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Monday, April 24, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Unveil Nazi exhibit
What to believe?
What to believe?
Two weeks ago, University administrators imposed "disciplinary procedures" on pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to drown out a speech by Yitzhak Rabin, former Israeli prime minister. It was a strong stand in support of freedom of expression—a stand that guaranteed the free flow of even what some considered unpopular opinion.
unpopular opinion
THURSDAY the same administrators took an opposite stand and buckled under to protests against an exhibit of historical Nazi memorabilia. The exhibit, "Full Circle: The rise and fall of Hitler's Germany," was packed up and husted away hours before the exhibit was to open. Administrators say it was "indefinitely postponed" and apologized for the timing of the exhibit, which opened the day before the Jewish Passover, on the tail end of prime-time television's Holocaust program about the massacre of Jews in Nazi Germany and on the 35th anniversary of the Jewish uprising in Warsaw.
Those who crushed against the exhibit, mostly Jewish, reportedly found the timing offensive and distasteful.
offensive and unsuccessful. It is not surprising that the University teaching department still-sensitive wounds left in Hitler's wake. But in soothing a few, administrators cheated the many. By cowering and folding the exhibit, they deprived everyone of their basic right to view a legitimate collection of history and art. Administrators became self-appointed censors, deciding for the masses what ought and ought not to be viewed.
IN AMERICAN society and the western world, a maximum flow of information is considered the means to truth. It is indeed sad and dangerous when a university, supposedly dedicated to higher learning, surrenders its ideals to pacify personal opinion and maintain a tranquil image.
Just as everyone had a right to hear Rabin speak, they have a right to view the Nazi exhibit. The University, as a whole, has been wronged. Administrators must be consistent in their support of American ideals.
New book on legislators has some members wary
It might be the paranoia developed by government during the flood of Watergate exposes. It might be the distrust any official seems to have of divulging too much information. It might be a simple guilty conscience.
Whatever the reason, a forthcoming book about the members of the organization there is making at least one of those members nervous.
The book is being compiled by Lynn Heblestub, the former executive director of the state commission on labor's commissione reviewed and audited campaign receipts and expenditures of political candidates and the finances of laborists.
According to Hellebust, the book will be a series of profiles of each of the current 165 legislators. The profiles will detail the positions and financial contributions of each legislator.
AFTER LEAVING the commission in January, Hellebust decided to start what he calls an informational service. His first project is the legislative handbook.
In addition, the handbook reportedly will show what businesses each legislator has interests in, the voting records of each legislator and the issues each has become involved.
At least one legislator thinks there may be more contained in each profile than that. State Rep. Michael Johnson, D-Ahlene, says he will try to block publication of the handbook if it contains confidential information. Johnson did not specify exactly what he was referring to "information," but he referred last week to an investigation he had undergone before the commission.
Johnson said that the investigation eventually was
orropped and that the allegations against him were proved to be false. But he said "there's always that fear" that details of the investigation might be included in the book.
ACCORDING TO Johnson, several other lawnmakers and some lobbyists also are nervous about what the book might contain. Since he made his original statement, though, he has not been available for comment.
"We investigated him because of a problem we had with a hunting trip he made." Hellebust said. "We finally decided there wasn't any use to going any further with it"
Hellebus said last week that he had no intention of including confidential commission proceedings in the book. His lawyer, who is not present, indicated there was very little that really happened.
"But he's afraid I would use it or other investigations, and reveal files that are supposed to remain confidential," he said.
There would seem to be little cause for Johnson to fear.
Hellebust also said he was trying to bring all the information about the legislators into one place for easy review. He is not currently scattered in offices all over the state. It would be hard for constituents of a representative from, say, Abilene, to examine his disclosure filed in Topeka.
"I DONT know whether (the legislators) want this public but not-so-public information made available, or whether they're going to will have my interests in divulging this," Helchschal said.
Hellebus says that he will let the legislators review each profile before he publishes it but that he will change it if the wall factually, 'I'll change it,' he said. "But sending it to them in advance does not give them the right to vote." "It won't show it," contributors.
Certainly not, especially when the contributors are listed in the profile.
The question in this matter is why Johnson has raised a fuss about it. He is calling attention to the publication of public information about himself and threats to try to backpack people usually typically one as a person with something to hide.
But Johnson doesn't have anything to hide—not according to him, not according to Johnson's action is intriguing.
HELLBUST was a legislative watchdog and critic when he headed the ethics commission that investigated the fact-of-divulging facets of his old job and making some money at it as well. If he was critical of the legislators before, he wouldn't believe that he holdsugrades now.
Disclosure of every conceivable fact about politicians lives has become a part of the discourse, and disclosures are for the most part tedium to compile and read to be. But the prevailing attitude today is that they are necessary and not like them are to be suspected.
For constituents and others who want their representatives honest, Hellebaut's book will be valuable but unlikely to evil on his part; probably it is motivated by a simple wish for privacy. But perhaps unfortunately, privacy is available for politicians today.
Horsepower nothing to spit at
Nine times we were advised, "Write about something you know." That's pretty good advice. Look at the work of Ernest Heringay, who twined Twain and John-Boy Walton.
Now that the Kansas Legislature has adjourned, I have had ample reason to seek and identify experiences that my writing might draw from. In conclusion, I find that I am eminently qualified to write about at least one subject.
I, am as my parents have put it more than once, "hell on wheels." In the words I would prefer, I am a driver with an accident for all seasons. My automobile accidents are what I know.
This week I added yet another chapter to my repertoire, "Things I Have Hit." In the course of my five accidents in 2014, I sailed a sailboat with a pickup truck and, on another occasion, almost slid my car right into a freight train. But my first run in with a semi-trailer was another event, an other semitrailer happened just the other day.
WHAT I propose to offer here is a sort of manual—one you won't find in the Oread Bookstore. "How to Handle an Accident" Lawrence. "First my reaccent reaccent my most misplaced.
I drove my roommates to class on this particular morning and had every intention of returning home to sleep. (Pay
attention, this detail will assume significance later. I've always thought of the intersection of 19th Street and Iowa Street in Manhattan. Its vulnerability was intensified that morning because all the traffic signals were out. No blinking red, no blinking green, no windows at all and the pavement was set from an overnight torrent.
I suppose it goes without saying that I should have been more careful. I approached the intersection going west on 19th with my left turn signal on and glanced to the right. The cars there were stopped. As I began to turn the steering wheel of my standard-steering metal thing noticed from the south on lowa, headed straight for my car and ultimately me.
THE SPEED limit on Iowa is 40 mph, and we all know how truck drivers like to push the limit. I reacted in a moment—with an eye and a smile—before I had have to write this. Using adriving drive skills, I slammed my foot on the accelerator pedal and almost escaped collision. Almost. What happened was that my knees were numb and the car was a 180-degree turnabout.
After checking the vital life signs of all parties involved, the first thing was to notify police and fire crews so they could offer to call in on their citizen band radios. It makes things easier, of course, if one of the vehicles in the accident has a camera. The camera also drives the driver of the semi didn't know where the emergency channel was and neither of them knew furtherance the smokes can be reached on Channel 9.
DONT, AS a rule, move the cars. The police like to look at the cars' position, skidmarks the car's position, hurt the car, hurt, however, to turn the car radio off if it is tuned to a Top 40 radio station and blaring. And if a flask of Jack Daniels happens to be put on, perhaps it should be put away.
I have been lucky. The drivers I have met have been amiable. I have heard, though, that some people really rant. That kind of a situation, not to apologize for something that wasn't clear your fault. While waiting for police to arrive, it best to stick with safe tips like the one or the Kansas City Royals.
The handling of accidents varies from policeman to policeman. Misty-eyed women sometimes have an advantage that usually amounts to nothing but being at the front seat of the police car.
IF THE vehicle tags and
makes of the cars can still be identified, the policeman will record that information first. This affords the drivers the opportunity to compose their version of how the accident happened.
Evidently semis aren't often involved in accidents in Lawrence. While in the car, before the questioning, I heard some gee-whizhing about my accident on the police radio. A lawyer asked me if I had another policeman who just sat in the back and listened. The county sheriff also was called in about the legality of an International Harvester mechanic hauling semis from Colorado to Colorado without a chauffeur's license. It was legal.
Drivers' licenses, by the way,
are a good thing to be able to
provide after an accident. After
one accident, I pulled out my
wallet only to remember the
distance we were meant for
age identification the night before.
I had left it in another jacket. The policeman had to call over the radio and ask the 'dispatcher to send a car to my home for 'her green jacket with her phone'
showed up at the scene of the
accident with my family
trailing curiously behind.
ALTHOUGH the questions asked are fairly straight-forward-"Do you own the car? How long have you been driving?"—some questions can trip even a seasoned veteran.
Different protests require different solutions... Don't they?
The policeman asked me,
"Were you tired, under the
drugs or alone? Medicine,
drugs or alone? Medicine,
misdoustood the policeman to be
supplying me with an understandable excuse for the
I said, "Well, I was a little tired." Wrong move. It is almost an admission of guilt to savet you to that question.
It doesn't help the cause to offer a little humor relief, either. Once I replied, "Well, I just had a Daiquiri ice cream cone. Does that count?" No response.
Because my damage has always been in the big leagues, $200 or more, the state requires another application to be filled out by the individuals and sent to Topeka. The police say that the form must be filled out privately and that the police sends a problem for out-of-staters with out-of-state insurance agents. In my experience, that deadline can be stretched with no dire consequences.
AFTER THE questioning, the drivers are free to go. I personally have never been issued a ticket, although I was recently declared "caroless and instantiated" with the driver drivers some comfort to know that last year being ticket-free, I was issued a three-year safe driving citation from the state of Illinois. I take great pride in having handled the faces of the policemen investigating my accidents.
After most of the accidents, the other drivers and I have been able to drive our cars away. One exception was a victimless accident involving only an adamant curb and a rather flimsy tie rod end on my car.
My accident with the semi left my rear panel rearranged. It's impossible to determine the type of damage though. The marks of three previous accidents are buried under there. I simply have no trunk any more. The semi, still showed no signs of damage.
REGARDING insurance claims, the unspoken agreement to unsecured company to contribute company of the driver at fault.
Even if an accident doesn't cause personal injury or property damage, almost all accidents cost my insurance the most. Cost my company the price of a brand new (previously thought to be indestructible) Volvo, towing charges and a new tie rod. My accidents have cost me time, catastrophic insurance rates.
I am now covered for catastrophes. But after every accident, I wow that it is the last time I take horsepower for granted. I think it is an admirable and called for resolution. If I could only get it to stick.
To the editor:
Funds opposed for certain KU groups
I was utterly appalled and disgusted when the great pillar of freedom known as the Kansan virtually endorsed—no championed—the presence of a student from the students of this university.
I am referring to the editorial entitled 'Fund Groups on Meritt' in the April 18 Kansan. I am referring to the mitigated galluit to ask. Why
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should groups be denied money just because they have partisan or unpopular aims' . . . The fact that these aims run counter to most students' shouldn't be at stake. 'The heck if it shouldn't!'
This is the students' money we're talking about. To force someone to fund with his hard-
earned cash the activities of a group whose ideas are replevi to him is outright tyranny.
Why on earth should a Jewish student or Israeli sympathizer be forced to fund a group which uses methods of that barangian gang of butchers and murderers known as the PLO? Why should a Jewish student be funded as a Jewish group that he believes supports racism b
supporting Zionism? Why should a person who is disgusted by homosexuality and believes it to be gross immorality be forced to fund a group that endorses homosexuality as a perfectly acceptable alternate lifestyle?
How many students would like it if they found that their money was being used to fund a church and their Unification church?
Nuclear reactors premature, unwise
Kansas City Power & Light's proposed sale to the Nebraska Public Power District of 17 percent of Kansas' Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station resulted in a $325 million plant, the largest in progress, is premature.
The problems with near-term excess supply of nuclear electricity illustrate that the best way to provide energy for regional development is by coal-fired generating plants. Nuclear waste disposal problems are no nearer resolution than they were when the United States entered the '90s. A solution to nuclear waste disposal cannot be anticipated within the next few decades.
cellar Archie R. Dykes to no longer refuse official University recognition and eligibility for Student Senate funding to "groups that are substantially oriented toward religion, politics or even the arts" by Dykes and the rest of our administrators are intelligent and honorable people, they will reject garbage such as that resolution and the Kansan editorial for the tyranny that they represent in institutions from being used to support groups whose ideas, goals and activities are repulsive to them.
The reason for the sale is estimated excess generating capacity from 1983, when the reactor goes on line, until 1986, when demand is expected to catch up with the 1,150-megawatt reactor.
THE CAUSES of the excess supply bind occurred last winter and spring, according to representatives of KCPR&l. and its partner in the Cold Creek plant, Kansas Gas and Electric of Kansas.
The withdrawal of the offer of St. Joseph, Mo., Light and Power to buy one-third of the proposed Iatan, Mo., generating station meant KCPKL was responsible for a greater showroom capacity for the sale offer to the Nebraska power district was the cancellation of the sale of a substantial capacity of the plant plant.
The third reason was the reduction in projected electricity demand by Armco Steel Company of Kansas City, Mo. Armco negotiated an agreement with BHP Billiton to install its bask furnaces during off-peak hours, such as late-night and early-morning times. Such an agreement is advantageous for both the energy producer and supplier off-peak rates are cheaper than on-demand generating capacity that would otherwise go unsaid.
to the city of Independence, Mo. The reason for the loss of that sale was the apparent need by Independence for constitutional and statutory approval to participate in part ownership of the building.
THE PROPOSED sale of interest in the Wolf Creek plant in itself is no reason for censure of the energy suppliers. However, their forecasts of demand could have been more accurate, especially because the events that combined to increase the surplus generating capacity at the Wolf Creek plant were unraveling as KCP&L officials试听了 the need for the plant.
And though the proposed sale to the Nebraska power district has been endorsed by the director of the Missouri Public Service Commission, the need for a new nuclear plant for the nuclear plant's construction is unnecessary.
THE WOLF Creek plant will cost about $1 billion. The power will be transmitted to the Wichita area by a 98-mile line, expected to cost about $15.7 million. The KCPL2 grid will provide power from the plant through a 71-mile line with an expected price of $10.2 million.
it appears that most of the opposition to the sale is motivated by Kansans who are not really worried about nuclear technology complications or the relative efficiency of different means of obtaining nuclear power. "Kansas' power" being sold to nearby states. The environmental effects of nuclear generation apparently been disposed of, at least in the minds of state legislators, who are, as usual, worries about the back and their distrust of them are the comprehensive energy picture in the Kansas region.
The rationale for the sale is the trade of near-term excess generating capacity for adequate long-term supply. But given the plentiful design flexibility, the designer may choose the more efficient way to supply energy is by coal.
JESSE O. Artburn, Wolf Creek project superintendent, has said that Wolf Creek has the
capacity to store radioactive waste for a 10-year period. After that, evidently, the waste products will be shuttled to salt caverns or buried somewhere else.
Wolf Creek is simply too big a project for the Kansas region's needs, as the sale offer shows. Dr. Michael Viren, Missouri Public Service Commission director, although he has defended the sale arrangement, also has leaned toward advising Wolf Creek's backers to give the project up. Dropping Wolf Creek, now about 5 feet tall,plete, and proceeding with planting Latan plant is the most efficient, and cheaper, way to provide infirmity. If expanded demand is required for Wichita and Kansas City grids, another coal-fired plant like the 1,460-megawatt LaCynne, Kan., generating station should be built
The Wolf Creek plant has a designed life-span expectancy from 40 to 50 years, provided the reactor goes on without any complications or problem about 1944, if the reactor starts up in 1983.
waste disposal A more than $1 billion energy portfolio diversification project may not be such smart business policy after all.
I am not alleging that this is happening now, but it certainly could if the staff of the Kansan bad its way.
THE QUESTION is, why would KC&P, which generates 93 percent of its power by coal, want the tackle construction of a nuclear plant, given the attendant problems associated with waste disposal?
A few months ago the Student Senate endorsed this type of nonsense when it passed a resolution petitioning Chan-
Joe Reimers
Gardner freshman
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