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Tuesday, April 26, 1976
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN Comment Opinions on this page reflect only the view of the writer.
The Great Debate
Good morning, soap opera fans, and welcome once again to the new-ending show!
In our last episode, as you remember, the subsidy was missing and feared dead. The Student Senate had removed it from the student activity fee and split the remaining budget between student service organizations and a reduction in the activity fee.
MANY PEOPLE thought that settled the issue, at least for this year, for although the new student body president had said during he campaign that the subsidy deserved reconsideration, she also pledged to keep the activity fee down.
Poor fools. They should have known. The subsidy has withstood worse attacks before and survived. The subsidy is one KU tradition that refuses to die
And so the Senate finds itself spending the week before Easter in debate about whether to resurrect the subsidy. Both chambers have their old fired arguments and fire away.
THE PRO-SUBSIDY people will stress and stress once again how many people buy football tickets. The antisubsidy people will stress and stress once again the KUAC's lack of responsiveness to student desires and the number of places the money could be spent more effectively.
About the average students, on those
rare occasions when they talk about the Senate at all, will grumble that the Senate is "___-ing around with our money again."
THE MAIN battleground for the newest subsidy debate will probably be a table drawn up by a special Senate subcommittee. The table, which is based on the KUAC's philosophy of getting $307,000 from students one way or another, shows what ticket prices will be at various subsidy levels.
This table could be a good thing if it teaches senators to look at the subsidy and the prices as a unit. If, for example, the Senate decides on a $1.20 increase in the activity fee (from $9.75 to $10.95), with the increase going to KUAC), football tickets would cost $4.00 while the sports prices would be about $20 with no subsidy, the net savings of 40 cents doesn't seem like such a great deal.
THE $6.10 savings to ticket buyers that a $4.20 increase in the activity fee would mean is, admittedly, a much better deal for the ticket buyers. It isn't, who don't buy tickets and still have to pay that extra $4.20 at enrollment.
And that, especially when combined with the sporadic, faddish way the Senate continues to handle the whole issue, can also a good deal for the Senate's image.
By Jim Bates
By Jim Bates Contributing Writer
Dear JJ.
In recent weeks I've been a nervous wreck. I in the midst of an identity crisis that's tearing me apart. The first symptom showed up several weeks ago. I noticed that I had a bruise on my neck and peanuts. I couldn't get enough of them. It just doesn't make sense. I hate peanuts and I know I'm not pregnant. My psychiatrist told me that sub-consciously I wanted to be an elephant. But I told him that I don't know. I'm known as a loyal Democrat.
Politics beget complexes
Anyway, just as the urge for peanuts was becoming unbearable, people started forgetting my name. My secretary called me Jimmy yesterday at a fund-raising dinner last week as the president of the university.
AS IF THAT weren't enough, a peanut shell punctured my gums and required oral surgery. I had no trouble with the operation, but then commented that with a grin as big as mine, I had to be from Georgia. I insisted that I had not been treated, but he refused to believe me.
Please help me. Who am I? Smiley
Smiley
Dear S.
K-State, too, without faculty club
Readers Respond
Stop the presses! ! In the Kansan of April 8, under the headline "New hope stirs hope" John Snyder, Seib, Henry Snyder is reported to have said that KU is the only state university that doesn't have a faculty club and goes on to take an active role in University has a faculty club. Either Snyder is misinformed, or Sebid did not correctly report what Snyder said, or a comma was inserted in line 2, which is probably closer to the truth.
To the Editor:
TO SET THE record straight, KU is not the only state university without a faculty club. Kansas State University does not have a faculty club. Purdue does not have a faculty near the campus to which many faculty members belong, but that is different from a faculty club. Fact: I belonged to that club and was not a faculty anyone staying at the hotel, and 21, can join the club.
should be a feedback system to the instructors of would-be reporters as to the accuracy of their stories or "facts." It is unfortunate that erroneous information gets reported as fact and more unfortunate that it doesn't be convenient to have ratings of journalists. Four stars after their name means they have demonstrated responsible reporting and their stories have a validity factor of 99 per cent, three stars for 80 per cent, two stars for 60 per cent, one star for 40 per cent, and one meaning the story should be read for enjoyment and not factual content.
The points are 1) people should qualify their statements as fact, understood to be fact, opinion or hearsey; 2) there
Streak minor
M. A. Johnson
To the Editor:
M. A. Johnson
Lawrence Graduate Student
tering the resident director's apartment. The second complaint concerned the seven males who forcibly entered the hall when they were specifically told not to do so. The fact that all of them had nothing to do with any of the complaints filed.
I think the Kansan did a great injustice in the reporting of the All Scholarship Hall Judicial Board proceedings concerning the two incidents at Miller Hall. The two incidents of the proceedings was directed toward the two men of Pearson accused of breaking and en-
Cheryl Hatfield
Phoenix, Artz, freshman
Hypnosis OK
To the Editor:
ire the March 25 article on
hypnosis, it is quite true that
hypnosis is all in the mind of
the hypnotized person, but to then
conclude that hypnosis does not
exist makes no sense at all. In
scientific imagination" is scientific
according to Dr. Holmes, it still
can lead to such exciting things
as the total absence of pain
during major surgery without
the use of anesthesia. I know of
the method of "natural
suggestion" which could achieve this.
Similarly, the uses of hypnosis have ranged from recovering lost memories to helping smokers kick the habit.
Moreover, sometimes the world gets a bit too orderly and structured. Hypnosis can be a pleasant and safe way to escape for a while. In conclusion, we should better living, and we should continue using this tool until we find something better.
Richard Rubes
center. I was only a freshman and didn't realize you had to go early to beat the rush. The doctors didn't have time to get
Richard Ruces
Lawrence graduate Student
year's funding is concerned,
you'll only be asking for
peanuts. I guarantee that the
faculty will remember your
By John Johnston Contributing Writer
name. As far as the smile is concerned, it's a hopeless case.
and my condition makes walking impossible. Do you have any suggestions?
I'm a graduate student at KU.
Five years ago I contracted
some sort of skin disease. My
sister had been sick with
splatches, so we went to the health
to me that day so I came back the next morning. My condition had deteriorated. Some nurse came over my mouth and I've been here ever since. I graduated through correspondence courses. I was afraid to move for fear that my sister won't get near me now
Dear JJ,
The Biodegrading Woman
Dear BW.
Stay put in the lobby. Once they confine you to a room you might never get out.
Down and Out
Nobody understands me. They think I'm cold. My sub-
sistence is in the cold. They say I have no feelings. But everyone knows I have a heart of gold. (So what if it is the size of a pea, it would bring over $100
Dear DO.
a place in the sun. Yet the people refuse to pay their taxes and curse me for the price of victory.
They say I think only of money, but it is really their welfare plan. What price pay for their love? Why do they hate me?
Dear J.J.
As Sheriff of Allenwood, I stole Moore from the rich and gave him to the poor. This field was a success. We won victory on the field of battle and
EVEN MAID MARIAN,
whom I have supported so
generously, refuses to live in my castle.
As an old quarterback once told Bill Cosse, "Do a fly pattern past the parked car on the right; go out toward the third car in the nook-hook, at the post office and then keep on running."
JJ
"IT'S A LETTER FROM THE POSTAL SERVICE ORDERING US TO SHUT DOWN FOR ECONOMIC REASONS IT WAS MAILED FOUR AND A
Tax resister back in the dock
WASHINGTON—In Karl Bray's last letter mugged out of a Federal penitentiary a week ago, he had no hope of getting on its appeal bond before April 15, tax day. His enemy, the IRS, see to that. At this writing, his former prison system is unknown to his friends and sympathizers, who tend to be angry, honest and ineffective right-wingers of the Libertarian persuasion.
BRAY SEEMS TO be of that sort, insofar as one can tell by
reading the clippings on his case from The Salt Lake City Tribune and by intuiting; a liberal-minded Libertarian who knew his head that the Constitution doesn't mean what it says.
The man's troubles began in 1 June, when he put full-p袍 ads in the Salt Lake City mall and asked government's right to impose wage and price controls and daring the authorities to take action, saying the IRS, which has the responsibility of administering the law,
'SPEECH TIME IN 5 MINUTES, MO!'
IF BRAY had any sense he would have quietly capitulated, he would have been apologized and apologized to the IRS. they can wreck you so easily. They can take your car, your bank account, your house without even going to court.
control program, immediately demanded to see Bray's books.
Honesty is no defense either. They can always show you did your taxes wrong, because it is almost impossible to do them right. The IRS's own figures indicate that income returns prepared by outfalls like HR Block are incorrect, but the greater the expertise of the tax preparer the more likely the possibility of mistakes. Thus, 75 per cent of middle-income returns prepared by accountants are prepared by the tax preparers, lawyers, and get this, 75 per cent prepared by the IRS itself are incorrect.
WHICH IS BUT another way of saying there is no right way of preparing your taxes. You are always wrong. How can it be? You cannot, nor does it understand the regulations, nobody can obey them. When a law is violated daily by millions of people or a law is so compulsory that nobody can obey it, the law is open for selective enforcement. Because the authorities can't hope to prosecute all the violators, as they are not prosecuted. There are selected lawbreakers are picked out. Wherever there is selective enforcement, there is corruption and there is using lawbreakers to get someome other extraneous reason.
Bray ought to have known that, but there is a certain type of right-winger who doesn't realize that in a democracy you
do what the officials tell you to do. Instead, he wrote a book (impetuous Taxation) and Fanny imposed more trouble. According to a more trouble. According to a
False hope postpones the day of enlightenment and despair.
BRAY APPARENTLY is immune to that emotion. The following year, 1975, finds him
By Nicholas von Hoffman
(C) King Features
THE NEXT YEAR, 1974, we find Bray being convicted of a federal misdemeasure charge of "illegal possession of Internal Revenue Service seizure stickers." The judge gives him the maximum six-month sentence and an IRS hush. But he also found Bray say, "Seizure notices would be put on cars and property in the local (Salt Lake City) area and it would be good publicity and would cause raid citizens to call the IRS." Bray's supporters say that the stickers were Xeroxes that anyone could tell weren't genuine. But don't you sleep better knowing the IRS has undercover agents to spare for infiltrating minuscule right-wing meetings in Salt Lake City? You can't have anybody have, and why won't one of these 10,000 rampaging, vote-maddened politicians tell if elected he will bride the IRS?" So what if he's lying?
UPI dispatch from Salt Lake City印发了 In The Los Angeles Times (all we get is got press clips on this fellow), the IRS subpoenaed Bray's bank account to get a list of all those who paid for a copy of the book by check.
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defiantly back in the prisoner's dock. This time they have him up for claiming 15 dependents on his W-4 form, 14 of whom are uninsured. He has been given him for refusing to fill out his income tax form. Like a lot of right-wingers, Bray believes that being compelled to fill out the form is a violation of his rights against self-incrimination. He doesn't understand that the federal bench has recently ruled that the only unconstitutional measure he has committed the last 100 years is to fail to give the judges large enough and timely enough pay raises. In this trial the prosecution alleges that the judge irritable irreverencies on his tax return like, "Gou straight to hell . . . Do not pass Go . . . Do not collect $200." Poor boy, he didn't understand that the IRS will charge $200 an insultingly low figure.
AFTER THE JURY convicted him, the judge denounced him, saying Bray "comes awfully close to preemption and correction government." He lawlessness. "It'll also get you a two-year sentence and $10,000 fine. On top of which the judge, one Wills W. Ritter, said he was going to have criminal consequences against Bray for accusing his honor of accepting a $20,000 bribe.
You'll always get a stiffer sentence for trying to make the government live by its own laws than for trying to overthrow it. So we cannot expect to see Karl Bray and question him out of prison walls for some time. But he will, if he has它 right, he is a minor boy in Utah, where, evidently, tax defiance is slowly gaining the respectability that draft defiance had a few years ago.