Monday, October 4, 1976
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Speed-up blood drive
It's a different scene in the Kansas Union Ballroom this week, now that the Red Cross Blood Drive, there last day, Tuesday and Wednesday, has ended.
The long lines have disappeared, the cookies and orange juice have gone back to the cupboard, and the nurses have stopped needing donors.
But if the statements made by many of those who gave blood and volunteered to work on the drive are accurate, the child have been reached and surpassed.
feeding donors.
THE DRIVE fully with a total of 730 pints of blood, although the goal was 750. A total only 20 pints short of the goal isn't bad, and those who gave blood, as well as those who organized the effort, are to be commended.
Before the drive began, organizers scheduled appointments for those who wanted to donate. The appointments, they said, would be acknowledged before any "walk-in" was allowed to give blood. But several students reported last week that such was not the case. Last minute line-shuffling, they said, allowed several people to practically walk in off the street and hop up on the table ahead of those with appointments.
ANOTHER problem, so some say,
was the extensive amount of paperwork
and preliminary medical checks that
had to be done before people gave blood.
Granted, such checks are necessary.
Qualified people must ascertain that the person giving blood is healthy. But such procedures take time.
blood pressure checks and thermometer readings. Others were formed by students who waited to recite their medical histories, histories they could have filled out themselves. After all, does it take a special talent to answer whether you've had a tooth extracted within the past 72 hours?
Lines formed for students awaiting
Still others, mostly volunteers, said people arrived to give blood in the morning before the staff was ready to do business. The early birds were turned away and told to return later. Whether they did is questionable.
THE GIVING of blood itself isn't time consuming. It takes only a short time to have the blood drawn and to wait in the canteen a few precautionary moments. But some people said they spent three hours just waiting to get to the nurses.
It's a tribute to the studentry that enough people were interested in giving blood that long lines formed. But the organizers should have anticipated such response and not let their blood drive the notoriety of a mini-enrollment.
A blood drive on a university campus should be run with the guiding principle of speed. It should be the sort of operation in which anyone can walk in, donate blood, or perform any other pressing, albeit less philanthropic appointments, such as work or class.
If the KU drive could one day be known for speed and smoothness rather than as an ordeal of several hours, it's likely even higher goals could be reached. By Mary Ann Daughtery Contributing Writer
The cough carried him off
By BILL SNIFFEN
Staff Writer
There's a dungeon somewhere on the KU campus. I don't know where it is; I am not why it is—I found out last week.
But let me start at the beginning.
Having just won a three-day battle with the flu, I was headed toward Wescoe Hall to class.
I COUGHED. Immediately,
two campus cops grabbed me
Women coaches resent articles
To the Editor:
We, the coaches of the Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Department, haven't offered nor been asked our comments on questions in the program at KU. It seems appropriate at this time that we voice our position after suffering numerous attacks on our qualifications and abilities by the other "neutral" observers.
For the first time in the history of women's sports at KU, there is a unified staff working for an honorable objective: the best athletic program for women in the country.
Stram not busb
To the Editor:
Our job has been made more difficult by one particular Kanasan reporter and a series of women representing the women's sports program.
because some of us were hired this summer, or because some of us are male and some are female. We need a staffed firm to meet the demands for excellence in athletic competition. Our staff is striving to provide our athletes with the training and competition available to them.
The idea that Marian Washington must go on record every week in defense of the program also seems absurd to us. She has the support of the administration, the majority of the athletes, and she has our support. Now is the time to publicize
It's certainly not our intent to tell our athletes what to think, what to say, or to whom they should speak. They are free to voice their approval or concerns at any time.
Re: Steve Schoenfeld's article "Stram throws cheap shot," Sept. 28, 1976
Also existent, but infrequently mentioned, is the support provided for athletic Director Marian Washington and her decisions on hiring new coaches and rules for the women's sports program.
We've encountered no massive negativism among our athletes. On the contrary, all are working toward their individual goals, and all support the coach's effort to the women's athletic program.
There appears to be a misconception about what Mr. Schoenfeld calls "bush," specifically referring to the time-out called by the team's coach, Steve Stram with 14 seconds to go in the game with the Chiefs.
The instructor told me his course would consider the big
However, when no effort is made to contact other athletes involved in the program, or to talk to the coaches concerning whether we have encountered dissatisfaction or lack of perseverance in dealing with athletes because of changes within the department, we certainly question the objectivity of the reporter and the Kansas.
I have a great deal of respect for the call by Stram. It was a crucial game for him. He took a chance calling for a pass play. Any Sain't miscue (a fumble runback or interception) could
this semester. I was particularly interested in the material to be covered and the qualifications of the instructor. But before I told me that the subject of the course wasn't really cosmology but cosmogony, and that he titled it "Cosmology" because he knew the difference. I agree. Therefore, however, is fundamental: Cosmology is the study of the structure and universe; cosmology is the study of the origin of the universe.
We resent the insinuation that
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the future of our program, the success of our teams, the energy and enthusiasm of the athletes, and the opportunity for them to be involved in 10 areas of competition on a national level.
This is a futuristic women's sports program that doesn't need to be dragged through the past on a regular basis, particularly by a conspiracy of a few people with the intent of tearing down the growing pride the U14 women athletes have derived from seven of 10 teams to national competitions last year.
Pat Madden
We're giving our combined best efforts; the athletes are giving theirs. Can we at least help them? We can, and the Kansas to use their best efforts in reporting women's athletics fairly and accurately.
Women's swimming coach (Also signed by 12 other women's coaches)
(Note: This letter and its subject will be discussed in tomorrow's "Editor's Note.")
have conceivably given the ball game to Kansas City. The opportunity was presented to the Chiefs and they didn't utilize it. Shouldn't the sports writers be more charming or marvelous finfert catch, or questioning who missed their pass coverage assignment and allowed Chrysler to score? Isn't the primary function of a coach win? Isn't the primary func- tion of a coach win? Isn't the Stram and the Saints' offense merely fulfilled their duties, that Stram took such a chance when he could have "played it safe" is indicative of his guts, but AFL Championship night an AFL Championship night an Bowl victory to Kansas City.
Let's reconsider what is really "bush." Schoenfeld equates bush with "childish." Stram's actions certainly are cautionary. Bush is King of the Norton's management. Bishop叫 for Muhammed Alla's title to be stripped from him and given to Norton because the crowd and a large number of sports writers thought Norton was too unfit. The referee scored the fight unanimously for All (87), and both the AP and UPI gave All the victory.) Bush is KU fans booing opposing teams and cheerleaders before, during, and after the game. Fights in the stands during KU games. Bush is the complaints of sports writers and fans about a coach and a team doing the jobs they're paid to do. Bush is the attitude of fans and sports teams should be nice when the game is ostensibly won.
Since cosmology and cosmogony are different subjects, such a conclusion hardly is relevant. Astronomy doesn't even concern itself with the cosmogogy of the universe, so astronomers don't have to anyone he wants to create the universe. In other words, astronomers won't complain if you say God created the initial matter of the universe. (As parts of these last statements may make useful quotes for creationists, and as they always scientists," I hope the phrase is used if they quote me!)
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bang and steady state theories and their "inconsistency" with the second law of thermodynamics. He said the "inconsistency" left only the thermodynamic was created. Indeed, he said the course was sponsored by the KU Creationists Club.
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Cosmic confusion To the Editor:
According to the Student Senate Code, Article 6, Section 1.1, effective student government requires fair elections "free from improper influence, preceded by campaigns characterized by maturity and responsibility, to acquaint the voters with the legitimate issues present for their decision."
Alan Goodwin Lawrence graduate student
My main purpose in writing this is that the course being offered titled Cosmology isn't about cosmology. Students signing up for this course to learn cosmology would become a professional creatorial view and end up with an incorrect view of cosmology
Aistant Business Manager Carole Roosterkette Advertising Manager Jamele Clements Manager Sarah Morrell Classified Manager Sarah Morrell Classified Manager Kurt G. Schiff National Bank Manager
As the only astronomer at the University, I was interested in the study of a free University course. Cosmology is being offered
young woman. I approached her.
Alan Gordon
"WHAT ARE you in for?" I asked.
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beer for freshmen attending that coalition's rally.
"I have no complaints about the Free University offering a course called The Creationists View of Cosmogamy. I don't, however, think that the Free University should be used by a teacher in other ways under some other guse. Do so is neither有害 nor maleficent."
Somehow, campaign tactics, such as this rally, don't quite fit the spirit of those principles. It is also less effective if the festive group of beer-drinking freshmen earnestly debating Student Senate election issues. Could the coalition possibly be able to buy votes with the evil brew?
"LSTTD," she said, staring at the floor in front of her.
Business Manages Terry Hanson
Carnival campaign To the Editor:
"What's that mean?"
Section 1.1 goes on to say that supervision of elections is necessary to insure that the election process isn't filled "with a carnival air through the introduction of gimmicks which have no proper place in that process."
Stephen J. Shawl Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
"Can't you tell," she said, pointing to the tube top she wore. "Low and Sagging Tube Top Disruption."
Pointing to one of the whistlers in the corner, she said, "They never would've told you that guy hadn't whistled at me."
I INSPECTED her, looking for a possible LSTDT. I found myself making a quite thorough inspection. So thoroughly, it took awhile for me to realize someone was shouting.
If the residents of certain fraternities want to give out free beer to freshmen, fine. But I'd hate to think the students for Student Senate comes down to who can buy the most beer.
Peter Orazem Manhattan senior
Politics is a funny business, and student politics is funnier than most. A case in point was the recent political ad (Kansan, Sept. 30) for the White Horse Coalition, which advertised free
Fearing the worst, I screamed, "I only coughed. I didn't whistle and lead a band or guitar! I didn't do anything!"
"You have violated Events Committee policy by disrupting classes in intensive academic environment, that, you must be punished."
"Comrades! This is an infringement of our 'First Amendment' insisted. "We must overthrow these first indications of tyranny. Join me in breaking barricades to our freedom."
But no one in the cell seemed to notice. Foster was still trying to conduct Tenant, who had broken a guitar string. The trio in the opposite corner still mirrored my own. I was still examining my LSTTD comrade. I asked her who the shouting man was.
and dragged me as I knocked
and dragged me as I knocked
and given an instruction to
give the amount of information
the sound of plating
"Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare and defender of the faith."
The sound of guitar playing rudely awoke me.
I looked around and was relieved to find myself not alone. Inside the windowless chamber, lit by only a bare hanging light bulb, were about 15 people, huddled against the stone walls of an underground cell.
I TURNED to survey the dungeon. I recognized several of my fellow prisoners immediately. There was Max Tenant, whose mediocre guitar player had awakened me. And conducting Max was Bob Marching Band. In the opposite corner were three people, two men and one woman, all whistling. And near me, against the wall to my墙, shivered a
"I coughed," I repeated
vapidly, the memories of my
capture flooding back. "I
coughed? Yes, but I had the fu,
you see, and, well I really
know what I'm going to cough
anymore." The guard
had prophed his feet up on
a desk and was reading.
STILL WOOZY, I crawled to the steel gate to ask what I had done: "Making noise in a HAIA," the guard growled.
"WHO CARES," she shrugged. "I just want to get out of here."
"... at least nine members constituting a quorum, a quorum call being necessary to meet and consider ourselves meeting, and afterwards, having met ..."
Suddenly a buzzy and crackling overhead stopped all noise in the cell. "This is Carryl Smith, chairman of the University Events Committee." Several grogons could be heard.
"Whose faith?"
he laughed, or whatever it is?" He turned over his shoulder to respond as he walked away, the keys to my freedom jingling from his belt loop: "You coughed."
He sighed, for my stupidity irritated him, "H-A-I-A. It means High Academic Intensity Area."
I GAVE up. "What did I do in the HAIA or whatever it is?"
I REALIZED it was a recording. And I also realized this 30-minute recording, played over and over again, was our punishment. I resigned myself to my fate.
I did learn, however, where one can make noise and not violate committee bylaws. For example, if you play guitar without getting caught, go someplace away from High Academic Intensity Areas—say, the parking lot behind Gibson's Or, If you would wear tubs to stand at the corner of 11th and Louisiana streets. If you want to wear tube tops, may suggest the women's rest area at the Phillips 66 gas station and Massachusetts streets.
Of course, time all of the above events so as not to interfere with students or classes. On yes. Coughing. If you've got that cold, emphysema, pneumonia that might make you cough, take my word for it. Stay at home.
AND, IF you're ambitious enough to want to lead a marching band, try Grambling he and his friends, La. They've got the best.
Energy answers not complex
BvK-CEE COLBURN
It has been almost three years since the Arab oil embargo caused the American people to turn their back on fossil fuel cheap fossil fuels was not infinite. The utilities and the government have responded by putting money into nuclear energy, an increasing demand for power.
But there are many problems with nuclear energy that have not only conservationists but scientists worried. Were some of these are nuclear terrorism, disposal of vast quantities of highly radioactive and virtually indestructible fuel, the safety of reactor plants.
AS APPREHENSION mounts concerning the feasibility of nuclear power plants, more people are turning to alternative form of energy. These include wind and solar energy.
Although solar energy currently is being used in a growing number of residential and commercial buildings, geothermal and wind power are still in their infancy. Interest in building these systems as a growing trend toward solving this country's energy problems by using simpler technology. Although this outlook may be
considered unique in the 1970's, it has many historical precedents.
In colonial times many plantations were equipped with deep cellars that, in addition to housing the cooker, in the houses cooler in the summer. This was accomplished by a series of vents that would allow the cooler air to be drawn the house as the warm air rose.
**IN THE** Southwest Indians used adobe bricks to construct thick walls for their houses. Because of their large thermal mass the adobe walls gained much heat and lost less heat in the winter.
MORE RECENTLY, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has constructed a robotic spacecraft that hope will generate electricity. Given these safe energy alternatives, it is difficult to tell whether a mission has given something as dangerous as nuclear energy
As recently as 1942, a solar house in Chicago that had large windows facing south was built. On a day when the temperature did not exceed 17 degrees this week from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. without using any other source of heat.
ARCHITECTURE students at
such support and encouragement.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a plastic solar membrane is being developed, which would allow heat from the sun to be transmitted into a house during the day, but, unlike glass, would retain heat at night.
the university of Minnesota have built an experimental house that relies on a sod roof, good ventilation and solar collectors to heat and cool the structure. This house is important because it doesn't depend on sophisticated technology.
Even though Congress isn't enthusiastically supporting the various alternative energy sources, research by individuals and private companies has continued. Acorn Structures, Inc., a company that manufactures prefabricated solar homes for $70,000. This also includes a conventional heating system, which is used during extended cloudy periods.
CONGRESS has been unwilling to recognize that a change in attitudes and energy consumption is critical. More federal funds have been allotted to solar energy research-$7.5 million in 1974 and $32.3 million in 1978—but tax legislation may under consideration wouldn't allow credit to homeowners who insulate their homes. Another factor that influences Congress is the lobbying of the utility companies.
Insulation is the most obvious way to cut energy use, and it is readily available. The National Mineral Wool Insulation Institute has estimated that good insulation would save $17.1 billion nationwide over a nine-year period.
Although some of these alternative energy sources are still in the experimental stages there are others, such as solar that can be implemented now. Even conventionally heated houses could be made up to 25 per cent more energy-efficient and designed for their particular environment and well insulated.
In order for the use of safe, clean, and relatively simple forms of energy to gain access to electricity we need to change their way of thinking and realize more complex forms of technology aren't necessarily the only requirement to the fossil fuel shortage.
(K-eee Colburn is a graduate of the School of Journalism.)
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