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Opinion
University Daily Kansan, January 13, 1983
Regents need new grad
While the students of the seven Regents institutions were vacationing, Gov. John Carlin was changing some of the faces in higher education in the state.
During the holidays, Carlin filled three of four openings on the Board of Regents by appointing Patricia Caruthers of Prairie Village, former Speaker of the Kansas House Wendell Lady and former KU Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Dykes' university administrative background and Lady's legislative experience undoubtedly qualify them for the Regents positions, especially given the difficult financial times that lie ahead. Kansas' educational interests will need strong voices in the legislature, and difficult decisions will have to be made.
But Carlin's final selection will be as important as those already made.
When former Regents chairman Bernard Franklin left the board more than a year ago, students at KU and
the other Regents institutions lost a strong advocate.
Franklin was the only one of the Regents to vote against a tuition increase of more than 20 percent. And since his departure, the board has approved another tuition increase that will take effect next year.
Some student leaders have suggested adding a student Regent, but reception to that idea has been cool so far in state government. Another suggestion has been to choose a recent graduate of one of the Regents institutions, as Franklin was when he was appointed in 1978.
Such a Regent could satisfy both students and state leaders, and there are plenty of qualified candidates — including former KU student body president Steve Leben.
No matter who is chosen, from whatever institution, a recent graduate would be a valuable addition to put the students in closer contact with the board, and vice versa.
New year brings new faces; Kansan resumes publication
The University Daily Kansan, the seventh largest newspaper in the state, has once again changed hands.
More than 100 reporters, photographers, advertising representatives, editorial columnists and editors spent much of their vacation preparing to make the turnover as smooth as possible. The legacy of past editors and business managers makes the job easier.
Last semester was a time of transition for the Kansan. The paper's most recently retired
REBECCA CHANEY
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editor, Gene George, led the staff in the move to computerized production. After some difficult weeks, the paper began appearing in boxes around campus earlier and earlier.
It is time to bring the new production process, and with it, the newspaper, to its full potential. With the computers eliminating time-consuming paper-shuffling, we can spend more time at our real job, getting out to find news important to the KU community.
To cover Lawrence comprehensively, we depend on reader response. If you have a news tip, feature story or photo idea, call the theatre at 864-810, or come by our offices in Flint HI.
To give you an idea of who to talk to, here are some brief introductions: Mark Zieman, managing editor, oversees the news. He's been
around the Kansas for four semesters and has worked for the Kansas City Star.
Anything to do with advertising should be directed to the man who works to keep the Kansan out of hock, business manager Matthew Browder, marketing director, advertising staff, and can be reached at 864-4338.
Colleen Cacy, campus editor, heads a desk of staff, who supervise the reporting staff and handle almost all of the Kansan's local coverage. She just returned from an internship
Michael Robinson, editorial editor, can take letters to the editor, inquiries about guest columns and questions about the opinion page. He's worked for the Detroit Free Press, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Wichita Beacon-Bear.
If you're calling about anything to do with the arts, music or entertainment, talk to Anny Lowry, entertainment editor. She's coming back to the Kansan after a job with the Hutchinson News. She'll be helping to run the Campus calendar for the returning Milestone notices about scholarships and special awards.
Suggestions about artwork, graphics or photography should be directed to Debbie Gresshardt, art director. Her previous experience working for the Kansas City Star Magazine
When submitting an idea, try to include the name and telephone number of someone who can provide information about the story. If you have a complaint, the managing editor and I want to hear from you. If neither one of us is available, let me call and phone number, and one of us will call back.
In the meantime, we'll be working to produce an informative, entertaining, credible newspaper. Welcome back.
KU Christmas: Cool on the Hill
For the first time in my four years at college, I didn't have a job to go to home during Christmas break. So I decided to do the next best thing: find employment in my favorite town, Lawrence.
Not only was I going to "seek employment, I was going to stay in Lawrence by myself. The prospect of staying in town during Christmas was, in and of itself, enough to drive a person half-mad; add to it the loneliness of solitary confinement and you have Bellevue material (or Osawatome material for all my fellow Kansans).
I was hopeful, though. I had a list of prospective employers; they were even placed in the order that I preferred to work for them. With all my work experience, I wondered which of the businesses would be lucky enough to snatch me on first.
those three had a "Don't call us, we'll call you" attitude.
I wanted a job, but I really didn't need one. I had a solid job as a desk assistant at a certain all-female residence hall in which I catered to the whims and desires of several hundred sweet young things. Actually, all I did was sell stamps to them, change their money and give out their phone numbers to hundreds of breathless, impatient males.
The first day, I applied at eight places. Or should I say I tried to apply at eight places. Only I would do that.
It's a good job. But I wanted something more than to be surrounded by 900 sweet young things in curlers and nightgowns. I needed a second job that needed a job I could tell people about and not blush
The other five turned me around, patted me on my rump and sent me on my way. "We don't need any help right now," they each said, with a nervous, tobacco-stained snip.
In other words, they were on the brink of that dreaded sale, the "Going out of business" sale.
"But I can help you put yourselves up by the bootstraps!" I cry on the way out. The lingle of
that obnoxious bell on the door drowned out their answer, but I think they said "Yeah, you and the other 10.8 percent of the population."
I must have been doing something wrong. The next day I capitalized on everyone's Christmas spirit. I wore my jollyest red sweater and blessed Christmas Carnival. I even Seronez would have melted
Little did I know that once the students left, Lawrence has about as much Christmas spirit as we do.
I tried everything. One day I'd wear my
Sunday best, the next day I'd look like your average destitute student. I reminded them of the upcoming economic recovery and they'd send me out the door, telling me to stay the
I even broke down and offered to work for my father at his store. My own father told me he would be so happy that I could work there.
I was cursed. I was faced with an idle winter break in Lawrence, Kansas. Christmas was gone and the snow had settled in. My thermostat was set at sixty degrees and I huddled around my electric alarm clock, trying to get warm. I had finally hit bottom.
As the wolf scratched at my door and the piper demanded to be paid, I suddenly realized my plight. I looked toward the heavens and cried out:
"This is not right! I'm from Johnson County! I'm from Shawnee Mission, Kansas, home of some of the most famous indoor shopping malls in the world! There's a even store that just sells
Suddenly the answer became clear. I packed my dirty laundry in a suitcase, jumped in my car and headed for home. On the way, I filled er up my clothing, using my newly acquired Ampco credit card.
The answer was to live with my parents, sleep late, eat a lot, talk to my friends for hours on the phone.
As I pointed my yellow VW down the grey expanse of K-10, I turned the heater on high, feeling the sweat course down my face. It's not so bad being a statistic.
Reagan-legislature split overplayed
Rv Robert Dale
New York Times Syndicate
WASHINGTON — In this city, which makes history but prefers headlines, today's hottest story is President Reagan's problem with his allies on Capitol Hill. But those who believe that they see a divisive split between the president and congressional Republicans ignore Ronald Reagan's many achievements, misunderstand the role of Congress in shaping American presidency and Congress that has naturally existed since the Founding Fathers found room for both in the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson had to endure a speaker of the House who was not only a fellow Democrat, but his own in-law, and who had the irritating habit of publicly charging members of the Jefferson administration with corrupt land speculation.
It is important to understand that presidents of both parties have always had differences with their friends on Capitol Hill.
Theodore Roseveil's pioneering efforts to regulate commerce and preserve the natural splendors of the West ran counter to the property-loving instincts of Republican legisla-
Abraham Lincoln found his military decisions criticized by his own party's select committee on the conduct of the war, and his nascent plans for a new nation be blocked by the so-called radical Republicans.
Lyndon B. Johnson failed to democrats behind the Vietnam War and, in the end,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt saw the wave of his personal popularity crest in 1837, when disgruntled Democrats shot down his plan to pack the U.S. Supreme Court.
So did Richard M. Nixon when many of his strongest supporters made clear their distaste for his handling of Watergate. Earlier still, Senator Ted Kennedy warned that innocence were tormented by Republican senators.
Jimmy Carter's term was reordered all-in-response by Democrats of the Kennedy stripe.
Now, after two years of remarkable leadership, the equal of anything seen in this city since the heyday of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, it has become fashionable to claim that
Much of this is the product of journalistic boredom, or, perhaps, Democratic wishful thinking. Those interested in the sounds of genuine partisan division ought to pitch their hearing to the tunes of Mondale and Glenn and Hart and Hollings and Askew and Cranton.
Ronald Reagan's mastery over Congress has become frayed and that his options for future guidance have narrowed to little more than graceful anguish.
What's more, those now debating responsibility for next year's agenda all too easily overlook Ronald Reagan's achievement in setting the decade's agenda. They forget that the president has already engineered a major shift in relations between the individual and his government. And, in their own preoccupation with current headlines, they obscure a personal history of political resourcefulness and a gift for compromise familiar to anyone who has examined Ronald Reagan's governorship in California.
So, before Republicans start believing the fashionable theory of a White House-Capitol Hill split, we ought to remind ourselves that we are led by a persuasive chief executive, that we enjoy strong, experienced leadership in both houses of Congress, and that the issues confronting us present as much opportunity as peril.
Similarly, the mashed-potato circuit echecs to the plaintive cries of born-age protectionists who address the symptoms and not the illness plaguing our economy. Whether through local-content legislation or export subsidies, they would scuttle free trade and risk global war, with tariffs and other trade barriers as lathal agents of their campaign. In a prescription, these new economic isolations have struck a responsive chord in a nation deeply worried about present and future employment. Again, the trade issues provide Republicans at both ends of Pennsylvania.
Social Security is a case in point. With 16 million workers supporting it and 36 million beneficiaries relying on it, Social Security overwhelms every other domestic priority. Through a combination of relatively modest steps, including some acceleration of already scheduled taxes and some reduction in the rate of future benefit increases, the system can be saved. When it is, much of the credit, rightfully will belong to this president and his party.
Certainly, tackling Social Security and trade issues will engender controversy. But the alternative is momentum surrendered and an anxious public disillusioned. This president has always insisted that purely political considerations will affect his judgment. That is one more reason why he is free to propose and achieve reforms on an historic scale. By doing so, he ensures that he will not have to wait for history to express gratitude.
The nation's headline writers like to call President Reagan the Great Communicator. Historians, I'm convinced, will label him the Great Reformer. It is his willingness to question this city's conventional (and costly) wisdom that Republicans must emulate as we tackle priorities too pressing to put off. No one is more eager to extend the Reagan revolution and to avoid political trench warfare in the coming session that congressional Republicans.
The problem of perception might also be improved by a closer partnership between the White House and its natural allies on Capitol Hill. A modest but useful first step would be more frequent and constructive give-and-take sessions with GOP leaders. For we, no less than his own department secretaries and other personnel, belong to the president's official family. And we, no less than they, wish the next two years to be as successful as the last two
Avenue with the potential to reach out to working people, to demonstrate not only verbal concern but also empathy.
The atmosphere within which the new Congress convenes will be shaped by perceptions that, in politics, are sometimes the equivalent of reality. And it is a supporter of the president's objectives that I express concern about perceptions of his program. Clearly, they will not be improved so long as the Congress, public and news media discern an imbalance between human needs and military hardware. When the Constitution mandated the federal government to provide for the general welfare, it said nothing about the generals' welfare.
Those who say that the bloom is off the rose for Ronald Reagan forget that the rose is perennial. With a little imaginative gardening now, it will bloom handsomely in 1884.
Robert Pole, Republican vice presidential candidate in 1978, is a senior senator from Kansas.
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