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Monday, September 20,1976
University Daily Kansan
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Neff's feminism frank
Francine Irving Neff, Treasurer of the United States, I like you. I shouldn't because you are a conservative Republican and I am not, but you still said a few things last Thursday that impressed me.
"I USE it shamelessly," you said before your speech to the Symposium for Women. "I haven't cried yet; that's the final weapon."
You said that you were a woman, and proud of it. Great. I like that, and I liked it when you said that you weren't afraid to use your womanhood.
You even admitted that you probably wouldn't have gotten the job as treasurer if the government hadn't been looking for a woman. That's an honest statement for a time when Affirmative Action guidelines sometimes squeeze unqualified people into government, and. God knows, university jobs.
And best of all, I liked you when you said that you didn't like the so-called "sexless words." All of us are mankind, you said, and you didn't have any use for made-up words like "chairperson" or "spokesperson."
"WE ALL know equality does not hang on such semantics." you said.
You also weren't afraid to say that you did housework, volunteer work and other things that women traditionally do. Those things are sometimes looked down upon now, and some of the more traditional ones want to abolish those kinds of things.
But even though you acknowledged the presence of such chores, you urged
women to take a more active role in local, state and federal affairs.
YOU RAN over your own track record as a volunteer for almost every kind of organization that could exist in middle America as an example of a woman who can get ahead in the world without being radical.
You suggested that women should run for the school board, community council or a state office. I like that. I think that women have been unfairly discriminated against in the past, but I resent women who suggest that the world owes them a job because of the past.
"We represent about 53 per cent of all registered voters, but we hold less than five per cent of all elective or appointive offices," you told the 500 women at the symposium. "Only 13 per cent of elected school board officials are women, and only four per cent of state senators are women."
IT'S TRUE that women don't have the proportion of offices that they probably should have. But a person doesn't have the right to seek an office of banking and law to seek an office.
That's basically what you said when you told the audience, "Please don't say you don't have the skills or experience because many of you have learned these skills as volunteer workers—how to organize, how to motivate, and how to manage programs on a shootstring budget. And don't downgrade all of these skills."
I just wish there were more women like you. By Carl Young
Contributing Writer
Using lost as campaign issue
President Ford's campaign strategists are probably disappointed by the recent reports of calm and cooperation in most cities where busing began this fall. The good news
will steal some of the thunder from a highly visible campaign issue that the President has been exploiting to show that he's a foe of big, intrusive government.
Ads, fees pay Kansan's way
It's been rumored on campus that the Kanas is raking in money hand over typewriter. Why, just take a look at it—you can barely see the news for all the
It's also said with knowing looks that the real power in the newsroom lies somewhere other than the Kankan staff. Perhaps it is the case, perhaps, possibly even Strong Hall.
And everyone knows it's full of distortions, inaccuracies, shallow reporting and half-truths that anyone, whether they know what they're telling them, could just find a Karen to read.
Beginning this week, I'm going to try to explain some of what happens at the Kansan from 8 a.m. until as late as 4 a.m. the following day. I'll try to avoid defensiveness and strive for candidness, but I will always take something about the Kansan puzzles you. Then I'll try to explain in "Editor's Note."
The page you're now reading cost more than $80 to print. Granted, that $80 paid for all the page four's on campus today, but if you multiply that by 1,800—the
Well, yes and no. Many impressions of the Kansan, both favorable and downright nasty, are correct. But just as many of the parkings given at KU, half the parking tickets given at KU.
typesetting costs. We paid $6,890.67 for
typesetting, a commodity that is increasingly
expensive. Cost of the printing press and
ink was $775.55, camera work cost
$1,468.43 and addressing our mail sub-
scriptions cost $287.25.
Judging from the conversations I've overheard and from the telephone calls to the newsroom, people do care. Those who don't care, should, because everyone staked the Kansan $2 when they went through enrollment. That's an annual total of about $68,000, which is a mighty big investment to protect.
Add this up and the total is $1,771.30.
Every picture we画 that month, at least one is sold, shot, cost $ to run, and all "overbursts" (printing two images in the same space) cost another $ or $4. In addition, at least three dollars pay for the work done around Flint Hall
WE PAY our bills with money from two
For the most part, the fault for such misunderstanding lies with the Kansan. He was not always nice and virtues; for too long the operation of the Kansan has been considered an in-house matter. We figured it out nobody's business or nobody really cared.
been spent completely on paying off our debts instead of upgrading the Kansas
sources—the student activity fee and
advertising. The activity fee money—
$48,000 last year and $88,000 this year—is
the principal revenue of advertising revenue is indispensable.
But last year the ad rates and lineage were increased, and we made $178,827 in advertising revenue. The student activity fee apprehension was also increased, giving us the balance of balanced budgets and an improved Kansan in future years.
The Kansan has a history of losing money. In 1972-73 we lost $3,609; by 1974-75 the deficit had risen to $15,000. Luckily, the Kansan has an operating fund which has offt our losses, but that had shrunk from $89,000 in 1973 to $73,000 last year. Had the trend continued, our operating fund eventually would have
number of pages published last year you'll set a printing bill of $147,737.33.
The President, of course, wrote and supported legislation that would strictly curtail busing to desegregate public schools. The legislation proposes that federal judges be permitted to order busing only to correct segregation arising from such conditions, such as those by a school board, and not from such indirect factors as neighborhood housing patterns.
Our printer, the University Printing
Machine, was purchased in 1972, and have
been rising steadily in recent years.
In 1971-72 it cost $40.63 a page; in 1972-73,
$89.80; in 1973-74, $94.49; in 1974-75,
$110.90; in 1975-76, $121.20; in 1976-
77, $70.70
The advertising side is charged with keeping us from bankruptcy, and to do that they must keep a financially healthy ratio between revenue-producing ad space and the weight news space. Barely breaking even is 40 per cent ads, 40 per cent news.
Editor's Note
IT ALSO would require that busing orders be examined by the courts after three years and that the orders be ceased after five years except in "extraordinary circumstances."
TODAY's paper is 45 per cent ads, a money-losing percentage. However, today was special because we needed to be able to have other special days when space is needed for picture pages or other "extras." But we'll have to pay for such event dates like a book look at Thursday or Friday. Paper likely will be close to 75 per cent ads.
Debbie Gump
The news side of the Kansan grips as loudly, if not louder, about our news space limitations as anyone on campus. But we also know who pays the bills. The increased student activity fee allotment gives us a balanced budget, but the advertising makes any kind of budget at all possible.
John Fuller
Contributing Writer
trusion of the courts into the busing controversy to the violations of individual liberties by the CIA and the FBI.
FORD'S insensitivity stands out more when it is remembered that the U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to reverse court orders requiring the bussing of 21,000 children in custody by the way, it has been much the case in the last two years.
OBVIOUSLY, THE Kansan isn't an inexpensive operation. Take, for example, the month of February. It cost $180 to produce a composition, proofreading and
Even though many cities have learned from the racial strife caused by busing protests in 1970s and 1980s, Louisville and are taking action to bolster community support and understanding of busing to avoid violent opposition, the President continues to make inflammatory statements that threaten the lives of heart to seeregentists.
This summer he came out in favor of segregated private schools as they did not receive federal funds. In a speech on behalf of the crowd of cheering Jaycees this summer, he likened the in-
all are examples that the people in this country have more sense, decency and compassion than other countries. Ford, give them credit for.
To hold on to this pet issue, so dear to the hearts of true-blue conservatives. Ford even offered a sensitive 315-page report released this summer by the Civil Rights Commission, appointed by the President. The report concluded decisively that both busing and desegregation are in the vast majority of schools.
ONLY A few new desegregation orders have been issued this year, and the number of U.S. attorneys assigned to prosecute obstructors of desegregation has dwindled from more than a dozen in 1975 to three.
Milwaukee's volunteer integration plan, Dayton's busing of the parents of thousands of students to their children's new school, the Ormah citizens' group's slogan "Let's make it Work."
The cities know that segregation patterns often are caused by factors other than official government actions. The cities also cause white flight to the suburbs leaving poor nonwhite urban areas in their wake. The cities and the people know that there is no need to make for busing to work desegregation work and, seeing that, they have realized that working for community harmony and cooperation is better than strident, unyielding discord.
President Ford isn't stopping this community progress by his political demagoguery, but he certainly isn't helping matters. He doesn't stop up racial prejudice and strife.
Letters
To the Editor:
Listener liked concert
Greg Bashaw, who reviewed the Leon and Mary Russell show on Saturday night, failed
Sanctioned noise worse than music
(Note: On Thursday, the University Events Committee voted to let guitarist Max Tennant play on campus two days a week. Tenant had been told earlier to stop playing near Wescoe Hall because they didn't have a permit.)
To the Editor:
Once upon a time, long ago, an event occurred at the University of California at Berkeley where she was called the Free Speech Movement. Naturally, gentle readers and administrators, I don't expect you to remember what it was obviously a passing phase.
Not too long ago, a musician, some who know him might say a passing minstrel, was ordered to play a song by the policeman for playing a tune or two in front of Wescoe Hall. The reason given was that he was disrupping classes and disturbing education in the area.
I don't wish to open old wounds so thoroughly scarred over. I don't wish to cry "wolf." But, I wonder what powers are demonstrated by the Music Man incident the other day. I understand that he played an instrument and a song in music. Neither his voice nor his guitar were artificially amplified by electricity.
He protested by saying that he was merely responding to a
Readers Respond
harmless natural urge to entertain a handful of people, at no expense to himself or his audience. But the wheels of state rolled on, and he quietly gave in and left.
Down the street from Wescow Hall, a small shelter and booth occupy a place along the sidewalk. Throughout the year, depending on the tradition of such affairs, small electronic
Oh, let some of us lament the passing of the freedom to exalt in quiet reverence, the composite beauty of spontaneous
Ta. noises tell of the Rock Chalk Revue, SUA events and Senior Class (official dues members only, please) events.
speakers bleat music, an-
nouncements and
advertisements from the booth.
human expression and art. And steel ourselves to be subjected to the authorized howling of respectable, scheduled, stamped-with-good-seal-of-agnond, nondisruptive noise.
Thank God-thank God! We all were afraid that things would never return to normal on our campuses and that our darling little boys and girls would never again be led by our
Blake Hibbard
1124 Louisiana No. 114
Aubituaries 'Our Ford's' the warm hands. We are comfortably naysy on our quality of our good citizens. Sleep well tonight, peace, love.
What disturbance?
As I read the article concerning "Illegal picking" in the Friday, September 10 issue of the Kansan, I was appalled to read that the two guitarists, who play on our campus, were run off because they were "disturbing classes."
To the Editor:
I would, first, like to pose the question, "How can an amateur guitar player, who is not soliciting funds, who is no loud enough to be heard from more than forty feet away, and who is not a music teacher, all of the students and himself, even begin to disturb classes?"
Most of the guitarists play by or very near Wescoca Hall. The majority of my classes are in the band's soundproof building this is. It is very difficult to even hear the "whistle" through the thick walls during class change. How, if not as loudly, could a couple of rambling musicians?
The second point I would like to make is in reference to the statements made by Scott
Jarus. The first time Jarus is quoted, he says, "We control the entire campus," as far as events go. "Jarus' use of the doesn't include me, and I have serious doubts that his complaint concerning the guitar players reflects the general attitude of the students at KU who abide by determining what happens on campus." Then he goes to campus. Did Jarus seek input from the student body before making his complaint? And was that input taken from a cross section of the student body? Or were students concerned with student opinion?
Jarus also makes the statement that he thinks the musicians have the right to play but things could get out of hand. What does "out of hand" mean? Does it mean that more musicians might grace our band? Does it mean that rather dull atmosphere at KU might be changed? What could be more dreadful!
Vance Hiner
Lawrence freshman
to notice that the crowd wasn't bored but entranced.
It's too bad that Bashaw spent his time interviewing the T-shirt vendor instead of people inside.
In the final analysis, it seems to me that the banning of musicians without permits on campus is a case of student misrepresentation and the effort on the part of certain students, with police assistance, to maintain their bureaucratic control of the
He must not have seen the crowd on the floor dancing and clapping. He couldn't have gone up into the b翠婴 and seen them stealing from the people glued to their seats by Russell's powerful music.
Maybe our reviewer isn't a 'leon fan. But could he possibly have failed to notice that Allen was packed with Leon fans?
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The reviewer said that the crowd hurried for the exits after the encore. he possibly have failed to hear the five-minute roar from the crowd before the encore, the thousand inches that were held above encore and the footstomping on the bleachers' Fans worked hard to bring Leen back out.
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If Leon was so tired, why did he come back out and play four songs for an encore?
"master of space and time," and who has played hundreds of roles in the film, he never happens of his own accord. Didn't the reviewer stop to think that the acoustics in Allen Field are bad? And they certainly are.
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Our reviewer said the band's sound merged into one loud metal roar. Surely Leon Russell, once bilked as rock's
Leon brilliantly flowed from "Song for You" into the chorus from "Love Story," which by the way wasn't by Henry Mancini but by Michel Legrand. The crowd was unsure of what Russell and his music were when they left because they loved it so much Russell's music is diverse. He can go from deep blues to hard rock to classical without losing the crowd's interest.
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