4 Tuesday, April 15. 1975 University Daily Kansan KANSAN Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the comment of the writers. Legislation justified The Kansas Legislature has passed a bill that seems unfair at first thought but justifiable at second thought. I refer to the bill that increases the residency requirement for students to qualify for in-state tuition at state universities and colleges. The bill increases the residency requirement from six to 12 months. The bill was sponsored at the request of the Board of Regents, which was concerned about declining revenues from the collection of out-of-state tuition. The number of students classified as nonresidents for fee purposes has sharply declined. I first thought the bill unfair. Now I think it unfortunate, but probably necessary. It's unfortunate because it likely will discourage some students from coming to KU or staying at KU. Some students eager to attend KU can't afford the steep out-of-state tuition and try to meet the residency requirements to reduce their costs. With the stifter requirements, these people will have a tougher time of making it to KU. It's a shame that any student has to leave KU because he can't afford it as an out-of-state student. A university community benefits from having a variety of members from scattered places. But the justifications for the bill are reasonable. If there were no residency requirements, we'd probably have no "out-of-state" students—they'd all become "residents," saving themselves money, but putting the University in a financial bind. The University does no one any good if it goes broke, so it must look after its financial interests. Another justification, probably the most important, is that Kansas residents pay a considerable amount of tax money to support KU and the other state institutions. They shouldn't be asked to subsidize students from another state when Kansas residents must pay out-of-state tuition in Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and elsewhere. Perhaps the ideal situation would be mutual agreements among neighboring states to waive out-of-office employees from the participating states. Such reciprocal agreements already exist in limited forms between some states. Perhaps these could be broadened and made to apply generally to two or more states if it would please students' most options for study, thus improving their education. This proposal would likely be difficult to arrange, but I think it would be worth a try. Craig Stock Moon could be 3rd Adam BY STEVEN LEWIS Contributing Writer Jesus is supposed to have warned, "Many shall come in my name, saying, 'I am Christ, and shall deceive many,'" America today is certainly the regar America today is certainly the land of plenty. Not too long ago, the Guru Maharaj, JI brought his relational vision to the United States. The Guru put a little Christianity into his teachings, made a few million dollars and, last week, was excommunicated by his mother, who insisted that "mother" had become a "plavboy." Also last week, the Kansas attorney general's office announced that it was investigating the Unification Church in Kansas because of allegations by parents that their children had been coerced by the church. The Unification Church is built on the dreams of Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon, 55, who founded the church in 1954 in South Korea. Moon's theology combines rabid antibiotism with a new interpretation of Christianity. Moan claims to have seen a vision of Jesus while praying on a Korean mountainside when he was 16. Nine years later Moon's evangelistic mission was disrupted when Communist forces captured and imprisoned him for three years. Soon after his release, Moon founded the Unification Church, which spread to the United States a decade ago. There may be as many as 25,000 Unification members in the United States and two million throughout the world. There are three chapters of Moon disciples in Kansas, one each in Lawrence, Manhattan and Emporia. The Lawrence group first organized in 1973. According to the Lawrence Daily Journal-World, it has about 20 members. The doctrine of the Unfiction Church is based on Moon's 538-page "Divine Principles," which Moon says was revealed to him over the years. Moon believes America has a special role in bringing the world to his God. He thinks the U.S. presidency is a sacred office. Moon gained national attention during the Watergate crisis for his devout support of former President Richard Nixon. He said, "God is depending on America today. Therefore, the crisis for America is a crisis for America's well-being affects the nation. We chose this nation as His champion in His modern day dispensation. . . God is testing America through the Watergate institution. America must demonstrate unity in love and forgiveness." Nixon brought Moon to the White House on Feb. 1, 1974. Moon was born in knuckle under to pressure. Stand up for your convictions." notoriously because of his mass marriages. The family unit is most sacred in Moon's theology. No one can enter the Kingdom unless he has been faithfully married with Moon's blessings. Moon believes there is too much emphasis on sex in society. As a result, all newlyweds are forbidden to engage in sex during the first 40 days of marriage. Moon also has achieved He believes that the fall of man was brought about by Eve's sexual relations with Satan in the Garden of Eden. Consequently, Jesus' mission was to be the second婴婴 However, he was crucified before he could take a wife. A third Adam will soon complete the task Jesus didn't fulfil. Is the third Adam the Rev. Sun Moon? Some of his followers think he is. Others think Moom is only a John the Baptist, preparing the world for its savior. Moon's "Divine Principles" leads one to believe that Moon is the third Adam. Furthermore, in a lecture last year, Moon was led by Graham was the John the Baptist of the third Adam. While the debate goes on over whether Moon is or isn't the Unification Church ranks in several million dollars annually. Moon, his second wife (divorce is permitted in his church) and their children live in a 35-room stone mansion in New York State. His church has received $46 million, including a tea room; a pharmaceutical company and an air rifle company; All of which goes to show how lucrative the dreams of one man can be in 1975. Perhaps 10,000 years from now the human race will look back upon us because we conclude that we were as superstitious then as we were in 2002 B.C. Should f--- appear in print? Sometimes it's the tiny, seemingly trifling newspaper story that lingers on your mind, because you sense that that little article says more about your society than all the frontpage arguments about tax cuts, Mideast conflicts and tragedy in Southeast Asia. I've been bothered lately by a little article about Charles T. Alexander, who was ousted as secretary of Dayton (Oklahoma) Journal Herald because he permitted the present participle of a four-letter verb meaning "to engage in a journal" to be a Journal Herald news story. That article has hingered with me because the Alexander decision to leave this "usually obscene" word in a very important news story, and his subsequent firing, raises some real questions about this society's efforts to determine its mores. It asks whether we're a people currently struggling to cope with decadence, or if we're just thrashing around somewhere between sexual freedom and modern hypocrisy. ALEXANDER'S RETENTION of that word in the Journal Herald was no frivolous venture into either vulgarity or journalistic titillation. The word was part of testimony, and it was part of Tobacco and Firearms Division of the Treasury Department who was telling how an angry quarrel with another agent led to homicide. Alexander thought that "it usually obscene" word was appropriate for the understanding of a tragic killing. The owners thought it "indefensible" that such a word had run in a family newspaper. Alexander is out. This column won't change that. But I'm left with a troubled remembrance of Edmund Burke's observation that we great part of the muscids from this world arises from words." Why are we all so hung up on words? The verb that got Alexander fired is one of the most used in the English saving us from utter decadence. Or are they perpetuating sexual dishonesty and frustrations which ultimately must be our responsibility. I know. I only sense that we're a terribly confused people. But times have changed. Or have they? I spoke at Grambling College recently and the journalism students met me at By Carl Rowan Copyright 1975 Field Enterprises, Inc. language—certainly by people over age 10. It refers to an act as natural as eating bread or cheese, and to do dozen times, even see Warren Beaty and Julie Christie illustrate it, if you go to see the movie “Shampoo.” It’s common, most novels published today. But can you believe that when I checked my Random House dictionary of the English Language, I found a Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language—no such word? I was amazed finally to find it, as well as finding Webster's New Colleliate dictionary. What's happening to us? Are the owners of that Dayton paper the airport complaining that the dean had upbraided them for putting the word "funky" in the college newspaper. FREUID WASN'T the first to discover how much men and women are prisoners of their instincts. Now they have been only the first to figure out how a zillion psychiatrists behind him could get rich helping people get over their anxiety words and other sexual things. I suggested that the most nubile member of the journalism group drap the dean onto the floor at the next college dance and teach him to do "the funky chicken." Are we a better society today when cherub-faced youngsters laugh through "Shampoo" or "Last Tang in Paris?" Or have we sunk into an inescapable cespool compared with those innocent days when we professed shock that Rhett Boulder would say to Scarlett O'Rourke: "I don't give a damn!" Or bothered when a man loses a job over a word that virtually everybody uses and some people pretend doesn't exist. Letters Policy Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must provide their names, class designations and home towns; faculty and staff must provide their names and positions; others must provide their names and addresses. Readers respond A real bird To the Editor To the Editor: Bronze Jayhawk gets praise for past, criticism for looks I would like to admonish those who speak disparagingly of the Jayhawk statue recently moved to the site of Strong Hall. It’s quite oblique, but I do so have no concept of what a remarkable creature the Jayhawk is, or of its importance to the history of this region. I would like to acquaint them with a few facts on these matters. CONTRARY TO POPULAR belief, the Jayhawk is a real bird. A complete skeleton of its Cretaceous ancestor, Hesperornis regalis, may be preserved in Museum. The curious among you may be interested in seeing the petrified Jayhawk eggs that are about 140 miles west of here, near Minneapolis, Kan. These natural wonders, some of which are in diameter, are compact and marble. Recent X-ray photographs of these eggs showed nothing, which verifies that they are Jayhawk eggs, because Jayhawks, in addition to immortal and capable of changing their size at will, have the ability to become invisible. THERE'S ALSO ample historical evidence for the Jayhawk's existence. Members of Coronado's expedition sighted Jayhawks in 1540. As the expedition's ornithologist they were of all sizes and color and speared in great numbers, then of a sudden not to be seen by the keenest eye. They have long talons, shaped like an eagle's. These claws are so powerful that many of our men, including the priest, avow that these birds have been seen to fly off carrying one of the peculiar hump-backed cattle (buffalo) in each foot. I myself have seen them wearing cavalry boots with spurs when they go hunting the local purple wildcats and Missou tigers. The Cockatoo bank of the Quivira River south bank of the Quivira River the Seven Cities, worship this bird and call it the 'Guardian of the Plains.'" This brief review of the facts should prove to all that the Jayhawk is something to be proud of and deserves to be seen by everyone. The Jayhawk is unique to Kansas, more so than anything else. It's a powerful and enduring symbol of what KU is all about and I, for its highly approve of its new location. Jim Mason Wichita Senior Bronze lump To the Editor: For a moment, I thought I was having a hallucination because I had missed my courage to come near the lump. I realized that the lump was the old Jayhawk mass that used to dwell on the driveway back of the Union. Understandable probably made the University the bronze behind the Union. A few mornings ago I was buoyantly walking along Jayhawk Boulevard when suddenly my eyes were struck the hump that broke the harmony of Strong Hall's front yard. There is no shame without benefit. The famed American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson taught that the law of compensation always works. That consoloed me. Crime sometimes pays and the aesthetic crime against Strong Hall's front yard must have a compensation. Mothers on hall will be helpers in controlling their children. From now on, children can be told: "Be good or the Monster Jayhawk will come at night to get you." Arbitrary cuts Javier A. Gonzalez-Davila Mexico City Graduate Student After attending the Student Services Committee budget bearings Wednesday night, we met in the lobby to discuss different impression of the workings of the Student Senate. The line-item-by-line-item 'cattle call' system used by commissioners to call called intelligent government. We are referring to the lack of opportunity given to the representatives of the 12 student organizations currently funded by the Student Services Committee to justify their budgets before proposed cuts. It is hardy fair to expect the committee members to know what each individual budget may cover. Thus, logical that budget justification by organization representatives would be very helpful in making decisions. WE REALIZE THAT allowing representatives unlimited time to argue the necessity of each individual budget cause the budget strings to terminate. But purely arbitrary cuts to an organization hardly can be justified either. Surely a system that would allow a representative to explain exactly what effect each proposed cut would have can be worked out. The committee can't, of course, allocate money that it doesn't have. But the members of the committee are more likely to engage in activities they are forcing the individual organizations to cancel as a result of budget cuts. WHAT IS NEEDED at this point is a re-evaluation of priorities, both in the Student Senate and in the student body. Does the student body really want to force cancellation of many other interest groups on campus because of ever-less support of men's athleticics? Do students want approximately one-half of his total student activity fee supporting major athletic programs in the style to which they are accustomed? But let us examine the crux of the issue. The Student Services Committee budget has been cut $16,000 annually. Even the best budget justification cannot alter a budget that is not funded by this committee are going to be severely cramped next year because there simply isn't enough money to go around, a large part of this is going to men's athletics and a student organization to receive a substantial budget increase $33,482. In essence, we are hoping that the various student organizations will be given a chance to develop into the effec- tive groups they have the potential to be. Landry cuts from the Student Services Committee budget don't enhance the growth of these student groups, nor are they conducive to the intelligent distribution of the students' funds. Nancy Rebe Manhattan Sophomore Rhonda May Oberlin Freshman Mideast reply To the Editor: I would like to present some facts that were excluded in Mohamed Eligari's letter in the April 8 Kansas. The following facts should be considered before the reader forms any opinion on the controversial Mideast problem. 1) The Emir Faisl I, son of Hussein, Sherif of Mecca (most prestigious post in the Arab world at that time), who initiated the revolt against Saddam, who later became King of Iraq, wrote in a later dated March 3, 1919, to Felix Frankforter: "... We feel that the Arabs and Jews are cousins in race ... and have been able to take the first step towards the attainment of their national ideals together ... especially with Dr. Weizmann, we have had and continue to have the closest relations. He has been a great helper of our cause and I am delighted by his position to make the Jews some return for their kindness." This would imply that in 1919, Jews and Arabs weren't enemies. 2) JEWES POSSESSED some degree of sovereignty in Palestine from 1300 B.C. to 700 A.D., during which time there were three independent Jewish tribes and at the same area was ruled by Arabs, but Palestine wasn't independent. It was always someone else's territory. Since 1250, Palestine has been continuously occupied by Jews. Much of this time was marked by peaceful relations between Arabs and Jews, a peace which was shattered by the British government during the period of the mandate. 3) "THE ARAB states encouraged the Palestine Arabs to make a plan in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies." This quote is from the Jordanian newspaper, Falastin, Feb. 19, 2007. "The fact that there are refugees is the direct consequence of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab state has unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem." So said Emil Ghouri, secretary of the Arab High Committee, the official head of the Arabas, as published in the Daily Telegraph, Sept. 6, 1948. Finally, a report by the British police, Haifa District headquarters, April 26, 1948, states: "every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their shops and businesses in their shops and businesses open, and to be assured that their lives and interests were safe." THESE STATEMENTS would seem to refute charges of aggression by Israel in 1948. '66 all occupied territories' was reasserted in Wise, Nasser and his allies were mobilizing and preparing to "drive the Jews into the sea," and Israel was without damage during the most sacred of all Jewish holy periods. AFTER 1947, more than 700,000 Jews were driven from their homes in Arab countries. The Israelis funded homes and refugees while the Arab nations have kept the Palestinians in refugee camps. The land set aside for them by the United Nation's Israeli forces was nexed by Jordan and Egypt (1968 almanac). 4) According to British figures, in 1947 about 561,000 Arabs lived in the area that became Israel. About 140,000 of them remained and became citizens. Thus, the number of Palestinian refugees, even in 2014, is possibly equal two million. At this time, more than 300,000 Arabs are Israeli citizens. Howard Kennedy, then director general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, said in his 1950 report to the General Assembly that the refugee figures had been inflated. Encouraged by their government and the International Crisis, any deficiencies has been qualified to be counted as a Palestinian refugee. The result has been a flood of "refugees." Before you make any decision on the Mideast problem, do some research at the library. It can be fascinating reading. You might also wonder why the billions of dollars you're paying for gasoline never seem to help the Palestinian refugees. Steven Gladstone Kansas City, Kan., Junior Published at the University of Kansas weekdays daily, KU Press. Send subscription to: annualum periods. Second-class mail paid at Lawrence, Kan. 60945. Subscriptions by student are $8. Subscriptions by faculty are $12. $13 a semester, paid through the student activity account. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Accommodations, goods inavoid and employment restrictions apply to all students who enroll directly except those of the Student Senate. The Senate will conduct a review of the student's progress. 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