Wednesday, February 20, 1974
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Raid Anxiety Illogical
There's been some rather incoherent babbling about that drug raid last week—something about the detrimental effect all those arrests might have on the University's public image or, worse, KU's fiscal fortunes in the Kansas Legislature.
Newspaper stories concentrated on assessing the impact of the raid on those arrested, on athletic wear and J.C.'s image and on the 1975 budget.
It's almost as if Atty. Gen. Vern Miller's raid was a spontaneous occurrence with no apparent reason toow, however, is to ignore the obvious.
The raid itself showed that there was plenty going on here to warrant a raid. Law enforcement agents had gathered enough evidence to bring charges against 29 persons, which is probably nowhere near the total involved in illegal drug activity.
And it's significant that only one of those 29 was charged simply with possession of an illegal substance. All the others allegedly were involved to varying degrees in the sale of marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine, opium or THC.
Of the 38 counts of violations of marijuana laws, there were only six counts of simple possession. Of 18 counts of other violations, only one was for simple possession of amuletamines.
So Miller & Co. weren't simply giving people a hard time for throwing innocent pot parties. They were after conscientious illegal traffickers.
Such persons obviously believe that the drug laws infringe on their personal freedom. Even so, there's no place for outrage when blatant violators are held accountable for their violations, especially when Miller has shown three times before that they will be.
As for the timing of the roundup, law enforcement officers have found that effective undercover agents are no longer effective once their work leads to arrests. So such agents gather evidence until some development threats to blow the case. Then there comes a general roundup. Such was the case last week. Miller said.
Indications are that this incident won't shatter the months of effort developing favorable attitudes toward the KU budget in Toneka.
Legislators who would raise a hue and cry about subsidizing a bunch of good-for-nothing pot smokers fortunately are the kind that lack influence in the legislature and need publicity back home.
More sensible and influential legislators are likely to consider drug abuse here less rampant than it was four raids age.
So perhaps it's time to stop worrying about the budget every time KU makes the news. First there were worries that showing up with a budget, then there were worries that the raid would do it.
What's the next worry to be?
That the legislature won't want to fund a University that has a rapist running loose in its town?
—Bob Simison
Who Rushes to Help the Russians?
Uncounted thousands of North American ears have thrilled to the recorded words of Canadian Broadcaster Gordon Sinclair. “What a wonderful country,” America* is heard in the background.
By MIKE MCGRAUDY Special to the Newsday
What follows is a loose translation of a record that has been enjoying enormous popularity in the Soviet Union during recent weeks. In the background, the stirring strains of "Song of the Volga Boatmen" can be heard.
The Russian ruble took another pounding this morning on German, French and British exchanges, and this Pole thinks it is time to speak up for the Russians as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people in all the earth.
Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, our native Poland were literally lifted out of the debris of war by the Russians who poured in thousands—yes, thousands-of Moscow-trained government officials and 14 rubber
AS LONG AS 20 years ago, when I first started to read party organs, I read about the uprisings breaking out in East Earl County, and modern weapons to help? The Russians did!
WHEN THE HUNGarian government was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Russians who propped it up. When distant countries—even small remote islands—are attacked by outside forces, it is the Soviet Union who rushes to help. Cuba is one of the examples.
And their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. Never mind that it is something that happens to them, including the French, I was there, I saw it.
Yet, this winter, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens have been hit by frostbite and, in some instances, influenza. And nobody—but nobody—has helped.
While other countries are busy minding their own business, who is it that has sent engineers, technicians and mentions experts throughout Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa offering loans and technical assistance and protection? The Russians!
Who is it that built the steel mills in India and the big dams in Egypt and missile silos outside Havana? And now newspapers about the decadent war-mongering Russians!
I'd like to see one of those countries build its own intercontinental ballistic missile.
Come on, let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a missile to equal the Soviet fractional orbit bombardment system? If so, why aren't they using them? Why do so many countries buy Soviet missiles?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man in Siberia? Why has no other nation ever even tried to build a salt mine north of Irkustk?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radies. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. And you talk about Soviet technocracy and you get an iron curtain stretching from one pole to the other!
Other country on earth has a Sputnik or a cosmonaut. The Soviet Union has orbited more dogs than any other major power on Earth, but it isn't forget the caviar from Mastichan!
You talk about scandals, and the Russians put their right up there in Siberia so that everyone can write books about them in later years.
You talk about women's liberation and you talk about a woman getting equal pay for equal work. In the Soviet Union women have been running the pneumatic drills and building the highways and working as garbagepersons for decades!
When the Russians get out of this bind—and they will—who could blame them if they say: To hell with the rest of the world! Let someone else rush jet planes to Egypt.
someone else send rockets to North Vietnam. Let someone else circle the globe with nuclear-powered submarines.
Yes, I can name you a thousand times that the Russians have raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name me even one time when someone raced to the Russians in trouble? No, Napoleon doesn't count. The Caspian who does rate of three inches a year and who is rushing into one, No, our neighbors have faced it again. And I'm one Pole who is damned tired of having them kicked around. They will come out with their flag high. And when they do they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are glaring over their present troubles.
I just hope Poland is not one of them
"SERVES GOLZHENITSYN RIGHT. STRIPPING HIM OF HIG CITIZENSHIP!"
Wins, Defeats Didn't Change Him, Ryun Says
By TONY KORNHEISER
NEW YORK—He grew up in Kansas, running down the back roads of the flatlands that stretch forever, running past the wheat fields that monopolize the landscape, running past the villagers who call their skyscrapers silos and measure their lives in harvests. He ran as Glenn Canter, who Wes Santeen ran before him, but faster. The world is enough, in 1967, to set the world's record for the mile. JR run a mile in 3:51.1.
Since then Ryun has spent countless hours, days and years running farther but never losing sight of it.
Now 27 years old, married and the father of three children, Jim Ryun remains an ambassador.
carried him all over the world to a variety of lesser successes and crushing failures. Yet, through it all, Ryun says, the famer never made mistakes in his life but him rich. The defeats never traumatized him. And the public analyses that were revealed to him were wonder why people made such a dasein view.
"Everyone has his own opinion of me," Ryun said. "After I lost some races people began to get very philosophical about me and I got frustrated." And I was strange. It was a misconception that
perpetuated itself. I am a quiet person, I was only 17 years old when they started to speak English.
Ryun first received national attention in 1964 when he became the first schoolboy miler to qualify for the Olympics. By the Olympics in 1968, Ryun held the world record and was considered an invincible runner. Although he tried to accommodate the press, his races were invariably the best in the country, and he warn'd after a race, often causing reporters to miss deadlines while waiting for his post-race comments.
"I never intentionally refused an interview," Ryan said recently in a telephone
Congress Advised to Use Caution In Designing Health Insurance Plan
By WILBUR J. COHEN Special to the Los Angeles Times
Although there is general acceptance of the idea, however, serious questions remain about what type to adopt and what impact it will have on the quality and price of health care. These are important issues for healthcare professionals using medical costs that now take 2%cent more.
The long ideological dispute in this country over national health insurance has mellowed to the point where the question no longer is whether every American should be covered by Medicare, but how and when. As President Nixon recently, it is an idea whose time has come
before Social Security, suggestions for before state-centered on private plans or state program plans were presented of the constitutionality of Social Security in 1937 raised the possibility of a nationwide health insurance system, and this idea became the basis of the Blue Shield and private insurance plans.
Fears of socialized medicine didn't materialize, but Medicare demonstrated the long-term implications of broadening health insurance; greater use of medical
Medicare was a milestone; perhaps more, a watershed. It opened an era of constructive participation by government agencies and private organizations for financing and organizing health care.
services and the need to reduce unnecessary care, the demand for more trained medical people, the complex task of monitoring the quality of health care and improving its delivery while curbing rising costs.
There has been an amazing change in the old attitude that any insurance or financing mechanism should not meddle with the health delivery system. Now there is a growing opinion among the public and the medical profession that basic changes in the way care is delivered should support for group practice plans, or health maintenance organizations (HMOS).
The Nixon proposal would use both insurance companies and government subsidies. A rival plan, the Kennedy-Griffits bill backed by organized labor, calls for universal coverage financed through the American Medical Association system. The American Medical Association and industry support bills for tax subsidies and general revenue spends for health care.
All of this was the backdrop for President Nikon's recent Proposal for National Health Insurance, a bill which joins nearly a dozen varied plans pending in Connarex.
THE KENNEDY-Gritiffis bill, however, tries to correct all of the apparent faults in our system at once, and thus probably makes it worse. The Republican Congress to follow a step-by-step piece.
meal approach to solving highly complex issues such as delicate doctor-patient relations.
Realizing this, Congressional leaders should move carefully toward a more responsible and responsive health system. That is achieved through Medicaid, it is that participation by medical professionals, consumers and taxpayers is more important than the program's design. Everyone ought to be involved in the take-off as well as the landing.
But before there is any wholesale expansion of health insurance which would further burden health facilities, care should be to end unnecessary use of hospitals.
The simplicity of the Kennedy-Griffits bill contrasts sharply with the Nixon plan, which is a mass of complexities, discriminatory provisions and probably unnecessary administrative costs. The Nixon plan adds rather than cuts red tape: it would have a Rube Goldberg effect on the health delivery system.
Whatever broad, effective health insurance system is ultimately adopted will cost more money, whether in taxes or employer-employee contributions. It also will have far-reaching implications for the community and problem system. And it will create problems.
by Sokoloff
Griff and the Unicorn
While he was dominating the middle distances, reporters were content to treat him accordingly. But when he lost decisively to Kip Keino in the 1988 Olympics at Mexico City, the aura was shattered and the questions asked, "What's wrong with Jim Runy?"
interview. It wasn't my fault, but I needed some time to myself after a race. I don't know how to explain it to someone who's never been down that same road, but after a race I couldn't speak right away. If I try to, it just comes out garbled. I needed three or four minutes to compose my thoughts. But those guys need me sooner."
"I never understood it," Ryan said.
"People figure that because I had talent I should never lose. It was assumed that I'd never lose until I died. How many times did I have to prove myself before people accused me for what I was, accepted what I did? I didn't even understand it. I people that, but it never got printed. I think people liked seeing me lose."
Gone are the days when Ryun was able to feel that his very presence in the race frightened the competition as he believed five years ago. In some of his final amateur games, he won with the ball and he fell down in his qualifying heat in the 1,500 meters at the Munich Olympics and never made the finals. Soon after Munich, Ryun turned pro, and his dream of finally winning that gold medal—which people have two separate Olympics—has all but faded.
"Realistically, it won't nappe in my lifetime," Ryan said. "But we American
runners) won't survive unless we make the Olympics open to everyone, regardless of professional standing. . . I know it's easy for me to be critical now but runners have to accept that they are not going to Olympics are only for wealthy Americans or foreign runners. I'd love to go back and try again. I think the Olympic games are not bad, but I don't think I'm going to make it more any way.
"I never thought I'd see him so influenced by the alrighlu'd dollar," said Villanova woman.
RYUN SAID HE didn't do it for the money.
"Economically, I had to do it. I have a family," Ryan said. "My goal is to help them."
His decision to turn pro may have cost him the med, but he made it eagerly.
"I am only grateful I can be somewhat of a pioneer in (pro) track and field. If the money is to come after my time, at least I will be able to make the dream come true." Ryan said.
family, krym soon... in goal is to make sure my family is caused properly." He played in the pro track tour. His official prize money was $13,000 after expenses. But he said he didn't feel any jealousy that college basketball players signed multi-year contracts for millions of dollars while the men's team competed in penny-races.
Ryan's current attitude is based on the premise that what's good for track is best when it's good for people. Riggs in Ft. Lauderdale—a race that traditional track people thought a sacrilege.
Ryun said that shock was past now, and his life as a runner—spending most of his time in the snow—was over.
"I would only get $2,000 if I won," he said before losing to Riggs, who ran a half-mile plus 10 yards compared with Ryun's mile. "I could have turned it down . . . I guess I would have turned it down five years ago . . . but it started out as a mini track meet, because I thought it might bring people out to see 'rack you hadn't seen it before.'
"Things are fine now," he said. "My head is still on my shoulders. I know where I'm going. And I'm having fun now, as much fun as I ever had before. I'm just going down that road, and I'm going to see where it eads."
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Vo-Tech, Special Ed Major Concerns
This is the fifth of a seven-part series by State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, on the 174 session of the Kansas Legislature. Hess is a law student at the University of Kansas.
Education has always been a major consideration in every legislative session. This year, besides appropriations, two areas are of great concern because of major changes--vocational education and special education.
In review, a special committee this summer heard testimony regarding changes in Kansas vocational education. The committee recommended preparation and labor demands were not congruent. That is, more professionals were being trained than the Kansas economy could absorb. However, evidence showed that many students were where vocational training was needed. Other testimony stated that the vocational education program was insufficiently funded and that career education would provide more options for high school students.
Vocational education is considered a very important aspect of education. It is also a key factor in the job market.
Funding was also a major consideration for the committee. Area vocational schools stressed that more state funding was needed in the education was to be improved and expanded.
THE COMMITTEE found that the established 2.0 mll levy was not groupt funding for certain districts. Also, each district's funding varied greatly, so the
However, the State Department of Education estimated that fewer than 40 per cent of the exceptional children were receiving special education services.
Districts would be paid an amount equal to the tuition charged students from their district who go to another district for their education.
committee asked for repeal of the 2.0 mill levy. This would allow for budgeting of the
State funds for the promotion of vocational education were also recommended to be discontinued by the committee. The committee thought its recommendation to equalize district expenditures would include funds to promote vocational education so separate funding wouldn't be necessary.
School districts are allowed to provide cooperative special education services on a shared-cost basis. Last year, 250 districts participated in these cooperatives. Federal funds are also available for school district use.
KANSA'S ROLE in special education has expanded steadily. Increased state funding and the incorporation of special education programs in school districts have resulted in more services offered to handicapped and exceptional children.
Special education services are provided by school districts, state and private institution and schools, such as the Cappar of Tampa, in Topeka, or privately framed classes.
KANAS'S LEGISLATION in 1969, required that mentally retarded children must have access to school district services. Also, in 1974, the Department of Education epithet children to be included in these services. After these two directives are implemented on July 1, 1974, the State Department of Education estimates that 90 mentally retarded children who need the service will be receiving it.
The committee thought special education services in Kansas needed to be expanded, and they agreed that attempts to provide public education by a state must be made on equal terms to all citizens. Therefore, the state assumes the responsibility for special education exceptional children.
HOUSE BILL 1672 was introduced this session to improve coordination of special education services. This bill would repeal all existing state special education laws. Funding for programs would be equalized and state aid would be increased.
Cooperative programs with other districts are encouraged, including those
The bill would also establish an advisory group to assess the development of special education in Kansas and improve the quality of the services offered.
The committee also specifically studied and recommended legislation concerning funding of elementary guidance counselors and adult education and made recommendations regarding alternative schools and teacher negotiations.