Page 4 University Daily Kansan, August 26, 1981
Opinion
Up the hill slowly
Looks like Chancellor Budig is fighting an uphill battle already. In his inaugural address on Monday, Budig stressed that his fundamental concern for the University was "the issue of adequate compensation for our faculty and staff," and he has promised to push for a Regents-approved 13 percent salary increase in the Kansas Legislature. Considering his background, he hoped we had the man to do the job.
But also on Monday, even before Budgi had a chance to fight, State Sen. Paul Hess announced that the 13 percent figure was "out of the realm of possibility." Anything above 8 percent would be tolerable, he said, although falling below that would be "disappointing."
Disappointing? More like disastrous. When Acting Cancellor Del Shankel presented KU's budget requests to the Board of Regents this summer, he requested a 17 percent increase in faculty salaries and fringe benefits. During the
past academic year, he reported, 42 faculty members left KU, and 21 of them said inadequate salaries were their chief reason for deserting the ship. Who can blame them? The 7 percent raise they got from the Legislature last spring will barely keep pace with inflation these days, much less provide incentive for teachers to stay on and work enthusiastically in their chosen fields.
Offering decent faculty salaries is the most basic of prerequisites for retaining a well-qualified teaching staff, which in turn reflects on the integrity of a school. The governor and the Legislature must begin taking this issue seriously if the University is to have any hope of continuing to be a respected state institution.
And if Budig really harbors hopes of KU becoming one of the top 10 state universities in the country, he will have to do quite the selling job to the powers that be. We can only hope they will give him a chance.
Brother gets words of advice for surviving freshman year
Monday marked the beginning of my junior year at al' KU. I'd nearly forgotten the confusion that seemed to haunt me through most of my first semester as a freshman.
but the memories (some of them might be more appropriately called nightmares) flooded back as I helped my brother Tom move assigned belongings into Pearson Schol Hall.
Now if I'd been the thoughtful, generous sort of sister into which Mother always hoped I'd evolve, I suppose I'd have taken more time to realize how much I should college at KU, particularly the first semester.
Of course, as Tom will attest, that's not the kind of sister I am.
But if a burst of inspiration were to sucess,
come over me, I might drop him a note. Perhaps
something like this:
Dear Tern
Well, you should have had your first taste of college classes by now—notice I say 'should
REBECCA
CHANEY
have." If you're already cutting classes, I hold little hope for the rest of the semester and you can ignore the rest of this letter.
I thought you might appreciate a few bits of useful information garnered during the past two years. Follow this advice closely and you can tell Mother to forget the pre-packaged "survival kits" she'll be hearing about in the mail—ask for the cash instead.
Then again, you survived enrollment without the benefit of summer orientation or my excursion (although you who vacations for three months may never walk). Our Work deserves little empathy in the first place.
Actually, having coped with the hassle of enrollment from the beginning, you should be able to manage the rest without too much difficulty.
The key to surviving at KU is learning to understand and live with the system. You are not the student body president, the son of a rich and influential alumnus or even a Kansan columnist, and you probably won't be able to change the course during the next six months.
One rule of thumb is this: If what you need to do or know is extremely important, you'll have
an answer in no time; *"Come back tomorrow"*
and "You'll have to see someone else about that"
If, on the other hand, your problem is totally insignificant, you are guaranteed one long, drawn-out, complicated procedure after another until you finally give up, as I did after trying for several weeks to be disenrolled from one of two identical Western Civilization sections last spring.
Don't be too discouraged by all this, though. Once you've learned to deal with the disadvantages of a large university, you will find that KU, thanks to its size and reputation, has a lot to offer academically and socially, as the new chancellor will assure you.
Try to do the little more studying than partying at the beginning of the semester so you can do more socializing and less cramming in the final week. (Mother made me promise to deliver that line.)
When the inevitable all-nighters do come your way, you can always liven up the evening with a "Joe's run." Doughnuts and cream horns help digestion of books and other materials. I won't be surprised if you're going to how to get to Joe's. There isn't a student on campus who couldn't point the way.
As to your living arrangements, you will probably enjoy school hall life. But if you have trouble adjusting to life with 50 men, just be thankful it's not 150 men or even 400.
When it comes to fixing up your room, the best way to get it done is to send a list of all needed items to Grandma. Who knows, she may even stick in a batch of homemade cookies, though I never got any. One of the inequities of life is that when men leave home, they get homemade cookies; a woman's lucky to get a set of cookie cutters or cake tins.)
I guess that's about it. Best luck for the coming semester. Don't worry, you'll do fine. Hundreds of other students manage without such sage advice.
Just one word of warning: Do not send your dirty laundry to Grandma. It may mille on the wall.
Love, Barbara
P. S. I noticed there are signs around F'Int Hall, "Danger, Dangling Objects," with sinks and toilets lying nearby. What with Marvin Hall and other renovations, campus is full of such demo cases, we read the signs and do not get hit by a falling tree that won't survive this semester. I'll never live it down.
Reagan's plan deserves a chance
At first blush, the oft-cited historical economic changes of the Reagan administration appear nothing more than a deluded effort to rob blindly from the poor and give generously to the wealthy. Such a distortion is especially magnified when taken in the context of the yelpings of special interest groups that represent the poor.
But such noise is to be expected and should be seen as natural considering the cold fact that federal monies to social services are being trimmed. Indeed, the poor, who expect generous handouts from a bloated bureaucracy, would not be overjoyed when the funding of their livelihood has decreased to a trickle.
That is not to say, however, that the distressful voices of the poor should drown out
BRAD
STERTZ
the more discerning voices that point out the long-range benefits of the tax and budget cuts. This more cool, less panicky position be taken to reinforce the Reagan budget cuts.
Certainly in the short-run there will be problems as people used to handouts from the state will find the coffers empty. Certainly in the short-run there will be welfare recipients, college students, farmers and elderly who will find their futures muddled. And it is certainly these people who have been raising the greatest outcry at the Reagan plan.
What has been missed, however, by these premature doomsayers is that the crux of the economic package is short-range belt tightening. No change can be enacted, no system revised, without sacrifice. But the early critics of the Reagan plan cry that they will be giving to the system, and when they are done, there will nothing left for them to take. It is in this conjecture that they are wrong.
"But what's this?") they cry, "Are we to depend on (shudder) big business?" Precisely, replies the Reagan administration. By sacrificing now, the White House maintains, the future will be immeasurably brighter.
The doomsayers cry that their supportive programs will be slashed beyond recognition. The Reagan administration has promised not a disruption of services, but a scaling back and a trimming of bureaucratic fat and waste. It is the administration's contention that the federal government has grown too pervasive, reaching octopodous dimensions.
Thus, in the effort to revamp and revive the economy, in the spirit of lowering the oppressively high interest rates and in the name of lowering unemployment, the Reagan administration decided to decrease the responsibility of social service by expanding the private sector.
As the administration sees it, the industrial output of our land is oppressed by the lack of money available for investment. Added to that is the onerous burden of federal regulations. And added to that, the American economy is hopelessly stagnated in a no-win situation with high interest rates, high unemployment and high income; the economy is trapped in an economist's nightmare, with the rope tightening as the federal government expends each year.
To remedy this, the Reagan administration announced a Jeffersonian plan that would cut the role of big government in the everyday lives of you and me. By lowering the cost of maintaining a federal government gone rampant, the White House expects the country, meaning you and me, to have more money for investments, more money for saving and greater growth that would provide as many services as did the sluggish, old New Deal method.
Thus, with lower unemployment, lower interest rates and lower inflation, the
This is the point that the derivative voices fail to recognize. They fail to see that when big business is allowed to expand, more jobs will develop. They fail to see that if business can grow, it must expand, then interest rates will drop. And they fail that when business growth inflation should sink.
government will no longer have to compensate for the currently high economic indexes. The services will, however, be around for those who truly need them.
It is the borderline cases who will be trimmed out. But they will not be trimmed out for long because when the Reagan economic plan takes effect the goods and services they once got from the government will be unnecessary with an improved economy.
After all, something had to be done. Our economy was vexing even the most expert economists. Our nation was hopelessly mired in conditions that punished our industry and hence economy, while promoting the industry of nations like Japan and West Germany. And our system was founded upon an economic theory that was eventually abandoned by its own creator, John Maynard Keynes, because it was unworkable.
Change was called for and the Reagan administration, on the mandate of the last election, delivered. Now, as the cupboards become more bare and the handouts more expensive, it is time for a new economic approach that has been around since our Constitution was written
We are in the midst of a change for the better and we must not be hasty in condemning an economy that is designed to create wealth instead of distributing wealth.
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
'Safety' may not be so easy at Wolf Creek
Tim Elmer's story on the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant as a business boom for Burlington, Kan. (Aug. 20) is worth reading. No less an authority than Edwina Ware, waitress at the company, then there, says that the nukel plant, now under construction, i.e., shall remain, "safe."
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malfunction of commercial nuclear plants, I would have thought otherwise.
Edwinna doesn't know what they'll do with the wastes, "but whatever they do, I am sure it will be safe," she says. Somebody oughta tell her to pass up the seafood in San Francisco, where thousands of drums containing highly radioactive wastes are breached and leaking at the bottom of the bay. Pass, also, on the water in the Columbia River, where 150,000 gallons of radioactive wastes were spilled at Anford, Wash., within 200 yards of the river bank.
The Burlington mayor says we should take a lesson from France and reprocess spent fuel: "When they get done with it, they don't have any trouble with nuclear waste because there is nothing left of it," he says. I'm impressed! A typical commercial nuke plant yearly turns out over 200 pounds of plutonium, which has a half-life of 24,390 years. It will decompose completely into other elements (some of them lethally radioactive) in about 500,000 years. Nothing can speed up, slow down or alter that process, and it happens apparently. Incidently, one pound of plutonium is able to kill every human being on the entire planet if everyone gets a microscopic dose in his lungs.
Burlington gets two swell new schools and brisk trade at the restaurants and lumberyards
Everyone has an opinion, and the right to it. Sometimes an opinion is informed by facts, sometimes by wishful fantasy and sometimes by a wallet full of bucks.
Jack Klinknett Lawrence resident
Decal rule takes sides
To the editor:
This letter concerns itself with the bovine policy that has been established by a person or persons of similar character associated with Parking and Traffic Control. On more than one occasion, I have received a parking ticket for posting the parking permit decal on the wrong side of my car's bumper. Irrespective of any underlying logic, the determination of which side is the wrong side is made by a person interpreting P&TC policy.
I assume the policy of requiring drivers of automobiles to place the parking permit decal on the left side of the bumper was established for the convenience of officers who have undergone training. I should only on that side. To have them look elsewhere must cause them severe anguish, which results
in the "offender" being issued a ticket. Also, for such a trivial offense, one could assume this practice was necessary to maintain the ticket-writing quota of the day.
Truthfully, I would assume that this policy is based on domestic automobiles. Upon surveying any parking lot, one will find that most tail pipes (the element protruding from an automobile that expels gashes resulting from internal engine combustion and is usually colored black) are located on the right side and/or behind one of the rear wheels. The exception to the rule is foreign cars. I own an automobile that was made in Germany. The tailpipe is on the left side and automotive past the rear bumper. If I put the hallowed parking permit daced on the left side of the bumper, it would be burnt out or completely covered with exhaust fumes within two months. Thus, I would then begin to get tickets for not keeping my clean decal遇到 to be seen and read.
Moral of the story: No police can be established that fits all persons in all situations at the same time.
David J. Szymanski
Assistant professor of health,
physical education and recreation
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