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Thursday, September 25, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Budget optimism
Unlike New York City, the State of Kansas has kept an eagle eye on how much money it has to spend, and a balanced budget is the result. The state's lawmakers as administrators prepare for the annual struggle of legislative funding.
The funding process for fiscal 1977 began Sept. 15 when KU submitted a legislative funding request of $68.4 million for the Lawrence campus to the university, and the request is $5.9 million dollars higher than the current legislative funding level.
THE MAJORITY OF THE increase is for the third installment of the 10 per cent faculty pay increase, representing about $2.67 million. About one million of the increase is being requested for improvements and new programs.
Although the final decision on the legislative funding request won't be made until late next spring, the early prognosis is favorable that the University will receive most of the federal support it will need as legislators attribute the optimistic outlook to sound fiscal policy on the part of state government.
"I CONTINUE TO BE optimistic about the University's budget," State Sen. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence, has said. "If the state had run into trouble financially I would not be so sure, but we haven't experienced any revenue loss."
That's good news for KU, because there are many institutions today facing serious funding problems because usually supportive government funding sources have run into real trouble in some places.
New York City is an appropriate
example. The city government has been mired in deficit spending for so long that now vitally needed social and education programs are in grave danger. The state legislature has temporarily bailed out the city so it can meet its immediate financial obligations, but the long-range picture remains bleak.
KANSAS, IN CONTRAST, is operating in the black, and institutions supported by legislative funding, including KU, have something to show for it. The $1.2 million for improvements and new programs undoubtedly will be challenged by Governor Bennett's office as the university administrators to convince them that there is a legitimate need for the money.
The budget office, the governor's office and the state legislature deserve a word of praise for intelligently holding the purse strings so that available funding can be allocated where it is needed most. Responsible fiscal spending has its rewards. Deficit spending can lead to a nightmare.
THE STATE GOVERNMENT has made a commitment to the improvement of higher education in Kansas. That commitment is evidenced by the faculty pay increases as well as other programs blessed by legislative action. The governor that committed with strong support for the current budget request,
And let's be glad that the state knows how to spend money intelligently so that education here at KU and other institutions across the cross continue to improve. David Olson
Contributing Writer
"YOU IDIOT! WRONG DART GUN!"
Mary McGrory
CIA hazard to the health
WASHINGTON—Many people come away from the Senate CIA hearings with the feeling they're lucky to be alive.
the best kitchens which the agency shared with the Army at Fort Detrick, Md., there was enough cobra venom, shellfish toxin, strychnine and cyanide to “terminate with extreme prejudice” any number of
It certainly isn't because the CIA failed to "keep up speed," as they like to say, in the brewing of health hazards. In
human lives, cattle, crops and subway systems.
The CIA says it has gone out for the Borgia business. But they said that before—when Richard Nixon in 1970 ordered them to smash all their vials and they didn't.
Task force bears big burden
By DAVID OLSON
Energy experts have estimated that within five years use of natural gas will be 70 percent residential customers. That means institutional customers, including banks and insurance companies, will be left out in the cold.
University administrators have already been told to expect a 6 to a per cent cutback in the natural gas supply for this country could be greater if the winter is especially severe.
The only other readily available energy source is fuel oil. The University has about 500,000 gallons of it on hand now, which means about a 24-day reserve supply of energy
But fuel oil is an expensive commodity. The last time the University was forced to switch to fuel oil was for four days in January 1974, at a cost of $11,855. An equivalent amount of natural gas needed for that would have cost only $1,975.
With the strong possibility that KU will face natural gas service interruptions this winter, administrators have formed a group to look into possible future energy options for the University. It's called the Energy Team, and its chairman is Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor. So far it has heard reports on several different forms of energy that could eliminate or
at least reduce the University's dependance on natural gas.
ONE POSSIBLE ENERGY resource is coal, although the group has shied away from that because coal would have to be transported in bulk to KU, and a material would have to be stored. Best practice is a fossil fuel, another resource is in dwindling supply.
The most promising alternate source of energy might be the "burnable trash recovery system," otherwise known as burning garbage to generate energy. The trash would be converted into energy of its original mass, and two tons of it would provide an amount of energy equal to that produced by one ton of
'QUICK, GET ME F. LEE BAILEY, WILLIAM KUNSTLER MELVIN BELLI, PERRY MASON, OWEN MARSHALL, KATE McSHANE AND HENRY FONDA IF HES STILL PLAYING CLARENCE DARROW'
Wyoming coal, according to Lucas.
At this point, the only major problem in the trash burning system would be to find a way to keep it warm so that it would burn efficiently.
BUFORD WATSON,
Lawrence city manager, has said the city would be glad to turn over its garbage to the University. He said the city could even deliver it free of costs in confronting the problem of finding a sanitary landfill, and the trash recovery system would be a happy alternative.
Burning trash to produce energy is nothing new. Several systems have been in operation in the United States since 1962. Actually the idea began in England right after the turn of the century. If it works there, it can work here.
As seen through the ecologist's eyes, a garbage burning energy system would be inefficient and certainly won't ever be a garbage shortage as long as Americans continue their environmental habits and recycling trash is the best way to get rid of it.
A THIRD POSSIBLE energy option, solar energy, isn't feasible now but shows great promise for the future. Solar energy experts from 50 nations last week at the University of Los Angeles sunny Los Angeles to discuss the development of this virtually inexhaustible source of energy. The consensus from the conference seemed to be not where it has a viable resource, showers or sky lights before solar energy is available on a global scale.
George O. G. LoF, president of the 55- nation International Solar Energy Society, said during the conference. "We're going to have an immediate application of solar energy to heating and cooling buildings. There's no doubt in my mind that by this time next year we will be a mass of solar heating buildings in United States."
ALTHOUGH OTHERS WERENT quite so optimistic in their predictions, it's clear that solar energy will be the energy source for buildings between ten and 200 buildings in the United States are being partially heated by solar energy. More than 5,000 homes in the country and the southeastern United States have solar water heaters.
As for KU, experts agree that the equipment necessary to set
It is best to be careful.
up a solar farm would be far too bulky and expensive to be practical. However, in the long run the best answer is the best answer of the lot because of its abundance. Once the initial converting equipment is paid for, the sun's rays are absorbed by the sun's form of energy imaginable.
THE ENERGY STUDY Task Force has a big job ahead of it. It has an opportunity to do a great deal of good for the institution and give an example for other institutions facing the same problem.
The Task Force should take the time to carefully study all energy solutions against the other and come up with the best over-all energy solution. The emphasis should be on planning, not short-term solutions.
For too long, man has either exploited or ignored his environment, and his wasteful habits are beginning to catch up with him. It's time for man to learn how to maintain the environment and to maintain the natural balance that he has abused in the past.
If you see an able-bodied man leaning on a cane, for instance, be wary. Avoid anyone carrying large umbrella on a sunny day.
If you notice exploding buttons or an exploding fountain pen or cigarette lighter, you are in trouble. These are all used for getting the deadly product into the consumer.
WHY WAS THE CIA cooking up these lethal batches? None of the witnesses could say. Former Director Richard Helms spoke soothingly of the agency responsibility of "being in the vanguard of these exotic things."
They were "defensive weapons," apparently. Helms suggested that the poisons had to be manufactured so that we would be able to repel any toxic attack by the enemy.
But Dr. Edward Schanz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who once presided over the Fort Detrick laboratory, said that as far as he knew the United States is the only country which produces the most advanced and proudest product. It can render a person eternally imperative in 20 seconds flat. So the overall rationale that "the Russians are doing it" did not apply.
THE ONLY "FEASIBILITY study" so far confessed to was conducted in a New York subway between 14th Street and 54th Street. Its aim was to discover the "vulnerability" of the system, which many of us fear, from which we feel fearful, squashed, stepped on or possibly stabbed, could have attested.
The test, according to a participant, Charles Senseney, also formerly of Fort Detrick, was a success. He dispensed with an electric can and so provided "a threat model." Probably no one noticed him. New York subways are full of troubled people and his fellow passengers may have been trying to purify the environment instead of measuring it for disaster.
SEN. GARY HART, D-Colo,
couldn't understand why the
CLA was plotting so many coups
in cattle, crops and subways.
He had, of course, been listening to the story of how the CIA circumvented President Obama's decision from its crowded shelves. The CIA version is that a couple of middle-level fanatics, reluctant to destroy poisons created at the U.S. border, decide on their own.
Could not, Hart asked Helms, the same kind of people decide to conduct a visit. Weexperienced with the other agency agents at their disposal?
Helms brIDled, accused Hart of "drawing a long bow" and of being unfair. He haughtily
demanded that Hart rephrase the question.
HART ASKED WHAT guarantees there were to insure that middle-level maniacs into their own bans swain.
Helms replied stiffly that he knew of "no such case."
The committee, thwarted in its efforts to find out why the fatal patiots were produced, drew up a letter to CIA Director William E. Colby, suggesting that the remainder be given to the American Academy of laboratoryists to be used for "benign and decent" purposes.
The letter has been sent. But after listening to CIA witnesses, they see it happening all over again, men drawing the wagons on the pass, the patrol or “drawing this wagon” or “just a little on the bottom drawer.”
THE POISONS WEREEN'
destroyed. The records were.
Helms told the committee
the order to deep-six the stuff in
1970 was given "verbally"
and explained that a secret information unit wrote
everything down, it wouldn't last long.
Much talk was heard about revising the "command and control" structure of the agency. But the question that the hearing asked whether they actually tried to control those who were in favor of saving the poison, or whether they were in secret agreement with the agency's general philosophy, was that they had too much of a bad thing. (c) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Who needs enemies?
Who needs enemies? Friend offers own judo class
I've discovered the fastest way in the world to shorten your life a few years—live down the stories of someone who's taking a huddle class.
When I heard that one of my friends had enrolled in the basic math course, I asked at KU this fall. I asked her to teach me everything she learned. Unfortunately, I didn't know what I was getting myself into.
One Tuesday,after a relaxing
Jain Penner Contributing Writer
evening at the Stables, I was sitting on the floor of my room trying to read a book. Suddenly, someone grabbed my arms and twisted them behind my back. I did what any normal person
wisted them behind my耳
I did what any normal person
would do— screamed.
"Does that hurt?" my friend asked.
"Yes!" I winced and held my breath.
She let go of my arms and I gleaned. I envisioned myself looking like an all-American patriot for the big bicentennial celebration -red scars, blue sleeves and my face white with palm.
"Good. It's supposed to."
"Okay. Now stand up and I'll
show you the next thing we learned." She grabbed my arm and jerked me to my feet before I had a chance to protest.
With a sigh, I waived toward her and put my hands on her shoulders like she'd told me to. Before I knew it, she had grabbed my forearms, hooked me for feel behind mine and swiped my foot to the floor, flipping me over her and onto the floor.
"Okay, now, pretend like you come up and grab me by the shoulders."
Stummed, I lay flat on my back, staring up at the ceiling. My body had stopped moving, but the three pitchers of beer I drunk were still doing flips in my stomach.
"Now for the next one. Just stay right where you are..."
"No!" I cried and run out of the room as fast as I could.
Then—all of a sudden—wham! One of the guys nearest
A couple weeks later, she talked me into coming to her judo class. When I entered the gym at Robinson, I thought I was going for a judo class looked more like a ballroom dancing course. Partners were facing each other and walking slowly around in circles, bending over their others' arms from time to time.
me had flipped his partner, a
megirl, fat on her back. Then
the class seemed to go nuts.
Wham! Wham! Wham! They
were throwing each other on the
mats right and left.
One girl, in her zeal, ripped the arm of her partner's sweatstuit while flipping her. Thud! Another girl's partner missed the mat and flipped her on the floor.
Suddenly, I panicked because I realized I was going to get a demonstration of this lesson when my friend got home. I seriously began to wonder whether getting attacked could
possibly be as gruelling an experience as my self-defense lessons were turning out to be
I decided to go home and prepare myself for the ordeal before my friend got there. As I walked, I glanced back over my shoulder. Now the class members were grabbing each other's arms, thrusting their sides against me and smiling at their partners over their bark.
I shrugged as I left. It'd be a great way to meet the good-looking girls in a class, but what a way to earn a credit hour!
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