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University Daily Kansan, September 26, 1980
Opinion
Teams may thumb ride
If the KU women's softball and basketball teams earn trips to post-season tournaments this season, the players may find themselves hitchhiking to get there.
The University's pathetic athletic budget once again is straining non-revenue sports, this time in the travel costs department. This season, KU's financial woes could put a damper on the women's basketball and softball teams' plans for post-season activity.
Last season, the women's basketball team was given $23,000 for regular season travel costs. At season's end, the team was given an extra $11,000 for post-season travel. For the coming season, the women's basketball team will be allocated $27,434.
But there's a catch.
Athletic officials say that the $27,434 will have to cover both regular-season and post-season travel. Actually, the team will have about $4,500 less to work with for its travel. Add inflation to that and the team's travel problems are only compounded.
The softball team will face similar problems. The team has a busy road
schedule that includes spring-break trips to tournaments in Oklahoma and Texas. But the team has had to sacrifice much of its traveling because of a tight budget.
The women's basketball team plans to travel this season to Plainview, Texas; Berkeley, Calif., Des Moines and other cities. The first round of the AIWA Region VI Tournament will be held in Minneapolis.
The softball team has high-quality players, but the University doesn't have the money to send them anywhere.
For several years, the women's basketball team consistently has been in the nation's top 20. It appears likely that the team once again will be eligible for post-season play.
As tar as the women's teams' records go, KU could go a long way. As far as their post-season travel allowance is concerned, the teams could end up staying home.
The women's basketball and softball teams' records may be thumbs up, but at season's end, when it's time to travel to those faraway post-season tournaments, the teams may be thumbs out—right down on the highway.
Letters to the Editor
Congress strives to assist students with financial help
Beginning last Tuesday, selected members of the House and Senate met in conference to resolve conflicting positions on the Higher Education Reauthorization Bill. As this measure, which provides authority for a variety of student loans and grants, I am involved in the subject of some misunderstanding. I wanted the readership to know of my thinking about it.
To the editor:
I was strongly supportive of the Higher Education Bill passed by the Senate in June. It was a generous bill that took note of the escalating costs of a college education. Over a five-year period, the life of the bill would increase grant ceilings from $1,800 to $2,600. It protected students who were unable to get local bank loans, by providing federally funded backup programs to meet their educational credit needs.
Unfortunately, the House-passed version and the proposal resulting from the first conference between the two houses abandoned any attempt at fiscal restraint. As such, the bill threatened the integrity of the congressional budget process.
I am confident that the conferences will not fashion a bill that meets student financial needs without busting the budget. My optimism is based on subsequent House action on related budget matters and on their agreement to return to conference.
It would have provided interest-free loans to families regardless of economic need. Although it provided no greater assistance to needy students, the conference bill would have cost $13 billion more than the Senate-passed version. For these reasons, I voted with a majority of my colleagues to insist upon returning the bill to conference.
It is also important to note that even if this second conference is unsuccessful, student loan programs will not be allowed to expire. In the event that a five-year authorization program is not reached, Congress will provide for interim continuation of existing programs.
Many students understandably were concerned when the Senate defeated the first conference proposal. When put into its role, it became known that the Senate action was the only justified course.
Nancy Landon Kassebaum
Program honorable
To the editor:
As a former participant in the KU Honors Program, I fully agree with Mark Hansen's excellent response to Brett Conley's Sept. 9 column. While the level of quality in instruction can vary from outstanding to tedious, the benefits and opportunities provided by the program far outweigh any of its weaker points.
However, my concern is with a statement made by Conley that Hansen's letter did not mention the program's programs or program needs to dissociate itself with what it is that it is build an elite intellectual circle at the University. There is no doubt that honors students can benefit from interaction with each other, but honors students should also have access to their students and other University experiences."
Howard Bauleke Lawrence senior
A student still needs 100 other hours to graduate, which, unless he or she takes 100 hours of independent study, will be spent in non-honors classrooms with non-honors students. This doesn't even take into account the fact that dorms, scholarship halls, the Greek system and the rest of Lawrence are teeming with non-honors students and other people worth knowing. No matter how hard Conley may think the honors student is trying to, he or she simply cannot be isolated in some sort of intellectual bubble.
In response to the September 12 article, "College cheating, plagiarism rampant, officials say," I would like to say that Cliffs Notes should not be considered cheating. In the article, James Gowen comments that English papers written in response to the 2013 exam were过载 but are plummeted with the use of Cliffs Notes is cheating. I tend to disagree.
Conley apparently has been the victim of some sort of "inductivation" by an honors professor about the values of an elitist education. Fortunately, one professor does not an honors program make. The honors program does not exist to pount an elitist ideology into confused freshmen and sophomores; it is not so difficult to see how the better incoming students on campus and to give them a chance to interact while providing a more personalized alternative to mammoth lecture classes and inexperienced graduate student instructors.
Conley was understandably confused after his summer in the Honors Institute. However, I hope he will someday regain his sense of perspective and stop writing incorrect articles about the honors program that do not address the problems at hand and serve merely as a reminder of what we can learn from the program and its participants in the eyes of the academic community and the student body.
Monte's second incorrect assumption is in his concern about the "segregation" of honors students. The honors program requires 24 teachers which can be spread over four semesters.
This is not to say that I am in favor of students cheating on papers, but I do feel that Cliffs Notes are beneficial when used along with the material. When used in this way, Cliffs Notes supplement the reader's ideas, introduce new perspectives, clarify points for better understanding and simply act as a study guide for the read material. If fail to see the difference between reference materials like published book critiques, and Cliffs Noes.
Marla Beasley
Lenexa sophomore
Cliffs Notes okay
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The prep look occupies KU students
A few years ago the most prominent fashion on college campuses was faded jeans, worn shirts and tattered tennis shoes. Unlike today, students spent much of the time discussing radical ideas about the political and economic systems of the United States.
Today things have changed completely—being in fashion is now fashionable. It is interesting to see that the way students dress to a great extent reflects their views on life. Ten years ago, nonconformist ideas were accompanied by the nonconformist attitude of many students. Marxism, free love and communes were ideas frequently endorsed by students, who often wore sandals, tie-dyed jeans and who had long, slightly dirty hair.
One look at the attire of today's students is enough to make one realize that they hold very different values than students did 10 years ago. What many people call the "preppie" look has taken over college campuses and it is even spreading to other places.
The basic message seems to be that conformity is in, dressing nicely is proper and radicalism and non-conformity are completely unfashionable. The proper ideals that go along with the prepie look include wanting security, a good job and a part of the status quo.
Looking back, it was the invasion of alligators that provided the first sign that more traditional values were coming back to campuses. However, rather than invading from the swamp, campus alligators invaded from the country clubs and golf courses of this country, at first appearing primarily in fraternities and sororites,
number of college students and it comes in an ever-increasing amount of styles and colors. But
As Izod become more prevalent they will begin to lose their fashionable image because mass media is bringing them together. In trying to understand today's college fashions, it is important to realize that students
The Izod shirt now is popular with a great
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are not merely endorsing the preppie look of nice girls, nor because they want to allow statuses.
Yet, the same thing prevailed when students dressed shabbily. The more radical and non-conformist a student wanted to appear, the more shabbiely he would dress. Today, the more conformist a student is, the more preppie fashions he would wear. Now, in many cases there must be deck shoes on the foots. Khaki pants, button-down oxford cloth shirts and long, plaid shorts all are proper preppie attire now.
Even the clothes that used to be worn primarily by staid, older establishment types suddenly have been rediscovered by students who are familiar with what the radicals used to call the establishment.
Wool tweed blazers, penny loafers and Ralph
Lauren Polo shirts are, once again, new fashion. They are the status symbols with the most status. They also illustrate the two levels of fashion on the campus. The students who used to wear Izod shirts when they were not too prevalent now are probably putting them away in a closet. Most students are just beginning to wear Izodes because they are fashion followers and want to feel as if they fit in with the majority of well-dressed students. But the ones who are putting away their Izodes and beginning to wear items such as Polo shirts are more than conformists. In contrast, many students who want to be fashionable, ahead of the majority of students “>d thus gain even more status.
A lot of students criticize, sneer at and make fun of today's preppie fashions because they either dislike their looks or because they cannot afford to be fashionable and are jealous. But it looks as if campus fashions will get even prepier in the future.
The odd thing about today's fashions is that they do not have to be attractive. Maroon penny loafers and long plaid shorts probably are two of the worst-looking pieces of fashion to come along in years. But obviously, looks have little to do with their popularity because penny loafers and long shirts are more status symbols and thus are quite fashionable.
Those people who are bothered by today's campus fashions should look beyond the clothes themselves. Fashion merely reflects many of the values students have. Judging by today's fashion, college students will conformists, and defenders of the status quo for some time to come.
Oblivious to its own destructiveness, reckless feminism haunts us all.
Reckless feminists hurt their own cause
This does not include feminism that works to elevate women from a second-class citizenship to a position of total social equality. That feminism deserves the same respect and assistance as did the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm talking about the screaming senseless feminism that can turn the most intelligent, mature woman into a trivial, paranoid harpy. It is because she suffers from airline runners to show their unhappiness with this country destroyed much of the sympathy that their plight may have generated, the reckless feminists hurt their own cause with their constant cries of "sexist", even when sexism is not
However, judging from their outbursts, these reckless feminists are not interested in securing a guarantee of equal pay for equal work, an end to sexual harassment on the job, equal opportunities in the job market or an end to archaic norms; all they appear to be impatient telling us that they can't be using much the same reasoning as our mothers once did. "Because I said so, that's why."
These women, and a few men for that matter, raise their cries at any activity that:
A. Does not satisfactorily promote the image of the independent, intelligent, attractive woman of today. You know the type, she is featured in Virginia Slims advertisements.
B. Portrays women in a way that could be construed as embarrassing or degrading, i.e. beauty contests, pinups, skin magazines or, the horror of horrors, mud wrestling.
How does this behavior help the feminist cause? It like ketone helps bears—it doesn't.
Personal choice also is a big factor in some of the "degrading" things women do. Does posing in tight clothes make them feel more
Yes, Virginia, there are women who like being housewives. But this is a fact the reckless females do not even consider when they protest against the government to protest when it is a matter of personal choice.
In the first place, by some quirk of nature, there are many women, just as there are many men, who are hopelessly dependent upon their spouses. They are uneducated and downright unlaughable people, but yet, it does not bother them one bit. They are happy with their lifestyle, and downgrading it as sexist or chauvinistic without considering this fact is a gross insult.
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MENEZES
of women? Considering that few of them pose at gunpoint, I doubt it. If it is degraded, surely the likes of Suzanne Somers, Farrah Fawcett and a host of others can live with it.
Women like these have parlayed a remarkable lack of talent into a remarkable amount of money in the past few years. They were exploited all the way to the bank, one might say. Why aren't the male sex symbols of limited talent, the likes of Sylvester Stallone and Erik Estrada, pictured as degrading themselves when they behave in the same manner? Are male strippers any less degraded than female strippers, despite the lack of a men's liberation movement? Why don't she the reckless feminists ask the same questions?
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Until the outrageous double standard is dropped, the reckless feminists will continue to spew their garbage. They will continue to scream about the "degradation" of the women in the Miss America contest, all of whom are there by choice, instead of concentrating on its truly degrading aspects, such as its blatant racism, if they wish to eliminate the degradation of women on television, let them start by getting the Phyllis George-Jayne Kennedy mold off of the football telecasts. The performance of women like these is REALLY degrading for women.
If the feminists who are truly interested in advancing women's rights were smart, then they would do well to tell the reckless feminists to shut up. By gross generalizing, the reckless feminists would hurt the hands of the Equal Rights Amendment ever could. They prolong the old stereotypes of themselves and those they criticize. If men and women are ever to consider each other as equals in society, it would help to treat them equally for equal behavior. This would also the same kind about "degradation" of male strippers as about female mud wrestlers.
Sometimes a more vocal or active group, such as the Black Panthers, is necessary to awaken the country to the fact that things need to be changed. But the misguided squawking of the reckless feminists drones on and just puts the country to sleep.
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