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Friday. October 15, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Faculty Salaries
Higher salaries at other universities is not the primary reason for the faculty exodus from KU. At least 10% of students in his weekly column last Saturday.
But as James Koevening (until recently one of KU's most outstanding educators) told this writer Wednesday, "Quite frankly, if they would have raised my salary, I would have staved."
Dolph Simons drastically misrepresents the situation, Sadly enough, his quotes from the five anonymous ex-KU faculty members are now outdated. We want to know why they may have left in the early or mid-60s, when at least two of Simon's interviewees left.
And we know why they are leaving now. The prime reason is salaries. And in the next few years, salaries will be lower because of a role in the faculty exodus from KU.
The budget cuts that affected the 1971 school year came at a late date in the normal schedule of nationwide competition for faculty members. So it was too late for professors to start looking for new positions this fall. Despite that, one KU professor noted that in his 12-member department, all but three began searching for new jobs last spring.
And now there are even more KU faculty members looking elsewhere for jobs, and they will leave us soon, because they have made some substantial assurances that some increase requests will be granted this year and in future years.
A recent study conducted by Dr. A. Dale Allen, a Kansas State University associate professor of management and labor relations, shows that 50 per cent of the professors who responded said that they would leave their positions if they were unable to live living this year and next. And another 30 per cent said they might leave.
KU professors are certainly dedicated to this institution, but dedication doesn't pay the rent. James Koevening was one of our most brilliant students, and he couldn't be expected to turn down a salary raise in excess of $4,000.
Nor will other professors be able to turn down substantial raises. Academicians, contrary to what some legislators and newspaper editors believe, don't always have their heads in the clouds.
The simple fact is that KU faculty salaries rank very low among the major universities of this nation. And we can't keep our good faculty when other universities can offer them substantial salary increases
Yes, our Legislature and our Governor are almost solely responsible for the growing faculty exodus from KU. Yes, we need to look at other causes, but money is the major cause now.
Docking and the men in the statehouse are in the driver's seat now. They will decide whether our course will be uphill or downhill.
—Pat Malone
By DAVID BARTEL
Kansan Editor
The Editor's Column
Hate mail always disconnects me. Particularly when its author ignores facts and distorts an issue to suit a personal viewpoint.
In Wednesday's Kansan a Letter to the Editor was printed attacking the Kansan as an "improper use of student activity fees." It was written by Karen Evans.
The vehement of Mrs.
Evans's letter astonishes me. Its
motivation mystifies me. Its
distortions anger me.
1) KU students do NOT "donate" $40,000 "each year to the School of Journalism to finance the apprenticeship of J-School students on the UDK." The student body pays $40,000 a year for subscriptions to the Kansan.
In Defense of Our Existence
TO ENUMERATE the distortions of Mrs. Evans's letter:
This $40,000 goes to the Kansas Board and is less than one third of the Kansas' total operating budget of about $151,700. The fund from advertising and from subscriptions outside the University.
The faculty of the School of Journalism does not control this money. In fact, the faculty has no access to it or influence over its spending. The Board, which is 50 per cent students, has complete and total power in handling all of these funds.
2) The School of Journalism does NOT require work on the Kansan for graduation. Students in reporting, editing and ad-hoc writing are required to be a newspaper as a laboratory experience, but this is not required
work. Any student who objects to working on the Kansan can complete a journalism degree and foot in the newspaper's offices.
However, journalism students in reporting, editing and advertising classes form the core of their studies. They would not could not operate without them. And journalism students in these classes receive the live experience that is essential to enjoy a day-to-day profession of journalism.
KANSAN WORK is not required, but for a journalism student to go through the school without ever working for the Kansan seems to me the same as a medical student going through the Med Center without ever working in law or a law student going through law school without ever going to court.
3) We may be writing 'so that the average high school graduate' can understand us, but if so, it is not a conscious holding of what to do the best we can. We say what we have to say in our own words.
4) The Kansan is NOT "governed by a faculty-controlled board." The Kansan Board has three students and three faculty members. By my arithmetic, that is a 50-50 shift.
SINCE THE Student Senate passed a resolution last spring calling for changes in the Kansas Board's composition, the board's structure has been a point of much consideration.
The Senate called for increased student representation to bring the Kansas's $40,000 allocation of grants as required by Senate regulations.
Charles Oldfather, the University attorney, ruled after
Readers Respond
Kansan; Comanche; Boys ...
To the Editor;
More Gay Lib...
I am writing in reaction to several weeks ingestion of published letters on Gay Liberation. These writers have complained about this organization as an assailant and arguments that strike one as highly superfluous and in avoidance of the real issue.
Primarily, I'm amazed at the ridiculous arguments brought against the Student Senate's Gay Lib. Can these people seriously equate the denial of the sexuality of James Taylor to the grounds of homosexuality with such trivial matters as the difficulty in obtaining James Taylor marriage.
Are these people actually naive enough to believe that the discursive Gay Labyrinth Gay Lib by the Chancellor and the Reams is regularly based on purely sexual grounds or not on heterosexual prejudice?
Can these people who speak so derogatorily of Gay Lib really be discriminated against by a blatant discrimination suffered constantly by homosexuals in their civil rights and social status? Or can they not prefer their sexual preferences.
Those people who so grudgingly let go of funds for a just cause are going to have to leave. So students must always do Student Senate must constantly allocate funds to special interest groups and has always done so. But are homosexuals such a separate group that aid to them in their pursuit of sexual benefit us all? I think these other writers would be hard put to deny that the fight for recognition (which is everybody's right) and a development of tolerance in order not to set the best policy for everyone.
Mark Zimmermann, Lawrence sophomore
Comanche's Stand...
To the Editor:
If the horse Comanche was "The sole survivor of all the forces in Custer's Last Stand, the Battle of the Little Bighorn" Horseman who died among those dians who won the battle--strike? rocks? vegetations? non-persons? The children of those Indians are today's American citizens, and they participate in part of their history and our lives. They see that battle with more clarity than did your staff writer (Peg Riley, Oct. 7 page) one or the museum personnel who are the ones who knew that Custer was one of the greedy and vicious types who inhabited the armed services of the 19th century; he wanted to make his hand against by slaughtering Indiana.
Little Big Horn was such an institution and the Museum of War in the United States exhibit about that battle, the history should be full and acclimatized.
As a cavalry mount, Comanche was not responsible for Custer's morals; and, as a symbol of a great battle, he merits the popular attention that he had in the military museum should exhibit truth rather than comfortable prejudice.
The Sioux that he pursued were acting lawfully and peaceably, but he was intent on a battle and he got one. History does not offer evidence of the violence which evil receives in just deserts, but the Battle of the
To the Editor
Murray L. Wax Professor of Sociology
Edit Praised...
I read with great interest your editorial "Genocide in Pakistan" which appeared on Oct 11 In response to the position of truth and therefore it was brilliant, Mr. Tom Slaughter deserves congratulations for bringing out editorially the best piece of work times to the notice of the academic community. Certainly it has generated a new awareness of the law concerning the Lawrence concerning the genocide and subsequent events which led to the fleeing of more than eight million people from eight countries.
-Kakkanattu Joseph,
Graduate Student in
Radiation Biophysics
approach issues such as the Gay Liberation Front and consider both sides, weigh the facts, and sound, "intelligent" decision.
If you want to follow your Bible path—"Love the neighbor is a good start." This commandment requires you to "love" physically, "love" your neighbor, nor does it say to hide in your house and "love" from afar. It means-be concerned with people who desire to understand the riffs and problems which concern everyone daily. Seek to separate harmful rumor from truth and seek out evidence of D
Roderick A. Hardy Graduate Student East Asian Studies
Dean Speaks...
A decision to change concentrations upon entering the building will require a record with a person's long held expectations. For example, an engineering student may want a role in responsibilities in a technically
Although students change major folds when they begin their graduate studies, they do not lower the portions of the educational system are failing to prepare the students for the decision as to
I am writing to modify an opinion attributed to me in Terry Shipman's article on the Graduate School, Friday, Oct. 10.
To the Editor:
Clifford D. Clarl Dean of School Of Business
Kansan Praised...
oriented business or industry. Study of engineering followed by graduate work in business administration would meet requirements for such a student. Working with many students to begin graduate work immediately rather than to follow their first choice of gaining work experience before returning to
To the Editor:
In the Oct. 12 issue, Karen Evans seems to take offense at the $0,000 allocated to the Kanan, claiming that the paper does not serve the students. I'm afraid that she may find a high percentage of the students oppose her views, myself among them.
The students of this University, in order to function properly in today's world, must have the knowledge of the issues, which extend far beyond opinions; this cannot be done unless a student has a knowledge of the issues, which extend far beyond opinions. In my opinion, the UDK amply provides this knowledge. Indeed, when the reporting is compared with those of Lawrence's local daily, there is very little, if any, contest in it.
As for the 'orientation of the paper': nowhere do I recall the UDK claiming to be on the in-depth list. Unfortunately. Miss Evans, there are students who do not speak in polysyllabic words, and they might find it difficult to comprehend such language. If the paper is to serve the purpose of teaching, I understand by all of the students.
Do you feel that we should do away with the UKB and take on the URL? Are you sure you'll find that, even by group subscription rate, the URL is not safe?
$40,000 a year, and you'd be getting basically the same news, just written up elaborately and arriving a day later.
the Senate resolution was passed that changes in the Kansan Board must be approved by both the Senate and the faculty of the School of Journalism because it is both a student newspaper and a laboratory for journalism He carefully noted that less than a third of Kansan funding comes from the student activity fee.
My point is that the Kansan team serves the students and is fully equipped to conduct it, allocated to it. I find the reporting to be as competent as any metropolitan newspaper, the best of the general, the entire paper to be both informative and enriching, and enlightening, vided by "Griff and the Unicorn". I hope the Kansan maintains its present standards
Now, the journalism faculty and Senate leaders are reviewing and discussing the Board's composition in an attempt to see what changes should be made, what changes should be created and what their effect will be.
To the Editor:
THE SENATE is concerned that the Kanasan is "faculty-controlled." The faculty is concerned that the Kanasan will become "Senate-controlled," or "governmental" clark school of political politics.
As a comment on the present university atmosphere, it might be hard to imagine a general consensus of stadium section 38 that was Vern Miller was going to pop out of the arena and bust and bust the boys in the band.
Boys In Band...
Perhaps both concerns are justified. Both must be avoided. As the editor, I hope the situation will be resolved in favor of the group that has any real interest in them—the readers, the student body.
Bob Van Sickle,
Topeka Senior
Whack Whack...
To the Editor:
The allegation made by Mrs. Evans that the Karsan does not serve the student body is the one that most disturbs me. "The UDK serves itself." Mrs. Evans says.
ODE TO BILLY JACK
I've been canvassing thoroughly Urbany and rarely been forced to conclude:
That many Caucasians Of several persuasions
The question of whom we—the Kanans—serve is one well worth pondering and I have often done so. In a discussion with Student Body President David Miller I was asked, "Shouldn't the Kanans be responsible to someone besides the editors?"
This popular sentiment
Glen Cove has made
I had to discover its
source: ITS a justice possessor
Confessor professor,
freaks on the job.
MY REPLY are, and still is,
that we ARE responsible to
someone besides ourselves.
We are responsible to you, our
readers. We print the news you
make as accurately as we can,
and the letters you write and
to respond to the options you
present.
Whack Whack Billy Jack
—Peter Frevert,
Associate Professor of
Economics
We try to give you a package of campus news each morning telling what happened yesterday.
what is happening today and what will happen tomorrow. It is a package you can get no where in life. You're responsible we do not take lightly.
We are not perfect. From time to time—too often it seems to me—we misspell names, turn a girl into or misquote what someone said.
WE ARE NOT perfect. But with all our flaws, I think we do a good job. We report the news fairly and honestly. We grant no money to the group. The Karsan editorial page is open to any opinion on any topic
Partial evidence that we are an uncompromisingly independent newspaper doing the job we should be doing is the namecalling directed at me this semester. I have been labeled from "a lackey of the administration" to "a radical weerdo."
from any person.
As long as both sides are screaming I am comfortable. As long as both sides are screaming, the Kansan is no man's weapon you can trust what you read here and believe we are serving you.
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To the Editor:
I am quite sure Miss Raab that you will recall that the Bible was also used during the Spanish Inquisition for handy excuses for his crimes against those whose beliefs did not parallel the "great" thoughts of such Biblical "leaders" as Paulit I am sure that Hitler also knew how to misrepresent Semitism program from the Bible. What God said (if he exists at all) has yet to be heard! Our priests, pastors, etc. mimick the greatest of court jesters when they read the Bible as quotes from God!
If this Bishalist stand is an indication of your education so far, I would say that you have a long way to go. Any fool can quote you and be sure of it. My her stand. It takes someone who is perceptive and concerned to
Regarding the Biblical reply by Miss Rabb against the Gay Lib Front.
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff.