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Thursday, May 5, 1977
University Daily Kansan
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European visit a test
Jimmy Carter meets the world today in his first mission abroad, and there is no doubt that the President will be putting on his Sunday best.
There is no official business today or tomorrow, although Carter, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal probably will be preparing for Saturday's and Sunday's economic summit with Great Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan.
ALL THAT IS on tomorrow's agenda is a tour of the British countryside and an informal dinner hosted by Britain's Prime Minister James Callaghan.
Business scheduled for the summit includes establishing emergency financing for those countries hit hardest by the rocketing costs of oil; smoothing out problems that have occurred for several years in international trade; reviewing energy problems and studying the issue of using nuclear power without imbalance; its harmful effect militarily; and agreeing on a bargaining position that industrialized nations will take when they meet with lesser-developed countries later this year.
AGREEMENTS on most of these items have been ironed out and need only to be ratified by world leaders. The major purpose
of the summit, experts say, is to rally public attention and support.
The President also plans to fly to Geneva, where he is expected to discuss the Middle East problem with Syria's President Hafez al-Assad.
CARTER also has hinted that he will take the opportunity of his visit to discuss other issues, and it's almost certain that he will continue his policy of speaking out for human rights. Taking such an opportunity would be advantageous for the President if he could rally the support of these Western allies.
Even before leaving, Carter gave the trip a taste of his personal style. Because of his concern about the costs of the trip, he cut the size of the American contingent from 88 to 60 persons. Among the "priority requests" that were strenken from the party were personnel for security, transportation and communication.
And that isn't all. The Americans had been booked to stay at London's posh Claridge's Hotel, but U.S. embassy officials were worried the United Nations' relations to a lesser and less expensive hotel.
Carter's term in office has been filled with energy and other domestic problems. He seems well prepared for this first important overseas mission, and it is hoped the test he faces will result in the same passing grade he has been handed at home.
Once it was male tassel designers who conspired against women. Every year or two, to stimulate the garment industry, fashion would come out with a new—and often uncomfortable or outrageous—mode. And women, with equally little regard for comfort or common wear, would follow their every word.
Take, for instance, the miniskirt. We women fell for that one like bricks. And then we spent the next three years learning how to cross our legs and bend over without showing up to our navels, until we were rescued by blue jeans.
THEN CAME the midi. We rebelled. No man was going to tell us to cover our legs with his shirt and keep him keep his bank account scan.
Women keep designers clothed
Now, it seems, some women who have gained entrance to the school are no longer sex. This year it is the camisole and the corselette, those tiny bits of nothing that no woman over 34A can stuff a shoulder.
Score one for women. We were finally on to the industry's tricks.
One would expect Yves St. Laurent or Christian Dior, both well-known fashionistas, to top that sell for up to $140. They think that all women are endowed equally. But female designers also push the new fashion.
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Another view of abortion
I understand that as a student editorial writer for the Kansas, Diane Wolkow has the right to attempt to persuade people that she is intelligent. There is, however, a perhaps unintentional, philosophical bias in student editorsors. In one instance, concerning her abortion, I am writing to present briefs on my point of view.
To the editor:
I think most people who have considered the question would agree that human life is precious and sacred. This position can be supported without recourse to the tenets of Christianity, even though most major religions hold this to be true.
If Wolkow accepts this, I think we can assume that our major disagreement is whether the suffocation or dismemberment of a child is a destruction of something precious and sacred. I would infer from her editorial that she feels no remorse or guilt in her own actions, and is courageing others to do so. After all, a woman should have an absolute right to do anything she pleases with her body. But if Wolkow's course, cannot be satisfactorily resolved in everyone's mind
those of the mother Also, tradition and common law, which I think reflect our culture's collective sense of right and wrong, provide abundant examples supporting the principle that a person has no absolute right to do anything that would cause a superficial examination shows no direct effect on other members of society. Certain acts demean human dignity
Unfortunately for Wolkow's position, this respect for the collective conscience of our society doesn't extend moral authority to that precious Supreme Court ruling that abortion before the third trimester constitutes right. The Supreme Court cannot be accepted as an absolute moral authority.
The cells in the child's body are those of a unique human, possessing genes different from
Destruction of the unborn child usually is defended by radical men's librars as a matter of convenience because they are "the unwanted child" life wouldn't be satisfying." The first excuse is, at best, an admission of moral cowardice, or at the worst, a complete sacrilege of humanity and sanctity of the human potential. The second alba is patently offensive to any thinking person's sensibilities. A caring person might reason that the loving parent should bear the child and allow it to be adopted by a loving couple.
offers journalism students the opportunity to smooth out their rough points before they work for a living. It is unfortunate, but if you are interested in use your position to encourage the proliferation of the painful destruction of so many unborn children. Robert Jennings
Reviewer slings ax To the editor:
Robert Jennings Lawrence senior
It was saddening to read Tim Pucell's "review" of the Cleveland Orchestra concert (April 28). He calls himself a reviewer; I would call him the Kansan's hatchet man.
When the Cleveland Orchestra performed the two familiar Beethoven symphonies, Mr. Rendel demonstrated professional style. They didn't play as if they were saying, "Look what we can do!" We already know they are performing an ascended display of technique.
What Purcell called "exaggeration" was instead the classical musical work. Sure, it's in their repertoire, but maybe they just like to play it to give the audience a nice, cute experience. I heard either of those symphonies performed live, and I am willing to bet that there are a few more performances that he hadn't either.
Further, I question his expertise in reviewing the concert. Certainly, the excellence attained by the orchestra merits more mention than acoustical setbacks of the auditorium. There are only three ways I can figure that he wanted to hear about fime what he wanted to hear; 2. He wrote the article before the concert; 3. He sat in a cheap seat.
I understand the Kansan
Prairie Village junior
Melanie Reeder
PART OF the female reasoning behind the success of the camisole and the cordesse is understandable. The tops, which are outer wear versions of what women wore under their
Lore Caufield, a female designer, says the new fashion is a symbol of today's open sexuality. Said Caufield, "When a young girl gets dressed in the morning, she doesn't know
Diane Wolkow
Editorial Writer
real clothing until they found something better, are very feminine. And, as one female executive for Christian Dior explainably, women are more sick and tired of looking like men."
Harder to stomach, though, is the rest of the psychological gabble used to explain why the tops are selling.
where she's going to get undressed."
PERHAPS CAULFTIELD is implying that the coralette will become a symbol for a certain type of woman much the way the red dresses and heavy make-up used to be. Tell me, Caulfield, can prudes wear them, too?
What about the women who don't like the fashion being sold? Are we supposed to feel guilty, be any less 'female' for rejecting something forced upon us by the fashion industry?
Along that same vein, when will designers, male and female alike, start designing women's shoes, it would be a major majority, not for those rare souls with manic figures—i.e. 34 hips, 29 waist and 32 legs.
Thus, the gripe. When will the fashion industry stop designating clothing with the intent of molding women to fit its personality. Clothing, like every other dress, is molded by women, is marketed with the sales pitch, "If you are a real woman, then..."
know where I'm going to undress at night."
OR ARE WE supposed to mold our personalities to fit the explanations for why a style is popular, or why who buys a carousel or corselette is obligated to instantly go on Ortho-Novum and then弯身 her entire lifestyle, just like you have always dressed in the morning, I don't
This summer we'll probably be seeing women in all shapes and sizes, from Twiggy types to poor imitations of Mae West, but these cute little taps that look like little three-century underwear.
And these women, half of whom will be literally falling out of their clothes on top, will be keeping cool. But they will also be looking slightly ridiculous while perpetuating the myths of the fashion industry.
MCAFEELY TREW MONROE LEAPER 517179 HARPER ROAD
PRIMING THE PUMP.
Allen's movie stirs memories
Woody Allen's latest movie, "Annie Hall," has Allen's potent power of making the viewer relate to his subject.
In this latest movie, Allen—in what critics say is an autobiographical tale of difficulties of getting into relationships with women.
Allen tries to learn from his mistakes with the opposite sex, something that maybe a lot of
us have done at some time or another. At least I have.
My first relationship was with a girl named Janet (her real name). Janet was the one who asked me to "going steady," and pitfalls of "going steady."
AT THE TIME I thought that going steady with Janet would make my high school social status climb. How many student team managers get a cheerleader for their first
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Viper's the "Lonesome Berry" and "Chet Pussy" trademarks were still there.
AT ABOUT the same time, I
steady? I thought I would become one student manager who would gain the respect of football players notorious or
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taking their viciousness out on student managers.
But their harassment got worse after I started going steady.
I found that I couldn't eat lunch without some football player yelling "Hey Berm, Hey Bern!" and "across the school cafeteria."
Girls were worse. They always commented, with a series of giggles, that Janet and I made a cute couple.
IT DIDN'T take me long to realize that I could have a good time without the bond of going of being a student manager.
But I did happen to learn some possible benefits of a long-term relationship by going with Janet. For one thing, her mom could cook a memorable spaghetti dinner.
Also, when I out at our junior class prompt that morning my date for the dinner was Katie, driving me home. But because I didn't like going steady, I Janet to someone who did.
After parting with Janet, I began having shorter relationships that taught me both good and bad.
FOR INSTANCE, it seems that I always favored girls who liked going to Viper's Cave, the hot spot in my home town.
Actually, Viper's Cave wasn't really a cave. It was only a concrete tunnel underneath a railroad bridge. It got the name "Cave" from the paint it painted "Welcome to Viper's Cave" at the top of it on night.
Since then, everyone has had this craze to go there periodically to paint up the place.
It was there that I'd take girls to show them my artwork. I took pleasure in showing them some of the graffiti that had been painted on our nights of our junior and senior class plays. Last time I visited
began thinking that perhaps driving my dad's car caused what seemed to be a chain of short-term relationships. Dad had a Rancherch, and as any car expert would know, all that's inside a Rancherch is two with a console in the middle.
Since then I've had two big Mercurys, two big Chrevrolet Capriches and a big Plymouth. It doesn't seem as though they were me much. The relationships still are getting shorter.
My latest experience was the shortest vet.
I was in a bar near my home town drinking beer with some friends one Friday night. Not knowing what to do, I got a good-looking blonde who
seemed easy to talk to. She
asked me whether I was going
to come back the next night
and told me she'd be there at 8:30.
THE NEXT night I had planned to be back in Lawrence to watch Billy Spears. But, like a teacher, we use a saffron spear Spears for the blonde.
It was 8:55 the next night and the blonde hadn't turned up. If had left for Lawrence then I could have caught a couple of hours of Spears. But the blonde walked in before I could leave.
It seemed worthwhile to stay.
We doubled a couple of pitchers and the conversation flowed between them. "I want me to look over my shoulder, the blonde got up and waved good-by. I don't know what happened," she did in 11-10-too time to make the Spears date. But I headed
I'm still hurting for a solution to end this trend in my formative years. I could start by staying away from my homeetown or getting a smaller car. But maybe the best solution would be finding a coach who needs a good student manager.
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