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Monday, July 22, 1974
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Buffalo History,
By KATHY PICKETT
Kansan Staff Renorter
"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam," is the familiar beginning of the Kansas state song. And that song helped get David Dary, associate professor of journalism and acting director of University Relation in the study of the American buffalo.
"it may sound corny," Dary said
"but something like that stays
with you."
It certainly stayed with Dary, because he is the author of a recently published book, "The Buffalo Book, the Full Saga of the American Animal."
The book, published by Swallow Press of Chicago, has been chosen as an alternate selection for the Book of the Month Club in recognition of its selection of the Natural Science Book Club.
Legend Combined in Prof's Book
Dary said he always was interested in buffaloes because of the state song and because of a buffalo he saw at the zoo in Manhattan, his hometown.
But his interest began in earnest about 10 years ago when he worked at the NBC studios in Washington. Ted Yates, to whom the "Buffalo Book" is dedicated, was a producer of documentaries. Dary worked on him on one Lewis and Clark and saw
Therefore, Dary went to the Library of Congress and began to research the buffalo to make a documentary on it. But his friend Yates was killed by a sniper's bullet in Israel, and Dary never made the documentary.
from journals of the explorers the importance of the buffalo.
he had decide to write a book about buffaloes. He explored buffalo locations from Texas to Canada and he wrote over 500 letters to set information about buffaloes.
The book is illustrated with more than 100 photographs, including many from the 19th century. One of the unique features of the book is Dary's personal catalog of all buf-
Dary said he used the word "buffalo" rather than the technically correct "bison", because buffalo was the word more people recognized. He quoted John B. Brenner, professor of journalism, who said a bison traveled an Australian washed his hands in.
factions in the United States and Canada. He said there were about 36,000 buffalo today.
Members of the School of Journalism faculty once told Dary he knew enough about buffaloers to teach a class on them. He also said that they were for "communication and the Buffalo."
Dary does talk about buffalo com
Social Security System Failing
Experts Say Increasing Dependents Are a Cause
By RICK HIRD
Kansas Staff Reporter
Editor's Note: This is the first three stories about problems facing the social media ecosystem.
Middle-aged persons planning to retire with help from social security benefits and assistance to earn more.
In just a few years, the Social Security system will be running in the red, the experts are now saying. By 1990, the system will be running at $2 billion a year deficit, according to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
The significance of the possible collapse of the Social Security system is highlighted by the fact that presently one out of seven million Americans in 1880, the figure should be one out of six.
The reasons the Social Security system is failing aren't easily listed. Increasing benefits to an increasing number of dependents, combined with a shrinking work force financing the system, are just a few reasons.
A full 90 per cent of the work force is covered by Social Security. If the system falls, as predicted, many workers who have a disability find it difficult to draw promised benefits.
the system designed to provide retirement benefits for working Americans, is in
One fragment of the growing problem lies in mushrooming benefits. When begun in
Since then, the system has grown to include other beneficiaries. In 1939, the program became a family plan, including caregivers and residents and survivors of covered workers.
There have been other books about buffaloes, Dary said, but he tried to make his more complete. He said he wanted to write a book on buffalo horns, combining history, legend and lore.
1935, the system provided only benefits for retired workers at age 65.
In 1950, coverage was extended to regularly employed agricultural workers and self-employed nonprofessional people. Benefits were extended to include dependents' pensions for wives under 65 caring for their children. In 1982, a retired females and for divorced women.
From 1954 to 1958, benefits were extended to farm operators, ministers, the public.
personnel and to policemen and firemen on a voluntary basis.
A new program started in 1966 was an insurance system for totally and permanently disabled workers after age 50. The eligibility for benefits was reduced to 62.
From 1960 to 1972, the system was changed to include benefits for any disabled workers, not just those age 50 or older. It is also designed for dependent husbands, widowers and parents.
Students 18 to 21 years old became eligible for benefits, people 72 years old or older who had not worked long enough under the old age program were required to have coverage and disabled workers under age 65
were made eligible for the new system of medical insurance, Medicare.
This system, however, depends on many factors that might not remain stable. The amount of inflow from taxation, the size of the estate, or the timing of flowing out for benefits are a few of the factors.
The staggering cost of this program was to be financed by a constant flow of funds
The problem facing the social security system is that benefits paid out are far greater than tax money flowing in. The experts are saying that either benefits must beumed, taxation must increase or a complete overhaul of the system must be made.
music in his book. He explains that a mother, buffalo calls her young with a rattle. *How do they learn?*
Dykes Picks Athletic Corp. Group
The members of a special committee to study the Kansas University Athletic Corporation were appointed last week by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Charles Oldfather, University attorney, is the chairman of the committee. Oldfather is a member of the athletic board and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Faculty representatives are William Conboy, professor of speech and drama, and Jess McNish, adjunct professor of the University and KU's current NCAA representative.
Student representatives are Todd Hunter, Oklahoma City senior and vice president of the study body, and Leslie Buterin, Oklahoma senior and member of the athletic board.
Alumni representatives are Nancy
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"There needs to be a greater opportunity for programs and activities to serve a broader base of the student body," he said. "I would also hope for a closer relationship between the athletic administration and the students and faculty."
Calore said that women might change their minds about being in the Army, but that they have not had the opportunity.
Women are joining the army in Lawrence, but not to fight, to do Army maneuvers or to play war games. They're trained to be leaders of an Army Reserve Band to be organized.
Boozer, 1730 Indiana St., Bob Billings, 2035 Quail Creek Drive, and John Eberhardt, Wichita lawyer and chairman of the athletic board.
The band will give performances throughout the state, he said. The first will be Sept. 7 at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo.
The 28-piece band, which will be stationed in Lawrence, is under the direction of Capt. Ray Calore, administrator of the band. Calore said that 20 women had been sworn Calore said that others were found, practice would begin. Calore and the first practice would be in two weeks.
"There is talk in the wind about engagements in Washington and San
Dykes said Saturday that he hoped the committee would make recommendations that would result in a fuller integration of the athletic program into the University.
The committee will probably consider changes in the constituency groups represented on the athletic board and make a recommendation on whether board meetings should be open to the public, Dykes said.
"I thought it would be a good opportunity for women at the University," Calfe said. "I think it would be a great opportunity."
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Mary Clark, Iola freshman, and Diane Price, Lawrence senior, both said that money was an important factor in their joining the band, and Price added that she was also interested in the travel and the experience of being in the band.
Clark said she joined mainly for money, but she also wanted to get some type of band experience. The idea of being in the Army didn't bother her, she said.
"Since it's the Reserves," she said, "it's not one other job that has certain obligations."
Enlistment in the Army Reserve Band is for three years, Calre said, and pay and financial aid for students is provided. Women who join will be required to spend the bulk of their time on military rank and conduct. But, Calre said, this wouldn't be like basic training because
it's merely an introduction for women only to the Army.
It will basically be a stage ballet, Calere
that you hope to hopes to make it a
marching ball, well.
"I don't want to go with the straight military band," Calore said. "First all women," he said, "then a civilian- Army type band."
The Student Senate petitioned Dykes last spring to create the committee after a controversy about an increase in the price of present season football and basketball tickets.
The band, Calore said, would have a wide repertory.
The band will have two women band leaders, Calore said, in keeping with the all female idea. He added that because the band was being closely watched by Army, officials
I think 'Shaft' would be a little more appropriate to the normal military band
"The Army wants to see this (the band) happen and it see work," he said.
John Beisner, Salina senior and president of the student body, said he hoped the committee would explore the structure of authority within the athletic corporation and define the role of the corporation within the University.
But despite Heywood's demands to "give rid of those two incompetent, rotten people," the group agreed to form a committee to present written demands to the committee. The committee would be decide whether the officers of the IEC would be invited to attend.
IEC Students . . .
One student said he had been treated like a child by Sauer. When he tried to leave class after completing his work, he said, "I was in my room for the whole day and then pushed him back into the room."
According to some reviews of the book, Dary succeeded in his attempt. "Publisher's Weekly" called it the "definitive book on the American bison."
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"The Senate's great concern was that the athletic corporation was concerned only with its future existence," he said. "The corporation should pursue goals that are important to the entire university community. They shouldn't be concerned only about money."
IEC students representing different countries were also chosen to be on the committee. They include Hadi Pourjamshid, Iran; Clearman Tomellin, Brazil; Francisco Velasquez, Colombia; Guy K. Koumba, Gabon, Africa; Musbah Yuns, Libya; and Carlos Garcia, Dominican Republic.
One student complained that in order to walk an IEK walkout, staff members had to wait for 20 minutes.
Former IEC students on the committee are Khamis, Rheza Peyovrian, Iran graduate student; Graciele Tomasissi, Vijja Coaparat, Thailand graduate student.
Others said they'd been told that "in the U.S. students take orders from their teachers."
Faculty members on the committee are Ivan Barrientos, associate professor of
Representatives from the IEC teaching staff are here. John C. Gahr, PhD, USA, graduate student.
The committee should consider recommending a restructuring of the athletic board to better represent women's athletics and on-campus interests. Beisner said.
The committee will also:
-Review the athletic corporation's business and make recommendations for change.
-Review corporation operating procedures and make recommendations for change
Report on the extent and appropriateness of the use of University physical facilities by the athletic corporation.
The committee is expected to report on Oct. 1.
Disch also told StudEx that the deadline date for filing for Student Senate elections Oct. 2 and 3 would be Sept. 1. A movable pool, booth would be used in the election and would move among the various organized living groups to increase voter response, he said.
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for the position. The Judiciary chairman would then serve as a judge. He and McNish agreed on the proposal and hoped it would be in effect by fall, he said.
In other action, StudEx approved the payment of one month's rent on the Wesley building with the stipulation that this was to be the last rent to be paid. John Belsner, Johnson senior and student body president, the rent on the building was $16,000 a year.
Beiserin said another means of funding the building was needed because the rent was too high. Beiserin was concerned that some organizations that use the building would have to find new space. Hilltop, a children's day care center, and Blacketle are some of the organizations that would have to relocate.
StudEx approved a $75 line item change in the allocation of the Student Bar Association. Linda Trigg, Tribute law student, presented the change to StudEx to help defray the cost of traveling to a contest in Chicago Aug. 1 through 4.
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Although Dary said the slaughter of the buffalo in the last 100 years was “a terrible story of what man has done,” he said Buffalo hunters are because of the scarcity of land for them.
He said three acres could usually support one buffalo- under good conditions. Therefore, only surplus buffaloes are killed today.
Dary's book includes some recipes for buffalo dishes. He said buffalo had a slightly wild taste. It's twice as chewy as beef, but it said it cooks faster. He said that buffalo was low in cholesterol and that many doctors recommended it for patients.
The subject of the buffalo is evidently very important to Dary. There are pictures he would like me to show showing the locations of buffalo herds. On his desk is a little toy buffalo. Once his colleagues at University Relations got to talk, he bought him a special gift—a buffalo chip.
Dary said that once people learned he was interested in buffaloes, he began to get many clippings and additional information. He said he probably had enough for another book.
Some information he had to leave out. For instance, Darya said he ran into a tremendous crowd.
"My problem was that I had so much information I had to boil it down," Darya said. "I kind of wonder whether I throw a kid of the reader so fast that they said a bit."
He said he kept looking for some information to prove an idea he had. He wants to find documentation to show that the U.S. government has a valid official policy to get rid of the buffalo.
Dary said he believed that the Army in
particular wanted to kill buffaloes as strategy in getting rid of the Indians.
Dary said he was surprised at the great number of persons interested in the buffalo. He said he thought the buffalo story served as an escape route to the old West.
The book also has a lot to do with conservation. Dary said. The buffalo almost disappeared like the passenger pigeon, he said.
In his book he quotes General Phil Sheridan, who praised the balfour slaughter because it was "destroying the Indian's commissary, and it is a well-known fact that an army losing its base of supplies is placed at a great disadvantage."
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But most important, Dary tried to tell the buffalo in the American West.
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Whatever is known about buffaloes, Dary will probably have in his book.
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