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State oath law a mere formality
By PEG SPENCER
Staff Reporter
Potential employees of the state of Kansas are required by law to sign loyalty oath pledging support to the U.S. and Kansas constitutions.
All employees of any organization supported by state funds must sign the oaths, according to Tom Pittner, spokesman for the state attorney general's office.
If a prospective employee refuses to sign the oath, he can be denied employment, and if the employee receives payment without signing the oath, he is guilty of a felony in Kansas.
Foreign students who work in the University of Kanaas also are required to坐轮椅.
"A foreign national is obligated to obey the laws of this country," according to William Westerbeke, associate professor of法学 at Ohio for these students a sly requirement.
LOYALTY OATHS became widespread during the Communist scare of the 1950s, Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science said. At that time, oaths involved
pledges of support to the U.S. and state constitutions and statements that denied any current or previous membership in a Communist organization.
Westberke said, "Loyalty oaths that relate to the wave of Communist hysteria are not well understood."
He said membership in any organization is protected by the constitutional right of non-
members.
The oath law in Kansas greatly differs from the non-Communist oath, however.
"ESSENTIALLY you are promising to obey the law," Westerbeke said. "You are not really required to do much more after reading that law, each that you would not otherwise do."
James Masuda, assistant professor of political science, said the oath in Kansas simply stated support for the existing form of government in general.
Westberke said laws of this nature had been uphold by the Supreme Court because it is more difficult to conduct hypothetical action on the part of the signer. Nor does the oath in the state of Kansas
TODAY: GERMAN CLUB will sponsor an E.T.A. Hoffman film and a panel discussion on Junior Year Abroad at 3:30 p.m. in 4002 Wescoe Hall, KANSAS ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY will show a film, "Rhesus Monkeys of Santiago Island," at 4 p.m. in 627 Fraser Hall.
TONIGHT: GAJO PETROVIC, philosophy instructor from the University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia, will lecture on "Heidegger and Marx" at 7:30 in the Council Room of the Kansas Union. There will be a FINE ARTS HONOR RECITAL at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murryville.
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TOMORROW: A RETIREMENT PLANNING SEMINAR will be at 9 a.m. in the Union's Big Eight Room. ROBBET POWERS, University of Pennsylvania professor, will speak on "Resistance in Inequality for the Hisenberg Model" at 4:30 p.m. in 232 Malton Hall. CHANCERY CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Union's Jayhawk Room. KU SAILING CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Parlox A and B of the Union. DOUGLAS PARKER, University of Texas professor, will read from his translations at 8 p.m. in the Union's Council Room. JAPANESE PIANEST AIKO ONISHI will give a recital at 8 a.m. in Swarthout房.
Jackie Shelton, McClain was incorrectly quoted in Friday's Kansas as saying there was a 20 per cent rejection rate for female applicants for military service. She actually said that executive officers of each branch of the armed services have maintained the percentage of women in the armed services at two per cent, even though this means rejecting qualified female applicants when there aren't enough male applicants to meet the quota for the volunteer armed services.
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says I can stand up and berate the local, state and federal government powers until I'm blue in the face and I have not violated a loyalty oath."
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refer to any past activities of a person taking the oath.
CIGLER SAID, "Most people sign it and it doesn't make any difference anyway."
"It only states that you hold a particular attitude toward government at the time you hire someone," he said.
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And, according to Masuda, the state assumes no one wants to refuse to sign the
He said there was a difference between loyalty to the constitution and loyalty to the current government administration of that constitution. Loyalty to the constitution may indicate an obligation to resist the current politicians in power, he said.
"It is simply a precondition to employment," he said.
"There is a distinction between constitutional and intelligent. The Kansas law is
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Thirteen new members of the Faculty Council and two new members of the Athletic Board were elected to three-year terms by the Faculty Senate last week.
The terms of the new members won't
attend May 23, the day after com-
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The two new members of the Athletic Board are Elizabeth Banks, assistant professor of classics and assistant professor of English, and Gerhard Zuther, professor of English.
Burder, associate professor of business;
Thurston Moore, associate professor of
English; Antonio Perez, assistant professor of
performance; Robert Shelton, associate
professor of speech and drama; T. P.
Srinivasan, professor of mathematics;
Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and
experience; Peter Turk, acting assistant
professor of journalism; and Theodore
Davis, associate professor of associate
dean of liberal arts and sciences.
The new Faculty members are: E. Jackson Baur, professor of sociology; Howard Baumgartel professor of psychology and drama; Walter Crockett, professor of psychology and professor of speech and drama; Robert Friulf, professor of physics and astronomy; Ray Hiner, professor of psychology, and founder of foundations and higher education; Charles
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Mandatory sentences not crime solution, judge says
Mandatory sentencing of convicted criminals won't deter a significant amount of crime in Kansas, Michael Barbera, County district court judge, said yesterday.
Barbera, speaking to about 25 law students in Green Hall, said criminal law seemed to be moving toward mandatory prison sentences set up by the legislature for crimes committed either with the use of a weapon or against a person.
At the same time, the system is moving away from concern for rehabilitation of patients with brain injury.
"A good number of the current Kansas population could be housed in a dormitory."
Under the current system, there seem to be differences among judges in sentencing for similar crimes, Barbara said, which don't necessarily reflect disparities in judges' attitudes but differences in offenders' backgrounds and criminal intent.
"The key to rehabilitation is local community institutions," he said.
The right of a court to look at an offender's background, job and family situations before sentencing must be preserved, Barbera said.
Barbers said rehabilitation worked, even if often it was done with only minimum help.
Only a small number of offenders need to be placed in a maximum security institution, Barbera said. Some offenders can be rehabilitated more successfully at a community-based institution, he said, where they are allowed family contacts, work experience and individual treatment in a supervised environment.
However, judges can talk to each other about varying decisions on similar cases. Barbers said. If a judge thinks he has been too hard on an offender, he can reduce the original sentence within 120 days of the first announcement, he said.
An ideal modern prison system in Kansas, he said, would consist of one "warehouse" maximum security facility to house about four offenders, a minimum security facility to house about eight, and several serious offenders, some low security community facilities and alternatives to prison.
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