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Fridav. November 18. 1977
University Daily Kansan
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Unfortunately, Memorial Stadium is showing its age. Parts of its 50-year-old concrete structure are crumbling. The eight-year-old artificial turf is weathered
but perhaps most unfortunately, Athletic Director Clyde Walker has used totally inappropriate methods while seeking a surcharge to finance the $2 million project he presented to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) this fall.
True to form, Walker tried to keep his plans for renovation as quiet as possible, hoping, it seems, to have them finally approved before telling the public what had happened. He began by trying to persuade the Kansan not to report details of the renovation. He did so because the plans were, after all, not really recommendations.
HE CONTINUED two weeks ago at his meeting with the Student Senate Sports Committee when he said that the worst thing that had happened was that the prosecution had been recommended. Nothing had been recommended, he said; there was nothing to get excited about.
Yet he said the project was needed and he beech of no practical alternative to the ticket system.
Students have reacted to Walker's style
with a 2,500-signature petition and a Student Senate resolution opposing surcharge-financed renovation, especially plans to provide VIP seating, Victory Club expansion and a $5,000 wall across the south end of the stadium.
The petition and resolution are on target
for criticism of the VIP seating, Victory Club,
the Hogan's.
Walker defends the special seating and club as expenditures that will pay off in increased contributions to the Williams Education Fund. But if those expenditures are not made, the commitments, the athletic program should be willing to dig into its own pocket to fund them.
NOR SHOULD STUDENTS, faculty and staff—or any ticket holder—be forced to pay for a purely decorative wall of dubious aesthetics.
But the fact remains that Memorial Stadium's recent resignations—now, before the event even took place—would be good news.
The KUAC, at its special meeting on the renovation tomorrow, should, and probably will, approve parts of the project necessary to maintain the structural integrity of the stadium, or to enhance the safety of players or fans.
As Clyde Walker proudly inspects the newly repaired stadium sometime next fall, we hope he remembers how disrespectful the KU student body was when he tried to get the renovation planned and approved. And we hope he will realize that students will stay that way until they are granted respect and openness.
If one thing stands out in Jimmy Carter's first 10 months as President, it is the stark realization on the part of Carter and the nation that the chasm between what can be promised in a campaign and what actually can be delivered in office is wider than may be expected.
One of Carter's key campaign promises was his intent to cut unemployment to the bone. He never was too lucid on how he intended to accomplish that. He wavered from support to semidetachment from the Huns. He also sought to guarantee every able American worker a job if he or she wanted one.
Until this week, the American people were as in the dark as Carter seemed to be about what he was going to do about America's jobless. Now we know, and we remain mystified.
This week Carter endorsed a compromise unemployment bill mandating as a national goal 4% of workers in the job market. The bill would require a president to review for Congress annual economic plans giving specific goals for job creation and national income.
LEADERS IN CONGRESS,
including Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Dimin, and Rep.
Augustus Hawkins, D-Calfil, the legislation's original sponsors,
and Senator Jeff Flake, thus usharpic approval of Carter's endorsement. AFL-CIO President George Meany
It's better to tick than be silent
Time is no longer of the essence to digital watch manufacturers. Efficiency is.
Digital watch manufacturers all around the country are dropping from the market, screaming at management improvements, production and testing have become too costly.
About all some will say,
should the number of digitalis
start to decrease, is good rid-
dance. Good bye to the gaudy
future neon lights that for too
long have taken the place of the
big and little hands, the symbols
of time and tradition.
Rick Tbaemert
Editorial Writer
Promise of jobs not yet reality
CONTRARY TO most prodigital people, conventional watches were more convenient. After the initial winding, there were no buttons to push, a button to press, a button-happy world. Nor were there any excuses muttered from conventional owners who
Goodbye to the silent timekeeper, which for too many people took the place of the humming and ticking conventional watch. That sound, no matter how inaudible, was always inconsistent, and often a joke of jeans. The feeling was a tautic reminder that time was passing, life was going on.
forgot to look at their watch.
Unlike a digital, the time was always there to see.
Sure, conventional watches often stopped, but that only made them more like humans unpredictable and vulnerable.
Once they caught on, gone were the John Cameron Swain commercials that saw conventional watches weather a storm. But the bottom of a snow ski. Hokey, but somehow convincing.
Unfortunately, people often sacrifice character for precision. Digitals, when they were just basic units, are considered more precise. They were solid state and contained no moving parts such as wheels, gears, or springs.
And conventional watches were versatile. They were an instant egg timer. A makehift stopwatch. A regulator of countdowns and skin temperatures were never without the directional attachments.
GONE WERE the reputations of watchmakers, who had to be
motionless and have the delicacy of a fly to repair the intricate balance wheels, cogs and minuteira. To say a man was skilled as a Swisse watch repairman is to compliment an artist.
Since the digital watch, however, conventional craftsmanship has declined. A typical quartz crystal used in high-quality, solid-state digital watches vibrated 32,768 times a second. To regulate such a watch, rate-watch measure timer, an electronic instrument used by jewelers. Although much electronic equipment is involved in repair of the watches, the craftsmanship once owned by the maker comes from one of诟哮 to one of technology. The human element has dwindled.
Perhaps this time, however, technology has outdone itself. Business week reported an $8-million pretax loss on digital watches for Fairchild watch makers in the second quarter. But technology is also watchmakers, have discontinued their line of digitals.
And rightly so. When a million solid state watches were retained two years ago, some stores reported a 60 per cent
Mandatory retirement could have social costs
By BARRY CHISWICK and CARMEL CHISWICK
and CARMEL CHISWICK N.Y. Times Features
IN MOST occupations and industries the productivity of workers eventually declines with age, despite the value of their years of experience. This occurs in part because of the aging process itself and in part because of the obsolescence of technology. These changes occur during the early years of on-the-job training.
Have our elected officials discovered a new disadvantaged group that warrants legislative protection? Or have they inadvertently confused forced retirement from a particular job with forced retirement from employment in the economy?
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Semingly out of nowhere,
during the last few months, legislation has been
introduced in the U.S. Congress, the California
state where to prohibit mandatory
retirement at age 65.
Moreover, there are no standards for the hundreds of modules of digital watches, one reason so few people know enough to repair them. The company says that only factory persons and a handful of retail store employees could fix digitals.
If wages could respond to this decline in productivity, firms would need a compulsory retirement program. Because of the various union wage contracts and customary wage patterns, employers should pay workers either the wage or the responsibilities of older workers relative to the prime-age workers.
return of new watches because of malfunction. In 1976, jewelers reported returns of 30 to 40 per cent, whereas returns of hand-wound watches were at a rate of only one per cent.
and able to work but can't find jobs.
The extent of the decline in productivity with age varies by occupation and industry. The "appropriate" age for mandatory retirement varies from 45 to 60 years, but also with a firm's style of management.
Undoubtedly, technology will win and the digital watch will be healed of its iniquities. But there are those who wish it would just die a quiet, illuminating death.
FIRMS THAT have mandatory retirement at too early an age force out productive workers in whom the firm has made investments, to whom these firms pay for pension payments. These firms have lower profits.
IT WOULD be extremely distasteful for employers to attempt to "select" older workers to be forced out. In our society, age commands from both employers and co-workers a basic respect that is not lost simply because a worker is no longer as productive as before. Many maternity hospitals have established workers would otherwise become a resented burden on their vunerous colleagues to retire with dignity.
AS IT STANDS NOW, the compromise unemployment bill amounts to 99 per cent fluff and good public relations and one per cent potential unkempt promises. For those Americanians who are in poverty in 1838 before the government can make good on its promise to provide them a job, the bill should make them content. For the impatient remaining Americans, Carter's endorsement represents a considerable letdown by a government that is shortening America's unemployment lines would be his No.1 priority while in office.
Eliminating employers' discretion on compulsory retirement also would increase their reluctance to hire workers 45 to 64 years old, who when unemployed already have more difficulty in finding a job than those 25 to 44. A firm may hire a 50-year old if it knows the worker will leave in 15 years. The employer should, he would prefer a younger worker if mandatory retirement at age 65 were not allowed.
Their kind can never replace the humble-wind-up character of traditional watches. Watches that were made for people who like to watch, in person, their time fly.
problem. The question is whether the bill is really any different from the status quo. Right now a president has ultimate flexibility in dealing with unemployment because there is no government policy, such as the comprehensive energy package now being dissected in Congress for the first time, necessary for dealing with unemployment. Now Carter and Congress appear ready to confirm their lack of policy.
Firms that keep workers on too long pay too many, and lose the value of their produce, and also have lower profits.
Hence, firms have an incentive to be rational, and in the selection of a mandatory retirement age.
In contrast, it is not possible for the government to know what retirement policy is appropriate for each firm, especially because this would vary among firms. And it is expensive in both time and money to prove in each and every case that a particular worker is no longer as productive as before.
Furthermore, the bill merely postpones dealing with the unemployment problem past Carter's administration, or at least some concrete solutions to millions of Americans who are willing
Those who favor raising the minimum mandatory retirement age should be aware of the dangers.
Barry Chishaw is a senior fellow at the Hoover institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Carmel Chishaw is a senior fellow at the Hoover institution on War, Revolution and Peace.
Dave Johnson
Editorial Writer
praised the bill. But their enthusiasm is like applauding sugar pills—the bill is harboring a problem where the unemployment problem
No specific programs are stipulated in the bill to provide jobs for the more than 7 per cent of employees without jobs. The bill also leaves an escape clause for a president—the provisions can be revised in 1981 if he finds that per cent per capita unmanageable.
THE COMPROMISE bill also puts the bulk of the responsibility of putting the nation to work on the economy's private sector into government. It merely recommends that government job programs be implemented and believes the goal are not successful.
The means by which private enterprise will supply these new jobs lies somewhere in the annual programs a president opposes. The compromise bill itself does not give us any clues.
Administration backers of the bill are praising it for the hard work and dedication of president, and Congress in dealing with the unemployment
While he is in office. Perhaps that is the real question.
Canada coughs at our smog, too
To the Editor:
I was disturbed and distressed by John Mueller's column (Kansan Nov. 14-1972) decrying Canada's imprinting of the American Southwestern Ontario had long suffered the vagaries and abuses of wind direction and U.S. sensitivity. The residents of Detroit, Michigan, Detroit, wake up to oapue, noxious air, compliments of the Motor City. Fish, wildlife and vacationers on the north shore are treated to Cleveland effusion and Toledo chemical waste.
KANSAN Letters
From the C.N. tower, in downtown Toronto, the plumes of airborne cloud emanating from Buffalo are visible as they settle over the Ontario capital. The Ontario Water Resources Commission (OWRC) has for years imposed pollution control standards in Michigan and Ohio raised to the "sophisticated" Ontario levels. The stateside reply has been completely negative. If the
"There is only one thing the outside world wants. That is nothing more and nothing less than one-man, one-vote in South Africa."—South African Prime Minister John Vorster
townsok of Atikokan wanted a precedent for insensitivity and hostility, they needed only to look south.
The depressing part of the article is the misguided and irresponsible lumping of Canadian sympathies behind Mr. Atikouk. Residents of major cities, conservationists and both federal and provincial government commissions have raised concerns about destruction of habitat for years. If Mueller feels that Canadians are turning the issue into one of nationalism, it is only to remind their friendly neighbors in the house to clean up their own house.
It is worth remembering that Canadian hydroelectric power particularly that of Hydro-Quebec but also Ontario Hydro supplies much needed energy from hydroelectricity. It is considerable electric power from Hydro-Quebec. If Canada decided to slow production from their plants to lower pollution levels, there would be lights out over much of the U.S. eastern seaboard—and guess who built them—the McGillivray, W. Bruce McGillivray Ottawa. Ontario.
W. Bruce Steenkway
Ottawa, Ontario graduate
student
Cancer cures can be spiritual To the editor
I was delighted to read about Wesley Aldin's research, as he seeks the healing method and approaches to disorders. I am sure that reversal of cancerous direction is possible in any living organ within a living body, especially with medical guidance guided by medicinal directives.
The great problem of conscious people is their total body intake. A sensitive human body cannot be forced to utilize the heavy metal ions found in tin can products, the complex compounds in combustion exhaust fumes, the heavy elements in factory waste products, the complex poisons in insecticides, the hydrocarbon synthetic oils, food products, flavorings and additives, proteins and contaminated carbohydrates in improperly processed meat and poultry products.
In most cases, these products, which are alien to human physiology, accumulate in cells that have no specific genetic orders commanding their utilization. As these toxins accumulate in cells, they are damaged due to osmotic pressure and density within the cells; and they are used along with the nutritional necessities of the cells, in the replication of nuclear material, sometimes forcing "run-away" replication within the body regenerative mitosis which is regulated by metabolism to the biologic plan of growing, and the neural commands and response of the body.
As much a portion of the historical salvation from cancer disorders is an awareness of body intake and a return to healthy, active and nutritional foods, fluids, air, and airs.
The best method of healing life in a cancerous victim is the spiritual transubstantiation of an acute situation of simulation of elements in high energy physics, (practiced by Catholics), and the accompanying individual's victim's lifestyle (the Christian repertence).
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