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Friday, April 14, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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All Fed Up
In the face of a continued financial pinch on student funds, the Student Senate, out of its own allocation, has awarded a 30 per cent increase to, of all things, 'Feedback', the teacher-course evaluation project. The total allocation for the survey is now a whopping $26.130.
One hardly knows where to begin criticizing the project. In the first place, faculty participation in the past has been minimal and student response for the most part unenlightening.
The survey necessarily leaves all the alternatives to the individual professors; whether to use the survey, whether to have it published, whether to receive a more detailed analysis of their students' responses. The swell for the faculty; they can gauge their involvement or maybe even ignore the whole thing. But what are students getting out of 'Feedback?'
If the Senate points to the little 25-cent pamphlet as its answer, it's wrong: the pamphlet is pretty thin. Obviously a substantial number of faculty members are choosing their own methods of getting feedback.
Even assuming involvement were increased, a major snag remains. The one-to-five ratings of courses tell hardly anything about the courses. At least, with involving career relevance, is insulting to the intelligence of all concerned.
Twenty-six thousand dollars has been allocated to a project that is ill-conceived at its best, silly at its worst. Meanwhile, countless clubs and organizations are stifled by lack of funds. Perhaps the Student Senate could help alleviate the situation by funding less money to itself.
—Chip Crews Editor
Memorial Drive Mess
Rarely do plans with no merit surface at this University. An exception is the plan to make Jayhawk Boulevard and Memorial Drive one-way streets and to install approximately 500 parking meters on campus.
This ill-conceived attempt at progress could do more to ruin the peaceful environment so far preserved on campus than any other single idea—except a similar bomb dropped in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World editorial page last Tuesday. The Journal-World proposed a four-lane boulevard streaking across campus—with pedestrian overpasses, of course.
Now, all this is a bit perplexing in light of the growing trend in major cities to restrict the movement of the automobile—in an effort to improve the quality of life in the city. Here are some examples of how editors devise ways to accommodate the ubiquitous automobile and ruin peace and tranquility as a result.
What becomes painfully apparent is that this country is so closely tied to the capital, and its economy.
national pastime to try to move from here to there faster and with less effort. Nothing gets in the way of the automobile. We have become accustomed to equating progress with more highways and faster cars. Those Americans who would fight the proliferation of the automobile and highways are told that to fight the automobile is to fight progress.
Has tranquility lost all its appeal.
Has tranquility lost all its appeal? The first inclination is to fight this insanity on economic grounds. The real problem is that we lack the quality of surroundings. Indeed, Mr. Malinowsky and the Parking and Traffic Board no doubt have reams of statistics proving their plan an economic gold mine. That is the problem. Somewhere we must stop opting for the dollar over environment.
This is a good place to start.
When Mr. Malinowski brings his Frankenstein to next week's public hearing, be there to run him and his plan back up to the Chancellor's office.
—Thomas E. Slaughter
In the First District, up in the
James J. Kilpatrick
The Fed-up Factor in Florida
WASHINGTON—They vote for God and George C. Wallace in Florida. God won big. The Governor won too. But it is a curious thing. The significance of these election returns has been largely muffled in woolly speculation on the hopes and Muske's momentum.
The Florida ballot asked voters to say whether they favor an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to allow prayer in public schools. On this question, 1,139,000 voted yes, only 286,000
In the presidential primary, the Democratic ballot listed eleven names—some of them big names, with big money behind them. It was Wallace against the field. He was another winner. No one else was even close.
Consider the dimensions of Wallace's victory. He polled a stunting 42 percent of the vote, and he defeated Jackson and Muskie combined. Wallace carried every county in Florida; he swept eleven of the twelve congressional districts; he won 75 of the 81 Democratic nominations.
Panhandle, Wallace polled 66,000 votes; his closest rival was Henry Jackson with 18,000. In the Sixth District, Wallace had 46,600 to Humphrey's 19,800. In the Tenth District, Wallace had 38,000 to Humphrey's 14,000. In the Seventh, the Ninth, and the nearly 47,000 to Jackson's 14,000. The Ninth District, which has Fort Lauderdale, gave Wallace 43,800 to Humphrey's 17,800.
This was middle America exploding. In the prayer amendment, the people of
Unless one set of rules is to be applied to Wallace, and another set of rules to everyone else, this event would seem as a slamming, jawdropping, eye-popping triumph. Yet if you watched network TV Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the story altogether. The significant news wasn't Humphrey or Muskie. The significant news—I mean no irreverence—was in the George C. Wallace.
more than half a million fed-up Americans who were fed up with everything. They saw Wallace as a symbol of the failure to be deaf to the roar the erupted?
Florida found a vehicle for demanding a return to all those qualities our society has lost in the past. The answer, to covenant, to kindness, to obedience,
Today, Klapitrack looks back on the Florida primary. In this contest, he says, the people voted or George Wallace and God.
to charity, to tolerance, to a principal and godly way of life. This was a cry from the heart. Who could miss its notion and meaning?
Busing was the big issue in the wallace campaign—the imbecility of students to schools according to the color of their skin. But busing was not successful.
It is imperative that we search for meaning here. This was not a vote against busing alone, but instead an infirmity of a bloated government that has lost touch with its people. It was a vote against unfair taxes, against unpunished police brutality, and against an aid gift. It was a striking manifestation of the sense of helplessness, of futility, of disillusion, that millions of Americans feel. It was not a vote of confidence in Wallace; it was more nearly a vote of no confidence in anything else.
Edmund Muskie missed this misled Edmund on election night the bitchers and herders for their lack of decency and humanity, he saw nothing but a "some of the worst instincts of human beings." He said of Wal-Mart's failure.
That stiffened insensitivity will get Muskie nowhere. Florida has a record of "urban and rural, white and black, old and young, Jew and gentile, liberal and conservative" percent of the voters in this Democratic primary is to slander men and women who deserve some compassion. But he heard. One way or another as this campaign proceeds, through God or through George Wallace, likely be to hear again and again.
Copyright, 1972 The Washington Star Syndicate. Inc.
Readers Respond
Messy Meters, Letter
Nickel Eaters
To the Editor:
It is rather hard to imagine that Mr. Malinowsky, Chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, can complain pertaining to parking meters on Jayhawk Boulevard or Malinowsky Apartment to peremptarily that parking meters are not a scheme for ripping off students showed we that it is at least a nuce via the students (commonly and in this case appropriately repre- sented as "ripping off students").
Mr. Malinowsky claims that parking meters will give us several choices—purchase zone permeability or illegally use or meter on Jayhawk Boulevard. The only difference in these choices and the choices we currently have is that they are free. Mr. Malinowsky buillevard free after 4:45 p.m. In effect, Mr. Malinowsky is merely giving us "more choices" by eliminating the one remaining non-free option. And giving this option to us is supposed to discourage illegal traffic! Traffic and Security have outdone them by ripping off the temporarily and permanently handicapped students that use Jayhawk Boulevard parking during the day for and for library access in the evening.
The name of the game is revenue and ticketing is a means to
assure that this source of revenue will not be abused by students. Not only has a new source of revenue been proposed via the recruitment of students, a normal potential for parking tickets has been tapped for the unwary students who fail to put in enough nickels. Instead of allowing these students will be parking by the minute. Kind of puts a tingle of excitement into parking enforcement doesn't it *it* M. Malinowsky? or not to be basty in our criticism because more of this plan is yet to be revealed. That is frightening. Let's hope the Traffic and Enforcement plans to force bicyclists to purchase three permits.
Dave Davis,
Lawrence graduate student
★★★
False Security
Although the American Security Council has a misleadingly official sound if it had any authority, Mr. Fernandez said it would be called the United States Security Council. The brochure which offended Juan M. Fernandez was widely distrusted by the media and subscription lists to journals which are often used by such organizations. Mr. Fernandez impression that the people who relied on him may be eigners may be based on the citi-
To the Editor:
zership of his acquaintances. A preacher who received it would not think it was sent to preachers. The "nomination to a voter" and the "obligation to oust easily" it is the same hollow honor which is offered to members of scholarly societies to be nominated. It is in return for a substantial contribution to the publication costs. It is certainly an insult to the intelligence but hardly an invasion of privacy but disposal in the circular file.
Mary Davidson Lawrence graduate student
★★
KU History Feature
Beauty 1st
Vince Billotta University of Kansas Alumni Association
To the Editor:
Another note regarding the Parking and Traffic Board's "vision."
In addition to the practical objections, I would like to add an esthetic one. The beauty of our campus is that we have University, and one major factor in giving KU its campus flavor is that it is set apart from the h炙窿. We create a variety of nature areas and shopping centers. If I were trying to devise a way to neutralize this plus factor we enjoy, the most effective single tool for doing so is to install 500 parking meters along the picturesque campus drives.
1891: Rough Cops Rap Kids
By KEVIN SHAFER
Kansan Staff Writer
Becoming actively involved in the Lawrence community has always been a problem for students at Linden. Students, University activities, etc., have understandably cut the student's free time down so much that becoming actively involved in the Lawrence community is not common for students.
But the problem has not been strictly a problem of the Twentieth Century in fact, the Nov. 6, 2014 issue of *The New York Weekly Courier*, the forenerun to today's Kansan, told of certain people who had become too actively involved.
The common practice of students at this time was to build bonfires in celebration of athletic achievement. The University. This particular account told a few a students who attended a celebration during such a celebration.
"The boys had been about to build a bonfire at the customary corner when several of the local businessmen had requested that they set up fires were absolutely without protection from fire, because of the lack of water supply. The boys took up the stray boxes and stored them decorously celebrating their great victory when some of the half drunken dogs took it into their muddled brains that the children in the breakers and purposefully站 in all celebrating" the article said.
Evidently the police got carried
wheel using a gun wagon
wheel spoke. Unfortunately, many of the
celebrating students received
hours of jail time.
The article pleaded with the town政府 to refrain from taking people in as officers. The plea specifically asked that the town roughs not be made.
According to the article, the students of the University were well behaved and the confrontation was obviously not their fault.
In fact, the article stated, the majority of Lawrence businessmen stored their boxes in bonfires. The police, then, had no right to interfere, the
The students responsible for the article made it clear they
wanted no more police-student confrontations. But on the other hand, they would stand up against that they would stand up against any further bullying around by them.
Finally, the article made clear their stand on the possibility of any such future occurrences.
The article especially emphasized the necessity that defendants would stand up for their rights any time the police used billy clubs to crack the "skulls of everyone who dares hesitate in fighting." And because they have been given a tin star and a little authority" Finally, the article made clear that the authorities had to be there.
The article said, "If such dirty means racsis are again put on the force to harass the law abiding there will surely be trouble."
touble. The Courier at this time was
collished every Friday morning During the 1880s, a Courtesan named Jean Bordieu. The credits inside the front page stated that the University of Oxford publication devoted to the best interests of the students of the university was one of them.
published every Friday morning
During this period activism was publicly denounced, but privately promoted by an author and a publicist. The article appeared March 20, 1883
The article stated that a man who became actively involved in
his community ran the risk of being labeled a fanatic by a certain class of people.
"No matter how praeworthy my nae be the scheme set forth, nor more than a reputation, they neither stop to consider, nor to weigh his worth."
The contrast between the student activist of the 1880s and the activist of the 1890s is highlighted by the reaction of the community that remained certainly changed since those fays of old, but have the people?
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