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Wednesday, October 8,1975
University Daily Kansan
KU funding suspect
James J. Kilpatrick
The idea that more students means more money at the University of Kansas may be true. However, under current conditions, an idea could lead to disastrous results.
Enrollment figures for this fall have been released, and they show another record total enrollment. That means an increase in the Full Time Equivalent (FTE) enrollment, upon which state funding is based. One FTE is needed for every student or nine full-time enrolled. This fall, according to Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, the FTE is 20,499, or an increase of 1,172 from last year's.
THE PROBLEM WITH the record enrollment arises because although the University will be entitled to more state funds, they won't be available until next year. State funding tied to the FTE is based on enrollment projections made during the academic year. A current funding level was determined from projections made a year ago. Administrators only forecasted an increase of 650 in the FTE last year.
THUS, THE FACULTY and students are forced to struggle with the current budget and facilities while experiencing high costs. The facilities are stretched thin, thus the quality of education is bound to deteriorate.
Dyck said the reasons for the low prediction of the FTE were more sophomores students and more sophomores enrolled this year than expected.
But reasons aren't excuses, and they won't help the problem of the one-year lag in enrollment estimates. Projections have been too low for two years now, and they could just as easily be too low again next year. Meanwhile, faculty and students are forced to bear the burden of inadequate funding.
WE HEAR FROM STRONG HALL that enrollment ultimately will decline, due to lower birth rates and decreasing numbers of high school graduates. We've been hearing that for quite some time now and enrollment continues to increase. And what about Project Outreach? Its continued success will mean more and more students added to the rolls.
IN THIS INSTANCE, bigger may not be better. Granted, KU is a state institution and has an obligation to give an education to all those in the state who seek it. But given the archaic funding system, wouldn't it be better to concentrate on taking care of the students already enrolled?
Under the current funding procedure, the philosophy of attracting more students to get more state funding is folly. Already, the University is straining at the seams from enrollment predictions that have been too low.
It would seem more responsible to discourage unlimited growth when projections used to determine funding needs are made. Let's take care of what we have now.
David Olson
Contributing Writer
WASHINGTON—When Congress last year went into its post-Watergate convulsions and had its second Campaign Act of 1974, many of us said the bill was a bad bill. We didn't know the half of it. On those examination, the times worse than was thought.
Election Act dissected
That conclusion is reinforced by a brief recently filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of Sen. James L. Buckley of New York and former Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota. They are the principal plaintiffs in a test case where the case will be argued in November and should be decided before Christmas.
THEIR BRIEF is a master piece of dissection. The election reform act had a noble purpose, but it lacked federal elections. No one can quarrel with that purpose. But the Buckley-McCarthy brief argues convincingly that the Constitution provides for pence; and in its culinary effort to promote purity, the act tramples upon the Constitution.
The act's chief provisions have to do with limitations on campaign contributions and expenditures, the name of the Constitution, how can these be upheld? The brief argues:
"THE ACT'S expenditure limits are a direct abridement of the rights of speech and association. The speech which is intended to be central to the objectives and essence of the First Amendment and of any democratic society—political discussion by
candidates. Speech in the political arena may be unheard unless widely and effectively distributed. To limit the expenditure of money, therefore, is to limit the speech itself. The Framers would have regarded it so fundamental that how the Framers would have regarded it is beyond question. It is palpably unconstitutional."
As the brief argues, in any election campaign the right of free speech is inescapably linked to the raising and paying of fees. The right cannot be effectively exercised is meaningless. It is a nullity. What we are talking about is communication — communication by direct mail, bumper sticker, lap button, billboard, newspaper advertising, TV commercials, radio announcements, and the means of communication is to limit communication itself. And this the Constitution flatly forbids.
IN THE PLANTIFF'S view, the reform act has many other constitutional defects. The brief history of the reform affends the most elementary principles of fairness and equity:
"The FECA simply does not limit political contributions and expenditures equally. It limits all expenditures by challengers but only some expenditures by incumbents. And it limits all elections only in one state, only some contributions to incumbents. Incumbent officeholders can by their own vote increase the resources at their disposal in ways which are the equivalent of very large
Kansan Forum / from Haskell Loop to the pablum vote Halt the Haskell Loop/
The road, designed to channel traffic from 23rd Street to the downtown area
Massachusetts will co-
will be $5 million and will be partly funded by Community Development Act funds.
The Haskell Loop will rip through the East Lawrence home on the east side of 28 homes on the east side of the road in an industrial area. The East Lawrence Recreation Center holds the basketball diamond. The Loop means the death of a neighborhood.
"It's going to be built, that's all there is to it," Lawrence City Commissioner Donald Binns said of the Haskell Loop.
Mayor Barkley, Clark and the community benefit from the Loop because it will reduce traffic on residential streets, and will act as a buffer by separating the industrial zone from the residential south and west.
In adopting the law, Congress sought to prevent "special interests" from exercising power in the Senate for the House, the Senate and the presidency. Even this purpose, in the plaintiffs' view, the law did not poorly drawn that big business and big labor, through the
Clark says that East Lawrence needs a thoroughfare running north and south. But the area already has such a downtown street now cuts through the majority of traffic, the majority of traffic.
road. At the July 29 commission meeting, only one resident spoke in favor of the Loop. The proponents are the people who work on it and the road. For downtown merchants, the Loop mean more money.
presidential campaigns. If the law had been in operation in 1980, John F. Kennedy could not have rescinded the captured capture of West Virginia.
contributions. The actual impact of the legislation, therefore, will necessarily make campaigns by challengers less likely to succeed."
The Buckley-McCarthy brief is more than 200 pages. It is a superlative piece of work, and unless the Supreme Court is satisfied that the arguments should prevail. The reform act was intended as a means toward an end—pure elections. But a good end cannot justify bad means, and that is what we have here.
In the eyes of the Haskell Loop's proponents, East Lawrence isn't too much to sacrifice. Most of the people
The division between proponents and opponents of the measure is that 240 residents of the area signed a petition against the
The road will bring more business to the downtown area. The residents through Lawrence could reach downtown with ease. While cruising along, they could meet in the courtyard of East Lawrence community.
The Loop will improve Mayor Clark's record as he moves toward higher political offices in the state. He will be able to "great capital improvement" he made in Lawrence.
The road might act as a protective barrier for the "incer" neighborhoods to the north, but the price for such a burdensome street of East Lawrence. Residents would surely prefer the noise of traffic on the residential streets to the noise created by fast-moving cars down the Haskell street. The highway was created as industries moved in, encouraged by the mobility offered by the Loop.
What else is wrong with the act? It discriminates against presidential aspirants, such as McCarthy, who have neither national committees nor national conventions. By rejecting the act, he penditures, the act will reduce citizen participation in the political process. By restricting presidential campaign spending state by state, the act tends to control the strategy of
there are working class, whose incomes are less than the incomes of residents to the south of London, older, wooden-framed houses with big front porches. Elimination of such structures could be viewed as a more action to improve the city.
However, the houses that will be destroyed by the Loop would probably outlast any of the new, modern pre-fab structures now being built. Many of these older houses have double walls, rock foundations, solid oak studs and panels. Some buildings disaster or an insensitive city government could wipe them out.
Unlike many Lawrence residents who don't own a car, they often remain mobile, and therefore aren't emotionally attached to
their residence, the people of East Lawrence have strong feelings about their homes. They say July 29 commission meeting.
The ball park at 11th and Delaware streets exemplifies the city's concern with East Lawrence. The field is strewn with broken glass, trash lies in piles under the stadium, and the abandoned facility stinks of small amounts of work, the ball park could be restored. If the ball park is replaced by the Haskell Loop, children will have to play in the street.
The decision has been made to build the Loop. Acquisition of land is already under way, and the funds are available. Yet, it isn't too late to reverse the decision. The federal funds could go to some useful project and the community develop
ment money could be used to develop the neighborhood.
As one resident put it, "These poor people can't stand too much of this. They are on fixed incomes. Their homes over here are modest, but it's the best they can afford."
No wander the government at national, state and local levels has so little credibility left among the American people. The Haskell Loop must be stopped.
WHEN I WANT MY CHICK I JUST FLICK MY BIC
Daughter sees light
I was just home for Labor Day. Nothing special. But what had possessed my father? He spirited my footsteps in and out of the family room, down from the kitchen, up the hall, from
Jobn-John off and running
At a press conference held in his bedroom at his mother's New York apartment, Kennedy said he anticipated making him the president of schools and maternity wards throughout the nation to "press the flesh" or even slap it in the case of the youngest of the future voters. Kennedy said he felt that the face was the only way to find out what issues would be important to them 18 years hence.
In keeping with a recent trend in American politics, John-John Kennedy has announced his intention to the Democratic party's nomination for the 1992 presidential election.
Young Kennedy's campaign manager, Petey Sallenger, said
the early announcement of kennedy's intention to run was advantageous because the candidate couldn't be expected to make specific promises concerning issues that don't address them, would confident this campaign—sans-platform approach—would be decisive in winning the "pabulum vote."
At the press conference Kennedy pledged not to let 17 years of campaigning interfere with his present responsibilities when he added that he wouldn't be 'held hostage' by a mother who expected him to be in bed by 9 p.m.
Thus far, while on the campaign trail, Kennedy has received enthusiastic approval
for his stand which states that big business is good or bad depending on whom one speaks to, and that opinions on such matters are not the realization that "grown-ups are generally inscrutable."
Kennedy has said that if energy continues to be an issue in the '90s he would support federal subsidies for bicycle helmets, help alleviate the energy crunch in hilly areas of the country when people discover how much fun coasting is. He said President Ford already has demonstrated that coating wheels are more important part of a candidate's platform. With a sideward glance at his mother, Kennedy said that red bikes with high
Jack Fischer
handlebars would be especially appropriate in this effort.
With regard to busing,
Kennedy said he could support it only if he were allowed to sit in the front seat. Long bus rides shouldn't be court-ordered
he has found that such rides usually made his friends car sick.
Kennedy ended the press conference with the announcement that his first book, "Profiles in Publicity," would be a promise that it would have "a lot of nest pictures" for preschoolers.
Sallenger said that no decision has been made regarding a runningmate but that it would have to be someone who didn't like girls or haircuts.
the bedroom to the bathroom,
turning off lights, unplugging
electric rollers, kicking off the
stereo and silencing the TV.
And then I came home from a date to a dark porch light! Never have my parents forgone my emulator for Mommy and Dad, worrying about you, now get out of that car and into the house."
I realize that it doesn't apply any more, but the tradition has stood through three years of college vacations.
With bleary eyes I broached the subject the next morning.
"Daddy, is the porch light burned out?"
Mother mused over her coffee.
"Okav Mom, what's up?"
"Well, we had an $80 electric bill last month. Your father's blood pressure is rising in direct effect on the electrical rates are going up."
A call to Kansas Gas and Electric revealed that electric
Marti Schiller
rates were up 30 per cent from a year ago and indicated that my father's blood pressure was in the danger zone.
I'll bake Daddy a cake, that should calm him down, I thought. The idea was good, the timing was bad. I was using the electric mixer when he came home for lunch.
"Back in the good old days, Mom mixed her cakes by hand, handed her a friend, and helped familiar. "We didn't have electricity out on the farm. It was during the depression, you know, we had an icebox instead of a refrigerator and we stored the ice for it in the welded stoves and had kerosene lamps for light and when it got cold we didn't have electric blankets, no sir, an extra quilt maybe and a washing machine with a big lever on it you had to throw back and forth to wash clothes. That used to be my job when I was about 6 or 7. Maybe we would have those things. Maybe you'd appreciate electricity more and it wouldn't cost so much."
Daddy, thanks, but no thanks.
I'll pass on food poisoning from badly refrigerated food and I don't think trying to read by a kerosene lamp is going to improve my eyesight. When it's cold I'll snuggle under my electric blanket and not feel guilty. I don't have time to throw a leaver back and forth to teach her how to think what a town the size of Lawrence, let alone some city, would look like if every home had a wood-burning stove belching out oil and smoke.
I'll grant you that the United States has been used to the energy grain train for a long time. But it's our technology and higher standard of living that brought us to it.
We need to conserve our energy, so let's turn down the thermostat, change the filters in the furnace, tape the windows and turn off the extra lights. But let's also devote some time to the energy sources and development of new energy sources and technology. Let's not go back to the "good old days." But Daddy, if it'll make you happy, I'll mix my cakes by hand.
Readers Respond/ Shocklev debate cancellation criticized
To the Editor:
Bravo for SUA! 'N's nice to know that there's someone looking out for our moral character.
By canceling the William Shockley-Richard Goldaby debate, SUA has deprived KU of hearing the pros and cons of one of the most enduring discussions this age: Shockley's theory of genetic inferiority in blacks.
We can well understand the opinions of black University students regarding this matter; students to be called "inferior."
However, we feel that they
(along with Goldsby) should have the chance to disprove Shockley's theory, and this debate would provide the perfect opportunity. Also, a university should be a meeting ground for the free exchange of ideas; even though Shockley's theory may not be valid, he should at least be given the challenge of explain the reasoning behind it to responsible students who can make up their own minds about the subject. SUA's decision has eliminated both of the possibilities.
We do not pretend to decide
the validity of Shockley's theory. Is it valid, or is it just bunker thanks to SUA, we may find out. Warren R. Carthers
Topela sophomore
Roger Bardales
Wichita Sophomore
Mike Gritchil
Wichita Sophomore
Debate needed
Does this university represent academic freedom and basic civil liberties? The SUA's cancellation of the
scheduled Shockley debate seems directly opposed to these ideas. The fact that Mr. Shockley's views are unacceptable to most intelligent people does not obviate his right to have a voice about racial equality will not suffer from exposure to a public debate at the University of Kansas. Indeed, one of the fundamental principles underlying any free society is that everyone must most successfully in an attempt of free and open discussion. We are afraid that in cancelling Mr. Shockley's debate, the SUa has
simply done what was most expedient. Perhaps it was expedient to avoid a possible unpleasant confrontation. But, in doing so the SUA has violated the principle that the University should serve as a forum for all points of view.
We who live in the United States are fond of emphasizing the fact that we live in a world where critics are fond of criticizing closed, totalitarian societies, which, unlike our own, do not allow the free expression of opinions on minority views. And yet, the SUA's to decision Mr.
Shockley's debate has closed the door to the expression of Mr. Shockley's dissenting views. SUA has agreed to pay Shockley to stay away.
Certainly we are vehemently opposed to racism. Nonetheless, we should not make it imminent for Mr. Shoalbeck to express his views, because in doing so we shall have violated a principle which is essential to furthering the cause of equality with him. We strongly urge the SUA to reconsider its decision on this matter.
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