UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN editorials
Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of the Kansan editorial staff. Signed columns represent the views of the editor.
May 5.1980
There is still hope
Don't mislead. Fifty Americans have been held hostage in Iran for six months now, but so far as can be determined they are still alive and as well as can be expected under the circumstances.
Don't despair. Inflation has been reaching toward the 20 percent mark for several months, but most of us still are managing to keep body and soul together even if it has meant leaving that new record album in the store or cutting back on the number of movies we see a month.
Don't despair. The job market is tight and unemployment has been rising for the last few months. But newspapers still have fairly lengthy "Help Wanted" columns in their classified ad sections. There is work for those who really want it, even if it isn't in their chosen career fields.
Don't despair. Sure, there are things wrong with the University of Kansas—there are with every university and college in this nation. The central sources of controversy and complaint this semester included freedom of speech, or the lack thereof, fine collection policies, concert reviews, abortion, drinking, investment ethics, library privileges, draft registration and, of course, Norman Forer's Iranian intrigues.
These issues, as well as others, will
no doubt continue to spark much thought and difference of opinion among students, faculty and administrators at the University for modern rejuvenation of their mental resources, without everless, resolutions are being sought.
Don't despair. Today is the last day of classes and, finals outstanding, you have run out of time to make any last minute attempts at pulling up that D in Stratigraphy or Physics. But, despite their apparent value, grades really are not everything, as many famous high school and college dropouts have proved. William Allen White and Albert Einstein are sterling examples.
No one could be so naive as to deny the sad fact that the world is in a distressing state—being pushed closer and closer each day to what seems to be an inevitable global conflict. The man who was in his fifties filled with nagging doubts, confusion and unpleasant questions. But whatever you do, don't despair.
One group of religious zealots were convinced that last Tuesday the world would be destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. They gathered for a final celebration Monday afternoon and then asked the church to shelter to wait for the end of the world.
It did not come. We are still here and as long as we are there is hope. Don't despair.
Kansan is more than typewriters and copy
Today is the last day of the spring semester and this is the last of the spring semester. I don't know if it's been easy being editor of this conglomeration of egos, problems and issues.
There were too many nights when I didn't get enough sleep and a few when I didn't get anywhere. There were a lot of late nights in 112 and 114. I had to stay up early to pick you the best newspaper we know how to.
thank all the people who worked together to make this newspaper and who shared in the success of the project. A good story ahead of anyone else the discount and disappointment when we didn't finish the project.
In more ways, I’m glad I did it. I learned a lot about myself, journalism, the University of Kansas and life. I didn’t learn a lot about themselves. I was supposed to know about those when I was young.
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Editor
James Anthony Fitts
Managing Editor
Brenda Watson
Dana Miller
FINAL EDITOR
Manager Dennis Miller
Campaign Manager Brenda Wilson
Associate Campus Editor Joald Wooden
Associate Campus Editor Irene Ewanwood
Ad Director Cycled Hynnig
Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Marge Myers
Associate Sports Editor Mary Kewner
Copy Chiefs Rhonda Holman, Jeff Slevon
Wire Editors Todd Lickingham, Barbara Parked
Wire Editors David Lewes, David Mould, Katrin Pound, R. Schönbacher
Educational Editors David Lewes, David Mould, Katrin Pound, R. Schönbacher
Staff Writer Rick Stone, Mark Spencer
Staff Writers Photographers Ben Higer, Jeff Barking
Editorial Cartaons Joe Barton, Dan Martin
Staff Artists Tracy Freeman, Evelyn Vanja, Johnks, Cathy Kubrue, Jone Langa, Phil Thompson
Brainstormer Winendra Guilla
Brainstormer Winendra Guilla
Campaign Sales Manager Klaire Straber
Advertising Manager Masque Manager Mike Panhee
Student Affairs Tammany Hillery, Julia Dunele
National Manager Paul Davis
Photo Managers Karwen Kaur, Phil Thomson
Sketch Artist Mike Panhee
Grandmaster Assistant Mike Kaurer, Phil Thomson
Grandmaster Assistant Mike Kaurer, Phil Thomson
Mike Kaurer, Paul Winer, Nancy Cason,
Rebecca Rhodrush, Sheilow Well, Heiko
chosen—but I did learn a lot about how to deal with people. This learning began with the agony of choosing a staff, continued through the complaints and problems of putting out the paper every day and ending with helping to choose someone to replace me.
This experience with people is as important as writing to be a successful experience. You can offer other activity or class offered at the University, because the Kansan involves a lot of hands-on experience.
Working on the Kansan also taught me a lot about the University itself. I learned something about how this bastion of education is run, and some of what I learned there was great. We met its seamy side, just like most institutions of the real world. There are petty schemes and large eges in many of the offices on this campus, and a willingness to bend the rules to get ahead in a few of them. We tried to tell us that of thee, but much of it we couldn't prove.
But there is a lot to be enjoyed about this place on the hill. There is a commitment to maintaining the excellence that the landscape provides within the constraints imposed by society. And KU's location, with its relatively mild climate—13-inch snowstorms and intolerable humidity notwithstanding—the conditions City make it a pleasant place to learn.
The work shows up every weekday morning when the Kansan appears in the drop boxes scattered around campus. More people want to be the news reporter, from the newspaper, from the ad salesmen who bring in the money we need to be able to publish, to the reporters who gather the facts that make up the stories, to the copy chief who writes them and is edited—often a a.m., whichever comes first.
And for me, there was always the Kansas. Over the past few years, it has become one of my favorite parts of our country. I don't know if this semester's edition was the best, but we did a good job. I think it's one of them.
There are people in this newsroom for 18 hours almost every weekday. That amount of time together brings out a lot in people—a lot of a emotion and a lot of craziness.
And the craziness show up all the time—but only in the newsroom. We try to keep it out of the paper. This craziness has to be, or the pressures that build up in the hours we work with them are strong, we would break down. Some people don't find an outet, and it gets to them. But those participate in Press Club announcements or tickle attacks or our other escapes are just trying to rid themselves of us, because themselves that can't get into the paper.
The emotion shows up when somebody wins a prize for the work they have done on the Kansan, and the rewards that come with it. The people who flashes of acrimony between people on the staff when they disagree over how a photo is taken do so in a way covered or by a story should be edited.
But now it's over. This is just about the last piece of copy to get in the spring 1980 Kansan. It's not the best, but it's a try at better. The best way is the copy in the paper and in your hands.
Memories return on Mother's Day
You are almost 11 now, and there are another drought to come. You have been almost a year now, but you are a Mother's Day without her. It will be a quiet holiday, but Chris there is much to be thankful for.
Dearest Chrie
She was an amazing woman. Her energy, courage and love were unlimited, it seemed. She always was moving, always working or playing hard. She explored the world and learned new challenges. She was many things to many people. You were lucky; you got all of her.
She was a Depression baby, the oldest of four children. Her parents were divorced and her mother taught school, letting people get into it. "You're labeled 'divorce.'" They were poor, but everyone was then. Seems, as though, as if they had been sisters. Summer there was no money and they lived with relatives, eating garden produce and loving it. The most they couldn't afford
rigors of the Sisters' education and went on to become a dedicated nurse, respected by her colleagues for her skills and knowledge and loved by patients for her sympathy and care.
She grew up wanting only to be a nurse. She spent the summers during high school working with the Sisters at Mercy Hospital, where she was taught nursing skills. She entered nursing school. She survived the
She married your Dad just before the Armv sent him to fight in Korea. Their first
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child was born while he was at war. The last also was lost but two of the four children were between these five others. Their birthplaces were scattered across the world as the Army sent the family rambling to their burial.
There were good times during those years, trips to Europe—she was Germanized. She taught German and your Dad taught the children to swim, eat catagrap, love books, love each
She was a gutsy person. She drove across the country in winter, alone, with six kids and a dog. She was known to argue with the Army brass, and it seemed as though other
Army wives came to her for help in dealing with that impersonal bureaucracy.
People always came to her for help. She willingly gave her medical knowledge, which she had been teaching young parents. The teen-age friends of children sought out her and your Dad for counseling. She could be tough and strict. Her parents had managed more of them than they could deliver.
She was always giving, always teaching,
always loving. Even the sharpened疼 of her tongue and bitterness of her anger could not mask her concern.
She was a natural teacher, like your Dad. Her teaching, however, usually was outside children learned to cook and chant; the nurses worked on her under the secrets of effective care from her. She taught her faith and her own brand of
Even in the last days of her life she taught
she lectured two nuns' aides on the use of
her books. She was also a young women stood and silently crieled as she lectured and then praised them for their skills. She even taught one of her children
of a prayer the child should have known.
"Hail Mary," she began, opening her eyes that last night to give her child the devastating glare of remonstrance.
Her death was no different from her life. She died courageously, guiding her family through those horrible days. She died with love, surrounded by most of her children, her husband and her brother. She died on her faith ensuring her a brightness somewhere beyond the dark land; she must surely have looked for way to the first rest she had in a long time.
And at the church that rainy, rainy day, her friends gathered; nurses, doctors, patients, acquaintances, the friends of her family. There were more people in her family. There were more people in her family than usually attended its services. You remember, Chris, how few of her friends her family knew. It was quite a gathering. She did not fit it—all those people to visit and touch.
Much love, your sister.
Graduation circus coming to town
And here it is: the 10th version of the Greatest Show on Oread. In one ring, we have Chancellor Archive I. Dykes, and in the KU graduates, we have the sounde $k$ UDRAK graduates.
But what would a KU commencement ceremony be without a third ring? Last year, Ron Kuby performed death-defying acts by displaying a banner in the northwest corner of Memorial Stadium. Who knows events will occur on May 19 this year?
To be sure, the side shows may be the most pleasurable aspect of KU's graduation
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in education, in the office and on campus, for graduation ceremony. Students and their families, not to mention faculty members, may attend at any time, sit through a meridian of burglar speeches.
The graduation speeches involve the same topic every year; only the words are changed. Typical themes are: (1) a great challenge lies ahead, (2) graduation is a significant accomplishment and (3) students are both responsible and productive members of society.
Graduation after graduation, students have sat through these speeches all ears—plugged, that is. Most students will listen to the speakers, who are seated in the stadium crowd for five minutes, and then store at the Carpaniate for five minutes and continue until the speech is concluded.
And what does a student learn from the commencement speech: to avoid commencement ceremonies unless your life depends on it.
Spectators are subjected to seemingly endless waiting before the students finally learn how to cook, wash and dress, 19, save for unreasonably cool weather, the heat should be sufficiently suffocating to cause fainting.
And as if the gowns were not enough, students must wear capes that fall off if they do not have perfect pose. Balancing a book on one's head while riding a broom would be
Most students will be clad in suits and ties or uncomfortable dresses. Add a gown to these and one has a stadium full of sweaty students.
easier than wearing these caps. Sometimes these caps droop over the eyes. Unfortunately, they cannot droop over the ears.
If the weather becomes omineous, the ceremony shifts to Alen Field House, the staffed place this side of the Mississippi River. The spectators will be so occupied with fanning air for that they won't have a gathering in opposition to the ceremony. Fainting will compromise that KU officials will have to request spectators to bring their own stretches.
Graduation have does some advantages. Graduates know business and motivate businesses thrive because everyone's family comes to town. The local merchants have never lost big chance to land in some big city.
The ceremony also gives KU the opportunity to furtherrown-based inuities on programming,creatingnew tools and functions, the University can attain some lucrative contributions here and beyond.
Moreover, the ceremony gives KU the
chance to make its soon-to-be alumni aware of their duties to financially assist the University.
And finally, the ceremony marks symbolic progress for the student who has survived four, sometimes more, years of school. He and his sometimes convincens students that their college years were indeed happy ones and that they have gained memories that will last forever. After all, any ceremony that takes place is one of a three-ring circlum can be all bad.
McNish says judiciary article fantasy
To the Editor:
This letter is offered as a rebuttal to the article appearing on the front page on Friday, April 25, that had as its theme that the University Judiciary is a "lousy court."
Convention has it that judges should not acknowledge in public print the snipings of a jury. In the absence of tradition, no attempt will be made here to justify any decision handed down, but an attempt will be made to give a more accurate description of the operation of the judiciary generally.
The article in question is a curious combination of fantasy, misinformation and rousing raisins. It contains a statement that I teach without pay. This is false and would not be worth mentioning except that it eats out of the article for objectivity and accuracy.
The conclusion that the judiciary is as "lousy court" is based solely on the testimony of three disgruntled losers. Two of them filed petitions that were so intransient that they did not withstand summary motions for dismissal. The third was charged with a violation and convicted. Presumably if the judiciary had ignored the law and, thus, found in their favor it would be no a "lousy court" but would then be an exemplary court.
Having established that the judiciary is a "housy court" because you can always win before it, it is further condemned as being completely subservient to the admonitor. If it were wholly on the personal assurances of two of the losers who cite no evidence of whatsoever but who add that a decision adverse to the administration could not be enforced.
I will address those issues but first let me
say that the statements that the juice<sub>i</sub>$_{i=1, j=2}$ dominated by the administration and automatically rules in its favor are contrary to the one with emphasis, libelous. I state unequivocally that in no way, shape or form has any pressure ever be exerted on me on the subject. I am misgiving on the subject in even the slightest, most subtle way or experienced any other sensations however vague, vague, have influenced in any degree, have influenced a decision.
In contrast to the unsupported opinions of the authorities that the reporter presents purporting to show absolute bias in favor of the administration and in which he made the three cases that come readily in mind in which I made decisions that were adverse to the administration and in which the judgments was misused and fully carried out by the firm.
The first case involved two students who were given very short notice of impending punishment. The third case involved a injunction restraining the then deam of students from acting. This order was reissued in 1983 and was eventually eviction was forestalled. The matter was later settled to the satisfaction of all concerned.
In another case a request for an order of eviction on a serious charge was dismissed by me on the grounds that the prior administrative hearing that had adjudicated the eviction had not afforded due process. The evidence was fully accepted by the administration.
In another case I ruled that a basic law of the Parking and Traffic Code was contrary to the statutes of the state and was, therefore, invalid. The administration,
which had taken a contrary position ... case, accepted the ruling without question. The result was that the University Council of Chicago involved lengthy consultations with the attorney general of the state and, it is understood, the statute by the legislature.
I have ruled against the administration on other occasions and have never experienced the silently hint of resentment.
Admittedly, the powers of enforcement of the judiciary are not clearly defined. I was not on the judiciary in 1977 at the time of the protracted case involving Greg Schneckar, and it is not known whether he was referred to in the article. It seems to me he displayed a callous and arrogant attitude. He seemed to take pride in the fact that he violated the law and successfully defy the judiciary. Perhaps the judiciary had a better type because the framers of it anticipated a spirit of fair play and respect in a university setting and it is, therefore, not completely equipped to handle unexpected defiance. I am not sure why this type of judge have been found to enforce the lordment.
Hammond McNish Adjunct professor of business
Kou Kuby complains that the order of the judicial burden down by me on the banner policy was "insane." If it was then why did he not appeal it. The appeal process is simple, quick and involves no costs. He knows very well the reasons why his petition was made because he was provided with a copy of the written opinion setting forth the reason.
To the Editor:
South Africa forum too late for Kansan
I would like to publicly express my approval of the KU Endowment Association's support for this appointment on South Africa an appointment on May 6. I hold misgivings about the date of the appointment and the amount of time and money required and to put in just to arrange the appointment.
The Endowment Association only agreed to meet with a student-faculty delegation AFTER the Daily Kansan terminates the association's wager. Is the Association again only interested in its public image? Is it hoping simply to look 'iliberal' after almost a year of dormancy? Is it concerned students and faculty? Has the Association purposefully timed the appointment so that the campus community uniformed or the meeting's results?
The question facing us is: Will the KU Endowment Association accept its social responsibility for investments in South Africa? A study of people persecuted, exploited and at the political mercy of four and a half million South African whites? Or is the Endowment Association and profit-tunng multinational corporations responsible for a fast back, regardless of its source?
I suspect I know what the answer will be.
But the campus community will not be given a chance to find out for sure.
Keenan Gentry Kansas City sophomore