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Monday, May 10, 1976
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN Comment
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Balfour commended
William Mayo Balfour has always
been the city and most importantly, students
As vice chancellor for student affairs, Balfour worked in relative silence. He gave the offices under his jurisdiction a relatively free hand when other university administrators sometimes wished strict controls over those offices.
Bailford didn't seek the limelight. He preferred to work with dignity, shunning the flashy smile, pat on the back and plastic. "Hi, how are you doing?" approach so popular with University administrators these days.
He took particular interest in students whose needs were being ignored by other parts of the University. He played a major role in establishing programs primarily students, and, most recently, for physically handicapped students.
Balfour was in charge of student affairs at a time when many traditional educational concepts were changing. During his tenure, visitation hours in the University were increased, an idea that the University was responsible for students 24 hours a day disappeared.
During the troubles of the late '80s and '70s, Balfour tried to keep the University in one piece, although some alumni and newspaper editors thought that if he had just stood in front of the Union on hustin in 1970, there would have been no fire.
The list of Balfour's achievements could go on and on. It's a shame that the news of his resignation was planned for release after most students had left for college or to join the military, denied them the opportunity to say thanks to a man who has served them well.
By Carl Young Editor
U.S. foreign policy
The foreign policy of the United States has been a subject of hot debate in recent weeks. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's usefulness to the country has been questioned. The role the United States should have played in the Angolan civil war was another topic of debate. The Senate released by the Senate Intelligence Committee raised grave questions about our role in foreign politics.
IN THE MIDST of the controversy over foreign policy was the confrontation between the two candidates for the Republican nomination for president, former California Gov. Ronald Reagan and President Gerald Ford. Reagan has backed Ford into a corner on the issue of defense, which is the foundation of our so-called foreign policy.
Rogers C. B. Morton, the president's campaign manager, can't believe the situation has developed. He says Ford has always been a hawk. He's sent to Congress the two biggest peacetime budgets ever for the military. He supports development of many new tanks, ships, and weapons. Morton asks how Ford can be attacked on his defense stance.
REGARDLESS OF how he's done it, Reagan has successfully challenged the country's ranking in the world power polls. He's also raised the issue of the Panama Canal in his campaign. He accuses Ford of negotiating to give up the canal. The value of the canal isn't at issue here. The issue is whether the United States will look weak and lose face in giving in to such a lowly power. The fear of losing face has been the guiding force of too many foreign policy decisions in the past. Remember that war in Vietnam.
An even graver issue has been raised in the Republican campaign. Evidence seems to show that Ford is playing despite his loss in Iowa. Before the Texas primary last week it
was charged that if Ford lost he would request 100 new ships for the Navy, but if he won he would put off that decision until later in the year. We only have to wait to see whether the defeated Ford will fulfill the predictions.
WHETHER HE DOES fulfilp predictions, the accusation is quite characteristic of the foreign policy this book describes. It rhymes or reasons. It makes no sense.
The once heroic, now beleguered Kissinger presented a detailed, commandable policy toward Rhodesia recently. In voicing support for the takeover of that country by the black Rhodesian nationalists, he presented a comprehensive plan that left our position unquestionable, but that also left out treaties or innuendos or U.S. military involvement.
BUT THE RHODESIAN policy is the exception, not the rule. Our threats against Cuba for its involvement in Angola are ridiculous when contrasted with our involvement in other parts of the world. We must defend our arms to both sides in a conflict and then working for peace between them isn't even worthy of comment.
Some real policy has to be developed. We can't isolate ourselves from the world's conflicts, but we can't expect peace through a reign of terror either.
THE RECENT shift in the meaning of the word detente from peaceful cooperation to security through military supremacy is frightening. And the problem isn't only one of big government. The response of the people to Reagan's pleas for military might is also ominous.
Ford shouldn't allow himself to be backed into a corner. The policy toward Rhodesia should become a new foundation for global policy. Americans should by now that their greatest strength doesn't lie in force.
By John Johnston Contributing Writer
What happened to the hippies, leftists and counterculture revolutionaries of the '60s, the Tucson Cambodia and Kent State?
Staff Writer
By HARRIS BAYL
A food-fed hip revolution
Have they simply been "coopted" by the system?
I FOUND SOME answers to these questions last week. They came from George, a casual acquaintance who greeted me as I was mulling a beer at the Hawk.
I had met George back in 1970, when everyone was wondering whether the entire University of Kansas was about college trouble. The Kansas Union had burned and a bomb had damaged the University's computer center. The Lawrence police were busy battling the student dissident KU students and the Lawrence "street people" (the youthful rebels, drop-ups, drug-heads and runaways who lived in an area near the KU campus). George fit, at one turn, enter into all of these categories.
I HOUGHT GEORGE a beer and we started talking about the Lawrence of 1970. For him, not that much. It had been the best of times.
"I'll tell you. The counterculture had two basic problems: I wanted to be organized and we didn't have enough money to get a revolution really going strong. Solutions take money, ya know."
a few beers, I put my questions to George. I knew that if anyone could satisfy my anticulture, he was the one.
THE ORIGINAL revolution—the hippies and the flower children and all that—just didn't work. And the reason it didn't work was that we weren't willing to force things. We thought that we set a good example by living a life of peace
"Oh, man, you're just like everyone else." George replied. 'Everyone thinks we've disappeared.' They think the hardest hit was us. Well man, they couldn't be further from the truth.
"WHAT DO YOU mean?" I asked.
and love in Haight-Ashbury and the East Village, that eventually the establishment would happen to walk up or join us. But, as you know, they did join us. Instead, they sent in their TVs crew and splattered a country so they could laugh at us.
"SOME OF US got mad. We realized the peace-thing just wasn't going to work. We decided the only way to win society over to the beautiful life of our nation's elements—politicians, capitalists, the Pentagon, computers and things like that.
"So a bunch of our leaders got together in 71 to figure out how to do it. They decided that the movement would have to organize into a strong revolutionary fighting force with lots of firepower if it was able to prevent a result was a successful plan for organizing the revolution that has so far worked really well.
"FIRST OUR PEOPLE
moved out of the cities to communes and farms. That way we couldn't be hassled so much by the pigs. And it also saved us from being piled piles and explosives without any anyone noticing. But the most important thing our move to the country provided us with was a way to make the money we would finance the revolution.
"Our leaders knew we needed a lot of money for our guns and bombs, so they had to think of something new that wasn't already on the market that you could sell at rip-off prices. They came up with the perfect product—natural, organic foods.
"SO WE SPREAD the word about the goodness of wholegrain cereals, natural peanut butter and real yogurt, who have starved eating white bread. The U.S. government helped us, too, with all of its efforts to reduce foodborne scientific reports on cancer-producing preservatives, artificial flavorings and sweeteners.
"But we not only grow organic foods, we also sell soap and medicine. We health food stores all over the country. And lately, we've started some natural food restaurants that are doing very well."
"NOW IVE Painted you an awfully pretty picture. We've had some problems, especially with some of our California groups like the SLA and the New World Liberation Front. They're really crazy, man. I guess they think they can carry weapons. They themselves. I just hope they don't attract too much attention. They could blow the cover off the whole movement."
"HEY GEORGE, why are you telling me all this?" I asked. "You know I write for a newspaper."
"You think I'm really dumb, don't you?" he replied. "If you do write this up in the papers, who is going to believe you? No
one, that's who. Oh, maybe a few John Birchers will, but who listens to them when they start screaming?
"THE PUBLIC THINKS our movement died with the '60s and we've done a damned good job keeping them believing it. Since our move to the country, we've only once made an issue are seen is when they're hard at work behind an organic food counter. Protestant-work-ethic-style. And who is going to suspense that a nice, hard-backed minister is preserved, unhydrogenated, natural peanut butter, is sending his profits to a commune that's stockpiling guns and dynamic? No man, I'm not sure. The paper, they'll just think you talked to some loonie, that's all."
"Well, you may be right," replied. "It is pretty unbelievable. In fact, I'm warming the mind wonder whether I believe it."
Carter deserves close scrutiny
THE PAPER, taken as a whole, is a reasonably good effort. It contains some baloney. It has not been used. As a moderately liberal
WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter, on his credit, has begun to respond to demands that he be placed down to earth. In his first position paper, on economic policy, he descends from about thirty thousand feet to maybe or ten. He has a way yet to go.
Democrat, Carter reflects his party's traditional faith in the wonder-woking powers of the federal government. Carter
priority to achieving a steady reduction in unemployment and achieving full employment—a job for everyone who wishes
By James J. Kilpatrick (C) Washington Star Syndicate
After four hard and tough years, college was worth every minute
As I look back on my four years on Mt. Oread, I remember the multplicity of faces I saw privileged to have as a
premeditated course designed to take me to the end. There can be no question that I came to a table with it, and it put a hole in pay
But that sort of evaluation doesn't cover the central issue here. What we are really talking about is responsibility, enlightenment
WAS I ENJOYING a four-year respite from the real world, sojourning in the land of Egypt, as I embarked on a deliberate,
STILL, THERE remain questions about values and the re-evaluation of all values. How could one ever put a value on a college education? Some have tried; they have used computers and complex statistical models. They have concluded that there is little more than an ice cream bottle and a little less than a pizza.
Editor
Carl Young
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Rosy Parris
By John Hickey Contributing Writer
University student. I have been able not only to go to concerts, art exhibits and speeches but have also had review sessions. Not only did I absorb the vast cultural scope of our city, but also memorized a lot of facts.
In the process of getting acquainted and making temporary friends, I came to dislike a lot of my professors. I read a book about studying through boring lectures. But after the peanut butter, after the Twinkies, Cokes and cheese, would it all have been worthwhile, if someone, ripping a knife, had looked me in the eye and asked the overwhelming question: Why did you do it?
But now I think back about my life at the great University, where the sun shines on the road of life which will one day lead to that great university in the sky. The world will not be there if you did here, and neither will I.
shoe. I knew better than to eat carrots with it; you never know where a fork like that has been
COLLEGE IS part of a lasting experiential totality whose hole is some of its parts. The motif of existential vindication is commensate with the college experience as manifested in the on-going relationship of adoption to the life-process itself.
That is to say college makes more sense than dollars. It is a time for exploring one's possibilities and establishing a personal orientation in terms of the world and the people in it. It is to formulate a lifestyle with博雅，with one's own potential and the dependent market and orienting one's consciousness—religiously, intellectually, socially and culturally.
IF YOU CAN keep your morning classes late when all those around the field house are getting 7:30s, if you can go drinking when others have to get there, then you can watch with Greeks and lose the common touch, if you can bear to watch your C paper get your friend an A, if you can serve as fund raiser, goodwill ammendments to the University, if you can help in the drugs when everybody else gets busted, if you can stand up for intellectual freedom in the face of all censorship and repression of you, you can arrange your bankrupt debt. If you're a student loan is due, you'll be a college graduate, my son.
and understanding, goals and touchdowns. How could anyone, who really appreciates college for what it is and isn't, resort to drivel about ice cream and pizza?
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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After four gruel-eating years, I come to appreciate what it means to be a college student. But now that I've fought the grade fight and run the last race, I offer my advice:
Pause: The federal government can provide such funds in three ways only—by taxing the people, by borrowing money through loans, What "funds," net, is Carter talking about? How would he obtain them? Over what period years would he provide these funds to other jobs? What additional bureaucracy does he envision?
necessary under the program; there is no "if" about it. Carter says that with a progressively managed economy, "we can balance balanced budget with the costs of full employment by 1979."
The foregoing sentence contains the gimmick that Carter elsewhere shuns. What he is talking about is the mythical "full employment budget." This is a legendary creature, like the unicorn, who sees it and sees it exists solely in the imagination of economists who observe that we could balance the budget if we had the revenues that we would have if everyone had a job. This is the dream of the two hungry hobos: they could make a ham sandwich, they could make a ham sandwich, they
CARTER WOULD achieve his rapid reduction in unemployment, without reviving double-digit inflation, by first expanding the money supply, then creating incentives for private industry to hire the unemployed to enlarging the role of government. He says, "The federal government has an obligation to
CARTER'S IDEA is to pursue "an expansionary fiscal and monetary policy in the near future, with some budget cuts, and perhaps a government action. A big baloney here. Carter knows deficits will be
THE ENTIRE statement can be obtained from Carter headquarters, P.O. Box 1976, Atlanta, Ga. 30301. Those who are interested in examining Carter's document obtain a copy and make up their own minds. This is a carefully composed document, presumably expressing Carter's views on the nation's economic problems. As the probable presidential nominee of his party, he has an obligation to speak deliberately and exert one's influence on the rest of us have an obligation to listen to what has to say.
adopts and embraces Gerald Ford's program of incentives within the private sector, but he proposes various stimulative programs within the public sector also. There is nothing in federal law that is showy or dogmatic—or very original, or either.
In Carter's view, the major economic problem is not the risk of renewed inflation; it is the need to improve employment." He views the present situation in the worst possible light, which is fair enough in a political campaign. The petals he states his own goal:
"WE MUST GIVE highest
The comment may reasonably be ventured that this is not Jimmy Carter's goal alone. It is everyone's goal. It is the trick of the week. Surely it is the goal of the Ford administration. The president would have people to work without incurring the monstrous deficits that would send the cost of living up again.
one—as rapidly as possible while reducing inflation."
Don't blame cagers
Readers Respond
To the Editor:
How many times can the blame and the finger be pointed at one group for many problems? This is the situation with the women's athletic department. As of late, there are budget problems within the department and we feel that this is where they should remain. They have not and do not want to remain in the backseat and allow the facts to be pulled to one side of the spectrum any longer.
SINCE THE basketball team seems to be caught in the middle of the budget argument, it is important to ensure our position in terms of the
budget. To begin with, the basketball appropriation was not the largest in the department and contrary to popular belief we did not receive any extra allocations due to budget cuts. When the cuts were made, there was no extra money to channel to any sport, basketball included.
To conserve on the limited funds that were available, when we traveled we stayed in dorms that were less than adequate, (for example, at one place there was no bedding provided), or travelled to the dorms traveling as far as 250 miles. There were only two times that we stayed in motels, one was at Springfield, Missouri at a
MUCH TO THE DISSIPLE of many athletes, coaches, and supporters, no other sports' funding is proceeded toward financing this trip.
Thanksgiving Tournament and the other was when we played the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. This trip seems to cause the most concern with regards to money available and money spent.
UNLV paid for the motels, food, transportation while we were there, plus five hundred dollars towards traveling expenses. The basketball team earned $1300 and is still working to pay the debt. No money from the athletic department has
been taken to pay for the remainder of the bill.
THIS IS THE other side of the picture that very few know about or took the time to find out about. The basketball team was not responsible for the shortage of money in women's athletics and had to up much to operate at a minimum cost. With this in mind, we hope that you will take the time to find out all of the facts before forming opinions that will generate more discontent with the women's intercollegiate athletic inter-
Dawn Eklemer
Kinsley freshman
Kelly Phipps
Wichita freshman