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Mondav. June 16, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Gun control needed now
More and more people are being killed by handguns. It's tragic, but it's not inevitable. The increasing number of shootings and armed robberies in this country can be halted if the problem is understood and concerned people take action.
An increasing number of people are taking action and their attention is focusing on handouts.
Their concern is well founded. In Kansas City, Mo., for example, 57 persons have been killed so far this year. Of those, 47 died of gunshot wounds. In 31 cases, or 44 per cent of the deaths, it was determined that handguns had been used.
Tougher laws dealing with the misuse of firearms may be part of the overall solution. Massachusetts now has the nation's toughest gun-control law, requiring a year in jail for anyone carrying an unregistered gun.
The success of this law has yet to be determined, but there are signs that it's working in Boston. In the first two months of the trial, 85 percent of people found it to be legal.
COMMENT
eight of them committed with handguns. In the same months of 1974, there were 23 murders, 11 of them committed with handguns.
The federal government is studying the gun-control problem, but may find it difficult to enact meaningful legislation. Numerous bills have been introduced in both houses of Congress this session, but they have been stalled or defeated. There is public opinion to be solicited and lobby groups like the National Rifle Association to be dealt with.
Other actions are coming from gun-control groups that have been springing up across the country in recent years, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Massachusetts now have groups that are working primarily to bring about tougher laws at the state level.
One such group is Illinois' Committee to allow which has advocated banned the sale of gun bullets, except
unose for policemen, military personnel, licensed security guards and licensed pistol clubs. Last year the committee petitioned the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban the handgun bullet by declaring it a hazardous substance.
The commission refused to do so, one of its members calling it a "back door attempt to ban pistols themselves." Others, including a former editor of the Kansan, agreed that such a move would be ill-advised.
I strongly disagree. Let the millions of law-abiding citizens who enjoy hunting and target shooting with small-caliber ammunition form or join licensed gun clubs and abide by the local and reasonable standards of conduct such groups can produce. And let the people who would commit violent acts of passion or premeditation find themselves without ammunition.
The argument often heard from gun enthusiasts is that they have a constitutional right to possess and use guns. That right, however, must like all others be weighed in of social responsibilities. Though difficult to legislate or legally articulate, social responsibility does exist as an essential part of democracy.
The public's concern about gun control is increasing. This may be because, as Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has said, "The whole issue of murder by gun has become personalized." Conyers, who heads the House judiciary subcommittee on crime, said, "We're not talking about people we know only by reading about them in the newspapers."
Indeed we aren't. We are talking to Todd Storbeck, who died in November of last year, Sally Dee Spears, who died on the sixth day of this year, and Fred Hesser, who died June 7. And we are talking about many others.
Stronger handgun control will require compassion and compromise from many people. Dealing effectively with violent crime in this country will also require more than a little information and education bidding citizens. It will require some demanding sacrifices.
—Peter Porteous
Marriage the subject of 'Scenes'
3y CHUCK SACK
Kansas Reviewer
He is a promising research professor. She is a lady lawyer. They have two daughters and seem to be a perfect couple. Sound like the basis for a television situation comedy? Actually, these are the main figures in *Batman*, whose Oscar-winning film, "Scenes from a Marriage."
An upper-middle class couple, they exist as if they have been hermetically sealed in their relationship. The story begins after the couple have met, and it covers the next 10 years of their lives.
The "marriage" of the title dissolves about a third of the way through the picture, yet Mariana (played by Ulv Lilman) and Mason (played by Jill Mellon) just about the only characters in the film.
Bergman has made a series of six acutely observed time portraits of a modern couple. Originally conceived and broadcast as six separate $5-minute programs for Swedish television, he made a *Marriage*<sup>6</sup> been condensed to an anecdic 175-minute film for American release.
Ullman and Josephson are superb, as one would expect from veterans of Bergman's work. The reality is that there is virtually no emotion outside the reach of their talents. Cast as two intelligent human beings forced to come to grips with the banal irrationality of domestic life, they have
The tone is one of irony, as both of them struggle to maintain an identity outside the confines of their life together. The major irony is that the struggle ruins their ideal love and need each other and that they lack any identity outside their marriage.
Josephson realistically transforms Johan
from an arrogant scholar into a vulnerable, deeply wounded man who is engulfed by abandoned dreams. Ulman is even more alienated than an emotional range that is phenomenal.
Bergman seems more relaxed and confident in this work than in any of his recent austere efforts to depict the spiritual depression of the modern world. As a result, "Scenes from a Marriage" is more enjoyable than such admirable, but harrowing, pictures as his "Shame" or "Cries and Whispers."
This isn't to say that there aren't chilling moments in this film. In the first episode,
ON CAMPUS
The deadline for entries in University-sponsored intramural **TOBALL** games is November 25, and blank cards can be picked up at the Recreation Services office. 208 Robinson. There is a 50 cent entry fee. Persons interested in umpiring ball games should also inquire at the office.
OPERATION FRIENDSHIP will meet at 7 tonight at the Baptist Student Center, 1629 W. 19th St. A program is planned that will help U.S. and international students meet, know and learn to appreciate each other. For information, call Ben Bromeau 841-5783.
There will be a PRINT SALE at 10 tomorrow morning in the South Lounge of the building.
"Innocence and Panic." Marianne and Johan witness a brutal verbal exchange between two of their friends. Too bewildered to halt the combat, they sit at a table, teasing each other with the details of their sexual inadequacies an failed ambitions.
"Scenes from a Marriage" is closer to "Caral Knowledge" than to "Father Caral Knowledge" . It should be an qv-opener for those who think it more incapable of producing whith material.
MOVIES
THE SOUTHERNER—1945 movie directed by French emigre Jean Renoir, who is remembered more for his 'Grand Admiral' than for his role in Zachary Scott and Betty Field star in this movie about sharecroppers' struggles in woodruff Audiorium. Tonight at 7:30 in Woodruff Audiorium.
THE BLUE DAHLIA - A Raymond Chandler script plus noted film noir actors and a classic William Bendix should add up to something much more mysterious. However, it's still worth your time. There are several atmospheric scenes through mystery to satirize most of us. Wednesday.
HIGH SIERRA — An overrated Boyd movie, with Ida Lapin and Arthur Kennedy. Bogart is fine as tough Roy Earle, but the movie has some weepy scenes and a maudlin ending. Directed by Raoul Walsh in 1941. Friday night at 7:30 in Woolrduff.
BASEBALL STANDINGS
By the Associated Press American League
W L Petl GB
Boston 23 20 152 1
New York 22 26 152 1
New Yorker 22 26 152 1
Detroit 22 24 155 8¼
Baltimore 22 24 155 8¼
Cleveland 22 24 155 8¼
Oakland 35 24 .583 —
KANSAS CITY 35 24 .583 —
Minneapolis 28 27 .500 —
Texas 30 21 .500 %4%
California 21 24 .500 %4%
Cleveland 31 24 .500 %4%
Cincinnati 30 28 603 — 1½
Los Angeles 30 28 604 — 1½
San Diego 30 28 605 — 1½
San Francisco 29 32 473 11
Atlanta 29 32 473 8
Houston 29 32 384 11
Colorado 24 42 384
W L Pct. Feb. GB
Pittsburgh 20 14 564 18
New York 31 24 564 18
Detroit 27 20 564 18
Cleveland 26 20 564 18
St. Louis 29 20 564 18
Montreal 29 20 564 18
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Oakland at Detroit, 40-20; pdr, 11
California at Seattle, 74-1, game 11 innings
California 5, Seattle 7
Minnesota 5, Baltimore 4
Boston 8, Kansas City 7
Sunday's Results
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Honors, elections end Girls State session
The announcement of the selection of Girls Nation Senators and the presentation of the Girls State Scholarship were the highlights of closing ceremonies for Sunflower Girls State Saturday night in Templin Hall.
By MARCY CAMPBELL Kansan Staff Reporter
Two major resolutions were passed. One prohibited the use of past sexual experiences as evidence in a rape case and the second restricted students on school boards for one-year terms.
Saturday afternoon, Girls State Gov. Betty Ann Carlie, Caney, reported on the legislation passed and proposed by the Girls State Legislature.
Michael Wright, Baxter Springs, and Jaculin Aron, Wichita, were elected Girls District to Saturday afternoon. The two will travel to New York this summer to attend Girls Nation, a national mock government exercise. It is the girls' Girls Nation delegates from each state.
Sixty-five Girls State alumnae joined this year's Girls Staters in the closing candlelight service. Awards were presented to the city of the week, the best city projects, the best county and the city with the most returning alumnae.
The Sunflower Girls State Scholarship recipient is Cydi Berner, Concordia. The scholarship may be used at the college or university of Berner's choice.
Bills that were proposed and passed by the House but weren't presented to the Senate because of a delay of time will be held on Friday, the Kansas American Legion Auditorial.
The proposals include doing away with aerosol spray cans that destroy the atmosphere, prosecuting any person using the services of a prostitute on a charge of prostitution and selecting "big sister" someone for each town in Girls State next year.
Rep. Martha Keys, D-Kan, addressed the Girls Staters at a banquet Friday night. She said she had to work twice as hard in her role and prove herself as a worthy candidate.
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