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Vol. 94, No. 91 (USPS 650-640)
nursday morning, February 2, 1984
Concerts on Parents Day may get financial gong
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
Country music star Roy Clark came to the University of Kansas for Parents Day last year, but the athletic department lost money on the concert because not enough people bought tickets, an athletic department official said yesterday.
Susan Wachter, the official and the athletic department's business manager, said that the department would probably scrap Parents Day concerts.
The department's first two attempts, one featuring comedian Bob Hope and the other Clark, have lost the department more than $13.000, she said.
$15,000. She said:
WACHTER SAID THAT the Clark show Oct. 22 lost $6,500. She said 2,500 people attended the show in Allen Field House.
The concerts were originally intended to promote football ticket sales and to give parents something to do after the football game on Parents Day.
Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director, said the field house had a capacity of 12,000 for concerts and about 15,000 for athletic events.
in a collector, she said. But Monte Johnson, KU athletic director, said a decision had not yet been made on the fate of Parents Day concerts.
"There just doesn't seem to be enough interest in a concert," she said.
Wachter said she didn't think Parents Day concerts would continue.
"WE HAVE TO MAKE sure we don't lose any money," he said. "But the concert has more benefit than simply money. There is a certain amount of public relations involved. If people show an interest in keeping the concert, it could influence our decision."
Mike Hamrick, administrative assistant to the athletic department, is in charge of all promotions and helps plan the Parents Day shows. Hamrick could not be reached for comment.
Hope gave a concert in Allen Field House on Parents Day in 1982. Hope was paid $48,000 for his performance, Wachter said. The athletic department also paid his hotel and travel costs.
Although 5,200 people attended the show, it lost $6,669.
For the 1983 show, the athletic department decided to hire a less expensive performer. The
World's mysteries defy formulas, KU poet says
See PARENTS, p. 5, col. 4
By KEVIN LOLLAR
Staff Reporter
"It took World War II to uproot me from Kansas," says Hutchinson-born William Stafford, KU poet-in-residence this week.
but 70-year-old Stafford, whose many volumes of poetry include "West of Your City," "Traveling Through the Dark." "Allegiances" and "Stories That Could Be True," didn't join the armed forces when he was drafted.
armed forces he was in," Mr. brother, Bob, went to Manhattan and into the Air Force," he says, "and I went to KU and into a conscientious objector camp."
inRafael's second spent the war years in a series of conscientious objector camps throughout the United States, doing "alternative service of national importance."
AND IN HIS OFF-DUTY time, he wrote. But he hesitates to call what he wrote poetry.
"Even then and even now, when I write, I don't really know what's going to happen," he said yesterday. "I just start writing. So I could say, 'He's going to draw!' He draws! I draw!' a little bit to indicate that ambiguity."
to indicate that although he has first poetic principle remains that he never knows where he is going when he begins to write, a curious stance in one so prolific. He says that he doesn't even begin with a solid idea about the point he will make in a poem.
point the way we write. "People say, 'Well, you start with the idea, you know what you're going to write.' But where do you get the idea? There must be a time when you didn't have it, and then a time when you did have it. That's the crucial interval, and that's what's skipped when people say, 'Get a good idea and then . . .'"
STAFFORD, WHO RECEIVED a B.A. in English from the University of Kansas in 1937, compared the peace movement of the 1930s to that of the 1970s.
that of the 1970s.
"We knew that war was coming," he says.
"My teachers at KU told me again and again that something big was going to happen. And the peace movement was strong even among standard people, like Methodists and so on, not just Friends and Mennonites, so it was just part of my teaching.
"The way I view that time is that, when the war came, other people changed. So the question for me was, 'What happened to you that you went into the Army?' "
into the Army.
After the year, he earned a masters degree from KU, taught high school for a year in California, and then, in 1948, began teaching at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore., where he remained for 30 years. In 1954, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.
catered
and in his free time, he continued to write,
usually in the pre-dawn dhours.
Stafford denies that his poems come from a definite plan.
"Plans come about through the interaction of human sensibility with emerging elements of a situation in the world, and when I try to describe the process of writing, I try to get back there to that time when there isn't anything and then is something.
"IN THE MORNING when I get up, I take my pen and get some paper and get comfortable, and in effect I'm saying, 'All right, world, I'm listening. Start talking.' "
See POET, p. 5, col.1
Wendy Risjord, Shawnee junior, takes advantage of the warm weather and sketches Stauffer-Flint Hall.
O'Neill,100 delegates endorse Mondale
By United Press International
Convention and as many as 100 of them supported Mandale.
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Walter Mondale enjoyed one of the best days of his presidential campaign yesterday, picking up the endorsement of the nation's most powerful Democrat. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill.
supported abundance.
"Today an overwhelming majority of the Democrats in the House who are going to be delegates support me," Mondale said. "Your endorsement is your judgment on who can best lead this country."
leadership it has become much more dangerous."
At the time of the endorsement the House Democratic Caucus ratified the selection of the first 164 delegates to the Democratic National
MONDALE SPIKE briefly at a reception attended by more than 50 of his House supporters and assailed President Reagan, who he said "had not led us into a safer world. Under his
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The House delegates actually were selected last week, but they could not be named officially until Feb. 1.
O'Neill, who remained neutral in the 1980 battle for the Democratic nomination, told a news conference he was backing the former vice president because it was critical to defeat Ronald Reagan.
See DEMOCRATS, p. 5, col. 4
Reagan's budget makes Democrats see red
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - President Reagan proposed a $253.5 billion even-year budget yesterday with record military spending, no significant taxes and a $180 billion deficit. Democrats immediately announced plans to cut the red ink.
"We'll call you, and we'll raise you." House Democratic leader Jim Wright said in response to Reagan's budget. He told reporters that Democrats would offer measures to cut deficits by $200 billion during the next three years.
THE PLANS WILL INCLUDE some reductions in Reagan's increased military spending and a reversal of some tax cuts, the Democratic leader said.
THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL, 1985, which begins Oct. 1, 1984, proposes only $5 billion in spending cuts in federal benefit and social-welfare programs — a fraction of the cuts Reagan sought in his past budgets — plus $7.9 million in minor tax increases.
House Republican leader Robert Michel called it a "iphony-baloney budget," but Democrats denounced it as a do-noty, election-year plan that would increase the national debt $800 billion over the next five years, even if all of Reagan's spending and tax proposals were enacted.
Democratic butcher's proposal. Republican's budget proposal got a predictable partisan reception in Congress.
program. But up to 60 billion of those savings are achieved by scaling back the administration's original military increase proposals and from lower interest costs on the national debt. Actual spending cuts and tax proposals amount to only $60 billion in savings over three years.
and $7.9 billion to minor tax increases.
Spending for foreign aid, nuclear research and the space program is increased, while education, legal services, jobs and mass transit programs are cut.
proposals were blown back. Reagan once made a 13 percent increase in military spending that would make it the largest defense budget since World War II, even surpassing the peaks of the Korean or Vietnam wars if measured in constant dollars.
DEMOCRATS IMMEDIATELY attacked the budget for failing to address the issue of massive deficits that many fear will keep interest rates high and send the economic recovery into a tailspin.
The budget includes $150 million to begin designing a permanent manned space station that Reagan hopes to get into orbit by the early 1990s. It also provides $2.5 billion of economic aid to be given to Central America over four years, based on the Kissinger Commission's recommendations.
rates night and send the committee "The budget is, simply put, an election-year document which dodges the serious issues." Sen. Lawton Chiles, senior Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee.
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Warner, R-Va., right; Gen. John Vessey Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, center; and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger discuss the proposed 1985 defense budget.
FOR THE FIRST TIME, the proposed budget also sets aside money — $1.8 billion — to launch Reagan's ambitious goal to erect a nuclear defensive shield over the United States by the year 2000, possibly with Star Wars-like beam weapons.
The budget proposes $305 billion for the military to enter long-term contracts and spend money over several years. That is a $44.8 billion increase over this year, or a 13 percent increase after accounting for inflation.
inflation:
In addition, Reagan is seeking another $7.8 billion for development and production of nuclear weapons, raising the national defense budget to $131 billion. Last year's nuclear military budget was $6.7 billion.
From Staff and Wire Reports
Today is Groundhog Day, and if the little rodent sees his shadow, legend says that six more weeks of winter are in store for the nation. If he doesn't, that means an early spring.
If he does it, that must be For years, Punxsutawney Phil, of Punxsutawney, Pa., has been the official ground hog of the nation.
Puxsunlawney, a town of about 8,000 about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, has stepped into the limelight each year since the first Groundhog Day on Feb. 2, 1887.
Early this morning, a foot-and-a-half long brown rodent popped from his burrow to tell the nation whether to expect an early spring.
Yesterday the attorney general of Wisconsin, Bronson La Follette, declared "Jimmie," the ground hog of Sun Prairie, Wis., the official ground hog of the United States.
BUT SOME CONTROVERSY has emerged recently about whether Phil is the right ground hog to watch.
growth of the Punxusutawney Phil has perpetrated a colossal fraud on the people of America," La Follette said.
Jimmie has been 90 percent correct since 1948, and Phil has been right only 17 percent of the time. La Follette said.
HE CLAIMED THAT Phil's promoters made annual predictions using a stuffed animal resembling a ground hog.
KIPPS smoother this time around, but Winter says KU should dump it
By JENNY BARKER
Staff Reporter
Although most KU employees were paid on time yesterday, the University of Kansas would still be better off without the Kansas Integrated Personnel Payroll System, said state Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.Lawrence.
Winter Jr., R. LAWRENCE
Winter said that despite improvements in KIPPS, the system was still dangerous because it was overloaded.
it was overloaded.
My understanding is that they are running 97 percent capacity. "Winter said." "The standards of the industry are much lower, about 70 percent."
"THE SYSTEM APEARS to loaded up to the absolute maximum," he said.
observe maximum i.e. is the
The School of Journalism and Mass Communi
cations and the School of Pharmacy were each missing two checks from yesterday's payroll.
Payroll offices in the Schools of Fine Arts, Law, Education, Architecture and Urban Design, Law and Engineering in the College of Business. Services received on-plants about paychecks yesterday.
plains about payrolls. Dick Mann, KU director of information systems, said that increased experience on the part of KU and Topeka payroll officials, the installation of more terminals and a faster communications link between KU computers and KIPPS computers in Topeka helped the system to work more smoothly.
"We've learned at least enough now that every payday might not be a crisis," Mann said.
KEITH RATZLOFF, ASSOCIATE compilator at the University, said that there were a few
See KIPPS, p. 5, col. 4