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Thursday, February 4, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
'Sure looks nice. I wonder what's inside?'
"Lemme git this straight. You all gonna give us all them millions without any strings attached?"
Revenue Sharing
One of the most important proposals contained in President Nixon's State of the Union message was his request that approximately $16 billion in federal funds be channeled to state and local governments in a program of revenue sharing.
$10 billion dollars of the requested $16 billion is now appropriated for various federal aid programs but funds administered under the new proposals would be sent to the states in the form of block grants to be spent in general rather than through a bill that will allow the states little leeway in determining how the money will be spent.
Most financially belegued cities and states see revenue sharing as their last best hope as they fall further and further in debt. They can be expected to put
considerable pressure on their Congressmen to pass the legislation.
But many legislators such as Chairman Wilbur Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee are understandably leary about turning over federal revenues to local control. Still others see revenue sharing as merely a bargaining tool for Nixon to win passage for his welfare reform package.
Taken at face value, this is attractive legislation. But until legislators can be convinced that the funds will not feed local corruption, it remains an uphill task avoiding dependence on Washington, the proposal will likely remain in a kind of limbo.
—Bob Womack
Fees, Senate, Obote
To the editor:
LETTERS
As a student at KU, I am here primarily to get an education, not just a job. Many of my students, I am pressed for funds. For these reasons, I very much prefer the school to be Senate action to delete the $6 per semester activity fee earmarked for me.
In the February 1st edition of the Kansan, Brad Smoot and R. Mark Biddie did excellent jobs of preparing a series of interviews in Senate's action. I have nothing to add to their complete analysis. I have to question the legitimacy of an all-university referendum to decide the issue. Obviously, such a decision would not result. If, on the one hand, a majority of RU students are in support of athletic teams that seemingly cannot pay their own way, then the issue will be quite complex. In addition, a majority of those voting choose to restore the activity fee, the tax unjustly imposed, or unjust to tax the whole of the student body in order to subsidize the leisure activities of a part—Kansan residents. Adding the majority's stamp of approval to this tax can only be achieved by majority tyranny. (I realize that "majority tyranny" sounds a bit melodramatic, but the term is standard.) James Madison's and not mine.
The issue would, of course, be quite different if athletic events could be even remotely competitive. In a classroom or educational experience, but they cannot, I gladly pay state taxes to finance chemistry labs I don't use. I wouldn't want to attend the problem is, however, that athletic teams are not educational In fact, were the schools so permanently cease operations tomorrow (which they are not about to do) I submit that not one student will suffer for the loss. Any result unempowered athletes desiring to continue serious study here could have an opportunity to small fraction of the $260,000 at issue here.) Again, sporting events are leisure activities to be done in the 'silent majority' of KU students may complain about paying an additional $17.50 per week if they can't live without it, it time they
stopped asking the rest of us to pay $12 a year for tickets we don't even want.
The Student Senate has again shown how really ineffective it is. The student body is the effective representation of the general student body. The proposed fee fee cut from the student body and fee from an example of the gross misrepresentation that the Student Senate is affording its
To the editor:
Mr. Ebert's letter did contain a grain of truth when he said that the organization is not effective and should be changed. I couldn't agree with him more. Perhaps I would referendum we could abolish the money allocated to the Student Aid program in future examples of incompetence.
In the letter to the University Daily, Kansan on Tuesday, December 10, said friends presented a somewhat convincing case for the fee cut, but the failed effort show some resistance. He mentioned the attendance of University sponsored events as compared to the attendance of athletic events. The event was one of these other events such as the theater, concerts, speakers, and sports teams, discontinued because of a low percentage of attendance, it is an indication that the majority of University events and therefore should not have that portion of money allocated to Athletic Department deleted.
Pat Vollendorf
Overland Park junior
The efforts of Miss Marine Schramke and others to force this issue to a referendum is highly commentatory; at least a few members of the public by a willing manhandled by a few senators' precious whims.
Mike Hayes Liberal, Kansas senior
Samuel Bledsoe's letter, *between* Bledsoe and the activity fee concerning a community-heard expression that has the opposite from the intended meaning, is written.
To the editor:
"Yea, they're always around.
And that's a thrill . . . at first. But
after a while they're all the same.
I looked behind him and saw a young girl with red cheeks and dimples looking at him with a smile. He saw what I was looking at.
Modern Gypsies, Heroes
It used to be the gypsies who wandered through the little towns and did no work but played their instruments. They were a sensitive sense, apart from their society.
just a myth, as removed the gypsies."
"This actually means be like them. As for myself, I couldn't care more for the University Theater and Concert Course series. In other words, my care is greater than any be any greater. As for Mr. Biddle, he believe he really meant to write 'Icouldn't care less . . .'
Tribal animosity is a problem which many of the emerging leaders face now, counting with, and part of success Jomo Kenyatta has had in Kenya can be attributed to his ability to draw the tribes together to form alliances. Perhaps Perhaps the situation in Uganda is not as Mr. Lambert suggests a genuine difference between the people, but rather a hope that present leaders have a genuine interest in helping people of all races find commonality and economic betterment.
Out on the plains on a dark night, inside the small smoky dance hall, a seven-man band plays the music on the stage a lanky boy with brown hair piers play at his bass guitar. He shuffles his feet to the floor.
After reading Mr. Lambert's editorial in the Kansan about the attack on a militant in Milton Obote, I feel compelled to put forward an opposing opinion. He university liked in Uganda and was universallyoked in Kenya. In 1969, he was shot in an attemptedassassination by an unknownassailant. At that time many of his fellow students were arbitrarily thrown into jail. While in Nairobi, Kenya, about a year later,man from this minority tribe who had been a news announcer for the Voice of Uganda radio network had accidentalencidents against people from his tribe had been suppressed and he himself had been forced to flee
Norman D. Penny Ames, Ia. graduate student
EDITOR'S COLUMN
Then came the international bot dog and the civilized ham-bot, who helped them. The dark ages passed and things became completely invisible.
SPOIL SPORTS
don't even look different. their bodies—but when Monday comes they'll be in school with no phone, algebra or the captain.
FOLKESTONE, Englan (UPI)-Customs officials have put a damper on a plan by divers to salvage 60,000 bottles of champagne from a 15-year-old bottle at a cheap price. They told the men they would have to pay duty on each bottle.
The other members of the band were tuning up on the stage. He got up from his seat and the stage. Nearly 40 yearning eyes followed him.
"It's exciting at first, new towns, new people," he said and took a drink of his liberal bourbon and coke. "When you go to these small towns you're idolized. To me it's a Cream or the healed," he says.
A break. The dancers停坐 in mid-dance and rush like cattle to the watering trough. The bass player unstrops his guitar and plays.
Western Kansas and this is the only place where live bands play. The audience comes in from the 60 miles away. It's a bit might.
"The star athletes used to be the heroes... but sports aren't up with the times ... and the people are not up with them for these people to ever see her"
To the editor:
care less for the University Theater, Concert Course series.
J. Bunker Clark Associate Professor of Music History
Another night, another place. A National Guard Armory in a middle-sized town. The signs say, country and western. $1.50
The armory hall is quiet, still the night, a light in the corner shines on a set of drums and other instruments. Only ten people are in the hall.
The singer, whose voice is as graveled by Johnny Cash's, looks like a teenager. The band members are sitting in their equipment, engaged in a serious moment.
"We had it made a couple of times when we were playing with the ladder, the Labrador, playing for the government, ... got a picture of the bed with at least 20 $100 front of him. One night he got so drunk that he burned three those bells. Didn't even care when I was playing."
"Being paid a percentage of the gate isn't always too good," the singer, who looks 25-years old but is 18, says.
"We used to play rock . . . but the market is saturated. There aren't many country and western bands these days. We've been banded too, until tonight." He lights a cigarette and stares into space.
The promotion man who was
Griff & the Unicorn
putting on the dance came toward us.
"Why don't you play some music and we'll open the doors. It's still early," he says, but his hit says it's late. "It might help."
"Okay, man. But I can't see playing for free. No sense to it. the singer says, 'I'm not going to stage a dance which isn't a stage. I look at the drummer as he climbs behind his drums. His face is jagged, on the scar on his forehead."
By Sokoloff
They begin playing and the singer belts out "Folasm Prison Blues." The drummer looks interested but beats three couples who are dancing at the center of the large hall. They play three songs. Two couples
"Let's call it quits, boys," the promotion man says. No one in the band says a word. They slowly pack their equipment.
"Copyright 1971, University Daily Kansan"
The bands are somewhere outside our society. Like poets and artists they are detached from the rest of us and view us with laughs. And we laugh at them or groupes who yearn and forget.
Mickey Mantle has retired and
he will end the. Big name bands are the
live on records. And only the local
bands from 60 miles away are
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Old versus Young
(Note to the reader: The following questions were raised by a friend of mine who is old and has experience with stereotyping, to mean imply, in the following paragraphs, that her questions are intended to fit a stereotyped person. For example, she stereotype, nor do I claim that my answers are typical of my age, nor do I recognize with most of her ideas, I do not intend to bolttele me. I respect her right to the ideas she holds as a member of a group, who recognizes my right to my opinions.)
"But what do you want? And how are you going to go about getting what you want? You must have some sort of plan.
I am young enough to see the world in an idealistic light, and I am not sure why I should suppose if you asked me to summarize the essence of my faith, but I say that I believe everyone who pursues the pursuit of the happiness of their own definition as long as they suppress no one else in their life.
The answer to the question of 'what do I want?' is an elusive one. The specifics of exactly what I believe the goals of society should be are as yet undefined in vague generalities are there.
I hope that when my age is
10, I will not loss all of the idealism I
have grown from being disillusioned to the point that I
compromise my life style to fit
compromises.
"Life will never be a utopia. You should try to live with today's world. You'll see. When you get to be my age your knowledge will change to Your outlook will change."
"Why can't you cope with today's world?"
You're really asking me why I support or sympathize with changes which might disrupt your world. You admit that I understand that it is unpleasant legacy, but you prefer to keep living with that legacy.
Life will never be a utopia, so you think you must be content with what you've accomplished yourself. There will never be a utopia, but there is
nothing wrong with trying to get as close to it as possible.
"A black came to my door the day I dug out the daughter, and of course, I didn't let him in," she raged in her voice. "I called a black callled for your sister? What would you do if one wanted to marry her?" Mixing the races made it clear.
We are not a mass of people
who want to make my country better,
help right its wrongs, and I
should exercise my right to object.
"You make it too hard for me to understand you; how can we coexist?"
The black that came to your door did not want to marry your daughter. Blacks are as intensely colored as yours and as many of yours. And my sister's life is her own; my value judgments cannot dictate hers. Too many of you don't realize how ready to give blacks the opportunities they deserve, but in your hearts you cannot accept him or return they will not accept you.
Now the races are polarized and becoming more so. Not in your generation, nor mine, nor mine at all. But I was resolved; it is too far gone. But some day perhaps understanding will reach us. Blood flows the same color through all our veins. "If my boy refused to wear the suit," he said.
"My country, right or wrong?
is what I always believed in. A good citizen should never turn his hand on his country, no matter what."
We will both be here together;
each of us with our prejudices,
until one of us dies. The same is
true of our ideas—meant to be reborn.
You of my parents' generation
"ten to us, and we in turn
"If my boy refused to wear the uniform of his country, I would be too ashamed to lift my head."
Three years ago when your son got out of the draft with a harm done to him by his course, that knee wasn't bad enough to keep him up high of his knees and believe in the war we are fighting. "You don't have a legal" "loan."
You of my parents' generation must listen to us, and we in turn must listen to you.
—Robin Stewart
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80 Years Ago Today—1891
The Weekly University Courier, the campus newspaper, reported that the Law School had won a federal grant.
Those Were the Days
Prof. Snow calculated the mean January temperature at 32.37 degrees, 7.2 degrees
The Courier announced that Prof. Blake would address the Douglas County Farmers Institution the next day in Vinland on "Practical Electricity."
A new organization, the University Macedonia would gather KU history, according to the university.
The Courier renounced a report in the Record, a Lawrence news newspaper, as erroneous. The Record reported that the A.A. was informed of disruption because of internal dissension.
55 Years Ago Today—1916
The Kansan announced that the University rule dealing with reporting plans for dances would be strictly enforced. The rule stated that all dancing parties must be properly chaperoned and the names of the chaperones must be given to the chairman of the committee on student interests not later than three days before the party.
Olin Templem, dean of the College, said he did not favor the plan of the students at Baker University. The Baker students suggested that the faculty help them abolish the requirement of passing assessing the importance of exam grades and stressing the grades from daily work.
50 Years Ago Today-1921
The organized men and women at KU recommended that the Chancellor ban certain forms of dance to help raise the moral standards of the University, which he made it official. "Improper, indecent, jazzy dancing," the Kanan reported—such as the shimmie, the camel walk, the toddle, the shuffle, cheek to cheek dancing and "close" dancing—was to
45 Years Ago Today—1926
All women's political parties withdrew from spring elections to enable women to run for office on their own merits, according to Jacqueline Sculpey. KSU senior and vice president of the Women's Self Government Association.