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Thursday, April 29, 1976
University Dally Kansan
KANSAN Comment
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CIA doubts remain
There was a paradoxical scene at the George Bush speech Monday night. Inside the University Theatre there were about 1,000 students, faculty members, administrators and friends of the University who quietly listened to the speeches. There were about 40 protesters, mainly from the Iranian Student Association.
INSIDE THE THEATRE Bush talked about the good the CIA could do. Outside the theatre the protesters pointed out awful things the CIA did and could do.
The protesters broke no laws and they were well-behaved. Although their presence undoubtedly offended some, they politely let people walk through their circle and enter Murphy Hall. They did not try to stop anyone from going to the speech. They just wanted to make a point.
The protesters put the Bush lecture into its proper perspective. If they hadn't been in front of Murphy Hall that night, some people could have left the speech thinking that the CIA was an organization not to be concerned about, but the defender of truth, justice and the American way that Bush said it was.
BUSH COMES ACROSS as a man with an open mind, an idea he reinforced when he took questions from the audience past the allotted 15-minute
question-and-answer period. That was one indication that the real topic of his speech wasn't "The International Scene Today," his stated question, but "The CIA: Topics and Problems in Changing an Image."
Bush pushed the new CIA image so hard he made me suspicious. Such suspicions, Bush said, come from a "Three Days of the Condor" mentality.
Maybe so, but the CIA has been caught doing some very nasty things, such as domestic spying and political dirty jobs for a past president. Bush said he was confident that time had come to put those things behind and to look toward the future.
SUCH AN ATTITUDE in Congress and among the American people would make Bush's job easier, but as the last man to question the CIA director said, "There's no reason for us to assume the leopard has changed its spots."
Doubts will remain about the CIA's credibility until a new, tough oversight panel is created. If Congress takes such action, it will quiet my suspicions and make it more job less easier. But I will be suspicious. Bush will be open to charges of trying to snow the American people with a media campaign.
By Carl Young Editor
Class surveys change
Within the next few weeks, many students will once again be asked to fill out the Curriculum and Instruction form. The Biology B unit will find that the form has been shortened.
ALTERNATE VERSIONS were written by the Office of Instructional Resources in answer to numerous complaints about the form. It was noted that the forms weren't answered carefully by students because they were rushed.
This year, two alternate forms were developed. Form A contains nine evaluative questions about the instructor's teaching ability. Form B consists of two questions that ask the student to grade the class and the teacher on a scale of A to F. Instructors can choose to use either Form A or Form B or a combination of the two. They also can use the old survey form.
IF FORM A or B is used, the questions on the old form about goals and the reasons for taking the class will also be answered. Instructors may choose to include or leave out the former diagnostic inventory.
The change isn't a drastic one but it is an attempt to get accurate student response to a particular instructor. The other changes that are being considered could lead to a worthwhile dialogue between instructors and students.
THE SURVEY IS no longer being used as an aid for students in choosing courses. Next semester, there won't be any Feedback booklets with relatively less percentages about a few of the instructors on campus. It won't be a great loss.
What is being considered to replace the booklet is an informative guide to courses that would include such things as course requirements, teaching style and book lists. This idea, now being considered by the Student Senate, is still in the planning stage. If it is developed, it could prove to be a great help in letting students know before they enroll just what is expected in a class. This may even lead to a reduction in the withdrawal rates.
OTHER IDEAS are to place more emphasis upon the comment sheets included with the survey and to encourage individual departments to develop their own questions. This will help make the survey more specific and effective. The instructor may rate an instructor's performance as very good, good or weak.
Also, many complaints and compliments can't be included in multiple choice questions. Encouraging students to complete the comment sheet could lead to some very beneficial suggestions.
ANOTHER IDEA that was initiated this semester is having the students complete a diagnostic survey midway through the semester. In the Spring, this would occur right before spring break. This gives the student the chance to make suggestions while there is still time for the student to benefit from any changes. Now, some students don't take the time to offer worthwhile suggestions at the end of the semester. Usually, they won't ever have another class under the particular instructor so they don't really care if his teaching improves or not.
This year only 17 classes participated in the diagnostic survey. If this becomes a widely accepted practice, it could be very helpful in letting the instructor know how the class views him before it is too late to salvage the class.
ALTHOUGH THE survey is used in some cases to help determine promotions or tenure, its main function is to help the individual instructors improve their teaching techniques. The survey with its improvements could offer some valuable assistance to these instructors. If the survey can make a few poor instructors become fair instructors or a few very good ones become exceptional, the $3,000 to $4,000 spent each semester for computer costs, pencils and other materials will be well spent.
By Marne Rindom Contributing Writer
Leave 'Kansas' in K.C.
They keep trying to take the "Kansas" out of Kansas City
Not the state, really. The center of the city is in Missouri and probably always will be in that state because business and society leaders) seem to be trying to get rid of a certain style and way of life.
IT'S ALMOST as if they were ashamed of it. Ashamed of the stockyards and the railroads. Ashamed of the things and people that first gave the city life.
Kansas City wants very much to be major league in things other than sports. It wants to time respect. It wants to be big time.
In many ways, this is a good thing. No one could seriously say it was bad for Kansas City to work for a high quality orchestra, theatre and museum. And few would say it was bad for the economy or a modern healthy economy or a modern convention center and airport.
AND YET THERE is danger in Kansas City's drive for growth. There is danger of becoming a coldly modern,
BUT, IN OTHER ways,
Crown CENTER is ugly. Architecturally, it reeks of 1984. The buildings are huge, blocklike and oppressing. To a person standing in the complex's central court, the whole thing looks like an ancient
slick and pretentious city—without any real soul. There is danger of too much growth, which would destroy the very qualities that Kansas City is always trying to promote.
An example of the first
By Jim Bates Contributing Writer
danger is Crown Center, a city-with-a-city that was the brainchild of Kansas City businessman Joyce Hall.
Crown Center is, in many ways, a beautiful and useful place. The center, which contains a hotel, department store, offices, restaurants, apartments and many small shops, provides a new innovative way to keep people in the city and provide its residents a secure place to work, shop and live.
Egyptian necropolis or a scene from a cheap science fiction move.
Some things, such as the natural hillside (complete with ferns and waterfall) fall that fills the hotel lobby, are innovative and refreshing. But other sites, including art galleries, armchairs one of the trendy "domian" of Houston or Atlanta.
Crown Center's faults aren't all architectural. The center also is impractical. Impractical
in that it does little or nothing for the people of Kansas City
for "the people or karatas city"
TRUE, MANY people live and
there, but the center
hasn't seen any anywhere
near self-sufficient. Most of
the people who live there drive
downtown to or the country club
Plaza or to a suburban shopping
mall to shop.
The only people who do very much shopping in the Crown Center shops are the visitors and tourists, rather than conventions. And even they spend most of their time just looking."
The shops, though they are exclusive and intimate and fascinating and cleverly named, are also outrageously expensive and, usually, impractical.
THE SHOPS SEEM to serve Kansas City as Crowd Center wishes it were, rather than Kansas City as it really is. Like the "international" in Kansas International Airport (an Occupied Right to exit City), Crown Center is pretentious.
The problem is, Kansas City really doesn't have to be
pretentious. It is a good city, as far as cities go, and has many things in its favor.
It's got the country club Plaza, which was one of the first shopping centers in the nation when it was built in the 1920s and still has to be one of the best planned of them all.
IT'S GOT THE Country Club resident area, with its long boulevards and many statues and fountains. Corny as the public relations campaigns may get sometimes, Kansas City is one of the most beautiful of boulevards and thousands of statues it says it has.
It's got the River Quay, one of the best of the nation's revamped warehouse districts. It's got the Nelson Gallery, which is finer than most people in the Midwest will admit.
I'ST GOT TRADITION.
Kansas City's history is as colorful as any city on the West Coast, with stockyards and the cattle boom. It grew and matured through Kansas and Texas, but Goss's boss roma
It's got 7,188 acres of parkland, more than any other city its size.
Kansas City's got quite a bit, and Brian Dunning of the British Broadcasting Corporation went so far as to say in Kansas City were in Europe everyone would rave about it."
SO THE KANSAS City PR department has a right, perhaps, to boast that this is "one of the few liveable cities in America" and to breath, they add "and with the greatest potential for growth."
Hmmm. But aren't the two slogans contradictory? Won't the rush for growth stifle the livability?
Not necessarily. If the growth is kept under control, the city can be economically prosperous and liveable at the same time.
UNFORTUNATELY, growth and newness seem to be contagious and cancerous diseases, and you can learn how Houston or Atlanta will attest. Sometimes, when you replace the old grimy buildings with glass phallic symbols, oldness is not the only things you lose.
Cities should have souls and, although KC's soul isn't always the prettiest thing in the world, they do. The center doesn't have a soul at all.
WASHINGTON — Americans are taught that their history consists of three episodes: 1776, 1783 and 1800. Those episodes allows men like Governor
Panama Canal 'our' canal
By Nicholas von Hoffman
(C) King Features
signed the treaty, described how the thing went down: "If had followed conventional, I would have submitted a dignified state. Have submitted a dignified state."
Reagan said their countrymen to resist the outrageous demands he and his team were demanding OUR canal, the one we bought and paid for fair and square. That doesn't matter. He told Roosevelt, the President who
Readers Respond
Modern liberals seen as threat
The thing to understand about the modern liberal is that he is a man. He can do anything, and has theoretical limitation on what government might properly undertake, but the practical task of government puts up with at any moment.
To the editor:
Contriary to the opinion of contributing writer John Hickey, the author has not promoted traditional values. It certainly is true that liberals use the power of the electorate to should have stopped with that.
Liberalism's worst shortcoming is that it does not value individual sovereignty. This follows from its lack of recognition by many private concerns. A familiar and egregious example of the liberal attitude is the motorcycle helmet law. When the liberal says that he is for the benefit of others, he be wants to take care of him.
Liberal legislators are most
infamous for their carelessness of cost. The total resources of everyone are considered to be adequate for the achievement of their projects. The economic fate of New York City and the perils of urban sprawl have begun to be perceived by the citizen as the end of this.
As increasing proportions of the economic resources of the country flow into the public sector, more and more private forces are forced into dependency on government subsidy. The liberal views this development as an added benefit, believing that whatever increases government revenue will help its problem solving ability.
Far from being a proud heritage, modern liberalism has been a threat to human dignity, economic health, the present political order and personal freedom. Anyone who values these things must view a liberal recovery with anxiety.
Abortion OK
Eleanor Daly Lawrence graduate student
While Americans were constructing the railroad, the French were spending a huge amount of money canal. The French went bankrupt; their company was reorganized under the leadership of a gentleman by the name of Philippe Bunau-Martin and they mysterious firm called the Panama Canal Company of America was incorporated in Cromwell's law offices for the taking over the assets of the quai-desert French firm.
I was encouraged to read your article on abortion: Three women, Friday, April 16. White women can template the moral question, thousands of women electively choose abortion rather than carry a pregnancy to full term. Information and exchange of information about attitudes are needed in helping all women deal with the available options. Now that abortion has been established in Kansas as a cause for early detection of pregnancy and the need for immediate decision to insure early abortion with minimal risks should receive more attention. At the point, should be destignatized?
THE FRUSTRATIONS of
To the Editor:
paper to the Congress and the debate would have been going on yet, but I took the canal zone. ..."
One correction needs to be made in reference to the article: Douglas Hospital is not an on-patient center, which partly houses the Medical Center for Women of Kansas, which performs therapeutic abortions on an out-patient center. What what was reported in your article that the woman whose abortion was attributed to Douglas Hospital was actually in the Medical Center for Women.
women in their search for a reasonable contraceptive may mean acceptance of health risks, discomfort, higher likelihood of conception and ultimately sterilization. And it should remain continuously at the forefront that no condom can be manufactured to male female sterilization is 100 per cent effective.
P. Gail Smith
Lawrence senior
SOMETIME AROUND 1900 Bunau-Varilla and Cromwell formed an alliance. Their purpose was to get the United States government, which was inclined toward a canal through New York, into the opt for the Panamanian Isthmus and in the process buy out the worstheld French claim for a very large amount of money.
William Cromwell, of Sullivan & Cromwell, later to be John Foster Dudley' law firm.
BEFORE HE GOT around to taking it, in 1903, the United States had been dabbling in the sewer industry for years. For one reason or another, American troops had been landed there in 1865, 1860, 1873 (twice), 1885 and 1900. When not landing the Marines, they were stationed across the Isthmus. By 1901 that railroad was represented by
Counselor, Medical Center for Women
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Bunau-Varilla went to see SEN Mark Hanna, the most powerful Republican politician of his age, and abruptly convinced him to favor a Panamanian route. At the same time, Cromwell made GOP GOP GOP. GOP Roosevelt decided Panama was a bulky route also.
The ducks were in a row. The only obstacle was the Republic of Colombia because in 1903 it had become an independent nation. It was a province of Colombia. A treaty had to be drawn up, and was one which gave Colombia $10 million, and the stockholders, who they were, agreed to form a company $40 million. The treaty also stipulated that the Colombian government gave up all rights to sue for any portion of the money it was all police powers in the contemplated canal zone.
PRESIDENT MARROQUIN of Colombia didn't dare submit such an unfavorable treaty to his Congress for ratification. "If we do not yield (concessions) to the United States, I determine to build the canal they will open it without stopping at trifles, and then we will lose more sovereignty than we should lose by making the concessions they seek. History shows that we failed. I ruined the Isthmus ... scandalously injuring the rights of my country."
The Colombians rejected the treaty, and Rochas reacted by threatening to "rabbit" the rabbits, "contemptible little creatures" and "homicidal corruptionionists." But Bunau-na made more practical turn of mind.
FROM PANAMA HE SUMMOND Dr. Manuel Amador, a physician who worked for Cromwell's railroad, to room 1162 of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, sometimes referred to as the cradle of Panamanian tourism, to a doctor with $10,000 supplied by J. P. Morgan, a secret code, a Declaration of Independence, a
draft of the new nation's Constitution and the soon-to-born Republic's flag, thoughtfully crafted by Sen. Bernie Bunu-Varilla. Thus equipped, the doctor was sent back to Panama, where the section hands from the railroad were recruited into the revolutionary
WITH THE ARRIVAL of the United States cruiser Nashville in Panamanian waters, the flag of liberty was run up. When Colombian soldiers arrived in Panama, the insurrection, the railroad refused to transport them. The new Republic was immediately recognized and its ambassador plenipotentiary, who was, surprise, surpassed by the president, VanVarilla, had the treaty signed within 10 days. A particularly nice touch in all of this is Article III of the Panamanian Constitution, which says the nation's islands are seceded, and a treaty that has or will be signed with the United States.
AS FOR THE money, $40 million was paid to J. P. Morgan, who was to transfer it to the stockholders in the French company. Their names have never been made public, but Mr. Morgan was as being one of them, but nothing is known for certain because Cromwell refused to divulge them to a Senate committee. What is on the record is that Mr. Morgan had $800,000 legal fee for his work, a stupendous sum in terms of 1903 dollars.
In 1921 the United States paid Colombia a $25 million indemnity. Not out of a sense of humor, Interior Albert Fall, later sent to jail for corruption, warned that if we didn't the Colombians would see their cones broken. Highlights have come to Panama as well. The Panamanians have replaced Madame Bunau-Varilla's fan with one of their partners. An, the joys of freedom.