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Thursday, October 20,1977
University Daily Kansan
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Keep old enrollment
The University Senate Calendar Committee seems bent on punishing itself and the University for not complying with the Board of Regents calendar policy since 1970.
Although the Regents have specified that spring semester classes begin on Wednesday, KU has gone right on beginning spring semesters on Mondays, after three-semester installment periods during the latter part of the week preceding the first day of classes.
Last spring, the calendar committee decided it was finally time to obey the Regents calendar policy. Enrollment for next semester's classes is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, Jan. 16 and continue on Monday, Jan. 16. Classes are scheduled to begin Wednesday, Jan. 18.
The proposed calendar has drawn well deserved criticism.
THE ONE-DAY gap between the end of enrollment and the first day of classes
probably would be inadequate. The usual two days between enrollment and classes have always been needed in the past to make and make inevitable scheduling changes.
Reasonable alternatives to the proposed schedule would be extending the enrollment period into Saturday morning or even beginning the whole process Wednesday, Jan. 11, so that enrolment would be completed Saturday afternoon.
And to complicate matters, a KU basketball game is scheduled in Allen Field House for Saturday, Jan. 14. Enrollment tables and signs would have to be removed from the hall before the game, only to be set up again in preparation for the last day of enrollment on Monday.
The calendar committee will meet tomorrow with the Council of Deans to discuss the schedule. Clearly, changes are needed.
Concert slump over
It was a big weekend for SUA and the Lawrence concert market. Friday night's Beach Boys concert attracted nearly 7,500 people to Allen Field House Saturday night. Kids from Jimmie Spherick packed in a sellout crowd of about 3,000 in Hoch Auditorium.
Mark Woodman, SUA board member in Mark Woodman, called the concert results in the two years.
Except for a Neil Sedak concert, all Allen Field House concerts last year either lost money or barely broke even. Sales of only 4,000 tickets for last year's show made most promoters shy away from playing in the Kansas City market was expanding.
SUA gambled to accept the Beach Boys with only two weeks' notice. At the time of the decision, only 800 tickets had been sold and Jerry Jeff Walker homecoming concert.
THE GAMBLE paid off. The total sales of
more than 10,000 tickets should be impressive enough to draw more top names in the future. With Kansas City a scant 45 miles away, Lawrence is a concert underdog. But with Kansas City's market almost overflowing, more groups may begin to take advantage of Lawrence's audiences and facilities.
Woodman is confident that this weekend indicates the Lawrence concert slump is ending and KU audiences proved themselves worthy of biar names.
Many may argue that the Beach Boys were lackluster and that Jerry Jeff Walker was a punchless cowpee, but few should knock SUA's efforts. Its job is to attract as many big names as possible for Lawrence audiences. And, when it attracts two top names and more than 10,000 listeners, praise should go to the SUA for a job well done.
After this weekend's response, the Lawrence concert market soon may experience the growth it has been thirsting for in recent years.
Stuart Awbrey, a wise and well-traveled man, stopped by the University of Kansas a few weeks ago, and the impressions he took home are a bit
Roots of campus quiet run deep
owere, the highly respected editor of the Hutchinson News, visited journalism classes at KU. More importantly, he looked around the campus and later, in a newspaper column, reflected on what he had seen.
YOURE RIGHT, Mr. Awbrey. We are too timid. I wrote an editorial for this newspaper last spring and drew the cover of it. Mr. Awbrey, Mr. Awbrey, try to understand us.
He saw timid, bland students who are more concerned with the job market than the classroom. But that a campus discussion "is more likely to concern the qualifications of a freshman quarterback than the ethics foundation holding DOW Chemical stock."
He asks, whether America might be "breeding a generation of Know-Nothings, of anti-intellectuals whose curiosity does not extend beyond wondering about the company medical insurance and retirement programs."
You trace our apathy to Watergate
Jerry Seib
Editor
Watergate is a part of our past, but the reasons our campus is the way it is run deeper.
When we went to grade school we digested our suppers sitting before our television sets watching Americans eat, eating like humans and saw our older brothers and sisters burn buildings and overrun campuses in protest, Mr. Abrewy, and we were never
Sometimes, in late summer, we watched our nation's leaders convene to yell罢sephrases at one another because of the war and those blasphemous college students who were burning flags outside the door. Those of us who have been dearest to our priests and ministers defrocken because they too voiced an opinion.
FOR US, as we grew up, college action meant sit-ins and skirmishes with the National Guard. Our parents did their best to stay silent, television, and we believed them when,
they said we should never do such things.
My first impressions of KU came from reading about the night when students burned the Kansas Union and hearing that Vern Miller would walk to the bar and hold his foot to break up drug rings and not incidentally, win a few votes.
Our leaders told us that peace was at hand, that they were saving American lives by bombing Cambodia and that William Calley was acting on his own behalf. Our teachers were good. Our teachers told us our leaders were good, and we thought it was so.
WE GOT a president who won on a law-and-order platform and proceeded to run roughshod over the law. We got a federal judge to desperate to control the economy it began price controls. We got double-digit inflation, unemployment and colleges that were bulging at the seams as we cut the short cut to the American dream.
We came to college and discovered that there were no more jobs and that nobody wanted to listen to raucous students anymore. We now read that
members of the Chicago Seven are selling insurance, wearing button-down collars and three-piece suits and saying they really accomplish anything anyway.
So we've turned inward. Mr. Awbrey.
We're not like students were in 1970,
when your son was student body president
here. In many ways, that's too bad.
Sometimes we sell our intellect for a flannel suit.
BUT WE SAW students loot and burn and lose their lives over a war that shouldn't have been fought and leaders who shouldn't have been elected, and others who shouldn't be elected so desperately because we want to move into the American mainstream; after all, our older brothers and sisters tried to remain in the mainstream but ended up there anyway.
To some of us, the times here at KU are a bit discouraging. We agree with you, Mr. Awbrey. We talk about footwear, and we don't think we should pose, we shall we all grow up.
But understand us; Mr. Abrew. We heard and saw a lot before we got here, and perhaps we just want today's quiet to last a bit longer.
Pearson's decision a gift to Democrats
The senior senator from Kansas, James Pearson, announced last week that he has had enough of Washington and will not run for re-election next year.
The swirling cloud of political dust raised by Pearson's surprise announcement has yet to settle. But it is clear that a potential beneficiary of his is the Democratic party.
Jack Ranson, Kansas Republican state chairman, said he believed his party would hang onto Pearson's seat. But Republicans have been pushing Republican who ran for the seat would face a difficult battle.
The reason Democrats can rejoice over the Pearl apperance and the thought to be immune from Democratic challenge. Dr. Bill Kroll, a host friend and philosophically minded reporter, had said privately
John Mueller
Editorial Writer
that he would not oppose Pearson next year. And Roy, who narrowly lost a 1942 bid to unseat Susan B. Cole Doble, R-Kam, would be the democrat who the Democrats could have sent against the senior senator.
ROY HAS all but confirmed that he will try to succeed Pearson. "I would like to make up my mind sooner rather than later," Roy said. The former congressman has doctor added, "Sen. Pearson was exceedingly fair to the people of Kansas by letting them know a year early, and the other day he was fair by making up our minds."
Exactly. And Roy, who has compared his voting record in the U.S. House to Pearson's moderate voice in word and speech is wellQued to succeed Pearson. Had it not been for Pearson. Had it not been for the last-minute
mudlinging in 1974 — when members of the Dole camp distributed vicious anti-bortion literature directed at Roy just before the election — he was a vocal supporter of Roy's services in the Senate.
The Republicans, of course,
are not about to hand over a
seat Pearson has had under
lock and key since 1962. Gov.
Robert Bennett figures
prominently in speculation
about possible Republican
candidates. So Bennett has
to neither fuel nor squitch
the talk of his Senate
candidacy.
IF BENNETT were to run for the Senate, turning his back on another four years as governor, the Democrats would be in an even stronger position. As the incumbent, Bennett has been a natural for another term; in 1984 he joined the state extensively, using his office as a platform for reelection.
statehouse. Former Atty. Gen.
Curt Schneider has been politically wounded by those responsible for taking and publishing pictures showing him with a woman near a Joplin, Mo., moul. But the other two, former Atty. Gen.
Robert Curran, was Speaker of the Kansas House John Carlin, still would be strong candidates in a gubernatorial race.
The governor's race, however, has drawn less attention than the Senate race. Republican hopefuls for that election have moved the woodwork. Two congressmen, Keith Sebelius and Larry Winn, indicated that they were interested in the race. Former Lt. Gov. Dave also is a potential candidate.
Other hopefuls, to understate their problem, are obscure. Clay Wirt, Johnson County commissioner, and Sam Hardage, former chairman of the Kansas Republican Leadership Club, both have said they might run for the Senate.
Both have about as much chance of winning as Harold Stassen did in his perennial bids for the U.S. presidency.
Even Bennett, Roy's logical opponent, must be aware that he barely won his party's nomination in 1974 and barely defeated Miller in the November election. He also must be aware that Roy's campaign attracted more votes than Bennett's winning gubernatorial campaign did.
Wherever the political dust settles, one thing is certain. Pearson was an able and charming man, who touched the controversial stands he took on issues such as the deregulation of natural gas. Reports that he might teach at the University of Kansas are encouraging.
Unlike Dole, Pearson has been acceptable to members of both political persuasions. Also, unlike Dole, he has refused to shoot from the hip with verbal sarcasm. Whoever replaces *Pearson* will have a tough act to follow.
Senate tirade degrades system
To the Editor:
My shock turned to disgust and shame when I read the letter from Ed Duckers and Doug Burson in the Oct. 12 issue of *The Atlantic*. The senator could level such a hateful distrain and shame that the Senate, Leben and myself might be judged by the student body by the characteristics of our more ridiculous fellows.
As a member of the Student Senate, I have been continually shocked at the vendetta being carried on by some of my colleagues against the student body president, Steve Leben.
Letters
The two writers complain
It would appear that certain ways of voting are okay with these gentlemen if they do it, but indicative of unethical
that Leben bypasses committees, the same opinion voiced by Don Green concerning the registration-recognition bill proposed by Leben. Yet Green, Duckers and Burson left compelled to ignore Senate panel action on Student Rights Committee in favor of this bill and to ignore the Senate's rejection of it.
Medical files can be open
To the Editor:
After reading the article in a recent Kansan about medical file access, we were a little surprised that Mr. Seems seems odd that by writing to the FBI or the CIA a person can obtain copies of information about themselves under the Right to Privacy Act. Yet it is not only that Mr. Seems at Watkins Memorial Hospital, much less get a copy.
Martin Wallman's comment about "curious" people taking up a doctor's time is offensive. The article mentioned the possibility of the file containing information that the doctor wants to access. If the information regards the health of a patient, then that patient has the right to that information. And that is the
tactics if the student body president supports a viewpoint contrary to their own.
Although I have voted for Leben's major proposals this fall, I resent the implication that somehow Leben is directing my vote or the votes of my colleagues. I have never been cornered, pressured or buttonholed, nor has any attempt been made to influence me, while as a leader in StudEx this summer, I often found myself opposing Leben's point of view.
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only information that any file should contain. If the patient doesn't understand the technical terms, then he should be able to take it to another doctor. Wolffmann might be surprised by the number of people who could sit down with a file and understand every word of it and all the test results.
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Something that many people forget is that the patient is paying a doctor to perform a service for him, just like you are paying a doctor is not a step above the rest of humanity, no matter how many of them feel that way. I am a laboratory technician and have worked for two groups: the Veterans Administration Hospital in Topeka. Henry is a cardi-pulmonary technician, lab technician, EKG supervisor and nursing administrator. Therefore we feel that we are illified to make these points.
Probably the main reason that a doctor is reluctant to show his files, especially to another doctor, is that he may have made a crucial mistake or made a wrong decision only human and just as prone to make mistakes as the rest of us. There are many good doctors and many who should not be in practice. But we feel that we see the proper file, for whatever reason, has the right to do so.
Furthermore, I did not support Leben in his campaign, but I have been proven wrong by a presidency marked by integrity, honesty, openness and an intense desire to aid
I would also like to make two points concerning the Student Senate. First, while most legislation has been internal, much of that legislation was desirable to facilitate the fee
Karen A. Johns
Lawrence sophomore
Henry L. Johns
Lawrence junior
allocation, which is our major responsibility. Leben has consistently proposed legislation that would either student organization decision process or allow consideration of funding to all student organizations, not just those whose ideologies happen to be approved by the ad-operative, Green or even Bert Nunley.
Secondly, I feel it is very important that students realize what happens when they accomplish something besides bitching. Further evidence of this fact was seen in the Kansas Union. Open house in the Kansas Union.
Unfortunately, not all senators are so motivated and they seem only interested in crying, in bitching or in lashing out at their political opponents and bringing the rest of us under the umbrella of their own disrepute.
I hope students who went to the open house noted that there are student senators who are interested in working for work for students' interests.
Joel Maillie
Prairie Village senior
Soviet graffiti a hint of free speech
When the Helsinki accords were signed in July 1975 by the Soviet Union, the United States and 35 other nations, President Gerald Ford was severely injured, needing too much to the Soviets.
Critics of the accord, led by Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., charged that in exchange for international acceptance of the Soviet Union's post-World War II disarmament domination over Eastern Europe, the Russians agreed to an armful of empty promises designed to promote the free exchange of cultural ideas from Western Europe, and Kremlin's rigid control of expression in their own country.
And until fairly recently, the critics may have been right.
Visitors to Moscow have observed a social phenomenon that has, until now, been more prevalent in the corrupt Northwest and once well-scrubbed walls and halls inside Russia have been streaked by the poets of Bohemia – the graffiti writers.
The graffiti are particularly noticeable in the corridors of the Moscow Metro subway and the bus lines. The world's c'enant. Visitors and passengers alike have never had to wade through mounds of trash and ammunition as they into swallowing subway cars.
Dave
Johnson
Editorial Writer
AND, UNTIL recently, as the subway ped along to various cities, Mr. Coulson's comments have not glared back at passengers from the subway walls. Moscow had not been Simon and Koulken's oracle, the gophants.
But now, the first sprinklings of comments, some unintelligible to non-Muscovites, have begun to appear on the walls. Has the cultural exchange begun to seep into Russia from the lowest levels of the West? Are the graffiti a staff
of a loosening of the Soviet government's restrictions on freedom of speech?
A sampling of some of the comments does not reveal any difference between students. In fact, most of the content is pretty tame compared to some of the statements scrawled on elementary schools in some countries.
Examples include "Kolya," a common nickname for Nikolai; ("Sasha R.), a shortened form for Alexander; "Noginks-Valya," apparared in "Noginks, Valya" from Valentina from Noginks, a area about 70 miles northeast of Moscow; and "Spartak-Durak," which translates to "Spartak-Fool." This last message expresses the author's concern for Spartak hockey team, which had lost to a weaker Soviet team.
that the land of the Volga is becoming the land of the free.
FEW OF THE comments would offend the delicate sensibilities of the Soviet government. A key decision is a keenly executed propaganda campaign to dupe the world, to convince outsiders
Apparently, the novice Russian wall-scratchers are not ready for blunter slogans, such as "My baby eats bananas" and "I don't love you but I'd like to."
The meager political dissent that appears in the form of graffit has come in spurts. The last organized campaign of George W. Bush occurred in August 1976 in Leningrad. Slogans were painted on a wall at the Peter Paul Fortress. Some were also scrawled in lipstick on a major newspaper. The KGB security police headquarters and a couple of police cars.
BUT FOR THE most part, political dissent has been
Why the Russians are letting any graffiti remain is a mystery. Perhaps they are trying to demonstrate the decadence of Western society, or maybe the KGB is too busy
subdued. Either the Soviet government has cracked down on the harshest offenders or the graffiti are merely shaking the spray paint cans in preparation for harsh sentiments.
If the graffiti, however,
represent the first true wave of
pop art in the 1970s,
West, it will be interesting
to see what will come next.
American advertising jingles?
Movie magazines? Bubble gum
tracking down dissidents to bother with vandals.
Somehow, the Kremlin doesn't seem ready for Shaun Cassidy.
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