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Tuesday, September 14, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Behavior immature
Before Saturday, no KU football fan would have thought of wearing pads and a helmet to a game.
But this week, as she nurses three stitches in the back of her head, Ina Bogue, Delta Gamma sorority, not only may have good cause to consider doing so.
LATE IN the third quarter of the KU-Washington State game, Bogue was hit with a half-filled cup of ice plummeted by some inconsiderate and immature fan several rows above her. The cup opened a gash serious enough to warrant treatment at Memorial Stadium.
After spending several minutes trying to attract the attention of a University policeman, Bogue was led by sorority members to the nearest first aid station.
The incident occurred as hundreds of rowdy spectators in the student section of the stadium tossed soft drink cups—some empty, some not—into the air.
THE SKY was peppered with red, white and blue plastic projects, which scattered ice and liquid throughout the student section of the stadium. It's not known whether any other injuries occurred.
No one really knows why the spree began, but it's certain no participant in the cup-throwing gave any thought to its consequences. Like a herd of unthinking geese, students followed some unknown leader, never questioning his motives.
What would the crowd have done had the impetus been more than a cup toss?
PERHAPS MANY who threw cups were the same people who were upset when a Minnesota Vikings fan pitched an empty bottle at a referee during a National Football Conference play-off game last winter. The referee, too,
suffered a head wound that required stitches. The memory of that incident should encourage those who threw cups to reassess their action.
But besides the one known injury, the cup-throwing incident was unfortunate for several other reasons. Did anyone stop to consider:
—the members of the football team, who may have looked up and found students more interested in creating a video game, matching the game they had paid to see?
—the image seen by parents, friends, alumni and administrators? What if the game had been televised? How would KU, which is supposed to be turning out intelligent adults, have looked to spectators throughout the country?
—the rights of students who didn't throw cups? Did they pay to see a football game or to spend an afternoon at the mall or to clean their hoses how they would pay cleaning bills?
Understandably, students are enthusiastic and boisterous at football games. Game days are times to put away studies, meet friends and let out all the frustrations of the previous week. They're filled with a spirit of unity. But in the past, the unity has been good natured.
*STUDENTS should realize that a $20 football ticket does not give them license to exchange all sense during six afternoons of hell-raising.
KU football fans are lucky, right now. Policemen can spend most of their on-duty time at the games watching the ball in the stands. But a few more affections like last Saturday will jeopardize that good fortune. By Mary Ann Daugherty
By Mary Ann Daugherty Contributing Writer
America will witness an event Sept. 23 that could change history. Jimmy Carter and President Ford have agreed to debate and, barring a successful move by the American Party to stop the proceedings, the candidates will square off. Speculation now centers on who will profit from the debates.
Debates could be the difference
If we believe that the past is a valid device for predicting the future, it is reasonable to review the presidential debates. Although those debates really didn't say much about the issues, they turned the election around.
JOHN KENNEDY and Richard Nixon, then a Democratic senator and the Republican vice president, agreed to four debates. Nixon, ahead in the polls, had wanted just one debate, in which he would change the chances of the upstart JFK. But Kennedy wanted five confident he would pick up points in every debate.
The networks wanted to improve their image. The year 1959 had produced a payola scandal and charges of too much violence and mindless westerns and comedies on the air. The networks were also debating debates to boost their sagging image.
The last roadblock was removed when Congress passed a law exempting the
1960 debates from a section of the communications law that would have made the networks give equal time to all presidential candidates.
THE CANDIDATES arrived in Chicago Sept. 25—the day before their first debate. Kennedy was ready by 8:30 the next night—Nixon wasn't.
Kennedy spent the day before the debate relaxing and preparing. He joked
Greg Hack Contributing Writer
with his brain trust as they fed him the latest facts and figures on the economy and other domestic issues—the subjects for the first debate. Kennedy made a statement that he and his brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. He even took a nap before dinner.
Nixon spent the day alone. He ventured out only when he spoke to the same union Kennedy addressed, and the union wasn't kind to Nixon. Nixon was weak from his first week of campaigning after a hospital stay for an injured knee.
IT ALL showed on camera. Howard K.
Sitia, a former student of the two
candidates, and history was mute.
Kennedy's opening statement was
smooth. He talked of America's problems at home, and of the need to rectify problems if the United States was to be the leader the world expected. He told them when he spoke to the people. He told them what the future under his rule would be like.
Nixon took a soft approach and never gained the offensive. He responded to JFK point by point. On paper he was doing a good job. But this was no boxing match, scored on a point system. It was a struggle for hearts and minds, and JFK knew it. Nixon was debating Kennedy. Kennedy was talking to the people.
NIXON LOST on style and he lost on appearance. JFK looked healthy and calm. Nixon was nice and nervous. His clothes looked baggy because he had lost weight during his illness. And the television cameras showed a heavy beard under his thin makeup, Kennedy, who is often seen as president, stood before the nation as Nixon's equal—or superior—for the first time.
There were three more debates, but it was the first one that counted. The second and third, primarily on foreign policy, were better for Nixon. Polls show he even won the third debate. But JFK took the second and the fourth.
DID THE debates clarify the issues?
Not really. The candidates' prepared statements were general. The two-and-a-half-minute time limit on answers to questions ruled out detailed explanation and deep thought.
But the debates did show the two men under pressure. Much of their characters and personalities showed, and in a nation where police and lawyers are by law, these qualities are important.
Did the debates make a difference?
Probably so. The best one can do is examine polls, and the polls show the people said the debates influenced their decision. The surveys show at least 115 million people watched one or more of the debates. All polls show JFK won all the debates but the third one.
A CBS POL of voters showed that 57 per cent said the debates influenced their decisions. Four million voters said they voted solely on the debates, and of those, almost three million voted for JFK. Kennedy won by only 112,000 votes.
If history holds true, Carter can finish off Ford, or Ford can turn the tide, in the coming debates. Don't expect the debates to be brilliant discussions of the issues. But expect them to make a difference.
Bv MERLE GOLDMAN
U.S. adds to nuclear problem
By MERLE GOLDMAN
A recent report by the CIA that revealed the reprocessing of nuclear fuel in Taiwan is just world wide nuclear proliferation. Although Taiwan has yet to explode a bomb as India did in 1974 the simplest is still clear. Reprocessing of nuclear fuels is the prelude to bomb making. It's the way material designed for the nuclear reactor tricity is transformed into plutonium, an element that has no commercial value unless one is in the bomb making business.
In the future, the spread of reprocessing plants may become an even more crucial threat to the nation's bombs. Nations can build up the supplies to make bombs, stop short of actually making the bombs and still consider the possibility of another nonreplacement treaties.
Taiwan probably wouldn't be reprocessing nuclear fuel if the Canadians had followed the American example and made for permission before reprocessing material from a Canadian facility.
American policy should be brought into line so that the United States can put direct economic and political pressure on the nations that supply the materials and technology for the countries in the United States that build the Seah Abraham Ribicoff, D-Dicon, agrees. As of now, U.S. law prohibits only giving economic
and military aid to the nations that buy nuclear fuel reprocessing plants.
Another way to strighten out U.S. foreign nuclear policy would be to reconcile it with the changing attitude toward nuclear energy within the United States.
MORE AND more Americans are noticing the two-eided nature of nuclear power. For many of them, the development of bombs from the production of plutonium or uranium grain of salt thrown on the onceup-a-time panacas—nuclear energy.
THE UNITED States has a responsibility to spread the news about the dangers of nuclear power to people who aren't aware of them. The best way for the United States to do that is to put those that atoms of peace can be separated from atoms for war. The fact that the United States trained the Taiwanese in nuclear technology was the direct preclude to the development of nuclear plant in Taiwan. This should be enough to destroy this illusion.
Panhellenic's closed doors necessary
I'm writing in response to the editorial last week (Kansas, Sept. 7) concerning Panhellenic secrecy. Although I do not wish to criticize the opinion of the editorialist, I think that there are certain facts that need to be explained.
To the Editor:
One of the main criticisms the editorial brought up about Panhellenic was that it “it often meets behind closed doors.” While this is true, there is a very necessary reason for it. One of the most important functions of Panhellenic is to serve as an advisory board for problems that are encountered within each sorority house.
Up with guitarists To the Editor:
The editorial also criticized the President's Council for making decisions hastily but. The case involves an error in the case. When an issue arises,
Hence, the representatives of each sorority, and not the executive officers, control the making process in Panhellenic.
The editorial also implied that the decision-making process of Panbellencio was dominated by its executive officers. This meant that each of the four executive officers serves merely as an ex-officio member of her respective council. This means that except in the case of ties, the executive officers not allowed to vote on matters.
the presidents first discuss it at council meetings. After this initial consideration, the issue is presented before each house, where opinions are gathered and a vote taken. Finally, President's Council meets with presidents of opposing houses, a decision is finally reached.
The United States should take decisive international action to ban the use of nuclear power, whether it be for peace or war. The US government's foreign policy makers to be opposed to the bomb and in favor of nuclear power when they are only two sides of the battle (Merle Goldman is a senior major in journalism).
To prevent internal conflicts, most of the problems are of a confidential nature, and therefore it is imperative that the members of the council be felt included in the presence of the press in giving advice to one another. Indeed, if the press were allowed to attend the President's Council meeting it is likely that the necessary candid nature of the meeting can come to a halt.
bungled notes pouring in through open windows and shattering the serenity of their study area.
We read with considerable pleasure that the University of Kansas Events Committee has issued a call for the situation on the grounds surrounding Wescoe Hall. Although the problem of the singers on the lawn has been solved, the long distance far too long, it is better to act
The editorialist mentioned that a rumor concerning open
It requires little imagination to envision the probable evolution of the situation if the
Fortunately, the Events Committee has a secure grip on the politics of the plebtrum. As a spokesman for the committee pointed out, things could easily get carried away.
Readers Respond
Lastly, I want to point out that the editorialist has presented a very one-sided picture of the Panhellenic Association. The Panhellenic Association advisers have ever "closed the doors" to interviews with representatives from the Kansan. But none of the journalists were even interviewed for comments or information to add to the editorial. The editorialist wrote an article based on observations and rumor—this is the story of the story based on fact.
rush has been circulating around campus. Following formal rush, houses may open riffle if they do not fill during formal rush or if a space occurs after the formal rush process.
Linda Pflasterer Colby senior
(Editor's note: Pflasterer is president of the Panhellenic Association.)
now than to wait for the situation to become a permanent, though unwanted, institution.
Undoubtedly, some segments of the student body will object to the enforcement of the laws against their rights. But many—indeed, most—of the students have been sufficiently annoyed at the din leftoff on the Wescos grounds to oppose the ejection of the guitarists.
More than once, while quietly reading in Wescoe Terrace (certainly a high intensity academic area), I've heard studious and serious students complain of the thousand
ministerry on the Wescoe lawn isn't carefully regulated by the University. Beautiful Wescoe Hall could become a swarming musical instrument, musicians, with flat-pickers, crude and rowdy country-western singers and unemployed symphonic oboices littering the air with beer cans playing the air with obsessions.
Next come hootenanmies, then amplifiers, and -who knows-' perhaps even Cuban bongo players shooting up the hill. The team must control to wrest control of the campus from the Events Committee.
It appears, however, that the
Letters to the editor are welcomed but should be typewritten, double-spaced and no longer than 400 words. All letters are edited and may be condensed according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Letters to KU students must provide their academic homeetown; faculty must provide their position; others must provide their address.
University will win out.
Students can again achieve
what Jonathan Swift once called
"the sublime and refined point of
felicity" and continue to
learn it through, through
their term at KU.
Letters Policy
Jim Hubbell
Jim Hubbell
Prairie Village senior
Jim Snyder
Prairie Village senior
Whose rights?
That salt shaker also contains these problems: The leakage of radiation after a melt-down, the diversion of nuclear materials so that terrorists can make weapons, the storing radioactive materials that have a half-life of 25,000 years.
To the Editor:
In this grim age of interrelated agonies, where the fall in the price of cockroach powder in Eudora sets off a fire in Afghanistan, there are very few significant issues that a person of conscience can advocate without risking damnation and expulsion from polite society. Such a safe controversy has just risen and I breathe easily rush in the affinity of a lox for a bagel.
It is, as everyone knows, the prohibition of unlicensed guitar
pickin' on campus. What further chains will be wrapped around the already dragging chains of this spirit as the bureaucrats marshal us to the final solution of 1984? What pickins are next to be prescribed? The teeth? The nose? The tooth? What's it?
As an aging and venerable academician, I can sonorously testify that it is not the music that disturbs the learning process, but rather its absence. There are, however, sounds that do ripe the eardrum of contemplation, to wilt; lawn chairs the clawers the KU whishe, the Niagara-like run of administrative memos, and the asthmatic pant of students approaching finals and faculty members approaching promotion and tenure.
Campus pickers arise!
Golfers of the world unite!
You've got nothing to lose but your balls.
Associate Venerable Professor
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By K-CEE COLBURN
Jobless suffer abuse
During the current recession, abuse of unemployment compensation benefits has sparked fierce debate and demands for legislative reform. Flarrant abuses of this type have been recorded and have been documented by the government and the media.
Last spring, CBS's "60 Minutes" reported on a group of unemployment compensation recipients who lived comfortably in Florida and either worked for a job or were employed. But continued to illegally collect unemployment benefits.
Although it's been reported that the people who misuse the drugs have a small minority, the abuse suffered by the people who are legally qualified and genuinely benefits has been overlooked.
The source of this abuse is the bureaucratic organization administering the program. Unfortunately, those who have a legitimate claim are also involved in the abuse and endure the abuse heaped upon them by a generally insensitive bureaucracy.
Take the man who filed a valid claim for unemployment benefits and was seriously job hunting. This man had savings when he got a job. When he filled the claim, he was told not to expect a check for six weeks. When his check hadn't arrived within six weeks, he had to borrow money for living and try to stall his creditors.
spent several hours at the unemployment office inquiring about the status of his claim. He was told that processing claims can take longer when there are many applicants. He received the same answer for another claim and received his first check. He had to live without an income for 12 weeks.
More often, a worker will find himself suddenly laid off and immediately in need of income. It's conceivable that a person could starve waiting for the sluggish, insensitive worker to recognize his claim with an unemployment check.
It's rare when a person can anticipate unemployment far enough in advance to build a financial base that will support him through such a six- to twelve-week wait.
Given the interminable delay, it's remarkable that the majority of claimants inform when they employment office when they become ineligible for benefits. The temptation is strong to make the government pay for the financial hardship suffered attaching to receive deserved unemployment benefits.
On numerous occasions he
As legislation is considered to lessen abuses by applicants, steps should also be taken to make the bureaucracy more responsive in processing claims so that checks could be issued before the claim is filed (the usual time between pay periods).
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(K-cee Colburn is a senior majoring in architecture.)
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