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Wednesday, October 20,1976
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One fan's lament
Woe is me. Nolan Cromwell, Ransom Rambler, wishbone quarterback, allround athlete and KU football hero, is out for the season.
The Kansas City Royals, the World Series hopefuls of MidAmerica, lost the pennant to the New York Yankees in the last half of the ninth inning of the fifth game of the playoffs.
LAST WEEK was a depressing one for fans in this area. Everything that was hoped for, the World Series, the American League Pennant, a big bowl game, a Big Eight championship and the general good feeling that comes with rooting for winning teams vanished last week.
Was Al Cowens safe at second base? Did the Oklahoma defense take cheap shots at Cromwell? The losses just seemed too horrible to be true.
Actually, it makes no difference whether Cowens was safe or whether Oklahoma was out to get Cromwell. The Yanks have the pennant and Cromwell is in Lawrence Memorial Hospital. It's over.
BUT THE depression remains. Never has a loss like the one Oklahoma gave
KU Saturday sent me into a state of self-ify that lasted for days.
My mood was further darkened as I trudged up the hill—the campanile was playing "When Johnny Comes Marry" to him. He looked in shock and reminded me of cloak and despair.
I suppose I shouldn't get so emotionally involved in sports. After all, if losing is so depressing to me, a mere fan, what it must be like to have to play and have to play. The only thing I have to do is sit in the stand and scream.
I KNOW the KU football team won't be the same without Cromwell, but Scott McMichael has been the No. 1 quarterback here before, our defense is pretty good and Laverne Smith should be more than 17 yards a game from now on.
Maybe things don't look so bad after all. The Kansas City Chiefs have won two games in a row with the old fleaflicker, and the Kings are coming home. Maybe the Knicks will I'll live, I guess. But for a while last week, I didn't know whether I wanted to.
By Carl Young
An interesting thing occurs in the Mary Tyler Moore episode during which Ted, the anchor man, and his wife, Georgette, take a nap. The doctor Puss goes into labor while they're having dinner at Mary's. There's no time to get her to the hospital so she has the kid in Mary's bedroom, after which the doctor arrives to help the child may be shipped to the hospital.
Big institutions start early
Contributing Writer
Why? There's no medical reason that 99 out of 100 babies have to be born in a hospital. Given the free and easy way that drugs, anesthetics and overpowered parents care for their baby, bards, the most that is accomplished by having a baby in the hospital is to increase the risk of hard-to-detect brain damage. But there are economic reasons to give birth to a baby's welfare, for making it practically impossible to have a kid at home.
BESIDES providing customers for the medical industry, having a baby in a hospital underscores the idea that the supremely important unit in our society isn't the family but the big institution. Parents with children need mother, father and child are kept apart and regulated in accordance with the institution's needs. With the current slack in the baby business, some hospitals with a dearth of maternity customers are offering service specials, permitting members of the family to reunite for longer periods of time than before medecine been allowed in a hospital.
public policy, the health insurance giants combine to see that an American child's first days of life are spent in an impersonal environment among strangers. We teach them that we must include the beds we were born in, which are all identical white hospital jobsbies.
From birth on, the family is reduced,
ignored, minimized and damaged. Law.
time so they can go home to their families.
NEXT, kiddo, comes the day care center because granny has been carted
JIMMY Carter has been campaigning on the promise that he'll do something for our families. Maybe that's just more gib political talk. Certainly he has yet to have a chance to win, and the ambitions and practices of our largest and most powerful institutions
Nicholas Von Hoffman (c) 1976 King Features Syndicate
off to a senior citizen's center. The day care center is far from home, thus depriving the child of any sense of place, any feelings of stability and continuity. Early disorientation and depersonalization is useful preparation for busing to school. Whether or not this procedure sids learners or promotes involvement and engagement, it should manufacture a person without any loyalty, tradition or sense of community, a humanoid who ought to make an ideal employee.
are antagonistic. Overtime is a good example of the opposing interests.
The marvelous things is that the values and traditions of family life are still so strong that there aren't nearly as many humanoids as one would suspect. We've learned in a long time that turned the homes of America into orphan asylums and parents into domestic bureaucracies. Many of us go about paying money to jack-legged shrinks and evangelist therapists so that we may "get back in touch" with our missionaries who will have millions of people who will have a strong center and who refuse, to the irritation of their employers, overuse public money and resources to help families continue to perform these functions but to turn two-thirds of the millions of children over to professionals.
What gets top priority in our society? The use of human beings to fit organizational needs, i.e., mandatory overtime, or families? In a million ways and to build yet more large organizations staffed with more newly invented professions to perform the services families once did. That's what happened to the three-generation family. It was not only the family's other, and handed over to specialists.
WE'RE more aware of this for older people than we are with the young. Instead of having a system of family allowances we've chosen to build "housing for the elderly" and equip it with physiotherapists, social workers, recreation directors, nutrition advisers, gerontologists and thanatologists.
The same setup is rapidly being created for our children. Day care centers are obvious, but stop and think if you're working with kids in programs. The decision was made not to
By any standard of judgment the paid help does a poorer job at a higher cost. Where do you want your child to eat and drink? Do you want tendants amid the noise and slopes of the institutional setting, or at home? Which will it be when you're in trouble? A friend or a relative, or those expensive standards that the staff can't meet the duly licensed. boob psychopathian?
FORD isn't interested and Carter will find out that there is no way an HEW can be reorganized to do the job "responsible" for nursing services, a point in American civilization, we know neither how to train paid personnel to perform these services nor how to administer them through large institutions. The mixed partnership of government agencies with the recurrent hospital and nursing home scandals. Wherever government has contracted out to have any of these services performed, the agency must maintain mediocre quality and an absence of outright provable theft. That's the best.
It is far, far cheaper to have some sort of direct family grant-FHA program to build a mother-in-law apartment in the rear than to pour it away for housing for the elderly. The family is the cheapest and the best administrative unit, so let's keep Georgette's kid out of the day care center.
'SORRY, WALT, BUT TO KEEP UP WITH ABC WE DECIDED TO HIRE Δ CO-ANCHOR MAN!'
Finances plague Britain
By PAUL ADDISON
Guest Writer
The value of the pound has slipped drastically in the past 18 months, from $2.40 in American dollars in March 1975 to $1.63 this week. The rhetorical response has been great; it is now hoped that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will request $3.9 billion in credit, will help prop up the currency that was once the financial standard of the Western world.
Britain's current financial crisis once again has shown politicians and economists the need to change the problems are far from over.
PRIME MINISTER James Callaghan and Chancellor of the Exchequer Dennis Healey have unenviable tasks convincing the public in general that Britain's economic survival is at stake.
Without IMF help, Britain could soon have three million persons unemployed and a 5 per cent increase in living standards. Hence last week Callaghan was equally depressing.
Guest Writer
But women, in their quest for total equality with men, haven't always been consistent in their demands.
The struggle of women for equal rights has brought about many changes the past few years. Women have moved into executive positions in businesses, increased their number in professional fields and even made their way into little league sports programs formerly open only to boys.
Women pros' demands illogical
A GOOD example of this is taking place among women professional tennis players. The women's pros have said they want the same amount of prize money as men receive in professional tennis tournaments. They argue that their
By GERALD O'CONNOR
brand of tennis is just as exciting as the men's game and that women' matches bring in women as captors as the men's matches.
The women tennis pros have threatened to boycott Wimbledon next year unless they receive the same prize money the men are talking about having their own tournament elsewhere.
Wimbledon tournament of-
'Hawks down, not out
In view of the injury to Nolan Cromwell, the inspirational field general of KU's football team and its star quarterback,
many fans and sports writers have written KU off for the season.
NOW THE tide has turned again. A seaman's dispute threatened the Labor government's shaky "social contract" issue, which is under Bank of England's withdrawal of its support from sterling Sept. 9.
more than 25 per cent to 13 per cent in the past year, coupled with a successful wage and prices policy.
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Tony Benn, have promoted import controls as a solution. At a time when British goods appear relatively inexpensive however, such a barrier would surely run export prospects.
The present lack of confidence in the pound has been interpreted by many as lack of confidence in the government. The result is its disillusionment by releasing a statement of their own aims, "the Right approach," calling for massive cuts in public expenditures, relaxation of curbs on food and housing subsidies, and lower income taxes. Left wing Labor party members led by
Britain's instability isn't solely her concern. It is a threat to the world's monetary system and puts a continuous strain on the economy. The world must consequently aid the British in their dark hour. At the same time, the British must formulate positive policies for speedy and complete economic recovery, and threat of impending financial bankruptcy be lifted from the shoulders of this proud nation.
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(Paul Addison is a graduate student from Lymn, Cheshire, in Great Britain.)
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neither fair nor true. For a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link (or so the saying goes) and right now that link isn't the quarterback but the confidence and inspiration of the team.
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The possibility that the 'Hawks can rally around Nolan's injury, and have it inspire them to attain the goal is beyond doubt. He broke broken kncc (heart) and heart) sought, isn't out of the question.
"If we fail (to solve our economic problems), I fear it would lead to totalitarianism of the right or left," he said.
ficials have rejected the equal prize money idea. To justify their reasoning, they computed the amount of time men spent on the courts in matches and compared it with the amount of time women spent in matches. There was a more time of actual "work" and therefore should be paid more money.
The man who fills Nolan's shoes will surely need big feet; and the inspiration might shift from winning one for the Glipper to netting one for Nolan. But the 'Hawks can and will continue to win. All they need is your support!
Nolan and the Hawks had their eyes focused on a trip to the Orange Bowl and the possibility of attaining a goal. "It's not a game this was a realistic goal, and believe it or not, it still is."
THE WOMEN pros, led by their president, Chris Evert, rejected this idea and are threatening to set up their own tournament circuit similar to their women in professional golf.
Randy O'Boyle
Topeka sophomore
The reason for this is numbers. The women simply don't have as many good players as the men. A match between them would be a lot tougher Goolagong Cawley would most likely sell out, but what about after that? The Navalvaitalis, Wades, Courts, etc., just don't power necessary to attract upper audiences for a whole week.
EVEN WITH an IMF loan, Britain's troubles will be far from over. Part of the loan must be used to pay back part of a $2.5 billion stand-by due in December, and the rest is desperately needed to bolster currency reserves.
The women players should have every right to do this, but they may be overlooking one small smear of women's session tennis tournament. The session tennis tournament could turn into a dismal financial failure.
So rather than cutting their own throats, or purse strings as the case may be, by playing them around with their arms decided to go their own route. Whether a women's tournament circuit can be successful remains to be seen. It works in some cases; maybe it can work in tennis.
IF THE women pros really wanted equal rights and equal prize money, they could play in the same tournament bracket as the men. But if that were the case, after Bjorn Borg wipped Chris Evert and Jimmy Connery with Goal Cawley, no women would be left in a tournament after the second round, and therefore no women would win any prize money.
Thus Britain must hope that her major trading partners will come forward with a large, long-term loan that could be used to convert $10 billion in sterling balances, held by foreigners, into an internationally funded debt.
The women pros, whether they admit it or not, know this is the case. Not even the legendary Billie Jean King could crack the top 20 on the men's circuit.
But there are more than just a few fans who will miss watching Chris Evert and Evonne Googalong Cawley play one of their typical, classic matches in the finals of Wimbledon.
Britain's economic reversal comes at an unfortunate time. The fall in gas prices from the reduction of her galloping inflation rate from
(Gerald O'Connor is a Lawrence senior.)
Campus steam whistle hurts humanist image
By JEFF LATZ
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Everything stops, we get up,
pick up our lunch buckets, get
our time tickets punched and
get out because the next shift is
"Weeeeeooooh." Thirty minutes later it happens again.
minutes later it happens again.
Is the University of Kansas a truly humanist institution in using a factory steam whistle to regulate itself? Are students and professors so incompetent that they don't work or so poor that they can't afford watches?
A DISTINCT possibility could be that the steam whistle has caused hearing or emotional damage to humans passing directly by when it vomits its howl.
Some schools have used bells
Perhaps American education is mechanized factory-like, and ever-loaded with the academic material, so them as unfeeling as that whistle.
and buzzer to signal the end of classes. And some colleges, such as Kansas State College at Pittsburgh, trust the students to regulate themselves by using the own, almost silent timepieces.
Some of the conservative might scream, "The whistle is a KU tradition!" A tradition is what it is: the traditional nuisance is much another.
Times have changed. A new law school building is being built and the traditions held by old Green Hall will be modified by the new facility. The new art museum will give a new perspective to art. And, if we get rid of the whistle, we might just
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After all, isn't that whistle a detriment to a "high academic intensity area?"
LET'S discontinue the use of this whistle. Since educational budgets are strained these days, some pennies might be saved by letting the whistle be only an adornment on top of the physical plant. Or we could put an anthropology museum to illustrate an "old" method of simulating.
Let students and professors keep their own time within a given schedule—the probably can be trusted to do it. But, until then, "Weeeeeeooooh," time for the next shift.
(Jeff Latz is a Lawrence graduate student.)
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