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Wednesday, October 23, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
OPINION
"SECRETARY BUTZ IS RIGHT ABOUT CUTTING DOWN ON PETS. LET'S START WITH THE GOLDFISH"
Students save energy
By KATHY PICKETT
Dear Mr. Ford,
I hate to have to say this to a former football player, but you must understand that You are at the end of a big great generation gap. It's not your fault. It really isn't im-
You see, Mr. Ford, you give us big speeches with inspiring words of hope and battle cries of "WK". But I'm a collegeMr. Ford, and I frequently don't see what the fuss is all about.
I'm speaking about the methods you list to conserve
energy. I've seen these methods being used by college students long before impairment was a glimmer in their father's eye. You know, you're fine. What I'm telling you is that we're already employing them, and what's more, we have a few to add. Would you like to hear best feelings from the creative energy and enthusiasm of youth?
You want higher food prices cut by more production. We should all conserve on what we eat, and most of my friends have been rolling their own cigarettes. What's more, some of them have been
trying to grow their own tobacco, but we have an attorney general out here who wastes an incredible amount of energy killing what we grow. Do you call that conservation?
And, Mr. Ford, you suggest that we be more careful of unwise borrowing and the use of student loans because there were a college student there would be no credit, because no one trusts us enough to give it to us. And as you know, your predecessor was careful to see you and not have you be annoyed by having to assume "burdensome federal loans."
You told us about the man
who was allowed only two meals a day. You don't seem to understand, Mr. Ford, college students are so busy that they don't have time to eat a day. Just give the American people several term papers, 20 books and three articles to prepare in one week, and they'll forget all about inflation.
We are advised to turn off lights whenever possible. It's a good idea. But ever since I came to college I've been meeting boys who were very eager to turn out lights. Can it be they were all really just good citizens?
Public deception easy
This country is wallowing in Watergate tragedies, struggling to climb out of an economic morass, and it all can be traced to government finds it too easy to mislead and deceive the people.
Lyndon B. J. Johnson, who had an almost psychotic bent for justice, was also guilty of the hide the truth about what the Vietnam war was done to this country.
economic blues, we struggle to cast off the corrosive effects of Watergate, the most dramatic scandal ever to affect this society.
We're paying a horrible price for that secrecy today as we see the effects of the collapse of credible ramps of rampant inflation and deepening recession.
It was the ability of former President Richard M. Nixon to put secret stamps on evidence of crookedness, to throw up a shield of "executive privilege," and to imprison Kimberle campe for more than two years.
fraction of the political hanky-panky that has taken place in the FBI over the last couple of decades.
The new Information Act was passed, not because Congress
Even as we suffer the
It was only because people of conscience inside government were willing to "leak" to a press that never stopped digging that the police rescued from the most brazen power grab in our history.
make what amounts to the initial classification decision in sensitive and complex areas have no particular expertise.
Balderdash! A federal judge
By Carl Rowan
Practice
Bar exam checks skill, not race
A recent suit against the Kansas Supreme Court and the state Board of Law Examiners, which asks that a black law school graduate be admitted to the Kansas bar without passing the bar examination, is way off base.
The student, a Notre Dame graduate who has failed the Kansas bar exam three times, charges that the test is culturally biased against nonwhites because the questions are phrased in a manner more familiar to someone with a white background than to someone with a black background. The president of the KU Black American Law Student Association backs the suit, and says people with a thought process different from that of the law examiners might misinterpret the questions on the examination.
But this argument is nearsighted, if the passage of the bar exam is seen as the object of a legal education. The real object is to know the law and how to use it, and admission to the bar is merely the license to begin using that knowledge. The bar exam tests whether the student has the specialized knowledge he needs to practice law.
In order to work effectively for a client, a lawyer must be able to use the legal system, a system based almost entirely on the ability to communicate in a strictly prescribed manner.
To admit a person to the bar when he cannot demonstrate the skills that would be required of him would do him and his future clients the greatest harm.
If there were several legal systems, each constructed for a particular culture, it would be different. But a lawyer, regardless of his background, must represent clients in the legal system as it exists. If he isn't equipped to do competent work with it, what will be the result? Will he move in court to declare a mistrial on grounds that he was unable to understand his opponent's case because it was presented with cultural bias?
But these tests of basic intelligence are altogether different from a specialized test of learned skills. And altering a skills test to makes it easier to pass isn't the answer.
There is a big difference between the bar exam and basic intelligence tests. Cultural bias is acknowledged to play a large part in below-average scores for non-whitees on IQ and similar tests.
The test itself isn't the end toward which law students work. The law profession is their goal and failure in the test of learned skills forebodes failure in the skilled profession.
All this is prefatory to an assertion that President Gerald R. Ford once again swallowed some bad advice when he vetosed the 1974 Freedom of Information bill.
This is a measure that would have reduced the ability of federal agencies to practice corruption, stupidity, affectionate and fanaticism, and then throw up a shield of "national security" or "executive privilege." It is a pass by passed both houses of Congress because the legislators were acutely aware of how secrecy has been abused by governmental dangerous detriment of the people.
Mr. Ford vetoed that bill partly at the urging of the FBI, which threw up the bugaboo of a threat to this country's nation or intelligence secrets and diplomatic relations."
You will recall that a former acting director of the FBI, L. Patrick Gray admitted in 2014 that he waterlogged documents, which is only a
John Pike
wants the press to be able to blab vital U.S. secrets, but because Congress sees the press being able to probe and pressure the FBI to the extent that it never gains so free to trample over citizens' rights by making a gross violator of the law.
As one who served four and a half years in government in some pretty sensitive jobs, I was always classified as classifications is rampant for the simple reason that nobody with brains enough to hold a government job wants the public to be held against it. But God's greatest gift to public service. The natural tendency is to broadcast what is self-serving and to hide what is uncompliant. There is no reason why the Nixon administration a national security label, as the Nixon people demonstrated.
The 'bill vetoed by Ford required that in some disputes a federal judge rule on the validity of secrecy authorization. Mr. Ford's this on the grounds that "the courts should not be forced to
'L.A. Flash' too fast
By LORI LYNAM
Art Reviewer
"L.A. Flash," showing at the Museum of Art, is a confusing slide show that attempts to capture the quick pace of fashion.
The exhibit definitely has fascinating potential. It might
be interesting to view the apparel while comparing it to the tote. The pacing of the slides is fast and repetitious—much too fast. The interviews are nearly new, with music adding to the contour.
Great-grandfather's life prized
Dear Heather: Your great-grandfather died a few days ago. You are four and he was 81, and it's not likely that you will retain much of a memory of him. Pietri was a remarkable man,
born in 1893, which will seem a very long time ago to you. The Civil War and Reconstruction era led him to drop out. He dropped out of school when he was just a boy and went to college. When automobiles came piloted
By James Kilpatrick
He taught us, by his own,
example, that we can be
whatever we truly want to be.
He taught us how to use of
education and of the uses of
curiosity. Until the very last
months of his life, he never
stopped learning and he never
thought about anything else
one for keeping his mouth shut.
and there are useful things to be learned from his life.
in love with machines. He truly wanted to be a mechanic, so he made himself a master mechanic. He truly wanted to drive racing cars, so he learned to race on the dirt tracks of Virginia fairgrounds. He was barely five feet tall and had to walk up a steep hill where he was going, but he truly wanted to win—and he won.
There seems to be a reason for this confusion that is based on fashion trends and high fashion trends, like everything else are too fast.
You will never know anyone so curious. He was curious about bugs and plants and ferns and moss. He was especially curious about fish. He spent so many hours fishing—just fishing, and watching, and keeping his mouth shut—that he could swim faster, sleep and swim around. He could cast a fly under a willow tree fifty feet away and never ruffle the water.
happened to him, to be told that he couldn't work any more. He moved over his head, and pronounced himself ready to die. After two days he couldn't stand him either. Nobody could stand him either.
He was still working at 70, working with tools, designing and inventing, when calamity struck; His company told him he would have to retire. It was the worst thing that ever
curiosity for ten men. He was always wondering how a thing worked, and whether it couldn't be made to work better. He would scratch his head and think, that if you tried this, and then this, and then this, maybe you could invent something more useful. His fiancé he got fascinated with magnets, and he did things with magnets no one had ever thought of doing before.
Your great-grandfather was
This is knowledge, Heather—not book-knowledge, but knowledge-knowledge. To know how a leaf curls out of a bud is just as useful, in its way, as knowing how to write a sonnet.
He got out of bed and started a whole new life. He truly wanted to be a sculptor, so he put his tools and his curiosity together and began making flowers and ferns and fountains that could be used in the garden. This was part of the meaning of education. All those years in the woods and by the ponds, he had been learning. He had learned how a leaf is attached to the twig, and the twig to the branch, and the branch to the tree. He loved gardening, and he俩's legs fit together. He had seen the world in the eye of a frog.
cares just as much about national security as any executive branch bureaucrat. He is not burdened by either the newsman's urge to get a scoop or the executive branch's preference for operating in secret. It isn't the judge's expertise, this common sense judgment, his dignity and proper person to say when secrecy regulations are being abused.
or build a bridge, or set a broken bone. Ben's copper leaves had the feeling of leaves because he had looked intently at leaves. Touch those leaves and you know all the autumns of
President Ford's early gib promises of an open administration are evaporating rapidly. This latest veto is to be used in the motion that, like his predecessors, he is succumbing to ultimately self-destructive policies of letting the people live without thins is good for them—and of course for himself.
At 80, he was still a colorful figure at the sidewalk art shows, joking with young artists, selling his flower sculptures, painting ribbons he won. Then his health failed and his eyes sighted, and the heart that wouldn't give up, gave up. But life always goes on. Heather will be growing a little girl growing up on a farm. The leaves of autumn do not die; they grow in another way in another spring. When you're a few years older, you will be perfectly perfect day when the fish are biting and the water sparkles. Think of your great-grandfather. Some part of him will still be playing golf, still sharing the wonder of it all.
People feel ridiculous trying to keep up with the trends, thus they dress in a manner that expresses their individuality.
At varied parts of the show's interviews, the word "individuality" is audible, and.
GRANDFATHER,
(C) 1974 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
KANSAN review
perhaps, this is the idea that is supposed to come across.
The background music, the inaudibility of the interviews and the fast-paced repetitive slides are done for a purpose, but technically they fail.
Several ideas do come across — to develop cultural diversity and the absurdity of continuing fashion trends, but they only add to the existing confusion.
The viewer can't be certain exactly what the purpose of the image is, but the more effective if the presentation was slowed down for easier slide viewing or paced slowly. The less effective effect would come across.
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You tell us to conserve on the clothes we wear, Mr. Ford. We are advised to shop for bargains. Have you been on a campus lately, Jerry? If you have not, I would college students wear nothing that's new. Only today I came to the reregrettable decision that
some new jeans are in order,
and that's only because the ones
I sat down in split across the top
of my jeel. That's conservation
As for driving less, that's no problem. Most of us can't afford cars, and if we can, they don't run. Why, them, are there so many cars on the road against hitchhikers? We're just trying to save gas.
Along that line, Mr. Ford, is another suggestion. I remember how much gas we wasted in high school, driving around town, checking to see what was happening. We'd drive for miles to find a spot away from society.
Once kids move away from home, that problem is solved, Mr. Ford. They do their entertainments in dorms or apartments, and the car becomes unnecessary for romance.
Well, Mr. Ford, you can see that we are already following many of your bright suggestions; just I want to tell few more that we usenetly out of our desire to help our country.
I've tried to persuade friends to turn off their stereos and listen to me sing. Somehow they reefishing this generous offer. But we've found many other alternatives to watching television.
One of the biggest energy savers is in doing homework together. I don't know why we can't sell teachers on this idea, but it could save paper, ink, and more precious health if there were more cooperative efforts on assignments.
Last year the British publicized a wise solution to waste: Save water—bathe with a friend. This is something I'm sure college students will understand; we know a good way to save on the heating bill: sleep with a friend. If you choose the right one you may be able to turn your furnace completely off.
Also, Mr. Ford, you might tell the people of America what a wise investment a keg of beer would have to do for cans and the washing of glass pitchers. And by the time a couple of kegs have been filled to a party, everyone feels so good they forget about inflation.
Students at the bars found a good solution to the waste caused from overuse of bathroom facilities when they decided to use the great outhouse neighbors of the bars don't seem too fond of these alternatives.
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