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OCTOBER 19,1978
The way you think
If you are a University of Kansas student, you now officially favor decriminalization of marijuana—although no one ever bothered to ask you whether you really do.
You also now favor minimum wages for student workers, a law allowing tenants to be reimbursed for repairs on rented property, voter registration by mail and increases in funding for state scholarships.
Having your mind made up for you on these issues is what you're getting for your share of KU's $2,500 provisional membership in Associated Students of Kansas, the statewide student lobby.
ASK WILL be venturing forth during the coming 1979 legislative session to seek its five goals in the name of students. Now that KU has joined ASK, included in the ASK pitch to legislators will be a statement of official support from KU students.
Individual KU students' influence on what goals KU will seek came only in a roundabout fashion. True, the KU Student Senate overwhelmingly approved KU's membership in ASK last
month. And the KU delegation to the ASK legislative assembly this past weekend supposedly voted in concurrence with the opinion of KU students.
But students were not asked by their own delegation what they wanted from ASK or from the Legislature. All other member schools, except Fort Hays State University, had canvassed their student bodies before the legislative assembly.
So KU got its votes, but KU students lost their voice.
SOME OF ASK's goals are laudable, but the student body did not get the influence in even its own legislative assembly that is due for a $2,500 membership fee. This could be, unfortunately, just the first example of individual student opinions' being submerged in the interest of a unified ASK front.
KU's membership in ASK for the coming year is set. Students, however, should carefully watch how their names and money are being used in the statehouse before they support full membership in ASK next year—this time for $10,000.
Volunteer army needed despite fraud
The Marine Corps is looking for a few good men, but apparently if they can't find them they will have to take them.
That point was made clear by testimony produced during the last few weeks before a Senate Armed Services subcommittee. the investigation was launched by subcommittee chairman Sam Dunn, D-Ga. The investigation was completed in Cleveland, Ohio surfaced last August. At Nnum's request the investigation was expanded to a nationwide inquiry.
What the investigators found was enough to make any Marine veteran blanch.
The investigators found enlistees who didn't even exist. They found recruiters coaching potential recruits on the answers to a new questionnaire. Examination. They found recruiters using high school stationary to forge letters confirming that the potential recruit had graduated. They found that recruiters are often taken with police records to frightenly enlist.
AND THAT WASN'T even the worst of it.
The investigators uncovered one instance in which Marine recruiters had used a small screwdriver to unjunker needle marks, then applied some medicine to the rest the hide until the recruit completed his entrance physical. He passed, and his burrow withdrawn began while he held up the screwdriver.
Another favored trick of recruiters was to falsify checks for criminal records by asking them to name the person when telephone police. If the recruiter was challenged later, after he claimed the recruit had no record, he could attribute the mistake to a typographical error.
Last year it was discovered that fraudulent birth certificates and high school documents had been used by New York inmigrants in the 2013 illegal Pamanian immigrants.
Rhodesia will find victory among its ashes and dead
By GARFIELD TODD N. V. Times Features
N. Y. Times Features
NEW YORK, in 1965, with the support of 80 percent of his
250,000 white citizens. Im Samantha Rhodesia an independent
president of South Africa.
Over the years, Smith unsuccessfully negotiated with Great Britain in attempts to legalize his position because sanctions made development almost impossible. Great Britain continued to demand political progress for blacks as a foundation for a settlement and Smith boasted of "no majority rule in my lifetime." All negotiations failed.
In 1976, Henry Kissinger flew in and Smith agreed to accept majority rule within two years. The conference which followed at the African National Union was dominated by African National Union, was deposed from his leadership of the militant ZANU and the significant leaders became Bishop Muzorewa with a large followup within Rhodesia, and Joshua Nkomo and Robert Kabuto remained in the Patriotic Front and sup-
Some months earlier the United States and Great Britain had published the "Anglo-American proposal" aimed at persuading all parties to negotiate. A United Nations force was to hold the ring while a national army, in which guerrillas would be included, was to be established. Eventually an election on a universal franchise was to be conducted.
STIHLEO, ONCE regarded by whites as public enemy No. 1, applied to Smith to return to Rhodesia. He renounced the use of violence and in the negotiations to achieve an internal settlement, was the key figure in persuading the庙治 to agree to allow the whites to dominate government for another 10 years by a blocking mechanism of 28 white seats which would govern a restrictive
SMITH REJECTED the plan, but recognized that he had to find a viable alternative because the country was sliding to disaster. Thirteen thousand people had been killed and our small country was spending $1 million a day on the war.
Smith had an army of 6,000 blacks and 2,000 whites, half of whom were foreigners. By taking every white man up to the age of 50 out of his employment for some months of each year, a territorial force of 35,000 was maintained at but great cost to the economy. The guerrillas were taking over the rural areas and the army was being withdrawn to protect the white towns.
Under such circumstances Smith had either to accept the Anglo-American terms or find an alternative. He chose to work with his mother-in-law, Clara Chaura. Smith had the Bishop, Bishop Muzorewa had wide support among the people and Sibilehe was clever and committed to help
ON MARCH 3. the internal agreement was signed. It gave
Smith his blocking mechanism of 28 white seats, 28 percent representation for less than 4 percent of the people. White dominance of the police, the army, and the civil service was assured for at least 10 years under its provisions.
Sithole and Muzorewa convinced Smith that they had the backing of 80 percent of the blacks and that they actually controlled the guerrillas and could stop the war as soon as an interim government was set up.
IN FACT the people continued to maintain the guerrillas and each month since March 3 the war has escalated. The internal agreement has failed and Smith visited America to make a last call. "The only way we can keep them from going may remain in the hands of whites for at least another 10 years."
Inside Rhodesia, Smith has destroyed every human right and the people suffer without the protection of law. The security forces have been protected against legal action by an indemnity act. For 13 years we have lived under a state of emergency.
The new Smith-Sibleh-Muzarewa government maintains and extends all the repressive policies of the Rhodesian Front Party.
JUST BEFORE SMITH and the other members of his government left Rhodesia they banned the Zimbabwe Times, the only black daily newspaper. The order was signed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa. If the west continues to do only its usual wordy nothing, the costs of Rhodesia will have to pay the appalling costs of a guerrilla war continuing to an eventual victory among the ashes and the dead. If comfort and support now be required in interim government the suffering of the people will be prolonged.
If the United States is tempted to participate in appeasement, the reality will be a confrontation with the majority of the people involved.
PERHAPS AFRICA does not see the issues clearly, but to the people of black Africa, and to the Organization of African Unity, the government of Smith, Sithole and Muzowea is simply the Smith government plus three black ministers who continue
The governments of America and Great Britain must now use their strength to bring all parties to the conference table. The war must be stopped and the 90,000 adult whites of Rhodesia must not be removed from the country or a government of the people. Let the West now recognize the truth.
If in 1965 Smith had been the leader of 250,000 blacks, rebelling against Great Britain to insure the continuation of repression of 6,000,000 whites, America and Great Britain, the champions of a struggle for the reissue the issue—not over a period of 13 tragedy years—but in a month.
Garfield Todd is a former prime minister of Rhodesia who is here on a visit.
John
WHILE THE recruiting fraud plays havoc with Marine standards and paperwork, two recent decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals are making matters even worse for the Coronet.
Whitesides
Those decisions in two recruiting fraud cases, referred to jointly as the "Callow-Russo" cases, said that once recruiting fraud was detected, they would lose all jurisdiction to discipline those recruits. In effect, until they are discharged from the service, which usually takes some time to process, they are free to run wild or any fear of discipline from the corps.
In handing down its decision the court maintained that the cases would "have the salutary effect of encouraging recruitors to observe applicable recruiting regulations while also assisting the armed forces in combating insults and eliminate fraudulent recruitment practices."
Except it hasn't carried out that way.
INSTEAD, THE decision has rendered a
Except it hasn't turned out that way.
new type of Marine, one that is "hell on wheels" as one Marine Corps attorney explains. If discharged they are free to choose any possible discharge once they are discharged they usually receive a veteran benefits. Since January 1979 all Marines have left the corps in that fashion.
Given the difficulty created by the Marines, Marine recruiting, one would think that the Marines would be doing everything possible to see it stop. But that hasn't been the case.
"Rather than get to the heart of the problem, the Corps has seemed far more interested in punishing and threatening those Marines who have had the courage to come forward and blow the whistle," said Seth Leppard, a spokesman who has been taking part in the investigations.
INDEED, ONE former Marine recruiter was excused from testifying before the subcommittee because the Marines had been prosecution on the basis of his testimony.
demand on the Marines to produce 50,000 recruits a year creates a pressure on recruiters to find warm bodies, no matter what it might entail.
The Marines' unwillingness to investigate and put an end to the recruiting fraud is hard to understand unless they plan to use the fraud as an argument against an all-volunteer military system. Already Nunn and others have questioned whether the
But the evidence does not point to that. Though all branches of the service have not been happy with the quality of their recruits under the all-volunteer system, they have not being an overwhelming amount of difficulty producing the needed numbers.
IN FACT, ONE of the Marines testifying before the Senate subcommittee said his office in Cleveland had no trouble meeting its quotas, but that the office commander still applied constant pressure for more recruits.
"It's like the old saying 'if you've got a good horse, work him to death,' the other way around."
Metzzenbaum has said that he believes the Marine Corps is carrying out a nationwide strike to dismantle the sidinger the damage the scandal is inflicting on the corps, the Marines should be willing to sacrifice.
But, more importantly, the public should not be comed into believing that the scandal is proof that an all-volunteer military system will not work. The revelations of fraud are an indictment of the Marine Corps, not the volunteer system.
Women still face discrimination; ERA needed to guarantee rights
To the editor:
Cliff Ratner Jr.
Wichita sophomore
UNIVERSITY DAILY letters KANSAN
Regarding your two signed columns on the Equal Rights Amendment: the Senate did not "capitulate to pressure politics" as Alm stated, but rather exercised its right to set the limit on ratification of amendments. If the Senate did not amendments are given seven years. Alm also stated that the legal machinery exists for women's rights. If this is so, then why an amendment? The answer is obvious—because the "machinery" doesn't exist. If it did exist, women would not receive apples because the salary men receive for the same job.
If the discrimination against women is so "inherently suspect" as Alm says it is, then why does it still exist? Because it isn't so or it would be nonexistent in our society.
One hundred years after the Civil War amendments were passed, the 13th, 14th and 15th, blacks are still being persecuted, along with every non-WASP ethnic group in this country.
The consensus that Alm speaks of will not occur so long as women are treated as second class citizens by the law, without an extension to protect their rights, as other groups have.
The increasing migration of women into the labor force is a prime example of the benefits that a high level of conscience if not the backbone, then at least the spinal cord of our economy. It is imperative that the amendment be ratified, as it will protect the rights of the majority.
Whitesides is correct in saying that the ERA, if enacted, would not be at the whim of the Supreme Court, which can and does change its mind on occasion.
Note that there is no discussion or treatment of the issues involved in ERA. Instead, the attack is made on the ugliest of personal grounds—the deliberate enticement of males and the simultaneous condemnation of them for being enriched. This is, of course, a tactic similar to those used by the United Nations (unsex题材, homosexual marriages, etc). Apparently, they are unable to or are fearful of treating the issue in good faith.
Women's cause hurt by malicious attacks
It is precisely such letters as Maille's it that increase the intensity of the exist attack, for they present the extraordinary picture of women being the women for feeling discriminated against.
First, the two persons in the cartoon are shown as helpless females unable to change a flat tire. Second, the two are pictured deliberately using sex to attract the attention of males—the clothing, the bare thighs, the large breasts make this point clearly. Third, women respond to their aid, the woman respond by scoring them for responding to their sexual lures; the term "pig" is an obvious abbreviation for "man chauvinist pig."
The argument that the cartoons and advertisements of the Kansan are somehow equivalent to the Mr. America contest and Playgirl magazine is simply nonsense because these latter items are, in fact, the most popular of American products and are not the pervasive dimension of American life to which belong the cartoon in question, the Miss America contest,
It is precisely such items as a carton on
the door that appeared on the window.
Are unmistakable.
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On the 12th, a letter to the editor from Judson R. Mallie opened with this stridest attack: "The Kansan's constant drive of certain readers" panoducto pseudocomplaints alleging malicious sexism behind every advertisement or cartoon suggestive of female sexuality in pointless, boring and delirimental to the rights of
BIS North contru their says revolt
The Kansean issues of October 11 and 12 constituted what was for me a damming
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Playboy and numberless visual and verbal mockerys of women.
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It is not the protesta against items such as this cartoon that are detrimental to the cause of women's rights, as Maille would have it. What is truly detrimental to that cause is the fact that members of the group that has discriminated against women, and that continues to discriminate, free feel to discrimination itself. Paul Newell Carroll*
Professor of theatre and drama
Insensitive cartoons form of oppression To the editor
In reference to Judson Maille's letter of Oct. 12, I can only think of how very expected it is to hear from a man that object to subtle and not so subtle sexism is "pointless, boring and detrimental to the cause of equal rights for women."
To the editor:
Judith Woelfel
Assistant director of foreign student services
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