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Feburary 8.1980
Watson second-rate
Watson Library. It is worse than confusing, uncomfortable and inconvenient to use. It is sad and somewhat humiliating, but nevertheless true, that the 56-year-old structure is inexcusably second-rate. The only salvation for the problem plagued book keeper is tied up in the purse strings of the Kansas Legislature.
KU administrators should make every effort to procure the financial backing needed for a new library, which is to be included in the budget. The library requests, or for an extensive addition to the original structure of Watson.
The problems of Watson Library have been perpetuated since 1924, when the library was built. And the most obvious and urgent problem is that it does not have a research, space to breathe. Watson and KU branch libraries provide only one third of the space prescribed in standards set for by the Kansas Board of Regents. At the present rate of increasing space deficiency, there will be no room left for students in the library by 1899 if new facilities are not built.
Students and faculty are being crowded out of the buildings as the libraries' staff futility try to find shelf space for newly acquired books—books that are desperately needed to maintain a reasonably acceptable amount of information in the libraries.
The stacks already are a nightmare for new students and the clogged
circulatory system of the branch libraries is a health hazard to the academic and professional lives of even experienced researchers.
Although admirable efforts are being made to better organize the present cataloguing and shelving systems, future users of KU libraries will have even less chance of finding what they need if nothing is done to cure the space deficiency. Maps of the library system and which books are on what levels but also will have to pinpoint which books are in what closest, nook or cranny.
Two methods are available to KU administrators to expand library space at the University of Kansas. One is to build a new library, which has been tentatively named the West Library. The West Library would be built near the Military Science Building and would house science, business, engineering, architecture project be a tremendous. Such a project would be a tremendous and is well worth fighting for. It is not, however, KU's only option.
Watson Library has sprawling at its staircases several hundred square feet of flat, firm lawn that would provide a good foundation for a sizable addition to the building. The expanse of land admittedly enhances the building's verticality and may be sacrificed for the sake of saving the integrity of KU's libraries.
The University of Kansas is not a second-rate school and should not settle for a second-rate, dog-eared library system.
Cheerleader editorial irresponsible trite
To the Editor:
irresponsible, trite
We were once editorial writers—obnoxious, arrogant pen pushers—and we'll never live it down.
We worked for the Indiana Informer where we were constantly subject to early deadlines, heartless editors and the constant stench of print ink.
It was against this bleak drop that we opened the Kansean on Feb. 5 to find an editorial on the merits (or lack thereof) of the study. We discovered real live pewish winning by one Susana Nannum. This Lois Lane has responsible reporting lives up to the stance we all have in our own case to come from Kansan columnists. She shines the spotlight of probing analysis on trivial subjects, facing them brilliantly with a meaningless account of her own life.
I guess we lacked the necessary journalistic instincts—of biased reporting, unassistantist assertions, and indecision. I was so surprised simply had no "burning desire" to write test attacks on cheerleaders. It appalled our school spirit. But worse than that, it caused neurotic nausea whenever we opened a newspaper—papier-only once every semester.
But don't get us wrong, we don't want to denigrate these fine individuals. After all, what would our college newspapers be
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without pseudo-journalists expounding on their keen insights into world problems? It would be difficult to argue that we would be able to recognize good journalism without something to compare it
Even when there seems to be an overabundance of newsworthy items to comment upon, our colleague bounces back with the help of topics on unparalleled interest.
All this walling, whining and grashing of teeth may have nothing to do with journeys. We are all too likely to supply the public with newsless items toumb the mind against the press of real
And this is precisely why we hate college journalism; this pursuit of fulfillment of their needs is consuming desire—not to learn journalism, nor to learn all the neat facilities (provided by student funds)—creates an opportunity to demean and lilak segments of the student population.
But, of course, our view is slightly biased. Yours would be too if your brain had been destroyed by printing ink.
Sharon Snow
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John Hambright
Wichita junior
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Nader rally provided no game plan
Editor's note: Lym Beyczuski, a former Kansas editorial writer, once won first place in the editorial writing division of the University of Kansas. She also won the Journalism Awards. She graduated from the University of Kansas in December and is a recipient of the Hawkeye as the newspaper's city hall reporter. This is her prize winning editorial, which first appeared in the Kansas on Sept. 17.
Ralph Nader is a great cheerleader but a lousy coach.
He delivered a speech that was witty and wise, that inspired and incited. He offered his audience dozens of cheers for the causes he supports.
His popularity and pull are undeniable. Monday night he kept 1,700 people at attention for more than three hours.
But there he stopped, a few inches below the surface, when the bottom line was yards deeper.
Nader's two-hour speech, smooth and eloquent though it was, fitted from question to question, from drinking water to defense spending to dog (ood).
HIS POINTS are valid. His mind is sharp.
There is no question that he knows his stuff.
Applause is a good measure of the amount of fresh information being conveyed. There exists an inverse relationship between the amount of applause and the applains a remark, the less novel that it remains.
The problem was, so did his audience.
Nader got a lot of applause Monday. That
This is because truly new statements take time to assimilate. An old and well-likeled thought, clothed in a bright new phrase, is still immediately recognizable.
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COLUMNIST byczynski
American Civil Liberties Union meetings for the sake of listening politely.
applause should have tipped him off to two important facts he seems to be unaware of when he lectures.
FIRST, NADER's visibility is so great that it would be hard to find anyone who watches television or reads newspapers and with Nader's political inclinations.
It was obvious that the audience was sympathetic to Nader's politics before the lecture began. He had few listeners who needed to be converted.
As a rule, people do not attend lectures when they know they disagree with the speaker. The Ku Kluet Klan does not attend
Nadler should have recognized that and thus realized that his audience was familiar already with the superficial aspects of his environmental problems, consumer advocacy.
NADER SHOULD have analyzed his audience. Then, the second thing he should have considered was that in every political arena, a leader must know beyond the consciousness-raising stage.
Feminism is an example of a movement that has made the transition, continued to develop its ideas and values over years ago with restless women gathering, talking, recognizing their problems and struggles.
LEFT'S FACE it—we know the problems, but we don't know the solutions. And yet, we are content to let the fine minds that should know their upsets on the backs and keep our spirits high.
Then women took to the streets and tried to solve their problems, their cause so desperately needed. Now the tumour is passed. Action has replaced talk and solutions to problems finally are being made.
The anti-nuclear, environmental and
He should have presented all the evidence of the problem, given us a solid stand to argue from and then marched us out the door prepared to do battle.
Nader should have taken his two hours—and our $5,300—and the address issued promised：“Energy Monopolies vs. Energy Consumers.”
consumer movements, as taught by Nader, are still in the bra-burning stage.
Furthermore, he should have shown us which door.
NADER MAP is a joke about students who study with their high school in the hands.
"Procrastination technique number one," he said. "Underline it now, learn it later."
NADDE MAKE a joke about students who study with their highlighters in their hands.
“Procrastination technique number one,” he said, wiltedly.
But Nader, in effect, did the same thing. He tempted us with some sketchy information about student action through a phone call, and then he told us to write for more information.
Rather than teaching us how to play the game, Nader left us at the pep rally, yelling the cheers.
It was a valuable opportunity wasted.
Extra penny won't go up in smoke
It's only fair. It's only fair that the $m_{pp}$ consumers of services pay for them. Drivers pay more highway taxes than car drivers because the driver drives a profit from roads that the government builds. Property owners in communities pay to support the town schools because most property owners either are or will be parents.
A bill before the Missouri Senate would make smokers support the state's cancer
So it's only fair that cigarette smokers pay for cancer research and patient care programs.
research program by adding an extra one-mile route to the bill's sponsor, Sen. Roger Williams, D-Dolumbia, the tax could add $4 million a year Missouri cancer research
Seven million isn't much when compared
to the amount of money spent nationally on cancer research, $900 million. But in Missouri, the $2 million would go to long way towards cancer prevention and efforts to help cancer victims.
CANCER IS the nation's second leading killer, after heart disease. Its creeping agony steals more than 700,000 lives a year. It can take a long way to die, but it can be prevented and cared for.
Lung cancer is the leading malignant killer. More than 90,000 people die from it each year, the life suffocated out of them. Ironically, it is the most easily prevented of
all cancers. The American Cancer Society estimates that 80 percent of all lung cancer could be prevented if no one smoked.
Smoking increases the risks of cancer not only in smokers but in non-smokers. The children of smokers are more likely to develop cancer than those of non-smokers. Women who smoke during pregnancy inhibit the development of people who work in offices crowded with smokers have a higher cancer risk than they would in environments without smokers.
IT MAKES money to add the penny tax to the cigarettes. it is a fairly inconsequential change in public health, one year a day a smoker would pay less $8 a year, and that money would be returned to smoker in the form of research, cancer studies, and education. Cancer patients pay for their treatments.
The cost of dying of cancer is astronomical. Cancer victims must pay for surgery, hospital care and expensive chemo- and radiation therapies. There is also the loss of work that comes with illness, but cancer just doesn't cover all of the expenses.
To 100 of cancer can cost more than $90,000. All of the cost is paid for by the victims and their families. The government, hospitals and hospitals pick up most of these costs.
THE RESEARCH behind each new cancer drug is expensive, yet research is the key to finding and improving Cancer education and early detection programs cost money. But only through education and early detection can doctors know if a patient has their lives. But such programs are too often cost prohibitive for state and local health departments, the best agencies to conduct
Cancer is a horrible way to die. It is a frightening way to live. It is preventable in many cases, curable in most. But money is often the most important factor, more often than any other group need treatment for cancer, is a common sense and relatively painless way to gather funds.
Bravo, Missouri! The cancer research bill is an example of sharp thinking. Kansas should take a hint from its neighbor.
HANOVER, N.H.-Yurt V. Andropov, the head of the KGB, is getting a lot better these days. President Caran, believe it or not, has done him an excellent turn.
By HARRISON E. SALISBURY
What pleases Andropov and his worried chiefs of the Soviet secret police is Carter's proposed boycott of the 1980 Olympics. Leonid Brevzhev and some associates have considered the Olympics a great success. Andropov and his boycott may have saved Andropov's neck. It may even have saved the Soviet system temporarily.
Many of those whose lessons in Sovietology began somewhat earlier than the perceptions that dawned in Carter's mind as a result of the invasion of Russia have awarded the Games in Moscow to the country, them that the whole Soviet economy system might simply collapse under the weight of hundreds of thousands of visitors and tens of thousands of foreign athletes. More important, it seemed possible that this foreign entity unmatched since Genghiz Khan, who simply tumbled the Soviet system into oblivion.
PERHAPS THESE perceptions were a bit exaggerated, but not much. Russians whom I know have been divided into two classes: those who planned to head for the hills to take a brief breakoff of vital services and transport them to a larger class that planned to descend on the capital to mingle with the congregation of Westerners laden with defendant capitalist fruits. While many Russians would be bored by the material goods that the visitors would spend in the city, they outfits, Parisian perfume, even, perhaps, <i>xainte</i>, not a few look forward to sampling
more precious Western wares; literature,
ideas, philosophy, a chance to talk with a
foreigner away from the scrutiny of Andropos's minions.
TO COPE with these problems, Andropov has been working for three years on schemes to minimize the mingling of foreigners and natives. Schools and colleges have been trained before the Olympic influx; parents have been urged to get their children off to camp or summer jobs early; complex systems for monitoring environmental devises have been devised; and elaborate plans have been drafted to protect a screen of planktoshem between the visitors and the people of the host country. They have also learned that these plans would work-certainly no young Russian. They have been limbered up their English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. They have made plans with foreigners, particularly in rooms and apartments in Moscow.
MANY ADULT Russians have been looking toward Olympic time as a moment for unprecedented association with the sport. They know the ability of Andropov's men. They also know that no police force, not even the Russian one, can cope with such hordes of humanity. Andropov has known this too, because the Russian team was in handling a mass influx of foreigners.
In 1987 the Russians, with notable native, sponsored a world youth congress in Moscow. Tens of thousands of young people, most of them supposedly ideologically screened, gathered. The mixing of these groups produced a prosaic result. Before the congress, the party and the police had managed to hold the line against such intolerable symptoms
of "bourgeois Western culture" as rock 'n' roll and blue jeans. After the congress, Russian youth was never the same.
In the end, the authorities simply gave up. Rock 'n' roll and its stepchildren dominate Russian youth culture. So do jeans. What dynamic items the Olympics would inwardly inspire could probably merely be known if, as President Carter wishes, the boycott will
ALREADY ANDROPOV'S fears for Russian security (and his own) have been materially edible. Whatever happens, there will be a need to keep visitors trapping Moscow streets. Nor is that all. As the exile of Andrii D. Sakharov on April 25 freed to embark on all kinds of repressive measures designed to enhance the "purity" of Soviet society, his own designs seemed safe and they do exist) to stay the
hand of the hard bats, with the yearners for the ghost of Stalin just waiting in the wings, has been remarkably strengthened.
There is, we should understand, a flip side of the war. There are forces in the Soviet Union just as in the United States. Each tough Carter move will evoke a tough one to them. The Soviet military chiefs; elements in the Soviet military who have been smacking their lip late over 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' and 'The Brothers of Liberty'; the party; and Andropov and his police associates are feeling a lot better these days. We must know their way and they will make the most of it.
Harrison E. Salisbury, retired associate editor of the New York Times, is author of "Black Night, White Snow," a revisition of *The Russian revolution* 1965 and 1971.
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