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Monday, October 11, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Press dream fulfilled
This year's presidential campaign has been a dream come true for members of the press.
Unlike other presidential election years, reporters haven't had to take the boring to try to make it the sublime or, at least, the noteworthy. The candidates have done it for them and have left few closets closed while doing so.
WHAT REPORTER would have thought last spring, when the primaries were getting under way in snowy New Hampshire, that by early October he would have written of such things as a Playboy interview with one candidate and the racial slams uttered by another's cabinet member? Such good fortune rarely comes along for those reporters who think campaign coverage is tedious and hope for some spice to sprinkle in their copy.
They've been able to write of lemonade stands, the price of tuna sandwiches, the not-so-tiny village of Kansas City, a First Lady's expertise at the bump, ripped-out convention telephones, war heroes, Sonny Bono, premature running-mate decisions, "ethnic purity," plans to dig latrines in a park, Baptist doctrines and peanut harvesting.
They've drawn political cartoons spoofer teeth, Southern drawls, football players and careless descs from airplanes. Everything has been laid before them, all the sex, drama, action and suspense that many thought went out with the penny press, about the only thing they haven't had is a torrid romance. But who knows what would happen if Susan Ford and Jack Carter would appear together at some auto race?
IT'S GETTING to the point that few reporters really object to an obligation to report on political rallies or fundraising dinners, even ones involving local politicians. The events of this
year's top race have left them thinking that anything can happen, and we are confident.
A reporter's duty is, however, to report anything newsworthy that happens to those running for public office. Often, the subject matter is dull and unexciting. But this year, the subject matter has more often been taken up by candidates. The candidate have made, the cheap shots they have tossed at one another or the tacies they have used to get the public to think of them as "the boy next door."
PUBLISHED records of these more interesting items may adversely affect the vote in November, we know, but there's not much reporters can do about it. Candidates take precious time from serious campaign to regroup, outline strategy and retaliate after the press publishes items that have tarnished their public images. If blunders are page-one news, local races also are affected. Partisans at all levels will take time to patch up the holes a presidential candidate or his rival may put in his man's sail, detracting from the amount of time a local man has to give to issues important in his own race.
Worst of all, we may have an election wherein the President of the United States is voted into office on the basis of a number of trivialities. Maybe some voters will think there was shoddy business involved when Ford played the lead in certain business others will like the lingo Carter used in Playboy. Still others may like what one candidate's children say about marijuana.
And the fanfare will be over. The schemes, anties, surprises, drama and so forth of this election will fade away. The press will then have to tell the important things about the man the people have elected.
By Mary Ann Daugherty Contributing Writer
`IVAN, LOOK! WE'RE FREE!`
Check balance unbalances mind
I will never understand banks and checking accounts.
For years I have tried to balance my checkbook, but no matter how carefully I record the amount, number and date of my checks, I always come up with a different factor from the bank's.
AFTER those years of trying, I gave up. I now go over my
This trusting attitude on my part has gone on for years, and would have continued until I received a statement for this September.
checking account statement at the end of each month, and as long as there are no obvious on my part, I trust the bank.
No one had stolen a check and
written it for a million dollars (it
was $70,000) to the bank's balance was correct, and all the deposit slips were there.
taste like cotton? Why is it that breast of chicken looks and tastes like supermarket mozarella cheese, that is, with no oil, colored water fit only for alcoholics and others who drink
"Oh, yes, I remember now," she said. "Wasn't that for about $100?"
Carl Young Contributing Writer
NOW I admit that I work cheap, but there was no way that $100 was all that I made this summer. The woman at the bank said to call back in the morning, and maybe they would have some money for me by then.
Government ruins food
bank transfer check, which was supposed to shift the money I had earned this summer to my home bank, hadn't been canceled. The bank transfer, which was dated May 3, was in the hands of the depositor, but it wasn't listed on the bank statement.
Again I tried not to panic. Try as I might though, I had visions of what life would be like trying to live for three months on $34. I sought help from my roommates.
Then I found the problem. The
I had a balance of $17.52. Not bad, you say? No. Except that I had a check for $10.00 that checking account to pay for a semester's worth of school.
its color and symmetry. We won't eat the apple with the spot in it. Anyway, how many of us know how to cook even if we can imagine it? We don't worth spending time and care preparing? Where would we
All three checks were bounced. The bank didn't pay the one for $23.81, $5 or $3.89, even though Sid had a payment all three checks back and kept the balance of $29.91.
"You think you got problems," Sid, one of my roommates, said. "Take a look at this."
Have you noticed the candidates always talk about agriculture, never about food? Hardly surprising, since one of them is known to subsist on a meal. The woman was once quoted as saying, "Eating and sleeping are a waste of time."
AND THAT $171.52 didn't include checks I had written for rent, newspaper subscriptions, utility payments, and all those other things that must be paid at the end of each month.
And for a lousey $2.79 discrepancy, the bank charged him $13.50.
BUT THEN, I decided not to panic. I would look at the situation logically, and try to figure out where all that money I thought I had had gone to. I went over the statement, looked
By my calculations, that balance left me $34 to live on for the rest of the semester.
I thought it might be time to call home.
Did you know, for instance, that the Department of agricultural sponsors and National agricultural organizations one year the contest was won by a sand-wichened the U-Betcha, consisting of factory cheese, bologna and pineapple coated with vinegar sauce and horseradish.
GREAT, I thought. All I have to do is call up my bank and tell them that they forgot to add money from my other account.
Nicholas Von Hoffman (c) 1974 King Features Syndicate
In this, too, the government has played a destructive part, both direct and indirect. It has aided in destroying the distribution system that might have enabled men to ship, and people to buy, nonindustrial food. Interstate Commerce Commission regulations have impeded the shipment of unauthorized food so it can't get to where the man wants. Its renewal has destroyed the farmers' markets. So there's no place to sell it anyway.
When they're with the farmers they say no more embargoes, and when they're with the consumers they say they'll find some way to keep the prices down. Producers and consumers. Have you ever heard any of them talk to the president? We've told a president to promise we'll all have cheap crap to stuff our faces with? Why do we have to have crap at all?
learn? Our generation wasn't taught to cook. Schools don't teach how to cook but how to open cans.
WHY WON'T the cream whip? Why do the tomatoes
I CAN'T tell you what Sid said about all that.
If we could get good food,
would we want it, would
we know what to do with it? We've
been taught to pick our food for
This is October, the harvest season, month of the cornucopia. But it's been so long since we've had a chance to get at it, most of us have no idea how bountiful nature can be.
food one eats tastes good? Maybe we ought to vote for Lester Maddox next month. He runs a restaurant, but how's the food there? For Ford there isn't much hope, even if you could convince him that good cooking isn't the expense account slush his lobbyist friends feed him. And that's because of the difference between him and his predecessor is that Nixon ate his luncheon cottage cheese with catup and Jerry put A- sauce on it.
THERE ARE a lot of people who'd like to learn how to cook, but many of them are bamboo-fired. They're accustomed to the gourmeturers, the glamour cooks of TV and best-selling cookbook fame who push the rich gastronomy of French haute cuisine, which, as the cookbook's author once mutable for over-wing one's meals than feeding them.
"The 3 check(s) shown above totaling $32.70 were presented for payment today," the statement read. "Since your balance in account 001-007-1 is $29.91 we have returned the checks circled above due to insufficient funds."
BY SOME lights, the government doesn't or shouldn't have anything to do with the taste and quality of our food, except that it has contributed so rightly to its ruin. John and Karen Hess in their soon-to-be-released, instructive novel *The Grossman Publishers*, N.Y., 1977), give many examples of how the government makes eating a savoury occasion.
It will take 40 years to create the economic conditions to bring back decent food. It may take 40 years just to get the government to preferential treatment to the corporate barbarians of the palate. It may take that long to get the government to refrain from training school children to like bad food and teaching them about bad food, feathers and aluminum filings in a plastic sack isn't cooking.
Beyond that, these touring politicians can be a little more useful than they are to the quality of life. Do they mean by that a society in which the
That was wishful thinking on my part. The bank couldn't find a record of the transfer.
I left Sid with his own problems and tried to solve my own. I was still thinking about it when the mail arrived.
"But I have the transfer slip right here," I told the woman at the bank.
Sitting in that pile of mail was a post local patron flyer from a local politician, a copy of the statement from the account I thought I had closed a month and a half ago.
I opened it up, and sure enough, there was the money I earned this summer. That bank transfer check had gone from me to my present bank, back to my old bank, and finally to my present bank and back to me without doing a thing.
I had my money, but never again will I trust a bank.
Article no laughing matter
To The Editor:
Mercy sakes, will those giggles never cease? It’s enough to jar a feller’s preserves. That’s hilarious. The rest of the saga is carried him off, "Oct 4, 01ly 'mediocre' guitarist Max Tenant, "shouting man" comrade" Norman Forer and the Events Committee, all cast in a mythical KU dungeon, has real dungeons everywhere. Everyone knows that free speech issues are a gas, manufactured by kooks and komni professors, "Who cares?" the author asks. Ap- pocalyptic coverage to the author, that's the biggest splitter of all.
What Kid Chuckles neglects to tell you is that the Kansas editors, through willfull misrepresentation and suppression of information, have labored quite successfully to find a way not to allow you see Mousekeeters, there never was a simple guitar issue. Here's the rib-tickling chain of events:
Now for more sport. The
The day after the campus police stopped Max, the "medicoe," from plunking his guitar, the Iranian Students Association was reprimanded for distributing (of leaflets) and soliciting (petition signatures, not money) in front of the Union without proper authorization." Student organizations have had little say in the University of the Union since Hector was a pup, but it's those radical iranians who apparently need controlling. When these actions were challenged as illegal acts of free speech, the University's right to control public expression.
same week this fun-o-rama was played at KU, Iranian students at Kansas State College at imporia were informed by a counselor that would be arrested if they distributed an unauthorized leaflet there. Under the guise of a cultural event, an Emporia administrator presided over the film supporting the Shah of Iran.
and free speech. Earl Butz,
where are you now that KU
needs help?
Norman "shouting man" Forer
"Comrade" Professor of
Social Welfare
cellor, referred to "Regents policy . . . regarding political activities on campus" and stated that "Distribution of political handbills and other advertising is banned from areas where public events are held." The legislator formed of this, a Kansas legislator wrote the chancellor that the memo, if acted upon, would be "an abridgment of free speech" and warned of its
This joyous dictator has been
Truth before jobs To the Editor:
Readers Respond
The Kansas, despite a story filed by its own reporter, failed to report these events. There was also no subsequent report on the memo that was under discussion by the Events Committee.
condemned by Amnesty International as having the "worst record in human rights in the world." When an Iranian student asked for the right of response, the administrator was shut off, the chair was shut off, the chairs collected and the chief of police appeared on the stage. The Iranian students were then ushered out of the Union by police. A state board member was present. Civil Liberties Union was present and recorded these flicks.
Although the Kanan declined to see any relationship between the above events, the national office of the ACLU saw an investigation into their legal support to a test case at KU. On Sept. 23, Iranians and the guitarist with the support of KU-Y, set up a table and picked guitars without official permission, the police didn't materialize.
Ms. Daugherty seems to believe that the most important objective for a student is "to get good grades." She has just justified the continuation of the war in order to make available the maximum number of jobs, i.e., in munication and other businesses of death.
This memo, from the chan-
potential for lawsuits against
*you* (the chancellor) or other
officials of KU (who) interfere
with the speech rights of
citizens . . .
The university exists not only to train students for the job market but also to expand their awareness of the question. The question seems to be whether freedom of opinion in search of truth, or a blind scramble for the almighty shall rule our hearts and minds.
If the laughter hasn't devastated you by now, there are more simultaneous goodies. The International Club was named after the Senate committee. The Kansan reported that the I-Club's proposal was "vague." Some of those present at the meeting confessed it was the politics of unions that was the real reason.
point out that the "handful of hoodlums imported from one of the coasts" were protesting the killing of a woman who was a crime against humanity.
Kent Ketnzer
Why this obsession with Iranians? Apparently, Iranian students aren't shy about denouncing the U.S. government's support of the Shah of Iran, support which includes the supplying and training of his military forces, and the latter adDED to the delights of widespread political arrests and torture.
Aekt Keuner
Andale junior
John Peters
Long Beach, Calif., senior
Now, hold your breath,
Mousekeeters, the number of
Iranian students on American
campuses is expected to double
next year. It's obviously better
to silence them now before the
laughter deafens everyone.
Enough said about guitarists
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