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University Daily Kansan, October 1, 1981
Opinion
Smile,we're on TV
Well, at last things are going right for KU football fans. The Jayhawks have started the year with an encouraging 3-0 record—a treat in itself for those who remember entire seasons with fewer wins—and they have proved that they can rally with or without Kerwin Bell.
But wait, things get even better. On Saturday, the KU-Arkansas State game will be regionally televised by ABC, giving others a chance to see what the Big Blue can do. And this isn't just Kansas and Missouri we're talking about. The broadcast area also will include Oklahoma and parts of eight other states.
Of course, several changes have to be made to accommodate ABC, not the least of which is moving the game from 1:30 p.m. to 11:30 a.m. But hey, that's a small price to pay. Think of the pageantry, the
excitement, the extra coverage, the big bucks.
Does this mean we students should be on our best behavior? Should we dress up? How about if we all just wear red and blue? That would look pretty impressive on the tube. And don't forget that Saturday is also Parent's Day, which could create problems. All students should make concerted efforts to keep close ties on their parents. The last thing we need is a bunch of unruly moms and dads making us look like some podunk school in the middle of wheat country.
Actually, it's nice that the Jayhawks are being rewarded for their record, and KU should be proud of them whether or not they leave Memorial Stadium as victors on Saturday. Of course, with all those people watching, it would look a lot better if we won.
Fans of science-fiction show now re-entering Twilight Zone
No way was I going to miss the Monday night premiere of this television show. I even set my watch alarm, so I wouldn't forget to turn on the TV set.
It's not as if I am so addicted to the tube that it completely controls my life. But this show is special. This show is a classic.
Finally, 20 years since its original broadcast,
"Twilight Zone" is back.
Certain cable television subscribers have been fortunate enough to see the program. However,
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no local commercial station had broadcast it until this week.
Kansas City's channel 41 has bought the rights to show all 134 half-hour programs. Each weekday night, "Twilight Zone" fans will be able to enter the "fifth dimension."
Vans of "Glen Hospital" or "Star Trek"
fans like "Green Zone" fanatics will make
you look like novices.
"GH" followers buy T-shirts with the show's name emblazoned across the front and know exactly what's happening to each character. Avid Trekles flock to the science fiction show's conventions and dutifully memorize the identification numbers of the starship Enterprise.
But these fans' enthusiasm pales in comparison to "Twilight Zone" fans' love of their
It's been two decades since the program was on the air, but many "Twilight Zone" fans can still watch it.
One fan will ask another if he remembers the program in which a former mental patient sees a monster ripping apart an airplane's wing, but no one believes him.
Then the other fan recounts his favorite show about the diner owner who really is an alien with a mind of its own.
Another fan might tell about the episode in which an eccentric and vindictive old man wants to make all evil people three feet tall. In the end, he's the one who becomes three feet tall.
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is a favorite episode remembered by many fans. In this story, aliens plan to overtake the country by storming down from another that they start attacking their neighbors.
However, memories seem to get somewhat taceless when recalling technical aspects of the program.
Even though some TV shows in the early '60s were in color, "Twilight Zone" episodes were filmed in black and white. The program's sets, production techniques and special effects seem crude and amateurish in today's world of laser beams and satellites.
Also, "twilight Zone" was not that popular during its four years on the air. It never finished in the top 25 rated shows. Westerns, however, kept viewers home at night.
Although the viewing public wasn't overtly enamored with "Twilight Zone," the TV industry liked it. The program's creator and principal script writer, Rod Sering, won two Emmys for winning achievement in drama, and the program won an Emmy for outstanding cinematography.
The actors never received awards, possible because there were no series regulars. But the list of those who performed in the program looks like a "Who's Woj" of "Hollywood today"–Robert Redford, William Shatner, Cloris Leachman, Art Carney, Peter Falk and Telly Savares.
"Twilight Zone" is a special program.
It doesn't matter that the show is technically characteristic, characteristic surprise endings are already押着你.
The program is special because there won't be any more episodes produced similar to the "Twilight Zone" *"Twilight Zone"* is like an extinct species. Extinct animals, playing forever in its own fifth dimension.
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Budget director David Stockman says the federal government can no longer support all those liberal Great Society poverty programs. He advises us to turn them all over with those proved years ago how well they could handle such issues as slavery and paper currency.
It's about time
High time Great Society bit the dust
The word from Washington is that the Great Society's days are over.
Yes, kiss the Great Society goodbye, embalm it and throw it off the continental shelf, I say. Our leaders from Roosevelt's time have been misreading the American public and turning our democratic state into a welfare state. The constitutional concept of "promoting the general welfare" has become the national goal.
Well, poverty's certainly not an economic problem. In a free-enterprise society like ours, you get what you pay for. And if all you're willing to pay for is a rat-infested, drafty old tenement, then that's what you'll get. Look at all the nice new suburban homes going unsold simply because the poor are too stingy to fork over the money for them.
The more I think about it, the madder I get that this country has been run for decades at the whim of the poor. All we ever hear about is this great poverty problem. How it's an economic tragedy and all that. Poverty, poverty, poverty!
The Great Society, you see, is based on a wild misconception that we Americans are a generous people. I don't know where a crazy rumor like that gets started, but it clearly has no basis in fact. I'll just bet it's the poor who are starting those rumors.
Still, all the leftists running this country want us to sympathize with all these whiny poor people. "It is the duty of the economically advantaged to help the economically disadvantaged," we are told. So what are we asked to do? Give'v handouts.
But did you ever try feeding one of those starving stray dogs that wander around with their ribs sticking out? Tell me, what happens?
They hang around expecting you to feed 'em again, that's what happens. And that's exactly what the poor are doing these days; keep coming around, pestering us to feed them.
Why is it the poor these days are so much more special than the poor in years past, who
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knew their place and silently endured their hunger and didn't riot or anwine?
And I do speak from experience on this subject. After all, I've been hungry, too. Once, I found myself at lunch time without any money, and I'd left my Zip card at home. But did I hang around the Burger King counter? Yes. He hyer, mister, gimme a buck fifty for a cheese burger"**I**. I went hungry that day, and I was damn proud to do so!
Let's cast aside all emotional appeals and look at this poverty situation objectively for a moment. The poor get everything. They get the government benefits—Medicaid, food stamps, etc. They don't even pay taxes. Yet what do we taxpayers get? Audited, that's what!
And some people follow this mistaken notion that the poor are poor because they don't have any jobs. True, in this country, if you don't work, you don't eat. And if you don't work, you don't eat. They can't lazy or rich, and the poor aren't rich. I'll leave it up to you to figure out what the poor are.
After all, if they really wanted jobs, they'd go out and get them. Just look at all those want ads in the back of this paper. If the poor would just off their duffs and become aerospace engineers and data programmers, they'd be earning their way for a change. But do they see it like that? No, it's always complain, complain, complain.
Now, with the dismantling of the Great Society, we can get back to the Mediocre Society. For the American dream is as valid now as it was 50 years ago. You work hard, you advance. Look at how hard the Hunt brothers worked to corner the silver market. Or how hard John D. Rockefeller IV campaigned to become governor of West Virginia. They didn't take the easy way out and accept food stamps; they worked hard.
So all you poor people, listen up: Go get jobs as lifeguards, then become radio broadcasters, then go to Hollywood and make a bunch of movies. Invest your money wisely and buy ranches until you can run for an office that pays $200,000 a year.
Yes, the facts about poverty may not be pretty, but the facts are clear: The poor could solve their own problem in 70 years. They obviously have too many kids, which just continues the cycle. So if they'd just abstain for a generation or so, they'd all die off and entire poverty issue would be painless solve their problems, but kids they can't even support. The poor can't take a tip from the rich, who have abortions instead of kids, thank goodness.
Our own president is a shining example too the poor to follow. He started out good, too, but did he whine about it? No, he went out and, through honest labor, made good.
r maybe we should just let 'em rot.
Work, not welfare, is the answer for the poor.
Thank God someone in authority has finally figured that out!
To the Editor:
Letters to the Editor
With all the heavy-duty problems facing us these days, you might wonder why anyone would
Early-morning whistle a headache for many
worry about the sounding of the KU steam whistle. I tell you.
Sometimes our minds just become overloaded with all those heavy-duty problems and we need some slep e. Fat chance. Every weekday morning at 7:30 and every Saturday morning at 7:20; 8:20 and 9:20, many residents of Lawrence are rudely awakened by this whistle's blow.
It is a simple fact that the whistle is unnecessary. Most universities do just fine without one. But that fact alone doesn't count; we are surrounded by many things we could do without. We don't need the sound produced by the whistle cannot be many of the residents who live close to campus.
But we can have our tradition and sleep, too. A 7:20 a.m. sounding should not be needed to mark the end of a non-existent 6:30 a.m. class, and because the number of people who may benefit from Saturday soundings (at the expense of those who are disturbed) is relatively few, it seems quite reasonable to limit tradition to Monday through Friday, beginning at 8:20 a.m.
With any luck, and some cooperation from the folks in charge, we'll have a whistling compromise worked out in no time. Then we'll be ready to go back to work, and deserve it rather than on those that demand it.
Scott Jamieson
Scott Jamieson Lawrence graduate student
Controlling Ma Bell
To the Editor:
It has come to my attention that the Bell Telephone System has decided to press for a bill that will allow that company to blast charges for the phone services it charges, works such as MCI. The largest single expense
for these companies is the fee Bell charges for the hook-ups.
A bill pending before the Senate Commerce Committee, S. 898, would allow the Bell System to effectively double the rates charged for hooking up these new, private long-distance companies to the local Bell networks. This would eliminate the cost of hiring by the private companies to businesses and companies, such as myself and, of course, many other University of Kansas students.
Bell already has a licensed monopoly on most local phone systems, and it does not seem right that Congress should allow Bell to price out competitive long-distance companies. I am not baltic's great fan, and I certainly don't want to buy Bell's business if the distance companies plucked from my hands by a company sponsored by Bell. It's time some people started exercising their right to hang up on Ma Bell.
Matt L. Butler
Omaha, Neb., senior
Women not a minority
To the Editor:
Regarding your Sept. 24 editorial, "Era of Good Feelings," one correction is in order
The last sentence of the article reads, "There are plenty of good women, and members of other minorities, where she came from." This implies that Justice O'Connor and all other women are members of a minority, when actually women make up 53 percent of the American population.
By my statistics, 53 percent constitutes a majority.
Kimberly Roembach
Prairie Village senior