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Thursday, January 28, 1971
University Daily Kansan
'Lordly Mercy! It's even worse than I thought!'
KANSAN comment
Athletics and the Senate
By DON BAKER Sports Editor
Now that the Student Senate has finally succeeded in eliminating student fee allocations to the athletic department, big a favor did it do the students?
As indicated in student ticket sales in football (that totaled over 11,500 this year) and basketball (which again totaled 7,000—the maximum amount of points) the view of KU students have been hurt from the standpoint of their bookkets.
Now the "silent majority" of KU students will spend $33.12 if they wish to buy both football and basketball tickets instead of the $21 they paid this year ($5 for football, $4 for basketball plus $12 in the student fee).
But the punishment may go beyond just the financial end. It only makes sense that if the students are not going to support the athletic department (which is just as much a part of this university as the Student Senate). The College concert series, the athletic department needs to make no attempt to support the students.
Thus, why should the department give students those choice 50-yard seats next fall on the east side of Memorial Stadium (which of course was enlarged by the department at the student's request in the first place)? Why don't they give students those choice seats who don't have those choice seats but annually contribute to the department in addition to $36 for season tickets. Hell, stick the students in the horseshoe!
And maybe it won't have to wait until next fall. If KU wins the Big Eight in the playoffs, it makes it to the Midwest Regional in Wichita, why should it make an attempt
to sell any part of that 600 seat allocation in State's Henry Levitt Arena to students?
Why not see to it that only Outland Fund contributors get those seats? How can you blame it? If this university wants to isolate the athletic department, then why should it not cater to only its supporters?
The real irony of the Senate's action is that, when its all said and done, it did not punish the students, but rather the students punished themselves.
How? Simply by standing idly by and
be taken without a referendum vote.
If the students of this university are going to sit tidy by and let a handful of representatives" make a decision like they have no one to blame but themselves.
Because of its very nature, the Student Senate has been met with an apathetic reaction by many KU students over a long period of time. It is anything but a representative body though its members are elected. And yet if students for once do not stand up and be heard one can only think the Senate's action is favorable to a majority—a speculation that can be severely questioned on the sole basis of football and basketball student ticket sales.
The question could be answered simply by a referendum vote. Not only could it be answered simply, but why did this "representative" body not bring a question of this magnitude to a student vote to begin with.
Rock Chalk fans. Wake up and act now or sit idly by and later bemoan the fact you didn't when the opportunity presented itself. In the meantime you have to give the Senate credit—it represented itself well.
News Quirks
By United Press International
MIAWUKEE, Wis. (UPI)-Roger Cobb was turned down when he tried to register for the Milwaukee area technical college's course in baskin with yeast
He was told, he says, men "are sloppy and don't clean up well."
Cobb, in retaliation has formed a group called "Brothers Ruling" Earnestly Against Dinkins.
Letters
DOUGLAS, Isle of Man (UPI)—The 60 amateurs set to perform Offenbach *Orpheus* in the Underground tonight said today their Grecian dance group, The Orphans, will go on stage in underwear and nightclothes.
The "younger girls have only short nighties. It could be a rot," theater official Sylva Davis said.
Consider this hypothetical situation: out of a group of one hundred people, fifty-one want to attend a sports event. The Sports Club offers a group rate of $5 per person if all one hundred pay. Otherwise, the price is $12 per person. The forty nine who do not wish to attend tell the others to pay the full price. The fifty-one who do wish to attend let's say put it to a vote. Which group has the democratic solution?
To the editor:
Vernon Minor
Steubenville, Ohio graduate student
The warm autumn colors of the office-golds, browns and oranges—reflect the personality of the man who occupies it—a man on the firing line who has grace under pressure to show grace under pressure.
Rv ROR WOMACK
The man who occupies the office, E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr., has been KU''s chief executive since Sept. 1, 1069.
Chalmers Optimistic, Hopeful
He has guided the University through events that explain why the position of chief administrator at a college or university today is so complex and needle Keep fill. There are hundreds of vacancies in this job across the country today.
As Chalmers begins a new semester he senses genuine reason for optimism but challenges him to optimistic a year ago at this time. But he believes that the response of the students and faculty during the crisis period of December 2015 was almost a "silver lining," as he says.
"Prior to the time of the bombing, the line was drawn pretty far to the left," he said recently.
Chalmers sees the Summerfield Hall bombing as a turning point.
Although Chalmers believes those responsible for the bomb were either criminal or other politically motivated, he thinks bombings and other forms of violence have lost their power to mobilize more radical students and faculty who were quite shaken by the fact that three years ago they close to death in the explosion.
According to the chancellor, and medicalicals, are realizing that they can equip students and they are now attempting to use the University as a
The chancellor is just as concerned about overreaction to
"Prior to the time of the bombing, the line was drawn pretty far to the left."
last year, the news media often became victims as the messenger of a campaign that sometimes garbled their story, but Chalmers believes coverage was generally good although for those there are challenges.
wound mate to say one is worse than the other. he says. I don't think so in the press crisis during which he got little sleep and hardly had time to sleep.
He cited two examples particularly offensive to him, cording to his news outlet, Chambers' residence was ringed with National
"Meetings, meetings, meetings,
in Chalmer's words,
with staff, faculty and
students." These meetings,
which often lasted all evening
and into the early morning hours,
gave the chancellor an opportunity to inform developed and of developments and in ways in which they could help.
During the periods of unrest
what happened as he is about the events themselves.
According to the chancellor, most hard core radicals are realizing that they can't recruit students and they are now attempting to use the University as their target.
Guardsmen during the crisis, when actually they were never any Guardsmen on the campus at all. Security for the campus is not limited to some of men in a Buildings and Grounds truck parked nearby who were also responsible for watching Blake Hall and two nearby scholarship
Another distortion which disturbed Chalmers appeared in the recent articles on the defeat of the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court of the New Yorker magazine. During the Senate hearings on the nomination, Chalmers received one telephone call asking him to testify in opposition to the nomination, and claimed that upon returning to Kansas City from a trip to Mexico—"I haven't been to Mexico in years."—the entire faculty of the KU Medical School was waiting on the apron of the hospital for him to testify, a rather "gross distortion" in Chalmers' eyes.
But if there were distortions in the reporting of the events, there was also the editorial support of several independent newspapers across the state-support the incumbent appreciated by the chancellor.
Chalmers believes that the Board of Regents is beginning to realize that neither he nor anyone in his office has any acts such as the Summerfield bombing, and of course this is in his view, quite graftifying and insulting.
people fail to see in changing moral values and the resulting clash. But one of values is not particularly better than the other."
The word "permissiveness" has been heard over and over, many times at meetings of the military and other agencies, scale, but to the chancellor this is largely a mystifying explanation of the random violence campaigns that have been perpetrated perhaps it is just an easy explanation and says, "What these
A continuing concern for Chalmers has been involvement of blacks in the university. He thinks that more can and should be done to successfully efforts to recruit black faculty members from all over the country, including many southern schools. Scholarship programs for urban blacks have been successful, but an acknowledgment that the severe contrast in environment has led to many problems in adjustment, resulting in some problems in the large dorms. He said that some students at Chalmers had administrative to aid in this adjustment have failed, and perhaps for some students, both black and white, a technical college would help junior college would fulfill their needs better than KU ever could.
Chalmers would like to see a woman appointed to the Board of Regents but he questions whether she would be given the group "could afford to be a reagent," pointing out that it takes considerable personal effort and expense as well as time to set up a present board would be surprised to learn they were, as commonly labeled, "wealthy." But he hopes the new board will represent subcultures can be represented on the board, and he
believes the appointment of the first Negro regent, Elmer Jackson of Kansas City was a "great breakthrough."
Another overriding concern for the chancellor is KU's budget. He
Chalmers would
like to see a woman appointed to the Board of Regents but he questions whether a member of a lower income group "could afford to be a regent."
does not believe that the legislature will use the budget to "punish" the University, but he hopes that Governor Docking will make it clear that all state agencies, and not only the University, are being cured this year, because it will facing a 'real money crisis' if additional sources of funds are not found.
Chalmers is an optimistic man as he faces another semester. He
believes students and faculty can meet any crisis that might arise. You know why you know anything that’s hapening, universally that hasn’t happened before.
He sees the potential for KU to become a leader among universities, seizing some of the leadership prestigious schools of both coasts have always held. And he sees opportunities for "innovative changes" opening up new spaces that effect the meaningful changes in education that he dreams about and has spoken of so often.
Chalmers is obviously stimulated and happy in his job. His greatest satisfaction, in terms of specific events, during the time he has been here was the overwhelming vote of confidence that he proposed during the convocation last May 8. He just wasn't expecting the tremendous acceptance he received.
His greatest disappointment was the action of the three regents in voting that he be fired and the "without communicating to me beforehandoff that they were dissatisfied with the way I was handing my job" and then sharing the information to the press.
So optimism coupled with hope for meaningful change—these will be the themes of the smiling man who has to reassure people, "No, I'm not resigning. I'm a fighter."
Price Index Deceiving
When the November index is recomputed to show the 1967 base, the figure is 118.5, meaning
Bv NORMAN KEMPSTER
WASHINGTON (UPI)—When the government issues its cost of living index for January it may have been inflated. Inflation has been finally defeated.
The January index, which will come out late in February, probably will be a little over 100. The 137.8 reported for November
The government, as it does every 10 years or so, is updating the base for its closely-watched business statistics. Most are based on a 1957-99 average. The new base will be 1967.
Don't celebrate. It's a matter of numbers. Prices are still going up.
The November consumer price index meant it cost $13.78 during the month to buy the same variety of goods and services that obtained for $11.61 in 1967 and 80 in the period from 1857 to 1969.
Government statisticians say the change is intended to keep the figures up to date. The base age of the population is years or so. This time, the government is abandoning its previous practice of using a three-year period as the base. The new base will be for a single
Griff & the Unicorn
The Federal Reserve's in-
side switch to a new base in March
or April. This index, which
counts the nation's factories and mines, was 163.9 in December. If recomputed to show the 1967 base, it would
be 165.8.
Previous changes in base periods often were greeted by complaints that the attacks intended to mask the effects of inflation. Critics
it cost $11.85 to buy the same goods that cost $10 in 1967.
Other key government reports will also be revised to show the new base.
The wholesale price index, 117.8 in December, will be 111.0 on the new scale.
By Sokoloff
Wholesale prices rose 6.1 per cent from 1957-59 to 1967 and by 11 per cent from 1970 through 1970.
argue that 118.5 seems like less inflation than 137.8.
Most individuals, however, are unemployed with changes in the index of joblessness A 0.5 per cent monthly increase is a 0.5 per cent monthly increase in the unemployment rate.
A closer look at the figures tells something about the course of the economy since the mid-1960s.
"Copyright 1971, University Daily Kansar
Consumer prices rose by 16.3 percent from the eight years from the 1957 year to 1967. The increase was 18.5 percent in less than three years from the 1957 year to 1967.
The industrial production in India watched barometer of overall activity—increased SRI.1 per cent from 1967 to December 1970.
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Those Were the Days
60 Years Ago Today
Gen. W, H. H. Sears of Lawrence urged
manage the fee system and make KLU a free university.
Kansas topped Missouri 14 to 28 in the first basketball game of a series.
The Kansan noted that the outlook for the baseball season looked bright, despite the new rulings regarding professionalism. Some KU players had lost their eligibility because they played in semi-pro games during the summers, but eight players were returning to the spring squad. Three other schools in the league had been able to play in the baseball for the season because they were unable to determine amateur standings of their players.
The Kansas announced that F. W. Blackman, dean of the graduate school, would deliver an address entitled "Social Betting on Education" to Assam of High Parkland, Topeka on Feb. 2.
45 Years Ago Today
George O. Foster, registrar, announced that enrollment for the spring semester stood at 4,485, an increase of 328 students.
KU beat Iowa State 43-21 in basketball
25 Years Ago Today
35 Years Ago Today
The Young Republicans at KU were planning to attend Kansas Day celebrations the next day in Topeka. The celebrations marked 75 years of statehood for Kansas and Alf Landon was expected to announce his candidacy for presidency during the day.
Ray Norris, a KU senior, submerged himself in a bath tub for 2 minutes and 40 seconds to collect a wager of $1 from the Clique Club.
30 Years Ago Today
Peace propaganda flooded the campus urging students to notify their congressmen that they were disassatisfied with the lend-lease arrangement and held funds from the America First committee.