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Opinion
University Daily Kansan, March 23, 1981
Chancellor Budig
It'll take some time to sink in, but soon that title will be as familiar as Chancellor Dykes or Acting Chancellor Shankel.
Chancellor Budig.
Gene A. Budig, the 14th chancellor of the University of Kansas, doesn't take over the reins of KU's administration until Aug. 1, but the process of familiarization between the man and the University has already begun.
His arrival should help end the situation of Acting University, where many top administrative spots are either vacant, temporarily filled or otherwise in the process of transition. Inevitably, the decision-making process is hampered by a transitional administration—although Shankel has been far from just a caretaker chancellor. Still, for the stabilization process to be complete, the University needs a permanent leader, and Budig's selection should initiate that stabilization from the top on down.
Budig has pledged to travel all over Kansas to strengthen the bond between the people of the state and their biggest university. That's good; the people should be interested in it and it in them. His resolution is a good start for a new chancellor, yet his biggest problems as chancellor will come right here on Mount Oread.
Budig will head a University still feeling the reverberations of the allegations of athletic program abuse, as well as KU's
potential problems with Title IX. The best thing Budig could do, if the allegations are still afloat, would be to immediately find out if the allegations are true, and if they are, to admit the problem openly and correct the situation. Such action would restore confidence in both KU's administration as well as its athletic programs.
In addition to his other duties as chancellor, he'll have to convince a skeptical legislature of KU's financial needs. Budig already has taken a step in the right direction by visiting legislators in Topeka, and he was only officially selected as chancellor last Friday.
Budig also will have to make some decisions regarding increased student representation in all levels of University affairs; the wise chancellor does not forget that the University's purpose is to serve the students. And Budig will be confronted with a companion problem, that of declining academic standards in some KU schools and the prospects of declining enrollments in others.
In short, Budig faces a University beset by problems—but problems that can be solved, if he is willing to act, and if the university is willing to cooperate. From this day on, students, faculty and administrators should welcome him as fully as possible in his new position, so that the period of transition come Aug. 1 will be minimal and the period of problem-solving may begin at once.
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Achoo! The answer is blowin' in the wind
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Ahh, spring. It's a lovely time a year, isn't it?
The cold is gone, the trees are blooming, and the gentle breezes keep things from becoming too warm.
Editor David Lewis
Life is just one long session on Wesco Beach, right? Wrong. With spring comes that dreaded menace, hay fever. What joy there is in the warmth and sunshine is lost in a chorus of sniffles and runny noses. There's sneezes in them breezes.
Business Manager
Terril Fry
Rick Musser
Chuck Chewings
DAVID LEWIS
General Manager and News Adviser
KANSAN Adviser
Era of autos must draw to a close
"The American dream is to drive coast to coast without encountering a traffic light." A-Q-7.
We've come a long way since Henry Ford's dream of a motor car for the great multitude. Everyone and his sister asks Mom or Dad for the keys to the car. High school hot rods thunder with bravado through small town neon nights. Custom auto shows pack them in form Keokuk to Kansas City. Richard Petty is king of the South.
Automotive assembly lines churn them out at rates ranging from 48 to 60 cars per hour, in effect providing a car for every garage and more. This is the great American auto age, when the economy is ruled by Ford, GM and foreign cousins like Toyota and Datsun. And don't forget their merchant brothers, Exxon, McKinsey, JPMorgan and America's favorite toy and the economy would be wrecked, or so say those with the money for adequate public forum.
Costly toys they are, with options running the gamut from sun to moon roofs, from stick shifts to digital dashboards. And when the toy breaks down, look out—a auto repairman have become a shop owner. They buy an air conditioner shop here, a tire store there, astronomical prices everywhere. More toys mean more playgrounds, and the asphalt never stops pouring. "Sorry, ma'am, your 100-year-old house has to go. Highway's comin' through!" It is perhaps the ultimate gesture of luxury, yet nature when a tourist can unabashedly drive through the heart of a dying Redwood tree.
There are about 3,600,000 square miles of land in the continental United States. We have constructed well a over mile of highway for every square mile of land. When completed, the highway would be as long as the Great Wall of China. The Board of Public Roads is not ashamed to relate the
gruesome details: "Total excavations will move enough material to bury Connecticut knee-deep in dirt. New right-of-way needed amounts to 1½% air acres." Every acre covered with asphalt is one less acre available for a school, a hospital, a farm or a park. To serve the motorist, homes are razed, wheatfields leveled and waterways diverted.
Given a choice of buildings to destroy in clearing the way for inter-city highways, highway engineers invariably select low-income housing areas. Why? Well, the land is
KEVIN MILLS
Even those citizens secure from the fear of displacement have to contend with the physical assault of automobiles. Motor vehicles are believed to be the greatest single source of air pollution in urban areas, and auto accidents account for nearly 50 percent of air pollution. In urban areas, the figures are more staggering. Vehicles are responsible for at least 90 per cent of the carbon monoxide emissions in urban areas, and hydrocarbons. (Carbon monoxide is poisonous and restricts oxygen flow in the blood;
cheaper. The city is glad to be rid of deceptive eyesores. And the evicted citizens rarely can afford the legal fees to fight back. Have we become so callous that we can place money and asphalt over the lives of destitute people? The transportation shelf in Watson library is teeming with reports on the economic impact of building highways; books on the human impact of displacement are nowhere to be found.
hydrocarbons irritate the eyes and damage vegetation). Recent emission standards have only begun to curb the tide of air pollution, and the standards will succeed is yet unknown.
Surveys in a number of countries indicate that people consider traffic noise the most annoying kind of unwanted sound. Studies confirm that traffic noise predicates over time and increases the likelihood unlikely to cause acute physical damage, it does interfere with sleep, impede concentration and distract from conversations. Traffic noise may speed up the process of age-induced deafness, as evidenced by studies conducted in urban dwellers to their country counterparts.
Certainly the most appalling consequence of our autobiophic society is the daily crash and gash of cars and their passengers. Over the past five years, auto accidents have accounted for 50,000 deaths annually. This may not seem a great sum compared to the 250 million plus population of the United States, or the monetary mega-figures involved in maintaining the national budget. But it is time to consider the highway fatalities as abstractions or victimization of young alternatives. It is the automobile system efficient enough to compensate for the yearly dead and wounded on our nation's roads? Is there a better way?
Quite a few scientists and engineers think so. A myriad of mass transit proposals ranging from pneumatic tubes to air-cushioned trains have cropped up in recent years. Some of the best-known Japanese bullet train, which can attain speeds up to 160 miles per hour. The Japanese already are working on a modified version that would travel 300 miles per hour with less noise and pressure. Despite these advances, the United States still lacks a concept of cars and buses, pollutants and all.
A mass transit system would decrease the probability of accidents by eliminating the numerous individualistic driving quirks and flaws that contribute to automobile accidents. Not a lot could go wrong on a train or tram gliding smoothly along on a one-way track, all under the watchful eyes of a well-trained pilot an omnidirectional computer. Such a system would be well-suited for the well; well, rather than doing out $8,000 for a new car, and countless more cash for insurance, gas and maintenance, a person could pay for mass transit directly by means of income tax.
Resolution of the American transportation problem can take two forms: One, the status quo will maintain indefinitely, until the oil runs out; or two, the American public will convince the Fed to increase the mass transit, despite protestations from the Ford-GM-Exxon bloc. The second option seems unlikely, given the American preoccupation with four-wheeled freedom. But surely a reduction in individualistic freedom would be less likely than a reduction in life accrued from a public transit system. People need no longer die just to get from here to there.
My life is like one larger Allerst commercial. I've been feeling it coming on for a couple of weeks now. At first I couldn't decide if it was a bug or a symptom of the symptoms of bav year coming on early.
It seemed too early, but now it's official. With
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the passing of the vernal equinox, spring is off- officially here. Things are only going to get worse
The culprit of all this misery is pollen. It travels through the air and somehow manages to find its way into your nose. Your body fights off the foreign particles by releasing histamine.
To but fight off the large amount of pollen that is in the air, and subsequently in your nose, too much gets released. That's when the problems set in. All of the histamine causes the symptoms of hay fever, which include sneezing, rumy nose, and the things you read on the back of a Contact box.
So it is your body, and not the pollen, that actually causes the problems. Your body, in trying to help, causes you to be miserable, objective, and so for all the times you've abused it on a public out.
If having your body against you isn't enough, there is another twist in the hay fever season. You can't get rid of the pollen. Something always is blooming and releasing pollen.
In the spring it is the trees. In the summer it is
the trees and leaves until the first frost
(it is the highest color of water)
This loathsome weed is the bedbug of the plant world. You just can't get rid of ragweed. Lord
Bush!
In the 1930s, the Work Projects Administration
It is not until October, when the first frost usually comes, that there is any relief. Until then, we are at the hands of the wind and weather.
in New York City tried to get rid of it by spraying salt on 132,600 square feet of rauged, but it was no use. The pollen levels were still as high because the wind had blown more in.
The weather is another area that causes problems. There are two schools of thought on the weather. One says that because the area has not had much rain, there will not be as much pollen to blow around, because the plants won't grow.
Authories say that the best place to live in is the tip of Florida or along the Pacific Coast; Maybe, I remain suspicious. Hay fever is tricky; it follows you, just waiting for its chance.
But there is the other school of thought. It says that the dryness makes it that much easier for pollen to be picked up by the wind and carried to sensitive noses. You just can't win.
I've tried to outfit a couple of times. I was in California for a vacation when I was young. Because people had told me that California is good for allergies, I was looking forward to the trip. After an afternoon at Disneyland, I got worse than I had ever been.
And living in Kansas doesn't help at all. Kansas is a hot spot for blighted lotions. You can't get away from it.
Or if I miss my medicine just once, I will pay for it. Usually this is when I'm out and II'm trying to impress someone. It's really embarrassing to be alone with a stranger or to sneeze in your beer as you make small calls.
But it is useless avoiding it. So I've dutifully stocked up on antihistamine and Kleenex and hope that those 600 tiny time capsules do their stuff.
Ahh, spring. What a wonderful season you could be. In the meantime, I'm counting the days. There are only 192 days until October. Maybe the freeze will be early this year.
Letters to the Editor
KU computer terminal abuses reflect department problems
To the editor:
I was pleased to read the article "Terminal abuse does not compute" about the abuse of accounts on the University computer. I agree that abuse of account resources on the computer is a serious problem on campus. However, according to the definitions of abuse stated in the article, I must list myself as one of those abusers.
As a student assistant in a computer science course, I have the privilege of owning a computer account. Also, as a student in a computer science course, I have access to the computer class account. I use these accounts for the purpose for which they were intended; that is, to program, test and run projects for the classes that are involved.
However, I must confess that after 12 hours of starting into a terminal, I do inquire in an occasional game of "Star Trek," "Lunar Lander" or " Adventure" to relax. Furthermore, I believe that I deserve this privilege. How dare the people of the computer science department and the Academic Computer Center accuse me of stealing data from these games and do these game accounts exist on the system if they are not to be used by people who can have access to them?
There are people who steal resources from accounts for no purpose, but they should not be held accountable for the use of us who use accounts for legitimate, constructive, but otherwise nonacademic, purposes.
David Lerner
David Lerner Overland Park senior
Some of the remarks made by the faculty of the CS department and personnel of the computer center in this article exhibit their arrogance toward, and dislike for, the common student using the computer facilities. My conclusion is that the people running the computer facilities and the ones who attempt to teach computer science do not care about the average student, but just wants a little basic understanding of how a computer operates.
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Doug Cunningham
Pipestone, Minn., freshman
If the Kansan had published instead a picture of two males of roughly that age, would they have been referred to as "two boys?" I think not. When will the Kansan, which professes to be more socially enlightened than the rest of us, speak archaic, chauvinist and sexist practices?
I am writing concerning the caption that accompanied the picture in the lower right-hand corner of the front page of the March 4 Kansan. The caption uses the phrase "two girls." The two females pictured definitely do not look like 10 or 11 years old. Certainly the phrase "two women," or perhaps "two young women," could have been substituted for "two girls."
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