4 Tuesday, August 30, 1968 / University Daily Kansan Opinion THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Extra day makes fee paying easy come, easy go process Twelve minutes flat. A student beamed he recounted how long it took to pick up his enrollment card, get his scholarship check and pay tuition. For many of the 28,000 students who returned to KU last week, the fee payment process was a pleasant surprise. The endless lines that were common in the past at Hoch Auditorium and in the Kansas Union had shrunk. A new three-day fee payment period was the reason. Last February, University officials decided to lengthen the two-day fee payment period so they would have more time to work with students who encountered problems. The most nagging problem was trying to track down missing or delayed financial aid checks. Officials realized that they could not do much to speed up the arrival of the checks, but by adding a day to the process, they could spend more time working with students to try to pinpoint the reasons for the delays. The idea worked. The idea worked. Not only did students and officials have more time to straighten out the problems, the change also spread out the number of students paying fees on each day. It's easy to take pot shots at those who run fee payment. Nearly everyone has been frustrated by some aspect of the process, be it a missing scholarship check or a parking hold. People don't often notice when things run well. But things ran well last week. It was a nice way to start the school year. Michael Horak for the editorial bc Media off-target on Qualye Media hype is overshadowing the issues in the controversy surrounding vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle. Rarely has so much time and effort been spent saying so little. From the moment George Bush announced that Quaile would be his running mate, the press has done its duty by uncovering questions about Quaile's background: Did he avoid combat in Vietnam by joining the National Guard, and did he blame himself for it? But the press has formed the hopes of hype without answering those questions or getting to the heart of the matter. The big issue in the Vietnam question is if Quaily ducked combat by joining the National Guard, how can he stand by his hawkish policies? Instead of addressing that question, we hear conflicting reports about vacancies in the Guard. We also see mobs of reporters hounding Quaily and staking out his driveway, but we don't hear anyone ask vital questions. The other half of the Qauyle controversy is seeder. The unproven story — a woman lobbyist and model says Qauyle, a married man, wanted to have sex with her during a Florida golf trip — has been reported as gospel truth. This campaign dirt, in the same vein as rumors about Gov. Michael Dukakis' mental health, has been pumped for all its worth by the media. In the case of Gary Hart's impropriety, the facts backed up the story. But in Quayle's case, the unfounded story of flirting in Florida doesn't deserve the screaming headlines it has gotten. The press needs to answer the question of what really happened. If that can't be done, the issue shouldn't be dragged through the mud any longer. Hype is clouding news judgment and issues in this campaign. The role of the press not only is to uncover questions, but to inform voters about the issues. Julie McMahon for the editorial board The editorials in this column are the opinions of the editorial board Electoral board senior counsel to Todd Cressen, Michael Mercier Michael, Herman Hahn Mark Tidell John Adam, Christian Mattheus Christian, Marissa Maiman and Tony Bastianelli. The bond meets a weekly to determine the amount of the payment. 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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the University Daily Kansan, 118 Staffer First Hall, Lawrence, Kan. 60405 Highway robbery for fun, profit Textbook shopping can be almost as painless as slow torture On the way to my adviser's office in order to change my major, I thought that as a public service to students who have not yet met their major, I'd be happy to offer a partial list of textbooks at their actual prices, so you can understand why I want my major to be Operating Your Own Student Book - "Principles of Corporate Finance" (Third Edition) by Brealeay and Myers, $44.95. It would help to know some of these principles ahead of time so you could afford to buy the book. ■ "Geography: Regions & Concepts" (Fifth Edition) by De Blij Muller, $9.95. At that price, I am afraid the number of college graduates who can find Vietnam on a map won't be going up significantly in the next few years. Oh, by the way, the accommodation study guide will set you back £3.80. "Introductory Nutrition" by Helen Guthrie, $30.00. Using the 25 different coupon books handed to me on my way to the Union, I can buy six coupons at the store. The delivery person for the price of this volume. *Safety: A Personal Focus* by David Beaver $90 1.00; no price is prior to time. **Dementia Care:** $45 1.00. - "Portable Video: ENG and EFF" by Medloz and Tanquery, $33.55. No, your own personal ENG camera and editing deck are not thrown in with the deal. Bill Kempin Staff columnist - "Fundamentals of Chemistry 3/E with Qualitative Analysis" by Brady Holum, $0.35. The chemistry textbook includes the price and taught me the only two fundamentals of chemistry I needed to know: Never mix anything red with anything green, and don't eat any substance that turns you pink or black when you pour it into your arm. could be satisfied with a $10 Red Cross manual and a box of Bant-Aids. "Bushido-The Warrior's Code" by Inazo Nitobe. $6.50. It occurred to me that one reason most textbooks cost and arm and a leg might be that the demand for these publications is extremely limited, and the only way these books can make money for their authors and publishers bookstore staff is through books without form of the class that requires "Bushido," wouldn't logic dictate that the minuscule demand for this book would launch its cost to the stratosphere? Apparently not. It's a second example "Plutarch's Laws," translated by John Dryden, $12.00. I don't know anything about Plutarch or Plutarcher but this hardcover checks in at 1399 pages, and it costs less than I cent a page. Compare it with the book "Too much for money," at more than 17 cents a page. Too bad Plutarch wasn't a television instructor. "Mass Media Research" by Wimmer and Dominick, $7.95. I couldn't wait to plunk down 37 bucks to find out why four times a year Channel 5 wins the p.m. ratings. Channel 4 wins at 6 p.m., Channel 9 is tops at 6 p.m., and Channel 5 is the best at 10 p.m. in the Nielsen ratings. There's also "Basic Engineering-Circuit Analysis" for $35.35; "Commercial Law" for $40.70; "Miscellaneous" for $18.75; "Music Cost" $87.75; the Klepper's Advertising Procedure" costing a mere $44.00. There is a bright spot in all this. At the end of the semester, when this desperately broke student trudges through the cold December snow to sell his textbooks worth a king's ransom back to the powers that be. I will be able to afford Christmas gifts for my children, and I am in law, two grandmothers, two uncles, three aunts, six cousins and one the professor who didn't require a textbook in his class. Bill Kempin is a Lawrence graduate student in journalism. Voice of experience of beer. Bib it the experience of, facts learned in the school of hard knocks, or whatever, a one-time student, reflecting on his own mistakes and how to make something that would help current students. Might it be all bumsed up in a few words. Students study the personal and few words they follow on their laptops along pretty good. We all need to remember that we'll have to live with ourselves for a long time. The good news is that fewer students are smoking cigarettes. It used to be the "in" thing. Now it isn't. That's good. A recent national survey, to no one's surprise, revealed that present-day employers aren't hiring cigarette smokers... Don't be pressured into believing that to be a College student you have to drink beer. You don't. Thousands of students never touch it and never become alcoholic. Yes, it is an alcoholic beverage, any way you dress it up, and it is a known fact that alcohol warrants your admission and probation judgment. Avoid it and you'll never have to pay a DWI fee. A dozen or more students, once their parents' pride and joy, aren't with us today. During the past two years they've died in car crashes, full Each year a few athletes have to learn the hard way that if they're to make the team, make their grades and stay eligible, they can't waste time following the crowd to a beer joint. scarcely a daily newspaper is printed without reporting a fatal accident that occurred at two or three o'clock in the morning. Alcohol is always involved. Too often, innocent people die. It too may sound exciting to be out propping around in the woo hoo house. Your love for your courage isn't, neither for you nor for your grieving parents. Spending the rest of your life in a wheelchair isn't exciting, either. It can be assumed that all students know the campus speed limit is 20 mph, and most downtown streets, 30 mph. And that state laws require the use of turn signals on all turns and lane changes. There are no exceptions. And that getting where we are going, safely, is more important than seeing how fast we can get there. Thomas C. Ryther fessor Emeritus of journalism Listener's choice? To many students, coloring books are more accessible than Shakespeare or Sartre. And now that it has become commercially available from KJH, it then used to be. Never mind that the Lawrence listener can hear Aerosmith and Whitney Houston on a handful of commercial radio stations up and down. oany other students, however, turn on college to hear something more interesting than the bile that Lawrence taught us to the bile that he used them. Before its format changed, KJHK satisfied him. What's next? Will the DJ's at JKHJ be forced to yap at us before the song is over about what hot new power hit next? Mark Duran Frustrating change As a recent University of Kansas graduate and long-time JKHJ disc jockey, I would like to comment on the format change that is now beginning to come into effect. It is frustrating to me and others who have helped KJHJ to build a national reputation by daring to play music by independent artists, many of whom been well-known, to now be brought into a generic rock station that caters to commercial limits the music that is allowed to be played. our station is this hapening? Sure it is important for why to have as many listeners as possible. The fact is that there are already at least 10 area stations that play commercial music and offer powerful equipment, and it is dofful that KJHK will gain many new listeners with his approach. Possibly part of the reason for the format change is political. Some of the faculty in charge of JKHR's programming would probably love to put it on a list of acceptable representations that pour out those endless love songs. Those listeners who are frustrated with this major format change should take the time to show up at the first general meeting of KKM on 6 p.m. tonight to become aware of the diverse range of people that can be let it know there really is a need for a 'sound alternative.' Rick Sheridan Lawrence resident BLOOM COUNTY bv Berke Breathed