KANSAN COMMENT
Temporary?
Since many of you last saw the KU campus, the men at Buildings and Grounds have been going wild trying to find something to help curb the outbreak of a deadly disease—"portable mushroom-itis."
Beginning shortly after school was over in the spring, men with tripods, tape measures and all sorts of surveying equipment hit the campus. The next day, little wooden sticks appeared everywhere. The casual summer session student perhaps thought they were new trees or shrubs (to those who were somewhat blearyeyed) planted by loving gardeners to help beautify the campus.
Then things started to change. One morning, there were small holes near those stakes. Then those holes were filled with concrete.
Then came the final traumatic growth. Pulled down Jayhawk Boulevard by a fleet of trucks, they came, first one section and then another. Finally they were all in place—in place to the tune of some $90,000. They were everywhere between Hoch Auditorium and Marvin Hall; between the library and the hospital; on the grass in front of Lindley Hall; and, of all places, on the grass in front of Fraser.
Now, Fraser is not the prettiest building on campus. As a matter of fact, it is far from it. But with the addition of the two temporary structures in front of it, it looks even worse.
Heating and cooling problems of portable units have been known to keep many people suffering for hours on end. Often, the units just leak air and therefore pull more on their temperature control units than they're worth.
Portable classroom units, such as the ones now on campus, are more desirable than, say, 50 kids in a lecture classroom that is big enough for just 20. The buildings do make it possible to tear down the walls between offices for some badly-needed classroom space by moving the offices out into the units.
Many people find it hard to concentrate on their work under such conditions.
Maybe it would be wise to move the Board of Regents' meetings and the Kansas Senate's and House of Representatives' meetings out into a portable unit, use their chambers for classrooms.
Maybe then we would get the money appropriated for the extra buildings—the permanent buildings—needed on our campus. Wouldn't it be terrible if these portable units were really the permanent buildings?
—Charlie Cape
WINDOW ON THE WORLD
Berlin Break Rumored
By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Writer
The East Germans are spreading rumors that their nation is about to restore the right of 2.1 million Berliners to visit East Berlin at any time and to restore telephone communications between the two halves of the city-cut since 1952. But Berlin Mayor Klaus Schuetz suspects a Communist maneuver and he is warning Berliners against heeding the rumors, pending concrete negotiations. Seeing, he says, will be believing.
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With agreement in the bag on a nonaggression arrangement with the Bonn government, Moscow now plans to push for the admission to the United Nations of both East and West Germany. This is expected to happen when the U.N. general assembly meets in New York next month.
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Opposition politicians in the Philippines are concerned lest the ruling Nacionalista party
put up the beauty-queen wife of President Ferdinand E. Marcos as its candidate. Marcos himself cannot run for a third term and has gone on record that he will not run again, even if this constitutional prohibition is amended. Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos has been more than sufficiently exposed to the Philippine political scene, and might have a better than even chance against any opposing candidate if she is backed by Marcos party and its resources. It would not be the first time that a wife acted as a political stand-in. Witness recent history in Alabama.
Diplomats in Paris predict that French-speaking African nations will drag their feet on possible moves next week at the Organization of African Unity summit in Addis Ababa to apply pressure on white southern Africa. Economically and culturally linked closely to Paris, the dozen or so nations likely to attend the summit are expected to take their cue from
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On the other hand, political gossip in London has it that the Conservative government is planning quietly to ditch plans to resume arms sales to South Africa rather than risk a breakup of the Commonwealth. Prime Minister Edward Heath and Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas Hume are said to have been taken by surprise by the uproar caused by the government's announcement that it planned to resume arms sales. It had expected loud protests from such countries as Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia and might even have risque their walking out of the Commonwealth. But it was taken aback by the reactions of such supposedly "reasonable" Commonwealth countries as Canada and Kenya.
France, which is currently South Africa's best arms supplier and has never respected United Nations calls for a boycott against the South African government.
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