University Daily Kansan, September 29, 1983
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Cable television entrepreneur Ted Turner prepares to talk at Wichita State University.
Turner criticizes design of U.S.yacht as obsolete
By United Press International
WICHTIA — Trimming ballast from the United States entry in this year's America's Cup was a last-ditch effort to improve an obsolete yacht, Ted Turner, successful defender of the 1977 cup, said yesterday.
Turner, chairman of the board of the Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting System, also told reporters in a news conference that the nation's three television networks are damaging American society. The 44-year-old cable television entrepreneur made several suggestions for improvement.
The U.S. lost the America's Cup simply because Australia II had a better design, said Turner, who skipped the boat Courageous to a successful 4-0 defense of the cup six years ago.
TURNER SAI LIBERTY, who lost this year's cup 4.3, was obsolete. Eliminating nearly 1,000 pounds of lead in the fourth-string quarterback with
five minutes to go when you're down by
suit touchdowns, Turner said. "You're
doing it right."
In an effort to compete better in light winds, the boat's crew eliminated the risk of capsizing.
Turner, four-time recipient of the "Yachtsman of the Year" award, said that he probably would not have time to sail in the next competition for the cup. The next series of races is expected to be held either in 1986 or 1987 near Perth, off Australia's west coast. Whoever competes in that series, Turner said, needs to begin work next week and continue efforts until the race begins.
ON THE NATION'S three television networks, Turner said their programming is anti-social and in severe need of change.
"How many of you all would like your children to be like the Dukes of Hazzard when they grow up?" Turner said. A popular network television series.
Turner was in Wichita to participate in Wichita State University's business school.
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
A new source of revenue may be created next month for Kansas cities that want to finance road construction projects.
Transportation department may start construction fund
The Kansas Department of Transportation is working on a set of new guidelines for financing the construction of connecting roads that run through cities, Michael O'Keele, director of the division of planning and development of the department, said yesterday.
The new program would provide state funding for improvements such as widening the road, O'Keefe said.
The new program might be a possible source of funding for the North Second Street project in Lawrence.
THE COMMITTEE IN the planning and development division of KDOT started work on the project about a month ago. But, before that, there was no point in working on it, he said.
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The planning and development committee will have to present their report to John Kemp, KODT secretary. They will also make a say on the project, O Keefe said.
"It is not something you think about when you don't have any money," he said.
During fiscal year 1982, Kansas received $98.7 million from the federal government. That amount was for the repair and upkeep of both primary and secondary roads, said Mokhte Ahmad, chief of the office of analysis and evaluation of KDOT.
PRIORITY IS DECIDED by the accident rate on the road, the condition of the surface and the traffic on the road, O'Keefe said.
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Ray Olson, chief of the bureau of rural and urban development of KDOT, said that the need for more financed investing. Cities kept sending in letters requesting money for city projects. "Right now we have nothing to handle this uniss it is under the klink program," he said.
"It is a legitimate question whether we should participate or we should save money for the rural system," he said. "There just is not enough money to get everything done on the rural highway system."
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Funding for the new program would come from the same government appropriation. However, the state gas tax should be paid to the state with more money for road construction and repairs, Olson said.
Before, it was a question of whether the state should help with
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The projects would be put on a priority list like other highway projects because financing is scarce, O'Keefe said.
the project by providing klink, or connecting link, funding, he said. This funding would only help with the cost of resurfacing. Otherwise, the city could pay for the construction itself, he said.
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Oh? What about the Education Department's conclusion that "fewer than 3 percent of last year's graduates met the academic requirements recommended by the National Commission on Excellence in Education." My guess is that taking courses with titles like "Forms of Extraterrestrial Life Probably Sighted by Buck Rogers" enables many a local student to avoid the 4 years of English, 3 years of mathematics, 3 years of science, 3 years of social studies, one-half year of computer science and, for the college-bound, 2 years of foreign language recommended by the Commission.
School of Education Dean Dale Scannell's opinion that, in the words of Journal-World reporter David Toplikar, "a 'zero rejection' philosophy needs to be developed at school so . . . no one fails" has played a large part in our public education system's producing what the Commission describes as "individuals in our society who (because they) do not possess the levels of skill, literacy, and training essential to this era, will be effectively disenfranchised, not simply from the material rewards that accompany competent performance, but also from the chance to participate fully in our national life. (As) A high level of shared education is essential to a free, democratic society and to the fostering of a common culture, especially in a country that prides itself on pluralism and individual freedom."
A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM
At a recent forum sponsored by the University of Kansas School of Education, Lawrence Unified School District 497 and Phi Delta Kappa, a group of panelists discussed and then entertained questions about the National Commission on Education's report on our public education system. According to the September 23rd issue of the Journal-World, "the consensus was that the current educational system is now meeting most of the needs of the students who go through it—at least in Lawrence."
James J. Kilpatrick's September 24th column, which is entitled "Wasn't Joe Stalin president before FDR?", examines an article by Hollywood producer and writer Benjamin J. Stein in the current issue of Public Opinion. Mr. Stein finds many Southern California teenagers unaware "of even the most elementary current events, history, politics, economics or just what goes on each day in the world outside of Los Angeles." Our public education system's failure to transmit basic information has forced both institutions of higher learning to devote a growing segment of their resources to remedial efforts and millions of functionally illiterate Americans wishing to contribute to the sidelines.
Everyone satisfied with the educational status quo at least should consider Mr. Stein's conclusion that because they exist "in a state of such astonishing ignorance, young Americans may well not be prepared for even the most basic national responsibility—understanding what the society is about and why it must be preserved . . . People who do not value what they have rarely keep it for long, and neither will we."
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Group wants farm legislation Founder says AAM agitated
By United Press International
DENVER — A founder of the American Agriculture Movement said yesterday that growing dissidence over Washington's approach to agricultural subsidies disputes among AAM members over the group's philosophy, not its goals.
He said the problems would eventually strengthen the organization.
"It'll finally come to a national convention meeting where there will be a few knock-down, drag-outs and it'll blow over and everybody will be back working together for the common goal," said Alvin Jenkins, the founder. "And it'll make us even stronger in the long run."
"If a member goes there (to Posee or FLA meetings), it on his own as an insider."
JENKINS' COMMENTS, MADE in a telephone interview from AAM's national field headquarters in Campo, Colo., came in response to remarks by AAM national secretary V.B. Mornis, Morris, Gruver, Texas, expressed concern this week that a vocal minority of AAM members in western Kansas had become too closely associated with militant groups such as the Posse Comitatus and the Farmers Liberation Army.
In describing the problem, Jenkins
said that a "great many" farmers nationwide had withdrawn support from efforts by AAM's national headquarters in Washington, D.C., to lobby for changes in economic and agricultural policies.
"The national钱 get off on a kick of raising a lot of money and donating it to members of Congress to try to sway their votes on the Farm Bill," Jenkins said. "But tens of thousands of farmers are in deep financial trouble."
Jenkins said the "average farmer, and I'm one, owes from a half million
"THEY DON'T LIKE being asked to give money to a congressman or senator who already is drawing $60,000 or $70,000 a year. They think it is wrong that money to give to a man who was elected to protect the farmer in the first place."
Jenkins denied published reports that he invocated violence to accomplish AAMY's mission.
"An interviewer asked me if I felt bloodshed is necessary, and I said I don't know what's necessary and what isn't," he said. "I told him that if I personally was losing my farm, and if it took sweat, tears or bloodshed to save it, I would be willing to do all three. But I'm definitely not advocating bloodshed, and I don't think very many AAM members are."
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