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Thursday, November 14. 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
'Hawks gone to the dogs
Walker should trim budget 'fat'
Some preliminary negotiations on setting the price of student season football and basketball tickets for next year will probably begin before the end of this semester. The Student Senate will undoubtedly attempt to retain current prices, but not in the way that is proposed this year. The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) will just as surely demand more from the student pocket.
Athletic Director Clyde Walker attempted to justify this year's price increase by lamenting
the KUAC's precarious financial position. An examination of an audit of the corporation's expenditures last year, however, reveals considerable "fat" and many examples of overspending the amounts approved by the KUAC board.
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If the KUAC is in a financial pinch as Walker claims, then there are several categories of expenditures he could reduce or eliminate for next year. The corporation spent $4,321 in fiscal 2016 lunches for the press at home football games and live and is well over the $3,500 that was budgeted.
KUAC spent $5,658 on such luxury items as banquets. Travel and recruiting cost $56,440, which was $13,000 more than budgeted. About $18,000 was spent on filming games, $3,500 more than the approved budget. Publicity expense for football, basketball and track was $63,356 in 1974.
Travel expense and entertainment of prospects was $16.430.
The Student Senate has repeatedly questioned the practice of spending an average of $6,500 during each football season to move the entire football team to a Topeka motel on the night before home games. About $5,900 was spent on this last year.
Despite his protestations of poverty, Walker managed to find $27,152 to build the controversial S-Zone parking lot for athletic corporation contributors near Memorial Stadium, About
$14,000 came from the KUAC budget, and the remainder from funds held for the corporation by the University of Kansas Endowment Association.
The amount of athletic scholarships also seems large when compared to the average annual expenses of a KU student, KUAC awarded 129 football scholarships last year at an institution in an athlete. Basketball scholarships averaged $3,067 and tennis scholarships $2,554.
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There has been a proliferation of administrative positions in the corporation during the past two years. In the years before Walker became the director, KUAC had two top administrative an athletic director and an assistant athletic director. Their salaries totaled $43,000.
KUAC now has five top administrators, including the new positions of assistant athletic director for operations, and executive director and assistant director of the Williams Scholarship Fund. Their salaries total about $105,000 this year. Thus the corporation's administrative salaries have increased about 144 per cent since Walker became athletic director.
At the same time that Walker was explaining
watertudent ticket prices and to thank him,
his salary would be paid for next week.
The most expensive waste in the KUAC budget is complimentary tickets. During fiscal 1974, the corporation gave away 16,439 free football tickets at a cost of $109,802 in lost revenue. Free basketball tickets totaled 15,511, accounting for $48,527 in lost revenue.
Certainly an athletic program at a major university can't get along without recruiting, scholarships or administrative salaries. But you can have some excessive expenditures in the KUAC budget should take a hard look at this waste before he again asks students to pay higher ticket prices.
It is somehow difficult to understand wn's student ticket prices had to be increased when the KUAC gave away tickets valued at $158.329
—Richard Paxson Contributing writer
Lagging 'Hawks recruit women for OU game
In the wake of the Jayhawks fourth consecutive football defeat last weekend, a feeling of insecurity has descended over the athletic department. This insecurity is made worse by the fact that the Oklahoma Sooners are due in town this weekend.
Mysterious rumblings have been heard this week throughout the athletic department. Rumors are that a colleague is assembling a guillotine. The precise purpose of this guillotine isn't known. It is known, however, that an
An informant inside the athletic department has provided me a transcript of meeting. Here's what was said:
emergency pep talk between Walker and Coach Don Fambrough occurred yesterday.
"You wanted to see me, Mr. Walker?"
"Yes, Don. Sit down.
"We sure had tough luck again," Colorado. Mr. Walker. If Scott Michaud hadn't been-injured."
"Don, five weeks ago we had dreams of the Orange Bowl.
Now, we couldn't even make it to a bathroom bowl. How could you let me down like this?"
"First the Student Senate deserted me. But I expected that. Now you desert me, too! You had to get to a win this weekend."
Socialism could unify Irish working class
"I don't know, Mr. Walker.
Oklahoma's pretty tough.
Would you sette for a tie with
Missouri?"
"Absolutely not! Don. don't
"Mr. Walker, all I can say is that we played according to the rules."
The Kansas City Times attacked "the strange views of Bernadette Devlin on the land" in an editorial last week.
Calling her "a political has been in her native Ulster," the Times labelled Devin's socialist views as "altogether impractical" and without "significant public support."
Despite the Times' claim that Devlin and a section of the Irish Republican Army (IAA) are the leaders in favor of socialism, both
Devlin did lose her seat in Parliament earlier this year, after the coalition which had previously backed her, rejected her socialist politics. She had been the most principally as a militant advocate of the rights of the Catholic minority, in spite of her ideology. Winning elections was never Devlin's primary goal. She has lost her platform in Parliament, but there might be more socialists in Northern Ireland today because of her leadership.
The way Devin described the condition of civil liberties in Northern Ireland during her appearance at KU, it's a wonder that socialism has significant support at all. Demonstrations are forbidden, political organizations are not actively discouraged—and suspected terrorists are interned without trial.
Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force and the Catholic Social and Democrat Labour party advocate socialism. The Catholic group is the only Catholic-based party in the UK and has received official recognition from the British government.
Devlin recognizes that Northern Ireland's problems are rooted in or exaggerated by its class division. She calls for us as the basis on which to solve Northern Ireland's problems.
The prime example of the impracticable of Devlin's program, according to the Times, is her demand that the
British army leave Northern Ireland. If the army left Northern Ireland, the six counties in England would be divided bath, according to the Times.
This is exactly the justification the American government used to stay in Vietnam, long after if should have been out. In 1969 the United States justified in going to Northern Ireland, but it is now doing more harm than good.
The army has succeeded primarily in turning the terror into a war against the Protestant majority and toward itself. At the same time more and more Protestants have been turning against the army.
Each new interment stokes the terrorist fires as desperate people seek to communicate their anger in the most available manner—terror—bloody, reactionary terror.
The internment program is both fueling the violence in Northern Ireland and uniting Protestants and Catholics.
Energy that should be channeled into more sensible political directions only perpetuates the existing religious and national divisions. Terror somewhere and can lead nowhere.
The internment program is uniting Protestants and
Catholicus against something, as most political groups in Ulster have made demands that the interment end.
The Times editorial doesn't deal with what Devlin views as the essential question for Ireland: Ireland; the class question.
The Protestant working class in northern Ireland is slowly moving toward national bonds may not be enough bases of unity to tie itself to the policies of the ruled army and the industrialists.
Such steps represent the beginnings of working class labor and Catholic - on the basis of religion, not national or religion.
The Ulster Volunteer Force and the Official Wing of the IRA have been able to set up and sustain a series of meetings to agree on a joint strategy for dealing with the army and putting an end to insurgency.
The Times may reject socialism, but the decision is up to the working class of Northern Ireland.
Socialism may be the necessary basis for the solution to the problems of Northern Ireland, though it would hardly be sufficient to solve all its problems.
Contributing writer
Jim Kendell
you see what they're doing to me?"
"Theev?"
"Marian Washington and her crowd of feminists. They're after my job! If Marian becomes athletic director."
"I'd like to help you, Mr. Walker. but—"
"You've got to win this week. A big win over Oklahoma is the best thing in the world. If people lose enthusiasm for our program, the Student Senate will give more of our money to help us. We can't lose again this week!"
you'll be coaching a bunch of sissies! Don, we've got to stick together."
"I don't suppose we could cancel the game, could we?"
"Maybe we could postpone the game and reschedule it for the basketball team."
"I don't think Ted would buy that. Regardless, we need a win now!" Don, you've got to come up with something. You wouldn't like to coach at K-State next season, would you?"
"Don't be ridiculous, Don!
People would laugh at us."
"I'm doing my best to please you, Mr. Walker!"
"Then think of something. Can't you sneak Gale Sayers into the lineup?"
"It wouldn't do any good. He's out of shape. But I do have an idea that might solve one of your problems. We may not win the game, but we may win the war."
"What is it. Don?"
"Let me play some of Marian Washington's girls. Let's even let Marian play. Let's see how equal they really are!"
"Don, what an idea! The Sooners will knock those women into the upper deck! Maybe the teacher will take her lesson, Marissa will take her women back to the kitchen where they belong!"
"Right, Mr. Walker."
"Right, Mr. winker."
"I'll tell Marian the good news, Don. This weekend may actually be enjoyed!"
Contributing writer
Readers respond
Steven Lewis
To the editor:
The recent letter by Anthony McNamara, Iain Main and Paul Addison (Kansan, Nov. 7), while properly deploring some of the terrible acts of violence in Northern Ireland over the past five years, contained some inaccuracies about the situation there.
I would like to try to clear up these points and offer a rather different perspective on the present circumstances, resulting, perhaps, from a different historical view.
As one who grew up there, I cannot claim to be completely objective, but I think I do keep that. The world is little more carefully than most.
Contrary to my what few Britons have stated, the 1921 division of Ireland did have considerable validity.
Despite BSU claim, Kansan not administration tool
It wasn't done to keep an industrialized area under the British control (Northern Ireland has been a severe economic drain on Britain for five years) but the cause is the Protestant majority, descendants of English and Scottish settlers
Last week the Executive Board of the Black Student Union (BSU) wrote a letter to President Donald J. Kanyan Karsan stating that "the University administration has attempted to discredit the BSU and cause confusion within the university." In addition, the University Daily Karsan,"
Both sides guilty in Northern Ireland
BSU comments were submitted, the letter said, "to clarify the position of BSU in regard to the hiring of Gary Reed for Supportive Education Services (SES)." The letter further stated that "it becomes increasingly important that black students come to a comprehensive understanding of the nature of Black Kansas in support of Flanagan as the director of SES."
BSU is right-it is important for blacks, and all students for that matter, to know exactly the
The implications of BSU's letter are serious because the writers obviously have a sincere belief that the Kansan is a tool of KU administrators to purge the camp of their powers or imagined. Pamela Roehrer, Division Chancellor Archie R. Dixon company overseeing the copy rim late at night in the Kansan newsroom, gleefully marking out injurious statements with
written and published by and for the students of this University.
extent to which University administration controls the news and editorial content of Kansai's newspaper. Kansai is a newspaper.
They can laugh because they know that the University Daily Kansan is a lackey for no one. The only time the Kansan is an administrator thinks about a when is a reporter or editor has to get some poor official out of bed at midnight to check the accuracy of a statement or the attribution of a quote. Yes, the Kansan is concerned with being fair and accurate.
The Kansan has no direct ties
Anyone who is at all close to the Kansas can chuckle at this, for he knows that the only ones who are keen to wake up hours of the morning are wearyed camp, copy and make editors hacking out the next day's assignments or redoing headline for the nth time.
Could a student newspaper, if controlled by the administration, publish editorials criticizing the traffic and security department and the administration's handling of the appointments of the new president in academic affairs? Could that paper publish a series of investigative articles on the University-sponsored Follow Through program if it were an
their blue pencils and substituting their own propaganda
to the administration or any other special interest group. Its governing organization is the Kansan Board, which is composed of journalism faculty and students. The Board acts as publisher and offers advice to the Kansan Board, most suitable for the content of the Kansan. This advice may be accepted or rejected.
So what's the matter with the Kansan? Plenty, but there's plenty right with it, too. We make mistakes, and we use them wrong. However, it must be noted that the Kansan differs from other daily newspapers in that it serves as a laboratory for the major journals of our field. Kansan's staff are students, not professional journalists, but most of them are working toward that end, and the major schools of uphold standards of honor, honesty and fairness.
The greatest evidence of the Kansan's freedom is in the Kansan itself.
They report, edit and publish
administration puppe? If KU officials were trying to stifle BSU through the Kansan, the stories about the demonstration probably wouldn't have appalled newspaper's most potent weapon is to completely ignore a person or an event.
Not all people doubt the credibility of the Kansas. A recent poll listed the Kansan as among the 10 Kansas representatives and the Kansas senatorial and gubernatorial candidates.
the entire University Daily Kansan by themselves. They did it today and they'll do it tomorrow. And they've got to come back. And they've got to them. And they had better pack up their pica poles and get out of journalism. Their only satisfaction are the knowledge of doing a job well and seeing their work in print. Yet these satisfactions were not washed away, by a lack of credibility with the reader.
So remember these things as you wrap the night's garbage in the latest issue of the University Daily Kansas. And remember that the Kansan is for you, the students. Remember this
There was also a strong fear of persecution by a Catholic-dominated government, based on the religious life of the previous 300 years.
NamMcarrane, Main and Addison were correct in their description of Protestant bigotry in government, and the fact that many of them are reaping the fruit of such bigotry and discrimination.
of the 1600s, didn't want to lose British citizenship and economic benefits by becoming independent.
—Mark Mitchell Makeup editor
However, discrimination also was intense wherever Catholics were locally in power, and this fact is often overlooked.
Both sides must take responsibility for the initial causes of the conflict.
But the Irish Republican Army (IRA), who were bomming and murdering for quite a while before the Protestants began, must take the brunt of his responsibility.
Christopher Wright
Christopher Wright Northern Ireland graduate student
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