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The University Daily
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Wednesday, October 8, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 33 USPS 650-640
Classified Senate votes to endorse candidates
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
The Classified Senate voted yesterday to endorse candidates for the Kansas Legislature in the November election.
Before the motion was passed, the senators listened to presentations by eight of 10 Douglas candidates.
Jan O'Neill, Classified Senate president, also announced her resignation, effective immediately. O'Neill said she resigned because of personal reasons.
Joseph T. Collins, classified senator, said a new president would be chosen in a few weeks.
The Senate voted to endorse candidates only if a candidate received 80 percent approval of the senators. A mail ballot will have to be answered by at least 27 of 30 senators for a candidate to be
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ministration to recognize the group as part of the University.
However, Collins said he doubted whether the Senate could get an 80 percent endorsement of one candidate for each of the representative districts.
The Senate will vote to endorse candidates
from the 43rd, 44th, 45th and 46th representative districts and the 2nd senatorial district.
THE CANDIDATES for the representative districts are Marlin Joe Hanning, a Democrat, and Dave Miller, a Republican, for the 43rd; Ralph Farris, a Democratic, for Jr., a Republican, for the 44th; John Solobach, a
Democrat, and Kent Snyder, a Republican, for
Democrat, and William D. Democrat, a Democrat,
and Willie A. Democrat Jr. a Republican.
The candidates for the 2nd senatorial district are Arnold Berman, a Democrat, and Jane Fetterman.
Endorsements will be announced after ballots
Candidates seek classifieds' endorsement
By BRIAN LEVINSON
Staff Reporter
John Solbach, incumbent Democratic state representative for the 45th District, said yesterday that he will support legislation to restrict Senate Senator Sarah Pataki from an official group by the KU governance system.
with the economic problems facing classified employees and said that Solbach vote against a proposed state spending lid in the last legislative session.
"Your representatives have a responsibility to put a hold on economic problems," Snyder said. "State government must take the bull by the horns."
Willie Amison, Republican challenger to Democrat Betty Jo Charlton in the 46th District, said continued support of education was his most important concern.
"I feel it is important to have a balanced budget with an adequate tax base to support the economy."
"I don't promise anything, but I will work to
October,1980
Tracks
of the best songs from two import albums (the Fabulous Poodles *Almor* Star) or a combination of album cuts and singles (*The Clash*)
Major labels sneer at import sales figures only one of 50 import singles sells well to retailers. The more import album does about 2500, compared to the 10000 plus sales needed for a big 6 group just to stay afloat, but allow the chance to sell it.
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But import sales can sometimes exert a marked influence on major labels. Warner Bros. was forced to rush release a few months before that imports would cut heavily into domestic sales figures. Both Deep Purple's Live in Japan and Bob Marley & The Wailers Live earned domestic release ratings above popularity. Cheap Trick's Live at Badakon was jem's fastest-selling import earlier this year. Epic took heed, rushing a domestic release that finally established the band's name.
"We sold 25,000 of At Bridgeland in 26 months and that was selling for $19 million," he said. "We planned to put it out here but it got so huge they had no alternative."
new music in America is radio. In its early days, FM was an important outlet for artists who didn't fit into the context of Top 30 AM programming. Now FM is mostly computerized formats that are easy to manipulate concerned with getting their egos stroked, buying that new Porsche 914 GT and making their condominium payments than exposing the music of other genres. This will set the standards in the Eighties.
"American radio has gotten to a tremendously stagnant situation because they're afraid to take a chance, Miesc Copeland complains. "I personally think it's in this country for more than five minutes without tearing my hair out
We want to help those stations that will play new stuff and that's college radio because they're not caught up in the commercial necessity of playing the hits. We hope college radio can do to radio today what PM did ten years ago.
"sitting back and crying about it and saving you are buried not going to do anybody any good. In ten years well be alone and move us out, just like that."
Cheat Track's Rick Nelson, following the new import route to success.
I think it's time the world buries the likes of Foreigner, Aerosmith and Boston. It's time they begin to see real life. They must see the new generation because that's where the real excitement is. I think kids ought to learn about that, so they know why old ages and their clothes
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Portable Radios
The earliest portable radio was the most portable ever made, the lightest, the least expensive and completely solid state. And this was almost 60 years ago. It consisted of a galaena crystal detector mounted on a neckline stickpin and had four cones for antenna, ground and headphones.
It required no batteries, could work forever, had no moving parts except for the detector. It had its problems though. It picked up all broadcast stations but could not separate them from the volume sound was barely noticeable.
When vacuum tubes came along the popular approach was 'the bigger the better'. Portabletes were the "in thing in the thirties, but since they were bulky and heavy, it made back. The butteries alone, and each portable needed three different types, weighted much more than about a dozen modern units. These portables were popular for beach use, but to carry them on an aircraft had to be carried there in a car.
The solid state semiconductor transistor changed all that. Capability of being powered by tiny batteries and of delivering loudspeaker volume, transistors revolutionized the portable resource. They were made small so they fit easily in pocket pods or dangled from a ceiling. Some could be worn like wrist watches.
The name of the portable game is features, but these bring up the cost. The first of them is the two-band unit, covering both AM and FM, it has a small switch for selecting AM or FM, a tele scoping antenna and a jack for an ear headphone. It's possible to pick up stereo FM stations but these portables are designed for mono only, and have just a single small speaker and have a single large battery. Total weight, including the battery, is about 10 ounces.
Portables can be quite sophisticated
Easy portables are AM only FM became possible by making the circuit do double duty. For AM reception a built in loopback antenna is used, and for FM, a reflective antenna which recovers into the case of the portable.
The £10 and under portable sound-o'to cheap be to any good, but at one time the cost of a single transistor in these radios sold for much more. Mass production and low labor cost in Hong Kong and Taiwan has brought these down to where you can buy an amplifier (only the AM band but they have a tuning control, combined on-off switch volume control, and a lightweight "in your ear" headphone is supplied. The battery is a single 9-volt type and the overall weight, with hattery, is 10 ounces or less. Many porta-bles, including the least expensive, are wire-type built on metal stand so they can be put in a tilted position.
When cassettes showed they had music reproducing abilities, the porta became the popular unit it is to day. The portable became more functional and it wasn't too long before short wave bands were added. All this meant that you could possibly buy a portable for as little as $10 or several hundred.
One unit is not only AM/BM but equipped with a liquid crystal diode (LCD) digital clock A separate lithium battery with a service life of one year is used for the clock and three AA penlight batteries for the radio. The clock is equipped with a beep wake-up alarm that will run for about four minutes after the selected alarm time has been reached and will then turn off an analog clocks the digital in the radio has an AM and PM indicator. The clock has an hour switch, minute and second display switches.
The sound quality of portables is nothing to get excited about. Many of them distort seriously, particularly when the volume control is advanced. There is less distress with headphones than since less sound power is required.
Some of the large portables are designed for stereo FM and use a pair of 4" to 6" speakers. But because the speakers are separated by a few inches, all sound, whether stereo or not, will be heard in mono only.
Portables with a built-in cassette tape facility are heavier and larger than the AM only or the AM/FM types and
weigh about 4 lbs including the batteries, usually four large C cells. In some portables the cassette is for playback only and these are less expensive than those that have a playback cable. You can also have a condenser microphone built into the case. An interesting feature is that these units generally have a tone control, not found in less expensive portables. The cassette tape section is operated by switches; either piano or stereo input. The section includes fast forward, play, rewind, record and a button that is a combined stop and cassette eject.
With a portable of this kind it is possible to take along cassettes it recorded at home, or commercially pre-recorded cassettes, and to record any external audio that may be available that are cassette records played only, but aren't radios.
Portables now range from a few ounces in weight to a few pounds or more. Size, weight, features, sylling—all of these affect the cost. But no manufacturing manufacturer emphasizes sound quality—or its lack.
Martin Clifford
skies and a few high clouds to the KU Weather Service. Winds will become northwestern at 10 mph by afternoon.
Fair skies with light easterly winds and a low near 52 are forecast for tonight.
Tomorrow and Friday will be mostly sunny with highs in the low 80s.
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The Senate voted to allocate Blacks in Communication an additional $240 for a tape recorder and cassettes for use in the group's radio show, measuring its total supplementary allocation to $900.
The Senate also voted to eliminate KU's Model UN allocation of $68.70 for postage and printing.
THE BLACK STUDENT UNION last night requested an additional $37,465 to their $31,755.
She also said that it was unfair that some groups such as Associated Students of Kansas could be allotted travel money but that the Black Student Union could not.
The student organizations' budget requests
season, and president of the black student Union, said that was unfair that the chair could not represent the students.
are returned Oct. 14, Lewis Armstrong,
classified senator, said.
Robin McClellan, Student Senate executive committee chairman, said that ASK was a revenue code allocation and therefore was financed differently than Black Student Union.
In other action, the Senate voted to write a third letter to the Kansas Board of Regents requesting that it place a member of the boarded staff on the chancellor search committee.
Debate on the motion included whether senators could accurately represent the 1,400 classified employees at the University and the University of Arizona. The senators would actively support a candidate's campaign.
O'Neill said there had been no response from Bernard Franklin, Regents chairman, to a letter sent in July requesting the addition to the committee.
The search committee is made up of faculty, students and alumni and was chosen by the Board of Regents.
O'Neill said the third letter would say, "I would like the courtesy of a response."
Classified representatives would submit their recommendations for chancellor to the search committee after meeting with the finalists, O'Neil said.
She said that Acting Chancellor Del Shankel recommended the search committee allow classified members to meet with finalists if the Regents did not approve the change.
Jacob Kleinberg, search committee chairman,
has said he has not heard from the chancellor and
the minister.
The American Association of University Professors also has asked for meetings with the finalists for chancellor, and one senator suggested the groups work together.
en Field House. The KU women host Emporia State
dget requests
were divided into two bills by the Finance and Auditing Committee. The Senate acted last night only on groups that had been funded in the previous year, so the funds not currently funded will be considered together.
OTHER GROUPS that were turned down for funding last night were Alpha Rho Gamma, Architecture Student Council, Biology Club, Engineering Student Council, Fencing Club, German Club, KU Crew Club, KU Folk Dance, German Club, KU Choral Society, CHA Minority Health Services Center, Trust Association, University Daily Kansan and Iranian Student Association.
Other groups allocated funding last night were Consumer Affairs Association, $1,546; Friends of Headquarters, $3,294.45; KU-Y, $194.14; Psychology Club, $114; Student Occupational Therapy Association, $71.60; KHJR-KM, $1,585; Women Ensemble, $250.15; Women's Community, $164.16
The Senate allocated $11,842.42 last night.
The Senate will vote to measure the Senate has about $16,000 left to allocate.