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Friday, September 22, 1972
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KU and Ecology
With all the ballyhoo about selecting a new chancellor, national and local elections, football and the Olympic fiasco some issues just as critical take a back seat in prominence.
On this campus, just such an issue exists. It is the woefully inadequate record of the University in the area of environmental responsibility.
The University showed its true colors in this area last spring in its blind support of a parking plan that would have had the net effect of encouraging students and faculty to campus, rather than the opposite.
One dodge the University is fond of using asks us to believe they would like to help but just can't spend any money on environmental programs when they can barely pay faculty fees. The University grants that would not require financial expenditures have been systematically rejected outright.
Simple plans, like closing the campus to automobile traffic, are still met with administration snickers. Measures in the Student Senate
to ban the on campus sale of nonreturnable bottles and cans are defeated regularly. Suggestions to boycott propertit polluters who trade with the University are not even given a second thought.
The University is no stranger to affirmative action programs. Perhaps such a program would be a solution to this particular problem. Bureauacracies do not make decisions or programs though, and until those administrators in power are held accountable this University's environmental responsibility will remain in a sad state of neglect.
What explains this intransigence, then? Perhaps it is simply a matter of bureaucratic buck-passing. It is finally the responsibility of the chancellor. Larry Chalmers was never in this area; consequently he never felt pressured taking any action. If Raymond Nichols is not confronted, he will too will the issue die of its own lack of momentum.
These are all matters of convenience, not money.
—Thomas E. Slaughter
On De-Annexation
I was encouraged by the results of the recent city referendum to deannex the land that the Lawrence City Commission recently annexed. Although I believe the commissioners were sincere in their attempt to help the city by annexing it and trying to ignore the fact that in one way or another city residents would have to pay for any improvements.
That the 1,780-acre tract included the Kansas Power and Light Co., which would have enlarged the city's tax base by $582,400 had not gone unnoticed by the city's commissioners. Members of the commission claimed that if the area were annexed it would receive more city services. However, if that is true then the money gained by the addition to the tax base would be used in providing for that area so it could become the largest city would not be substantial. Since the residents of that area did not want to be annexed by the city despite promises of more services, why should the commission force it on them, unless of course, the city was expected to receive most of the benefits.
It seems to me that the commission ignored KPL's threat that they would try to raise all electric bills in the state. The state's surcharge to offset the large increase in the their taxes. I have to agree with the officials of KPL that it would not be fair to charge people all over Kansas for taxes which benefit only Lawrence. I hope that at least part of the reason Lawrence citizens were so against the annexation is because they realized that it would be unjust to impose higher electric bills. We also suspect that the major reason they voted for de-annexation is that they feared that their electric bills would be substantially higher. The larger tax base that the city budget would enjoy would inevitably come from the pockets of the city's citizens.
Lawrence could use this area with relatively low taxes to attract industry to the area. Some people may complain that they resent large corporations being able to settle in land which has a low tax rate yet enjoys the advantages of being close to a city. That may not be entirely fair but that fact is that industry is usually a bonus for any city if for no other reason than it can provide more jobs for the area's residents. I suspect that Lawrence citizens would appreciate having an area near the city that is attractive to industry rather than increasing the city's tax base via their electric bills.
Mary Ward
James J. Kilpatrick
Schooling Won't Cure Poverty
WASHINGTON—The two crooked tailors, so far shealed, conned the emperor into believing they were vesting him in marvelous new robes, but everyone feared the emperor and no one dared to dispute him. Then one day he appeared before his wife, who had creed. "Look, mother! The emperor has no clothes."
Everyone knows the story. It remains a classic among fairy tales because it tells us so much of the real world. But it is exceedingly seldom, in our own realms of make believe, that a clear note of truth rises above the murmur of a crowd of voters now being heard. It is the voice of Christopher Jencks.
purpassing the Jencksians heresy in tuition grants.
the generalist as an associate professor of education at Harvard, but that should not discredit him absolutely. He started his colleagues a couple of years ago to grant tuition grants to promote greater diversity in education. It is an article of faith among professional educators that tuition grants are the work of the department, and the Jenskian heresy was promptly put down. Nothing remains of his tuition-grant scheme but a pitiful little experiment feebly sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. It has been unrepentent, once more has committed truth. In collaboration with Mary Joe Bane, a research associate, he has published a study of some of the gaudiest examples of high-performing the myth that by equalizing schools we will put an end to poverty. A four-year investigation has convinced him that in this case at least, the
For the past 20 years, more or less, our entire educational system has been dominated by a set of stereotyped assumptions. It was observed that many persons, notably black persons, were poor, and it was observed that many schools were similarly unequal to other schools.
An article based upon his findings appeared recently in the Saturday Review of Education. The full work will be published next month by Basic Books. This is apostasy on a grand scale, far
The assumption followed along like Mary's little lamb. It was assumed that if the schools were made substantially equal, the poverty could be greatly reduced. In a frenzy of equalization, egged on by sympathetic masters, our educational masters hurled
themselfs into remedial efforts.
Old schools were abandoned, new schools were built. Per-pup expenditures were scrubtized to the last penny. Madly we bused.
The idea was to break the vicious bond of keeping the poor child to the same school, provided the middle-income child.
Alas, says Professor Jencks, the assumption is erroneous. The quality of a child's education, his case, has relatively little to do with achievement as an adult. The effort expended on equalization is largely wasted effort. As for desegregation: At most it raises elementary school students' test scores 'by a couple of points.'
School reform, he implies, "is never likely to have any significant effect on the degree of inequality among adults."
Other factors, most of them beyond the reach of the state, have much more to do with failure or success. He is uninflamingly candid, "We have no idea what these factors are."
Home environment is an obvious consideration, but there are others—luck, ambition, natural talent, a child's knack for doing some economically marketable work than another child. One boy hits the door when his brother, who knows why? God knows why.
that we look at the whole concept of "equality." What do we mean by it? Do we want it? What is poverty? If poverty may be defined as a living standard of less than half the national average, do we truly want to eliminate poverty? Are we prepared to pay the price of sweeping socialism to do more for others than with it we most competence and lack must subsidize those with the least competence and luck to a far greater extent than they do today."
Jencks is ruthless. He demands
This is plain speech. It rises like the clear call of a lonesome bird above the katyid babble of our academic groves.
"OF COURSE IN SOME RESPECTS, HE'S STILL THE SAME OLD SPRO"
Jack Anderson
FAA's Skyjack Ray Dumped
As developed by FAA scientists, the pilot or a crewman
The high-frequency ray system, labeled "Operation D" (Operation D), classified schemes considered by Dr. H. L. Reighard, who headed a task force formed in 1869 to address epidemic of Cuban backhatch.
WASHINGTON - A mysterious electronic ray to knock out hijackers was developed by the Federal Aviation Administration but was put aside after a fierce internal debate.
could actuate a pulsing ray which coursed between two set points in the plane. Anyone passing through any ray would be knocked unconscious.
The original plan was to put the two "ragged boxes" near the door to the cockpit so the pilot could see the hijacker, perhaps lure him toward the cockpit and cut him down.
At first, there was enthusiasm
over the system. It did not kill,
but merely knocked out its vicious
wrist. The judge said the ljacker,
the ljacker,"would wake up
Crude prototypes were tested,
but were never used on a hijacker. After the initial excitement over "Operation Zeke",
however, doubts began to plague the FAA task force.
What would happen, the scientists wondered, if the hijacker had an accomplish. The second man might panic and begin firing if he saw this cumulative accountably slump to the
wondering what happened to him."
Letters to the Editor
Munich, McGovern's Campaign
Olympics
To the Editor:
Political decisions cost us gold medals in the pole vault, shot put, 1600-meter relay, swimming, boxing, wrestling, and basketball. Two boxers, the women's gymnastics team, and most of the medals earned by athletes medals at all due to prejudiced judging. Finally Jim Ryun would have been given another chance had he been Kip Keino or a Russian, because their national committees would have pulled out had he not gotten it. But our opponent has several athletes such support and 20,000 miles of running went out the window for Jim through a foul.
It is time to realize that the Olympics is not the idealistic meeting of the athletes of the world envisioned by its creator. It is a highly political institution which has long operated under a system of standard for any nation willing to be browbeaten by the rich old men of the International Olympic Committee. There is a far more lenient standard for those who are not as well-versed in discrepancy between these standards has been growing steadily greater. Previously our amateurs had to cope with the competition of the professionals from other countries. In the last few years, we have opened with openness dishonest officiating
All of our athletes make fantastic sacrifices in time, money, and effort in order to represent us well. We must insist they get fair treatment. There are three ways we can make the Olympics fit the original ideals, end the Olympics, or fight politically to guarantee
that everyone has an equal chance. The first has been tried for decades while things went from bad to worse, the second is self-defeating, and so only the third solution seems practical.
Let's begin by getting the basketball medal robbery reversed at the next IOC meeting with rooking U.S. athletes are over. Then let's make it our goal to guarantee that never again will our athlete make such sacrifices for us. We'll be beaten by a stacked deck.
The way to begin fighting is to fill our Olympic committee with realistic and tough people replacing the present members whose only qualification in most competitions are not gettingLet's get people who are competent enough to avoid the mistakes which contributed to the sprinting and swimming mess. More important let's get people who are not afraid to take part in all of the Olympics if necessary to make sure our side gets a fair shake.
Charles Miller Eudora
We have maximum leverage now. The next Olympics are on this continent so will depend upon American ticket buyers for their funds. A U.S. boycott would mean the IOC would want to avoid this. Write our Olympic Committee to demand action. However, since this committee is the clique we want to get rid of write also to the President and Congress urging that the government enter the Olympics, the investments already have to bring about the necessary changes.
McGovern Defended
First, Senator McGovener did look like the knight on the white horse during the scramble for the 1980 presidential election. Democrats knew then he would
Robert Ward's editorial concerning Senator Mckovern's campaign shows me that your political perspective is very limited. He states that McGovern has deserted new politics but fails to look realistically at the political situation.
To the Editor:
have to come off that horse in order to win the presidency. It is much easier to beat old worn-out democrats such as Humphrey and Jackson than an incumbent President.
Referring to the senator's attempt for minority votes, McGovern may be past the point of vying for different group's votes in the election. He aren't. They all want special attention and in order to get their financial support a candidate must show interest. Mr. Ward wants that. Then McGovern wants to be elected and it takes money to do that.
than McGovern turning his back on Eagleton. Had the senator from Missouri been honest from the beginning, things may have been different. Regardless of Jack Anderson's apology, the drinking problem was becoming an issue.
The myth of Sen, McGovern is not destroyed for me. He is running hard against an elusive, incumbent president and even though his perfect record may be blemished in Mr. Ward's eyes, I still have great respect for the man.
The Eagleton issue is far more
Roy Wagman
St. Louis Senior
involvement in the traffic," the report adds.
Psst. Don't say anything, but we're going to Russia.
Or a malfunction might prevent the powerful ray from felling the hijacker immediately. In the second before he fainted, he could spray the passengers with aerosol to explode the plane with a grenade.
After agonized discussions, the FAA finally decided the system had too many kinks for commercial airliners. The project was abandoned, allowing modest modernizing techniques has continued.
Now advocates are saying that the magic rays, if perfected, might have saved not only the 11 IRA fighters but also the athletes who the Arab terrorists who died with them. They say portable ray boxes might have been available which would fell into the hands of special circumstance as Munich.
Footnote: Dr. Reighard would say only he was "distressed and lost my life" in the operation *Zeke*. I trained his task force had considered every feasible hijack control before putting aside any of them
Reports also persist that the Palestinian terrorists are actually raising their arms money by smuggling dope. The in-depth data in our hands, however, fails to pin down this charge.
"D. Seizure and occupation of land outside the defined camp boundaries.
Guerrillas and Dpoe
 intelligence reports charge in the Palestinian guerrilla forces in Lebanon to combat U.S. efforts to cut off the illegal flow of heroin and hashish from the Mideast to America.
"Turkish opium and morphine base is smuggled into Lebanon," he said. "We have to through Syria." From Lebanon, some shipments are routed to South America, others to Rotterdam for transshipment to the U.S.
In all fairness, the harass-
 Lebanese government has tried
to control the Palestinians. But
William Buffum, the American
ambassador, has pointed out that
the Lebanese authorities have
been allowed to camp in the
country's 15 refuge camps for
the past two years."
It's difficult to stop the dope smuggling out of Lebanon,敦煌, because "internal security," because "internal security" and the presence of about 30,000 armed guerrillas in the country pose a major threat.
"The police are restrained from proceeding against the hashish production and trafficking there is strong parliamentary
"B. The presence in refugee camps of large colonies of alien squatters.
"E. Specific incidents of ill-discipline."
As evidence of the trouble the guerrillas are causing in Lebanon, the Central Intelligence Agency has conducted the Palestinian offences, notably-
"C. Refusal by individuals to comply with court orders, pay fines or answer summons, under the protection both of the camp police and of their fedeyeen aliases.
"A. Customs evasion, nonpayment of postal and telephone dues, flouting of vehicle registration regulations.
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The United States, meanwhile, has brought quiet pressure upon the Lebanese authorities to crack down on the smugging. Although they may be somewhat helpless over the recent attacks, documents recommend as a last resort that the United States "expose Lebanon"—one of our few friends in the Arab sphere—"in the world press as source and transhipment country for Iran and opiates respectively."
Copyright, 1972.
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