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Tuesday, February 24, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Air apartheid issue
Smoking is a dangerous thing.
Smoking is a dangerous thing:
Not only it is a dangerous thing to do,
it is a dangerous thing to talk or write about.
A careless word or phrase and friends become enemies almost overnight.
People have the right to smoke cigarettes. If they want to smoke 29 packs a day, that's fine. It is their body and it is their money. Outlawing cigarettes would be inconsistent with what most people believe to be this nation's ideas. It probably wouldn't stop them, anwav.
ON THE OTHER hand, nonsmokers have the right to breathe clean air, or at least to breathe without having cigarette smoke in their face. Some studies have shown that breathing the exhaust of somebody else's cigarette is worse for your health than smoking one yourself.
The right to smoke and the right to breathe are enemies. The only thing they have in common is that they are both "rights." If both sides wanted to be uncompromising and hard, the situation could deteriorate into a virtual war.
PENDING THE invention of smokefree, vitamin packed cigarettes, there seems one main way to reconcile this conflict. That is to use the "equal" that used to be used in racial matters. The only way to satisfy everyone is to segregate.
Many states have already begun to do this, requiring separate smoking and nonsmoking sections in planes, trains and restaurants.
Unfortunately, this solution isn't a complete one. Although it does create a truce while eating or traveling, it doesn't help at all as far as smoking. What can you do when smokers and nonsmokers have to be in the same room?
IN THAT situation, it seems there is nothing to do but make enemies. Somebody's rights must yield.
But the nonsmokers have won more of these showdows recently. They have been becoming more vocal and more militant all the time.
Their new outspokenness has resulted in an increased awareness of the nonsmokers' situation. Law protecting the rights of non-smokers was passed by 31 states, including Kansas.
THESE LAWS mean that when smokers and nonsmokers clash over the air of an auditorium, it's no longer a matter of whether they're sisters or another's. It's a matter of the law.
Sometimes nonsmokers get carried away with their own rhetoric. But they do have a point and they probably have breathed a lot of other people's excess smoke over the years. And, after all, a man isn't born with a cigarette in his mouth.
In the long run, the right of a person to smoke doesn't mean they can smoke anywhere, especially if everywhere includes places in which everyone else has to breathe smoke along with them.
By Jim Bates
Contributing Writer
This first primary is a make-or-break situation for many candidates. After eliciting either especially strong or especially weak support in the early caucus states, such as Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio, candidates come into the election needing a good showing to keep them in the race or to support early gains.
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... the New Hampshire voter,
or at least that is what we are
 told that we should seek. Sure as
Hommad, the New Hampshire
says he has shown con-
struction in predictive
a winner. Since the state began
its obstacle course in 1952, no
candidate has been elected
president who didn't win in
New Hampshire.
But trying to figure out what a "good showing" is provides the fishier basis of a shire's exaggerated importance. Because, fellow voters, a good showing is pretty important; whatever a candidate says it is.
Editor
Carl Young
Associate Editor Campus Editor
Betty Haelgin Yael Abouhalkah
Rosy Parris
Advertising Manager
Business Assistant
Gary Burch
Linda Beckham
Business Manager
Publisher
In 1972, George McGovern said he would consider 25 per cent of the vote in New Hamshire a "good showing"; the poll said Edmund Muskie had won the fact that his showing" of 60 per cent of the vote. When the big day was over, the fact that Muskie had lodged a respectable victory with 46 per cent of the vote was ignored. Instead, the headlines indicated that McGovern made the correct claim per cent of the Democratic vote. The scores of victory were so mown.
News Advisor Business Advisor
Susanne Shaw Mel Adams
When it comes to politics,
New Hampshire is in a surrealistic world all its own.
Every four years the rest of America turns its eyes, and cameras, to this tiny state of
What does N.H. know?
fiery campaign issues that will set them apart for the voters.
On the Primary Trail
800,000 and seeks the knowledge of the preeminent political guru
Sown, however, in a state with less than 4 per cent of the nation's population; sown with a turnout of about 88,000 Democrats—17 per cent of New York voters; sown then, by the votes of less than one half of one per cent of the nation's voters.
But the race seems to have narrowed down to changeling Carter and Udall, the one-eyed basketball player from Arizona.
There is no indication that the situation will be any different this year. The Democratic Senate has passed Mo Udall, Birch Bayh, Sargent Shriver and Fred Harris—are fighting for a share of the 116,000 registered Democrats and some of the 149,000 declared Democrats—are candidate group of veritable look-alikes, there are very few
By Betty Haegelin Associate Editor
and is hounded by pro-lifers. He is also strong on other issues such as gun control and full government through government jobs.
As for Shriver and Harris—Shriver will be happy if he finishes at all. Both need some support to keep their canine friends both are not expecting much.
Carter derives his strength from his early caucus victories and the importation of 90 Georgians to sing his praises
But the real fireworks could be set off in the other camp's battle between Ronald Reagan and Gerald R. Ford. This week Mark the first time Gerald Ford was elected elective politics outside his Grand Rapids congressional district and polls show his
he were not the incumbent, he might not even be their tenth choice."
But incumbent he is, and this alone is likely to pull enough votes to give him a respectable showing. His recent swings through the state have inducted his chances considerably.
But the Reagan camp has said that it would consider a 40 per cent showing a victory and Republican Gov. Meldrim predict that Reagan would win with more than 50 per cent. Reagan is a showman on the stump, but that isn't much of a feat considering he has been among the most versions of the same speech for
somewhat self-endowed. The state law says that its primary must be one week before any other state's. But it's still under consideration in a small and unrepresentative state can grab such importance.
New Hampshire is unlike any other part of the country. It has no state income tax or sales tax. It lacks a budget, balances its budget and it does. It is 86 per cent woodland. There is one state representative for every 2,000 persons, and there are paid $20 a two-year term.
Four of the five elective officers are Democrat in a state with a Republican majority. The president is Thompson—an amateur law
SORRY FELLA, BUT BEING THE HEIGHT OF OUR FOUR-YEAR RUSH, WE'RE ALL BOOKED UD!
door-to-door. Carter is the one,
then, with something to gain.
Udall has everything to lose.
Udall has played New Hampshire big-he's been working the entire state for more than a year and has reached the 35,000 Democratic households with door-to-door access. He will preserve after all of this work, the pollsters say, he 'been finished.'
Bahy has resolved himself to coming in third today, mainly because he is catching most of the positions he posessed by all of these Democrats. Bahy happened to preside over a Senate committee that proposed anti-abortion amendments to the Constitution
wooing might get the cold-
shoulder. Ford, privately and
publicly has been thrown off
the job. Blinders and blunders
and malappropriate
At a New Hampshire breakfast, he promised to continue in the ways of Daniel Patrick McKenna and follow the same challenges challenging some of the third and fourth world powers, calling a spade a spade." He worked; said work in the other 48 uh, 49- states could profit from New Hampshire's spirit; noted that it's January already, when it really is it's really February; and so on.
When he deviates from "the speech" he, too, has trouble keeping his tongue unwrestled. In one speech, the flubbed. Third eight times in a single talk. He also tends to shoot from the lip, such as his remark to the distribution of free food after Patty Hearts' kidnapping; have an epidemic of bollism?
his 15 years in the political limelight.
If Reagan can build in 40 to 50 per cent, it will provide a solid base on which to build his effort to unseat Ford.
And the news media are by no means infected by the "liberal Eastern establishment." Instead, publisher William Loeb of the Manchester Union Leader is a vibrant partisan whose iron grip brought Muske to tears ... and ultimate defeat in 1972.
and-order man who arrests speeders from his own official car and has advocated arming the National Guard with nuclear weapons.
WASHINGTON - Miss Sophie Satin died a year ago this February in her 96th year. A botanist, a teacher, a social historian, a museologist Miss Satin was, although she never seemed to have used the term, a feminist in Czarist Russia.
Women's gains often forgotten
In fact, the only way that New Hampshire is typical is that as of last week, fully 60 per cent of the registered voters said they would vote to keep the voters in the succeeding primaries, go to the polls despite ignorance and ambivalence seems to be the real question in today's race. And, perhaps, the rest of us should know what We can about the whims of the New Hampshire voter?"
In the light of our modern conterminations and controversies, it is ironic that one of Miss Saita's accomplishments was to be among the very first girls in Russia. She writes that in 1896: "I could not continue my education because all women's colleges were closed. (Government edict). All I could do now was to read and to wander about in the Moscow) or to do or how to occupy myself. And then in this dull and boring 'doing nothing' period I learned by chance that somebody offered to teach the graduates of our school stenography. What did the word stenography mean? I knew it at home, neither did my friends. Only the doctor . . . said that this word in Greek should mean 'Narrow writing', but what is this stenography for, and how and when it is used? He did not know either. This unknown thing is going to taught . . . it was worthwhile to accept the offer. I followed her advice at once.
so rare and so much in demand that her services were used at lectures and political occasions she might otherwise not have been able to attend. In 1905 she was ordained as a prefect in the transcript of an international conference, but when she arrived and the admiral for
MISS SATIN wrote that the skill was invaluable to her. Not only was she able to earn money with it, but stenographers were
get an idea of what Russian women had to go through to get an education in a country that had no Department of Health, Education and Welfare to help them.
A 40 to 50 per cent showing for Reagan would mean Ford would receive a similar percentage, although Reagan has been declared the winner in advance. This win could set a pace that could ultimately drive Ford out of the Republican Party and bring it closer to do well in the upcoming states. New Hampshire's power is
MISS SATIN and her friends had to set up their own college, but under the bootleg name of
By Nicholas von Hoffman (C) King Features
This small kermish is described in her "Recollections," a book of great charm written at the behest of American friends but which is unhappily unpublished. In it you
whom she was to work got a look at her, she remembered. "He exclaimed, 'They sent a woman! What a shame. Poor But still worse was the attitude of the official stenographers. They refused to move when I approached the desk given us. One of them muttered; the kitchen, it the kitchen, and it the waterstain grapher who got up, moved his papers and politely offered me the necessary space for my work." To his credit, he allowed the admiral changed his mind and (twice offered Miss Tatin a job.)
"Collective Lessons," lest the government close it down. Ultimately, because of their leadership and staying away from political meetings, the government began to reentert and Miss Satin was among the first class of women who attended at the University of Moscow.
Not only did Miss Satin become a botanist, but she and her friends raised the money, collected and mounted the specimens for a free natural history museum. Next they began to design and manufacture visual aids for teaching children chinchillas as the science classes had continued their work of collecting and cataloging the flora and fauna of their native land. This could entail risks as when the coachman
almost totaled them and the microscope she had purchased with her Paris stenographic earnings. When they both survived, the coachman told her. "Miss, you were saved my life," he said until you will achieve something great." This is apparently the reason why I am still alive so long."
WHEN MISS SATIN got out of Russia and away from the hunger and the stupidity, she didn't take money with her but made sure her money was. I had been unable to complete my research on this particular
WHAT WOULD Russia be like today if it hadn't driven out people like Sophie Satin and her family, which included her Rachmannmann*? Her description what it was like for women to live in the Soviet Union in that period are less horrifying than tales of the concentration camps perhaps more disinterpreting because they are probably more representative of ordinary experience:
"The poor dressmaker was afraid of everybody and she shall never forget her face, because when she was ordered by the Soviet Government to go to one of the railroad stations in beijing to be one of the guards of a police force holding a gun in her hands. She was afraid even to look at the gun and for a whole day kept it on her chest as possible thinking all the time the gun might go off by itself."
subject due to the revolution. I had preserved the mould spores for several years, having wrapped them in sterilized soil somewhere and somehow to finish up my research."
Sophie Satin came to love America, for many years she pursued her life's work at the Carnegie Institute and at Smith College. Americans, however, did not always understand how she could come to love Russia, too. Many of them thought it was a land where the people live in "caves," tents and mud huts." She confesses she lost her temper when the wife of a Department of Agriculture bureaucrat, where Miss Satin worked one year, told her how happy you are to be here, coming from this savage, horrible and abominable country."
**MISS SATIN** assumed she'd be fired for telling the lady off but, instead, "I found on my table only a glass of water with a beautiful rose and a note to her," he wrote. Later, lunch, I found on my table a splendid peach, on the third day I found a pear. So it went all the week . . . The unpleasant incident . . . helped me to better understand and value American life and come closer to them."
Ford's candidacy got off to a painfully slow start and it has been obvious that he isn't likely to attract the same type of strong support as his opponent Reagan.
"Ford," says California pollster Mervin Field, "is not the Republican's first choice.
The feminist movement these last years has inspired notable work on the contribution of women in our history, their culture, immigrant women like Miss Sophie Satine are overlooked.
Rv PHIL. McKNIGHT
Guest comment
Faculty evaluation
Director of Instructional Resources
It may be safe to say that everyone has strong feelings about at least one aspect of the Curriculum and Instruction survey. It is not the purpose of this discussion to review the in the survey, but rather to discuss future alternatives.
The matter of providing information to students for assistance in selecting courses
Although it began as a student project to help students select their courses more wisely, it has also led to other functions. One of these (evaluation), is incongruent with the nature of the original survey, while the other is a proper use of the survey.
At any rate, after discussing the problems of the survey with various students and faculty committees in the past year, I have decided that we need to separate, distinct operations; information for student course selection, diagnostic information to teachers and evaluative information for purposes of merit salary deliberations and for decisions accordingly. Accordingly, the survey will be so revised this semester.
is being discussed with the Student Senate. We need to decide what kind of information is of most use to students and how it should be obtained. I welcome any suggestions.
With regard to providing diagnostic feedback, the present survey will be available for use before spring vacation in order to ensure that students are returned after vacation as soon as possible, at a time when I believe teachers can better use the information to help them revise their courses in order to meet current preferences and expectations.
With regard to evaluation, there is a consensus among many faculty and students that a short list of questions should be used. Given the purpose of evaluation, it would appear that between five and twelve questions would be sufficient. This semester we will adhere to our course's basis. I invite your insights with regard to what kinds of questions should be used.
Diagnostic and evaluative forms discussed above will, I hope, be complemented by individual departmental instruments and procedures used in the clinic. I believe that the more information the better, particularly when it pertains to
evaluation. I also think that it is advisable to have one common form for evaluation because the university department's teaching records are being compared at the university level during budgetary allocation processes. The department are aware of comparison, a department dissatisfied with its merit pay allocation would have no opportunity to say "our teaching department" than X department's scores.
In shortening the evaluation process we are not trying to make it easier, but rather to make it more value of information obtained.
Finally, I believe that the Curriculum and Instruction Survey should be only one of a kind in our country. We evaluate alternatives available. Thus, another project currently underway involves constructing an Item Bank of Descriptive and Evaluative items.
The goal of all of these activities is to make diagnosis and evaluation more accurate and more useful through revisions of items, questionnaires, and procedures. It is a crucial task, and faculty members do not have the training to withdraw from the course before receiving a grade from their students.