University Daily Kansan, February 2, 1984
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Poet continued from p. 1
For Stafford, the words, the images, the ideas always seem to come.
"The world is always talking. If you don't hear it the first time, you just have to tune up your ears or turn your head, and there's a little crick in your neck, and you start writing about that."
Stafford's disdain of poetic formulas comes, to a degree, from the mystery that he views as the essential quality of both life and poetry. In a poem called "Lit Instructor," the speaker declares the ideal of the college: "Right has a long and intricate name. And the saying of it is a lonely thing."
He says that "mysterious" could be substituted for "lonely."
"It's mysterious because I haven't finally
arrived there." Staffard said. "But on the other hand, it's sequentially knowable. I don't know if it's ineffable. It's partly effable, and we nibble away at the effable parts in learning.
. Stafford turned 70 on Jan. 17, and he views his
maser as merely another change in his life.
"I SOMETIMES THINK of it as like Daniel Boone going over into Kentucky. There's something there, and there are various stories about it, and gradually I'll find out. I'm finding out. Each increment seems real, but there's a few that don't. It isn't really Kentucky. It's not that it's ineffable where I've got. It is that it's ineffable where I haven't got." Part of what makes the mystery of life and poetry attractive to Stafford is its purity, he says. This same purity makes animals a favorite
"It's different," he says. "Retiring is different. I want to cherish that difference. There are trade-offs, losses and gains. I've retired from teaching.
In his own favorite poem, "A Walk in the Country," Stafford's speaker is a traveler who has carried the mountains of the world and now stubbornly holds to where he lives. And in the final two lines, he looks into the faces of the contentious masses and presents to them a mystery. It's the mystery of the world and of poetry, and of humanity:
"Oh friends, where can one find a partner for the long dance over the fields?"
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — More than eight units respond to a general-alarm hour traffic jams and sent a cloud of heavy billowing over fire in a six-story Flower City warehouse. The fire caused rush-downtown St. Louis yesterday. No injuries were reported.
Student Sports Council recommended Clark,
who was paid $0.000.
Parents continued from p. 1.
Wachter said another problem was the poor acoustics in the field house. Patrons in the upper level had a hard time hearing the Hope show, she said, and they were unwilling to come back for Clark's show.
ANNE STUCKER, CHAIRMAN of the council, said Clark wasn't the first choice, but he was the best available at that price. Much of the problem, she said, is in the difficulty of finding an entertainer who will please both students and their parents.
In addition to the economic problem, the athletic department is having difficulty scheduling Parents Day, Band Day and Homecoming because next year's five-game schedule offers only two possible dates for the scheduling of the events.
"It was a good idea, but it just didn't fly," she said.
Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. The Oklahoma game, Oct. 27, conflicts with the 100th anniversary celebration of the Sigma Fraternity. The Nebraska game, Nov. 10, would not be practical, Johnson said, because Lawrence will be on duty in the hospital and hotel accommodations will be difficult to find.
Though the concerts may be cut, Wachter said there were no plans to eliminate the rest of the park.
"Parents Day will remain a tradition at KU," she said.
The Oct. 6 game against Iowa State falls on the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. The Oklahoma game, Oct. 27, conflicts with the 100th anniversary celebration of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
Democrats continued from p.1
"I'm fearful for the nation and the condition it's in," O'Neil said. "Thirty-two years I've been here and never have I been as frightened of the cold war as I am today."
"I WILL DO ALL in my power to make sure that Walter Mondale is elected president of the United States."
Three hours after O'Neill's endorsement, Mondale told the speaker, "I'm very, very honored by your support. The strength of my faith and strength in you is amazing." about how I will cooperate with this Congress."
Mondale said that by his count O'Neill was in the 100th delegate in the House caucus, but O'Neill was not. The fact is that the majority of
"I think you've been a covert delegate for a long time," Mondale replied.
The caucus officially made O'Neill the first delegate elected in 1984 — 20 days before the Iowa caucus and 28 days before the New Hampshire primary.
MONDALE, ACCORDING to a United Press International count, has at least 77 endorsements among the Democratic delegates, far more than the 17 of rival Sen. John Glenm, D-Ohio. The Mondale camp and O'Neill said 10 delegates were publicly or privately committed to the front runner. Several members said they would support a private support public in news conferences shortly.
"The next four years present a terrible challenge, 'O'Neill said. 'Somehow, some way, we know he is going to win.'"
KIPPS
KIPPS continued from p. 1
problems with yesterday's payroll but that he didn't know of anyone who hadn't been paid on them.
KU's records-keeping computer and supplemental checks are printed, he said.
About 125 checks were for less than the correct amount. Ratzloff said, but those checks were much lower.
A KIPPS report issued before payday now enables KU officials to compare the payroll with a list of KU employees' salaries to detect discrepancies, Ratzloff said.
The incorrect paychecks are then run through
Mann said KU and Topека officials would continue working to improve the KIPPS process. Because of the INCESS could be improved is by simplifying the KIPPS process for student employees. Mann said.
Martin Jones, associate director of business affairs, said that student paychecks were now run through the same process as classified and unclassified employees' paychecks.
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ATTENTION
NATIONAL CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
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Dean Clark Coan 864-3617
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