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February 25. 1980-decision that should put at ease the minds and hearts of pay telephone users throughout Kansas. The commission sustained the 10-cent phone case despite an attempt by Southwest Bell to double the charge to 20 cents.
Bell rates justified
Last week members of the Kansas Corporation Commission showed that they do indeed keep the common law under consideration and consider requests and hand down decisions.
The commission approved a rate increase for Southwestern Bell that will produce $26.8 million more in annual revenue. The increase amounts to an 11 percent rise in annual revenue for the telephone company.
Upon first reading, this does not appear to be something that the average telephone user should be glad about. However, there are several points to be heard before consumers hang up on the KCC.
Although Southwestern Bell will receive $26.8 million, that is only a little more than half of what the company originally requested. Bell wanted a $47.3 million increase in annual revenue.
Also, under the KCC order, the brunt of the 11 percent increase will be borne by competitive services offered by Southwestern Bell, such as business systems and private line services—such as touch-tone dialing, custom-calling features and some styles of telephones.
But the KCC did one thing in its
The 10-cent phone call is an American tradition that most students have known since childhood. Some even remember the nickel phone call.
For 10 cents a caller can talk with his best friend, his worst enemy or anyone in between. The 10-cent call is a service that sadly has become extinct in most of the country, succumbing to 15-, 20- and even 28-cent phone calls.
Because of the KCC's order, pay phone users will not have to start squirreling away their dimes, carefully allocating two per call. Friends of pay phone users also should be thankful that their ill-prepared pals still will be sponging only one dime off of them instead of two other.
Admittedly, no one likes to hear that a monoplastic company has received approval for another rate increase. This time, though, it was Southwestern Bell that plugged into a bad connection.
To Greg Schnecke and Matt Davis, KU's newly elected student body president and vice president, the heartiest of congratulations.
Lackluster Senate a KU tradition
Again to Schnacke and Davis, overseers of KU's Student Senate, the deepest of sympathies.
Yes, Schecken and Davis are the unlucky heirs to the Student Senate. And although the names have changed, it's safe to say the Senate's foolish ways will stay the same.
The Coalition's two winning candidates are going to face the same, pittily slow Senate that has gnawed the nerves of past student administrations. Truth is, the Senate would not win any awards for good cooperation with student leaders.
Shortly after being notified of his victory, Davis said, "We're going to take the ball and run with it; we’re going move. I have a feeling this year is going to be different."
One hopes that is not just wishful thinking. Certainly nothing has happened to change the predictable, yearly trend of the stock market, or apathetic, nonprogressive, that is.
UFORNOTUNELY, the Senate once again is ripe for petty factionalism. To the most ridiculous extremes, factionalism always has been a problem with the Senate.
The Coalfaction is most formidable opponent, the Focus Coalition, won more Senate seats last week than any other coalition. There is little doubt that the Coalition could make life miserable for the Coalfaction.
Factionalism made life miserable for former KU student body president Margaret Berlin, too. Berlin and George Gomez, former student body vice president.
But the buttended senators of the losing coalition casted Berlin as an outsider. In fact, these good-for-nothing factions gave Berlin and Gomze little if any cooperation.
clinched the presidential election last February because the other two major coalition choked themselves out of contention.
david COLUMNIST lewis
The factions had no intention of making
any progress; they existed only to hamper Berlin ministration. It was bitter that motivated many senators. Senate meetings turned into fiercely contested cases of who could succeed in the race.
And if a senator was not engaged in a petty attempt to halt legislation, it usually meant he was not attending the meeting. He had failed, and that has bespoke the Senate for many years.
If the Student Senate Executive Committee had not dismissed some chronically abusive members, the Senate could have even staged half of its meetings. Reaching a quorum was a difficult task.
IT IS COMMON knowledge that many students an pay election fee to be able to put in their name for a job resumes. It is unfortunate that a prestigious job such as a student senator's could be denied.
The situation becomes even more embarrassing when you examine other representative bodies of the University. For example, KU's Classified Senate employees are required to get their due rights to representation at the members of the University community.
The Classified Senate, representing classified employees in the true sense, has made more progress in only a few months.
than the Student Senate has in years. Ironically, the Classified Senate is not even recognized by the University. Nevertheless, the Classified Senate is much more effective.
THE STUDENT Senate does not serve its constituents; it does not know how.
Granted, there are some dedicated senators out there who don't deserve such a bad rap. One can only hope that these hardworking senators have a majority instead of such a tiny minority.
Davis and Schnacke certainly have the credentials to be able leaders. But able leaders in the past not been able to get involved in these issues is the most of their time discussing it里有
It is it going to take a small miracle to mass significant progress. Maybe the structure of an uncooperative Senate will begin progress. At any rate, the signs of another uncooperative Senate are there. Nothing is preventing factionalism, petitions, apathy from once again dominating the Senate floor.
However, the newly elected senators, as the predecessors have, will have a chance to make the Senate an efficient, important body at the University of Kansas.
Candidates, relatives help get votes
Perhaps the Senators can unite and make perhaps the Senate look downdrift foolish. Anything is possible, but don't bet next semester's tuition on it.
FACTIONS ARE In an accepted part of the democratic process, but factisms should be minimized. The common interest it wants to promote, not because it wants to perpetuate idle pettiness. It must be emphasized that the factism is often due because of important University issues.
By BARBARA KELLERMAN
New York Times Special Features
MIDDLEFOOT. Mass.-In an era when the resources on the land that they alone can gain their families have emerged as a powerful political resource. Although traveling mothers, wives, children and siblings is mainly considered a source of mild amusement for many, these roles altered the course of presidential politics.
The so-called "Carter Doctrine," which caused a stir among reporters covering the invasion, was not a thing but a reiteration of the Truman Doctrine, which was nothing more than an institutionalization of a doomed conspiracy. Kennan was also known to Kennan in 1947. Kennan's idea was to contain the debris at the post-World War II conference and containment article continued to bounce about the Oval Office throughout the Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations.
The family first became important in the 1960 campaign. Joseph P. Kennedy watched over it, Robert F. Kennedy ran it. and
KENNAN APPARENTLY has learned something about pragmatism in the last 33
Carter overreacting to Afghan occupation
IN ESSENCE, Kennan contends in his article that the Carter administration has wasted any non-military sanction we could ever have used against the Soviets in a sure-fail effort to stop what is most likely to lead them to step up support under Soviet control. We essentially blown our non-military war, and must only get ourselves up for a disastrous war or shut up and retire into an almost humiliating peace. Peace, however humiliating, will never be defeated in a losing war—a fact demonstrated by Vietnam, the war we lost "honorably."
every presidential campaign. Lady Bird Johnson and her two daughters traveled 170 southern miles on a whistle-stop train from New York to Indian B. Johnson's 1948 presidential run.
Although we know now that Pat Nixon didn't like politics, she was a duful helpmate. She spent three decades as the head of the CIA before she did true battle for her father. By mid-1972, she had made 35 appearances in 13 states, in comparison to her sister Tricia's 16 and her brother.
except for pregnant Jacqueline, all the other Kennedy marshes across America like a small army. Rose, the matriarch, trim and hold her hands up as she missed a chance to ask for a vote for Jack.
Kennedy's sisters, Eunice, Pat and Jean, also took turns. For two weeks before the fourth day of school, Robert Kennedy arranged for each sister to sit in nine house parties a day. Edward, a mere 27, did his fair share by bearing a striking costume that brought to the delight of campaign audiences.
GERALD R. FORD'S wife Betty-a
SINCE THEN, families have politicked in
Guest Columnist
President Carter's reactionion, knee-jerk response to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan has shocked and alarmed many, although not most, Americans. Most of the public has joined Carter in one response that is typical of the public. The president calls the Carter to continue acting in a manner that is ultimately dangerous to this country.
By RON BAIN
the American official reaction to Afghanistan has revealed a disquieting lack of balance, both in the analysis of the country, when not surprisingly, in the response to it.
Even George Kennan, author of the infamous "containment of communism" from the Korean War throughout the Korean and Vietnamese eras, has publicly questioned Carter's erratic policies. In a copyrighted article published in New York Times, Kennan recently wrote:
The president's hawkish actions have created a militaristic mood in Washington unlike anything since the clamor for blood on the battlefield has been suppressed and that is unwarranted. Afghanistan is not Pearl Harbor. It is a country bordering the Middle East, which long been influenced by the Soviet Union.
years, and perhaps, for once, he should be listened to.
"If the Persian Gulf is really vital to our security," Keman wrote in his article for *Ancient World* (April 1985), "we unrestrained greed for oil, have made it. Would it not be better to set about to eliminate by a very serious and deterent force from the people that have been allowed to arise, than to try to sup up by military means, in a highly defensive way, that will resist into which the dependence has led up."
Oil is not worth fighting a war that could escalate into thermonuclear disaster. Energy abounds within this country, in the seas, on land and in the rivers and ocean shores. A collective lack of vision and foresight has prevented past development of these renewable energy sources. It is this lack of foresight, rather than the absence of it, placed this country in its precarious position.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS have been mentioned more than once by members of the Carter administration in recent weeks, indicating that Carter is consciously attempting to play the game of nuclear warfare. A game Carter does not play well. Firmness is always required in the Soviets, to be sure, but to threaten them is dangerous.
Carter has brought the world to the edge of war over a military move that is similar in several ways to other escapades in the Middle East. Bay of Fats Islands in 1961 and the assault on the Dominican Republic in 1965. The world did not break into war when the United States made these aggressive moves in 1972, nor should it break into war now.
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James Anthony Fitts
Public criticisms of the Carter Doctrine has been rare, most of it coming from Sen. Robert F. Kennedy for the Democratic nomination for president. Kennedy's political position makes his opposition to Carter's policies unacceptable. A recent study this opposition shows that he has begun to make one of the most fundamental errors a president can make: identifying his perceptions of the country. In his recent press conference, Carter began using the Nixon-like tactic of using "unpatriotic" words in unpatriotic. However, the tactic itself is unpatriotic and undemocratic, because exercise of the constitutionally guaranteed rights of all Americans in policy is a most patriotic act, based on the principle from which this country grew. A Wichita senior major in journalism.
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political tresses—and four children were named William, Lillian, charm and canter while she was first lady so popular that by the end of 1975 she was among the country's most-admirable women.
Whether this political phenomenon is good or not is debatable. Yet at its best-large, it is important that students be in an irreplaceable political plus. Who can say where Jerry Brown would be if he had a winning wife and a couple of cute kids? Why should he be the president of political science at Tufts University.
But Ford was not the only candidate that year blessed with a large, willing and able family. One can't but help wonder if Jimmy Carter would have been elected without his players. They played critical roles at two stages: they helped to put him on the map, "Carter" became a household word his family labored to spread the gospel.
An irony of the 1980 campaign is that the representative of the clan that started it all represented the problems. Siblings, nieces and nephews in this case are Kennedy is hurting where it matters most. Although Joanne Kenney was at his side when he declared his candidacy, and she later responded by electing *I'll live with him in the White House," her living alone in Boston and campaigning only occasionally, for reasons which does not help the senator's candidacy.
DURING 1975, when hardly anyone had even heard of Jim Carter, he and his wife Jack were invited to a party where they figured they could cover more ground if each were in a different place at the same time. Later, Carter's sons and their husbands and his mother also "altered the fata."
GEORGE BUSH'S unexpected emergence as a Republican front-runner is due largely to months of diligent work by his wife Barbara and their five children. His family has been from the fact that in the last year either he or his wife had visited 86 of the 99 counties.
At one point, Carter estimated that either he or a family member had made personal contact with 95 percent of New Hampshire's Democratic homes. Once nominated, he had his colorful Plains crew not to proceed to prove his innocence in attention that he himself could not murder
In his letter, "Vatican does not decry military," (Feb. 12 Kansas), Prof. Quinn cites the New Catholic Encyclopedia as "a work that shows how our Church states that 'consciencious objection is morally indefensible,' then it is out of date. The documents of the Catholic Church's saintly opposition to consciencious objection are a viable option for Roman Catholics. So the laws of the United States. At least they did in 1968, I was classified as a consciencious observer.
To the Editor:
I wonder whether pacifism automatically "declares all wars unjust." As a pacifist, I not willing to concede the justice of a different war as far as others are concerned, or to conceive that it was up to individuals to make choices for themselves. Whether or not others consider a war just, participation in it would to me be "morally indefensible."
Administrative assistant to the chancellor
18-year-old drinkers a 'hurt to society'
To the Editor:
An 18-year-old may be mature enough to take public records, both academic and civil, show that he responds to drinking with far more hurt to society than is the case with his parents.
In parallel, my being old enough to vote and pay taxes does not qualify me to drive a
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car. My eyesight, reflexes and driving habits are the chief considerations. Sentimental or patricial feelings are poor criteria for license in either case.
By the way, Rev. Taylor is not the ridiculous bluenose depicted in the Kansan's cartoon. God bless him and our 18-year-olds.
Ira Bond
Hatchet was axed by Kansan review
To the Editor:
I am thoroughly disgusted with the review of the Moll Hatchet concert that appeared in 2015, and I'm not sure Vogrin want to prove? He deserves good, hard-driving rock" in "roll". Is something more?
Molly Hatchet's performance was probably the best one that KU students have ever seen or heard. With walk-to-wall karaoke, they've been able to high voltage rock 'n' roll. Molly took the 4,000 screening fans to rock heaven. I know I speak for every fan in HBO (except for "Voygno") in saying that Hatchet was the superhero you can give the other 9,999 fans any consideration.
Is Hatchet's music boring? I hardly think so. Their recent platinum album, "Flirting"
with Disaster, "show us that their music is so powerful," he said. "I do think Mr. Vernig is boring. He ridicule of Molly Hatchett's performance made my stomach turn with anger. He must be a villain."
In the future, I hope a more open-minded person reviews KU's rock concerts. Mr. Vognin got the Molly Hatchett review. "Who knows why?"
Clayton Hunter Meriden freshman
groups belted out some electric rock, kept the crowd on the edge of their seats, and hands were clapping constantly.
Hatchet concert not adequately reviewed
To the Editor:
The definition of rock 'n' roll. (Believe it or not Bill, it is in the dictionary as a style of music that has become a rhythm, and a dance performed to this music, usually with vigorous, exaggerated movements.)
As a devoted "rock n' roller," I was extremely disgusted after I read Bill Condon's book, "A History of Rock Cert, (Feb. 18). It was quite obvious that Mr. Vogrin should not have attended this "ramachy," as he put it, concert and has no interest in the band. The rock goes. Maybe if he had looked up the definition of rock n' roll, he might not have experienced such a shock when he Say Moly
In my opinion, and a majority of Hoch's sold out rock 'n' rollers, Malty Hatchet, as well as Missouri, definitely proved the meaning of rock and roll. After all, both
As far as Mr. Vogrin's extremely harsh and sharp comments such as "Rauschmusic music," and Joe Jones Brown's "gravel-like voice" and "talk tough, play loud, and make loud sounds," they are subtle, but only shows the results of his inexperience in the art of listening to rick and roll music.
I couldn't believe Hatchet had been compared to Lynyd Skynny and the Allman Brothers' Band. Maybe that reflects some of my ingraneance concerning rock music, but I can't remember how long Holly Hatchet been around, in comparison to Lynyd Skynny and the Allman Brothers' Band.
How did Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers become successful?
Furthermore, these bad reviews made me realize why a large percentage of students do not attend big events, it be a concert or a festival. In the past, even seems to be said about the events. For example, the Natalie Cole homecoming concert in November of 1978, was "ripped spart" with fire. For heaven sake, who wants to attend those events, that $a$ money and gets bad reviews?
As a final word, as far as Bill Vigrin's harbant statement saying Hatchet's music may be the answer, he maybe. Mr. Vigrin should not attend a rock concert ever again and just sit home and listen to the depressing "clobberies on his mouth" of the band Barry Manilow. Obsequence, we excuse -Manilow
Stacey Leslie Millstadt. Ill., sonhomore