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Wednesday, September 10, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Beer decision needed
It is time the Kansas Board of Regents makes a logical decision regarding the appointment of the judge.
In 1972, the Regents approved the consumption, but not the sale, of beer in the Union. Last week, the Lawrence City Commission recommended that beer sales be allowed in the Union. University Attorney Mike Davis has said that such sales would be legal. Ed Rolfs, student body president, favors it.
Now it's up to the Regents.
The sale of beer in the Union is a piffle of an issue. But the fact that beer is not sold is irritating to many students. And it's an irritation that can be abated if the Regents approve beer sales in the Union.
If one wants a drink of hard liquor, he has to join a club. Big deal. All one has to do to join some clubs is to ask for a membership, which is sometimes granted immediately. Fortunately, beer laws are more realistic.
There is no logical reason for the denial of beer sales on campus. Kansas is not a dry state. State liquor laws are a farce.
The sale of beer in the Union is not going to force anyone to drink, or to start drinking. What it will do is make life a little easier for those who choose to drink beer. And the consumption of beer certainly does not rank as a mortal sin.
The sale of beer won't create more alcoholics. And it may fill the coffers of the Union and relieve the Union's money worries.
However, contrary to what the Lawrence City Commission thinks, beer sales probably won't decrease the number of troublesome incidents at the
14th Street bars east of campus. There have been recent complaints from residents of the east campus area that crowds at those bars have disturbed them and their property. These complaints are legitimate.
But the overcrowded conditions at these bars won't be alleviated by the sale of beer in the Union. People will buy bottles and bars, especially on Friday afternoons.
The cause of these bar problems really may be the zoning restrictions to which the bars in that area are subjected. They are nonconforming uses of land in the area east of campus. In other words, they are commercial establishments in a residential zone. They expand their operations although they are too small to handle the tremendous number of students who frequent them.
Until the zoning of these bars is changed, crowds will continue to overflow onto residential property nearby.
The commission will have to decide whether it wants those bars to continue operating. The commission is aware of the issues. It should direct its efforts to solving it.
Our thanks should go to the commission for supporting the sale of beer in the Union. Though the commissioners' reasons for doing so are not clear, there is a new action that would improve the Union's ability to serve its customers.
Besides, beer would be a good way to wash down some of those "sand-wiches." Ward Harkavy
Contributing Writer
James J. Kilpatrick
The General Accounting Office provided some fresh insights last month into the fastest-growing and richest tennis clubs in the United States, as you might surmise. It is grantmanship.
Grant game booming
To the coonissuer of political affairs, grantsmanship is more than a mere game. It is an art, a science, a profession. The truegrantsman must have the eyes of an eagle, the speed of a quarterhorse, the tenacity of a bulldog and the greed of a pirate. To the practicioner of this craft is worth his weight in gold. No progressive state or city can afford to be without one.
The role of the grantman is of course to get grants. But that states the matter too simply. The essence of the competitive sport is to wangle a grant at the last possible moment from the least probable source under the most flexible terms. This may sound easy. Considering the obstacles, it is fearfully hard.
outright assistance to the states, so far as the GAO is aware, was the Morrill Act of 1950, which colleges. The next program of substance during the Roosevelt years slipped into high gear in the 1950s and broke the sound of the Lyndon Johnson in the '60s.
The first federal program of
The GAO doesn't know how many programs of federal assistance exist. The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations hazarded a guess that in 1970 there were 530 grant-in-aid programs, four-fifths of them enacted after 1980. The Office of Management and Budget authorized a semiannual catalog of such possibilities. The 1974 edition listed 975 assistance programs administered by 52 federal agencies.
As you might expect, the greatest concentration of handouts is to be found in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW is known to administer, more or
less, about 274 programs. The Department of Agriculture has 84, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has 58, and the Department of Labor has 61, showing excellent form in Environment Protection Agency, which already has 20.
Each of the 975 assistance programs has its own rules, regulations, application forms and miscellaneous requirements. These personally are assigned and adopted, further amended, withdrawn, codified and readvertised in the Federal Register, a paper printed daily in the city of Washington in type designed to put your eyes out. The Register, published last day of other stuff, last year ran to 35,000 pages.
Once a year, the helpful government culls all the rules, etc., from the Federal Register and compiles them in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The code runs to 50 titles and
sells for $450 a year. It serves as the grantsman's Racing Form.
In 1980, grant-in-aid programs cost the taxpayers $7 billion. The 1986 figure was $10.9 billion. The 2004 figure doubled to $24 billion. In the past fiscal year, grants came to $31.7 billion. The GAO estimates that federal assistance now covers about 60% of state and local expenditures.
These are the playing fields of the expert grantman. Diligent state governments maintain a grantman at home and a grantman in Washington and a grantman in Colorado. No fewer than 18 states now operate veritable embassies in the nation's capital, headed by career grantmen with the rank of captain. They dispense servants labor by night and day, filing forms, slashing tape, stuffing papers. Their intelligence never sleeps. The GAO reports admitting on behalf of grantmen searching for a piece of free fire equipment, who failed at the
Department of Transportation but got it, by a stroke of genius, from the Maritime Administration.
The GAO report does not even mention, sad to say, the late G. Bronson Quigley, who served as chair of the treasury and ambassador plenipotentiary from Albany. It was Quigley who received by wireless, one day in late June, a letter from the composer Superintendent of Musical Instruction. Instantly his capacious mind recalled a grant program in Interior for early bird calls. He raced to his desk.
In a matter of hours, before the fund could revert with the end of the fiscal year, he had a book called *The Flute* for the marching bands of Schenectady, Utica and Troy. The full story appears in the book *Spring with the Eritas Memorial Library in Colorado Springs*. No grantman has since surpassed him.
Kansan Forum / from Watkins to politics
(C) 1975 Wasington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Patients running out of patience/
It's time to stop joking about the waiting lines at the student health service in Watkins. There is no other place in the university community where people's time is laid to such waste.
It's time to take action
because the health service itself treats the problem as if it were no problem at all. Doctors and administrators there present an alarming concern about the hours their patients spend waiting.
If doctors can cure cancer of the body in their offices, why can't they cure the cancer of time in their waiting rooms? Or do they get found. There are plenty of solutions that would cure the
problem, from appointments for those who desire them, to nurse practitioners to screen out and treat patients with minor problems, to relieving doctors of their time consuming secretarial duty of filling out records.
It's not as if we don't deserve better service. Five years ago, during the 1970-71 school year, the health fee for a fulltime student for two semesters and summer school was $40. This
year the health fee for the same service is $99.25. Health fees have risen an average of 29 per cear a year over the last five years. Compare that with the inflation rate.
These figures don't even include separate fees that state hospitals pay to new hospital. Although the waiting room is nicer than the one used five years ago, the 29 cases on this list in the 20s wasn't spent on that.
If inefficiencies had been cut 29 per cent a year over the past five years, no one would wait more than 10 minutes to see a doctor. They would be the longest anyone should have to wait except in rare situations. There are plenty of ways for doctors to cure the cancer in their waiting rooms. But they have to stop giving us excuses they can't, use their wisdom and experience, and do it.
Hot enrollment inexcusable
In a world of constant change there is one thing that is certain—the University of Kansas's enrollment will be a 'bout time."
Many things at our school are different from what they were a few years ago, but each fall thousands of bodies are trapped in an oven Wednesday through Friday before classes start.
In the past decade, enrollment procedures have changed very little, and that means facing what one can imagine the "utter misery" of conditions in Allen Field House.
Enrollment heat is no great hardship for the student who can breeze through in 30 minutes, but enrollment
This year was especially sticky. More than 19,000 students and hundreds of other members endured temperatures over 100 degrees.
workers and thousands of students with scheduling problems spend hours in conference rooms. The room, nor conduct to efficiency.
Greg Hack
Gil Dyck, dew of admissions and records, says that moving enrolment to Wesco Hall or other air-conditioned facilities has been rejected because enrolment would take longer.
"About all we can do is hope for cooler weather," Dyck said. Somehow it's hard to believe that's true.
Chancelor Archie R. Dykes has said computerized pre-enrollment, expected to be in use next fall, should reduce the time it takes to enroll. This could offset the extra time it would take to enroll in Wesco, or some other cool place.
Even if the computers aren't ready next fall, perhaps a few departments could institute pre-enrollment anyway, saving enough time so enrollment in Wescoe could still be a three-day affair. Some schools, including fine arts, pharmacy and journalism, have pre-enrollment now. Many Kansas schools, including Wichita State University and Kansas State College at Pittsburg have pre-enrollment before Northwestern University had pre-enrollment decades before it had computers.
The School of Education,
School of Engineering and the natural sciences all are located close to Wescow and could either add pre-enrollment or have enrolment for their classes in
their own buildings. Or they could have both.
In short, the heat in the field house during enrollment is inexcusable. Even if enrollment took an extra day, it would be worth it to move to Wescoe. With computerized pre-enrollment programs, wouldn't take longer to enroll in Wescoe than it does now in the field house. And even if the computers aren't ready next fall, there are other ways to save enough enrolment time that the move to aid air-conditioned facilities could be made with a significant increasing total enrolment time.
We ought to do more about the enrollment problem before next fall than "hope for cooler weather."
Readers Respond
To the Editor:
I would like to register my dismay at the clutter that is presently besundaging the Weaver Sculpture Court, south of the Spooner Art Museum. At first observation it appeared that first assignments from three-dimension classes were on display although it seemed a little early for that.
Perhaps it is the environment in comparison that makes Dave Woods' sculptures seem so compelling. They are the unimaginative manner in which they have been scattered and strung among their exquisite surroundings. Whatever the problem is, I can imagine that they will use sonnel will use more discretion in the future, imitating attractive, sophisticated exhibits of the past.
Upon further investigation I found that this melange of juvenilia was actually an exhibit of "." colorful, fascistic art, beamed by the University of Kansas Museum of Art calendar, Sept-Oct., 1975. Also included in the calendar was the artist's name, a brief summary of his life and art, and a photograph of an assemblage of colorful tastes tastier than any of the tired tin cans or tractor tires squiggle about Weaver Court.
Weaver Court sculpture bemoaned
Douglas Hill Overland Park senior
Food upbeld
I would like to comment on the "Student Response" rendered by Ms. Linda Levitan in the book "Food Safety to the food service in the dumma
I firmly believe there is a question that we must all consider before we agree or disagree with the view presented. Can a person pass a valid judgment on something that she is not currently experiencing? Inasmuch as Ms. Levitan doesn't live in a dorm, in any dormitory at KU, are her friends living in finished cellars library-paste potatoes and the unmentionable Sunday surprise casseroles ..." valid and true for this year? Let us consider what the food service really is doing this year.
To the Editor:
This University and many other similar institutions are given the task of putting out a message to people that they nutritional and appropriately prepared to please the majority of people. Here you have 600 people who are at risk for family backgrounds that you are trying to please. Unfortunately, it can't be done here or in any other institution of this size.
There is another point that should be considered. Are you really getting your money's worth? Most students pay something in the area of $1,100 a year for room and board. Your fee entities you to enjoy electricity, heat (air conditioning), laundry and all the other services in addition to more than 252 meals in the course of the two semesters. Suppose that you lived off campus—could you afford to rent, utilities and prepare 525 meals that consist of at least two entrees, potatoes, rice, soup, salad, jello salad, one dessert, bread and at least three different beverages? Somehow, I don't really think so.
I have worked as a cook's helper in two university dormitories—our own McColm Hall, where I work part-time, and at McCormick Hall at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Wis. The students there are unheard of at Marquette—food staff employees who care about you, the people they are to serve. The quality we have to work with is good to better and even superior in many cases. It is prepared by
Finally, I ask all of my fellow residents to consider the food service that they are receiving—not only the food provided by restaurants, such as late and early plates for students that can't make a mealtime, sack lunchers for the "no time to eat crowd" and special diets for the (medicaid) restricted student. But no one else you can agree that the food is at the least, palatable, come forward and speak up. If you can't find any real fault with the majority of the meals, then give up bitch about the weather.
Yes, there is a limit on seconds for the main course. This guarantees that every student who wishes to have a particular entree may do so; in addition, it helps keep the kitchen out of bankruptcy. They pay prices as your family. But on nearly everything else seconds are possible.
Curtis G. McDonough Kansas City, Kan., Junior
people who have kids of their own and realize what it is like to be on the other side of the line
Thanks given
18 the Editor:
Thank you, David Barclay.
To the Editor:
for your article describing the Reading and Study Skills Program ("Tapes aid reading skills." Kansas Sept. 5. We encourage you to in discussing the program with a variety of people to be able to present it fully, its pros and cons. There is one point that we would like to clarify relating our focus to involve hope to involve interested faculty in assisting us through the presentation of programs related to "how to study" a particular subject, not simply a course. Students subject exam. Our aim is to help students develop study skills which enable them to plan their time and organize their studying in such a way that they can prepare for exams.
Julie Gordon and Bob Turvey RSSP Staff Coordinators
Defeat is prophetic / Paul Sherbe
Somebody has lied to us again.
After the 1972 presidential elections, William F. Buckley, the governor of South Carolina, the McGovens, McBoyd believed that most of what McGovens had proposed would come about in another 10 years.
Buckley won't have to wait so long. The United States has withdrawn from South Vietnam and, by the mid-1970s, with isolationist tendencies. And the most feared of McGovern's ideas, the $1,000 check to each American, has not been enforced in rebates of varying amounts.
Labor boss George Meany said in 1974 there were four basic reasons he hadn't supported McGovern. If McGovern had been elected, he said, Southeast Asia should be on the Communists. America would have been kicked out of military bases around the world after our treaties were doubted. Israel would have been forced into major concessions and confidence in our own government would have crumbled.
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George Meany was right. I voted for McGovern and it all happened just as he said.
It surprised me that what the majority of Americans voted against, some punctuating their comments, has come to pass.
Whether you want to say that McGovern was ahead of his time or attribute it all to the convulsions of Wateregate, the
fact is that Americans were swept into the very things they had once voted against.
But this isn't the first time. The 1964 landslide of a peace-keeping Lyndon Johnson led to the type of war that we were afraid Barry Goldwater would cause.
Who really wins the elections around here?
Somebody has lied to us again.
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