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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, December 1, 1967
KU's budget and NASA
That perennial conflict—the battle of the budget—has started again, pitching KU administrators into the high stakes game of persuasion, state appropriations style.
In the early stages, James Bibb, state budget director, has wielded the professional knife to several of KU's pet projects, principal among them being a requested $354,000 in matching funds to a $1.8 million offer by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a Space Technology Building. The NASA grant represents the largest offer made by the agency to any Midwest university for a space research facility.
Since the matching funds are required for receipt of the NASA money, Bibb's cut would destroy the project for KU. But the budget director's word is not final; Gov. Docking has yet to review the budget for submission to legislative scrutiny and ultimate passage, undoubtedly with modifications.
So, for these status-conscious University affiliates, there's still hope that KU may gain its space facility. But arguments for reinstating KU's requested state funds have more validity than mere status-seeking.
In Kansas aircraft industries, the state has a growing interest in the aerospace market. According to William P. Smith, dean of the KU School of Engineering, Kansas industry could profit from the space project by drawing from its research resources, not to mention a graduate student pool.
And KU would benefit also. Although the center would be used by relatively few individuals, such a research building would prove valuable educationally.
Clearly then, KU and Kansas will lose more than just a building if the relatively modest $354.000 request is not reinstated.
Allan Northcutt Editorial Editor
Letters to the Editor
Tickets, Republicans, trash
To the Editor:
The University policy regarding student ticket sales for the basketball season reeks of injustice, misrepresentation, and discrimination.
The policy in question limits student season ticket sales to 7,-000 students. In addition, for each game 500 student tickets are placed on sale. This policy ignores the possibility that more than 7,-500 students may want to see their team in action.
Ironically, every student is obliged to pay an activity fee, half of which is channeled into the athletic fund. Thus, every student has contributed to some degree to our athletic program.
Furthermore, according to University publicity, every student who pays his activity fee has the opportunity to participate in all activities related to the University, including that of watching his fellow classmates represent him and his University in inter-collegiate athletics.
What is more exasperating about this policy is the lack of respect for students which manifests itself in the priorities shown the general public at the expense of us, the students. Specifically, half of our field house is reserved for the public, regardless of our ticket needs. We are being discriminated against by our own University administration.
There is an immediate need for re-evaluation of this unfair policy. Simply, all restrictions on single game tickets for students should be removed so that every KU student who feels the desire to support his team could do so.
It is absolutely unfair to ask a student to pay an activity fee, have pride in his basketball team, and participate in the University community, only to have a door shut in his face in favor of a total stranger.
Jay Barrish Graduate student
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To the Editor:
The editorial on "The Republican Choice" (Nov. 16) was thoughtfully presented, considering the length limitations demanded by an editorial. However, I do feel that there were some places where a better job could have been done. Also, I do not agree with your decision that Gov. Rockefeller would be the best Republican presidential candidate.
In the paragraph about Gov. Reagan, you said too much. The last sentence, "Reagan is the man
with an image—but what about the man behind the image?" is vague to the point of being misleading. Gov. Reagan's "image" is that of "poor boy makes good," liberal-tur ned-conservative, a staunch anti-communist, a goodygoody almost to the point of dullness, a handsome and competent governor. Are you saying that this image is incorrect? If so, you would do better to be a great deal more specific.
The paragraph about former Vice President Nixon was pretty short, especially when compared to the paragraph on Gov. Rockefeller. Of course, you would correctly assume that Nixon's qualifications are more widely known (there being more of them) than Rockefeller's.
However, most of your readers were not too interested in politics when Nixon was a freshman Congressman in the late 1940's. Only KU's faculty and administration would remember (some not very fondly) Nixon's prosecution of communist Alger Hiss.
Most of us do not remember how, in 1950, Nixon took a U.S. Senate Seat from a three-term Democrat with a majority of over 600,000 votes. Even his transformation of the Vice Presidency into a do-something office tends to be overlooked. That Nixon was President during Eisenhower's three illnesses may be dim in our memories.
Not even many professors remember that, while in the House, Nixon voted for Greek-Turkish aid, for emergency aid to Austria, China, France, and Italy; for the European recovery program, and for the Taft-Hartley Act (both times). (I, of course, do not remember these things either. I read about them, but not, needless to say, in the Kansan.)
So I think your editorial should have reminded us of these things as well as reminding us that Gov. Rockefeller was "a special adviser on foreign affairs to President Dwight D. Eisenhower."
(I am struck by a rather unusual thing. Under Democrat Roosevelt, Rockefeller "was an assistant secretary of state"; under Democrat Truman, Rockefeller was "chairman of the International Development Advisory Board"; under Republican Eisenhower, Rockefeller was only a "special adviser on foreign affairs." Does not Democratic Senator Fulbright advise Democratic President Johnson on foreign affairs in a very special way?)
On the basis of your criteria— "qualifications, experiences, record in public office and beliefs”— it seems to me that Nixon is the logical choice for the nomination.
Having been in both houses of Congress, and in the executive department, and having argued cases of national significance before the Supreme Court (relating to privacy and freedom of the press), he has more experience in the federal level than any of the others. His record as an internationalist abroad and a moderate conservative at home certainly appeals to me and to most Republicans.
Kent Dannen
St. Joseph, Mo., senior
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To the Editor:
The ROTC people may dig neatness and wish to make the world chafed for democracy,but I don't understand the significance of the two-month-old trash heap outside the west entrance of the MS building.
Jefi Hartman
Shawnee Mission sophomore
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Kansan movie review
'The Trip' raises a question
By Scott Nunley
Those moviegoers who found themselves motionsick during "Grand Prix" would be wise to take their own pill—dramamine—before they see "The Trip."
Of that spate of recently turned-on films devoted to America's contemporary youth, the ruling impulse has generally been exploitation and the ruling theme sensationalism. But to compare "The Trip" to "Born Losers" or "The Happening" would be to do a disservice to the purpose and success of this latest attempt.
"The Trip" is still a badly tailored movie, however. It must achieve its partial success in spite of its awkward cut. Half of this film seems to have been purchased at great expense from the slickest of Hollywood haberdasheries. But the remainder of the goods has obviously been sewn together one amateurish stitch at a time from a brief manual on home-tailoring.
The dialogue is probably the most noticeable lapse. Not only is the script artificial, but star Peter Fonda reads it with all the sincerity of the novice. As Paul, a cool head new to the world of acid, Fonda should provide the audience's link between the real world and the LSD fantasia, but Fonda's strength is not yet up to such a strain.
Whatever is snatched from this potential disaster can be credited completely to the seriousness of director attempt. "The Trip" sets out to
say something in the language of acid, and the subject for discussion is love.
Despite the phony-Fellini figures who parade with and sometimes torture Paul, this trip into Paul's Psyche provides an insight useful far beyond the character's own marital failure. Deep love, no matter what scheming adults may say, is a condition of simple and open honesty. Perhaps beyond the age of 16 such a state of innocence can only be achieved with great effort—Paul uses the chemical key to reopen this childlike vulnerability.
Under this LSD, Paul experiences a series of love events that would be ridiculous to dismiss as sexual gratification. His defenses down, his selfishness removed, Paul can again be emotionally stunned by the meaning of a lover's smile, or her touch, of her lock. If the overwhelming impact of such a love is only adolescent illusion, then Paul has at the least recaptured that illusionary condition.
At a time when love is busily being re-deified, "The Trip" attempts to warn that the adult so desperate for love may have already left behind the only time in his life when free and deep loving was a natural activity.
That the return trip must travel on acid, however, seems less convincing. Is insanity a necessary prelude to innocence in a sane but unlovable world? In spite of its awkward appearance, "The Trip" has raised the question.