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Tuesday, August 26, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Stern tone for opening
The Opening Convocation usually gives speakers a chance to wallow in a mash of tired superlatives and cliches about the University.
However, this year, two speakers — Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Melvin Dubnick, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee — sounded an alarm.
Their messages were meant for the state's legislative leaders and candidates running for office. Give us more money, or face the social and political consequences, they said.
There was good news — the University received a record $36 million in research grants during the last academic year. However, the tone of the messages still was grim.
Budig's delivery was typically low-key. His words were not.
"Our greatest asset, indeed our state's greatest asset, is the human capital, the intellectual capabilities, of this University community," he said. "We do not intend to let our elected leaders ignore this fact."
In the spring, the Kansas Legislature approved a budget for Board of Regents schools that included a 2.5 percent
salary increase for faculty and some staff. The Regents had asked for for 7 percent. In July, the Regents approved a proposal that included an 8 percent increase in salaries.
Budig and Dubnick by inference pointed out a fundamental fact of University life. A 2.5 percent salary increase simply is too little to keep faculty members satisfied.
Dissatisfied faculty members leave. A university without a strong faculty dies slowly. A state without a strong university system also dies slowly.
Budig's speech was surprisingly political for an administrator who prides himself on not using his office for political purposes. But if there is a time to do so, it is now, when the politicians are groveling for votes.
For his part, Dubnick pointed the way for faculty members. His speech was both a warning for politicians and a necessary call to action for the University.
"This year, students and faculty must do more than attend classes and conduct research," he said.
He was right.
Card games
Once again, a sound — a mixture of the profound and the silly — has come from the back of the room, where the young and idealistic sit.
The KU Coalition for Peace and Justice wants to bring President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to Lawrence for a summit to promote international understanding.
However, the coalition is relying on a gimmick. They plan to send at least 6,000 postcards, each signed individually by students, to U.S. officials and Soviet diplomats in Washington. Members of the coalition will travel there at their own expense.
The idea hardly is new. City Commissioner David Longhurst proposed the same thing three years ago, when the pro-peace movie, "The Day After," was filmed here.
Of course, questions should
be raised: Why not do something more practical? Why not raise money for the University's excellent program that brings Soviet authors to campus? Why not raise money for books or a film series?
"This is just our project right now for the months of August and September," said Eric Matheis, Overland Park senior and coaltion president. "We'll have other projects later on this fall and this spring."
While the postcard campaign is a catchy, political publicity creation, it probably will not be successful in getting a summit in Lawrence.
Yet, it should make many students think about their world, and it may keep them from feeling utterly hopeless about their role in it.
And that's not a bad way to start a semester.
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In the beginning, there were plenty of jokes and jibes about the "tipsy taxi" and "wino wagon." But eventually the word got around, and many students grabbed the chance to avoid a DUI or a scary walk home.
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I am not the target.
I guess that was why I liked Sam scmuch; he wasn't afraid to be unique. We used to share sack lunches in the basement of the library and discuss world problems. I didn't talk about nuclear war, what pollution was doing to the ecosystem or a woman's position in society with most of my other friends. Instead, we would discuss the important things like men, booze and clothes.
But something had changed.
I saw him again in the spring of my sophomore year. He looked the same with his rumped hair and dancing green eyes, and his voice was still full of wonder and enthusiasm.
At the beginning of my second year at KU, Sam left. He waved goodbye, telling me to not forget that I was going to run for president one day. We hadn't decided what I would be president of vet.
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Faded friend rekindles lost hope
Sam and I met while I was working at the information desk in Watson Library. He just stomped up one day, stocking hat and all, and commented on how beautiful the weather was.
When I was a freshman, I had a friend that we'll call Sam. He wasn't your ordinary kind of guy. In fact, he was, well, a little different.
time working in a floral shop so he could afford to go on.
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When I started my junior year, I didn't see Sam very much. I was much too occupied with my latest love - success - to have the time to talk to Sam about his crazy ideas. While he was planning a bicycle trip across Europe, I was dressing for success and learning how to market myself
All during the year, if I saw Sam on campus, I would hide, because I
didn't want to be embarrassed by his booming, friendly voice and overly rambunctious manner. After all, what would people have thought?
Looking back, I wonder when I had changed, because Sam hadn't. While I was taking tests, writing resumes and meeting all the "right" people, Sam was dropping smiles and a little sunshine on other people's lives.
I used to think Sam represented a part of my childhood that I had outgrown. Now, in my last year at KU, I don't understand why anyone has to grow too old for ideals, too busy for dreams and too realistic for hope. Once these are gone, they are hard to replace.
Sam probably will be the way he always is, at least I hope so. I wonder what the world would be like if there were more people like him.
Hacker very best at being the worst
I happened to be near the city of Moline, so I stopped to chat with Jack Puffalow at the bar and restaurant he owns in that Mississippi River town.
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"Let's see," he said, using his fingers to count, "I did Steve Allen CBS ABC a morning show radio talk shows.
Within minutes, Pulford was sitting at my booth, proudly ticking off the television shows he's been on and his many other public appearances since becoming a celebrity.
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"And I'll be flying to Pittsburgh on Monday. I'm going to be roasted for some charity. After that? I've got so many appearances coming up, I can't keep track."
Who, you ask, is Jack Pufford? And how did he get to be a celebrity? I'll jog your memory.
Pulford shot a 208, but that wasn't bad enough. One of the others scored an incredible 257 and won the worst trophy.
Last year, a magazine called Golf Digest had a clever idea. It launched a search for the worst avid, able-bodied golfer.
After choosing the four finalists, the magazine got them together for an 18-hole playoff in Florida to determine which of the four was the most inept.
Readers sent in hundreds of nominees — devout golfers who never hit drives past the women's tees, or routinely dribble a dozen balls into the same water hole every time they confront it.
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The magazine narrowed the list to four, including Pufford, who was a worthy choice. He so loves the game that his restaurant, the Greenbriar Pub, is filled with golf themes — boots named after golf's most famous holes, wallpaper that gives the rules of golf, and a menu offering "sandwedges" instead of sandwiches.
He even looks like a pro. Yet, the best score he has ever shot is 112, and he talks wistfully about getting par the way others describe getting a hole in one.
What the match proved was more than the obvious, which is that there are a lot of ridiculous golfers playing the game. You can stand near the first tee of any course and see that.
No, the message is that it doesn't matter if you win or lose, or even how you play the game.
Fifteen months after the match, Pufford laughs and says, "It's amazing. I've been approached about writing a book, and I might do it. A golf club company sponsors me. I'm working on doing a TV commercial for cut-proof balls. It would be great. If I don't cut a ball, nobody can."
What matters is that what you do is seen on television.
What secret?
Golf is a lifetime search for the secret. Golf magazines come out with new secrets in every issue. So what is the secret to your disastrous golf swing.
But what is your secret?
He shook his head and said, "I just don't know."
"What secret?"
President Reagan says he has "always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"
President seeks less government
The president spent eight years as the governor of California and is nearing the end of his sixth year in the White House, and yet he speaks of government with disdain.
There was a time in recent history when President John F. Kennedy spoke in terms of public service when he spoke of government. In speeches to young people particularly, he said public service could be the crown of their careers.
Of course, he muttered about the bureaucrats who were not carrying out orders. All presidents in recent times have felt that they were being circumvented by career employees.
But in recent years government has been the whipping boy of politicians and aspiring presidential candidates.
If government is so bad, and so often the scapegoat, one has to wonder why politicians choose it as their careers. However, in the case of Reagan, the goal was clear cut — to get rid of as much government as possible.
A case in point was his perennial attempt to abolish, among other agencies, the Small Business Administration, but he was cut off at the pass by Congress. Last week, Reagan told the Second White House Conference on Small Business that he would see to it that small business would have a voice in government councils, and
ne promised to select a permanent new administrator of the SBA.
Since he came into office, Reagan has denounced government, particularly in speeches outside the capital, and sometimes
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before supporting groups that are summoned for a lobbying session. He speaks of the "Puzzle Palace on the Potomac" and how private industry and private charities can do a much better job.
Voluntarism in this country is admirable and necessary, but it cannot take on all needs of millions of people living below the poverty line. President Abraham Lincoln said, "the government should do for people what they cannot do for themselves."
The only government servants who may feel an esprit de corps with the president, and who do not fall into the category of overgrown intrusive government, are those who serve in the military.
It is for the Pentagon and the armed services alone that Reagan seems to reserve his deepest respect.
This fall the president will be on the stump almost as much as he is tending the store in Washington.
And when he isn't denouncing the opposition party for seeking to obstruct his goals, be sure he still will be running against Washington.
have been the same people who approved the new air terminal site.