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Friday, April 23, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment KU Loses a Dean
KU is losing the dean of its Law School—not to a better school, but a school with more money.
No one blames Lawrence Blades for leaving.
Tradition can't pay salaries, build classrooms or buy books.
Tradition seems to be all this University can offer a prospective faculty member. He certainly wouldn't come here for the pay.
Faculty promotions this year are promotions with no pay increases. Budgets are being trimmed, as Blades says, "not to the fat, but to the bone."
The legislature, plagued by a grand-standing governor, left the University out in the financial cold.
University officials, hoping for the best, won't acknowledge a faculty exodus—not yet anyway.
It will do little good to villify the legislature further; the damage has been done, and won't be corrected for a year, if then.
The question now seems to be—just how bad will things get? How many faculty members actually will leave? What lies in the future for the University?
More faculty will leave, unfortunately,
with good reason. The grumbling will
become more vocal. Job offers will be
considered more seriously.
All of this for politics. What a waste!
Tom Slaughter
Student Representation
By Steve Hix Pearson College Senator
Students are told that they now have representation on all policy-making committees in all departments of the University. This representation is supposedly 20 per cent. If this is true, may I ask who are these students? No one in the Student Senate can find the answer.
I feel it is time that the administrators of the various departments of the University start breaking away from their bureaucratic system, and give students a channel to be heard. The University Senate voted in favor of a Senate rule earlier this year giving students a 20 per cent representation on all policy making departmental committees. They should now stand behind this ruling and leave students the opportunity to run for the open positions in their departmental committees.
Presently students are appointed to the departmental committees (if represented at all) by the administrators of their department. I now propose to the department administrators to hold open, publicized elections for students interested in their departments. Only through elections shall students truly be represented. Otherwise, it appears students shall continue to be no more than a token on all policy-making committees. Many of our out-dated requirements block this University from the progressive movement in education that is grasping most of the high-respected universities of the country. We must move cautiously but aggressively toward academic reform in our university.
Let's Help Ourselves
B BY GAYLE TRIGG Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas has just suffered devastating blows. It will not magically arise next year out of the depths into which the state legislature has thrown it. KU students voted last year to financially support much of the new humanities building and all of the student health center. Next week students will vote on whether to pick up some of the financial slack in legislative appropriations. The endowment association, too, will probably be called on to help pull KU through next year.
But what about the year after that? We can't allow ourselves to take over the expenses that state taxes ought to cover.
At this time, this school ranks among the top ten state supported universities in the country in the areas of alumni support, awards received by graduating seniors, and in overall academic excellence, and yet it is the only one of those which accepts any state high school graduate. This year, prior to legislative cuts, KU is already ranked in the lower ten per cent in faculty salaries of the 141 universities highly ranked academically. Where will it be ranked next year—number 141?
We must do something to make next year's legislative session more responsive to the needs of higher education and the state. Industries and
other concerns have effective lobbies, but the lobbying element for higher education in Kansas is practically nonexistent. Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents, is "available during legislative sessions, by law, as a state employee, must mainly confine his activities to the answering of legislative questions.
I suggest a student lobby—not on the legislature (our loyalties are presumably known)—a lobby on our parents and the people in our home towns. Let's instigate a citizen's lobby for higher education. Legislators will listen to their fellow lawyers, businessmen and townpeople.
The legislature seems to understand only one game—politics. Let's not let it argue that by making cuts in higher education it is fulfilling the wishes of Kansas voters. These cuts are not just for this year, as some would have us believe. Students and faculty will take the brunt of the squeeze this year. Sooner than it thinks, the city of Lawrence will feel the effects—it will hurt. But the state itself will be the loser in the long run. Along with distinguished faculty and innovative programs, the University will lose its ability to give the "children" and future leaders of Kansas an adequate education. Even beyond the college classroom, KU serves the state in 34 areas of research and educational needs.
This summer, work, work for a cause close to home—KU and higher education.
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This action indicates recognition of a problem. However, it was never quite clear what the problem was. Symp-
By WALTER LIETZEN Kanean Staff Writer
Man has battled nature since the beginning of time. Comedian Pat Paulsen commented recently that he finally managed to beat it to a paul.
But the awakening came—the alarm was sounded—and the volunteer firemen came running and civic groups offered band aid solutions. Action began—make the country more beautiful—pick up litter, do away with illicit币 billets and亿元 “bleem”
One no knows exactly when the clean air was lost, or exactly when the streams began to get wet and contaminated. No one knows exactly when the junk heaps began to reach from city to city, or when Lake Erie began to die or when Lake Ontario began to 300 species of animals begin. All of this happened gradually. Possibly the awakening came with the roar of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. "Maybe before
This situation is analogous to that of a frog in an aquarium where the temperature is raised above the change comes so gradually he does not realize that any change in water is in a short time he is holed alive.
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Quotes in the News
"Organic wastes are actually fertilizer," said Peter North, a professor of design. "Why not put them in the field where it came from. One of the objections may be odor, but that is not necessarily the part that they were designed to parts, parts not even realized are often the deadly pollutants."
This is one indication that the environmental system that supports all life and all human activity is beginning to break down.
tons were recognized. Industries in their manufacturing processes pollute the air. Why not close them down? This would solve that problem. Automobile industry mutually polluted air—why not pass a law to make them quit? Congress did just that.
HOW SERIOUS IS the problem? An answer to an aspect of the seriousness of a problem is difficult to find. The director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Washington University, St. Louis.
He said that it has been estimated that by 1890—barring drastic action to change our environment, the organic wastes imposed by human activity on the waters of the United States will require for their decomposition the total amount of oxygen in the river
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ANother REASON ENVIRONMENTAL pollution is approaching crisis because our technological processes—modern agriculture, industry and transportation—are not sustainable. We match that of the natural
This extension of the impact on human beings on the ecosphere is the consequence of technology Communer said, tehistoric maritime industry was already bodily wastes, which were readily accommodated by natural ecosystems. But operational power plants and automobile engines His industrial processes release into the environment a host of wastes never abundantly available. sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Technology has also introduced into the environment so much that it because they are uniquely made by man—pesticides made
Commoner said that it is the human factor in the environmental system that is causing the problem. Because man manipulates natural forces we are often beyond that attainable by any other living thing. For example, a human being expends in bodily energy roughly 1,000 kilowatts in a year. In a highly developed world actual expenditure is between 10 and 15,000 kilowatts a year.
1 wonder how many Kansas
If then, technology is the root of the pollution problem as Commoner argues, we have a still lower threat to our health with technology and all the little conveniences it has furnished. Even in the poorest technically advanced areas people are better housed in houses with good safety, more comfortable surroundings, enjoy greater leisure, live longer and lead healthier lives than they could in the modern backward countries of the earth.
LETTERS
To the editor:
All human activity must rely on the ecosystem's integrity of the ecosystem. Models of active activities are stressing the ecosystem to the point of destruction.
Thanks to Firemen, Dole
To the editor:
"Dumping this waste into the ocean—or the salt mines of Kansas is very shortened. It may be that we don't effect that it will eventually have on future generations. If we are concerned with the effect on future generations we should not momentarily warrant on this point," North said.
After a near catastrophe such as the Sigma Chi fire, it is advantageous to review the circumstances that have occurred in particular, the acute efficiency of the Lawrence Fire Department on the morning of April 10th. Within a short period, the 10th Sigma Chi house had been contained and consequently saved the life of Charles Lawrence. At the same time, the firemen also damaged the chapter house.
processes on which they intrude.
Basic to these environmental effects of human activities is that humans have created self-purifying cycles that maintain the ecosystem. The intended use of salt mines in desert areas wastes water, and wastes bring home a terrifying feature of modern technology.
Many of the products are invented by scientists and incorporated natural ecological cycles.
Unfortunately, such acts of service are often overlooked by the military. Of the interfaithry Council, would like to express our gratitude to the men of the Lawrence Fire Department for their dedication and monitoring of the 10th. We profoundly appreciate the assiduous dedication that they exemplified by their efforts toward Richard T. Dwyer Richard T. Dwyer
voters realize that Sen. Robert Dole, a Democrat of the National Republican Party and prime spokesman for the Nixon Administration first held a special session of Congress.
Why would a United States senator who would seemingly have enough responsibilities, take on the added tasks of heading an entire party? Why does Dole's priorities clearly lie with the Republican party instead of his constituency.
Hardy a day passes that one
night, Delle. Donle on the evening
nationals in the actions of the President
and those sentiments of the Nixon
Actions of another notable senator, Sen. Fred Harris (I-Doka.), proved the course which Dole has chosen is one of peril for the Senate in 1984. Sen. Harris accepted the post as head of the National Democratic Party. When it became obvious that he was not the Democratic party and be an effective senator simultaneously, he resigned as
the chairman of his party.
Harris, who at the time of his
resignation, was becoming more
mentioned as a future vice-presidential candidate, decided to pull himself out of the Senate and himself to completely fulfill his duties as a senator and as a representative of his state. He is good faith and in good judgement.
Surely Sen. Dole could not have forgotten such recent history as the Harris case. Dole's motives — who knows for sure? Perhaps he has aspirations for a position in Congress, and there is the event there is one. How nice. Dole could use Kansas as his springboard.
This accounts for what W. H. Ferry, editor, calls the "stupid love affair" of the general public ("the love affair," he says, of the love affair), he said, "does not mean abandoning technology, but replacing infatuation with an understanding of its toxic nature, and ways to direct it to humane ends."
Vicki Bullard Tulsa junior
If a solution waits on the manufacturer and designer who are not moved until a law company will take it will take at least a generation.
"We don't have that long," North said.
"ONE OF THE PROBLEMS confronting the individual concerned with the pollution problem is that the individual does not have a choice," North said. "A demand that the consumer must not have to be plagued by after effects when the product has fulfilled its primary function. The designer must ensure that we respect our responsibility toward our ecological problems. Because in our established system we are bound to consumption, we should ask ourselves in the total problem.
"Therefore, I think a university should be the place where there is opportunity for better com-munication among all the specialized fields working together could achieve a goal. Our operations would not hold against us."
"in package designing it was very frustrating for me to try to find a solution, an ecologist to share knowledge with a designer in the search for a
"We need a new approach. We should try to get communication skills and experiences in the University and work on the problem together. The biochemist, the ecologist and the designer are all working together, which is a communication between them. There is an understandable amount of professional must be put aside and we must share our knowledge, experience and creativity—we done in the past. The main goal should be to bring these three elements together on the ground and search for a solution that will satisfy all three." North said.
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By Sokoloff
Those Were the Days
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff.
45 Years Ago Today----1928
Tonight was the night when many men at the University who never showed up at weekly dances because an admission price was charged, would be in hand for one of university's social functions. There was an adjuvant party scheduled by Gymnasium.
The Board of Regents accepted the invitation of the University to be present at the laying of the cornerstone of the Union building.
"The Union building will be a community place for alumni and students," said Chan-Huang Wong.
25 Years Ago Today—1946
The body of Benito Mussolini was stolen
Wesley Elliott, a negro member of the KU track squad, did not participate in the Kansas Relays, Saturday, because of a Big Six rulings, compared with E. C. Quigley, athletic director, said.
during the night from the pauper's grave where it was buried after the former due was executed by partisans a year ago. Police launched an immediate investigation of a reported re-emergence among Neo-Fasciat groups of the old "Massolini action squads."
Showing at the Jayhawker Theatre in its second week was "The Bells of St. Mary's," starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. The production, "Green" ended tonight at the Pattie Theatre.
15 Years Ago Today—1956
With Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., is gaining more and more support in his bid for Democratic Presidential nomination, but the Democrats have made a move to Syrington, was finding it harder to get votes. "The sorry aspect of the Grace Kelly news items isn't that the newspapers are printing them but that the subscribers aren't objecting to them and that the events being publicized," Ray Wingerson