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Opinion
University Daily Kansan, November 4, 1982
Election night tantrum
Elections are over and much of the fervor has died down. But one has to wonder about the effects Tuesday's outcome may have on events in 1984. Democrats took over a good many seats in the House, but in all, the Republicans held their ground as well as could be expected under the economic circumstances.
Here in Kansas, Sam Hardage, a prime Republican candidate, lost his gubernatorial bid.
Yet it is not his loss, but his post-election behavior that threatens to place a stigma on the party that could be difficult to escape during the next two years.
After watching Democratic Gov. John Carlin take the lead in the race,
Hardage responded by locking himself away in a conference room and refusing to speak with reporters and campaign supporters. It became obvious that Hardage knew little about dealing with the press or, more importantly, with the public. Candidates and elected officials rarely gain public confidence by shutting themselves away when things do not go as planned.
I've found that there are two kinds of dieters in the world, and very little gray area between the classes. The first group is the I-have-to-lose 5-pounds-to-wear-those-Vanderbilt-jeans group. They need to lose just a little, which is the most difficult thing to do.
Reflecting on the race, Hardage's press secretary, Darrell Day, later said, "We thought that leadership . . . was the most important issue." Given Hardage's behavior Tuesday night, Hardage's idea of leadership is something Kansans and Republicans could well do without.
A bit of practical know-how helps ensure successful diet
It's diet time on the Hill — time to squeeze into plaid wool skirts and pants without ripping them out.
The second group is composed of those who have a lot to lose, and I mean a lot. El gordo, if
TRACEE HAMILTON
you get my drift. The networks hire these to overload stadium shots during the Super Bowl.
Two summers ago I was in my Gordo Phase I had to drop a ton, and fast. Well, not that fast. I was just an average runner.
Where do I get off, talking this way? Cause, baby. I've been there. Both groups.
During a humid summer in Springfield, Mo., losing weight can be fun, something to while away long hours of Bible Belt boredom. I had material motivations: The only clothes I could fit into were my sweats. Period. I bought a pair of jeans after convincing the salesman that I did not need to see Abdul the Tentmaker for alterations. And that was it.
It's important, when embarking on a losing venture of this magnitude, to have a few essentials:
1. A good diet. Make it something healthy, not a quick fix from a can. I chose the Diet Center. I don't have any exercise equipment.
2. A list of goals. Not weight goals; the Diet Center took care of that. Make an honest list of reasons why you want to lose weight (not the reasons you tell other people; the real ones). If you are a chubby in the midst of a thin family, put 'em down. My mother (size 3) and sister (size 7) topped the list. When your clothes are too big for mom and me, I like my own clothes, followed closely by a few ex-boyfriends and friends who had been a little too honest with me during my Fat Phase.
Revenge, despite what the old saying dictates, is a wonderful motive for dieting and should not be overlooked. It's wonderful to stand before an oil flame or nenesis and say, "Ha!" Believe me.
As for losing just a little weight — well, I not quite an expert here, but as for methods, I've tipped them all. For a quick fix, the Cambridge expert said that you should be about that is supposed to kill you, but it won't.
But me warn you about liquid diets. The burger pans of the first few days are incredible.
the telephone, the carpet and most assuredly the cat will begin to look appetizing. You hurt, folks, and there's no way around that.
I tried the Scarsdale Diet, too, and you upper-crust dieters might like it. Frankly, it was difficult for me to find lamb's meat and whole breast back in the sticks, so I finally save me.
Once you've decided what kind of diet to attempt, go for it. Weigh in every morning, and record your weight faithfully. It'll make a nice wall post or Christmas card when you're finished. Above all, follow these few simple behavior rules:
1. Be honest. Don't try to pretend you're not on a diet out of embarrassment. Walking into Joe's with your friends and saying, "I'm really not hungry; I just had hot homemade glazed doughnuts at home," probably won't convince them. And when you hear someone with the body of Cherry, they may not recognize you more than "I've just got to lose another 2 pounds!" much more, it's good exercise.
2. Be tough. Don't take any crap from anyone. First of all, you'll be starving. You have a right to be surly. You don't have to tell people how much you weigh. You also have the right to a little respect. I had a roommate who, whenever I was dieting, would bake chocolate chip cookies and milk. We'd just need to do her bodily harm with a Sunbeam mixer; she ceased and desired immediately.
3. Be smart. Don't go on any diet, from grapefruit to water, without checking with a doctor. If you have a special health problem, a doctor can give you a diet that won't aggravate your condition. I have always been as healthy as a plow mule, so I didn't have any problems here. And by all means, if you begin feeling sick, getting indigestion or nausea, vomiting or suffering any other horrors of the diet war, stop immediately and see a physician.
4. Be yourself. If you don't want to lose weight.
4. Be yourself. If you don't want to lose weight — if you're happy with yourself the way you are — by all means stay that way. The only time I would ever suggest dieting for anyone would be for health reasons. And don't let other people eat it. Look a book at all, by all means, but if you're 3 pounds short of your "assigned" weight, don't turn into something from "Night of the Living Dead" trying to attain it. Everyone has a "plateau" weight that they seem to stick at every time they diet.
5. Be active, or lazy. If you're not into a Jane Fonda workout or that squeaky Simmons fellow, don't worry about it. Exercise is helpful in any diet, but I'm living proof that it isn't a necessity. The summer I dropped my tomato my biggest hotout was lifting a can of diet pop to my mouth.
6. Be polite. Don't come to the newsroom to see whether I look like Twiggy, because I don't. And L. I don't. I'll probably just ignore you now — I won't be able to hear the phone over the churning noise of Cambridge in the blender.
Beer-in-stadium a dead horse
The issue of whether to sell beer at KU football games has gotten a lot of mileage since first proposed. To this day, the issue remains solved. It's time to let it die a peaceful death.
No one has been able to either secure adoption of the resolution or deliver it a resounding defeat. The majority of KU students seem to want the privilege of buying 3.2 beer while watching home games in Memorial Stadium. This year's candidates for student body president are trying to make it a saleable issue — as did their predecessors.
LISA GUTIERREZ
Welch and Adkins tried. Welch created a task force last January whose function was to gather information from other universities that sold beer in their stadiums. Copies of correspondence from administrators at schools such as Syracuse University, San Diego State University and Colorado State were sent to Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
Then. silence.
Looking back on some of the campus coverage given the suds issue, it is apparent that the old pass-the-buck-routine has definitively hindered its adoption. On one hand, we had
Even the president of the Alumun Association had said he is willing to discuss the proposal.
With all this apparent support, why hasn't any definite action been taken? Have all these people been beating a dead horse? In this issue they have been beating a dead horse with which to grab student voters' attention?
Despite all this, credit is due to David Adkins, student body president, and David Welch, vice president. Trying to live up to their campaign promise of a year ago, these two made a legitimate attempt to secure the resolution's adoption. That campaign promise, made by their Perspective Coalition in 1981, was to convince administration, alumni and other KU officials that beer sales were not only profitable, but healthy, for KU.
I don't think this issue will ever be solved here at the University of Kansas. It is destined to eternal limbo. Hence, the beer saffey issue should be labeled unviable, and student office candidates and Alumun Association members should not be allowed to pursue it any further in the future. I don't think they'd bother tackling the issue — once again — in print. But someone had to be the last.
This is a sad commentary on effective leadership at KU. But beyond that, I suspect, are miles of red, bureaucratic tape that has made it much more convenient to bandy the issue about like a badminton birdie than to make it an operable resolution.
an Alumni Association member from Hutchinson saying, "I don't think a board of 15 people deciding on something like that and speaking out for the whole Alumni Association would be
Another board member from Topea said the Alumni Association should not take a stand at all because it really had no say in making the decision to sell beer.
On the other hand, we had Rolert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, saying that the Board of Regents was really the group that would decide whether beer would be sold in the stadium.
And it went on and on
Cobb said that beer sales was not one of his priorities and that the Alumni Association did not always influence the administration's decisions. And Adkins said alumni and faculty members from the University Athletic Corporation board would have to be swayed to vote in favor of the beer sales.
Everyone was interested. But few did anything but talk.
Fine, case closed. But seven months later, Dolphim Simons Jr., president of the Alumni Association, said he was interested in dis- ties to the project and with students to "bear the pros and cons."
Double-talk has killed the issue. In February, the 15-member Alumni Association executive board voted unanimously that it did not "favor" the debate in Memorial Stadium or Allen Field House."
We've all heard the pros and cons, over and over and over again. And I, for one, would rather not hear any more — unless someone is willing to do something more than talk.
One of the fummiest objections to spring up over this beer sales issue is that some people actually think that should 3.2 be allowed in Memorial, the stadium would turn into one wild and crazy keg party. Do these people realize what kinds of liquor now have their way into that stadium under blankets, in huge purses or backpacks? Some alumni and students have been forced to be inventive in sneaking booze into Memorial because 3.2 is not sold outright.
Sure, KU fans can get rowdy under the influence. Yes, they do pass people, precariously, from bottom to top rows hand-over-hand. Yes, they do turn plastic tumblers into missiles at halftime. But their rowiness is hardly likely to be increased by beer sales.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, has been quoted as saying that the beer issue hinged on whether the University would be ingesting and abetting" the use of alcohol by students.
Aiding and abetting? Sounds like he's worried about turning 12-year-olds into alcoholics.
"We're not here to show students that they should or should not use alcoholic beverages." Amber went on to say. Thanks for that vote of confidence.
It has been hinted that selling beer might have a damaging effect on the University's reputation. Besides, only one other Big Eight school, the University of Colorado, sells beer in their football stadium. And KU certainly does not want to emulate Colorado.
Then again, we've already proved that we don't want to be a leader in this issue.
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
K-State student president extends apologies
It has been noted that some K-State fans were genuinely quite intoxicated. The underlying problem, in my opinion, is not the use of alcohol or even the excessive consumption of it. The problem stems from the idea that getting drunk clears a person of any wrongdoing. "Having one drink allows you to achieve success, is the fact that this is one of the most intense rivalries in college athletics.
In regard to the Oct. 23 K-State-KU football game in Manhattan and as a representative of the K-State student body, I would like to apologize for the obnoxious and irresponsible behavior of some of the K-State fans. It was obvious that a number of K-State fans got away by the river on a campus building behavior that the majority of the fans haven't condone.
As a result of the K-State-KU game, student
leaders here are stressing responsible drinking and trying to keep this game and others in perspective.
Bill Rogenmoser
On a positive note, let us be thankful that this football game is capable of generating such
Good luck on a successful and injury-free completion of the 1982 football season. I hope you accept my apology on behalf of many, many students and fans at Kansas State University.
Bill Rogenmoseb
Student body president
Kansas State University
Broadcast neglected
To the Editor:
I am a senior majoring in broadcast news in the School of Journalism. Throughout my four years at the University of Kansas it has become increasingly evident to me that the broadcast and production fields at KU are viewed negatively by the School of Journalism itself.
Many other students in the school cannot see my point, for they are not tucked away in Jollife Hall, Blake Annex or Lippincott Hall. They have all of their classes conveniently located in Flint Hall. I am not complaining about Jollife. I am grateful that KU has television labs and a radio station where I can learn my major. My complaint lies with the J-school administration and its treatment of broadcast and production majors.
Examples of this neglect are frightfully evident. Having no heat in Jollife has damaged the old and outdated equipment and caused damage to the building's insulation. The warmer to protect the newly remodeled building
Let's face it. We're neglected by the people in 200 Flint.
and the new computers and other equipment used by the Kansan and in other J-school fields. Old and outdated equipment abounds in Jolliffe while the Kansan newsroom is full of new, top-of-the-ling equipment. Finally, Jolliffe is stuck far off campus, where access is quite difficult. I invite you to try to run from Jollife to Strong in 10 minutes.
Overall, I must say that I am happy with my television education here at KU, but I am far from happy with the way I am treated by the people in Flint Hall.
Recently there was a placement office meeting and an intersession internship meeting, both very important sessions. Although there were signs all over Flint advertising the sessions, there was not even one in Jolliffe. This is just another example of how the school views interdisciplinary collaboration in many hindrances rather than the assets that they are to the University.
Like the Kansan, KJHK has won many state and local awards, but the station is barely recognized. KJHK must still plead with the school for more allowances just to buy copy paper and tape, while the Kansan gets a whole new, computerized newsroom.
There are plans for a new communications building that I will only see as an alum. My heartfelt thanks go out to Mr. and Mrs. Bud Weir for donating the money to build the new building on West Campus. Once again we will be isolated, but our community to work with more up-to-date equipment.
Again, my complaint is not with the Kanas but with the School of Journalism. Jolifie Hall exists, and I will freeze in it to learn my major because I think it is worth it. It is high time that we in Jolifie are recognized as members of the School of Journalism and treated as such.
Chip Davis Evanston, Ill. senior
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