November 6,1984
OPINION
Page 4
The University Daily KANSAN
The University Daily KANSAN
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Endorsements
The Kansan has endorsed the following candidates:
President/ vice president: Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro;
U.S. senator, Kansas: Nancy Kassebaum;
U.S. representative, 2nd district of Kansas: Jim Slattery;
State senator, 2nd district: Wint Winter;
State representative, 45th district: John Solbach;
State representative, 46th district: Betty Jo Charlton;
Douglas County district attorney: Mike Glover.
Election thoughts
Douglas County polls are open today until 7 p.m.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Gettysburg Address
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. . A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government.
Federalist No. 51
When annual elections end, there slavery begins.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
G. K. Chesterton
All real democracy is an attempt (like that of a jolly hostess) to bring the shy people out.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.
There is no government without mumbo-jumbo.
Hilaire Belloc He that would govern others, first should be The master of himself.
Philip Massinger
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine Bad government will bring to the ground the mightiest empire.
Publilius Syrus
Get thee glass eyes
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
He who slings mud generally loses ground. Nikita Khrushchev
County judge, chairman of a committee, president of the United States; they are all the same kind of jobs. It is the business of dealing with people.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?
Boss Tweed
Nothing is more uncertain than the masses, nothing more difficult to gauge than the temper of the people, nothing more deceptive than the opinions of the electors.
Cicero
Will Rogers
Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. Its administration favors the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy.
Pericles' Funeral Oration I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Leadership, not philosophy, is key
A couple of summers ago, I was in hiding deep in the hills of Arkansas during one of my lazy periods, and one day I was talking to my cousin Ralph, and we were talking about politics.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan jogged past a horde of babbling reporters and hailed a helicopter on the ground in front of us, and Ralph sighed.
"Darn it all," he said, "I couldn't tell the difference between Reagan and Carter. They were both so lousy. I did what I thought was the smart thing. I closed my eye and went eene-meine-miney-moe and palled me in a fowl position. I don't even know whether I pulled the lever for eenie or mie
"The shame of the whole process is that 40 years from now, we'll remember it all about as well as we did when I was 31 years it doesn't, am I a darned thing?"
Ralph, were you saying that these important politicians are simply going to pass out of our lives in time? No, they've been the smartest, thing you ever said.
Political philosophy is only secondary in the success or failure of a presidency. Raw leadership, in one direction or another to the defense of the nation and the principles of the Constitution, has everything to do with it. The same goes for that notion, only a few presidents have ever been successful.
Each president makes some important decisions, decisions of armament or peace, prosperity or bankruptcy. Most presidents, however, tend to be more like Warren Warring thananklin Fooling. The warring is weak, and bumbling, unable or unwilling to use the influence built into the office.
Most presidencies are doomed to be forgotten because they make no permanent stamp on the psyche of the nation.
people and to raise their eyebrows at the same time. Franklin Roosevelt is still some a saint and a tool of godless communists and mysterious, invisible, cunning Jewish financial aristocracies.
A president who leads is a president who is able both to inspire his
Partisan political philosophy is one only face of a strong presidency.
BRUCE F.
HONOMICHL
Staff Columnist
Each of the few presidents who have left an indelible stamp on the fiber of this nation — Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, Wilson, perhaps Kennedy, perhaps Truman, perhaps Johnson, and, in a perverse way, Nixon — led this nation down a
definite path according to their political leanings and personal beliefs.
Political philosophy in itself means little. We have prospered and faltered, been at peace and mourned dead soldiers, under philosophies of left, right and middle. A Republican presided over the Spanish-American War, Democrats over both world wars, both parties over the Korean and Vietnam wars. The groundwork for Great Depression was laid partly by Ben Quayle'sicies in the 1920s, yet inflation under a Democratic administration ruined millions of household budgets in the 1700s.
There has also been activism and optimism and prosperity under administrations as diverse in outlook and Reagan, Eisenhower and Wilson.
It is hard to judge recent presidents, Reagan included, because a lack of time magnifies the accom
plishments of a presidency. Even some presidents before Nixon are still awaiting judgement from time.
This does not mean that we should elect a despot simply because of his ability to persuade us to go in one direction or another. Dozens of brutal dictators, Adolf Hitler included, came to power under such circumstances.
Moreover, many weak presidents have left strong marks in other areas of public service — Grant and Eisenhower as generals. Taft as a Chief Justice of the United States, Hoover through his efforts to help end world hunger after both world wars.
Most, however, will be remembered as clearly Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur and Gerald Ford and most of the babysitters you had when they were around. Hard to remember once they had vanished
Athletics need more funding from students
As a student member of the Kansas University Athletic Corporation Board for the past two years, I have learned of many misconceptions concerning the role, function and commitment of our athletic department.
Most of my misconceptions were centered on the department's seemingly consistent lack of concern and support. My ideas were proved wrong.
The athletic department realizes that student involvement and interest are mandatory for a successful intercollegiate athletic program. In fact, in comparison with the practices of other Big Eight athletic departments, KU students appear to have the greatest opportunity for involvement at the least cost. KU students are encouraged to total financial support, and they receive the highest amount of ticket allotments.
As the KUAC plans on increasing its budget over the next few years, it is time for the students to give more funding to the athletic department. After all, the students are the ones who benefit the most from a successful intercollegiate athletic program.
for funding; instead, the revenues are derived mostly from ticket sales (44 percent), alumni contributions (35 percent), conference TV revenues (14 percent) and legislative support/student fees (7 percent).
Contrary to popular belief, the KUAC depends very little upon the state or general University budget
The KUAC budget currently ranks sixth in the Big Eight. KU's 1983-84 athletic budget is $167 million;
MARK
FISHER
Guest Columnist
*largest budget belongs to the University of Oklahoma, $10.225 million, and the smallest to Kansas State University, $8.945 billion. Big Eight budget is $7.298 million.
Therefore, the opinion of the KUAC Long-Range Planning Committee is that the KUAC budget should be raised to an average level compared to the budgets of the Big Eight schools. For this to be accomplished, it will take increased financial support from the students.
The recent Long-Range Plan of the KUAC says, "... because students are the basis for KU intercollegiate
athletes as participants and as spectators, all athletic board policy should. therefore, be committed to the principles of maximum student involvement, subject only to constraints of financial viability.
Unfortunately, intercollegiate athletics programs must be treated like a business to be successful. A balance must be found between receiving maximum student involvement and the financial considerations of the KUAC.
Total KU student financial support, derived from ticket sales and student fees, is the lowest in the Big Eight. KU students' total financial support in 1983-84 was $408,000, while students at Iowa State University contributed the most in the conference. $866,000.
Most of this disparity can be attributed to differences in student fee allocations. For example, KU students pay $4.50 a semester — totalling $180,000 — and KState students contribute $8.25 (soon to be $16.50). Students at Iowa State, Oklahoma State University and the University of Colorado pay about $10 a semester.
Although KU student financial support has been relatively low, students have received more than their fair share in ticket policies.
This basketball season, KU students will pay the lowest per game season ticket price in the Big Eight. In addition, KU students are allotted 7,000 seats, the highest allocation in the conference.
It would be tempting, financially,
for the athletic department to give
some of the 7,000 seats allocated for
students to alumni, but the
department has not taken these tickets
from students, to date, because it
realizes the importance of student
involvement.
A proposal will probably be made to increase the student fees that we pay each semester I hope that students will support this motion. Perhaps this proposed student-fee increase should be used entirely for new non-revenue sports. If student fees were doubled to $9 a semester, the 14 women's and non-revenue sports would have an extra $180,000.
These student-athletes work very hard all year with very little student or alumni support. A student-fee increase could benefit these student-athletes and help develop a successful athletic program, thereby bringing excitement to our campus.
Mark Fisher is a St. Louis graduate student.
Inauguration plans underway before election
WASHINGTON — Although the next president of the United States — whoever it is — will not be sworn in for about three months, preparations are already under way for the nation's 50th inauguration ceremony.
Work on Washington's quadrennial extravaganza began in April, when the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee began to plan the event. The committee was initially made up of 300 expected to top 300 by next month.
The inauguration usually attracts about 100,000 visitors.
Navy Cmdr. Greg Gagne, a spokesman for the committee, said that up to 12,000 military personnel would be involved in some form of planning or participating in the ceremony. Duties will range from military escorts and drivers to snow-removal crews and medics
The biggest single group is the 2,100-man contingency that will line the parade route from the Capitol to White House. The route is a mile long
"We're not awaiting the final outcome," Gagne said of the election.
Gagne said that the current in-
agural committee had gotten off to the earliest start of any inaugural committee in planning and arranging
"It has been very helpful," he said. The staff is creating a first-ever step-by-step guide for future com
MARY BETH FRANKLIN
United Press International
mittees on topics that range from security preparations to potential sites for inaugural galas.
On security, Gagne said, "We'll do what we need to do. It's fair to say that things are different today than four years ago." However he devised a system that detects or other security equipment would be used to screen the crowd.
Congress got into the act over the summer when it appointed its own six member inaugural committee. The group's first piece of business in August was to select the West Front of the Capitol for the ceremony
A spokesman for the congressional inaugural committee said use of the West Front had saved about five times the expected expense of use of the East Front. The East Front is the traditional setting; students from Andrew Jackson through Jimmy Carter were sworn in there.
It will be only the second time in history that a president will be sworn in on the west side, which looks down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Washington Monument and the White House.
Parts of the Capitol will be appropriately decorated with red, white and blue bunting and large U.S. flags. The decorations are less of a patriotic gesture than an attempt to hide some of the unsightly scaffolding that is expected to mar the West side of the building for several
years until a massive renovation project is completed.
Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, earlier this month drove the first ceremonial 16-penny nail into the inaugural stand. The stand is expected to cost $239,000 and is to be completed in December.
The stand is designed for about 1,300 invited guests, consisting of the president, vice president and their families, current and former members of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, members of the Senate, and other officials who have the rank of general, and winners of the Medal of Honor.
Although the bulk of the budget for the inauguration — $500,000 — will be used to erect stands, more than half will be used for decorations, invitations and personnel.
The winner's inaugural committee, to be established after the election, will decide on the number and location of inaugural galas, authorize a budget, send sworn enclosures, and control a large number of tickets for the actual ceremony.