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Thursday, March 15, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Mimeo Press Still Packs Punch
By CATHY SHERMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
Bullshit is like Morton Salt;
When it rains it pours.
Chronic Daily, February 1972
Three years ago, during the heyday of mimeographed campus publications, long-haired students distributed an anonymously published single sheet called the Oread document of the Kansas Union. Today, "underground" mimeo press is more legitimate.
It has Student Senate funding, an editor on the mashead and an office in the Wesley Building. The Oread Daily (OD), never claimed to tell the truth, died last spring. Now a group of about 20 students publish the Haymaker, which may have lost some of the OD's vitrific temper but not all of the sting.
The Haymaker was begun last year to fill the vacuum left when the Oread Daily died, according to Lowell Wiley, Lawrence senior, who is listed as the editor for purposes of the senate, which provides the mimeograph machine.
Much of what is published in the Haymaker is news analysis, Wiley said. The Haymaker's importance, he said, is that it provides unique comment which, he said, is not always presented in campus and national news media comment.
*WE BEEL A certain responsibility to provide a different view of students." With the help of new staff members, we are
'Sometimes I get pretty nervous about some things that appear under my name, but I'm willing to do that to have the Haymaker.'
about some things that appear under my name, but I'm willing to do that to have the ability to do them.
The Haymaker recently commented on International Women's Day, further developments in the Watergate conspiracy trial, martial law under Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and a Kansas Senate bill that would allow for mental health care to persons without depriving them of their constitutional rights.
"Our big focus is usually world and national news," Wiley said. "We don't keep up on all student and city affairs because we have the resources or the news space."
The Haymaker, however, did print an extensive article Friday on the controversy over the Pearson Humanities Program. The program ended Monday because of popular demand.
Bike Tour To Kick Off Jamboree
The kickoff event for the Jayhawk Jamboree, April 22-28, will be a bike tour from the University of Kansas campus to Lone Star Lake, according to Steve Jankinson, Leeward senior and chairman of the Jayhawk Jamboree organizing committee.
A bike tour from Lawrence to Lakeview, near Perry Lake, is scheduled for Wednesday, April 25. On Thursday, a concert featuring the Rhythm Kings, a Lawrence group, will be given outside Allen Field. Booze Will be provided at the concert.
A major motion picture will be shown at
p.m. in Woolfright Auditorium on
Friday.
Track events and games, open to all students, will begin Saturday morning, with a guest speaker, a nationally famous group that is yet to be announced will be featured Saturday night. The concert, the only event of the Jamboree, will feature an admission charge, will be sponsored in cash.
Beginning at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, there will be a Bike Criterium as part of the Bicycle Club's Invitational Races. The races will last until 1 p.m. and will be divided into novice, intermediate and experienced divisions.
After the races, a Spring Sing, a competition contest open to any group of one to 24 persons, is scheduled. Each group must participate in at least two groups will be judged on a point system for appearance, effect of presentation, quality of performance and choice of music. All participants will be awarded to winners in the three divisions: men, women and mixed groups.
The race course will be along Jayhawk Boulevard, behind the Kansas Union and along Memorial Drive and West Campus Road.
Some of the events will take place at residence halls. A Gymkhana, a car rally testing the skill of drivers will be at the Lewis Hall parking lot, and a KUOK marathon is tentatively scheduled for Oliver Hall.
Jayhawk Jamboree is financed by Panhellenic, Interfraternity Council, scholarship halls, AURH and the Student Senate.
Last spring the Student Senate allocated £430 for supplies to allow the Haymaker to travel.
The Senate also allows use of ink and the senate mimeograph machine for publishing the infrequent Chronic Daily, another student publication.
THE STUDENT SENATE allocates funds from the student activity fee for other campus publications, such as the University Dally Kansan, the Kansan Lawmeninist and several newsletters. Student politics are generally ignored in the Haymaker.
"Student politics are generally ignored in the Haymaker."
"Student politics isn't really very important to students as far as we can tell." Wiley said. "It's hard enough to find space for the things we are interested in."
The Chronic Daily does take stats at student government, though. Almost every issue of the two-year old Chronic Daily and its predecessor, the Apathetic Daily, lampedon the senate. Sometimes as much as half an issue of the Chronic Daily is devoted to lambasting the senate for such actions, including a fee, alleged allocation of funds to anyone and offering support but no volunteers to various causes.
The Chronic Daily conducted a contest to determine who could fabricate the most outrageous student group and submit a budget request to the Student Senate.
Seven former student senators were also lauded as martyrs in the case of apathy because they had been expelled or were in danger of expulsion for excessive senate absenteeism. Four more were given special credit for having quit outright.
THE ORIGINAL Chronic Daily was begun three years ago by James Beckman and was called the Apathic Daily, according to present editor David Courtwright, Prairie Village junior. The format of the Daily was a parody of the Oranget Daily, even in the name scrawled across the top and the slogans, Courtwright said.
Courtwritter took over editorship of the Apathic Daily two years ago and changed the name.
"The original paper was more virulently opposed to the Student Senate and more predisposed to point out apathy." Court-wright said. "Beckman's philosophy was that apathy was such a dominate force that everything else was sedentary."
The Chronic Daily is now more satire and invective, Courtwright said, although he said he was an advocate of Beckman's apathy philosophy.
"DEPENDING ON your vew, there is something in the paper to offend everyone or something in the paper for everyone to say. "All sides of the spectrum are satirized."
The Chronic Daily is the official publication of the Aardwark Liberation Front, as was the Apathetic Daily. The ALF was formed three years ago.
Courtwright said he had no idea how many aardvarks there were because "if you really want to be an aardvark, then you are not very similar to baptism by faith alone."
Aardvarks, a loose collection of cynical people who occasionally comment on abuses in campus organizations, write stories for the Chronic Downtalk. Courtwalt said.
"A vast amount of students who boycott student elections are really wartakes at the university."
a parody of the Kansan. That issue has been the Chronic Dally's only issue of the semester. Courtney's response for the case reminds me of publicized his intention to do the parody.
About a month ago, the Chronic Dally did
there was a considerable number of fine arts majors who had it in for the Kansan reviewers, which probably germinated the idea," he said.
MOST PEOPLE thought the Kanan
perely was a great idea and long overdue,
but it never was.
The finished product was then placed in the mail boxes of Kansan staff members.
The average Chronic Daily press run of
1,000 copies cost about $5 for the paper.
'Student politics isn't really very important to students as far as we can tell. It's hard enough to find space for the things we are interested in.'
"I expect one more issue this semester," he said. "And it will undoubtedly have something to say about the one-man race for student body president."
Courtwright said The Chronic Daily uses the senate ink and mimeograph machine. The paper has only been published once this year and is sold in a lack of time and exciting local tones.
NOT EVERYONE loves the Chronic Daily, however. Courtwright said that two years ago a physically small male athlete was distracting Chronic Dailies in which KU athletes were satiated. An irate athlete grabbed the d襄ark by his collar and shook him to show his displeasure. He said he was being distracted by attributing such material, Courtwright said.
Courtwright said he thought the Chronic Daily was well accepted.
"Most people love to get it," he said.
"Everytime we hand it out, at least 4,000 persons see it. It has a good hand-to-hand circulation and a lot of people save it."
Unlike the Chronic Daily, which is coordinated by Courtwright, the production of the Haymaker is divided among the 20 writers in the book. They write, who type and distribute the paper.
Those persons who are responsible for producing a Haymaker on a particular day either write the material or select contributions to print. The Haymaker does not write it, but the Court wright said, because there is such a lack of divergence of opinion in the collective.
He said he continually received requests for additional copies.
collective itself is responsible for what's in the paper," Wiley said.
“WE REALLY have too much material and not enough space,” Wiley said. “Sometimes there is a lag of a couple of weeks before something gets printed. However, on slow news days, who knows what will turn up.”
Anyone may contribute to the Haymaker and many have, Wiley said. Anyone may also become a member of the Haymaker collective, he said.
He said the Haymaker did make an attempt to be factual, but acknowledged that articles had a definite viewpoint. And because the Haymaker does not have much knowledge of the Haymaker staff, members usually only print articles in which they are interested.
This is partly because articles get altered and shortened once they have been submitted.
Besides staff articles and contributions, the Haymaker also prints articles from the following websites:
*WE NEVER print things we know aren't true and if we are doubtful we don't print it as fact," Wiley said. "And if we're importantly wrong we'll correct the error."
On campus the Haymaker is usually distributed daily outside the Union and sometimes copies are taken to the residence of the owners. A few thousand copies are printed each time.
Much of what is printed in the Haymaker is not attributed, although occasionally a first or full name will be used at the author's request.
"We reach a couple of thousand students a day," Wiley said. "And it seems we are more legitimate than most senate funded organizations."
"On the whole, we try to make more than one person responsible, because we feel the
"I think we're as credible as anyone, more or less," he said.
The University Archives in Spencer Research Library has a nearly complete set of Owed Dallies and the Apathetic Daily. No more than four daily. New are also collected for the Archives.
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