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Monday, August 30, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Corry and Westphal
A $1,250 parking fee
The bureaucratic cogs must be kept well-oiled and the books well-balanced if the University of Kansas is to function smoothly and in the black.
That's why the Douglas County Bicentennial Commission received a $1,250 bill from the University for accommodating the Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage for 24 hours on the luxurious O-Zone parking lot last April.
CLEANEE HILLS, chairman of the commission, says she just about died when she saw the bill for good reason. If the commission pays the bill, which costs $240 per person, she be worked out, the commission's treasury will be left with a grand total of $25.
University officials can't be blamed for the commission's surprise. Max Luces, assistant to the chancellor, says the commission has accurately estimate of the bill last spring.
Hills doesn't deny this and she admits to a mistake on her part.
She says the estimates were given two days before the wagon train's arrival, and that it was too late by then to make alternative plans. The Douglas County fairgrounds were occupied by an anarchist group called Bicentennial leaders had scheduled the wagon train's stop here specifically to "show off KU."
HER MISTAKE was thinking the University would let the charges do some kind of bureaucratic disappearing act.
"You can't demand charity," Hills says. But she says she and other local and state Bicentennial boosters assumed that KU was part of the community. They thought KU was their friend and would reduce or absorb the
charges out of a patriotic, community spirit.
Their assumption can be supported because there was no written contract between the commission and the University for services—services that the wagon train found totally unsuitable for their livestock and peace of mind.
THE TRAIN left O-Zone after just one night of a planned three-night stay for the green (and free) pastures of Bradley and Linden, where he volunteered the company to a free barbecue.
During a parade downtown and also at the farm, county and city law enforcement officers were on duty and none charged for their services. Many others volunteered their services and time, getting into the frontier spirit.
SO THE issue isn't that KU charged an unfair or surprising amount for its services. The commission was warned and had two days to make other plans.
It isn't that the administration is being unpatriotic or unenthusiastic, or even that it committed the cardinal sin of accepting an oral contract.
The question is whether the bureaucracy can make an exception and absorb most of the bill in some way to leave the commission enough funds to carry on the rest of the year. After all, the Bicentennial itself is an exception.
THIS QUESTION should be answered Sept. 23 when the representatives of the University and the commission meet to discuss the problem.
Perhaps the bureaucracy can be consolled by the establishment of a policy for handling Tricentennial wagon trains on KU property.
By John Fuller
Contributing Writer
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Dear Editor:
Allen food hard to take
I have survived seven semesters of KU enrollment, and I appreciate all the efforts made by my administration to make that process more efficient. Still, it seems to me that some improvements could be made, in the area of concessions.
Peter Orazem
as though it were strained in quinine water.
The best thing I can say about the sandwiches is that they are inedible. And the coffee tasted
mosphere of Allen, why can't the University make the process a little more palatable a foodable eatable food at palatable prices?
Alen Field House is hot and stuffy, and most students spend enough time there to get quite a bit of exercise from the students, the concession stands are open to provide food and drink to those in need. Unfortunately, the prices there are ridiculously high.
What would be a 25 cent cup of Coke at Wescoe costs 50 cents at Allen. A 15 cent cup of Wescoe coffee goes for 25 cents at Allen.
The higher prices, however, are not allowed to interfere with the overall poor quality of the food.
If students are going to have to put up with an antiquated enrollment procedure, long lines, and the sweaty at-
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HELLO, BOB? JERREY. ΔH...
WISTEN, BOB, THERE'S SOME-
THING I THINK WE NEED TO
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That left my other roommate, who I will call Sid.
I ASKED one of my roommates, who I will call Dr. Dru, whether he was going to buy a computer or correspondence course in German so he can graduate, didn't enroll for the first time in six years. He said there was no chance for a student season ticket.
After I en. eloiled, I went back to my apartment to look for someone to sit with. After all, if you're going to buy a reserved seat, you have to have someone to sit with.
"Nyah, too much trouble," Sid said. "Twenty dollars, that is ridiculous. Who's soma
Of course, I complained about the price, but then I handed the woman my check and she put another stamp on the back of me. I said, "But I didn't look like it." She said, "I'm not." "F-7-F," that I paid $89.90 for
FIVE YEARS ago a season student ticket cost $5. Of course, the Student Senate and the Board of Corporation have gone around and around on student support of ticket prices while prices book up and up. But twenty-one percent more than 11 pitchers of beer.
WELL OKAY, THAT'S FINE BOB
AND I ADMIRE YOUR SPOOK,
BUT I DON'T THINK YOUR PRAN
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MING LESS TREES AND TRIM-
MING MORE NORTH KOREANS!
Football ticket cost puzzles fan
Enrollment this semester was twisted. They took away my registration card and gave me a funny sticker that doesn't say what class I am in, shrank my car registration sticker and ran into a parking lot with a window, and then charged me $20 for a football ticket!
I don't really miss the registration card, and the car sticker smears which whichever one I put in. I have 20 bucks for a football ticket!
be stupid enough to pay $20 for a football ticket?"
"WELL, Sid, I paid 20 bucks for a ticket, and there were people in line in front of me."
"Big deal," Sid said. "There are a lot of stupid people around. If the stupid Student Senate would have given the
Carl Young Contributing Writer
athletic department more money . . . "
I interrupted Sid then. "Why should the stipend Senate give the stipid KUAC any money when KUAC gives seats on the east side of the stadium to the stupid alumni?"
"THE STUPID alum supports the University, 'Sid said. "Why should they be able to sit on the side of the stadium?"
"Those alums are more obnoxious than the students," Dru said, joining the conversation. "Haven't you ever seen those guys? They look like yell and yell and do all sorts of weird things at football games."
That led to a few drunk alumni jokes, and we then went back to arguing about football's place in the University.
DRU DIDN'T say much, but Sid came down for KUAC and the alumni. Football draws the alumni, they get drunk and shell out a lot of money to the University, their fraternities or sororites and the athletic department, he said.
I disagreed. Somehow I can't see Helen Foreman Spencer on the floor of rum smugged in by her sexy yelling the Rock Chalk Chant,
throwing a plastic Coke cup at an usher and then staggering up the hill to the chancellor's office or the museum art museum to the University.
OR, BETTER yet, picture a Phillips 66 company official (and KU grad) sitting in the team's stadium scoreboard. This guy has just signed a contract to put in a new scoreboard in Allen Field House, and in between he will make it to the company's next KU project.
McDonald's and the University State Bank went in on one scoreboard, so why not have a bang-up scoreboard with $150,000 from the three of them, plus someone else, and we could have a bang-up scoreboard with lights on the top and "The Renaissance Company" on the bottom.
and fifty thousand dollars for a scoreboard. That's 85,714 pitches. A student can go to college for a couple of years on that.
Now that's a real donation to the University. One hundred
"DON'T GET me wrong. I like football. I've been to two bowl games, and soon will be one of those drunken alumni we sit with the students. But the mortality of it all still bears me.
This University (and many more) spend a lot of money on what amounts to a semipro football team. Football players are paid to go to school here, they are scouted and scouted when they are in high school, and they put on a great show in the fall.
That's fun, but why should the University of Kansas spend millions of dollars on sports? Again, the answer is that it's fun. I guess that is why I paid $20 for a football ticket.
Independents no threat
Let us think about these things.
On the morning of the last day of the Republican convention, Richard Viguerie had a press conference in Kansas City. His purpose was to announce his candidacy on the ticket of the American Independent party, which he won late last week in Chicago.
EVEN ON the far-out fringes of American conservatism, Viguerie is almost wholly unknown. He is a 42-year old specialist in direct-mail fundraising, publisher of the Conservative Digest and a successful businessman. He
formerly was the executive secretary of the Young Americans for Freedom. He flickered into the national news last February when he financed a last-minute campaign to win six votes for John Connally in New Jersey. The campaign flopped.
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But if Viguerine himself is small political potatoes, his inchoate movement conceivably could have a large importance in November. He says the American Independentosition is calling for his position on its ticket in 40 states.
James J. Kilpatrick (c) 1976 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
MAYBE SO, maybe not so. He expects his ticket to win "at least five million votes." He looks to 1798, when the party will have "300 candidates for state candidates for state legislatures." He and his colleagues, he says, have divorced themselves from the Republican party. Their imminent dissolution to give conservatives someone to vote for in November.
This is bubbleheaded stuff,
but even bubbleheaded stuff
need not be dismissed out of
hand.
THE FORCES of Ronald Reagan were bitterly disappointed by their loss to Gerald Ford.
Embittered and aggrieved people can do impetuous things: divorce, secession, self-destruction. If their mood of despair persists, this hard core faction of resentful rightists could wander off to Vignerle's corral.
The dissidents include gun nuts, food nuts, single taxers, anti-fluoridationists and a hundred passionate fellows who have written typewriter ribbons. Some of the delegates would prohibit abortion; some would wipe out pornography; others would hold Armament; still others would dump the public schools.
WELL, HOGWASH. Rational conservatives — conservatives whose heads are screwed on them — have a ticket more conservative than Gerald Ford and Bob Dole. They could not sell a more conservative platform than the one in Kansas City two weeks ago.
In a close election between Ford and Carter, such defections—combined with whatever votes may be cast for the American party and Liberals—would not enough difference to throw the prize to Carter. That prospect dengues Vigerie not at all. He would welcome four years of one-party government under Carter as the blow that would destroy the Republican party bongers of the smoking ruins, in his hands, can Independents, who would arise.
ARE THESE elements united by high conservative principle? Bosh. These rebel platoons march under separate flags. They are differently obsessed. Partians, crushers, sawdust their elitists, the fiery apostles of their own religious.
The dreamworld coalition tacked together in Chicago is a political joke. It is bound up with hairpins, Scotch tape and baling wire. The trouble with this party's independent elements is that they are excessively independent.
The country needs them. Our political life would be a dreary scene without them. I myself happen to sympathize with most of the aims of my passionate friends. Down with flouridation! Up with right-to-work!
The Republican party may be around for 120 years. It is in trouble now; obviously it is in trouble now. But the GOP holds a fourth of the governorships and a third of the seats in state legislatures. It remains a workable piece of machinery in the fight against climate change, it offers a saleable ticket for November; it provides the only comfortable political conservatives have. No leaderless band of bull moosers is likely to pull it down.
KU tough but worth it
By PHIL McKNIGHT Director, Office of Instructional Resources
Seventeen years ago this month I sat in Swarthout Recital Hall listening to Dean Francis Heller welcome me and my fellow freshmen to the University of Kansas.
At one point he asked us to each look to the right and then to the left. He said that at the end of the year, only two of our trio would remain, having successfully completed two graduate and two degrade program at a distinguished state university
I DO NOT recall whether the other two freshmen completed that year—or the next three. I am sure we all left the room at once. I'm afraid of bit of work ahead and hope that we wouldn't be the drown out.
As a member of the faculty, I still remember Francis Heller's words, as well as those of his students. Chalmers, Nichols, and Dekes
Each opened the school year with a speech on a different topic, but they all had a common theme: the University of
Kansas will provide a superb education for those who meet its stringent academic demands.
Such a list reflects their belief that the University is a "good school." With frequent opportunities to move, their continued presence could indicate little else.
EVIDENCE FOR this is abundant, whether in KU's lists of Rhodes and Woodrow Wilson scholars or in the lists of KU graduates' positions in the state and nation. But there is another list that reflects the greatness of the university. A list of standing scholars and teachers who have been faculty members many years.
Because of this loyalty, you can take courses this year from great scholars and teachers who will occupy a significant
I WISH that all students, particularly new students, were aware of how much this means to their education. One can say it is more a matter of loyalty than anything else, but to my own advantage an outstanding university would merit such loyalty.
place in your lives, as they have in mine. I'm happy that you, too, will have the chance to take a course in Shakespeare from Prof. Waggoner, a physiology course from Prof. Balfour and a course in French from Prof. Craig.
YOU ALSO will be able to enroll, as I did, in courses taught by Professors Gilbert, Saricks and Saricks (history); Heller (political science); Heiler (political science); and many others.
I am very happy that you will be able to learn from these individuals, and many others who didn't know because didn't take their courses. (Obviously, I was an English major with a minor in history). Someone once said that the people you meet on the people you meet along the way. I think you will enjoy this part of the trip.
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(Phil McKnight is an associate professor of curriculum and instruction and the director of Instructional Resources.)
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