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April 17,1980
Athletics must change
It's all coming at once. Coaches are resigning, budgets are being cut, tempers are flaring and newspapers are nosed into formerly private affairs.
The economy is beginning to catch up to the athletic department at the University of Kansas. According to Bob Marcum, athletic director, outdated budgeting procedures, inflation and decreasing ticket revenues are to blame for the financial troubles that KUAC is finding itself in.
And those are serious troubles. Before a series of budget cuts and some unexpected Williams Fund income, the athletic department budget was expected to be almost $80,000 over its budget for fiscal 1980.
- Now the budget is expected to balance at the end of the fiscal year on June 30. But many people—athletes, coaches, administrators and fans—are not pleased with the cuts. Most of the cuts were made in non-revenue sports such as women's track and gymnasium, and the cuts had at least a part in some of the coaches of those two teams, Teri Anderson and Ken Snow.
But budget cuts are going to have to happen more and more in the coming years, unless—and it is doubtful—KUAC finds some help to provide it with unlimited sources of money. For athletics, especially at a major college, are affected by the economic forces that affect the rest of the society.
One of the biggest areas where this is true is in travel. A university the size of KU, located in the Midwest, must send its teams a long distance to findcomparable colleges or smaller colleges in the immediate area, but it is embarrassing for both
schools when the different size of the schools reflects itself in often lopsided scores.
So KU travels to play competitive teams, in all sports. Their nearest conference opponent is 90 miles away; some eastern schools don't have to travel that far for their farthest conference opponent. And to meet teams from outside the conference, to spice up the schedule a little, trips of a thousand miles or more are often necessary.
And these trips help maintain the athletic program. They generate fan and alumi support, they create recruiting interest and they add to the general prestige of the University. Yes, even the football team.
But these trips are becoming harder and harder to justify because of their increasing expense. The time is almost here when the benefits of cross-country travel are out-weighted by the costs. For example, the administration is now offering the mid-1980s football series with Stanford University as a cost-cutting move. The travel budgets of smaller sports have already been cut.
Other cuts will have to be made, in all sports, and current budgets must be closely studied and adhered to. Some of the luxuries need to be cut. Is it really necessary for the men's basketball team to spend $700 a year on shampoo?
It may be necessary to spend money to make money, but the athletic department is going to have to be more careful about where and how it spends its money in years to come, or it won't make any at all, and we'll be forced back to the time when the big football game for KU was between club teams from the University and the Kansas City YMCA.
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Carter has kept promise of inactivity
By G.L. SMITH
Quest Columnist
Between the president and his countrymen there has been a breach of trust. Promises made have not been kept; assurances offered have been revoked. It is not Jimmy Clinton's fault that the United States gave the guilty parties. The broken promises are not his but ours.
Consider the most conspicuous and persistent theme of his writings: the search for a god who fouled Washington and its ways. He did not pretend to know the ways of the world. He emphasized—and we applaud him for it—that God was a pure and sinless; he entered the city of巩如 a virgin entering a brothel. The mere presence of his purity would suffice; he asked for nothing more, and that is precisely what he did.
Consider the circumstances in which we elected Jimmy Carter president of these United States. We had our crows full of waterage. We were still tired of hearing a president insist with righteous indignation that he was not a creek. And
we were also tired of the evidence that he was crooked as a snake. He could not make us proud to be Americans.
Then came Gerald Ford. There were and are good things to say about Ford, but no matter now. Anyone appointed by Ford would be a coward or a fool, and Ford appeared to be honest. He couldn't seem to keep from confirming our suspicion that he was a curry man.
Moreover, he committed what must have been the most greedious political sim of his career when he pardoned Nixon. Whether the pardon was enlightened, just, and humane or not, it remains unclear. But it left Ford tainted with the nasty smells of Watergate.
So we got tired of him in a hurry. Furthermore, we couldn't help resenting him just a bit for the fact that he had been appointed in the first place. This was supposed to be a democracy; we the people were supposed to exercise elec-
tionary power, but we continued audacity of a man who seemed to have usured that power behind our backs. And we let him know about it.
Down the home stretch
We were tired of presidents altogether. We were convinced there wasn't much good to be said for any of them. They were either crooks or fools or both. We wanted to be rid of the whole lot.
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We wanted a change. We wanted some relief from the tension imposed by worrying that our president might be sitting on the bench for too long, looking. As Lewis Laphman suggested in Harper's, what we wanted really nice would be just going without any president at all for a while. There was nothing much we wanted. Oh, of course. If anyone was not sure certainly didn't expect any president of ours to do all of them.
Even before the wake had ended we inaugurated Jimmy Carter. We wanted to purge the presidency from our lives, as we might clear the house of the deceased's belongings. Electorally, Mr. Obama's presidency was the closest we could come to no presidency at all.
It was a comfortable sort of helplessness, cynical yet cheerful. With great delight, with a great sigh of relief, we abandoned all our hopes for political referral, our hope for change, and our hope to solve the problem. dear old relatives. They had outlined themselves, lately growing wise and generally unpresentable. We held them in our arms and guarded our guilt in their passing. But what a relief to have gone.
He was obviously a decent man, obviously not a crook. He could be trusted to take care of the White House and perform all the ceremonial functions. And he could be trusted to leave office. He could be trusted to work for a president. If we had, I dare say we might have elected someone like to do something else. We just plugged Carter into the race to fill him to fill a vacuum, which our political nature abhored.
We elected him to do nothing. We entrusted him with the task of doing nothing except what any decent, healthy person would do. He accepted this duty: he tried hard to fulfill it and, by large, he succeeded.
By and by, we grew more fickle. We began to think of more honor than ours. Our origins covenanted with him, we demanded that he give us respect and hurt, he continued to plait platitudes and mouth moralisms. He tried for all he was worth to remind us that the Lord gave us so much.
but we have forgotten. Our breach of his trust has peaked in the early months of 1890. We demand that Carter do something about inflation, about the Russian troops in Afghanistan, about the American hostages in Tehran.
The man is at a loss. He doesn't know what to do. He has known some bitter disillusionances. He cannot trust the American athletes to support his stand against it, or the people of Iran who voices to listen to. And the American people, instead of commiserating with him about their own mistakes, rather than merely stand for them, do something, rather than merely stand for them.
G. L. Smith is a graduate student in religious studies. He has written editors for Christian Composition and Grass Roots Books.
It is no wonder that he has become something of a rose garden recoluse. He knows, he memories so well, that he was elected to fill a space. That is what he continues to do. Perhaps he hopes that in concentrating so steadfastly on filling the presidential space he will be forgiven for whatever it is that he has done wrong. Perhaps he hopes we will have to look at him again, and perhaps he hopes that he someday be able to come out of the White House and trust us once more, maybe even for another four years.
Academy Awards no longer glitter
If Monday's Academy Award ceremony had taken place in a vaudeville theater of the 1980s, the audience would have pelted the stage with rotten fruit.
The 52nd annual Academy Awards, Hollywood's lavish song of praise for its own, went off as planned this week. There were few surprises.
The event was nearly identical to other Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award ceremonies over the past
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few years. As entertainment, the show was as exciting as a flat glass of champagne.
BUT WISES for glamour soon turned sour when a pre-taped scene outside the Los Angeles Music Center was shown. It was also because the singer looked more like plastic than gold.
At the beginning of the program, viewers were at first tasturalized by spectacle. Aerial shots from the lawns, "Hollywood" sign on a L.A. hillside promised glamour and magic of old times.
The stars were arriving at the ceremony
under the piercing gaze of the California sun. Videtecap close-ups showed the stars to be bored, rather average-looking, and a bizarre one. The majority of fans there to see the arrival of the new star whose thin screens sounded more like precerceded tapes than emotional outbursts. They lined the sidewalls, content to watch the screens and scream at their favorite male stars.
THIS OPENING ACT has not always been so boring. In Hollywood's golden years—the 1950s and 1940s—fans on the sidewalks would have been both loud and demonic. In Los Angeles' police force would have been need to keep the fans from the stars.
The actors and actresses, arriving in sleek Packards, Rolls Royce, Pierce-Arrows and Duesenberg, responded to the arrival of the lights crisscrossed the evening sky. One by one, the cars arrived. A polished door opened. And out steped Clark Gable. Or Jean Harlow, Mary Pickford, Tyrone Power, and James Cahal, the others who then graced the silver screen.
AND AS THEY STEPPED from their cars, the fans went wild, straining against the ropes held by policemen. Camera
flashbubbles popped. Stars flashed 24-karat smiles. And the magic was there.
In those days, stars were larger than life both on and off the screen. Then, the preaward excitement was only a harbinger of what that would take place during the ceremony.
However, Monday night's ceremony started with a dull tush, an awkward turn from the first evening. In the ceremony the first few minutes, Fay Kainan, the second woman president in Academy history, was in attendance on an offstage announcement as "Mr. Fay Kainan."
THE PRESENTERS, purportedly some of America's leading actors, actresses and others who carded cards that told them what to say, trying their hardest to maintain their dignity. Few
With only a few exceptions, an offstage announcer or perhaps even one on stage could have done a more effective job of presenting the awards. The personal banter between presenters was to take a minimum amount of time and seemed like a steady parade of changing faces.
Some of the presenters, such as Farrah Fawcett and Dolly Parton, seemed to have wanderedstage during the ceremony
quite by accident. Neither woman could hardly be called a movie star.
ONE NEWCOMER to the screen, Miss Piggy, did a length of color to the three-hour program. Charging that the academy had spurred her for an award for her role in "Muppet Movie, the indigent pignt girl," Muppet claimed. "It's because I'm a pig, isn't it?"
One even-litener from Johnny Carson, the program's host, and a musical tribute to film choreography failed to revive the program's dullness.
Only Dustin Hoffman's acceptance speech, showed any kind of spontaneity and sincerity. Accepting an Oscar for best actor in "Kramer or Kramer." Hoffman thanked the audience for their movie making, a message that has been before but seldom with much sincerity.
As one who watched the Academy Awaits Monday night, hospital of some old-time theater, I was disappointed. The program took too long, was extremely uninteresting and sloppily written.
The glitter of old Hollywood will never return. But it seems as though the men and women who entertain us at the movie conventions here will certainly entertain us at the Academy Award ceremony.
Senate budget criticisms inaccurate
To the Editor:
Allow us to correct a few mistakes in David Lewis' April 8 column, "Senate padded its own wallet first."
First, he suggests that Student Senate executives will be receiving total salary increases of $3,420. This is derived from figures the Kansasman was told were incorrect. He says the Senate is not auditing Committee for executive salaries was $2,400. The total increase approved by the Senate was only $1,800. The salaries of the student body president and vice president have not been increased in their salary and they will remain the same for a third.
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Second, he suggests that the Senate has not been fully spending its budget. This year's budget was cut $7,200 from last year's. Next year's budget will be cut another $1,100 or roughly $3,000 in two years. Any lower funds will be less than $100.
Third, Lewis suggests that the Senate has put strict limitations on the requests of students for student activity limited by the amount of student activity fees brought in, in which turn are determined by student enrollment. We have no plans to raise the fee year nor we did last year because we didn't know it.
enrolments. On the other hand, the dollar amount of requests has climbed drastically. Therefore, money will be tight. We cannot give away money we do not have.
Further, Lewis suggests that low committee attendance means unfairness for the students. If a student is not the Student Senate, makes up these committees, and the students decide either not to apply or not to attend these open meetings, they have no one to blame but themselves.
Finally, the headline above the column, "Senate putted its own wallets first," was wrong, not to mention other lines in the report. Aside from that, the hearings are a reliable indicator, the Senate has failed miserably to do its job" and "The Senate should be embarrassed." All of these were printed before the Senate even began to consider the case. It is worth checking with anyone in the Office to see
whether his figures were correct. They were not.
Let's be fair. Our budget, over a two-year period, is dropped $8,300, while during the same period the Kansan is increasing its salaryaries nearly $17,000. You're right in one thing, David. Budgets are being cut in the fall, investment in Falk Hall. Is that where the rich live?
Matt Davis
Student body vice president
Bren Abbott
Student Senate treasurer
Hamin should read new history books
To the Editor:
11 November 1979, the Soviet government was toppled and replaced with a military junta composed of Afghan rebels. In
reaction, President Carter has called on all countries to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Kabul. Crazy, no?
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by Israelis. Last week, five peace-loving Arab Palestinians walked into a kibbutz nursery and began playing games with 20 boys. Four of the kids were interrupted by Israeli soldiers—who shot a 2%-year-old baby, one of their own soldiers and the secretary of the kibbutz.
In the first paragraph, I showed how easy it was to rewrite history. The truth is that the last Friday night, before 250 students in the Kansas University, Rashid Hamin, a spokeswoman for the Organization, organized the comments in the second paragraph of this letter in his lecture. In his own rewrite of history, he spills out a bit of information I know that the PLO哭撞 murdered 19 Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972, 39 Israelis killed in an Israeli kibbutz last week. Mr. Revisionist—excuse me, Mr. Hamin, why don't you rewrite the Koran, Shakespeare's
Lawrence David Fry
Creve Coeur, Mo. sophomore