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Thursday, January 27,1977
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Conservation vital
Two hundred thousand workers didn't work last week and 200,000 school children didn't attend school. All were victims of a severely and unusually cold winter.
Those Americans were home, it is said, because of spot fuel shortages. But the real blame rests with irresponsible Americans who haven't been conserving energy.
IN LIGHT of the 1973 energy crisis (which, it should be noted, is still going on) the Nixon administration asked Americans to set their thermats at 68 degrees. That call, however, was for only those Americans who wanted to cooperate. Now that the country's facing a winter that's been called one of the coldest in more than a decade, it looks as if Americans may finally be beginning to wake up.
Leading the cause for energy conservation is President Jimmy Carter who, to set an example last week, ordered all thermostats in government buildings set at 65 degrees and even lower than that at night. "By all Americans to do this," says Bryan Savings, "are possible. Without public conservation, there may not be enough energy to allocate."
And although the Federal Energy Administration emergency regulations published earlier this week were designed to improve the availability of energy and aid supplies, money also pointed out that supplies could be stretched much more by voluntary conservation.
GORMAN C. Smith, acting federal energy administrator, said conservation and the weather were the key factors in determining whether gas supplies would be interrupted to individual homeowners. So far, only schools and industries have been affected.
It's been estimated that Americans will be paying $1 billion more for heating fuel this winter than they have in recent winters. And that $1 billion doesn't include the loss of money through local payrolls and cities, local economies are affected by job laffoffs.
Shortages last week took their toll in several areas. Officials in Georgia called off schools in $8 per cent of that state's school
districts; schools in 24 western Ohio counties closed down because of dwindling supplies at the Dayton Power and Light Company; and 19,000 workers were temporarily laid off and 7,000 workers were reduced to part-time at General Motors and Ford plants in Dayton, Cleveland, Lockport, N.Y., and Doraville, Ga.
Carter's directive to federal buildings seems to have also spurred action in the immediate area.
MIKE WHITE, Jackson County (Kansas City), Mo., government executive, earlier this week ordered that thermostats in all Jackson County government buildings be lowered to 65 degrees during working hours and 55 degrees at night to reduce energy. White estimated that this move would save county taxpayers $7,000 to $10,000 a year.
Max Lacas, University of Kansas facilities planning director, disclosed earlier this week a three-stage plan that has been developed, and would be adopted, if an energy emergency should arise. However, he stressed that the University didn't face an energy problem at its research department. The university is studying alternative energy sources for its operation, such as converting trash and animal waste into forms of energy.
The one person who seems to be doing (and worrying) the most about the problem, though, is Carter. The President created a top energy position when naming his successor, when naming it James Schlesinger, a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
MANY HAVE worried about Schlesinger's favoring nuclear power as an alternative energy source. But Schlesinger's role as AEC chairman was to take care of only that aspect of the energy problem. Under the Carter administration, the President has said, Schlesinger's "number one priority will be to conserve energy."
Carter seems to be taking a more vigorous stand on energy conservation than have past administrations. How successful his efforts will be, however, depends on how conservative Americans are in the years ahead.
How will we and our professors know when the class period is over? The only answer seems to be a system of clocks throughout campus, one in each and every classroom, connected to a master clock to maintain the time on the cost of such a system? Surely more than needs to be spent when the whistle performs the same essential task practically free of charge.
Whistle loss lamented
He heartbroken to read in today's Kansan that the famed KU whistle is to be silenced forever. My father's father was a professor of Greek at the University of Michigan, died. My father worked his way through KU's engineering school by working part-time in Watson Library and on Dyche's doramas. As a third-generation Jayhawk, he grew and practiced tradition in losing the whistle.
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whistle had been silenced. At the risk of upsetting the journalistic community of KU, may I ask how we are to know when the classes are over? I'm sure that I am not the only student who has had professors who are notable and highly successful business. At least the whistle prodded them into hurrying up and finishing, leaving me with at least three or four minutes to make my next class. Now, if I'm lucky, the influx of the next group of students will cut off and I'll be only five or 10 minutes late to my next class.
To the editor:
Jovan Weismiller Lawrence senior
Whistle missed To the editor:
Vern Miller repeats old tricks
Judi Poison Rock Port, Mo.. senior
Until last Sunday morning, I'd almost forgotten that Vern Miller was still with
Christ the issue To the editor:
In the interests of learning and student-professor relations, give us back the whistle!
one time is almost near. Josh is almost here. The well-publicized book, *The Auditorium next week* on Jan. 30, March and Feb. 1. I have heard Josh McDowell speak on two occasions, one at the University of Washington. He is a vibrant and
But last Sunday morning, several area newspapers carried stories about a Friday night raid on three Wichita movie theater locations that killed Miles' never-battle battle against pornography in particular and societal corruption in general.
10 to the editor:
I was absolutely amazed to
read in today's Kansan that the
dynamic speaker. Josh will deal with such important issues to the Christian faith as the resurrection, sexual relationships and prophecy of the end times to show the importance and urgency of questions that demand consideration.
However, these are only issues that point to the central China City. In struggling with these points, McDowell can touch only the tip of the iceberg. The total picture is the person of the iceberg.
Knowing the real person of Jesus Christ first means seeking Him, using the tools that He has given us, scripture, our minds and each other. His tool is a tool to learn more or start learning about the personal Jesus Christ. So I challenge everyone to hear Josh McDowell, read about Jesus Christ and make a decision, either by reading the personal Savior and Lord or to reject Him. It must be one or the other for there is no middle of the road.
Rob Hagan Portland, Ore., junior
Citizens in Lawrence and other Kansas communities remember Miller for his numerous and dramatic drug raids while he was a attorney in Manhattan. The communities remember him for his valiant crackdown on private gambling operations—slot machine, bingo, punch cards, etc. All in the name of justice, anyway) from total moral decay.
They sighed too soon, apparently. Witchia this time as Wichita district attorney.
That was a few years ago. During the past two weeks we've not heard much from the man. After losing the election for governor to Robert Bennett in 1974, Miller seemed to just fade away. The dopers, the gamblers and the operators of the porno palaces all breathed sighs of relief.
Wait a minute.. district attorneys usually don't make a habit of running around town busting sex films, do they? Miller does.
analysis of the movies' contents), then he has no choice but to arrest those involved in the crime.
You see, Miller is the kind of guy who can't sit idle, waiting for the lawbreakers to be brought to him. No air. he's got to go out and nail him. He's got to be a man he was Sedgwick County sheriff. That's what he did when he was attorney general. Why not now?
Ahah! So the fool isn't really Miller,
after all. The public is the collective fool.
Why not now? Good question.
Miller, as district attorney, is a public defender first and a public enforcement officer second. He doesn't have to go out
over an, the public is the collective fool. The Supreme Court has ruled that interpretations of obessity shall be left up to individual communities. This approach clearly represents the temper of the citizenry) says a movie is obscene, then so it—buried into
So what? Good question.
the streets, reporters are sure to follow.
He knows he'll be written up in the papers and people throughout the state will read of his gallant expacades.
Lest we forget, Miller is a politically ambitious man. The statewide fame (and statewide acclaim that he won for his rigorous enforcement of the law as Sedgwick County sheriff helped to put him in the political seat) that he earned as attorney general somehow almost won him the governorship in 1974.
hunting for criminals; he's supposed to spend the taxpayers' money and time as a prosecutor. The law enforcement agencies in Wichita performed a competent job investigating the law before taking office; they can do it without him now.
Miller has always vowed that as long as there is a law on the books, he will insure that the public abides by that law. His rationale now calls for him to be pornographic so he can be to pornograph the took a panel of judges with him on his rails last week to provide a quick
Stewart Brann
Editorial Editor
And lest we forget, the politicians are saying that Bennett likely will have to fight tooth and nail to keep his job when elections roll around in 1978. They say that a strong Democratic challenger could unseat the Governor.
In practice, Miller's antics are questionable. In principle, however, he's completely within bounds.
Obscensory cases are nothing new in Kansas, and in Wichita they're becoming the city's trademark. At Goldstein and Sohn, a private investigator magazine, last summer were found guilty of sending obscene literature into the state. The case was highly publicized. All America learned that, if not otherwise, the lawmen in Kansas were on their toes.
And that may very well be the ulterior motive behind Miller's Friday night raid. The press loves him, but he blinds himself pern bust. Miller knows from experience that when he takes to
The politicians are also saying that Miller is washed up as far as state politics are concerned. They say his defeat in 1974 did him in.
But Miller is as erratic and unpredictable as his drug, gambling and porn busts.
Who knows what he's likely to do?
That's a good question, too.
Is Miller back on the campaign trail? Is he unhappy with being merely a district attorney? Is he again making a name for himself throughout the state? Does he again have his eye on the statehouse?
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Court thwarts integration
Two recent Supreme Court rulings on discriminatory practices and school integration have highlighted segregation once so prevalent in
Indianapolis couldn't be bused to outlying predominantly white officials of the city school, say the ruling will perpetuate the racial
Paul Jefferson
Editorial Writer
this country as late as 20 years ago.
The first ruling, handed down two weeks ago, involves the community of *Arlington Heights*, III, and its efforts to rezone a residential area for low-income housing. The community was petitioned by a house owner, who built the housing near a neighborhood with houses valued at more than $40,000.
THE COMMUNITY council rejected the petition, on the grounds that the area wasn't well judged, in effect, maintained the all-white population of the area by excluding the other poor, mostly black residents of the city, living in a substandard housing.
The total black population of Arlington Heights is about 200. The total population of Arlington Heights is almost 40,000 people.
when the development company appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, the court decision that Arlington Heights had no legal compulsion to rescore for the low-income housing project.
Tuesday, the Court handed down another buiser decision, this time ruling that students could be expelled from black schools in the city of
and intellectual imbalances between the two school districts.
THE COURT'S reasoning in both cases seems tempered by the general public's attitude toward the ever-divisive issue of busing. The Court said that simply because the Illinois community and Indiana white predominantly white does not necessarily indicate that their initial "purpose or intent" was to discriminate; the main reasons may be economic.
In the Illinois case, the zoning stipulation will effectively bar low- and perhaps middle-income families, who ostensibly would lower other property values, from moving into the area. The Supreme Court ruling states that the community has no legal (but possibly moral) reason to desergete.
In the Indiana case, the ruling on busing between the two school districts seems again to follow the public's unfavorable views of governmentism. The ruling didn't bode well for future integration plans, especially integration by busing.
IT STANDS to reason that, as more and more families, usually white and upper-class, move to the suburbs, the
resultant school districts will mirror that make-up the. city schools in many metropolitan areas now are suffering from this same problem in the form of a dwelling tax base, as only lower-income groups (which comprise mainly minorities) are left to support the schools. These schools bring busing as a practical tool of integration and the use of "purpose and intent to
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discriminate" as a starting point, the Supreme Court is backing away from its broader desegregation rulings handed down by the Warren Court during the 1950s and '60s.
The current wave of "anti-discrimination" rulings may begin to build groups of mini-societies within our nation that will be based on income, instead of equality.
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