OPINION
November 26,1984
Page 4
The University Daily KANSAN
The University Daily KANSAN
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DON KNOX
Editor
PAUL SEVART VINCE HESS Managing Editor Editorial Editor
DAVE WANAMAKER Business Manager
DOUG CUNNINGHAM Campus Editor
LYNNE STARK MARY BERNICA Retail Sales National Sales Manager Manager
SUSANNE SHAW
General Manager and News Adviser
JILL GOLDBLATT Campus Sales Manager
JOHN OBERZAN Sales and Marketing Adviser
Display of heart
A 17-member surgical team in Louisville, Ky., participated yesterday in the making of history.
William DeVries, the head surgeon, and his assistants put a permanent artificial heart in the chest of William Schroeder, 52, of Jasper, Ind.
Schroeder's natural heart had been expected to fail within a week. The only previous recipient of a permanent artificial heart, Barney Clark, lived 112 days after his operation in December 1982, and his death came from infection.
What is certain is that thanks to a for-profit hospital management chain, DeVries and associates will have the chance to help many more people.
chance to help many people. DeVries, who implanted the artificial heart in Clark at the University of Utah, joined the chain, Humana Inc., last summer because funds were scarce at Utah.
Humana, which earned a profit of more than $190 million last year from 91 hospitals around the world, promised DeVries that it would pay for 100 heart operations — a commitment of up to $30 million.
Some might see DeVries and Humana as profiting on the helpless. However, without the financial commitment from Humana, Schroeder, his wife of 32 years, his six children, his five grandchildren and the 1,000 people who gathered in a Jasper church to pray for him would have no hope.
The chairman of Humana said the company expected no direct profit from its investment. The profit will instead go to the public.
A better team
Undoubtedly, there were teams with better records.
Nebraska was as dominating as ever, that is, until perennial power Oklahoma caught the Huskers off guard. Oklahoma State challenged, as it was expected to do, but had to settle for a bowl trip not to Miami, but to Jacksonville, Fla.
Lost in all the hype and the polls, and buried in the newspaper columns, were the Kansas Jayhawks — a team that back in the heat of August was everybody's pick to finish no place. Instead, the 'Hawks finished fourth in one of football's strongest conferences.
There were, of course, teams with better records
Oklahoma blazed to a 9-1-1 season and won a trip to the Orange Bowl. Kansas finished 5-6 overall, and 4-3 in the conference. It was hardly a championship season for the scrapy 'Hawks; in fact, KU never really was a contender for the title.
Kansas was beset with formidable problems. The team lost 10 players to academic ineligibility and faced the frequently disastrous effects of NCAA probation. Graduation took a heavy toll. There was little depth to the depth chart.
They were nobody's team and nobody's pick, and their names were unfamiliar. Yet at times they played not as contenders do but as champions.
Yes, there were teams with better records.
There were teams with stronger players and faster players and more well-known players. But a few Jayhawks — Norseth and Pless and Schwartzburg and William's and Peete and others — made certain that their names drew the attention they deserved.
There were teams with coaches who were thought to be more trained and more talented, coaches who were strong recruiters and strong leaders. Coaches like Mike Gottfried.
Yes, yes, there were teams with better records But were they better teams?
Record shows 'Boots' Adams no deitv
Kenneth "Boots" Adams is enshrined in the alumni center that bears his name.
The center's plush decor attests to the tastes of Adams' relatives, business associates and friends who donated several million dollars to establish a memorial in his name.
The Alumni Association and the KU Endowment Association played a part. They planned the center, contributed land, coordinated donations and oversaw construction.
The center, however, is not only a tribute to Adams, one-time vice president of the Alumni Association. It is also a tribute to the influence enjoyed on campus by Phillips Petroleum Co., the company that Adams headed for more than 17 years.
A 1893 Alumni Magazine article, "The Phillips Connection," says, "Seldom have a company and a university had any closer connection than those between Phillips Petroleum and the University of Kansas."
KU has been a prince recruiting station for Phillips Petroleum since the 1906s. From 1938 to the present, a KU graduate has served as chairman, chief executive or president of Phillips. The only break in this continuity was a nineteenth period when William Keelen Adams' successor as chairman of Phillips, resigned from the company after a scandal involving illegal political donations he had made to President Nixon.
Keeler is an honored member of the "Philips connection" and has served as Alumni Association president and Endowment Association trustee.
After resigning, Keeler admitted that he and the company had made illegal donations during a 10-year period. The company indicted Keeler and the company on
federal tax evasion charges, based on an allegation of a secret $3 million Swiss bank account.
Stanley Learned, the man for whom the engineering building is named, was Adams' successor as chief executive. He served as Alumni Association president and Endowment Association trustee.
CHARLES
BARNES
Staff Columnist
William Douce, current chief executive of Phillips, was vice chairman of the Alumni Center fund-raising committee, and has served as Alumni Association president and Endowment Association trustee.
Paul Endacott, former company president, was a former president of the company.
cellor, W. Clarke Wescoe was appointed a company director. He still holds that position.
Adams' contact with government did not end with World War II; he served as a director of the 10th District Federal Reserve Bank from 1954 to 1965, when he was replaced by Learned.
Adams, however, ushered in the string of KU alumni executives.
While he was right-hand man to company founder Frank Phillips, Adams was appointed chairman of a production committee for the U.S. Petroleum Administration for War in 1943.
President Eisenhower considered Adams's "a stammer friend and trusted advisor whose judgment I valued highly." Eisenhower and Adams also were golf partners, and Eisenhower even painted two portraits of Adams.
In 1949 Adams became company chief executive, and in 1951 he was selected as chairman, a post he retained until 1968.
At the helm of Phillips, Adams diversified the company into production of petroleum-based rocket fuels, which were sold to the Air Force.
Dealers in liquor and tobacco threaten society
"I can't believe what I just heard," my friend said as he inhaled a half ounce of the vodka. "You sent money to DeLorean."
John DeLorean, one of the coolest of middle-aged men ever to feign youth, has committed the ultimate act of despair.
In a 1964 experiment at the station, Phillips scientists contaminated a pasture used for milk cow grazing and then resulted the resultant radioactive milk to seven human volunteers to test radiation-food chain relationships.
He has placed an ad in a California newspaper that asks for money.
Let me ask whether you are a conservative Republican.
I scanned the ad. Was it a tax shelter? If I gave the maximum, would I be invited to a gala party, or at the very least, would I get some kind of discount?
"Do you condone dope dealing?"
All DeLorean offered was a chance to help DeLorean. So I sent a small check.
Later, I casually mentioned to a friend that I had just contributed. If any more stuff just be ashamed.
As my friend said this, he was so irate that he almost spilled his martini. It was a vodka martini, which is basically straight 86 proof hooch on a few ice cubes with a piece of lemon rind for nutrition.
The poor man says that the federal government has wrecked his life by trying to frame him as a coccineous dealer. The gossip columns say that his gorgeous young wife has dumped him for — the ultimate embarrassment — a television executive. His future is nothing but legal bills. He has declared himself as a born-again Christian.
"Of course I am. So what?"
Yes, I told him, as a good American I condone dealing.
"I'm not going to drink with somebody like you," he snarled. I let me buy you a drink, I said.
Celebration 66 and the Alumni Center, with its larger-than-life statue of Adams in the entryway and its "Phillips Board Room," have at least one thing in common — they tend to glorify and sanctify the name of Adams and Phillips Petroleum.
The shape he's in, he might not be able afford to have his hair cut.
Ah, then you concur in the judgment of the voters of North Carolina who returned Jesse Helms to the U.S. Senate?
"But how could you fall for all that?" The man was going to pull off a multimillion dollar cocaine deal. Never mind the jury's verdict. Just read the evidence. He was panting for the dope deal."
Adams died in 1975
In 1965, on his 66th birthday, Philips Petroleum staged a party for Adams in Bartlesville, Okla. Air Force Thunderbirds flew overhead as part of "Celebration 66." In attendance were Eisenhower and Clark Clifford. Phillips legal counsel since the early 1950s, a prime mover in the founding of the AEC and presidential adviser to Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
In the late 1950s, the company also signed the third largest U.S. Atomic Energy Commission contract, worth $152 million, to supply uranium from its mines and mill in New Mexico to the AEC for nuclear weapons production. The 1.2 million tons of uranium that were abandoned at its mill sites still haven't been cleaned up. The U.S. taxpayer will have to pick up the tab.
During his tenure, Adams played a key role in the transformation of the small midcontinent oil company into the largest corporations in the nation.
The KU community should remember that the two aren't deities.
"You know I do. He stands foursquare for traditional American values."
Of course. And you know that he will probably choose to remain as
MIKE
ROYKO
Syndicated Columnist
"What has that to do with anything?"
chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, instead of taking over the more prestigious Foreign Relations Committee.
You know why he wants to remain as agriculture chairman?
"He likes cows?"
The main crop in his state is tobacco. Are you familiar with tobacco?
"I smoke three packs a day."
Then you are aware that event usually it will kill you.
"Don't nag. My wife already does that every time I wake uncoffing."
that every time I wake up coughing. So what is the difference between Jesse Helms, champion of the knit tobacco weed and John Delphex?
"That is a treasonous statement. Cocaine is an illegal drug."
On a Monday morning, I said, hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers will call in sick to their jobs and bodies are devastated by joy nurses.
In hospitals, others will die of liver ailments. In dry out tanks, others will see creepy crawlers on their walls.
Those who deal for profit in this
patucuar drug will be considered pillars of our society. The father of Jack Kennedy, who made much of his vast fortune in booze, was once the ambassador to Britain.
"So what?" my friend said as he lit up another cigarette and knocked back a couple ounces of vodka.
So, when was the last time somebody called in sick at your company because of bad sniffing powder? When was the last time a skid-row panhandler told you a sad story about how DeLorean had led him on the road to ruble
"Well, everybody knows that bums cann't afford cocaine That's why they drink wine And they can't afford cigarettes And they smoke some cigarette butts."
G bless Jesse Helms, the light-
beer commercial crowd and all the
others.
"I'll drink to that," he said before he fell off the stool.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Campus Democratic group needs spirit of compromise, not bitterness
Politics: There are no absolute victories; no absolute defeats. One must choose goals and work toward them, knowing that by the working definition of "politics" compromise is inevitable. Be gracious in both victory and defeat is the ultimate investment for those involved in politics.
To the editor:
on election night, Walter Mondale fulfilled those expectations in his concession speech. Although he had every reason to be bitter, he "rejoiced in our democracy." As his supporters booed Ronald Reagan, Monday quickly responded that they should "honor him tonight." It's incredible that Mondale's advice fell upon deaf ears at the University of Kansas. The "mourning ceremony" sponsored by College Young Democrats was reported by the Kansan. At first glance, the expression of sorrow for Mondale's defeat seems reasonable. At closer examination, however, it becomes apparent that it was not mourning for Mondale's loss, but
At this point, one begins to look upon the leadership of College Young Democrats in amazement. Kirstin Buterbaugh Myers, president of the group, says, "This man has been re-elected and I don't know why." A student of Political Science 110 knows that an incumbent whose nation was held under a civil infliction, peace at home and abroad without weakness, and a sense of optimism has an excellent chance of easily winning "four more years."
a manifestation of anger and resentment toward Reagan's victory.
Myers continues by claiming, "Our biggest consolation is that in six months everyone is going to say they voted for Mondale." How does she justify this? What significant departures from the past four years will Reagan make in the next six months?
extension or imposition of power, authority or influence," one realizes that "ugly imperialism" takes on many aesthetic forms. Carter/Mondale policies of human rights were a blatant example of imperialism. These men used the tools of aid, support and embargo in an effort to affect the internal functions of foreign governments. In order to increase our sphere of influence, past administrations have realized the necessity of employing some imperialistic practices.
Myers persists in her diatribe, claiming, "We don't wrap ugly beliefs of imperialism in patriotic actions of imperialists" and definition of imperialism as "the
Although Myers might not be able to reconcile her views with those of our country's top leaders, what alternative does she or Mondale have to offer? In Central America there are no easy solutions, only differing ways. Most never heard any revolutionary alternatives offered by Mondale.
Our concern here is not directed toward Democratrs, but instead, toward the leadership of College Young Democrats. We certainly don't seek to malign Monday, but
instead to draw attention to the course that the KU group has decided to follow. Myers points out, "We are a force to be reckoned with." Our concern is that the force be constructive and positive instead of spiteful and destructive.
Keith Q. Hayes
Shawnee sophomore
Jim Clark
Overland Park junior
Insult to voters
To the editor :
to use.
I would like an apology from Kamala Platt. In her letter (Nov. 16, "Reagan victory gives cause for mourning for those who will suffer"), she insulted the intelligence of the majority of voters, myself included, who supported Ronald Reagan.
I didn't vote for Reagan because I was impressed with his personality. I supported him for his economic policies, which emphasize growth and have brought interest rates and the rate of inflation under control.
Finally, I fail to see how the same person who appointed the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court and has more female Cabinet members than any previous president is making the personal rights of all women
Although I don't think that he will be able to avoid raising taxes, Reagan will try cutting back first, unlike Bush, who will raise taxes first and cut back later.
Instead of mourning for the world, maybe Flatt and others who share her views should learn to work with other people. He says of trying to fight him and insulting
I voted for the man who has strengthened, America and refuses to be bullied by the Soviet Union. He has responded to increasing Soviet intervention in Central America, instead of letting the Soviets have their own way. People who think that we should stay out of that region should ask the people of Poland or Afghanistan much they enjoy the Soviet presence.
the majority that voted for him Forty nine states can't all be wrong
Terry Brown
Terry Brown
Valley Center freshman
Keep Union open
To the editor
After being shooed out of the cafeteria/dell area of the Kansas Union the other day at 6:45 p.m. I have to lament the fact that there is no place on or near the KU campus where students can quietly get over evening over a cup of coffee or a beer to review notes or simply to visit.
Except for organized meetings, the bowling alley and the wonderful SUA film series, which must subsidize other Union activities, the Union pretty well shuts down by 5 or 6 p.m. This is truly unfortunate and certainly not the case at most other large universities.
Bill Sharp
office of admissions and records