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Thursday, December 2, 1971
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Educational Austerity
For the last several months those both inside the University community and those on its immediate periphery have been talking of a financial crisis.
The talk is becoming more than that now—much more. James Bibb, State Budget Director and financial axman for the Governor, has presented a budget for the State's colleges and universities that can not even be termed "austere." The total increase for all the state colleges is 0.1 per cent, for fiscal 1973.
It is fast becoming a matter of just what value is placed on quality education in Kansas. The tradition has been one of strong support for a quality system. There is an obvious misstatement, though, with this tradition.
Acknowledging this disenchantment then, we should ask where are its routes? The obvious answer lies in the disturbances and vandalism the University suffered a few years back. That is the obvious
answer but, perhaps, not the actual reason for the apparent abandonment. The crux of the problem may lie in the economic times and the nature of the Kansas mind. Economically times are tight. Jobs are scarce and more than the Kansas landscape is frozen. When the economy has expanded, look to get more for their money. The rub is that education is not a quantity that can be easily bought and sold.
A tight-fisted taxpayer no doubt sees little money return in financing education at a liberal arts university. Surely his money is spent on tangibles: salaries, maintenance, construction costs, but it all points one direction—the liberal arts education. This is the untangible element for our tight taxpayer. His very real money is given to an institution that deals in thoughts and flirts on the edge of wonder.
It seems that Kansas has had enough of these for now.
-Thomas E. Slaughter
AP Backgrounder
Youth Leaders Shun 'Hacks'
WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalfired Tuesday plans to form a National Youth Cancer as a means of gaining influence in the major industries.
Dana Draper, president of the National Association of Student Governments, said the movement to shape it as an "institution for conference and N仇 voters in Chicago this weekend would align itself with the Black
The Chicago meeting will be held on Wednesday at Saturday and Sunday, Draper said, organized by 100 student-body presidents from across the city.
Caucus and Women's Caucus.
The purpose, Draper said, would be to maximize their strength at the threshold of influential nonintrusting conventions.
of the youth groups is that even with delegate selection reforms such as those being imposed by the Democratic National Committee, young hacks to fill up all the conversation seats allotted to it.
Draper said a primary concern
"We want to get young people who are committed to social change." Draper said, "not 18 or older" versions of Richard Daley.
burn the evil spirits out of you."
LOS ANGELES—The Students' vote is a big issue—how to get it out, how to keep it from getting out, how to minimize it. There may not be very much there to be minimized. But efforts to minimize it, nonetheless, are risky, and court bitter kinds of disillusionment.
Garry Wills
Gerrymandering the Kids; Or Minimizing Their Vote
California is in a typical phase of gerrymandering, and the students are just another factor thrown into the complex political formulae for this sort of operation. Student communities have been scooped out of the countryside at three University of California campuses (UCLA, Santa Barbara, and Irvine) and tied onto distant tracts of land, where the
Wills' chronicles what has happened to the student vote in Kentucky and what is likely to happen in the rest of the Country. Such statements are going to disenchant young voters before they get to their new right.
I don't suggest that animus against students is the sole cause of these
Two plans have been proposed for divorcing the student area of Isla Vista from its Santa Barbara neighborhood. One would result in an incredible showstring of a district wandering far into the area of Santa Luis Obispo, Bakersfield indeed, anything in sight except the obvious. Except Santa Barbara.
student impact can be dissipated, swallowed up, or at least dissociated from the grudging community nearest the university.
tortuous goings-on. Quite the opposite. The political formulae are always tangled—bargaining this for that, horsetrading, stretching immediate advantage, risking remote disadvantage; paying off, rebuking, or placing one's own and the other party.
But the game in itself is distasteful to students, and doubly so when animus against them enters into the formulae at all. A very conservative gentleman, who spoke for the Right Wing on a citizens' commission to cool off Isla Vista last year, told me he had got on the phone to legislators he knew, and he had become a judge of the court to undo all the work he and his fellows have been trying to accomplish, for the students and for the community.
The first good result of the citizens' commission was its statement of mutual involvement between students and the community. It tried to work out ways of improving relations; and its very existence was a living statement of the commonality of concerns and given two parts. But now the legislature comes along and says that the two are different parts of the state, at odds if not at open enmity, and all the former protestations now ring hollow.
The state senate still has to add its纤leges to the assembly's paper-roll snipper-snappering of the political geography. If it further complicates an already cubistic redistricting portrait, even Governor Reagan may be forced into an act of statesmanship, vetoing the bill he will get little credit from an already liberal body; and, more to the point, the state's legislature will have confirmed the students' own worst rhetoric about the system in general as their enemy.
Copyright, 1971
Universal Press Syndicate
Griff and the Unicorn
Copyright 1971. David Sokoloff.
James J. Kilpatrick
Thoughts on Thanks A Week Belated
Up at the United Nations, the Red Chinese are hitting the United States. Ambassador Bush rallied his team against arguing about campaign spending. A "poisonous" atmosphere—Ted Kennedy's word—deflocs the boundaries of China in Miami, George Meany is again denouncing the perfidious administration. The announcer is joined by a group of arson in Oklahoma. Vice
SCRABLE, VA — These are contentious times, mean and angry times. The car radio, tipped over and on, listeners on sandwiches of dyspneia—three pieces of bad food between two slices of commercial.
month, Riac; last week, Chicago;
next week, Athens; next month,
Detroit. The highway rolls ahead.
The road is bright red. The Christmas package, but the mind turns back to the darkness of the country and the darkness of Kenyatta of Kenya the children of Brazil
Time after time, in his campion of 1968, Richard Nixonikon used a few special techniques we reported the used to put away our pencils when he came to the lime. Now, driving home, it comes back with him — and he chooses a chosen time and place to be born." Nixonikon would say, "I would have chosen the 20th century in which he was not speaking expectantly. He was not speaking expectantly."
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As James J. KILIPPAdrone drove his thoughtless, gifting, his thoughts turned to him as Americans, have to be thankful for. Despite our troubled history, he is a man of great worth.
President Agnew, ordinarily a man of good taste, has tossed a tasteless slur at McCloskey. Now for this message.
It is too much. With a click of release, sweet silence fills the car. The highway that leads me home has nothing much to offer for most of us. At the west of Amissville, where the new four-lane section begins, an engineer with the artist of an art museum works at its crest the whole world opens. In one glorious burst of trumpets, the Blue Ridge Mountains fill the sky. And the grass gives gratitude thanks.
Do we, as Americans, ever truly reflect upon our blessings? Do we understand—really understand—how fortunate we are? Ask yourself: how fortunate are you news of badness that we forget about the goodness in our land? A single Thanksgiving Day is not enough. I have been three months since the time the airbread, half the time in travels here at home. Last
Autumn has come to us late this year October was dank and sad, but I loved it. Now, be delighted, the old tapery reappears, a little faded, not so brilliant as the day before, but with members, not of fire. We have more of rusted iron, and less of gold. But here on this crest, the spiral always looks. One draws the eye
of our material welfal. The apologetic custom is to minimize this aspect of American society, but it also raises the poor, our voice shame for the shacks of Harlem and guilf for the shacks of Appalachia. Yet the power of the culture makes them menely better off, in the quality of their lives, than most of the people a reporter sees around the world. The benefit of education, benefits produced, by the energy and inventiveness and ambition of these can be honestly grateful.
The things the spirit count for more. Behind the quarrel over Rehmann's confirmation lies the reasons for him to remain under law. Behind the political bickering is our system of free elections. A labor spokesman told reporters in exercise in free speech, I am headed home, where I am secure on my door. Off to my white steerpee of my small-town church catches the westering that am free to worship as I please.
The roads that lead now to be lodged the world lead now to a graveled bridge across White Walnut Cove, in the downtown, a fire in the kitchen hearth. Wherever you are on this road, Day, American, give thanks.
(C) 1971 The Washington
Star Syndicate, Inc.
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