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Monday, May 9, 1977
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Secrecy only hurts
A report by the University Senate Human Relations Committee said to be on its way to SenEx and Chancellor Archie Dyess, will announce charges of charges of racial discrimination—maybe.
Last week, the Human Relations Committee and KU fraternities hungered out a plan to make more blacks aware that they could be admitted to those fraternities—
or maybe KU Greeks are bigots.
Or maybe KU Greeks are noogs.
Perhaps we'll never know the truth.
Recent hearings by the Human Relations Committee on possible racial discrimination in Panhellenic and Inner/Farmerly Council press, and participants in those closed meetings volunteered little more than "no comment."
LITTLE WONDER, then, that outsiders might reach some unpleasant conclusions from the few facts that are available.
One of those facts is that only three of the 32 proteimates have ever had black members.
No black has ever been admitted to any of the 12 Panellibnei sororities.
And a letter to the Kansan from a sorority member earlier this semester in which she chastised her sorority sisters for not admitting a black candidate prompted a wave of stormy denials, the series of Human Relation Commission letters and handwritten the original letter writer's sorosity against her for publicizing rush proceedings.
ASROBERT Turvey, assistant to the dean of men and IFC adviser, said after one Human Relations Committee hearing, "We all understand that there is de facto segregation." But unless the proceedings—all the proceeds—are made public, how are we to believe the rest of Turvey's comment: "Most of it isn't intentional?"
tread so heavily upon Kansas' open meetings law. Attorney General Curt Schneider told the Kanas a few weeks ago that a meeting should be public if the body involved disbroken public funds and if it was a public agency. One could argue that pointing to the agencies and IPC's of the dean of women's and dean of men's offices qualifies as disbursement of public funds, but KU, which gives significant support to them, is definitely a public agency.
THE MEETINGS should be open because the issue involved is so important. Kansas Board of Regents policy prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion or national origin. The infamous Title IX regulations promise withdrawal of federal money from institutions that support discriminatory groups.
One can only wonder just whom the discrimination hearings were meant to enlighten. University administrators could have had access to the information through the dean of men's and dean of women's offices, which deal directly with the Trooks. We are aware that this circle of university issues follow, it is sent from Strong Hall to the Human Relations Committee, then up to SenEx and maybe back into Strong Hall to Dykes.
THE HOUSES themselves seem to have little to gain by keeping the proceedings secret.
If no or few blacks are pledged during future rushes, critics will say they are continuing their discriminatory ways. And if blacks are admitted, critics will shout of
Those critics' rash conclusions would be inexusable.
But, given the secrecy and reported reluctance to deal with the issue displayed by some of KU's living groups, the critics' harsh conclusions would be understandable.
In the May 4 Kansan, there appeared another article relating to the Iranian Student Association's (ISA) opposition to SAVAK. Unfortunately, very little real information about the matter has been revealed.
ISA's efforts sincere but naive
By CHARLIE ERKER
Guest Writer
The basic story is that some ISA members have been working to publicize the human rights issue in Iran. They seek to gain the sympathy and support of KU students and the American people to help them put an end to a reported reign of terror by SAVAK, an Iranian information and security organization. At the same time (and the thing most publicized), some of them are getting pressured because the organization they control is a SAVAK agent. They want to "kick SAVAK off campus."
I HAVE spent a great deal of time talking to the leaders and members of what I call the "KU anti-SAVAK task force." It is clear that they don't intend to hurt anyone, but it is also clear that they are quite zealous. Their objectives are well-defined, but their plans and tactics are self-defeating.
I have learned of the task force's
ignorance of many things that bear great significance on their goals. They seem to know little about American politics, economics, society, history and law. They can't distinguish between campus police, the FBI or CIA agents. They don't, or refuse to, understand the duties, powers and limitations of the KU administration. They don't get the message when their demonstrations are
Guest editorial
responded to with laughs, jokes and satirical mockery.
THE ISA members don't seem to understand U.S. relations with Iran. They don't really see the ramifications of these relations. The American government wants strong and cozy relations with Iran, but we don't want it and power. The money as a result of oil, and the power of geographic location. Our boys in Washington, as well as many citizens, would be deeply concerned if Russia gained naval bases in the Persian Gulf, or if Pakistan or Iran, it's safe to assume, don't rank human rights first on the list.
The Iranian protesters at KU should understand the choice Americans will make if faced with giving up time, money and gasoline for some alleged political prisoners. KU students and others aren't likely to assist the endeavor for human rights in Iran, especially if those leading the effort don't know what they're doing.
I SURE that there are many people humane enough to sympathize with the oppressed; I sympathize with them and would like to help. But I don't condon the constant harassment of a student accused, without proof, of being a SAVAK
A secret agent is useless if his cover is blown. If the accused student was an agent, he most probably would have mysteriously disappeared after the publicized "beating" incident at Potter Lake.
How could the accused agent gather information on ISA members while being set so far apart from them? If there's an active SAVAK agent here, it's only logical that be would be working among them. The agent should look within itself for the real culprit. If anything, it shouldn't be so naive as to think that SAVAK doesn't
WHETHER or not SAVAK is here, the larger issue of American assistance against violations of human rights in Iran is very complex. It is directly concerned with economic and political factors in the relationship between the two governments.
It would be best, instead of accusations and ambiguous information, if the truth were made public. And if there are any questions, all mankind would work to stop them.
already have its name and that printing its members' names in the Kansan would bring reprintial. Some of the ISA members told me they were returning to Iran this summer. This makes me wonder whether all of this is just a game.
but again, all those concerned are faced with two stalk realities. First, the truth is very hard to find. Second if a candidate wants to be involved with the Shah, things will get very tough for the Iranian political prisoners' supporters, and the ISA will have to go elsewhere for help. That's the way American democracy works; majority
(Charlie Erker is a junior majoring in journalism advertising.)
Bryant has unChristian attitude
Anita Bryant descended from her Florida sunshine tree recently to warn her fellow Dade County residents that their children were in grave danger.
She should have stayed up in the tree.
This 37-year-old savior of children is waging war-in a Christian manner, of course—against a proposed county ordinance that would prohibit discrimination against teachers by public and private school administrators.
"I fear for America," she has said. "And I fear for the children. I don't want America."
to be judged as God judged Sodom and Gomorrah.
accused Bryant of being a "policeman."
"I am convinced that there are more constructive things for her to do than to infringe on
"EVEN IF you do not believe in Holy Scripture,you know
homosexuality is against nature. If this were not so, God would have made Adam and Bruce."
Singer and poet Rod McKuen has taken the other side and has
Bill Sniffen
Editorial Writer
the privacy of individual American citizens; the woman is dangerous.
Science cramps style, not stomach
is concerned about her own four children, who attend a posh private school in Dade County. What this modern McCarthy would do is impose more restrictions on the civil liberties of American citizens and powerful weapon against them—societal guilt.
Then scientists discovered that by daily drinking 800 cans of diet soda, one could develop cancer.
knowledge about homosexuality and its causes, has again raised the stereotype of the homosexual as preyer upon youth, as amoral, as sick. She has proscribed a cure, however.
Let's hear it for the scientists again. This time a group of researchers at the University of Michigan have concluded that caffeine might cause mental disturbances.
Most of us have known for years that caffeine makes us a little jumpy and anxious while keeping us awake. But now we may have to contend with more severe disorders.
To some extent, she has succeeded. She has helped gather about 64,000 petition passages in passage of the ordinance.
monosodium glutamate score.
A lot of controversy ensured,
but the additive remained on
the market.
Just two days ago, they
"Don't eat that. It's full of chemicals."
The cure, no surprise, "i trusting in the person of Jesus Christ and trust in Christ as the unsurpassed DELIVERY from what? From free choice? Or from anachronistic societal taboos against homosexuality? The latter is the more likely. Yet she maintains, "I can say with all confidence that I love the homosexuals."
I guiltly put the plastic-wrapped object back in its container and returned to my bibcatual cottage cheese.
First to happen during my age of awareness was the cyclatem ban. We all sighed, then switched to saccharin.
She has appeared in newspapers, radio shows and television shows to promote her cause. And other mindless moralists are backing her to the hilt.
THREE YEARS ago I almost
fell prey to the vegetarians,
until I discovered I wasn't
The researchers, who linked high intake of coffee, tea, cola and caffeine tablets to mental health, studied the study on a group of psychiatric patients. Are we to conclude from all this that by downing seven or eight cups of coffee at once under a psychiatrist's care?
Then there was the
WHILE I appreciate the great advances promoted by scientific research, I don't appreciate opening up my bedroom and doing so confronted by a newly discovered food hazard.
WHEREH THE ordinance passes, as it should, is not the core of the issue. What is of importance to a majority of "straights" Bryant has called on. Their reactions to her efforts are more important than the fate of minority's proposed ordinance.
THEAT SHOULDN'T be too difficult; Bryant is her own greatest joke. She argues that if children are shown the consequences of being society, more will become homosexuals. She particularly
cheese. But the cholesterol freaks would get on my back, telling me I'll die from a heart attack.
And I'm still alive.
TAKE ADELE Davis for example. Adole had a cure for everything: Take vitamin A for this, vitamin B for that. Her motto was, "Let's eat right to die." Adole died from bone cancer.
She loves them so much she is encouraging her fellow Floridians to make their lives better. She's also it's 's Christian love, Anita. You are to be commended for it. Your insight into the problems of homosexuals and methods for cures are an inspiration to us
I could give up meat and switch to eating only eggs and
I could give up all of the above and become a total vegetarian. However, my poor stomach is too good at digesting food, so I will half my making hours trying to balance my amino acids.
IS NOTHING sacred? I could give up coffee, tea, cola and saccharin and be reduced to drinking water. There's nothing better than a young woman drowned from drinking too much of it.
Diane Wolkow
Editorial Writer
SO WHAT? It also makes us go to the bathroom more often. Maybe we should ban caféne bain de café, as much as the amount of toilet-flushing.
Euill Gibbons rose to fame by stalking wild vegetables in the wilds of somewhere or other. He cultivated asparagus and such, then furthered his career by making television commercials for Grapevine. Euill developed a soil from what I'm not quite sure.
The forbidden fruits in life, such as coffee, tea and hard-boiled eggs, are pleasurable. To worry about them so much, one needs to eat health hazards than would eating wrong and enjoy life.
Then there were all the microbe diets. Fantastical and often quite dangerous, they were lauded as the quickest cure for cholera in health. Many people following them died of starvation.
Health food fanatics are everywhere. They run the gamut from Adele Davis to Euell Gibbons to the more bizarre microbiotic freaks. Each has his pet 'safe' foods and diets. But none of them is fool-proof.
Overdoing anything can cause disaster; moderation is a wise course. When you start all star ignoring the scientists and health fanatics for a change and simply eat our family fare in rational amounts.
Yet scientists aren't the only persons warning us of the perils of things we eat.
revealed to us something veteran coffee-drinkers have known for years. Too much coffee causes us to be anxious.
getting enough protein. How many eggs and leaves of whole wheat bread can a person consume in one day? My tolerance wasn't too high, so I waited to eat hunting hamburgers.
Just the other day, as I was reaching for a beef jerky stick in Wescoe Cafeteria, a voice behind me whispered:
MANY FOODS in modern America can be termed unhealthy and potentially dangerous. But more important than the foods themselves are the nutrients in which they are eaten.
Almost all, anyway. Why don't you go out and hustle a few more oranges instead and leave free choice alone?
Readers react to tickets, morality, Israel
Gay guilt not issue To the editor:
It has been interesting for me to watch the debate in this column on homosexuality. I am aware of its misinformation, particularly about the Bible (for instance, it doesn't say to burn witches), I noticed that the debate has changed from an issue of conscience and guilt.
If a person doesn't feel guilty, is he or she not guilty? Doug Lamberson's point was that if you are not sure we are guilty of them if we do these things. Our conscience can help us to begin to see what it is wrong to think and do, even conditioned by our environment.
I agree with Lamborn that a person doesn't have the right to decide his own moral code. People are responsible for their action, thoughts and attitudes. I am not responsible for that people are responsible to a person, to God, not just to society. If we are responsible,
the one we are responsible to decides the standards. Not feeling guilty isn't the same as actually being not guilty.
Homosexuals are no more evil than anyone else who does evil things (heterosexual or homosexual) and those who know and his actions are therefore significant (even those things done by him that hurt no one else). He or she must seek to know what is wrong, whether he or she is responsible to God, and whether there is some way of knowing what that responsibility is. I am aware of each of these questions in each of these questions is.
For homosexuals to answer that they don't feel guilty seems to be missing the point. The real questions seem to be, "Is there a right and wrong?" Is our preference the only criterion?
and fairness in Traffic and Security which demeans the entire University.
Lawrence graduate student
J. Q. Arnold
Ackland senior
On the evening of May 4, I parked behind Strong Hall to go to the airport. I was warned warning. Within 10 minutes after the warning was over, I had received a parking ticket from Uber. I was Traffic and Security force.
I think it is totally unjustifiable for the police to take advantage of a potentially dangerous situation for their own monetary gain. Actions of this type show a lack of dignity
Teri Stewart
Quinter junior
Tornado ticket irks
To the editor:
My initial response to Robert Jennings' May 5 letter on abortion was, "Finally here's
Abortion aejenaea To the editor:
destruction of so many" women forced to give birth to children which they are financially and emotionally unable to care for.
Thomas Tehan
In 1968, Israel had planned to buy three ships with sea-to-sea missiles from France. George de Gaulle, having seen the occupation of Arab lands by Israel in 1967, refused to sell
thievery when it stole from France, through a Swiss engineer, the blueprints for the MIRAGE 5 aircraft. These plans were then used to produce fighter planes in Israel.
Israeli theft old bat
10 to the editor.
A shipment of 200 tons of uranium on its way from
As a woman, I feel Jennings hasn't tried to fully appreciate my position. If he wishes to fight this issue out with his wife or girlfriend when the time comes, fine, just leave me out of it. The opinion expressed in this letter is that Jennings does not alike making such accustomal generalizations, but if the shoe fits. Mr. Jennings, wear it.
Readers Respond
To use his own tactics, my ultimate response is this—it is unfortunate that this editorial page allows letters of this caliber to "encourage the proliferation of the painful
without the details of Israeli terrorism, racism and aggression sufficient to cause people to demand a change in policy?
an intelligent individual discussing the position against abortion, not just some 'Right to Birth' laws, because mistakes in my initial response.
Belgium to Italy mysteriously disappeared. Several countries' intelligence agencies in India within the last week that the facts of the disappearance became known. The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times reported that a uranium had been stolen by Israel for use in a nuclear reactor that can produce the raw materials for nuclear weapons. This uranium that was used to manufacture the 10 to 20 atomic bombs which a CIA official recently reported are now in Israel, ready for immediate use.
In the early 1970's, Israel was involved in international
weapons to a country with an expansionary policy and canceled the sale. Israel then stole three of the ships from a military port in southern France.
These incidents of international thievery and others as yet unexposed, should come as no surprise. They were on the verge of stealing the land of the Palestinian people in 1948. It was on this thievery that the very creation of Israel was
President Carter should recognize that the theft of Palestine and all the injustice that has followed is the ultimate violation of human rights. He should stand against the Zionist lobby which encourages support of this theft-oriented policy and he should be firm in pursuing the reestablishment of Israel for the Palestinian people that he said has his support
Throughout Israel's 29-year history, with repeated theft of additional land, American tax dollars have supported these criminals. Isn't this portion of the record of history, even
Shawkat Hammoudeh Ammman, Jordan graduate student
To the editor:
Unborn defended
I was shocked by Diane Wolkow's article on abortion (May 2 Kansan). In spite of what she might think, abortion is more than an academic question.
Since she seems so adept at figures, have her computer (in dollars and cents), please the emotional loss of each set of childless parents who would like to adopt children but can't, because none exist to adopt. or have he calculate the anguish
of one mother who exercises her "right" to abortion and can't be prosecuted, she might even go so far as to ask her for figures on the additional economic output of the nation if allowed to live and produce.
I sincerely hope that the next time Ms. Wolkow writes on such a crucial issue she will choose to avail herself of the facts. For instance, she might investigate whether her pregnancy is abortion. She might even call a doctor, in the interest of journalistic excellence, and ask to
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Ms. Wolkow also says that "those adamantly opposed to abortion never give up their rights," and that if the philosophy that Ms. Wolkow supports is adopted, we'll eventually have myriad forms of and reasons for the elimination of the unwanted. I refuse to accept judicial dicta in my moral code and her for me!asseed, superficial reporting!
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