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October 15, 1979
Racism on the rise
We're fooling ourselves.
We tell ourselves we've come so far since Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, since the 1964 Civil Rights law, since the days of the Selma, Ala., march.
We tell ourselves that bias is decreasing in our society, that we've come a long way.
So how do we explain the alarming resurgence of racist graffiti on desks and in elevators? How do we explain American students who snicker at others who speak a language foreign to them? And how do we explain the renewed practice of clubs turning away certain people?
THE TRUTH is that we don't want to explain it—it's so much easier to pretend it does not exist. We're a content generation, we're told. We don't have the pressing problems of the 1980s, we repeat mechanically, so we run away with reminders of a past we thought we had left behind go by without question.
Unfortunately, Lawrence is showing signs of such a poisonous attitude. No draft, no war, no segregated lunch counters. No problems? Wrong.
The segregated lunch counters may be a thing of the past, but KU students are becoming perfectly content with kitchenware that cater almost exclusively to whites.
RECENT INQUIRIES by the Kansan and TV stations in Topeka and Kansas City, Mo., have led to the
possibility of an investigation into membership policies of two Lawrence private clubs by the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights.
Whether such an investigation will result in some sort of action against the clubs' owners remains to be seen.
But what can be seen, and what must be realized, is that KU students, who most frequent the clubs, can do something about the problem. In fact, students may be as much to blame as the owners.
When white students buy memberships to such clubs, they are not only accepting inexcuseable policies, but also are promoting them.
It's easy to say that the problem isn't there, that blacks and foreign students just happened to try to join at the wrong time.
"IN THEIR eagerness to comply (with more affluent students' social preferences)," says Clarence Dillingham, professor of social welfare and former acting director of affirmative action at KU, "the clubs quickly changed atmosphere, form, dress codes, and with the additional advantage of reciprocity rights to members, the over-21 establishments where they were listening and assured those who preferred not to be in the company of Third World people that there would be more discretion."
But then again, we've always had an amazing tendency to fool ourselves about the true state of affairs.
World Series arrives decked out in glory
Ah. the World Series.
America's national pastime always comes to a roaring dimax at this stage of the nation. But the driving force drives people to a freazy and reckless nostalgic thought of the country's favorite
this year is no exception. The nation now hails on, forgetting so many of the day-to-day responsibilities. The Baltimore Orioles meet face-to-face to decide who is the best team in baseball. It is not only the confrontation of two teams, but also the tensions between Pittsburgh and Baltimore, to see who may舞 in the streets and proclaim themselves throughout the long, cold winter months.
IT HAS ALWAYS been that way. Throughout this century, baseball heroes have been applauded and loved. There is a special mystique surrounding the professionals who have donated Yankee pants and Dodger blue or have stepped in some places as add Sportsman Park in St. Louis or Wrigley Field in Chicago.
There was Roger Maris' 61st home run and Aaron's 715th blast, both of which cracked old records by Ruth. Willett captured a crowd and good-natured captive capitated crowds.
There have been the great hitters—Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Henry Aaron. There have been the great managers—Casey Stoll, Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson. And there have been the great managers—Casey Stoll, Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson. These are the men who have thrilled us with home runs, stellar pitching performances and wins.
There have been other great moments, such as Bobby Thompson's game-and-penning win home for the old New York Giants in 1951 and Bob Gibson's 17 strikeouts in the third game of the 1967 season. The Cardinals had defeated the Boston Red Sox.
THE MEN WHO have played the game have done more for this country than just playing the games. They are leaders in the nation and valuable assets to D-Maggia, jacket Rockets and Long Island.
are some of the great ballplayers who have meant as much to people as leaders as they did as players.
The World Series brings all of this to a form the first classic. The National Football League's championship game, the National Basketball Association this past week must defer to the Series-terminated playoffs.
THE PIRATES and the Orioles last met in the World Series in 1971 when the Pirates, behind the brilliant leadership and play of the former Royals, pitched the Orioles in seven games. The Orioles' star, third baseman Brooks Robinson, also had a great World Series that year. Wednesday night's game was the first ball of the game as the hometown fans cheered. The Pirates can only play in the memory of Clemente, who died in a plane crash the winter following the 1971 World Series.
The 1979 Series is for the working man. No flashy New York or Los Angeles teams are ready to play these tough workplaces, worker who toils in the steel factories in Pittsburgh or in the textile mills in Baltimore. Baseball is no ollt sport, and baseball has been a working town that for years have taken time-out from work to follow their teams on television in bars or in the cheap seats at
The World Series is the end of the race for supremacy in a sport that is more American than any other. It is this kind of event that will be welcomed by admiring fans. Will this worshipping by admiring fans. Will this power-hunting Dawker, just as last year, power-hunting Reggie Jackson? Or will the hero be the crafty pitcher, Mike Flanagan, who throws fastballs like Ron
Regardless who the hero is, the World Series stands as testimony to the greatness of this country's favorite baseball. Baseball always be, a vital part of American life.
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Blessed is the Highway Oil Co. of Topkea, for it has committed itself to building an energy self-sufficient alcohol plant in Kansas.
Alcohol plant a blessing to Kansas
Highway's subsidiary, Hudson Ranches, will join in the building of the multimillion-dollar $400-million cattle feedlot-alcohol plant fertilizer plant. it will be built about 30 miles west of the airport.
Highway is being very shrewd in making the investment. It can get a 10 percent tax credit for the construction of the plant and will benefit mildly from a Kansas graduated fuels tax, which reduces the tax burden. The company gains a gallon in the first year of production.
The plant's operation plan is a marvelous cycle involving technology that has existed separately for decades and has never been combined. It will produce fertilizer and dithered caterpillar for market, market give a boost to local grow markets.
ALCOHOL will be produced from milo, sugar beets and potatoes; the distilled grain waste will be fed to the cattle; the animal waste will be used as solar power with the help of solar power; and the methane gas will fuel the boilers for the alcohol plant.
It's also a good political move because Congress has legislation pending that would increase the tax credit to 20 percent.
It's a nice, neat package.
THE PLANT is basically an internal effort. Highway plans to get the necessary infrastructure, including Hudson Ranches, Grain will be brought from Nebraska and Colorado will provide a hay supply.
And Highway isn't limiting its choice of
alcohol raw materials to just milo, sugar beets and potatoes. In about three hours, these ingredients are extracted from cellulose fibers found in grasses, wooded chips, wood scrap, paper, wheat bran, fodder seeds.
melissa COLUMNIST thompson
Highway's dream plant could not have been built at a better time, nor in a better location. The plant about 75 percent energy self-sufficient. It could provide the key to bringing ethanol-gasoline blends into a car where use would be sensible, not just noble.
CURRENTLY AT LEAST two stations in Lawrence are selling Gasolone blends instead of premium unleaded gasoline. Experts say any American-made car should be able to use the Gasolone blends to 20 per bottle alcohol without any engine modification.
But the price of the wonder fuel is higher than regular gasoline. People who would like to be more conservative in their use of gasoline might do so, because their budget just won't allow it.
gasoline marker with 225 stations in 26 states, began selling a 10 percent/90 percent Gasolol mixture at its stations last spring.
This is a choice area to build such a plant, too. Kansas' economy is already built solidly around the grain and cattle industries. The high alcohol production is sound business thinking.
HIGHWAY IS no stranger to Gasohol production. The company, an independent
With its market already established and with such a magical production plan, how can it lose?
One problem is the Department of Energy's reluctance to allocate more unleaded gasoline to the company for the production of Gasolol.
Lawrence third year law students
Chris Long
and the selflessness of the Oil Tribe is rearing its head. The major oil companies that supply Highway have been failing to deliver the gas. What a coincidence.
It's good to see a company finally take such initiative. It's all the sweeter because the plant is so well-suited to the state's economy and supply of raw materials.
It would, however, be more accurate to say that the amount of effort put into an assigned case varies greatly from attorney to attorney.
To suggest that in this case a court-appointed attorney was not doing his or her best solely because of the predominance of women jurors is blatantly and grossly unfair and reflects Mr. Hank's lack of interest in the process and process involved in jury selection.
Are we writing to disagree with Mank's suggestion that some court-appointed attorneys may put as much as a case as a case they might if privately retained.
We are not writing to suggest that this research, in fact, with increased public awareness of the falsehood of many myths surrounding sexual assault, the theory may lose validity.
Rape trial attorney unfairly blamed
To the Editor:
Brian K. Hank's letter in the Oct. 9 Kansan suggests the a recent kidnap and rape conviction could be traced in part to the fact that he was accused of rape by his man. His argument is based on the assumption that women jurors would be harasser on the accusated than men jurors
On the other hand, the theory suggests that women juniors tend to subconsciously seek to uphold the "it-deesn'bappe-ton" principle of authority and so tend to blame the victim. In most circumstances that involve a young victim who accepted a ride with the defendant, a jury of 11 women and one man would be advantageous to the accused assailant.
Unfortunately, most trial attorneys would suggest that the opposite is true.
The prevalent theory in rape trial jury selection is that men are likely to be sympathetic to and paternalistically protective victim, and thus harasser on the accused.
Kansan's headlines sloppy, inaccurate
To the Editor:
Considering the number of letters recently published praising the Kansan, a critical letter seems to be in order. As usual, the Kansan's headline would so like to criticize the sloppy headlines that appear in the Kansan. The following are examples from Tuesday's and Wednesday's Kansans:
"Law students watch police beat"—Who were the police beating while the students were watching? Oops.
"University may seek more funds / if solons reject 'formula-finding' ("ouristics) - solons of legislators) is an almost unforgiving case of headlineiness. A better head would have been: . . . if formula funding plan rejected, the better fund would be improved; for example, because the story specifically mentions "Regents schools" rather than KU.
These are just a few of the skoppy headlines in just two issues of the Kansan. Others have unlikely noun/verb combo structures, and others have peculiar ambiguities such as “yields no contest pla?” . (it’s this “yields a contest pla” or “ did not yield a contest pla”?)
The Kanan is not a professional newspaper, but we think we can expect better headlines than these. Perhaps the staff can chin in and buy a copy of HTK.
"I inspection show dwellings violate safety code"<sup>3</sup>, the story mentions buildings, never dwellings. The two words are the less appropriate word in the case of the less appropriate word "dwellings"<sup>4}$
Bruce Leban Lawrence junior
"Inquiry clears sheriff of charges" – wrong. The results of the investigation prompted by the inquiry cleared the sheriff.
"late paychecks hurt faculty fund?" the headline is talking about one particular? faculty fund; the story is talking about inquiries faculty members' retirement funds.
Bruce Leban
UNIVERSITY DAILY letters KANSAN
Hawarth Hall climate is like meat locker
To the Editor:
President Carter may have a point by telling everyone to turn their thermostats down, but I don't think I hear him say shut the whole heating system down. The third floor of Hawthorn Hall could be used as a grocery store that doesn't have enough space.
When people have to buy space heaters and keep them running so they can type without mittens on, it seems to defeat the purpose of trying to save energy.
Anne Johnson
Anne Johnson
Housekeeper, Haworth Hall
Cross country needs more press ocverage To the Editor:
After reading the letter to the editor on Wed., Oct. 10, titled "Kansas sport staff reporting 'excellent,'" he to have command the writer responsible. The letter was well-written, and hopefully it opened the eyes of sports officials that Kansas is giving more space to nonrevenue sports.
However, one problem with the article was that many students who read it thought the team's coverage of these nonrenewce sports. Little did they realize that not one article about men's cross country, other than one from last year, had been Sure, there have been those sports briefs, but how can they do justice to the fine performances of the individuals and the teams?
THEE HAS been good coverage of other nonrevenue sports and individuals, with large articles and photographs. I'm not
saying that cross country deserves more space, but shouldn't it get at least equal time to other nonrevenue sports?
The members of the sports staff should realize that cross country at the University of Kansas is growing stronger and better. The teams are potentially the best ever. If they were to get the coverage they deserve, then maybe students would show some interest in these sports. Students who educate students about the fine cross country teams we have right now, not to mention the boost in morale it gives team members who have their accomplishments reported.
Even without help from the Kansas, the great team tests their continued their great team's skills and a dedication perseverance, determination and dedication. training to which little is given.
Paul Malott
Prairie Village junior
To the Editor:
In a recent letter, Pat Sick stated that there is not, and never has been, any quality control of construction at the ultimate heat sink at Wolf Creek Nuclear Station.
No problems found at Wolf Creek site
Slick's statement was correct because quality control was not needed during exposition. But if it was, the experiment will be interrupted, to mean that there will be no quality control of construction.
The ultimate heat sink is an arm of the main cooling lake, which is cut off by a low wall below the lake surface, below the water level of the main lake. Its purpose is to retain sufficient water to cool down the reactor of the main dam should fail or when the dam becomes damaged designed with very flat side slopes, armored with a blanket of gravel and a top layer of rip-rap composed of 34-foot diameter steel beams that are mounted withstand constant submergence, the flow of water over it if the main dam should fail, and the same sharp shut down in case of other category-one structures are designed.
Only excavation of the ultimate heat sink lake site and foundation of the dam has been done. No construction of the dam had begun before the project. The geoengineering geology adviser to a team of engineers from the Water Resources Division of the State Board of Agriculture. Members of the team were proposed for plans proposed in Kansas, issuing permits and monitoring construction for adherence to specifications. The official groundwater management bedrock foundation of the heat dam.
We were met at the site by the resident geotechnical engineer of the consulting firm that is in charge of quality control of dams and building conditions. We were chief of quality control for KGKE. The rock foundation for the dam had been air-blasted clean all and joints in the rock meticulously worked. This was the first time we had no problems and the foundation was approved for construction of the dam. Quality control of construction of the dam will be handled by a consultant for KGKE, and because it is a category-one structure, during periodic inspections by NIC regional soils
Frank W. Wilson, Chief Environmental Geology Section Kansas Geological Survey