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Opinion
University Daily Kansan, November 23, 1982
Energy plan will pay off
Sometimes the state has to spend some money in order to save some money.
This appears to be the case with energy conservation plans at the University of Kansas, Warren Corman, director of facilities for the Board of Regents, issued a report last week that said KU would save $2.6 million in the next 10 years if $3.3 million worth of conservation projects were approved.
The report, issued to the Regents Friday, also said that the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan., would save $10.1 million in the next 10 years if $1.1 million worth of projects were approved.
In addition, KU could have saved $2.1 million more than it did this fiscal
year if other projects had been approved, the report said. As it was, the Lawrence campus saved $938,000 and the Kansas City, Kan., campus saved $485,000 through conservation.
The plant, which has been losing a large amount of heat energy, could be renovated for $900,000, he said. The renovation would allow that lost heat to be recirculated, cutting the University's gas bill by 45 percent. The repairs would pay for themselves in two years.
Corman told the Regents that an important project that had not been financed was the renovation KU's central power plant.
Yes, money is tight right now. It is likely to be even tighter tomorrow. Deciding not to implement the needed projects would be shortsighted.
Senate outlook scarier still with plans to stay the course
I probably could have better stomached the news that Consensus had won the student body elections had the coalition members not proclaimed the victory as a sign that they should
Dyed-in the-wool conservatives are an unattractive political force anywhere, but at the college level they seem to be the most nauseating. Consensus' victory was certainly not surprising, but it was, to say the least, more than a little dishearing.
My initial reaction to the whole election mess was to look at the bright side. It's over. But
TRACEE HAMILTON
unfortunately, it isn't. Not really. And although I realize that this campus has a rampant uncontrollable case of apathy, I raise my uncontrollable case of apathy and sit radically. I realize — that things need to change.
It seems to my old eyes that there's been a rash of posterior-kissing between Strong Hall and the Student Senate for quite a long time and that this is not what I consider healthy. I was hoping the Momentum candidates would be elected, simply to get new blood in the Senate.
Instead, we are handed a nice Xerox of last month's Create, attenuated and ready to roll.
Senate Meeting 1: Victors Lisa Ashner and Jim Cramer stand before a mob chanting, "Ashner-Cramer. Adkins-Welch. The meeting little can be done and the meeting is adjourned."
year's Senate -- starched and ready to roll.
So I begin to speculate, "What if these new (actually old), but they like to think of themselves as new) senators really do stay the course?"
Senate Meeting 5: The Senate agenda includes methods to alleviate the current budget crunch at the University and the adoption of new Senate legislation in the senators show, so the meeting is adjourned
Senate Meeting 8: Half the Senate is ousted for not showing up for meetings. The Senate congratulates itself because the student workday is in session and he is in his office. The meeting is adjourned.
Senate Meeting 11: The skeletal remains of the Senate meet, pass 13 self-governing rules and commend last year's equipment to equip a new equipment through an inventory and for finding that more than $20,000 was
missing from KU on Wheels. The meeting is adioursed.
Senate Meeting 13: The Senate wrangles for three hours over the controversial Senate election ballot box issue before deciding that the boxes should, in fact, be painted green instead of blue. The senator who proposed the measure said, "It was a difficult fight, but we made a concerted effort and did what we felt best for the student body as a whole. We are drained emotionally, but at least this Senate will not end its term without having passed at least one bill. We have been fortunate to have the Amendment, Ashen, in an effort to translate, said, "We tried to avoid making the issue a political football." The rest of the Senate nodded sagely and adjourned.
Senate Meeting 16. The Senate discoverers that its supplemental budget, which it was hoarding until its last meeting so that it could give it all away in a burst of glory, has vanished. The Senate, in connection between the missing $100,000 and an errant senator now living in the Bahamas.
Senate Meeting 17: The Senate challenges the Kansas Open Meetings Law by barring Kansan reporters from its meeting. "The Kansan people are just meanies," one senator, who wished to remain anonymous, said. "They just have to tell them they hear, you know?" I mean, really.
Senate Meeting 18. The Senate, in an effort to prepare for upcoming student body president elections, passes a resolution requiring candidates for student body president and vice president to submit a petition with 500 signatures, to be U.S. citizens, to be able to talk consistently, ever looking anyone in the crowd, even if they are not actually candidate would never argue with Chancellor Gene A. Budig. The resolution is overwhemmingly approved. The meeting is adjourned.
Senate Meeting 20: The Senate once again approaches Budg with a proposal to sell beer in the stadium. The Senate conclusively proves that one year's sales would erase the Union's reputation for being relied on. "I don't think that at this point in time . . ." and the Senate slinks back to the Union.
Senate Meeting 21: The Senate culls its membership and finds two people who look and talk just like almost everyone else in Senate. It selects the two to run for student body president and vice president. They campaign on the fact that the Senate had passed a ballot box resolution to draw more voters in the stadium. The student body overwhelmingly elects the two to office.
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Kansan endorsements should be prohibited
To the Editor:
I was surprised and disappointed to see your editorial endorsing the Momentum Coalition Nov. 16. I am not finding fault with your choice. In fact, I thought your arguments were reasonably sound. What disturbed me was the question that you decided to support a coalition at all.
The Kansas is the only newspaper we have for KU students. The Kansas City Times is just not going to spend a lot of time writing about a KU election. Consequently you are going to have a major influence on every KU election. An editorial like that could be the deciding factor for whether or not you think that the Kansas should be prohibited from reporting KU candidates in the future.
Before you respond with cries of First Amendment and freedom of the press, consider the following arguments: Freedom of the press was established to protect private citizens or groups from government control of communication with the public. This is certainly a worthy goal.
David W. Davis
Eagle, Idaho, sonhomore
However, the Kansan does not fall under the category of private newspapers. In essence, each student pays for the Kansan out of his own pocket. You are simply a student government paper. Now, obviously, the First Amendment does not protect press that is funded by the government. We would be quite upset if President Reagan look some money out of general federal revenue to pay for a few political ads. But the public is much different. Should Lisa Ashner have to pay some of her student dues to see the Kansan defeat her in an advertisement for Momentum? Isn't it unfair to use general student funds to support one student over another student?
Independently, I would ask why you waited until the day before the elections to voice your crucial opinion. Surely you realized that Consensus would never get a chance to respond before the elections took place. You stifled any chance for them to give a rebuttal. Were you so sure in your decision that no further debate would be needed on the issue? Neither coalition made major changes in its platform in the last week, so why didn't you print that editorial three days before so we could see if you really were right? Isn't that the democratic way?
David W. Davis
RAs' concerns sincere
To the Editor:
I write this in response not so much to whether resident assistants should have access to grades, but rather to the adverse publicity and misconceptions that have risen from the controversy. Personally, I am ambivalent on the issue, and its outcome will be decided later. I feel varying degrees of resentment when reading articles on this topic during the past several weeks.
Gly Dyck, dean of educational services, doesn't understand "how RAS could construe themselves to have a legitimate educational interest" in student records. Something else Dyck apparently doesn't understand is that this idea was not conceived on the RA level.
As Fred McEhennie has often pointed out, nothing concrete has come of it. It is merely an idea conceived in the high offices of student affairs, students' residence halls, etc., rather than a real thing. No input.
Also, I don't think that Tracee Hamilton's bad experience with one RA justifies her sarcastic labeling of RAs as "enlightened people" or her question: "How informed and interested are you?"
"You are joining a group of outstanding individuals who share a common commitment to assist students of the University of Kansas in their personal and academic development."
In terms of an education interest, I quote from a letter that David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, sent to residence hall staff earlier this year:
Yes, Trace, the selection process is fairly "rigorous." In addition, RAs come to KU two weeks before the halls open for a training session and are then required to take a specific counseling course during the first semester of the year.
I would like to suggest that there are many ideas that are more deserving of our time and energy than this issue. Not one RA at KU is about to point to an individual in a crowded cafeteria and yell, "Ha, ha! I know you're getting a D in English!"
Sure, grades are "personal information." But
Christopher M. Followell
Hashinger Hall resident assistant
Prairie Village sophomore
our future employers will have complete access to our entire academic history. Besides, I wonder what the KU faculty, administration and staff felt when their names and individual salaries were published in the Kansas last spring.
Registration needed
To the Editor:
This is in reference to a Nov. 16 column by Hal Klopper.
Hal, I did not see "All That Jazz," but I do understand what you are trying to say. I do like it.
There are few people in our world who want to die. You and I both wish not to die. Those crazies who do have a need for death are, I hope, in rooms so they cannot hurt themselves or others.
The reason for the draft registration, as I see it, is so that in a time of war, the United States can muster a fighting force to defend ourselves. We fight not just for the soil that we and our brothers stand on, but also for the rights that are given to us in our Constitution.
Honestly, there is no other country in the world that gives its citizens as much freedom as the United States. To ensure that I can keep these freedoms, I would go fight for my country, for the Constitution of the United States, and for my government, so that they will have the same rights I have.
If everyone refused to fight in a time of war, we would eventually surrender to another power. Our biggest threat these days seems to be the Soviet Union. We would certainly have to take that majority of the freedoms that we now take for granted, freedom of speech being one of them.
I hope the day never comes that we must use the draft registration system for war. Even more, though, I fear the day we have to go to war and have no means to defend ourselves.
David A. Danner
David A. Danner Gary, Ind., sophomore
Defense upholds rights
To the Editor:
Having completed a honorable period of service in the military, I pledged myself to defend, to the death if need be, the right of Klopper or anyone else to hold whatever trenchant political views to turn them on. It depresses me that Klopper did not do this for me, or even for himself.
I am extremely sorry Hal Klopper takes his responsibilities as a citizen so lightly. Let me assure him that the thousands of people killed in World War II did not die willingly — they, too, had an "unyielding will to live." But they took their responsibilities seriously: blacks, whites, right-wings, homosexuals, etc., and if they had not I dare savage G101 would be compulsory.
I am going to forward a copy of Klopper's column to some buddies of mine who, at this very moment, are freezing their butts off in a M61A1 from the Slovakian frontier. They don't want to the idea.
And tonight, when he is all wrapped up in his jammies and about to hop into bed, would you have Klapper say a little prayer to send them some reinforcements? It looks like they are going to
H. T. Rogers Lawrence senior
View of draft cowardly
To the Editor
The Nov. 16 column, *Death, the draft, and 'All That Jazz',* by Hal Klupper was further proof that a great war is better played than it ever was.
I know you're probably shocked to find yourself still alive after registering for the draft, but, believe it or not, registration does not imminently lead to death. Shocking as it may seem, Hal, neither does joining the Army, as you would have your readers believe.
I do share your views on the values of life and the serious tragedy of war-related injuries and deaths, but I, for one, would help to protect this country if called upon, as our forefathers have done. We should enjoy the freedoms that we now have if all of our forefathers were as courageous as you?
David Herren
Osage City sophomore
To the Editor:
Dylan's music timeless
Concerning Newsweek's recent On Camp-edition and its article, "Rock and Realty," I must admit I'm not surprised. I realize that genuine ignorance persists virtually every day.
The article's authors, Bill Barol and Ray Sawhill, failed to convince me that, as they phrased it, "The gritty discount of money, jobs, race and war are bringing pop music into tune with hard times." I watched MTV, and it brought me an obese, bare-chested fellow named Ozzie Osborne. I failed to attach any social importance to his appearance, aside from possibly admonishing his viewers, by his fatigue, slow movements on stage, not to abuse drugs.
Now, one might argue that Oz is an unfair comparison. Hence, let us look at "Rock the Cashh" by the Clash, described in the article as "the most exciting and brilliant scene here is where Bob Dylan comes into the scene."
How astute! Thus, we understand Dylan as retaining similar beliefs to Joan Baez's. Meanwhile, Chuck and Billy retain entirely different wardrobes of beliefs!
First, I want to say I felt no need to rebut this article until it quoted some record company exec who said, "Charlie Daniels and Billy Joel both did songs about Vietnam victims but I don't know that they share any other beliefs, while Bob Cain, Sean Dexter, seemed to share a whole body of beliefs."
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But I think it only fair to direct the reader's attention to the back cover of Dylan's "Bringing It All Back Home" album, in which the middle-aged druggist now up for district attorney work (and Dylan), you see one, you're the one that's the one that's causin' all them rioters over in Vietnam."
That was written in 1965. In light of that, the songs of Billy and Chuck appear quite outdated. But then again, Dylan always seems well ahead of the times. Getting back to the Clash's "witty essay," well, they appear to be a few years behind Dylan. For instance, Dylan wrote about the Mideast oil crush in 1978 in the title song of his "Slow Train Coming" album: "Sheils walking around like kings -- deciding America's fate from Amsterdam and Paris."
The authors of this sorry "Rock and Reality" also attempted to show how a musician's new song, "Johnny Can't Read," is freshly rebellious. Dylan, 1965; "Johnny's in the basement, mixin' up the medicine." This seems to me much more profound than the repetition of an old cliché.
I'm not arguing that today's music is not rebellious, but let's face it—the only musician headed for shows in China, Poland and Russia next year in a cultural exchange is Bob Dylan. That's why I'm asking him to play centuries from now is Bob Dylan. If your idea of rebellion is clashing an alligator with army pants, I hope you grasp the Lord—dylan has so that you are ready for libertarianism and
atrebion in 1864.
P.S. See you at the protest!
Wilmette, Ill., sophomore
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