4 Wednesday, July 12, 1972 University Summer Kansan Taking Stock In the first editorial written for the summer session Kansan we made several promises. We said we would dig into the news that concerned members of the KU community to try to become a newspaper for our readers. Whether we have accomplished this or not is up to you to decide. Have we given local news the proper degree of emphasis? In the business environment always the temptation to take the easy way out and let the wire services provide us with all our copy. There are some who would argue that this is exactly what we ought to do. After all, it is the national news that is important, and what happens here at home is provincial and hardly news in the larger sense of the word. Also, KU students are busy people and they don't have time to read lengthy texts. They need brightness of the day in capsule form. Many subscribe to no paper and see only the Kansan, so it's the Kansan's job to keep them informed about what's going on in the world. This, of course, runs counter to our original intent, so it might be time to take stock to see where our news emphasis has been placed. Campus Enlightened Lights On 9 Lights Off 0 Thank you! Wire Week Local News Services Advertising 1 47 36 17 2 50 31 19 3 55 25 20 4 38 19 43 5 59 26 15 6 63 25 12 Average 52 27 21 Accordingly, we made a little study of the Kansan by taking one issue each week and analyzing its contents. We measure the column inches devoted to local news and pictures, those devoted to wire and syndicated stories and the amount of space used for advertising. Below is a tabulation of an issue for each of the six weeks that we have been operating this summer. The numbers have been expressed in percentages to make comparisons more meaningful. Summer school students are supposed to be experts at analyzing tables like the one above, so we'll let you draw your own conclusions. You'll note that some days our advertising staff has had better luck than others, but the facts speak for themselves: the Kansan is giving half of its space to items about the KU community. Furthermore, we have not bypassed the national scene, so those who depend upon us for this type of news have not been completely neglected. There is one facet of all of this that is too often overlooked. The purpose of the Kansan is to serve as a practical learning opportunity for students enrolled in several journalism courses. In the process, we have to put our own emphasis upon the local scene to give our reporters experience in finding news first-hand and in writing it for the community of which they are a part. -Rita E. Haugh Editor Here are brief sketches of McGovern's key advisers: McGovern's Key Aides Include Lawyer, PR Man He is an increasingly influential adviser, who could have a key role in fall. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - South Dakota Democrat Sen. George McGovern goes into the drive against President Nikon surrounded by aid and gunmen. He is expected to speak in the party's 1968 primary campaigns. - Gary Hart, 35, campaign manager. A Denver lawyer who was Rocky Mountain coordinator for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Hart went to work for McGovens in the spring of 1970. - He was the architect of McGovern's successful drive for the nomination, supervised floor activity at the Democratic National Convention and is planning McGovern's fall election drive. Low-key candidates wouldn't take a Washington post if McGovern elected His goal; to bike around the country. - FRED DUTTON, 48, political adviser, Top aide to Kennedy in the 1968 presidential campaign, nominated participates in early McGowen for President, and is applauded until this spring's California campaion. —Frank Mankiewicz, 47, national political director. A lawyer and onetime press secretary to Kennedy, Mankiewicz left a syndicated column to The New York Times, working for him at the 1968 Democratic convention. - Richard Stearns, 27, assistant campaign manager for non-primary states. Active in the 1968 Eugene McCarthy campaign and with the party reform commission headed by McGovern, Stearns joined McGovern after attending Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. —Gordon Weil, 35, executive assistant. An economist and writer, Weil joined McGovern in 1970 as press secretary, has become his top traveling aide with major influence on foreign and economic issues. He's also the man who guards access to the candidate. TED VAN DYK, 36, part-time adviser and speech writer. In 1968, Van Dyk was Hubert Humphrey's chief traveling aide. He opened a business in New York City briefly as vice president of Columbia University. Kirby Jones, 32, press secretary. After serving with the Peace Corps in Latin America, he worked at The New York Times and Oftener's unsuccessful Senate campaign in New York in 1970 before joining Van Dyk's public relations firm. He became traveling press secretary for years, despite a lack of newspaper experience. —Richard Dougherty, 50, speech-writer and politician adviser. A political writer for the New York Herald-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, he is author of *The Fight to Save Our World*, press secretary before moving behind the scenes. Historical Feature Senior Women Had Keys Senior women living in organized housing were able to check out house keys to remain on the grounds of the Sept. 18, 1962, Kashan was the third year in the history of the Associated Women and the women had been given the keys by the AWB Board of Standards. Each organized women's house had a locked key box from which the keys were checked out and the keys were returned. All sensitized had to be returned to the "return box" by 7 a.m., following the check. Then the senior on duty was given the keys, no irregularities had occurred. A senior woman's key privilege was immediately revoked if: —Her escort stepped inside the door after regular AWS closing hours; She engaged in or failed to report any irregularity with regard to the key system to the house president and house director. —Any other person entered the house with the key check out and as the result of the senior's unlocking the door: —Her key was stolen or lost; —She used any key other than the one bearing a University of Kansas tag and checked out to her; The entire houselost the senior key privilege if: —The president or senior delegate failed to report any irregularities of known or suspected abuse by the staff of the Dean of Women's office by 8:30 a.m. —There was evidence that keys —The key box keys and outlets were not immediately available for check on demand by an adviser or University of Oklahoma. or the key box had been tampered with in any way. —The exact stipulations above were altered in any way without the specific consent of the AWS Senior Privilege Board. —The key box was left unattended in any unlocked place. Air Conditioning Off In Several Buildings Parts of Malot, Haworth and Flint Hall have been without airconditioning this week. An exact count of buildings on campus with non-functioning airconditioning units is unknown. Oduashi can probably sympathize with every instructor, student and administrator who has been suffering through the heat and humidity, though, because even he has not been exposed to it. The grounds are also knocked out four or five days ago. When temperatures rise, often tempers flare, and lately there has been a little of both on campus. Leo Oudasdh, assistant director of the physical plant, buildings and Grounds, was unable to say how long the building was undergoing repairs. Ousdahl pointed out that Buildings and Grounds had only four mechanics and four transectors who were able to work on the airconditioning. It is difficult to hire experienced mechanics, he said. "Anytime you have extremely hot weather, a major unit with go out," said Harry Buchholz; director of Buildings and Geospatial Services at the University of Illinois. Buchholz said that there was no strain on the system, but that the equipment was getting old. "This is the first summer we've had this much trouble in the last 11 yea," he said. --during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. "Thus we conclude our educational telecast . . . and now, our National Anthem: "O, say can you see ee-ee. . .?" Chairman O'Brien Uses Tact, Humor MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP)—Lawrence F. O'Brien is a rarity among political chairmen. He uses tact, humor and persuasion where many others have wielded gavel and raw power. Can anyone imagine tough, automatic Sam Rayburn, who used to be as much a convention fixer and banders and smiling from the rostrum and imploring, "Please, please, in the aisle right in front of me . . . please have your reunion later?" But that's how O'Brien does it. And it works. "Going into that large hall, with those thousands of people and wielding a gavel, I was curious in my own mind about how I would fare, about how well I might be able to do it," O'Brien said Tuesday. "It could have been and it still could be a very disturbing experience of a personal disaster." "WHEN I opened the convention at 8 o'clock that first night I had at 'let's get it over with.' It's going to be quite an experience." O'Brien betrayed no nervousness. He had spent some 30 hours with parliamentarian James O'Hara and other members of the committee, passing all the necessary parliamentary problems, and he was able to make the many decisions that only the chairman can make. "I've had very limited experience in chairing meetings. I'm not a parliamentarian." "This is my first experience on the podium," said O'Brien who has a reputation as a political leader in the successful 1960 presidential campaign. "Kennedy." THE CHAIRMAN felt "revened up" after the long opening night session and invited aides to come to his 16th floor to unwind and chew over the session. It was 7:30 before he went to bed, and he was up again at 10 to receive a call from Sen. Edmund Muskie. Even touring the tougn creolements fight, O'Brien had few occasions to chide the delegates for disorder. "You try to be as persuasive as you can . . . "Eighty-five per cent of these people are new, at their first convention and yet the milling and the renewing of acquaintances and the chatting and chattering here and there frankly was not as extensive as I've seen in previous conventions. "SOMETIMES 80 or 90 per cent of those delegates were in their seats and I kept saying to the other 20 per cent, 'You're being unfair to your colleagues, the other delegates.' And they'd applaud me." Only rarely does O'Brien lose his cool. One of those occasions was at 4:42 a.m. the first night, when the session, the longest opening in his career, began. Area to Gain by Remote Sensing He mocks it. "Obviously him said, but then he eneded 'Aw, come on fellows,' he said, 'let's work together.'" There was a crowd of newsmen in the aisle around the Illinois delegation and repeated pleas to clear out did no good. By JOLENE HARWOOD M. Studies being conducted at the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc., using remote sensing devices to obtain environmental data. County area could be of help to various county programs, according to John C. Barr, Shawnee State College's research assistant for the project. The Remote Sensing Laboratory is an interdisciplinary group of researchers that work in the environment through sensing devices carried on aircraft and spacecraft. The devices include laser scanners and cameras. The Project's first flight was conducted May 18. The aerial photography being done in Douglas County is now being used to record the features of the topography of the area. Barr said. "AT THAT time, four cameras took four simultaneous bands (pictures) utilizing different filter combinations to separate the three bands." These multi-bands, made with thin materials, allow the searchers to differentiate between crops as well as to discover problems and disasters, be said. Each picture covers 6.76 square miles. The entire county has a large collection of photographs which Barr then pieces into an uncontrolled mosaic. It takes approximately 15 minutes to paint Douglas County. Barr said. Aerial photographs will be taken monthly through November. Aerial photographs are October because of the harvests. These multi-date bands will reveal changes in crops during the 30 day periods when one crop is irrigated. THESE DATA will then be fed into the IDECS (Image Discrimination Enhancement Combination System) which will identify resources and differentiate between crops, Barr said. For example, comparisons could be made of crops grown in different soils within the county. The object is to utilize this Herbs Still In Use Treating Varied Ills "like many cultural items, folk medicine can be shown to be based on a common belief of their scene of present use. Dr. Kimberly says, "To see the castor be growing so commonly in African lands, an American is a native African nian." From Kansan Wire Services COLLEGE STATION, Tex.-If you offer you a little tannis room, you'll alsu you don't, I laugh it off. The most common plants—the castor bean, piril peppers, pepper permitt, rosemary and basil—were imported to the New World. THE OIL of the castor bean, one of the most common folk remedies, is used by many Amer- ians as a laxative and lubricant. Using plants and parts of plants to treat disease has attracted the attention of Texas A&M University researcher who is studying and classifying herbs found along the banks of their medicinal plant. A seminar was conducted last month to inform city, county and state agencies of the various uses of the film data base. Potential uses include land use surveys, water supply management, rangeland management, water supply information and crop yield conditions. Herbs—or folk medicine—are used all over the world to treat various ailments. And though herbinal medicine appears to be disappearing, it still forms a distinct medical tradition on ethnic group to ethnic group. "A GREAT many women use plant remedies before going to a doctor," Dr. Kim says. "Some women have told me that they need a doctor without quick relief, but to her medical medicine." She has concentrated her efforts on plants that grow along the border in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. So far, Dr. Kimber has classified more than 400 specific herb medicines made up of either florals or flowers, flowers, fruit, bark or roots. AERIAL photographs can also be used in water pollution studies to determine water currents, flow directions and currencies and the amount of algea. The Remote Sensing Laboratory, as an interdisciplinary organization, combines its projects with the University's data hoped that this cooperation will extend to various county programs and that the University will be able to provide an aerial survey data for Douglas County. Additional remedies in the Mexican-American pharmacoea include a tea of zendole leaves for kidneys and respiratory organs, a tea of laurel leaves to help start the flow during inflammation and a brew from twigs and bank of straw for diabetes Along the border, the ailing seeking a herb remedy visit curanderen, or folk cures, who complain for their particular complaint. information in making land use maps. The maps show the differentialis as crop land, new and old residential areas, undeveloped land. The maps would show such differentials as crop land, new and old residential areas, undeveloped land. Many other persons visit herb shops, which are legal, and buy the different plants available without inquiring into their use. Many people later treat papaya fruit is one treatment for indigestion. "Most curanderares practice clandestinely." Dr. Kimberly says, because their prescriptions are for medicines and medicine without a license. "Although we only invited 11 people, it will probably be a month before we know how much interaction the seminar was the beginning." The project is being funded through a three-year, $2,000,000 application grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration going to B. G. Barr, director of the Space Technology Laboratory. The money provides for research into the ways in which data gathered by remote sensing can be used by local, state, region-based agencies to deal with the resources and the quality of our environment. “THE MAJOR emphasis is on the environmental aspects of the research and how the information gained can best be used to benefit the people of Kanaa as the nation.” B. G. Barr said. Through the grant it is hoped that our specialist and the data user can common meeting ground through workshops and seminars to aid learning. 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B. G. Barr said. A World Beyond—Ruth Montgomery "Although we had test sites in other areas,we had never used The idea of using Douglas County in the area of remote sensing was developed by John Barr. Douglas County as a whole," he said. "I decided there was no chance to start than home Douglas County. It's rapidly growing urban area, but there are not agricultural, and therefore of other areas of the state." From Kanaan Wire Services GUATACHTAL Germany - Iceland Back Forest village looking for a wife, find a girl wearing a "Wollpom" birth certificate. Business education hire the special management team to manage maintenance and service business sites. The Wollpompon—a large bonnet shaped much like a Tex Ritter cowboy hat and decked with several layers of fire-red cotton balls—indicates the young lady is still available. Those already attached to her head are world by sewing black cotton balls onto their bonnets. Bavarian Headdresses Tell If Women Married THE WOLLPOMPON was confined to Gutachat. Ladies throughout the Black Forest have been don the headresses for special occasions such as picnics, folk weddings and for Sunday stubs. There's a Wollpomp or similar bonnet to fit almost every arm. It comes in size from no larger than an apple to large, swooping cowboyhats with wide brims and weighing more than 10 pounds. The "Kopfputz," a brightly decorated coatwork worn by young ladies after they reach maturity. The fabric is a tight-fitting Hood-type cap, are two of the most popular. Both signify the wearer is a virgin. Girls in grade school get to wear a "Schaal," a simple scarf with two buttons. Parents and mothers and other elderly ladies are obliged by centuries of Black history to wear "schwarzwoolschall" (black wool scarf), whenever possible. Day best "Schwarzwoolschall" (black wool scarf), whenever possible. DESPITE THE cumbersome weight of the larger headaddresses, few maids consider them a burden In some regions, the size and weight of the hat reflects the importance or size of the community or town. 11 In Schoenebach, a scenic little farming community, a "Schaepeh" decoration may consist of a large ball or bouncy ball no larger than an apple. But in St. Georget, farther north, and other large towns, arrangements may include flowers, ornaments, staircases, and other festive adornments. Some village costumes recently have become the hottest thing on the West German anthem song. Costumes for 50 years or older may fetch $100 or more in large city shops. There is a ritual involving hats There is a ritual involving hats which some girls face sadly. 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