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November 9,1979
Iranian stir unneeded
The mounting tension between Iranians and Americans, created this week after the forceful takeover of the American embassy in Tehran by Iranian students, is bound to be thrust soon onto an American college campuses.
Already there has been violence. Wednesday, two Iranian students were attacked by a masked man as they left the university on union at Pittsburgh State University.
Easing those same tensions that spurred the attack at Pittsburgh State will not be easy here. The difficulty of achieving this in the actions of the Iranians in Tehran
IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY LEADER
Ayatollah Ruhulhah Khomeini has said the blame for the embassy takeover lies not with the Iranian students, but with the U.S. government. Not only the United States given protection to the shah, Khomeini charges, but the U.S. government has treated Iranian students protesting the shah's presence in America" with vulgarity."
Therein lies the difficulty, Iranian students in the United States demand—and are generally given—the same kind of rights afforded American citizens, but they are now ignoring the violation of basic human rights in the embassy takeover and the holding of more than 60 hostages.
When 30 to 40 Iranian students marched down Jayhawk Boulevard
two weeks ago today, there was no vulgar treatment. When Iranian students were allowed to turn a 30-minute speech by former Israeli Prime Minister Viyah Rabin into a 2-hour test of patience, there was no vulgar treatment. And when Iranian students used this campus to peacefully voice their opposition to the shah a year ago, there was no vulgar treatment.
ALTHOUGH Iranian students demanded that the U.S. withdraw from their domestic affairs a year ago, they now find it necessary to thrust the U.S. and 60 of its citizens into the heart of their domestic turmoil.
True, the shah is in the United States to avoid a trial, which would likely expose crimes by him against the Iranian neodule during his reign.
But it is not true, and certainly not justifiable, that treatment of the shah's gall bladder and cancer in a New York hospital should necessitate the unlawful holding of 60 Americans. That act is no more important for students to seize or attack Iranian students because of their support of such an unlawful action.
The incident on the Pittsburgh State campus is alarming. To prevent such an incident from occurring here will take a realization on both American and Iranian students' parts that the holding of American hostages is not the solution to the problem; nor is the brutal attack on Iranians.
It has been a while since an international event has hit so closely to the interests of the United States, and in American Embassy in Iran has, however, bloomed the blood of more than a handful of
Suppose, for instance, that I kidnapped a girl who was not home and held them for ransom. Are we involved, on equal ground? Should you have to deal with me as if I were an equal person?
Not in the least. One party is a criminal.
The other has done nothing wrong. The situation,
of course, requires touchy negotiation and the party in the right
must do it. A difficult case would no doubt
receive help from victim parties to see that justice was done.
The Americans involved in this tragic episode in Iran have received no such help. The Iranian government and its leader, the despicable Ayatollah Ruhailh Khoumineh, have in part sanctioned the illegal seizure of oil from Iran and are ratifying its legitimacy not by acting.
THE SEIZEMENT of hostages was illegal. The students are demanding that the exiled Kurdish general Hussein Badr Al-Yaakub of New York recovering from a gall bladder operation and undergoing cancer treatments, is returned to Iran. But the shah's permission is being denied. He is here to receive treatment. His temporary visa was approved by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and by President Bush.
Before the 60 to 90 Americans are released, the heavily armed students say, the United States must return the shah that he may be executed. The mobs in Tehran say the shah is a criminal because he has been tried to stop his new-western regime.
This demand is nonsense. The United States should not return the sham merely because it was imposed on students in Tehran. To do so would show a lack of courage, a lack of morality and a lack of responsibility.
THE STUDENTS, who have the support of knowledge are made wise of the knowledge of Pharas as a murderer of those who sought to overthrow this government when, in fact, the same government was taken up.
America should not yield to Iranians
More students now must work and study
They're everywhere—pumping gas at the grocery store, grazing groves, wiping down tapes, typing your name any type of mental labor and somewhere in Lawrence a KU student is.
Have you noticed that more and more University of Kansas students seem to be working these days?
It seems that the face of the student labor force in Lawrence is changing. No one is coming up with an own way through school who are among the ranks of the employed. They are being joined at an increasing rate by the children of our students, classes who were once totally supported by their parents, but now have found themselves on the short end of the init is beer money, date money, or money for that new sweater or sportcoat or any one of a hundred different things.
BUT WHAT we have isn't very much in these 75 of the cent bank and $3.60 movies. Faced with empty wallets and bank accounts that don't even cover the cost of a check, many students are getting part-time jobs, jobs that aren't virtually necessary to survival but that offer income for entertainment or luxuries.
IT USED to be that those students who put through school by the teachers, and whose families whose parents could not afford to pay their way. It was either work your parents or buy it.
They don't earn much money,but then, they don't work many hours. Put simply,
But not anymore. The offspring of the middle class have found that the monthly check that seemed so generous one or two years ago is no longer KU anymore. And the parents who seemed almost bottomless wells of wealth, who could be counted on to bail their family out, are still jams, have announced that the well is dry, the bank is closed. Along with that announcement has come the order make, the people have, you're not going to get anymore.
Much of the rest of the student body made it through school with checks from Mom and Dad. All they had to do was go to the bill for everything and to the bill for just about everything.
Since Khomeini and his revolutionary government have taken over, scores of people have been executed without fair
"I'm working just to get a little extra spending money," said one student, a sophomore from California. This student is also managing management in California "He'll be a millionaire in three years")'s drives 20 miles to Ottawa once or twice a week to stock shelves at an Ottawa supermarket. The naxxier of the day says, but the naxxier is that in Lawrence.
john
logan
COLUMNIST
ANOTHER STUDENT, a senior, works "so I can keep my head above water." His father is a teacher and his mother is a broker.
They are typical of the new wave of workers, workers who are flooding into Lawrence job employment centers at a rapid rate.
The U.S. had held out hope that the titular Minister Balkan Bazaranz, who ministerial Minister Balkan Bazaranz, would intervene and support the American interests in the embassy, just as he would be obliged to do under the treaty.
"We get quite a few kids in here," said Edl Mills, director of the Lawrence Job Service Center, a job referral agency. Inflation is just really eating all of them.
Mills said there seemed to be no shortage of firms willing to hire part-time workers, but many of the players are particularly attracted to the new workers because they know they can pay them minimum wage and not have to invest in long-term benefit programs for them.
"THERE IS a lot of movement in student employment, a lot of separation, said Mills. "Employee who waits that they hire, it isn't going to last forever."
Mills said there was no way to accurately estimate the number of KU students working in Lawrence, but he estimated that 90 percent of the service positions, from gas stations to hotels, were made up of 5,100 persons in Lawrence involved in retail trade and another 3,500 in services, that means a lot of students.
But Bazargan, a Khomeini puppet,
resigned Tuesday.
The United States has also tried to gain the support of other Moslem countries to urge the Iranians to fulfil their legal obligations. It has also dissuade the students and save the hostages.
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That's about all this country can do. It is dealing with a man who exhorts violence while he decries this country as the "great Satan."
We must not give in to such a hypocrite.
Business Manager Cynthia Ray
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than a month ago he was asking this country for military aid to squelch the Kurdish revolution in northwestern Iran.
MILITARY INTERVENTION would be risky because of the long distance that troops would have to travel to Tehran. Even discuss the idea of using force words of one official", "likely guarantee that 30 people will get their throats cut."
The United States is in a tough position. The State Department has said that it would not, under any circumstances, release the information of complications arising from his cancer treatment. But the State Department also does not want to endanger the Americans who have died.
trials. Some were tied to the shail of government; some were merely counter-revolutionaries. But they were all stain by squads without the benefit of a fair trial.
The Ayatollah, the Iranian religious leader who never has relinquished his authoritarian control over the government, set November 4, the day of the seizure, as a day when the students should demonstrate against a government crackdown on the United States. However, a little more
david COLUMNIST preston
Economics tell true oil profits storv
To the Editor:
Lawrence graduate student
If D. Fremont chooses to defend Exxon's claim that he then is right. However, as in so many of his columns, once he begins use of economics to support his thesis he tends to
He defends the high profit increase by saying that lower prices will increase consumption and further reduce that demand. He has increased regardness of price changes. This is a classic case of price inelasticity because consumers do not respond that demand is mostly independent of price changes.
To imply that lower prices must lead to lower prices is illogical. Prices are derived from our 'competitive market place', profits reflect the cost of running businesses revenues and total costs. All sorts of fun things can happen to the cost side to keep profits jumping and this is where Preston Lowe is involved.
He makes some effort to go this route when he says that high profits are needed to increase the oil supply. He must note that the vast oil in the ground lies in only a few 'supergiant' fields which have already been discovered and are in use. (Given the nature of these fields, it is unimaginable doubling of reserves won't extend the lifetime of our oil by more than a few years.) New pockets of oil exist but they aren't being exploited geographically and geologically. The oil discovery/extraction record over the last few decades shows this quite well. It also provides a useful discovery through to delivery at the refinery, have increased EXONEMAL oil and these resections into production offer it more find domestic oil it will not lower prices nor increase our reserves very much. Since does not permit me to go into much
Scott Snellerberg
2. Of course Big Oil would like to see new alternative energy sources. Who does you think own the bulk of tar sand, oil shale, uranium and heavy crude?
1. if good investment dollars chase very risky undiscovered oil, where does that leave other industrial firms who are losing out? Because of out-of-muted capital structures?
Now it just may not turn out that Big O really does need these recent large profit increases in order to finance a huge huge spiritual structure to satisfy our needs. The company really needs Preston's sentimentalism, convinced economics and big business biggy?
4. So what if 65 percent () of the a. worker is not a hired broker in social service? It is not indulged servitude, they have hired brokers clever enough to reinvent in other industries() of U.S. industry.
Space does not permit me to go into much detail on the following points but they should be raised:
3. Since, as Preston insists, all of Alex's profits come from their foreign division, the business is not based on what we see what is so ethical about buying Saudi oil at $18 and reselling it to us at OPEC's plus
Commune lifestyle isn't the right way
To the Editor:
It really is true that there is nothing new under the sun. Your article, "Commile Life Stresses Sharing" (Oct. 22), would have us believe that people who move to a new way of life can achieve a higher ordered society, one which "allows its members to shed racism, societal and violent grievances," and to cultivate the cultures of this type have been around for thousands of years—Plato was one of the earliest proponents of this type of community in ancient Greece. They've been creeded in changing a society which is in drastic need of a turnabout. They have occasionally produced individuals who momentarily affected society, but who remained permanently chaning society realized.
God, who created the universe, created all
and knew for our purposes the use of those
things given to us by him. In particular, as these
communal socials pursue sexual intimacy and
relationships, they actually hinder their
carriage, and will not see the societal reforms
We have only to look at history to see that the societies that we fell were ones whose last days were characterized by immorality of all kinds. Greece, Rome, pre-evolutionary France and pre-World War II Germany all were steeped in immorality just before World War I. The immorality of sexual mores does not change society for the better. It is a sizm that is farfall an alarm.
To see God's blessing on our efforts to make the world better, we would do better to operate within his guidelines. We can improve society, but the improvement comes from turning to the God who created us, not just the earth and the air, paths to self-destruction. "There is a way that seems right to a man, in the end it leads to death" - Proverbs 14:12.
Manhattan graduate student
Vicki Burkhard
U.S. gives up honor for Iranian petroleum
To the Editor:
Once again, we have sacrificed honor for almighty petroleum. For the second time, Iranians have been allowed to violate international law by occupying, by force, an American embassy.
There has been no call for action of any type but "monitoring the situation," despite the fact that embassies are legally U.S. soil. Despite the assurances of the State Department, news sources have reported elements of the Moslems were "heavily armed."
We defended this small patch of America with a handful of Marines ordered to use only tear gas in their defense and later ordered to surrender to be held hostages.
And the ransom demands run contrary to every teaching of the American ideal. To teach it in such a way as to treatment to a certain death by reason of extortion would be the greatest travesty of
What happened to protecting American soil? The property's indentation principle, what he called "own experience of four years as a Marine that the embassy guards an emperor would have taken," is now honored, and may yet. Have the rest of us敬畏 our existence that nothing is rightful for him.
If we give in to these obscene demands,
we are a nation of mice, and I am ashamed.
Fred D. Jameso
Topeka junior
To the Editor:
I would like to express my appreciation to Dave Lewis, and to the Kansas in general, for the timely article which appeared on the front page of *The Washington Post* (thursday, Nov. 1, page 5). I am glad to see our international programs given the recognition that they deserve, for, as the Executive Vice Chancellor commented in a recent article, "I make this university different from most."
Ralph Christoffersen omitted from article
I should like to point out, too, that the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Ralph Christoffer森, accompanied me in presenting the ceremonies for the signing of the renewal of the agreement. Dr. Christoffer森's participation was very important in emphasizing the commitment that KU has to work with students from Costa Rica. In addition, it should be mentioned that Dr. Christoffer森 himself has strong ties with members of the faculty in the Department of Chemistry in Costa Rica. Mr. and Mrs. D.F. are Ph.D.'s from the University of Kansas.
Although the story in every other aspect was accurate, it cannot be considered totally so unless it is noted that the participant in the signing of the agreement.
Anita Herzfeld
Assistant Professor and
Director, Office of Study Abroad
To the Editor
Disco death report overstated demise
In regards to the column which appeared
in the Oct. 26 Kansan about the alleged demise of disco music;
The time has come for disco supporters to refute some of the bricklets thrown from all over the world in a popular expression. Mr. Preston makes a strong if specious case for the decline of disco music, which has occurred more so for decades than it has for the sociological concerns than for the trumped-up arguments he no doubt gleaned from a fine article in the Wall Street Journal
His claim that disco music was wholly without any musical, artistic or other merit of its own is absurd. His lifestyle which it helped to create is a gross misconception. Come on. It is supernatural, insecure to use a camp-follower, he or she was that way long before they walked into a vividly-lit disco.
In looking at music history of the past two decades, anyone could know that disco was a popular genre. Its popularity. In these times of instant celityhood, what doesn't? And the fact that many of us do not dress in modo of dress - well, what I remember the Beatles copiers - the Dave Clark Five, Herman's copies - theat- and when ALL people are wearing a black suit, Mr. Preston doesn't, but a lot of others, disco fans and disco detractors, surely do
The pulsating disco beat has served as a catalyst to the return of "touch dancing," by Jillian Hayes, who puts butts and into a novel form of exercise, and belie me, disco dancing is more than just "shake your body." Disco doesn't "suck," but it does. "Disco was paused." What disco fans have disrupted a major league baseball game, huh? Can you dance to the Grateful Dead or Diesel's music? No, you can't.
in attempting to drive the final nail into disco's coffin, Preston completely overstated his case. Perhaps one argument left out of all disco demagogies is that the anti disco feeling stems from 'sour grapes,' that is, the people who don't like disco, GANT 'were imitated by artists ad infiltrium, but what good things are not imitated?
Discus music is a sign of the '70s, that '81. It was short-lived, but intense, and it takes a person's mind off his troubles. Name one thing that was popular at the start of the decade that is popular now, Preston. He pet rocks, streaked, smooking rims, etc.)
Disco IS declining, but still popular (as the journal article said), when Preston left London to play songs (yes, I do like him, too) "We got country & western, on the bus R & B." We got discs, eight tracks and cassettes and we could wear them everywhere. Our world can take all types of music and all types of people. If Preston hopes to be a good journalist, he would do well to
As a former columnist for the Kansan, I'm sure Mr. Presston, in his haste to come up with a column idea before he had to get up "n' roll bar, got caught with his ideas down.
Paul R. Jefferson
Topeka Capital-Journal