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Monday. May 6, 1974
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
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The Real World Jump
Hank Aaron might have been speaking for KU's 1974 crop of graduating seniors. He just thanked the seniors he saluted after hitting his 715th home run.
Quite so. For seniors, "it" has been four or more years of tough courses, demanding instructors, parking tickets, residence hall food, 3.2 beer, loud stereos, blind dates and the other nonsense one must endure along the way to getting a diploma.
After all, you've spent thousands of dollars and lost two inches of skin from your nose to get that credential. Let yourself go a bit.
Diploma—what a wonderful sound the word has! Wouldn't it be nice to paper the walls of your room with your diploma? Of your diploma? You deserve it.
Naw, really, it's been a barrel or laughs, hasn't it? We will-have-come all that stuff. And now only the easy part is left. All you have to do is jump back into the Real World, buy a home, enjoy your job--you've got
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one, don't you?—and live happily ever after.
Jumping back into the Real World will be easy. So what if you have to change your room or least you won't have, to park in Q-zone any more.
Business Advisor  Mel Adams
Business Manager  David Hunke
Buying a home will be even simpler. First, just brush up on a few details like FHA and conventional loans, MIGC loans, title insurance, emergency money, or insurance, urgently needed. As soon as you have all that information down pat, well, you're ready to buy.
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And your job. If you don't already have one, you must be some sort of hozo, in which case you're never going to get a job, so don't worry about it. If you do have a job, just buy yourself a Hartmann briefcase and a bottle of Scope and you are all set.
Seriously, it's going to be just peachy to graduate. Some of us have putzed around for nine years before we went back to college and going to be quite pleasant to leave.
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One is tempted to be very solemn and sentimental about leaving the confines of all these ivy-covered walls. Aside from the instant nostalgia summoned by the very act of leaving, there's also the thought that the Real World can be rather intimidating.
But it's not. In the Real World you don't have to endure Western Civilization or put out your cigarette every time you turn around. In the Real World you can forget about Vern Miller. You can even leave him behind completely but you'll never see him in the Real World you can come home and watch "Gunsmoke" instead of having to study economics.
Living in the Real World is going to be nice, isn't it?
Chuck Potter
Corruption Not Rife, Educator Says
NEW YORK-Because of Watergate and many recent cases of lawbreaking in business and finance two propositions seem to be gaining wide acceptance.
By ROBERT J. DONOVAN
One is that corruption is rife among college-educated people who should know better, a prime example being the large number of accidents accused in the Watergate scandals.
The other is that universities should, therefore, emphasize moral and ethical instruction—especially, as one columnist advocated recently, in departments of business administration and political science and in law schools.
William J. McGill, president of Columbia University, disagrees with both propositions.
HE SAYS THAT the ethical standards of scholarship in universities today are already high, and that it is a simpistic approach to moral morality. Above all, he says he fears that any such effort on a large scale would lead in the direction of state morality or state morality.
He says that corruption isn't rampant in America, but rather that it is conspicuous in particular areas, such as politics, selling and merchandising.
"Which set of values are we supposed to touch? McGill asked during an interview the other day. 'Which are we supposed to touch?' McGill said. How is the ethical system to be defined?"
"You can't advocate state culture or religion. You find that strongly developed in the communist state. The Soviet Union is a far-right party, but it has powerful ethical restraints on its members and casts out those who violate them. I don't understand why state religion or morality would help us."
"It is a truism that morality is a very personal thing. I am always suspicious of public morality. Public morality is like public patriotism—a mask for soundrels."
McGill, an educator with a great deal of sparkle who was formerly chancellor of the University of California at San Diego, wouldn't talk about any particular figure in the Watergate case, but the gist of his remarks was clear enough.
"You can look at all the bright young men who can be bought," he said. "The country is filled with people like this, giving lipstick to people who don't do not really believe. These are people who are trying to stand public for an old-fashioned set of rugged ethical values largely because they found this was good for them." The effective publicly and successful in business."
McGILL SAYS HE thinks the country is in the grip of a moral crisis, or more particularly a crisis in values, in which old beliefs have been replaced and haven't yet been found to replace them.
European manners and style. The third "is a very powerful development in American courts of law to try to create through legal analysis a state of moral neutrality in the law . . . a compilation of what is constitutionally protected in American life." (The New York Times, December 9, 2015) What is legal behavior and what is decent and moral behavior is enormous."
MGill cautions against indiscriminate charges of corruption in the United States.
"The sense of widespread corruption in the country is probably wrong. Corruption is located in an area related to political institutions and bureaucracy where persuading people of your adherence to a set of values is more important than the set of values themselves. Image, front of the enforcement of rugged ethical values is the embodiment thing rather than practicing ethics."
"It appears to me that if you look at the ethical standards of scholarship in the field, what Fakeling'saking results is a sin that casts you out of the academic community completely. The sense of rigorous ethical behavior in the study is very powerful inside the university."
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"FROM WHAT I have seen of the standards of ethics of three corporations on whose boards I sitt (Texcox, American Farm Bureau, McGraw-Hill. I am extremely impressed."
"I know of a case in which the management of a large oil company was approached to pay off the political leaders in the country, so it could sell oil. It could have been done easily. With the price rises nobody would have known. To their everlasting credit they said: No way. That is more common in the less community than people give credit for."
"Looking at my own community and the way these businesses are run, I am not a believer in corruption. But I see this crisis in values and a strange transition in which people in politics have tried to sell themselves on the idea of concepts in which they no longer believe."
If teaching public morality would be a will o' the wisp, is there nevertheless a relationship between higher education and ethics?
"In so far as higher education can be construed as a search for truth, there is," he said. "I think that part of the ethical system of any educated person is that he seeks what he believes to be true, that he does not take action which diminish the rights of others."
Readers Respond
Suicide, Reviews, Garters Anger Readers
To the Editor:
I feel something must be be concerning the article printed in the Kansan May 1 release.
I was shocked by the very poor taste and lack of discretion used in printing such an article. Apparently, since a suicide had been reported the previous day, the editors felt it necessary to print an article explaining why such things happen.
Considering the fact that the person who died was a friend, I'm afraid that if the only people I knew were students, Charles Neuering can give for students taking their lives are "unrealistic college goals" and that it is spring, then that makes them more prepared toemen are qualified for their respective goals.
John Jenkins didn't kill himself for either of those reasons, and maybe if the Watkins Mental Health Clinic had done more than listen to him for 10 minutes and give him a prescription, then maybe you wouldn't have the need to print such a poor article.
James David Stockman Overland Park junior
Merit Due for Actors
To the Editor:
I was in floating in the clouds this morning after the Ionesco Festival until I read the review by Kansan reporter Michele Lonsorfer. Three plays were included in the program, and credit was given only to three actors of one play. The gross omission of one of the principal actors in the play Teddy Oitukunda, the actor in question, also presented a poetry reading for which he received no credit in the review
Moreover, no mention of all the actors in "Rhinoceros" or "La Cantatrice chauve" appeared in the review. It is certainly far more demanding to speak French for students whose mother tongue is English than it is for French persons to learn a role
Jeffrey M. Osikowicz Assistant Instructor in French & Italian
in French, Yet, not one name of any of the "Rhinoceros" cast saw print while recognition was given to native speakers by Roy Biley, David Belz, Hector Quemada, Jon Bechler, Jennie Archer, Pam Sturm, Sharon White, Shelly London, Jorg Burgland and Wayne Deryx, merit at least the same recognition given to the other performers
To the Editor:
Radio Format Grows
We are responding to an opinion printed in the Kansan by Jim Cambron, regarding the changing status of the student radio station KUOK. Having been isolated from KUOK for a year or so, he seems rather ill-suited to express the opinions that he voiced regarding the new KUOK. We wish to strongly counter his arguments.
For many years, KUOK was regarded by many as a "jock shop," catering only to the needs of jocks, not the entire student body. Today, the KUOK staff has nearly 50 dedicated members, and that number is constantly growing as student interests in broadcasting careers grow
Currently, KUOK has expanded to encompass many different types of music, from folk and rock to pop and hip-hop, a goal of providing service to students that they can't obtain from any other local media. Formerly, KUOK limited itself to programming mostly "top-40" music. This shift is due to
To counter Cambron's feeling that commercialism is the only means by which creativity can be achieved or maintained, we would urge him to listen to our fellow citizens at the national nation's finest radio stations, and it would be utter nonsense to say that being an
educational FM station stitches creativity. The very fact that KUOK is attempting to reach the entire student body and faculty by working toward changing to FM would indicate that our capabilities for creativity are presently increasing) greatly.
As for the individuals mentioned in Cambron's letter, we are happy that they had the opportunity to learn at KUOK and now have jobs in professional broadcasting. We are grateful to Cambron's letter is still a staff member of KUOK and is continuing to benefit from the opportunities present at KUOK. A large number of students at Cambron's Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City have former KUOK staff members employed at their stations. Perhaps it has been Cambron's unfavorable experiences in broadcasting that has allowed him to write his extremely mature letter.
As for the future of KUOK, all of the students and faculty of the University of Kansas can expect to hear much more of us this next school year.
Paul B. Hulse
Station Manager, KUOK
Lawrence Sophomore
David C. Smith
Continuity, KUOK
Winfield Junior
John P. Easley
Preamble Director, KUOK
Lawrence Sophomore
Frederick S. Hesser
Production Director, KUOK
Shannon L. Jones
To the Editor:
Any dispute that the McCollum Hall women's softball team may have with the officials will be dealt with by the team. The coach, Dennis Gillies, for its story (Kansan, May 1), was not "a
Publicity Disdained
The McCollum Hall Women's Softball Team
While there were indeed inconsistencies in officiating through the softball season, they seem due primarily to poor communications between the intramural office and those participating in the games. KU rules were not made available to teams and apparently not to the officials either. We hope these inconsistencies might be rectified as they are brought to the attention of the coaching staff so that care to be considered such poor sports that a "dispute" of this nature must be taken to the Kansas.
spokenism for the McColm team." Fans in a gesture of loyalty and in the heat of anger, felt it their duty to handle the situation publicly through the Kansan. The team, while concerned with the situation, did not see it as a public matter.
by Sokoloff
Surely, after all of the work that an active Affirmative Action unit on campus has been doing, we would think that the Kansan would have had more sensitivity than to run a picture of a female leg, complete with underwear showing, in connection with a story about the return of the garter belt. We could also imagine these pictures like these really contribute to the prestige of Kansan feature articles, there is the question of taste. The picture is an insult
Garter Shot Insulting
Griff and the Unicorn
To the Editors:
Classical Queries
to women and to men who feel that they could find their pin-ups in more discreet places than on an outside page of the University newspaper.
This contempt for everyone's sensibilities was further shown by the article's asking men—who, presumably, have little reason for caring—their opinion, and granting some of the more women-degrading answers the dignity of a direct quote.
In short, by printing this tasteless picture and article, the Kansan did no good for intelligent men, no good for women, and could for itself. Surely a better way could have been found to fill up more than a quarter of a page?
Overland Park Freshman
Valerie J. Meyers
Overland Park Sophomore
Lynn M. Chester
Lawrence Junior
Milton S. Ys,
St. Louis Sophomore
St. Louis Sophomore
Kristine A. Guttu
I am glad the Kansan is devoting more space to classical record reviews. Although Kenn Louden's review of the four Brahms symphonies conducted by Claudio Abbado is basically a good one, there are, however, a number of points that I must take issue with.
To the Editor:
To begin with, I must object to the
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reviewing of a record set that is not easily obtainable, and that quite possibly will never be released to the general public as a set. How is the reader to determine for himself if the reviewer was right or wrong in his opinions of the records in question?
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While it is true Deutsche Gramphmom makes records of superior quality, the German recording company in the world." That distinction belongs to E.M.I. of Great Britain, which releases its recordings in this country under the Angel, Seraphim and Ivan.
The Symphony No. 2 with Abbado conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (DG 2530125) has been available in local record shops since early 1972 (a point Mr. Louden failed to make), but a recent Deutsche Grammusponn catalog in my hand is available from the company has no intention of releasing the entire set domestically in the near future.
Even if it was released in the United States, the list price for the set would be $3.92 ($7.98 per disc) and it is reported that Deutsche Grammophon will soon raise its prices to $6.98 per disc—either way, a far better price. Mr. Louden's "about $23" price estimate
The entire set can be purchased, but only by mail from the International Preview Society, a Chicago-based classical record club.
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The Days of Beer and Dandelions
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By MICHELE M. LONSDORFER
Kansan Staff Reporter
After two years it's goodbye—so what?
I am going to experience the "Future Shock" in my own France, getting a new president and maybe a new political regime—so what. What remains of my uncle Sam's are dandelions and an Uber.
Trip $4,417.
Student remain to her Haehl, encourage the sal until a
Dandelions stand for the bright and disappointing things that made me send everyone to bell or worse—the computer smile, the superficial friendliness, the invitations always in words, rarely in facts.
Dandelions for the sickening feeling of being the object of a fleeting moment of interest and then becoming just another dumb foreigner. Why? Simply because I happened to think differently and ignored things that were evident to everyone but myself.
The heat goes on and so does the frustration when nobody even tries to acclimate you to these obvious things, and when the squirrels seem to be the
only likable creatures on campus.
At that stage, how much would I have preferred a good yell or a good conversation which could have taught me something? But criticism isn't in fashion here and you just don't squeeze the Charm! The result is an inflation of your room. You can't move over Jayhawk Boulevard like mushrooms after the shower,
That is enough to make you happy to be here. Simply because my silly questions and ideas could find a follow up, because I could watch the Watergate hearings and think that freedom of the press after all wasn't completely a matter of speech.
"Roughing it," however, brings its own reward. Since the motto is adjust or leave, one tries to adjust and develops a skill that allows you with the faddings of previous standards.
entree the days of beer, when the friendship of a happy few is like a warm sweater for a rainy day. People no longer need to worry because they are ready to go a little out of the way for you.
because I could read Art Buchwald, Peanuts and William Buckley, because of the many parties with guitars, beer and wine togetherness and the surprises at Sambo's.
Most of all, I liked the challenge that each new day provided. Even if my articles would look like ground beef after having gone through the editorial process, even if the burden seemed to be too much it taught me to always look higher.
So, for all that mummy-jumble that me make realize as Browning said, a man's reach should always exceed his ability to move. And what thing that I will remember from my editing class, and I am grateful. As for anything that came my way to help me breached my mind, I am happy. And I would go through it again, hopefully better.
Therefore, I take my leave, sending to you Charlie Brown and fellow students some sweet sour love from France.