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Monday, January 25, 1971
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The Senate Blundered
The Student Senate last Wednesday night eliminated about $164,000 in revenue for the athletic program from its 1972 budget. The only funds going to athletics will be 50 cents per student for "minor" sports such as track and swimming.
So we now will be required to support minor sports on the same principle that provided in former years for the support of football and basketball, when half of each student's $12 per semester activity fee went to the Athletic Department.
The net effect of this withdrawal of fee money from athletics will mean, of course, that instead of paying five dollars for football season tickets and four dollars for basketball season tickets, students now will be charged $18 for football and $15.50 for basketball tickets, so that the athletic department may continue to meet its obligations. A price escalation may develop later if the increased price results in decreased ticket sales.
Although student fees will be reduced to $7.50 per semester, there is little justification for the Senate's action.
The athletic program enjoys more student support than any other extracurricular activity of the University.
It is therefore most disturbing that the senate refused to permit a student referendum on the matter to determine the sentiment of the student body. Senate leaders talk endlessly of the necessity for student control and self determination, yet for some reason they chose to deny it to the students they are elected to represent.
It is time for students to demand that the Student Senate become more responsive to their constituency or to at least make an opportunity to determine student body opinion when it comes to an issue as significant as the degree of support we shall give to our athletic program.
—Rob Womack
And Yet There's Hope
Although the athletic allocation cut from the Student Senate budget may command the attention of most students, it is only fair to point out two of the positive and praise-worthy aspects of Wednesday night's senate meeting.
An item of business, that almost was completely ignored in the publicity of the meeting was the passage of a report concerning life insurance.
It seems Globe Life Insurance Company wants to make a life insurance plan available to students. The all-around deal they offered the student senate was almost unbelievable. All the company wanted from the senate was a letter on senate stationary saying they approved of the company offering the plan.
In return for the letter (which was by no means a com erial endorsement) the company will give the senate $4,000 to use as it pleases.
As could be expected, some senators objected that the senate would be "selling their organization," but the senators wisely ignored the protests and approved the sending of the letter.
The plan for students includes $10,000 of life insurance for a premium of $25 a year until the students graduate with a bachelor's, or if he continues in school, a master's degree. Upon graduation the student can elect to keep the policy and pay the normal premiums.
Even with such sketchy details of the policy, the plan looks excellent. And
furthermore, the senate gets $4,000 a year that it desperately needs. For now, the money has been wisely earmarked for the Student Health Center.
Another program announced at the meeting was the creation of a distribution center for methadone, a drug being tried nationwide as a substitute for heroine.
Although only a few senators worked for the program's inception, they deserve credit for their efforts.
Methadone is being experimentally distributed to heroine addicts under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and methadone's success has been encouraging.
The drug problem in Lawrence has been widely discussed, and now finally something promising is being done about it. The availability of the inexpensive methadone, accompanied by psychiatric and social counseling, may be the beginning of meaningful treatment for addicts throughout the community.
These two actions, along with other occasional flashes of brilliance by the senate, are a sign that there is hope yet for the Student Senate. If senators can show up to meetings, eliminate the rhetoric and nit-picking that has plagued past meetings, and accomplish things as they did last Wednesday, student government may become something to take seriously, and not something to joke or groan about.
—Ted Iliff
Pollution And The Economy
'The Trillion Dollar Funeral'
Re DAVID PERKINS
BY DAVID PERKINS
In a California town a few week's ago, a woman had lobbed against a local cement plant's air pollution were threatened with death when the plant closed down rather than install costly air cleaning machinery and Washington, Nixon was applauded as a country for achieving an annual Gross National Product of a trillion dollars. The money is washing on an oil slick, and the Trillion Dollar Furniture, with a room to a neighborhood near von
Those clean air freaks in California were seen by their neighbors as enemies of capitalism, enemies of the rich, and a need to productive economy. And their neighbors were right. It is remarkable, however, how few of the concerned have recognized the radical implications of the leftist press (examples are
numerous, but I am thinking particularly of the August Scanlan's) will see as a struggle struggles against racism and the war.
But it is precisely how struggles that are superficial and derivative, actually counter-revolutionary. The dictator radicals of the past routed radical (i.e. basic) changes inherent in a serious ecology movement. Such a movement is radical because it must ultimately topple a fundamental American (indeed, American) self-desirability of economic growth. That is still our final arbiter. Nothing directs more of our national actions, or leads us into more incredible contradictions. We have no sumption of ridiculous, degrading products (to think that any man would buy an electric styling comb, or worse, would stand on an assembly line and sell an appliance on an ampliled. Even though
The Lighter Side
Stupid Entrants Hurt Contests
"A few years ago we ran a
battle in which the top prize was
other than the winner, a free trip to Slapout, Okin,
a free trip to Sakura, one chose," the PKLman recalled.
"That, plus such consolation awards as 10,000 solid gold buttonhooks and a year's marriage to Zsa Sza Gabor, brought the total prize potential to more than one billion dollars
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPI)—In recent months the Federal Trade Commission has filed complaints accusing several firms of sponsoring deceptive promotional contests.
The fault lies with the contestants.
For example, one contest that was billed as a “$500,000 swipesets” paid out only 40,000 in prizes, according to the FTC.
This might give you the impression that some contests are misleading, but I am convinced they are useful and I talkting the other day to a public relations consultant and he made sure the contest was wrong with the contests themselves.
"But under the rules of the contest we gave away only $2.33."
"I let me assure you there was absolutely nothing deceivable about the contest. The rules were clear, the judge did not fall. The judges were impartial."
and everything was open and above board.
"The trouble was we happened to attract a substrict group of contestants. None of the entries were on board for any of the consolation awards."
I said, "nobody could blame you for that. What kind of contest was it?"
"It was a contest to devise a mathematical equation that refuted the Einstein theory."
The contestants had no right to let you down like that," I said, becoming angry. "What was the $2.93 for?"
I asked, "When the contest was over did you disclose that nobody had won a prize?"
"We gave that as a bonus for neatness." the PR man said.
"Of course not. That would have been tantamount to calling the contestants stupid. We would never do anything so cruel."
"I admire your compassion," I said. "I'm not there some way that I can do it. The sponsor can protect himself against slow-witted舍弃."
"He might require the contestants to take IQ tests," the PR man suggested. "But even that wouldn't be foolproof."
"Then there is no sure way to avoid giving away less than the amount of the advertised prizes?"
"It's a risk you have to take," the PR man replied.
LETTERS
The Yearbook, Again
Lately I have been hearing some slightly-less-than-kind remarks about our glorious yearbook. I also had some doubt, until I discovered a use for the yearbook which some may have forgotten or never realized morning, I found someone had accidently collided a bucket of water (or something) under my door into my room. For lack of a aop, I quickly tucked "The Sisters of St. Anne" under a mute a terrific sponge. In fact, it was comparable to some paper I found in ol' John's room. I
To the editor:
thought of using the first supplement of the yearbook for the yearbook, or just not enough, couldn't, since it contained some truly high quality paper, quite good for airplanes. I did try the yearbook book, however, but alas, I didn't get one.
I can only hope that in the future, the yearbooks and boxes will be made of low quality, non-waterproof paper so they can be literally, as well as literally, all wet.
R. Huber
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everyone knows by now that the Pentagon—begaining after World War II—d devastated Red Army "massaging" on western borders—has invented crisis crisis to justify their huge budget, many still facing financial problems and projects because of the jobs and the money that they generate. Witness Senator Jackson and that senator,演示人,Senator Dole, on the S&T.
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Writing in 1930, John Maynard Keynes drew dread on post-industrial America. With the economic problem solved, he believed that the economy is lost. Keynes predicted a massive nervous breakdown by ordinary men of every economic class unable to adjust old habits and beliefs to the reality of economics in the modern world "meant comfortable subsistence, something quite impossible in our present superaffluent state." But we have not achieved either abundance or a decrease in income, because we refuse to give up our traditional sublimation of instinct. Economic growth is geared so that its principal product is work. That is, we don't need it. We don't need it; we don't need it; we consume things we don't need in order to work. We persist in a stylized
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idolatary of full employment, facing bravely the welfare devil. Economist Paul Samuelson of MIT has just received the Nobel Prize for his service as high priest of our bourgeois cult.
But now the eco-crisis has forced the issue. Our mad production-consumption game is proven man-destructive. And we can't argue that it are not social, but psychological. Norman O. Brown in *Life Against Death*, and particularly in the chapter "The Excremental Vision," conduct a lecture on his Swift, and co-incidentally, of Freud's contention that man's 'deepest trouble is an unresolved ambivalence in the human attitude toward anxiety.' The man's most animal element proves incompatible with his personal and cultural self-image. But rather than merely ignoring it, man has sought to repress it. The more he represses the repression has forced release through sublimation, to wit, the furious manufacture of machine-goads. However, this compulsive manufacture is an ironic failure: when we have sought to deny, it is rising to drive him anyway.
It is interesting to note that Luther's eschatological visio
was of a "rain of filth." If Protestantism provided a fertile milieu for the rise of capitalism, as some have contended, it must also be said that it predicted the nature of capitalism's doom.
There is no evidence, however, that Americans can be relied on to cease an activity simply because it has proven suicidal. They are empty-headed conservatives that laud economic growth; just recently Jesse Jackson named it as the solution to all our problems. Romantic reformers, unwittingly (their usual concern) for the traditional campaign, have offered numerous programs for "cleaning up the environment"—witness student senate proposals to recycle soda drink caps; all" against understanding the need for radical economic and cultural redirectionism.
But very few of us are ready to give up the junk-consumption that rationalizes our alienated labor. Very few of us are mature enough for the terrible responsibility, the terrible freedom of the man who does not feel so can 'sun'. And because so few of us can sing. The Trillion Dollar Funeral is now playing. Popular prices. At the drive-in.
Cleveland Activist Not A 'Tom'
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WASHINGTON (UPI)—Lewis G. Robinson has been called a great many things in his lifetime, and because of an abuse accused of an abuse Tom
For many years has been the mostly widely admired and most frequently denounced hound of the rot-scarred Houth section.
So he speaks with some authority when he says that the racism of Northern cities is in worse worse than that of the Deep South.
"There is more racial understanding in the South," says Robinson. "The Southern white man, in many instances, obeyed segregation laws because he was not going to buck the tide, but he was not going to buck the tide, and he would tell you so. But he respected you as an individual.
Even at its worst, he says, racial antagonism in the South is tempered by the fact that blacks are not as well represented as individual human persons.
"In the North, whites did not want to get to know a black man. They lumped us all together and spoke of black people as a whole. We were more honestly when he spoke of blacks, because he had intimate knowledge of and respect for certain blacks. So he never spoke in generalities about the "Negro way" that Northern whites did."
"Northerners are" more hypocritical about it," he says. "In the South, they have segregated schools, in the North where they don't segregate schools, and it's the same, identical truth. Northerners say, 'Yes, you can move into a white neighborhood,' but if you do, they
all pick up and move away from you."
Robinson is not a ranting abble-rouser. He is a courageous, dedicated man who rumped over enormous obstacles to earn a law degree, and is now an acutely lucrative legal career to become a community organizer in a poverty-ridden urban ghetto.
BEATS THE HARIT
PRESTON, England (UPI)—Terry Wheland, a 23-year-old woman from New York, beat the smoking habit the day his pack of cigarettes filled 185 feet of lung.
"It it was too far to go down for just one cigarette so I did without." he explained.
The next day he deliberately threw his pack from his machine so began a daily smoke. The door does not smoke any more.
'Congresses may come and go but you and I are stayin' put, sonny'
Those Were the Days
50 Years Ago Today
Dr. F. C. C. "Phog" Allen, director of athletics, said the basketball squad would not maintain a training table because of a Missouri Valley Conference rule against men on a conference basketball squad eating together. But rumor had it that the University of Missouri was maintaining one for their varsity squad.
Lawrence townpeople gave $30,000 in the first half-day of Memorial Drive Week in the fund raising campaign for the stadium and student union.
40 Years Ago Today
William F. Reinisch, Lawrence fire chief, said he was in favor of taxing fraternal houses in return for taxes imposed on the fire members enjoyed, such as police and fire services.
The debate team schedule and a list of topics was announced for the spring semester. Topics included prohibition repeal, whether or not the status of athletics in college should be changed from an amateur basis, censorship in the Hoover administration and elimination of the jury system.
The Jahayhars staged a Big Six comeback with a win over Iowa State, 34-27. This win put the basketball team second to Nebraska in the conference.
25 Years Ago Today
A shortage of textbooks was predicted for the spring semester. The reasons cited for this were an increased demand and students were making books out of print—only one per cent of the nations paper was sifted to textbook printing.