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Wednesday, November 13.1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
NOW THE LATE, LATE SHOW—NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD'
STARKING REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES..."
Liberal Congress crucial
A week after the election, conservatives still are picking their way through the smoking ruins. The palpable fact is that the celebrating, as such, is most the disturbing aspect.
If the clobbering were all that mattered, one could go along with President Ford's cheery optimism to come back from disaster before. Historically, a loss of 45 seats in the House is not a fatal blow. The Republicans lost 96 seats in the swing of 1747, 85 in 1932, 75 in 1948, and 47 in 1988. The democrats have survived
with sweeping powers of intervention in the work of other government agencies.
Every concession's observer could add a dozen titles to that list. The "Bryd Amendment," which permits us to buy vitally needed climate from Rhodesia, requires the state to name a name of tax reform, incentives for the accumulation of capital may well be destroyed. National no-fault insurance lies ahead. Industry could be saddled with further unrealistic changes in the tax and improvement. The old conservative coalition may be mustered in Congress now and
By James Kilpatrick
their own matching ups and downs.
Far more depressing, in the conservative view, is the substantive prospect for the 94th Congress. Labels and numbers are not important. We are concerned with lopsided majority of liberals, regardless of party label, the next Congress reasonably may be expected to pass bills that would (1) provide for national health insurance, (2) nullify state right-to-work laws, (3) vastly increase costs of public defense, (4) put out bullets in outlays for national defense, and (5) create a Consumer Protection Agency
then, some of Ford's vetes will be sustained, but let's face it: Liberals will be running the show
Why did it happen? The standard explanations have to do with Watergate, the Nixon pardon, and the state of the economy, but these explanations overlook a deeper cause. The Republican party, as a national political party, has been criticized for a constructive conservative alternative to the liberalism with which the Democratic party now is so well identified.
one of our two major instruments of political action.
A commitment to ideals is far more important than a commitment to party. The GOP's trouble is not merely that its image is stained by corruption, or that it is unfairly saddled with the economic distress. The larger the party no longer is strongly identified with any particular ideas. The party is
not unprincipled; in the popular view, it is non-principled. It is small wonder that the Democrats have become the first party in Congress and in state government across the country. The time may be at hand not for the formation of a new third party, but for the emergence of a new second (CW) Washington Business Inc.
(C) 1974 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Democrats, Ford face economy
The returns from last week's election make the Democratic party look mighty impressive.
It was one of the greatest off-year landslides in history, rivaling the huge Republican gains in the midterm elections.
It gave the Democrats control of the Senate and 28 seats in House with 291 seats and control of 38 statehouse.
It gave the Democrats a lot of glory but it also
gave them a large majority in Congress.
This failure is more remarkable when one gives account to the public opinion of politicians. In contrast, Harris pollsters study political attitudes, they find far more "conservatives" than liberals" within the electorate. (Like many voters, generally and not precisely understood. Even so, the ideological predisposition is there and it is not being served. When only 39 or 40 percent of the voters believe this conservative appetite plainly is not being served.
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The speaker of the House, Rep. Carl Albert, D-Dokla., called the election not merely a victory but a mandate to perform the wishes of the American people.
Albert even went so far as to propose scrapping Ford's economic plan and presenting an entirely different Democratic plan.
And from all signs, the Democrats plan to use their advantage extensively.
But as in the past, internal political fighting will threaten any vote along strict party lines.
The 94th Congress is much younger and more
liberal than the previous one, so more progressive legislation will result.
But if the bills are too progressive, Ford will veto most of them.
And that is when the fireworks will start.
Some "political experts" view the election as a repudiation of Ford's economic policies. If they are right, the election also could be viewed as an effort to ensure that there is "responsible for solving the economic problems."
Neither Ford nor the Democrats seem to realize yet that the political heat will be on both of them in January. And the question will be who can solve the economic issue.
And with all the talk of veto-proof Congresses or scraping of economic plans, things don't look
If Fort can solve this problem his chances in
deciding whether problems will arise when he seeks selection.
The same holds true for the Democrats in Congress. But the fact remains that neither Ford nor the Democrats can solve the economic alone. They must work together on the economy.
But if Ford and the Congress decide to work together, the economic problem could be solved by 1976. —Gerald Ewing
Contributing writer
1924 Chicago Sun-Times
Library of the future hides in Watson jungle
Editor's note: Disgnised by short library hours, the Kansas once again takes a satiric jab at Watson Library.
Sometime in the future, libraries as we know them will be obsolete. I suppose this means that Watson Library is a library of the future. Perhaps this helps explain why Watson employees are trying to turn the library into a greenhouse.
Readers respond/ Language requirement gets praise, criticism
Criticism
To the editor:
As an undergraduate, I balked at the foreign language requirements of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. I was not adverse to learning a language, I simply resented the methods used to acquire the sofficulty proficiency. Had I been able to take an intensified semester (16 hours) of a language, fulfill the requirement and attain real proficiency in a relatively cohesive amount of time, I would have vast stores of linguistic knowledge imparted to me.
As it is, however, when encountering a multilingual situation, I suffice with a smile and a shrug, thinking: I can't speak your foreign tongue, but I'm fine. You're hard. The University spreads my mixing my regular courses with language hours.
Berlite records and think that I get ignored
I've tried to study Deutsch,
and French, and I switched to
Spanish, too. Now I just play
Margaret Messman Business Graduate Student
Praise
In the Nov. 8 issue of The Inman, Steven Lewis argues that the knowledge of a foreign language was not very important. He pointed out, for example, that John Gunther wrote his famous "Inside" books on Asia, Latin America, and Africa without knowledge of whose cultures he was studying.
To the editor:
It would be unfair to make Mr. Gunther responsible for all the misconceptions that are prevalent about foreign countries. Unfortunately, there are many popular writers with journalistic talent who approach their subject without being able to master mediocrity and superficiality are acceptable, the study of foreign languages is a waste of time. On the other hand, if one delves into almost any subject of the humanities in depth, one
becomes acutely aware of the need to know forign languages. Can we be sure that translations of relevant texts will always be available and that there will always be people to correct them? Can we get them propagated by unfamiliarity with forign languages?
Priorities
David Smith Senior
The chancellor has now told us that although excellence in teaching is really priority one, a quick inspection shows this to be a problem of higher mathematics. Let's count like the chancellor: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, l. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, l. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, l. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, l. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, l. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, l.$\mathbf{80}$, in the first eleven numbers there are three ones. It follows that we have three first priorities. They are the following: 1. Creative new programs.
If teaching were really the number one priority, it would be listed as such. Furthermore, it would be the only priority. It
To the editor:
seems that the faculty and staff is more concerned with is own "flexible" welfare than ours.
Bradford J. we
Topeka junior
Activity funds
Having spent seven of the past 11 years on the Hill, as first an undergraduate and then as a law student, I find myself the recently renewed furor over Student Senate appropriations, or lack of same. While I feel that the Senate's denial of the Legal Aid Society's fall budget request was unavoidable as the concessionable that is not the particular axe that I care to grind here.
To the Editor:
What amazes me is why the Student Activity Fund can not be so administered as to reflect the wishes of the students, against whom the fee is assessed every term. Wouldn't have each student designate an enrollment, from a list of approved organizations, those which he feels should share his
particular contribution to the Activity Fund? Accordingly, a student, if he so wished, could designate that his fee be shared by the Legal Aid Society and the Kansan, to go of one, or to any other organization or combination of organizations.
In short, why shouldn't the present cumbersome, divisive, unfair system be replaced by one whose chief virtue lies in its ability to empower the powers that be in the Student Senate have entrenched, vested interests that student allocation would disturb? Or does the Administration feel that traditional fund recipients (the Sansam and others) belong among others) would be shortchanged if the students who are required to pay the fee would have the ultimate decision as to its destination? In short, isn't it time that all the students decide how their (not the Senate's) Activity Fund is to be used to recent recent Senate maltreatment of the Legal Aid Society only proves my point.
Jack E. Salyer
Jack E. Salyer
Dodge City law student
Watson is suffering from old age and insufficient social security payments. I don't go to Watson to see the latest in books anymore. I go to see the latest in potted plants.
Watson is turning into a jungle, complete with lions and tigers waiting behind the counters to snap and snarl at you if you appear to be threatening.
I realize, too, that Watson is understaffed and its employees are underpaid. So I try to help at the library whenever I can.
I once made a deal with the Watson employee whose duty it was to catalog and water the plants. I said, "If you'll help me find a book, I'll help you water!"
R reluctantly, she agreed. I told her the book I wanted was "The Rhythm Method" by David Reunen. While I watered the book for the book, About an hour later, she returned with the book.
"I found it in the music library," she told me.
I had forgotten to look there.
The person responsible for cataloging books at Watson is Henrietta Myrtle. Henrietta Myrtle was somewhere deep inside Watson. She worked on the main floor until she developed an allergy to potted plants. That's when she was transferred to cataloging.
Because of Henrietta, "The Biblical happaquiddick" is cataloged under "Architecture."
Library officials speak wistfully of a new library. They have appointed a committee to search for potential sites. Unfortunately, this committee has searched for lost books. The committee met to discuss a new library for the first time last
week. Four committee members couldn't find the meeting room.
To finance the new library, Watson officials are experimenting with an expanded
overdue book fine system.
Under the system, students aren't given any notice that their books are overdue. The book is overdue, of course, the more revenue the library gets.
Recent complaints, however, indicate that students want their library supported in some other way. Besides, Watson officials are finding the fine system an insufficient means to accumulate funds for a new library as they overdue books and pay their fines, many students have been declaring bankruptcy.
So it appears that for the next few years, at least, the University of Kansas will have to be content with a library of books. We are pioneers in the field of library obsolescence.
Steven Lewis Contributing writer
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