Tuesday, February 17. 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Satellite union needed
For the first time in several years students will have a chance to express their opinions on a subject that will be important to them and many students for years to come.
Included among the Student Senate election ballots tomorrow and Thursday is a question: Do you favor building a stadium of allen Field House and Daisy Field?
When the same question was asked in a referendum in 1970, it was narrowly defeated. The satellite union was rejected then because students were upset about the possibility of paying for Wescoe Hall. Wescoe lost. Then she then did the satellite union, but Wescoe is here and the satellite union is not.
There is a need for the satellite union. More and more students will be spending their time in the western part of campus, away from the Kansas Union, when the new computation center, law school and visual arts buildings are built
A satellite union with food service, check-cashing facilities, lounge, study space and information center is also needed to serve Daisy Hill residents.
Such a building, however, will cost money—about $7.50 a student each semester. Unfortunately, there is no hope for a satellite union unless students are willing to pay part of the construction costs. A classroom is not a classroom building, but a building that will cater to the non-academic needs of students.
It seems a little unfair for students to ask the state to pay for something like an easier place, even when the state doesn't even keep faculty salaries even with inflation.
A Union committee last spring surveyed students and faculty members and found that about 90 per cent of the students and 50 per cent of the faculty members said more Union facilities were needed. Just under half of those members said they would pay part of the cost of additional Union facilities.
After studying the results of the survey, which included questions on what kind of improvements are needed, the committee report concluded: we must also confirm that the over-all No.1 choice for additional facilities is a satellite union."
if the satellite union of 1970 were built today, it would cost $2,950,000. The same building could have been built in 1988, but its plans were drawn, for $1,815,942.
Construction costs are going up about 1 per cent a month. If students approve a satellite union in this week's reference list, they will be able and the bids could be let this summer.
The longer it takes for student approval of the satellite union, the higher construction costs will go and greater will be the demand for such a structure.
The students in 1970 made a mistake when they didn't approve the satellite union. Every student who had has to walk from a place like Summerfield Hall to the Union for lunch (because Wescoe Terrace was full) knows that.
Vote for the satellite union tomorrow or Wednesday. Do it because the students of 1970 can help solve one of the problems of students at the University will have.
By Carl Young Editor
Liquor a potent issue
Kansans, it seems, have always been obsessed with alcohol.
Maybe it started with Carrie Nation, when she came out of the West with a shout and a whack almost a century but it probably started long before then.
Every year the Kansas Legislature considers several alcohol-related bills. Every year—and especially every election year—there is yet another showdown between prohibitionist and liquor-by-the-drink forces.
Lately, it has usually been the liquor-by-the-drink forces that took the offensive. The dry forces seemed concerned with holding onto their past victories.
The 1976 session has been somewhat different, however, as the drys have pushed for a bill to raise the drinking age for 3.2 beer to 21 and busily passed anti-alcohol petitions from legislator to legislator.
Because of the constant battle and the political strength of both sides, state legislators (and state voters) long ago decided on the compromise position that we know today. In this position—which has been the case for a number of years Kansas attempts to get good and drunk while making sure its breath stays clean and its image pure.
The idea is for the drys to be happy
because there are no "open saloons"
and the drinkers to be happy because
they can always join a "private club"
and socialize to their hearts content.
Unfortunately, the idea doesn't work. The dry forces are unhappy because there are still a lot of people out doing things that are bad for them both physically and religiously. And the fact is they aren't needed because they can't just go into a restaurant and have a bourbon and coke with their steak.
And the people in the middle are unhappy because of the hypocrisy of a system that not only pretends to be something it isn't, but also manages to discriminate against people because of income and locate all at the same time.
It isn't exactly a case of "something
that's certain" would be good,
for everyone.
It would be good for law enforcement agencies to at least have a chance at being unbiased. If would be good if it was decided once and for all whether the state was going to legislate morals and rules, or just going to let anyone drink who wants to.
Even prohibition would be less of a farce than the present shuffling.
Contributing Writer
By Jim Bates
Students are standing up cheering wildly and waving small American flags.
The Red, wipe and broom
"This is newsman Tom Hedrick reporting to you live from the Big Eight Room of the University. He was the Student Senate voted last fall to uncover graft and corruption at the University in 2014, a national celebration. Under the direction of Senator Joe
"Wait, our cameras have focused on in the hands of one of the KBG's laborers. Have you ever seen such hands? They look like the hands of a man who does dishes with Joy.
"Senator McCardle has once
By John Johnston Contributing Writer
"Mr. Zee, we have photographs—photographs that show two of our workers planting a tree while ten others lean on shovels or sit in a truck observing. If this isn't Communism, it is to the Americas laborer's Since when do we pay men to do nothing?" McCardie shouted.
Hedrick beamed. "This reporter hasn't been so moved since the fars danced in the crowd. He's victory over OU last fall."
McCardle, the Senate is moving into the final day of hearings on alleged Communist influences in Lakeside and Grounds, the KBG
"It's not it, Mr. Zee, that you hire both longhairs and rednecks, and that women are even being hired in our organization is trying to infiltrate all segments of society in preparation for the revolution. And isn't it true that the KEG has an unwritten rule that there be at least four obeyed by the worker needed on a job?"
"We now turn our microphones over to Senator McCardle, who is gavelling the hearing into session."
The pudgy junior from Eudora opens the hearing saying, "Today's first witness is A.L. Zee, director of the KBG. He we have seen evidence indicating your organization has Communist tendencies. The hiring practices of Building and Grounds have been based on socialist concepts of full employment. It seems that you are trying to create jobs that aren't really needed."
again restored order and he is pressing on in his inquiry."
"Mr. Zee, isn't it true that you have illegal contracts with a paint company owned by your brother. Isn't it true that he keeps the KGB supplied with paint to wear off streets and curbs less than a week, so that your painters can keep busy.
fencing around Oliver Hall. which fences nothing in and serves only as a hindrance to who want to use the area."
"And isn't it true that you paid thousands of dollars for
McCardle wiped the swea from his brow and continued. And isn't it true that the KBG has been able to local nursery to keep your gardeners supplied with shrubs, so that within the next three months they will be trapped by a giant hedge unable to leave the campus."
"McCarrie is pausing now waiting for some reply from Zee," Hedrick said, "but the KBG director seems to be in a position to uncover charts and huge pictures which he says will help nail the lid on this case. He explains how his graph proves that the KBG put hundreds of maps into the campus in search of leaves. It's obvious, he says, that since the task is so futile, these workers are actually training for the job, and because the Chi Omega Fountain Affair, which was another senseless deed of the Commies.
"The Senator has dismissed Zee and is now calling on Noah Forsyth, director of planning, as his final witness. Let's listen as McCarde concludes the bearings."
"Mr. Forsty, I'll get right to the point. Our Student Investigative Agency, the SIA, has been keeping close tabs on the KBG in recent months. They infiltrated the horseshoe games your workers play during lunchbreaks and have uncovered some of you've been developing. These plans prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that the KBG is in the RED."
McCardle paused and then continued, "Isn't it true, Mr. Forsyth, that you plan to hire a division of students next winter Porter Potter Lake 24 hours a day to keep the water free?
"And isn't it true that you are involved in recruiting high school students to come to KU, with promises that they can join the KBG and ride in the trucks all day long?"
"Hedrick here. Everyone in this room is on the edge of their
seats, folks. McCardle is closing in for the kill."
"And finally Mr. Foray,
it isn't true that the final act
was to remove the carlion from the
Campanile and use that
treasured memorial as a
tower for the campus police?"
"Folks," Hedrick shouted, "this place is in a state of bedlam. The leaders of the KGB are pale, slouched over with tears running down their faces. They've been called cellar Archie Dykes is ecstatic. He's standing on a chair giving a speech on how all the money that can now be saved will be used to increase faculty salaries. and the members of the Senate are doing a dance dance dance. Alma Mater. They've lifted McCardle above the crowd.
"So with the sounds of the Crimson and the Blue in the background we leave this highly emotional scene with the children, I will hold all the KU. The dirt has been uncovered and now it's up to Building and Grounds to clean it up."
Concorde won't make skv fall
WASHINGTON — Columnists and congressmen have this much in common: When they owe the Senate their owe it to their constituents to say why. I have changed my mind on the matter of landing rights for the Concordoreasonic plane. Let me say why.
a couple of words first. Where matters of high political principle are involved, we need to be in the over-blew phrase, ciguity and reasonable consistency. The question put to William T.
Coleman, secretary of transportation, did not involve issues of principle. In the end.
public policy involves only the merits of a particular proposal, we ought to preserve an open
the question turned on a homely rule of human relationships. This, too. Where a matter of
Readers Respond
CWENS not forced to abide by Title IX
To the Editor:
We as CWENS feel that Sheri Baldwin's articles concerning TITLE IX have misrepresented our organization, making us look like sheep blindly following the Dean of Women's office.
Only one CWEN was interviewed in Baldwin's series of articles, and she was misquoted and taken out of context.
The next task force was initiated by CWENS and not by the Dean of Women's office to coordinate it for the coeducational group at Purkinton, president of CWENS talked with Ed Rolfs several times about the task force, yet he never mentioned that there would be any possible violations on the part of CWENS or the Dean of Women, as well as assuming Student Senate responsibilities.
It is true that there are only four men on the task force, but it is not because the women on the force have not been trying to recruit more. We haven't been able to find any more men who are willing and able to devote the time and effort required.
The KU CWENS saw that there were three ways to comply with the Title IX guidelines:
—go coed and remain affiliated with the University.
We felt there was a need to find an alternative to burying a worthwhile sophomore group. Title IX doesn't allow a public university to significantly support a single-sex organization. The KU CWENs chapter has a颁阅服, free publicity for our projects, access to student grades for selection purposes. University members on our selection committee. University buildings, which we deemed significant support.
—remain single-sex and lose any significant support from the University.
Even though we may lose affiliation from our national group, which voted to remain single-sex, we decided to go coed for reasons in addition to the need to be comfortable with men on a college level is important because most of us will be working with men throughout our lives anyway. There is no men's sophomore honorary group, and we think there is a need for one. Our men's sophomore honorary group will be expanded by going coed. Unlike some other honorary organizations, we feel the University will not be dealt a
We made our decision before the results of the Title IX self-evaluation committee came out for several reasons. We wanted to make the change, and as long as we did it, the committee decided to go ahead with the project. Our selection process would be in progress when the results of the committee were announced. If we were ordered to go coed, then it would be too difficult for everyone to include man and expect to have a viable group for next year. A change in the ritual we feel is necessary so that the new organization will be relevant to both men and women and not a organization that men can join.
devastating blow by our going coed.
After careful thought and discussion, and not because of pressure from Pam Horne or the Dean of Women's office, the nurse should go coed. Why should we be criticized for initiating change?
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Vote 'em out
To the Editor:
Following the recent decision of the Student Senate to deny the student body a chance to vote on the question of athletic ticket prices, one of the senators decided the decision "ridiculous." So it was unfortunately it was also representative of the way many Student Senators have been acting lately—in a word, ridiculous. This latest decision, while easily the most outclassed but the last in a line to similar acts of irresponsibility.
For example, last fall the same group of senators held a bus颖 itself in a rhetorical disguise was reminiscent of the Senate in its formative years during the early '70s—times not noted for responsible actions. Many of them have refused to use student funds to benefit only a few students who bought season football or basketball. At last count, these few numbers are still making this the most beneficial
thing the Student Senate does for KU students—correction, did for KU students.
Other senators, lacking even a semblance of a reason, declared they were voting to end the price support out of a dislikes for Clyde Walker, which shows you don't have to be logical in order to win. Instead, the average student was forgotten, and it was predicted ticket prices could rise 100 per cent.
Thus, this latest vote should come as a surprise. What is surprising is the acquiescence of most season ticket buyers—who are more likely to who for the most part won't be buying tickets themselves. The logical thing to do would be to vote the rascals out, or at least elect enough others to restore a sense of responsibility to the Senate.
Will it happen? Probably not, but before you dismiss the whole thing as a joke, consider whether it's more than $400,000 of your fees to disperse, which is hardly a laughing matter. Do yourself a favor and vote this week—you'll win a reward—a wallet at the same time.
Jeff Southard
Student Senator
Wichita First Year Law Student
mind. This was the case with regard to Concorde. Until Coleman's reasoned and cogent opinion came down, I had opposed these landing rights. On the merits, he makes a convincing argument in their support.
To listen to the Chicken Little howls that have arisen in the past week, you might suppose that with Coleman's opinion, the skies indeed are falling down. We are having a storm are having hysterics. Spokesmen for Pan-Am and TWA are filled with gloomy forebodings. Platoons of lawyers are rushing to and fro. I am angry talk of legislation to overturn the Coleman decision.
This is what he decided: As secretary of transportation, Coleman authorized two Conway airports, the International Airport west of Washington. He said the government would not object to four flights a day into Kennedy and New York. For the moment, his action is final as to Dulles; service to Kennedy will depend on further approval by the Port City of New York and New Jersey.
That is the sum and substance of the Coleman order. These limited operations are subject to a penalty of one month, while the environmental impact is to be carefully monitored. The British and French carriers are on put notice that permission to land may be suspended at any time and appears to demand cancellation.
Five years ago, when a proposal for supersonic
passenger flights first flew into the public realm, the big question had to do with the sonic boom. Opposition was fought, and doughy little organization that styled itself the Citizens League Against the Sonic Bomb. That objection no longer obtains. Operations over land areas at less than supersonic speed.
Another major objection has to do with damage to the ozone layer. On careful examination, Coleman found the evidence unconvincing. Maybe a time will come when pieces of ozone damaged by a serious peril, but the time is not yet. The ozone layer appears to have remarkable properties of recovery.
A third objection goes to Concorde's noise. As Coleman freely concedes, the Concorde is indeed a noisy aircraft. Especially on takeoff, when it makes a terrible rocket. But it does not make it do so and the inconvenience will affect relatively few persons.
Some of the other objections are irrelevant or demagogic. If the Concorde loses money,
which seems likely, this is no concern of ours. If these flights "serve only a very few rich people," as Sen. Baily Bayh virtuously contends, this is how the world is. When it was earlier proposed that U.S. taxpayers manage the budget of a Boeing SST, these considerations were fairly arguable. Not now.
This is the main point: Friendship is a two-way street, the British and French have bought American-built airplanes that are noise and pollution induced our aircraft have caused over England and France. For the United States now to deny even experimental landing rights to a plane in which our allies have brought him, in my own view, would be a mean-spirited and selfish act.
Friendship cannot be all take and no give. Friendship often demands some sacrifice of self-control, but Coleman's decision should come to pass—two flights a day at Dulles, four a day at Kennedy—we would not have given the deal or sacrificed very much.
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