KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
No. 146
Tuesday. June 17. 1975
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Reporter shimmies through belly blues
By JAIN PENNER Kansan Staff Reporter
Thousands of years ago, before women were liberated and men were male canuivists pigs. Midwestern women earned their dowries by performing belly dances.
When the Kanan informed me that my next assignment was to write a first hand account of learning how to bely dance, and a momentary vision of myself, I went to Israel and studied with Jewish students.
At first, I considered handing in my resignation, but I decided to give it a try.
Tuesday night I entered the United Ministries building where the University of Kansas Belly Dance Club meets once a week.
I tried to slip in conspicuously by a man in the lobby, holding my breath and hoping he wouldn't ask me what I was looking for.
I'd nearly made it when a lady called out loudly, "Are you looking for the belly dance club?"
I blushed and nodded.
"It's upstairs," she told me.
As I climbed the stairs and listened apprehensively to the eerie Arabic music being played above me, I wondered what I'd gotten myself into. Little did I know that I was about to discover not only a fantastic form of exercise, but a cure for all my physical ailments. It would be the Sunday morning beer blues (one of my more common aliments).
Although many Americans associate belly dancing with burlesque, I found it much more akin to ballet.
The first step in learning to belly dance is learning the hand movements. It takes about 30 minutes, desperately trying not to feel self-conscious, and finally got them down pat.
Things went downhill from there.
The hip circles were next. Things were going fine until about my 45th one, then I began some strenuous activity and pains. Just when I thought I was fallable again, I felt like a superhero.
Had I known what was coming next, I think I would have been content to do 45 more hip circles. Smiling and no signs of stress or exhaustion at all, our team hadn't even done any work yet.
Ideally, when a belly dancer shimmies, every inch of her should shake and ripple seductively.
Well, I shook and I rippled, but I felt about as seductive as a Shake 'n Bake bag in jean shorts.
Reporter at work
the night progressed, I discovered about 102 defects in my body I never knew it. The was the first time I realized I could not move without my hip. My life had gone astray. I moved slowly, without moving any pearls.
Cindy Wiley, Lawrence sophomore, one of the club's instructors, wore 300 coins on the top of her costume. Long ago, she said, women who couldn't afford to pay a dowry had to earn it by belly dancing. Passers-by attached coins to the dancer's top.
It may be a existist way to finance a marriage but it's a lot cheaper than paying five per cent interest on a loan.
Wike said many people associated belly dancing with striptaceae because one of the little belly dancers to come to America had been a skripper named "Little Egg."
Kansan staff reporter Jan Patern displays professional form in her first attempt at belly dancing. Pemer was hard at work reporting on the accompanying article.
Lawrence lacks problems, Mayor Clark says
By APRILDIXON
Kansan Staff Reporter
Lawrence doesn't have many of the urban problems that face other Kansas cities of comparable size, Barkley Clark, Lawrence mayor, said v戴廷安.
"We have been able to maintain our level of services and to keep property taxes low, so that we can afford better health care."
"The city is moving in good directions and I am very optimistic and encouraged." Clark said in a speech to the League of Women Voters.
next year," he said. "Inflation is eating us alive."
Clark said Lawrence was located in one of the most advantageous areas in the state, near several major metropolitan cemers, and should enjoy a slow, steady population growth in the future. He said the city had a "good, diverse economic base" and profits from the University of Kansas being here.
The city's economic outlook is "fairly rosy," Clark said, because of the passage in
Clark said one of the most influential elements in creating Lawrence's stable economic situation was the passage of the Revenue Sharing Act in 1972.
1971 of a ½-cent sales tax and the general economic situation in this area.
He said revenue sharing had opened up a large amount of unrestricted funds that could be used for both capital projects and social programs. In addition, he said, the county officials have cooperation between city and county officials because of their work on joint projects.
Regents' new head watches enrollment
By ALLISON GWINN
Kansan Staff Denorter
The trend in college enrollments is an important part of the financial problem facing the Board of Regents for fiscal 1976, Prudence Hutton, head of the board, said yesterday. Hutton was elected head of the board last Thursday.
"Fortunately, enrollments in Kansas Regents' schools are stabilizing." Hutton said. "We haven't suffered from decreases like most states have."
Hutton, who is the first woman chairman of the board, said that the problem of decreasing enrollments had been complicated by increased costs.
Hutton said we would never again see the golden days of the '60s, when enrollments were rapidly increasing. However, enrollments may stabilize because of an increasing emphasis on continuing education beyond the secondary level, she said.
"Costs are soaring, Library books, for example, are almost doubling in price," she
"If anything is cut out of the budget, we try to get it reinstituted," Hutton said. "We give as much information as we can on the costs and programs, such as the costs of various programs."
Decreasing enrollments are only one of the concerns of the Board of Regents. One of the board's most important tasks is the presentation of their budget and appropriation requests to the Kansas legislature for approval and amendment.
Hutton said she hoped the board could work out ways for funding programs other than in proportion to the number of credit hours taken by students.
"We committed ourselves to try for a 10 per cent three-year salary increase, and we are delighted with the progress."
He also said that the board was favorably inclined toward faculty salary increases.
She said she also hoped the board would publicize the positive aspects of higher education.
Russian women athletes respected and appreciated
By APRIL DIXON Kansan Staff Reporter
Women's athletics in the Soviet Union are more influential and widely appreciated than in other countries. Washington, assistant athletic director in charge of women's athletics, said last week.
Washington returned recently from a tour of the U.S.S.R.
Two University of Kansas players were chosen yesterday in the second round of the American Basketball Association college draft.
previously represented the United States in basketball from 1698 to 1791. Washington was chosen from a group of 25 all-star players in the first four rounds of a camp in late April at Plainview, Texas.
Washington toured the U.S.S.R. for three weeks in May and early June as a member of the U.S. women's basketball team. She has twice been named All-American and
"They respect their women athletes." They appreciate all their afflicted people.
Uttah drafted Norm Cook and later in the same round San Antonio, using a selection gained in a trade with Kentucky, took Rick Suttle.
She said the Russian women play a rougher, more aggressive game than U.S. women. She said that their game was better than that they used the basic fundamentals well.
2 KU players in ABA draft
The only other area player drafted was Ken Smith of Tulsa, who was selected by the Blue Jackets.
He said he had been disappointed earlier by the NBA draft, in which Sutley had been selected.
The 12-member team left New York May 13 and flew to Moscow for their first two games. They played a total of eight games, including the most members of the Russian national队.
Cook, a 6-8 forward, will be a junior next season. Suttle, a 6-9 center, was a senior at the university.
Ted Owens, KU basketball coach, said yesterday that he was happy to see his team's success.
Owens said he thought Suttle wouldn't make a quick decision on whether to sign with the San Antonio club. He hasn't talked recently with either of the players, he said.
"In the U.S. our game is one of finesse, but they play simple basketball." Washington said. "They just run down the court and put the ball in the hoon."
"They walloped us the first two games," Washington said.
The Russian women seem much stronger than the Americans, Washington said, and they have an incredible outside shooting ability.
The U.S. team began to adapt its game to that of the Russians and was soon playing better basketball, according to Washington, but the Russian referee was one-sided.
Washington said, however, that the Russian people were very friendly and hospitable to the Americans. She said that many of them were told out and the imparty were televised.
Clark said revenue sharing had also opened up funds for projects, such as day care centers, which were never before considered a city concern.
"It soon became clear that we wouldn't be given the chance to win."
Clark said that Lawrence was very slow in beginning an urban renewal program, but that such a program was progressing well and would eventually fund the funds. He said this money would be spent on urban development, primarily on the low project and on housing rehabilitation.
Washington said the Russian national team was subsidized by the government and was able to practice together throughout the year.
Washington said that because the Olympic tryouts and the Pan American World Tournament would be held during the year she would probably be unable to attend.
"It may mean the Olympic games are out for me. It is something I really want to do."
One of the most important projects affecting Lawrence, Clark said, is the development of Clinton Lake, now under the direction by the Army Corps of Engineers.
"I think Clinton will be a lot better planned than Perry, where you have a lot of sewage and run-off problems," he said. "I believe we be the best lake in this part of the country."
He said the opening of the new lake would undoubtedly increase the flow of traffic through Lawrence. Because of this, he said, there has been some discussion about the possible construction of a four-lane highway from 29rd and Iowa streets to the lake.
Supreme Court calls lawvers' fees 'fixed'
WASHINGTON (AP)--The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that minimum fee schedules established by state or local bar associations violate federal antitrust law whenever the fees have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
The decision was 8-0.
Speaking through Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, the court called such fee schedules "a classic illustration of price fixing."
Minimum legal-free schedules have been maintained by 34 state bar associations and about 750 local bar groups in recent years, but none of them have been mentioned them in the wake of legal challenges.
The minimum-fee schedules were challenged by a Reston, Va., couple who was unable to find a lawyer who would accept her request. After searching the title of a home they were buying,
The Fairfair County, VA., Bar Association argued that it was exempt from the Sheriff's jurisdiction.
torneys are members of a "learned profession."
Rejecting this argument, the court said the activities of lawyers 'play an important part' in the proceedings.
In other action yesterday, the court;
Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., a former president of the American Bar Association, brought in the case. The ABA filed a brief opposing application of the antitrust laws to lawyers.
—Rueded 7-2 that laws forbidding advertising of abortion services were an unconstitutional abridgement of the freedom of the press.
—Uphold, 8-1, a Florida robbery conviction of Jack "Murph the Surf" Murphy, rejecting arguments he was denied a fair trial because of publicity about his past role in the protests including the 1964 theft of the Star of India sapphire from a New York museum.
—Held by a 6-3 vote that owners of cooperative apartments may not sue under the federal securities laws to challenge unexpected increases in monthly charges.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The resignation of Rep. Lacat N. Nedzi as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was overwhelmingly rejected by the House yesterday, clearing the way for a move to abolish the committee or restructure it.
A resolution to abolish the committee was introduced before the vote on Nezdl's resignation by Rep. B. F. Sisk, D-Calfi, who said the committee had lost its credibility because of members' allegations against the CIA and each other.
Intelligence committee may be restructured
Young said he thought the House should assure the country that Nedzi would conduct an investigation uncovering all misdeeds by U.S. intelligence agencies.
The drive to abolish or restructure the committee was joined by senior members including Reps. Samuel S. Stratton, D-N.Y., who called the committee a threat to U.S. security, and Richard Bolling, D-Mo., who a threat to the rule of House chairmen.
Earlier, a member of the committee, Rep. Michael Harrington, D-Mass., was denied access to secret information by the House Armed Services Committee on grounds that he had disclosed testimony on CTA operations in Chile.
The vote to reject the resignation of D-Mich., was 290 to 64, with 44 voting Naira.
Stration and Rep. James G. O'Hara, D.Mich., urged the house to reject Nedzi's resignation to maintain the status quo so that he could understand what to do about the committee itself.
Rep. Andrew Young, D-GA., joined in voting against accepting Nadelt's resignation but said he was concerned that the public "as a whitewash of the CIA."
Five committee Democrats launched a drive to force Nezad out of the chairmanship the week before last after disclosure that the CIA had briefed him on matters, in advance of the moment in assassination plot discussions, and that he had done nothing about them.
Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., said he and four other Democrats decided that Nedzi's remaining in charge of the CIA investigation should guard its credibility in view of that disclosure.
By a 16-13 vote the Armed Services Committee reaffirmed action taken against last Tuesday with most members voting in favor that the matter was to be put to a vote.
Gandhi backed by Communists
The Communists have emerged as the only national party—aside from Mrs. Gandhi's own Congress organization—to support her decision to remain in office while appealing her conviction of corrupt electoral practices to the Supreme Court. S. A. Dange, the chairman of the soovered pro-Soviet party, set the tone of the year with a position when he said the guilty verdict "will delight the hearts of the imperialists."
NEW DELHI (AP)—India's pro-Moscow Communists, worried that a change in government might alter the country's Socialist policies and close ties with Russia, are campaigning hard for Prime Minister Indra Gandhi to stav in power.
Together with Mrs. Gandhi's own supporters, the Communists have tried to turn the controversy over the guilty verdict into a political war between wing and right-wing forces in the country.
The Communists have viewed the demand by non-Communist opposition parties for Mrs. Gandhi's resignation as part of a "snister campaign" of right reaction to capture political power and shift the country from its leftist course.
The judge who convicted Mrs. Gandhi gave her a 20-day grace period to file an appeal before her penalty—a six-year-ban on holding elective office—goes into effect.
Energy costs press KU budget
The University of Kansas may be closer to an energy crisis than most people realize. Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said last week.
Shankel said the University had recently requested a supplemental appropriation of over $800,000 just to meet its expected increase in utility costs for the coming year.
If the appropriation isn't approved by the Board of Regents and subsequently by the Kansas Legislature, campus buildings might lose heating, cooling and other electrical services by the end of February or the beginning of March, he said.
The increased cost of energy on the Lawrence campus is significant, he said. For example, the total electric bill for the campus in May 1974 was $55,000. The electric bill was $97,000 in May this year, even though the campus used 120 fewer power plants and a lower cost of electricity have increased 83 per cent in the past year, he said.
In order to cut energy costs, Khankel said, the hours of air-conditioning use would be reduced and temperatures on air-conditioning thermostats would be raised as part of a summer energy conservation program.
Buildings and grounds personnel will begin checking offices with window air-conditioning units after 5 p.m., he said. Units in unused offices will be turned off.
In large buildings that use central air-
conditioning systems, the air-conditioning will be turned off from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day, unless there is a special reason not to do so, he said.
Faculty and staff are requested to turn off their window units on cool days and to dress for warm temperatures, Shankel said. In other cases, the windows are courageed to turn off lights in rooms that
aren't in use. If people would habitually turn off the lights when they leave a room, 20 to 30 per cent of electricity used for them in the campus could be saved, Sahelkel said.
If a staff or faculty member thinks that the new energy policy is an inconvenience or hardship he can ask for it to be reviewed by the vice chancellor's office.
Emergency phones sought
The Student Senate Rape Prevention Task Force has asked the administration for the installation of emergency telephones on the University of Kansas campus.
Possible sites for the emergency phones and for outside pay phones were discussed last week.
All emergency phones would be marked by a blue light on a tall pole. Each phone would make an automatic connection to the dispatcher or dispatcher when the receiver is lifted.
The task force called in a security comment last fall because of the increase of fraudulent calls to the agency.
Pay phones would be installed outside certain buildings so that they would be able to talk.
consultant recommended installation of the phones.
William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, met last week with Bell Telephone Co. to discuss what areas of the campus should be covered.
"This is still in its tentative stages," Kathy Hoggard, director of the University Information Center, said Monday. "Building and Grounds and the phone company are considering the proposed cost, and will send in reports," she said.
Proposed sites for the emergency phones are: Potter Lake; the 14th Street traffic control station; X zone; Daisy Hill; Y zone; Gertude Sellars Pearson; Corbin and Gertrude Sellars Pearson.
Sites named for possible location of pay phones are outside Bailes Hall, Murphy Park, and Highgate Hospital.