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Monday, February 2,1976
University Daffy Kansan
KANSAN Comment
Opinions on this page reflect only the view of the writer.
Archie,come home
Where have you gone, Chancellor Dykes?
When you came to the University, we had visions of your walking down our tree-lined boulevard each day, shaking hands and calling each of us by name. They loved you at Tennessee for your toothy grin.
But now it seems that the only grin of yours that we get to see is from the pages of The Tepea Daily Capital or for college for alumni junkets to points East and West.
You keep telling us that we've got to improve our image to get funds from the legislature for "quality higher education. But we've been good kids don't you think we really concentrate on selling our programs, instead of our image?
You travel throughout Kansas,
and you go to high school
senior schools and equally
pressionable parents. But some people, such as your students, aren't so easily persuaded.
I've heard tell that some students are beginning to wonder if there really IS an Archie Dykes. We know that isn't your bicycle in the chancellor's parking stall.
We know you're busy when you're here—too busy, in fact. You shouldn't have to spend so much time giving squeeches away from home.
We've got an office of University Relations at KU. And the sportswriters of the papers in Kansas are nice且 aware to mention KU's name at least once a week. Some Kansans even talk about our academic achievements.
We think that the alumni and friends of our club are on their way onto their planes, unpacked.
By Betty Haegelh
Associate Editor
Please come home, Archie.
Ford arbitrarily calls programs inflationary
It's no secret that the performance of the economy under the Ford administration has been less than optimum. The President has said that the 1975 figures show a marked improvement and are thus encouraging. The datum that pleases him most is 7 per cent annual inflation during 1975. We have seen the last, he promised, of double-digit inflation.
Somehow it is difficult to share Mr. Ford's enthusiasm. In achieving a reduction in the rate of inflation, unemployment increased to over 8 per cent and gross national product declined in real dollars. That is to say the total value of goods and services produced, increases in dollar value due to inflation, declined. What's more, these things happened while the government was allegedly pursuing an expansionary monetary and fiscal policy.
MORE DISCOURAGING is the policy mix that Ford is proposing for this year. He seems to have returned to the old eclecticism made infamous by Richard Nixon. The President asks half a dozen economists what to do, receives six different answers and uses a random piece of advice from each of them.
This election year's program embodies a new political eclecticism as well, having something for every important group of voters. For the conservatives, there is an artificially low $894.2 billion limit on federal spending; for the middle class a $10 billion tax cut to fund government infrastructure and long-term investment in common stocks; for the farmers, a revision of the federal estate tax laws for family farms; for big business and the unemployed, an accelerated depreciation.
rate in industries with 7 per cent or more unemployment; and for the Pentagon, a $10 billion increase in defense spending.
FORD SAID the federal government couldn't afford national health insurance and that the private sector, not government, should be used to reduce unemployment. Thus his proposal is to give would-be employers a tax break in order to encourage them to work here. This is usually known as the trickle effect, probably because of the rapidity with which the unemployed receive benefits.
Criticism that such a proposal is a weak remedy for the ever-serial problem of unemployment is certainly warranted. But more disturbing is the deception entailed by casting social decisions under the guise of economic ones. Capitalizing on justifiably public concern over the economy, Ford simply dismisses such important social programs as national health insurance and increased aid to education as too expensive.
The truth is that dollars spent on such programs are no more inflationary than dollars spent on the military. Increasing the defense budget to over $100 billion a year, a record, can just as easily be called inflationary and unaffordable. The military budget doubled no doubt but low, even if there would be no excuse for arbitrarily classifying some items as inflationary and others as simply necessary.
By John Hickey Contributing Writer
As a man who values truth, openness
and wisdom, Ford should eschew such
saliification.
It's almost noon and the mailman should be making his daily stop soon. I probably won't get anything, but I always rush down to the mailbox to check, anyway.
Mailman brings joy, junk
The mail is important to me
Then last week I received a large box from Time-Life Books that I wasn't expecting. Surprise, surprise, surprise. The album an album and a huge full color
who Dave is, so I passed up the offer.
By John Johnston Contributing Writer
The People's Yellow Pages list what they believe in or, when they have doubts, as with other agencies, they mention them.
The organization of the People's Pages is superior to Regular Yellow. It not only divides down into the obvious topical categories but also has its own set of certain kinds of problems like jobs, health, landlords, etc. You only have to do much less.
Nobody got mail in high school. Oh, maybe some girls like it. Maybe away at college got letters. Other than that, you had to wait until you left home before you came to mail with any regularity.
Getting a mailbox is a big responsibility. If you want to keep it free from spider webs, you have to do a lot of letter writing. Regardless of how many close friends you are, there are many who will write you if you don't return the favor.
OF COURSE, after a year or two you'll receive mail from unsolicited sources. Somehow, everybody in the world learns how to write. They Marines wrote and said they "needed a few good men."
Several days before that I received a special offer to join a "plan which pays cash for burial and funeral expenses anywhere in the world." No doctor's examination was required and ages one to 87 were listed. The same sonnale mimeographed letter also said the plan would only cost a few cents a day.
Sounds great, doesn't it? There was also a P.S. at the bottom of the page that said, "If you mail the card within five days I'll see that you receive a copy." The guide—no cost or obligation." And it was signed by "David," Well, I don't know
book, "Railroads in America." There was a bill for more than $20 and a letter telling me that there was my book "as ordered" and that they hoped I would enjoy it.
THE GOOD THING about junk mail is that it's dependable. You can always count on getting it. People often complain about letters and pamphlets sent to the lost by the postal service, never to be seen again. I've never heard of a case of a piece of junk mail being lost, or even delayed. The same is true about bills. Another advantage is that out of the millions of letters the CIA and FBI open each year, one is a bill or a piece of junk mail.
Despite the many good things that come through the mail, there are frequent problems that plague postal consumers. Legend has it that mallaren are sleepy, snow and driving blizzards. Even with dogs hounding them in pursuit of blood, the U.S. postman is supposed to come through. Maybe it works the way in most places, but I wonder much luck with my mallaren.
LAST FALLI looked out our front window and saw that the postman had just arrived downstairs. I went down to the box a few minutes later to find a slip that said I could pick up a bag. Then I found the next day. The slip said the package hadn't been delivered today because no one was home. Well, I guess he must have been
AT&T's Yellow Pages take no responsibility for any listing. You can't even be sure that the names under the physicians category are even M.D.s. You can't have someone transfer's the work from your feet to your fingers, but the person it helps the most is the rip-off artist, the cheat and the fraud who is accorded the same respect as the legitimate merchant and honest mechanic. If you want to get you listed as anything you want in Ma Bell's directory.
tired that day, but there are other days when people send me letters mistakenly marked with Apt. 2 on them and he doesn't leave them because I live in the house, boxes in the apartment building and I'm the only Johnston living there!
The mailman isn't the only source of frustration. This year we've been harassed by stamp mailers waiting for the pickup and then find the letter in our box later, with the stamp removed. The mailer could be working his way through school. But at 13
cents a letter he could make a fortune and drop out of school before too long.
REGARDLESS of the hassles, students still open their mailboxes with the hope that "this will be the day." Perhaps more than any group on campus, seniors are interested in what the mail has to offer. Hundreds of rejection slips from proactive schools have named this time of year And medical schools send out a lot of notices telling students thanks but no thanks.
In the mist of all the rejections, there are a few positive
replies. It's hard to match the excitement of ripping open the letter that says you've been accepted to med school or that you will be working next summer.
As an institution that is proud
Despite my complaints about the mailman, the stamp thieves and the junk mail, I keep going back for more. You just never lose your wallet or your mailbox. In the time since I began this article our faithful malman has come and gone, and today he "delivered" I got a letter from the president two weeks ago, but at least I got something.
Readers Respond Save the center circle
To the Editor:
While at Allen Field House during the past enrollment, we became acutely aware of the need to sell our basketball court to sell the center section of the University of Kansas' old basketball court to the highest bidder. Needless to say, we were not unthinkable action, as were many other of the old basketball court by interested University students in a natural, but not the center circle.
THAT OLD CENTER circle represents a basketball heritage of which distinguished coaches, great players, spectators, students, and thousands belong to all those people who put something into it and seemingly should never be auctioned off in a situation that makes the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation look like an institution of University's temple of basketball. We question the actions of the crazed individual(s) who has obviously ignored University tradition by offering such an invaluable University heirloom for a quick buck.
Compare the quandary your walking fingers face to this entry in the People's Pages for the Co-Operative Garage . . . "Automobile co-operative of two women and three men. Serving VW Woman, Toyota, Honda. Costs jobs are almost all based on a flat-rate system, except electrical work which is straight time. Parts are marked up 25 per cent above net cost . . . Customers are welcome to stay and watch, or be instructed, but are reminded to be careful with and not abuse this privilege." That is a listing that tells you what you're getting into.
of its rich heritage in basketball, among other things, it makes a great deal of sense to retain the center circle to be incorporated in a new floor in the Kansas Union or someday in a satellite union. This is the place where people who are a part of it and who would appreciate what it symbolizes. If the highest bidder walks away with our heirloom, it will end up in a business lobby or the recreation room of KU's wealthiest alumnus. Undoubtedly, if that floor could talk, it would be the best place for those who have made and who are currently creating the rich heritage of which it is a memorable part.
In this bicentennial year when most people are reaching for pieces of their heritage, to gain a greater appreciation for those things that are close to them, it seems like pure lunacy for this reason. The priceless priciese heritage to the highest bidders. Ed. C. Roffs
Student Body President Bruce Woner StudEx Chairman
Faculty quota
To the Editor:
Despite the lack of an
adequate "role model" and aside from the predispositions forced upon me by my minority status (nontraditional student), I still feel the urge to comment upon the article dealing with minority faculty in the Jan. 28 Kansan.
THE OBJECTIVE of any faculty-recruiting program should be to provide the highest quality of instruction that is possible; any program that puts its major emphasis elsewhere is shortening the time that Mr. McIlhennan article is to the latter may (i) emphasize "may") be the case at KU.
The University of Kansas must be extremely careful that, in the attempt to recruit and retain a "quota-faculty" on the basis of sex and or racial grouping, it does not sacrifice the high caliber faculty to which our students have rightfully grown accustomed. The ugly discrimination." must not be allowed to subvert the honorable intentions of those who work to provide us an excellent faculty.
Mark Dickson
Atchison senior
Nicholas Von Hoffman
BOSTON—Let your fingers do the walking. The 1976 edition of the Boston People's Yellow Pages is out, and skimming through it shows you the uselessness of the directory published by the Ma Bell affiliates.
The People's Yellow Pages doesn't just list places of business by category the way the phone company's does. Mere listing is of scant help when you have a sick car and your fingers are numb. Do you want Auto Repair to XYZ Motors—"Specializing in shoddy work at the highest prices,"
Yellow Pages not worth walk
fishing around, but the little two- and three-paragraph essays also give you a clue to what you can reasonably expect or hope for so that shopping at a trendy disappointment experience.
Most of the enterprises listed in the People's Pages aren't profit-making endeavors. They tend to be either cooperatives or businesses" such as the universities" such as the aforementioned auto repair group or Tooth and Nail Carpenters, an exclusively women's endeavor. There are movers, plumbers, carpenters, hairdressers which advertise that they adjust their rates in accordance with the incomes of the customers. There are also some unusual companies like the Roxbury Dental and Medical Group, Inc., a group-practice enterprise which has
an all-patient board of directors.
Nor are the People's Yellow Pages a uniquely New England
The slant that comes through from most of the listings is anti-big government, anti-corporate capitalism, more anarchist than socialist, a respect for honest work done in a humane, small-scale setting where all employees are partners of employees. While Boston's large population of students and degreeed collegians makes the area fertile ground for this sort of thing, the numbers which must be involved in these hundreds of activities could run into the thousands. Add to them the quiescent sympathizers who aren't active because they're not working long time, and you are talking about a large and growing body of sentiment.
occurrence, although this is a region attracting many college-educated disgusted. Similar directories, of unknown size and quality, are being published in Arizona, Arkansas, California Utah, Buffalo, N.Y., and other places.
Other than the general revulsion and contempt for those who run the country or aspire to replace those who do, these people part company with the anti-government right.
They're skeptical that the restoration of primitive capitalism will make all things right.
They're trying to find forms, within which to do the world's largest bureacres of the public bureaucracies, but which don't kill off the beauty, utility and dignity for the maximum shekel. To this sentiment, the candidates characteristically say: "I don't want to say." (C) King Features
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