University Summer Kansam
Friday, July 16, 1971
"Journalism is literature in a hurry."
—John Milton
There's been a difference of opinion lately about what a newspaper is. or could be.
Journalists are a crabby lot. Each side has convincing evidence that their case is correct, and they let each other know it.
The William Allen White School of Journalism has given one of those sides a chance at KU by providing money for this issue. And this issue is one person's interpretation of what a newspaper could be.
It's a matter of emphasis.
Newspapers in America have done little to help a community find a sense of community.
This paper, which copies "Rolling Stone" in format, was put together by a very small staff. It was based on this question: why couldn't there be a kind of paper which seeks creative writing and photography and art, still providing the daily news?
Why couldn't there be a kind of paper which encourages all those midnight writers who don't believe anyone really wants to hear
Why couldn't that kind of paper begin on college campuses?
The only way it could succeed would be on a daily basis. There might then develop a two-way exchange of information, and a community might once again feel special, with something special to say.
That is the way it could be.
" AND INTENTLY READIN' A NEWSPAPER, A-BOLDIN' IT WRONG SIDE UP."
—Richard Louv Editor for a day
Health Lab Underfunded
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Tuesday, July 20, 1971
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More Crowded Funds Shrink
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library borrowing is a reflection of for library resources which cannot locally," the report said, "and its inversely relates to the adequacy ofraries' collections. This volume d to increase during 1968-70."
number of bound volumes in the $ collection has increased from 1 in 1983 to 1,500,073 in 1970. This has unrupted on the system for storage of documents to government, pamphlets, pamphlets, and foreign nits which are not bound.
on Library is not in despair shape emblem in terms of book space." Heron will be in two or three years. In 1968, she taught at the University of the and staff of Watson Library.
said, however, that the library is a whole was overcrowded.
lee and law libraries are really old books are having to be stored in ment of Spencer," Heron said.
annual report for 1969-70 called the library space "severe."
ent space problems in the science are indeed severe," the report says. formation of the Barether-Schillinger formula to the library system as a function of storage requirements. The Spencer Library obstitutional storage space for the time
siveness uisition
crackdowns of the past weeks '; were not only aimed at bippies and aged excesses.
said was going to be a birthday party,
aided by some villagers, fired
shots, then proceeded to round up
some people, said some
are beaten by police.
ities recently suspended the Madrid
rites recently for four months because
shed articles contrary to accepted
jurisprudence which alienated laws
no divorce.
Spiegel, Germany's leading news ne-
t, has been repeatedly banned. Last
same of Time Magazine was held up at
a court, because it con捉 picture of two nudes.
orkman died and another was in the are center of Lawrence Memorial Monday after the scaffold on which re working collapsed.
is Jack Johnson, 1305 Jewell in a Spokesman at the hospital said shortly before noon Monday as if he had been in the fall, before jumps, of the fall.
kman Killed At KJ
name of the second man is being 1.
ischaped occupant at about 9:45 Monday
Johnson, a sub-contractor for the
Construction Company of Topeka,
and man were working on an addition to
Hall at KU, when the scaffold appa-
gave way without warning and the
l about four stories to a concrete
below.
being, but (by the same formula) the science libraries have only one third of the space they
Heron said the University will need a new library in the next decade. He said Wadson Library built in 1924, has had three additions and is now designed so that "it is not an ideally designed building."
"Statistically, it's rather short of seating space." Heron said. "We should be able to seat 4,400 in the entire library system. We have seating for 2,500. This is somewhat less than there are too many times when this building (Watson) is terrifically 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 brieflisting problem. There are currently about 250,000 in Walton which are only brieflisted and not full cataloged. To the user of the card catalog, brieflist 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 187.2 percent, the number of doctoral degrees awarded at KU has decreased and the library budget has increased 1400 million.
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 expansion of facilities.
In 1968-69, the total expenditure of the Kansas University Libraries was $2,143,358. In 1969-70, the total expenditure was $1,976,751. In 1976-71, 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 two years ago, (1984-89) in which it requested that the budget was turned down by the Board of Gents (it never made it to the legislature).
The annual report for 1969-70 summarized the success of the formula budgeting technique for that year: "It went down in flames with the rest of the squad, 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 United States is needed.
make very many specific proposals for
resolution or elimination of particular
"This is a problem this summer," Heron said. "People who work during the week can't go out."
Heron said that the library would be closed on Friday evenings during the coming school year, and that the library would be forced to curtail its hours of service a total of five to ten per cent during the year. He added that the library would also be closed in 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 continue to decrease in future years unless the libraries move more financial aid from the Board of Regents and, ultimately, the state legislature.
Kissinger Reveals Details of Trip
WASHINGTON (UPH.) - 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.
political campaigns for several years, had never discussed the ACUL post with Cardinal John Cody or church authorities.
Kissinger revealed that and other details of us Peking trip during a taurus ship aboard Air Force One as President Nixon and his party returned from California. Nixon called Kissinger and congressional leaders of both parties to discuss of his upcoming China source.
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 kitted in the dark—until he spotted a Chinese aircraft, presumably on the flight into China.
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 train carriage. They rear windows hidden by thick silk curtains.
The agent, Kissinger added, nearly dropped his teeth.
Once he began his 20 hours of talks with Premier Chou En-lai, he said, the Chinese leader proved to be well informed about some Nixon's more recent statements than he was. He said Chou immediately started peppering him with intelligent questions about an off-cuff briefing Nixon held for newspapers in Kansas City July 6.
served 12 coaches at every meal, but he did not use the ivory chapkins, fearful of his
He also brought back memories—as the S. table tennis team did before him—of the days when he was a junior at U.S. College.
Kissinger said he has no illusions about an immediate friendship forming between Nixon and Chiu; but he said there seems to be mutual respect already.
The following morning Chou sent him a copy of Nix's remarks, in English, with his personal notations on the margin and a note reading "please return, our only cover."
Kissinger said he had to admit he had been traveling, and was out of touch, save for press letters.
Althou 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. Decking 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 into 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 with it."
Docking asked the Congress approve AEC funds for research on the project, but defer the requests for funds to acquire land and conduct 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 would be deposited at the facility.
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 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 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.
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.
The Casson Construction Co. said the cable would probably be repaired by the end of this month.
Most of the staff employed at Spencer Library have been transferred to Watson Law School.
Kuusan Photo
Spencer Library with emergency generator