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November 26,1979
CAC role important
The University's decision to transfer the supervision of KU's custodians from American Management Services to an in-house program is a wise one.
Rodger Orke, University director of facilities operations, said the decision was made after a review, which began on Wednesday, the firm's work to be unsatisfactory.
But Oroke and the rest of this University must acknowledge, either publicly or privately, the influence of the Custodians Action Committee.
The committee formed last August to rid the Lawrence campus of the AMS, which was hired by the University in December 1977.
In recent weeks, CAC and its support group have planned rallies, distributed leaflets, talked to legislators and started legal action to stop AMS.
One of the legal actions aimed at the University's refusal to bargain with the custodians' union about the effect of the AMS contract on working conditions.
Other charges made by CAC centered on allegation; that custodians were harassed out of their jobs and that the company increased its profits by reducing the work force.
The committee already has filed a complaint with the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights and plans to sue the commission over its decision of Civil Rights in Kansas City, Mo.
And, despite the University's decision not to rehire AMS, the committee will continue to pursue a 20-comment complaint filed last week with the Public Employees Relations Board in Toeeka.
Irving Van Dyne, chairman of CAC, said the group would continue legal action "until all those custodians who were unjustly driven from their jobs, deprived of their rights and had to pay for their injuries," properly compensated for their losses."
But at least now the University can begin to untangle itself from its contract dispute with AMS and continue the program through its own personnel.
Sexual harassment lacks clear definition
A recent headline in the Kansas City Times read, "U.S. Shuns Fighting Roles for Police Officers and the Carter Administration were not ready to assign female American officers."
And, perhaps in an unwitting contrast, on the adjacent page there was a news article describing a woman being awarded $200 a month in alimony from his ex-wife. The national president of America's Society for Divorced Men said it was the biggest alimony to date
The two stories symbolize the confusion we have felt in the last decade over the definition of female and female possessed of excess we have made toward redefinition.
Two things are quite clear about sexual harassment: one, it is not an exclusively female problem and second, it's not hard to define . . . in the theory.
THE SITUATION is paradoxically more clouded and more hopeful now because of the recent increase in publicity about sexual harassment in the work environment. Out of the discussion can come only understanding.
In theory, the definition the scientific researchers will use is simple: sexual harassment is repeated and unwanted by a supervisor or a fellow employee.
A Congressional committee recently decided, upon the basis of testimony from both women and men, that there is a need to conduct an investigation of harassment in government offices. A scientific study has been ordered to further document the rumblings heard in the state.
IN PRACTICE the definition is more elusive. Fear, pride and other emotions either prevent people from realizing what happening or what they can do about it.
Often people don't complain about harassment because they think those to be victims of the fabricated problem. And often, an employer hearing a worker's complaint might be the victim.
melissa
COLUMNIST thompson
harassment. That's where the misunderstanding lies.
You see, it's one thing to develop a relationship with your boss or fellow employee out of mutual attraction and admiration. But it's quite another to be forced into a situation that inevitably causes you to become nervous because you succumb or because you don't.
It's amazing that some people can't comprehend the problem. They would, perhaps, if they could see the parasent in a racial context.
REMEDIES? TITLE VII of the Federal Civil Rights Act says it is necessary for a worker on the basis of sex. And, peripherally, that law says an employer must have a warrant free from unnecessary stress. The powers of this law are now being tested by 37 people who have filed state or federal suits alleging sexual violence.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Council, said recently on a broadcast of her talk that "the laws on rights law are strong enough to deal with sexual harassment. But despite her assurances, the answers aren't that clear."
FOR EXAMPLE, who legally bears the burden of proof? Do government regulations extend to cases of harassment by a fellow employee? Do government regulations such as the establishment of a female worker's union, be a better solution?
Lines have been drawn in the legal and office battleground. On one side stand people who think the sex of sexual harassment is being raised only to give women another unequal advantage. On the other hand, women—who are glad to finally have a name for and public notice of a problem that has existed for years.
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No doubt you have heard of the current newsprint stribble. It seems that there just aren't enough trees to satisfy the enormous appetite for paper that our nation has.
Editor Marv Hoenk
The shortage has had a number of obvious effects on the newspaper industry. The price rise in newspapers in the past decade, the past decade. Papers have shrunk in size and they don't seem to have as many stories to read.
The University Daily Kanans also has been affected by the shortage. It was scheduled to put out a paper last Tuesday but had to cancel it because of a shortage of
General Manager
Rick Manner
BUT AN UNUSUAL source of relief for the newspaper industry is now being developed. Scientists have reported that a company in Mexico has tremendous potential for producing pulp, from which paper is made. The plant, known as Kenal, is easy to grow, is cheaper than traditional wood.
In case you didn't know, Kenaf is the trade name for hibiscus cannabinus—commonly known as marihuana.
News goes to pot in hunt for paper
In all probability, however, you won't be able to smoke a paper printed on Kenaf without getting anything more than a set of charcoaled lungs. The chemical ingredient in marjira that gets you high, known as naphthalene, is used in the plant, making it useless for smoking.
NONTHELESS, THE possible commercial farming of marijuana could create some interesting changes in American agriculture. Many farmers are investigating alternative crops, seeking to minimize then-bust markets of the few basic crops.
Kenaf, which has been proven easy to grow, might attract many farmers. One crop yield has an average of 10 tons an acre, while other crops with plants were up to 17 feet high. Fourteen of those feet grew in the first three months, an incredible growth rate. That growth was accomplished with no pest treatment, no watering and just once every three weeks.
John
logan
One of the farmers reported that he had never seen a crop that was so easy to grow at the same time as inexpensive.
interest of many newspaper publishers, there might be issues that could have caused lurement have long lamented the fact that many of the nation's youth would rather watch television than read a book.
BUT THE SIGHT OF 17-foot marijuana plants in Kansas fields may be some distance off yet. The federal government is investigating it, but it suffices so, because crops of the real
Chappaquiddick says nothing about Teddy
Perhaps one way to encourage the younger generation to at least buy a paper newspaper is to have them read it. Maybe that way they would actually look forward to the delivery of the morning newspaper, even with its dark and messy layout, in a good way to brighten up their morning.
Martha DuBois
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Lawrence senior
thing could easily be mixed in with the Kenaf without anyone noticing.
Where do you find your columnists? David Preston's attempted recent column on Keenan Presston's open announcement that Chappaquiddick "says so much about" Teddy, we get a quick tour through the salient events of his career and six men and six (count 'em) Younger Women; (2) Kennedy and Mary Jo heading out to the big town; (3) the wreck; (4) Ted wanders about, walks more than a mile, swims 50 feet (or is it yards)? makes various photos
My question is: Do our courts stand for "just-ice", or is there such a thing (or should) there be as justice tempered with mercy and human understanding? The little book on justice contains examples deserves to be taken from family and friends and confined far from home, but a child who needs, as I see it, to be understood for who and what she is—a young Dunker girl who believes in her religion and is afraid of getting hurt. What her own life in a simple and honest manner.
Paper mills are making a mint off the current newspaper shortage and seem not to be in any great hurry to investigate alternate sources. But Chicken Knead was sent earlier this year to a newspaper research facility. Tests now are being made on the paper and if those tests are favorable, between 5,000 and 10,000 will be planted next year for more tests.
After all, is one more year of public education the most valuable thing in life? It is not. Values to be considered which are perhaps even more vital and relevant to the child at this time? As I see it, there are. And concern for children's punishment and not an answer. I am not an all inapt individual, but only one in a special individual, but only one and I must add, love and respect to.
WHILE THE potential of Kenaf as a replacement for wood pulp has aroused the
Preston concludes, "It says a lot about the man who would be President." What, precisely, does it say about Teddy? Why
I THINK THIS to be the biggest problem of all with public education - it has become too much based in economics rather than human love and understanding. Kids need to be respected for the young, but very many people are they. But that is another story.
To the Editor:
Sentence too severe in Dunker case
To the Editor:
I would like to comment on Judge Mike Elwain's confirmation of the 15-year-old German Baptist Brethren girl in the McPherson county detention center.
Let me say simply that I believe Judge Elwell used poor judgment in imposing such a heavy penalty on her, actually guilty of no crime and, in fact, perhaps should be lauded for standing up at such a young age for what she believes to be the right to do. She is not the society, she is a responsible girl who is aware of what she is doing, and willing to reap the consequences of her actions.
I understand that the judge must uphold the law of the land, which states that every child must attend school until age sixteen; the court imposes a limit on the imposing confines of the courtroom (especially to a 15-year-old) for justice and mercy. It often means that the courts, as well as the state, are heavily preoccupied with rules, systems and economics that they tend to overlook the fact that we are real people, not individual individuals worthy of a judge's, or a school official's, human understanding as well as his judicial knowledge or his administrative knowledge.
KANSAN letters
won' David tell us what it " says"? I've given the matter some thought, but haven't been able to settle on a Deeper Meaning for it. Were we, David, to visit that Kennedy room, who would be younger? Will Girl Squares be safe from "the man who would be President?" How about Brownie Trees? Will Army be able to safely visit the White House if her dad's son was too old? Theificance of the six and six combo? Is Ted uninterested in such complexes as the menage a trousi? Or (more sinisterly) those five older adults just a girl? What about the headed for the beach in order to . . . or were they headed (as Teddy claimed) for the Ferry and hotel room(s)? If the latter, the ultimate goal is to equip what saddest guy in the big guys a fair swimmant, not too a hot woman, and had some change in his pocket for all those phone calls, but ran out before Should Have Made. Is this what it all means?
Come on David, tell us what it "says about the man." While you're at it, maybe you have to make a statement or important to say about the upcoming Bic Choice of 1980. Maybe a column about why college students have been educated in the way they are now is a political issue demanding analysis but not to think of The Crisis Iran in Iran, the Crisis Cambodia, or, as demanding political issues
Associate professor, Philosophy
Don Brownstein
Churches applaud campus, city attitude
To the Editor
We want to thank those students, faculty university staff and Lawrence citizens who are visiting us to undertake their usual hospitality and respect for the Iranian students who are our guests at the University of Kansas. We want to encourage our students being of Americans in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the well-being of Iranian students in the most immediate opportunity for reconciling action in this painful conflict to be the treatment of our Iranian neighbors here as we do.
There is, unfortunately, an impulse within each of us to find a scapegoat for all the wrongs that have occurred this time of recession, inflation and unemployment. Yet we are confident that we can protect our citizens from some of our citizens will fully protect the human rights and dignity of our Iranian nation.
Our most sincere prayer is that the tragic conflict between our countries may be
WE ESPECALLY wish to applaud that spirit of understanding, patient listening and engagement most of the informal discussions and teachings on the campus in recent days. If free, responsible and humane discussion of course material at University campus, where can it take place? The spirit of understanding in these discussions belongs to the highest traditions of education.
quickly and justly resolved. In the meantime, we join with the great majority of persons on the University campus and in the surrounding Lawrence community in a pledge to continue the mutual respect and cooperation between persis- versed with Iranian students over the years.
The Rev. Jack Bremmer, campus pastor Ecumenical Christian Ministries The Rev. Peter Casnarian
vicar & chaplin
Epicopal Canterbury House
The Rev. Conrad, campus pastor
The Rev. Vince Krische, chaplain
The Rev. Larry Albertson, chaplain
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center
of St. Louis University
American Baptist Center
The Rev. Mark Hoelter, campus pastor University Lutheran Chapel & Student Center
To the Editor:
Americans can fight Iran by saving oil
As we are all too painful with awareness, the American hostages Khomenei is holding in Iran is developing into a problem that we, as individuals, may not be able to do to them.
However, there is something practical and effective that only we, as individuals, can do: something more effective than driving in the marches. We can completely eliminate our need for Iranian oil and perhaps slow down price increase by driving our cars three times.
And we can lessen our dependence on imported oil by practicing numerous other strategies to eliminate needless driving, cut out jackrabbit start and stops, quit ramming into other vehicles, or use the brakes. Yes, we can refrain from being out crusing around in the wee hours.
It is now obvious that we Americans, much sooner than expected, are going to learn how to learn ourselves. We are going to have to learn to walk again and to adjust our time schedules.
KU students, who will be among our future leaders, should lead the way in these oil economies. Why? Because they are young and should be able to contend with than some of the rest of us.
Thomas C. Ryther 1400 Lilac Lane
PLO efforts in Iran should be praised
To the Editor:
Steve Howard Lawrence graduate student
The Palestine Liberation Organization which is three-member negotiating team, which is headed by Mr. Hamza, congratulated for their attempts, albeit unsuccessful, to free the hostages at the siege.
To the Editor:
Freedom of choice applies to abortion
A number of recent letters have questioned women's right to choose an
abortion. Retelling a true story may clarify the issue.
Two young men, cousins, who may be called John Doe and Richard Roe, had grown to happy useful maturity when John Doe's tissue maturity保质性 proved that only bone marrow from his cousin, Richard Roe, could save his life. For Richard there would be the usual minor risks of any surgical procedure, but there were also infection. Because the marrow would be taken from a major bone in the leg, there was a very slight risk of crippling if the wound failed to heal properly. There would be a scar left and a loss of income during recovery.
WE CANNOT know what fear, grief or concern for his on *w*21 depends entered Richard's consideration. His decision was to stay in the hospital as his life depended and Deb. Doe soon died.
We may praise or blame but we may not choose for another person. Nor could John Do or any member of the family make a choice in what life depends on the contribution of blood, kidneys, bone marrow or any vital substance, the choice is to be made by the contributor. Similarly the dependence for health of the woman a body requires the mother's consent.
Women do not choose abortion casually but they have the right to choose. Otherwise, they must be offered the choice that any suitable person contribute blood (or another vital substance) for the benefit of the woman.
Mary Davidson
Lawrence graduate student
Students heating up over wasted energy
To the F.editor :
Tom Reeid and sixty other people expressed their dissatisfaction with overheated rooms in Murphy Hall (Kansan editorial letter, Nov. 5).
Murphy students, you are not alone! Across the whole campus, students are once again battling drowsiness in stuff, overheated classrooms. And in this year of raised energy-consciousness, many of these students are blitant and needless waste energy.
We join the Murphy students in decrying the situation and demand that the University administration take immediate and responsible action.
Ruth Siegel St. Louis senior and 72 others
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