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Tuesday, February 9, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Space Program a Waste
By CRAIG PARKER
intriguing and technologically phenomenal as it was, the Apollo 14 moon landing once again emphasized America's distorted priorities. With poisoned air, crumbling cities, polluted waterways, starving babies, overcrowded hospitals, and inefficient government (the list, unfortunately, could go on and on) this country has spent $24 billion in the last ten years to achieve that primary goal of the 1960's, set forth by President John Kennedy—"to put a man on the moon by 1970."
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"It certainly is a stark place here at Fra Mauro."—Alan B. Shepard.
The cost of the Saturn 5 rocket alone:
$185 million.
"The world of the slum-dweller, the dark and hopeless world where despair is a constant companion . . . is a haven for the hopeless and for the defeated, where the spark of childhood joy turns to the bitter gall of an adult man, facing nothing but the gray dullness of an aimless life"—Robert Kennedy.
The cost of renewing 20 blocks of dilapidated housing: well over $200 million.
The total cost of the Apollo 14 mission:
$400 million.
"We have to make uneconomic decisions. We have to invest money in things such as social priorities."—Michael Harrington.
The cost of the American space program in the past decade; about $24 billion.
America will require 2 million units of new housing every year for the next 34 years, to properly house itself.
"This is the first time that we are going into a site in which the scientific objectives have had a real input in choosing where we go. The main mission of neither Apollo 11 nor Apollo 12 was science." - Paul Gast, head of the lunar and planetary division of the Houston Space Center.
"The mind of the Wasp bears more resemblance to the laser than the mind of any other ethnic group . . . In the odyssey to the moon we went without
knowing why we went."—Norman Mailer, in "Of a Fire on the Moon."
"It's been a long way, but we're here."—Alan B. Shepard.
"The hold pledge of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American Family made by Congress in 1949 has become a hollow mockery for three-fourths of the entire Negro population."—Jack Wood, urban housing expert.
"We've gone to the moon because it was a national goal, and not just a whim of NASA."—James A. McDivitt, head of the Apollo program.
"The fact is that the majority of the people in the nation do not want to support the cost that is required to solve this problem."—Herman Badillo, former president of the Bronx.
"The next decade will see the 200th anniversary of the United States. Now, in my history books, that means 200 years ago we weren't very advanced . . . Americans should be proud of the progress made since 1776 and should view the flight of Apollo 11 as a continuation of that progress. Progress is rapid, and if you don't stick with it, you get behind."—James A. McDivitt.
"Massive complexes of institutional power tend to roll up individuals in their path. This is true in both the private and the public arenas. The combination can be pernicious."—John Lindsay, in "Journey Into Politics."
symbol of unity."—James A. McDivitt.
"The President promises that the Potomac, with its evil odors and fourteen feet of sewage sludge lining its bottom, shall be cleaned and beautified to become a natural paradise."—from all our rivers must some day become All the nation waits for this miracle."—from "Moment in the Sun."
"Apollo 11 is a symbol of progress and a
symbol of unity."—James A. M.Divitt.
For whatever reasons offered—economy, the need to explore a new frontier, scientific gains, national prestige—the space program, at its current pace and in light of more pressing needs, seems a colossal waste. It is a tragic misuse of energy, money, talent and resources.
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Parking Needed for Faculty
Faculty Viewpoint
By GEORGE F. WEDGE Associate Professor of English
I take it that Mr. Hill's editorial on parkering (2 February) was meant to bring a lump to my eyes of the eyes at the allegation sigh "anguished, enraged" students paying fines for illegally parking cars been late to his night class (we do have them, too, Mr. Iliff), his committee meeting or oral question schedule scheduled at a better time because the daylight hours are too full, his semi-obligatory attendance has changed to student-faculty organization—at which perhaps a thesis advises is giving a report. This last semester I campus the night Mr. Hill's editorial appeared. I paid still more money year to year in park in the pay lot near the Union (no small expense, see the article on faculty salaries in the news); to meet the meeting, apologized for my lateness, and returned to the lot to discover that my eyes had not made sense. I car behind mine when I entered the lot had indeed removed the exit gate to enter the lot without the solemnity of the
for the "long walk" doing me good, I couldn't agree more. Me, I couldn't agree more. much good. They already give up an hour and a half to two hours of my companionship for the most part of the evening seminar, much more for some College Faculty and Senate meetings), and they lose a good grade on examination preparation, paper and thesis grading, writing, and other duties provided time. My wife, like many faculty wives, has a full-time job (for the reason, see your letter from the same issue). On the evening of a colloquy, she may see me for half an hour meeting and half an hour between the meeting and a necessarily early because he was 7-20. This fragmented hour is shared with our three children, unless their turn is late enough for them to be given care, she has probably returned herself), the "long song" but bucolic (my Mr. Ilff but bucolic) keep my family together long enought for me to become acquainted with it in my memory with it.
I wonder, however, whether the walking does not cumulatively over my years on campus far beyond individual students who attend the same event. I have been on my way to another event and to be there again another twenty-seven; the colliquy meets fifteen or so times a year (at present, we take it for granted) in my calculation that six hundred hours of long walk at the expense of my family. The student who had meetings would invest seventy-five beneficial if, before that cannot hold all of us, and a seventy-five hour sacrifice in exchange for a six hundred hour tuition fee. In time in meaningful student-faculty exchange. And since I have invested some nine to twelve hours in meaningful student-faculty exchange, and since I have invested some九到十二 hours in meaningful student-faculty exchange, and since I have invested some九到十二 hours more than the students (individually) are asked to invest. If someone must walk—and most students are pretty obvious who should
But night parking is not the only problem. This morning, as on Monday morning, and as has happened throughout the current semester, there were no spaces available in the lot for which I paid my ten cents per hour to an appointment with a student who had been forewarned that I should be late) by counting the hours one evening including one illegally parked on the grass. Twenty-four of these cars did not have stickers on them. They were parked on the grass and one which was still parked two hours later in a slotry marked as a parking spot. In none of the illegally parked cars
were, so far as I could tell from later observation, ticketed. No student anguish. Not student anguish. Not student anguish. The needlessness of the reasons parking zones exist, and unminful of the additional labor required of the faculty to keep the faculty privilege should exist because of mere tradition or of some foolish claim that age limits the number of students spend a lifetime hastening from homes at a greater remove from campus than dorm or roaming house to office or evening life but the parking regulations are not such a privilege. The established privileges exist regardless of the conditions under which the parking lives is brief, and their privilege is a reasonable and humane way of solving the problem of too many cars on campus. Similarly, I would favor a free, multi-stored parking garage with sspace on all of us (but only those who have faculty salaries, the working wives, not to mention the taxpayers, and honesty. Mr. Hiff, I would hope that our sense of priorities may be).
Speaking of priorities, I hope that it is clear that I (and other faculty members) place student development in our families, above the quarters spent at the parking lot, above our own self-interest (which would keep us at home on campus) and above so that we could earn advancement in rank to another below-the-national-average salary). What equivalent voucher you can get from the left to offer. Mr. Iliff, once you no longer make even the sacrifice of a healthy walk (or the pretense of one if you are among the faculty who illegally preempt my space)?
We may, of course, see the facts differently. Faculty will sometimes attend classes where tables are placed in their way; it might be a good idea, even an "impeccable idea," but an "unpleasant one" only student would park in these lots. It would almost be worth the personal cost to prove the point. You can know where the gate-aching students were bound, but I wouldn't bet on a student-faculty destination of two dating couples.
The KANSAN urges me to protest oppression wherever I see it. I see it. I protest.
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KC Lacks Culture
As the old song says,
"Everything is up to date in
Kansas City." With the
production of "Hair" now
has definitely taken a step toward joining the twentieth century.
The promoters had a tough fight getting the city fathers to end the war. They end, supporters of cultural freedom overcame a group of doodlers who had attempted to break the morals of Kansas Citians.
It seems odd that these modern Carrie Nates, male and female, tried to block the staging of the songs she wonders how many of them realize that songs such as "Aquarius" and "Good Morning Starshine" which hear on the "middle of road" stories, come from the musical.
Furthermore, they chose to attack an outstanding theatrical production while less distinguished and less cultural business places and theaters operate unscathed. (Not that the actors did not believe the value judgment of "Hair" opponents is questionable.)
Even with "Hair" playing in Kansas City, the town is still a cultural wasteland, and things are getting worse. The people of Kansas city are eager and similar organizations are in financial trouble.
If citizens indignant about "Hair" would turn their efforts to development and support in Kansas City, maybe the city would gain recognition nationally just than the Chiefs and the Plaza.
A Look at the Legislature
—Ted Iliff
By PAUL HESS
An Austere Budget Is Not the Answer
Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles that will appear in the Kansan from the 1973 Kansas Legislature is in session. Paul Hess, a first year law student, is a member of the University and the youngest member of the 1971 Kansas Legislature.
"Politico—1971," began with a bang—a 19 gun salute that is—and has notched its fame in Kansas with an inauguration of unprecedented glitter, charm and style. It was the 10 years of government for one family, known as the "Docking dynasty." The Inauguration
banquet speeches were unique in their complete absence of the women, who remained during the frequent cheerio toasts in the elected with non
the then announcement of the Lieutenant Governor, Ren Shultz, that bingo would be played right in the stage for at least the first two and a half months of legislative action, of bickering and public pitches for a change of liquor laws, of making sure that will leave a full two weeks to act on the less important legislation covering funding and regulations of programs. That leaves a four day period to ensure that all the
education problems will be held over until next year.
How else can we spend the three months time, since the people have told the governor to stay away this year than is already available, yet the governor has proposed the largest budget in the history of Kansas? ($120 million) than he proposed last session);
it will be tough to live in a country that has the highest living standard in the world, and then come to realize that we can't afford it. Of course, the governor can always wait two years for another election, instead of facing the problem of unequal education position control, penal institutions, mental health, etc.
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By Sokoloff
Griff & the Unicorn
● that the Legislature adopt a state spending bill, “revenue before appropriation,” so “appropriations cannot not exceed available resources.” (Kansas already has a cash basis law.)
A week and a day after his inauguration Docking broke another precedent by presenting a combined legislative and budget message to the 1971 Kansas Legislature.
"Copyright 1971, University Daily Kansan"
- a promise to "veto any attempt to repeal the lie on property taxes"; and to veto a sales tax hire or property tax increase bill which does not provide a local vote.
- **specific "reform" tax** increases or policies to cover the $28 million shortage Docking forces in 1972. These include: hiring more people down* the property tax lid by extending the 105 per cent budget limitation to levies such as those for vocational education and welfare now excluded from the state inactive funds; eliminating federal income tax as a state deduction for corporations and uping the state privilege tax on banks, savings and loan and trust companies; and eliminating the state's sales tax exemptions.
"Resolved, that the taxes assessed and charged upon the people, both by National, State, and Local governments, are oppressive and unjust, and vast sums of money are collected far beyond the needs of an economical administration of government," from the annual meeting in 1873. In two more years, we can have a centennial, for 100 years of uneconomical taxes.
● a proposal to submit to voters three Constitutional amendments; the 18-year-old vote (for an April ballot) giving the vote to the veto and authority not to spend what is appropriated; and to exempt bake as a lottery when conducted by non-profit groups. I will quote from the minutes of the State Board of Agriculture:
Highlights of his recommendations:
It's the same old story of people demanding more government services, but not wanting to pay for them by more taxes. Docking calls his budget "auteur but he wants an auteur but want an auteur but want a good KU education, or do you want a good KU education?
● expenditures for fiscal 1972 are proposed at $424 million, up $8.3 million from this year's estimated expenditures, but $120
million more than Docking requested for this year.
Those There the Days
50 Years Ago Today----1921
John Ise, professor of economics, told Lawrence merchants that they would have to face price fluctuations and credit conditions in the near future. He emphasized the need for the University to turn out more economics majors.
The School of Law was awarded a certificate as the school with the highest average contribution ($77) to the Stadium-Union Fund Drive. Beta Theta Pi won the fraternity contribution of $167. Alpha Chi Omega topped all other sororities with an average of $100.
The Kansan reported that the Kansas Legislature feared an outbreak of small pox within the legislature would stop all activity, and the legislator came down with the disease.
35 Years Ago Today—1936
With weather readings below zero, Lake Tahoe can never be used. Several churches canceled services because not enough coal was available to heat the buildings. However, no coal shortage was in sight.
Funeral services for U.S. Senator Charles
Curtis, of Kansas, vice president under President Hoover, were announced in
KU won its 15th consecutive victory in the tournament with a 43-8 win over Oklahoma in Norman.
A fire raised the United Bretheren Church, 17th and Vermont streets. The fire was believed to have started in the overhead window of a boss was only partially covered by insurance.
10 Years Ago Today----1961
The Civil Rights Council had more than 100 signatures on the condemnation document of a calling or petition for a referendum on the civil rights resolution amendment by a National Student Association committee.
Floyd Preston, associate professor of petroleum engineering, returned to Lawrence. He told a press conference what it was like to be stranded aboard a hijacked ship. He and his family were aboard the ship on 21 February 2015, hijacked by Portuguese rebels. Preston said a plan to "shoot it out" with the rebels was preempted by the release of the prisoners.