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Monday, September 15. 1975
University Daily Kansan
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Local lampoon moons life, death, politicians
By BILL KATS
Staff Writer
The City Moon, a lampoon edited by a University of Kansas student, is a newspaper columnist.
Those who have been around Lawrence long enough may remember the Moon's parent, the Process News, a paper which issued a constant blitz on conventional sensibilities. The City Moon continues in the Process News tradition.
Rober Martin, graduate student and co-
coordinator of the Moon, explained its evolution
from a gas giant to a rocky planet.
In 1972, he and co-editor David Ohl, who now lives in Austin, Texas, were sitting in a restaurant, unemployed and looking for regular work, he said.
"WE WANTED TO START an ad-
Martin said the advertising agency, which was funded from the pockets of friends, put out 8 by 11 inch bulleins with pictures and descriptions of fictitious characters in these bulleins appeared before Penisvel turned into the Process News, he said.
verifting company, so we started the Pentivex Advertising Co.," he said.
The Process News was an eight page edition in newspaper format, Martin said. It was funded by Cottonwood Review, a University of Kansas literary magazine, through the efforts of Richard Colyer, assistant professor of English, he said.
In Process Week Supply Number 1,
the Vegetal Life Matter, also known as life
life matter could take on myriad
manifestations at the users' discretion. The user could construct anything out of this
stadiums, non-cancerous cigarettes, etc.
THE PROCESS NEWS eventually expanded into the River City News in May 1974, he said. The River City Moon turned into the City Moon in January of this year and has yet to turn into anything else, Martin said.
Process News became the vehicle for a writing style that took straight news stories and photographs from old newspapers and magazines, unstraightened them and bent
them into the form of the Process News, Martin said.
dinating Council of Literary Magazines, a branch of the National Endowment for the Arts, in June, Martin said. Several earlier he said, funded by Cottonwood Review, he said.
The City Moon, which has been published four times this year, receives its funds from several sources, he said. The Moon received a $280捐赠 grant from the Coor-
It also received $93 in services and supplies from SUA through the Graduate Council and the Student Association of Graduates in English (SAGE), according to Martin.
USUALLY AN ISSUE of the Moon revolves around one central theme, Martin said. He said the latest issue played on the phenomenon of life and death.
The City Moon simply expanded the capabilities of the infinitely mannable life computer, operating it into a phalanx of protein politicizing forties, and miracle products, Martin said.
Officials critical of hiring freeze
By ALISON GWINN
Gov. Robert Bennett's statewide freeze on hiring within state agencies has hurt the efficiency of the University of Kansas at the same time that it has saved the state some money, according to several University administrators.
Staff Writer
The freeze, which has affected KU hiring since early May, requires that University officials submit a justification for every other student in grades 10 and above other than students and faculty members.
The governor's purpose in establishing the freeze is to analyze the work force of Kansas, remove positions that are superfluous and ultimately save the state money, according to James Feldstein, director of labor relations.
ALMOST 1,490 EMPLOYEES of the University come under the free hese, he said, including all building and grounds per- facility help, researchers and administrators.
Feldstein said that he thought the governor's position was laudable, because it hampered indiscriminate hiring, but he said he had been able to had become almost stingy in its hiring.
The state has always required a three per cent shrinkage on state employees, he said, by allowing for the hiring of a certain number of staff in order to filling for the salaries of 59, per cent of them.
The three per cent of funds not paid out in state salaries accounts for sick leaves, vacations and vacancies in certain positions, he said.
FOLSTEIDN SAID that under the freeze, the governor had a more extensive knowledge of the shrinkage, and saved the state money for the salaries not paid during the interim of waiting for a job justification from Topeka.
However, he said the same dampening effect could be accomplished if the governor's office told the University what per cent of employees to remove, and depended on the University to administer its own hiring.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said he could understand the governor's
reasoning, but would prefer that hiring
decisions be made internally. He said this
could be done by talking to the governor
about the desirable size of the staff, and
then cutting down if the University was
over-staffed.
Compared to most state universities, he said, KU is under-staffed, and is ultimately hurt when it has to wait for the governor's office to give approval to job justifications.
Feldstein said that justifications for positions have to be written individually, one justification for each position, including justifications for two scillation positions.
Oneba is one such character.
Shankel said that the people closest to an operation were generally best able to judge on their own.
A JOB JUSTIFICATION for a clerical position within a department for example, would say the number of faculty members within the department, the number of pages of paper they needed typed, the number of man-hours needed to type those pages, and the number of typed pages that one clerical worker could justifiably turn out in a 40 hour week.
William Argersinger, vice chancellor for research administration and research and graduate studies, said the University had a variety of jobs to do and that the directors of departments were more competent to judge the needed jobs than state officials.
thing to do would be to have the University make its own arrangements on the cutting down of staff rather than "monkeying around with piece-meal operations."
HE SAID HE THOUGHT the reasonable
He said it was difficult to say whether the governor's freeze had accomplished its purpose.
Even though the governor's freeze has decreased stae spending because of the delays in filling positions, he said, "it looks like he's accomplished his goal."
"I can't believe the governor's only goal was to make the hiring processes less efficient."
A hiring department must write the justification, send it to a vice candleman's office, or give it to a supervisor who sends vice candleman's office, where it is sent on to Topka, along with a covering letter. It is then returned with either a statement of the need for refusal. The process takes about a week.
He said considerable paperwork was involved in the process of justification.
Max Lucas, assistant to Chancellor Archie Dykes, said he thought each budgetary unit within the University was better able to make a judgment as to the relative importance of each position than someone outside the University.
No positions had been refused to his knowledge, Lucas said.
Although Lucas said he was quite certain that the freeze had accomplished its purpose, he said he thought the same objective could be attained through other means.
"Oneba is an ex-President, murderer and imaginary dream analyst," said Martin. "He has the power to receive people's dreams, and then to inform them."
Conflict stems from the appearance of an imported Korean Oneba and a dead ringer John Nance Garner look-alike Oneba in the latest issue.
ALL TREEE ADMINISTRATORS said they had received complaints from the governor that to fill positions immediately that the governor agreed to wait for the governor's approval.
"Which one is Onbea?" the Moon asks. Martin said that because of their natural ambiguities, politicians were prime subject matter for the Moon. Their ability to say one thing and do another makes them ideal, he said.
LOOK AT NIXON," Martin said. "In 1982 he himself announced that he was running for president. Humphrey has dominated American politics for years. Every election he pops back up. He could be made of life fluff. You can't name a few times and he appears again."
The Moon lampoons local officials as well. Martin said the Moon's concern with local colorations followed the tradition that Alexander Pope's "The Dunciad," a satire of a Christian church, was published after local book publishers and his satire was full of local references. Martin said.
LAWRENCE CITY Commission members and leaders frequently appear in public addresses.
A character named Noxin appeared several issues ago, touring the bomb-scarred terrain of his Southern California compound. In the life and death issue, he joined the Khrushchev is back from the dead, getting loaded every night in Philadelphia.
However, Martin said the Moon's saint wasn't directed in any way at individuals. He said he would still attack the offices of authorities, shooting down popular beliefs about the sanctity of high positions. It matters little who the chairman of the University of Kansas is to the Moon.
reader, Martin said. The ordinariness of western Kansas journalism is juxtaposed with the traditionalness of New York newspapers.
Martin said this technique was simply a heightening of the irrationalities and disparities evident in conventional news and entertainment material. The Moon's realities reality and stretches it until it turns into a paradoxic code of modern news, he said.
Martin said the problem with most journalism was that it was too colorless.
The Moon's thematic ambiguities create certain tensions and disconnections in the
A father reaes something that doesn't have the pretense of rationality. he said. In modern, conventional news tends to destroy the person behind the written, he said.
THE MOON tries to pass on a sense of amazement to the reader, Martin said. The original National Enquirer is the spiritual crusader of the Moon in this respect, he said.
Martin selects material for the Moon that strikes him, he sits him up, makes him react to the pity, loathing, banality or peculiar insight of the material, he said. He said this issue's front page was a pastiche pooled from sources as diverse as prewar newspapers and district district, the Dallas Morning News and local contributors, including his wife.
Colyer said yesterday that he thought the Moore server a need in the Lawrence course.
"People are in danger of not reading it seriously enough," he said. "They should."
seriously enough," he said. "They show... Colyer said the Moon disgusted itself, and that beneath the oftentimes shocking surface was a legitimate concern with social issues and community involvement. "I'm delighted that it has caught on," he
"I'm delighted that it has caught on," he said.
The ultimate aim of the City Moon's editors is to make it into a paper in which the community can participate, Martin Kline writes to write short fictional articles, he said.
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