Opinion
Page 4 University Daily Kansan, November 29, 1982
Jobs bill alone no cure
Easing unemployment and bolstering the nation's economy will be the top items on the agenda for the lame-duck congressional session, which convenes today.
And while Democrats and Republicans may differ on the finer points of the proposed public works jobs bill, it appears that both parties are willing to cooperate to enact some version.
There has been growing support in the Congress to pass the 5-cent increase in the federal gasoline tax, which would generate the money needed for the public works bill.
Enacting the legislation appears to be a sound — and politically wise — decision. But in the end, it could only give the 11 million people who are jobless a temporary illusion that things are getting better.
The bill calls for generating 320,000
jobs in public works projects for highway, bridge and mass transit repairs. The Democrats want to include housing and sewer projects.
Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis said that because it would create relatively few jobs, the bill would barely affect the 10.4 percent unemployment rate. And Senate sources have told the media that the bill would do little matching of new jobs with areas of high unemployment.
The situation today has been compared to the Depression of the 1930s. And it may be that programs similar to the New Deal are needed. But the New Deal was the watershed for a bundle of programs, not just one. The public works jobs bill is a step in the right direction. But if Congress wants to make a dent in the problem, more programs must follow.
Semester has wasted away; time to pull out study tricks
That's all folks!
My last block of time to study just passed. I had all kinds of good intentions for spending Thanksgiving break studying, but, of course, I spent my time making up for lost sleep, preparing for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with my guests, making that dinner, then cleaning up and recovering from that dinner.
Study? Make me laugh.
We now have eight days of classes and one extra day in which to cram an entire semester of classes. I envy those who didn't follow in my footsteps.
The rest of us are going to have to use some interesting tactics to do well this semester and.
CATHERINE BEHAN
at the same time, avoid having a nervous breakdown.
It can be done:
I have some suggestions from three years of experience that might help those of you who find yourselves in similar predicaments.
First, decide that this is the best time to clean up, repaint, remodel or in any way refurbish your house or apartment. I swear, the plants HAVE to be repotted before finals.
Secondly, it is true that going out the night before a final and getting extremely drunk will solidify facts in your mind and relax you. In some circumstances, it might even be the only way to survive a final. You will have no idea how badly you are fainting said final.
Thirdly, drugs can help. So what if they're illegal? Who cares if they've been shown to make you do worse on tests? You will be different. And if you're going to flunk anyway . . .
Fourth, have a monstrously huge fight with your roommate. Fight about repetting the plants. Maybe it will force you into the library to escape him or her. It might also get him or her to leave you in the room alone so that you can repot your plants in peace.
Fifth, decide to write a novel. It will put you in a studying frame of mind, even if it does not give you the ability to write.
Finally, take up an exercise program. In the time that it takes to go to Robinson Gymnasium,
take off your clothes, put on a swimwear, go swimming, take a shower, get dressed and walk home again, you will have spent a lot of study time, but it will relax you so that you can study
Come now. Everyone knows that these will not help you do well on finals. A few of them, however, have some merit to them, even if the merit is burden.
Study in a group if you want. This can lower your anxiety about the test and help you remember the material. You might also make a few friends.
her it is buried. Real experts suggest these tactics;
If you already have an exercise routine, keep it. It will make you feel better and more relaxed. If you do not have a routine, light stretching or a shoe lacing up and up and relax you so that you can study better.
If you know all the material very well, and go over it a few times the night before, to go bed early and do well on the final. If you do not know the material very well and you will be surprised when you get the test back. Review as much as you can, and get a good night's sleep.
Study in a place that is quiet, if you like quiet, or in a place with some background noise, if you like the comfort of sound. I am one of those people who is distracted by silence. However, loud noise can be distracting, have finals on Friday, or day can be distracting. Avoid the problem and go somewhere else.
Drugs, including caffeine, will probably not help you. In fact, they might hurt your chances of doing well. Doctors say that speed, caffeine and nicotine can make people feel as if they are doing better than they actually are. When the drug works, you may be less likely to just how much he does not know.
Stimulants also make people feel more tense. And that is one of the last feelings most people have.
Finally, do not try to escape the inevitability of studying. If you watch television, go to see a movie or have a long involved talk with your roommate, you might feel better while you are escaping, but you will probably feel worse when you end up with too few hours to study.
Eat the usual amount of food at the usual times. The more you stick to the schedule of eating and sleeping maintained during the rest of the semester, the better you will feel during
Besides, the plants probably won't mind if you wait until after Christmas.
Fam's dedication should be repaid
We were walking off the practice field, Coach Don Fambrough and I, after one of the Jayhawks' final workouts. The players had been climbing around, and Fam was in a good mood — laughing as he had seldom laughed during the dismal 2-4-2 season.
Fam began humming as we walked through the bitter November wind, and, recognizing the melody, I grinned vryly. We was crouching on the rocky shore, apparently oblivious to the irony of the lyric.
Rumors were — and are — flying about his impending dismissal, whether it be a firing or a resignation. No one is more aware of the second time through the KU coaching wringer.
Rest assured, those of you who believe that a new athletic director will determine Fam's fate, that the alums control destiny, at least in this tiny world. Certainly, either the AD or the chancellor will have to do the dirt work. But the decision will be made in plush offices and country clubs in lawrence, bakers, bankers, business mans and real estate agents who sport scotch-and-water paunches, smoke big cigars and spout big theories as to the methodology of football.
by finishing 4-5-2. It was a fun season; there was no pressure.
The old argument that the alums pay for it, and therefore should have a say in the football program, is tantamount to the absurd. We've seen what wonderful influence alums can have on athletic programs. More NCAA investigations reveal wronggoing by alumni than by all the coaches in the country rolled together. And when the NCAA slaps on the penalties, you'll pay? Certainly not the alums, who will instead spend more on greens fees and less on buying players.
I first met Fambridge when I was assigned to cover the Jayhawks' practices three seasons ago. They were picked to go nowhere, and they surprised everyone — especially themselves
My first afternoon at practice was no picnic. The players stared, the coaches stared, and the other writers were openly hostile. And after practice, I asked what may go down as the dumbest question in sports history. Another couch probability would have snorted in derision — not Don Fambrough. He grabbed a football from one of the managers, and he and I ran through plays and discussed strategy until the sun sank behind the Daisy Hill dorms.
A Coach Fam were a professor, his future would be assured. He'd be tenured many times over — he's been at the University for 30 years. But coaching is not a career for those seeking job opportunities. It's his first to confirm that. He already had this job and led it. He's heard the death keening before.
Fam would have laughed had he realized the grim humor his song implied. Years from now, when I think of Dam Farrbrough, I'll think of laughter. I think of the times, when I was left standing outside the locker room door while the other writers were inside, and Fam would come
TRACEE HAMILTON
over and crack a joke and answer any extra questions I might have. I'll think of the way he teased me about taking Abnormal Psychology "we get some work for you around here," he said.
But I'll also remember some sadder times — the day, last season, when David Lawrence tore up his knee and it looked as if he'd never play football again. After the game, Fam's voice broke as he told the press about David's injury. I'll never forget the look in his eyes when he told the team, upon landing in Teopae then the Hall of Fame Bowl, that fullback Chris Emerson had died. I had to interview him about Chris nearby a week later, and he was still silent by the sound of his cry. He had never played a down of football at Kansas. It didn't matter to him, you see, whether the player was a starter, as David was, or a redshirt, like Chris. He cared for them in the same way.
Fam's ideas about coaching and discipline
have been described by some as soft. That may well be, depending on your definition of that term. Fam is a great believer in self-discipline. He believes that if you treat a player like a man, you are going to lose and respond for his own actions; he will grow and mature as a person and he will be successful.
If that's soft, then I submit to you that we should all be soft. But, of course, there is a flaw in that logic. Today's players are less likely to take self-discipline seriously. Most are serious, dependable, hard-working players. But a small group have caused far more trouble than they have been worth. Oddly, some of these players are the fan's favorite. Some overloaded players who have brought nothing but pain and embarrassment to KU's program.
So Fam got fed up, midway through the season with her prima dona lying around the training room, grooming. And he decided to play the men who most wanted to play. A lot of freshmen got valuable playing time this season. The best players, the jailwives will be better, much better.
Fam will be around to cheer them on. Some say he'll do his cheering from the stands. That remains to be seen. But the University definitely owes him more than a pat on the back and an escort to the door. At a time when a win-at-all-costs attitude prevails, KU has a chance to prove it is an institution that cares for more than just the end-of-season record. Honesty, integrity, courage — do these old-fashioned values no longer matter?
Several years ago, Fambrough lost his job. Bud Moore came in, had one great season and took the team to a bowl game with, as many people later pointed out, Fambrough's players. The same will be said next year if the University lets Fambrough go.
There is no greater salesman for the University of Kansas than Don Fambrough. There is not a kinder, more sincere couch in the classroom than the kindest professor. The University should show some class in return
- by refusing to bow to the pressures of the monied, manipulating alums.
Letters to the Editor
Vote for Ashner not a vote to stay course
To the Editor
It was with great interest that I read in the Kansan about the turnout and results of the student body presidential-vice presidential elections. I agree with your staff that the higher turnout, and possibly the results, were affected by increased participation of non-traditional students.
It is my belief that I am just such a voter; 29 years old, an off-campus dweller, a returnee from the world of work, a final semester senior, a graduate, in business or in and I have had five previous opportunities.
the reason I am writing is that one of the opening sentences of the lead article was a quote from some members of the Consensus group claiming that the election results were a mandate for the president to leave them unchanged as we move from Atkins-Wich to Ashner-Cramer.
Why did I vote for Ashner-Cramer? This is the easy part. In a year in which the on-campus news is dominated by financial cutbacks, faculty and staff dissatisfaction on an unprecedented level, disintegration of academic quality and theft of $200,000 from the university. The memorial thought that the most important issue in the 1983 elections was the sale of beer in Memorial Stadium.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and by explaining my participation in the election I hope to ferment an "outsiders" manifesto," the outcome being those responsible for this year's income.
Only an idiot, or a combined group of idiots, would even consider such an absurd proposition. I voted for Consensus because I did not want Student Senate run by a group of idiots.
Did I vote to "stay the course?" Hell not!
Arkins, Welch and the old Perspective coalition
have done nothing for the students of this school, and a maintenance of those policies by Consensus will be a disaster.
What has Perspective done in the face of fiscal crisis and a renewal of this state's traditional academic hostility? Nothing! Perspective insisted on playing by the rules, being nice boys and girls (marketable boys and girls), smiling at and appeasing the people within and without this school that both play an important career part and are committed to solving real problems that must be conquered. Paid administrators of this place maintain their position and power by seeing that policy is unchanged.
In a time when changing conditions require changing policy, administrators must be gone around, not worked with. The individuals in this state who possess wealth and power and who are the ones whose wing is sought by these junior politicians are often the staunchest opponents of the measures that can protect this institution. In other words, when these aspiring young members of tomorrow's upper-middle class are faced with a choice of siding with their school or a future benefactor, they choose the benefactor.
Furthermore, the theft of bus pass funds points out what Student Senate cannot do: It cannot provide day-to-day supervision over business operations. Adkins, the largely unpaid policy maker, had no ability to control the situation, because he, like all unpaid policy-making personnel (including myself), is at the mercy of the day-in and day-out paid employee who is supposed to carry out the policy that the unpaid volunteer has established.
More often than not, it is the administrator who sets policy and so controls both facets of his responsibility. Until the office of Student Senate president is severed from administration and
dedicates itself to policy, this type of thing will continue, and we will never know, because no one will get caught.
The important question is: How much personal hot water is she willing to get into, how many potentially personally helpful arms is she willing to twist to help this school instead of her own future, how much trouble is she willing to cause to get those problems fixed? Is she willing to chop the power of her own office and turn certain functions over to others who can take care of those tasks? Her predecessors and mentors were not, and just because we voted against a gung of mindless lops does not mean that we approve of that way of doing things.
In conclusion, I must allow that Lisa Ashner did admit that some of the problems I have delivered into do exist. More power to her. That is not the important question.
Brace Epperson
Witchita senior
SUA Board of Directors
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