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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1963
Budget Luxuries
Gov. John Anderson soon will be faced with an opportunity to restore to the KU budget some $242,048. This money was cut from the proposed operating budget of $21,929,819 by the state budget office. The major cut was $188,000 in capital improvements. Other items eliminated were $144,610 for salary increases plus another $97,438 for other expenditures.
It is hoped that the governor, in his recommendation to the state legislature, does not restore the $188,000 for capital improvements. The other sums are apparently needed and should be considered. But the reasons supplied supposedly necessitating the capital improvements do not appear to qualify as pressing enough to command legislative concern now.
1—A pedestrian walkway under Mississippi Street from the Kansas Union, $40,000
THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT allotment is wanted for these projects:
2—The resurfacing of Sunnyside Avenue and building a utility underpass to connect with the new gym planned for south of the street. $40,000
mg. $28,000
4-A tennis court and three or four handball courts. $20,000
5—Service roads and walks in the south area of the dorm complex east of Iowa Street and south of 15th St., $50,000
new gym planned for 1982
3—Pedestrian walkway under Naismith Road from Lindley Hall to the new Engineering Building. $28,000
6—First phase of replacement of stage curtains in Hoch Auditorium, $10,000
EACH OF THESE REQUESTS appears to be somewhat of a luxury. Each seems to be something which would be nice to have, someday.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
The three underpasses suggested definitely do not seem necessary this year, next year and possibly not the year after. The one under Mississippi Street is intended to aid walkers in reaching the Zone X parking lot, coming from the stadium and the proposed new part of the Kansas Union which will be on the west side of the street. Neither reason demands a $40,000 outlay now.
The proposed gym south of Sunnyside Road is still well in the future. Wouldn't a pedestrian underpass look silly for a couple of years leading from Summerfield Hall to the bare intramural fields?
WITH THE ENGINEERING BUILDING becoming functional next fall the underpass beneath Naismith Road looks almost necessary. But the objection is that it would be difficult to prove there is a great enough traffic hazard at any of these three locations to justify the expenditures, possibly even in the future.
The additional tennis and handball courts would be nice and could well be put to immediate and constant use and thus might border on being a necessity. But they are still expendable.
a necessity. But they are still The service roads and sidewalks in the dorm area constitute the most logical and pressing request. There is a mud problem in that area, which hampers activity but this project could be added to the allotment for the buildings rather than come from another area of the budget.
The money needed for the new curtains is obviously expendable.
WHAT IS THE ADMINISTRATION'S reaction to the possible cut? Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor for finance, says each project has been justified and will eventually have to be provided. But he said none of them could be proved essential for next year. He also stated these special projects are of secondary importance to the entire operating budget.
tire operating budget. The growth and improvement of the University's physical plant is necessary and important. But this progress should be more closely directed to aid the student's education and provide for his happiness while on campus. Most of these requests do not fall into this area right now although they might in the future. (Although it remains difficult to understand why it is necessary to spend $40,000 to supplant the pedestrian's task of looking both ways before crossing a street.)
Bill Sheldon
3 Party Pictures
Editor:
Two recent editions of the Daily Kansan have printed letters criticizing the "Party Pictures" section of the JAYHAWKER (see "Jayhawker Favoritism?," Dec. 17 and "Too Many Party Pictures," Jan. 4). As co-editor of the "Party Pictures" section, I would like to make a reply.
First, Mr. Renyer's letter brought up a rather common complaint — that of "discrimination" on our part. Mr. Renyer, the "select" groups that we are "favoring" are simply those groups which send us a number of good pictures — "good" not only meaning of good technical quality, and therefore easily reproducible, but containing elements of originality, interest and humor. Since your particular living group turned in only three pictures, none of which showed any of these qualities as well as being technically poor you were "discriminated against." I suggest that you — and others who have the same criticism to make — might try to lift your status to that of a "select" group by talking to your house photographer about turning in some pictures worth printing.
Turning to Mr. Zimmerman's charge of "too many pictures of the same thing," I can only say that the quality of the "Party Pictures" section is limited by the quality of the photos turned in to us. Many living groups make no effort to turn in any pictures, and the pictures we do get are, regrettably, often of repetitious nature. We select the best pictures turned in, regardless of where they are from, and try to add to their humor by use of — we hops — good captions. If there are too many pictures, maybe it is because people don't have much time to laugh these days.
John A. Middleton
John A. Midleton Kansas City, Mo., junior
... Letters ...
Who Lacks School Spirit?
Once more the Daily Kansan has seized the hypocritic whip and administered a sound thrashing to the head horse of student apathy. The Kansan, however, has had plenty of chances to say good things about both school spirit and the cheerleaders this year. But why didn't it? Earlier this year a Daily Kansan sports writer wrote an encouraging article about school spirit, at the request of the cheerleaders. The article quoted a Colorado cheerleader as saying that KU has the best cheering section he has seen in the Big Eight. Unfortunately, this article was not printed since it was considered public relations and not news. I disagree with this policy. There is no other organ of communication available to student organizations. The Daily Kansan has to function as simply what it is, the student newspaper at the University of Kansas. This does not logically exclude public relations.
The negative toned sermon in
the January 4 "Along the Jay-hawker Trail" article states: "Nobody expects Dick Harp's crew to stay at its present peak." Why can't our own sports writers (Jayhawkers themselves) be a little more optimistic about our team, even at the risk of being "not so objective?" Better the writer of said article examine his own conscience before he condemns others for lacking school spirit. Why doesn't the Daily Kansan quit playing the role of the Kansas City Star or any other independent newspaper and start to function as an instrument of the student body, as stated in the ASC constitution? The leader of any student organization might well ask the same question.
A good article about the team, and what actually is being done in student and cheerleading support would probably do as much for school spirit as a pep rally.
Tim Hamill
Colby junior
Head Cheerleader
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BRAVE MEN, by Ernie Pyle (Popular Library, 75 cents).
In "Here Is Your War" Ernie Pyle told the story of the African campaign. "Brave Men" is an even better work, the fine correspondent's story of Sicily, Italy, D-day and France.
It is rich and emotional and yet matter-of-fact. What were the qualities that made Ernie Pyle a great writer? Well, he wrote simply. And he was concerned with humanity. He told his story effectively. He was unashamed of sentiment.
There are hundreds of vignettes here, and it is difficult to isolate them. Briefly stated, one can find here Pyle's eternal preoccupation with taking baths (a practice he detested), his admiration for a young cartoonist named Mauldin and an old general named Bradley, his discussions of differences between as well as similarities of Arabs and Italians, his description of Axis Sally and what she meant to the troops, his many stories of Americans and how they were responding to war.
To those too young to remember World War II, this paperback volume is especially recommended.—CMP
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PICTURE. by Lillian Ross (Doubleday Dolphin, 95 cents).
Even if one who has done a lot of reporting himself is inclined to doubt the ability of Lillian Ross to quote so exactly and at such length, this book still has to be set down as one of the best jobs of reporting in recent years.
"Ipicture" originated as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1952, describing the torments of filming "The Red Badge of Courage." It may be the best hatchet job on the movie industry ever done. But many people seem to misunderstand something about this book:
"The Red Badge of Courage," some feel, should not have been made, and Miss Ross proceeds to show why this is so. The fact of the matter is that despite all the obstacles thrown in his path, John Huston proceeded to produce a great picture. Did the audiences like it? No. Did the critics like it? Some of them. But it's been 11 years since the film appeared, and its reputation seems to grow with the years.-CMP
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NINETY-THREE, by Victor Hugo (Bantam, 75 cents).
Ayn Rand has provided the introduction for "Ninety-Three." This should not dissuade anyone who can't abide this frantic anarchist (though she would cringe at such a designation), nor should it attract readers only because Miss Rand has tried to help Bantam sales.
Her pitch on behalf of "Ninety-Three" is that Hugo was a great romantic, a true believer in individualism, a contrast, in particular, to Zola. But "Ninety-Three," which is about the French Revolution (though Miss Rand says it isn't), is no Burkean diatribe against the revolutionaries. The excesses which came along after the Revolution changed hands are described, but Hugo's heart seems to be on the side of those who struck against monarchic excesses.
It is a powerful and vivid novel, with great sweep and action. Not as well known as some other Hugo novels, it deserves to be better known.—CMP
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THE MARQUISE OF O—AND OTHER STORIES, by Heinrich von Kleist (Signet Classics, 75 cents)a group of stories, with a foreword by Thomas Mann, by one of the greatest of German writers. His characters are "men who commit crimes in the name of justice, who rage at dead enemies for denying them their revenge, who are driven insane by beatific experience."