Page 4 University Daily Kansan, March 22, 1982
Opinion
A salary solution?
During Spring Break, most KU students were getting tans, gaining weight and avoiding homework. But Kansas lawmakers were hard at work.
Saturday, for example, the state Senate took a step toward solving KU's faculty salary problems when it passed an amendment that would create a $1.5 million enrichment fund to boost faculty salaries.
The amendment is aimed at increasing the salaries of science and engineering professors who are being enticed into private industry by high salary offers.
The amendment was part of a bill to provide $590 million for the state's university system in the next fiscal year. The bill also includes a 7.5 percent salary increase for unclassified faculty members. (Incidentally, it also includes an average
8. 75 percent salary increase for student hourly employees.
Of course, the bill is not perfect. It is not as generous as most KU faculty members wanted it to be. It doesn't give faculty the 8.75 percent salary increase that Sen. Jane Eldredge fought for, or even the 8.4 percent increase Gov. Carlin asked for.
And the bill is not final; its fight in the house has just begun.
But the bill and its enrichment amendment are a step in the right direction. The amendment narrowly passed last Saturday, by a 20-18 vote. But its passage shows that at least a few legislators are willing to do more than pay lip service to our need to retain ton-notch faculty members.
It shows that legislators are willing to do something to slow the exodus of faculty to private industry—something other than wave goodbye.
Jazz festival first in nation to spotlight female musicians
Visitors were jokingly asked to sign in on the dust that covered an end table, one of the few that wasn't stacked with papers. And the phone continued to ring.
Microphone stands and sound equipment were stacked by the front door. To the right was an upright piano, covered with papers and a few jazz albums. The rest of the living room was cluttered with boxes, magazines, albums and more albums.
This was the heart of the Women's Jazz Festival, an event that celebrates the accomplishments of female musicians. It is rapidly becoming one of the most festivals in the country, and possibly the world.
The Women's Jazz Festival, in Kansas City,
Kan., is not based in a plush office. It is run from
the home of Carol Corner, one of the directors. Corner and Diane Gregg, the other director, were making last minute arrangements—including answering the phone, taking ticket orders, answering the phone, taking ticket orders.
On Wednesday, the Fifth Annual Women's Jazz Festival will begin. There will be five days of clinics, jam sessions, lectures and concerts. Kansas City will come alive with jazz.
Assisted by a 48-member board, Comer and Gregg have nurtured the festival. Comer is the musician-pianist in the group Calico. Gregg is the fan-manager of Calico and former host of a few other events. Together they combine their insight to create a festival that provides the best for both musicians and fans.
"Carol and I were attending the Wichita Jazz Festival," said Gregg. "On the way back, we were talking about how sad it was that there were no women. Carol said, 'I've got a radical idea. Why don't we have a women's jazz festival?'
"By the time we got back to Kansas City, we had the beginnings."
The first festival in 1978 started to be a one-day affair, with a single Sunday concert. That chang-ing period of time was the last for the festival.
"We started getting letters from people in California saying they were coming to Kansas for this festival and they hoped there were more things than the one concert," Comer said. "We thought if people were coming in from all over the country, why not add things? The natural thing was to add jam sessions and clinics. Suddenly, it became three days long."
The phone rang and Coner answered it. It was
a member of Tintomar, a Swedish group that
hosts the festival, calling to check about
work permits.
"We have to go through all this red tape," Corner said. "We have to prove to immigration that they should come here, since they are replacing Americans who could be working.
"Is it seven hours ahead, or later?" she asked Gregg.
"Later. As you go east it gets later."
"Later. As you go east it gets later.
"You're right. That's confusing."
"You're right. That's confusing."
Funding was scarcce the first year. There were just two sponsors, Hallmark Cards, Inc. and the Kansas City Star. Buoyed by the first year's success and good national and international press, the 1979 festival received more money. It got a grant from the National Endowment for the
"We had never written a grant before," Comer said.
"Like naive idiots, we asked for $10,000 and got it." Green said
"It was like Christmas. People told us it had never been done before."
The jazz festival is different from most others because the events do not conflict with each other. Other festivals, most notable the Kool Festival and Gillespie's schedule, simulateually, and at scattered locations.
The Women's Jazz Festival events are scheduled sequentially. And they all will be within a 15-minute drive of Crowden Center. Most events are free, and several are unique to the festival.
Jam sessions are tailored to all levels of musicians. Leonard Feather, perhaps the most noted jazz authority in the country, will host a lecture and film series. Pre-school children from Kansas City's Head Start program will be a part of a "Fun With Jazz" session.
Men are not excluded because women are spotlighted. Men are active in all parts of the festival, from membership on the board to participating in the festival to performing in many of the groups.
"We want to teach them jazz music," Gregg said. "We are building our future audience."
The purpose of the festival is not to highlight one gender at the expense of the other, but to provide an atmosphere in which gender no longer matters.
It is still common for most female jazz musicians to be vocalists or *p*'s. But women who play the saxophone, drums or trombone are still regarded as "unladylike."
The festival treis to change this attitude. Comer and Gregg would eventually like to rename it the Kansas City Jazz Festival. No men, no women—just jazz.
"We get the strong feminists who see the word 'women's' in the title," Grogs said. "Then we get it as well."
"They all mingle for the week and discover that the other group is so bad. after all."
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Women forget their place in House
By Norma Acevedo Heine and Jorge Heine
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WASHINGTON—In not choosing to seek re-election in November, Shirley Chisclim, who has served since 1968, has become the latest among a half-dozen important women to leave the House in the last six years. For the women's movement, this pattern is disturbing.
It could well be argued that 14 years in the House is more than enough for anybody, and some people maintain that a limit should be set to ensure that there are enough representatives should be allowed to serve.
However desirable that restriction may be, the fact remains that in the overwhelmingly male House—there are only 19 women, 4 percent of the membership—the longer one's around, the more cloued one has. Too many important women have been unwilling to hold on to their House seats long enough to be able to move up through the power structure.
Since 1976, some of America's most intelligent and forceful female politicians have given up safe seats to run for other offices or to do other things. Although their names remain well-known, none holds a position that even the president has the national visibility of a member of Congress.
Patsy Mink gave up her Hawaiian congressional seat to run for the Senate. She lost the Democratic primary, later was president of Americans for Democratic Action, served in Jimmy Carter's State Department and served at Women of USA, a national organization.
In the same year, Bella Abzug gave up her
New York City seat to run for the Senate. After losing the Democratic primary to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, she unsuccessfully ran for governor of New Jersey. Now, Abzug is president of Woman USA.
Also in 1976, Barbara Jordan of Texas did not run for re-election and has been teaching at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas ever since. She was mentioned for several positions in the Carter administration, but nothing came of it.
In 1978, Yvonne Braithwaite Burke left her Southern California seat to seek the position of state attorney general, although most polls predicted that all odds favored a "law-and-order" Republican, George Dukejmani. The district is now in office legal practice
In 1890, Elizabeth Holtman, one of the House's most intelligent, hardworking members, gave up her New York seat to run for the Senate. She won the Democratic nomination and was appointed to Alphonse D'Amato in the general election. Holtmann is now a Brooklyn district attorney.
Each of these women may have had good reasons for choosing to leave the House. Moreover, Abzug and Holtzman lost by such small margins that, were it not for the chronic inability of New York orlibers to get their act together, the state might have had two female senators.
Our point, however, is not that female representatives should not run for higher office; obviously, they should if they think they have a reasonably good shot at it. What they shouldn't do is jump at the first opportunity to leave the House.
At a time when many of the achievements of the women's movement are under attack from the new right, when the fight to approve the equal Rights Amendment has entered its final and decisive stage, when the feminization of poverty is being accelerated by drastic cuts in spending, women need leaders to help turn the tide against it. The largest minority. Theirsis is a national struggle, and an important part of it is being waged in the Congress.
Why did these women leave the House? Given their sometimes feisty personalities, an explanation that they are not tough enough for its hard-ball politics is difficult to accept. Is it that female politicians are trying to do too much too soon? Is it the cliby atmosphere of the House that puts them off? The grinding committee work?
Whatever the reason, the women's movement can ill afford to lose some of the best of its congressional leaders because House work is considered dull or uninspiring.
A pattern seems to be emerging: women now serve an average of three and one-half terms—considerably lower than the average for the House as a whole—and after three of four terms, many seem tempted to give up and move on to something else. They end up in positions of considerably less power and influence.
Is this the best way to go about furthering
many questions?
Women's rights?
(Norma Akevede Heine is a vice president of Equity Research Corp., a non-profit organization. Jorge Heine is a research associate at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.)
Letters to the Editor
History repeats itself. Any historian will agree with that. Consider, for example, two U.S. Supreme Court decisions more than 100 years apart: the 1875 Dred Scott decision, which legalized slavery, and the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion—both were wrong. Notice, if you will, the similarity between the pro-slavery and pro-abortion arguments.
In 1857, it was said that a man's property was his private concern, and no one else should interfere. Today, we are told that a woman's property is private concern, and no one else should interfere there, either.
Abortion decision echoes historic injustice
If, in 1857, you thought that slavery was wrong, then you were told, "Don't own one, but don't force your morality on anyone else." Probortion groups say that if you think abortion is wrong, don't have one, but don't force your morality on anyone else.
To the Editor:
On July 19, 1858, Stephen Douglas declared that slavery preserved "not only the purity of the blood, but the purity of the government from any mixture of amalgamation with inferior races." The National Abortion Rights Action League has stated, "Deformed births are shattering to the mother, child, family and society. Only legal abortion can prevent them."
It was said that slavery prevented the slave from the cruelties of the world. This same logic claims that abortion protects the unborn from being unwanted, and thus stops child abuse.
However, this is perhaps the most telling argument: The 1857 decision stated, in essence, that although the slave was biologically human, it was not a person, and therefore had no legal rights. And in the same manner, the 1973 decision stated, in essence, that although be the end of the second month of its existence, the unborn was biologically completely formed, it was not a person, and therefore had no legal rights.
The Dred Scott decision was a based on a person's skin color. Roe vs. Wade was based on a person's living environment, for as long as a child is in the womb, he can be killed.
These pro-abortion arguments are as false and hallow as were the pro-alcohol. Therefore, let us put them aside, and stop murdering more than one million children each year. Let us continue to hope, work and pray that history will once again be preserved and that abortion, like slavery, will be abolished.
If he is not a human being, what kind of being is he?
From the Right to Life Crusade Inc. I quote:
"I wish to be a part of what has happened."
If he is not a child, why is he sucking his thumb?
If he is not a living, human child why is it legal to kill him?
Russ Munyan,
Overland Park junior
Joyce not so great
To the Editor:
I am writing in response to Todd J. Newman's alarming letter to the editor that was printed in the Feb. 12. University Daily Kansan. In his letter, Newman, a Topaeker freshman, vocalized that he attended at the Kanam for not having acknowledged the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Joyce.
Newman is truly dismayed, and so am I because of his preposterous and psychologically disturbing notion that Joyce's "Finegane" Wake" and "Ulysses" have used likewise been acknowledged and lauded by the Kansan as though they were the utmost literary works.
I made an attempt to read James Joyce's "Ulysses" a few weeks ago because it has been placed upon my literature professor's "required course readings" lists. Furthermore, I might have to use another language (administration or whoever) required that I take this literature course for my major.
I chose the words "I made an attempt to read
James Joyce's 'Ulysses' because it truly was an attempt. A bleak attempt. A failure. I could not read past page 99 of the 'snootgreen' vocabulary and the slothy imagers that James Joyce presented in 'Ulysses' because of its despicable qualities and perverse sexual expression.
My point is this: It seems as though I am obliged to read this book—commanded to read "Ulysses" by advisors, chairmen and other 'superiors' within the perspectives of my major. Now I am being told by a Topena freshman that the Kanans is ignorant because it failed to recognize the "incredible" importance of Joyce's contribution to literature.
I do not find enjoyment in reading "Ulysses." I neither do I find beauty or truth—things that arouse my curiosity, acknowledgment and aspiration to learn. Yes, Todd J. Newman, I am dismayed. I am dismayed that because you are beaten taken for a ride on a wooden rookie horse.
Don't you think it is about time you gathered real armor and mounted a real horse? Somewhere along the line you have been conditioned into believing that James Joyce's literature is among the greatest in the world. I confirm the fact that there are numerous other people in the world who would disagree with you. I am exercising my right to say, "I disagree."
Consequently, I am assounding in defense of the University Daily Kansan because I do not feel that it has "haunted ignorance" by failing to remember the 100th anniversary of Jamen Joyce's birth.
You, on the other hand, have simply re-firmed your personal fervor and faith in the controversial James Joyce, whose works have been banned at one time because of their sexual perversity and malicious literary attack on the imagination of men and women. James Joyce's "Ulysses" may have passed the Supreme Court "secision, but it will never pass me.
Christopher Drazic Ellisworth, senior