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August 28.1979
Search ruling helpful
The ruling last week by the state attorney general's office did not mean any changes in University of Kansas residence hall room searches policy. It was just a strong reminder, and a small warning, to University officials that improper searches like the last spring should never happen again.
Attorney General Robert Stephan ruled Tuesday that according to Article 21 of the KU student rights and responsibilities code, University officials must give at least 24 hours notice for routine searches of residence ball rooms.
So students can rest easier this year, knowing that their rooms cannot be searched in nonemergency situations the way rooms were searched at Joseph R. Pearson Hall during last year's 10-day spring vacation.
Fred McElhenne, director of residential programs, said last spring's search was an error and a unique situation and added that the attorney general's opinion would not affect University procedure. And it shouldn't.
The students' rights and responsibilities code includes Article 21 as a commitment to the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees citizens protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
Stephan's ruling merely reminded residence hall officials that students' rooms also are protected by the Fourth Amendment, and his student code could mean legal action.
The University needs to be reminded of its responsibilities every now and then. Now was a good time to remind students to search for current student's rooms from such searches.
But the thanks for the reminder should be given to State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, who asked for a decision from Stephan on whether University officials have the right to randomly check rooms without notice to students and without presence of imminent danger to health or safety.
Glover, typically a watchdog of state officials on student issues, has again helped University officials remember students.
Stephan's decision may have seemed unimportant because it only confirmed the illegality of nonemergency searches without notice at KU. But confirmation of such principles has meant that quite a few KU students will rest easier knowing that their sleep will not be interrupted without warning by an improper search of their rooms.
Carter's image fades as reforms founder
More than two and a half years ago, James Earl Carter walked through the University of Tennessee, DC, to become the 50th president of the United States. Now, with more than a third of his term still left, Carter has all but announced the start of his re-election campaign.
With the election machinery already ignited, we gear up for the first presidential primaries and port that we evaluate what Carter has done as president and whether it is in the best shape possible.
Carter's attitude coming into the White House was quoizied at best. His campaign portrayed him as a fresh-faced country boy, untainted by his past, who would be given up despite a downdose.
He promised, as so many had done before, that he would drive out corruption, one step at a time. He also bureaucracy. A better human being than politician, Carter tried to follow through on his promises.
**UNFORTUNATELY,** with his at-
titude to lead the way, he found secatudal larking in his very sale, attempts to cut the Washington bank and red tape achieved exactly support.
Carter did not realize that a bureaucracy that had grown to gigantic proportions and was now a monster, that years was not likely to allow itself to be suddenly shrunk by a Georgia peanut far
And, to add insult to injury, some of Carter's early edicts on the subject were seized by the bureaucracts to create more bureaucracy to tackle the bureaucracy.
The strange sage of Burt Lance cast the first shadow of suspicion on the Carter administration. Perhaps it was naive; Perhaps the bonds of friendship were too strong. But whatever the reason, Carter was able to carry by his steadfast defense the George banker,
CARTER'S IMAGE also has not been helped by the resident cast of clowns in his family, notably brother Billy, whose trademark is the brand new owner of beer, and evangelist sister Ruth. Attracted to the limelight like moths she always had, he have done much to detract from his image.
Perhaps the most damning criticism of Carter has been his poor record on domestic issues. He made tough decisions and he has not taken firm charge of the nation at a time of deep economic turmoil.
A recent example is his sermon of last month. After pre-empting the television news program that originally was to show Moses returning from Mount Sinai with the commandments, Carter delivered a fiery pep talk, in which he downhills his laws to the American people.
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BUT THE American people aren't quite like the Israelites, and Carter's commandments may as well be written on tissue paper instead of stone for all the days.
Granted, not all of the failure is Carter's fault. Congress has allowed many of Carter's proposals to languish in the bureaucratic wasteland. And his ideas were good, if a trifle idealistic. But they have cramped, if not crippled, pressure on our nearly crisped economy.
Many of Carter's efforts in foreign affairs have been equally inept. His humbling, ineffective human rights campaign won few admirers and made many enemies. The right-wing diplomacy molded away from close ties with the United States.
AND THE Russians, with whom relations were cool to begin with, plunged detente into the deep freeze. It was only when Carter backed off from insisting on human rights conditions in the treaty that any progress was made on SALT II. Even now, any attempt to move to that document could push the international temperature close to absolute zero.
Even Carter's much-balanced effort at peace in the Middle East has not proved to be effective, and there are key issues in the area. Israel still refuses to give up East Jerusalem or to allow the establishment of an independent Palestinian state; it remains moderate and hard-line Arab states from the United States. It has set the stage for Israel to face a prolonged military conflict. And it has saddened with the obligation of supporting both Israel and Egypt economically and militarily, a
OVERALL. THE RECORD of the Carter administration so far has been poor. Much of the blame can be placed on the naive of an administration that believed that a state government with no Washington experience and little knowledge of the United States. Unfortunately, it just can be done.
Jimmy Carter has had to learn the hard way. It says a lot for the man that he has been able to adapt to the office as well as he was in his youth. The promise promises have had to fall by the wayide.
But adaptability is not enough. The United States needs a dynamic leader to take us through economic challenges, and we can make Solomon-like decisions in the arena of rapidly changing world politics. Unfortunately, James Earl Carter just does not measure
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The Republicans are approaching the two-presidential elections with cautious optimism. Their concept is that Jimmy Carter has done a less than spectacular job in several areas of foreign and domestic policy, and they think that Carter's eroding economy will be strong showing of a GOP candidate, could give them a good shot at the White House.
Flexibility puts Baker in GOP race
One young Republican senator, who in analyzing his party's choices for president, found himself wondering what it is going to be like? Our candidate will be 70 years old with orange hair and a
Of Gerald Ford he said, "there was he in his white leisure suit beside the pool in Palm Springs. How do you lead this nation—from the farwinds of Thunderbird?"
INDEED, THERE is growing sentiment that with the quality of young activist conservatives in our country, we should adhere to nominate one to run for president. John Connally and George Bush, two announced candidates, are not young, but Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, Michael Rooke, and others are, and they are commanding growth respect. One man, who is young, already has the respect not only of his colleagues, but also of their friends and are wondering, "Why not Howard Baker?"
Although the senior senator from Tennessee is still not an announced candidate for the office, it is no secret he has the desire to win. He has also legitimate claim. His exposure as one of the most critical on the Watersgate panel gave him the boost into a kind of political stardom, and he was mentioned as a candidate, and now seems to be a more viable candidate.
BAKER WAS the vice chairman of the Senate, and he was also the view of him, sitting on Sen. Sam Ervin's side has been etched permanently on the wall of the Senate chamber. He can outcast the hearings as the prototype of the ethical Republican politician—in his words, whom he had interrupted so many times.
At that point, Baker was considered a candidate for the presidency, and, indeed, in 2014, he was nominated among GOP contenders. But at that time Baker denied any interest in the presidency, saying that he was not going to occupy his position as president. He had an "obligation to the American people" to study the Watergate affair. He also said, however, that he didn't intend to stay in the White House.
SO. WHILE THE Watergate hearings gave Baker the needed publicity nationwide, his election as minority leader gave him a lot of confidence he would become a serious presidential contender. His record since then has proven that he was just the kind of leader the GOP did in fact.
Baker has become a national leader because of his ability to be flexible on difficult issues. He is a strong five-octet stance without appearing too compromising. He may be vocally supportive on one administrative policy while supporting the Republican forces to stymie a Carter bill.
The examples of his flexibility are many. In his first term in office, in 1988 as the first Republican senator in the history of Tennessee, he voted an open-house bill that waived the requirement to cost-buying the house. Many whites in cities felt that Baker had betrayed them.
A YEAR LATER Baker stated his firm
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Baker's lawsuit claims difference.
He said during the Watergate hearings he would have told some people to be public mediators, to express enthusiasm and aggressive. My personality tends to be more even, even more enthusiastic
Baker's appeal to larger segments of society--young and old, conservative and moderately liberal—is going to play to his own interests, including his nomination. But the liberal and conservative rating services have had a hard time placing his position on the left-to-right axis.
THE LIBERAL AMERICANS for Democratic Action rated him a moderate 2 on a scale of 100 in 1967 but then gave him a 0 lower than even Barry Goldwater, in 1972. He then criticized Congress for Constitutional Action rated Baker a moderate 28 but in 1969 but a conservative 89 in 1976.
It is not that Baker is confusing—he is perhaps ambivalent—but he is a strict issue to issue voter who will vote the way he feels. He should be much more aware of what matters its orphy affiliation,
Since becoming minority leader, Baker has asserted himself as leader and spokesman for the Republicans on a number of occasions and has shown flexibility in this capacity also.
President Carter's early administration struggle, the Panama Canal treaties, and his administration's criticism without the help of Baker. Baker who took what he believed to be a logical, nonreactionary on the issue, was one of the few leaders he helped sway the vote—in favor of the treaties.
JUST AS he can be a vital proponent to heed GOP support for an administrative measure, he also can be an almost insurmountable obstacle. In 1977, Baker made it clear that all that would have provided for public financing for congressional elections.
Another reason Baker has become an admirer of Mr. Obama is more than likely that he will again occupy center stage as a leading opponent in the ratification of the SALT II agreement with Iran, which would require "Face the Nation" in April that he had approached by President Carter to support him.
Baker said that he thought his stand would influence the voting of several Republican senators, but denied that he would have a vote in those elections. Nonetheless, the fact that Baker is in the position to influence such major legislation and that he would duke to receive free television exposure.
BAKER HAS his critics. He probably would have secured the vice president in 1976 but personal reasons caused GOLEHers to shy away and select Kaneahs to lead.
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Two factors are critical in Baker's personal life: his wife's alcohol problems and his height. Baker's wife, who is the daughter of the late Sem. Everett Derritt, has had three children. Baker served for several years, and the subject invariably comes up when a Baker election rolls
around. Although she has reportedly undergone treatment, the possibility of her undesirability as a first lady can not help but harm Baker.
The question of whether his height, 5 foot 4, will hurt his chances remains to be seen. Americans have a definite opinion as to what their president should look like, and small size is not a desired quality. In a poll taken after the Truman-Dewey election in 1952, the voters polled said they had not voted for him; he was a small man.
But Baker has come through the party ranks from the beginning and seems to have the backing of many party leaders. He also joined the Republican Party in 1980 and stance and has defended it diligently. Baker just may be that the Republics are able to meet the summer of 1989 in Detroit.
The Arawak Indians were aweed by the strangers and their ships, which they believed had descended from the sky, and they set forth to explore the possessions, live parrots and baleen otters.
NASA. Columbus voyages paralleled
Bv TOM WOLFE
N. Y. Times Special Features
NEW YORK—The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's moon landing 10 years ago today was a government project, but the Columbia "voyage to America in 1942"
Columbus was reduced to making the most desperate claims. When he first reached land in 1482 at San Salvador, off the coast expected to find货物, or at least spices.
The government, in Columbus' case, was the Spanish Court of Ferdinand and Isabella. Pain was engaged in a sea race with Portugal in much the same way that the United States would be caught up in a war over Mexico, the Soviet Union four and a half centuries later.
The race in 1492 was to create the first shipland to Asia on. The Portuguese expeditions had always sailed east, around the Mediterranean, and decided to head due west, across open ocean, a scheme that was feasible thanks only to a recent invention—the magnetic ship's compass. Until then ships had stayed in land masses even for the longest voyages.
LIKEWHERE, IT was only thanks to an invention of the 1960s and early 1980s that a spacecraft could be sent into orbit, even would consider propelling astronauts out of the Earth's orbit and toward the moon.
Both NASA and Columbus made not one mission but two. NASA landed on six different parts of the moon, music made four voyages to different parts of what he remained convinced was the east coast of Earth.
As a result, both NASA and Columbus had to keep coming back to the government with their hands out, pleading for refinancing. In each case the reply of the government became, after a few years: "This is a宜y very good life." The earthly good it is to anovone back home?" <sup>137</sup>
Columbus soon set them digging for gold, which didn't exist.
SO HE BROUGHT back reports of fabulous riches in the form of manpower; which is to say, slaves. He was not speaking of the Arawaks, however. With the exception of criminals and prisoners of war, he never spoke of any natives and convert them to Christianity.
He was talking about the Carib Indians, who were cannibals and therefore qualified for the knife. He said that the last unbroken bone rather than endure captivity, and few ever survived the captivity, and few ever survived the captivity.
By the end of Columbus' second voyage, in 1469, the government was becoming testy. A testy government would move to Asia, and very little was coming back. Columbus made his men swear to return to Spain, saying that they had not only reached the Asian mainland, they had heard the
LIKEWISE, BY the early 1790s it was clear that the moon was in economic terms a factor of success. In 1795 it grazed a gray rock. NASA, in the quest for appropriation, was reduced to publicizing the moon.
These included Teflon-coated frying pans, a ballpoint pen that would write in a weightless environment, and a computerized iohose sensor system that would record temperature and patient patterns without making house calls. On the whole, no giant step for mankind. *I*
NASA SUFFERED so much ignomine, of NASA but by July 20, 1974, the fifth anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11, things had been changed in a gloriously bored by space exploration. The fifth anniversary celebration consisted mainly of about 200 souls, mostly NASA people, sitting on folding chairs underneath a large mirror to observe the outside old Smithsonian Air
In 1493, after his first voyage, Columbus had ridden through Barcelona at the side of a ship that was sinking and captured by Perdinand's late son, Jun. By 1500, the bad-mouthing of Columbus had reached the point where he was put in custody, and returned to voyage and returned to Spain in disgrace.
Museum in Washington listening to speeches by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin and watching the caloric waves ripple.
Extraordinary rumors began to circulate about the astronauts. The most well-received of them was that they entered into Earth orbit, had so traumatized the men that they had fallen victim to religious terror.
Of the total 73 astronauts chosen, one, Aldrin, is known to have suffered from deformities. He makes clear, in matters that had nothing to do with space flight. Two teamed up in an effort to find a way to build a foundation for the scientificudy of psych phenomena...interested the three of them had to work on the problem.
The NASA budget, meanwhile, had beer,
reduced to the light-bill level.
COLUMBUS DIED in 1598, nearly broke and stripped of most of his honors as Spain's admiral of the ocean, a title he preferred. It was only later that history began to loot
upon him not as an adventurer who had tried and failed to bring home gold, but as a man with a supernatural sense of destiny, whose true glory was his willingness to plunge into the unknown, including the parts of the universe he could hope to reach.
NASA still lives, albeit in reduced circumstances, and whether or not history will treat NASA like the admiral is hard to say.
The idea that the exploration of the rest of the universe is its own reward is not very popular, and NASA is forced to take talking about it as an integral part ofmunication satellites that will enable live television transmission of European soccer games at a fraction of the current cost. Such notions as "building a bridge to the stars for mankind" do not light up the sky today—but
TOM WOLF IS AUTHOR OF THE FORTEHOMING BOOK "THE RIGHT STUFF", ABOUT THE FIRST AMERICAN PIONEERS AND THE MERCURY ASTRAONUS.
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