Page 4 University Daily Kansan, August 27, 1980
Opinion
Ticketholders stub toes
Season tickets for University of Kansas home football games went on sale today, but many upperclassmen have lost some of their seating privileges. The only good news is that tickets are $4 cheaper than last year.
In fact, tickets can be purchased at an additional $1 discount with a special coupon. But there are complications.
Except for seniors, who were able to obtain their tickets earlier, KU students will have to fight for the rest of the choice seats at the same time. In past years, a day was set aside for each class, starting with seniors and ending with freshmen.
This year, seniors had first grab at the tickets. And justifiably so. But now, the remaining student tickets will be sold without class preference. Juniors,
sophomores and freshmen will have to buy their tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.
The new measure is hardly fair to those who have been here a few years.
Juniors have a right to be particularly annoyed by the new policy. For two years, they were forced to purchase their tickets after upperclassman. Now, the ticket privileges they have waited two years for have been taken away.
It would indeed be difficult to imagine the University treating their alumni ticketholders in the same way. Could one actually fathom the thought of alumni having to purchase tickets on a first-come, first-served basis, regardless of their financial contributions to the University?
Certainly not. And students should have at least similar privileges.
Policy gets good grade
New and more strict grade requirements for KU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences took effect this fall—and it's a good thing, too.
To be sure, the new grade-point-average standards are by no means strict. Freshmen will have to maintain only 1.0 cumulative and semester GPA's, sophomores 1.5 GPAs, and juniors and sepients 2.0 GPAs.
But if students can't meet those requirements, they will have to face semester-long probations and the prospects of being dismissed from school.
Uplifting the requirements to stay in school is an indication that the University remains committed to maintaining high quality academic programs. Every school
at KU, except the College of Health Sciences, now has some kind of probation policy.
Maintaining high enrollment figures has been a preoccupation of universities all over the country, including the University of Kansas. But high quality academic programs must always come before high enrollment.
The new grade requirements give a student ample time to progress academically. At the same time, the students who don't belong.
After all, students who consistently earn failing grades don't belong in college. And a university certainly has no business keeping them there.
Handicapped persons cherish opportunity to benefit society
I awkwardly pushed my wheelchair into his office. At the time, I had little hope of enrolling in his independent study course. I thought it was too much, and I competed with the more mobile education students.
But it was a chance I had to take. After all, the class represented an opportunity to get articles published in a newspaper. I realized it was a university publication, but that didn't matter. We wanted and have my views of the desires and problem of handicapped persons expressed to the public.
"Mr. Musser, may I enroll in your independent
FRED
MARKHAM
study course this spring?" I asked. Musser is an assistant professor of journalism.
I could tell that he didn't understand a word I said. I am afflicted with cerebral palsy and my speech is unintelligible to those who aren't used to it.
Though he could not understand me, he had been told of my intentions to take the class.
From the moment we met, I could sense his perniciousness.
"So you want to enroll in my independent study course," he asked in a loud voice.
He must have thought I was deaf as do most people, unless unaccounted to be around people in my company.
"Yes, I want to give it a try." I replied. Again,
he failed to understand a word I said.
"You know this course is very demanding." Musser said. "Especially for someone confined to a wheel chair. And with your speech problem, it would be twice as difficult."
I knew he hoped I would change my mind and forget the whole idea.
"I realize that sir," I said. "But I want a call and ask him to send my words, but he understood my words."
A look of "What do I do now?" flashed across his face. It was a look that I had seen many times before on professors and editors who I had confronted in similar situations. It was a look that always seemed to bring a stamp of rejection.
"OK." he said.
But not this time.
Musser at first did not understand the exact nature of my disability, but he had heard about my slow and inadequate typing. However, Musser was willing to give me a chance.
As it turned out, the semester brought surprising results for both of us.
No. I did not produce a news story every week,
not even a story a month. In fact, the entire
semester saw me produce just a single four-page
article, and then a faculty and students
toward the handicapped.
Although the quantity of my work was low, two important things were gained from the session.
First, the class brought many individuals together and helped them realize that everyone has a purpose. We need any kind of people who get a chance they usually help society instead of depend upon it.
Now, I face an even greater challenge of producing a weekly column for the University Daily Kansas. I have waited so long for such a task that I haven't badly needed in newspapers for a long time.
I hope to promote the better understanding of the hopes, desires, inspirations and dreams of faculty members and students at KU and the hands of handicapped persons around the world.
Second, the class gave a disabled person an opportunity to be professional in his own right. Third, no one could be bypassed by a computer.
If this challenge is met, even a small degree,
of skill in R will have brought me
satisfaction beyond my wildest dreams.
Iranian adds different perspective
Jerad, remember, is, in bureaucratic circles,
Iranian, Iranian, remember, is, in American
That belief prompted Jerad to apply last spring for admission to an American university. He was accepted. He then applied for a student position at the U.S. Embassy in Hamburg. He was refused.
Testimony to this sentiment worming through American circles was a march last weekend in Washington D.C., in which the demonstrators called for the U.S. government to deport Iranian diplomats. The demonstrators, attracting merely 300 marchers, captured the attention of at least one U.S.
He was smoking an American cigarette, this Iranian fellow was, and sipping a beer in the Cha Cafe in Hamburg, West Germany. He was talking, between smoke and froth, about the Rolling Stones, Jimmy Carter, Miltel Schmidt, Turkish hashish, Salvador Dali and the Dallas Cowboys, who are not the earnestness of any young student, his ideas to a responsive young student.
Perhaps Iranian is an accurate identifier for Jerad, just as Irish would be for Ted Kennedy. Although his parents are of Iranian descent, he was born in the United States with his family, when he was two years old.
He possesses only one citizenship and one passport, both Iranian. West Germany, Jerad says, is his home; Iran, his homeland, German is his mother; England, his homeland, Irish is his third. The English, he thinks, needs work.
legislator, Sen. S.I. Hayakawa, R-Calif. Sen. Hayakawa urged the demonstrators to "show Ayatollah Khomeini that we have not forgotten our people" and promised the group that he would introduce a bill calling for the deportation of Iranians in the Senate.
Unfortunately, the senator himself seems to have forgotten "our people," our free people, people free to study, to work, to travel, to speak.
AMY
HOLLOWELL
Unfortunately, Jerad has never been to America and perhaps never will. Unfortunately, Jerad has been to Iran only twice and perhaps may never return to his homeland.
He remembers his homeland well and speaks of it as "a beautiful place, flourishing." But he says that this flourishing is gone, is gone, by this lush beauty, "very unlike the lush tranquility he remembers.
to write, to demonstrate. He seems to have forgotten our people, Americans of British, Polish, Swedish, Russian, French, African, Mexican Cuban, even Jannesean, descent.
With Kohmeinie, Jerad says, came empty factories, a stagnant economy and turmoil. With
Kohmein, he says, came the exodus of intellectuals, businessmen and professionals. With Kohmein, he says, comes empty pages in the rich history of a proud and colored nation.
The Shah, Jerad admits, made grave mistakes, too many to overlook, thus his inevitable decline. His fatal flaw, Jerad thinks, was losing touch with his people and for this Jerad will never forgive him. But Jerad says the Knight is farther from the people than the Shah ever was.
And while the U.S. made some mistakes too, Jerad thinks none were so horrible to as justify the taking of hostages. In fact, Jerad prefers the United States, aside from West Germany and Iran, of course.
Jarad sees, however, that a misconception emanates from the brain. We never mind at the berry base of the longest-American
Americans view the situation in terms of 52 people being held against their will in a foreign country.
"This is a tragedy, yes, he said. "But these people have a beautiful homeland, a strong and healthy country."
But for Iranians, Jerad says, the situation is much more grave. With the 1978 revolution came not only a new "government," but also the influence of and a people of Iranian, Iranis, he are, in limbo.
"For us there is nowhere to go; we have no hernieland," Jerad said. "If we are deported, we will have to leave."
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Ticket-giving cars a big waste
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To the editor:
Welcome back! For those of us who have managed to scrape up enough money to meet rising tuition and living costs, there is new evidence of concern for higher education here.
Aren't those new campus police cars nifty? It's really heartening to know that our hard-earned dollars are being wisely spent. Of course, there is a real cost for the police, and for by money raised by KU Parking Services.
And to think how aggravated I used to
when after spending almost $40 for a permit, I
I got upset when I couldn't get to school on evenings when the basketball team played at home and how angry I was when a rock concert occurred and participants to park in remote areas or pay.
I now see the wisdom of such policies. I arms my heart every time I see a shiny, shiny man in a suit.
was forced to park great distances from school. And I still got a ticket.
Tom Reel
Lawrence graduate student
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