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February 12,1979
Athletics need merger
Six of the Big Eight universities have seen the necessity and the advantages of a merger of their men's and women's athletics departments. The University of Kansas is not one of them.
Under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to comply with the provisions of Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, universities all over the United States have found that an openly developed merger is a viable means of complying with Title IX guidelines.
Title IX states that, "equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes" must be provided. An institution risks losing federal grants if it does not adhere to those provisions.
IN MANHATTAN, just 90 miles away, Kansas State University—whose former athletic arrangement resembled KU's–has developed a merged athletic program that works successfully.
Judy Akers, women's basketball coach and former women's athletics director at K-State, says the program there works because the misunderstandings created by separate departments have greatly decreased.
"There's only one way to live in this
world," Akers said, "and that's together.
INDEED, KU is faced with the same Title IX pressures, but the men's athletics department, women's athletics department, and the KU administration have not yet learned that they will have to live and work together—and soon.
A proposal has been developed in close meetings between Bob Marcum, men's athletics director; Marian Washington, women's athletic director; and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor. The proposal has been forwarded to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, but the exact contents of the proposal, as well as its eventual meaning to the women's department, are still unknown.
THAT SHOULD cause some worry in both the women's and the men's athletics departments, for secrecy and intentional vagueness can only hurt both departments and the athletes they serve.
The time has come for Marcum, Washington and Shankel to conduct open and above-board meetings in which all aspects of the athletics merger are explained honestly.
The time has come for them to learn that they must live together.
The United Farm Workers of America, under the charismatic leadership of Cesar Chavez, have finally been able to make their dreams a reality by achieving a subsistent standard of living.
But this year finds the UFW faced with an important challenge to that progress, and one that will test the strength of the union. The leaders of the UFW say they want to do more for the lettuce pickers than bring them to the lowest subsistence level.
Farm wage at poverty level too long
They say they want to bring their members to a standard of living that is considered commonplace in many other occupations. But the farm workers have a long way to go, and several legal cases—including the Supreme Court case—may block their route.
U. S. Department of Agriculture studies show that farm workers pay remain low, despite recent gains. In 1977, the latest year for which figures have been compiled, the average hourly wage from both farm and non-farm income sources. The estimated poverty level for 1977 for a 4-member farm family was $5.20. And even worse is the fact that migrant farm workers, a classification that includes farmers, a classification that includes even less than the $9.97 a year feature.
IN CALIFORNIA, some 3,000 UFW members are refusing to pick lettuce on eight large farms. And pickers on about 20 wheat fields have been horizorted to strike. What are they striking for?
They are striking because they think that pay of 57 cents for every box of 24 heads of lettuce they pick is too little. They are asking for 68 cents a box, but their request has been flatly refused by the California growers.
The union also would like to increase the hourly wage for truck drivers and other hourly employees from $7.75 to $2.58. But the growers have answered with a resounding "no" to that demand, citing the farmer's 7 percent wage and price guidelines.
But in using those guidelines, the growers overlook the fact that they were suggested
To find players, coaches or fans at athletic events acting with sportsmanship is a challenge. The sportman has been the new vogue of behavior that has replaced sportsmanship; Outstunts of anger and frustration by players and fans and that lead to social conflict.
The definition of a sportsman, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is "one who participates in sports and one who does so with acceptance and accepts victory or defeat graciously."
Recently, three separate incidents at college basketball games, all in the same week, exemplify the turbulent behavior now commonplace at athletic events.
Two basketball players, after being harassed verbally throughout the game, charged into the crowd near the end of a game against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla.
They are a bunch of babies. We beat
ONE OF the Nebraska players had fouled out of the game with 21 seconds left and his team trailing. The Oklahoma State fans bid the playerade in the usual sarcastic fashion and threw ice and cups at the Nebraska bench. Eventually, punches were exchanged between the player and a heckler who accidentally added a challenge to enter the crowd to fight.
them and they couldn't take it," the fan said.
Ale Lemons and Eddie Sutton, basketball coaches at Texas and Arkansas, respectively, confronted each other during a game where the two teams exchanged verbal threats after Sutton had accused a Texas player of playing dirty. Arkansas won the game and afterward Lemons said that if Sutton confronted a Texas player again, he would, "whip his ball" (3) but still hit the
AND MOSIUREI coach Norm Stewart accused Oklahoma head basketball coach Dave Bliss of instigating a sign barrage against him. He also attempted to gain revenge for a loss earlier this year at Missouri. In that loss, Bliss he thought that the officiating, which was provided by high school officials because but weather delayed the regular officiating.
In the constant quest for success, coaches and players too often lose control of their equipment.
However, coaches must not sidestep their
responsibility to maintain team behavior that is deserving of a no matter how hard it is.
Larosew, fans should add to potential conflict by heaping verbal or physical abuse
FAN IS A short word for fanatic. A fanatic is one possessed by irrational zeal. Unfortunately, this zeal sometimes helps to undermine the cynic cuffs between onboarding teams or coaches.
Too often, the fans are disappointed in their teams performance and boo them uncerterely. The idea that there is a difference in the idea from losing is, obviously not widely held.
Joe Hall, head coach of last year's national college basketball champion, Kentucky, said that although his team was well-funded, it didn't have as much fun as he was having now.
Kentucky already has lost more games this year than last. Hall obviously has found that the pressure to win can mean the loss of mind and the pure joy of playing a game.
Athletics, unfortunately, have become a business, and the pressure to win is tremendous. The recent outbreaks of violence are ample proof of that. However, the people in fandom fans would do well to handle their emotion and keep sporting events in perspective.
Candidate's omission an oversight
To the editor:
Hillel, the campus organization for Jewish students, would like to clarify some points of information which Mark Hazirgilz, can provide. He was made, on Feb. 11 in his letter to the editor
I do not deny that it was an oversight on my part to exclude Hazelrigg from Hiliel's ad, which invited the candidates for student body president to speak at a brunch. I did not wish to be in trouble with my part, Hazelrigb's name was not included in the list. For this oversight, I apologize.
Mark stated in his letter that Hillel felt his position as a candidate was inferior to other contenders. Hillel would like to say that Hazeirley is a serious candidate.
When Mark called me about why he was omitted from the list of candidates, I agreed
that I was in error in excluding his name and that he should be given an equal opportunity.
Hazreligg took advantage of this opportunity, to which he was entitled, and did represent himself at the Hilli brunch along with the other candidates. Hilli was happy to provide a forum for all the candidates to speak.
Hillel's intention was to provide an event that allowed the students of this University to get better acquainted with the candidates.
Joey Weinstein Philadelphia senior
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profits for the growers. The ability of the UFW to maintain the pay increases it has already attained—and to continue to make more progress—depends on the ability of the people in the decision-making positions to realize the cruel inequality of such laws.
Nine of those people are the justices of the Supreme Court. The way in which thousands of farm laborers live may be decided by the justices of the Supreme Court handles the Arizona case.
If it decides to overturn the lower court's ruling against the Arizona law, it will seriously hurt the ability of the UFW to continue its progress.
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And it also will seriously hurt the ability of those farm laborers to earn a decent living in an occupation that has, for too long, been overburdened with much more than a subsistent existence.
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But without such secondary boycotts, the UFW would not have had the clout to increase the farm laborers' wages as they sold potatoes. The boycotty of grapes and lettuce in the early 70s.
Every one of those restrictions works against the laborer and in favor of increased
Arizona has such a law, and although the law was declared unconstitutional by a lower court, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to take up the case. The Arizona law forbids strikes and "secondary boycots" of stores that do not farm products such as grapes and lettuce.
The sponsoring agency is the Lawrence Inter-Lutheran Council, which is composed of representatives from University, Good Samaritan and Lutheran churches. Sponsorship was arranged through the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a national agency. Other churches have similar national agencies which they may sponsor a *z* - refugee family.
Lutherans sponsor Vietnamese family
As coordinator of the resettlement of the Nguyen Tiet Quay family in Lawrence (Feb. 6 University Dalman Kansan), I would like to follow the following comments to the news story.
To the editor:
Mary Ernst
THE ARIZONA law also allows growers to call for union elections during the off-season, and says that only those who have voted in the primary will participate in the decision to join a union.
The teen-age Vietnamese interpreter mentioned in the article is Ahn Thu Nguyen, who came here in 1975 with her family through our sponsorship.
Her family is contributing to our present resettlement efforts and we are grateful to them and to the other Vietnamese settled here who have offered their help.
only for those workers earning more than $4 an hour.
INDEED, THE California lettuce pickers and other underpaid farm workers have lived near or below the poverty level for too long. Yet all too often their requests for a decent standard of living have been denied by the powerful growers.
And the farm laborers find themselves faced not only with low wages, but also with laws that prevent them doing anything about it.
We know that other groups in Lawrence have sponsored Vietnamese refugees and immigrants.
Harriet Shaffer
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"I'm not a jointer," Lewis said. "I don't think I am a radical, I'm not a member of the John Birch Society or the Communist Party. I think I somewhere in between. I've given it all to the United States Air Force and the American Agriculture Movement. I love my God. I love my country. I love my family. Those are the three institutions that made me the first person to destroy this country, you'd destroy our faith in God, in the family and in our country."
Disgruntled farmers vilify commission
AUSTIN, Tex.—One Tuesday night last fall, the farmers of Panhandle, Texas, and their wives gathered at Panhandle High School. They looked over a table full of pamphlets and then filed into the auditorium. Soon George Eller, a farmer, introduced the students to the concept, modestly acknowledged the applause and beast to talk, calmly and convincingly.
By NICHOLAS LEMANN N.Y. Times Feature
He told how the commission's founder, David Rockefeller, handpicked Jimmy Carter for the presidency; how Carter returned the favor by appointing 18 commission members to high government positions; how the commission controls most of the major corporations, banks, universities, newspapers, notably the New York Times.
HE TOOK A sip of水. "Now let's talk about the Trilateral Commission."
For the next two hours, Lewis, with an air of infinite reasonableness, laid out evidence that a better understanding of businessmen, politicians, bankers and academicians, its goal the destruction of this country and its way of life, its nerve and spirit, is a fundamental study organization based in New York.
He laid the blame on the commission for ils as broad as the growing number of illegitimate births, and as narrow as the falling prices of Pandhale farm products.
In the past few years wheat prices have fallen precipitously from a very comfortable level, for no apparent reason. If your life seems to be controlled, to your detriment, by forces you can't see or influence, it's a small step to begin thinking that those forces are operating in other than completely random fashion. Consequently, farmers are likely unable to feelings of dispossession, and wheat farmers feel pretty dispossessed right now. What J.C. Lewis has to say gives substance to what is in their hearts.
THE GALLERY was packed with movement members who believed that the bill was certain to pass, and when it didn't they began to suspect that, as Lewis said that in Pennsylvania, he had been reprimanded by a hundred congressmen change their votes in three or four hours.
TALK LIKE this has been heard regularly for the past couple of years on the East and West Coast, but only recently has the alpine population become an issue in places like Punahulu.
Much of the credit must go to Lewis, a farmer and retired Air Force officer who rides up and down America's midsection through a magnificent gospel in five or six speeches a week.
It is possible to pinpoint the exact moment when the movement became receptive to conspiracy theories: April 12, 1978, the day the House voted down a farm bill that included a provision guaranteeing the move to buy farms. In reality, a form of government price-setting.
The commission, Lewis soon concluded,
was that reason.
Lewis has had the advantage of a readymade audience: the membership of the American Agriculture Movement, the militant farmers' organization that was in the news last year for its strike and tractorcade to Washington.
THE TRIALATOR Commission itself, to the naked eye, hardly seems to merit all this attention. A responsible organization in both the good and bad senses of the word, it doesn't appear to do much but hold concord and publish dull but worthy studies.
Of course, there was already extant quite a body of conspiracy literature on the Triarist Commission for the movement to draw on, along with the much larger body of literature on the Rockefeller family and the Clinton administration, has been accumulation for the past 50 years.
NATURALLY, the members of the commission will respect each other, and look to their fellow members for help and advice. The Rotary Club exerts a tremendous influence on a small town without its members explicitly plotting to seize control, manipulate, or exert power an exponent in world affairs.
On the table outside the auditorium was a sampling of conspiracy writing. In it could be found not only references to the commission and the Rockefellers, but also $^4$ such
But a word should be said for the farmers' position. Because organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union and membership in them a sign of acceptance and respect, they will always exercise a powerful alliance on successful campaigns. In union of Union Carbide, you are a statement too.
hoary targets of American conspiratorialism in the Masons and the Irish Illuminati.
Nicholas Lemman is associate editor of
Monthly, from which this article was
published.
Cartoon added to editorial page
Beginning today the Kanas will offer readers of the editorial page something a little different.
It's called State U., a cartoon strip that will be a regular feature.
State U. is the product of Terry Alaa, a doctoral student at KU. The cartoon will feature a cast of thousands, including continuing professional students.
Chancellor Grovel, University Attorney Whitewash and scores of others.
Asla says the strip is based on his "15 years of experience as a professional student and professor." That experience includes a stint as a graphic designer and as a cartoonist for the student newspaper at the University of Portland.
So break out your pennants and adjust your beanies. Welcome to State U.
STATE U. BY T.M. ASLA