UNIVERSITY DAILY editorslals KANSAN
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SEPTEMBER 20,1978
IHP merits support
The Integrated Humanities Program seems to have run upon hard times.
seems to be a problem. This semester, IHP had the largest enrollment decline in its 10-year history—only 27 freshmen enrolled in the program compared to an enrollment of about 90 freshmen last year.
This caps a three-year trend of gradual enrollment declines in the program, which is designed to offer students a classical study of Western Civilization's development.
IN ADDITION, the program's funding has steadily been cut back the last three years. But this year, IHP's office budget was cut in half, money for student assistants was cut by two-thirds and the program lost an office and a secretary.
According to Dennis Quinn, professor of English and IHP program director, both the enrollment drop and budget cuts occurred because "the University administration has tried to make the program invisible."
A University policy banning IHP from mailing program information to incoming freshmen and excluding IHP from the summer orientation program for freshmen, Quinn says, is responsible for the program's decline. But University officials have said the policy applied to all KU departments and programs and was designed to prevent interdepartmental competition for students.
for students. THERE CLEARLY is, however pressure from outside the University to eliminate HIP. One such group, the so-called Committee for Academic and Religious Liberty, has published flyers criticizing HIP, some of which were sent to high school counselors, telling them that a number of former HIP students had converted to Catholicism.
The group, led by the Rev. Vern Barnet, a minister of the Unitarian Church in Overland Park, are quite fervent in their crusade against IHP—rather ironic considering the group's name.
In addition, IHP now is under the scrutiny of a University committee and any decision concerning the program's future will be made by the committee, according to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
BUT ANY action against IPH by the administration would seem to run contrary to the spirit of a university and its academic freedom.
its academics. However controversial HPB has been or will continue to be, it should not concern the University as long as there is a student demand for the program. No matter how small the enrollment, HPB should be supported—for the sake of true academic and religious liberty.
Kassebaum not hedging on her ERA position
To the editor:
Nancy Lance Kassebaum has not ducked a fight nor has she evaded an issue since she began campaigning for the U.S. Senate at the beginning of this year.
In the Sept. 14 editorial entitled "Battle of Sexes Lost," the editorial staff of the University Daily Kansas asserted that Kassebaum had hedged on the Equal Rights Amendment and had refused to "stand behind the nation's most vulnerable people" or "equality." Quite the opposite is true. Kassebaum has supported the ERA from its inception.
"I've supported the amendment all the way, but now it has ceased to be a rational issue and has become purely emotional. I think we need to be approved without a provision allowing
Her opposition to the extension of the amendment's 1979 deadline for ratification is opposition to rhetoric and not to substance. She asserts that the energy being devoted to the ERA debate should be focused on treatment for focus-treatment under law for all persons. Kassebaum sincerely believes that time would be better spent drafting specific legislation that would address particular problems of inequality in our society than in further, possibly futile emotionally charged debate. She explained her interest in this issue last week with the editorial staff of Sun Publications Inc., in Johnson County:
"I really think an extension would be counterproductive. It seems to me we should concentrate on legislation where it is necessary, legislation which can be passed and which will achieve the same goal. I believe that it will more produce products and much less divisive."
legislatures to withdraw their ratification too. And that just starts battles all over again, wastes time, energy and achieves nothing.
The Kansan editorial suggests that, if Kassbauen硬盘 on ERA, which she has not, she also will duck other issues. Her record does not support such a charge.
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Stu Awbury of the Hutchinson News commended the senatorial candidate for her courage to face issues head-on. In a speech before a state convention of the American Agriculture Movement in Wichita, Kassebue told the team she thought the 100 percent parity they thoughed it was economically unfeasible. The Hutchinson journalist asserted that she showed great courage in appearing before a group and disagreeing with it openly.
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Her conviction to say what she believes is a refreshing quality in a political candidate. Kassebaum does not sacrifice or alter her beliefs merely to please the gathering she is involved in.
To the staff of the Kannan, we submit that Kasuboei is the stouthearted person you love.
Deanell Tacha
Associate dean or the law school and eight students
members, have called for the admission of women, as have Chicago chapter leaders, whose group withdrew from the national organization in protest.
Suggestions offered to foreign students
(1) A more fitting title to the article would be "Traditional Student Cubs KU Discrimination."
To the editor:
Rainey said most of the opposition to the new constitution members came from the chapters of "The People."
(3) American students are not found mingling with Iranian students because the majority of Americans do not speak Persian.
In conclusion, we would like to offer the following suggestions to KU internationals who would sincerely like to get involved in American culture.
(2) American students have, in general, toward political demonstrations of anything to the point of war.
First, break out of the tendency to form your own little national groups where all you speak is your native language and all you discuss are the problems of the homeland. Second, bring up the importance of improving your English and allowing you to move more freely in American society.
An organization dedicated to what it calls leadership training apparently has decided to stop.
Jaycees should be open to women
In response to the article "Foreign Students Cite KU Discrimination," which appeared in the Sept. 13 issue of the Kansan, we have the following comments:
"The small town chapters are the strongest chapters," he said. "Many of the members like the tradition of all male chapters."
Second, live the American culture. You are the ones who need to take the initiative if the Americans do not. Basically, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." The problem at KU is not discrimination, but communication.
Geraldo Sousa
Brasília, Brazil graduate student John McLaughlin
The Jaycees, a national organization with about 375,000 male members, is ending a three-year pilot program that allowed the Jaycees to educate Alaska and Washington, D.C. The national headquarters in Tulsa, Okla., approved full membership for women in these chapters on a test basis, but the 4,500 delegates who attended the meeting in City, N.J., in June voted 10 to ban women.
Salt Lake City graduate student
John Rainey, president of the Jaycees chapter in Framingham, Mass., said chapters in the Midwest and South did not want to admit women.
After the vote on women, Barry Kennedy.
It's ironic that a group striving to train future leaders and provide service to a community should be closed to half that community. Although some chapters have auxiliary groups, women members take no part in the decision making of the community hardly the way to train leaders in a society common of both male and female members.
relegated women to non-voting associate membership or auxiliary groups called the United Nations.
a Nebraska livestock dealer and the newly elected president, ordered the 120 chapters that had admitted women to expel them from full membership by Dec. 1. Chapters that keep women would lose their charters, Kennedy said.
Leaders of the all-male Louisville chapter, largest in the organization with 785
contribute. The Jacques delegates hurt their own organization by restricting membership to men only. The group has made an effort to expand its membership among men, but has not tapped a potential source of membership of half the nation's population.
Although the Jaycees began admitting backs in the 1940s and recruiting bizarre collars, the Jaycees were not as daring as they were.
Auxiliary membership in the Jayeses is 22,600, a pitiful showing compared to the men's 375,000. With open membership, they would have a good opportunity for growth.
The ban against women not only has shut out potential members, it also has started a campaign.
The question of women membership has turned into a moral issue for some. In Massachusetts, 70 Jayces have formed the Alliance for Women Membership, saying they will use every means possible to keep women in the group. Some officials of the Massachusetts Jayces have voted to battle the no-women order with a law, even after 1974 ruling by federal appeals court upheld the group's right to ban women.
new layees made an admirable start by opening their ranks to minorities 30 years ago. Now they should break an outdated tradition and open their group to women.
Media role in Third World defended
By FRANK TREMAINE
N. Y. Times Feature
Third World criticism frequently is linked to charges that the four major international news services—United Press International, the Associated Press, Reuters (British) and Time—are responsible for capitalist viewpoint and the positions of their governments.
They complain that not enough is reported about them and that what is reported concentrates on catastrophes, not the exploitation of them.
NEW YORK—Many developing nations complain that the major international news services, the two largest being American, generate inaccurate pictures of their countries with incomplete or unfair reporting.
There is a misunderstanding of the organization and the role of independent news services such as UPI and the AP and of the realities of international news coverage and distribution. The countries also ignore the efforts of such agencies to cooperate with and assist Third World news organizations.
While the volume of news from developing countries is considerably less than from the industrial world, the reasons are neither sinister nor reflective of political or social bias.
UPI IS THE world's only privately owned major news organization. AP is a cooperative owned by its American newspaper and broadcasting members. Both are wholly dependent for their revenue on fees paid by their subscribers or members at home and abroad. Neither receives any government subsidy. They are bitter competitors with each other and with Reuters and AFP for news and subscribers throughout the world.
They are not influenced by the editorial policies or political inclinations of the wide variety of subscribers they serve. They conduct no crusades and are beheaded to no government, no political party, no economic entity.
Their role is to report as factually and objectively as possible, and news service reporters must place accuracy before speech.
THESE WHO criticize the international services for failure are usually based on what they read in the press or on statements on what they read in the press.
Closed borders, communications problems and lack of access to reliable news sources in many countries inhibit coverage of the Third World.
select only a small amount. They apparently do not realize that the service delivered to their readers and listeners, for example, is somewhat different from that delivered in New England. The service is substantially different from that delivered in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa, and those reports differ from one another.
the air. They seem to be unaware that the services transmit thousands of words daily to clients whose editors may select only a small percentage to print or broadcast.
ther from one and all of UDP's 60,000 to 70,000 words daily in Spanish to 80,000 words half originates in Latin America. Only a portion of that news is delivered to editors in the United States and other parts of the world and every print or broadcast. This prompt American Americans to complain that the United States needs generally ignores
Much more Third World news is distributed abroad in the agencies' regional services, particularly in the areas where the news originates. Unfortunately, except for Latin America and some parts of Africa, there are few news clients in the Third World—where broadcasting and the press generally are underdeveloped. New services and other Western media organizations are
AMERICAN EDITORS select from their news services and other sources those stories that they believe will most interest their readers. Not much of the comparatively small amount of Third World leaders would be interested in being invited or broadcast. When it is generally the type Third World leaders would prefer not to see—disasters, political囊肿 and the like.
trying to assist their development and have offered to do more.
LOSED BORDERS, communications problems and lack of access to reliable news sources in many countries inhibit coverage of the Third World. Africans are among the most vociferous critics of the international news services, yet many African nations bar foreign correspondents or admit them infrequently.
The international news services are charged with being hostile to development of national news agencies in the Third World and regional and global news pools. This is a misinterpretation.
*Mobility at UNESCO General Assembly in 1976, there was a battle over a Soviet-sponsored declaration on the use of the mass media, one section of which said, "States are responsible for the activities in the international sphere of all mass media under their jurisdiction. The decision was tabled after strong objections by the United States and
...interpretational news services welcome the development of such agencies and seek to work with them. What they fear and oppose is government control and further reduction or elimination of their own free access to news media.
SOURCES
THEIR WORLD spokesmen and UNESCO, which promotes development of national news agencies, deny this is their objective. But Nigeria has a law, not yet in force, that covers the coverage of the country a monopoly of its internal agency.
A new version is scheduled for consideration in October at the next UNESCO General Assembly in Paris.
ALTHOUGH UNESCO has no enforcement powers, adoption of such a declaration would be viewed by some nations as an endorsement of government control of the press and national and foreign journalists working within their borders.
New restraints almost certainly would follow and could force reliance of the rest of the world on government-dominated news agencies as the sole source of political, economic and other news from their countries.
Frank Tremaine is senior vice president of United Press International.