UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN editorials
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March 5,1980
No-star John shines
John Anderson began the 1980 primary season as a presidential candidate with less support than Bob Dole. When the Kansas City Star ran a preview of the candidates before the Iowa caucuses in January, Anderson included even though such luminarys as Dole and Philip Crane were.
But now, Anderson wouldn't be left off anyone's list of viable Republican candidates. He finished barely second to Ronald Reagan in the Vermont primary and to George Bush in the Massachusetts primary. Anderson has emerged as a brightening dark horse in a Republic race that Reagan was supposed to have won by merely entering.
Anderson's near-victories in the northeastern primaries are not surprising when the man and the states are considered. Massachusetts, the only state George McGovern won in November 1972, has voted for the more liberal candidates for the last 38 years, with the exception of Eisenhower.
And Vermont, although a strongly Republican state, rejected the ultra-conservative Barry Goldwater by a 2-1 margin in 1964. While Reagan and Bush alike agreed as far to the right as Galloway when they are far to the right of Anderson.
This success in Massachusetts and Vermont is not the result of a massive media campaign. Anderson has slowly and persistently been spreading his moderate message across the nation. And people have been getting that message. An Associated Press-NBC News poll of voters in Vermont and Massachusetts indicated that most of those who voted for Anderson won for him on the basis of his stands on the issues.
These stands on the issues are attracting many non-Republican voters to Anderson, according to the poll. In Vermont, Democratic voters could cross over and vote the Republican ticket. In Massachusetts, Anderson received many votes from independents. Anderson and the pollsters think that his stands on issues like handguns—he favors gun-control laws—and choice—and the Equal Rights Amendment—he supports its passage—pulled a lot of these votes to his side.
Reagan says that such crossover votes won't help Anderson in coming primaries, but others say these votes would help a Republican in a general election. But he bypassed the next primaries—in South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Georgia—and concentrating on Illinois, his home state. He has been criticized for this, but it may be a smart move. If he concentrates on the job, he will do a good job in them, he may be able to afford to lose some of the smaller states.
And there is some indication that he is getting more and more help in his campaign. Earlier this week, Anderson for President offices opened in Lawrence, and a number of students had volunteered to help his campaign. Yesterday, Anderson was cheered by a crowd of Yale University students as he asked them for their help. It looks like the 1972 McGovern campaign.
Maybe Anderson won't get as far as McGovenn. A liberal candidate in the Republican party doesn't have much of a chance of getting the nomination. But at least Anderson is one candidate who is addressing the issues and not resting on reputation as a politician, a minister or on a movie-star smile and a big name to get his votes. It refreshes to see a politician take a stand.
Wild wind of Kansas should be harnessed
It is the wind, perhaps, that is best remembered about Kansas. It is strength and girth,柔情 and peace. The wind is the very spirit of the state—independent,
The wind comes knitting across the Flint hills in winter, bringing snow that defts 20s of snow onto the ground. Drop the temperature far below zero, drop the Kansas indians to sit out the storms in
The wind rolls cold down the Colorado Rockies or swows up warm from the Gulf of Mexico. It blows, tropical and spring-like, in storm churning, changings, mischievously in a few hours.
And then, the storms of winter change to those of spring and summer. The storms of the warm months blow with electric fire, dry soil, and wind that they will. Trees fall against the wind and
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house lose roofs. The Kansas wind has been, known to topple barns and slam boats against their docks. Power. The power of it is aawing.
There are days, however, when the wind blows soily, just enough to cool houses and move the humid air of summer. These are kite-flying days, frisbee-playing days. And there are times when there is no wind, and there are times for it, to cool the burning August days.
THE WIND CAN BE an enemy—driving range fires across pasture land, freezing cattle in the hills or tearing buildings as if it were a weapon. Some are known to drive people mad with its incredible howling. It once moved the topsoil on a hill, causing a snowbowl in the moon. It can be choking, frightening, killing.
Yet Kansans have come to accept the wind as they have accepted the heat of our world. They learned to live with it, learned to love it. They never have let it conquer them. They have endured the setbacks that given them fire and fighting. They ever have learned to use it.
WINDMILLS. Long used in Europe to grind grain, windmills came to Kansas with immigrant farmers, and new uses were found for them. Too inefficient and slow to operate, they were pumped the windmills pumped water to keep farmers and their stock alive and to irrigate the arid western plains. Before the beginning of this century, most farms in the state had windmills. They became familiar parts of the landscape, and windmills were in the middle of fields and on top of hills.
After World War I, another purpose was
found for the windmills. They transformed the energy of the wind into electricity and brought the lightbulb and radio to farms.
BUT BECAUSE the wind was not a constant source of power and the electricity from it was not available, windmills were traded for rural electrical systems after World War II. Farmers and ranchers then became, like all other Kansan farmers, on fossil fuel-generated electricity
Now the fuels are expensive and in short range. The companies that are dangerous and expensive. Scientists are exploring other energy sources and their studies have brought them back to one of the few that exist now.
There are few places in the United States with the steady, strong winds needed to generate electricity. Kansas is one of them. In fact, Kansas winds average a rate of more than 10 mph. An average speed of 7 or more mph could provide electricity production. Windmills probably could provide electricity for Kansas and several neighboring states.
WINDMILL HAVE BEEN restored in Kansas as energy generators, but on a large scale. They have been built and they barely resemble the abandoned mills standing in pastures. They have the potential to produce electricity less exertion than it would have been particularly as fuel prices continue to climb. However, small scale production and storage can keep their price above that of other sources.
The windmills have one other drawback. Because the Kansas wind is capricious and wind speeds can vary, the windmills cannot run constantly. What is needed is a way to store the electricity produced by the windmills.
RESEARCH IS NEeded to refine attempts to use the wind. The state and federal departments of energy offer in-mindy training in windmills. A nationwide evaluation of wind power possibilities has been set up, and universities all over the country have begun studying the wind's energy potential in engineering and geological departments.
Scientists are looking to the skies, and for the first time they are beginning to see what has been known all along—that the wind that blows through a canyon crashing is the most powerful of all nature's forces. The winds that last Friday blew energy for the needs of future generations.
If a successful and efficient storage system can be developed for energy, kerosene or other non-energy supply. It would be a non-polluting and non-nuclear or nuclear energy source; none of the three types of nuclear energy.
If the University residence hall system were a series of motels, "no vacancy" signs would glow from Daisy Hill every night of the school year.
Full rooms plaque students each fall
The halls have been filled to capacity for years. This fall the trend apparently will continue. Fewer than three weeks have passed since the programs began accepting contracts for the new buildings, and already have been contracted. According to University housing officials, the residence halls are filling up even faster than they did in previous years; officers aren't surprised by the browning students.
After five years of increasing demand for rooms, the Housing officials have grown accustomed to the problem. Every August and January the scene is the same: the
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office of residential programs becomes awash with people who are desperate for a place to live. The forms early, formats late, formats early through the worn corridor of Strong Hall.
MANY OF THE PEOPLE eventually end up living in temporary housing—in residence hall laundry rooms, ironing rooms, lounges and even saunas—and are assigned a permanent room in one of the University's eight residence halls.
The red tape, the waiting, and the problem remains the same. Only the faces of the students and the length of time that they must wait for a room changes from semester to semester. Because contrary to statements made by University housing management of University-owned housing is a problem that won't go a way in the near future.
J. J. WILSON, director of housing, and
Fred McElhene, director of the office of the hospital, said that he is looking for rooms. At demand for rooms in residence halls has sharply increased over the last several years, both men have been charged with assault.
Housing officials are gambling on the fact that housing prices decrease in the future. Nothing is being done to expand the University's present housing system, although the resources for such an expansion
THE UNIVERSITY OWES less money on its existing residence halls than does any other big Eight university, but only two universities offer less university-owned housing.
The future quality of University-owned housing for students is being based on projections that are as reliable as those that could be drawn from crystal ball gassing. The University should wake up to the fact that it has no accurate way of predicting campus enrollment will be 20 years from now. UI students will then be clamoring for rooms.
By their lack of planning for the future and their indifference to the present housing shortage, KU hospital officials are showing a remarkable loss of foreseen.
state birth rate is declining, enrollment at the University has increased with each semester. The Lawrence campus offers a Master's degree and 842 students from last spring's enrollment.
As residence halls become overcrowded, the quality of life in the halls will decline and students will seek other forms of housing.
Forer smears Carter, spares Iran
THE UNIVERSITY'S residence halls are nearly paid off. Housing offices are raking in millions of dollars from student housetanks. But unless planning is started now, the eventual obsolescence of KU's halls will take the University by surprise.
To the Editor:
IT MAY BE A long wait. Although the
It appears as if in our day and age if you want to attract cheap attention all you need is a video of your government or industry officials of diabolical evil action with no evidence in them.
ditional residence halls on campus. Instead, Wilson has said, the University plans to cool its heels and wait until the effect of Kansas' drought reaches the University and cuts demand for resources.
He portrays himself as "the champion of the oppressed" and President Carter as a disgusting evil figure who is allowing the government to minister on his behalf, ministration has milked the last bit of political capital it can." Why Forer needs to hold this perception of our government accountable? He does not相似 intentions only Forer knows. Maybe he perceives Iranians to be like children in that they have no control over their fate and do not childlike. To think otherwise is fascist.
If Fever wites to become the McCarthy of liberal KU, he is on the correct path. The techniques are similar: smear the oponent, cake your side in righteousness and smear the Fever. Upon reading this letter you feel an emerger, you apologize to the President.
Roland DeSoignie
Topeka graduate student
Last Thursday night I heard a talk by Norman Forer on the Iran situation. It was compelling in its clarity, humanity and courage.
The lines of students waiting for a room in a University residence hall lengthen each spelling word, and the room turns into temporary rooms are found each semester. But the demand continues and increases.
Saturday morning I woke to the voices on my clock radio—voices suggesting that we get tough, that it is time we show our stuff, and that we must be four of our people. There must have been four of our people suggesting the same thing. It was call-in time on KY102. It was the thoughtless twitch of a sleepy giant holding on to its dreams, wishing when it wants to and threatening me.
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At a university of KU's high caliber, it simply shouldn't happen.
Then Forer accused pressure came in using the hostage crisis for his own personal reasons. He said he would rather whether the converse is not also true than wonder how many people had heard of Norman Forer a few months ago. He sure did believe the ongly nighties. I just feel that deep fear.
Forer's diplomacy should be questioned To the Editor:
Forer said that Americans have become pleased with the hostage situation without realizing that they were even legitimate grievances are no excuse for taking a foreign embassy and its emissaries.
I think some of the comments in the Feb. 2014 Kansas about the trip of Norm Foster and Daniel Beyer to Mexico was interesting. For example, Muriel Paul stated: "I was never a moment when we did this."
I would like to poll the hostages to see if they have similar feelings on the subject.
Truths about Iran must be recognized
I tried to wake up, got some coffee, tried to get up, and went for a walk. I was nervous and not as clear as I would have liked. My understanding, in part based on Forer's talk, is more clearly stated
Dave Pontious
The Iranians are not in the embassy because they think the United States is weak and afraid to act. They feared American troops, who had been sent to revolution, which cost them tens of
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El Dorado senior
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thousands of lives, would be swept away by a coup directed by the CIA and that the sleeping soul of the United States might never realize what had been done.
They're trying to pinch us, trying to awake our understanding and morality by making us look up from our local concerns in front of others. The conscientious directed press would sedate our understanding and arouse our wrath. Through the corporations we have been reaching our material dreams. That doesn't mean they may oppress us is not comfortable to hear.
At any rate, what can we do? Can we take the responsibility of admitting to ourselves that we have already knows—that in reaching for our economic and political interests we have used methods that we would not like used on ourselves? This would be no more than the
When yet an offer was 'made last December by Sadegh Ghotzbazdar, Iranian foreign minister, to release the hostages on no more than such an admission by our government, Mr. Ghotzbazdar matter at a later date, it was ignored by our press and by our government. According to Forer, who was in Iran at the time, this offer made headlines for days in Iran, did not request the return of the shah and was not allowed to visit any of these involved. Why was the offer invoked?
Our politicians and press have aroused us to take a stand against blackmail. Haven't we the responsibility to bend to the truth?
Peter N. Baird
Columbus, Ohio, graduate student
U.S. hockey victory rekindles patriotism
To the Editor:
Over the years people have begun to have doubts about this country. We have begun to question our government, and to lose faith in God. We have lost faith in God. What we had lost faith in was faith itself.
People were asking "Who cares about people country?" People were beginning to believe that no one did. The unity in our country was all many believed it would never be found again.
But things changed on the night of Feb. 22.
I ice hockey, yes, ice hockey brought the country back together.
I ice hockey, a game I had never really watched. A game I really didn't care to watch and something I knew nothing about.
And on the following Sunday, the U.S. team reached another impossible goal. They came back to score three goals in the
But on that night, my ideas about that sport changed. Our hockey team defeated a team from the Soviet Union; a society队 composed of much older players who had not been born to the Soviet Union and had not lost an Olympic match for 12 years, a team that carried home the gold for the past 18 years. The U.S.队 was composed of 20 college and minor-league players who not given a chance to beat the Soviet team would have been beaten by the Soviets had we beenited 10 us a few days before.
On that Friday night, the United States grew closer together. People who had never before seen a hockey game danced in the streets. Chills ran up and down the spines of many Americans and people wept for joy in the crowd. The sore arms the Soviets were the losers, 4-3.
This was really just a little achievement in a day when there are many more serious world problems. Problems that are affecting world peace.
"U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A" yelled people in many streets, in many bars and, more importantly, in the heart of many Americans.
final period to defeat Finland 4-2 and win the gold medal. A gold medalion that really costs so little for what the United States had gained.
But this triumph proved that Americans do love their country, that Americans can pull together and that Americans will win in the United States of America-united as one.
It was a great day for America. It will be in our hearts forever.
Tracy Utz Plains junior
A progressive, a wise decision, Owls. My condolences—uh, that is, congratulations, to any woman academically excellent enough to be permitted to roast among the Owls.
Owls vote doesn't compliment women To the Editor:
Bernard Brown
I understand the honors society known as Allow, which changed its mind and decided to allow me because, because, because it did, it could not stay away from it. "And we decided we wanted to operate within the University because there are some advantages," the society's president wrote in a letter.
Any female Owl-to-be should consider the high compliment being paid to her in that she is being allowed to help the Owl society reap the advantages of operating within the University. She should be especially interested in the facts for accepting her in spite of the fact that she is (just between you and me) inferior, a detriment to the organization.
s Iran Owl Society right in becoming co-ed
Bernard Brown
Overland Park law student
To the Editor:
I would like to congratulate the members of the Owl Society for their unanimous vote to change their constitution to allow women to vote in all elections, and to increase the number of Cwens (now Lambda Sigma), Sachem Circle (now Omicron Delta Kappa) and Mortar Board to co-educational honaries. I have been one of many critical of the Owl Society and discouraged discriminatory membership practices.
As a charter woman initiated into the world of leadership in laying the foundation for a proposed co-junior society that would recognize the achievements of outstanding junior leaders.
I am very happy that this year's group of 6lW owl Society men have alleviated the need for a competing junior honorary that would include both men and women against each other.
Gretchen Schmitt
Kansas City, Mo. graduate student
One stomach recalls results of Joe's runs To the Editor:
Yes, indeed, the recent editorial on the coming demise of Joe's Bakery certainly did bring back memories of a couple of years ago when he was Lawrence-runs from the bedroom of my apartment to the lavatory to rid my stomach of some of Joe's greasy little food consumed during an earlier, ill-advised establishment. It didn't take long, however, before my mind realized what my stomach knew instinctively—that these concoctions with white flour and vegetable fat had about the same amount of an O-der sponge soaked in motor oil.
I realize that my opinion is probably treasonous, flying as it does in the face of popular opinion. But I still maintain that we are the tactical nukes of the out-bomb world.
Goodbye, Joe—I'll remember you every time I drink a glass of Pepto-Bismol.
J. D. Willhite Lawrence resident
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