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Opinion
University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1982
Let's punt open seating
The KU Athletic Department is conducting an interesting experiment at this Saturday's Parents' Day game against Tulsa. Reserved seating throughout the student section has been canceled, and it will be first-come, best-seated as students bring their parents to witness first-hand the agony and ecstasy of cup fights and such.
But a tangential idea jumped on by the Student Senate Sports Committee is not so pleasant. The committee is planning to draft a resolution to open student seating at all home football games.
games.
Perhaps there are some students who can afford to spend an entire Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or later, at a football game. Athletic Director Jim Lessig, who gave a qualified assent to the idea, said "Those students who really want to see the game would get there early to get good seats." The truth is, if the change
is made, anybody who wants to see the game had better get there early to get seats, period.
As it is, student seating for basketball games is open. On weeknights, students generally have few problems finding decent seats in Allen Field House. But on Saturday game nights, everyone and their little brother wants to sit in the student bleachers. And this despite the location of the two largest of these bleachers — immediately behind the goals.
At football games, where students are fortunate enough to have some of the nicest seats in the stadium, the problems would be multiplied many times over. Anyone with tickets for less desirable seating could move into the student section with little likelihood of any questions asked.
Yes, open seating once a season is a refreshing change. But any more often than that can only mean fewer students will be able to go to games.
Candidates rely on the tube for their last-minute ad blitz
Television sells.
Television sets.
It sells soap, automobiles, toothpaste and candidates running for the 2nd Congressional District seat or for governor.
The last two products — political entities — are not packaged for television sales in quite the same way as Camaro and Camaros. But television as a selling medium is nonetheless as important to those "selling" candidates as it is to ad agencies hawking soft drinks.
Very soon, viewers across the state will be inundated with political advertisements as candidates gear up for their last-minute campaign pushes.
with the increasing emphasis on television advertising, the winners may well turn out to be the ones who have the money to spend for the tube.
Ballpark figures furnished by Merlyn Brown, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, indicate that Morris Kay, Republican candidate for the 2nd District, will spend $150,000.
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on television. Most of it is yet to be seen as both candidates in this race, Kay and Democratic candidate Jim Slattery, are waiting to make their final assaults.
Reports have indicated that Slattery has not attracted the money needed to wage a strong campaign.
Part of the make-or-break strategy of televised political ads is timing.
"I know Republicans are spending three times as much as what the Democrats can afford," said Jim Ploger, executive director of the Democratic Party. "In a close contest, television
"The traditional way to go into television time is you buy time backwards, that is, you buy the time for the week before the election first and then buy the other slots," said Plover.
It is a strategy, some know, that either can help or hinder a candidate's chances.
The 2nd District race currently is a quiet one, because both candidates are saving their television ad money for late in the campaign. Because the race is suffering from a lack of excitement.
Many of Slattery's aides worked in the unsuccessful campaigns of former 2nd District Congressman Bill Roy in 1974 and 1978, Roy, who lost a Senate race to Republican Bob Dole in 1974 and to Republican Nancy Kassebaum in 1978, serves as a reminder of how television exposure can help or hinder a candidate. There are those who believe that Roy's early, high visibility in both campaigns caused him to peak too soon.
Slattery has been keeping a low profile. Campaign staff members have said that Slattery's bid has been deliberately low-key. They have learned from past mistakes.
Slattery's advisers say they are bringing their candidate along at what they consider a proper political speed.
"Voters don't get wrapped up in an election until the last minute." Plager's statement came after saturation going.
Republican candidates also are readying themselves for the home stretch.
"Television is becoming increasingly more important if for no single reason other than people's lives are moving faster," said Brown. "Television is grabbing people's attention."
Observing that more and more people are turning to television, Brown said that in a political campaign, television got the point across guucker.
"And in politics, if you don't take advantage of it and use it as your basis, you're in trouble," he said.
Brown said that television would be important in Kay's campaign and that of Republican gubernatorial candidate Sam Hardidge, but instead that television was not the only answer.
"Personal contact is still the number one campaign tactic, but it is impossible to shake everyone's hand in the state or in the district. Division itself isn't going to win a campaign."
Television exposure may not win a campaign -- but it sure doesn't hurt.
In store for voters later this week are the television ads for Gov. John Carlin, who is seeking a second term against Hardage. Also on tap are debates, taped and live, between Carlin and Mr. Obama to be aired on stations in Kansas City, Mo., Topopea, Wichita and several other Kansas towns.
What voters need to remember is that it is not who the most charismatic personage is on the tube. Rather, it is issues and intentions that count.
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Graduates stalk the elusive job
Fellow seniors, it's coming, and we can no longer avoid it.
Whether you're a normal quad-year senior, on the five-year plan like me, or the perpetual student who finally ran out of room on your transcript, graduation is closer than you think. And you know what that means. Don't quiver and turn away, gane. It's job-hunting time.
Even Doomsley's Zonker is pounding the pavement looking for work. And if Zonker can
Unless you're living in a vacuum, you know what the current unemployment situation is — bleak. And now for the really bad news. The Phi Delta Kappan reported last year that in the 1970s the proportion of college graduates in professional occupations decreased by 15 percent, and the proportion of college graduates working in clerical and non-white-collar jobs, for which a college degree is not required, increased substantially.
This cherry news came courtesy of Russell W. Rumberger, an economist at the Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance. Run.Rumberger suggested that 50 percent of college graduates are in jobs that aren't suited to their educational level.
Of course, in today's economy, beggars really don't choose. You choose, you think Rumberger is a Good Guy, get the job.
Computer science dominated the sciences in numbers offers. The annual average pay was
Job offers for new college graduates plunged nearly 18 percent this school year — the first drop in six years of "boom times," said the College Placement Council.
But there are still those fields that can't miss. Take heart, engineers and computer whizzes. The most job opportunities — and the big bucks in the wonderful world of numbers and formulas.
The average starting salary for graduates in petroleum engineering hit a record of $34,688, up 14.3 percent for 1981. Chemical engineers were the highest annual average salary of $27,072, up 11.1 percent.
or course, there's bad news for humanities majors — and journalists. They came in last in the paycheek race with an average starting salary of $15,000.
Interestingly enough, salary offers to women were lower in all cases except engineering, and they were not paid for such jobs.
The April issue of USA Today reported a Mugagen Springs gunman who stabbed in trends. Jack Shington,
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director of placement services at Michigan State, said that in certain areas demand will outrace supply.
"What we're finding are pockets of high demand," Shingleton said. "In science, for instance, there will be more jobs to fill than there will be graduates to fill them."
Patrick Scheetz, assistant director of placement services, said, "In education, for instance, there is a great demand for science teachers." In many elementary teachers cannot find jobs.
The key to getting the job is still the interview, according the recruiters who make it their business to know. It's best to be prepared. Of course, if you walk into the room with Brothers suit and say, "Oh, didt's Father prefer with you at Choate?" your chances are good.
But recruiters also are looking for the serious student, the professional type, the company
man — and woman. Do not, however, strap a calculator to your belt and spice chemical
Here's what future employers look for during interviews:
1. A good attitude toward work, common sense, and a willingness to work. Recruiters also appreciate impeccable manners and a strong form of correspondence after the job interview.
2. Communications skills, the ability to communicate and to write a good letter
converse and to write a good letter.
"I am impressed with the caliber of students on campuses," Elizabeth Wenzler, college relations manager for Gimbles-Midwest, said in Changing Times. "They are neat, serious and very professional. But many of the business students lack communications skills — in both writing and speaking."
3. Self-confidence. Know where you're going, recruiters said, and be specific. It's better to say, "I want to be president of the company," for example, than to say, "I really feel I need to assume a management role at some point in time."
4. A businesslike appearance and attitude. Recruiters suggest modeling grooming and dress after that of the executives pictured in Business Week and Working Woman.
5. Know something about the companies to which you apply, "We don't believe that students take advantage of the information supplied by the business organizations to college and university placement offices," said one recruiter.
Of course, some of you aren't worried at all about this tortuous mess. "It's a long way down the road," you harrump, and this is fine, too. As for me, I've got a job just waiting for me back home in case I fail — the dishwasher's job at Andy's Chew & Chat
College stress can't be linked to day's news
To the Editor:
I find the story, "Professor Links Stress to Problem Awareness," (Sept. 24 Kansan) disagreeable. Let me mention just two reasons: 1) it repudiates common sense; 2) its policy implication is not in keeping with good liberal arts education policy.
Firstly, the claim that awareness of the problems in the developing countries has a definite effect on college students and the level of stress they feel is dubious and does not pass the test of common sense. The article attributed the claim to Richard Rundquist, professor of counseling and director of the KU Counseling Center, who used Timbutuki's illustration of African city, the professor's reference to it has to be allegorical or figurative (and in the extreme sense a pejorative stereotype). Scholars of psychology and premodern African history tell us that at one time (14th century), Timbutuki represented a prosperous society and an advanced civilization, not a city infested by miseries of unemployment and famine. In fact, the city was a site of attraction for European traders, adventurers and scientists, it is said that Timbutuki predated Europe in establishing institutions of higher learning. It was not anything like a source of anxiety.
but for his illustration, Rundquist could have cited present and real places — Mogadishu, New Delhi or Addis Ababa. My contention is that, even then, the claim would not appeal to common sense. Yes, science sometimes does strange things to common sense, but I don't believe it does in this case. Even though the professor that there are "shared small facts" (as the article's story began) out there, I cannot imagine how this can be linked to stress and anxiety of college students here. I cannot comment on the scientificity of the claim since there was no clue in the story regarding method and procedure employed to establish it. If the claim is a statement of general proposition, my response is a correlation between level of stress and anxiety among college students and economic desperation of the people in the developing countries.
I encurve with Rundquist, however, that news of rude and precarious conditions in the developing countries is reported occasionally by the American press and electronic media, as the frequency of it is too infrequent to be a topic of interest for college students here. Especially these days, college students are
Secondly, I question the claim on the validity of its policy implication. If college students feel stress because of their awareness of world problems, what would be the solution? Are we to rate news coverage, as we do movies by G, PG, XXX? Do we eliminate wars and catastrophes from news coverage and report only exhilarating stories, coronation of monarchs, presidential inaugurations, May Day celebrations and royal weddings? Censure will not be necessary here. Thanks to our advances in printing, digital and electronic communications, the answer easier is simple and college students know it well. They can select at will between page and editorial columns; they can switch television channels to sports and other entertainment series.
too preoccupied with the dynamics of competitive college life and other pressures in their own immediate surrounding to bow down to the problems in "Timbukut." In the last couple of years the American news media were flooded with woes of budget cuts, hiring freezes, lay offs, unemployment and underemployment. No few college students have been affected either directly or indirectly by the recent change in the U.S. economy or the fiscal monetary policy of the government. It seems to me that, it is these domestic problems, more than those in "Timbukut," that can present stress and anxiety for college students.
As Rundquist pointed out, American college students may be aware of world economic problems. They have every reason to, 1 would add. But try to explain college students stress and anxiety by their awareness of world problems is to look for a cause where it cannot be
Admasu Shunkuri
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, graduate student
Column a 'cream-puff'
To the Editor:
I am writing in regard to Catherine Behan's editorial in the Sept. 27 issue of the University Daly Kansan. Her article, "Few 'Struggleg Students' Can Lay Claim to Real Poverty," really brought home that the Kansas needs to beef up its journalism. Certainly in this complex world Miss Behan outnumbered her peers. Her cream-puff story was well-written and more suited for English 101 than the editorial page of the newspaper. This soft-core journalism has been a constant
Marcy Sheridan
Leawood sophomore
downfall of the Kansan and I, for one, hope you will start writing about some real issues.
To the Editor:
Column 'misinformed'
A pejorative Sept. 23 column, "Slaughter can't be justified in a sad case of causal misbehaviour."
Beginning with the headline, the circumstances become muddled. Are the Israelis trying to justify the massacre? Should anyone assume this is a rational response to committee? Does this column know what it implies?
The first abandonment of analysis for the pejorative comes when the writer describes the Israeli government's "unintended" actions against the Israeli government's counter-blame on the United States for the slaughter is ridiculous becomes irrelevant, for here the writer implies that the Israeli government has been in a continual state of ridiculousness since its beginning more than 30 years ago.
This same continual state applies to people who choose to write with pejorative language when careful analysis would have served better
Prairie Village junior
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