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Thursdav.May 6.1976
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Send 'em all, coach
Yet another questionable call has slowed the women's softball team in its quest for a national championship. But the umpire's decision that cost the team The Big Eight Championships was a piece of cake compared to this one.
FOR MARIAN Washington, women's athletic director, informed the players Tuesday that there wasn't enough money to send the entire team to the national tournament. Only 18 people, including team members, coaches and trainers, will be able to make the trip—meaning about six will be left at home.
Coupled with the recent flurry concerning the women's field hockey team, one must begin to wonder about Washington's interest in the minor sports and administration of the women's program as a whole.
WASHINGTON DECIDED to completely drop the field hockey squad from her requests to the Student Senate when the budget was trimmed by $38,000. Jane Markert, field hockey coach, wasn't afraid to challenge the wisdom of this decision and didn't couch her criticism in any nice phrases.
"Field hockey is just a low priority sport as far as an athletic director is concerned."
And Washington wasn't afraid to fire Markert—"terminating her contract"—with two weeks remaining. Washington refused to comment on the motivation for this move, but it isn't too hard to figure out.
MARKERT HAD earlier claimed that Washington "wants to start a public relations office with field hockey money," and there is some question as
to how the remainder of the women's budget will be spent. For the nine remaining sports, Washington requested a budget of $82,000 from the Student Senate, and the total budget was $135,105. After much criticism, she decided to save the hockey team, which was to be considered last night.
The budgeting of the different sports shouldn't be such a nebulous process. Softball coach Sharon Drysdale apparently had submitted a request for funds to cover the cost of going to the world series in her budget last year, but it was cut. The softball team's fourth straight year at the series shouldn't have been either a surprise or an afterthought.
THE WOMEN'S athletics program has enough external problems without these internal quarrels, blunders and prejudices. Rivalries continue, extending from before the creation of a separate women's athletics office, and there is a definite faction of athletes who believe that another person in the women's athletic department should have been chosen as director.
Maybe so, but at any rate the present problems need to be dealt with and dealt with responsibly and effectively. Women's sports need not be a mirror image of the men's athletic department. The minor programs are every bit as famous and glamorous basketball and should be treated as such. A good place to start would be in sending the entire softball team to the World's Series. By Betty Haegelin
Associate Editor
Auto pollution ignored
Two months ago, a memo leaked out of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It caused no large stir, it merely appeared and then quickly died away.
WHAT THE MEMO contained was the result of a study conducted in Houston and Chicago on 1975 cars. Several cars tested in the two cities emitted large amounts of carbon monoxide. If the results hold true across the city, it would mean that 1975 cars on the road today don't meet EPA auto-emission standards.
There has been no action taken to correct the problem. So far there hasn't been a record of the failure and there are too many to be *be*. The BPA is tuning its study, moving very carefully.
PART OF THE agency's caution may have been brought about because of the recent development in the controversy over aerosol spray cannies. After a large stir was created about the damage the cans were doing to the atmosphere, it is now questionable whether or not the fears were justified.
The EPA may be afraid that these studies, too, will prove inaccurate. But the fact remains that after years of debate and lobbying, the emission standards were finally set and the 1972 cars were the first ones equipped with pollution-control devices. Now it appears that the standards aren't being met and nothing is going to be done about it.
AND NOBODY seems to care. The
environmentalists made little comment about the memo. There was no strong call for corrections to be made or even for the development of a more effective testing of cars before they leave the factories.
Five years ago, college campuses were the scenes of strong environmental movements and students were joining several clean-up campaigns. But a change has occurred. Anmore, students seldom gather together to work toward changes concerning anything outside the sphere of the University.
Maybe the great influx of information has hardened people. After being scared by continuous pictures of environmental doom, many are looking around and discovering that the world really isn't going to fall apart as easily as some predicted. So now the problems are beaten back. The problem is continue to be ignored until environmental doom is no longer something to laugh about.
Students somewhere have developed the opinion that nothing can be done. It is true that large corporations and special interest groups have been able to use their lobbying powers extremely effectively. But if the sentiment on the other side remains quiet, the lobbyists' statewide or national apathy can be a very dangerous thing, especially in an election year.
By Marne Rindom Contributing Writer
spies have an image problem. For the past few years, newspaper headlines have been a never-ending montage of fear, disgust and that. That "Disclosures, disclosures, disclosures. I wouldn't be
In case you hadn't noticed it, spies have an image problem.
Spying not honorable now
TAKE THE Mission Impossible team, for example. Can you imagine the outcry if some
By Jim Bates Contributing Writer
trouble for doing. In fact, the super-secret spy organizations of those days were doing things like this; the revelation has yet to disclose.
Looking back now, it is strange to remember that the things these heroes figures did with the CIA were things the CIA got in such
LITTLE KIDS on street corners would waddle one another and whisper when he left the room. The children would throw sticks and old Pepsi cans and then run skittering away, giggling in excitement.
Friendship and lonely, the new recruit would be sent to a college where he would be difficult to say the least. There he would work and hide in an obscurity broken only by a semi-weekly terrorist kid-
surprised if it was revealed that the upper administrators of the CIA wiredtapped each other.
IT HAS GOTTEN SO bad that a person who went home and told his parents he was going to see his children in the threats of bodily harm and shrieks of "Where did we go when they said so and the onoons."
But it wasn't always that way.
NOT SO LONG ago, spying
was considered a romantic and
exciting occupation. Little kids
wanted to be spies when they
grew up. Spies such as James
Bond, Flint and the Man and
the Beast were heres instead of villains. They
were the good guys. They got
good ratings.
All the new recruit's old high school and college friends would ostracize him, his best girl in the class. He would spend apartment by throwing china and his minister would condemn him from the pulpit of the building.
Maybe the difference is that that was fiction and everyone knew it was fiction. Still, it hard to believe that our values can be so radically different in fiction than they are in reality.
IT IS MORE likely that something in the American character has changed since the days when spies were heroes. That was in the middle and late 19th century. That was before the decline and fall of Saigon, before Woodstock, before Watergate.
Their activities alone would be enough to damm them—let them do whatever is necessary and the secret is dislike any knowledge of their actions.
Not only that, but during the last ten years we have found out some things about real live snies.
Real live spies have killed real people and real live spies have gathered them. Real gathering job they were hired to do in the first place. Real live spies have spied on us and our wires and taken our picture.
SOMEWHERE ALONG the line, we decided spelling wasn't such a great thing after all. We simply changed our minds.
I know I changed mine. When I was in Cub Scouts, oh so very long ago, a group of us went on a tour of the local police station. And the end of the tour, the officer who was guiding us stopped by the door to a little room and asked us whether we were going to a museum prints taken and sent to the FBI Maybe, he said, even to the CIA
Boy, were we eager! We practically killed each other as we clawed and scratched to see who would be first in line.
THERE WASN'T any reason for us to hurry. They got everyone of us, one by one. Then we all went home and proudly told our parents what had happened.
I'm sure the officer meant well and that domestic surveillance was the farthest thing from his mind. Nevertheless, I did not get the same reaction from a group of Cub Scouts today.
It would be interesting to chart the sales of spy toys over the past decade and see how
closely the peaks and valleys followed the rises and falls in the CIA's image. There are certainly fewer varieties of apy cheese than the confirmation of budding Matt Helms today that there used to be.
AT ONE TIME, you could buy just about every kind of spy toy imaginable. I know. My parents bought me my share. They had to, because I was a member of our grade school outreach grade spy organizations.
My organization was called I.C.E. We had a big blue secret notebook with all the trappings. We were told what the three letters stood for.
Yes, the CIA needs to do something about its image. At present, the acronym itself almost seems evil. The letters themselves have taken on bad connotation. It will take the letters in a more affectionate lot of time before the letters can appear in a headline without the reader asking what did they do this time.
Selling of KU dangerous idea
Last week, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, in his state of the University message, announced that KU officials will soon be on a program to promote public support of the University
UNDER THE PROGRAM,
administrators, faculty
members and student officials
who participate in the
community organizations
around the state. Rotary Club
luncheons everywhere will soon
be the sites of glorious ex-
cuses, as well as fine qualities
of the University.
In the speeches, the national awards received for debate and journalism, the advancements made in research and our new
computer system will all be detailed. Anything will be told that will sound attractive to the ears of a possible investor. The KU-OU football score from last season could be a big selling point.
WITH SOME work, the program could turn into a full-fledged advertising campaign. Students can make made, jings could be written and top athletes could be hired to star in commercials. The program now, though, is just one step away; it doesn't even have a name.
increasingly harder to get, therefore causing some schools to plunge into financial trouble. Unless something was done, it could result in forced enrollment ceilings.
ONE PROBLEM with selling people on KU, is there won't only be an increase in money's worth of profits, possibly be an increase in students. If people find the University so attractive they want to give it money, they will buy the university. There are a few places to send their children.
The University is here to educate students and discouraging enrollment isn't in accordance with the idea of a public education. However, anyone who has sat through a class of 60 students that was intended for 30 or who has lived outside Boston, will wait for a residence hall spot to open up can surely understand the problems of numbers.
came the unexpected side-effects of pollution and housing shortages.
There is a vast amount of good that can be said about the
DURING THE past few years, decreases in college enrollments have been predicted. This hasn't occurred at KU. In fact, the numbers keep rising, the classes get
"s impossible to say the selling campaign will result in more problems. There is a good
more crowded and the lines at enrollment get longer.
By Marne Rindom Contributing Writer
chance the predicted decline coupled with the promotion campaign could result in a stabilized situation. While other schools experience a decline, KU might remain at the same level while receiving the increased fund obtained through the program.
University. There is so much that the program may keep administrators continuously hopping around the state. There is so much, in fact, that once the project begins we may never see some of these promoters on the campus again.
IT MUST BE remembered, though, that increasing the interest in KU won't necessarily mean the city could turn out like that unsuspecting city that was promoted as a favorable location for factories and factories came to the city bringing money, but with them
AND SO next year, when you want to see one of these administrators and you can't, just move off somewhere in Western Kansas telling a Chamber of Commerce gathering about the fine relationship that has been built between students and administrators.
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