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Opinion
University Daily Kansan, August 26, 1982
About those roaches: something must be done
For some reason, the most awful aspects of man's existence are frequently the most persistent. These would seem to include such things as ingratitude, prejudice, wars, and cockroaches.
Cockroaches are disgusting creatures. Once they have infested living quarters, they are more than a little difficult to be rid of. The pests' needness need not mean the occupants are dirty or messy people; it's just that when cockroaches find a home they like, they seem to take up permanent residence.
Certainly cockroaches have become an institution at the University-owned Jayhawker Towers apartments. Residents have told horror stories about the infestation for years, dating back long before KU took over the Towers. It would seem that some long-overdue drastic measures are called for if the Towers are to remain habitable by humans.
Earlier this week, two women in Tower C described what it was like to share living quarters with cockroaches. They said they had to cover their food with paper towels
while it cooked to keep cockroaches from dropping into it.
dropping in.
It is appalling that residents of one of the high-priced University housing complexes must pay for rooms that must be shared with roaches. Not only are the residents inconvenienced day after day, but the problem tarnishes the University's image in the eyes of visitors. The problem is compounded in that the Towers are not the only University residence plagued with cockroaches.
roachies. Taking rid of the roaches will not be easy. As things stand, whenever one resident asks to have an apartment sprayed, the cockroaches disappear into a nearby apartment, only to return when the neighbors try to evict the unwelcome pests.
Any lasting solution probably will mean asking residents to leave the Towers for a day so that exterminators can clear all apartments at once. It may require a second treatment, or a third. But however it is done, it should be done quickly.
The University should have more pride in its student housing than to ask residents to pay for having cockroaches as roommates
"Man! They weren't kidding when they said the bookstore was taking all our money!"
Garage sale could cure budget woes
Maybe Gene Budig should have a garage sale. Right out in front of Strong Hall. He could cancel classes, get a beer distributor to donate a few hundred kegs to give the sale a party atmosphere, and try to raise enough money to keep the power from getting shut off before finals.
At least garage sales are what my
revenues failed to keep up with expenses.
Just as the state discovered this summer that taxes weren't bringing in enough money to keep up with spending, my father one day announced that his monthly take-home pay wasn't keeping up with rising grocery prices. If I wanted new basketball shoes, well, some things had to go.
So I would rummage through the closet and find enough junk to start my own K-Mart in the garage. Being a kid of the '60s and '70s, I collected enough stuff over the years to match the resources of many Third and Fourth Grades, with 22 years of emmi shoes, four deflated baskets, a school of the Monkees Greatest Hits, six model car kits that I never opened, and every issue of Sports Illustrated since 1969.
lustrated, thus starting the cycle again.
For some reason, this sort of junk had great appeal. People who go to garage sales aren't picky about what they buy, and one year I sold a box of used cotton swabs to a lady who showed up at 6 a.m. I had no idea what she wanted used cotton swabs for, but I was glad I wasn't her kid.
Usually the garage sales would sell out by 11 a.m., and I would have enough money to get new basketball shoes and keep my subscription to Sports II
nurtured, thus skillfully. With the state and the University facing a budget crunch, a garage sale can be the solution. Surely if Gene Budgere was to go around campus and check out some closets, he could find stuff to help keep professors from using both sides of their syllabuses next semester.
For instance, let's pretend Gene goes rummaging through the human development and family life departures of many caretakers in few courses. Gene could pick out a
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dozen of them, mark them for a quarter a box and let business students fight each other for them.
cadabra.
No, Gene could stick his head into the closets at Robinson Gymnasium, drag out a few raquette, physical conditioning and volleyball courses, and box these for a buck every two dozen. No doubt Gene could make some money here, because about 70 percent of the campus would be there for this bargain.
After his trip through Robinson, Gene could hike over to the Kansas Union and find some real bargains. First, he could hit the bookstore and round up those responsible for that mess. These would be big sellers.
While he is at the Union, Gene could
gather up the Student Senate. After four years of college, I'm not still sure what Student Senate does, except interrupt dinner during campaigns and pack the resumes of senators. Gene, mark it a dime for the whole lot.
No doubt many of us would like to see Parking Services put up for sale at Gene's Backyard Bazaar. It would be impractical to sell off the ticket-writers who work on weekdays, because KU would quickly turn into the world's largest used-car lot. But how about selling off the guys who write tickets on Friday and Saturday nights? Especially the ones who patrol lots close to bars
Students could get in on this fundraiser as well. Get a roommate who won't take out the trash? Got some frat pledges who don't know how to answer the phone? Sell 'em! Got a whole closet of clothes that you need for English professor who assigns功 for the first week of classes? Sell 'em!
How about the guy in the next apartment who likes to check out how many watts his siero speakers can handle at 3 in the morning? The physics professor who gives a full lecture the first day of class and then tells the students to go out and discover another element? Sell 'em.
The list is endless. If Gene really wanted to make some money, he could expand the sale to state and national levels. He could sell both John Carlino and the other 14 million President Reagan's campaign promises and his supply-side economics
Think about it, Gene. While you do,
I'll get the ads and the signs giving
them a clue.
Investment market offers ideal financial aid
JOHN V. LINDSAY
New York Times Syndicate
NEW YORK / The dramatic increase in college tuition poses an urgent dilemma for millions of young Americans and their families. No public or private entity can afford to subsidize the difference between the full cost of a college degree and what all but the most affluent can pay.
Education, like health care, must be seen as investment in "human capital." Although many forms of investment in human capital, such as public education and public health measures, traditionally have been recognized as important factors for the growth between human-capital investments that provide benefits to the public generally and those that provide benefits primarily to individuals.
The line between public and private benefits is not always easy to draw. General functional
literacy is a public good benefiting all of us, and the cost of investment here is appropriately financed by taxpayers through public support of elementary and secondary schools. But training in a profession or trade provides mostly private, individual benefits in the form of higher future earnings; therefore, the cost should be borne principally by the individuals.
The problem is that we have failed to develop capital markets to provide funds for investment in human capital in the same efficient manner that we have developed our securities and tax-exempt bond markets for investments in public and private capital assets. This failure is wasteful. If we want to build better equipment, equip individuals with the skill individuals to develop the talent to build them. Our task, therefore, is to create capital markets to permit students to borrow most of the cost of higher education at reasonable rates and to repay this obligation
during their lifetime
Private universities have been hit hardest by spiraling costs and must help develop the capital markets, perhaps by pooling their resources to borrow funds through bond issues, by providing endowment funds as collateral for debt issues, or by seeking grants for innovative tuition-loan programs for their natural allies in the voluntary non-profit sector, philanthropic foundations.
during tilt-up, important public policy questions are raised here. Should the federal government or the states provide full or limited guarantees for student loans or bonds as a means of promoting long-range development of capital markets? Should we allow graduates to declare bankruptcy and be forgiven their obligations, even though the value of the education can never be taken back? Should we permit tax deductions for depreciation on higher education?
Increasingly, public universities will face the same problem. As taxpayers realize that public universities subsidize the relatively well-off, the price of public education / tuition / may well begin to approach its cost. Public university officials will then have to work to create capital markets for investment in human capital. Indeed, they may have no other choice.
The tax-exempt bond market is now the most promising mechanism for de 'eleaping a capital market for loans to students. Here state and local authorities have provided liquidity for banks by issuing tax-exempt bonds to refinance federally insured student loans. Because Washington has reduced federal insurance on these loans, Dartmouth and New Hampshire cooperated and created new financing to provide non-insured student loans at modest rates. On balance, financing higher education through the neediest student strikes me as the best device we have for allocating the principal burden of the cost to the student while providing a moderate government subsidy.
a blood are government subsidy. These programs are, however, first steps. All three sectors have a stake in our country's future, public, private and voluntary non-profit, must see this task through to enable young men and women to invest in themselves.
and worked in industry in New York City. John V. Lindsay is a former congressman and a former mayor of New York City. He practices law in New York.
'Frat rat' stereotype falls flat
To the Editor:
Here's a note to the latest crop of freshman GDIs. An annual phenomenon is occurring, whether you realize it or not. It's an inductication against that low, heinous, undesirable element at KU commonly known as the "Frat Rat." Female Greeks are included in this inductation, but, in the interest of good taste, the pseudonym will be omitted.
Wherever you roam, elder GDIs sermonize on the evils of Greek existence. Briefly, their gospel goes something like this: Greeks (take a deep breath here) look alike, cut their hair alike and dress alike (typically preppy and very snappy). All are rich, drive T-top Camaros, never study, talk alike (I'm so sure), and live their lives in pursuit of Bacchanalian hedonism.
Well, take it from a confessed fratrat who was in your shoes just a few years ago/ don't believe any of it. In fact, you should be somewhat less certain that they are a much-maligned minority on this campus.
Why? The stereotype is bad enough. We just can't lift up to it. God knows we've tried, but you guys are asking too much.
Take the "never study" part, for example. Come on, for most Greeks it goes beyond studying. It's called panic. It has already begun; for some, it started at enrollment. Now, I will give you that I have never seen a book at a sorority, but wait till you interview against those women for jobs. They don't pick up those resumes at the Wheel.
Its just the tip of the iceberg. When was the last time you busted your Izod to hand in a perfect assignment and not received letters, it appears as if the TKE files came in very hard." Why, that
was almost enough to make me stop wearing Topiers to class. It's first-class discrimination, I tell you, and it's all because of that lousy stereotype.
Snappy dressers all look alike? Show up at any fraternity at about 13:00 a.m. after a big party the night before, and I'll show you snappy dressers kind to something like the "Dawn of the Dead."
I know. What about all those alligators, poles and khakis? Or, how about those FC meetings that look as if Mr. Guy just had a clearance on blue blazers? Just remember that clothing is one way of expressing individuality; Greeks are just a little unimaginative here. They choose to express themselves in other ways, such as by wearing the Student Senate elections. God knows nobody else is stupid enough to worry about it, but it's all some of us Greeks have.
I've lived in a scholarship hall, off campus and in a fraternity, and take it from me, Greeks aren't anything special, good or bad. People are people, no matter where they live, but they know how to show their doorways. So what? Some people put pink flamings in their yards. It's the same principle.
So the next time you see some "fraternus rats" acting like a bunch of drunk turkeys and somebody starts to exhort about "those bleeping frosts," just start how those guys are going to treat the morning. Take the strenuous battle to their hearts their heads are going to hurt just as badly as yours.
Dan Cunningham Lenexa senior
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