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Opinion
University Daily Kansan, April 6, 1983
A divided ship of state
As the Kansas Legislature enters its waning days, the pressure to come up with decent spending and funding proposals increases. The partisanship of the legislators seems also to increase proportionally.
That partisanship begins with the Democratic governor, John Carlin, and his plans to plug the approaching gap between state spending and state revenue that includes increasing salaries for school teachers and delaying an increase for state employees
It continues when the Republican legislators, though strenuously criticizing the governor and his fellow Democrats, wait until the final week of the regular session to come up with any alternatives.
Both sides have been stopping at nothing to win points with the public. Monday morning, House Democrats joined Republicans in voting down their own severance tax — on Gov.
Carlin's advice — because it contained too large a tax credit for the property taxes oil and gas owners pay. Then both sides desperately brought the tax back to life, with a lower credit, and approved it Monday afternoon.
The political games being played on both sides of the aisle are part of the nature of government. But because of the critical condition of the state's financial future, the maneuvering has served only to divide the state into separate camps.
Instead of approaching Kansas' severe problems as Kansans, we are severance tax advocates versus opponents; teachers versus state employees; urban versus rural residents; and those who favor tight spending versus supporters of higher taxation.
We only hope that when the demagoguery dies and the rhetoric ends, there will be enough good will to set the state on its financial feet.
Universal problem of stress has many different solutions
Stress. It touches us every day. Be it anxiety about the three tests you have next week, the project due tomorrow, or the girl on your bed at school, we can always handle stress can occasionally hit us like a ton of bricks.
People handle it in different ways. Some people get headaches, some people overheat, some people punch holes in walls with their fists.
A lot of people ask me how I handle stress. They say, "Harry, you look so vibrant today. How do you do it?" Maybe I have three tests that day, but I stop whatever I'm doing and I answer them, knowing that I'm doing my part to help combat a universal problem.
"I know, you probably think that I take some illegal drugs. Well, they have nothing to do with
HARRY MALLIN
my disposition. I just ignore stress. It let it flow over my body like water on the back of an other dog.
And then I leave them there, to ponder my confusing words.
Instead of being stopped on the street and asked, I will set my specific philosophies on paper for all to read; a bargain at twice the price.
I call it HARRY'S LIST OF HOW TO COMBAT
MAGENTA-EYED MONSTER, STRESS.
THAT WAS HAVENED
1. The blow-off approach. Simple enough, you want to be ahead of it, and is ahead of you until it is behind you. With all your new free time, think up some good explanations for your professors. Or just blow that off, too. That will give you time to think up some good excuses for your parents. Or blow that off. That will give you time to think of some pleas for the lady at the waffle office.
2. The Tan Man corollary: Extremely similar to the blow-off approach, this is differentiated by the way in which you spend your free time. Soak in some rays for a few weeks. Not only is it an excellent way to relax, it keeps those skin-cancer doctors in business.
3. The primal scream method. Go about your daily routine and let the pressure build up inside of you. Just when you're ready to burst, go into a field and scream until your ears哭ed.
4. The time management plan. This is the most difficult of them all because it comes the closest to reality. Books have been written on it, people lecture on it and the office of residential programs swears by it. Do not, under any circumstances, attempt this one at home. I tried it once and I couldn't sit down for a week. You see, you have to make all sorts of lists and schedules. Wrist all up! You have a working wrist watch. Leave this one to the professionals.
5. The analyst, it's expensive, and you'll end up discovering that you lust after your mother or that you have a fixation for bananas. It's a lot easier and less expensive to call your mother.
6. Mother. She's always there to be dumped upon. She doesn't charge a fee and will usually send you money. And she probably won't tell you that you lust after her.
7. The Great Escape. This tends to be expensive, too. Go to some exotic place and loll in the shade, ignoring all of your commitments. If you're going to spend your daddy's money by going to college and not learning anything, you as well go to the University of South Padre.
These are but a few of the many methods to handle stress. Of course now you want to know, which of them I use. It's not that easy. I use Mallin's Miscellaneous Method.
It is kind of a potpourri, a mixture all of the preceding methods. Its most difficult ingredient is balance. You must learn when it's time to blow things off and when it's time to buy a new watch.
But it works. Look where its gotten me so far: I'm a full-time student, I work twenty hours a week at a tumber yard, twelve hours a week at a residence hall, about five hours a week at the Kansan, I'm holding down three relationships (none of which know about each other), and I still find time to go to the bathroom once in a while.
All this excitement would surely be leading me to an early grave were it not for my dexterity with stress. Get familiar with the danger signs that warn you of a forthcoming stress attack: bloodshot eyes, migraine headaches, sweaty skin and breath of breath and an unseasy feeling in your stomach.
If these aren't recognized, they may get more serious. When you start growing hair in strange places, it can be difficult to wet them even your avula, you should definitely see either your family doctor or your veterinarian.
Reagan makes deal look like victory
By ARNOLD SAWISLAK United Press International
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The cliche about politics is that it is "the art of the possible." The trick for politicians who practice that art is to make it appear as if they have accomplished the
Ronald Reagan demonstrated on both the jobs bill and the Social Security rescue legislation that he understands that "the art of the possible" means compromise. He also showed that he can make a deal he has cut with his opponents look like unconditional victory for himself.
The jobs measure Reagan accepted was almost the same bill he denounced as a "pork barrel" full of "make-work" jobs a few months ago. The Social Security legislation carried tax increases that last year the president said were unacceptable.
Over the past few decades, we thought that if our equipment was technologically better, we could deal with the opposition's superior numbers. This advantage no longer exists. Not only do they still have superior numbers, but their technology is in many cases equal to ours.
But when Congress passed both bills, Reagan praised the lawmakers for rising above partisanship and demagoguery and declared that his promise to protect the needy had been fulfilled. Against all odds, it seemed, the president had come through again.
The plain truth was that both bills had
If you ask a GI, some of whom are actually on food stamps, he will tell you that if a weapon or a vehicle will help him do his job better and increase his chances for staying alive, he wants it. Damn the cost. Perhaps it would be a good idea for each elected legislator to serve a year in
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In World War I, we had four years to prepare our forces before we entered the fray. World War II was more than two years old when the Japanese invited our participation. In Korea, even though we had all the equipment still lying around from the previous fractas, it took us more than a month to deploy a decent force on the peninsula. We are simply not going to have this time to prepare if the bell for the last round rings.
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That is something not often heard in a time when it is increasingly fashionable to criticize everything he says or does. If Pearl Harbor were suddenly and deliberately attacked tomorrow; there would probably be a Democratic response on the nightly news. Why must everything be reduced to Republican-Democratic terms — to the level of politics?
Hooray for the president!
H. L. Mencken said, "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamoring to be led safely) by an endless series of hobgobblins." The defenses budget hobgoblin seems to be making sure right now than the economic hobgoblin.
To the editor:
To the editor:
a tank or infantry battalion in Germany prior to taking his seat.
Secondly, Heatherlin implies that the books,
"The Myth of the Six Million" and "The Hoax of
the Twentieth Century" are Way books. This is
not true. The material in these books is
In all fairness, Americans should show as much concern for the MIGs in Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada as they do for the .1 percent rise in unemployment. Could it be that Americans are at the point where if we can't use it, hear it, crib it, smoke it or play with it, we don't care about
It simply bobs down to the fact that if you have a big enough stick, some guy is less likely to hit you with his. Your stick doesn't have to be as big as his, just big enough to make him twinkle twice.
Way article slanted
Heaberlin is, of course, entitled to her opinions — however unfounded they may be — but the Power For Abundant Living class is available for $40 and has been for more than a year. It is worth noting that he reported spending more for much more "mindless" courses at my dear old alma mater.
As a KU alumnum and a follower of The Way, I must protest the overly slanted, biased article written by Julie Heaberlin which appeared in the Feb. 28 issue of the Kansan.
Patrick Cooney. Woodstock, Ill., graduate student
Failure to be prepared in the two world wars were strikes one on the other and we take the latter in strike three?
Patrick Cooney.
But there still might be room for compromise. The tax cut is due July 1 and a considerable nick could be made in the deficit by delaying it until, say, Dec 31. Or Reagan might be able to save the 1983 tax cut by agreeing to delay the elimination of "bracket creep" from the income tax structure, now scheduled for 1985, if deficits still are running high.
Tom Swift New York resident
Both sides can be expected to say “never” on these possibilities now. But nobody will look good in a budget standoff, and both Reagan and his advisers are still ideal with each other when it becomes necessary.
Finally, as to the allegation that Victor Wierwile is a "messiah figure" with a mindless following: Prior to my involvement with The Way, my GPA at KU was hovering around the 1.2 mark. After I took the Power For Abundant Living class and applied principles taught there, I raised my GPA to more than 3.5, averaged 18 hours a semester while working at least one, sometimes three, part-time jobs. As an alumnus of New York University, I am currently employed as an editor with the Hotel and Travel Index in New York City. Mindless, would you say?
programs such as food stamps and legal services for the poor that the Democrats want to protect. They might give a little on defense spending to achieve that.
documented, and anyone who honestly wishes to know the facts can read them and check the research presented in them. And of course the ministry of The Way is opposed to many Jewish beliefs. We are Christians, and the basic tenets of Christianity oppose the basic tenets of Judaism, that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and God raised him from the dead.
Reporting should be reporting. The article you ran contained editorializing disgusted as reporting. There is no excuse for so sloppy work. I realize that many, possibly most, people do not see eye to eye with the teachings of the Word of God as presented by The Way International School in New York and the editorial staff of the Kansan we its readers a closer scrutiny of the facts they print.
God bless you, I would appreciate it if you would print this as well as a retraction regarding the factual error in your article. You can think what you want, but let's just present the facts honestly and let people make up their own minds, OK?
As the heat rises in Washington this summer, the art form called compromise might start looking attractive once again.
Now the battle moves on to the budget, with the focus on defense spending. The president wants to increase defense spending about 10 percent; the Democrats in control of the House passed a budget with an increase of 4 percent. Republican leaders of the Senate are said to be thinking in the neighborhood of 7 percent for defense.
Unemployment was rising, Social Security was headed toward deficit and the 1982 elections gave no smashing mandate to either side. It looked as if a continued standoff would only make things worse for the public in 1983 and the politicians in 1984, so the politicians compromised.
That leaves taxes as an obstacle. The Democrats favor repose of the tax cut due this summer to reduce the $200 billion-plus deficit. But the Republicans argue, but he is lashed to the mast on a 1983 tax cut.
elements distasteful to Reagan and his Democratic opponents, but that neither side could pass the kind of legislation it preferred.
That does not mean that the president will have had the better of his foes. The House budget also has restored funding for a number of social
if the difference were split, the result would be 5.5 percent. But it will be no surprise if the final figure is closer to 7 percent, which Reagan could point to as a victory, given the House action.
I was rather amused last week after reading a story in the Kansan about the moral outrage of a few student senators at the actions of Lisa Ashner, student body president. My amusement, however, was also mixed with scorn at the source of the senators' anger.
Ashner, on the grounds that the Student Senate could not afford the cost, vetoed a bill Feb. 15 to bring Watergate conspirators John Erichman and G. Gordon Liddy to the University of Kansas. Last week, she signed a bill to bring Sonia Johnson, who was excommunicated from the Morrison Church for opposing its stand on the Equal Rights Amendment, to speak at KU.
Ashner right about speakers
"Lisa was harboring a double standard by not voting the Johnson bill. If, as she said, it would
JEANNE FOY
Then there is the matter of the speakers themselves. I did not mind the Senate spending student money to bring Phyllis Schlafly to KU last year. I am pleased that Johnson, a controversial figure herself, will speak here. But I vehemently oppose using student money to pay two crooks to speak for them. I would choose who not be hardy for their crimes, but benefited from them because people were dumb enough to pay them to hear their side of the story.
have been fiscally irresponsible to bring Liddy and Ehrlichman here, it would be fiscally irresponsible to bring Johnson here," said Student Services Committee.
But there is a slight price difference for the speakers. The Senate will spend $2,500 for Johnson. For Liddy and Ehrlichman, the Senate needed to guarantee a payment of $8,500.
Karen Schlueter, law school senator, said in February that Ashner did not act in the best interest of the students by vetoing the Ehrlichman and Liddy bill. Schlueter said Ehrlichman and Liddy were part of history and many of the students were excited about hearing them speak.
Certainly these two are a part of history, a most unfortunate period of history. Watergate threw this country into turmoil, and how did those responsible atone for their sins? A few years in jail, and then big money from books and lectures. Ehrlichman has written three books, Liddy one, which became a TV movie, with profits.
Those senators who are really heartbroken that Ehrlichman and Liddy will not speak at KU should console themselves with the following thought: Perhaps Teamsters' President Roy Williams will wriggle and breeze to bribe a senator. The Senate can pay him $9,500 to hear how he outwitted the U.S. justice system and managed to make a profit in the process.
In fall, 1980, Liddy grossed $150,000 for an lecture circuit of 54 college and corporate audiences. $150,000 for a man who has remained unapologetic about his role in Watergate is no
I suggest that if Mollie Mitchell, co-chairman of the Senate Cultural Affairs Committee and co-author of the bill, Lawnhorn and Schlueter want to hear personal reminiscences about Watergate, they should go to a bookstore and plunk down their own money to read the memoirs of their favorite Watergate figures. If you have never read Watergate will more royalities, proving that in the United States, if one is a high government official, crime does pay.
intelligence-gathering operation that mistured
These, then, are the two men who are causing
some student senators to mean because Ashler
wrote a letter to students saying they were
here. These senators are crying because
KU students will not be duped into contributing
to the support for Liddy and Ehrrichman.
Watergate, Liddy has said, was a simple intelligence-gathering operation that misfired.
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