4 Tuesday. February 10, 1976 University Daily Kansan KANSAN Comment Opinions on this page reflect only the view of the writer. Cut-rate professionals Traditionally, lawyers, doctors and other professionals have not advertised their services. In fact, their professional lives are filled with a ban on such competitive practices. But later this week, the American Bar Association will consider an ethics code change that would end the ABA's prohibition of advertising by its members. Although the Federal Trade Commission has sought to allow much more transparency and anti-trust activities and consumer groups have sought it to lower prices, there is no assurance that the ruling itself wouldn't cause greater problems. THE ABA HAS discussed a change so broad that it would allow all forms of advertising, including newspaper, radio and television ads. It's not hard to believe that in the foreseeable future we could be faced with "Cut-rate Divorce Specials," "Two Tonsils Out For The Price of One," claims of "Seventy Straight Wins in the Home Court" and clearance sales on Darvon. In fact, with the present carnival atmosphere of home-grown TV advertising, it wouldn't be long before someone would come up with: "Hey, y'all, I want YOU for mah customer at Uncle Jim's Wills and Deals Store! We guarantee to get you out o' any murder tape to 'spinpin'吓你 o' any murder tape to KK! AND letgit Divorced quicker n' Tammy Wynette c'n sing the song at Uncle Jim's! So don't be a fool and play the stool before you check with US!'' SOUND FAR-FETCHED? Perhaps, but many members of the ABA and medicine's counterpart, American Medical Association are afraid of just this end. "Widespread advertising is only going to be done by the inept and incompetent," said Leroy Jeffers, a Houston lawyer. And even if the advertising were done in a more decorous manner, there is no proof that the general public would be able to accurately sort it out. "Patients simply have no basis to sort out truth from fiction if the various claims and counterclaims of medical advertising are to be allowed," said Holman, an attorney and former secretary of the Judicial Council of the AMA. NO DOUBT, the professional organizations may be exaggerating the possible backlash because of selfish greed. Supporters of advertising say that open competition would help to lower prices. But low cost shouldn't be the prime consideration when looking for a surgeon, in whose hands you place your life, or a lawyer, in whose hands you place your freedom. General information on fees and specialties should be available in some form. But opening the Pandora's box of information can be a move that all of us would soon regret. By Betty Haegelin Associate Editor Athletic subsidy: pro and con Student voice necessary Those who oppose the Student Senate ticket subsidy to the athletic corporation tacitly assume that the issue is whether everyone should help defray taxes on college basketball and football games. They quickly conclude that those getting the benefits should do the paying and, therefore, that there should be no subsidy. That is the way Americanism is supposed to work, they say. But is it? Certainly that isn't the way the Student Senate works. All sorts of diverse campus organizations, which are run by students, receive student activity fee allocations from the Senate. True, most of those organizations don't get nearly so much money as the athletic corporation does, because they do benefit as many students. ACTUALLY THESE Senate allocations amount to a form of taxation. The theory of taxation is that a government decides tax monies should be for programs of general social benefit or to benefit people in some special class. For example, the state legislature provides money for the state benefit of the general benefit the University of the General Kansas and because the legislators wish to benefit a special class of people by subsidizing their education. As a tax, the Senate subsidy would be justifiable if it were beneficial to the whole student body or if ticket buyers deserved a subsidy. The latter condition is highly debatable, but the former can easily be seen to hold. COLLEGE ATHLETICS has become big business. Witness the new KU scoreboard with its Phillips Petroleum and McDonald's advertising. Scheduling is becoming dominated by a scramble for TV money. The big question is whether title ones within the NCAA. Athletics seems to exist almost independently from the academic community. Yet in another sense, universities are increasingly dependent on athletics for public relations, national recognition and interaction with alumni. If students are to be actively involved in the culture and are to maintain a degree control and influence over it, they will be necessity be involved in athletics. THE BEST way to keep the athletic corporation from becoming an autonomous arm of the University free to arbitrarily impose its will with little constraint from students is to keep participation integrally involved. That is what the ticket subsidy helps to do. And in so doing it benefits all students. The performance of this year's football and basketball teams has indicated that next year could be a banner year for KU in both of these sports. It would be a shame for success on the court and the field to be tempered by failure in the stands. If the loss of the subsidy should cause student participation to drastically, the athletic corporation might have to further subordinate student participation to professionalism. By John Hieckel Contributing Writer For years now, the Student Senate has debated the athletic ticket subsidy. Some years it has increased the subsidy, some years it has reduced the subsidy and this year it has finally cut it completely. Cut wouldn't hurt KUAC The main problem with debating the virtues and vices of the subsidy is that very few people debate it ever know. When people argue about figures are confusing and can be twisted, people usually just ignore them and argue from personal greed: if they buy football and basketball tickets they get vested in and if they don't, they oppose it. Those who support the subsidy say that it is a good thing because it benefits the majority of KU students. They say it's better to give $147,000 to an organization that serves 11,000 students than split it up among smaller service and academic groups that don't serve nearly as many students. THAT IS PROBABLY the only way the finances can be debated. The real increase in ticket prices won't be nearly as large as the apparent one, since the ticket buyer, although paying $10 or so more for a season ticket, would also be able to buy an airtime at the University of Kansas Athletic College without the subsidy. But ticket buyers would undeniably pay more than nonbuyers. The main reasons for cutting the subsidy are not financial, but philosophical. THIS WOULD be a good argument except for one thing—the athletic corporation doesn't need the money. The money it gets from the subsidy makes up a very small part of its revenue. This is why has said that if the subsidy were abolished, the corporation could always get the money somewhere else. Why give what is almost a quarter of the total student activity fee to a group that doesn't need the money when you workworthily organizations do need it? Well, some say, the ticket subsidy increases the student voice in the athletic corporation. But we're paying the subsidy not, now to mention being represented on the athletic board, and that the university signs students have much say when it comes to rearranging basketball seating or making up a budget. CUTTING $14,700 from the athletic corporation's budget doesn't really hurt it at all. Cutting $200 from the budget of most campus service organizations is less costly than having a phone or none. Cutting $400 means the difference between life and death. The student activity fee should be used to finance projects and groups that can't exist without it. Otherwise, the student activity fee becomes a Robin Hood in reverse; taking from the poor to give to the rich. By Jim Bates Contributing Writer "YES, MRS QUIMBY I'M AWARE OF THOSE SCARE STORIES ABOUT SOME OF THE BANKS BUT BELIEVE ME, MY MONEY IS AS SAFE HERE AS --- MRS QUIMBY NOT IDENTIFIED ON THE BUILDING..." Report arms Ford critics WASHINGTON—The Ford Administration has gone and bought and paid for a study substantiating what its right and left-wing critics have been beating it over the head with. Reagan Wallace and Harris Reagan and Harris class use of this work commissioned by HUD for the preparation of the 1976 Grow cross-purposes and to be insulated from effective control by elected officials, was in part a consequence of the proliferation of (federal) categorical grants-in-aid. To reduce the fragmentation of the fund which results in costly duplication of services, parochialism and competition By Nicholas von Hoffman (C) King Features Report, which the executive branch is required to give Congress every two years. The Reagan people, who seem to be having some trouble defending their candidate's proposal to transfer $20 billion worth of Federal activity to the states, should enjoy the part that says that: "Federal major contributors to make the nation's domestic problems . . . the proliferation of local government agencies, boards, commissions and departments, each with specialized objectives which often seem to work at federal programs seemed sometimes to foster it . . . federal assistance to states and localities distorted spending priorities as communities sought to obtain federal dollars a project-by-project approach to community problems." The report was prepared by Peter C. Labovits & Co. of Washington with assistance of the giant consulting and research of Arthur D. Little of Cambridge for unearthing it before it was burned, shredded and rewritten goes to Al Louis Ripkins, an infatigable HUD staffer who puts in IMPACT, the best and longest-lived underground government paper, on his own time. (Subscriptions to IMPACT are available for $5 a year at P.O. Box 23126, Washington D. C. 20024.) George Wallace can find confirmation from the Ford Administration of his campaign theme that the big losers of the Seventies are middle-class working folks: "The rapidly rising costs of living and a drop in real disposable income since 1970 have made the financial picture and outlook of middle-class families ... these families have begun to feel that they have lost control over their destiny. By the age of 18, parents from American families ... found they were priced out of the new housing market. ... Only the top 16.5 per cent of the families ... had the income to buy a new home of even the median price level compared with 21.5 per cent one year before property taxes rose 6.3 per cent. Unlike the rich, middle-class families do not have access to tax loopholes to cut their tax liabilities. Unless the poor, they lose the financial income family rise as fast as inflation, the increased tax bite of higher tau brackets results in a decrease in purchasing power because the customer class is finding that it has to run faster just to stay in place." George Wallace may say it "works, but with no more clarity. For Fred Harris, there is ammunition too. It comes in the form of confirmation of a large jump in the number of families under the poverty line, up to 15 million people. Who are the people being pushed back down out of the lower middle-class? "The bulk of increase in poverty occurred among white persons, the majority of whom were white persons below the poverty level increased by almost eight per cent . . . There was no significant change reported in black poverty levels, but the poverty below the poverty threshold remained substantially greater than that for whites . . ." The distress of the white ageed continues, even among those who own something of value: they have paid off their mortgages find themselves unable to meet the rising monthly costs of utilities, property taxes and fees, and are out of their low, fixed incomes. has been over for five or six years now, but not some of the most important elements that caused the racial upheavals of a decade ago. The 1970s have progressed in the reduction of black poverty in contrast to the significant downward trend observed during the 1960s, the overall decline in the number of families relative to white families has actually delimined since 1970." Even granting that '74 and '75 were exceptionally bad years, there's nothing about this report which can be called new news except its source. It was handed in in December so that the higher-ups in the Administration had time enough to kick it over to the White House to speak. If it had gotten there, it's comforting to hope it would have had some effect on the formulation of Ford's zero-zilch non-program. The Second Reconstruction But if it hasn't dissuaded the Ford people of the delirium that Mother Nature will cure us of whatever ails, it's meat and drink for his enemies. A word of caution: It's one thing to tell the people that Harris and Harris as to what's hurting and another to think they have any practical idea about what to do about it. There have always been men who are dreamers, devoting their lives to excellence. In a study just completed, I've discovered that this drive can also be found in other people, and even imitate objects. Omelettes like heaven for both egg and eater My research focused specifically on the egg. I found that eggs, like humans, do have a special role as satisfied just being included in a meat loaf. Others reach out and yearn to be pained and hidden in the grass on Easter Sunday. But the greatest honor came when we found a graceful grace the plate of some hungry gourmet as an amolette. You may think this sounds ridiculous. Why, you might ask, would any egg in its right mind rather be an amelite than an ornate one? You have the question, you've obviously never had an amelite. Since those early days, countless recipes have been Omelets are among the most versatile of all foods. They can be eaten at breakfast, lunch or supper. They're even great if you get the munchies late at night. They are generally the main course, but there are other options used as desserts. And some people even eat cold omelets on picnics. The Romans also enjoyed this form of egg and they provided the word from which omelette is derived. They combined eggs in honey (mellita) and sprinkled it with salting omeletilla with pepper. Letters Policy The forerunner of the omelette is traced to ancient Egypt. Eggs put into Egyptians in a slime and whirled them around at such a speed that the friction makes them enough heat to set the eggs. The Kanan welcomes letters to the editor, but asks that letters he type-written, double-spaced and no longer than 400 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment, and must be signed. KU students must provide their name, year in school and hometown; faculty must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and address. developed. This great variety is another of the omelette's outstanding characteristics. Scanning through an omelette plate, I see a lobster cardinale omelet or the red pepper and anchovy variety. Or it may be that your favorite is the spinach and ham, smoked salmon with cream cheese and meat with hard sauce omelette. These recipes are all in the omelette pan you know it's time for the filling. This is where the creativity comes in. You can fill your omelette with a mixture of ingredients as you desire. Omeletes are a great way to get rid of leftovers. Any cheese, any vegetable, any meat, almost anything you want. A cookbook author, has potential as a filling. And don't be afraid of the By John Johnston Contributing Writer After wipping up a few eggs and a tablespoon of water (water makes it fluffier than milk) you're ready to make the base for your creation. When the eggs begin to harden in the book and so are many for conventional varieties such as cheese omelettes and mushroom omelettes. But the most exciting thing about an omelette is that it allows the filling to be poured. You can make any kind of omelette your stomach desires. But even if you don't like chili, omelettes still have a lot to offer. unknown. One of the best omelettes I ever made was the result of experimentation. The omelette was cold, and remembered there was some hot chili dip left from the night before. I spread it on the eggs, folded them over and came up with an omelette that in my omelette that was excellent. In fact, you just can't beat 'em. An All-American college newspaper THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Kansan Telephone Numbers Newsroom--684-4180 Business Office--684-4238 Published at the University of Kansas weekdays daily period. Second-class postage paid at Law- erian station or $18 in Douglas County and $10 a semester or $18 in Chicago County. Subscription fee $2.00 a semester, paid through the University of Kansas. 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