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Monday, December 11. 1972
University Daily Kansan
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Slow Pace on Mass. St.
There is a certain bittersweet irony in the Massachusetts Street renovation. The designers had intended to create a new streamlined Massachusetts Street, a glorified four-block-long parking lot which would better enable the downtown merchants to compete with the outliers. The goal of the process of rushing to modernize the downtown area, the construction crews seem to have taught Lawrence residents to appreciate the humane inefficiency of an older, slower paced style of commerce.
Before the construction began, Massachusetts Street was a harried, hurried, over-laden through way for crosstown traffic. Now nowhere, the unopposable advocacy of shattered sidewalks and furrowed pavement has forced the evolution of a new, quieter Massachusetts. Cross town traffic has been diverted to perimeter businesses in Vermont and New Hampshire streets to where city planners have long wished it would go. Shoppers have finally discovered the convenience of the perimeter parking lots, and merchants have finally begun to dress up the backs of their shops.
Thus, by virtue of an unexpected side-effect, Massachusetts has been pleasantly relieved of a great deal of unwanted and unneeded traffic.
Massachusetts has rediscovered an older more relaxed atmosphere and, judging from their opposition to the removal of the temporary four-way bridge across Lake Erie, Lawrence residents are favorably impressed with the discovery.
I, too, would like to go on record in favor of the four-way stops. The perimeter parking lots and one-way streets are finally being used as city planners had hoped they would be: why encourage motorists to return to their earlier congesting habits by returning the stop lights? Business districts and thoroughfares are incompatible, and attempting to mix the two inevitably drives customers and business out—in part that is what the Massachusetts renovation and the inner-city decay is all about.
Returning the stop lights to Massachusetts is unnecessary. Lawrence is not a metropolis, and its avenues need not be engineered as if they were the vehicular arteries of some great metropolis. Indeed, because of the unique distinctive beauty of its own that it shouldn't feel the need to emulate the ugly humanity of the great metropolis.
I say, sell the stop lights to Kansas City—that's where they belong.
—Robert Ward
Feminists Marched On
by Barbara Spurlock and Helen Cox
1972 saw a continuation of women's movement in America, accompanied by a wide variety of publications. The newspapers and magazines felt the impact of the women's movement, as many of them have changed their identification from Miss or Mrs. to just plain Ms.
The National Organization for Women, now has about 225 chapters in 48 states. The National Women's Political Caucus and Women's Equity Action League are also thriving.
Probably the most significant piece of legislation passed in 1972 for women was the Equal Rights Amendment, which declared "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. So far, 22 of the amendments have ratified the amendment."
1972 was a year in which many people, including many housewives, stood up against the manpower of the management. A poll showed that 77 per cent of the American women opposed equal treatment for military service, 83 per cent said they would not be breadwinner of a family even if her salary is larger than her husband's and 69 per cent were against a woman paying alimony to have had more money than the man.
The creation of Ms., the magazine for the liberated
woman, has proved to be too liberated for many women. Gloria Steinem, one editor of Ms. and a leading spokeswoman of the movement, recently told a reporter that marriage was a type of prostitution.
This kind of attitude has caused originators of the movement in America such as Betty Friedan, to shudder at her "female hauvinism." Friedan, who raised in a feminist Mystique, urged in a reminiscence Call's that women such as Steinem redirect their purpose.
Although being homemaker and mother is still the number one job of many women, a great number of women have foregone marriage and motherhood in pursuit of careers, while others have combined marriage with their careers.
The Affirmative Action Ordinance passed by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance has ordered businesses to hire employees for better jobs to upgrade salaries or face loss of federal funds and patronage. Now many businesses are actively recruiting women employees and have even been promoted women to executive positions.
On June 3, Sally Priesmade men's history by becoming the first woman to be ordained a Reform Jewish rabbi. However, her marriage to a secular Orthodox Jew, who still require women to sit apart from men in
On Sept. 14, Pope Paul issued a decree forbidding women to perform lower church duties at all time as an altar service, apparently denying the suggestion of the 1971 Synod of Bishops to establish a commission to seek ways of ex-convicted women in the role of women in the church.
church services.
When Gloria Steinem surveyed the floor at the Democratic Convention she remarked, "we've changed the population around here. It almost looks like the country."
Women composed 40 per cent of the delegates at the convention (about 80 per cent of population). Yvonne Brashtewa Burke was co-chairman, and another woman, Jean Westwood, was National Democratic chairman.
Congresswoman Bella Abzug, "the lady in the hat," who is one of the best known and most outspoken woman representatives in Congress, won her seat back in November.
Shirley Chisholm, the black congresswoman from Brooklyn, surprised the nation when she announced her candidacy for the U.S. presidency and she was more discriminated against in Congress as a woman than as a black. Although she did not make a big impact on the race, she made a name for herself down in history as the first black woman to run for the presidency.
Garry Wills
Romney Was A Low Grade Candidate
Whenever the shortcomings of 'the presidential primaries are being aired, I think of George Romney. It is enough to make us count our blessings.
Romney, who tried (at three different schools) to get through college but never made it, likes to "grade" people and offices and experiences.
When Romney had a chance to address the issues, during the Goldwater candidacy, he dodged it, neither supporting nor opposing the presidential contender on Romney's campaign. When Romney sent a long chiding letter to Romney, giving his campaign a flanking mark.
As a political outsider in 1960, he sent a prissy letter to Messrs. Nixon and Kennedy, saying they should address the issues more honestly.
He said nothing of his own tergiversations during the 1964 campaign, but he did mention his experience as a police officer.
Though Ronny failed in his 1968 presidential bid, he gave his own campaign an A, claiming it educated the people on Vietnam, even at the cost of his own宴会. At the party's convention, he made an appearance at the second spot, opposing Agniel. Still, that a B plus from Ronney, who said it was just what the party needed. "It is always good for you to get a big burg off your chest. I gave the party its burp."
Senator Percy an "opportunist." An F for you, Charles Percy.
With that record behind him, we should have expected him to exit with a burp—preaching a sermon, praising himself, calling for the public display, he gave the recent campaign bad marks. Even though he took part in the campaign, as the President's wife, and also evoked the issues, he was constrained by the pressures of office.
One can only be pure, he has decided, out of office. It buy that. But he also thinks that this purity will allow him to get political things done. He wants to be pure and practical too. To be right, without having to prove it at the polls; and yet to attain the politician's goals by his non-political acts.
On a religious radio program, shortly after his resignation, he said America's trouble is its lack of faith in God. I'm fluent in Arabic, but Romney seems to think redevil faith is a political program, and will get the poor homeless homes after Romney failed to get them there through the whelings and dealings of the power. It is the thought of a desperate general who, having run out of ammunition, decides to pray his enemies dead.
So now he seems intent on starting something as high-minded and empyrminded as John Gardner's "Common Bath," in which he two hands have of washing each other in the bath, we may hear Romney burden out of that effort, giving it low grades by his moves on to something even purer. Of one thing we think he is doing well, he assigned to other people and things, he will get an A from himself. The public morale he drew from his career, on the day he died, was this: "Candidates can't afford to be right too soon and win. I'm a living example."
Well, he's a living example of something that is one of our luck in living in presidential property.
(C) Universal Press Syndicate, 197
Jack Anderson
Army Hides Tank Blunder
WASHINGTON - It has become routine around the Pentagon for the military brass to sweep their shoes and get them under the secrecy stamp.
The Army, for example, has carefully classified costly blunders that have run up the price of tanks. The details are the secret memos and reports, which we have now uncovered.
The tank is the backbone of our ground forces. In the nuclear age, infantry can no longer mass for attack without risking an enemy's forces in depth and rely on highly mobile units which can strike fast and evade destruction.
Except in jungle or mountainous areas the tank has become the Army's first, if flexible, line of defense.
The Army, therefore, set out in 1963 to build a tank that could not shoot anything the Soviets could throw against it. This super-tank, known as the MBT-XM-803, wasn't gotten on the drawing board.
The House Appropriations Committee has been investigating, C. R. Anderson, who
directed the investigation,
reported to Chairman George
Mahon, D-Tex, on Aug. 9, that the
army failed to build "a single
building" even though the program was started in 1963, as an ill-conceived American-German development, with a schedule providing for the production of an experimental tank by December, 1969.
The House investigators found that the "initial operational capability of the MBT-70 would have been lost in 1976, 13 years after the program started. A sizable tank force to meet the Soviets with any hope of success would not be available, until well into the 1980s."
One cause for the MBT-70s failure, charged Anderson in his memo to Mahon, was the selection of an engine that had been developed by Army "to begin a new development in 1969 of a derated model . . . of the engine which had been a failure. This step was taken although another 1475 engines had been passed its test successfully and had been recommended by the Army's own consultants, was
The memo noted wryly that "even a higher-priced tank would be more economical than a million-dollar one with an engine that does not work; and as set up in the report, there are great doubts that the Teledey engine would ever work."
As a stop-gap, the Army remodeled its old M-60 tank, designed a new compact turret system that allowed missiles and called it the M-60A1E2. But "technical difficulties with the turret control system," reported the Housing system, "resulted in the program being suspended." This action left the Army with a complete but limited military M-60AE2s in the inventory plus 243 incomplete turrets.
available for immediate use. . ."
In desperation, the Army,
which had done its own remodeling,
signed a contract with
Chrysler to correct the mistakes.
Meanwhile, the M60A1E25,
with its complex cultures experienced, have not been issued to the troops and will not be until 1973 if the retrof
program is successful."
Both the MBT-70/XM-803 and the M6A1E2, when they finally become operational, are supposed to be armed with Shillageh ammunition in the Army, incredibly, has stopped producing these missiles.
Declares the secret report:
"Not only was the last year of the contract terminated but the production line has been completed. We have sold and the plant in which it housed is for sale. This action was taken despite plans to the Shillelagh in the MBT-70/XM83 and the M-M641E2. In fact, the latter was developed specifically for this use available in Europe prior to the arrival of the MBT-70 there."
Once the two missile tanks become operational, the Army will have to start all over, at least 150 miles from a new Shillelagh plant and production line. Meanwhile, to maintain a production base, the Army is continuing to produce a remodeled M-60 tank, known as the "Hercules." Some 190 of these were recently built in Israel, another 28 to Jordan. To make up the loss, the Army stepped up production.
Complains the secret report: "This procurement program is in keeping with the defense policy of maintaining an active production force. We would seem, however, that the Army could have used the tanks sold to Israel and Jordan to keep the production line going rather increase the United States procurement because of this sale."
The Army's handling of the M-60A1 procurement, declares the report, has caused "these M-60A1 to be, as one representative described it, 'very gold plated.' The unit price of the M-60A1 during (fiscal year 1971) was $25,000 per person (jumped) to $333,000 per person and in 1973 . . . the price will skrevket to over $22,000.
"A contract representative advised the Investigative Staff that these increases will be caused by higher costs of smaller quantities of material and parts from subcontractors."
We will have more to say in another column about how the Army, for lack of planning, squanders the taxpayers' money.
Copyright, 1973,
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Readers Respond
DiZerega
To the Editor:
Year in Review
DiZerega Rips Student Senate
Wednesday night the Student Senate voted to fund additional money for campus libraries in a vote that would be the period going into finals. As the allocation was approved, the student body president Dave Garrison said the effect that the library really wasn't the 'students' responsibility to fund, and that hopefully it could be called upon to fund it again.
On the Chinese calendar, the lunar year 4670 began on Feb. 15 and was to be known as the Year of the Rat. The rat is the first animal in the cynote cycle of symbolic animals, and so the Year of the Rat was the beginning of a new era. It was to be a time of timidity and meanness, which perhaps it was.
To Americans, however, the year 1972 began on Jan. 1, with a hangover from too much booze or wine. So did it in 1986 and 1995.
According to Chinese folklore, if the sun shone on Feb. 21, the seventh and most auspicious day of the Chinese New Year, the whole year would be a bright one for mankind. It was on that day that President Nixon arrived in Peking for his historical meetings with Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung. The sun apparently managed a glimmer over the Chinese capital during over the year 1972, for it was through this trip and Nixon's trip to the Soviet Union that the United States' foreign relations were strengthened.
By Gail Pfeiffer
with East Germany. There was the passage of the equal rights amendment, the return of Charlie Chaplin, the end of the draft, the seven gold medals of Mark Spitz, the passage of the revenue sharing bill, and the victory of the chess king Bobby Fischer.
bardment of football games. It was to be a year of tragedy, violence,苦难, progress, secret wheeling and dealing, terrorism, crusades, scandals, and foreign relations. It was a historical year, yet it was also the kind of year that one often wishes to forget.
It was also the year Japan signed relations with China, and West Germany signed a treaty.
The happy moments were few. For the most part the year 1972 can be described as violent and controversial. It was a year met with apathy and fear.
There was the controversy surrounding the Watergate and ITT scandals, and the Supreme Court's decisions on capital punishment and the use of the Nixon secret weapon deals, the power of Nixon to limit congressional spending, the trials of Angela Davis and the Harrisonburg 7. Questions arose from the campaign funding and public polling and from the concern of the vote on the 76 Olympics in Colorado.
There were the tragic floods in Rapid City and the Ohio Valley. There was the Howard Hughes hoax, the Eagleton affair, the peace negotiations and the elections.
There was that "Black September" in Munich, the attempted assassination of George Wallace by Arthur Brenner, the never-ending war in Vietnam, conflict, and the continuing violence in Ireland.
1972 was indeed a year one might like to forget. It was perhaps a year of not enough humidity and too much meanness. If indeed it is a new era, as it should look toward the future instead of the past.
Later, Dillon was one of the most impassioned supporter for continued subsidization in a debate over whether or not students should subsidize the bus system. In spite of body president's philosophy is inconsistent at best and hopelessly muddled at worst.
Consider—the library, a necessity, has according to Dillon's law been financed by students but rather should be given funds squeezed from the taxpayers at large. On his book, "The Science that benefits only a portion of the student body," is a legitimate service to be charged against all students who do not Dillon's argument is that whoever uses a service should shunt part of the bill off to other institutions in philosophy for a B-school major.
1. While unable to break even, students will benefit in incentive to search further for a viable, self-supporting method of community and Universal mass-education.
In fact, however, the bus system as it is currently managed and funded will, in the long run, prove harmful towards customers by providing a solution to mass-transit problems in Lawrence. This is so because
2. More distant apartment complexes are to some extent subsidized at the expense of students and the community by encouraging the Losangeles to the west, costing the city through the more streets, sewers, and other tax
supported  amenities. Additionally, by lessening the disadvantage of Meadowbrow in a Gatehouse from subsideing transportation at general expense, pressure to reduce rents is
Bill O'Neill, of the golden tongue, pouenced upon this point by claiming that rents have not been raised since 1975. Since they are declining in many places elsewhere this by no means invalidates my argument. Instead, it correct it only shows that there is not a serious enough transportation inconvenience to effusive bus service so why should bus subsidy serve us?
3. Pressure to alleviate the stupid and repressive zoning regulations covering Oread street and the east campus streets. Currently neither small businesses nor large apartment buildings can be built to provide shopping and living opportunities in the district distracts student attention from the only feasible long-run solution to the transportation problem which is more housing close to the busiest area, most responsible for the zoning benefit from the subsidies.
An increase in living density in this area would also make some sort of viable mass transportation service downtown and allow people living per block means the more potential riders exist.
Additional reasons why there is no very valid reason for a subsidized bus system include:
1. For the overwhelming majority of students, the bus system is valuable only during school days. This is only a small percentage of classes. Car pools, for example, could help meet this need without running up $1,000 in bus fares each day by the current monstrosity.
2. Dormitories have floor governments which are ideally suited to organize this solution. This is because they are in "Power to the People" except
when it means a decentralization of authority from the senate itself! Greek houses currently lack access to their less competent? One senator wailed that she didn't know who lived next door and therefore couldn't organize a car pool!" about time she got neighborly.
3. Pershing Rifles now offer free escort service to women at a garrison to ask for a Senate grant if given the opportunity, to act in the students may well boggle the student of Messrs. Dillon and O'Neill.
4. ) Dorms excepted, more wealthy students with cars are generally subsidized by poorer students living in north and east Lawrence and in the east campus community in low rent housing who cannot afford the swimming pools, club rooms, and balconies
5. Finally, those who run the service have proven beyond doubt their incompetence to run a bus. They also have been taught the first of the semester we STILL have no fares painted on the sides of the buses—although this has been repeatedly suggested in the book. We are now going to schedule exist at bus stops. The excuse given is that BkG will not allow it! Why haven't they put up a bus? Is stupidity and lack of discipline to beacons haven't they gone over these bureaucrats' heads to the chancellor? Why haven't they just gone ahead and put up bus tickets? Is somebody hard to know没
I fear that once campus extravaganzas are funded, self-esteem through ego-enhancement will make it impossible to end the general muting of student interest in the benefit of special interests.
Wednesday the BSU had money cut in part for their incompetence in administering it. This is as it should have been. When mismanagement possibly costing thousands occurs within the Senate, it is a pity the Senate applies different, more lenient, standards to itself than it does to others.
Gus DiZerega
Gus Bizerega Lawrence graduate student
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Women
fo the Editor:
I understand that both senex and the Council of Deans have been working on proposed revisions of the Provisional Affirmative Action Plan drafted by the Affirmative Action Board. I have read this provisional plan and am confident we will public several weeks ago. While it is not as strong as I would like in several respects, I find nothing
in it that I object to seriously, I suspect, knowing the composition of Senex and the Council of Academic Departments significantly limit the effectiveness of the program. I feel strongly, and I believe others should also accept that all group groups will agree, that all proposed revisions of the provisional plan including any amendments to the group groups should be made public before the chancellor makes his various proposals need to be reviewed and judged by the entire University community affected by the success or failure of the Affirmative Action Plan.
Joni Driskill
Johi Driskill
Vinita. Okla.. senior
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