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University Daily Kansan, April 5, 1982
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Title IX compliance?
It looks as if the wheels of justice are finally turning at the KU athletic department. s-1-o-w-l-y.
Of course, the University of Kansas was only one of about 80 universities that the federal government planned to investigate. And plenty of other athletic programs probably deserved a closer look as well.
Over the years, Female athletes have practiced and sweated and suffered as much as male athletes have, but that did not seem to matter when the scholarship checks were signed.
For example, in 1978 at KU, 33.2 percent of all KU students were female, but they received only 13.7 percent of the financial aid. The average male athlete received $2,436 a year and the average female athlete received $781.
Two years passed.
In that year, Ann Levinson, a student, and Elizabeth Banks, a KU associate professor of classics, tried to do something about the problem by filing suit against the University.
Then, in 1800 investigators from the Office of Civil Rights came to KU to conduct a four-week investigation, questioning coaches, athletes and athletic department officials about the KU program.
Two more years passed.
Finally, last week, the office sent KU a letter that outlined its findings. But the letter leaves some unanswered questions.
Taken at face value, the letter says that the KU athletic department complies with Title IX standards of equality—but then it says KU doesn't.
If the office's investigators had found that KU did not comply with Title IX, the University could have lost $27 million in federal financial aid. And apparently, the office decided to go easy on KU because it planned to correct the violations within a "reasonable period of time."
But it is still unnerving that the Office of Civil Rights has ruled that the University complies with Title IX simply because KU is close to complying.
The letter, which is dated March 31, said KU still treated female athletes unequally in a long list of areas including equipment and supplies, game and practice scheduling, travel, opportunity to receive coaching and tutoring, provision of locker rooms, practice rooms, housing and dining facilities, recruitment of student athletes, and publicity.
It seems as if the only items to which female athletes have equal access are water fountains and uniforms.
It seems that "close" now counts in horse shoes, hand grenades—and federal investigations.
U.S. must look beyond history books
Remember those junior high history books that always painted an image of Uncle Sam wearing a crispy-pressed red, white and blue suit?
You know, the ones telling us how the 20th century version of the United States was always ready to jump to the aid of those less fortunate to learn the name of World Peace and Human Dignity.
All the white, foreign countries welcomed
their embassy, being towered over Uncle
Sam with a appreciative and admiring
smile.
As naive preteens. we were conditioned to see
our country as one that stood for everything that was Right and Good.
Even during Vietnam, the world's view of the U.S. was somewhat cloudy to grade schools who still believed that George Washington never told a lie.
DAN BOWERS
We knew there was something wrong with being in a war that we had no practical interest in, but, somehow, just the fact that the U.S. was coming, we had records of another feather in Xanbee Dodin's car.
But in 1892, as the world's political intricacies become increasingly blurred, it is becoming more clear that not every country accepts the approach to world problems as the "right way."
As the number of world-wide anti-U.S. demonstrations increases, it's time to pull our
heads out of old history books and takes a look at how other nations feel about us. We may just find that not everyone looks to the U.S. as his guardian. He doesn't stand for all that is well and good in the world.
Take a look at El Salvador, and then think back a few years. Remember the 1980 Olympics? Probably not, since the United States didn't compete.
Take a look at El Salvador, and then think back a few years. Remember the 1980 Olympics?
Instead, we sat out that year in protest of the Soviet Union's support of the Afghan government in suppressing guerrilla uprisings. Now, pick up any newspaper and read the reason why we're involved in the sticky El Salvador situation.
Sure, the degrees of involvement are different, but fundamentally, there is little difference in the reasons for the two powers' presence in the country and in protecting the political stability of their neighbors.
Of course, we take the side that we're trying to protect the people's rights in that country, while supporting a pre-election government that suppressed those rights.
Can we afford to be blind to what the rest of the world thinks of our entanglement there? Why should they look at El Salvador any differently than we looked at Afghanistan two years ago?
The Dutch buried four of their journalists a month ago who were victims of El Salvador's government troops. You can bet that country is sympathetic to the U.S. stance in El Salvador.
When 300,000 protesters stage an anti-America rally in Bonn, Germany (a city of about 300,000), one gets the feeling that their attitudes toward the U.S. are less than cordial.
A glance across the Atlantic brings up another case in point.
The purpose of the rally was to protest the continual buildup of nuclear armaments in
western Europe by NATO. The European
greedy forces in the defense relics
greatly on the United States.
As a consequence, NATO's policy is essentially what the U.S. dictates, and as NATO continues to stockpile nuclear arms in Europe, the accuracy European points across the Atlantic to the U.S.
To make matters worse, the Soviets defy proposed a freeze on further nuclear buildups in
With little more than casual consideration,
Reagan turned his nose up at the proposal,
labeling it as a propaganda play. Meanwhile,
the Europeans start raiding their fingers again.
A propaganda trick, true, but it seems to have worked. Reagan has presented an image to the Europeans as a missile-happy war monger who is unsympathetic to their concerns.
Add America's backing out of the Soviet-European oil pipeline, and backing into Central America and Uncle Sam's shiny star-spangled armour becomes more and more tarnished.
It is becoming more evident that the United States does not have the catch-all solution all of the time.
And as our economic picture weakens, the U.S. status in the world political sphere is beginning to weaken, turning more attention to the military aspects of American foreign policy.
In this position, Washington justifies its every action with the same arguments we read in our book.
As the rest of the world becomes more sophisticated, many countries are simply refusing to swallow the entire package of America's foreign policy.
The serfs wailed. for then feared 'New Feudalism'
What we see might not be pleasant, but then,
the truth seldom is.
Maybe it's time we closed our old history books and tried to see ourselves as others uss.
HOW KING RONWALD AND DUKEHAIGWULF CHASED A THREAT IN THEWOOD, WHICH LED THEM TO A SPAWLINGLAKE, AND OF WHEN THE WRENGALD GATHS WISDOM HICAILCRE, AND HOW THEHOLY GRAIL APPEARED AS THE CONSERVATIVES SAT AT SUPPER, AND HOWTHEY ALL TOOK UP ON THEM THE QUESTOF FEDERALISM, AND OF THE SORROW OFCONSERVATIVES. AND OF THE SORROWING, WHICH LED TO THE DISBANDING OFTHE RUN-AROUND TABLE. Being the secondpart of a Triology of Tales adapted fromaccountsof ages long ago, including those of Sir ThomasMalory, and others.
One day, as Ronwald and his retainers were chasing a threat, they came to a pentagonal lake, wondrously huge, and his counsellors said. Lo! yonder is that sword that we spake of. Then was
SIR CLAY
Horton-upon-Otter
Ronwald wade of an arm cloaked in khaki samir, that held a fair sword in the shape of an interlacement.
Said his counsellors, a damosel with the gold eagle on her brow will come to you anon, and then speak ye fair to her that she will give you money for it. But he would be sent into Bonwale, and saluted birn, and he her again.
Rir Ronwald, king, said the damosel, if ye will give me a gift of billions when I ask it you, ye shall have this sword, which is Hichelare. By my gift you Rir Ronald, I will give you what gift you will ask
When they came to the sword that the hand held, Sir Rowlard took it up by the handles, and the arm and the hand went under the water; vea, verily like a Trident submarine.
Then Sir Ronwald looked on the sword, and liked it passible well. Whether liketh you better, said the wizard Kissingerberht, the sword or the sword of the knight, the sword of Ronald. Ye are more unwise, said Kissingerberht, for the scabbard is worth ten of the swords, for whiles ye have the scabbard upon you, ye shall never lose so blood, be ye never soaked, therefore we keep well the scabbard always with you.
For this counsel was Ronwald much wroth
Now after the jousting in November, the king and all estates went home unto what once, in golden days of yore that is, before the loud and angry crowd of the people. Camelot. And there so went they to supper, and
Soon thereafter Ronwald forgot a vow he had taken before Hibcalbine was granted him, and began pressing all the young vassais of the land to sweep fealty in knightly service.
with Kissingerberht, and banished him from the court. But as Kissingerberht departed from Ronwald, he warned him that the king should not allow his friends to all than all your AWSOs to have me back again.
been borne through the hall, supported on thin air by the Bill of Writes, to which nondurst lay hands, it departed suddenly, and the knights wist not where it became.
Then rose King Ronwald at the head of the banquet and interpreted the vision as meaning the reappearance of New Fewdalism in this world. Now feudalism had disappeared when Roosevelthred had unsurpelled the governments' hand and transferred their gold to the royal treasury.
Then anon they heard clacking and crying of thunderous IBM copiers, that them thought the place would all be borne away with inefficiency. In the midst of this tangle entered a shining red tape, verily a supple ribbon snipped and tattered, and more shorter by seven times than ever they took toorehand. And all they were alighted of the grace of the Jeffersonian Spirit.
But that bode well for the peasantry, as the barons and sheffalls of the time were very cruel, and were often to be used in war.
But the Holy Grail was that night covered with a veil of statistics, so there was no muller见鬼. There was only one
feasted for two months or more on lune duck, mallard or turkey, and every knight sat in the place of him beheld.
foresworn and under oath to disperse it well amongst their shires.
But when the Grail had appeared in its marvellous light, then began Romanal to behold the barons present, and saw them, by their seeming, farther than ever after. And so he placed full faith that they might be to work in the hearts of the barons, that they might be trusted to disperse the royal lively justly.
Then said Ronwald, I will make here avow,
that I shall labour in the quest of the Grail,
and never shall I return again unto the federal
funding till I have seen Prosperity more openly
 than I have seen it here. I shall hold me out a
twelfemonth and a day, or more if need be,
because Prosperity, it be said, is just around the
corner.
When the bureaucrats heard King Ronald's avow, they were greatly displeased, for they wist well he might not again-say his avows. Alas, said they to Ronald, we have nigh slain us with the avow and promise ye have made; for through you ye have bereft us the fairest of perks and the corruptest of officehead that ever were seen in any realm of the world.
And therewhe the tears fell in their eyes. They cleaned out their castle office drawers and threw out the fat stuff they had so long leapped upon, the mousselos who knew not short hand were in distress.
But the barons and governeurs were displeased, because some of their estates were scant. For the land was being ravaged yearly by great hordes of marauding currencies, and the money they brought under the New Feudalism they might not have fiefs enough to grant to the many motley serfs.
So thereupon right smartly did they gather at a meadow called Plentyndy, and forced Ronwald to sign the Medi Caida over to the national ad-hoc, and to accude to a list of assurances.
Yet even so, great qualms ran among the governeers, for it was the custom, back to a time to which, as it is said, memory does not extend, for kings to act as they pleased. Charters were greatly disregarded, and estimates of sums heavily relied on the air, and tax bargained down.
But Rowald and all his knights continued in the quest of the vision he had seen. The knights saddled their programs on the backs of the horse, which was one of the economic wilderness, in search of adventure.
Letters to the Editor
THUS ENDS THE SECOND BOOK OF THE DOMESDAYTRILLOGY.
Right to privacy no defense for abortion
Thomas Long recently wrote a letter to justify his pro-abortion stance. As do most pro-abortists. Long dealt ineffectively with the false issues of abortion—that is, the convenience of the woman involved versus the termination of a human life.
To the Editor:
Long also stated that the passage of the Human Life Amendment would result in "countless deaths." On the contrary, 1.5 million people would be saved each year. Maybe once this deadline of contraception isn't available, people will begin to take responsibility for their own actions.
He claimed that every woman should be able to do what she wants to her body as her "constitutional right to privacy." This process of empowerment has led the legalization of LBD, not to mention murder.
I fail to see where the controversy about abortion lies. Simple logic tells us that the fetus is a human being. Killing human beings is wrong; therefore, killing fetuses must be wrong
And of course, pre- abortionists love to argue that a woman has the right to decide whether or not to bear a child. Once she has conceived, she has already exercised that right.
Leslie Spaulding,
Derby freshman
also. Most importantly, a fetus does t'-ZAP-
become a human at Day 127, but at Day One.
Unbalanced budgeting
"The Tale of the Balanced Budget" or "Trust Your President.
To the Editor
"We must balance the budget . . . I know we can do it and I know we will."—candidate Ronald Reagan
"I believe the budget can be balanced by 1882 or 1983."—candidate Regent, Sept. 21, 1980.
"I have submitted an economic plan . . . and believe . . . that it can provide for a balanced budget by 1983, if not earlier"—candidate Reagan, Oct. 28, 1980.
"One of the things I have not retreated from is the 1983 target (of a balanced budget).—President Reagan, Feb. 3, 1981.
HUAGE, J. M. 1982; HUAGE, J. M. 1983."
PHASE II: Who said 1982 or 1983? We meant 1984.
"This administration is committed to a
balanced budget, and we will fight to the last blow to achieve it by 1844." - President Reagan,
PHASE III: We are not Jimmy Carter, and Don't You Forget It.
"Maybe you'll remember that we were told in the spring of 1980 (by President Carter) that the 1981 budget, the one we have now, would be balanced; Well, that budget, like so many in the past, hemorrhaged badly and wound up in a sea of red ink. I have pledged that we will not stand idly by and see the same thing happen again."—President Reagan, Sept. 24, 1981.
PHASE IV: You Misunderstood from the Start.
"I've never said anything but that it (the balanced budget) was a goal." -President Reagan, Nov. 6, 1981.
PHASE V: Maybe some other Time.
"I did not say come here to balance the budget—not at the expense of my tax-cutting program and my defense program. If we can't do it, we'll do it later." —President Reagan, Nov. 16, 1981.
Harry G. Shaffer,
Professor of Economics and
Soviet and East European Studies
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