Relax in the sun, it won't last long
Photo by T. L. Simmons
Warm days and sunny skies have prevailed in eastern Kansas for the past three days, and there are some students who take advantage of the warm days. Even though the grass is brown and the trees will soon be covered with icicles, many students
attend classes in shirt-sleeve attire. But attending classes can be a bore on such nice days. And if you don't have anything else to do, you might follow this student's example—sleep.
Talks continue
(Continued from page 1) action by Congress to settle the dispute. Two years ago Congress halted a two-day strike by these four unions plus two others and imposed what eventually amounted to binding arbitration.
Usery and members of his staff met with bargainers for the machinists, sheetmetal workers, electrical workers and the boilermaker-backsmith unions and the National Railway Labor Conference, the negotiating agency for the railroads, at the Labor Department.
The bargaining over a contract for 1969 began more than a year ago, but the two sides engaged in less than 15 hours of direct talks before the union scheduled a strike for Oct. 4 against seven rail lines. After all the carriers except the Penn Central countered with a threat to shut down, President Nixon averted a strike for 60 days by appointing a fact-finding board to look into the dispute.
The presidential panel recommended that the unions accept the railroads' offer of a 2 per cent pay raise retroactive to last Jan.1 and a 3 per cent pay boost effective July 1.
Poli sci profs say . . .
KU political life drags
By CRAIG PARKER Kansan Staff Writer
Recently, two assistant professors in the political science department, David Rosenbloom and Wayne Penn, agreed to comment on student political activity at KU.
Rosenbloom studied at Marietta College in Ohio and at the University of Chicago.
"There was much more political activity there than I've seen here," said Rosenbloom in comparing Chicago with KU.
"The whole environment there was much more conducive to political activity," said Rosenbloom, "there was more information there."
"In Chicago," he said, "the faculty was in with the activity but they didn't control it. Students can get something out of using the faculty properly."
If there are radical student groups on this campus, they have never tried to ally themselves or find in what way they could use faculty members like myself for their own purposes," Rosenbloom said.
"The weakest thing I've observed here in comparison with
Medical council hears pill report
Denver—Dr. Kermit E. Crantz, a university of Kansas Medical Center physician, told the American Medical Association's clinical convention in Denver Monday that birth control pills were less dangerous than many other common drugs.
Deaths caused by the common aspirin make the oral contraceptive "look like a divine drug," Crantz said.
Crantz said that the number of yearly deaths caused by aspirin were surprising and outnumbered those attributed to the oral contraceptive.
Dr. H. G. McQuarrie of Salt Lake City also spoke to the convention. He said tests had shown that many of the side effects caused by oral contraceptives can be lessened by use of a "mini-dose," which is nearly as effective as the regular dose.
The death rate among those who take the pill is 3.5 persons per 100,000, he said, and the death rate due to pregnancy is 68 per 100,000.
The only possible drawback, Dr. McQuartie said, was the loss of regularity in the menstrual cycle.
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Chicago is that the activist groups on this campus, perhaps with the exception of the Blacks, are not organized at all," said Rosenbloom.
Wayne Penn studied on the West coast, at Claremont College and at Berkeley.
"In California, activism provided a student subculture which was perhaps the most influential student subculture on the Berkeley campus in that most of the better students tended to gravitate in their direction." said Penn.
Penn said he though that political activity at KU isn't attractive to a broad group of students "partially because of timing."
"The Left has been gaining influence on the campus over the past few years," Penn said, "to some extent you could attribute this to the Vietnam War, but I think that it's like many other styles of thought and fashion—they tend to come from the coast inward."
Penn said he agreed with Rosenbloom that there were cultural differences between KU and other universities.
"I think the middle western portion of the United States is always going to be somewhat more conservative," he said.
"Radical activism or activism for pronounced change in the university is going to be emanating more from the Black students," Penn said, "the problems of the Black students are not going to go away and they are going to become more critical as more Black students are found on campus."
"I think there's a tremendous
difference in student culture," says Rosenbloom. "At Chicago, student life is intellectually oriented. Here is seems to be sorority, fraternity, and to a large extent, football-oriented."
Rosenbloom said he thought there were two things working against radicals on the left at KU, besides their own disorganization.
"One thing is that the bulk of the student body just isn't interested. Some people here are very politically naive.
"Second, the way this University is run, to a large extent, from what I can see in the few months I've been here, is very detrimental to anybody who wants to be activist for Leftist causes."
Penn said he thought much of the lack of political activity stemmed from the isolation of the students at KU.
"I find that those students who live out in the community tend to be much more actively oriented than do those who live in isolation in fraternities and sororites," he said.
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