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Tuesday, August 27, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
OPINION
By Chief Photographer DEBBIE GUMP
Hey, brass! Remember me?
Dear faculty and staff at the University of Kansas:
Remember me? I'm the student.
You, members of the faculty, you remember me don't you? I'm part of those statistics on your financial exigency charts you talk about in your AAUP meetings.
Administrators—surely you remember me? I'm one of those "young men of Kansas" to whom George Fowler's son donated a building. I'm the reason the University was founded in 1865 and the reason the legislature gives you money each year.
Remember me? I'm the one that pays a student activity fee that allows you to read the University Daily Kansas each day without cost. You can attend concerts, films and theater productions on minimal charge; and allows you to have about as many tickets as I and my fellow students
receive to the Midwest Regional Basketball Tournament.
Please remember me when you have a graduate student administer your final exam so that you can leave the University early for a vacation. And remember me when I need advising but you don't want to come back to school until classes start.
Remember me when you place your office hour sign that reads "from 7:30 to 8:15 a.m. Thursday or by appointment" on your office door.
Remember that I'm paying $286.50 a semester when you cannot give me a class card in enrollment although it's the only class I need to graduate.
Remember me. I'm the reason you're here.
Jeffrey Stinson Associate Editor
Everyone needs financial help sometime. Whether poor or rich, each of us, at one time or another, gets into a financial jam that demands we moonlight a bit to take up the slack.
Our recently departed president, Richard M. Nixon, now finds himself exactly in that position—not only has he had to leave the highest office of government, but also some of the presidency's lucrative benefits.
Assuming that Nixon won't be prosecuted for obstruction of justice or other offences, must our former president be relegated to mowing lawns, pumping gas or parking cars at Macy's garage to pick up spare cash? He would have to shine quite a few shoes to pay for the nearly half-million dollars in back taxes and mortgages that he owes.
Of course Nixon could add to the recent deluge of Watergate books with his own memoirs of the entire mess. But there exists a more feasible course for the former president to take—he can apply for a federal research grant. By applying for a grant to perform research, he could publish a thesis on nearly any subject he chooses for the "betterment of scientific knowledge."
Picture it—Nixon receiving his first grant check for his research project, “A Self-Evaluated Survey of the Methodology in the Transference of Surreptitious Campaign Funds of Species in the White House.” A title like that could gross him a good half-million in a jiffy.
Ridiculous? Of course, but it probably would take a grant application from Nixon to force a serious re-evaluation of the granting of federal money.
There appears to be an overwhelming oversupply of funds available for almost any type of research. And this overabundance is very strange when the colleges and universities of our nation are craving money for the basic essentials.
There is value to research. Without research, society stands still. Yet, there is little regulation and control of this grant money. Because the federal government doesn't care to whom or for whom it grants a university, it shapes responsible university faculty and administrators will make this their business.
Mark Mitchell
Makeup Editor
New books, old problems
"Economics 304? I'm sorry, all those texts have been sold. But we've got an order in for 40 more. They should be here sometime in October. Next?"
"Yes, sir. The book costs $15. I know it was $7.98 last semester, but... Yes. I see the $7.98 price sticker on the book. But that price no longer pertains. Sorry."
The hassle of buying textbooks, next to enrollment itself, is the most trying part of country life. We bookstore has sold college textbooks for our classes and prices of the books have doubled since last year.
"Next?"
Ironically, the bookstore, which supposedly is
operated solely in the students' interest, is itself
operated by students.
Charles Bills, the bookstore's assistant manager, recently admitted that he deliberately ordered 20 to 40 per cent fewer books than some professors requested. He apparently decides for a lower rate and rolls in a course. Professors' estimates either are substantially revised or totally ignored.
And, to top it off, the bookstore has been raising the prices of books already shelved and marked for lower prices.
Perhaps this practice is why the bookstore made one of its largest profits ever last year and is making one of its largest rebate payments on blue slips this year.
Quite the contrary, they indicate only how a monopoly can make windfall profits by unfair pricing policies and by restricting the stock of goods on hand.
And, if we are to believe their statements, the top managers of the bookstore are unaware of some of Bills' unethical practices. The manager, J. D. Crestman, and the director of the Kansas Union, Frank Burge, both denied that books already in stock were given higher price tags.
It's obvious that something is desperately wrong with the way the bookstore is being administered. Unfair and perhaps illegal policies are being carried out by Bills on the one hand and, on the other hand, his superiors deny that the practices exist.
The bookstore points to the rebate payments with pride. Bills and company say the rebates are valid until the end of the month.
But Bills admitted it was a common practice
Perhaps the bookstore managers would be wise to read a copy of the Watergate tapes transcripts. —Eric Mever
Open forum is goal of Kansan staff
At last we've done it
But it's too late. Spiro's gite, and Dick is, too. We won a hollow victory from the liberal Democrats—a victory coming as all our former heroes either been in jail or should have been.
No longer is the Kansas in the hands of the radical few. We of the vast, acquiescent majority now are in control.
A year ago this week I introduced myself as the Kansan's first—and probably last—conservative editorial writer. This year I'm back as editor, and I have every intention of sharing my personal opinions down your throats every day.
Now don't be shocked by all this. We haven't become a John Letterer and that's not because she doesn't have enough Birchers to support a newsletter. It's because we want your paper to be written in the style.
And draw a thick line under "your" in the last sentence. The Kanans is Your newspaper. It isn't a paper trying to make a profit, and a glance at our books clearly indicates it doesn't. It's not that the Lawrence Daily Journal-World, the Kansas City Star or even the Peabody Gazette Herald.
The Kansan's a student publication. So our main thrust will be to report news that after school we attend students. That means we focus than ever on campus news, but we'll also tell you what's going on in the city, the state and the nation with the latest.
W we'll also look for lighter fare, explore controversial issues and trends and tell you what's going on in entertainment each weekend
We're proud of the Kansan's rich heritage as one of the best newspapers in the United States, but we continue in that path, but we also want to improve on it. We want the Kansan to be beyond what we want it to be a fair, unbiased crusading newspaper.
Too long has the Kansan been worried about correctness of grammar. Now we want it to be concerned about correctness of speech, so we as be as bold in its news coverage as it is in its graphic design.
This isn't to say there was anything terribly wrong with the Kansan. We just want to make it better.
Of course, as students we often make mistakes. And we
is a veteran Student Senate reporter from Salina. She spent this summer in Arkansas City working on the Traveler, the home paper of the Stauffer chain.
Members of Jill's staff are Linda Weinstein, associate campus editor, who also has some experience with the SGA. Mr. Weinstein has SUA and Watkins Hospital; Craig Stock, production editor;
ask your indulgence when we
err. Just tell us about it, and
will correct it and do our best
mistake 'never
happens again.'
But please don't limit your contact with the Kansan to pointing out corrections. The Kansan is a free-access newspaper. After all, it's your paper, not ours. We let people express their views, either through letters and guest columns or as sources in news journals. You can visit campus event or simply want to get something off your chest, call, visit or write us.
If you do come to visit, you'll find a staff of varied graduate seniors, most of whom are journalism majors and most of whom have considerable experience in anasan and on other newspapers.
A short introduction, perhaps, will make us a bit less anonymous in this world of student, driver and Social Security identification numbers.
The person you'd most likely see if you walked into the campus editor, Jill, in addition to two obvious kittens.
who worked for the Wichita Eagle this summer; Roy Clevenger, national editor, and Matthew Gump, book on the American biocentennial; and Debbie Gump, our chief photographer, who worked on the summer Kansas University member of the marching band.
At night, the top staff members are Bunny Miller and Carol Gwinn, the copy chiefs. They both spent the summer as editing interns. Bunny on two occasions on the Milwaukee Journal.
Debbie and Jill both participated in the Kansan's nationally acclaimed investigation last spring of the Follow Through behavior analysis program.
The people who decide which stories go on what pages are Jim Kendell, Mark Mitchell and Jim Eerry Ewing. Jim is one of the most experienced members of the staff and has a slight pinkink tinge of liberalism. He is a longtime member in Rochester N.Y., working on the Democrat-Chronicle. Last spring he was a Congressional intern and before that he was features editor of the Kansas.
Unlike Jim, Mark has been with the Kansan for only one semester. His claim to fame was his excellent work in the initial investigation of the Follow Through program. He worked for the news bureau this summer.
Gerry Ewing was the Kansan's sports editor last spring and spent this summer as a staff member of the Chadron, Neb. newspaper.
Gerry's old job as sports editor will be handled by Mark Zeligman this year. Mark spent weeks with Topkape Capitol-Journal's sports department and apparently has learned how to write about a KU-KState game without taking sides. (Maybe he worked vertising manager for a politician.) Mark will be assisted by Jim Sheldon, a native of North Carolina who several semesters of experience as a Kansas sport writer.
Jefrey Stinson is our associate editor this year. He will be responsible for editors, feature stories and investigations. Jeff is a veteran of the Follow Through story and features his work on the Wichita Eagle. On Kanahe he was the archetype Student Senate reporter and later was an assistant campus editor.
On Jeff's editorial page staff are Richard Paxson, noted campus politico; Jack McNely, former Student Senate reporter and now administration reporter who's written about what Paxson's doing; Gerry Evaney Jr. Kendall; and Steve Lewis, night campus editor of the summer Kansan.
And me, I'm Eric Meyer, the editor. My experience on the Kansan includes serving as campus editor, editorial writer and makeup editor. As a senior faculty member I've University administration, I spent my summers on the Marion County Record and the Wall Street Journal and as a congressional intern. I also played tube for the University's marching band.
Relevant
By STEVEN LEWIS Contributing Writer
Watergate degree possible
As part of a policy of many University schools and departments to respond to social and political conditions by offering relevant courses, proposing a Watergate, Studies program.
The proposal recommends a bachelor of Watergate Studies degree, although there would be no formal department of Watergate studies. Courses would be taught in departments and schools throughout the University.
Linguistics 231.—"Watergate Grammar, Syntax and Semantics"—A study of sentence structure and usage in the White House transcripts leading to speculation on the meaning of "expletive deleted" and "inaudible."
A few of the courses being considered are:
KANSAN
Radio-TV-Film 413—"The Watergate Tapes"-A critical
analysis of the Nixon tape recordings with emphasis on how the White House conducts the best recorded. A lab would provide students an opportunity to experiment with recording conversations in a setting to the White House Oval Office.
Human Development and Family Life 380—"Watergate
Families"-A study of the effects Watergate has had on the home life of the conspirators, with special emphasis on John and Martha Mitchell.
Architecture and Urban Design 663-"The Watergate Complex"-A study of the history and structure of the Watergate complex with special emphasis on how the building can be made burglar-proof.
The bachelor of Watergate Studies proposal has come under heavy criticism recently by a group of professors led by Keith G. Chesterton, professor of electrical engineering. I interviewed Chesterton about his criticisms recently.
"Professor Chesterton, you are against the Watergate Studies program?"
"I am convinced Watergate Studies is nothing more than a vicious attempt on the part of the east side of this University to kick our former President while he is down."
"East side of KU? That sounds vaguely familiar. Would you elaborate, sir?"
"And they have conspired unjustly to form Watergate Studies?" I asked.
"Certainly. The eastern third of this University is dominated by the news media and other broadcast networks." Blake Flint and Twente halls".
"I believe Watergate Studies is nothing more than a big party these eastern ellists are throwing in order to further defame the man who ended our longest war, who ended the
in a statement released yesterday.
Scamper Trinkett, professor of journalism and director of the Watergate Studies program, refuted Chesterton's criticisms
Trinkett said, "Watergate Studies isn't vindictiveness against the former President. Watergate Studies isn't an academic foul ball. It is quite normal to see University. If Nixon were McGovern, Professor Chesterton would agree."
draft and who reduced world tensions more then any other leader in history. Thank God, Lincoln lived long ago. If our KU eastern altars were around them they would have robbed his grave."
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