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University Daily Kansan, October 20, 1983
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Prof emphasizes the need for U.S. economic reform
By SALLY GRIZZLE Staff Reporter
Solutions to crime and unemployment problems among poor blacks must come from economic reform of the entire society, KU Langston Hughes visiting professor said yesterday.
Wilson told about 50 people at the weekly University Forum luncheon that increased crime rates, unwed pregnancy and a lack of caused demoralization among blacks.
"The present arrangement of the economy has caused hardship, especially among low-income blacks," said William J. Wilson, visiting professor of urban sociology from the University of Chicago.
"Blacks today have come to believe that nothing really works," Wilson said.
WILSON, A NATIONALLY recognized expert in social and economic studies of black Americans, said that blacks should not ignore the national debate on economic reform as a way to solve social problems.
Lack of education and job skills among lower income blacks has contributed to unemployment, Wilson said during his speech at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
"Blacks live near and work in the industries hit hardest by the changes from goods-oriented to service-oriented industries," he said.
"If they don't go together, both will fail," Wilson said. "If ghetto blacks see no jobs available, they will not take education programs seriously."
Therefore, educational and economic reforms must go together, he said.
WHAT IS NEEDED is an approach that recognizes the problems of economic reform are not necessarily related to racial issues, Wilson said.
Wilson has developed a series of recommendations for blacks concerning industrial policy that he and other leaders will present to the Democratic Party in 1984. "I don't think much can be done," she said, adding that President Reagan has not actively addressed the concerns of blacks.
"Increased welfare dependence and family deterioration are not soley related to blacks but the economy as a whole," he said. "I urge black leaders to push for economic and social reform that will benefit all groups in society."
Wilson emphasized that black leaders should strive for full employment and provide sufficient jobs.
"We have relied on economic growth to deal with full employment in the past, but now we must pursue this ourselves," he said.
wison said that blacks must specifie address ways to achieve eco-cop
"Blacks need to form a powerful coalition to press for economic reform," he said. "Before current discussion of economic reform, blacks adapted as national policy, blacks must take steps to see that they are not ignored."
THE WILL OF GOD
"I don't understand the Will of God"
said the friend of a tragic accident victim.
That's right!
We don't!
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Can you imagine God wanted a tragic accident?
The computer wasn't programmed to swallow a series of characters on the tape that were incorrectly set, said Dean Glenn, a vice president of production for the firm.
A few zeros appeared where a few spaces should have been, so the computer rejected the request and sent back to Lawrence last week to be reset.
you ask us as we wolter ous:
Can you blame God for human foolishness?
Godson! You make us wrong.
God doesn't make us puppets.
Can you think or know the mind of God?
God is much more than any human.
The University's new telephone directory will be a week tard this year because an ill-prepared KU computer tape gave a computer in Virginia a big case of indigestion.
Earlier this month the tape of the student directory was sent to National Advertising and Publishing Company that publishes the directories.
"The tape must be set perfectly" he said. "The zeroes were on the tape where the spaces should have
Beyond wanting life and peace for all creation God's Will is beavond us.
The contracts for publishing and printing the directory state that the more than 25,000 phone books be delivered to Facilities Operations, which distributes the books, she said.
Phone book delayed
God's Will is beyond us. So we seek to know the life and peace God wills.
After a roster of students is compiled at the Office of Admissions and Records and combined with a faculty roster from the University's personnel office, the University Computer Center sets a tape. The finished tape is then sent to Virginia firm, Eversole said.
ROBIN EVERSOLE, director of University Relations, said yesterday that the books would not arrive from the printer in Texas until late next week. The directories will be distributed upon arrival, she said.
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been, and the computer reading the tape and publishing the pages wasn't programmed to recognize them.
"When the computer encountered the zeroes, it just crapped out."
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Helium company may appeal judge's order to pay gas firms
By United Press International
WICHITA - A company ordered to pay $205 million to about 30,000 landowners and gas companies for helium produced in the Hugoton field probably will appeal the decision, a lawyer said yesterday.
In the early 1960s the federal government began a program to
In the latest phase of a 20-year-old court battle, U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown Tuesday ordered National Helium Corp. to pay $105.9 million to royalty owners and producers. $38.9 million to Northern Helen Corp. and $7.4 million to Cities Service Index. The firms are owned by pipeline companies.
conserve helium by paying pipeline companies for helium, which previously had been a wasted byproduct in natural gas production. The pipeline companies and their helium subsidiaries pay taxes but the natural gas producers, landowners and royalty owners of the gas fields received nothing.
Clifford Malone, a lawyer for Cities Service Helex, said the case probably will be back in court again.
"With that kind of amount of money, there ordinarily is going to be an appeal." Malone said. "That's a decision that has to be made after the office is digested and consideration by the some office people by a lot of things."
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