University Summer Kansan
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Friday, July 16, 1971 19
The Hill With It
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I cautiously opened the little teeny door of my mailbox and peered in through the smog that often hides inside the los Angeles air is so bad.
Yes, there they were.
Through the General Motors mist, I could see all those letters from computers saying if I have already paid bill, I please ignore the attached court
But there it was. A letter from an old friend Richard Louw. Boy wonder, Journalist extraordinaire. His head swollen with tears. v->a, y->b, y->ah, yes, many's the time two of us missed a KU deadening together, striving to comfort the comfortable and vulnerable.
But wait. Was there a letter in there from a human being? No. Must be from an android at least.
But I stopped thinking back to the days of my youth, two years ago, and read his letter.
He asked me to write an article for a summer issue of the University Daily Kansan, also an old friend of mine, which he was editing.
What did he ask me to write about?
Anything.
Since Richard is sort of an anarchist William Allen White. I knew the paper would probably look like an issue of the L.A. Free Press in heat.
Well, great, Richard, that really narrows it down for me, really helps me out. Anything.
I was struck by the irony of the request in a way. One year ago, when I went to school, I included five months in the military (active duty for Army Reserves) and seven months in The World Of Business (advertising). I would have had a hell of a week.
I would have loved them to somehow speak to KU students, giving them the John Hill Report On The Cold Cruel.
from a pompous ass I would have made of myself then. I think I had visions of standing at the beat-up top of a building and expounding, going on and on about college versus What It's Like in Highly Referenced To As The Real World.
The reason I would have been so full of fire and ballaststone a year ago is, for another reason, that I'm still with college students. I don't now. For another, I would have been carried away and forgotten how low the interest is on our savings that starts Telling You (or me) About Life.
You see, in my first year out of KU, I in the military and in the canyons of commerce, I learned a lot.
Three years ago or so, I used to spend a lot of time arguing, and even listening, to people who were politically about 26 feet to the left of me try to explain their opinions in things about society. We even used terms like establishment then. Really
They're very intolerant Out There, they used to tell me in the Gaslight, spiritual father of the Rock Chalk, who spent 20 years in the military, and anti-intellectualism in the suburbs. Well, I used to nod, trying to be fair and open-minded, I don't think it's all that bad. My Prairie dog friends are quite mature wanted to wait and see for myself.
Well, I saw. Four years at a politically active campus couldn't radicalize my attitudes but a few months later I knew. And a few months in the military did
A year ago, I would have wanted to somehow speak back through time to my friends who were there with herkowitzes, names now as long gone and forgotten probably as all Big Names On Campus quickly are, and simply tell them that they were right there.
That was a year ago I would have wanted to urgently say those things. Today, it's so obvious to me they were right, it's a matter of what else is new? Is this today, another year later, it is a little tired of all the. The edge is off.
The cuteys little desk plaques have the Latin phrase that means: "Don't let the bastards get you down" Well, Ive join them at times and maybe I join them at times too.
Today, I'm a creaking old dinosaur of 24. In the last year, I've met and dodged some challenges, won and lost some victories, worked on payments, changed jobs and states, and
I feel much more than just a year older and further than ever' from the KU campus.
I've probably got about as much... common now with a KU sophomore as I do with a nightwatchman in an abanadze Edel plant in Dogwood, Montana.
For one thing, I'm as tired as you probably are of Hip.
I went into this very plastic head shop, like they all are, the other day and said that it had two decals on the glass front door. Two little signs of the times, working together. An upside-down cup. Bank-Americard Accepted Here deal
You're out of it today unless you're into something. You're either into the war or into ecology or into film. Me, I'm making that good to do, just enough to make that good to do.
A sincere concern for peace, racial equality a great army, and simple human kindness is often confused with the surface forms of With-It-ness, that's
But forglue me if there are many moments when my Mastercharge bill is more important to me than the Pentagon papers.
I'm a 24-year-old buck chaser; it comes with the territory.
The reason I'm going into my attitudes, now versus then is that I am more personally, but I am suggesting that my situation is typical of what you may experience. Or I am just plain stuff.
What I've done is lived and planned rather selfishly.
Because I know what I want.
I've found that this can be achieved through some pretty middle-class, compromise-sounding wavs.
Like, in my case, the Army Reserves. (Five months active duty versus two years, or jail. Or Canada.)
By JOHN HILL
And money. (Money isn't that crass, materialistic bad stuff we were told! It's time. And freedom. Freedom from being hung up about money, too.)
And when I say money, that's what I mean. Not just bread. (Did you ever notice that any amount under $7.50 is bread, and is OK to have and to want?)
Anyway, I say all this in danger of crossing across to you like the Bob-Hope-Mom. "today's hippie will be tomorrow's C.P.A. and all that. You know, the 'wait until you have to earn a living in the future,' you'll get a harried and straighten out."
I hate that. Because what they're really saying is, "Soon, away from the luxury of a college atmosphere, you'll be kept so busy like the rest of us that you won't have time to think or question something," Mr. Wink when they say something like that, which means, "I may have gotten shallow but you'll have to also."
The trick, seems to me, (and it looks like you're getting some post-graduate coursework) is that you don't times after the course of your life. (This is the opposite of what a fevérent activist learns.)
Burning issues always do one of two things. They burn out, or they burn on forever. Either way, how's the quality of your life in the meantime?
I often suspect that people who alter the course of their lives because of the war or the draf, and I wish everyone to understand so out of a kind of guilt. As are doing so of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, many young people sincerely feel this tremendous guilt for the way things are done in our society, which comes the desire to do something to purify our suspect this is where we get many of our Peace Corps and Vista workers, conscious objects, Canadian communities, community farmers, drop-outs and so on.
Maybe it boils down to how selfish you are about your own life. Me, I've only got one. I don't want anything or anyone to mess it up.
They sincerely feel these problems and take them very personally. So they make personal decisions so they won't feel so bad about them.
Today, tired as I may be with some things, I'm quite happy. I've got control of my life. I'm living exactly where I want doing exactly what I want. (In my case, it's writing advertising in L.A. films.) All right, all right. I'm into film. All rights, all right.
Anyway, we're really talking about here, what the real concern is about, how to mind. Somehow resolve the extremes and see with a separate peace inside. I can just pass on, unasked for, come to work or try to do it. And it seems to work for me.
Forgive me for zapping a sermon-
ounding thing in here, but you can't
evaluate what I'm saying with some
specifies.
Decide for yourself how typical I am. I think there is a growing number of us, concerned capitalists, whatever the stupid new label will be.
I actually hadn't planned such an involvement dissertation. Honest. But that's what you get when you ask a wild old grat to write about anything.
He writes about everything.
What are these girls laughing about?
Health Lab Underfunded
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teribrary borrowing is a reflection o and for library resources which cannot locally," the report said, "and its i inversely relates to the adequacy of libraries' collections. This volume ude to increase during 1969-70."
number of bound volumes in the y' collection has increased from 185 in 196 to 1,300,073 in 1970. This has burden on the system for storage of government pamphlets, journals and foreign sentions which are not bound.
tion Library is in desperate shape moment in terms of book space." Heron "I will be in two or three years. In 1968, I spent about 10 per cent of the ts and it was a great experience."
on said, however, that the library was a whole was overcrowded.
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annual report for 1969-70 called the age of library space "severe."
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sent space problems in the sciences are indeed severe," the report says, cation of the Barettter-Schilling formula to the library system as a requirement cent of it requires. The Speaker of an abundant storage space for the time
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orkman died and another was in the area center of Lawrence Memorial Monday after the scaffold on which he working collapsed.
is jack Johnson, 1305 Jewell in A spokesman at the hospital said died shortly before noon Monday as if injuries suffered in the aft
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ship occurred at about 4:45 Monday. John, a sub-contractor for the company he worked with, and man were working on an addition to Hall at KU, when the scaffold apgave way without warning and the crew four stories to a concrete below.
being, but (by the same formula) the science libraries have one third of the space they
Heron said the University will need a new library in the next decade. He said Watson Library built in 1924, has had three additions since then, and that "it is not an ideally designed building."
"Statistically, it's rather short of seating space." Heron said. "We should be able to seat 4,200 in the entire library system. We have seated for 2,800. This is somewhat different than there are too many times when this building (Watson) is terribly crowded."
Another problem the library has is a shortage of personnel.
"This year the work load is going to increase," Heron said, "and there will be fewer, rather than more, people working here." The library also has a briefing problem. There are currently about 250,000 John Wilson which are only briefly cataloged and so fully catalogued. To the user of the card catalogue, briefed books are not as useful.
Heron said the library needs more employees to speed up the briefing work.
*"Increasing doctoral programs also mean greatly increased burdens on the library."*
Between 1959 and 1970, the number of masters degrees awarded at KU has increased 182.2 per cent, the number of doctoral degrees increased 303.4 per cent, and the library burdened 608.3 per cent.
The root of the libraries' troubles is the refusal of the Board of Regents and the state legislature to allot more money for books, library operation and promotion of facilities.
In 1968-69, the total expenditure of the Kansas University Libraries was $2,143,358. In 1969-70, the total expenditure was $1,959,321. In 1975-71, would probably drop below $2,000,000.
Heron said the administration has been advocating a new system of budgeting, called formula budgeting, used widely by other institutions of higher education. He said that the library submitted a formulated budget four years ago (1986-89) in which it requested an additional $20 million. This budget was turned down by the Board of loggers it never made to the legislature.
The annual report for 1980-70 summarized the success of the formula budgeting technique for that year: "It went down in flames with the rest of the castion, but some day when the weather improves it should fly better than the old magic carrot."
With a shortage of employees and operating funds, another economy instituted by the Bank of Canada is being created.
"This is a problem this summer," Heron said. "People who work during the week can't get enough."
Heron said that the library would be closed on Friday evening during the coming school year, and that the library would be forced to curtail its hours of service a total of five to ten weeks in the future. He added that Kansas State University state schools were having the same problems.
The University of Kansas library system is not facing an immediate crisis. Libraries at KU will continue to operate. But they will be overcrowded, understaffed, and the quantity and quality of resource materials will constrain the library's future years unless the libraries receive more financial aid from the Board of Regents and, ultimately, the state legislature.
Hetter said the Council has not yet begun to make very many specific proposals for consolidation or elimination of particular programs.
Kissinger Reveals Details of Trip
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Henry Kissinger's trip to China was so secret that even one of the two Secret Service agents who went with him didn't know the destination.
Kissinger revealed that and other details of his Poking trip during a chat SUNS aboard Air Force One as President Nixon and his party returned from California. Nixon called Kissenger "one of the leaders of both parties today to continue discussions of his upcoming China journey."
who has been active in civil rights and political campaigns for several years, had never discussed the ACLU post with Cardinal John Cody or church authorities.
Kissinger declined to discuss what type of aircraft was used on his clandestine trip, or even what route he traveled. But he said one of the two Secret Service agents with him was kept in the dark—until he spotted a Chinese plane, presumably on the flight into China.
The agent, Kissinger added, nearly dropped his teeth.
On arrival in Peking the Chinese kept their promise of strict secrecy, even to the point of whisking him away from the airport in a small room near rear windows hidden by thick siks curtains.
He also brought back memories—as the S.T. table team tried before him—of the game he played in 1973.
Once he begins his 20 hours of talks with Premier Chou En-lai, he said, the Chinese leader proved to be better informed about some of Nixon's more recent statements than he was. He said Chou immediately started peppering him with intelligent questions about an off-the-cuff briefing Nixon held on newsmen in Kansas City July 6.
served 12 courses at every meal, but he did not use the ivory chaplets, fearful of his health.
Kissinger said he has no illusions about an immediate friendship forming between Nixon and Chon; but he said there seems to be mutual respect already.
The following morning Morning sent him a copy of Nixon's remarks, in English, with his personal notations on the margin and a note reading "please return, our only copy."
Kissinger said he had to admit he had been traveling and was out of touch, save for press reports.
Abtown no date for Nixon's visit has been announced, Kissinger said diplomatic negotiations were underway to make sure the groundwork will be well laid. White House officials said Nixon will probably go late this year or early in 1972.
Docking Fights AEC
TOPEKA (UPI) - Gov. Robert B. Docking Monday made a last ditch effort to halt the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) funding for the nuclear waste dump near Lyons.
"I do not believe the AEC has made every effort to determine the safety of the Lyons project. Many of our state's prominent scientists, knowledgeable in the technical complexities and potential dangers of storing radioactive waste, have joined with me in asking that the AEC conduct further research to determine the safety of Lyons project before proceeding with site acquisition and construction." Docking said in the letter.
The governor's office released the text of a letter sent by the Kansas governor to all 100 members of the U.S. Senate. The Senate will consider the request today.
The governor said the AEC "for the most part has ignored our concerns" and gone on to say, "I will not do that."
Docking asked the Congress approve AEC funds for research on the project, but defer the requests for funds to acquire land and begin a project until all safety tests are completed.
The AEC wants to take over an abandoned salt mine near Lyons in central Kansas for the nuclear waste dump. Radioactive waste from the plant could be deposited in the nation would be deposited at the plant.
Spencer Closed This Week
There has been a generator installed to keep the library at a cool temperature. It is not known how well the generator will provide the library until the cable is repaired.
Spencer library has been closed due to a 12,500 volt cable broken by a construction worker at the site of Wesco Hall Tuesday, July 13.
Spencer contains many old documents, manuscripts and rare books which might be destroyed if not kept in a controlled atmosphere. There are no lights in the library, y
The closing of the library has caused an inconvenience for approximately 40 students and 45 faculty members who are using the library this summer. Three of these have been provided with space near a window in the library to continue their studies. Two are doctoral candidates and the third is a faculty member.
Most of the staff employed at Spencer Library have been transferred to Wabon Library.
The Casson Construction Co. and the cable would probably be repaired by the end of this week.
Spencer Library
Kansan Photo
... with emergency generator