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Monday, March 13. 1972
University Daily Kansan
Anderson Wants 'Strong States'
By JIM KENDELL
Korean Staff Writer
Former governor John Anderson brought his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination to the University of Texas.
About 35 people heard An-
derson speak about the oid vote, state government,
education, welfare and penal reform before he opened the floor
Anderson was governor from 1984 to 1986 and attorney general from 1987 to 1992. He has served as chairman of the National Governors' Conference.
Anderson said the Kennedy and McCarthy campaigns for president in 1988 had given youth
an insight into the political system.
HE SAID ONE of the major results of the youth upheaval in California is that people more interested in working through the political crisis have gone to war.
State government needs to be strengthened to cope with prerequisites. It can't handle because of its remoteness, according to Anwil.
Anderson became executive director of a group called the "Citizens' Conference on State Reform" shortly after he left office in 1965.
Anderson said the group had worked to see that state legislatures met more often and
for longer periods of time.
This is necessary because women are creating a larger than government role, and Anderson said. States must take a larger role in solving problems,
ON THE SUBJECT of education Anderson said, "We're lagging more than we were last year and more than the year before that."
He said at one time the funding KU received from the state was ranked sixth in the nation. He said KU was now ranked 8th.
Anderson said he was con-
cruely grateful to students
available to higher education
in Kansas, students were losing
opportunities to learn from good
States ought to be responsible for working with the federal government in funding welfare.
Only an unreasonable person could deny welfare to the elderly, the disabled and dependent children. Anderson said.
HE SAID the state was having passed a bill for penal reform but he praised the legislature for its recent passage of a penal reform law.
During the question and answer period Anderson fielded questions on taxes, education, the campaign and other issues.
Anderson said he would like to redistribute the costs of education and shift the burden of property tax from the property tax payer.
He said this could be done by equalizing taxes and the institution of a value added tax.
Education will receive more support from the legislature in the future, Anderson said, but
taxpayers are demanding reform in educational administration.
in education. In another DUOFFERED the legislature would reverse itself on the abortion issue. He said once legislation was passed on a controversial issue, only a year in the state would reverse it.
Anderson has welcomed other candidates into the governor's race. He is now the only major candidate for governor. Anderson is also an independent if he did not receive the Republican nomination.
Hespeculated that Gov. Robert Docking might try for re-election, though many have speculated that the governor would run for the U.S. Senate.
Anderson said he favored some reforms of state government. He would like to see consolidation of the county courts the counties wanted consolidation.
Senators
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Suptia said he thought most of the deliberation at the Senate meetings was necessary to insure a fair decision, although occasionally a political battle erupt into a personal battle
Supic said a retreat, similar to the one this term, would help to overcome staffing gaps in the Senate. It would also eliminate personality conflicts and enable greater collaboration.
SUPTIC SAID that financing and auditing were the most important functions of the Senate and most relevant to students.
Suptic said it was important that the Senate administered the allocations of the activity fee system because it is one area, Suptic said, where the Zenate has power. Financing and auditing also gave the Senate something really concrete to do. "There are so many power in other areas," Suptic said.
. . .
Kingsley Click, Shalimar. Fla., sophomore and Olver senior. She was the most effective now but she said she thought that it was still in its early stages.
CLICK SAID that she enjoyed being both a good and bad experience. She said that she would not want to be hurt by her mother, however, because she thought she could do things of more consequence in other ways.
She said only a few key people in the Senate understood what was going on. She said that she had been told enough information and often enough investigation haddn't been done before an issue was brought to her attention.
"In the Senate you are a little bit stifled in what you can do," she said.
Click, who is chairman for SUA forums, said that there was a lot more participation and involvement in SUA programs than in the Senate.
Click said that a workshop for senators was a good idea, because they get involved. In a workshop, she said, senators would get involved. Senators which would be eliminate personality conflicts. Senators would also get information about Senate procedure.
STEVE DAVIS, Topeka junior
senate candidate, will be
Senate was entirely worthless.
"All it is is one big committee,
and committees can never do
anything."
"No one ever looks to make the
money," she said. "It's just a quantity organization
with more committees, and
committees never do anything."
Davis said that the Senate spent most of its time on financing and sustaining and didn't have to constrain itself with allocating funds. He said that there was no way to set priorities on allocations and that that program be made. Some were while programs weren't funded, he said.
"The All Student Council was too much high school for the students." Davis said. "So the school had a way of buying off the sales."
DAVIS SAID the only power that the Senate had was that of allocating funds for the activity fee. But even this was overseen by Mr. Bass, who said. Davis made no suggestions for changes in the Senate.
"Just leave it the way it is," he said, "because that's the way people are today. They have a research and committees."
People just assume that they have to have a Senate, even though it may be best not to have one, Davis said.
Davis said his Senate experience wasn't entirely worthless.
"It ushered me through an idealistic period probably faster than people. Once you're in the Senate you lose your idealism.
"I'M HAPPY that I'm not going to be in the Senate next year," Davis said.
David Awbrey, Lawrence graduate student and Graduate School counsel, said everything he learned in the Senate had been done.
Awbrey, who was the first president of the Student Senate three years ago, said that there were problems with the Senate to do but allocate money.
"The Senate is getting irrelevant," Awbrey said. "It isn't doing anything. It just looks good on transcripts."
"We did everything that could be done," Awbrey said of himself and his successor, Bill Ebert. The Student Senate is as good as "a ever going to be. All that is left to protect what has been done
"TO SAY THAT the Student Senate speaks for students is absurd. The Senate is just the babysitter of the students rights. It's like nothing to most people on campus, but you've got to have it."
A more optimistic view of the Senate was taken by those senators seeking reelection.
"I get personal satisfaction in meeting new people and working with them," said Bill O'Neil, Bailin junior and student body treasurer that I'm interested in what he learns from having a part in the University."
One of the major reasons O'Reilly is running again, he said, was to carry out a lot of the efforts and solutions he initiated and sponsored.
"The Senate needs the backing of student administrators to ensure they get their work done. The Senate is often overzealous on legislation and lacking in funding."
'O'NELL SAID the activity fee allocations were overemphasized in Senate. He said that this was because the Senate has only had control of the activity fee for a year and a half and was just getting accustomed to handling money. He said the budget could only only two budgeting sessions.
Lightfoot Caresses Music
Gordon Lightfoot is gentle on your mind. The tall Canadian who so successfully combines folk rock with country sounds presented a concert in Hochstetten in 1972 and was superior to any of the other offerings of the 1972 Festival of the Arts.
Lightfoot's music belongs to that special genre cultivated and refined by such artists as Bob Dyian, John Sebastian and Elton John. He is also exquisite James Taylor. But unlike Dylan, Lightfoot does not have to depend on catchy lyrics to sing, but his songs are engaging. He is more powerful than Taylor and has a style more individual than either John or Sebastian. His music is his own, and it caresses it as if it were a lover.
By MARILYN K. KING Kansan Reviewer
THE RESULT of Lightfoot's talent is a sound that is wholly pleasing to almost everyone. His songs have been written by Paul and Mary in their early years. It is heavy on the folk and easy on the rock. There is nothing more beautiful than his music. Most of his chord progressions remain the same, but they are only modulations up or down the scale to add variety. And his country offerings steal clear of the pop music, howling so that even the most
The second set began slowly and was not helped along by Lightfoot's breaking a string and then having tuning problems that led to an awkward moment. But he had slipped back into his own style, and though most of his numbers lacked the power of those in his first set, his "Sweet Mignet" and sense of humor helped the initial let-down worthwhile.
He finished the set with Roy Acuff's "The Auctioneer," which was light and funny but pale in color, like footlight own compositions.
HE ALSO PERFORMED KHRISEkofferson's 'M. and Bob McGee.' which sounded good, old-fashioned. Johns' Spain's way of handling the wounds would better have been omitted from the set. It was the one song that was obviously not Lightfoot, the magic was temporarily lost.
Due to the Emotional Content of This Show
No One Admitted After the First 10 Minutes
Lightfoot played two 50-minute sets that displayed the full spectrum of his talents. He began a series of skateboarding soldiers, then slipped into "The Sunny Side of Life." His first set was highlighted by his own "If You Could Read My Mind," which he followed up with "Me" and "Don Quixote," a new and whimsical number that starts by recounting the deeds of the knight errant, then blends realism with elements of pushes and drug users.
IT'S DIFFERENT...
SO WAS HE!
LIGHTFOOT CAN PLAY a guitar as well as Dylan, and is even more versatile. He switches his guitar to sixstring, and has a string cation that keeps his rather monotonous chord progressions from becoming boring. He has been teaching his guitar they were extensions of Lightfoot himself. Warsaw Haynes on electric bass is never over-loved by Climbers plays lead guitar with Lightfoot's own sensitivity and style
The second set ended with a ballad of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, a song commissioned by the government of Canada for his 20th anniversary celebration. It is really a trilogy and transmits the power, fears, dreams and strength of the men who built the CPR. The song is a work of art that can be written about subjects other than lost loves or unjust wars and still be exciting and meaningful—a fact that was lost somewhere between Peter, Paul and Edward, and the advent of the Beatles.
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LIGHTFOOT PLAYED two encore numbers. The first was not memorable and should have been "But then he played." In the Early Morning Rain," after a audience damn fine laughs, He received two standing ovations, and not since Buff St. Marie was at KU two years ago has a student left a concert feeling so good.
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THE SOPHOMORE CLASS LECTURE SERIES presents
SENATOR BIRCH BAYH of Indiana
Speaking on
"The Future of the American Political System"
Tuesday, March 14 8:00 p.m.
at the
Kansas Union Ballroom
SENATOR BAYH—Considered one of the U.S. Senate's constitutional authorities and a leader in the passage of the 28th amendment lowering the voting age to 18.
Currently working for a constitutional amendment to provide equal rights for men and women. Concerned about the nation's needs in dealing with pollution, poverty, education, and health care.
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Tickets Free to Sophomore with Class Cards—Advanced Tickets will be Sold at the Information Booth on Jayhawk Blvd.