4
Monday, September 15, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Garage battle chaotic
The continuing controversy over the location of a city maintenance garage is an example of how good intentions can be misused. It does not delay in the functioning of government.
In the past year and a half, sites for the much-needed garage have been approved, rejected and set aside for further study. The controversy has been debated by petitions, protests and legal machinations—and quite a bit of bitterness.
One good thing that has emerged has been the involvement of many people in the issue. But what should be an orderly and efficient process of governmental decision-making has been crippled by the chaotic garage controversy.
The irony is that most of the controversy over the originally planned location at Second and Indiana streets was unleashed willingly by the Lawrence City Commission. That body decided to open up the issue to public debate last November for a second time—an admirable deed.
But where has this well-meaning action left us?
It has left us still without a garage or even a place to put the thing.
Perhaps if people in Lawrence would have participated more before that fateful Nov. 12 decision, this controversy wouldn't have happened.
As it stands now, any selection of a site will be the result of scrambling by the commission to find a spot for the complaint, which there would be no complaints.
Sorry, commissioners, things just don't work that way. There will always be complex problems that require proper process and no matter where or when action by a governmental unit is taken.
No one can really be blamed for this tiresome controversy, which arose partly because we have a truly civic-minded commission, and for that spirit the commissioners are to be commended.
However, the efficiency of city government can suffer, as it has here, if public opinion isn't included very early in the decision-making process. In the case of the city garage site, public opinion on the issue reached its peak after the commission had already made a decision. The commission opened Pandora's Box when it reopened the issue out of a willingness to be fair.
The good that could come out of this controversy could be the lessons it can teach us about government and the citizens' involvement in its decisions.
It should tell us that we must keep up with the issues facing our governmental bodies. If we don't, we will either be too late with our opinions or we will delay what should be an orderly and efficient method of making decisions.
Participation by citizens in their government must be present from the start of discussion of an issue. Otherwise, chaos is a likely result.
Ward Harkavy Contributing Writer
Ward Harkavy
James J. Kilpatrick
WASHINGTON—Roughly a century and a half ago, John Randolph of Roanoke started a house with a sudden interrupt.
"Mr. Speaker," he cried, "I have discovered the philosopher's stone! It is this; sir, Pay as you go! Pay as you go!"
Over the past three or four decades, deficit spending has become a way of life within the federal government. It is immaterial whether a Democrat or a Republican occupies the White House and whether within the Congress don't matter. Deficits continue in peace as in war. Only a handful of conservative senators still
Budget deficits opposed
Now, there is one view of constitutional amendments, firmly held by some of my brother conservatives, that there have been no good reasons for the amendment. It isn't necessary to embrace that troglodyte in order to justify a wary approach to the amendment process. I, therefore, don't endorse the senator's amendment, as such, but support it and dolphin and the memory of Harry Byrd, it is something to think about.
As events in our time have demonstrated, this proved to be the stone the builders rejected. Now Sen. Carl Curtis of Nebraska is trying to retrieve it. On Sept. 23, a Senate subcommittee on constitutional amendments will begin formal hearings on Monday to write into the supreme law of the land a requirement that the federal budget be balanced.
defend the old cause. The last time the question came before the house, when Rep. Philip Crane of Illinois tried for a budget funding for fiscal 1967 his effort caused by a 811 to 94 vote.
The appalling figures have long since ceased to appall. Back in January, Mr. Ford, the president of the $19 billion '76 budget with a deficit of $5.19 billion. A couple of months later, his convictions grown stronger with the passage of Congress. With the deficit at $60 billion, As of Sept. 2, the prospective deficit stood at $8.8 billion. It seems entirely probable that deforest Congress would have deforested the deficit will rise to $75 billion.
The figures wash across our consciousness as indifferently as one more wave upon a sandy beach. They leave no residue of shock behind. When Curtis first came to Congress, the symbolic "000" meant hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now we are seeing billions of billions. It will be routine, the way things are going, to translate "000" into trillions a few years hence.
In the current fiscal year, the government is spending money at better than a billion dollars a day. Ten years ago, interest on bonds was $35 billion a year. Now it surges past $35 billion a year. The Treasury will go into the capital markets this year to borrow more money than all public and have ever borrowed in one year. A day never passes on Capitol Hill that some special
Readers Respond
To the Editor:
Why shouldn't the Union sell beer?
A class studying Plato's "Charmides" meets Wednesday nights at the Wheel. Ortega's "Revolt of the Masses" is discussed Thursday mornings at the 'Hawk. The Bierstere offers Pope's "Dunciad" Monday afternoons at 3.
To the Editor:
Joe Gilman Paola Junior
Beer conducive to scholastic air
I would like to inform your readers on the well-organized School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Run-around
Last year I applied to KU and was accepted into both the Schools of Architecture and Engineering, as my major will be architectural engineering. I will take a two-week pre-enroll, on June 28 to be exact. During the pre-enrollment session, I chose
The Daily Kansas welcomes letters to the editor, and asks that letters be typewritten, double-spaced and no longer than 500 words. All letters are received according to space limitations and the editor's judgment, and must be signed. KU students must provide their name, year in school and homework; faculty must provide their name and position; must provide their name and address.
letters policy
as my design studio the class that met MWF 8 a.m. to noon. Well, on the first day of classes, I found that my name had been left off the class rosters. I went to see the assistant to the dean of the School of Architecture. She said to come back that afternoon, which I did, but she still had nothing to give me, so I was told to come back the next morning.
The next day I was given an alternative which was to take the class on TRS mornings, so I had to cancel my entire schedule. Then I was told there would be a MWF afternoon class made up of seven students, so I chose that. My plan was to cause minor schedule changes.
I was contented to stay in that class for the rest of the semester. Well, two weeks later, our critic came in and told us that they were closing our class down and we were to divide up into the two other classes that met that hour.
Why couldn't we have been put into those perspective classes to begin with, seeing
that we were to be in them eventually. Now some of us have to unlearn what our first critic taught us and relearn the same material over according to the instructions that we learn it. It seems to me this mess could somehow have been avoided.
Randy Blom Kansas City, Mo., Freshman
Katz no alias
In your Sept. 11 issue, an unsigned article discussing Congress's overriding of
To the Editor:
interest isn't drumming up support for larger outlays. And the beat goes on.
President Ford's veto of the 1978 Education Appropriation Act referred to $2.7 million for "Fulbright-Katz" fellowships. As a former Fulbright-Hays organization, it seems in order for me to call your attention to the students at Fulbright Hays, to my knowledge, never used the alias "Katz." Though conspiracies are said to abound in Washington (vide Watergate, the CIA, al.) perhaps "Iaf'r Hays" was mistakenly called a mysterious and suspect to come to light to date. Bravo, UDKI
Professor of History
Grant Goodman
"There is one thing of which I am very certain," says Curtis.
The Curtis amendment would put a halt to this. It would require the President to annually submit a balanced budget. If proposed expenditures exceeded anticipated revenues, the president would have to increase the surtax sufficient to make up the deficit. Congress could agree to the surtax (or to equivalent alternate taxes) or Congress could cut proposed expenditures. If Congress took no independent action, the president would automatically imposed. Only in the event of a "brave national
"That is, that it is totally immoral and dishonest to vote for more welfare state programs that we are willing to pay for. We have to generate a generation is to bring federal spending under control and to stop the ravages of inflation. If we fail to successfully meet this challenge in our generation, our liberty can be destroyed."
It is inconceivable, to put the matter bluntly, that the senator's resolution could now be amended. The House and Senate required for submission of a constitutional amendment. The probabilities are strong that his proposal will pass, but he may not be heard from again. Nevertheless, Curtis is determined to make his pitch, and he has a number of respectable candidates up in support of his plan.
Pay as you go! It remains a basically sound rule for the ordinary operations of government and Curtis may voluntarily accept the wisdom of that rule, in time the Constitution may have to impose the philosopher's stone.
emergency", by a recorded three-fourths vote in each chamber, could the draconian requirements be suspended.
(C) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc
HEY, MAC, DON'T TRY TO WIN THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS
Yom Kippur a time for rebirth
By ROGER EISENBERG
"God? Oh sure. I believe in God. In my own way and in my own time. Religion? Services? No, I'm not really into that... " and the dialogue and commentary go on and on.
The Hebrew month of Eul,
which overlaps the month of
September, is a time for
reflection for every Jew. At
sundown on Friday, Sept. 5,
the first day of Eul in the Jewish
calendar, the two-day holiday of
Rosh Hashana began.
Literally translated from Hebrew, Rosh Hashana means "head of the year." Such a name carries philosophical implications like an intense flame shining brightest at its center. But if we consider it, Rosh Hashana likewise embodies the prospects of life and death, of prosperity and degradation, of war or peace.
By implication of Judaiism's monotheistic doctrine, individual repentance expands beyond a prayer for personal growth and contentment. Indeed, the Rosh Hanaha prayer begs redemption and contentment for all mankind.
The most climactic moment of the Rosh Hashana service is the sounding of the Shofar. The rabbi instructed that he except the cow, because of reference to the sin regarding the Golden Calf. The belief about the Shofar that its horns are meant for the arrival of the Messiah.
Rosh Hashana is the anniversary of the creation of the world. This commemoration is manifested in the conception of the regeneration of the spirit for the coming year. The Jew will participate in individual introspection, resolution and, God willing, change.
Throughout the days of Aseret Ymay Tshuvah, the 10 days of repentance between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the Jew is faced with an awesome challenge. He asks for forgiveness from those he has wronged. On the other hand, he should dismiss any
"Change? Change what? I am fine the way I am! I am, maybe little frightening to admit any wrongdoing, mainly because I wonder, what's the use? This is not the case and nothing will change me."
grudge he holds against another.
Today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the 10th day of Eul. On this day the accumulated intensity of repentance is poured forth. It is the holest of holidays on the Earth. The God of Hashana, God determines the fate of every individual, and on Yom Kippur that fate becomes irrevocable.
Yom Kippur is the day of judgment when the Jew puts
aside his physical and material needs to dedicate himself totally to God. He wears no leather apparel and totally abstains from consumption, sex, and sexual gratification.
Rosh Hashana, Aseret y'may, Tshuvah and Yom Kippur. They mark the beginning of the cycle and the development. They provide a finality and a new beginning.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Kansan Telephone Numbers
562-784-1458
Business Office: 562-784-1458
Published at the University of Kansas weekdays
on Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
amester periods. Second-class postage paid at Law-
yersville or $1 a day in Lexington County and $1 a
day in Kennesaw. Subscriptions to $3 a semester, paid through
subscriptions to $3 a semester.
Editor
Dennis Ellsworth
Associate Editor
Debbie Gump
Associate Campus Editor
Associate Editors
Chief Photographers
Staff Photographers
Sports Editor
Entertainment Editor
Copy Chiefs
Contributing Writers
News Editors
Wire Editors
Business Manager
Assistant Business Manager
Jeril Kordt
Assistant Advertising Manager
Classified Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Promotion Director
Advertising Manager
News Advisor
Sunshine Man
Campus Editor
Carl Young
Betty Hageglen
John Johnson,
Dan Smith
Cressenian
George Cresenian
Don Ponce
Yael Lewis
Allen Quakerbush
Peter Reavant
Bill Tom, Billiam
Gary Bory, Paul Jolly,
Harkaway, Pam Jolly,
Advertising Manager
Greg Hack, Souheane
Jane Mature, Clydman Morgan
Publisher
David Maley
Business Adver