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Thursday, October 17, 1974
University Daily Kansan
OPINION
Senate's cuts proposal lauded
It takes courage to say no. It especially takes courage to say no to 28 groups requesting money from you when the money isn't your's in the first place.
But say no is just what the Student Senate's Finance and Auditing Committee did this week when it recommended that almost $20,000 be sliced from campus organization's requests from the Senate's fall activity fee contingency fund and that $5,282 of student money be put back into the fund. And they should be congratulated for it.
In the past, the Finance and Auditing Committee has tended to forget that the money it was allocating was the students' not the Senate's and that only groups that benefit a large number of students or represent the students and the senate have any control over money. There also has been a prevailing attitude that all the money has to be spent and none can be kent in reserve for the future.
And even when the Finance and Auditing Committee did attempt to use such criterion in the last two series of hearings, the Senate as a whole, which has finally say over allocations, has overruled the committee's recommendations and doled student money to special interest groups that benefitted only a handful of students until all the money was gone.
The new synthetic surface in Allen Field House
that will soon be opened for student use was paid for in part by money that the predecessor of the Student Senate, the All Student Council, had set aside. Until this week, the Senate has shown little indication of saving for a rainy day or special project such as this. Instead, groups that had as few as 20 members and offered nothing to the University community received outandish sums of money to make telephone calls, open offices, eat refreshments and buy supplies.
Without exception, the Finance and Auditing committee exhibited none of this capricious doling of money to small, special interest groups this week and recommended that only organizations such as the Graduate Student Council, University Theatre, intramurals, the University Daily Kansan and the Consumer Protection Association—groups, in which a large number of students participate or benefit from—receive money.
Lewis Gregory, chairman of the committee, said Tuesday, "This committee was more responsive to the students than any other budget process I've ever seen."
Let's hope that the Senate as a whole, when it meets Wednesday to approve the committee's recommendations, is equally responsive to the students.
Jeffrey Stinson Associate Editor
By Kattan Photographer JOYCE MENDELSOHN
The whole nation is howling as inflation sends the economy to the dogs.
`SLUM TRAFFIC IS CLEAR BUT THE MIDDLE-CLASS FLEEING`
THE CITY WILL FIND THE MAJOR ARTERIES JAMMED '
As part of its campaign against inflation, the White House last week devised a little postcard enlistment form to be sent to President Gerald R. Ford by every American who
Inflation is Congress' baby now
By James Kilpatrick
Congress and Congress alone has the power to raise taxes and to appropriate public funds. If the budget for fiscal '75 is to be cut back to $300 billion, as Ford has urged, Congress will have to
wants to enlist as "An Inflation Fighter and Energy Saver." The gesture probably is harmless, and it may appeal to box-top bumps who love to print along dotted lines.
But the effort won't amount to much unless Ford gets enlistment forms back from 100 senators and 435 members of the House. The President has been providing executive leadership against inflation. This ugly child is Congress' baby now.
It is important to emphasize that point. For the past 40 years, our people have accrued in a gradual transfer of both image and knowledge from the House been to exalt the White House and downgrade Congress. A pernicious notion is abroad that higher taxes will be "Ford's taxes." It is nonsense. If a government adopted, Congress will adopt it. If the capital-gains law is to rewritten, Congress will rewrite it. It is true, of course, that in many areas of government one looks to the Oval Office: The president is expected to halting inflation, we ought to look toward Capital Hill instead: The buck stops there.
cut it. A president can ask for certain measures; a president can beg, beseech and entreat; he can scold, exhort, praise and condemn; but when the roll is called up vonder he can't vote
Will Congress take effective action? Will fish fly and birds swim? The one prospect is as likely as the other. One could be more representative representatives who individually preach economy and practice what they preach. Collectively, the two bodies are fat and happy spenders. The payoff of this record is the record of irresponsible outlays—of deficits that have pumped $100 billion of paper into our money supply. These weren't "Johnson deficits" or "Cruise Deficits," but deficits sanctioned by the United States Congress.
What has Congress done lately? Last month the Senate rejected a sensible effort by Ford to save $700 million by postponing a federal pay raise until the first of the year. The Senate approved a bill to create a new Agency for Consumer Advocacy that would have cost millions of dollars. Another proposal that commanded wide support was to pass a Youth Camp Safety Act, with a thousand bureaucrats to help pep tents and test diving boards.
dyadic relationships on adherence to stressful decisions.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va,
teed off the other day on costly
grants approved by the National
Foundation, Yale University received grants of $55,000 to study early phases of
Hominid and Pongid
history at Yale; prehistory of Taiwan and $46,000 to study the influence of
Somewhere in my mountain of grist is a massive study commissioned by the Food and Agriculture Foundation for the safety performance of tricycles and minibikes. The study cost a small fortune, but the results served was that children get longer legs as they grow older.
for cutting budgets. It has no stomach for fairly increasing taxes either. What will happen—and about all that will happen—is that the Democrats who control Congress will follow in the wobbly footsteps of the Oklahomaans of my boyhood who voted dry as long as they could vote, and the Democrats will talk economy and vote spending, and when things are worse next spring, they will blame it all on Ford. 174 Field Production, Inc.
This Congress has no stomach
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Reply, query, potshot on music, litter, CIA
Litter bugged
To the Editor:
Like others who live south of the hill, my walk home each day takes me past the intramural football games on the fields near Robinson Gymnasium and the new hospital.
But on the mornings after these extravaganzas I must wade through paper sacks, pop cans and broken beer bottles. I complete and endorse the undergraduate program at University and the freedom to have a good time while participating. However, the continual display of disrespect and unconcern by the fraternities and independent organizations those facilities is inexusable.
Ford fumbles on busing issue
Of all the pitifully uninformed statements ever made by a president of the United States about a matter so vital to national well-being, I can think of nothing that surpasses
President Gerald R. Ford's comments last week about busing in Boston.
made it clear either he doesn't know him or, as he said to him, he or her arbitrarily deceive the American people. Asked whether he would send it, he said he'd not.
By Carl Rowan
We saw the President undercut a ruling by a federal judge in language that made it clear that he was not the notion of what the legal issues were in Boston, or why Judge W. Arthur Garrity ordered the busing that has infuriated so many Irish workers in South Boston.
We saw the President fumbling forth with an answer that
Mayor Kevin White had requested, Ford said: "Now, the marshals, if my information is accurate, are under the jurisdiction of the court, not directly under my jurisdiction."
Sad to say, his information wasn't accurate. The U.S. Marshals Service is part of the Justice Department, and thus directly under Ford's control. Mr. Ford must be the executive branch, not by any judge. If the President says 1,000 marshals go to Boston,
Now some people pretend to be outraged that Ford is mouthing the same old "I'm against forced busing" malarkey that endeard former President Richard Nixon to middle America until middle America discovered Nixon was a blind them to unprecedented White House crookedness.
1,000 marshals go to Boston.
This isn't what bothers me so much. I never expected Ford to come out for busing—certainly not after he admitted he probably would seek a seat on a bus owned in 1976. There are, after all, no more whites who oppose busing than blacks who want it.
That shamful press conference performance—"It was a good example of both inexperience and stupidity," said Rep. Andrew Young, D-GA--has since been deployed in hundreds of newspapers, trainers and pool halls because even modestly perceptive Americans had read what Ford apparently didn't:black children are their objects brushed and their arms spat against a violent fomented not only by the dregs, the thugs and the hodlums of South Boston, but also by visiting rabble-rouseres and the American Nazi Party.
What disturbs me deeply is that a president could come to a press conference as ill-informed and uneducated, but authorize to control their activities. Has anyone told him the Strategic Air Command?
Hundreds of editors, commentators and political leaders have observed that when Ford gave his sickening disavowal of violence and then told every racist brute in the country, 'I heard him speak through the judge's order,' Ford courageed the rock throwers, the child bearers and the vicious haters.
That troubles me profunely.
But I think it troubles me more that we have a President so ill-informed he didn't even know
that the first critical decision in Boston was made not by Garrity, but by his own judgment. An HEW administrative judge ruled many months ago that the Boston School Committee was nearly a dual operation, and a dual, segregated school system.
But, Lord help us, there was the President on nationwide TV, talking about how he has "consistently opposed forced busing to achieve racial balance as a solution to quality education" - Why had he sent the President to the fact that the issue in Boston is not "forced busing" or that theoretical nonsense of how to guarantee 'quality education'? The issue is whether Boston and Louise Day Hicks can get away with flagrant Jim Crow today whereas Mr. Trump, the University of Alabama and George Wallace couldn't get away with it years ago.
Copyright 1974 Field Enterprises, Inc.
My question is: What are those in charge of the intramural programs doing about these abuses?
I urge that the directors of the intramural programs see that students should be littering on campus be enforced before the area becomes so littered with broken glass and broken windows that insures unsafe for anyone to use.
It would be sad to have to discontinue intramural simply because of a negligent few. We need new facilities, but how can we ask for more when we don't know of what we already have?
Carol Pennington Liberal graduate student
Music library
To the Editor:
I am writing in response to the letter to the editor by Mark Edwards in the Oct. 8 edition of the Kansan, in which he complained about the music library's "lack of music."
As a member of the staff in the music library I think the Kansan should present a more accessible version to its readers. First of all, Edwards should be informed that there is no recording of his works anywhere; the music library does have a recording of the
suite from "Aniara" in the stereo collection.
The library also has a large collection of modern works, including those of Stockhausen, Utschevsky and many others.
I suggest that anyone using the library who can't find what he wants should ask at the desk or call the library elsewhere. Also, the library can't know what patrons want in it unless they inform the staff. There is a suggestion box for book cataloging for this purpose.
In response to Edwards' complaints that no modern music is performed at KU, I would like to point out that in addition to performing classic works such as Mozart operas, has performed operas by Bernstein, Hindemich, Menotti and Ravel, all 20th century composers. The School of Fine Arts also sponsors an annual symposium in which new music is performed.
Althea Aschmann Alexandria, Va. senior
I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to the CIA for permitting Dick Gregory to tell us naive students about the conspiracies against presidents and aspiring presidents. Thanks also for not President Ford before he can control the economy.
CIA thanked To the Editor:
Sam Umland
Humboldt sophomore
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