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Wednesday, October 9, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
PROCLAMATION!
KNOW YE ALL::
That, whereas, certain pestiferous, assinine, rotten, wild-eyed, foul,
fithy, foolish, frized Freaks called
Freshmen
Have insulted their natural superiors, the Noble-Hearted and Benign Sophomores, and made asses of themselves by calling on the Great Powers to protect them from their own folly
Now. Therefore,
Let all Sophs, on the night of Friday, October 4. Come Forth like Beasts of prey, and Burn, Plunder, Murder, Pillage, Slaughter and Destroy every Freshman not hidden in the bosom of the Disciplinary Committee rouse them from their Slumbers, drag them from their hiding, and dash their brains out in the street.
KIMBALL, the "Diamond Dick" of K. S. U..
The Frank Merriwell, of the Freshman Class, We will Tar and Feather, and Maroon on the Stand Tower.
FOSTER, we will Hang, Draw and Quarter.
YOUNG FREEBIRG, Sired by old Freebird, and damned by everybody, we would fly alive if the Polecat season were now open.
POWELL, KUCHS, and all the cursed pack we will Decapitate and hang their heads on the outer walls.
By it Also Known, That no Mama's Darling, belonging to a class that calls for aid when confronted by Sophs, is old enough to smoke a pipe or wear Golf trowers on the campus any time this year. Such are Liable to instane-
Ye odorous oaf of the bean yards of Kansas, baffling mysteries of the Oderpress Companies. known only by your vile stink and hence called
FRESHMEN
TO HELL WITH YOU
How came you tg thus to sneak and crawl on the Campus; God! the gall, of a lot of sniveling, wild eyed, assinine and wallowing hybrid, dirty swine.
Got ye, back unto your, bottles.
With your hides of may mottles.
Your advent upon the campus
Is against K. U. a crime.
On September twenty-four,
Keep the date, we'll keep you sore.
We will meet you on the golf links.
Bring your rotten filthy stinks.
We will slay you there and play you
The we think no gain resides
In so doing, for the market's
Very low on pole cat hides.
Wake em up, shake em up
Seven come eleven
Rook Chalk Jay Hawk 1967
sources of potential clients were the student directory and referrals from other students.
But in contrast to all this, students, especially male students, call by telephone calls from persistent insurance agents and big junk mail advertising or arriving in insurance to an Army career.
A story in Wednesday's Kansas canned the claims of University officials that students' names and addresses weren't being sold to private companies for use as mailing lists. Representatives of local insurance agencies said their
Several students have reported being pestered by insurance agents who have information about them that could come only from within the University.
John Meyers, director of admissions, said in the story that student listings weren't released to private companies since the writing of the current Code of Student Rights, compelling Meyers to release the Code Meyers later said he wasn't exactly sure when the code was written, but that it was at least several years ago.
And yet Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, can say "I don't know of anybody that's getting any junk mail at all."
By RICHARD PAXSON Contributing Writer
Somebody has your number
That position was contradicted by William Smith, director of the KU printing service. Smith said Thursday that student lists had been sold as recently as during the last few years and Newsweek magazines, the Tuition Fund, Inc. (a loan company for students), Lawrence National Bank, University State Bank, First National Bank of Lawrence, the KU Pep Club, Jayhawker University Science (ROTC), Acme Cleaners, Frontier Rent Apartments and the Student Senate.
Voting is hopeless without 25 $ ^{c} $
StudEx passed a recommendation to the University for summer requesting that mailings made available only to groups within the University, such as student organizations. This advice was given at the request of the university, vice chancellor for students.
He said this wasn't just a policy of his office, but one that applied to all University offices.
Perhaps KU should consider the program recently adopted at the University of Wisconsin. There, in response to a request for student lists by a bank that wanted to enlist students in a campus threeway contest at the Wisconsin student government set up a committee to review such requests. All sales of mailing lists there now are announced in advance in the campus newspaper. Students have the opportunity to delete their names from the compilations. These mailinglists are done by university employees to discourage unauthorized duplication of the lists.
Continuing Writer
A poll tax at the University of Kansas? I couldn't believe it. There was I last week, trying to
By STEVEN LEWIS Contributing Writer
vote for my choice for the HOPE Award, and a senior class official refused to give me
a ballot because I wouldn't give him a quarter.
"Look," I said, "I don't have a quarter. I'm poor. I don't
If you don't have a senior card class, he kept saying, it'll cost you 25 cents to vote. I kept saying it against the 24th Amendment and that only in Russia did the common man have to bend to the whims of elitist "card-counters" he wouldn't listen to reason.
The University administration should move to find and plug the security leak on this campus. As long as students are not being targeted by insurance salesmen and junk mail, the confidentiality of all student records will remain in doubt.
"That's not my fault," he insisted. "You should've brought a class card at enrollment."
"It all goes to the HOPE Award winner," he replied.
"What good would that have done to you?" he quarter, how could I have afforded a class card? What are guys doing with all that paperwork?
know whether I'll be able to buy food next week."
Little did he know that he'd given me an idea. "I'll be back," I said.
You came a long way, baby
One by one I went to see all five HOPE Award finalists. When I told them that 25 cents a vote was insignificant when compared with Nixon's 1972 campaign, they all disliked over it. They had given me a dollar tip. My only regret is that I couldn't vote for all of them. But I'll be eating a little better this week.
Feedback wastes time, money
To a University of Kansas student, however, "feedback" has another meaning. It's a course evaluation system based on student appraisal of teaching abilities.
To an audio engineer, feedback is an obnoxious sound. It's what happens when a meaningless sound is amplified too much and produces an even more meaningless, falsely homogeneous sound output.
Both feedbacks have one thing in common: they're worthless.
KU's Feedback program has several major faults. One of the most important is that it doesn't apply to all courses at the University. Some KU schools require professors to use the feedback system, and some don't use the schools' own evaluation systems. Still other schools require no evaluation at all.
Thus a comparison of evaluations throughout the University is impossible.
It is also impossible, however, to change this major weakness in Feedback. There is no way to set equal instructional guidelines throughout the University.
How can the teaching methods of an instructor in modern dance be compared to those of an instructor in antitrust law? How could the teaching methods of either of those two instructors be compared to the instructor who teaches human sexuality?
Freshmen perhaps should be thankful they can walk down Jayhawk Boulevard without fear of having their brains dashed out or being trapped and feathered. These turn-of-the-century students with a University Archives, suggest that this was never the case.
It would be a case of comparing apples and oranges. Each school in the University has a class of students offered in the courses offered by the school and in the method of teaching required by those courses.
For example, in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, one would be comparing evaluations of instructors in French, economics and meteorology. One would be asked to compare evaluations of teachers who, by the nature of their background, would teach large lecture classes to evaluations of professors who teach small discussion classes such as Western Civilization.
Furthermore, it would be just as impossible to evaluate instructors in the same school under universal guidelines.
There can be no comparison. The teaching
methods required in these two situations are inherently different.
Another weakness of Feedback is that it doesn't serve the students' needs. One of the expressed purposes of Feedback is to provide feedback to the student about classes before he enrolls.
However, Feedback isn't distributed until enrollment day, and usually by this time students have already selected their classes, without the help of Feedback.
A professor is assigned a number from one to five, one being the lowest score. This number is an average of student opinion on questions ranging from the instructor's knowledge of the course subject to the difficulty of required questions to individual questions sometimes aren't listed, and who answers are placed in the back of the booklet in a statistical table that is difficult to understand.
Moreover, few of the courses offered at the University are listed in Feedback. The few that have been provided minimal help to the student because notations used are practically undecipherable.
For example, one question in Feedback asks whether the instructor is receptive to class discussions. The instructor of a large lecture course instructs on this question, although it actually is inapplicable to his course. Inapplicable questions can completely distort the evaluation of an instructor.
Thus, the student may never know the weak points or strong points of the instructor until he is in the class.
Students don't use Feedback. This semester, after enrollment was completed, there were 3,000 copies of Feedback left over. There were only 8,000 copies printed, not enough for even half of the University students. And yet almost half of those 8,000 copies were never used.
Finally, there is little student support of Feedback. Student representatives in the Student Senate have refused to fund the program because it isn't relevant to student needs.
The University is wasting its money and the students' time by continuing this farcical program. Jill Willis
Campus Editor
Privacy is press'duty
By KATHY PICKETT
The presence of Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist at the University of Kansas brings to mind a constitutional issue we all often worry about is its great importance to us.
That issue is the implied doctrine of the right to privacy. This is an issue that at times raises great furor and at other times is entirely ignored. But it is especially important for people interested in or connected with the press.
Just what is a right of privacy? How far does it exert constitutional provision for privacy, but it is implied in the constitutional guarantee of illegal search and seizure.
And finally, the invasion of privacy doctrine should protect us from being put in a false light before the public, or having our private lives intruded on and displayed to the public through the press. It is the right to be left alone.
The right of privacy has many facets. Because of it, we should be free of bugging devices or of having our telephone lines tapped. It implies that we have the freedom to choose their likeness, and that these can't be used for commercial purposes without our consent.
It is here that both courts and laws have decidedly vague. Court cases have been made to be the only decisions so unexpected and unprecedented. A prime example is the case of Time, Inc. v. Hill, in which former president Nikon was the losing lawyer.
In this case, a private family was fighting that its privacy had been invaded by a magazine story. The magazine won the case, but only because of its surprising decision by the court.
There is a fairly clear delineation in all privacy matters. The fight is usually the private citizen and the press.
The usual outcry is that the privacy issue is a danger to the
press because it is so unclear. In a private case, truth can't be used as a defense. The main defence is newsworthiness.
On such a term the courts have been quite lenient to newspapers and other media. News is what a news editor says it is. In some cases it is what a reporter says it is.
Privacy is an issue in which the press, not the government,
As a private citizen, I believe in the right of privacy. I want to be free from questioning and being asked what I don't want my photograph taken on a whim and displayed in a paper. I don't want my name and personality exploded in desire of some reporter or editor.
should take the first step. The duty of the press is to help this controversy by responsible journalism. This task isn't always fulfilled.
As a journalist, I believe in the right of privacy. I don't want to make annoying telephone calls at ungodly hours. I don't want to take someone's photograph unless he wants me to. I don't want to be hurt by it. I think it is truly newsworthy and of interest to the readers of my paper.
And it is in this last instance that the press falls down on its responsibility to its public. In a case of an unauthorized press often makes unwise decisions. Stories are manufactured, pseudo-events are reported and little conclusion is given to the unwary.
"We don't write the paper for them," the reporter is told who timidly suggests that a source might not want to be talked to or might not be available at a certain time. And the reporter must ponder the question just for whom is the paper written?
There is no denying that there are events that must be reported and people who must
be interviewed. At many times, the timeliness of a story is its only important element, and簿本 is often prefixed with sources that are ignored.
And when there is an important issue or a late-breaking story, these figures should realize they will have to talk to the press or court would be present on the right of privacy in this instance.
A U.S. president, a governor,
any politician knows he must
stand firm against the
Linda Lovelace or Evel
Krievel and they thrive on it.
And so must a Chancellor Ar-
klyse Bykes or a dean or
chairman.
What is needed is a little understanding from newspaper people. He should remember to ask if anyone has access to his privacy. If the story is big,
timely and important for the paper, so be it. The source must be written from his rare time with his family, and he he's reading or from his sleep.
But if the story is manufactured, can be put off at all and is of only slight interest, why not wait a little? Why not let the private citizens have their questions questioned during office hours or at least when they are readily available.
As journalists, let's remember we also are people. We are writing for the service of the people in our lives, like what they read, and we have to believe in its importance. If we don't, we will find we are not prepared to do the profession and ruining what could be a fine newspaper.
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