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Thursday, October 27,1977
University Daily Kansan
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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City hall choice wise
There is cause for general rejoicing at the city commission's decision this week to build a new city hall on the Bowersock Mills site at Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
Lawrence benefits twice from the decision. In the first place, it gets a badly needed city hall. Secondly, the city moves one step closer to eliminating its most ghastly eyesore, the clump of crumbling buildings at the entrance to the downtown area.
The city's most dismal corner is thus on the way to revitalization. A bridge under construction will replace the ancient, washboard-rough bridge that now supports the Kaw at the intersection. The city commission now will chip in by constructing an important new building on the spot, a move that private businessmen have shunned.
BUT, BEFORE city commissioners become swellheaded, there is another challenge.
The city must now see that the remaining dilapidated buildings in the Bowersock Mills area are removed. There is more work to be done before the area can be looked on as
anything but a scar across the face of downtown Lawrence.
The city must see to it that the proposed underground parking areas around the city hall are built and that they are large enough to eliminate the inevitable parking squeeze that will be created by locating an important building at a traffic bottleneck.
LIKEWISE, the city must note that Sixth Street, which already has its share of traffic problems, will become even more crowded. It is already difficult to turn onto Sixth Street from the south, and the city should steps to prevent aggravating the problem.
Perhaps most importantly, the city should follow on suggestions that a park be established in the area between the new city hall and the river bank. Such a move would help save a historical spot and give the area Bowersock another shot in the arm.
The city is, at long last, on its way to cleaning up its messiest, most embarrassing smudge. It is important that Lawrence not let the good start slip away.
When it rained, he won at pinocble,stats show
By EDWIN NEWMAN N.Y. Times Features
A World Series isn't just a baseball contest. As the Yankee-Dodger series has demonstrated, it's also a cause of statistics. The players come into the games with skills and reputations and bearing statistics they frequently had not known before. The Yankees' casters have kept one eye on the field and the other on a computer, which has spun out a suetting array of facts and figures.
Somebody comes up to bat, and soon the information appears on the screen—or the announcers give it to us—that in the first, second and third innings of games that eventually went on to a victory, the ball goes out to run. However, that was when the wind was with him and was with his wife sitting in the stands.
WHEN THE WIND was against him and his wife couldn't make it to the park, he hit .233 and drove in 14 runs. There is no satisfactory explanation of why his average was higher when his wife was away. But it was not noticed that he did better where he worked on a north-east rather than an east-west axis.
raying at night, he was hit by a pitched ball once every 87 at bat. During the day, on the other hand, he spiked six opposing players while he raced towards the first and they were coming in to bat. When the games were rained out, he won at pinchhole 13 times and also changed his agent.
THESE THERE are the pitchers. We learn that when they went the distance in 70 per cent of their games, they held half of the
Here are some other statistics:
- Lost cap more often while chasing飞 balls in
the penalty field left fielder who opposed the
regen change.
- Ranks third in the National League for hitting most unscout foul balls.
- Only designated hitter under 36 to trip leaving the dugout.
- Caught the most pop files during rainstorms in the seventh and eighth innings.
- ★ WALKED THE lowest left-handed hitters in Columbus Day night games in Cincinnati.
- Never sid home during a fourth inning out of town.
- Father sold the most vacuum cleaners in south Minneapolis in 1983.
- Batted .246 against right-handed pitchers, 73 against left-handed pitchers and 330 against other hits.*
Edwin Newman delivered a slightly different version of this commentary on NBC's "Today" program—his first b aseball analysis on a second Friday in October (in 1977) while sitting with his friend in front of his def and prep team, off-camera. $8.12 fred-egg sandwich with two pickles.
In a time when hucksterism has infected everything from politics to motherhood, one would hope that space would remain free from the vagaries of public life. But even the final frontier is safe from those trying to make a fast buck on personal memorabilia.
Space relics belong to public
Last weekend, officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) learned that one of the crew members of the Apollo 14 moon flight Capitol Air Force Base in Arizona, the $200,000 the first edition covers of 55 stamps he took with him on his flight.
NASA officials in Washington said they were aware Mitchell had taken some special stamps to the moon but took no action because they were in his "personal preference kit" and were treated as personal stars from the space program after NASA officials tried to question him about the stamps.
MITCHELL PROBABLY regards the stamps as his personal property and feels he is free to do what he wants. The commission would be correct if his junt to the moon had been financed with his own money. But the fact that the moons flight were part of a $25 billion commission by six dollars refutes his rationale for selling the stamps.
This logic parallels the policy of the General Accounting Office (GAO), which regulates the flow of foreign currency. American dignitaries. Any gifts of a given value received from a foreign country must be turned over to the GAO for cold storage. The intention is to keep ostensibly "trade-off" service from becoming a grab bag of tourist goods.
Some may remember the three Apollo 15 astronauts who had smuggled 400 first-day meals out of which 500 sold 100 of them in Germany in 1972. NASA reprimanded the crew, and the remaining stamped images to the government. They are now kept in government archives.
A less seedy plan for preserving space souvenirs would be to donate them to the University of Kansas weekend, Rep. Larry Winn Jr., R-Kan, presented his collection of space memorabilia to the University of Kansas Space Technology Center in Nichols Hall.
Perhaps the next step for space entrepreneurs will be tacky commercials advertising complete sets of moon stamp reproductions. Or maybe campaigns similar to the drive to sell little chunks of "genuine" moon rocks set in
pendants. Maybe Mitchell needs to hire an agent to handle his transactions.
Dave
our manned space flight program. Certainly this action is more honorable than selling them for private gain.
ALTHOUGH THE space program has come under attack for the seemingly lavish amounts of money that are poured into it, the fact remains that many useful products have been developed as a direct result of space technology. Some of these offers include sophistication in hospital equipment, flame resistant fabrics, new food packaging techniques, portable pollution sensory devices and fire resistant building materials.
Winn collected the items during his years on the House Science and Technology committee and, before that, as a member of the Science and Astronautics Committee. Winn's display will allow people to see some of the vestiges of
But Mitchell's wheeling and dealing more resembles a
payoff than a spin-off. If Mitchell is allowed to turn his role in America's space program into a business expert, he will prevent an enterpriseing scientist with minimal scruples from hawking his personal moments of a career in research project on cell biology?
Mitchell, who is now a private citizen in Palm Beach, Fla., may still be compelled by NASA to turn over his stamps to the federal archives. Better yet, maybe Mitchell can resign his stamps and use the burial markers space souvenirs and turn his stamps over to an institution where the public can enjoy them.
GERONIMOOOO...
Colleges deserved university designation
To the editor:
While briefly deviating from her topic, however, she attacked the recent name changes for three Regensburg col-
In the Oct. 4 issue of the Kansan, Lynn Kirkman presented an excellent editorial on the recent suggestion that the Republican party change its name in order to improve its impact on the voters and imply that "the problem is far too complex to be solved by creating a catchy new name more appealing to the voters."
Shortly after the photos were
Kansas politicians are almost as changeable as the state's notoriously fickle weather. Vern Miller, former attorney general, announced his candidacy for governor, only to withdraw his name from contention. He is now with Curt Schneider, who succeeded Miller in Topeka and took himself out of the running earlier this fall, is making candidate-like noises again.
Schneider announced that he would not run for governor after pictures were made public that she was married to Mo, motel with a young woman. Several Kansas newspapers and television stations pictured the women. Schneider identified the woman as a family friend.
KANSAN Letters
Politics fickle as state's weather
Lynn Kirkman Editorial Writer
speculation on contenders for Pearson's Senate seat has included Gov. Robert Bennett. A possibility that Bennett might have his opponent may have made outlook brighter to Schneider.
It is possible, of course, that this change in Schneider's outlook was prompted by James Pearson's an- nswalion. He would retire from the U.S. Senate at the end of his current term. The
IN RECENT WEEKS,
however, Schneider seems to
have had some second thoughts.
In speeches to various groups,
he is often mentioned that he may
again be interested in running
for governor.
released, Schneider said he wouldn't be a candidate for governor in the next election.
Another possible explanation for Schneider's change of heart is that he has had time to think over his situation and consider what has—and hasn't—happened since those now-infamous pictures came to light in September.
CAUGHT IN AN apparently compromising position, Schneider may have reacted hastily. The state's news media seized the opportunity to use the information and demanded an explanation.
leges on the same grounds. The analogy with the GOP, unfortunately, is by no means the entire argument she presented.
When pressed in the matter, Schneider announced that he
would not run for governor because he found the seamer side of politics too distasteful. Many of his backers dropped away, leaving him to face the glare of public silence alone.
now that the glare has faded, Schneider may have realized that the fuss wasn't as big as it appeared to be. No real evidence has turned up to indictment, but the fact was involved in a situation that endangered his position or his duties as a state official. The woman in question may have been a family friend—or, she may not—but no one has shown any evidence of an state employee or that the incident had any political overtones at all.
WHEN WILUR MILLS and Fanne Fox took a dip in the Potomac, the Washington press corps said the occasion was evidence that Mills' drinking was affecting her performance at progressman Wayne Hays hired Elizabeth Ray to do something more than type, her employment was news because her salary was paid with tax money. If the affairs of Washington insiders said, they would have been allowed to remain that way.
Schneider may be guilty of personal indiscretions, a burden that may be hard to bear before the voters of Pennsylvania, those indiscretions have not been shown to have jeopardized his performance as attorney general. Schneider appears to have received the scales tipping in and found the scales tipping in and affair of a bid for higher office.
The majority of the people in the nation, and also many around the world, are familiar with the Republican party. A simple name change certainly would not change the party itself or the public's opinion of Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon simply could have changed his name and then finished his term.
Time will tell whether Schneider has correctly detected a change in the winds of Kansas politics.
The difference here is that the majority of the people in this country have never heard of Fort Hays, Pittsburgh or Emporia State colleges. Consequently, the name will mean something more when a person needs to evaluate an institution with which he is unaware of those three colleges to have their names reflect as accurately as possible the type of institutions they are.
Herein lies a problem which is hardly unique to this situation: The two designations of colleges that need to apply to hundreds of different educational programs offered by institutions throughout the nation. While the three colleges can't be Kansas State University and Wichita State University, neither do they fall in the ranks of the hundreds of smaller colleges, such as church colleges or university when it took the name "university"?).
They do compare with, for example, Friends, Washburn, the university of Missouri—Kansas City, the University of Nebraska—Omaha, and other similar universities. With this in mind, the admissions department felt they would fall more in line with the national name trend with the title "university."
Kirkman pointed out that "the schools made no pretext of expanding their programs to merit the name change," while in reality, they have long had the programs worthy of the new name. As institutions offering graduate programs have long had an additional definition of "university" (check your dictionary).
Kirkman also added that 'their argument was that adding 'university' to their titles would enhance the worth of
their diplomas and attract more money and prestige to their campus."
The primary argument, in fact, was that the title "university" would put them on a par with other institutions and organizations. As a by-product, people such as employers would have a more accurate idea of the type of institutions they really were, thus enhancing the worth of their job, at the point where they should be.
As a resident of Hays, I am well aware of the educational program offered by Fort Hays State, and I sincerely believe that it is deserving of the title "university."
Just because KU, K-State and WSU have three to four times the enrollment doesn't mean three hours worth of work. It worth three to four times more.
David J. Tholer Hays senior
Whistle a woe; silence golden
To the editor:
At the risk of beating a dead horse, I am compelled to revive the issue of the whistle.
I am still reeling from the shock that KU students voted to keep this absurd time piece, which can only be described as noise pollution of the highest order.
In a world where millions of people are without adequate food, clothing, and shelter, I often find myself concerned with such a relatively minor thing as the hourly jangling of my nerves, but the damn thing seems so intense to me that I must speak out.
Why do we keep this thing? Would long-winded professors hold us past the appointed time, causing us to be late to important appointments or, heaven forbid, another class? rather abbreviate it, and I don't borne out during last year's trial period in which the whistle was not sounded.
Do upperclassmen enjoy seeing freshmen leap from their skins upon encountering the whistle at close range for the first time? Perhaps some people get their kicks that way, but after the first few weeks everybody gets used to it (insofar as one gets used to having one's eardruids shattered) and the thrill is gone. Is the sound of the whistle aesthetically pleasing? Only when it signals the end of your last final.
Traditionalists tell us that good old KUJ just wouldn't be the same without the whistle. I think they're right. Campus, minus the whistle, would for the first time since last year's trial period be completely peaceful. Let's scrap this noise.
Christopher Carter Turner senior
Wage increases to aid 'overpaid'
To the editor:
I have indeed been touched by the recent lamentations over this University administration's plight arising from the Senate criminal wage (which applies to student workers). I realize what a handicap it places on white males in the $30,000 to $50,000 income bracket to decide how the SENATE parcel out to already overpaid student employees.
As a former such worker. I remember how glorious it was to live on $70 a month for half-a-year, and I always borrow money constantly from not a always generous student financial aid office. I remember waiting two months for the check on the rent. And beams and hotdogs.
ah, the memories. Not that student workers will be deprived of these pleasures. No, simply that the glorious situation we have at this University will be somewhat diminished.
But the U.S. Senate has done this terrible thing and asked for
35 cents more an hour for
minimum wage employees. And
that means you can hire less
hours for the same pay.
Some might even get other
work, or be able to concentrate
more on studies by working
Ah, but the University would suffer. That's the rub. A University that depends so heavily on administration, backed against the wall sometimes (when I recollect no difficulty in granting certain administrators large increases in funding). And I must say, it is a shame.
David Radavich
David Radavich
Denver graduate student
Human rights forgotten for oil
It's hard to believe the Shah of Iran is coming to visit America. It seems that if Idi Amin were to find a large supply here, he would come here also, provided he agreed to sell it to us. The Shah is one of the worst violators of human rights in the world, according to Amnesty International. Yet nothing has been said by Jimmy Carter. Are American oil companies so油? America has been sending arms to Iran to protect him from communism, but his biggest worry is his own people. They're the ones he needs protection from. The Shah's visit will be a great cultural event for all-American cheeseburger, and on Jimmy Carter's visit he can try bar-b-qed Iranian subversives.
Steve Otto Lawrence junior
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