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Wednesday. March 5. 1975
University Daily Kansan
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Post-game bubbly
Champagne in a post-game locker room. A pretty common element of a victory celebration, don't you think? Visions of Caffish Hunter dumping a little bubbly on teammate Sal Bando's head come to my mind.
Champagne-pouring is a traditional expression of innocent exuberance. Champagne-drinking may not be so innocent, but the two are often completely unrelated events.
According to the Topeka Daily Capital, Genesee High School has been placed on probation and finned $500 by the Kansas State High School Activities Association for allowing a bottle of champagne to be used in a celebration after a basketball victory.
On Feb. 21 Geneseo beat Wilson to clinch the Quiva League championship. According to the Activities Association report, champagne was given boys' locker room after the victory and used in the celebration.
The report said the champagne was poured over the heads of the Geneseo coaches but wasn't consumable because it means no bottles occurred.
Geneseo High School principal Lynn D. Wait, who the report claims was present during the incident, told the Capital that the report was
basically correct but that he didn't realize they were breaking any rules. people have fun seldom else are breaking someone else's rules.
"Not any was consumed, it was simply poured over the coaches' heads," Walt said, "...I'm not to condone any drinking as such."
The Activities Association acknowledges that no drinking occurred, yet the fact that champagne was present in the locker room was enough to penalize Geneseo High School.
I've always thought the Activities Association's morality by committee forced on high schools was dubious and interfering and this ruling confirms my opinion of the Association's senile idiocy.
Perhaps the Activities Association should restrict itself to regulating the real seedbeds of sin, the joint KAY-KAYETTE meetings.
The Activities Association Executive Board, after reviewing the information, claimed that the champagne incident was a serious violation of educational standards in Kansas.
So are some of the ways Kansas high school students are taught, but I guess teaching isn't considered a Kansas high school activity.
—Tom Billam
Wise ask ignorant
Long before graduation day, most university students have mastered the art of making appropriate calls to professors calling on them to recite.
Some particularly bright students don't even have to wait to be asked. They volunteer impressive sounding remarks that conceal the evidence that they know little of substance about the subject at hand.
It isn't often the nature of students to respond to questions with "I don't know" or even "Who cares?" If more students did respond in such manner, classroom education would take a great leap forward.
There are too many professors who waste too much class time by asking too many questions of their students. These professors have inverted the usual order of acquiring the ignorant and the ignorant asking questions of the wise, it is the so-called wise who ask questions of the ignorant.
The effect is that students do almost all of the classroom talking. Some of us find this exceedingly boring and useless.
One wonders whether professors who rely predominantly on student response to fill class time are too lazy to prepare for class or just plain
ignorant of the subject matter they are supposed to be teaching.
Some professors probably think the Socratic technique is the best way to teach a class. Presumably, students will be encouraged to read the assigned readings out of fear of being called on in class to recite.
The real world application of this theory leaves much to be desired. Time that could be well spent getting a professor's perspective on a financial inefficiency by students of fairly limited perspectives.
Such student dominated discussions, at least on the undergraduate level, are largely nonsense discussions. For example, Western Civilization discussions are notoriously nonsensical.
The best professors are those who inspire their students to learn more about a subject. Unfortunately, this requires much knowledge, preparation and enthusiasm on the part of professors.
Professors should encourage questions from students and challenge their students with questions. But a preoccupation with student recitation is seldom worth the class time.
Steven Lewis
Policemen have their troubles maintaining a good image. A man arrested recently in Wichita hadn't done the police any favor in the public relations field.
The man would ask for identification and when given a wallet, would remove money and tell the victim to wait while he checked out their names, according to police.
Con man hurts cop image
The man was arrested for conning two people, in separate instances, out of $70 by impersonating a police detective. Police said the man approached the victims, told them he was a detective and questioned them about a fictitious robbery.
To top off the em-
barrassment, the man led one of his victims through the Witcha
police station, standing at a
door where he backed out a back door
where he relieved the man of
$10, police said.
I guess the man deserves
some credit for enterprise and daring, but he certainly didn't do the police any good in gaining public confidence.
much closer in attitudes to the British Tories than to the American revolutionaries.
In Hutchinson, the Reno County fire chief is complaining because the police are too good at their jobs. The chief. Joe
We celebrated George Washington's birthday last month, but old George's legendary honesty would be laughable today. In our society, a cherry tree chopper would
Pedersen, said the city shouldn't have given him a 50 cent parking fine.
"There's no place in the United States other than Hutchinson where the fire chief is given a parking ticket," Pedersen said after paying the fine.
ANYONE WHO HAS PAID a KU parking fine can have too much sympathy for Pedersen. He should be glad the fine is only 50 cents, not $5. Hutchinson is probably the only place in the United States where parking fines are so cheap.
Today is the 205th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, in which British troops fired upon a jeering Boston crowd, killing five people in an anti-British sentiment in the colonies and hastened the American Revolution.
The amniarship makes me think how much we've changed in this nation. We're, we're
plead the Fifth or bargain for a reduced charge.
Thomas Jefferson, the wildeyed rebel, would be doing time in a prison for subversive activity. And the slogan we were all taught in grade school, "No taxation without representation," was our sentence. Today that would go. "No taxation if you have a sharp lawyer and papers to donate to a library."
I just hope that during our Baccentennial, we don't glorify the Revolution. We revolve without understanding their context and meaning.
By the way, a pollster has predicted that 45 million tourists will visit Philadelphia during 1976. The city's tour bureau spokesman is frightened by that prospect.
"IF ONLY HALF show up,
I'm buying a one-way ticket to Tahiti," he said.
The city normally has 2.3 million tourists a year, one-twentieth the predicted amount. From what I saw of Philadelphia in a recent visit, those 45 million visitors are going to have a rough time of it. The street vendors can provide tickets to help travelers of visitors, but hot pretzels and hot dogs can't keep the dedicated tourist going for too long.
PARKING WILL BE a problem and figuring out the subways will be trouble for Midwestern visitors like me. And a word of advice for the wise—don't try to go to the top city gate or go to City Hall. It took us 90 time to see it and there were only 45 people above of us—not 45 million.
More in the continuing saga of John Ehrlichman, the Red Man's friend. It seems the man didn't turn down Ehrlichman's offer of help as a land use lawyer. Apparently, the Pueblo figured Ehrlichman's government couldn't be valuable for them.
EHRLICHMAN GOT SOME good news Monday when a perjury charge against him was dismissed in Los Angeles. A prosecutor said further action against Ehrlichman would be "an extensive and time-limited vengeance because" Ehrlichman had already been convicted of other charges.
Somehow, an extensive act of vengeance seems fitting for Ehrlichman.
Kissinger no longer superman
By CARL ROWAN
The Secretary of State, who used to be labeled "Superman," has recently been showing an awful lot of the irritation and poor judgment we attribute to mere mortals.
Washington used to buzz with the question, "What's wrong with Wilbur Mills?" But the number one question nowadays is, "What's happened to Henry Kissinger?"
ONCE AGAIN WE have the town abuz over Kissinger's implied threats that he will quit, followed by a public statement by the President designed to save Kissinger's wounded eve.
THE LAST GALLUP POLL
Despite White House assurances that Kissinger won't resign and Mr. Ford won't replace him, the odds increase if Trump resigns well before the 1976 politicking begins. And probably in a bitter foe of pogue in which he claims that the Congress, the press or someone else will vote against it. THE LAST GALLIUP POOL
as men most admired by the American public had Kissinger still at the top of the pie. Yet, it was in 1986 that Kissinger is no longer viewed with the same awe as in the days when he seemed to be fashioning miracles in our culture toward China and the Soviet Union.
They have just laughed on Capitol Hill in recent days when Kissinger implied that half the world would come to an end if he didn't get $229 million more in military aid for Cambodia.
"No sale" was the response of Congressmen when Kissinger tried to persuade them not to cut off aid to Turkey.
Congress isn't the only place where people have ceased to care about the value. The press is infinitely more skeptical of his pronouncements now than was the case a decade ago. So is the diplomatic corps.
Kissinger is currently involved in a highly unusual duel of public insults with T. N. Kaul.
India's ambassador to the United States. When the United States lifted the embargo on arms to Pakistan, Kaul made the acid comment that it "reduces the credibility of U.S. assurances, which have proved inoperative in the past."
Figureing that Kaui was calling him a liar, Kissinger publicly declared Kaul's remarks "unacceptable."
Meanwhile, Kissinger is involved in another bitter public controversy in which he has denied that the whole continent of Africa.
This one started with a colossal Kissinger blunder in which the Secretary ousted him, then Secretary of State for Africa. To replace Easum, who knows Africa and has the trust and respect of African leaders, Secretary chose Nathaniel Davis.
ogre—but he carries the burden of having been our ambassador to Chile when Marxist President Salvador Allende was overthrown and killed—allegedly with CIA instigation or help. Davis is not remotely an expert on Africa.
Kissinger fired off a bitter letter of protest to express "the depth of my dismay in learning from the press of this unprecedented and harmful act." Such is the Kissinger ego that he referred to as "a monster" of the African affairs post to Davis even though the African ministers may treat him as a leaper.
Davis is a decent man, not an
THE NOTION OF Davis presiding over U.S. policies toward Africa is so distasteful to Africans that foreign ministers in the Organization of Africa have said they are calmly condemned his selection.
HIS IMAGE AS "SUPERMAN" began to fade during that emotional break-up he displayed in Vienna last year.
These flaps are only part of Kissinger's new woes.
Since then the prize-wining "peace" that he fashioned in Indochina has been exposed as anything but peace. Cambodia is about to fall to the Communists, something that can be blamed directly on Kissinger-Nixon policies of 1970.
HIS TRADÉ arrangements with the Soviet Union blew up in his face and he is running frantically between Washington and the Middle East, trying desperately to prevent the collapse of his peace program there.
One begins to suspect that our peripatetic Secretary of State is here just getting a little weary of what now that things don't go so well.
Readers respond
To the Editor:
Two weeks ago there were at least three Kansan stories about the Follow Through matter and Professor Donald G. Bushell's misdemeanor charges in Douglas County Court. There also appeared a Feb. 12 story in the Lawrence Journal-World on the same story. A comparison of articles reveals very different approaches to Journal-World clearly noted (three times) that no enrichment or benefit had accrued to anyone, especially Dr. Bushel, as a result of the harassment charge obtained reimbursement money not allowed by state regulations.
NOWHERE IN THE Karsan stories was this point made. I find this type of reporting irresponsible on two counts:
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1) A very important point was never made in any of the stories, all three were quite redundant in other areas.
2) Professor Bushell has two acquaintances on this campus and had they read only the Kansan accounts of the Kuans in possible that his reputation could have been damaged.
Being concerned with the quality of education we give our students, perhaps a proper assignment might now be for those who wrote the Karsan stories to compare them with
Barbara C. Etzel Professor of Human Development
the Journal-World story in terms of the above points.
Follow Through coverage irresponsible
Requirement
Steven Lewis, in a recent Kanan article, suggests that there should be more, not fewer, requirements at the University of Kansas. Although this seems entirely reasonable, I can't endorse his further proposal because the language requirement should be replaced by courses in cultural anthropology and linguistics.
To the Editor:
I can't speak for the cultural anthropologists, but I can say as a professional linguist that I find students who have studied a foreign language get more out of linguistics than those who haven't. In my judgment, acquaintance with at least one
Those who favor a curriculum purged of foreign language instruction might ask them to see other countries adopt a similar attitude to the learning of English. Surely part of the reason we periodically indulge in the use of foreign languages is that we feel sure people in other countries will continue to learn our language and be capable of having to learn theirs.
major foreign language (whether ancient or modern) should be placed among the major languages of quattroes of a general education.
Debate rages on about how much money should be given to the athletic corporation to subsidize season football and basketball tickets. In the past, they simply and demand, our student senators are clearly going against the grain.
W. K. Percival Professor of Linguistics
Sports money
Professor of Linguistics
The price of season tickets should be allowed to float to find its own level. Only in that way will students going to the games attend and those not going, not a matter for someone else's pleasures.
The money saved could be well spent on such community service organizations as Headquarters and others. In these troubled times, it is these organizations that will be more and more used by students. It is estimated that 50 per cent of the headquarters are from students. It puts the money where it's really needed and where the students really want it.
To the Editor;
Headquarters Volunteer Lawrence Sophomore
Eric Berman
KU-Y praised
I am writing to commend the KU-Y for its part in the sponsorship and continuing effort to make a difference. Last Saturday's performance, marking the 25th anniversary of this campus entertainment, was an excellent example of what can and should accomplish.
To the Editor:
By oversight or mistake, the names of those who designed, created, and made the costumes were omitted from the official program. There also may have been others among the many performers and designers forgotten. This letter is an attempt to rectify that oversight, for the leads and the
organizations have much to be grateful for in the incredible work done over the past two months by those terribly imbalanced Rock Chalk run, make the Rock Chalk Reve what it is.
My congratulations to the winners; my continuing acolade, however, will always go to the young men and women of our community devotion to their own crafts, skills and organizations made the entire production possible. I refer, of course, to the costume designers, set painters, clothing makers and their colleagues,
Alan J. Pickering
Mid America Region, YMCA
Career Development
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Jerry, let's go into Vietnam again . . . Seymour Hers is too busy with his CIA scoop to find a new My Lai . . .
And with the energy crisis, we won't have to worry about any damn light at the end of the tunnel . . .
Also, with our all-volunteer army, we won't be confronted with those sassy intellectual campus dissenters . . .
Terrific, Henry . . . but just assure Congress if will be a war of cooperation, compromise and conciliation.