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Tuesday, September 17, 1974
University Dally Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
'I TAKE IT BACK...A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE'
Research by a subversive
Editor's Note: Roy Laird, professor of political science and Slavic and Soviet-area relations, wrote the following as a letter to University administrators and the Board of Regents.
Ry ROY D. LAIRD
BY ROY D. LAIR
It is required that you be a member of University of Kansas faculty members to turn in their annual reports. Part of what is required is general comments, constructive suggestions in reference to the University, which are to be addressed to the department of your interest if you will find something of interest in what I have to say.
Last spring my chairman asked me whether I would teach the summer. Shamelyne, I dearest Students who might have wanted to take a course in my specialty, Soviet politics and government, were deprived of county. I cheated those students.
Certainly no blanket amnesty
will be given and, as I shall try
to make them, it is important that,
imposed that, by my perverted
bookkeeping, adds up to well
Instead of teaching classes, I did other things, including leaving Lawrence for some three weeks to do some fishing, and then going back to worse, while in Lawrence, I broke University rules, perhaps I even broke state laws. Three weeks of that time were devoted to activities which much of the public, many of the students at Lawrence, still will feel that justice triumphed in the end.
planned Colorado fishing trip so that I could participate on his oral exam. Fortunately, I conned a colleague who was legally on the payroll to take my place.
over $5,012. Moreover, students are a clever lot, and in spite of their efforts, they can do my selfish thing: they can cause me again and again. Indeed, see early in the summer how things were going to go, I decided to keep some accounts of my time. What kind of painting is drawn from that record.
For many members of the public, many students and even some KU colleagues, research, orally by social scientists, is an evil practice away with. Yes, I confess my underhanded reason for declining to teach last summer rested on my passion for Russian because I'd promised to delve into comparing Soviet and U.S.
Frankly, I'm a bit concerned that our strict law and order Attorney General Vern Miller will show up one of these days with a warrant. You see, because I wasn't on any state payroll, I wasn't a legal employee of the state. Yet, I signed
"... my application for a university summer research grant was refused. . . .
Research cost my family more than $4,000. Now we owe the bank $2,000."
many documents and participated in many official acts which, at the least, involved an abuse of power.
The "Phog" died yesterday. But he left with us more than a strong tradition of outstanding athletic teams and all-star athletes. He left us with sage counsel on amateur and intercollegiate athletic competition culled from almost 50 years of devotion to it.
These words came from "the fog horn"—Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen—in 1922. He was dubbed "the fog horn" by eastern sports writers because of his outspoken, unequivocal views on clean amateur athletics and his loud promotion of Kansas and the University.
There are many ways to flaunt the University rules. Over the years I've broken my share. The following are just three examples from this last summer:
I used KU stationery and KU stamps to send out letters of recommendation for students, even for letters to colleagues at other universities concerning a leading scholarly conference.
Jeffrey Stinson Associate Editor
I plotted with a colleague to sign up a student for thesis in the university, but the student name. Actually, the student was secretly working under me (as did many others during the period) and I had no legal thesis number.
Sounds of the 'Phog' still echo
He scorned what he termed "the athletic
Secretly, and I'll never tell the Graduate School the exact exam that I had to take. I exam for one of my students who had to leave town and hadn't been able to finish his course at the end of the spring semester.
In the present day of the free ride, illegal recruiting, underhanded payments and bribes, side bets and promotional hucksterism, the fog horn should again be sounded.
You know, I think the Soviets bought some Kansas grain once upon a time, and I think its important to know about Soviet agriculture. True, only about 95 per cent of my research is used in my class presentation. The unless only Harvard, Berkley and then more truth, especially about agriculture. Only what they say should be discussed in my classes.
Other illegal student-related activities included counseling, helping students finish incompletes or Ps (used as a tentative pass until theses are completed) and course preparations for this fall. My students did this work. My students and I talked about a forty-hour week (that's a laugh), students got me for nearly two weeks time. Still, I remember one student who failed. He broadly hinted that I should postpone my long-
"One of the most common dangers to college athletics is the athlete who, under the guise of amateurism, wants to get paid for his athletic services."
firmative action and two administrators for every faculty member (as it seems, this is not a bad thing), which take all the money, research wasn't a subversive activity. Faculty were to teach, do service for the state and nation and add to the body of knowledge.
"The evils growing from athletic contests are merely functional evils," Allen said in 1923, "they are not inherent to the system. They should be remedied if possible, but the system should not be ablished until some other has been proposed to satisfy the desire for play and furnish wholesome recreation. . . Clean athletic sports must at all hazards be saved."
I often wonder whether our award-winning teachers who never research and write ever ask themselves what it is they would teach if their colleagues didn't write the books and articles that they assign their students to study.
During the 1973-74 semesters, student demands kept me from my research, but came the day I received in exceeded in out-smarting them.
As indicated above, there was a slight penalty to be paid. Not only was my application for a University summer research program not successful, my summer teaching salary, it cost my family more than $4,000.
tramp" who sought payment for his competition. He warned that amateur sport could be ruined by phony scholarships that allowed players to leaf through school. He despiRED rambling.
Now we own the bank $2,000.
Had I taught the two summer months we would have $2,000 in savings. Further, as my income rose, I would buy more flowers, spring, by December, I'll have spent nearly $1,000 out of the
Betty (that's my wife) was the security officer, that is, when she wasn't off shopping or taking a wildly riotous acts. Sometimes, you answered the phone and said she didn't know where I was, she was honest. She really didn't know whether I was in town, or simply looking longingly out the window of our high and dry boat.
However, my chairman caught me off guard one day. Subly, so subtly he didn't even say it, he reminded me of past statements that I'd made about the school system, especially to graduate students.
Much of the research activity that survives at KU has gone underground. In my own case, last summer I hid out for nearly a month in an abandoned house hours at a time) in a sealed off room upstairs in our own house.
So it was that I became graduate student adviser in our department, officially starting Aug. 19. Unofficially, nearly all of the first two weeks of August were devoted to a necessary office move upstairs to match the "promotion."
had been away for three weeks,
and sometimes people need
decisions made. I minded the
store. Fortunately, this time I
went to the store as it did
before when he had to be goe
for over a month.
Justly, come the end of summer, the students did have their revenge. My wife's and my game plans had been to spend the first two weeks of August sailing at Lake Perry or working at our little country hide-out.
(If I may digress a moment.
My wife and daughter helped make the move, the latter for $12, which explains the $5,012 figure.
True, many students came by for advice but most of them I was able to put off until after Aug. 19 by telling them that
"When the push for a faculty union comes, which it surely will within a year or two, I think I'll join, something I never thought I'd do six or seven years ago."
we call the rooms studies, but actually they are our sons' rooms. The boys have moved out since they are in college.) Sometimes, however, Betty failed.
For example, one morning a strange summer school student neither of us had seen before, or heard of since, got by her. He was doing a paper for another department on a subject related to Soviet affairs, and the morning was shot giving him
anything I said before I had studied my new job would probably be wrong.
As KU people know, some (as administration) instantly administers salaries and, by state law, one requires that employers to modify, for such a position,
knowledge."
"Once upon a time, . . . research wasn't a subversive action. Faculty were to teach, do services . . . and add to the body of
family pocket for such things as books, research materials, photocopying, telephone calls and research-related, travel.
I know I said earlier that I was out of Lawrence for three weeks. But I even cried on the couch in Gulag Archipelago" along to Colorado, all 660 pages, and read it for a promised review in Kansas State University public access magazine's subversive things there, too).
Once upon a time, long ago before student riots, af-
I also arranged for a student to send me (he paid for the stamps) the final copy of his thesis, which I read when we stopped off in Nebraska for a visit with in-laws.
So, you can see the three weeks of vacation was a bit exaggerated.
When the push for a faculty union comes, which it surely will within the next year or two, I think I'll join, something I never thought I'd do six or seven years ago.
Costs of Arab oil to reshape world
Editor's Note: Rose Greaves,
professor of history, is an
occasional contributor to
the University Dally Kansan.
By ROSE L. GREAVES
bad advice on his report. I wonder what grade he got? Still, our own project was completed the September conference.
BY ROSE L. GREAVES
Oil problem? Shortages? Homo-
bium—that was last year. It was
the oil of the part of the oil
companies of perhaps part of
the whole dismal Watergate
business.
But it doesn't bother us now. In fact, there is a surplus of oil, and that shows how false the whole energy crisis of last year is. The surpluses of investments are widely expressed throughout the United States.
How true are they and what is the real situation?
In my lectures on the Middle East near the beginning of the semester in September 1973, I said the results of another Arabic course were incalculable. But some of the results now can be assessed.
The October war meant much more than a reassertion of Arab pride. To all who wished to see an end to the reality of Arab power. The oil embargo, lifted just in time, was beginning to bite, and serious thought was being given on the future of Iraq and to conservation. The temporary surplus resulting from the full availability of Middle East oil seems to have been ignored by those concerned about the energy problem.
But there is a real crisis resulting from the October war. It is here and now. it concerns money. the price of oil before October 1737 was in a different world. The price increases and the retrospective participation agreement provisions have
brought money rolling in to the producing countries.
In 1974 the oil producing countries have the capacity to absorb perhaps $40 billion. That will leave a surplus of $60 billion, which will probably rise to $75 billion to $80 billion when active participation agreement provisions are taken into account.
A seminar in Rome in 1972 estimated that the oil income of the Persian Gulf states would reach $13 billion by 1975 and $80 billion by 1980. We were then considered high enough to present a problem of great magnitude. They seem insignificant when compared with the oil price year. For 1974, the oil bill will probably reach $10 billion.
The problem of how to handle this surplus is the critical one because an expensive monetary structure simply designed to meet the kind of
situation we now face. The situation is, in fact, without historical precedent.
Is Middle East oil necessary?
Do we have to buy it? For the immediate future (to 1980 or 1985), there is nothing in sight that will impact substantially to our independence on Middle East oil.
Oil is also in a class by itself because for three-fourths of its uses, there is no substitute. There isn't much in the way of
Readers respond
Even worse than illegally playing professor during the summer, for three weeks I should have been expected to be acting director of the Slavic and Soviet Area Studies program. The director
"Well, I thought it was real cool, and man, there were some real funny, weird people smoking groovy things at the concert. That's why I went. I came back with all sorts of neat relevant things like the name of my program, and I watched real good to see who left when, and how wet the con-ductor was when he was through, Oh, oh! I just loved watching that beautiful man—he waltzed and danced to the music. See him playing the graceful motions—graceful, graceful, graceful."
"Now children, we have all been to the concert and I want to know just what you thought about the program. Kathy?"
To the Editor:
"Well, I thought the room was too hot."
"Well Kenn, did these motions help the musicians? Did he cue them? Did he turn to
"Well, I think he was highly original. I don't think anyone has ever seen such beautiful swaying. He has such strength! He consistently resisted the temptation to cue the musicians or give them an accurate and definitive beat. He really loved himself, you know, after all, he's been trained musicians—and he's an artist! His fulltime responsibility is to provide artistic swaying and dancing for the reviewer's benefit.
the brass before they thrashed into the Prokofiev?"
"Kenn?"
"The Prokofiev was just like hearing a story book tale. He took us down the lane to meet the Capullets and then he scarred me—he made the musicians play loud noises (my teacher says they are called 'men' because they are everyone knows, you must have some quiet sounds known as beautiful harmonies (easy listening WKZN in Kansas City). Put it all together, stir it
"The seats were loaded, the heat was on, but the MIGHTY BRAHMS struck out. The instant-playback shows that the cellos mistook the conductor's one cue and played their beautiful melody from the first quarter in the first. Being a drummer that from standing and the programs were all gone I decided to cut out after the second movement and write my review.
alternatives that will change the general picture in the next few years. Real austerity, it seems unlikely, would help.
"And now folks—for a recipit"
The stats line up like this. The
theatres head read with
their flashy entry.
Prokofiev gave the buzzz and
quickly took the lead,
the audience half was devoted to
the Brahms.
with a little weird, and two eggs and you have Prokofiev!
So now we leave you amid the echo of the resounding apology for an encore and professional reviewers at the next concert.
Sue Russell Melanie Sturt Grad Student Grad Student Lawrence Monroe, La.
If the world continues as we know it, it must import Middle East oil. This includes the United States now and in the foreseeable future. Although the United States is not as high as that needed by Europe and Japan, it is great because we consume so much. The impact is, of course, much greater on Europe and Japan because we spend more on oil. Of this, 80 per cent is imported, mainly from the Middle East.
For Europe, it is the most serious crisis since World War II. It is all the more difficult because nothing like it has been faced before. What kind of war is it we are trying to tame?
Iran, the first of the great Middle East producers, can use its oil income and is leading the
Furthermore, oil policy has moved to the government level, not to the company as in the past. Oil prices are buyers and sellers of oil, no longer independent negotiators. Governments are plagued with other problems - inflation in Europe and the power of unions. It points to the drive and determination to grasp this nettle.
The oil price problem presents two aspects: the bill surpluses and the other side of this coin—the surpluses for producing countries. Those surpluses arise in order that it cannot absorb wealth.
way in devising schemes for the proper utilization and investment of funds. But Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi have sudden and enormous surpluses and don't have the financial or economic structure to cope.
This surplus problem is estimated to amount in the next two years to about $200 billion, and that investment in foreign companies of $90 billion dollars. This money is now being deposited in banks on seven days each month, which was used to finance a 20-year loan.
One bank has had a billion dollars a month coming in. It needs $85 million new capital a month to support this. So the first aspect is a purely financial problem necessitating the creation of a new monetary system. This requires immediate political decisions.
The longer-run problem concerns resources. What assets do we use to pay our oil bill? The claims of the Middle East estimated to reach 800 billion by 1980—about half constituting a claim directly against goods and services produced within consuming countries. How do such a shift of resources?
For the Middle East producers there is a great dilemma. Oil is an exhaustible resource and the only one they have. If the West wants it, then the West will pay for it. But once invested, whether in banks or guaranteed by other governments, it is at risk—political or commercial.
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