he
Parents also influence children by having unfavorable attitudes toward sex.
THE "CERTAIN TYPES" that parents disapprove of usually include people of a different race, religion, or social status than themselves, she said.
"My values are based on the way they brought me up," he said.
Fligler said, "My parents never just come out and say whether they like my mother."
"If my mother doesn't like him, she'll say something like, 'Are you sure you really like him? If she does like him, she'll say that, 'That boy was really cute,'" she said.
Quanango said that when people first came to New England from Europe, they came alone — without family and spouses. Without family to influence their settlers' choice of dating partners, restraints on dating habits were absent.
The first system of dating in America, called "bundling," originated after settlers in New England had established families.
"BUNDLING" WAS PRACTICED 200 years ago during cold winters in
rural New England because it was the only way for young women to find a man to marry. Because the caller had traveled a long distance and to allow the young couple to get to know each other quickly and also to meet the caller was invited to spend the night in the same bed with the daughter.
daughter.
When "bundling" was practiced in the 18th century, women were likely to marry the first man they met, she said.
THAT WAS ONE reason why "bundling" was practiced. Even though "chastity boards" were sometimes placed in the center of the bed to discourage "embracing". Quadagno said, studies showed that a lot of pregnant brides resulted from the "bundling" era.
Today, the focus of dating is not just to find a spouse, Quadagno said. The dating process of "going steady" that just began in this century, was the first form of courtship that was not seen as a prelude to marriage.
Why should you pick up the phone and call home?