Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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Speakers call for more leaders, equality, success Never before have people bought their food so cheaply, Earl Butz, secretary of agriculture, told a near-capacity audience at KSU Auditorium May 4. Using statistics to show food costs had gone down over the past year, Butz said by the year 2000, the capacity to feed another three bi llion people must be developed. The Landon lecturer also stressed the need for capable leaders. Education is the most profitable investment we can make, Butz said. explaining that it produces two areas of leadership: in professions and in government. It is the ' I can ' spirit that has made us what we are and gives us unlimited power for the future. he said. This is the intellectual world where challenges are—we live in a world of ideas. Butz received a standing ova- tion at both the introduction and the closing of his speech. 28—Spring speakers

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Spring speakers discuss politics, gay life Man does not live by in - come alone; he must have a sense of purpose, Sen. Frank Church said April 18. Church, Idaho Democrat, ad- dressed an All-University Con- vocation on subjects including the elderly, welfare, the Social Security system and stepped- up bombing in the war in In- dochina. After proposing a change In the welfare system in which the elderly would be removed from welfare rolls, Church added: A person ' s lifetime should not be limited to one career. Church touched on the Viet- nam War, saying, the United States needs a President who will tell the American people this country has done everything it can for Vietnam. Our failures in the past need not be repeated in the future. Maybe we are commencing to take the blinders off, he said. Today ' s markets are so con- fusing that consumers are much like Alice In Wonderland, Betty Furness, former Presi- dent Lyndon Johnson ' s assis- tant on consumer affairs, said. Ms. Furness spoke May 3 at an All-University Convocation as part of the First National Conference on Student Con- sumer Action. The consumers are at a definite disadvantage In the consumer game; they generally feel the manufacturers are looking out for them — which isn ' t necessarily true, she said. The consumers should complain and become more suspicious of large cor- porations. They should not only be aware of price, but also of harm to the environment, Ms. Furness said. Consumers can be Influential in getting existing laws chang- ed if they will write directly to the people involved. Sprirg SplaK0•3-27

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Most of what people have heard about women ' s liberation is inaccurate, a spokeswoman said April 14. Jo Freeman, an organizer of the women ' s liberation move- ment discussed the theory of women ' s lib in a speech during Women ' s Awareness Week. There Is no comprehensive set of beliefs which can ac- curately be labeled women ' s liberationist or feminist. At best one can say there is a general agreement on two theoretical concerns: the first being the feminist critique of society, and the second, the idea of op- pression, she said. Many laws of the land are op- pressing women, Ms. Freeman said. But she said she feels confident the Equal Rights Amendment will change them. Cleaner air and water will become a reality in the near future as a result of work done by the Environmental Protec- tion Agency. according to William Ruckelshaus, En- vironmental Agency ad- ministrator. Ruckelshaus spoke to the K-State community April 12 as part of the Landon Lec- ture series. What our society badly needs are some successes, Ruckelshaus said. I believe that with the environment we have a chance for such successes. The progress will not be overnight but will be seen in cleaner air, purer water and earth beautification. Environmentalism teaches us a new ethic and a new reverence for life, helps to unify the American people and will Inspire new confidence In man ' s power to control his own destiny, he said. We must build a world, Ruckelshaus said in conclu- sion, where human beings count more than machines. Spring spookors-29