THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.85-No.131 Tuesday, April 22, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Vietnam settlement uncertain
SAIGON (AP) - A bitter President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned Monday to pave the way for a political settlement of the Vietnam war.
His departure could prove too late to avert total defeat by Communist-led troops massed around Saigon, although administration spokesmen in Washington appealed for aid to stabilize the military situation for possible negotiations.
He also said the United States was exploring with other governments a possible negotiated settlement of the war, but that contact had not yet been made with the South Vietnamese government that replaced Thieu.
President Ford, in a CRS-TV interview in Washington Monday night, said there was no pressure from the United States for Thieu's reservation.
A Viet Cong spokesman dismissed Thieu's resignation as "a very ridiculous public dance and clumsy, deceptive trick" by saying he was not a member of South Vietnam. The statement was made today by a spokesman for the Viet Cong delegation to the Joint Military Commission
The Viet Cong has said repeatedly it wouldn't negotiate with Thieu, but the spokesman said Thieu's resignation can't change the situation if the United States thereby pursues a policy of military involvement and intervention in South Vietnam.
Thieu and others predicted more bloodshed as the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong press their military advantage, but it was actually reported a temporary battlefield hull today.
A command spokesman reported 81 overnight incident, the lowest number in three months.
He said there was heavy fighting between about 800 North Vietnamese infantrymen backed by tanks and 400 government troops, who had the capital of Ham Tan, 75 miles east of Saigon.
Other reports said that the city was being
evacuated and the battle was a rear guard action to protect the airport.
The Saigon command made no mention of ravaged Xuan Lac, another provincial capital only 40 miles east of Saigon, and sources said the government's 18th Division was pulling out because of heavy losses from a week of bitter fighting
With the fall of Xuan Loe and Ham Tam,
Commisist-led troops will have captured 21 of South Vietnam's 44 provinces in their spring offensive launched last month.
Ford's top military advisers and secretary of State Herman A. Kissinger urged Obama to keep the United States at the forefront.
to South Vietnam, saying it could strengthen the will of government troops to fight and possibly gain a negotiated settlement instead of a complete collapse.
After hearing the testimony, a house committee approved a measure granting an injunction against the company.
In Paris, French Foreign Minister Jean Sauvignargnes said France was making constant efforts to get political tasks started with the troops in Saigon rather than in the French capital.
He indicated a cease-fire would have to accompany political negotiations.
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Women get recognition
By DEBBIE BAUMAN Kansan Staff Reporter
Women were the focus of attention at a program at the University of Kansas Monday night, and many of them received formal recognition.
The 17th annual Women's Recognition program, sponsored by the University Commission on the Status of Women, honored University women in a wide range of roles and contributed to the University, to the Lawrence community and to other women.
Medical center head nixes permanent job
By PAULA JOLLY Kansan Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -David W. Robinson, who will become executive acting vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center on June 1, said Monday he didn't want to be involved in the job on a permanent basis because he was basically a doctor, not an administrator.
"I have never been an administrator technically," Robinson said. "I have been a doctor of medicine now for nearly 40 years, and this is what I know.
"I'm not what I think the University needs for this position on a permanent job."
Robinson, 60, said a person with a younger outlook should fill the position.
Being the acting executive vice chancellor will be a unique opportunity to serve the University, especially at this time, Robinson said.
Robinson, who is presently vice chancellor for clinical affairs at the Med Center, was named to the new post Monday. The last few months as vice chancellor have helped to prepare him for his new job, he said.
"We have had excellent cooperation with all levels of government, the medical society and the community," he said. "We have some peculiar and interesting problems to try to solve with our expansion program.
"We also have problems with regard to the impact of the federal government on all medicine. There are pending federal medical schools and on practitioners."
Robinson said he would be continuing the programs started by William O. Rieke, the man who had started something of his own. It wouldn't be fair to start new programs and then hand over the commitments and responsibilities to the new executive vice chancellor, he said.
Rieke had a positive view of Robinson's administrative abilities.
"I gives me a great deal of pleasure that the man I asked to be vice chancellor for clinical affairs, last November, and for whom he will be an important general regard, I'd agree to be the acting executive vice chancellor," Rieke said. "I think Dr. Robinson undersells himself, because he is a very good administrator." He said he would be president of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. He said he was pleased that he and Robinson would have time to work together before he left. He would be a smooth and orderly transition.
Kala Strop, associate dean of women,
delivered the opening address which announced
international Women's Year as the
program. The goal of this year, as typified through
the recognition program, is to recognize the abundance of women's contributions in every community and to maintain mutuality on every level of society, she said.
"I'm certain there will be continuity and continued growth as we face the series of problems that are always present at any medical center," Rieke said. "I know we will manage these and solve them in a way that will be appropriate."
Archie R. Dykes, chancellor of the University, also said that the overlapping time for Rike and Robinson would help to increase continuity of programs at the Med Center.
Dykes said there was no deadline for the appointment of a permanent executive vice chancellor. The top candidates for the position should be chosen by late summer or early fall, he said, and negotiations with them should begin soon thereafter.
The permanent executive vice chancellor would probably have a medical degree, Dykes said, although the advisory search would left with some flexibility to decide on that.
"I am disappointed that Dr. Robinson has withdrawn his name," Dykes said. "Many of us feel he is eminently well qualified to serve not only as acting executive vice chancellor, but indeed to assume the leadership responsibility permanently."
He said candidates from within the Med center and from other places would be invited.
Three new members were named to the Kansas University Women's Hall of Fame for their outstanding contributions to the University as models for students in choosing careers and becoming effective citizens. The women honored were Barbara Clements, professor of human development; Mary Grawell, graduate student, and Mary Merrill Litchfield.
The chosen outstanding woman teacher for 1975 is Joyce Jones, assistant professor in the department of occupational therapy. Eleanor Meyers Burchill was cited as the outstanding woman staff member at the University.
Two women were honored as outstanding seniors who have contributed to the University through leadership and participation during their college careers. The women are Faye Dothem, Clayton, Mo., and Susan Goering, McPherson senior.
Anita Herzfeld, a graduate law student who came to the University from Argentina, was named the outstanding woman student. The University awarded her for their outstanding awarded for
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An outstanding woman for each sorority was named Omega-Terry Rammarek, Kansas City Jump, ArbaJah Alpha Deltas Sylph Deghan, Glenn Eizig, Jump, Alpha Deltas Trac
Outstanding women in each living group were: Dousther Hall, Leslie Lambkin (Mugley City), O. G., senior, Seward Hall, Lisa Lebekman (Mugley City), O. G., senior, Seward Hall, Eileenlebke Torr, Praveen author, Sonor Hall-Hailey, Hugh McIntosh author, Haleigh Hall-Dome, Leawood freeway manager, Hailinger Hall-Dome, Leawood freeway manager, Hailiger Hall-Dome, Raymond junior and Marcia Lippert, Auret I. Jhuner, Raymond junior and Marcia Lippert, Auret I. Jhuner, Nallah Hall-Nancy (Relling, O. G.), perennial park management, Nallah Hall-Nancy (Relling, O. G.).
Mortar Board, the University senior女教师honorary,
and the University senior女教师seminar committee.
Senior女教师 for 1975/83 are:
Bobina Helbel, Jim Lee Corbett, Amel Cox,
Gerald Koster, Larry Duffy, Helen Mansky, Fouquay, Jian Fish, Debbie Gump, Mary Haskins Bane, David Loveless, Mark M. Mahoney, Rebecca Martin, Loveless, Mark M. Mahoney, Rebecca Martin, Rybert Spencer, Louis Thomas, Mary Kalkyna, Rybert Spencer, Louis Thomas, Mary Kalkyna
new members to CWENS, sophomore women's honors, she also named them. Are theyuga Patterson, Sage Foster, Karen Passel, Jamie Perreau, Karyum Gunn, Elin Grass, John Lauretta, Jean Johnson, Elena Kapu, Katsuhiko
achievements at the University while maintaining the responsibilities of a family. Mary Kelley, Overland Park freshman, and Karin Lawing, Wichita third-year law student, were named outstanding nontraditional women students.
In separate areas of University activities, the following women students were awarded for their achievements: athletics - Penny Paulsen, Wheaton, Iowa senior; academics - Hannah Bacon, Hutchinson senior and Linda Salva, Denver senior; student services - Wendy Martin, Laurel McCoy, Salva, Denver; service workers - Ellen Ervin, Parsons junior; and minority services - Joyce Haile, Selassie, Lawrence law student.
Individual awards in the form of grants, fellowships and scholarships were given to the following women: Fulbright Grant to Gwen Adams, Osame City senator; Danforth Fellowship to Comie Andreas, McPherson triumph; Tri Delta Scholarship to Ellen Kaup, Freshman, Freshman, and Panhellenic Scholarship to Jane Hyde, Lawrence sophomore.
Ann Dillon, Hutchinson senior, was named outstanding woman in University service. Katie Fulkerson, Independence, was the first ROTC commission for women.
Women's Hall of Fame
Women's Hall of Fame By Staff Photographer ROD MIKINSKI
Mrs. Mary Grant, one of three women named to the University of Kansas Women's Hall of Fame, receives congratulations for her work.
Speaker calls for value changes
Changes in both national and individual values are necessary in order to solve our mounting global problems. Hans Bauer, a professor at the University of Toronto, said Monday.
Blumenfeld spoke at the sixth annual Environmental Design and Research Association (EDRA) conference, where he presented his is meeting at KU through Wednesday.
Blumenfeld began his career as an architect in Germany and Austria 45 years ago. He became involved in urban and regional planning during a seven year stay in the Soviet Union. He originally came to Toronto to become the assistant director of the Metropolitan Planning Board for Toronto.
The problem of population growth is a global problem today, Blumented said. The world's population will reach as highs as 850 million at level level if trends don't change, he said.
Population growth occurs primarily in developing nations today, Blumenfeld said. Production growth is seen, on the other hand, mainly in developed nations. The only way to bring about a lower fertility rate in developing nations is to speed up their development through increased production, Blumenfeld said.
Blumenfeld said North Americans also need to change their way of life.
"We must switch from a society of waste to a society of reuse and start recycling all of society's inputs," he said.
This thinking, he said, has been applied to both China and has been working.
Recycling will involve costs, be said, but will be beneficial in the long run.
Blumenfeld said that businesses made an initial profit but that this positive effect was usually outweighed by a second or third negative effect.
"The Oil Producing Export Countries
that don’t do as a great service by
reusing oil are"
Increased fuel prices have brought mankind two positive results, Blumenfeld
The price increases have taught us to curtail wasteful usage of energy and to seek out other types of energy besides oil, he said.
Blumenfeld said attempts to seek out other types of energy, such as energy from the sun, are good because oil is harmful in many aspects.
Oil is the main pollutant of the air and it is
the only pollutant of our seas, he said.
Blumenfeld also said the transformation of carbohydrates in oil into useless matter was foolish since those carbohydrates could be used elsewhere.
Christopher Alexander, professor of architecture at the University of California, criticized EDRA's past performance in a speech Sunday night.
Alexander told a near capacity Woodruff Auditorium crowd that "EDRA has had virtually no impact on the physical environment in this country."
In his opening address, Alexander said,
"Ten years ago we architects realized that
the buildings that were being built in the
United States were terrible creations."
Alexander said EDRA was formed with the hope that it could conduct extensive research in environmental design and reverse this trend toward poor architecture.
The research that has been done has not been implemented by architects and so EDRA has had very little effect on environmental design, Alexander said.
New EDRA must change from a research group to an organization of environmental leaders, Alexander said. Part of this transition must include finding out what is being done by other groups changing the structures they live in so adjust to these forces, he said.
English professors recycle trivia in local publication
By STANSTENERSEN
Kansan Staff Reporter
When the librarians at Watson Library throw out unwanted newspapers and magazines on Friday afternoon, Roger Martin, assistant instructor of the University of Kansas, is buydig bypassing the piles.
Martin carries a large bundle of them to his office in Wescole Hall, where he piles them on top of previously collected issues of such publications as the Chanute Tribune, the Buddhist Buddhi Weekly and Living in the Ozarks Newsletter. Scattering the papers across his desk, he cut out articles, pictures and cartoons to start another issue of probably the most unusual news at KU, the City Moon.
Martin and David Ohle, a writer whose short stories have appeared in Esquire and Harper's, are co-editors of the City Moon. They last week听 less than delighted some readers and exasperated others.
"One of our readers left the paper on a table at the State Historical Society in Topeka," Oleh said. "When he came back to his place the paper was gone. He asked the janitor about it, and the janitor said he had thrown it in the garbage because it was trash."
The first page of the current issue shows the strangeness that makes reactions so varied. "Rock
Bars World Violence," reads the banner headline, for Nelson Rockefeller is President in this issue. A doctoral photograph of Richard Nixon, however, appears underneath the headline. And the first sentence of the article extends the fiction: "With a stroke of Script in the National Chapel, the Rock has signed the bottom line to hated violence, the bane of American existence these last 10 years."
"Take this story, for example," he said, opening the paper to a story about Oneba, a creation of the editors who is a prophet, interpreter of dreams and stories. He wrote that third is a story about a cow. We took that straight from the 1887 Dallas Evening News. The next part (an anecdote about Nathaniel Hawthorne) we took from the same place. And the last three made up, in fact, the entire compilation was borrowed from a magazine called We.
Other front-page stories include "Ulcer Remis Almost Dead," the paper's bicentennial feature; and "Bed Bugs in Muncie Now," a story whose first novel appeared in 1976 was taken from an 1897 issue of the Dallas Easter Sunday.
Martin said many of the City Moon's stories had roots in real news items that were unjustified, like the case of a man who killed
Martin said such distortions weren't primarily attempts at humor. Because we distort the world
daily when we try to make sense of it, the distortion in the City Moon is nothing new, he said.
"How do you resolve the absurdity of a newspaper's telling you that Wally Cox is dead when you see him on television for the next three months?" he said. "All the Moon does is to play with this normal convention of distortion by notending to be the objective way the news media do."
Because we can't force contradictory experiences into a logical system, we try to define reality by ignoring the contradictions and fastening onto such dominant patterns of experience as love, violence, death and scientific discovery, Martin said. The conventional press reports the news in such patterns, and the City Moon simply copies them, he said.
Martin picked up the paper again and turned its pages rapidly, jabbing at the pictures.
"See? It all here, just like the regular papers," he said. "Crime, sports pictures, moon photographs, mug shots—even Jackie Onassis. We try to reflect the truths of these current themes."
Olile said the process of reflecting these themes in the City Moon could be described as a recycling of trivial material from other publications to make it fresh, and interesting.
In addition to taking material from other
publications, Ohle said, he Martin and others in the English department write articles for the paper
Olle said the hedgepodge of material was entertaining but perhaps difficult for some readers to cope with because they couldn't place a convenient lick such as an underground paper or a lampoon on it.
Martin said "You have to read it as an exciting, hard-hitting rag newspaper. It's dynamic news reporting, always incessant, demanding and childlike."
"Political figures in the Moon are all the same," president. We don't take positions in the moon. We don't take positions in the
Martin said that the articles were intended to be petulant and insistent rather than strictly objective. The result of a sensitive reading of the paper, he said, would make it more likely to find truth poking through on several levels.
The rub of fact behind many of the articles in one variety of truth in the paper, and the knowledge that news reporting is often a necessary distortion of these facts is another, Martin said. Beyond these varieties of truth, he said, the reader can also discover his own metapathical truths, such as an opinion that political figures often become one-dimensional people in a world of multidimensional patterns.
paper, but that doesn't mean we don't criticize human failings.
"Omega could be a murderer, God, or anything in between," he said. "He's been both dead and alive, and although he was president earlier, in our edition he is an old man who dreams and writes."
Ohlie said that as a contrast to the one-dimensional politicians, he and Martin developed a character named Oneba, a mystic whose superpowerful brain allowed him to interpret dreams. His multidimensional personality is what we don't have in our leaders. Ohlie said.
Martin said Oneba was also a metaphor for the City Moon in his ability to contain banal, outrageous, tragic and important things in a single personality.
In addition to metaphorical truth, the newspaper also tries to hint at truth that are unconscious or hidden.
"You can only see part of the moon at one time," he said with a smile.
Many of the imaginary truths in the paper have their basis in established news, however, Ohl said. He said that articles about the "National Trench," a cross-country gouge caused by a piece of the moon striking the earth, were inspired by the theory that the landmass the landmass from what is now the Pacific Ocean.
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