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Thursday, June 29, 1972
University Summer Kansan
What Price Education?
The recently approved rise in tuition by the Board of Regents that will be $25 more for resident students and $125 for out-of-state students at the state universities in 1973 is too important to ignore. The argument is not that we are being required to pay too much. Every student knows that his tuition pays only a small part of the total cost of his education and that the difference is paid from taxes of one type than from other taxes. We answer, of those taxes and our parents pay even more. Whether the student should pay a higher share is not the concern of this editorial. Rather, the question might well be asked, "Why not assess student fees rather than the number of hours tax was charged last spring and fall?"
for the benefit of those who are profiting from the hourly rate this summer and don't know what happened last spring, a few words of explanation might be in order.
Last spring students were assessed $17.50 per
cursus up to six hours. For more than six hours
they received a $20.00 credit.
If a person took six hours, his tuition was $101.5,
and the seventh credit cost him $125.50, because then he paid full fees. How many students do you suppose to take seven hours or eight or even ten? For ten or eleven, it costs $423.15 per hour, and only if he took 14 or more hours do he do better than the hourly rate of $7.50.
This summer we are paying at the rate of $16.95 per hour for the first five hours and then $12 per hour thereafter. This seems like a much fairer system than the one used last spring, when a student was charged at a much higher rate if he was charged to 13 hours or if he took 18 hours or even 20.
This raises an interesting question: *don't we pay in proportion to the amount of something that we buy?* (I know we really don't in life, but that isn't saying that we shouldn't.) For example, the student who earned 20 or more credits last spring paid the same as those who carried 10 hours or 12, and let's not forget that in some schools 12 hours is considered a full load.
one can hear all kinds of objections to this plan.
Think how much extra work it would be for the Registrar's Office to determine each student's fees by such a system. But using a computer for billing, as KU does, should help tremendously. If it would take extra time, it might be time saved for the University in the long run. At present, many students sign up for more course work than they can possibly handle. The availance of drop skips might also be affected if they dropped a two-hour course they were also tossing two credits of tuition money into the bucket. The indiscriminate dropping of courses causes more paper work and personnel time now than would figuring tuition on an hourly basis.
Another objection: Let's not stiffe the initiative of those who would carry extra hours and profit thereby. But, conversely, why should we handicap them by forcing them to pay at a higher hour rate?
Wouldn't it be in order for the Board of Regents and our own university administration to make a study of this and report it to the public? If the idea is good for the summer question, why wouldn't a comparable plan work for the entire year? Who knows, maybe the income from student fees would be great enough so that these latest increases would not have to be levied.
-Rita E. Haugh Editor
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Historical Feature
Students Backed Hoover in 1920
By JOLENE HARWOOD Kansan Staff Writer
Women were urged to join the newly formed organization and encouraged to attend all meetings.
Although an influenza ban cut the attendance rate at the first meeting to a dozen members, some of them will support by its second meeting.
The "Hover for President club" was organized Feb. 23. Mr. Hoyer received students resolved to favor herber C. Hoover for president on any ticket, according to the Feb. 15 announcement of the University Daily Kaman.
It was supported by students and a score of faculty members representing factions of both the Democratic and Republican parties on campus.
"Other political organizations have excluded the women, but their vote is as good as a man's in Kansas, according to the Hover men, who believe they will be as well as men are." The Kansas reported.
Dean Oln Templin, who held the office of the director of school activities in the collegiate department, headed a ministration during the early days of the war and who was then associated with Hoover, was invited to speak to the club and offered effort to gain greater support.
In support of Hoover and his interest in the University of Kansas, Templin said, "He has
Organizers of the movement "door and not a sentimental dreamer. A man to whom the office of president would be a duty"
been closely associated with him. He is kind, hard-working and I believe next to his alma mater, Stanford, he knows more about Kansas than any other college.
At the "Hower for President to send a letter of appeal to Hower informing him of the organization and its support if he decided to go."
Despite his protests, former colleagues and a committee of engineers promoted the Hoover agency to oversee his announcement himself as a candidate.
This movement in 1920 was one of many across the United States that worked for the nomination of Hower for the presidential election himself realized that he had a status in either political party.
On Feb. 9, 1920, Hoover issued a statement saying that the captain who was sent to this name was placed on both the Democrate and Republican tickers.
Although he withdrew from most of the primaries, his name was left on the California ballot. He received 210,000 votes for the party without making a single political speech or statement.
In 1927 he was again urged to announce his candidacy. His vote was not enough to primary ballots and he became the Republican presidential candidate in June of 1928. Hower, he did not vote from the Electoral College.
March 4, 1929, nine years after the organization of the "Hoverover" team at the University of Bert Hoover the united the oath, thirty-first President of the United States.
Tasadays Content in Uncomplicated Jungle Life
Editor's Note: On the edge of a rain forest in the southern band of cave dwellers whose brain was unknown until last year. A newsman who accompanied an astronaut to a nearby prolonged scientific contact between the stone age-style these people who time forgot.
By JOHN NANCE
fasaday's cave homes in this southern Philippine rain forest
"You are never annoyed or troubled by someone?"
TASADAY FOREST, Philippines (AP)—The Tasaday man squatted at the mouth of his cave home and talked through an interpreter with members of a stone age-style people about the stone age-style people.
"There is nothing we say is bad about anyone." he replied.
a question about what he did with the puzzled frown to brought a puzzled frown to the cave-dweller. It was as though such a thought had never before been heard.
southern Philippine rain forest. FROM SUCH exchanges and observation of the 25 tassaday, it seems that the happiness and contentment of the orchid-leaf-weeping people have grown much more man 'han he can teach them.
Tasaday life gives the appearance of unique simplicity, free of the complications and tensions that beset modern man.
"Well . . . a loud voice and speech are not looking pleasured," he said in an apparent reference to a girl who was the first outsiders to see the
The work and play of the Tasday in their jungle environment reveal a harmony that civilized man rarely achieves.
THE TASADAY contrast with much of what has been concluded about prehistoric man in other climes; there is no danger from hostile people or hordes of killer animals from freezing cold, floods or fire.
The apparent lack of competition, within the band and from outside, must be essential to their harmony. Other factors that contribute to this are the sufficiency of life-sustaining resources close to home.
They say the only other forest people they have known are like them and friendly although they have not seen them for several
years; that their greatest fears
they run and thunder, lightning
and earthquakes, from which
the cower but have not been
numb.
How and why the Tasaday, most of whom are bright and intelligent, remain unemployed as in forest resources as they have are among the many questions scientists are investigating and will continue to answer.
They, together with Manuel Elizaide, Jr., the Panamin president who has led the expeditions, have collected hundreds of pages of written data and 20 hours of tape recordings.
THREE FILIPINO and two American scientists have studied the Tassaday bird at various locations at the edge of the forest last June by Panamin, a government assistance for assisting minorities.
Although much remains tentative, important aspects of their life have been documented:
—Three limestone and conglomerate caves about 500 feet up a 4,000-foot mountain are their permanent homes and have been the Tasmanian name since the time of the discovery. Whether this means several generations or thousands of years is not yet established.
I am writing this letter to complain about the University being open on the 4th of July. The 4th of July is a NATIONAL HOLIDAY. Why, then, on this anniversary of the beginning of our country, the University go to school and work on a NATIONAL HOLIDAY?
Hall or Waston Library or going to classes do not foster respect for our country. In fact, ignoring the 4th of July only means that we should, in the eyes of the University, 'independence' of the Declaration
THEIR UNIQUE language, in the Malayo-Posnoyan family, discloses an approximate 20 per cent of the largest known tongue, indicating to some linguists an isolation of more than 1,000 years, a difference equating generally to a higher German and present-day English.
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July 4th Attendance . . .
—Stone tools formed their basic technology, abetted by digging sticks and wood items fashioned with stone, throughout their known history until a hunter who chanced upon them in the desert produced bits of metal. To some scientists, this reliance upon
Anyone who is employed by the university must sign a loyalty oath. Oath of loyalty Constitution and the Government of the United States. What a mockery! I sign a loyalty oath have to work on the work of the
Shawnee Mission sophomore
I often hear people complain that this country's spirit is dying, that loyalty to our country and a feeling of our heritage is dead. We should be thinking policy thinks that keep people working on campus in Strong
stone suggests their isolation exceeds 2,000 years.
The Tasaday continue to make and use stone tools, although at a much slower rate than availability of knives. The tools' edges are sharpened by grinding them against another stone and the sharp edges are fastened to them by vines or rattan. Any of several types of stone tools are produced in about 15 minutes.
-Michael Lee Schwab
THE AREA over which the Tasdass regularly range is remarkably small, perhaps no larger than five miles in any direction from the caves, a sharp contrast to most previously known hands, who roamed over wide areas to procure food.
—The Tasaday's jungle produces abundant food near the
they to make animal traps, though usually more minor inimini than their lifestyle on their lifestyle parently because they don't eat them. So their traps are relatively inefficient.
Anthropologist Frank Lynch, program coordinator of the Institute of Philippine Culture, remarked on the sympathy, affection and consideration of the visiting visitors as well. They desire to share equally whatever they have to acquire.
caves, particularly in and near a stream that is swift-flowing year around. One typical food-gathering party of five Tasaday collected two frogs, 18 tadpoles, two crabs, one fish and 64 leaves of leaves, flower petals, fruits and nuts in less than two hours.
The Tassaday practice a natural conservation of the resources of the jungle, taking only what they need and no more.
Tuberculosis, which afflicts up to 90 per cent of some mountain groups, was not noted, although it was found in chalcidial achalies that could develop into TB. One appeared in the eastern states and diseases were not a major problem. Tebong said he believed the most common achalion was
minority group he had ever observed. Although the region is endemic for malaria, the disease was not noted.
reveals that four adult males are cousins and the sons of brothers. All male and children were said to be brought up by the adult women say they have come from other places and groups, and have been sent to Sankuda. The men all said their mates were acquired in exchange for gifts to the woman's family. The men also told them a story.
TASADAY HEALTH,
compared to other mountain
people in the southern Phi-
pines, appears superb. Panamin
is the best mountain of the
people appeared to be in
the best physical condition of any
—The Tasaday caves—the Tasaday of oak fortress, no laveries of but a marmor or midden, runs about 60 feet down the mountain from the base of the cliff. The scientists say it may be the refuse of many generations and will help them preserve the site.
- Fire is usually made by rotating a fire drill rapidly with the firemaker's hands. When the wooden base upon which the drill is twirled starts to smolder, dry fire appliance is applied to start the fire
—Tasaday life has undergone gradual and in some ways profound change, since meeting a professor of metal made possible the acquisition of two master's degrees in core of trees. Dafa also taught
-A TASADAY geneology
Northern Irish Economy Improved in Past Year
From the British Record
More houses were completed than in any previous year; the number of homes by 6.7 per cent compared with 0.9 per cent for the United Kingdom as a whole, while productivity in manufacturing industry was down.
Despite the unrest and violence in parts of Northern Ireland in 1974, the region was a prosperous economy of that region improved and expanded in a variety of ways.
MORE NEW cars were registered than in any previous year, the amount of installment credit extended reached record levels
During the calendar year 7,203 new manufacturing jobs were neglected, compared with an average of 6,136 for the years since 1987.
and stock exchange turnover was the highest so far recorded.
Unemployment, though higher than any other region of the United Kingdom, rose less sharply than in Britain. There was an industrial investment in outside Northern Ireland.
Much of the resilience in the face of difficult internal conditions and a sluggish British economy derives from the general economic policy pursued by the UK government since the early 1960's, when the first Development Program was launched.
APART FROM the diversification of the industrial structure, the need for a modern version of public investment that when complements by private investment can be more efficient.
Northern Ireland has its own Exchequer out of which most of domestic banks have their principal underlying the financial arrangements between the Government at Westminster and the Government at Northern Government has been that Northern Ireland should enjoy parity of services and taxation with Brit
about 35 per cent of the GNP being allotted for fixed capital investment. The corresponding figures from 2013 have whole has been as 21 per cent,
The ratio of the Northern Ireland GNP per head of population compared to that of the United Kingdom on rising over the past few years.
EQUAL TAX rates produce lower revenue per head than in the rest of the United Kingdom, because the bonus has been supplemented over the years by the Government at Westminster in order to apply the same standard of services in the United Kingdom.
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
These supplements are expected to amount to $345.8 million in 1972-73 out of an estimated budget of $1.15 billion.
It is expected that substantial additional funds will be required during the year 2015 to counter the effects of civil disturbances and to assist the economy. Two economic measures have already been adopted.
--HELP FOR the Belfast shipyard. The British Government, with 806 4 million in debt and will make a considerable rearward investment in the construction of the yard. This should add 4 000 more jobs to the present 9 000
NEWSSTAFF
News Adviser .. Del Brinkman
Northern Ireland's Exchequer is funded mainly from reserved taxes, transferred taxes and suspensions. It also maintains the principle of parity.
- Assistance in paying local taxes to businesses and shopping centers in Belfast, Londonderry and Newry suffering from terror attacks. Under the plan grants to 75 per cent are available.
Business Advisor ... Mel Adams
Rita E. Haugh