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Friday, April 29, 1977
University Daily Kansan
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in keeping with the new morality of the Carter administration, Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell has decided to uphold charges against a former FBI supervisor for illegal spying
The agent, John Kearney, had been indicted for allegedly using illegal tactics back in the early '70s to spy on New York police. He was later contacted with Weather Underground fugitives.
IGNORING PLEAS by FBI Director Clarence Kelley to drop the charges against Kearney, Bell said that what was at stake was the rule of the law, and, "If you break the law, ordinarily you suffer the consequences."
How nice — we have an attorney general who is willing to uphold citizens' rights in the United States, even when it means prosecuting a federal employee who was merely following high governmental orders. All of us American citizens currently in subversive activities now can rest assured that our mail won't be opened nor will our telephones be tapped.
Though Bell's intentions are laudable, one can't help wondering how much of the new attorney general's morality is a sudden love of the American nation and how much of the political bullshit.
PROBABLY, it is a little of both.
Bell wasn't a popular choice for attorney general. His record as a federal judge down in Georgia was marred by allegations of racial bins. He also came under sharp attack for belonging to segregated country clubs. He was also involved in keeping with that of the new administration.
If the new attorney general wanted to be one of the "gang," he had to admit a stance in keeping with that of President Carter, who is known for his newsworthy ambassador to the U.N., Andrew Young. What Bell needed was a cause, something to show that he's also part of the band.
The prosecution of an FBI agent for duties performed under another administration was Bell's ideal chance. When Kelley, who was passed over by Carter, entered the fray in 1965, he had to ask Bell. Bell had yet another opportunity to show his support for the Carter administration.
FBI AND CIA spying on normal citizens, which was carried to an extreme under the Nixon Republican administration, is a case of intentional infiltration; it is doing row snakes of a political purge.
The Republicans are out of office; let's show that the Democrats can do better, says the administration. Moreover, let's prove our new morality by rooting out all the nepotists and putting their perpetrators on trial to demonstrate our sincerity.
Bell said his decision to continue Kearney's prosecution was "a bad sad I had to
He said he needed the resultant information to be able to set up a "fail-safe system" that wouldn't infringe on any citizen's rights.
A new system of federal investigation is needed, one that is more discriminatory about who it spies on and how. Yet a private investigation of the matter might be just as effective as using Keamy and other FBI agents as political scapegoats.
Moreover, if Kearney is tried and convicted, shouldn't all FBI agents involved in such tactics be tried similarly? Then what would happen if one of the agents involved in illegal saving tactics in America?
Bell's morality shouldn't be selective.
Here's Bell's chance to show just how lawful and fair a judge can be.
Death came to an old friend earlier this week when Norman Lear announced the can- tains he had acquired from his mother, Mary Hartman" show.
"Mary, Hartman, bw,
Hartman" had always been described as one of those shows a person either liked or hated.
Others die with Mary Hartman
THOSE WHO hated the show were the unfortunate ones. Either they didn't care about the problems of today's society or they weren't ready for an innovative series.
Tom Hartman—Mr. Hartman was the basic, former high school jock who suddenly found a promising end at an airplane crash during the nation's large automobile makers. He could be described as straightforward since he usually was the first to tell someone to go to hell if he didn't find the crap they were putting out.
Mary Hartman—Ms. Hartman was a confused, sensitive housewife. She was regarded as the type who would put her head against a pill of cereal just to hear the snap, crackle and pop of the Krispies. She also learned how to lead a leader in a "ban saccharin" campaign after reading about it in Reader's Digest.
There are many characters dying with the show that many of us were able to identify with. These characters include:
Martha Shunway—Mrs. Shunway was Mary's mother and a loud-mouthed housewife whose husband, George, at the dining room table. She never stopped talking. Whenever George was gone, Martha often would talk to her plants, or anybody who
he wasn't sleeping with a newly discovered aging mistress, Grandpa would live up to his mission as the Fernwood Flasher.
married to him, although she had been engaged several times. After a long pregnancy, he married her in a fernwood laundromat in a Fernwood laudronette.
Sergeant Dennis Foley-
Grandpa—Many thought this
Jay Bemis Editorial Writer
old geezer would never die,
although he often faded away from the Shumway home. He was the type of person all of us would want to be like when we get to be his age. Grandpa had been a sandwiches. He certainly needed the extra protein. When
Foley was the type of person all of us would like to be at our current age. He was always attracted to women and women always were attracted to him. Foley was such a successful man that many of us couldn't understand why he was a cop.
Charlie Haggers—Charlie was a close friend and neighbor of the Hartmans. He led a small band, often was portrayed as being simplicistic and timid; but actually he had the gonads of a dog.
LORETTA HAGGERS—Fernwood's sweetheart and Charlie's wife. A promising career as a superstar country-and-western singer was interrupted several times; either by crooked managers, a blooper about Jews on the Dinah Shore show or a case of amnesia. He was also an actress with the Lord, Ms. Haggers still was contented at the time of her death.
in Fernwood seemed to be in nothing but a jumbled-up mess, as it often was, good ole Merle could always reason things out and fit the pieces together. A man of firm religious beliefs, Jeeter went on to become the most mayor of Fernwood.
Merle Jeeter—Whenever life
There were many other characters that died with the famous Fernwood bunch; but most of them were just pieces of the long, intricate pattern. New York City's "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and some of the old characters will be back with them. But it's doubtful that they will replace the friends we've met and get to know on "Mary Hart and Mary Hartman."
Kansan letter writers discuss spanking. gavs. Owen
Rules king praised To the editor:
Frank Owen of Voucher Audit is going to retire. I am stunned. I can't imagine life without Frank Owen.
I-wonder whether students realize how much this one man at KU has done for them. He is famous throughout the paper-pushing bureaucracy called the administrative staff. He is a roots level administrator and probably has held one of the roles in KU-he checks the paperwork of all departments and groups trying to pay for things they have bought.
Twyla Snow
Accounts. He has talked with coherence in the face of my mysteries about Restricted Fee Accounts.
fact that the professor now has lost the original invoice?
Department Secretary Aerospace Engineering
Some of you may stand up and shout that some of this is in the Business Procedures Guide. You'll probably hear it, However, not a few of us find the Business Procedures Guide almost beyond comprehension.
He has led more Untrained Souls through the maze of A-forms and SOVs then he probably cares to remember that he comes from KU a semblance of order before it goes to Topeka (Topeka writes the checks!) More sad tales have begin with Mr. Owen, you sent this A-form to us. You don't know what to do with it.
It is truly a tribute to his strength that he hasn't told us exactly what we could do with our A-forms.
Gays feel no guilt
I have never met Frank
He has worked long hours with restraints that make most of us less dedicated folks cry. He has personally (over the years) worked with hands) imparted the mysteries of such dark places as the Xerox
To the editor:
to the editor
Concerning Doug Lamborn's letter about gays' unhappiness—as lesbians, we do not
which we as lesbians-feminists fight oppressive and offensive to our dignity. Any Biblical explanation for this is not even mentioned in the Bible; therefore, lesbianism is condemned from a Christian standpoint.
Sexuality is defined by the patriarchy as heterosexuality- society condemns homosexuality as a deviation
Readers Respond
Owen. I am not a taper of Fate. He might, with good reason, bend my face. However, I do want to thank him from a distance. I thank him sincerely and his kindness and his kindness to me.
We are going to miss him.
Since reading of his retirement
I have begun to have nightmares about KU's grinding to a halt while his replacement learns all the unwritten rules and memorizes all the page numbers in the business Procedures Guide.
And how can another name in all the world come with such a lil as when he answers his phone with "Frank Owen-". That is the cue for me to begin learning that the professor who spent $73,333 could have been bought through B&G and what to do about the
feel guilty about our emotional, sexual and political preference. The standards of this culture impose uneasiness on anyone outside the institution of marriage. The Bible says that sex should be inducted in for procreation only, causing a history of guilt for those finding euxus, homosexual or other.
These standards were asserted in a time and culture where procreation was vital to the survival of humankind. Homosexuals and lesbians are not reproducing, which is an advantage in these days when overpopulation and depleted resources are at risk of life. Personally, we find the Bible's standards on sexuality outdated and derived from a closed-minded patriarchal bias,
from this heterosexual norm, a norm that most of us would imagine. Lamborn's assumption that we are filled with shame, doubt and fear is perhaps a projection of his own guilt and fear about
We find it strange that Lamborn attempts to define individuals who are happy (ourselves) as unhappy in order that he may bestow some sympathy upon us. We have no need or desire for this kind of compassion – it implies that we are despairing, despicable, lifestyle, which is quite contrary to fact. We are proud to be lesbians who have chosen self-respect rather than guilt.
Maggie Stolz
Lawrence senior
Leesa Duby
Lawrence junior
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Spanking stand bit
To the editor:
Re: Bill Sniffen's editorial: "To Prevent Spoiling, Rap"
At issue is the question of whether any kind of corporal punishment should be allowed in the schools. Sniffen is against it. Very well, I am disposed to share his information and reasoning.
What we do not get from Sniffen, however, is either reasoning or information, but instigations. The ruling will be that they know "who feel that making their students' lives miserable will do
the students some good." Then,
follows a single personal experience:
Sniffen was once
in the lab and he
had something in his eye.
One might argue that all corporal punishment should be outlawed in order to prevent such outlandish isolated incidents as that Snifter was killed by the Supreme Court not do this. It extrapolates from one personal experience to the implication that all those who support the Supreme Court ruling belong to an old breed of "diehardrs" who believe that "a person with a bad way of best way to control an unruin child." Those wishing to retain corporial punishment as a last
resort are those who believe in "slapping students around." I consider this to be false.
A freshly graduated teacher of my acquaintance returns home each day in tears as a result of the abuse she incurs from several youngsters. She suffered the situation from a teacher because she could not handle the pupils. Some of their shenanigans were, and are: repeatedly writing obscenities on the blackboard which impugn their teacher's morality, surcastic sassing at every moment, throwing baskets on the floor, repeatedly vandalizing classroom apprentices—but why extend
the list? Sniffen probably has not faced such a situation and will not likely appreciate the teacher's despair.
It would not be difficult to build the above item into an emotion-laden ad hominem attack, to compare with Snifner's treatment of teachers who enjoy "slugging" their pupils. But Snifner will reach a valid conclusion on the U.S. Supreme Court rulng.
At any rate, Sniffen's reading of the decision—"the Supreme Court tells me Sister Gertrude was acting properly"—is another error. The Supreme Court said no such thing.
James D. Bono
Lancaster graduate student
Dole plugging for party
DOLE DESCRIBED ways in which the Republicans could return to power as a "shadow minister" in the present administration.
Senator Robert Dole simply doesn't understand the problem.
First of all, the Republicans would engage in what they have
After the November elections, the Republican party was considered by some to be an endangered species, on its way to quick extinction, with little or no regard of regaining its former clout.
Currently, a miniscale number of registered voters (18 per cent) identify themselves as Republican. The GOP has control of only 12 governorships and only five state legislatures. At the Capital, Republicans have 194 members and total of 182 votes, 144 in the House of Representatives and 38 in the Senate.
THE ALARM has been sounded that Republicans are in danger of becoming a "permanent minority," which is another thing that is altogether foreign to the make-up of the party. Ronald Reagan, John Connally and Gerald Ford have all tried to mold the army into completely different, but its substance is still unclear almost six months after the election.
Senator Dole, appearing with conservative columnist and commentator William F. Buckley recently, discussed the plight of republicanism as a viable alternative to "Democrat" politics. (Dole's persistence in getting the "democrat" instead of "Democratic" is seen here as a feeble, underhanded attempt to demean the current "party impower.")
labeled their target strategy. This daring new plan was unveiled during last November's election and met with conspiracy but hated publicity. Now the time supposedly is right.
The National Republic Congressional Committee (NRCC), which developed the plan, is gearing the new strategy for use in next year's congressional races.
The Republican party is
money on something that never arrived.
REPUBLICANS should perhaps think twice about this proposal from Washington mending in a primary campaign has long beenasteful to both Democrat and Republican, but this constant interference
That's what could be called casting pearls before swine flu—the effect of the program to more harmful than the disease.
Paul Jefferson Editorial Writer
targeting congressional districts where the GOP has the best chances of success next year. Washington-based organizers into those districts to help recruit the candidate they think would win, providing him with a full range of assistance and services.
THAT ASSISTANCE includes urging local party leaders to vote for a primary candidate, avoiding a primary minimizing in-fighting as much as possible. Another crucial element of the support package is a pre-primary contribution of $500,000. It should be noted that Republicans frequently are critical of Democrats for not allowing them at the point to make them go to the polls. I guess there's always a first time—and this seems to be it—that money will precede the problem. No, I shall think about it later year, when President Ford sent an inordinate amount of
Dole also was mindful of the Republican party's negligence to actively recruit minority candidates, so that the Republican party wasn't an 'antipeople' and *probusiness organization*. But the Republicans well very why the Republicans consistently opposed social
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It also was brought up that the Republican party leadership approved President Carter's plan to make voter registration much more rank and file Republicans, including Dole, didn't.
The question was raised whether the Republicans opposed the new registration laws on the principle that they would encourage voting by people whom the Republicans thought "too ignorant" to vote, and wouldn't vote otherwise. Dole said the question off, but it an established fact that two voter turnouts favor Republicans more than Democrats.
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DOLE REITERATED the Republican party's goal of recruiting more minorities, saying "We need to attract these people." Dole offered no concrete plans for such recruiting, only repeating the need for "those people," as if he were a supermarket, picking out minority members like avocados.
Senator Robert Dole simply doesn't understand the problem.
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