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Tuesday, November 20,1973
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
No Guideposts
The choice of a political ideology can be difficult. It is better to make your way through life without any political guideposts. But in these times of scrutiny of government offices, the call to political definition grows louder.
The call diminishes the enjoyment of humdum, day-to-day, minor failures and small triumphs and exhorts us to seek greater significance in the ranks of the politically conscious.
You could sign into the ranks of Nixon impeachers at booths set up along Jayhawk Boulevard. A signature on the petition wouldn't be too demanding, and it might be a good idea to get rid of Nixon. Another booth, in the Kansas Union, solicited signatures supporting amnesty for Vietnam's expatriots. Not a bad proposal. Some good people had left, and we probably should let them back in. It would have been a simple gesture, probably ineffectual, but at least you would know you had put your name, and yourself, on the line.
But the brief reflection was all
the enthusiasm that I could muster
for either of the petitions. Where
was the motivation? An ideology
would help. But anything as
grandiose as the "Conscience of a
Conservative" must require more than simply writing your name on a petition. Even liberalism, radicalism, chauvinism or nihilism wouldn't immediately capture one's whole-hearted devotion.
Distance probably has something to do with it. When you add "ism" to a remote adjective, such as "conservative," you come up with an even more remote noun, "conservatism." That is nothing you can pull off the shelf and wear for a while to see how it weathers. You can't hold it, stand close to it and smell it. It is only a word without the immediacy of hunger, pain or personal affront that can easily move us to action.
But once you define yourself in political language, far away as it may be, things like petitions and policy decisions shrink to easily manageable proportions. The choice prescribes a course of action, and you merely execute it.
There is a catch. Party lines extract big chunks of ourselves. Decisions that should be made independently, personally, are easily relegated to the brain's categories of policy. I might sign those petitions, but I'd try to be sure I was making the decisions myself.
Pete Stauffer
By TIM O'BRIEN The Washington Post
WASHINGTON—As predictions grow that the nation may face gasoline rationing as early as next January, the government is working frantically to develop a system that avoids the gross abuses that accompanied rationing during World War II.
Rationing Nightmare Unfair, Costly
"Rationing, no matter how you view it, will be a nightmare," a government speaker said.
"It will be unfair. It will be costly. It will be almost impossible to administer. Yet the chances are growing that we'll have to move to it."
EFFORTS ARE JUST BEGINNING, but the options have been narrowed down to
An Office of Management and Budget task force has been charged with the job of developing nuts-and-bolts techniques and options for rationing.
The task force, it was learned, is operating under an initial 60-day deadline corresponding with a prediction by Interior Department policy that face raiding early next year.
A "coupon system similar to that used during World War II. The coupons would be turned in at service stations and wouldn't be transferable. During World War II, the basic allotment was three gallons a week, but drivers who used their cars for business were allowed more, based on miles traveled a week. Certain car owners—firemen, policemen, clergyman, politicians and lawyers—were allowed unlimited gasoline
—A "free market" coupon system, in which the coupons would be redeemable for cash and would be transferable among car owners.
— A tax system, in which gasoline would be heavily taxed by the federal government—perhaps from 30 to 40 cents a gallon—thereby driving down demand. This option, the planners said, isn't, strictly speaking, a rationing system.
—A combination of coupons and taxes.
—MANDATORY ALLOCATIONS of gasoline to service stations rather than to individual customers.
It is too early to know which, if any, of the alternatives will be selected, but most of the
How rude of C. S. Groom to say that "American Graffiti" is a movie that enables KU students to reminisce about their high school days. In 1962 the average KU senior was in fifth or sixth grade. The American Graffiti is also the "America's Graffiti" that is the identity with it; they are still living in the same social atmosphere that was in the picture.
Don't you know that all the Lairies (i.e., sorority girls) have been dating their boyfriends "forever"? Don't you know that these girls have a "nervous break out" when they are with their boyfriends? Don't you know that Sidney's is really Burger City? Don't you know about the '58 Chevroon on Ohio Street and the '68 white T-Bird that cruises Massachusetts Street every night? Don't you know that the Beach Boys were turned against them? Are the audience wanted them to play their oldies? Don't you know that there was a sigh of relief from the audience when Steve stayed with Lairie, and a feeling of sorrow for Kurt because he was going to school in the East? Don't you know that there are more John Milneris in Lawrence than there was in the movie?
We architecture students read with interest your Nov. 9 article concerning the problem of the theory of student art work in Strong Hall. We have a very similar problem with architectural drawings and models.
Hank Weisinger
Lawrence graduate student
Ken Shapiro
Lawrence senior
Don't you know that the KU social life is one of makin' out, going steady, cruisin' and playing 'it cool? Don't you know that KU is "American Graffiti?"
KU Part of 'American Graffiti'
To the Editor:
It is understandable that there would be a danger of theft of good student art. It can be sold or, if nothing else, hung to decorate the homes of the curtails. But who would want to take an architectural plan and adorn his wall with it?
"Do you give them out on the basis of drivers' licenses? If so, people without licenses and who do not really need to drive, may come down in herds applying for them. How are they treated? Family groups? How do you define a family? These are hard questions."
To the Editor:
Architectural Thefts
Readers Respond
Sets of drawings of buildings certainly could not be sold to anyone with much taste for art. Yet we do have a problem with these things mysteriously disappearing. In one instance I know of a student's entire semester's work was taken from his desk.
“Congress probably won't accept it, but it has not been our top priority either,” said a Washington official.
planners interviewed agree that the tax system was the least likely choice, even though presidential adviser Melvin R. Laird recently he favored using it.
"The big coupon questions are unresolved." he said.
We can no longer exhibit work in Marvin Hall for the benefit of everyone. Who would want to lay the product of his time and thought vulnerable to destruction or exploitation?
We cannot really determine whether these were done by criminals among us or by outsiders.
We have in addition a constant problem of equipment security. One must be very careful not to let his drafting supplies, which represent a large financial investment, get ripped off. Consequently, there are probably more locks in Marvin Hall than there are in the Leavenworth Penitentiary.
GOVERNMENT PLANNERS, moreover,
are uncertain about the power a tax would
be used to pay.
AN OPA STAFFER said that planning was still in the formative stage but that coupon distribution would probably be used by the department to state departments of motor vehicles.
According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), Americans drive their
To the Editor:
Clark S. Davis
If the art department is fortunate enough to find a solution to this state of affairs, we can provide it.
Most planners expect that mandatory allocations of gasoline to service stations will be the first step in a series of increasingly tough actions.
The Events Committee is not concerned with content. This is a "university," and you can bring Alice Hoffman rhetoric or Alice Cooper shows without somebody slapping your hands. The Events Committee was partially concerned about the that would occur with both two concerts scheduled, and And SUA did consider rescheduling the event, but the band's schedule would not allow a concert on the next weekend.
I was appointed by SUA as the concert chairman for the Allman Brothers concert. I also serve on the notoriously University Events committee, a committee that along with SUA received undue and unjust criticism because of the concert.
The purpose of the Events Committee is to insure the proper use of University facilities and it is their prerogative to inquire into the nature and financial arrangements of public events to insure responsible sponsorship.
The chief drawback to that proposal, planners agree, is that gasoline would be distributed without discrimination to those who want it for pleasure and those who need it for business or for vital professions such as medicine.
The Events Committee did realize how much effort had gone into trying to bring the group to KU. Hundreds of hours of work go into any major concert and I would be glad to share with anyone the complexities and frustrations of producing a concert.
Repeating earlier statements that rationing would probably be imposed by early 1974, Love said the government would call on the expertise and manpower of the nation's oil companies to help manage the rationing program.
Therefore may it be on the record that I would have loved to bring the Allman
Allmans Also Erred
Webster Groves, Mo.
Should mandatorily allocations prove insufficient, the scenario would next call for a new implementation.
ONE SOURCE ESTIMATED that about $1 bill on worth of gasoline coupons were stolen, counterfeited or illegally transferred to the two years the system was in effect.
The "free market" coupons would be introduced as an alternative to the much-abused system of World War II, in which militaries nearly burned rationing on La base.
decision that was "inconsistent or unfair to the students."
It is very easy to state (when you aren't directly responsible for the financial liability) that two concerts would not be financially successful but they could be financially successful. Concerts are a business, where performer's fees and risks are high. Concerts are planned on slim financial profit margins and a drop of a couple of hundred people can substantially increase.
Agriculture Department officials Glenn Weir and Nick Smith told a House Committee that farmers might need four per cent of the next year because of increased acreage.
cars about one trillion miles a year. Trucks and buses go another 250 billion miles. One-third of the driving, the AAA said, is for pleasure—travel, recreation and social.
"It's got to affect the delivery of our product," he said.
Former governor of Colorado, John A. Love, the President's top energy adviser, said in Houston recently that a "large business" requirement is required for any as-running program.
With even my limited experience with concerts, I must agree with the Committee's decision to protect the previously arranged Miracles concert. For me, the possibility of the slightest conflict justified the protection of a first request.
The Events Committee did not make a
"They are going to have to fight for all the fuel they, weet." Weil said.
A recently created office in the Interior Department—the Office of Petroleum Allocation (OPA)—is the odds-on choice to administer any gasoline rationing program. The office is still adding manpower, and should gasoline rationing be imposed, it will become one of the busiest offices in the country.
Planners believe that rationing, if it
No, students; the promoter and the group messed you up and has you blaming people for it. You are not a victim.
cornes, will be less drastic than that imposed during World War II. Wartime rationing was aimed more at conserving tires and rubber than at conserving oil it.
"We petrified by it," said Rex Denkmann, an official of the trade association for the Mets. "It was a damn deal."
Finally, I must rise to the defense of the final members, who tried their best to process the information.
SUA obtained approval from University Events, obtained the Field House, and officially extended a written firm offer, only to those who were invited to a promoter that KU couldn't have that date. When the promoter couldn't get his desired date (Oct. 9), he must have become upset, not because he wanted to "serve the students" of KU, but because he was up the creek many thousands of dollars. That event led to the University Daily Kansas office.
First I must explain that SUA was not working with the Allman Brothers, but with a promoter who made binding contracts for certain nights with the group. SUA had verbally worked out a mutually acceptable deal with the promoter and the group (Oct. 27).
James Hughes, a spokesman for the Steel Industry Association, said there was 'grave damage' to the mill.
"THE IMPACT OF RATIONING will depend on what it takes," said an AAW report.
Gasoline rationing, whatever its form, will produce a chain reaction of impacts in the economy, much like the tumbling of dominoes, said a General Services Administration Office of Preparedness official.
Johnson sophomore
Jon Josserand
The rent-a-car business, for example, will almost certainly suffer.
"But it is a sure thing that some of these pleasure miles will have to go."
I was amused at Governor Docking's hesitation to reduce Kansas highway speed limits because he felt that it would be an infringement on personal rights of the inbound drivers. The governor's right to strew down a highway at 70 m.p.h. in a gasuzzle piece of machinery?
No Right to Speed
KEEMONS WILSON, board chairman of Holiday Insys, Inc., said the firm's plans for adjusting to gasoline rationing "would require the form of rationing implemented."
To the Editor:
J. J. Pizzimenti Graduate Student Van Nuys, Calif.
Griff and the Unicorn
He predicted that gasoline rationing would probably generate increased bus travel. The firm owns Continental Intercity's second largest intercity bus system.
by Sokoloff
Gasoline rationing may mean trouble for car dealers, pleasure boat manufacturers, combustion powered lawnmower dealers, roadside hodgd dogs and hundreds of other businesses dependent on gasoline or automobile traffic.
Jack Neal, an official with the National Automobile Dealers Association, said car dealers "are already being hit very, very hard."
Car buyers are "postponing buying decisions, and orders for new cars are being made."
Telephone checks with potential rationing coupon printers—the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, the Government Printing Office, supported official claims that coupon printing had not yet begun. American Bank Note Co. president, William Barrett, said his firm had been in contact with rationing officials in the Midwest who believed it be the most likely to do the coupons."
Guru Brings U.S. Light
Peace Marketed in Astrodome
By GREGG KILDAY The Los Anteriores Times
HOUSTON—The light, the music, the nectar and the word—collectively—are referred to as the Knowledge, the knowledge that Guur Mugar Mahara JI, a 15-year-old from North America, self-proclaimed Perfect Maker of our times, would like to market through world.
Because they have experienced the Knowledge, because they hoped to experience the Knowledge, approximately 100 years ago, in the Houston Astrodrome last week for a three-day festival, Millennium 73, advertised as the most profound event in the history of the world, a stunning demonstration that would inaugure 1,000 years of peace.
Publicity alone was budgeted at $50,000-
100,000. Wouldn't be aware at any price,
but would like to have it as a feature.
Now like all good business businesses, DLM was founded in 1960, by an independent old patriarch, Maharaj Ji's father, Hans Ji Maharai.
In 1968, when Hans Ji died, Maharaj Ji assumed perfection and took over the organization's reins. With the assistance of his holy mother, Maharaja Krishna's spiritual heiress who had sole authorization to pass on the experience of the Knowledge.
GURU MAHARAJ J's Divine Light Mission (DLM) claims to direct the activities of his six million worldwide followers in 37 countries (40,000 in the world) and is fond of illustrating his discourses with the stuff of modern life—like most bright adolescents, he is fascinated with cars and cameras and tape recorders—perhaps one can best understand the Divine Light Mission. He is regarded as a successful business person.
Maharaj Ji's three old brothers were awarded positions in the organization. Bal Bhagwan Ji, the oldest, was put in charge of the divinial intellect; Bhola Ji's penchant for divine flash made him the perfect choice to direct Blue Aquarius, the $64-piece band that touches on behalf of DLM; and Raji JA, the family's elusive silent member, became commander of the World Peace for the DLM's over-ear job force.
INCORPORATED in the United States as a nonprofit, non-sectarian, tax-exempt organization, the Divine Light Mission quickly began to diversify; it publishes its own journals, produces films and tapes, recycles goods through Divine Sales and is planning to expand into educational services, health care and humanitarian service.
So when the DLM's annual Hans Janyi festival drew near, although it has been traditionally held in India, the decision was made to move the show to America.
Maharaj Ji bears himself formally gestures magnificently occasionally
America was where it's at.
With a minimum of fanfare, a alphanumeric of World Peace Corps men usher Guru Kashisha into the hotel, where he takes his place in a gold-brocaded chair surrounded by a hedge of flowers. A table full of tape recorders and other gifts that have been laid at the feet of a lord.
Patiently, he once again explains that he hasn't come to establish a religion, but simply to distribute the Knowledge. His is welcome—Catholic, Jew or Buddhist.
Does he have a plan for world peace?
Well, there will be peace in the world when
the planet is free.
Does he have a plan to feed the poor?
Well, there are many ways to feed the poor and he hasn't yet decided which way is the best.
The media, the Mahatma said, really were capable of marvelous things. The teacher taught him how to read Mahara) J. He talked like an understanding tutor, always comforting,
ON THE final day of Millenium 73, a special Knowledge Session was arranged for interested reporters Mahatma Gandhi and Mohammed Ali annotate, drew the circle close around him.
But would he explain the four techniques of meditation, please? Because, really now, they are very difficult to do.
WANNT IT true that to see the light you merely closed your eyes and pressed upon the eyelids? That to hear the music you stuck your thumbs into your ears? That to taste the nectar you curled your tongue through your throat and savored your own saliva?
The manhatma wouldn't comment. For the techniques are empty ritual unless you are ready to experience the knowledge, and the manhatma can determine when that time has come.
do this.
The mathematica's calming smile momentarily froze. We must not rush, he insisted. There will be time tomorrow, you will be asked to fill out forms, everything is ready.
'Cant we have a Knowledge Session, now? a woman pleaded, alice in her chair with the camera up.'
Wait, is it 'now?' or 'now'?
The prompt says "Preserve punctuation, punctuation marks, and special characters exactly as they appear."
So it's 'now'.
Let's check the word 'knowledge'. It's clearly 'knowledge'.
Let's check the word 'session'. It also clearly 'session'.
Let's check the word 'pleased'. It also clearly 'pleased'.
Let's check the word 'alice'. It also clearly 'alice'.
Let's check the word 'chair'. It also clearly 'chair'.
Let's check the word 'with'. It also clearly 'with'.
Let's check the word 'camera'. It also clearly 'camera'.
Wait, let me look at the word 'Session'. It's 'Session'.
Let me look at the word 'Knowledge'. It's 'Knowledge'.
Let me look at the word 'Pleased'. It's 'Pleased'.
Let me look at the word 'Alice'. It's 'Alice'.
Let me look at the word 'Chair'. It's 'Chair'.
Let me look at the word 'With'. It's 'With'.
Let me look at the word 'Camera'. It's 'Camera'.
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Let me look at the word 'Knowledge'. It's 'Knowledge'.
Let me look at the word 'Pleased'. It's 'Pleased'.
Let me look at the word 'Alice'. It's 'Alice'.
Let me look at the word 'Chair'. It's 'Chair'.
Let me look at the word 'With'. It's 'With'.
Let me look at the word 'Camera'. It's 'Camera'.
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Let me look at the word 'Pleased'. It's 'Pleased".
Let me look at the word 'Alice'. It's 'Alice".
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Let me look at the word 'Chair'. It's 'Chair".
Let me look at the word 'With'. It's 'With".
Let me look at the word 'Camera'. It's 'Camera".
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Let me look at the word 'Knowledge'. It's 'Knowledge".
Let me look at the word 'Pleased'. It's 'Pleased".
Let me look at the word 'Alice'. It's 'Alice".
Let me look at the word 'Chair'. It's 'Chair".
Let me look at the word 'With'. It's 'With".
Let me look at the word 'Camera'. It's 'Camera".
Let me look at the word 'Session'. It's 'Session".
Let me look at the word 'Knowledge'. It's 'Knowledge".
Let me look at the word 'Pleased'. It's 'Pleased".
Let me look at the word 'Alice'. It's 'Alice".
Let me look at the word 'Chair'. It's 'Chair".
Let me look at the word 'With'. It's 'With".
Let me look at the word 'Camera'. It's 'Camera".
Let me look at the word 'Session'. It's 'Session".
Let me look at the word 'Knowledge'. It's 'Knowledge".
Let me look at the word 'Pleased'. It's 'Pleased".
Let me look at the word 'Alice'. It's 'Alice".
Let me look at the word 'Chair'. It's 'Chair".
Let me look at the word 'With'. It's 'With".
Let me look at the word 'Camera'. It's 'Camera".
Let me look at the word 'Session'. It's 'Session".
Let me look at the word 'Knowledge'. It's 'Knowledge".
Let me look at the word 'Pleased'. It's 'Pleased".
Let me look at the word 'Alice'. It's 'Alice".
As general coordinator of Millennium 73, he announced Maharaja Javadhri to plan a build to the heart of a new campus greater than Disneyworld, a completely harmonious community, its medium of exchange would be not money but service to the people of Asia. The campus described as a little bit of heaven on earth.
RENNIE DAIVS, the former anilur
vice-marshal, Mihala J's star convert, led off
Sarah Lacey's team.
Like contending cheers in a football game. Hindi chants of approval echoed
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Clearly, nothing was sacred—not rock nor history nor scripture—when it came to proclaiming the truth.
through the dem, as users circulated with buckets to collect seed money for the city.
With that, the entertainment began. Bhole Gi, agitter in silver and gold, took up his baton and led the Blue Aquarius band through soft rock versions of the best '60s albums. With a few nods to context, taking a lament like Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door," originally meant to voice the final moments in the life of a dying cowboy, and turning it into an anthem for the real estate developers who would build boulder their way into the promised land.
SIMULTANEOUSLY, slides of President Kennedy's assassination, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war flashed by on campus. The scriptural texts played across the Astroline.
And now all eyes were on the stage:
Renee Davis, on his hands and knees,
and surrounded by her team.
Maharaj JI with a marble plaque; another
official offered a golden swan; a third
presented a jeweled crown, the crown of
a mahina, which Maharaj JI solenly
denned.
"the Boile Shri Satguru Dev Maharaj Ji Jai," the mobs appb jubbed.
"All praise to the Perfect Master, giver of all life!"
The Guru Maharaj IJ deft disappeared. For lovers of music, commanded the Astrolite, Blue Aquarium record album by R.S. Recordencing公司 on sale her for $35.
One thousand years of peace had begun.
Who would have ever predicted such biclip-
ness?
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