University Daily Kansan, December 8, 1980
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Actors strike, J.R., cable made season (un)forgettable
By LORI JABARA
Guest Columnist
We know now who did it. Kristin did it. That schering all the temperstress trap her sister's husband, J. R. Ewing. We waited eight months for it and now we know. But contrary to what many may think, the shooting of a gas oil magnite was not the only television show.
Two things added a twist to television in the first year of the new decade. First, the actor's strike that began in the summer delayed the network's fall season premieres. We saw older movies on prime time television and a lot of reruns.
Second, the growing sensation of alternative viewing mechanisms, not only cable television, but Home Box Office, Cinemax and the increasingly popular video recorders. With these came TV movie advertisements to the tune of "First time on network television" and "Another world premiere movie on free streaming." In 2015 a new potpourri of programs, specials, movies and news reports were still offered to the viewing public.
In return series the nation mourned the death of Edith Bunker, welcomed a new Angel, Tanya Roberts, and assisted the M*A"S*H unit in an operation that turned into a bombing mission. The screen laughed a laugh track and with a clock ticking off the minutes in the corner of the screen.
new shows began to appear that utilized the talents of "real people" (perhaps a result of the actor's strike), namely "That's My Line," "Speak Up America" and "That's Incredible." A new daytime drama, "Texas," which presumably hopes to capitalize on the growing Lone Star State fascination, also premiered.
Television movies that premiered included "Scruples," from the book by the same author, and "The Untold Story"; and the controversial "Playing for Time," with anti-Zionist sympathizer Vanessa Redgrave cast as a Jewish prisoner in a German concentration camp.
Motion pictures that premiered on television included "All the President's Men," II., "Midnight Express," II., "Beauty," "Fanny Lady" and "Saturday Night Fever."
The saga, or mini-series, which has enjoyed increasing popularity in recent years, came in the form of "The Martian Chronicles," "The Chisholms," "The Seekers" (the third of John Jakes' Kent Family novels), and "Shogun."
Public television offered some fine programs including "The Voyage of Charles Darwin," "The Flambards," "Lilly," "Pride and Prejudice," "Sarah," on the life of actress Sarah Bernhardt and profiles of William Faulkner and Arthur Miller.
Under the category of specials came "the first lady of television" Lucille Ball, "Goldie and Liza," "Baryshikov on Broadway," and several from Bob Hope. We saluted King David on Broadway, 25th, 28th, 25th, 28th, 25 years of rock 'n' roll and 50 years to country music from the Grand Ole Ory.
And the award shows. In addition to the Oscars, the Emmys, the Tonys and the Grammys, there were Entertainer of the Year, a Choice Awards, Juke Box Awards and more.
In preparation for the 1980 presidential election, the Republican and Democratic forum debates were broadcast, as were news reports about the vents and the election results on Nov. 4. The "instant commentary" of network newsmen took a beating that night, however, with the announcement that Ronald Reagan had lost the Senate before the polls had collapsed on the West Coast.
And as we say goodbye to this year, 1890, we also say goodbye to the man whose very name means news to so many Americans, Walter Cronkite. Cronkite, who is retiring, will be replaced as the CBS Evening News anchorman by Dan Rather in February 1881.
Bloodshed, hostages, war dominate international scene
By IAN SIMPSON
Guest Columnist
1980 was a year of embassy seizures, of bloodshed on all continents, of millions of people made homeless by disruptions both political and natural. It was a year when crises in the Persian Gulf caused the fracture of the Islamic State and the resignation of a secretary of state.
It was a year when assassins killed in metropolitan streets, when dozens perished in neo-fascist bombings in Western Europe. It was a year when a strange flower called peace bloomed in Zimbabwe, and when oil prices dropped. And it was a year when the world wondered at Polish workers who demanded freedom from a Communist government—and get it.
More than anything, 1800 was the year of the Persian Gulf. The strategic oil-rich sands of the region and its explosive rivalries were the focus of world attention.
Eight Americans died in the desert southeast of Tehran during an abortive attempt to rescue the hostages. No American allies knew of the effort beforehand. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance resigned on April 27 in protest of the raid.
At year's end, the release of the American hostages, held in Iran since Nov. 4, 1979, appeared deadlocked. The political chaos of post-revolutionary Iran, the intriguation of the Ayatollah Rutubullah Khomeini and the Iranian nuclear made resolution of the crisis seem remote.
The death of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Cairo on July 27 gave no relief to the hostage crisis. In late October the Algerian government began to act as an intermediary between the United States and Iran to resolve the 13-month-old crisis quietly.
On Sept. 29 a long-simmering dispute between Iran and Iraq over control of the Shatt al Arab waterway and in islands in the Strait of Hormuz flared into war. The Iraqi struck with superior forces against Iran's oil refineries at the head of the Persian Gulf, but Iranian resistance stiffened. By mid-November the war settled into stalemate.
The peace talks between Israel and Egypt over Palestinian autonomy became deadlocked, although negotiations resumed in October.
The Russians became tangled in a guerrilla war in the mountains of Afghanistan while propping up the government of Afghan President Babrak Karmal. P 80,000 humans and thousands rebel villages, and hundreds of thousands of refugees fed into neighboring Pakistan.
In response to the Afghan invasion, the United States placed an embargo on grain sales to Russia, and in March President Obama wrote on the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
On April 12 the U.S. Olympic Committee voted not to send U.S. athletes to the Moscow Summer Games. Most Western nations followed suit.
Great Britain suffered in 1980 under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's monetarist policies, designed to curb inflation and shake the nation from its economic malaise. Nearly 8 million Britons were unemployed, interest rates and bankruptcies mounted into the thousands.
Fascist bombings in a train station in Bologna, Italy, on Aug. 2, outside a Paris synagogue on Oct. 3 and in a crowd at one of the most killed 101 persons and wounded hundreds.
An Oct. 10 earthquake lauded the Algerian city of Al Aamam, and another tremor racked
southern Italy in late November. Both quakes killed thousands.
In Canada, a referendum that would have led to Quebec's separation from the rest of the nation was voted down on May 20. Late in the year, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau wrestled with fractious provinces that objected to his plans for a new constitution.
The Turkish military overthrew the government of Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel on Sept. 12 to stem rising political inflation and to arrest the nation's 150 percent inflation rate.
Warsaw workers struck in July to protest meat prices, and the strikes spread quickly. On Aug. 31 strike leader Lech Walesa and a government representative signed an agreement in the Leninship shipyard in Gdkansi that allowed for free trade unions, freedom of publication, liberation of political prisoners and the right to strike.
On Sept. 9, First Party Secretary Edward Gierke resigned and was replaced by Stansilaw Kania. Kania, mindful of the Soviet's interest in the Polish unrest, attention to the national unions' demands. The Soviets began massing troops in the Polish frontier on Dec. 2.
In Latin America more than 100,000 Cuban refugees fled to the United States throughout the war.
On Feb. 27 the Bogota, Colombia, embassy of the Dominican Republic, along with a group of ambassadors, were seized by gunmen of the Colombian M-19 revolutionary militias held the ambassadors for two months until the Colombians acceded to their demands
This year in El Salvador 50 persons died each day from the political warfare. On March 24 El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Armuno Romero, one of Latin America's most respected clerics, died at an assassin's hand while celebrating Mass.
The war continued inside Cambodia between dictator Pol Pot's guerrillas and the Vietnamese. The Vietnamese struck across Cambodia during the war, and they thought were guerrilla staging areas.
The Nobel Prize committee awarded the
Alfredo Perez Esquivel,
an Argentine human rights activist.
Former Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza died in a machine gun and rocket attack in Asuncion, Paraguay, in mid-1980s, with leftists claimed responsibility for the attack.
China continued to implement the "Four Modernizations" designed to make it a world power. The show trial of the Gang of Four, an international revolution, began in Peking in November.
On April 27, the British formally gave up control of a colony, and Rhodesia became Zimbabwe. Marrists guerrilla Robert Mugabe presided, and espoused moderation.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi tightened her on hold in India, although the death of her son and political protege Sanjay in a flying accident robbed her of a successor.
Vice-Premier Deng ShaP ping named Zhao Ziyang to replace Premier Hu Guo Feng.
Liberian Master Sgt. Michael K. Doe overthrew the government of William Tolbert on April 12. Ten days later 13 officials of the United States were on the Atlantic shore and machine-gunned.
Hippie power bows to prep look
International relief organizations said that 2.5 million people were refugees in the Horn of Africa from the secessionist wars raging in the Ogaden and in Eritrea. The drought that hit Ethiopia in 1980, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti compounded the area's agony.
By JOE BARTOS
Guest Columnist
Turn on, tune in, drop out. Hippy power.
Brother. Sister. Make love, not war. We are stardust. Let's make a revolution.
Ten years ago the University of Kansas was a very different place. Our campus, like so many others, was alive with rebellion. It pulsed with matches, protest marches and talk of a new order.
It was a magic time to be young—a crazy carnival complete with happy melodies, candyclaw clowns, exotic freaks and rides that rocked with eclectic guests explored this world with rocked abandon.
How different from our campus today. As the new decade rolls on, careers and private affairs are on the minds of most students. The mood is serious, and religious morality and conservative politics have returned to our University. Well-known professors students pursue tranquil lives and a secure future.
The 60's are only a colorful, hazy memory. Most current undergraduates were in elementary school during the protests and violence that rocked KU and other campuses across the country. We were too young to know about Hight-Ashbury and the Flower Children, about the Black Panthers, The Beatsniks and Civil Rights protest flurished before some of us were even born.
We've mortgaged our youth for a piece of a cozy future. With it we've mortgaged our integrity and minds. Somehow we've even managed to enjoy our vacuity, interpreting our emptyness and shallowness as maturity and realism. We accept the explanations of "authorities" to have something to cover the holes in our heads and hearts.
The dreams and aspirations of the sixties have largely expired, withered by apathy and a return to normality.
Once, students challenged teachers and authorities and proved them wrong. Today, we are only too willing to be spoon-fed information and regurgitate it on command. Once, students were only willing to explore the world around them. Today, we are only too willing to trade in that freedom for a job and an early place on the ladder to success and security. Once, students were willing to put themselves on the ladder for something they would not have done if afluential people has made idealism impractical.
It seems sad because we've lost more than radical ideals and hopes—our generation has lost its youth. We've lost the desire to question, the desire to be free, the desire to make life an adventure. We take few risks and accept society's opressions without a struggle.
What remains faces charges of extremism and silliness. In place of the old goals is a new philosophy of pragmatism and self-promotion. This seems very sad.
But perhaps the greatest tragedy is not the loss of our youth but the loss of a golden chance to ask important questions and find answers. Never again will we have the opportunity to investigate so much of life and find out so much about ourselves.
Our University is a microcosm of the world around us—a microcosm in which we are free to roam and explore. If, in our narrow pursuit of knowledge, we cannot understand or involve them, we have only ourselves to blame.
No doubt students in the sixties had a lot of
problems and made a lot of mistakes. And perhaps they were often extreme or foolish and some of them were very lost. But part of being the boss is also getting lost. It's part of learning and growing.
Scanning the blank, somber faces in the hallways and classrooms of our grey, manicured campus, the words of a veteran of the '60s comes to mind.
"Yeah, when you get right down to it, some things happened too. But God it was exciting to be him."
DAVE KRAUS/Kansas Staff
Administration shuffle top KU news story
Guest Columnists
By KERRY SCOTT and DAVID WEED
It was the year of the administration shuffle. Archie R. Dykes, KU's chancellor for seven years, resigned in May to work for a Topeka insurance company.
His antithesis, KU student activist Ron Kuby,
left for law school in New York.
Del Shankel, who had resigned as executive vice chancellor in late 1979, postponed his plans to return to teaching to serve as acting chancellor during the search for Dykes' replacement.
Robert Cobb, who had been dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was chosen as Shankel's replacement, and Ralph Christofersen, who had been vice chancellor for academic affairs, was chosen by Colorado State University as its new president.
The director of the office of affirmative action, Bonnie Ritter, resigned after an extended leave of absence. She charged that the University had little commitment to affirmative action principles and was then chosen without what many believed to be an adequate affirmative action search.
Dykes' final troubles with freedom of speech protesters came at Commencement, just before he resigned. Two protesters, were arrested, some for wearing signs and others for holding up banners that said, "Support First Amendment Freedom at KU." and "Help We're Being Banned."
Graduates who wore balloons and other paraphernalia on their graduation caps criticized the protesters for disrupting the solemnity of Commencement. Charges against the protesters were later dropped, and the Board of Regents began discussing possible revisions of the University's banner policy, which prohibits banners at non-political University events.
The administration also was criticized by some professors who did not think professors Norman Forel and Clarence Dillingham should have been put on "leave without pay" status when they traveled to Iran last Christmas to discuss the hostage crisis.
Forer made a second trip to Iran early this year, and when he returned he criticized the government for its handling, and the media for its coverage, of the hostage situation. Rev. Jack Bremer of the KU Ecumenical Christian Ministries then went to Iran with two other ministers to perform Easter services for the hostages.
While Forer and Bremer were traveling from KU, presidential candidates John Anderson and Donald Badgely traveled to KU. Badgely, who said he had been sent by God to run in the Kansas primary, attracted few listeners, but Anderson's audience filled Hoch Auditorium.
Student government at KU had its problems when the Student Senate could not get a quorum at a Senate meeting to vote on whether to reduce the Senate's size from 120 to 68 members. The Senate would increase its size because of trouble getting quarums. The bill finally passed University Senate.
The Senate also was upset when members found out that the Kansas had obtained a list of the 50 states to be used in the election.
The fccederal government announced in August, in response to two complaints that KU's women's auditorium was unseated.
State government got involved in two KU disputes. The attorney general's office ruled that the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation was closely affiliated with the University and therefore had to open its financial records. Later, the university signed a separate agreement with the University Endowment Association was separate from the University and did not have to open its financial records.
derstadified, that the KU athletic department would be investigated for possible violations of Title IX guidelines, which require comparable funding for men's and women's sports.
Besides trying to obtain access to Endowment Association financial records, the KU Committee on South Africa continued to protest Endowment Association investments in American companies doing business in South Africa.
New buildings, additions and renovations also continued. A new broadcast journalism building was planned and additions to Robinson Gymnastium and Malott Hall were completed. The Malott completion was slowed by a small fire in the new wing.
Renovation of Flint Hall was planned, a renovation of Marvin Hill scattered architecture students among campus buildings, and renovation of Watson Library caused a disruption in the production of "I survived the renovation of Watson Library" T-shirts by library personnel.
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