4
Monday, June 26, 1972
University Summer Kansan
Is It Only Academic?
Probably the most important recent event that will affect KU was the hearing that took place last Thursday and Friday when the Board of Regents considered the 1974 budget. It was plain to see from the complexity of the total request that KU is concerned with more than just those items that might be classified as strictly academic. Items such as overtime pay, moving funds, sidewalks and lighting improvements may not be considered "academic," but they are vital to the operation of a school such as ours.
At the present time it appears that most of KU's requests were honored, indicating that an honest, rather than a padded, budget was presented. Among the items that were not immediately accepted were overtime pay for security officers, which may be pennywise but poundfoilish if a real emergency should arise. Comparing one state school to another with the idea that "what we do for one we must do for all" doesn't make much sense, either, if we accept the concept that each school is different and that even academic programs are not to
The biggest question is this: What will the Legislature and the Governor do with the budget after it has passed through the hands of the Board of Regents? Many changes will no doubt be made by those who feel they have greater knowledge and are more informed than the twenty-one governors in our situation and the Board of Regents, who should represent some professional know-how in this business of education. So, a budget is proposed and then it is revised, only to have some items slashed and others decapitated. Such prodecures have resulted in dishonest budget making in some states where a great deal is wrong. But we must also and that what is left over will be adequate to finance the operation. Let us hope that KU will not have to provide inflated budgets in the future to protect itself from the legislative paring knife.
be duplicated, whenever possible. But maybe raising such a question is only academic.
Rita E. Haugh Editor
The Sporting Life
Everything's no longer up to date in
the latest version of the vulnerable cow town
is trying to get there.
How? By out-sporting every other prairie metropolis. What Tom Pendergast did for the town by providing red light districts and open saloons, the city is trying to do with games. This may be more wholesome; it also is more chancy.
with Omaha to provide professional basketball at the aging and cramped municipal auditorium. The Mo-Hawks, who play hockey or would like to, are trying to get a new palace across the border in Johnson county.
By some unfathomable logic, the town is building a new baseball park to replace an old baseball park that was more than adequate for the attendance, and that was one of the most pleasant in the American League. The football Chiefs hope to move into their glamor stadium this fall. The pros have worked a deal
One question is; who will go to all these games? And still have time for the traditional attractions offered by state universities at Columbia and Lawrence?
Another question is: how come Kaycey can plot all this, and still tolerate a crumbing school system, a deteriorating retail establishment, and a steadily gaining quality of entertainment for the rubs from the country (non-sport fans, that is?)
—Reprinted from the Hutchinson News
Party Reform to Force Examining of Credentials
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic Convention Credentials Committee plunges today into a battle of rules as it starts weighing a record number of seating challenges ripe with controversy.
The panel's decisions over the next two weeks will affect the makeup of about half the convention delegations and could influence not only the selection of a candidate for the President, Nixon in November.
One case, the challenge against Mayor Richard Daley and 15 other uncommitted delegates from Chicago, has been acknowledged by the Democratic Nation as "the highest political issue facing the party," outside of naming it to White House ticket.
some sessions from 9 a.m. until nidnight.
THE COMMITTEE TIFEES a massive workload in which it passes seven to ten separate challenges involving delegates from 28 companies, each of whom convention, itself a lively credential affair, dealt with only 17 members.
the committee's 150 members, many of them under challenge themselves, pored over staff reports at the organizing committee and bearings through at least the remainder of the week, including
Most of the challenges are being lodged under reform guidelines aimed at making the convention more representative of women and minority groups, and older people. Old Guard party elements.
EVEN IF NONE of the challenges is unpledge, the convention already is assured of three times the number of women and blacks five times the number of youths who attended four years ago.
Some of the challenges are so legally complex and politically contentious that a settled settenet by floor fights at the full convention or through an independent committee would be
THE CHALLENGERS pose a special dilemma to supporters of front-frunning Sen. George McGovern, the chief promulgator of the reform rules. By refusing to comply with the rules, he could deny their man the votes he needs for a first-ballot nomination and alienate Daley
and other party leaders whose support could be crucial in swinging Illinois and key southwestern states in the general election.
Daley's forces are clearly worried about their chances, as evidenced by their unsuccessful attempt to block the committee from even considering the case. They are accused of having too few minority representatives, along with the same parties in the state-making process.
ALTHOUGH THE likelihood may be slim, a coalition of McGovern idealists with credentialed lawmakers and other candidates could conceivably cost him enough money to negotiate to imperil his nomination.
McGovern's 271 delegates from California are being challenged on the issue of all primary in that state violated his reform commission's rights.
Preliminary hearings by staff examiners were scheduled for Monday on the California case. On Friday, the team met with the Chicago case, and several favorable to challengers have been completed for other states. Each case will be considered by the full court sometime this week or next.
Historical Feature
KU Bell Rang For Victories
In an early March meeting at the university, she invited visitors to their place, but one young man warned: "You may not be able to make it; the hostess is too smart."
A bell at the north end of Memorial Stadium once rang out KU touchdowns and victories on football game days.
In 1962, overneutral Nebraska Cornhusker fans stormed the bell to铃 out their delight at their victory over KU and a nidiot followed. This resulted in the banning of the bell at Kansas in the 1985 grid season, according to the Oct. 7, 1964 Kanada.
The Tasaday, who live in caves, use stone tools, wear orchid leaves and know no enemies, said no outlaw had ever seen their homes in a valley of the undulating forest. They said their ancestors had lived there and their knowledge of time began
The five and one-half foot, 3,000 pound bell rested, at that point in the TKE front yard. It had "TKE" on it, but the fraternity did not own it. The members rented it from an Ottawa scrap metal dealer for $60 a year.
Arthur C. Lonberg, then athletic director, said the decision was based on security reasons. A petition with 2,500 signatures was submitted early in the fall, 1964 semester to Wade Stinson, athletic director, to return the bell to the court. The petition was rejected. A second petition was signed, but the originators did not submit it because they feared it would be useless.
Shumaker said the bell was not a TKE bell but a University symbol.
Tom Shumaker, Russell senior and TKE president said, "We feel better school spirit is needed. In fact, almost everyone admits this, but nothing is being done about it." He said the TKE members thought their bell might help generate enthusiasm at games and that was why they were still trying to get it returned to the stadium.
He said the fraternity didn't paid the rent on the bell for the year yet, and they probably wouldn't unless something happened soon. He planned to send it back to Ottawa unless the bell was going to be used in the stadium.
"We even told the administration we would take 'TKE' off the bell and put 'KU' on it," he said.
He said he expected another request to use the bell would be turned down.
"I personally feel the idea is fine, however anything like that should be representative of all students and not just one house." Stinson said. "If we let one house do it, we should let them all."
Expedition Visits Tasaday Tribe
He said the possibility of riots was not the determining factor, and efforts were being made to cultivate student confidence.
EDITOR'S NOTE: On the edge of the impenetrable rain forest of the southern Philippines lives a man who became known only last year. Numbering only 25, the Tasdays live much as anthropologists believe the world was once lived. A newsman who accompanied the expedition to the Forest of the Tasdays recounts the first contact of scientists with the people who time forgot.
Air blasts from the rotor blades rocked their small landing pad like a canoe in choppy water.
Rv JOHN NANCE
The men peered over the edge, then looked down below as a rideline no longer under their control which plunged immediately into thick jungles as it slanted down on them.
TASADAY FOREST,
Philippines (AP)—The jet
helicopter, a 4,000-foot-high mountains
and four leapeed on, spraining
clinging and clinging to a
wooden platform tied into a
The men were headed for the time of the Tassaday, the tiny band of rockers discovered last year at the edge of this vast and rugged southern landscape.
The helicopter whirred into forest the misty morning of March 23rd.
As the aircraft emerged between two peaks, a dot of yellow-brown appeared in the dark jungle below. The chopper dipped and the dot grew, revealing the mane of branches and saplines.
Minutes after the helicopter delivered the first of its three
The plot circled once, nosed his helicopter up to the 12-by-14-foot pad and the doors were opened.
Manuel Eizalde, Jr., president andaminum minister support foundation for assisting Philippine minorities, and Leif Saeed leaped first, opening the largest and most exciting phase of discovery since he first contacted the island.
Charles A. Lindbergh, the American pilot and conservationist who is a director of Panamain, joined the expedition
loads, a young Tasaday man named Balayam arrived, hugged Elizade and led the expedition down the steep ridge.
Balayam led the party on an hour's hike to a slope where the jungle thinned. Through the leave the mouth of a cave was
He poked from ledges and two higher caves. The Tasadas were shouting greetings and bounding down a dushy path to cluster around the visitors. The Tasaday nuzzel and embroidered themselves with their ancestors; had foretold would one day come to them.
"He would just love us and help us, we were never told how," said Mahayag, a robust Tasaday man.
The handsome men, women and children wore only earrings and leaves and their tan skin was streaked with soot from their hands.
Whether the caves have been the Tasaday's homes for a few generations or thousands of years
is not known
Scientists last year said the 'asaday' language and technology suggested they had collaborated more than 1,000 years.
The Tasaday grew increasingly friendly during the expedition's visit and the sheyst women and men and穿oke through interpreters.
The people displayed the sparse possessions in their main cave, which has a 10-foot-tight wall that extends 30 feet deep and 25 feet wide.
It contained a mural of mark, beer horns for digging edible roots and two favorite stone tools and collection of items—knives, a vise, a case, an angle held crackers and a battyless flashlight—origin
No drawings marked the walls
A surprise was the small area over which the Tasaday range in their food quest, the main activity of the band. The jungle
provides abundant food, river life, plants, insects, flowers, roots and the pith of trees, near the saves.
Dafal, a hunter who gave the tassaday their first metacute in the minima part of the Tassaday diet because their animal traps were not ef-
The jungle appeared virtually untouched by the Tasaday and they lived in harmony with it.
"They are creatures of this environment." Elizalde observed, "as much as the birds and trees."
The apparent happiness and harmony of Tasaday life was one of the outsiders. Panamin insists this not be upset, and its policy is to protect the Tasaday, limiting their contact with the 28th cent.
Panamin decided on the March expedition because farmers were already encroaching on the forest and they had already acquired claims on it.
Mentally Retarded Can Be Helped
By BARBARA STROH Kansan Staff Writer
When I first saw him I felt disgusted. The shrunken body and the dull eyes frightened me. I understood, but it wasn't his fault.
As I think back to that day I am disgusted with myself. He is a man, but he was mentally retarded. He was born during the depression. At birth something went wrong. Somehow he had a permanent damage. The beautiful woman, his couple, was mentally retarded. The extreme heat of
His parents took him home and tried to raise him. At first it was hard, but after three healthy children were born, it became difficult to give him the love and attention he needed. He had been forced to领疼 him in an institution.
HE HAD plenty of friends, but his family missed him. His littlest sister often asked, "When is Junior coming home?"
that July day (no air conditioning then) and the baby was handicapped for life.
S
Now he plays ball with his young mates often. Many times each day he reaches out his hand and I love you Daddy" or "Mommy."
THIS STORY was written by Jeanne Stroh, a ninth grade student at Milburn Junior High School. He is the man in the story is her uncle.
The years passed by but Junior remained the same. He's still like a three- or four-year-old. He's very well behaved, but people are afraid of him. Because he's his Mommy and his Daddy.
The other day I heard his Daddy say, "He needs love, that's all he lives for." Maybe as not unfortunate as we think.
Junior was born at a time when having a mentally retarded child was considered a disgrace and these were the so-called "attic"
There, conditions were much better. He received love and kindness, but no attempt was ever made to challenge him to
Because he would wander away from institution in a put was taken for retarded. Conditions in that in another took him back home, but eventually forced to put him in another institution in another
NO ONE REALLY knows why Junior was born severely handicapped, but his parents have speculated on a number of reasons. He was born on a day when the temperature rose well above normal, and he breech birth, forbly delayed by nurses awaiting the arrival of the doctor. His mother had served in the military, and the technician, and this was before doctors realized the gross damages of too much radiation. It has been proposed but not what he might be a monogamous.
Acc Dicki Univ Schoo turner Kansi we're we're suppe
Thi law
plicat
Only
could
to a 1
To numl Dicki Schoc
The its su more summ 1751 Scho enrol this his Jsum years full
The picture for those "Juniors" born today is much more enlightened. She is Rosemary Kennedy, retarded sister of the late president John Kennedy, and about the same president and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey has helped to focus national interest and to bring attention to her.
One of the places where the retarded and parent for the Kansas campus is Kansan Center for Mental Retardation and Human Development, formally opened June 14. The center has a building on the campus, one of Kansas campus, one at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and another located at
THE CENTER works with retarded children, both as outpatient and inpatient, according to a recent publication put out by the center. The staff at the center uses the B.F. Skinner system to train children to take care of
"If 1974 chite const mean by o the 1
themselves, said Robert Hoyt, editor for the center.
Dic
new
high
subm
Legiti
not b
five
A child receives intensely with such rudimentary skills as toilet training and eating. Bad behavior is rewarded by whatever the child responds best to. This may be something to eat, like a hot dog.
Many retarded children lack motor skills and coordination. These, also, get intense attention. Parents, too, can get training in how to work with their children. Retarded and their parents are the only a simple form of sign language they may communicate.
ONE OF THE ultimate goals of the center is to refine the retarded from traditional institutional training, so that the most severely retarded can learn what it takes to hold living jobs, live alone and supply their own needs.
F I
Discoveries made while working with the retarded can sometimes be generalized and used without judgment in improving their education.
Perhaps the most vital role of the center is research. In research projects are conducted in laboratories in both the Kansas City and Parsons centers. The students must learn the causes of retardation and ways to prevent it before birth or death, it in very young children.
THE SUMMER SESSION
KANSAN
News Adviser ... Del Brinkman
NEWS STAFF
New Arrival ... Do Not Mail
Rita E. Haugh
BUSINESS STAFF
business Manager Doug DeTray