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ERA still priority,says NOW leader
By BRAD ADDINGTON Staff writer
Staff writer
MANHATTAN $ ^{-}$ Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment still is the National Organization for Women's primary concern, but the amendment will be possible only with the election of more women state legislators. Molly Yard, NOW national president, said Saturday.
"We have a large number of sponsors in both houses (of Congress). We know that we must also change the faces in the legislatures in order to be successful in ratification," Yard told about 60 people attending the Kansas NOW State Conference at the Kansas State University student union
Yard said passage of the ERA would be more binding than passage of the proposed Civil Rights Restoration Act, which would permit the federal government to stop financing institutions that discriminate against women and minorities.
"An act is only as good as the administration administering it. It's a very precarious place to be," Yard said.
The voice of more women in state legislatures also would shed light on how men and women differ on other issues. Yard said.
"There is something in this country called the gender gap. There is a gender gap in the way women vote. There is a gender gap in their positions on issues." Yard said.
Citing survey results that soon will be released in a NOW report on the gender gap, Yard said that 62 percent of people surveyed opposed anti-
abortion laws, 84 percent favored pay equity and 68 percent supported affirmative action in federal programs
A higher percentage of women that were in those majorities. Yard.
She said that many people assumed the demise of the gender gap when President Reagan received a good share of women's votes in the 1984 presidential election. But, Yard said many women voted for Reagan in an alternative to Walker Mondale, whom she said ran a poor campaign.
About the 1988 presidential campaign, Yard said she was disappointed by the decision of Rep. Patriot O'Neill, D-Cole, not to enter the race.
Although Yard lauded Vice President George Bush as the only candidate voicing strong support for pay equity, she said she supported none of the current candidates.
"Why should we kill ourselves to elect one of these people when, my guess is, they'll do nothing for us," Yard said.
However, Yard shared some advice that she had received in a letter from Martha Talley, Wichita NOW president. The letter cautioned that if NOW were totally uncooperative with the presidential candidates, they would have no reason to address the organization's concerns.
Pam Skarda, president of KU NOW, attended Sunday's conference. She said she agreed with Yard women should be in public office.
Blacks told 'practice politics' at symposium
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
Staff writer
Young people must to learn to practice good policies if they want to be successful, the Kansas secretary of transportation told the state's top black students at the Black Leadership Symposium this weekend.
school graduation.
Horace B. Edwards, transportation secretary since January, spoke to 130 students and parents Friday at the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 McDonald Drive. The symposium was created three years ago to prepare black students for success after high
Edwards said, "There's a need for the creative practice of politics," which is behavior that gets the students what they want out of life.
He detailed the three P's of politics, which are priorities and making choices such as staying in school instead of quitting to get a job, positioning oneself where accidents of good fortune are likely to happen; and presenting positive images of oneself.
Jacob Gordon, founder and executive director of the University of
Kansas Center for Black Leadership Development and Research, created the symposium. He said the program was aimed at minority students in the top 10 percent of their classes, students already selected for professional preparation and gifted students.
As president of the Arco pipeline company before becoming transportation secretary, Edwards told the students, he'd found that the way to be successful in private industry was to learn and to practice politics.
by Arthur Fletcher, former U.S. undersecretary of labor. They took part in discussions and attended workshops that examined their academic and personal lives
During questions after his talk, Edwards was asked about the failure of Gov. Mike Hayden's highway improvement plan in August.
Edwards said the plan had failed only for the moment.
"The state needs highways or it's going to go down the tubes." Edwards said.
These are the CD features they'll be copying next.
In May of 1983, Kyocera introduced a CD player with true 16-bit digital filters. Today, the competition's calling this circuit "the latest thing." Years ago we had four-times oversampling. This year every high-end player worth mentioning has a similar design. In September 1984 Kyocera raised some eyebrows with the world's first Fine Ceramics anti-resonant CD chassis. Now the stores are full of filmy imitations.
How did all these innovations happen to come from Kyocera, and not some household name? Perhaps because Kyocera's knowledge of digital circuitry comes from years of building computers for some of the best-known names in electronics. Perhaps because Kyocera is a world leader in Fine Ceramics, the technology used to house circuitry in aerospace and other advanced applications. Or perhaps because some top-rated CD players from other brands were actually made by Kyocera.
Now Kyocera has four world-beating Compact Disc Players, ranging in suggested retail price from $350 to the $800 model DA-710CX shown here. Each boosts technology so advanced, it's a preview of what the competition will be selling in 1989. After all, history does repeat itself.
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Thursday, October 29th from 2:30-8:30 p.m. Litwin's will host the K.U. Crew team as they row their Ergometers (a drylandrowing machine) 250,000 meters (500 miles). The Ergathon is to raise money for the K.U. Crew Team, and will take place in front of Litwin's at 830 Mass.
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