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Tuesday, September 28. 1976
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The band played on
KU Day at Crown Center last Saturday was hardly a rousing success.
To begin with, it rained. Secondly, it rained. Not only that, but it rained.
LUCKILY, tents protected the area where the KU Marching Band and various theater groups performed and they also protected most of the exhibits. A surprisingly large number of people are sitting in seats from the Crown Center Shop and Hotel in a vain to listen to the band's music and glance at the exhibits.
If not for the band, it's doubtful that one-tenth as many people would have showed up. The bright uniforms and music let people know something was going on.
HOWEVER, the fact that 89 per cent of these people clapped along when the band played "I'm a Jay-Jay-Jayhawk" raises doubts as to how many of them were learning about KU for the first time.
In theory, KU Day at Crown Center was almost a decent idea. It was to be part of KU's continuing effort to educate people about its programs. The cost although noticeable, wouldn't be excessive. And press coverage of the day
would extend it beyond Crown Center patrons.
The benefits of having the citizens of Kansas City, Mio., ennurated with KU are debatable, of course, but the University meant well.
AND MAYBE on a sunnier day KU Day at Crown Center would have done the University some good. As it was, the only people who really profited from the day were the merchants of the Crown Center Shops.
And I do mean profited. The onslaught of KU administrators, students, band members and exhibitors meant an additional 500-plus eaters, drinkers and shoppers on an otherwise slow Saturday.
And all the Crown Center people had to do to get those extra customers was let KU use their big, empy square. KU set everything up and took everything over and hired the director of University Relations, himself helped take down the chairs.
IF CROWN Center offers KU the use of its big, empty square next year, KU should see whether the affair could be made into more of a two-way street.
At the very least, there should be some plans for moving inside if it rains.
Editorial Editor
There were more than 1,500 interviews. The investigation touched every base. All important witnesses were heard and most thorough and the most reachable inquiry in history.
Of what do I speak? The Warren Commission Report? No. The above statement is what officials of the Nixon Administration said after the arrest of the man behind the Watergate affair. And most of us know how shallow that investigation really was.
Warren reacted to times
UNFORTUNATELY, some don't know how sloppy the Warren investigation was, or else they refuse to doubt the investigation's findings because they are entrusted by the government of Ford and Senators John Sherman Cooper and Richard Russell—all of whom served on the commission.
It's hard to believe these men lied to us, but they did. Absolute, incontrovertible evidence disproves the possibility that Lee Harvey Anthony acta facta John Kennedy. That evidence was available in 1967 and buttressed in 1972.
Yet some still believe, unable to admit that Earl Warren, patron saint of the criminal suspect, could have supervised the framing of Lee Harvey Oswald.
TO UNDERSTAND why the Warren Commission contended
KU's hiring a problem
To the Editor:
I've been following with great interest the Kansan reports of problems within the Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Department. Although Del Shankel has said women in the department should complain to the newspaper, and the sports information director for the department has said Marian Washington was "burned" by the paper this summer; you continue to report to the police that it is worth their affairs in women's athletics, I, for one, appreciate your efforts.
You reported that there are now three women and five men head coaches in the department and four head coaches has dropped steadily the last few years, from six of seven (86 per cent) in 1973-74, to five of nine (56 per cent) in 1975-76, to three of eight (38 per cent) today. In this age of women in other areas, the trend in women's athletics is rather alarming.
I'm not making judgments about the type of coach either of these men might out to be. I am questioning why a program of the supposed best qualified people with such meager qualifications. If they were the best-qualified applicants, then why aren't more qualified people applying for positions
Why are women head coaches being replaced with men? Perhaps there are more men than women qualified to coach on the university level. But if this is the reason, why were two soccer players hired when they had not coaching experience? One was hired to coach two sports in which he had little playing experience.
member of the staff. I have enjoyed these years tremendously. I've also gotten the fast, clean, and efficient food I've never been used to it.
Tom Wilkerson, the director of recreational services, has given an outstanding exception to my general experience. Mr. Wilkerson takes seriously his job of serving the University
Readers Respond
here? Is it because the department didn't advertise the positions until this summer and then they had already gone elsewhere.
I'm concerned about the future of women's athletics at KU I hope the Kanman will help inform the University informed about all aspects of the program problems as well as successes.
A dance will be at 9 p.m.
Saturday. It will be in the gym
and feature the music of "Night
and Day."
Safia Gibbs
Lawrence graduate student
At 7:30 p.m. Hays will take on Salina South at Lewis Field
Wilkerson praised
To the Editor:
All the people who were graduated from Hays High are invited to come back for the support and support their alma mater.
I have spent more than a decade at KU, first as an undergraduate, and now as a
population, and he does so with a positive attitude. I would like to thank him, publicly.
Mike Kelly
Department of Human Development
Hays High Student Council
Jamie Butcher
Hays High School is having its Homecoming Oct. 8 and 9. We would like to invite all alumn of Hays to return and join in the activities.
Hays reunion soon To the Editor:
The Homecoming Assembly,
at which the queen will be
announced, will be at 1:20 p.m.
Priday in the school
curriculum. A teacher will
in honor of alumni will follow
in the cafeteria.
Eventful adultery
To the Editor:
Everyone will agree that "adultery of the heart is an unnatural thing," and University Events Committee whether all such heartfelt adultery now needs prior apology to be filled out in triplicate?
to find out the identity of two men on a grassy knoll by the motorcade—two men who said they were Secret Service men at Dahl's and a Secret Service man in Dalla who were accounted for elsewhere.
C. S. Chaterji Calcutta, India graduate student
that Oswald acted alone, one must realize the political climate in 1963. Scarcely more assassination, the world was on the brink of nuclear destruction, during the Cuban missile crisis. Then the President was killed. In Indian Johnson was concerned.
He asked Earl Warren to be chairman of the committee
Greg Hack Contributing Writer
investigating the assassination.
Warren, Chief Justice of the United States, didn't like the fact he was being a prosecutor. He refused.
Johnson apparently convinced Warren of the urgency of stopping all rumors of an assassination conspiracy. Jan. 20, 1964, the Warren Commission met for the first time. A year later, that Warren explained his reasons for taking the job.
But then President Johnson called Warren in personally. Some have reported that Warren left the meeting in 2014 and agreed to head the investigation of the assassination.
"THE PRESIDENT stated the rumors of the most exasperating climate in this country and overseas," Warren said. "Some rumors went as far as attributing the assassination to a faction within the government wishing the presidency by assassin Johnson. Of if not quenched, conceivably lead the country into a war that would cost 40 million lives. No one could refuse to do something that might help prevent such a disaster."
GIVEN THE political climate, maybe the Warren Commission was right to cover the truth. I don't know.
emphasis on the quenching of rumors and on precluding further speculation.
The Warren Commission became the political situation, that stopping a conspiracy was much more important than finding the truth. That explains why the commission hid the truth, or ignored it.
But I do know the commission's report is false. The commission's report is different; a new investigation is likely. The groups most likely to have engineered the assassination—organized crime, disgruntled lawyers—have swarming Cubans (1 hear they makeood burglaries) are—still around
THAT EXPLAINS why the commission neglected to ask how Oswald, a right-handed man, could have killed Kennedy with a rifle whose scope was left-handed. That explains why the commission ignored the testimony proving there were at least two persons saying they were Lee Harvey Oswald.
That explains why the commission never interviewed 57 persons whose names were known and who were at the assassination. That explains why the commission never tried
The American people deserve to know the truth. Lee Harvey Oswald deserves a fair hearing, but the truth won't risk a world war, Earl Warren would probably want a new, fair investigation.
Kansan delays explained
A lanky, tight-tipped man walked briskly into the advertising office and saw where he could find a Kansan. He had looked up and down Jayhawk Boulevard, he said, and had come up empressively.
Carter's vice-presidential announcement and William Horsburgh's resignation as vice chairman of the Balfour story was written at the printing service, using a copy of the printer while the printers waited.
He glowered at the student behind the desk, who larnely tried to explain the procedure, and occasional pittfalls, of Kansan delivery. He left in a few minutes, Kansan in hand, and then walked and skephetical about finding a Kansan the next day.
THAT STUDENT had taken his place in the long line of disgruntled students and staff who would take their jobs and they want one. At the front of the line are Kansan staff members who, while flattered that the Kansan is missed, are not out about where the Kansan is when.
Once we push our envelopes of copy and pictures through a
MOST OF the mistakes that cause delivery delays occur the night before, when we're nearing delivery, we log on to p.m., when we have a nightly news conference, until as early as 2 a. m., or as late as 5 a. m., and then we photograph pictures to the printing service, a dismaying number of delay-
It's physically impossible to find a Kansan at 9:30 a.m. because the newspapers rarely sell them before 10 a.m. However, when you can't find a Kansan by 1 p.m., or a distribution box is left empty all day, there has been a production or delivery system.
Delays can be created at any one or all three stages of the Kansan operation—when the newspaper is in our hands the night before, when it's at the printing service the next morning and when it's turned over to the distributor.
Editor's Note
Debbie Gump
causing disasters can happen. On a typical night some of them do.
The most typical mistake is made when we accidentally lay out the paper with too much or too few sheets of copy into a 10-inch hole, precious time is spent the next morning correcting the mistake. The same happens if we fit 10 inches into a 20-inch hole.
Occasionally, an ad- vertisement that we didn't know come in and mysteriously appears at the shop in the morning. Sometimes our headlines are too long or too short. Our headlines aren't even there.
OTHER DELAYS are caused not by our mistakes but by our attempts to get the latest possible news into the paper. The paper has been held up by the Mars landing, Jimmy
slot in a the door of the printing service, the shop takes over. The owner must a am and begin transferring our types stories into punched tape.
The copy usually is ready for paste-up (gluing stories to page-size sheets) by 8 a.m., when the man with that job arrives. The copy of those typesetters is sick it takes longer to prepare the copy.
AT 7 A.M. a Kansan staff arrives to begin solving the problems caused by mistakes made the night before and to make last minute improvements. The pictures are ready for paste-up between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. The picture finished between 8:30 and 9 a.m. The ad paste-up was done the previous afternoon.
service about 10 a.m. The second and final load leaves between 11 and 11:30 a.m.
The press run begins shortly after 9 a.m. and the first load of Kansans leaves the printing
All these times are subject to change. Recently the power went off at the shop, forcing an hour's delay. The distributor's truck broke down last month, and last year a forklift had struck him. And he had a distributor who was his coffee break was more important than filling Kansan boxes.
BY THE way, those boxes, which cost more than $200 to replace, are a prime target for third-class vandals. Note the absence of a Kansan box in front of Strong Hall.
We have tried to improve the situation. This year's distributor gets $20 a day for delivering 13,000 Kansans, an increase of 500 since the beginning of the semester. We have also infrequently toyed in with getting Kansans on campus by a man, however, would result in a tremendously high printing bill—a bill that is high enough already.
Kansan officials are always looking for ways to improve circulation, so let us know if you have an appointment time, don't expect to read a Kansan with your morning coffee. If you haven't seen one already, please go to the lobby in the lobby of Flint Hall. We occasionally have extras.
Modern pain leads to modern misuse
In Latin, the word "valum" means to be well and strong. A word with such a positive and reassuring definition was bound to be seized upon sooner or later in the course of its vertising executive and in 1963 it was. It became the catchy brand name for a so-called
minor tranquilizer and within 10 years the word vallum took on some distinctly new connotations. To millions of people around the world, valium meant to be a laxative, but to be well and strong in the 20th century, when many needed pharmaceutical help.
In 1974, the New York Times reported that 21.8 million new Valium prescriptions were written in the United States, along with 37.7 million refills. It is estimated that more than 50 million Americans take about 3 billion Valiums a year. But Americans aren't the only people who, as the Beatles sang, "get by with a little help from our friends." The United States ranks only four in per capita valium use and the drug—behind Germany, France and Japan.
WHILE THOUSANDS of people are jailed or legally harrassed for popping pills, shooting smack or smoking marijuana, millions of others are easing their anxieties, giving them the pain, or simply getting high for fun—the legal way.
IF THAT many people take Valium, which accounts for 80 per cent of all wholesale miniature pills, stands to reason that there are other great numbers of people who turn to similar drugs for the same reasons. But let's take it a step further, because it's the biggest seller.
When it was developed, Valium was hailed as a new and marvelously versatile minor tranquilizer—minor meaning it can be used as most tranquilizers and barbiturates. It had a wide range of uses. It functioned as a muscle relaxer, an anticonvulsant and a sedative. Its importance is especially important because it could act on part of the central nervous system without noticeably affecting the rest of our words, an anxiety-exciting exercise could take Valium to calm his nerves and still do his job.
THE DRUG is safe when used as directed and relatively safe when taken in larger than normal doses. It isn't supposed to affect balance, sight or articulation, but it can when
combined with alcohol or other drugs. It's also not highly addictive.
If Valium was used merely for the strictly medical purposes it was designed for—as a pill, or for a drug that relaxes and relaxes for patients with convulsions or hypertension, or any other number of uses—I had never used it. The fact is, however, that about 80 per cent of the drug's sales
John Fuller
Contributing Writer
results from other much more nonspecific ailments.
Doctors prescribe it for depression, anxiety and all of the symptoms that accompany the two conditions—such as nervous, amnervous stomach, nervous tics, headaches and so on.
TAKEN CASE by case, one
WAKEN probably be hard-pressed
to have prescriptions prescribed
prescribing Valium for such
uses. It is when 30 million
people begin receiving it that
descriptions become disturbing.
There's as much potential for abuse of the drug as there is ambiguity in the wounds anxiety, depression and "psychic tension." Anxiety may give you a nervous stomach. Depression may make you frightened or "Psychic tension" can make you yell at your roommate for nothing. Valium can alleviate all that, at least for a while, and
who can argue against the logic of giving a nervous or sick person something to make him laugh. There's no question about that.
What did people do before Valium came along? How did they cope with that nervous knot in their guts when things got rough on the job? How did they resolve the emotional situations that gave them headaches? I'm not so much of a fool. It's good for people to suffer. But there are drugs like Valium to help people out when they think they need it.
But I think there's great danger in society thinking that all pain is pointless and to be avoided at all costs. To be well prepared, doctors don't think tranquilizers make us well or strong. They may provide a respite from pain, tension or anxiety but they answer. Doctors and patients shouldn't be so quick to use them.
BUT ASIDE from the hypocrisy of a society that outlaws a basically harmless openly condoning legal tranquilizers that end up being used for many of the same reasons as marijuana, I hate to admit that Valium being used as a cure-all.
"We're all looking for a quick, simple solution that doesn't exist," a doctor said recently. "In the past, in World, yet we bring it on."