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October 29,1979
Hall issue unsettling
That promise by University housing officials to turn an entire floor of a University residence hall over to a car park. The effort has led to a headache for all parties involved.
The promise was made last spring to representatives of Alpha Omicron Pi by Fred McEhlene, director of the office of residential programs, Ann Eversole, director of student organizations, and Caryl Smith, dean of student life. AOPI is reorganizing on campus and has asked for a full floor on a residence hall until it establishes its own house in the fall of 1981.
AURH also said that the setting of a sorority within a residence hall would compromise the uniqueness of the residence hall way of life. AURH has further criticized the University for promising rooms to pledges during a sorority shortage and said the move meant state support of a private organization.
HALL RESIDENTS have been quick to protest the promise. The Association of University Residence Halls contends that the AOPI pledges would receive "preferential treatment" in obtaining rooms. It says past occupants of the rooms designated for the sorority would no longer be able to return to them, which they now are allowed to do.
The decision could also set a dangerous precedent. If the University allows one private group a reserved area of a residence hall, then it would find itself under pressure to grant the same privilege to other special groups.
IT WOULD be a simple matter if the argument was as one-sided as that. But
the arguments presented by University officials for reserving a floor take a little sting out of AURH's arguments.
Having a floor to itself would help the organization gel into a solid house. Past experience has shown that the more scattered the members of a Greek house, the weaker that house is. Living together would enable the organization to find a better atmosphere they want and at the same time would cause little commotion.
BUT WHATEVER the arguments, the facts are that a promise was made without consulting AURH—a promise of official officials say they cannot break.
All that can be done now is for everyone involved to sit down and negotiate. AURH has taken the first step in this solution by adopting a proposal to negotiate with AOPI about the housing. So far, no word has come back from the university officials, but it is clear they will have to join in the talks.
However this matter is settled, someone is going to be unhappy. Unfortunately, it could have been avoided with a little careful foresight and a little foresight that we hope will be present in the negotiations for AOPI's housing.
'60s furor not needed to defend high ideals
And the University has openly announced that it favors the establishment of new Greek houses on campus to attract more students and alleviate the University housing crunch. To throw a wrench into the establishment of one house might discourage others from coming to KU.
In comparison with the '60s, most people tell us, the '70s has been a decade of absolute apathy. B big demonstrations, no overt demonstrations, no disillusionment, no turor about much of anything.
But look at it this way - the '69s, with all of the ant-war, anti-racist, anti-establishment rhetoric in our own country. A period in this country's recent history. Activism today tends to be less effusive, but make no mistake about it. It's still there. We don't need to support principles and are willing to defend those principles is still present, even prevalent. And it is probably more con-
The difference? According to latter-day activist Pat Guegen, the student and a major law professor at UCLA liberties there may be less activism, but the high ideals that people seek probably are even more.
"FROM A libertarian point of view," Goodwin said, "our movement is a more principled attack on the governmental encroachment on individual freedoms than movements in the 60s were. In the 80s they were everything—just the sake of doing it."
Goodwin and his colleagues have gotten their point across to the rest of the public and have done so effectively. The military is well-equipped, militaristic. It needs be a part of our security.
A national anti-draft team, Milton Mucke, came to Lawrence last week and troop to a crowd at the Kansas Union. He is a leader of the national Students for a Libertarian Society and was sponsored by the KU Libertarian Alliance. Goodwin and Mucke signed an agreement more than 1,000 signatures of people opposed to mandatory draft restrictions laws.
THIS PAST spring, the alliance listed names of 1,100 students opposed to the draft, 600 voters against it and cities from Maine to California, the liberarians would make their point without being heard.
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It matters little whether you agree with Goodwin. He is taking a stand for what he believes in and he is doing so in a positive way.
The Libertarian Alliance hope to abolish the Selective Service system, which Goodwin said was a threat to individual freedom.
“If we had the power to immediately deploy an army, we would have probably sent troops directly into Nicaragua and Nicaragua, but we wisely stayed out,” he said. “What we have used our military forces for in the past has been to protect our people.” It hasn’t been for the defense our country.
"IF SOMEONE were to invade this country, the government would have so many volunteers it woule be unreal."
So his point is made and it is, quite frankly, a good one. To push the cause, the group has sponsored Muller's visit and set up an exhibit at the airport to be引纳 national exposure to the movement.
They also will support anti-draft candidates in the 1980 elections and will distribute leaflets and material.
WE NEED NOLE of the over-zealousness of the '80s. We should have learned from Kent State and from the Chicago riots that violence in the name of defenses deter the cause. Fumecated at the Seabrook nuclear plant, he dismantled this clearly just two weeks ago.
Whether it is gay rights or civil rights or secular rights, the courts must defend it sensually. As Goodwin aptly said, "our libertarianism is a political idea that covers the right and the left. We do."
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THEY ARE selling us vitamins that we don't necessarily need. And we're buying them because they are affordable, whether we really need them, or whether we paying a fair price. Consumers have been known to unwittingly pay as much as times a manufacturer's cost for vitamins.
Oil companies have filled the figurative national pillory long enough. We should make a little room for another economic vitamin–iamn manufacturer. More specifically, it should be mega-vitamin people who are ignorant of basic nutrition.
In 1976, Americans spent $80 million on Vitamin C tablets. And in that same year, we spent more than $100 million on Vitamin E.
As for the Vitamin C, well, we've got million-dollar urine. And many researchers think the only souls who really need vitamins are rats that want to become pregnant.
Vitamin supplements often useless
Vitamins are not just something your mother told you were good for you. They can also help your body large doses and can harm your body. And a lot of Americans are too stupid to learn.
IN 1938, the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act stated that products were considered drugs if they were used in diagnosis, cure, treatment or prevention of a disease.
This doesn't include dietary pills intended for use as a dietary supplement. Any pill with up to 50 percent of the RDA falls in that category.
And in 1973, the Food and Drug Adjuvant validation ruled that any amount of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of that nutrient is considered a risk.
IN MANY CASES, our own bodies will protect us from our stupidity. Vitamins A and D are essential by the body - pass through the body in urine. Vitamin C, even when taken in doses of more than 3,000 milligrams daily, does little more than cause diarrhea and excrete toxins.
But fat-soluble vitamins, such as A and D, have been known to kill when taken in excessively large amounts.
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Symptoms of Vitamin A or D overdose include headache, blurred vision, lethargy, nausea, vomiting, bone and joint pain and damage to the nervous system.
How large are "excessive doses?" In some cases, it's 5,000 milligrams or more of vitamin D. It's probably sturdier as to take that much? More than 1,000 cakes of vitamin poisoning are required.
THE PROBLEM *is* with vitamins themselves, nor is it with the microbes in logical use. It's with our misconceptions of how they should be used that makes us easy targets for viruses.
chemical. But the Soviet chemists continue to call it a wonder drug. They say it will treat heart disease, diabetes, gangrene, hypertension, alcoholism, drug addiction, schizophrenia, jaundice and a wonder drug in the treasest no?
Vitamins are useless if there is no fat, protein and carbohydrates in our systems. For example, the B-complex vitamins aid the metabolism of proteins they themselves are not energy sources.
This is where a lot of sports buffs or athletes can be deceived. According to a study conducted by the Mirkin, a physician, there is no scientific evidence to support the belief that athletes have an enhanced performance. And Mirkin says the body's muscles don't increase significantly during exercise.
The basic facts about nutrition aren't guarded secrets. The information is available in any library and often in places where vitamins are sold.
BUT., VITAMIN supplements are still useful and valuable when used knowingly. People who eat lots of processed foods and junk food are probably prime candidates developing minor vitamin deficiencies. Any students are prime examples of such people.
THERE IS also a problem with some substances that are promoted as vitamins when they may actually be quite foreign. The exception is vitamins highly recommended B-13 to their people.
American chemists say they have never even heard of B-15. The FDA is conducting tests because it thinks B-15 is purely
The time you spend looking up the information is likely to be more valuable than your last bottle of multiple-complex vitamins.
AMS gains profits by harassment
To the Editor:
I attended the press conference called by the University's Custodian Action Committee (CAC) to air their grievances against the employer, the American Management Institute, and to express the shameful treatment that has been meted out to the custodians. And as a member of the KU Committee on South Africa, I would like to draw some parallels between the issue raised by the custodians and our own experiences with African students dissociate itself from racial South Africa.
AMS was hired by KU in 1977 on a two-year contract to supervise the custodial services of the KU hospital and custodial services at KU. It is a division of a huge parent corporation called American Hospital Services Corporation, which also owns the subsidiaries and divisions in South Africa.
In two years AMS received an income of $717,735 for these "services." How does AMS make such an enormous income from the work of such a show time? Amazingly in the company, not for any managieral services but rather receives payment only for the reduction of the custodial labor force. As the CAC chairman, Irving Vanduye, explained, in practice, if AMS can force an employee off to pocket the employees' wages and benefits.
In two years at least 25 custodians have been harassed to the point of quitting their jobs. This harassment fails most heavily on those who work directly even to the point of coaxing custodians who were injured on the job to sign off their own records, which can seriously alylation a violation of the University's affirmative action program. For the custodians, "it is a matter of survival," said Mr. Horton.
The reaction of the KU Endowment Association and KU administration to both issues, to both of these requests for higher moral principles, are similarly irrespective and procrastinating. The custodians have also resisted the contract with AMS in January. They simply want to become University employees again. This might even save KU
If such mortality repugnant treatment of people can take place right under our eyes at KU, where students are supposed to be employed in the hospital, how are we to know how these subsidies and divisions of the American Hospital Corporation are treating their black employees in South Africa, where dehumanizing racial practices are the law under pressure from the worldwide divestment movement do introduce some cosmetic desegregation policies, let us not forget the very reason why they operate in South Africa. It is because in no other place the students will make more money out of human misery.
and the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, the hundreds of thousands that AMS is now pocketing.
I appeal to all students and faculty and staff members and campus groups to come help the custodians. Recently the faculty has begun an expenial plan. What the custodians have been facing for two years is much worse than what the faculty may face in future
Anita Chan
Member, KU Committee on South Africa
Sorority housing plan unfair to residents
I am a member of Lewis Hall. I am member rather than resident for many reasons. Yes, I reside within the hall, and my room is in the second floor, namely third floor. I have lived on third floor for two years. I belong. I am a member of said floor. I have been involved in hall government for one year and am also involved with the hall. I am a member.
To the Editor:
People from a floor return to a floor quite frequently. As a member of a floor you grow accustomed to the people on that floor. Each floor of Lewis has its own characteristics and I'm sure this goes for the rest of the building, so there's no stone toen. My floor has a certain coveness.
At this point I would like to ask some pertinent questions. First, what happens to floor togetherness when you "kick" the people off a floor for a sorority for one year? How do you get another floor? What happens when the sorority leaves? Is the floor vacant, does it become all freshmen the next year or do you incite past residents to return? Yes, you worry about the banding together of the people and about the unity of each floor of the hall?
Oh yes, I did attend the Association of University Residents Hall meeting on Tuesday, at least part of it. Enough to realize that, the decision had been made and no, you do not plan to back out no matter what facts were at the least,耐寒
Yes, decisions have been made, but as in deciding to buy a suit, cannot alterations be made afterward. The AOP11 sorority must not have any flexibility within their organization? Could they not be approached with the new arising problems brought by dissenting residents? Could not an altered institution have any power or commitment of office of residential programs and AOP1? IS AURH merely a figurehead used to keep residents happy with no real power nor responsibility for the improvement of consideration a sory sorority commit to the system an invitation to speak out?
I know that to assume makes an ass of you and me. But it was wrong to assume that a new sorely could exalt as others do the "set precedent" to "set a precedent" for already existing sororites to live on a residence hall floor, does it not set a precedent for the "bady" class? As I read the passage, they, too, can make the same "deals"? Is this not an infringement upon my right as a past resident to request and perhaps even a new year, as long as it is through the system?
Cannot some of what has transpired be looked over again and "altered" slightly but significantly? There are other possibilities not being taken into consideration. I feel that, as well as all other residents, deserve their attention and the other questions that have arisen.
Patricia A. Dziadura Spring Hill, junior
Criterion a voice not heard in Kansan
To the Editor:
A letter to the editor appeared in the third issue of Criterion from John McLeese and Mark F. Davis, both Shawnee Mission High School students, who understand why adults felt it necessary to develop a primarily black newspaper. They report that the newspaper promotes racism by being sepa-
I have always wanted to ask my fellow
late students, "Do you read Ebook JEL,
and what is it?" I regularly "regularly" meaning every issue. If the answer is "no," which I sure it would be.
As I am sure the answer is because black publications have nothing newsworthy for whites, white publications have nothing newsworthy for blacks.
Don't you think we blacks get tired of looking through the Kansan and seeing only white faces and issues? I'm sure whites are more aware of their situation was the only source available to them.
Oh, sure. the Kansan covers issues about backs, you say. Look back through the Kansan and you'll see blacks is when there are protests and revolts. Other blacks are when their events and organizational functions newsworthy. I've always wondered how the Kansan derives its criteria of blackness.
The Kansan can report Panhellenic functions easily and cover the organizing of while fraternal orders. But do you realize that these organizations are fraternal fraternities and sororities are or how to contact their officers? It felt just because the orders don't have a house, it can't reach them.
There are seven black fraternal organizations on this campus and a new fraternity is being formed. The Kansan never looked into them.
Did it look for black models when it put out its spring fashion section last month? No, it looks like a black women pretty in their eyes". At least one black woman could be used "in"
Did you know blacks are uncomfortable and feel a disavantage when they are the only minority in your community? Crition published an article about this in its first issue on the front page. I was wiped for liking it.
Try it some time. Enroll in an all-black class. From past observations in two African Studies courses, one being Black Women 388, white drops out fast for the very reason of feeling out of place. One white woman did stay in a full semester. At the beginning, she she was glad she did because she learned how it felt to be a minority, for once.
So, until the Kanas can become more sensitive to our needs as a minority and stop its racist practices, there is a need for a black publication.
Alberta N. Wright Lawrence senior
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