Big Eight School Papers Have Their Problems, Too
BY PHILIP WILDMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
The University Daily Kansan produces 13,500 issues each weekday during the school year except during holidays and final examination periods. Newspapers are distributed by car to strategic offices in the city. The Kansan averages eight pages per issue.
This year the Associated Collegiate Press and the National Association of Publishers presented the Pacemaker with excellence in the 1970/71 newspaper.
The Kansan was allocated $40,000 from the Student Senate for the 1972 fiscal year, relying on revenue from advertising to fund the remaining 73 per cent of its expenses.
Last week the Student Senate froze funding of the newspaper, which is now
"operating in the red," according to David Baptel editor
This kind of problem is not unique to the Kansan, an investigation of the other big Japanese city.
RUTH FOSTER, office manager for the RUTH Collegian, a daily with a circulation of 14,000, said that the paper is funded both through activity fees and advertising. The college was a management of $2 per student, paid with routine academic charges.
"The rest is gotten through advertising accounts," she said.
The paper is a tabloid averaging 12 pages per issue. It has consistently won in All-American competition, sponsored by the Associated Collegiate Press and has usually placed in the Hearst award competition, Miss Foster said.
Reporting II students all work on the
paper and are required to produce a certain amount of copy. Some advertising materials may be printed in black.
The Collegian operates through a department of journalism, not a school. It has a limited number of subscriptions and is presently operating in the black
second last year in the National Press Conference competition.
Virginia Ostrander, administrative assistant to the Colorado Daily, the student
"It has no ties with the School of Journalism and is, in fact, house in the student body."
She said the paper broke its ties with the School of Journalism last June, but that there had been no significant change because of the break.
Background Report
newspaper of the University of Colorado, said that the weekday paper, with a 13,000 circulation rate, is funded from ads and subscriptions only.
A TABLOID with an average of 12 pages per issue, the Colorado Daily placed
"Students are paid a salary just as they always have been," she said.
The Oklahoma Daily of the University of Oklahoma, circulation 13,500 and distributed Tuesday through Saturday, is according to general manager of publications Ron Stewart, funded chiefly through a student activity fee. The fee is mandatory and covers all but 12 per cent obtained from advertising revenue.
The paper is operating in the black. It is distributed free on the campus and has only a small number of subscribers throughout the United States.
"This is a touchy situation now. We are trying to establish a flat rate to be used as a basis for showing our needs," Stewart said.
Stewart said that he was investigating how such problems were being handled in collegiate publications throughout the country.
It cooperates with the School of Jour-
THE PAPER IS a tabloid, averaging 23 pages per issue, and was the recent winner of the sweepstakes context of the Southwest Journalism Congress.
The Oklahoma Daily also operates in the black.
nailism laboratories and "has been operating basically like this for the past 30 years."
Randy Sumpter, co-editor of the Daily O'Collegian, published at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, said the publication receives 80 per cent of its funds from mandatory fees under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents.
Issued Tuesday through Saturday, the O'Collegen has a circulation of 16.000.
The publication cooperates with the School of Journalism in a laboratory
It is a tatabla paper with 12 pages in an average issue. In 1968, the paper won the outstanding editorial column award sponsored by Sigma Delta Cu.
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No.41
Outside a young black with a Muslim name asked one of the veterans for 30 cents. "I need to get me a little taste, y'know?" he said.
Tuesday, October 26, 1971
After a hand-clapping gospel song ("T I'm Pressin' On"), two men passed collection baskets on the new arrivals. Byron Edmondson, temporary VVAW Lawrence University, contained over $20 in cash collected by the Peace Center at Ottawa University.
Camp Bridges Cultures
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Broken Windows. Broken Dreams Haunt Cairo Whites and Blacks
"We won't accept tokenism," said Preston Ewing, NAACP local president, inside the church. "We recognize there is a problem. We need to be here, we should have a share of it."
On the sanctuary wall a banner read,
"Before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave. A small sign in the back of the building is called nigger, I'm a United Nuger."
Vietnam Vets Find Cairo Blacks Determined to Continue City Boycott
A large black woman wearing a black blazer stood behind a podium and sang to the crowd.
BY MIKE THARP
Kansan Writer
CAIRO, Ill. —On Oct. 2 the Lawrence chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War returned to Cairo with another truckload of goods, $498 collected from campus dormitory fasting and 16 volunteer eager to get a first-hand look at the situation.
AT 1:30 P.M. they arrived at what used to be St. Columbia's Catholic Church, a scarred wooden building one block south of Caire's main street. They filed into the church, now used as headquarters for the front, and joined 22 slots inside.
Because Black United Front officials expressed concern for the safety of the visitors, the group from Kansas was unable to view much of the town and had no opportunity to talk with white residents. At 2 a.m. last Saturday 19 volunteers
They left at 2:30 a.m. to arrive in Cairo in time for an afternoon rally and religious gathering.
Draped in camouflage, fatigue and field jackets, the seven women and 12 men huddled among four cars and a van, lit cigarettes and spoke in low voices.
They agreed to travel the 419 miles to Cairo in convoy, to split the gas money and
HE CITED A SERIES of statistics and signed into the microphone. "There really is nothing I can do."
Outside, pre-teen-age, black boys clustered around the car, peering at back window.
"They shouldn't bring anything if they can't bring enough for everybody," said
“There is one distinguishing factor between this black community and any other in the country,” said Leon PAGE, city attorney on the front. “We’ve come too far to turn back.”
He talked about the self-imposed law enforcement within the black community of Cairo. "Today in Cairo the black folk are not afraid to speak out — we call our own people to solve them."
(Tomorrow: the other sides. The president of the Cairo Chamber of Commerce and a Presbyterian minister offer their views of the situation.)
After the veterans and local blacks unloaded the trailer and carried supplies into the church, black women served a covered-dish dinner to the Karsans.
Red China to Be Seated At Expense of Nationalists
The vote on the Albanian resolution was 76 to 35 with 17 abstentions. It put an end to a 22-year battle over China's U.N. representation, climaxed during past weeks by all-an-out U.S. effort to prevent the ouster of the Taiwan government.
Just before the vote the Chinese Nationalist delegation, headed by Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai, walked out of the meeting and said he would no longer be amended he would not participate further.
Until the end, the United States had predicted victory. The battle was lost, however, when the assembly defeated a coalition of Chinese in a pulsation of China an "important question."
The proposal would have required a two-thirds majority for expulsion of National China. It offered the only hope to resolve the Albanian resolution to Taiwan.
The "important question" resolution was defeated by a vote of 55 in favor, 99 against and 15 abstaining. With only a simple majority needed, approval of the proposal was assured since a similar proposal had received a 54 majority a year ago.
U. S. Ambassador George Bush, who had directed the strategy for the "dual representation" group, told newsmen after the assembly adjournment. "The United Nations crossed a very dangerous bridge tonight."
ADOPTION OF the Albanian resolution automatically killed a rival U.S. plan for "dual representation" which would have seated Peking in the U.N. and given the Chinese Communists China's permanent rule in exchange for a sole permitting the Nationalists to remain.
He said he had been surprised by the vote.
KU Discourages McColl
By GARY GREEN
Kansan Staff Writer
Two major problems confront the University of Kansas in the eyes of Robert W. McColl, associate professor of geography. The first concerns teaching. McColl raises the question as to whether the University wants to keep good teachers
and scholars or only scholars. He points out that two quality instructors, William professor of anthropology and James professor of sociology, have biology and last year's HOPE award winner, have decided to leave because of lack of support for what they are trying to do.
Robert W. McColl
The second problem concerns the graduate and undergraduate programs. There is talk, according to McColl, of a plan for an "independent KU all undergraduate." He opposes this move on the grounds that the graduate program is the basis for research. He also points out that the graduate students are not offered by the faculty and undergraduate students.
By 76 to 35 Vote
On the subject of grades, McColl思 that they will be a part of the University as long as they are demanded by both students and administration.
McCOLL WAS ATTRACTED to KU by the quality of the geography department. He admits now, however, that there is little that keeps him here.
"I am very discouraged with the
U.S. Kansas response and response
to good feedback."
"They are a measure of how the student is performing in relation to his peers," he
McColl has seen two visible changes in the student body since he came to KU in 1982. More than half of them are female.
for quality education by the students. The second change is a greater willingness to pay for courses.
That KU approximates a small college atmosphere as contrasted to a larger university is considered by McColl to be a major plus for the University. He thinks communication between faculty and students is greater because of this.
"These concerns are encouraging to me." he said.
"I feel that finals should review all courses in a meaningful way. I don't like the two-test method of getting a grade. There should be more tests," he said.
Finals are a farce if they cover just the last portion of a semester. McColl will be present.
STUDENT UNREST, in McColl's opinion, has not declined, it has just changed focus. He said the "revolutionaries" never used to try to work through the system. McColl thinks that they are trying to do this now.
"As a result of student unrest, a concern arose on the part of the students for the quality of good teaching," he said, adding that "the university was an encouraging aspect of the unrest.
McColl plans to work on some new teaching techniques and to try to get some of his colleagues to adopt some of them. He hopes to get a sabbatical for the next academic year to return to Asia for further work.
"I thought we would win and it would be very, very close," he said.
Bush said that he expected a very bad reaction from the American public but that he did not know what Congress would do.
Assembly President Adam Malik told the assembly he would notify the Peking government immediately. There were reports that some pro-Peking delegates already had been in touch with Red Shark, a representative of Albania said, however, he did not know when a Peking delegation would arrive to take over the Chinese seat.
Pakistani Ambassador Agha Shahi, one of the leading backers of the Albanian resolution, said, "We have entered a new era in international affairs. I would like to acknowledge that President Nixon's new victory is the victory factory. But it is a defense for any nation."
Before the key vote, the United States had won a preliminary contest on a motion to give the "important question" to grace priority in the vote on the ballot was 69-51 with 15 abstaining.
In Washington, the State Department said it would have no comment on the vote until Tuesday morning. There also was no comment from the White House.
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Correspondent Paints Bleak Picture of China
By RANDALL BECKER
Roderick, who has spent considerable time in Asia and accompanied the U.S. tennis team on its visit through the organization's lecture last month in Wooldrift Auditorium.
When President Richard Nixon makes his historic visit to Peking and mainland China, he will find a clean, but "subdued" city and a leader who looks like "an overstaffed district," according to John Merick, Associated Press correspondent.
During his trip he found Peking to be a drab and colorless city.
"Peking is a straight, subdued city," he said. "The town is laid out in straights. Their's is a work city. They go to work in the factories and rebel turns and goes against the grain."
Despite the poverty of the past, Roderick said, the city is now clean, with the help of Chairman Mao Tse-tung who has set up a special block to central sanitation and crime.
"THE CITY IS spottlessly clean," he noted. "It is astonishing to anyone who has seen the old China. It's done through organization."
Roderick paints an ene bleaker picture of the Chinese nation as a whole.
"China was poor, backward and ignorant," he said. "To live in China today is hardly a picnic. There are no luxuries. Bicycles have become small status symbols. Life is rigidly controlled. News is thoroughly censored.
"It's a unisex society. Men and women dress alike. There is no mini, no maxi and certainly no hot pants. Individualism is a dirty word associated with selfishness."
Since Mao has taken control, China has also become a one-class society, Roderick
"The rich and the poor societies have disappeared. One has been dismembered, and the other lower."
Roderick said Mao had been dancing with a girl with pig tails and with his tattered clothes, cloth hat and sneakers, looked rather like an overstuffed doll."
Nixon plans to meet with several Chinese leaders including Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. Roderick first met Mao at the time when Mao was just starting his revolution.
HE DESCRIBED Mao as a person with the air of a man who knew his own business.
"He had a massive quality about his head," he said.
John Roderick
"I somehow felt as if I was on trial," he recalled.
During his initial contact, Roderick said, Mao often paused to look into his eyes.
While Mao may still have these same qualities, Roderick said he had noticed during his trip with the table tennis team that he was as a "demagogue" has changed already.
"He recognizes that the Chinese people do need a leader," he said. "Yet there is greater confidence of the Chinese that they can create a legacy from heroic to human proportions."
"He maintains his position, but he is the first among equals now."
Roderick has also met Chou En-lai, whom he describes as a "courteous man," who always thought Chou was the best man the Chinese could have picked to convene with Nixon's personal consultant, Henry Kissinger, because of his negotiation relevance.
However, Nixon will not encounter a totally black nation. Rodermic said he had been impressed with Nixon's leadership.
"MAO WANTS to a spirit alive," he said. "He believes in men not machines.
On the trip Roderick saw "the same spirit of enthusiasm, and same intellectual joy."
"The Chinese Communists will accept any sacrifices, pay any price," he said.