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Wednesday, December 11, 1974
University Daily Kansan
OPINION
I thought I'd impress my prospective employer and at the same time keep my integrity by telling him I was idealistic enough to want to change the world and at the same time realistic enough to make a profit doing it.
The employer replied, "How much profit?" I suggested windfall profit and got the job.
Now if I can only keep my windfall idealism intact.
A crudely lettered sign is taped to an office window. It reads simply "5." But it changes daily. And now it reads "1."
Walking off a headache
It's over. This semester's Kansan has drawn to a close. For me and a score of Kansan staff members, there'll be no more 3 a.m. headaches, no more irate readers, no more lunatics wanting to get their names in print.
It would be trite to say this semester has been a learning experience. But it has. It would be illmanned to say it's been asperating at times. But it's been that, too.
There have been the times when high-ranking officials have threatened us. There have been times when even our own advisers won't support us.
There was the time when KUOK decided I was going to resign, without even bothering to ask me. And there was the
time when the Kansas decided Clyde Walker was going to resign.
Quite a few people probably would have been pleased had either story been true.
My potential resignation would have been a stay of execution for the trudging crew
often lasted 20 or more hours a day for less than a half dollar an hour and no academic credit. It was their grades that suffered something Kansan could deliver somewhat better to students and faculty every day.
My resignation might have put someone with less audacity in charge of the Kansan, someone who would have
of Kansas staffers who were forced to struggle through a dearth of reporters and capable staffers to produce once again what has always been one of the nation's best college newspapers.
backed off when administrators were concealing facts or when elected officials made fools of themselves. While I really doubt that I personally made any difference, I think that making a mistake worried more about making friends and less about telling the news might have given you an inferior Kansan.
It was their hard work that made it possible, work that
An editor shouldn't make friends, he can't. For someday he'll find he has to hurt him. And now I can start making friends. This censor will start losing them. Just as Clyde Walker has.
Only for Walker, he can't afford to lose friends. He's got to keep alumni support high students. They're his employers.
But he hasn't done any of this. He's effectively fired one of the most popular and devoted coaches in Kansas football history, of doubled the ticket to a game handling the Title IX regulations. He deceived the students on projects like the field house floor. He's usurped the authority of the Athletic Corporation Board by naming an extra goal approval. And the list goes on.
Readers respond to sexism, dogs, water witches
Well, the KUOK rumor has come true. My tenure, by standard procedure, has ended, but the rumor has been enough for a Kansan editor.
Perhaps another semester is all Clyde Walker should have, too.
Sexism alleged
The first issue of the Jayhawk Newsletter appeared recently. In its own words, it is a "communication tool to be employed in Kansas Department with its many loyal supporters."
We would have expected women athletes to be included in this public relations effort, given that their unequal treatment has been that their contests are unpopular with the public (including men) and yield, compared to men's competition, money returns insufficient to defray their costs. We should, barely remedies that situation.
Women are mentioned on only three occasions. On page one, a photograph of Katie Heylan, Spokane, Wash., appears in which she is in the company of Warren Heylan. Other than her surname and her identification as a co-host, there is further information that Heylan is a representative of women's sports at the University of Kansas or elsewhere.
Women appear again on page two, where we learn that as pom-pon girls they will be in charge of the kiks of the KL basketball game.
Finally, the appointment of Marian Washington as director of women's intercollegiate sports at KU and the resignation of Betty Underwood from the position of ticket manager and amoon several staff changes described on several staff pages.
Of these three references to women, only the third definitely pertains to women's athletics at KU. Such omission is an example of sexism. This sensit bias is exacerbated by preference to women in a football dressing facility as a top priority for this year's improvement of athletic facilities.
Further elaboration is necessary. Hopefully, in future meetings with the Newletter, the athletic department will begin to redress the balance as it has grown and do in women's athletic activity.
Shirley Harkess Assistant Professor of sociology
Loose dogs
To the Editor:
As I walk around the campus, I constantly see quite a few dogs romping about. My question is this: why are they here? So many dogs are without collars or any type of identification. Is it normal for them to wear classes and don't really care what happens to them?
home with me and called who I hoped would be the owner. Unfortunately, the owner failed to mention the simplest form of identification—its sex. I was a victim of my own consideration.
Recently, I noticed a dog that fitted the description of a lost dog advertisement. I could answer the advertisement, I took the puppy
When students who own dogs feel compelled to bring them to campus and let them wander around without any form of identification, they display their irresponsibility. Why not just leave them at home? If you must bring your dog with you, please chain to a nearby tree. He can do some short distance running and still be there when your class is over.
Bob Schaumburg
Bob Schaumburg
Shawnee Mission Freshman
Water witches To the editor:
I would like to add some loose bits of information and some comments regarding your experience inverter-witching powers defended."
Dowing seems to be much more popular in Europe than it is in the United States. There are numerous Dowers' Clubs in several European countries. There was an International conference in Poland last summer.
Dowing is supposed to have originated in ancient Egypt. Pharaoh Ankhe Kwa was a douser known in history.
In 1904 a dowser was paid $3 million for finding large deposits of potassium in Alaska.
In the early 1900s a German dower found over 200 wells in South Africa. His accuracy was 81 per cent (about 2 or 3 times more accurate than modern dower wells) in 1834 a Frenchman found 940 wells without one error!
During World War II every British squadron in Africa had an official dowser. There is a dowling school in Canada.
In the United States, dowsing is taught at Columbia University. In Czechoslovakia, dowsing is frequently a required class for engineering maitrs.
G. N. Kinahan, Irish geologist, and L. W.angen, a British both chief geologists in their countries' governments) treat dowsing seriously. There have been many books published on this subject.
The Indian Ministry of Agriculture has employed a dowser, Joseph Reyve. The United Nation's geological advisor, S.W. Tromp, believes in dowsing.
There are many theories about dowsing, so it isn't possible to mention all in it. How can we disregard the explanations, dowsing seems to become more and more accepted in contemporary life and under no circumstances should it be laughed at.
Food growing
I am obliged to reply to the "Food Shortage" letter which appeared in the Kansan on Thursday.
In the first place, I respect the opinions of the Kanas editors. But there is always a difference between the original text and the press release, whereby meanings and intentions can be
Krakow, Poland, senior
My letter of Nov. 26, "U.S. Gifts," (titled letter by the Kansan who was in direct response to the KANK's suggestion for *World Food Crisis," an article which appeared in the Kansan on Nov. 12. The spirit of my comments was good if one had read that article.
The general theme of the article was that U.S. food consumption is too high and that Americans should stop eating meat to avoid "why-my" *Why blame the Americans for anything and everything?" and the statistics that followed. That, however, doesn't justify "irresponsible imperialistic decree" by the letter writers.
I know the Bible well, and my original letter to the editor read, "one cannot hesitate to sound biblical. God helps those who help themselves." This doesn't imply any quotation or phraseology in the Bible which contradicts it. But the Kaman chose to say "to quote from the Bible." I am sure there is a difference between "to sound biblical" and "to quote from the Bible," the latter being one of the objects of the letter writers' criticism.
V. Norman Anthony
Singapore Graduate Student
To the editor:
If Kendell had done any research at all, he would have discovered that since 1951, India's farmers have increased their cereal production by 20 per cent, the food grain production by 86 per cent and the per capita production by 16 per cent. These increases are driven by a shift in the Ravelle, professor of population policy at Harvard University and director of the Center for Population Studies at Harvard, and they are a far cry from the trend in a statement that Kendell wrote about.
If Kendell thinks that India is an exception among developing nations, he might be surprised to learn that in 1970, developing nations produced about 600 million tons of cereal grains—an increase from what was produced by developed nations during the same year. Yet, because of their greater populations, the developing
nations' production per capita was only 40 per cent of that of the developed nations.
The fact that the rate of population growth in the developed countries, twice the rate of growth in developed countries further diminishes the rate of increase in population by the production of developing countries.
When one examines Kendall's real issue concerning per capita income, it becomes clear that developing nations would have to produce more than the developed nations if they are able to afford the goods and services of their nation's per capita production.
Kendall should note that developed nations, such as the United States, are not so much concerned with population growth because of increase. Demographers now are predicting a world population increase from the existing 3.8 billion people to between 6.5 billion and 8.5 billion during the next 75 years. Population growth is one per cent of that growth will occur in developing nations.
I hope Kendell will have second thoughts on population density, the end product of population growth, when he is born. His population of 1.4 billion for India at the end of those 75 years.
The one point on which I agree with Kendell is in his hands. I out the problems to find the causes and investigate the solutions (because it might have done good)." He should have done better.
I found it interesting that Kendell, when comparing China's apparent ability to feed rice and wheat, its parent inability to do so, failed to mention that China also has been fairly successful in controlling her population. But China has not maintained both countries are sketchy and incomplete, it generally is agreed that China boasts a 1.7 per cent net annual growth rate and that China's cent annual growth rate.
Allow us a few remarks regarding Steven Lewis' editorial, "Public Should Pay Fund," in the Dec. 2 Kansan.
Finally, I find little irony in the fact that although we in fact can supply food, we have little to say about the world food situation. Factors involving food production and consumption are economic, institutional and social, not ones of proximity.
The institution of free advocacy has, long been controversial in both the United States and in Europe, where Lewis refers your readers for a supposed panacean solution.
Lawyers' fees To the Editor:
Mike Welch Wichita senior
Regrettably, your writer
limits himself to criminal proceedings, excluding from his comment the role of legal costs in civil litigation, in which economic inequality between private persons frequently prevents contacts at all. The one aspect of justice is at least as grossly thwarted in civil litigation as in the criminal field.
Furthermore, Lewis disregards both the institutional complexities and the doctrinal problems that legal defense would pose if it were run as a public agency.
Lastly, he simply failed to do his homework: Defense counsel Jake O'Neill, who is invariably available to anyone. None of the "private for-hire lawyers," as Lewis calls them, are kicked (ek)d... out of the courts."
Wolfgang Kessler
Kiel West Germany,
law student and others
India's bomb To the Editor:
Ever since the explosion of its nuclear bomb, India has been criticized. Critics haven't stressed world peace much, but they have talked about their economic and food crises.
It seems as if the critics have never given a second thought to the question of how many people could be fed, and for how many days, with the amount of money required for the explosion. Money is expensive, but can't take care of the millions of people dying from hunger in India for even a week.
Nobody knows whether the explosion was for India's own protection or for attacking its enemies, but this is beside the point when we are talking about world hunger. India has its own weapon with which to protect itself, and maybe it can help its spending on defense, which is a large percentage of its budget. The savings could be used for the development of agriculture.
The nuclear explosion didn't make the food problem worse, but it didn't solve the problem either. It could be treated as a different subject and one not related to hunger in India?
Suprisingly, the criticism didn't come from Pakistan and China, who should be more invested in Afghanistan's crucial countries of the world.
Nayan Desal
navsari, India,
graduate student
Vatican views
I wish to comment on two issues raised recently in the Kansan. They are the Catholic position on abortion and Pope Paul's position on population control.
Jain Penner's article (survey) of 25 random Catholic
students and their attitudes was interesting, but not very useful. The weight determined by opinion polls. Likes and dislikes may be determined by surveys, but matters of greater weight are
The Catholic Church takes a pre-life position. This applies not only to the unborn, but to all forms of human life, wherever it is found. It includes the sacred, the perfect, the aged, the disadvantaged, the prisoner and the soldier. Because the Catholic Church sees human life as a sacred gift entrusted by God to the care and protection of mankind, it insists that human life-keeping process be respected and not regarded lightly.
A pro-life position leads, naturally and logically, to the defense of the rights of those with life, themselves, the unborn. Some people question the Church's position that human life begins at conception. I have always been told they give nine months a little embryo grows into a little baby. It is a dangerous thing for anyone, to arbitrarily decide what matter is to be called human.
It should be no surprise to anyone that Catholic students reflect the vast diversity of opinion and confusion that they face and them. Some may look to the younger generation as the harbinger of a new age, bringing with it great emigration and danger. When the young have put their theories and opinions to the test of real life and discovered what values and to be true, then I will listen.
Four years ago I hoped that other church bodies would take action against abortion. It would be good to see that Catholics aren't the only ones who have a low opinion of those who claim a right to kill pregnancy.
The second issue is the Vatican's position on birth control as a solution to the problem of overpopulation and the world food shortage. Some scholars argue that the Vatican position paper said was that the Pope was against birth control.
The statement said birth control cannot be regarded as a shortcut or simple remedy for a very complex problem. The real issue at stake isn't how to cut back the birth-rate of overcrowded and starving nations. It also means justice in a fair and equitable distribution of world resources, wealth and food.
The weathiest nations are the ones most insistent that poorer nations curtail their birthrates. That must sound strange to other countries, who have more refugees, nations, the United States, has only 5 per cent of the world population and uses 30 per cent
of the world's mineral resources and a disproportionate amount of the world's food.
The Catholic Church's attitude toward bias control can't be this, "this," or "You can't do that." It's attitude one of reverence for the full significance of the mission and hoped it to be expressed.
The position taken by the Vatican is that it is time for nations to realize that they are not so separate from other nations, and that we have a responsibility for each other, even if it means privileged members must lower their standards in order others can have a decent life.
If people find it difficult to accept a Catholic position on birth control, perhaps they should be reminded that real life is just that way: you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Father Matthew Habiger
St. Lawrence Catholic
Student Center
The present flabbiness of sexual morality in this country is hardly something to be proud of. I find it strange that people would rather take issue with a stand for greater restraint and tolerance than decry the present state of moral decadence.
To the Editor:
"Get involved, care about your school, help others."
For the past four years these catchy phrases have been thrown at us by just about
everyone in authoritative positions. Their main emphasis was upon the authority that they had the authority to get involved. Unfortunately, there is a Catch-22 that when we want to take the mind that we are to do to.
Recently, I went to talk to Veda S. Gibson, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and an adviser and an adviser for freshmen in Olive College. She said I would have to go see Robert D. Adams, director of Oliver college, for she couldn't help me.
It seems absurd that the University that asks students to get involved has protocol that makes involvement impossible.
I think it is important for females to be advising from some of them, they there. There is student distrust of people who have been out of school for a while.
When I arrived at Adams' office, he was appreciative of my offer, but could be of no use to him. Three advisers assigned to Oliver College, and Adams' hands were tied in appointing anyone else (even on a volunteering basis) that matter was University polyce.
There have been complaints regarding advisers for many years, but now they come up with a worthwhile idea to help not only the students, but also the burdened ones. The one’s hands sudely are tied.
"Get involved, care about your school, help others"—sure!
Nancy Shaw Prairie Village senior
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