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Thursday, February 19, 1976
University Dally Kansan
You get an A一，Ed
(An open letter to Ed C. Rolfs, student body president.)
Dear Ed:
Well, kid, this is it—your last day as student body president, your last day in the spotlight.
It was a pretty good year, everything considered. You managed to get beer into the Kansas Union despite the timidity of the other state schools' student body presidents and their fears of offending the Board of Regents. You were able to visit campus absidy. You were able to get the Senate budget together in a relatively short time.
There were problems, of course. The whole mess about the drug rider this summer was a horribly sloppy affair that shouldn't have happened in the first place. The Commission on the Status of Classroom Teaching was a good idea that never quite made it. If you're going to analyze teaching, which undeniably needs some improvement, it would help to have some sort of power to implement your recommendations. It also helps to have enough time to really understand an issue about which so many sources have said so many different things for so long.
BUT, GENERALLY. things went fairly well.
BUT, GENERALLY Some people say things went too well. They say that during the administration, but a little close from the Senate office.
everything was run by a little cute girl from the
Maybe so. But the sheer disorganization I've seen at some Senate meetings
makes me doubt this story. If it is true, I suspect that this thing they see as a
weakness may be one facet of your greatest strength.
weakness may be one factor in power. Let's face it, Ed, you don't always come across as the political and academic whiz of the century. In fact, some people put you down because you seem so ordinary.
BUT IF YOU aren't a whiz, at least you realize it and don't try to do everything yourself. You surrounded yourself with a competent staff and let them take care of the day-to-day trifles of student government so you could concentrate on other issues
A lot of student politicians couldn't do that. They would try to handle everything they needed so that even if they were extraordinary, they still end up doing a job.
For a student body president, you've got an awfully ordinary ego. Like any human, you are somewhat conceited. But you don't let your conceit go so far as to blind you to the triviality of some issues and the possibility of your own error.
MAYBE IT'S just because you're the president and have nowhere left to climb in student politics, but you haven't been afraid of commenting on anything this
You've been commenting even more than usual lately, having discovered, perhaps, that lame ducks have more fun. But even in the early days of your administration, you still were willing to say at least something about everything.
Even if you were doing things everybody hated, at least people knew what you were doing.
That's all over now. The best you can hope for is getting elected as a senator and causing trouble for your successor. The most the rest of us can hope is that your successor will be as open as you were.
RIGHT NOW IT'S time for you to gather your posters and your piles of Senate records and your funny newspaper clippings and get out. By tomorrow, somebody else will be running the office. By 1979, no one at KU will even know that you were student body president.
Student presidents don't just fade away, they are quickly forgotten.
THE MAIN place they are remembered in yearbooks and old Kansan files. And even there, the political issues are faded and yellowed along with the pages so that it is impossible to tell whether a student body president did a good job. All you know is that so-and-so said that and so-and-so said this.
P. S. Don't look so smug, Ed, 20 per cent of the grade was on attendance.
So, for the benefit of future generations who might read this letter, I give Ed C. Rolfs an A-minus.
Sincerely Yours,
Jim Bates
Contributing Writer
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WASHINGTON — The American business community has been getting a bad press lately, and lately the business community has deserved it. He is not alone in making and one of them began to take shape last week at Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y.
Prof knows his business
had hypothetical gross sales last year of $70 million, and the company sold a million net after taxes. The sole owner of the business recently灭落. Familli's students have become victims. What do the students to do about it?
Over the next 13 weeks, the
By James J. Kilpatrick
LAST WEEK Fanelli introduced his 35 students to the problem of a hypothetical political conflict. Corporation of Summit, N.J. R
(C) Washington Star Syndicate
There Prof. Robert G. Fanei met for the first time with his students.
It was a novel experience all around. Fanelli is not a professor by profession. He is a baker. He is indeed chairman of the company, Inc., Greenwich, Conn. The course he will be teaching at Marymount has never been taught before. Its title is "Corporate Decision-Making," and the novel aspect is that it features a narrative structure where corporate executives who make decisions.
THIS EXPEDITION into academic groves resulted from Fanell's long-simmering conviction that private enterprise fares poorly in most institutions of higher learning. The principles of the profit system, in his high school admirers, except at the most prestigious business schools, students rarely encounter a real, live businessman who is equipped, as they say, to tell it like it is. Fanelli began sounding off to this effect. The Marymount College people got in touch. One student sudden there was his name in the official college catalog: Professor Robert G. Fanell. He's in charge.
Farms; his topic is manufacturing. Next week the students will hear from Walter Barilari, president of United States Corporation; his topic is warehousing and distribution.
question will be explored by Fanelli and seven other business executives who also have volunteered their time and knowledge. The professor is Gordon McGovern, president of Pepperidge
IN SUCEEDING weeks, the students will be taught by corporate executives who spend their daily lives in marketing, advertising, personnel, purchasing, labor relations and corporate finance. The course is Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 10 a.m. credit. By the time it winds up in April, the affairs of the Summit Baking Corporation may be in responsible hands.
Fanellis no has patent on his idea. He would be delighted to sell it, but he would rather executives across the country. For too long, in his view, the business community and the government tended to occupy separate
worlds. The businessman's usual role is to mail in a check to the Building Fund. It is not a hostile relationship, exactly.
AS ONE consequence, Fanelli observes, the colleges continue to graduate students who are woefully ignorant of the private enterprise system. A poll by George Gallup last year found that the typical college student earned an average profit of 45 per cent and pay only 10 per cent in federal income taxes.
"Somebody ought to tell 'em what the score is," he says. And if nobody else will, he will. Fanelli's plan ought to lend itself to adaptation by small colleges or large universities might not be so amenable. But wherever a community college can be persuaded to offer a course in corporate decision-making.
aught by corporate decision-makers, the opportunity should be explored. The typical approach is to put his money where his mouth is. Faniell's plan offers him a chance to put his mouth where his money is and teach the course and practice of free enterprise.
TWO RESERVATIONS: This heartening idea will collapse if the corporate professors do not distinguish as any good professors from the academic world, and it will fade away unless the executives are willing to stick with it. This can't be a one-nightmare ideological quick fix. But given able and persevering professors from private business, who knows? This might be the best way for the Baking Corporation but of a new generation of students as well.
Leap year proposes challenge
You would think that a day that only comes around once every four years would have been upon it. Parties, ancient customs or traditions should be attached to it. But it doesn't seem to be that way for Feb. 29, just treated just like any other day.
Feb. 29 was first added to the calendar by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. Since the earth revolves around the sun, days 5 hours 48 minutes and 46 seconds, a day is added to the calendar every four years. The years numbering the centuries since the year is divisible by 400.
how the title "deep year" came to be attached to those years. The theory is that the titles "deep year" are colored blue. Feb. 28. In ordinary years, a
THERE IS nothing to indicate
During that year, it is acceptable for a woman to pursue and to propose marriage to the man. In 1288, Scotland passed a law
By Marne Rindom Contributing Writer
One custom has arisen from the occurrence of leap year.
given date on Monday in one year will be on Tuesday in the next.
forbidding any man from turning down a woman who proposed to him during leap season, and proposing a proposal resulted in a fine equivalent to $500. France, Genaus and Florence passed.
BECAUSE FEB. 29 hasn't been set aside for relaxation and enjoyment, one would think
that the extra day would be used to accomplish matters of vital importance. The history books, though, don't back this up. Two of the high points for that date are: in 1872 Queen Victoria of Great Britain narrowly escaped assassination attempt and in 1965 Percy Elsie was announced that he would seek a second term.
The big news from Feb. 29, 1906, was the Ladies Home Journal telling its readers that "women of good birth and breeding long ago discarded the use of perfumes. No well-bred man will exhale any other scent than his own pure sweet aroma which is the result of the daily bath and clean linen."
IN 1960, there were 120,000 Americans celebrated their true birthdays for the first time. And in 1985, they saved from the fate of turning
five the same time most people turned 20 by an English law passed during the reign of Henry VIII that made Feb. 28 their birthday in non-leap years.
Of the people born on Bef. 29,
there are no presidents, kings or
popes, although one pope did die
on that day. Bef. 29's claim to
fame comes through such
people as Lee, foot of the
Society of Jesus and Gioacchino Antonio Rossini,
composer.
**THIS YEAR FEB. 29 will come on a Sunday and stores and offices will close only because it is Sunday and not because it is Monday, everything would be business as usual. There would be no parades, celebrations or unusual events. In fact, the day of Christmas and ordinary that even the postal employees would work.
Readers Respond KJHK for students
To the Editor:
Greg Bashaw's article in Feb. 12's Kanan provided interesting information on the diversity of radio station formats available in Lawrence. However, no survey of available formats is complete without mention of KJHK-FM 91.
KJHR is the student-operated radio station of the University of Kansas. The music, news and information format is specifically designed for the KU student. We provide a musical blend of good album rock salted with funk. We conduct research of the musical desires of the Jayhawk student body, KJHK provides an alternative to the "Top-40" and "Top-40 Album Rock" stations. We play many albums from artists and groups who provide ex-sensitive content sophisticated and progressive listener. Many of these albums, desired by the listeners, are ignored by other area stations.
Although our basic musical instrument is album rock and jazz, KJHK also provides special musical programs, including classical music, gospel rock, soul and "oldies." With a strong
station the University of Kansas students want.
news commitment, short informational programs on the rising subjects and cover areas of interest, short JKHJ is the kind of radio
Ernie Martin
Faculty Adviser and
General Manager, KJHK
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