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Thursday, February 3, 1977
University Daily Kansan
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Meany's plan off base
George Meany hauled out his something-for-everybody economies book this week and gave the House Public Works Committee a lesson in how to cure the nation's economic
Meany, director of the AFL-CIO, presented a lesson as simple as it was short-sighted. He called President Jimmy Carter's economic plan "timid" and urged lawmakers to spend $10 billion to create public works jobs.
Carter has already proposed a $31 billion economic stimulus package that includes $4 billion in emergency public works projects in addition to $2 billion already allocated. If Meany calls that timid, he must also think the Shah of Iran is a frugal guy.
MEANY HAS thrust himself into that surprisingly large category of observers who are upset because Jimmy Carter has been in office two weeks now and hasn't solved the problems of energy, inflation, unemployment and the common cold.
What Carter has proposed is a balanced, well-conceived plan of action to bring the economy back into some semblance of order. He has proposed a package of proposals that will pump life back into the economy, provide some immediate job relief and whittle away at the remaining unemployment problem.
What Meany proposes is that the federal government spend more money that it doesn't have to increase the federal deficit that it doesn't want.
MEANY READILY admits his plan would immediately increase the deficit. But he uses this theory : "Put America back to work and you strengthen the economy. Tax tax users into taxpayers and slash the budget deficit."
Give everybody some tax money as wages, then let them pay you some of that money back and we'll use it to "slash the budget"
deficit. Somehow it's hard to see exactly what will be gained in the process.
Carter instead proposes 'a program of reducing taxes and putting that money back into use. It's at least theoretically possible to do this by making a larger sector and begin paying some dividends.
HE SUPPLEMENTS that with a reasonable job program, a job program that will give work while holding down educationocracy that Carter has promised to control.
His plan at least deserves a chance. We need not fear that Jimmy Carter will sit idly by, as did Gerald Ford, if things aren't progressing satisfactorily.
It's hard to imagine that Meany's program is born of anything but the frustration of being shut out of power for eight years. While the Republican administrations of Ford and Nixon were in power, Meany sat nervously on the sidelines and grumbled about the lack of government action on the economy.
AND HE WAS right. The Republican administrations sat on their hands when they weren't fighting with Congress.
But now Meany proposes to come flying into the scene like some eleventh-hour Superman to snatch the country from the jaws of disaster in one fell sweo. He wants to do in a day all the things he's been hollering about for eight years.
America's economy seems to work right only when we have a war or when the government is pumping sufficient amounts of money into public works programs. In either case, there is a false industry holding the system up. In the case of war, it's the arms industry; in the latter case, it's a government-backed works program.
America needs to revolve out of that kind of vicious circle. Jimmy Carter proposes a program that might be a start. George Meany has no idea what he is proposing.
Had Interlaken, Lunau and orthodox Overland Park Jew, been speaking to a larger crowd, he said the hell might have broken loose.
He caused enough commotion among the 20 or so students he spoke to in the Kansas Union.
New age antiquates absolutism
Tkatch, a soft-spoken seemingly sincere man, said simply that the six million Jews slaughtered by Hitler in World War II deserved what they got. But he was a good agent of God, was at least helped by Him in Hitler's effort to create a supreme race.
TKATCH WAS the guest of Hillel, KU Jewish students. He isn't a professional speaker; he works for a scrap-metal firm. He doesn't seem to be either a financier. He is, simply, devout.
**KATCH IS an absolutist.** The Torah's Commandments are all equally important; it is just as much a violation to touch one's wife during and one week after a divorce, or to kill. In defending his argument that the Jews deserved slaughter, Tkatch said the only way to condemn Hitler's actions was to accept the only "ubiquitous" criticism he gave to Criticism based on more opinion, practicality or "gut feeling"? isn't logical. Situational ethics vary from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period.
And being devout, Tkatch says the slaughter was punishment to revisionist Jews for not keeping the Torah's Commandments. The punishment is sufficient to selective thus accounting for the additional seven million killed in World War II.
BUT THEREIN lies the snag in the absolutist argument. Which absolutes, if any, are we to accent?
The Torah, says Tkatch, lists 613 Commandments, of which
nor are applicable today. (He might be doing a bit of revision himself in the morning.) An orthodox cannot work on the Sabbath,
Yet Israeli soldiers are a notorious exception.
Christian religion also condemns murder. Yet the pilgrimages, the Inquisition and, more recently, the war in Northern Ireland seem to flout this prohibition.
THE HINDU religion posits the belief that cows, fat but sacred, are not to be killed. Yet India's Indian die daily of starvation.
Episcopalians only begrudgingly recognized that women were people, and could be ordained as priests. Pope John Paul II insisted that way His reason? Jesus chose men as His Angels.
Two problems plague organized religion's hierarchies. First, most are hopelessly out of touch with contemporary world problems. Second, though to say recent military conflicts are caused by Israeli covertive labels Catholic-Protestant, Jew-Moslem and Greek Orthodox-Moslem are convenient and sufficient labels to fuel the war propaganda used in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Cyprus, respectively.
right side and the wrong side.
Religion has had a definite positive impact on the world's moral values. It has shaped the world in ways of feeling against killing that Teach refuted as illogical. But organized religion's time may have passed.
Letters
Enrollment process a mockerv
The enrollment system at KU makes me nauseous. The letter schedule was designed to make enrollment as fair as possible; but the mere presence of the schedule made it hard. Little notice is given to it. Fraternities and sororites have systems for getting class cards pulled or enrolling early. Knowing someone who is working enrollment makes early enrollment even easier. Students must know ways to ensure your choice of classes. The registrar's office will change your scheduled time if a "good reason" is given. Athletes get automatic access to desired classes via the registration portal. All these systems working simultaneously, it is a small wonder that the people at Station Five began stamping all permits, regardless of the letter schedule, by noon Friday. The majority of people at Station five had already enrolled by other means.
The students can hardly be blamed. The blame lies with the enrollment "establishment." By the end of high school, university is more or less
Dean Lewis says he will talk to the students "to make sure that it doesn't happen again." If it does, he wants them to treatment students receive when enrollment falsifications are discovered, then no wonder so many students make use of them. Students must be with little fear. Considering the tremendous competition for classes at reasonable times, who wouldn't risk getting the job with a mere lecture on morality.
It boils down to choice.
Logically, if one is to consider himself a member of a religion, he must be a Catholic, clerics, like it or not. Then, he
And this is called fair? How fair is it to be shut out of the same class semester after graduation? In the situation may *eem* to many professionals in the enrollment game, it is often a reality for the more honest students. And when you get it wrong, feel only anger when I read that Dean Jerry Lewis will not punish the students who stole a Nenunaker Dean's stamp in their enrollments to expedite their enrollments.
To the editor:
using the use of migration techniques during enrollment. If this continues, the day when the entire student population has completed enrolment by June 30, 2014, grows pealer and nearer.
Ann Selzer Lawrence junior
After pondering for a week on the Kansan's new editorial policy of unigned editors, I am still perplexed.
Policy perplexing To the editor:
"Unsigned editorials," we are told, "provide for strengthening the editorial voice," and allow the Karansan to more closely approach what it terms a "real" newspaper.
The attachment of a signature to an opinion and the high quality or "clout" of that signature will be mutually exclusive goals.
For me, there is something extremely irritating in reading an editorial with inaccurate statements and not knowing the authorship, even when I agree with the thesis of the editorial.
If quality is desired through the use of collective opinion, why not have each editorial opinion approved by the editorial board, yet retain the primary author's signature? As far as your goal of being a "real" newspaper editorial boards don't change every semester.
At the least, you might reveal to your leadership the membership of your editorial board. Your definition of "top Karsan editors" is not awfully informative.
Especially for a profession that continually disdains "off-the-record" comments and vigorously fights for comprehensive open-meetings laws, the government policy seems inexplicable to me.
An article in Tuesday's paper telling what the candidates for student body president plan to do with $108,000 in surplus
Position unclear To the editor:
Jon Josserand Johnson graduate student
Jon Josserand
The first project that my running mate, Ralph Munyan, and I envision for these surplus funds is reinstatement of Feedback-the published student evaluation of courses and instructors and look at semester indicated that students considered the only good advice on what courses and instructors to take was that they got from other students. Advice from assigned advisers and unassigned faculty members was rated either fair or faint by many students and their total advice was inadequate.
student fees was far less than complete.
My plans were condensed into only two sentences. One of them is this summary of my position: 'Steve Leben . . . said simply that he would "spend it."
The Feedback we envision, based on ones used at other universities, would include comments from students who took each course and instructor, a listing of course requirements for each course, and combined numerical ratings of each course and instructor.
Well, that's true. We will spend the money, since it was paid by currently enrolled KU students who expected to receive benefits from it. But information on exactly when we would be in mind to spend the money on was omitted.
To the editor:
Such a book might cost about $50,000, but we believe that students are interested in what happens when they answer And. And the students said in the survey that student advice on what courses and instructors to take is available as a device available. Feedback is the best way to disseminate it.
The second allocation we would make from the surplus funds would be for capital improvements to KU's recreational facilities. It is being proposed that a new fee of $2 to $4 a semester be assessed annually. We are also planning our recreational services and facilities. But we say that no new fee should be added until the surplus of funds you've already paid is used up.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Published at the University of Kansas daily August through May and Monday through Saturday. $10 per person, Sunday and Friday. Second-class postage paid at Lawrence, Kan.
$25 per person for a week in Douglas County and $10 a semester or $30 for two weeks. $2 a semester, paid through the student activity fee.
Jim Bates
Janice Clemens
Steve Leben
El Dorado junior
Thus we would make some improvements—resodding of playing fields, adding lights to tennis courts, etc.—from the surplus funds, and then see if additional fee additional fees is necessary.
with any legal problem. To make this an ongoing program, though, would require an increase of $1 or $2 in fees in the past year to up. So before we decide whether such an attorney should be hired, we are first taking a survey of current students to see whether they'd be willing to add additional fee for that service.
We feel that these new projects could produce significant and tangible benefits for students and student Student Senate should fail to approve these or other programs after we are elected, we would then favor lowering the fee until the surplus is used up.
Reduced rates fair
And we are considering another allocation of the money to hire a student's classroom available to help any student
whose major premise is based on humanism. If in doubt, take a look at the porticos of the KU Museum of Natural History, and see whose names are inscribed there.
In Thursday's Kansan it was reported that teaching assistants and assistant instructors working more than 40 per cent of the time "receive 'staff fee' rates of $14 a credit hour" while those working under 40 per cent of the time "pay regular fees of $2.50 a credit hour up to the regular enrollment fee of $291.90."
FREEDOM OF religion is a precious right. So is freedom of choice.
To the editor:
The $14.00 fee that the reporter cited applies only to full-time members of the staff; most graduate students are not required staff and therefore receive no reduction in their fees.
Apparently your reporter got her figures confused. Our staff fee eligibility cards entitle us to pay the regular resident's fee of $150 per week, but than the $1.50 fee that would be charged to non-residents. This is a "benefit" only in the sense that many assistant instructors and teaching assistants come here from other states and foreign countries, so their resident's fees if they were not employed by the University.
BY THESE definitions, even Hitler was a hypocrite. Also an absolutist, he was following a religion of his own, Nazism, and was consistent with its principles.
Bill Sniffen
Editorial Writer
Tina Blue
Whether that choice be negated by organized religion's antiquated absolutist princes or a secular free individual free will, isn't up to the Tkatchs, Popees or sacred cows of the world.
Lawrence graduate student
The unorganized religion or common sense, gut feeling and opinion might well be a better answer. That religion is nearly as old as the others. Humanists, who are not usually discount the existence of absolutes. The words you are now readened were written by one of several million people educated at colleges or universities
can be content knowing he has as set of absolutes by which to live. If he accepts some and rejects the others, he is a lycovirte.
It's up to you.
Carter's tax rebate plan no cure for economy
the economy; so they have already offered them to individuals, families and corporations. In most cases, they manage to rationalize, in their best "bureaucratise," as too costly, plans to allocate money to the very people who it most, the "invisible" poor.
expected at $1.5 billion total for the nation's consumers. And estimates are that natural gas demand will be by $4.5 billion this year.
THESE PRICE increases will take a big chunk of the government bonus, and could throw an additional economic recovery machinery;
The Carter Administration's plan to send at least $50 to nearly every American later this year in the form of tax breaks, could no longer be lost more than a drop in the proverbial bucket.
The rebates, once thought of as a godsend for the American taxpayer, have fallen into the
The plan, subject to Congressional approval, is a part of the administration's $31 billion "economic stimulus program." In addition to the $50 for each dependent, Carter has
Paul Jefferson
Editorial Writer
However, circumstance seen and unforeseen may eat up any surplus or consume it notably not notably for coffee) for the year are
GOVERNMENT officials hasten to point out that rebates would be paid to taxpayers regardless of level of income. The combination of rebates and tax cuts will supposedly keep businesses back into circulation by consumers over the next two years.
also proposed permanent tax reductions for low and middle-income families; more specifically, single people whose incomes are married couples earning less than $17,500. filling jointly.
"it seemed like a good idea at the time" category.
ABOUT FOUR million Americans who have no children, no income and receive little support, would be excluded from the program. Government officials say the cost of reaching this group is too high, and would therefore not administrative problems."
AND ALTHOUGH government officials and the general public would like the rebates to be permanent catalysts to our uncertain economy, rebates are only temporary solutions at best; at worst, they may be entirely self-defeating, their cost on other community, national and world conditions.
The government's plan to distribute rebates, while providing some type of refund to 96 per cent of the population, may become more notorious for those whom it leaves out.
So rebates are an integral part of the administration's two-year program to stimulate
The Carter administration began with a promise to bring new faces and new ideas to deal with the business of government. But in dealing with his initial and most important challenge, the economic slump, Carter and his advisers have returned to the tried and true methods of tax cuts and rebates.
Meanwhile, if the administration has its way, the rich will get a little bit richer, and the poor won't.
CARTER'S administration is being built on his promises to cut the red tape of bureaucracy. In exchange, making it little to severe.
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