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Monday, September 26, 1977
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Restore Oread area
A community that prides itself in its heritage would do nothing so shortsighted as allowing a significant portion of its history to rot. Unfortunately, the Lawrence community continues to ignore the school bounded by Ninth, 17th, Massachusetts and Missouri streets.
The city's newest neighborhood alliance, the Oread Neighborhood Association, probably would prefer that the area be politically called something like the "Oread at a glance," the more common term for jumbed, on foot along the eastern slope of Mount Oread is "the student ghetto."
Tottering houses, fading paint, tilted porches, piled garbage, cracked and overgrown sidewalks, jungles of foliage and uninterrupted rows of parked cars in warped problems. Determining how and why the area got that way, though, may be more complex.
SOME HAVE said the student unrest of the late 1660s, because it alienated the students from permanent Lawrence residents and city officials, helped speed the area's decline. But that seems to be only a contributing factor to a larger cause; greed.
Profit-blinded landlords eagerly filled the vacuum as more established property owners abandoned the neighborhood, and voluntarily exploited students flocked in. The landlords liked the economy of splitting while ignoring all but minimum repairs; students, naturally, liked the comparatively low rent.
Meanwhile, the area apparently was ignored when it came to enriched housing codes. City services grew sparse. A sorely deficient zoning ordinance allowed high-density housing without adequate off-street
parking_requirements. Hence, the blight worsened.
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THERE IS time to save the area before more irreplaceable older homes disintegrate, but the deterioration must be stopped.
If this is going to be done, the neighborhood association needs help.
Now, the residents in the Oread Neighborhood Association are justifiably demanding a livable neighborhood. The city has even made a tentative step toward reconciliation by designating the area as eligible for Community Development Act housing rehabilitation funds.
City government must realize the area's historic value, stringently enforce housing codes and work to solve garbage, weed, traffic and parking problems.
in partnership. Community Development Act funds are a good start. Long-term financial support, however, must come from commercial lenders, who should realize that preservation-minded homeowners will protect their investments and therefore deserve financing.
But perhaps most importantly, the students, because they make up an estimated 80 per cent of the area's population, must have to learn about and support bood's decline and support its revitalization.
Students should stop to think that moderate rent increases to pay for structural maintenance in older buildings will be financially and aesthetically unsatisfactory. They must do the squat, barracks-like modern fourplexes that threaten to flood the neighborhood as older homes disappear.
Student housing causes many of the area's problems and only with student participation can preservation and improvement be realized. The Oread Neighborhood Association deserves active student support.
Hillbillies lose to Probers on Lanceloot's fatal goofs
Washington Stadium is empty now. Only the stale aura of peanuts and defeat remains.
The Washington Hillbillies, hampered by the play of newcomer quarterback Bert Lance-lost, lost their season opener last week to a fired up Senate Probs team.
The press, on hand like flats at a barbecue, sensed it would be a fight to the finish. It was.
IN THE second quarter, Percy sacked Lancecelot numerous times before he was brought out, although officials thought Percy's play was fair, Lancecelot was called for illegal use of funds on several occa-
everyone knew it would be one of the biggest games of the season. Pregame excitement began stirring weeks ago. The pageant was filled with a seemed reminiscent of the famous Watergate Bowl of 1974.
Antagonism was in the air. A fight nearly erupted on the field when Percy tauced 'Lance-oot, you are the kind of a guy who would write a bad check to his mother.'
Early in the first quarter, Lancelot failed to score points several times because of turnovers and a poor pass. Each time, "Pighead" Percy, the heads-up Senate defensive back, was quick to pounce on Lancelot's mistakes, gaining an edge in position for the Senate team.
Rick
Tbaemert
Editorial Writer
Lanceoloid's anger intensified as the Senate cheerleaders chanted, "Blood makes the grass grow. Kill, kill, kill!"
As the half ended, Lancelot was being restrained by coach "Cliffy" Clark. Although most fans swear that Lancelot had no expression as he left that season, users thought he looked shaken.
A halftime pep talk by coach Clark and team owner "Chaw" Carter feebly attempted to raise spirits.
LABELLE'S Belles, the Hillbills' pom paon squad, tried their luck by shouting, "Bert, Bert, he's our man. If he can't do it, nobody can." Chaw joined in.
But spirits still slumped.
Even the fans appeared to be against the Hillbillies. A halftime electronic poll by a national network showed the fans to be in favor of Percy's Senate Probers.
Third quarter action brought a surprise play from the Hillbillies' bench. Lanceolot tried the airplane, explanation, and explanation. The team was not fooled. They stopped it as easily as a quarterback sneak.
The Senate clinched the game in the fourth quarter when a
rookie graduate from IRS intercepted a Lancelot pass intended for a tightwad-end from Georgia.
GEORGIA
THE SENATE scored. The gun sounded. Pride changed hands.
At the end of the game came a thousand and one summaries and analysis. It was a familiarention best itself with mistakes.
The Hillbillies' strong point, a well-balanced attack of honesty and ability, proved insufficient. They didn't have the poise that a championship team must have. Critics said Lancelot, especially, lost his cool under pressure. Real pros don't do
In a tearful locker room scene, Lancelot quit because his kind of playing could only hurt the team. The team is everything, he said. He wouldn't be a cleat in its side.
Carter, a personal friend of Lancelot, disagreeed with assessments from the press that friends and sports don't mix. He said no first round draft pick could ever match Lancelot.
As if things weren't bad enough, now comes word that the universe is predestined to collapse. Walter Sullivan of the New York Times News Service reported Thursday that theories that the universe was destined to expand forever are wrong.
But Carter isn't worried. He knows that on any given day, any team in the league can beat him. The difference depends on how the team plays.
Ignorance of cosmic end is bliss
Sullivan seems to be able to back up what he says, too, with not one, but two separatist studies that have reached the same conclusion.
These studies, by groups at Johns Hopkins University and the Hale Observatories of Caltech, provide one of the finite universe in different ways. One study used quasars and the other used brilliant, distant galaxies to measure expansion rates of expansion of the universe.
wouldn't you know it? Just as we were all around to sit back and watch, the world changed. World Series, secure in the knowledge that this old universe was going to go on and on forever, science changed its direction.
THE END of the universe is just one more of those certain disasters we can all expect to come to pass. A couple of generations ago, the only sure eventualities were death and taxes. People used to joke about them. How little they knew.
These days, an enlightened person could sit down and make a list of the bad things that are happening out of oil. We’re running out of water. The Social Security system is running out of money. San Francisco has been forced into the Pacific. The proverbial downhill racers,
Various statutes of limitations have been repeatedly extended in order that those war criminals who are apprehended may be tried and punished.
It behooved the Germans to
THE FEDERAL Republic has supported Israel with massive doses of aid, and though it calls for recognition of Palestinian rights in the been in support of Israel's right to exist.
Settlements to the families of German Jews who lost relatives, property or homes in the holocaust run into the hands of the Nazis in these cases. Although Iron Curtain countries where many Jews were persecuted refuse to allow settlements to be made, the German government has paid hundreds of people wherever they reside.
Then they throw in the clincher, an old scientific standby qualifier. It's all tentative, say he, need no to worry.
est quasar—these scientists make a pretty convincing case for their argument that old Earth is a terminal planet.
Last April, when most of us were enjoying springtime and the tulips were in bloom, the doomsday boys were hard at work. They were down at the White Sands Providing Gun Club, where a rocket that carried the largest optical telescope ever sent aloft in that manner. For six minutes, that telescope took a look at 3C273
ITS ENOUGH to think of "red shift" as changes in the politics of the Communist biosciences, but it also means that the term also refers to a shift of spectral lines in light toward the red end of the spectrum. We don't have to underestimate how it knows it doesn't sound promising.
In an endeavor to make right the times that will never be forgotten, the German has the credit, credibly generous, and continues to be, especially with the money of a generation that had nothing to do with and really about the horrors of the Nazi era.
Lynn Kirkman Editorial Writer
ing. These new studies are only the latest examples of scientific information we could get along without.
morals and morale, are neck and neck. The stock market may not be plummeting but it's certainly in a slump.
Guest Writer
A person could list all those things and more, if he wanted to. But what's the use? It's all downhill from here.
Germans rising above Nazi past
There seems to be some disagreement on whether galaxies change their brightness with age and just how that change takes place. Some scientists believe that stars get dimmer as they burn out. Others say that the stars that are faintest in the study grow brighter by swallowing neighboring galaxies. This is another of those dilemmas that science may resolve—in time.
After presenting detailed information about recession velocity, elliptical galaxies and red dwarfs are brightest and presumably near-
FROM THAT six-minute glimpse, the scientists were able to determine that the recession velocity of the quasar, compared with the star five extra decades old and a slowing rate that would end in the collapse of the universe.
By ANDY WARREN
Every now and then, researchers come up with some new bit of evidence that we'd probably be better off not know-
Because of the recent cloudburst of literature about the Hitler era in Germany and even some speculation about a revival of Nazism in that nation, I think it is not necessary of the German people and their nation. Suggestions that they may return to Nazism are patently ridiculous. Germany is one of the most creditable nations in the world, deserves recognition as such.
It all has something to do with a mathematical term, q zero, which determines the slowdown of data access 0.3, the universe is closed.
The White Sands people determined q zero to be 1. They say this indication is admitted tentative.
Either way, it looks like they've got us coming and going. The universe is probably finite and will eventually collapse. In a few billion years, it'll all be over.
The Hale Observatories group took a slightly different approach to the problem of the finite universe. They based their study on observations of 139 galaxies and came up with an implied slowing of 1,6 with an error margin of 0.4.
Life is one damned thing after another.
do all they could for the European Jews and other oppressed people. It is especially admirable that he have accrued to his people the current chancellor was 18 at the time the war ended.
THE CLOSEST thing to conservatism in Germany today would be thought of as an anti-democratic force. States. In fact, the greatest danger to German democracy, indeed to European democracy in general, comes not from the recent killings of the recent kidnapping of industrialist Hanns Schleyer graphically illustrates that point, as do the other half-dozen murders and kidnappings of significant German politicians and business leaders in the last year. The discovery of "hit man" Hanns Schleyer's influential German has heightened fears that there will be a general rise in terrorism.
Today, there is little danger of a Nazi resurgence. The only right wing organization that had enough followers to call itself a party, the National Democratic party, lost all its already insignificant electoral support in the late 1940s. At the time, the National Democratic party was an unrecognizably watered-down version of the Nazi party, but now even that is a dead issue.
This has, in turn, led to calls for increased internal security. Politicians, however, have eschewed these suggestions and the appearance of a police state, something Germany still fear.
Perhaps the German government has been too lenient with terrorists and, possibly, even members, who have enjoyed civil rights that members of the far right do not. Severe jail sentences await those convicted of anything resembling property graft or other violance of a dictatorship of the proletariat and the necessary
force for its implementation are guaranteed constitutionally. The idea of a Nazi parade through a middle class neighborhood like that planned for Skoki, III., and defended by the American Army would cause such a public uprush in Germany that swift and sure legal action would come immediately.
ALL OF the demands of the Maristis and Maist-influenced left wing groups have little appeal for the average German, and for good reason. Germany has the fourth highest standard of education in the wealthiest economy in the world. This results from its very productive workers, the fourth most prolific industry in the world and the third largest gross national product. The strong economic support of the German system, and Germans thus have one of the highest levels of general education anywhere. Civil
Ouinn hid facts in debate
To the Editor:
I saw Professor Quinn at the Humanities Program (IHP) discussion the other night. You know, I admire a man who refuses to debate with his opponents. It shows that here is a man who has something to hide and is afraid of what he always get nostalgic for a few years back when I see somebody try to stonewall, and I tell you, after seeing Quinn, I was nostalgic.
Opponents to the IHP say seven former IHP students are now in the United States monks in France. If so, that means that one per cent of the students who have gone through the IHP program are now in Trappist monasteries.
I'm sure that the rest of the University community holds true to the same standard as the 20,000 KU students, 200 of them should be
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AND WHAT'S true for KU must be true for MU and all the bigger BIG schools. If we go to college, then we can safely conclude that there are well over 1,000 Midwesterners, all former college students, now studying to抓捉ist pupil Imagine that.
overseas in Trappist monasteries! Imagine that!
What's true for Kansas must be true for the rest of the country. If we add all the Eastern students and all the Western students, then we can safely assume that there are thousands of students packed into Trappist monasteries, crowding one another from one mossy wall to the other. Imagine that!
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but what's this? What false words do I hear? A friend tells me that Trappin monasteries are nearly empty! They're crying out for novices? Novices have no newcomers to train?
But how can I ever put these two parts together? Where are they? How do we put them? Don't tell me they're back home drinking beer and hearing James Taylor sing, "Comma, comma, comma?" What's gone
IN **BLEAK** moments like these, we can only be grateful that the Integrated Humanities Program is doing its part to keep all the Trapapp monasteries in novice order. We can help it can get, and who cares that it's gotten with federal funds?
I heard a rumor that the administration is financing a study of former IHP students to count how many of them have
converted to Catholicism. This could be very bad news should the truth get out. Therefore, I have several practical suggestions.
This study will probably be done by telephone. The interviewer will call the former IHP who graduated from Catholic university converted to Catholicism?
To answer truthfully could be very dangerous. Therefore, the interviewer should strategy: When the interviewer pops the question, simply say right back into the mouthpiece, and decide to be a Monolon.
Then hang up. It's sure to work.
Once again, let's all do what we can to stop this rumor about the study the administration is planning.
liberties and social welfare are on high levels.
Kirk Condon 618½ W. 12tt
Politically, Germany has been one of the most cooperative nations of the world for many years of the European Economic Community (EEC). German repeatedly agreed to the selfish demands of the Deutsches Bund to the interest of European unity.
To this day, Germany tolerates policies which amount to a German subsidy of aling French, Italian and English cuisine. It is also true that the strong German economy has kept the EEC afloat.
WHEN EEC policies are not enough to keep other European economies viable, Germany goes the extra mile, buying millions in francs, lira and sterling (and recently dollars as well), or making purchases in loans to the Italian. In spite of its unemployment, which is growing to the highest level since the late 1940s, Germany has no intentions of sending home more than a million Turks, Greeks and Italians at all time, but work in Germany, sending most of their paychecks home. Last year; Germany's foreign aid package was bigger than that of the Communist world, and it was to the Eastern bloc countries that a long-term package of long-term credits was extended from 1974 to 1981.
Certainly the Germans had obligations to the world, and even if others do not consider themselves to be important literature detailing the Nazi period is unnecessary and becoming a frightful bore. The literature suggesting a return to Germany would be stupid and not very perceptive.
A small group of insane terrorists notwithstanding, Germany has a good government system. Wouldn't it be better to give 20 per cent of the world's nations a similar claim?
Andy Warren is a junior majoring in geography and political science.
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