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Thursday, January 27,1972
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
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Buttered Guns
President Nixon's fiscal 1973 budget now stands before the Congress. Total project spending was $25.4 billion with a projected deficit of $25.5 billion.
The most distressing thing to be found in Nixon's proposed budget is the requested increase in defense spending. Budget outlays for defense will go up by $700 million, not including funds for the Atomic Energy Commission or allocations for weapons stockilling.
If that deficit limit is met, it will mean a decrease from this year's deficit spending, which is now $8.8 billion, the highest in 27 years.
The president who vowed to do away with deficit spending is now going about it in earnest. This of course should surprise no one as they are particularly this one often do the opposite of what they promise to do.
Moreover, Nixon is asking a total budget authority of $85.3 billion for the Defense Department, up $6.3 billion. He said he would give him authority for increased
spending over future fiscal years
Defense spending is nothing new to Nixon. He has long been a champion of the Pentagon, so the Army cannot come as too much of a surprise.
Nevertheless, the defense increases come at a time when Republicans are leaning heavily on their image as the peacemakers—the party that has shifted priorities from militarism to necessities of domestic life. GOP—one bumper sticker states—also stands for Generation of Peace.
What happened, of course, is that Nixon has taken all of the savings accrued from "winding down the war" and returned them to those whom he deems their proper owners—the generals.
Since Nixon is still convinced that Vietnam has all along been a noble endevour he no doubt wants to do more than he helped to make it such a success.
—Mike Moffet Associate Editor
Liberal Arts Hypocrisy
"Liberal education, so construed, makes successive generations of men aware of the widest range of possibilities by the discovery of new possibilities. . . It does so in order that men may choose with the utmost amplitude of freedom—in order that their lives may be filled to the heart and that what they thoughtfully and witlessly choose them to be."
"Liberal education is opposed to dogmatic education where dogmatic education means the imparting of beliefs without their evidence. Insofar as the individual is dogmatically educated his mind submits passively to the dictates of sociology and does not choose his conclusions by proving their truth for himself. His mind is made up for him rather than by him."
The Gay Liberation Front is currently fighting this University for recognition as a campus organization.
—Ralph Barton Perry from College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Catalog
At this institution, which calls itself a liberal arts University, a group of students have been seeking recognition—and their civil rights.
Now those that are responsible for this travesty seem to be so shallow that they are able to grant civil rights selectively. It is civil rights for some and not all. It is civil rights of fashion and political palatability.
It is not civil rights.
Whoever is responsible— Chalmers or the Regents—for the
University's odious position on this issue either has a warped conscience or a weak sense of moral responsibility.
The whole bankruptcy of this discriminatory position is more obvious in juxtaposition with the lines quoted above.
Those lines seem to say-listen,
but don't. Don't swallow the party line blindly
Must the dream of the liberal arts university suffer for political education?
What can this University say to those who believe this?
—Thomas E. Slaughter
A FEW SHORT YEARS
AGO MOST OF US
SUPPORTED THE
WAR-
I SUPPORTED THE WAR.
SO THE QUESTION IS WHAT TO DO WITH
THOSE THOUSANDS OF YOUNG MEN WHO
THOUGHT THE WAR WAS IMMORAL
YEARS BEFORE WE THOUGHT THE
WAR WAS IMMORAL, AND DESERTED
TO CANADA
SWEDEN?
SHOULDN'T THEY BE GIVEN AMNESTY?
The state's motto is "Live Free or Die." Presidential candidates
Diet Publisher-Hall Syndicate
Under New Hampshire law, any registered voter may get his name on the ballot as an uncommitted delegate, or as a delegate favoring one of the presidential presidents take advantage of this invitation that the ballot is bigger than an Indian blanket.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
There also is a vice president primary. The only announcer Democrat is former Gov. Endicott Peabody or Massachusetts. The only announced Republican is Chief Burning Wood of Greenwich Village, born August Barton of Pennsylvania and chief car unapproved for the office in 1988, when his platform—or so the credulous visitor is advised—was "Give the country back to the Indians." On the morning of March 8, he will become the only gentleman of Indian extraction ever to be twice nominated by the voters of New Hampshire to be president of the United States. It is a distraction in which a man can take some pride.
WHY NOT?
Yority is the spoiler. The ebullient mayor of Los Angeles is cruising around in his great white Yorktownmobile, equipped with a stern like a Pallman car. He is making the most noise and being the most backtracking of the influential Manchester Union Leader, he is assured a befy vote as the only putative conservative on the
Some of the pundits are calling it, on the Democratic side, Muskie 45 percent, McGovern 29, Yorty 19, Hartke 3, and others—New Hampshire prides itself on its "other" vote—perhaps 4 percent. If that doesn't add up, does anything else. Both Democrats desperately need a large chunk of the vote—Muskie to maintain his momentum, and McGovern to get some momentum going.
PREMATURE MORALITY
New Hampshire's presidential primary this year offers the voter, among other attractions, no fewer than five announced candidates for Republican. The Democrats will be seeking to win 20 delegates to the party convention in Miami, each of whom, if you please, will cast nine-tenths of one vote in the primary that delegation has to be polled?
MANCHESTER, H.—In the popular legend, New Hampshire ordinarily is credited with all those good New England virtues, among which, one might assume, would be a certain tidiness in its public affairs. Let us assume no more.
James J. Kilpatrick
One difficulty in diagnosis is that nobody has any dependable figures on the number of registered voters. The state keeps no statewide records. It is generally believed that when the books close, there may be 140,000 and 130,000 unrecorded, "uncleared." Perhaps half of them will vote on March 7.
I THINK IT'S IMMORAL.
Chief Burning Wood Runs Too
do both. Lyndon Johnson expired here in 1968. He beat Eugene McCarthy by 27,500 to 23,300, but in the confusion McCarthy may have failed the 24 convention delegates. Three weeks later, Johnson quit.
This time around, the four principal Democratic contenders are Edmund Muskie, George McGovern, Vance Hartke and Bobby Riley. The three could see his candidacy coneal in the frozen hills. The three principal Republicans are Richard Nixon, Paul McCloskey and John Ashbrook. Local parents also are measuring them.
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Democratic ballot.
Everyone says Nixon will sweep the Republican field, but "Dump Nixon" buttons are coming out like crouses and his margin may not be impressive. But the Republican party has have been marching around since August, and the Ashbrook campaign, though it suffers for
want of money and experienced hands, will be coming on strong.
All the candidates are hustling for the youth vote. High school seniors, who can barely be tolerated any longer, promise to become unsailerable soon. One of them asked McGovern a four-part question on the Middle East the other night. McGovern
answered it, too, as respectfully as he might have answered Senator Fulbright on the floor. If the pimple-dible vote turns out, who knows? Muskie and Nixon, who have the most to lose, might yet stumble in New Hampshire in their march to the White House.
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Readers Respond
Invalid; Debris; Courses
Wheelchairs
(C) 1972 The Washington
To the Editor:
With this in mind, the recent passage of the 1986 Article 12 of the Constitution, Statutes Annotated. This law was intended to make all buildings and facilities, open to or used by students, as well as to part by public funds (including remodeling in excess of 25 square feet) of buildings to and functional for the
There are degrees of accessibility. The optimum is reached when a person that has been in the building independently gain access to and utilize the buildings and their functions. It is no answer to have someone be pushed, or ask for help. The endeavor should be to create a situation in which persons are not injured because of physical handicaps, and thus not have to depend on others to lift them over such a height, or because of those that forbid independent movement in Murphy Hall, nor to get a runner to go get a key in a door that open special doors as in Watson Hall.
I have read the article *Invalid for a Day by Diane Armstrong* (UDK December 7, 1971) with help from a complement the author with her attempt to focus some attention on the problems of persons using wheelchairs on campus. There are exceptions, and should be corrected. Green Hall does have provisions for wheelchairs, with a ground level in the building. The elevator serves all floors, the only difficulties in using the building being that drinking fountains and bulletin boards are not available in the building. The library stacks are commonly too tight fitting and shelves too high. Assistance is always available in Strong is not available on the same floor as that on which the wheelchair-borne person enters. In addition to Marvin Hall, an unaccompanied person in wheelchairs are Lindley, Murphy Hall, the new Printing Service, the Art Museum, the new Athletic facilities, and doubtless a host more.
physically handicapped. It imposes by reference certain architectural standards to all school districts, 1. 1970. This of course applies to places other than the KU campus. The Lawrence Public Library will have satisfactory provisions. The new CityCounty Building that handles election would have provided access to all county facilities and the police court from which the children could receive the elderly, are now barred. Many churches in town, incidentally, seem to exclude the handicapped.
Before I close this rambing note, I would like to take this opportunity to complement publicly the personnel in traffic control who make great pains to provide as best they can for vehicular access to buildings by those in the traffic control area and present to note that the Athletic Association has always provided exceptional personal attention to the needs of the physically disabled and reach their offices!). I would estimate that there is only one student at KU that regularly uses a wheelchair. He usually findsurance he needs when he asks for it.
Roger B. Williams,
Department of Geology
School of Law
★★
To the Editor:
I would like to express my concern about some of our basketball fans that have been throwing various things out on the court. I should Granted, the Big Eight officiating leaves a lot to be desired. But, in the final analysis, it's not the officiating that wins or loses the games for our Kansas University and effort that decides the game!
Please don't throw anything on the court or if you sit next to a woman in a cafe, please take a talented player badly injured and a promising career in college and a professional job that will drain because of an angry fan.
Dan Kass Fairway senior
model for a more detailed report by the KUCIS.
By Sokoloff
Griff and the Unicorn
Factor One in the survey, 'Quality of Instruction,' is assessed four times, so scores fourteen of the question words of which are rated on a one to five basis and two of which are simple yes-no questions (see PEED-reader). The reader who looks at the fine print (p. iv) will note that the factors are not simple averages, there is more variation than they are as such. This is quite misleading. I have calculated the averages of the twelve 1-5 scores for several groups, and the results are quite surprising.
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff.
In two courses which received a rating of 3 on Factor One, the average score for each was 4.2. Another course that received a rating of 4.0 and average of 3.8, and the individual scores ranged from 3.0 to 4.5. The only individual in my department to win the heady rating of 5 had an average score of 4.7, the scores ranging from 4.2 to 5.01
The second edition of FEEDBACK has now been published; it has presumably been used by students in selecting their spring courses, and it is likely to play a role in future information. It is therefore important to evaluate FEEDBACK itself.
To the Editor:
G
At the other end of the scale,
three professors who received
the minimum rating of on 1/ Quality
average scores of 3.2.1 and 2.6.
★★
Any detailed analysis of the FEEDBACK scores requires access to the data of the Curriculum and Instruction Survey (KUICIS). While I do not have such access, I have been able to make approximate ratings, and I hope the results presented below will provide a
1. Average scores on Factor One range from 3 to 5, with the all-faculty average well over 4.1. personally think that this reflects pretty highly on the quality of instruction at KU of course, we have the instructors who are unwilling to be evaluated).
'Feedback'
On looking at the grade distributions reported on p. 82 of FEEDBACK, several useful conclusions can be reached:
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2. Because the average scores are clustered at the high end of the scoring range, one or two low-scoring students can be instructors' rating much more than the same number of high-scoring students in a class of 15 students, 14 of whom give an average score of 4, one student giving all 1's (and this student receiving all 1's) to instructors' rating down to 2. Perhaps even more serious is the case that there are many of these) who just put down a row of apathetic 3s and give the evaluation form (and
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3. Because the ratings are sensitive to one or two low scores, any deviation from the norm in these scores will be an instructor's approach will hurt the ratings. What if the class is a 11 or a 9? The expected to prepare (Q. 11), or the class is on some new environmental field where students may be also an expert (Q. 14), or he believes in helping students find their own answers (Q. 18)? He certainly suffer in the ratios.
I recently conducted a "student evaluation" of the Sorceres by polling members of the Classes in FEEDBACK, the rating of 1. If the published ratings in FEEDBACK are accepted unterschiedly, they may prove to be the twentieth century of a cup of poison blemok.
William Silvert Assistant Professor of Physics