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Wednesdav. February 6, 1974
University Daily Kansan
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Play Poker...Cautiously
If you're in the market for bags to put under your eyes and worries to add to your budget, here is a suggestion: become a poker addict.
Good poker players are hard drinkers, late sleepers and repressed cradle robbers. They will cheerfully take your look at them and they are cramming you full of taco Doritos to distract you during a game.
They will also politely pour martinis that would cripple a horse down your throat during a game, while personally drinking bathwater 3.2 beer that wouldn't make a monk drunk if he drank a case of
In short, good poker players will do most anything to unhinge you from your money and will smile while doing it. They are as benevolent as your best friend, grateful as Soup, the pickpocket, operating in Grand Central station.
Therefore, if some convoluted logic has convinced you that you must play poker to enjoy life fully, you must be prepared to cope with the game's peculiar band of thieves.
Experienced poker thieves always seem to be insurance salesmen or gas station owners. It is rare to encounter one who is also a college student, for students a senior we have limited playing experience.
So, how does a KU student learn
heavy for his lessons without paying
heavy for his lessons.
Self-appointed poker experts
have produced several rather hoary rules for the game over the course of years. Don't stay unless your hole card beats everyone else's up card. Don't stay unless the money odds are equal to or better than the odds against filling your hand. And so forth.
This standard advice is sound and should be followed. Most poker books, however, don't contain advice about matters peripheral to poker, which can separate winners from losers.
Therefore, here's a double helping of advice about those matters:
Don't drink and play poker at the same time. Take a six-pack of Coke to the game and get splashed later on, money you win from all the drunks.
Don't put poker in the same class as Monopoly and checkers—interesting games, but not to be taken too seriously. If you do, other players will clean your clock in record time.
Don't loan money to other players during a game. Why give that clown on your left a $10 loan to he can have a chance to get back the $20 it just took you two hours to win from him?
Don't chatter during the play of
basketball with a teammate, it tells
more than a running mouth.
If you're guilty of any of the above bad habits, do give me a call the next time you want to play. I'll check your watch and bottle of tequila waiting for you.
—Chuck Potter
By BOB SIMISON
Kansan Staff Reports
Budget Hearing Switch Significant
As usual at this time of year, top University of Kansas officials are entering a crucial period of explaining next year's plans for the nation's means committee of the Kansas Legislature.
This year, however, they'll be explaining them to the House Ways and Means Committee instead of the Senate Ways and Means Committee which that's more significant than it sounds.
It's so significant that John Conard, director of University relations and former president of the university, called it "dramatic change," and other KU officials say they're more optimistic than usual about getting money restored that the university could give to the Board of Recents' recommendations.
For as long as anyone can remember, including Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols, whose memory of dealing with the legislature goes back 43 years, the Board of Regents' budget has originated in the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
THEERE. A three-member subcommittee got the assignment to study the budget and operations of the Senate committee, which made a recommendation to the Senate. Few changes were made in the subcommittee's recommendation, which was then given to the governor's recommendation.
Since last year, however, all that has changed. Pryde, Clyde R., H-Yates, Center and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Ross Doyen, R-Concordia and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, agree to make several changes to improve efficiency. One change is to move the budget on the Regents' budget and gave up responsibility for budgets of some other agencies.
The Regents' budget under HIll's system now goes to seven subcommittees instead of one, all of which are the 23-man committees are dealing individually with the budgets of the six state colleges and universities. KU's budget for the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses is $60 million.
HILL EXPLAINS his division of work as
Oil Firms, Fearing Price Decline Resist Search for Energy Sources
(According to Nichols, the full 10 per cent increase for KU would cost the state $300,400 more than the 8.5 per cent increase. The impact on faculty morale "beats" the impact on faculty morale.")
In addition to offering an opportunity to explain these things in detail to the subcommittee, the switch of the budget to the budget in question will be to present the budget in a formal hearing.
And the KU officials want a full 10 per cent increase in general operating expenses and the KU expects to increase for these expenditures of 7.4 per cent for educational programs, 8 per cent for the physical plant, 6 per cent for the computer system and 6 per cent for research and 6 per cent for extension.
The full House Ways and Means Committee will hear budget presentations from KU and the University of Kansas Medical Center Monday, from Wichita State University and Kansas State Teachers Department, from Kansas State University and Fort Wayne College Wednesday and from Kansas State College and the Board of Regents Thursday.
Supply and demand forecasts are meaningless unless they are related to a price. The cash demand for any commodity, oil, depends on its price. The higher it is, the more expensive it is versus. Similarly, the effective supply of any commodity, the amount offered for sale, also depends on price. The greater the price, the more will be offered and vice versa. There is an economic behavior that governments and large companies often try to repeal.
This was an ill-disputed plea to maintain the current price of oil. The executive was fearful that uninhibited investment would spoil his firm's comfortable position.
"that wasn't too satisfactory." Hill says. Conard sees the switch of the Regents' committee to a separateays and Means Committee as beneficial only to the senate committee. Under Hill's system, the legislature will contain at least 23 representatives who are well informed about high education budgets in contrast with the usual senate committee, three senators of the Senate subcommittee.
BY BERNARD D. NOSSITER The Washington Post
LONDON—Right-thinking people everywhere applaud schemes for international cooperation, so President Nixon's call for a conference of oil-consuming nations next month has been widely welcomed.
The Senate committee traditionally heard all the presentations in one day, in a joint session.
The House subcommittee is also likely to hear arguments in favor of restoring $66,497 for women's intercollegiate athletics and funds for capital equipment and repairs.
Indeed, each of the seven subcommittees was to visit its school to discuss the budget. KU's subcommittee—George L. White, R. Valley Center; Wilbur E. Marshall, R. Eureka; Albert D. Campbell, D-Lared; and Lawrence next week. The three-main subcommittee of the Senate Ways and Means Committee could attempt no such visits.
"This would mean we would have to pull money away from other places for this," said Sara.
The more sophisticated international oil companies however, are beginning to unveil their own strategies. These have their customary success in impressing western governments that the interests of oil companies and nations are identical, Mr. Nixon's conference could be costly for them.
thinking of how effectively supply and demand forecasts by a government agency had dropped the price of U.S. oil. The system is now set at $29 per barrel. Department's bureau of oil and gas issued monthly forecasts of supply and demand—at the prevailing price. The Texas and Louisiana regulatory bodies then translated these forecasts into production from the wells in their states.
THE OFFICIALS are especially datable by the low increase of 3.5 per cent from the previous year.
The most thoughtful oil executives are worried about what the Economist Magazine has playfully called the "comeing clip of energy." This imaginative article explores how technology will stimulate heavy investment in the new energy resources—a rapid discovery of oilfields; development of cheaper alternatives from the earth, sea and sun; and expansion of devices like microminiaturals and telecommunications to save energy.
an effort to give an inexperienced committee a broad look at state financing. The seven subcommittees are each assigned the budgets of several agencies for study.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes welcomes the more intense look at KU's budget as "a great opportunity for the colleges and universities to more thoroughly their needs and desires."
Fanciful as this sounds, some of the great companies take it seriously and are concerned about its implications for the price of oil, on which their profits depend. At a private gathering in London the other day, a high-ranking executive openly expressed his fear. The Western World and Japan, he knew, were under siege by "wasteful" investment drive to procure additional and alternative energy resources.
THE MOST deserving charity of Christmas, 1800," the Economist concluded, "will probably be to relieve Arab states run by the cultured unwanted oil."
"I'm just an old school teacher trying to teach these guys," says Hilt, who is in his 10th term in the House, and, at age 61, is looking forward to retirement.
KU officials see other benefits in such a system. Primarily, they believe they'll have a better chance to adequately explain KU's budget to the four-man committee studying it.
KU OFFICIALS want most of all to ex-
The British approach is highly individualistic. But the British are also imprecise in this area, Britain wants international cooperation of the kind that Shultz was cautious about. As Andrew Shontell, head of the UK's intelligence agency, "Britain seems to want to play the game of
The splendidly cynical British oil policy illustrates why the government is rushing around the Middle East, frantically tying up its oil reserves and trying to first completed transaction will bring in 100,000 barrels daily for a year from Iran at $7 a barrel. The shah's advisers have calculated that $7 is precisely the price of natural gas, so the national energy supplies will be encouraged
The system was threatened only by imports of what was then cheap foreign oil. That escape hatch was blocked by the Eisenhower administration, which imposed quotas on imports. It is a matter of more than historical interest that the quotas were imposed after Sid Richardson, the Texas wildcatter, arranged a million dollar loan to help build the Eisenhower's treasury secretary and chief architect of economic policy. The deal gave Anderson a vested interest in the price of domestic oil.)
unrestrained bilateralism” in getting oil
“while holding firm to multilateralism” in
research.
THE OIL executive, of course, was
Despite growing world supplies of oil, the system kept the domestic price from falling. No wonder the executive from the great company would like to see it extended globally.
There, Shaltz hung back from proposals to cooperate in blueprints for "sharing the burden" on the grounds that they would underwrite the existing and notorious price of oil. The real problem, he suggested, was to bring the price down.
THERE IS a parallel to this in schemes currently proposed for financing deficits in national balances of payments. Treasury officials said the memorandations to relax quotas on imported oil have been largely ignored by Mr. Nixon, and that they are not part of an official meeting in Rome of finance ministers.
"SKY, DICK, YOU WOULDN't JUST LEAVE ME HERE TWISTING SLOWLY SLOWLY IN THE WIND..."
(Henry A. Gay is a Monrovia, Calif., policeman. He writes fiction and has a short story, "In Kenta," in "Ten Times" (an "anthology published by Bantam Books."
By Henry A. Gay
Special to the Los Angeles Times
"Why would a guy like you want a job at that?" That's the question I'm asked most often by the public I serve. My simple reply, "I like it," only teases their curiosity.
You see, I'm a cop. Well, not just any cop.
I'm a black cop.
"Why do you do it?" "How do you take it?" "What do you feel?" They keep questioning me, firmly convinced that I'm either a liar or a fool—probably both.
But they're wrong, I am first, and above all else, a cop; the other is secondary.
WHEN I'M OUT there facing the public in that monkey suit and badge, I am The Man. That's all. My color is incidental. What the citizen sees is power, frightening power.
That kind of power evokes resentment but such resentment doesn't surprise me. Who wants to be reminded of the ever-present threat to his own freedom that I represent? But, with the power goes the pressure—constant, intense and equally awesome.
So, what enables us to endure
pressure? Our confidence. We're a cocky
bunch. We've got to be! Every night I keep my lonely vigil in a city presumably asleep. But the calls keep coming. I respond as if it were my own family, secure in the knowledge that no matter what danger awaits, I'll prevail.
EN ROUTE, I'm formulating a plan, weighing the possibilities and my alternatives. Nearing the scene, I adjust my grip on the stool, smoother. A burglar or a robber? Look for people or cars moving about. Something amuses you? You feel it. Cut engine as you move in. Block exits and approach cautiously, seeking cover. A dead cop can't help anyone.
That's what the badge is all about—to protect and serve. I wear it and I'm proud of it, but it doesn't shield me completely. I am also a man, a black man, and I'm subjected from time to time to the same humiliations and indignities as are other black men.
Like when I respond to an "incorrigible juvenile" call at a $400,000 in an all-inclusive apartment, leading citizen frowns his disappointment with the comment, "Oh, Oh. I thought they would send one of the other officers." That's why the calls are assigned by beat, not by color.
But my favorite "white folks" is the well-dressed driver who I stop at 2:30 in the
morning because his car is weaving down the highway. Smelling like a whisky barrel and with slurred speech, he indignantly admits that, “Sure, I’ve had a couple drinks.” “It’s always ‘a couple’; never more, less less.” But he’s not drunk. I’m simply picking on him, a respectable citizen who pays my salary, when I should be out chasing the real criminals. Seeing that I’m a victim of crime, I believe the way some unqualified segments of the population are able to force their way into better jobs by looking and burning.
THAT DOESN'T fmee, me either. As I handcuff him I merely reflect on the four years of hard study it took me to earn that degree hanging on my wall. Surprisingly enough, I encounter similar attitudes among blacks.
I catch a black man robbing a factory late at night.
"Brother," he pleads, "gimme a break."
"To tail," I say.
But these are relatively rare incidents. For the most part, people—of all colors—understand and appreciate the job I have to do in this office. If you come up with the trying times, I find reasons to be proud.
FOR ONE THING, there's personal pride.
Contrary to a popular myth, you don't just walk in and become a cop. Many hear the "call" more than would like to have it
Not that every police department is without internal friction. Cops are the same as anyone else. Historically, police departments have been all-white and ultraconservative, but, with the recent influx of minority-group officers, adjustments were in order. Although it was incumbent on the minority-group officer to learn the inner workings of the system, it was only through training by enlightening the less knowledgeable about the problems peculiar to his own ethnic group.
known—but the standards are high and very rigid.
Readers Respond
Thus, I am able to purge my own fears,
strengthen my own weaknesses and,
thereby, better perform the task society
expects of me.
For the white officer it has meant making an effort to better understand the minority officer, if for no other reason than that he is not a member of the minority presence. This has usually bred respect.
The second reason for my pride is that my work is always edifying. I'm receiving a lesson in human nature that no university can ever teach. I see human nature stripped of all its color and complexity are unraveled from race to race. I see traits of my own character mirrored daily.
My congratulations to Elaine Zimmerman. Her editorial of Jan. 29 was long overdue. It was overdue for two reasons: it was too early in her career; Lawrence area has caused the burden to rest with students by means of a campus privilege fee and second, that it was about time the Kansan began facing its responsibilities regarding issues pertaining to campus problems.
It is unfortunate that students bear the
To protect and serve-I like that.
To the Editor:
Mass Transit Call Praised; Author's Wisdom Assailed
Griff and the Unicorn
cost of limited mass transit program in Lawrence, "KU on Wheels." But like many other projects about the University and the Lawrence community, reliance often has come to rest with the student body. Without student monies many community organizations would cease. Headquarters, the university, support minority programs and others have as a common denominator their beginnings through student funding.
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And so it appears that Lawrence commissioners could follow the student example again by promoting and showing them how to work in groups for example, gave 280 rides Jan. 14, 18. There is a need, a demonstrated need, and a cooperative program between KU and Lawrence could be an equitable problem to an overlooked, long ignored problem.
R. E. Duncan
Topeka
1973 KU graduate
Feline Perception
To the Editor:
In Carol Gwin's penetrating review of P. D. Ouspenny's book, "Tertium Organum," we find the statement: "Since animals have no concepts, Ouspenny reason, they only move by grasping and manipulating the animal the third dimension appears as motion as it moves around the object."
Conrad Henderson
Conrad Henderson Lawrence graduate student
I think it's rather obvious from this statement that Ouspensky doesn't know much about it.
To the Editor:
Advising Decried
Your Jan. 30 story on the CWC programs and the current hopelessness of the advising situation was most interesting and revealing.
It was particularly frustrating to read the various administrative explanations of advising practices. The director of North College observes that giving a student an adviser who knows something about the student's intended major is unnecessary because many students change their minds after taking classes in a school that realize that much of this mind-changing is the result of incompetent advising. When a freshman or sophomore is given poor direction in pursuing study in his major, is influenced to take the wrong courses, and isn't led away from an area that obviously would be more appropriate to this University and may be expected to switch manager several times before, by chance, he finds something that works.
The director of Pearson College says that the student just doesn't realize how complex these problems are.
All indicators point to the fact that the immediate upgrading of our advising mechanism, be it through student advisers or students, should be one of our very top priorities.
the student at a large university has no right to expect any but the most mediocre adaption, and therefore it is difficult to fact be the case; as this University grows and as its curricula become more complicated, its advising program must get better to accommodate the needs of the student.
Clark S. Davis
Webster Groves, Mo., junior
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