4 Thursday, August 29, 1974 University Dally Kansan THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OPINION Our legal staff is meeting to decide if we should further impeach the dethroned King Richard, or prosecute him and send him to jail, or convict him and just give him a suspended sentence or simply let him go. Investigating scandals takes a lot of time and is a good way to make enemies, if not lose one's life. Besides, a reporter never knows for sure whether the person reporting a scandal is a nut, is trying to get even with someone or is for real. By STEVEN LEWIS Contributing Writer Everywhere a journalist turns today he is confronted with a scandal, Oh, for the good old days when journalism was simpler, when a speech by the chancellor or a drug raid was all there was for a University journalist. To get more to the point, I was minding my business the other day when my phone rang. Mistake number one: I answered it. Since Watergate, life for the journalist hasn't been easy. Everyone's got a scandal for the press. I've got to where I live. I don't want to die because I fear that someone has another scandal to report. "Do you work for the Kansan?" "Hello?" "Oh no! Just a moment, I have to get my scandal sheet. . . All right, now give me your name and your scandal." "Well, I have a scandal to report." "I'm Flora Iceberg, I'm a KU sophomore. My scandal concerns Security and Parking" "What did I do now?" Your name and scandal, please "I have first hand knowledge that Security and Parking is depicting students to ticket cars that are illegally parked." Cops are meternaids "How do you know "I have a card." "What card?" Don't believe the shield. Upperclassmen can tell you these men in blue aren't police. They aren't crimefighters. The upperclassman doesn't see visions of Dick Tracy, Serrico or Captain America when the department of security and parking (their real title) is mentioned. This is a warning to uninformed freshmen. In the foyer of Hoch Auditorium there is a caged window. Above the window is a shield that reads "University of Kansas Police." The University administration apparently doesn't believe it either. Don't believe that they can accomplish all that their real title indicates they should do. The upperclassman doesn't believe it. The administration recently authorized Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, to seek a professional consultant to study campus security problems. Nitcher said the consultant would be hired because of "concern over the rape problem." The only thing you should believe about the title is the second half of their title—“Parking.” When the department talks about parking they are dead serious. Don't park your car in a zone where the color of your sticker doesn't match the color on the sign. Don't drive past the ever-vigilant department personnel in the three booths on the hill. And don't avoid paying your tickets if you get caught breaking a parking rule. Your transcripts or diploma can be withheld, you can be prevented from enrolling or you can be taken to court. Freshmen, consider yourselves warned. Freshmen, consider yourselves warned. If you're in trouble, call the Lawrence Police Department. But if you need a metermaid, call security and parking. —Jeffrey Stinson —Jeffrey Stinson Associate Editor "A card that says I'm a deputy ticketer for Security and Parking." "I don't see anything particularly wrong with getting students involved in University law enforcement." "But that isn't all the card does," Flora iceberg replied. "We get privileges." "Such as?" "We get an all-zone parking sticker, the right to drive any speed on campus and free access to all University events." "This all sounds vaguely familiar." "But that's not all. Even more interesting is the fact that the director of Security and Information security an organizational meeting last week to seduce male parkers into illegally parking." “It’s true. The director told us that Security and Parking was desperate for money because the University wouldn't let the department charge students enough for parking stickers and because faculty members weren't paying their fines.” "What? I don't believe it," I said unconvincingly. "Did anyone take the director seriously?" "Why not? It sounded like fun. We would work in the evening. I would catch a student on campus as he was getting ready to ride to Olver Hall. After I was in his car, he told him that I had to go to Summerfield Hall because I had a paper that I had to write on. He used a computer center. When we'd arrive at Summerfield, I'd get "That's a wild story you've got there. Flora. Did it work?" him to park in the 24-hour restricted zone by telling him that I'd only be inside for a couple minutes. "Then, I'd persuade him to come inside with me. While we were inside, he'd get a ticket. I tell him I'd pay for the ticket if he insisted, but he usually agreed. If that I pay it, I tell him I'd have to get some money from my Oliver Hall apartment. He drive me to Oliver, I pretend to go to my apartment and he'd give me a ticket. And Parking officer would then sneak me back to campus." "You'd be surprised. With three of us soliciting men every evening at $5 a ticket, we'd make $80 every day for the department." "Did you get a kickback?" "No, we did it for fun. It was part of our job." "I'm sorry. Flora, but you have what we in journalism call a conflict of interest. I can't help you." "Well, to be perfectly honest, last night I was giving out the tickets at Summerfield and my boyfriend drove up with one of the girls. I found out today that they had married. I hate this whole stinkening out now and I want you to expose it for what it is." "Why are you telling me all these things, anyway?" Then I hung up. I didn't tell her that one of the things in life a student journalist with a car would over is Security and Parking. Press didn't beat Nixon WASHINGTON, D.C.-In Albuquerque, N.M., the other evening, I happened to be addressing the annual banquet of the National Legislative Conference. It had been a long evening, made even longer by Senator Monota's brief welcome, and it was perhaps a mistake for a speaker to talk about President Nixon at all. The charge is widely attested in my mail. A woman in New Orleans complains of the "dirt and vicious" conduct of the press. A gentleman in Fayette, Ohio, agrees that "many millions of Americans who firmly believe 'the American press drove Nixon But this was the top of the news, and I began by remarking on the tragedy of a President who had resigned his office to investigate an impeachment and on the probability of conviction. "Nonsense!" I replied. The gentleman departed, I persevered, and the conference at last adjourned. But it occurs to me that, whereas "horse manure!" is a sufficiently definitive accusation, "Nonsense!" is hardly a comprehensive reply. The gentleman's charge merits a more measured answer. out of office." A gentleman in Vienna, Va., says "the news media must share the major news in this tragic happening." It wasn't the press that covered up the involvement of top officials of the re-election committee. "Horse manure!" cried a man on B Deck of the speakers' platform. "The press drove him out!" The press didn't hire a squalf trickster and he have write anonymous letters. The press didn't write anonymous letters. The press didn't write anonymous letters. "the nerries," list" was to be Very well. The press (by which is meant the great newspapers and the TV networks) may have erred from By James Kilpatrick time to time in its coverage of the Watergate story. As Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward concede in their best-selling book, there are certain excesses of zeal. But the record of the press is amazingly good. Gross corruption in the highest office is big news. The Watergate story, taken as a whole, dealt with unparalleled corruption of the presidential office. Did the press hound Mr. Nixon out of office? I deny it absolutely. It wasn't the press that burglarized the Democratic national headquarters. It wasn't the press that laundered dirty money through Mexican banks. used in harassing the press. It was no anchorman who sought to manipulate the CIA. No editors extorted illegal campaign contributions. The Washington Post did not commander public funds to pay for private shuffleboards. CBS did not put the FBI on Daniel Schorr. The media were not involved in erasing tapes and falsifying transcripts. These acts were the responsibility of the President and the President's men. In the beginning, the press—chiefly Bernstein and Woodward—exposed some of these acts, but as the story gained momentum, the role of the press was largely to report the evidence exposed by the courts and by Congress. When the dam finally broke on August 5, the President's resignation was impelled not by the press, but by a flood of denunciations from his disillusioned supporters on the Hill. Yes, the press is powerful. Yes, the press here and there has abused its power. But I will stand by "nonsense!" as a fair description of the charge that such journalistic stars as Bernstein and Woodward drove Mr. Nixon from his office. The fault was not in these stars, but in himself. Inflation Middle-class outraged by economy but soaring prices burden for poor WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Ford surely now senses the political peril that exists in this country's sick economy. (C) 1974 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc. Millions of middle-class Americans are outraged because their incomes don't keep pace with rising prices and afford to educate their children the way they had expected to. This average American family, with income of about $12,000 a year, is in a terrible financial crisis. What can be done behind the nation's hungry Since 1970 the federal government has increased spending on nutrition programs for the poor from $1.6 to $5.1 billion. But would you believe a study panel recently told the Senate Conference on National Food and Nutrition Policy that "our nation's needy have become hungry and poorer" over the past three or four years? poor before it can grasp the crying towel. You and I may grumble about paying $2 for a pound of sirion steak or $4 for a dozen kosher hot dogs. But it's the poor who are really getting clobbered by soaring food prices. According to the Food Research and Action Center, which studied the situation for the Senate conference. Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations. Students must provide their name, year in school and home town; faculty and staff must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and address. "The poor spend a bigger chunk of their total income on food—about 30 to 60 per cent, which is two or three times the proportion spent by the middle class and rich. — When prices go up, the non-poor can change their buying habits and “spend down” to cheaper foods. But poor families are already eating the cheapest food items available, and when they go up, there’s no place to turn. Despite improvements, federal food programs fall far short of need. Two persons out of five who are eligible for stamps are getting them, according to Account and Action Center. And what they get is not enough. The Department of Agriculture's —In fact, the “cheap” items have increased in price faster than foodstuffs bought by the affluent. Look at two of the basics in a low-income diet—rice and beans. Between December 1970 and March 1974 the cost of dried beans increased 256 per cent and rice 124 per cent; but steak rose only 39 per cent. During the same period, the price of margarine rose 63 per cent compared to a 9 per cent increase for butter. The price “poor people” foods—frankfruit, pork bologna—went up to 50 to 70 per cent and foods like lamb chops, broccoli and whole wheat bread showed increases of 15 to 40 per cent. Letters Policy We hear an endless stream of personal tragedies—infants who are crippled for life by malnutrition, ill-fed youngsters who fall behind in school, elderly couples who resort to stealing canned goods off supermarket shelves. lowest-price diet plan in cost a family of four increased in cost 41.7 per cent in the last three years of age benefits rose only 34 per cent. By Carl Rowan After watching one of his children die from health disabilities caused by inadequate nutrition, the farmworker said, "How beautiful it is to water a little tree and watch it flower and grow. It is a most beautiful sight. But when you see a little tree, it brings great sorrow to the heart to bring the flowers wither away while the tree slowly dies." Copyright 1974 Field Enterprises, Inc. The irony and sadness of a wealthy nation unable to feed its citizens is poignantly expressed by a Spanish-speaking farmworker in one of the fertile valleys of California, whose story was cited in testimony before the Senate conference. administration of food stamps and school lunch programs. But perhaps the chief villain is inflation THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Kansan Telephone Numbers Newroom-UN 4-4810 Business Office-UN 4-4358 Published at the University of Kansas weekdays animation periods. Second-class student payments paid at Lawrence, Kansas 64501. 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This continuity all-ws the viewer to enjoy the pieces. The show has a clear view of the pieces, blocks the view or interferences with the beauty of another. "Artists of the River Quay" is one of the best exhibits presented by SUA. This is especially remarkable considering it is the first show of the fall semester. Every piece holds a circular motif, whether it is soft edges or the exact form of a circle, with Instead of breaking continuity, this abstract piece adds interest and serves to remind one exception—"Plexiglass Light Construction" by Steve Conrad. the viewer of the uniqueness and individuality of each piece in the exhibit. In Lawrence Stafford's untitled painting, in Donna Littrell's *Deliciosa with Friends*' and in Dell Anger's untitled piece, Artists exhibiting more than one piece seem to hold to one piece for example, Philomena Bennett and another similar organic shape the colors are vibrant and spontaneous. These works surpass the more neutral paintings—"charcoal" by Mary Howell and LaVogn Daugherty's works—simply because the latter works appear comparably cautious. In Stafford's and Angerer's works the colors create a surrounding environment with a fantasy-like quality. The neutral work, however, does have a melancholy appeal. placement in many of her paintings. This reflects two ideas. One is that the artist isn't experimenting either with color or pattern, but other is that the artist may be working to improve an individual style. The most diversified works are by Greg Brantman. They include wall reliefs, landscape ceramics of Western Kansas and a "Cast Disk with Aluminum." His ceramic pieces are done in earth tones with the surfaces in low relief landscapes. These are often the high points of the exhibit. His wall reliefs in black and gray contain an excellent linear quality and also come off in an earth landscape manner. The contrast is more different from the landscape pieces, thus showing versatility. quality and also come off in an earth landscape manner. The cast dish has an ethereal quality different from the landscape pieces, thus showing versatility. This is why he noted for his glass pieces, especially his "Room Divider," which shows a gift for the unusual through a clever technique of combining glass Robison, Stafford and Brantman appear to be the most talented and versatile artists in a show that is exceptional in its construction and continuity.