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January 22,1980
Rent priorities wrong
KU housing rents are on the rise again. And, except for vague mumblings about inflationary operating and maintenance costs, administration officials seem unable to reasonably justify the increases.
Effective this fall, double occupancy rooms at residence halls will cost $132 a year more than this year and single rooms will cost $377 a year. Rent at Stouffer Place, KU's low-rent housing project, will increase $10 a month for both one and two bedroom apartments.
The rent increases were approved Friday by the Kansas Board of Regents in Topeka.
The increases, especially those set for Stouffer Place, have understandably stirred up questions among residents of the housing units
First, why $10 a month? J.J. Wilson, KU housing director, says the additional $36,000 brought in by the increase would be used to offset rising operating and maintenance costs. However, Tim Sterling, a Stouffer resident, challenges this statement by citing statistics from the University's own financial reports. These statistics, Sterling says, indicate that the additional revenue is far more than what is needed to make up the difference between present revenues and expenditures.
One gets the feeling that $10 was arbitrarily chosen as a nice round figure for a rent increase.
After all, the project was designed and built to provide low-rent housing for students who could not afford to live in these areas. We made money for KU housing to recirculate.
Second, why the rush to pay off the bonds used to finance the Stouffor project 10 to 20 years earlier than stipulated? No one can criticize the effort from a strictly business point of view. But why should students living there now be made to pay off bonds whose payments were originally meant to be distributed among residents for 10 to 20 more years?
Third, and perhaps most important, if past budgets have burdened students with rents higher than they should have been paying as Paul Arnold, budget officer for the Regents, says may be the case, why is the practice being perpetuated? Arnold casually passes it off as "an ongoing process" and accuses those students protesting the increases of being more interested in their pocketbooks than in institutional welfare.
Everyone is aware of how much it costs to live these days—to operate a home and maintain its existence. Of course the students are more interested in that than in institutional welfare, Mr. Arnold. Aren't you?
Douglas blazed trails for individual freedom
William O. Douglas publicly professed himself to be a man who would rather set a precedent than find one to follow. This was the philosophy he implemented in his personal life as well as in his record 36-year term as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Douglas, 81, died Saturday, after four years of progressively deteriorating health. He will be buried tomorrow in Arlington National Cemetery near the grave site of former Chief Justice Oliver W. Holmes.
When he took a seat on the bench in April 1939, Douglas was the youngest man to hold the position in 125 years. He was 41 years old but looked much younger. His nomination by President Franklin Roosevelt was one that pleased the public, the White House and Congress all at once—a rare event.
school, where he specialized in bankruptcy and corporation law.
The credentials he brought to the bench included a professorship at Yale University and a term as chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission.
"I am the kind of conservative," Douglas said, "who can't get away from the idea that simple honesty should prevail in the financial world."
He was born in Maine, Minn., but grew up in Yakima, Wash. He went to Whitman College in Walton, Walla Walla. He graduated from Yakima and graduated in 1920. He later went to law
With this attitude in mind, Douglas helped, with or perhaps forced, the Stock Exchange to learn how to govern itself honorably.
Douglas' primary goal as a Supreme Court Justice was to free and protect the individual—especially from government encroachment. His bulwark was the Constitution, his standard the First Amendment.
"The First Amendment," he said, "makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of our society, the great postulate of our democracy."
William O. Douglas believed in the American people and in what he was doing for them.
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The Kansas legislature this week will stoop to consider House Bill 2757, a piece of legislation that exemplifies the worst of bald-faced discrimination. The bill is an embarrassment to the state and its administration of it. It minimizes its pettiness.
Bigoted bill aimed at foreign students
The bill, which goes before the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee Thursday, would raise the tuition paid by foreign students at Regents schools by $300 a semester. According to the bill's author, State Rep. Bill Filler, R-Missouri, has proposed up a budget shortage by making foreign students pay a larger percentage of their education costs.
Well, Mr. Fuller, that's not all the bill would do. It is as discriminatory a piece of legislation as any Jim Crow law. To have an open-ended Kansas leisureism is an embarrassment.
Kansas—home of friendly, generous Midwesterners. Yeah, right, boy, you’re welcome here as long as we get your buckets. The Nebraska pay for enjoying our friendly faces.
AISIDE FROM the out-and-out rigor of the bill, there are other reasons for rejecting it. Undoubtedly, it would reduce the number of foreign students in Kansas. In the next
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must battle inflation and education costs just as American students must.
HOUSE BILL 2757 would not substantially decrease the taxpayers' burden. Instead, it would create illicit, by striking at a vulnerable part of the economy, reactionary, bigoted Kansans. It would disrupt the exchange of American and Japanese goods it would cost far more than it could ever save.
few years, college enrollment will begin to decline. Kansas schools are going to need all the students they can attract. Tuition of more than $2,900 is the best way recruitment works.
The more than 1,500 foreign students at KU contribute a lot of money to the Lawrence economy, they rent apartments in Kansas. Some have chosen to settle in Kansas, buying homes and cars. The Kansas are fewerforeign students.
KANSAS UNIVERSITIES also would lose the toplight intellects of many foreign students. Many foreign students attend Kansas, which gives them the power given by their governments to only the best students. Kansas would lose those minds. Foreign graduate students will go elsewhere and Kansas institutions would lose the research and teaching that many of them
stitution, such as KU, can be maintained only if the University can attract promising students. In this case, a benefit school in Kansas would benefit schools in other states by forcing foreign students to attend KU.
The high quality of a large research in-
THE BILL is a painful, illogical, isolationist measure. It has been proposed by the government to rest the rest of the world as the shakiest they have been in a long time. It would accomplish little good, because the extra cost of operating the Regents schools. The bill would do little to offset the cost of operating the Regents schools. The bill would surround around the necks of foreign students, who
THE BILL could also affect the KU study abroad program. It would cut into the direct exchange scholarship programs that KU used to pay for their education, simply because the University would have to pay the extra 6000 a year for each college student it accepts. Higher tuition increases will make relationships with schools in other countries. Should France or West Germany raise their tuition for foreign students, fewer KU students should afford the enrichment of studying abroad.
That, Mr. Fuller, is what House Bill 2757 is all about.
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Videotape policy should be specific
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Oread, the videopating of public events,
such as football games and rallies, is going
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Texas.
KU officials could not have made this point more obvious than when they released a set of interim videotaping guidelines last fall.
The guidelines give the University Police Department the right to videotape any public event, and to use the evidence for criminal prosecution.
**officials said time and time again. "This is only a temporary policy until the intern guidelines will give way to a permanent videotaping policy now being developed by the Human Relations Committee."** The University Senate executive committee.
But if KU officials get their way, the permanent policy will be the same or very similar to the interim guidelines.
And, because faculty and student groups were not even aware that an interim policy was in the works, the KU administration has
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managed to develop a policy without opposition.
According to KU officials, the policy was designed primarily to monitor football games until the permanent policy could be developed.
EUT FOOTBALL games are not even EUT FOOTBALL games are not even explicitly or implicitly, the real intent of the game is summed up in the first guideline: "Videotaping is an important part of University sport."
the ethics of the videapeting policy seem irrelevant compared to the questionable way in which it was adopted. The aid conflict with the University community.
to make the policy more acceptable, as well as more ethical, the administration must keep its promise to instill openness into the policy. So far the University has
done only a mediocre job in that department.
However, KU officials must be given credit, too. Although they were secretive in developing the policy, KU officials have shared their intentions to videotape events.
IN ADDITION, the interim policy may be "right (to videotape) will be exercised with discretion." This vague phrase, by any means, does not exactly emphasize openness.
Generally, videotaping has been done in an "open and unsecretive manner" as the administration said it would.
For example, KU officials did not respond when SenEx, a group of students and faculty members, informally suggested that the KU judge should report after any public event was videotaped.
Also, it must be noted that the camera is turned on only if criminal activity has been spotted by scanner. All useless evidence is erased.
It would be unfair, not to mention ludicrous, to accuse KU officials of acting out the role of "Big Brother."
SINCE THE 1979 Vitzah Rabin fiasco, when the University was unable to prosecute disrupters of the former Israeli prime minister's speech here, the administration has purchased videodapage content to help prosecute future offenders.
The administration's intentions are the act of dehumanizing the persons who protection it, and pursuing its ironically, KU officials formulated this testimony with virtually no student or WOLV students.
For the University's sake, the permanent policy should be much more specific than the interim one.
The University community should know why any public event is being videodaped. And the University always should be willing to explain its actions.
THE NEW POLICY should outline what constitutes an event that needs to be videotaped instead of simply giving KU policy the discretion to videotake any event.
Only then will the policy be effective and, perhaps, the videotaping controversy will be settled once and for all.
Doctor smokes to protect his health
By FRANK A. OSKI
N. Y. Times Special Features
SYRACUSE, N.Y.—Look at you—a doctor--smoking?" it is a remark directed at me with such monotonic regularity that it will be the only response to all those health-conscious but unmified individuals who appear to be multiplying in numbers more rapidly than they should.
"I smoke for my health," is my sincere reply.
Let me explain.
Define explain:
Smoking makes me cough. Coughing prevents pneumonia. Doesn't everybody know that?
Certainly anyone who was forced to blow into a bottle of colored fluid following an operation by stern nurses and surgeons is probably a victim of "cough or else you will get pneumonia."
I stopped smoking once for a period of three months. I stopped coughing. I got pneumonia.
SMOKING MAKES my heart go faster. One of the prime reasons for jogging or exercising is to get the heart up and duvacuole system a workout, to increase your heart rate. Well, we willgive you each morning at the crack of dawn, dons her shirt, takes a deep breath and have a cigarette. She comes back sweating profusely, frequently muddling her clothes and then and I check mine. Both are racing away. Good exercise for both of us and I haven't run the race before, so I'm driving me and I check mine.
Smoking dampens my sense of taste and decreases my appetite. I maintain a very satisfactory weight. Everybody knows the harbours of obesity. If one studies the ac-
I AGREE that a fat smoker may be in for trouble so I smoke even harder to destroy my annette.
President Carter cites our "crisis of confidence" as the major problem in our
turial tables provided by insurance companies, it can be noted that the diseases associated with obesity—such as hypertension, diabetes, and respiratory illnesses—kill as many people as the disease increases in mortality among smokers.
Smoking is a vote of confidence in American science. If you don't smoke, it suggests that you fear lung cancer, emphysema and coronary artery disease. You would only be afraid if you thought they were either non-preventable or incurable. Talk of non-preventable or incurable injury lack of faith in science and medicine.
country today. Not smoking is an expression of this crisis in confidence.
I have confidence in my country and in American medicine.
I express my confidence by smoking—to do otherwise snacks of treason.
**FINALLY.** SMOKING indicates a learner. I have heard people complain about smokers' behavior they smell. Racial bigotry is unacceptable, why is social responsibility accepted, even when it involves smoking?
Look to the back of the airplane—a more convivial crowd, a more accepting crowd, people without a frown.
If we start segregating people based on smell, what will happen to all of us who don't bathe?
Now let me tell you why I drink.
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