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Gasohol good solution
While Californiaiants are facing the possibility of paying $1.50 a gallon for gasoline by summer and Kansans are paying prices that are crawling up ward cent by cent, Rep. DAN Glickman, D-Kan., is continuing his camper trail with his company and most reasonable alternative to petroleum based fuel—gasolol.
Gasoline prices in Lawrence average about a $1.02 or 1.03 for regular and a $1.08 or 1.09 for unleaded. And, because of government subsidies, gasoloh dealers in Lawrence can sell the 10 percent alcohol - 90 percent gasoline name or about the same prices as their regular and unleaded gasoline.
Yet, despite the fact that gasolol dealers in Lawrence, and presumably elsewhere, say that gasolol has a higher octane rating, that gasolol users are reporting better mileage, that gasolol cleans out a car's engine oil, that gasolol causes oil leaks, that gasolol if they had it, the nation's businessmen are not responding.
Glickman says that fear of capital losses is keeping the men with the money out of the alcohol refining
business, which at the moment is the weak link in the chain of gasolol production. There simply are not enough refineries to handle the demand of producing enough alcohol to allow the gasolol industry to expand.
The federal government already has shown its support of gasoline production by providing the subsidies that keep the $1.30 a gallon production price down to the going rates of regular and unleased gasoline. Now it's time for the state to provide subsidies that show some of the initiative that they take such great historical pride in.
Although electric and solar powered cars have made it off of designers' drawing boards into experimental models, the expense and practicality of these alternative fuel sources far exceed that of gasolol.
Whether it is for personal patriotic reasons or, eventually, out of necessity, many more Americans probably will be filling their cars with gasoland—a prospect that American businessmen should be eagerly anticipating instead of grudgingly accepting.
Draft registration revival is a bureaucratic waste
To the Editor:
Recent letters to the Kansas indicate a profound ignorance of the draft registration issue that this country faces. New information is important to this issue. If this country needed to draft people, the means already exists to call President Carter in action. A million that President Carter has asked to be allotted to the Board of Registration is not enough. Why do
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ding, for example the Social Security systems are readily available for draft purposes in an emergency. Less money would be needed for purely bureaucratic relief.
The Vietnam draft, for example, was run on a lottery system involving birth dates and an expensive registration system. We could use the same lottery system and the Social Security system in the same way, saving the cost of massive registration.
it is a bureaucratic waste does not mean as Don Decollies implies that we will appear to the Soviets as a country of workers, but it is also known our determination to remain free and to support the self-determination of all countries. Here we contain patriotism and common sense.
Opposing registration on the grounds that
Perhaps the Soviets have made a big mistake in Afghanistan as we did in Vietnam. We should not have prolonged guerilla war. Our boycott of the Olympics and world-wide economic sanctions against the Soviets show the resolve of Russia to resist these aggression. It is important that we maintain a strong technological advantage in defense against the Soviets' existence and not one of confrontation.
The latter course can also lead to war eventually. It is in trying times like these that we need to support our government but not by supporting draft registration which is the only way to ensure that people between the ages of 18 and 20 resist registration as an act of civil disobedience to show their concern about bureaucracy and the escalation of world-wide tensions.
Brett Perry
Brett Perry Brattleboro, Vt., junior
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Marvin renovation ignores problems
Back then, in 1908, it was the newest building on campus. Its wide stairwells and soaring floors were pleasing, impressive, graceful. Its classrooms were roomy and modernly equipped. Marvin Hall, in 1988, housed the undergraduate schools of engineering and architecture.
Today, however, Marvin is overcrowded,
its classrooms and office space are inefficiently arranged and it needs everything from better lighting to paint on the walls. A group of students for Marvin and the Kansas Legislature has appropriated $2.8 million for the work.
Unfortunately, the renovation project, no matter how well done, will fall short of Marvin's needs. The School of Architecture is not only in enrollment and has more than doubled the number of students in the program. Architecture students have tumbled from Marvin as its studio classes have filled and the number of odd spaces stolen from other departments.
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THE MORE than 650 architecture students, all of whom are members of the Class of 2014, will be in classrooms all over campus and in Blake and Lindley annexes, where they cope with tight space in buildings.
In Blake, some architecture students say, there is barely room to move between drafting tables, making the construction of large and detailed class projects more difficult than it normally would be. Linda Crowley, a student at St. Mary's crowded, but also is a fire hazard because of studio cubicles built by students in the past. Although students are no longer allowed to fashion their own cubicles, existing ones still stand, cluttering exits with flammable materials. The students say, are poorly lit and are too poorly adapted to make late night work comfortable.
MARVIN'S overcrowded conditions and deteriorating appearances were brought to the attention of the University's several years ago. Appropriations for the project have been delayed for several years because it was not a high priority project. Construction of the visual arts building and surrounding buildings, a smaller renovation projects, came first.
Further delay was caused by the School of Architecture's desire to remain in Marvin Hall. A completely new building could have been built and be inspected on remaining in Marvin. Any new
structure would have been built on the periphery of the campus, perhaps even on West Campus, forcing architecture students to design classrooms for art classes. Since most architecture students take courses in Learned and Malot lalls and in the visual art building, Marvin is not a teacher.
KEEPING THE School of Architecture in Marvin Hall is also more economical than building a new home. Renovation is much more intensive than constructing a new building.
The faculty of the School of Architecture also agreed that an addition to Marvin's building would cost less than a new building. However, a suddenly cautious Legislature has become loath to begin new construction and is not likely to predict Predictions of declining enrollments have
created a fear that new buildings will be unnecessary in a few years. Money was not appropriated for an addition to Marvina Hull, and the plans were rejected, if ever, the appropriations will be made.
facilities are not at all adequate for the students that are accepted.
ALTHOUGH THERE is sense in the Legislature's caution, it has become overly stingy and unrealistic. KU's enrollment has not yet peaked, and it may continue to climb for several more years. Even if it does decline, at 10 or 15 percent would drop out the classroom, its enrollment by less than 100 students, leaving Marvin still overcrowded.
THE RENOVATION of Marvin Hall is a nice gesture, but a like bouquet of plastic flowers, it leaves one with a somewhat dissatisfied feeling. Like the artificial flowers, which have the appearance of real roses, but lack the scent that makes a rose a fragrant plant, the plant tries to try just not do much to make an attractive, high quality architecture school.
There is $i \mapsto 10$ the fact that the school accept less than 150 of its more than 450 apples but do not have the space to accommodate the students. Some faculty members have a small room or office.
The Legislature and administration don't seem to care much about the true needs of the School of Architecture. There also doesn't seem to be much concern for the loss of 400 potential students each year because of Marvin's space shortage. It is seen to say a few times that the university that has the potential to draw a large number of new students.
Yugoslavia's independence at stake
By MILOVAN DJILAS
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BELGRADE—All those who expect the breakup of the Yugoslav system and the collapse of Yugoslavia after Tito, whether they have come to the end of hope. I hope — in fact, I am convinced — that the people who do not expect any changes in their country are because in all communist states change take place after the arrival of new revolutionary leaders, and Yugoslavia
Tito's reign has been characterized by rigidity, by a monolithic system, but also by dynamism in certain areas: the economy, education, and sports. Thus, under Tito, changes already have begun, although largely in a negative direction, as is a result crisis but not reform.
Crisis is显学 in Yugoslavia's foreign relations, even as it is in the country's internal life. The external position of Yugoslavia has been weakened, especially in the last two years, primarily because of the movement of non-aligned countries.
UNREALISTIC reliance upon the non-aligned movement has isolated Yugoslavia in Europe, where it has its historical and vital roots. Moreover, that reliance led to an escalation of tensions between Yugoslavia saw world tensions arising from the conflict between the United States and Soviet Union, or from both superpowers' attempts to divide the world into their respective spheres of influence, and increased tensions with the global expansionism of the Soviet state.
In Yugoslavia's internal life, the most visible crisis is economic: Inflation is the
highest in Europe (around 27 percent in 1979), there is chronic deficit in the balance of payments ($2.20 billion in 1979), there is high indebtedness to foreign lenders (about $2 billion), unemployment the highest in 1980, about 12 percent -more than 700,000).
BUT IN addition to these troubles, Yugoslavia is suffering from weaknesses in its social and economic fabric. It is beset by inefficient forms of ownership and management of its raw materials, inadequate use of machinery and favoritism toward party members. The ruling circles do not see that aspect of the crisis, or do not wish to see it, but this crisis is unbridled that it felts in appropriate measures intended to counter it.
THESE EXTERNAL and internal problems are also reflected in the relations, primarily in economic relations, between the two nations. The Treaty takes republics a long time to reach agreements, the republics isolate themselves and prosecute themselves with their own weapons, and they agree their agreements with one another. There is also a conflict between the Communist Party's political centralism and forces of capitalism, as well as in management and in culture.
ISOLATED, without friends who are concerned about its welfare, with prospects of social and economic and nationalist change, the prospect of pauver—is probably, because of its geopolitical location, among the most attractive prizes that the Soviet Union would like to grab. Soviet ambitions to dominate the world have been evident since the end of World War II.
THE LEAGUE of Communists is today a mass organization of about 1.8 million members that is inefficient and fragmented. The most important political activities are confined to their higher echelons. Yet, despite this, the fact remains that within the league, and throughout the country as a whole, the dominant emotions are clearly patriotic.
The whole weight of responsibility for the nation's condition and future rests upon the ruling party, the League of Communists. The regime has systemically persecuted all opposition members and made it impossible even a reform-minded socialist opposition.
Although in politics unexpected turns are possible, the external position of the country and its internal situation favor the more liberal functionaries. This is true because they can count on the support of broad party leaders and may be a significant number of party members want a more rational economy and greater personal rights and security.
ABOVE ALL, all almost all people in both groups are worried, especially after Afghanistan, about a Soviet invasion. That fear is even more persistent as it becomes more obvious that the Soviet Union is pushing Bulgaria to claim Yugoslavia and that Russia is trying to defend of arsenol—that is, to invade Macedonia in that that Vietnam invaded Cambodia.
All people of Yugoslavia are equally exposed to the Soviet danger—to the threat to their independence. Extreme nationalists and separatists are deprived of their autonomy, and they view fashioned views and methods but because Soviet expansionism equally "loves" all—
Croats, Serbs, Macedonians, Sloveneans — all those whose soil they can seize and whom they can subjugate in order to reach the Mediterranean and undermine Europe.
THE PARTY's monopoly and political centralism in fact divide citizens and pit them against each other, with focus on the movement of non-aligned countries isolates Yugoslavia from the rest of the world. In the foreseeable future, there will be a deepening of clash and isolation, and with that a vulnerability to Soviet invasion, or gradual democratization and tying its internal structure more closely.
The most rational reflections lead to certain conclusions. Yugoslavia will have to liberalize internally and open itself to the West externally, because those are the conditions—the only conditions—for independence and its survival as an independent country.
THE POLITICAL structure and external situation make difficult any sudden transition from the state to communist control cause chaos and conflict and make Soviet intervention easier. This is the reason why democratization has to be modest and should not be attempted under the maintenance of the monopoly of communist forms ended with purges and repressions. There is no democracy if it is not democracy in the way we see it.
The storms are already raging. Yugoslavia can survive only if it introduces democracy and attaches itself to countries that effectively oppose the new conqueror. Milovan Djilas, the prominent dissident of Serbia, wrote in *Yugoslavia's leadership.* This article was translated from Serbo-Croatian by Michael Milenkovitch.
Cheerleaders add nothing to sports
I was once a cheerleader—a bouncing, bushy-tailed, wind-up doll—and I'll never live it down. Being an ex-cheerleader is humiliating to someone who hates sports.
Although I wore bulbous green pompons on my tennis shoes and an oversized green "G" on my sweatshirt—my school was
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called Greengates—I was not your typical cheerleader.
First of all, I was piged-toe. Second, Greenegates' claim to athletic fame was an anemic ice hockey team and a sluggish excuse for a soccer team.
I guess we lacked school spirit. Or maybe we had no burning desire to be number one. Or perhaps we were just plain lousy.
As for ice hockey, our mediocrity was due in part to inhuman scheduling. At the crack
of seven on a sleep Saturday morning, the game would get off to a belyear eyed start. At that unglady time, faced with a chilly ice-creaking rate and a less than meager crowd of disgruntled but loyal parents, who could not believe but desire to crawl back into bed?
As for us cheerleaders, we simply oppose. We violated our cheerleaders' obey by flashing only sporadic, halfhearted grins and by trying to catch a snake when there is no danger.
THE GAME itself was one big bull. And to get estatic over a team of drowsy underdogs would have been a courageous but deluded feast.
It was it against this bleak backdrop that I attended my second KU basketball game last Saturday night. Real, wide-awake cheerleaders and American soccer players as proudly as perusively.
The Greengategers gotlers their indebilie mark not because they were nimble with a skill, but because they had views of sports. They tapped my school spirit. But worse than that, they are to blame for the shivering sleepiness that they brought to stadium–roughly once every three years.
These nervous, prancing ponies live up to their name. The canine are out of the oath. They canter, they bump and they cancan. They are a restless combination of the best of both Anette Funicellie and Liam Curtis.
At least the two have their perpetual motion in common. Even when they seem to be still, still, my one-time colleagues
BUT DON'T get me wrong. I don't mean to sound patronizing. After all, what would a basketball game be without cheerleaders? No, that's not the case. They cheerleaders? What would a cake be without tattoo sauce? Can I help that I am struck by the disconnection between a team of dribbling, sweating ballplayers and a team digging bottoms and drumming nonums?
All this twirling, prancing, tumbling and dancing may have nothing to do with the playground. The role is to ward off the old Greengates ice-hockey hall. A true cheerleader is buoyant and she can get through it at a 7.m. stop. She is the vanilla ice cream that mats graffiti, time-released over the ice.
bounce to the beat of the crowd's tribal cheers. At best, breathless breaks in the game, the supply losses suddenly twirl with case by case and with case by their mighty male counterparts.
AND THIS is precisely why I hate sports. This irrational insistence on optimism. This rythmic roaring and pounding of feet. This grunting and booting and gyrating. This consuming desire, not to play well, but to despair, the other guy in the process.
But, of course, my view is tainted. Yours would be to, if you have to brave the ice at 7 a.m. every Saturday and cheer a pack of sleep nincompoops.