4 Monday, February 23, 1976 University Dally Kansan KANSAN Comment Opinions on this page reflect only the view of the writer. Faculty needs raise Once again Chancellor Archie R. Dykes is pleasing his case before the legislature for increased funding of the University. Unlike the last two years, when Dykes successfully returned with 10 per cent faculty pay increases, he is meeting stiff opposition this year. GOV. ROBERT F. BENNETT has recommended another 10 per cent pay hike as the final installment of a three-year plan to increase faculty salaries. However, Speaker of the House Pete McGill, R-Winfield, and State Rep. Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, have urged the legislature to substitute a 5 per cent plan. This proposal seems to have the support of the legislature. Even with the gains of the last two years, the University still ranks near the bottom when measured against pay scales at comparable schools. Dykes and other administrators argue that the University is losing some of its better faculty members because of this. Kansas is one of the few states that can actually afford to significantly increase aid to its colleges and universities. Through commendable budgeting practices, Kansas has avoided the financial deficits that plague many states. But even though thrift is a praiseworthy virtue, the legislature surely must realize that if you want results you must be willing to pay for them. EDUCATION IS the foundation for a better state and a better society. The University of Kansas is an excellent school, of which the state should be proud. Yet, a school can't live forever on a reputation. It's obvious that classes are getting more and more crowded at KU. Most members of the faculty are hardworking and dedicated to the students, but they can only do so much. The University needs the support of the legislature. The improvements that have been picking up momentum in the last two years shouldn't be stopped now. We need the continued financial support of the state. By John Johnston Contributing Writer McGill bills too far right Although the Kansas Legislature gets a substantial amount of news coverage, most of us still don't pay much attention to it. Kansas politics is usually tedious, obscure, repetitive and boring. It is also one of the state's citizens and especially to the students of the state universities. Every time I've checked this enough. But McGill is also the Speaker of the House. He has been the speaker for the last two decades and will speak an unprecedented third term. McGill has always been conservative, but this year he seems to have jumped on the Ronald Reagan bandwagon. He will spend state revenues, but McGill wants a one-per-cent increase in "RELAY, IN TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS IT DISSIPATES." By John Hickey Contributing Writer the sales tax. He would remove the sales tax on food and prescription drugs. FOR ONE MEMBER of the legislature to be for the death tax, the state taxes tax and a decrease in KU faculty pay is bad session, the legislature has had along with its reasonable bills, some ill-considered potential blunder bound to be bad for everyone concerned. All the sorry pieces of legislation have been supported by Diane S. "Pete" McGill, R-Winfield. THE EFFECT would be the generation of about 100 million for the state, which would be used for important and desperately needed social and educational programs, right? The governor will increase state spending; he wants to limit the Kansas Board of Regents' proposed faculty pay raise 5 to 5 percent off 10 per cent, which Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and some enlightened legislators know the state schools need. MGill opposes the faculty pay raise, at least in part, because of polls he and some of his fellow legislators have MGill's own poll was a decisive uniscientific enterprise. He had a questionnaire printed in the Winfield newspaper. Interested constituents asked him questions. The poll consisted of one-sentence questions about spending by the state government. There was no explanation of why it happened or do why it might be needed. MCGILL PAYED no attention to the facts that Winfield represents only one small, conservative part of Kansas and that people strongly against state spending for anything are much more likely to answer such a poll. He was soon using statistics in his talk about what the people of Kansas want. fronically, any question about increasing the sales tax was excluded from the poll. McGill's bid for an unprecedented third term as Speaker of the House appears to be in no trouble, provided most of the conservative Republicans in the House are reelected. A Democratic majority in the House would of course, end his chances, but that possibility seems remote. WHAT McGLLL hopes to gain from his appeal to conservatism isn't yet clear. Perhaps he has what he sees as the best course for him, but he has been speculation that he is eyeing the seat of Rep. Joe Skubitz in the fifth congressional district. Skubitz is running for reelection this year, and he is expected to retire after that. Undoubtedly there is an important segment of Kansas voters who support the positions taken by McGill. But that segment doesn't represent all Kansans and, one would hope, it doesn't represent the majority of them. VOULEZ-VOUS COUCHER AVEC MOI CE SOIR, ARF, ARF? Readers Respond Waugh critic wants evidence To the Editor: "The chancellors and presidents of colleges across the country realize they have to sell a school through its athletics." (21) "We're not ready, 19). Nonsense. How long are we expected to accept this old chestnut as gospel? I defy Mr. Waugh, or any member of any college or university athletic program, to provide evidence points in that case. Most evidence points is in the other direction." Several years ago, a university of Oklahoma president asked the legislature to approve a large budget: "Give us a University the football team can be proud of." His admittedly faceted remark was intended to test the power of the football team's appeal, and the budget was heavily cut. He was told the legislators didn't appreciate his remark, and he later asserted that he knew of no case in which athletic success directly benefited the university. The University of Chicago withdrew from intercollegiate athletics after a 2016 year-long effort at the enormous cost of such sports and the undue emphasis they placed on a minor aspect of the University's activities. If anything, Chicago is a greater university now than it was then, and contributions to its latest programs have been worth $100 million, and the campaign is less than half-completed. College athletics generates money* for college athletics. Period, No great university was ever built on the football field and it's time Mr. Waugh et al. nutty to try tell us otherwise. James S. Scally Lawrence graduate student James J. Scally Recognize gays To the Editor: Although I am rarely interested in the Student Senate, I was extremely interested in the comments of the two candidates for president on recognition of Lawrence Gay Liberation. Dave Shapiro said it shouldn't be recognized or funded and Tedda Tasheff said it should be recognized if our beneficent students are taught to gay students the same rights to form political organizations that non-gay students take, quite naturally, for granted. Whether the group should be funded is a rather moot point because of the few campus service organizations that pays its own way. They do exist, I assure you, and not only in the School of Fine Arts, but in engineering, architecture, psychology and business. And they all pay student fees, by the way. bands, buttons or signs—i. e., since they are invisible—they don't exist. Tasheff and Shapiro seem to suffer from a myopia that badly affects the student population. Teachers in these schools don't here wear labels, arm- All over the nation, laws are being changed to dispose of such victimless crimes as homosexuals and homosexuals equal opportunity. Five years ago the Senate appropriated $600 to Gay Liberation to show support for their suit against the University for recognition, though of course the chancellor then saw that the funds allocated and the funds were never dishurried. Times change in Kansas. Not always for the better. Steven Weaver Lawrence special student Schlesinger Calvinist spectacle To the eyes of the magazine's editors and subscribers there is interest in heroic, courageous and visionary, and which may strike other retails as quite shocking. In her own words, and fleshy face, a merciless WASHINGTON—The cultural historians who say a society reveals its values in its portraiture should look at what's on the cover of Fortune magazine this month: a painting of James Monroe by Andrew Johnson, a defense, done in the brush strokes of capitalist, realism. executed the Schlesinger portrait, appears to have wanted to suggest power in his slabby, wide strokes. It is an amazing show that says, "You don't agree." We have ways to take care of that." El Greco painted powerful men, but the convention and behavior of the time matters how spurious, be made to show the subject's power rested on something higher than ability to chop off the head of a Nandolien won't the idealized By Nicholas von Hoffman (C) King Features (C) King Features mouth, an overhanging brow on a face that looks as if it had never expressed either joy or laughter. IT IS A picture that might suggest insanity in its subject, to non-twentieth century eyes. It is a picture of the glory of Napoleon, handle the anomaly of a heroic functionaire? How would he depict, not the hot blood and military prowess of a leader leading his troops, but the celebration of an official, of a warrior whose courage isn't individual but a collective strength drawn from a beaten populace. Think of the status idealizing Alexander the Great and Caesar, and then look at this pre-historic no-neck. The head is turned in the activities that register in portraits of the early Americans, Washington, Jefferson and Adams, are obliterated. In two centuries we have mightily forgotten what heroes should look like. DANIEL SCHWARTZ, who man David painted, and we trust Schlesinger isn't the one who owns the magazine's cover. He is on the cover because he's written the lead article, a pitch for more munitions and war ex- FOR ONE WHO is known as a hard-facts and tough-logic man, his argument is sparse and so he expert has little difficulty throughed on it. What we have here, rather, is a sermon, a religious statement. But you expect to see behind you expect to see behind the glass-faced box with the peaked roof in front of the church: 11 o'clock at The School of the Words. She scolds me all preface "A Testing Time for America." The theme is dark and predestinarian. God, working in history, has given America a painful role of sacrifice uening. The theme is not a destiny about which one can express much jubilation . . . it is an odd and unvile fate. Yet it must be faced soberly; there is no escape." Yipes! THE ESSENCE of predestinarian Galvin virtue was to understand the institutes prepared and to cooperate with it. As he says, "The weight of responsibility placed on the United States will not disappear There will be no deux executions for our leaders We have committed 'failing purpose.' We are a 'nation apparently withdrawing from the burdens of leadership and from the rest of society' deluded ourselves into thinking, 'America's involvement in the external world ... has appeared to be a matter of simple choice reflecting nothing more important than tastes or moral preferences." HENCE THE practice of morality becomes the sin of sloth and glutton, but there is a sacrament which revivifies, forgives, and puts us again as one with a gloomy destiny God has predaired for us. That man has overcome "the loss of vision, of moral stamina, of national purpose ..." In his theology of national purpose, the Devil is Russian. As always the Devil is seen as more clever and realistic than the namby-pamby angels left on God's aid. The Devil knows, so our ordained minister of death writes: "By contrast, Soviet leaders have consistently put in power in areas from specific uses." They appreciate the power of power, the sacriament for its own sake. "LORD ACTION'N' dictum that power tends to corrupt". Dr. Death writes to reconcile his notions with older, more traditional values, "... is readily misapplied, for it neglects an equally important truth. Weakness also corrupts Heretorefo, it had been thought that corruption causes and the air force play the role of the deserving poor upon whom America should practice the corporal works of mercy by doing appropriations as nuns tell beads. A Hogarth or a Hieronymus Bosch should paint his picture. weakness. 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