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Thursday, January 29, 1976
University Dally Kansan
KANSAN Comment
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Faculty raise needed
KU won the first round of the battle of the budget last week when Governor Robert Bennett recommended the approval of $0.35 million of the $2.22 million that the Kansas Board of Regents requested for the University. Included in that amount is an essential 10 per cent faculty salary increase.
The pay increase is expected to be opposed by several members of the Kansas House of Representatives, including Duane McGill, the powerful speaker of the House. He has said that some conservative legislators, hoping to lower taxes, may seek to slice the salary hike to five per cent.
THE 10 PER CENT increase may sound exorbitant but it is actually a necessity. The increase is the third increase of a three-year series designed to bring KU's salaries up to the level of institutions of comparable size.
However, many of these schools have received substantial salary increases the past two years. That means KU's pay scale has been increased by the other schools. This has made the 10 per cent increase imperative if KU hopes to establish a pay
scale high enough to compete with the other universities.
EVEN THOUGH MONEY isn't the only factor professors consider when seeking university positions, its importance can't be denied. As long as KU's salary level falls below that of comparable schools, the University's recruiting power will definitely be limited.
Salary increases also will help to prevent good instructors from leaving. The University could not afford to lose its HOPE award winners and other qualified faculty members to schools offering higher salaries.
Progress in any field is going to require spending money. At KU, the progress toward obtaining better educators is being accomplished through the three-year salary increase program. Discontinuing the program before it has been given a chance to complete its goals will hinder both the University and its future students. Bennett has taken the first step to complete the program; hopeably the lexislature will follow.
By Marne Rindom Contributing Writer
The statement is reminiscent of the censure of Galileo by the Inquition in 1633. The Pope silenced Galileo and banned the distribution of his scientific work, "Dialogue," which explained his belief that the earth revolved around the sun, and not vice versa. Galileo had embarrassed the Pope by leaving in doubt the argument about the omnipotence of God.
Once again, the council of venerable old pontifex who work for the Pope has issued a decree defining what is natural and what is not.
Guest Editorial Pope in dark ages
THE RECENT DOCUMENT from the Vatican recognizes certain 'facts' of human sexuality. Many psychologists and sociologists, it admits, have emphasized that masturbation is a normal phenomenon of sexual development.
However, it says, "Facts do not
agree with judgments the
more values of human acts."
Traditional sexual ethics aren't grounded in facts, says the document, but in knowledge of the divine law and of human nature.
The line of reasoning is an old theory about natural law: you figure out what nature is, and then you strive to be that way.
PAUL VI says he understands the nature of human sexuality just as Urban VIII said he understood the nature of the earth's relationship to the sun.
But whether questions on the nature of human sexuality are questions of fact or
"WHAT WE NEED is the development of a Christian meaning of sex," he said. "This document will not answer the need that people—especially parents—have for answers that make sense and give sex dignity."
of morality, the Pope's theologians are a strange lot to be answering the questions; other they're impostors, or they're unfamiliar with the experience they're ludging.
Some people are predicting that Catholics will ignore the Pope's statement, as so many have in the past. A survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center indicates that 83 per cent of American Catholics approve of birth control even though the Pope said the "humanace Vine" prohibits it. It was reported that the Rev. Joseph O'Hare, editor-in-chief of the liberal Jesuit weekly "America," was disappointed in the Pope's recent statement.
Meanwhile, liberal answers to questions about human sexuality are being explored elsewhere. Virginia Johnson and William Masters sponsored a meeting last week at their Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis to discuss research and therapy. Masters and Johnson have worked with unmarried couples as well as married ones in their therapy and research.
And Betty Ford recently expresses what was, for a first lady, a surprisingly lenient attitude toward her unmarried daughter's sexual life.
Maybe if Pope Paul had some children of his own, he'd change his mind.
By Therese Mendenhall
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1976 NYT SPECIAL FEATURES
"OH FOR HENE'S SAKE! STOP ACTING LIKE GERALD FORD IN A CHINA SHOP!"
Village drowns in media wave
LONG ISLAND, Maine—While the story lasted it was the kind editorists, Americanica, who worked with a working people, a non-New York yarn in the colorful Yankeeland of New England, rural values being crushed by the city's efficiency, and then a certain
windy cold until the tears ran out from under her contact lenses.
Mediacad was coming down on Casco Bay. One of the reporters said that his dippy editor back in headquarters was told that the pirates they it pictures of the infuriated lobstersmasters's posters.
By Nicholas von Hoffman
(C) King Features
Letters Policy
man-bites-dog twist: the forced boating of little children to school.
The story went out on the Associated Press wire and an NBC camera crew came in. The natives said one of the television people got sick bobbing about in the classroom. Portland's Casc Bay, and the network got out to Peaks Island where the school administration was considering closing a oneroom schoolhouse with seven pupils. Another threatened oneroom schoolhouse with eight students. A judge ruled through fifth grade is here on Long Island.
"My God! I don't believe it," Mrs. Edith Beaufort, a Portland School Committee member exclaimed. "The New York Times!" She was in the passenger compartment of the little iron boat that connects Portland with many of the 865 students at the nearby bay. In the prow were sacks of onions and cases of Pepsi Cola, and before the day was over she would believe it, with the cameramen from the Times and Newsweek posing her in the
Mrs. Harriet Bruns, the leader of the protesting mothers, reported perhaps 20 different news organizations had called. She said they don't fix the problem, she said, a photographer by way of wondering if he might come back to take her picture another time. "We always take people's pictures in their worst," he consoled her.
carrying Maine in the light or forced舟着 the bay, but one of the School Committee members did suggest they did this issue! overboard. Something was decidedly abuding.
While everybody agrees that the AP story that started the fuss was accurate, there are differing interpretations as to why the Portland administrators let it be known these two remandments from a previous draft because he shut down because of dwindling attendance: Whatever the origins of the story, it brought the newsies running to catch the iron boat taking Mrs. Beaulieu, two fellow committee members, School Superintendent Harold Clyde Bartlett access the waters to the big confrontation. James Reston had not yet written a column reassessing George Wallace's chances for
"This boat would be all right for a school bus," Mrs. Rogers, another School Committee member remarked, "if they put flashing red lights on it." Was this a sign the School Committee was going to back down and side with the people? Not too soon, we newishes hoped. Not until we got our platec but the story was not yet blown as far out of proportion as it could.
As our iron tub camp poked briskly past oil tankers and abandoned we designed for battles that were better suited to the hopes of being met at the dock
by leather-faced men of the sea in boots and yellow slickers, and their wized wives with malnourished babies in their arms. The New England town meeting and local democracy making their last stand. Where is the CBS camera crew? Or is their nose out of joint because Chancellor and company got on the air first? The media regard the police as the fastidious regard half-eaten by the animal. The last stand of lobster democracy or not, if the other guy got there first, we won't touch it.
At the dock the school officials were met by people with pick-up trucks and old cars who helped them across the ice and drove them to the school, where the members of the mother's club served lunch to their oppressors. There were even
olives and pieces of pickled cauliflower carefully stuck on toothpacks being held by little hands. It was a most genteel lyping, i
The protesters had assigned presentations to several of their number who were disconcerting enough to speak with more light than heat. The board members explained there never really was a chance the schools would be closed.
Where had our story gone, the newsies asked each other. How about a lead that says simple people with big victory? Or what do you think of community concern upheld in Maine? The newsies turnabout trend? Nope. Too bad, though. Faced busing—forced boating. It was a cute angle.
New scoreboard proof that free can be tacky
Ah, the color and pageantry of college basketball!
The score: a Saturday night in Allen Field House. It's a close, exciting game. Suddenly, the basketball team quick baskets and Coach Owens calls a time out. The pompier girls run onto the court to lead the fans in a cheer as the band performs on stage, crowd, the scoreboard flashes.
TWO ALL BEEF PATTIES
SPECIAL SAUCE LETTUCE
CHEESE . . .
doesn't seem quite right, then you haven't gone to a home basketball game this semester. If you had, you would know that the Monster of the Midlands is alive and well, living in Allen Field House. This monster is a huge scoreboard with turning
If the preceding scenario
fouled out. The brain is now contemplating YOU MISSED, IDIOT whenever someone misses a foul shot.
Some people may think I'm being a bit rough on the scoreboard. After all, advertisers paid for it and it isn't
By Jim Bates Contributing Writer
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advertisements and a flashing message board that, if nothing proves, one proofs for all that and cost $140,000 and still be tacky.
The scoreboard has many new and fabulous features. Unfortunately, none of them are worth having. The advertisements at the bottom of the structure revolve every 75 seconds or so, assuring the business change of scenery. The scene keeps the scoreboard watcher up to date on the status of the real estate market and on where to do his banking.
Best of all, the scoreboard features a primitive brain. This brain enables it to comment and joke on the play below. At the town State game, the brain team played "OOF!" when one KU player stepped out-of-bounds with the ball and TO BAD when another
As an extra added attraction,
there are little auxiliary
scoreboards on each side of the
gym. These mini-boards, unlike
the old side scoreboards,
feature numbers practically
two inches high that are legible
for distances of up to 45 feet.
The thing that botheres me is that the old scoreboard didn't have any ads, only had no advertising, but it also could list the other team as something other than visitor and had an eye that flashed.
costing the students anything except possibly their sanity.
It's possible—maybe even probable—that there is a connection between the new scoreboard and the bicentennial celebration. After all, the scoreboard is red, white and blue.
Maybe I'm just unpatriotic but somehow the flashing words HAPPY BIRTHDAY U. S.A. during the National Anthem fail to bring an extra lump to my chest. Why isn't it supposed to bury them they're supposed to bury
Enough. We'll all get used to the scoreboard sooner or later. The advertisements will fade to the back of our minds and the numbers will be all we we'll see. Unless, of course, K-state gets or bigger and more garrish, someone will decide to show them we can do them one better.
That would be to bad.