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April 15.1980
Gymnasts consoled
The athletic department is graciously trying to give athletes dependent upon gymnastic scholarships for financing their college and some firm ground to stand on after palliation out from under them earlier this year.
The department has tentatively agreed to honor the scholarships of KU gymnasts for the 1980-81 school year. Bob Marcum, athletic director, said Association of Intercollegiate Athletics will award an annual Collegiate Athletic Association scholarship bound the University to scholarship commitments for one year.
The KU gymnastics program lost its funding for next year when the athletic department started making cuts in its 1980 budget. The action left in question the financial status and future of those athletes attending school on gymnastics scholarships. Would their scholarships be continued or would they be left with broken promises and half of an education?
Ken Snow, KU gymnastics coach,
said he was pleased with the decision
of the athletic department to fulfill its
commitments to the gymnasts. It was the only honorable thing the department could do.
Although most of the gymnasts already have made at least tentative plans for next year, switching horses in mid-vault is not an easy feat—even for a gymnasium. According to Snow, many of the athletes are looking at other schools–schools with gymnastics programs–as possible places to finish training. However, some, like Mikaela Schmidt, junior, almost have to return to KU because of their majors. Kelley is majoring in pharmacy.
The one-year extension on these athletes scholarships is the only consolation the athletic department could offer in terms of showing sympathy toward the athletes, recognizing the burden it has placed on them and propping them up with credibility, responsibility and integrity as an athletic degree.
Recruiting, competition and participation in any sport would hardly be facilitated by a reputation as a scholarship welcher.
Universities evolved as sanctuary for idle
Guest Columnist
By BOB LONGMIRE
At one time in the history of mankind there were no colleges or universities. There were only professors. Time passed and professors continued to multiply until it got too large. At some point, they shouted, "We are too many. And we have nothing to do." It was then decided at The Greatest Eaver (In The History of Mankind) that colleges and universities were needed to give all of the professors the education that created the creation of the college and university.
A problem surfaced. Namely, whether to recruit students. One professor shouted, "Who needs students?" Another yelled, "Who needs the salary?" Another哭了, "Who needs a salary?" And still another shouted, "I do." So it was decided at The Second Great Debate Evan (In The History of Mankind) that it is necessary if the professors expected a comfortable living. What constitutes a comfortable living is still the subject of The History of Mankind. Evan (In The History of Mankind).
And then, at a gathering of students and professors, a professor yelled, "How will we know the good students from the bad ones?" And one student with black glasses and a sword asked, "Don't you don't give us grades!" All of the other students then looked merely in his direction.
IN TIME, the concept of the college and university caught on. High school graduates had a strong interest in question, "Shall I go to work or shall I wait four years?" College and universities were now a point where the colleges and universities were forced to be selective regarding whom would attend.
It came to pass that grades were issued at the end of each term. Some students discussed this issue with Prof. Oh. Prof. Professor I sure could use a 'B'." And occasiona "a B" would be granted to them.
In other instances, professors would inform us, 'You're not capable of getting a job,' My girlfriend said medially, this it put added pressure on the student, for it was he who had to explain this.
YEARS PASSED and colleges and universities flourished. Books were invented. And so were student unions and libraries, which allowed to cash checks on campus which resulted in the invention of the returned check charge. Toilets were built into college bathrooms and maneller sold to colleges and universities a revolutionary type of toilet paper whereby the user is allowed two sheets a turn of the wheel when he then tries to sell the idea to the Bolivians.
Time went by slowly for the students for they could find nothing to do at the colleges and universities. They all got together and went on campus and marched from one end to another shouting slogans and carrying signs. No one was sure of the exact cause of the revolt but they all enjoyed doing their jobs other shooting slogans and carving signs.
The colleges and universities decided that the students had to be monitored so that those who got out of hand could be identified. But they didn't, because came the invention of the television camera
The students decided that they did not learn from their mistakes and stopped their revolt and went back into their homes to watch the newly invented firearm and the newly invented Michigan's flamethrower.
Even today the concept of the college and university prevails. For without colleges there would be no one who would cease and all people who had nothing to do would have nowhere to go to it. Unless, of course, they went to Cleveland. And then a Leawood school majorening in journalism.
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Well, the boys in the state house closed up shop last week and went home for a time to cool temperatures and look in on the old home folks. Although they will recover at the end of the month for a three-day legislative session, most of their work is done for the year.
The presence in Topeka will be missed, not only by local merchants and club owners who profit from their stay, but also by
committees. Statewide, committees have relied on the work of the legislators for editorial tics.
Legislature's antics will be missed
The legislators have provided a steady stream of fodder for writers and have managed to keep their activities varied, making for more interesting columns.
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They have pulled stuns of monumental stupidity to provide numerous targets for cynical and sarcastic targets. Senators Mike Johnson, D-Parsons; Wes Sowers, R-McKinnon; John Vernillion, R-Independence, made easy pickin' with some of their actions.
JOHNSTON BOUNCED into Osawatime State Hospital and amused us all with his well-meaning but inepht attempts to ferret out alimony. He then protected us from spurred life-in-lovers, by making alimony suits between partners in an unmarried couple illegal. Vermilion topped them all, though, using 19th Century to oppose registering women for the draft.
Legislators also sponsored bills of shameful viciousness and injustice, of the Bill. The bills included one that would have raised tuition rates for foreign students and a death penalty bill. Fortunately, one bill died and the other was vetted by the
THE LEGISLATORS became involved in Senate/House animosity that delayed the passage of bills and took the meat out of the kitchens. They had a session, and temps exploded near the end as senators and representatives began to make their complaints to each chamber had made in the other's bills.
The bickering, a symptom, according to one senator, of the end-of-the-session "silly season", caused legislators to leave
unresolved debates about the state funding of schools and capital improvements, a new highway funding package, amendments to the education law, changes in the state mortgage interest rate laws.
Legislators took the enforcement clause out of a bill intended to protect elderly nursing home patients and wasted time in the investigation of state hospitals.
DEPSTEZ THE self-indulgence of petty animios, the 1980 Kansas Legislature did accomplish some admirable things, even the most cynical of columnists must admir
They did approve, almost intact, the 1981 Regents institutions budget, state and hires包们 for the nine colleges and 9 percent pay raises for Regents faculty and staff member
funding of local school districts unfinished, at least an attempt was made to help the schools and many legislators believe the bill will be passed.
finances and open records laws. Any of these issues could take the entire three days to resolve; the legislators have left themselves a bit of work to do.
Also passed were bills giving raises to classified Civil Service employees, tax credits for the installation of solar energy devices in homes and privately owned businesses. The marriage licenses—the added revenue to be spent on family and child care programs.
UNFORTUNELY. legislative arguments have left the House and Senate with several major issues to settle in only three days, during the wru-n-up session.
IN ALL, this year's legislative session was disappointing for Kansans. Very little was actually accomplished. There was too much energy expended on nonsense, too much energy expended on feeding eggs, for any real good to have been done. It must be hoped that the legislators have their pride, gain some humility and bestow themselves with power to come it out of the wrap-up session.
In three days, the legislators must bury their differences and finish the work on such measures as changes in highway funding, cuts to state judges, raises for state judges, school district
There has been one valuable aspect in this year's Legislature—it has been extremely fun, and we have done it. We thank them a debt, for their antics have kept us company, for their support, for Thanks, boys, we appreciate all your help.
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Gardeners yearn for lost paradise
By WILLIAM HOWARD ADAMS
NEW YORK - Gardeners are a paradise-hanced haunt. Even before the spring thaw, their thoughts turn to the garden before the fall. It is the oldest nostalgia trip around. April's reputation may be because of its chilly weather, but encourages in the face of the immutable fact that no amount of well-selected seed, hard work, sun, fertilizer and relentless husbandhip will ever capture the promise of elevated Eden for more than a brief season.
Of course Proust was right when he said that every paradise by definition was a lost one. Our Siyaphan labors each year to re-arrange the borders of bordered beds, rockeries and terraces re-enacts the primordial rule of searching for the original family estate unencumbered with metaphysical mortgages and cleared lands trees where importing snakes can hide.
THE GARDEN CATALOG that arrive in February are not just pushing the latest hybrid jib, Italian lianer and agapanthus. Their irresistible pages are really a chinily disguised message from the gods templing us once again to take up our lands; they don't know where we universal truths may押 (l beneath last year's leaves in the backyard or under
the city grime on the roof terrace outside the apartment).
The original paradise, or at least the site of its historic archetype, may well be occupied by Soviet troops. The first recorded descriptions, including the word itself, were from 1943, and included modern Afghanistan. Considering its old fixation on the place, perhaps the Soviet Union's invasion of its neighbor is some mixed up with trying to find the original garden utopia, since the 18th century now appears consciously flawed.
THE EXACT NATURE of those earliest Persian gardens is rather dim and survives little change, although everything to the imagination, in which probably they have appealed to poets and sages, is still there.
The process of birth, death and burial in Egypt is been a central theme in more than one religion and it was nature that the mystery of human existence in the monastery gardens of the Middle Ages, in which the use of fountains, walks and plants was calculated to recall the biblical account.
Not long after romantic love, in the modern sense, was suddenly discovered in a pastoral setting sometime in the afternoon of November 2016. The new and seductive aura of sensual
pleasures, princees displaying humanistic leanings began their conquests of nature to create a microcosmic expression of the divine. The gardens were ruled by rulers, a new political dimension was introduced as gardens grew to express power and ambition. Gardens also served as instructive models of the perfectly conceived environment, a paradigm of the ideal city-state itself.
IN THE END, these noble garden worlds laid on an aheirate scale were doomed when the power base on which they were built disappeared. The principly plumbing of the water tank was ruined and rust, shutting off key fountains of the Cardinal Ippolito d'Este's fabled water display. Versailles barely manages to keep up appearances for the tourist if he doesn't stop his car after visiting the avenues. The modern remains of Louis XIV's palace are only a shadow of its MGM glamour of the 17th century. The pursuit of parasitism had taken on a decidedly feminine direction, with his fireworks, ballets and water extravaganza to animate the otherwise numbering grandeur of his gardens. He would have probably succeeded as a film moul of the 1900s when investing heaven on buildings became big business American-style.
FOR ALL OF OUR string of failures in the paradise game over the centuries, at least
the memory of the transient splendor of the great gardens of the past still recalls excavations of well-ordered peace and plenty, helping to elevate our modern diminished cityscape. The paradisical shopping malls, Disneyland Las Vegas strips and sprawling suburbs. Man-made deserts of urban renewal our stricken cities, destroying the original landscape of citiespeaces that had been inspired by the 17th and 18th centuries.
So because we have given up on Eden as a public model of the patient's journey, it is possible that our existence no longer seems to prime our civic imagination. The savage nature of the landscape and these few pocket here and there, to reflect even the illusion of a blessed asylum to which men were briefly
Once we were expelled, our progressive alienation caused us to think intuitively about the recollection of that first garden still linger subconsciously beneath the surface to repose like every other plant. The gardner knows the symptoms of the infection from the first itch, and is consolled by the experience.
William Howard Adams, who gardens in Manhattan and farms in West Virginia, is author c. "The French Garden: 1500-1800."
KU police action brings thanks
To the Editor:
I would like to publically comment Detective Sargent Parm Cobb of the KU Police Department in putting us in touch with a woman in need. I was an answering the crisis line the night Detective Cobb called she said she was hungry. "Because I met her, we were able to send two advocates to meet with the woman. Detective Cobb made every effort to assure the safety of the woman."
I am an advocate for Women's Transitional Care Services Inc., here in Lawrence. Our organization's primary function is to provide emergency shelter and counseling to women and their children in challenging situations in their homes. We depend on a deal on cooperative interaction with local law enforcement officers.
Domestic violence is one of the leading causes of murder in our nation today. Our organization is dependent on the protection and responsive action of the police if we are able to prevent violent acts of violence. Thank you again, again. Detective Cobb. Em Evans
Run for presidency farcical for voters
Lawrence resident
To the Editor:
Without using glorified terms such as presidential candidate or nominee. I would
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like to address the current problem, faced by students on the KU campus and by people across the country, that threatens to unleash our lives—the farchal presidential race.
As things stand right now, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan will probably square off in the November election. Nothing scares me more.
How two people of such incredible inexperience could ever be considered White House material is beyond me. But to think that they were among the pamphlets and ringing doorbells endorsing these megamedia burnouts without an second thought is downright frightening.
If you seek proof for Jimmy or Roni's ineptitude all you have to do is turn to the front page of any newspaper. Jimmy: inception all you have to do is staggering situation, which Carter apparently plans to ride back into the White House in November). Can you imagine a minimum of 12 months inside the embassy? "What's that parity? Who, me, forget my speed?"
Please accept this letter as an endorsement of my candidate, John Q. Noneofthehave
Steve Nellans Norton freshman
Men lack footing to judge abortion
To the Editor :
Likewise, I believe the men who put up the banner in Hoch during Rep. John Anderson's speech were serious. So was the man who asked Anderson's opinion on abortion. And how about the men who last against abortion? to express their views against abortion?
According to your advertising staff, a half page ad such as the one placed by William Darnin in last Tuesday's Kansan costs $50. William Darnin in his beliefs on abortion
particularly interested in learning how they can explain that the life of an unborn child is more important than their own lives—which are often been ruined by unwanted pregnancies.
Now, what is wrong with all these serious men that makes it hard for me to take them seriously? Quite simply, it is that they are men. I can never be convinced by their advice or by the care of nine months and spending eighteen years of your life raising that child is a small matter. To them it is a small matter because they won't be bearing or raising the child; the woman they've impregnated will be not born at all; the distance preaching the sanctity of life.
For me to seriously consider these anti-abortion viewpoints, I would like to hear from some female anti-abortionists. I am
Each person must evaluate his own views and beliefs and come up with his own personal stand on abortion. Whether or not a fetus is a life from the moment of conception should be up to the man. Therefore the state should allow each woman to make her own decision about whether or not she wants to continue a pregnancy. No man has the right to tell a woman what to do with her body. She must make a decision based on her own beliefs.
Finally, Mr. Dunn, I cannot let you get away with your inflammatory statements about the "grisly methods" used to abort a baby. I am not going to describe them as such. A fetus is not a baby. To say 'a loop-shaped steel knife' is used to cut the placenta and baby into pieces. You are not supposed to die the child kid from the Gerber jar. Yes, the fetus is disposed. But, as a Christian, Mr. Dunn, you must believe in the immoral soul—a woman whose earthly body is meant for her purpose—opportunity to be born to a woman who will take care of herself during her pregnancy because she wants a healthy child, and to care for her health and nurture it as it grows to adulthood.
Louise Farnham Lawrence resident