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December 5
HEW decision wrong
But the more definitive interpretation set forth by HEW could prove the most costly yet to collegiate athletics.
National confusion about the interpretation of Title IX was fueled by yesterday's announcement from the department of Health, Education and Welfare that again has tried to pin down the 1922 Civil Rights Acts.
Its provisions, which follow the general directive of barring sex discrimination in federally assisted programs, include that sports scholarship money be distributed in proportion to the number of male and female athletes who participate in a school's intercollegiate athletics.
Essentially, the guidelines mean that women will get as much scholarship money as men per capita. And unless colleges come up with a new source of income, the money that women's programs lack may be taken from money-making men's sports, such as football.
The goal of equating the dollars is the right one, but what HEW proposes is the wrong way to achieve it.
At KU, the new guidelines could
mean that women athletes, who account for 40 percent of the student athletes at the University, would need an additional $340,000 in scholarship money so that the women's total share of all athletic scholarships.
Kansas undoubtedly is not alone in facing such a money dilemma and possibly being forced to rob a money bank. She was one of still young women's athletic program.
But the sacrifice is too great. The risk of a demise in men's sports that have struggled for decades to make it unfair.
Federal guidelines generally do not apply to collegiate athletics since athletics get no federal money.
But in the case of Title IX, the government has taken the viewpoint that any institution receiving any program may cannot discriminate in any program.
The solution is not one to be decided absolutely by federal bureaucracy but rather by individual colleges and universities that are free to decide how flexible in developing and maintaining their athletic programs.
U.S. may deserve Third World gripes
Our country has become recognized as a defender of peace and justice and as a true friend in times of need and hardship. And consequently we have gained the patronage of many foreign countries to look for leadership and support.
The United States has always been active in world affairs, sometimes to such an extent that it has overlooked important domestic problems.
But many other countries have bad doubts about our sincerity and the capacity to handle international affairs. And it now appears that more countries also are having
But taken as a whole, these claims are not inconsequential; there may be truth to them.
The spreading fever of anti-Americanism is in an example of how more countries are questioning the foreign policy and intervention of the United States.
People in these countries complain of American exploitation and imperialism taking over their countries and changing their culture. We usually ignore these accusations, dismissing them on the basis that they violate bolizes—democracy, justice and liberty.
All too often the United States invests its money in institutions that prove its governments and the cultures. In return, we expect friendship and, sometimes more importantly, its re-affirmation.
But the concern today of foreign countries is whether our goal in establishing relations with them was to use them for economic gain, or to use them to our advantage. In many cases, I think the reason is to use them to that explanation. There is no doubt that that is exploration.
And we also are guilty of imperialistic
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acts, although I doubt to the extent we are accused of.
In safeguarding our interests abroad, our government has not just advised, but told other governments what decisions they should make, using threats if necessary. And we have gone so far in our selflessness as to plan the execution of a terror attack in Castro, a leader of a country who is greatly opposed to the United States.
In the past, however, we might have been able to get away with such acts and ideas, but not now. The problems the United States has had and is facing now are still complex, with examples of peoples and countries realizing what tastes with the United States mean.
We need, then, to reassess our foreign policy with the realization that we can no longer "colonize" and exploit a country in these times. In today's world we may have to rely more on coercion and trade by these motives, we may lose important allies to communist forces.
We also need to take into account, when establishing relations with another culture, that the nature of some cultures have been in existence for thousands of years and consequently the cultural aspect of our lifestyle for our sake. And we should not force them to, but rather work with them in a positive way.
Essentially, our country needs to become involved with the countries we have relations with rather than involved in them.
foreign policy, we would better be able to establish relations that work well for both countries.
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WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter's reputation for personal integrity has remained virtually unblemished during his three years in office, but his re-election effort could suffer from public regard regarding him. Hamilton Jordan and his brother, Billy.
Carter appointed Bert Lance, his banker from Georgia, as director of the Office of Management and Budget. When Lance's past banking practices were called into question, Carter read a preliminary report on the bank's activities and said, "Bert, land a sprout of."
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Scandals may hurt Carter campaign
Meanwhile, a special prosecutor is setting up in shop New York to investigate the claim of two tax-evading disco owners that rented a studio in a cave in visit to Studio 34 in New York.
There may also be lingering damage from the publicity generated by Billy Carter's mismanagement of the family peanut business and the fruitfulness investigation of the business by Special Counsel Paul Loeb in dealings with Lebanon government officials.
Curran's probe was prompted by lingering suspicions that Carter financed his 1976 campaign in part by illegally siphoning the money loans from Lance to the peanut business.
The so-called "Peanutautate" affair established that Billy did a bad job managing the warehouse operation, but Curran, a Republican, said he traced the blame to Mr. Patterson, who found no evidence of illegal activity by President Carter or his warehouse operation.
Billy's visits to Libya - and visits to him in George by Libyan officers—is raised questioned by the president's brother, a friend with the United States, now that a Libyan host has morphed the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, those questions may be raised
As for the president, the worst that has been proven of him is that the peanut butter jar has been all together common practice—and that Carter may have hastened the firing of a federal prosecutor, David Marston, at the urging of Democratic Rep. Joel Silberberg.
Despite Marston's dismissal, Eilberg was prosecuted and pleaded guilty to conflict of
interest charges. He was finned $10,000,
sentenced to 3 to 8 years probation and
a fine of $2,500 for office fees. Carter
also paid $1,435 in additional fines and
interest after a reassessment was
prompted by a news report suggesting the
creditor had paid taxes by several
times that amount.
To reporters who cover his daily activities, Carter appears to be a Bible-reading moralist, a sober and faithful husband and a man who is honest to the point of truth. There are no incidents of him merely embelling Chauquidiack in Caster's past.
But questions continue to swirl around his associates, Lance and Jordon, men Carter chose to be among the most powerful in government.
Carter's term. He was indicted last May on 22 counts of conspiracy, misapplication of National Bank of Georgia funds and misconduct in the use of bank records. The indictment charges Lance continued his allegedly illegal events even after taking office as head of
Publicity over Lance's past banking activity forced him to quit as Carter's top budget manager during the first year of
Lance pleaded innocent and called the charges "ridiculous." But whatever the outcome of his trial, it is sure to produce more questions about Carter's Lance's banking activities. That will keep alive all the old questions about Carter's role in the bank as well as the government's chief budget officer.
of Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, owners of Studio 54, that Jordan inhaled cocaine in the disco's basement on June 27, 1978.
Jordan is far from facing indictment; if not for the strictures of a new Ethics in Government Act, his investigation would likely have been dropped by now.
But a special prosecutor, Arthur H.
Christy, has been named to study the claims
The two first told their story while facing charges of federal income tax evasion on more than $1 million skimmed from the disco. They later changed some of their pleaes. They pleaded guilty Nov. 2 and could be sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years each.
The Christy investigation will require the assistance of Jordan, his accuser and probably Carter O'Neill. Timothy Krawitz and Evan Dobelle, who said they were at Studio 54 with Jordan at the time.
Politically, such disparities could not be tolerated. Economists argued, though, that the problem was mainly one of "structural unemployment": Many of these women, blacks and teen-age job-seekers lacked the skills and experience to handle the available jobs.
SO JOB-TRAINING programs were established. Programs to aid or restrain displaced workers and homemakers were created. After they had completed the training or retraining programs, many of them were unemployed "still could not find jobs."
Even if Jordan is cleared, the probe will produce publicity that will have many across the nation questioning what happened in a joint like Studio 54 in the first place.
FOR A TIME, the ill effects of that failure were umnoted. "Silent firing" took care of necessary reduction in employment. As much as possible, employees tried to avoid their work by keeping them thinned the ranks by abilizing positions that were vacated through employee turnover, retirement and promotions. That resulted in a humiliant way to handle the situation.
Unfortunately, a price had to be paid, and it was paid by the people who were starting a career. With the Freeze on hire, they could pay their workers for employment therefore became concentrated among groups of people entering the work force or breaking out of occupational "ghetto" that had consigned them to low-wage jobs: women, racial minorities, the young.
Therefore, the government had to enlarge its role as employer of last resort, with the aim of making employment more accessible and Employment and Training Act of 1974 and accelerated expenditures for public works.
The time-and-a-half premium, originally meant to deter overtime work so that others can take up the same tasks and purpose, as the cost of fringe benefits has increased relative to straight-time wages and paying the premium has become cheaper than hiring and training new employees.
Jobs lost to higher productivity
1938, Henry Ford introduced the five-hour, 40-hour week. In 1940, the Fair Labor Standards Act set a 40-hour week in many of the industries then, working hours have been frozen.
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BUT, IF the demand for a particular industry's output were not sufficient, then the increased productivity would cause loss in the replacement of workers into other industries.
By WILLIAM MCGAUGHEY
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn.—The advancing edge of productivity and the fixed structure of working hours, like the blades of a pair of scissors, are cutting people from
Between 1950 and 1978, productivity in the private sector doubled, but the average workweek in the labor force dropped by only 2.7 hours—from 41.7 hours in 1950 to 39.3. This drop, small as it is, reflects mainly the increased part-time workers in the workforce.
By "productivity" I mean workers' average output in one hour today compared with such output at a specific time in the past. A doubling of productivity would mean doubled annual output if the level of employment were the number of hours worked stayed the same.
estimated that the government was spending $13 billion to $15 billion annually on jobs.
In the early 1980s, federal manpower policy stressed economic expansion. Later, employers from this theme and toward the idea of providing economically disadvantaged groups. Employers were given tax incentives to hire workers employed and other hard-to-place applicants.
AFIRMIMATION-action programs were infended to help women and blacks assume control of the classroom available at various levels of rank and pay. This approach generated a backlash anomaly.
discrimination." Moreover, it has failed to lower the proportion of black to white unemployment and to narrow the gap between men's and women's average earnings.
To target jobs to people because they belong to a socioeconomic or demographic group suggests that such persons cannot compete successfully for jobs on their own; the person is personally incapable of handling the work or need various kinds of remedial help.
That is not the problem.
Rather, it is that job opportunities became limited just when women, blacks and young people planned to enter the work force or increase their level of expectations.
Representative John Conyers, D-Mich.
standard workweek to 35 hours over
years, require double-time wages for
overtime and probate employers from
the state.
Hearings on the bill were held in the legislature last month. This bill is a step toward honoring our commitment to full employment enacted one year ago in the 1990s.
William McGaughey Jr., an industrial accountant, is president of the General Committee for a Shorter Work Week, an organization based in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Religious cult critics prejudiced
To the Editor:
Jim Seigelman and Flo Conway do not just attack "culls" but religion itself. They have a materials/behaviorist prejudice against science, including the spirit. Contrary to many psychologists, social scientists, and scholars, they reject any religious conversion experience as "information disease." Their questionable conclusion is how this growing conclusion in their book "Snapping":
haven't we had enough? Your recent article titled "Calls thru a year after Jonestown" was another patent example of the failure to keep up with unaware of the prejudice of the writers themselves, but by reprinting their article you continue to give credibility to their point
Neither Siegelman nor Conway has a doctrate degree. What right do they have to speak with scholastic authority? Our research indicates that qualifications to speak on new religions.
REGARDING SEN. Dole, "the information hearing," it was a witchhunt. His list of witnesses read like a who's who of deprogrammers, anti-religious activists and avowed enemies of the Unification Movement, but did not recognize the credentials of Dole's opponents and the reasons for their opposition, labeling them as "ad ho committee." The
The article is full of direct errors and deliberate distortions. The authors' definition is an aberration of society and it's members are universally 'strange', potentially dangerous, and "obedient to" human nature. This same genre as Jonestown and display "similar tendencies toward criminal, violent behavior." They bookenymewhere every.
"Contrary to popular opinion, our explanation has confirmed for us that there is nothing really human inside human beings. It is all biology — chemistry and machinery."
THEIR LIST of those who have snapped "includes all people who practice the Christian faith, all speak in tongues, and all born-again Christians, such as Eldridge Cleaver and Thomas Nelson."
The explanation they espouse of the frailty of the human mind is an affront to every thinking person on this planet.
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National Council of Churches, the Synagogue Council of America, the United Methodist Church, the Lutheran Council of America, the United Methodist Church, the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP, the Republican State and All state sent letters of protest to Dole. He also got phone calls from all over the world urging him not to support no politician who wants to try such a thing again.
Siegelman and Conway state, "The cult issue has nothing to do with any question of religious freedom." Clearly members of the above organizations thought differently.
OTHERS HAVE investigated the Unification Church. Psychiatrists from Einstein University found papers findings at an investigation group of Psychiatric Association. There is 'no overt
THE AUTHORS are beating a dead horse. They clamor for investigation. They assert that the evidence is in their hands but have been plenty of investigations and court cases. The authors consistently ignored the fact that the congressional subcommittee unification Church had already investigated us for a year and a half, costing them more than $70 million single thing wrong, but they didn't believe themselves and concluded someone ought to take them. Their funding was denied, and rightfully so.
Plenty of other investigations have occurred. In the wake of Jonestown the FBI admitted they had been investigating the deaths of 12 people at Jonestown and Attorney General Benjamin Civielle cleared us of all the allegations. He said, "No information was developed which led to suspicion or warranted further jurisdiction or warranted further investigation. You don't investigate people for the purposes of litigation." Siegman联邦 and Conway advocate the invasion of people's minds. Robert L. Keuch, then head of the Justice Department's investigation, said there is no evidence to support any prosecution.
coercion or physical deprivation. Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon. Conversion apparently provided considerable and sustained relief from the discomfort of membership also appeared to support a certain stability in psychological status."
The Anti-Defamation League of Bain British irons a conference on the "cult" phenomenon. 22 leading social scientists, including the British Council, cladded that "religious cults" in America do not present a danger to society and that that Joneston was in fact atypical
Isn't it a about time that journalists take a little more responsibility for what they pass along as truth. Climates of emotionalism and supervision perpetuate blind prejudice. The written word carries a lot of power over people's minds and should not be wielded irresponsibly.
"I'll gladly provide documentation for what I've said and more to any interested person. God save us from the benevolent masses of people like Siegelman and Zaway."
Jim Stephens Director of the Unification Church Lawrence
Attack on editorial is politically myopic
To the Editor:
Donald Brownstein's letter attacking David Preston's column on Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick is the sort of nonsense that must spend too much time perusing recondite treaties, and consequently they can be a hazard for the trees in such simple political matters.
They ought to read some fairy tales. That may not only help cure some of their political malia, but it may even improve our conditions of our lackluster academies.
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