Opinion
Page 4 University Daily Kansan, October 8, 1980
Teachers eved by feds
As if the University of Kansas wasn't already buried in paperwork, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget has added another meaningless slip of paper to be filled out.
And that's what it boils down to—a meaningless slip of paper. Yet the federal government says that if the slip of paper isn't filled out, the University could lose federal money gifts.
From now on, department chairmen will be required to provide a breakdown of faculty members' activities, including instruction, organized research, general university administration, maintenance of facilities and student administration and services.
OMB's actions illustrate the government's paranoia. The office simply intends to check up on every move a faculty member makes. Smile, teacher. OMB is watching you.
The purpose of the reports has not been
clarified. They seem to imply that faculty members are doing wrong and that a crackdown of some kind is necessary. In truth, many of KU's faculty members are overworked with their classes, research and other activities. And they certainly are grossly underpaid.
It will be virtually impossible for many department chairmen to provide an accurate "guess" on the time spent by faculty members on "University-related" activities.
The nature of the regulations will promote hazardous guessing and wrong calculations. A few department chairmen have gone on the record as saying the reports would force people to be liars because the calculations would be so difficult to make.
If the bureaucrats at the OMB want to determine the exact hours of service put in by faculty members, they should have installed time clocks.
Yankees make Royalmania a case of New York blues
By DON MUNDAY
Guest Columnist
If this is October, they must be sprayed. The grassy field bank of Royals Stadium, t
And it is October, which means it's playoff time. It's the best baseball month of the year. Above all else, 'tis the season to hate the Yankees!
Ah, Yankee-hating: the pastime of all true Royals fans! What a feeling it is to know that those millionaire mercenaries are coming into town again.
Clearly, the Royals and their fans would like nothing better than to send those dirty Yanks home with only the American League Eastern Division flag to fly above Yankee Stadium next year instead of the league pennant or the World Series banner. And, Yankees would very nicely note with a smirk, it couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of guys.
Some people, particularly those not yet bitten by the baseball bug, may wonder how on earth Royals lovers acquired their fanatical hatred for the New York Yankees. It's really very simple. After three playoff games, the Yankees have season confrontation; the Yankees have earned a reputation as a most, most unlikable team.
But then, perhaps a team shouldn't be judged by the stripes of its uniform, but rather by the content of its characters. Then you find a group of people more fun to hate.
For example, take Yankees third baseman Craig Nettles. He'll always be remembered for kicking George Brett back in the 77 series as Brett was sliding into third. (Brett, of course, didn't turn the other cheek. He turned Nettles' other cheek.) The kick symbolized for the world that Royals fans knew already—the Yankees play dirty.
Or how about Chris Chambliss, who isn't a Yankee any more but who won the '76 playoffs for the boys from the Bronx with a ninth-inning home? Royals fans will never forget the sight of Chambliss sprinting for the dugout after rounding second because thousands of rabid Yankee fans had invaded the field. Only the Yankees could chalk up a run from a runner who never came close to touching third base or home.
Then there's the yankiest Yankee of them all, someone who should have been with the Gotham goons from the very beginning, but who, in fact, wasn't there for the first Royals-Yankees playoff. Mr. October himself, Reggie Jackson, who can send fastballs into Earth's orbit, is coming back to town. Once again the Candyman will stroll cockily to the plate at Royals Stadium, either to strike out or to strike hard.
Once again millions will wonder how the stadium is big enough to fit Jackson's bloated ears.
October, indeed, is the month when hate surges freely in the veins of Royals fans. For long before anybody ever hated J.R., there were the Yankees. Maybe it's good they came here and played some nice games to hate these days? Our former enemies in war, such as the British, the Germans and the Japanese, are now our closest allies. For years people could hate the Reds, both Soviet and Chinese, but detente and a global view of world politics has changed all that. In these days the Midwesterners count on to be absolutely worthy of their most precious, purest hate?
Perhaps former Royals manager Whitey Herzog summed it up best when he said, "It is not so much that everybody in baseball likes the Royals. It's that everybody dislikes the Yankees. They dislike the idea that you can buy a championship."
Thank God for those damn Yankees!
Don Munday is a Prairie Village senior
maioring in journalism.
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"I'm melting, I'm melting . . ."
Handicapped can hold regular jobs
The main objective of Employ the Handicapped Week is to awaken the business community to the fact that disabled people can perform well in the job market. Instead of being a liability, handicapped people have much to offer society.
This week has been proclaimed national Employ the Handicapped Week. But few will pay and
will not.
One reason for this is that the disabled population still must contend with society's false assumption that the handicapped are a group of people who are less competent than those that are competitive with the average population.
Yet very few disabled people are being given the opportunity to work in the business community.
Society still holds the conception that the handicapped person should be given the best life possible—that he should be placed in an environment that will meet his physical needs and make life as happy and enjoyable as possible under the circumstances.
This usually means handicapped people either are placed in institutions or remain in their parents' home until they become too difficult to care for. The youngest children, nursing home to live out the rest of their lives.
Only recently has this attitude begun to change.
A movement has begun to move the handicapped into the mainstream of society. This has been promoted not only by the handicapped but also that their involvement are involved with the handicapped on a daily basis.
FRED
MARKHAM
The picture is not completely bleak. There are a few businesses that have been willing to step forward and hire handicapped people. And, as they display show, they have not regretted their actions.
It has been documented that, once hired, disabled people often have shown a higher quality of work performance, having had a higher attendance record on the job and, in some cases, have averaged a better production rate than their "normal" co-workers.
To cite an example of the performance of a handicapped person, a 40-year-old deaf-mute man works in one of the major airplane factories in Wichita and performs quite well.
The man had been confined to a state mental institution for 30 years of his life. Because of his inability to hear and to speak intelligently, he was placed in an institution when he was only 5 years old.
Ten years ago, the Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation found him and placed him in a Wichita residential center. The foundation convinced an aircraft company to give him a job.
What the handicapped need are more opportunities to prove that they can work and function in society just as well as the "normal" person? What is important in the handicapped Week is important and necessary.
Only when businesses get the message that disabled people are one of the country's most untapped natural resources can this week be called a success and a worthwhile occasion.
Now this man is earning $15,000 a year and is living in his own home. He is living proof of the ability of the handicapped in the work force and in society as a whole.
Letters to the Editor
In the Sept. 24 Kansas, Brett Cleydon demonstrated in his editorial, "Harder work, more confidence cannot help all blacks," the continued liberal ignorance of people standing on the wrong side of the fence, attempting to explain issues that often are obstructed from clear view.
Columnist lacks perspective on minorities
To the editor:
In the words of an editorial in "Freedom's Journal" in 1927, "We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us." I was true then; it appears times haven't changed much. Although I cannot appoint myself spokesman for Bernard Franklin, chairman of the board of Regents, I can speak from the perspective of a black student who attended the symposium.
In Franklin's speech, he stated his belief that working hard and developing a sense of self-worth were essential to success. The message, as Conley also states, "was clear, straightforward and made sense to most students" attending the symposium.
It is from here that Conley goes on to say that there is a lack of applicability in Franklin's statement to black students, primarily those not having gone on to college with Conley. However, in my entire 22 years, I have yet to meet a person, black or white, that hard work and great self-confidence could not improve to some degree.
It is questionable whether only a handful of black students continue their education past high school. The American educational system, as it was in the 1970s, made it possible a able to mention in a letter limited to 800 words.
But to a black, the system is only one of several barriers that makes it just that much harder to emerge as positive forces in our world. "In 'it's not in'tool' us nuthin' we doesn't already know."
And yes, in most cases, it does mean working harder and facing a few more defeats than perhaps the game of life should have us lose. But many of us do succeed. Franklin is not alone in the payoff of diligence. He is not, as Conley may think, in a-million-litre, having escaped the enemy's grasp by being complex and deep-rooted to be solved by merely working harder and suffering more."
I must disagree strongly with Conley in his belief that Franklin's message has fallen upon the wrong ears. Who else is in a better position to believe that Franklin is a man of higher level? It is no longer a fashionable excuse among
Kansas City, Kan., senior
Helen Townsend
Quoting Baldwin's dungeon is one thing any writer has the liberty to do; understanding Baldwin is another matter. In the same way, it is another question: Is he willing to mention it; is it another to have oneself designated to it.
the black society to scream about the white-dominated educational system. It is simply a fact, not a reason to give up what Conley so unoriginally calls 'the battle.' To many black people from Wichita, Kansas City, Chicago and New York, he made it through such systems, myself included.
If it is true that legal aid is denied to those who might defend, promote or protect homosexuality (with the funds, of course), it is obvious that such threats can be less effective, or, at the very least, threatening to someone.
In regard to Rob Munny's letter: For a man so concerned with the "creator's viewpoint," I was pleased to find such Christian charity still in existence. My first concern, the homosexual, is to be applauded (sarcasm).
Gays defended
Homosexual activity is the only thing that separates a homosexual person from a heterosexual person. Sex is a private and personal experience. Since when it is it's own business, and since no one would force Munyan or anyone else to watch or participate in such activities.
To the editor:
I am not dictating how anyone ought to live but am merely defending, promoting and protecting a person's right of choice. It has been a few years since homosexuals have been thought to be baby rapers, recruiters and any other number of homophobic myths. Homosexuals drink Kool-Aid, watch television, go to (and play in) games and even pay taxes. Homosexuals have feelings, intelligence and personality. Homosexuals are not perverted monsters who
A person's sex life should be his or her own choice. Preference, however, is beyond choice. I did not choose my preference. Munyan did not choose his preference. Archie Dykes did not choose his. We all are given a free agency to act on our inclinations, and that is where the choice lies. Total condemnation of something that doesn't concern you seems rather absurd.
are invading our society. After all, how can
invasion invade when it has always been
there?
As human beings we all make judgments. Sometimes these judgments are made in the name of Christianity. A good look at history will show us any number of beheadings, burnings and even wars done in this vein. The violation of a person's individual freedom is a dangerous and only creatable feeling within the suppressed, but also allowing somebody to play God.
When one person starts to harm another, he is violating a respect, not necessarily an agreement, that should be between all people. As for me, I intend to let God make his own judgments and to use my judgments to run my own life.
Chris Budd Independence, Mo., senior
Jesus is balanced
To the editor:
Attention, Kevin Helliker. If drinking and extramarital sex are all right, then Cindy the preacher was not "speaking on the right side." agree that burning witches was wrong. Church leaders have done terrible wrongs in the name of Christianity.
Jesus, the "highly intelligent, reflective and philosophical man," (quite true, Helliker), not only spoke of love and gentleness. He also expressed fearful fires of hell. His preaching was balanced.
By the way, Jesus was not his own Savior. He was the sinless son of God. Cindy surely did not claim to be a savior. A preacher points the way to Jesus, the indispensible man. The only way my mind can save me is when it realizes Jesus Christ is the only cure for sin's sickness.
To Henry May, who says, "These people believe in one freedom: the freedom to obey God's word." Anything outside obedience to God's word (and I don't mean only the Bible) is slavery. Pleasing God is the happiest thing of which I can think.
Amy Hollowell's words—"Their morals don't jive with ours!"-lacked thought. KU students are not all alike. Some of them are live and active at least partly in harmony with Jed and Cindy.
Ira Bond
Electrician, Facilities Operations
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