Protests, controversy stirred KU campus
By PAM MANSON
Protests and controversy dominated campus news in 1978, with the visit of Vithak Rabin and the accompanying demonstrations emerging as the top story.
Rabin, former prime minister of Israel, was greeted by about 200 Arab and Iranian students and other protesters when he arrived at Hoc Audiotrium to give a speech on the search for peace in the Middle East. The demonstrators shouted and wave flags, while a counter-demonstration of about 13 Israel citizens took place.
About 150 of the demonstrators moved inside Hoch, yelling so loudly during the speech that Rabin was silenced at least 26 times, sometimes for as long as three or four minutes.
Earlier in the day, about 200 students wearing white masks had marched down Jayhawk Boulevard in protest of Rubin's visit. About 25 pro-Israel demonstrators marched down the opposite side of the building.
ALTOUGH UNIVERSITY officials had announced that those who interrupted Rabin's speech
would be disciplined, no action was taken because demonstrators could not be identified, ad-
The cancellation of a display of Nazi memorabilia five hours before the exhibit was to open in Kennecott Spencer Research Library on Monday. The administrators said the exhibition was canceled out of concern for "our Jewish students and colleagues." They said the opening of the exhibit would have been poorly timed with the opening of the exhibit.
In opposition to the decision, the University Council and the University Senate passed resolutions endorsing free speech, and library staff members circulated petitions calling for a rescheduling of the
This semester, the American Association of University Professors met with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, to discuss the administration's decision about the Nazi exhibit. Critics have said the administration evoked the impression Jewish Jews had asked that the exhibition be closed.
The firing of Bud Moore after a dismal 1-10 record was the No. 3 story. Moore, who had two years left on a four-year contract, had been football coach at the University of Kansas since 1974.
The story voted fourth was a 187 percent increase in tuition at the University of Kansas Medical Center, which prompted a lawsuit by 234 med students seeking to block the increase.
The increase, scheduled to take effect this semester, came at the same time the Kansas Legislature offered a new scholarship that would pay students $400 for their agreed to practice in the state after graduation.
The students argued that the increase was tapacious, oppressive and amounted to concentration.
A DEMAND BY about 200 black students that the University Daily Kansan print a front page apology about a story they said was racist was the fifth-hridden story.
The story was a review of the Oct. 28 Natalie Cole concert.
Complaints about the review prompted an amendment by a student senator to withhold Kansan funding until a review board could be established to determine the level of sensitive issues. The amendment was defeated.
Other top campus stories:
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- The controversy over the proposed move of the Jimmy Green statue was No. 7.
- The reorganization of administration offices, which included the elimination of the offices of the commissioner of finance.
- The admittance of KU to the Associated Students of Kansas, a student lobbying group, was ninth.
- The approval of the fiscal 1979 budget, which included funds to renovate Watson Library, followed by a reduction in the budget.
- Memorial Stadium renovations was No. 11. Because of the work being done in the stadium, the Kansas Relays were moved and May graduation ceremonies were threatened.
- President Fords visit to the campus and his participation in the dedication of Gold Hall took the
- Custodian disputes throughout the year with American Management Services, the outside firm hired to supervise KU jantors, who are No. 13. Custodians at the Med Center staged a brief walkout to protest working conditions and custodians on the Lawrence campus threatened to strike.
- The approval by the Student Senate of a Legal Services program for students was No. 14.
- HEW investigations into discrimination complaints about KU's athletic programs and the basketball season, capped by a close defeat at the NCAA Midwest regional, tied for 15th.
Other top stories were the kidnaping of the Baby Jay mascot, the broadcast of a false news story about a nuclear explosion by JIKH-FM and the subsequent investigation by the FCC, the lawsuits stemming infections in Mets Center buildings and the proposed merger of the men's and women's athletics departments.
Mideast, suicide, economy ranked top stories in '78
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In terms of coverage and significance, the movement toward peace in the Middle East is being recognized.
For their efforts, which have angered many of the Arab neighbors, both men and women, the United States
Beginning with the historic 1977 meeting in Jerusalem of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and culminating in the signing of the Camp David accords, peace in the area has not appeared closer in 1,000 years.
Ranking as the No. 2 story of the year is the tragic and as yet unexplained mass death that occurred in 2015.
Rep. Lee Ryan of California, who was in Guyans to investigate the People's Temple cult, was killed as he tried to lead several Islamist groups in States. Then, 917 members of the San Francisco-based cult followed leader Jim Kimberly and attempted to poison or burn him for refusing to do so.
Tax cuts, inflation and Proposition 13 ranked as the No. 3 story. The "I'm mad at hell and I'm not going to take it any more" attitude of voters was reflected in Congress, where an $18.7 billion tax cut was passed and later signed by President Carter. In
California, where the tax-cut revolution led by Howard Jarvis got its start, residents voted 21 to slash property taxes by 57 percent.
Much of the tax-cutting spirit of the American electorate was fostered by inflation, which has stagnated since 2013 and a level of about 10 percent. The American consumer's dollar will buy only half what it bought in 1967, and Carter recently announced a toughened
The continued decline of the dollar, along with the replacement of Arthur Burns by G. William Miller as head of the Federal Reserve Board, ranked as the No 4 story.
The bequequered dollar has dropped in value in relation to nearly every important foreign currency this year, prompting Carter and the Federal Reserve Board to raise the discount rate to an unprecedented 9.5 percent.
PASSAGE OF THE Panama Canal treaties, an important victory for the president, ranked fifth. By a narrow vote, the US and its counterintelligence control of the canal in the year 2000
Other top national and international stories were:
- The death of Pope Paul VI, followed by
  the short reign of Pope John Paul I and the
  long reign of Pope John XXIII.
By MARY ANGELEE SEITZ
Scientific discoveries turn dreams into facts
Visions of Alain Daundry Huxley's "Brave New World" run rampant when a neurologist, Dr. Michael Fennell, conceived Robert Ekwinds, fertilized a human egg in a test tube then implanted it in its brain.
A series of discoveries and inventions turned 1978 into the reality visualized by the science fiction of several decades ago. Home computers, astronomical discoveries and strides toward safe, cheap energy from the sun could give us news to shock both scientists and laymen.
Scientists voiced concern over possible birth defects resulting from test-tube conceptions, while laymen pondered the morality or immorality of test-tube birth. Louise Brown's birth was also in a sense of hope for thousands of infertile women.
Author David M. Korvick invented skeptical, scorn and speculation when he announced that scientists had created an in-vestigative genetic copy of an unidentified millionaires.
ROWICK'S BOOK on the experience,
"The Cloning of a Man," contained no
Scientists responded that, although mice have already been cloned, human cloning has not.
Pluto's moon is 5 to 10 percent the mass of Pluto. The earth's moon is 1.2 percent the mass of Pluto.
Computers lost some of their technological mystique and become more of a house
A moon was discovered orbiting Pluto when James W. Christy of the National Observatory in Washington investigated that showed that Pluto was elongated.
hold luxury, in what Science Digest termed "the home computer revolution."
**COMPUTER SHOPS** spruced around the country as 50,000 Americans bought home computers. Home computers range in cost from $300 up to thousands of dollars.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, however, legalized Laetrile for terminally ill cancer patients, under the assumption that "safety" and "effectiveness" were irrelevant if a person was expected to die from cancer.
Scientists at Princeton University produced a laser capable of producing 100 million degrees. Kelvin—the temperature of hydrogen—was used in newspapers' haunted event as a major technical breakthrough, although the Department of Energy made no change in the timetable or funding for government fusion research ahead of expected attacks at the facility before completion.
- The Supreme Court's ruling in the Bakke reverse discrimination case, in which strict quotas in University policy were overturned, although the court said race should continue to be a consideration.
The Food and Drug Administration warned the public that Laetrile, the miracle- or quack-cure for cancer, contained cyanide, and that toxic contaminants were found in some samples of the amrionic-ot derivative.
PIONEER VENUS, a series of probes designed to study the planet for a year, was launched. On May 20 the first orbiter was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and on Aug. 7 the second component was sent into space.
- The congressional action to lift the Turkish arms embargo, the sale of sophisticated warplanes to Saudi Arabia, the transfer and the renegotiation of a SALT agreement.
- The invocation of martial law by the shah of Iran, as his country was shaken by a national strike and protests against the militarist rule and his Westernization policies.
A primary purpose of the Venus orbiter is to map regions of Venus where the solar wind comes in. The question to be answered is: what "holds off" the solar wind from the Earth?
- The fall of the Andreatti government in Italy, coupled with the kidnapping and murder of political leader Aido Moro, by a terrorist around the Red Brides.
- The nation-wide strike by coal workers that cut back production in several large industries and prompted Carter to invoke the United States in an effort to force miners back to work.
- Continued rebellion against apartheid in Rhodesia and South Africa, even though majority rule has been promised for Rhodesia.
- The birth of the world's first test-tube baby.婴儿由英国physicians.
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- The emerging adversary relationship between the Supreme Court and the press, as the court upheld a police search of the Stanford University newsroom and sent it to the FBI, an attorney barter to jail for refusing to turn over notes on possible murders to a federal judge.
- The continuing tails of corruption and mismanagement in the General Services
'78 in Review
These year-in-review articles were prepared by members of an editorial and interpretive writing class in the School of Journalism. Events chosen for inclusion in the articles were determined and ranked by a class vote.
DECEMBER 11, 1978
Tax revolt spawns conservatives
By SARAH TOEVS
"Government is the biggest growing industry in this country." Howard Jarvis, author of California's Proposition 13, says. "And the only way to cut the cost of government is not to give it any money in the first place."
That statement captured the mood of the American taxpayer in 1978. Growing resentment toward excessively high taxes took hold and spread this year, with Jarvis and his proposition leading the wav.
several factors brought about the resentful mood. First, tax-
payment were feeling the personal crunch that comes when taxes and
payroll are taken away.
Second, a full 80 percent of American taxpayers think the government is wasteful, compared with 60 percent a year ago, and
CALIFORNIA VOTERS in particular were angry because the effects of inflation brought about automatic tax increases, especially property tax increases. Property reassessment and real estate taxation took place into higher brackets, even though their real income did not increase.
Proposition 13 was intended to solve just this situation. It proposed limiting taxes to 1 percent of the 1975 market value of property and to limit reassessment increases to 2 percent a year, a reduction from an average of 3 percent increases that some Californiaiens were faced with this year.
The proposition won a 2-to-1 victory. Opponents of the measure
feared that the 7 billion loss to the California government would be disastrous. Proponents argued that it would broaden the tax base by sparking a building boom, thereby stimulating personal and business incomes.
POLITICIANS, SENSING that the tax revolt was spreading nationwide, jumped on the fiscal conservative bandwagon and made tax cuts and spending limits the theme for this year's congressional elections.
In a dramatic closing of the congressional session, Congress put a $17.5 billion bolt of money on the cutoff to the price of a $20 billion bond, with only $3 billion remaining.
The average family of four earning $15,000 will have taxes reduced by $7. But that will be offset by a $42 increase in Social Security.
Proposals to cut taxes and curb government spending appeared on ballots across the country. Voters in 12 of the 16 states voting on the measure.
THE CONSERVATIVE political air at election time made it almost impossible to distinguish between the two parties. Republicans, oddly enough, failed to take advantage of their unity and the fact that conservatives jumped at the chance to make themselves heroes of tax reform.
Sen. Charles Percy, R-II, reflected the attitudes of most candidates in admitting to voters, "Washington has gone overboard, and I am sure that I've made my share of mistakes, but your矿窑 are mine, too. Stop the waste. Cut the spending. Cut the tax."
By ALLEN HOLDER
Kassebaum victory leads state news
In a year marked by politics, agriculture and disaster, the election of Nancy Landon Kassbeaum as Kansas' first woman senator was the No.1 story of 1978 in the state and area.
Kassebam, daughter of 1936 GOP presidential nominee All Landon, was a late entry in the race to succeed retiring Sen. James Pearson. She first had to defeat a field of eight other Senate hopefuls in the Republican party primary.
A newcomer to Kansas politics, Kassebaum won the primary and then soundly defeated Democrat Bill Roy of Topeka in November. The race was predicted to be a toss-up, but Kassebaum won by more than 80,000 votes.
our state's No. 2 story was the issue of serving liquor in restaurants. The Kansas Legislature approved a bill in the final part of its session that allowed individual counties to vote on whether liquor could be served in restaurants.
BUT FOR the question to be placed on the ballot, counties had to submit petitions with the signatures of at least 5 percent of the county's voters. Forty-five counties eventually voted on the issue, but the question passed in only 15.
RANKED THIRD among stories in 1978 was the surprise election of Democrat John Carlin to the Kansas governorship, Carlin, speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, defeated incumbent Gov. Robert F. Bennett in a race generally predicted to be an easy Bennett victory.
However, even those votes were cast in vain. Attorney General Curt Schneider had said he thought the law violated the Kansas Constitution's ban on the open saloon, the Supreme Court ruled the new law unconstitutional.
CARLIN PROVED to be a tough campaigner in the late stages of the campaign, attacking Bennett on several
issues. The most notable issue, however, was the high cost of utilities. Carlin vowed to remove the three members of the Kansas Corporation Commission, which rules on utility applications, and rebuilt Bennett, a Johnson County Representation by 18,000 users.
The year's No. 4 story took place June 17 when the Whippoorwill Showbait overturned at Lake Pomona during a stormy evening cruise. Sixteen of the 60 passengers aboard the boat drowned. A man whose wife and unborn child were among the victims has sued the boat's owners, seeking an unspecified amount of damages.
The No. 5 story took place in Rock, a town about 20 miles southeast of Saultem. Two members of a rocket refugee crew were killed and six others were injured in late August when a fuel line broke at a missile site, sending poisonous fuel into the air. Staff Sgt. Robert Thomas and Airman 1st Class Erbvy Hersfeld died.
THE NO. 6 story was a year-long one involving unhappy farmers. The American Agriculture Movement was important to many farmers in Kansas, especially in the western part of the state. Farmers revolted against low prices and were selling products and were especially upset when they learned that President Carter planned to allow the import more beef.
UNREST AMONG policemen and firefighters was the year's No. 7 story. In Wichita, firefighters staged a strike and some policemen honored the strike by also staying off the job.
In Lawrence, policemen and firefighters bickered with city officials, but both groups eventually signed contracts
the American Royals and the 1972 baseball season were the area's No. 8 story. The Royals won the American League's western division for the third consecutive year, while the New York Yankees also for the third consecutive year.
THE WOLF CREEK Nuclear Power Plant and nuclear
energy were rated as the No. 9 story. Several demon-
sters were rated as the No. 1 story, using the plant's
constriction and the arrival of a nuclear reactor.
The tenth story took place in late May when a state highway trooper was shot and killed on the Kansas Turnpike. Three men were held in the murder, which took place near El Dorado.
Other too stories in Kansas and the area:
- Seventeen persons died when the Coates House Hotel burned in Kansas City, Mo.
- Attorney General Schneider was plunged with problems as a counsel in the use of state records for his criminal accidien and a young woman in whom he was in Joplin. Mo, late last year. He eventually was defeated in his bid for re-election by Bob Stephan, a Wichita lawyer.*
- The Legislature passed measures in an attempt to ease the shortage of doctors in the state. A scholarship program was established to provide training and employment for new physicians.
- Grasshoppers and other bugs attacked Kannas crop this summer. Efforts were made to kill the insects with pesticide.
- Witchia, like some other American cities, repealed a law that prohibited discrimination against homosexuals.
- Members of the Legislature attempted to bring capital punishment back to life, but the effort failed.
- Voters turned out in unusually high numbers to vote in an off-year election.
- Mila Sandstrom was sentenced to life in prison for the May 1977 murder of her husband, broadcast executive Thadat Sandstrom.
- The use of Laetrile as a treatment for cancer was approved by the Licensure.
*U.S. Rep. Martha Keys, D-Second District, was narrowly defeated in her attempt for re-election by a 37 percent margin.*
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