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Monday, April 26, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
The Allocation— Take Another Look
On Tuesday, perhaps 1000 students will troop to the polls to vote whether or not to give about $104,000 to a charity—unless “the $104,000 would go to that.
Chancellor Chalmers and David Miller, who both support the allocation, say there will be no increase in salaries because of allocation.
Where's the money going then?
Chalmers says the money will go to such places as the Jayhawk yearbook adviser, intramural staff and other student-related activities.
there is no substance to the argument that the allocation will keep faculty members from leaving, but that the faculty would full-time faculty salaries one penny.
Chalmers said that teaching assistants might get raises from the allocations. In other words, we will be inducing teaching assistants to stay or come to KU, but not professors. Are we really raising the quality of education at KU when we raise teaching assistants' salaries and not the salaries of full-time faculty members?
The Student Senate, at times, tends to act with a great out-pouring of emotion. Their hearts are in the right place, but they just haven't done any actions.
Chalmers and Miller both say they are not sure where the money is going. They say it will go to supplement cuts made by the Legislature on the budget. The Senate seems sure because the state is counting years' worth of which $104,000 will be used for faculty salaries."
Teaching assistants are considered faculty. But even so, do we want more teaching assistants or more professors?
A circular floating around campus says, under "why I should vote yes": "Think about the consequences; our top professors may leave because of their pay, more graduate student teaching instead of full professors, and the size of your classes may increase."
This is completely devoid of all logic. Professors will get no more money and graduate student teachers will.
It's not as if the allocation will come easy from the activity fee money. Many groups will be hurting because of the cut. University Theatre, the Athletic Department and the Concert Course will all get major cuts and some of the small-fry might get squeezed out entirely.
The effects of these cuts will mean cutbacks in the products of these organizations. For example, the cutbacks from the CARES program next year that their budget is cut.
It's not all black and white. The allocation will not save the academic quality of KU and it will hurt extra-curricular activities. If a gesture of good-will by Senate was not met, Senate have don't just as well. That amount wouldn't have pinched extra-curricular organizations so much.
Some may say the Kansan opposes the allocation to the University because the Kansan will be one of the first to have their budget cut. Some may also say that R. L. Pur"s plans for Kansan University because he is a teaching assistant and will benefit most from the allocation.
Think before you vote. The
allocation will not affect the salaries
of employees.
-Galen Bland Editor
'They don't look like elephants to me!'
Quirks and Quotes
LOS ANGELES (UPD)—Helen Jones, describing what happened after she unknowingly sprinkled LSD-spiked parmesan cheese on her spaghetti at a cafe:
"I saw strange animals coming from my skin and body."
PHNOM PENH (UPD)—Col. Lon Non reacting to the resignation of Cambodian Prime Minister Lon Nol:
"The majority of his friends, including military men, civilians, youth and religious personalities do not wish him to resign."
"... for his supporting role in'Calley, The National Hero.'"
Table Tennis Trivia
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The United States, which once was accused of practicing gumbet diplomacy in China, is now entering a period of ping pong diplomacy.
The Lighter Side
Had had for many years a ping pong table in the bomb shelter of my domicile, I can force the game exerts, unifying force the game exerts.
If this should open the door to lasting world peace, nobody would be less surprised than your humble correspondent.
Before we took up ping pong, my family was badly divided along ideological lines. Which is to say we were all Democrats. Then we went to a party with paddles, we began to reconcile our political differences.
"The family that pings together, clings together," I often say, and I see no reason why that family should want the family of nationals as well.
"Two countries that pong
together, belong together" might be one way of putting it.
For me, then, it is easy to understand why diplomats here view the visit to Communist China by the U.S. table tennis team as an "encouraging development."
The pity is that it took so long for the State Department, or Henry Kissinger, or whoever is in charge of our foreign policy, to recognize the "peace through pung pong" potential.
The long-stalled Vietnam peace talks in Paris are a case in point.
Those negotiations began, you may recall, with a protracted dispute over the shape of the conference table.
Had the delegates been spending their time playing ping pong, you would not be able to do all day, the conference obviously would have made as much progress as it has made to date, and possibly a great deal
The delay in practicing ping
pong diplomacy becomes all the more strange when we consider how much ping pong and diplomacy have in common.
If you have ever collared a diplomat and tried to pin him down on some point, you are aware that batting a little ball back and forth is second nature to him.
The only trouble is that a diplomat, if he played pong in his natural style would bat the ball over the net, then run around the table and bat it back to himself.
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LETTERS
POW Politics
To the editor:
Patriotic products resulting from the Vietnam War have occupied a considerable space in the consumer market during the past four years. American flags supposedly signifying support for U. actions in Vietnam and buttons and posters denouncing the war are just a few items to which the consumer has fallen victim. Whether any of these items were made or sold by American companies, they probably did nothing more than promote self-expression.
The most recent of these commodities and undoubtedly the most meaningful are the prisoner of war bracelets being promoted by such companies. We would like to mention the name of a POW and selling for $2.50, are being sold to the public on sentiment. Just how the bracelets are to help POWs in North Vietnam
I know of no one whose sympathy does not lie with our prisoners of war. Perhaps this is the one aspect of the Vietnam War, triforiously enough, on which liberals and conservatives both could unite. Without a doubt we would all like to see them free and home again.
However, it would appear that if these bracelet vendors were in their efforts to see POW's freed, they would examine the facts
My sympathies are with the relatives of POW's. But instead of buying copper bracelets, they should support the movement to get Nixon to quit batting the public with political rhetoric and officially name 1972 as a withdrawal date from Asian soil. It would be a positive action to bring prisoners in North Vietnam home now, not two years from now.
The President of North Vietnam has said he would order the immediate release of all American POW's if President Nixon would officially promise to have all U.S. troops out of Vietnam by 1972. Meanwhile, Nixon unofficially says he will indeed have all troops out of Vietnam by the end of 1972 (after all it is an election year). In any case, if Nixon were to be released from prison, he would be gone from Vietnam in two years. So, while the President speaks of honor and tells tales of a little boy's酸盐, POW negotiations get bogged down in political ambiguities.
Vicki Bullard Tulsa junior
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'Here, Charlie! Show him who's boss!
Those Were the Days
50 Years Aged Today—1921
Chancellor E. H. Lindley anounced today that George "Potty" Clark, a University of Kansas alumnus, was named the new coach for the football team. Clark's popularity with KU students drove him by Miss McCormack, secretary to the chancellor, who said, "If Mr. Clark is as good a coach as he is good looking, he's the man for Kansas."
Dr. Phog Allen announced his dissatisfaction with certain rules in basketball that he claimed tended to slow the game down. Among the changes recom- mended were providing that the free throw line be moved to 20 feet from the basket, and two shots should be
There was a flury of male interest on campus as 175 high school girls dressed in shorts and slacks invaded Robinson Gymnasium for the annual Play Day舞舞 dance.
30 Years Ago Today----1841
awarded for fools committed within 10 feet from the basket. Allen also suggested that players should be able to take a pivot step before dribbling instead of having to b站ary.
Delta Gamma became the tenth sorority at KU. The original members were initiated at the Emmanuel and Mrs. Deane Mallet
10 Years Ago Today—1961 Eight Russian exchange students arrived at KU for a five
day visit. Their itinerary included attending three days of classes, a baseball game in Kansas City between the Chicago White Sox, and a tour of the Haskell Institute.
The senior class of 61 proposed three possible gifts to the University. The choices for the gift were trophy cases for Allen Field House, a Centennial class loan fund, and a bronze statue for the Spooner-Thayer Art Museum garden.
The All-Student Council proposed a reserved seat system for athletic events at the University. The council recommended that the seats be assigned on a seniority basis.