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University Daily Kansan
Combat duty fuels debate
By RUTH BENIEN
Staff Reporter
Controversy over military combat service, protection laws and a claim that the United States' representative form of government would be destroyed highlighted a debate last night on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
The debate, sponsored by KUY-Y and the Gay Services, took place in the Kansas University Big Eight Room before an audience of 100. The audience responded to comments made by the four speakers with mingled applause, laughter, boos and hisses.
--for a job involving lifting heavy weights, Flaherty said.
Favoring the ERA to the U.S. Constitution were two University of Kansas Law School students, Mark Flaherty and Jackie Shelton-McClain.
Causing the greatest uprear from the crowd was a comment made late in the debate by Hanna, who opposed the possibility of women serving combat duty in the Armed Services. The ERA, according to its opponents, would require such duty.
Barbara Hanna, Kansas Coordinator of Cities Against ERA, and Betty Haniecke, president of the city—Kansas City Area to ERA in opposition to the ratification of ERA.
"I have both a son and a daughter at home," said Hanna, "but if it came down to choosing which one of them had to go to war, I would rather my son would go."
"I ALSO WOULDN't want a girl in the same foxhole with my son," Hanna added. "I don't believe that this should be the at- tion of men with women and women are thrown together."
Proponents of the ERA said, however,
that women weren't exempt now from соm-
pensation.
President always had had the power to draft them.
The ERA would, however, bring equality to women in other areas in the military, to women in the armed forces.
She said that there was a 20 per cent rejection rate for female applicants for military service even though too few males were available to specify this situation, Shelton-MCClaan said.
PROTECTION FOR women in employment was also an area in which the ERA amendment was attacked by Hanna and Hanicke.
Hanna read from a report by the president of Women in Industry, which claimed that employees would simply use the amendment as an excuse to cut expenses and get rid of women employees over the age of 50. But the researchers were physically impossible for them to do.
FLAHERTY IN SUPPORT of the ERA, said present protection laws for women did little to actually protect them. Such laws, for the most part, are used to keep women from competing on an equal basis with men for jobs. he said.
Hanna said that disdisused as a protection law that supposedly protects women from hard physical labor, the ERA should be renamed the TWERP Amendment (Terminate Women's Extra Rights and Privileges).
Hanicke said any problems of sex discrimination could be handled now under either the 1964 Civil Rights Act or the 1972 Equal Opportunity Act. The passage of the ERA would do nothing more to end sex discrimination, she said.
According to the proponents of the ERA, not all protection laws would be illegal. the ERA would require for example, that men and women be given an equal opportunity
"THE ERA IS A FRAUD, and one of the most dangerous amendments ever proposed to the United States Constitution," she said.
Hanicke said passage of ERA would be a step backward, not forward.
Hanicke said that if the ERA were passed, a massive transfer of power from the states and localities to the federal government would occur. She based her statement on an ERA would affect any business, program or school involved with the federal government.
The ERA calls for "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." The amendment is currently seeking ratification by the individual states.
"The only thing that the ERA will do to the state government's rights is prohibit them from discriminating on the basis of sex." he said.
FLAHERY SAID that such a massive shift in power would occur.
The moderator of the 2-hour debate was Martlyn Ainworth, professor of law.
County courthouse historical documents will soon be transferred to the Spencer Research Library, according to Peter Whitment. county commission chairman.
Spencer gets court records
Commissioners' journals will be included in the old documents being sent to the Commissioners.
George Griffin, director of the Kansas Collection at Spencer Library, said the documents also would include district court cases, poll books and tax and welfare records.
Whitteen said that in return for the documents, Griffin would provide a complete inventory of the documents for courthouse files.
Whitenight said the documents would be better preserved at the library, where they would be kept under controlled atmospheric conditions.
Old documents usually are destroyed.
However, Whitengt said the commissioners would rather let the University deal with old documents for review and study purposes.
A formal letter still must be sent to the commission for approval before the documents can be transferred to the library.
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