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Monday, October 18, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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What's in a name?
Once upon a time, the word "university" meant something. A university was more than just a college. It was an institution of higher learning, complete with a liberal arts college and several professional schools.
but nowadays, it seems, a university is any place where high school graduates are educated. The Board of Regents is seriously considering waving a legislative wand and turning Kansas State College of Pittsburg, Fort Hays State College and Emporia State College into Pittsburg State University, the university of the Great Plains and Emporia State University.
NOW ALL three schools are, in their own way, fine institutions. But they aren't universities.
You can't blame them for wanting to be called universities. It certainly does sound more prestigious. And there is precedent. Baker University, for example, is as much a university as Fort Hays State is.
And it probably would be childish and petty of KU to make a fuss about Hays and Emporia becoming universities. After all, what's in a name?
BUT, AT the same time, it would be fun for KU to change its name as well. Two can play at this game.
"The Kansas Institute of Science, Technology and the Arts" has a ring to it, as does "Oxford University—Lawrence." Or, to keep the whole thing simple, we could just change the name to Yale.
And, as all the junior colleges have changed into colleges already, everyone should be happy. Happy, that is, until the ex-juniors colleges become "community universities." Then the ex-colleges will have to become Yales and ex-KU will have to think of something else.
THE WHOLE affair may well just be a facet of traditional American boosterism and pretentiousness. This is the nation that rates things large, extra-large and super economy size and calls its little towns the whatnot capitals of the world.
"University" isn't the first word to be devalued by this American trait. "Fantastic," "terrible" and "awful" don't mean all that much any more either. It's sad, but apparently impossible to stop.
Yale will just have to come up with a new name.
Jim Bates
Editorial Editor
In the rush of political events, last week's report from a Senate subcommittee on the Bo Callaway affair received less than a few hours. This was a shameful piece of business, but the shame falls not on Callaway. It falls on the Democrats who contrivised this report and especially on the chief hit man, Sen. Floyd Haskell, D-Colo.
Callaway inquiry shabby flop
From the beginning of this shabby investigation to its exquisitely timed end, Haskell's operation was an exercise in political partnership at public expense. It would be interesting to learn how many thousands of dollars a department had how many thousands of man-hours were devoted to the preparation and printing of more than 1,500 pages of material adding up to—nothing.
HOWARD "BO" Callaway, it will be recalled, is a former Georgia congressman who served for a little more than two years, from May 1973 to July 1975, as Secretary of the Army. He resigned July of last year to become chairman of the President Ford Committee. He was also a member of March under a cloud of displease. It was supposed that he had abused his office as Secretary of the Army for purposes of private gain.
Under Haskell's direction, the
subcommittee staff labored to produce evidence to support the charge. Haskell himself huffed and puffed through pages of the report, trying to effort to get some incriminating answers. But the staff was composed of honest men, and the Senator's industry proved effective. The committee could be produced. In the end, about the committee
James J. Kilpatrick (c) 1976 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
majority could find to say was that Callaway's conduct "bespeaks an insensitivity" on his part.
THE STORY, goes back to 1970, when Callaway formed the Created Butte Development Company to operate 800 acres of land in Colorado. The area was embraced within what came to be known as the Gunnison National Unit of the Gunnison National Forest development program.
From the very outset, Callaway and his associates made it clear that they wanted to develop additional skiing facilities at Snodgrass Mountain. Service prepared a tentative plan for development of the East River Unit. The plan
recommended that Snodgrass be postponed for perhaps 10 years. The following December, when a more or less final plan was established, a substantive recommendation was reversed—Snodgrass was approved. Meanwhile, three members of the Forest Service who had participated in the report were reassigned.
get the Forest Service employees transferred.
March 8, 1976, in the wake of Callaway's resignation from the President Ford Committee, Senator Haskell invoked his power as chairman of the Infrastructure Committee on environment and land resources. He ordered an investigation into two charges in particular--that Callaway and corruptly put pressure on a farmer to stop the Department of Agriculture, and that Callaway had conspired to
BOTH CHARGES blew up in Haskell's face. One by one, the responsible officials were put under oath. One by one, we witness denied absolutely that Callaway had abused his office. The most critical evidence that could be adduced came voluntarily from Callaway. He openly acknowledged speaking to agriculture officials about the Crested Butte plan, but his intervention was plainly unseen.
HASKELL's hearings wound up May 14. A formal report—if a report were warranted at all—could have been prepared in a month or six weeks. By astounding coincidence, the report at last appeared under date of September 30. It was announced and then released to the press by the middle of the Ford campaign. Anyone who believes this timeing was nonpolitical will believe in elves, trolls, foot fairies and little green men.
The charge against Callaway was absolutely unfounded.
Callaway's worst offense was poor judgment. To that he himself pleads guilty. What is the offense of Hasselkilton? He manipulated his own power as a subcommittee chairman, to curry favor at home, and to smear an innocent man.
As for the transferred employees, exhaustive investigation turned up nothing sinister whatever. The men in question testified under one condition, oversee for transfer from Gunnison. The third welcomed his promotion to a higher position in Denver.
Think very hard. Go back about two years. Do you remember anyone talking about the energy crisis? That's the term people used, back then, when they spoke of heavy gas stations, new speed limits and problems with those confounded Arabs.
The term has taken a backseat lately to what some think are more important issues, like elections and American League baseball. But the energy crisis, big news or not, remains one of this nation's most pressing problems.
Energy crisis remains
GRANTED, YOU can pull into a gas station nowadays and be relatively certain there will be enough gas to get you, all by yourself in your suped-up auto, to and from the places you want to go for the better part of a week. Those days of immediate concern have vanished. Consequently, our interest in and response to the word "crisis" have vanished.
The fact remains that this country, with its fondness for frigid homes in summer and tepid homes in winter and hatred for carpools year-round, is drinking up the world's petroleum faster than any other country. If all the people of the world had consumed in 1968 the same amount of energy consumed by the average American, world consumption would have been 1,200 quadrillion British thermal units—almost six times higher than it was.
production doesn't come close to meeting our demand. Thus, we are forced to jeopardize a healthy balance of payments, good relations with the countries and the world's energy reserves by importing nearly 48 per cent of our oil.
U. S. per capita energy consumption is two times that of Russia, three times that of Western Europe and 25 times that of China.
But why? Why is it essential for the United States to use so much oil? Because we are just too ignorant to realize that we, supposedly insignificant parts of our society, are digging an early grave for this country.
SUCH CONSUMPTION would be justifiable, perhaps, if the United States had sheiks of its own to sit back and count the millions of barrels of crude oil sucked out of the ground each day. But it simply doesn't. Despite talk of offshore drilling and shale mining, our energy
THESE ARE those who try to blame industrial magnates and say "the other guy" is responsible for our grave circumstance. The truth is that only 36 per cent of our energy consumption takes place in industrial operations while 14 per cent of the nation's total energy consumption and more than 30 per cent of the nation's total petroleum supplies are used by private cars.
Energy experts put time and money into research they hope will afford some workable solution to the problem of how to please non-energy users. At best, the results are minor. We have yet to find a workable energy plan for the nation as a whole.
In the end, experts say, it's going to come down to a real culture shock for farmers. It could be by implementing strict consumption controls, fuel rationing or blackouts.
Perhaps it will take something as outlandish as legal restrictions on Sunday drives and auto races to keep the nation running. At least then everyone would know that there really is something to this thing called a "crisis" and that there's nothing wrong with a bus or a 20-minute walk.
By Mary Ann Daugherty Contributing Writer
Blood drive fouled up
To the Editor:
With regard to the recent blood drive, I can't imagine a more fouled up operation (unless it is the Computation Center). I have just logged the gallon mark in blood donation, plenty of time writing in line to observe the procedures used.
Valerie Vogt
Program Librarian Computation Center
Some people seem resigned to the long wait in line; they consider it unavoidable. However, if the Lawrence Red Cross would take a cue from other branches, it could save much pain and hassle for everyone involved.
I have given blood in four places: the Kansas Union, the Lawrence Community Center, and two places in my home town of Birmingham, Ala. In invariably, I make an appointment with the Lawrence Red Cross and I end up waiting in line for at least three hours; I must be careful not to me through in under an hour—and more politely. I have never failed to receive some rude or callous treatment from the Lawrence Red Cross.
Right affirmed To The Editor:
On Sept. 9, 1976, Max Tenant, local musician, was told by the KU Police Department to stop playing his guitar on campas. He did not received permission from University Events Committee.
On the following day, Sept. 10, the Iranian Students Association was notified by the Events Committee that they had
voted University policy by distributing literature from a table without prior approval of the committee.
The Lawrence Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kansas wishes to express its dismay at these efforts. It is institutionally guaranteed rights of free speech and assembly.
On Thursday, Sept. 23, acting to publicly exercise these rights, a group including Max Tenant, members of the band Students Association played guitar and sang, passed out literature, and
We hope that the University administration will affirm and clarify this policy in accordance with the Constitution to amendment to the Constitution.
Jean Ireland Lawrence ACLU
We of the Lawrence ACLU chapter wish to applaud the administration in their use of discretion in avoiding a confrontation by permitting this activity to take place.
collected signatures in support of freedom of expression on campus. Although the Events Committee was informed in advance of this action, it occurred without their approval.
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Howard Cosell: stick to boxing
Who would say such a thing on national television in front of millions of viewers? Maybe he doesn't have the financial trouble that New York has buried itself in. How about Bilty Martin. Probably not, he recalls having wailed through two play-offs already. It was during his last game. But he has already admitted that the Yankees could be much
By JEFF MATSON
Guest Writer
"Here we are, in the opening game of the play-offs. And what the greatest ballpark is, the greatest ballpark, in the greatest city, the financial center of the world, with a great ball team—the New York
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improved. Then who made that outrageous statement? For all those baseball fans who tuned in to watch the game trying to discern the beautiful moon through all the New York smog, know that those words were spoken by not one other than Mr. Coxell, all-mouth Howard Cosell.
HAVING HOWARD Cosell preside over the play-off games that include the Yankees is like having Gerald Ford preside over the House Judiciary Committee's Watergate proceedings. Cosell didn't just stop at his never-impired prizes but made him throw cheap shots whenever possible at the Royals, (Oh, I forgot to mention the Royals. They were the other team in the play-offs. If it hadn't been for Reggie Jackson, who in feeling uncomfortable with Howard's below-the-belt attacks, the situation would have resembled the recent public hangings in Syria.
IT IS exuscible to mispronounce a baseball player's name who has never played in the big leagues or seldom has been on TV, but Howard committed some doosets this week. Unlike the Kansas City catcher, Buck Bryant or in Howard's case, after a Vankee victory. And unlike the Royal's rookie outfielder, Tom Poumoto, a
It was made perfectly obvious from the start that Cosell knew very little about the game of baseball. Normal, routine ground balls picked up by the New York infielders were lauded to the highest degree while outstanding plays by the Royals were rarely and briefly used. But when Cosell did bangle Billy Martin "gutsy" after having Rivers run to second base on a 3-2 pitch. Howard, you never cease to amaze me.
on a disputed call. Reggie Jackson, looking at the best possible camera view of the play, conceded that it was too tough to beat. But Cosell, with his eagle talons, could deal all bias, reassured the umpies that "no doubt about the call."
In game three, Fred Patek tried to steal two base but the throw by Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson caught Patek
"pocket" is a pouch in which Howard's verbiage is stuffed.
one examples can go on. It is hard for a team to win the pennant when not only the fans are cursing them, and the opposing team and manager are cursing them, but when the press and "unbubbled" commentators are too. It was as if the playoffs already one game down.
I DON'T deny that the Royals lost nine out of their last 11 games and had a less than average month of September. And I hope the Royals don't use pitchers and pitchers and a number of their top hitters been plagued with injuries the entire season,
but the Royals did win the most important game of the season—a 4-0 shutout of the Oakland A's in the stretch. They were able to put things together when they absolutely had to—a sign of a winning bat and all those other skeptics who say the Royals should not have been in the play-offs--shove it!
After all the hoop of the play-offs, I have only one recommendation to make to ABC and Howard Cosell: Stick to the boxing arena where the only sounds you have to make are the punch and the left," and then nobody will have to write you this letter again. (Jeff Matson is a junior majoring in biology.)