4 Wednesday, August 18, 1976 University Daily Kansan Comment Opinions on this page reflect only the view of the writer Fee increase justified rising prices are no fun, especially for those who aren't yet earning a living. But higher tuition is in store for every University of Kansas student now when semester fees go up $50 for Kansas students and $150 for non Kansas students. The increase is especially tough because the cost of almost everything is still rising, and because most students are in school for time away from school work on jobs. Despite all this, it is difficult to fault the Kansas Board of Regents for approving the request of state university and college presidents for the higher tuition, which should bring in $6.9 million statewide. TUITION AT KU is still extremely low, and it has been four years since a major fee increase occurred at the University. This fall's $288.90 and $683.90 tuitions for Kansas and non Kansas students are each only $16.90 more than the fall 1973 figures, a hardly noticeable increase. For this year's seniors, fees have increased only slightly more than 6 per cent, while fees nationwide have gone up 12 per cent in the past year alone. Even next year's tuition of about $340 a semester should be quite bearable, especially when compared with other schools. At some universities, one can pay more than $340 for three credit course and two master's degree or preferably with totals at other schools, which are often more than $5,000 and can go higher than $9,000. **GLEE SMITH, Regents' chairman,** pointed out that the state schools' open day event drew 30 per in the past three years, all of which was paid by the taxpayers. Even with the increase, KU students will still pay less than the average for career like KU. The Kansas student now pays 20.2 per cent of the operating costs of the state school he attends, and those costs don't include research, capital improvements or extension functions such as KU's Outreach program, one of the costs of the Kansas student will pay after addition increase will still be almost 10 per cent less than the 33 per cent of operating costs that the Carnegie Foundation recommends students pay. SOME HAVE COMPAINED that the fee increase is too much, but they have presented little evidence that anyone would lose a college education. The $100-annual increase for Kansas students has been announced more than a year before it takes effect, giving plenty of time to plan better, save a little more, work a bit harder during the summer and try harder for financial aid. PERHAPS THE ONLY thing wrong with the increase is the burden it puts on non Kansas students. Although KU's main purpose is to serve Kansas as a school and enload enough school to attract students from across the nation and the world. They already pay more than twice what Kansas students pay, and their semester tuition increase of $150 seems particularly unfair and unwise. Higher tuitions probably won't drive Kansas students away because Kansas schools will still be in the same position, but the large increase in already high non-Kansas student tuitions is sure to drive away some good students from outside Kansas. And that is something Kansas schools, including KU, shouldn't want. By Greg Hack Contributing Writer By now the new KU student has been greeted by hundreds of new faces and a flood of orientation information that is supposed to guide him through a course in the face of University procedures. Welcome to the next few years of your life. Editor greets old and new The old KU student has returned to a greeting by old friends and teachers, and to the memory of a stilling Allen Field House when the last class card was not more than 30 words ago. To him, welcome back. In your hands is one section of the Kansan's greeting to all KU students, old and new. This year's Back-to-School edition was begun in June as the summer staff, led by summer editor Dierck Casselman, started writing the People, Campus, Camps sections. It was finished Tuesday night by the fall staff, some of who began work in July. This edition is an attempt to familiarize the student with a campus he either has yet to know or doesn't know well enough. It also continues the Kansan's effort to keep its readers aware and concerned about the state, city, state, and national news. HOWEVER, WE ARE but a 23-member staff on a campus of more than 20,000 students, faculty, staff and administrators. We try hard, and we often succeed, to bring you all the news and features the Kansas will hold. But all newspapers depend on someone more important than any staff member to do its job right—that person is you, the reader. If we make a mistake, let us know what we need so that something well, let us know so that we know we are moving in the right direction. If you see someone or something that you think others would like to read about, let us know. If you disagree with an editorial stance, write us a letter—notice the letters policy on this page—and it will be printed neatly. You have a $2 stake in this paper through your student activity fee. That's pretty good buy at about three cents an issue, but it will be an even better buy with your help. One of my easiest jobs so far Editor Debbie Gump as editor was selecting the staff because there was a wealth of talent to choose from, as you'll see from the following sections. YAEL ABOUHAKALAH, Overland Park senior, has accumulated enough campus and professional experience to be a great editor. You editor look like child's play. His job is no job for kids, however, for he is in charge of newsroom operations. One of his key talents is that he's forgotten the rare commodity around here. He was campus editor last spring and went to Florida to intern for the Miami Herald this summer. Yael has also worked for the Lawrence Daily Journal-World since he was a freshman and was Kansan sports editor last fall. The man in charge of gathering all campus news is campus editor Stewart Brann, Great Bend senior. Stew worked on the campus desk last spring and has worked for the Great Bend Tribune and the Minneapolis Messenger. Also among his credits is the editorship of the Barton County Community College In- terrobang, a weekly newspaper whose name refers to the punctuation that can be used in such phrases as "What do you think you're doing?"—"a commandment remark and question." Working closely with Stew is Bill Snillman, Lawrence senior. Bill, associate campus editor, teaches summer and covered the administration and Med Center last spring, winning third place in the spot news category in the competition for competition in the process. SHERI BALDWIN, Hutchinson senior and Chuck Alexander, Wichita senior, are the campus desk assistant for the News. News this summer and had a two-week internship with the Topeka Daily Capital last Christmas. Chris worked for Eagle and Beacon both this summer and last Christmas. These four people basically determine what gets covered on campus. They are the ones who need to hear about your events Jim Bates, Great Bend senior, blends his broad background and fine writing abilities in his job as editorial editor. Jim, who in his off-hours can turn a piece of scratch paper into avante-garde art, worked for the Rochester NY, and Chronicle this summer. He doubled as an assistant campus desk editor and contributing writer last semester. Sports editor is Steve Schoenfield, Overland Park senior. Steve, associate sports editor last spring and the Kansas City Star's KU sports team. He determines to pay attention to all KU sports, not just the prime-timers. Two cities have different tales Staff photos by JAY KOELZE Protest circa 1976 Two different cities, two different political parties and, most importantly, two different years. CHICAGO—There are far fewer demonstrators than predicted. Despite Yippie leaders' hopes and police fears, the mayor of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has vowed to provide the 1968 Democratic Convention with "an ounce of prevention" and has 12,000 policemen on 12-hour shifts and a reserve of another 100,000 National Guard and U.S. Army soldiers backing his vow. Wednesday afternoon during the convention, all 10,000 gather in Grant's Park for the only open-air demonstration of the week to be given a city permit. One demonstrator lowers an arm in flag that is flying near the bandshell and is arrested. KANSAS CITY — It is Monday, Aug. 16, and several dozen Yippies are sitting in the shade at the street near the street from President Ford's headquarters in Crown Center. They are outnumbered almost 2 to 1 by a congregation of Yippies, the other end of the same park. The situation gets tense as the crowd murmurs and scattered demonstrators shout objections, and the marshals try to calm everyone, but a police formation moves in, chanting 'back' and swinging their clubs. Soon the police leave and the crowd regathers, but only after screens, injuries or feet of act of television film. They are also outnumbered by the press, who run around the building and photos, and by the people from Watch, Inc., a nonprofit corporation designed to keep tabs on the demonstration situation. It is a hot afternoon and the Vippie leaders are content to sit on the ground and talk politics through an amplifier. Although the leaders and a few others have looks like veterans, the shaded shade sitters are surprisingly many. Look about 15 or 16. A man in a Nixon mask and another in a Ford mace prince around the park, posing for photographers. A couple of 16-year-olds in clown make-up walk to where the Jesus people are singing songs and carrying "Christians Care for America" signs and lower an American flag that is flying near a statue of George Washington. night. The demonstrators are gathering in the street near the Hilton Hotel, preparing to march to the convention center. There is a lot of confusion and disarray as would-be marches still seem weak because of a tear gas attack an hour earlier. CHICAGO Wednesday About 8 p.m. the police charge into the crowd from north of the hotel. The cops lose control (although this will be later debated, of course) and club and mace indiscriminately. KANSAŠ CITY — it's after 4:30 p.m. now, and the Yippies are getting ready to marry a big girl. The temperature is in the high 98° and Observers from the hotel describe the scene as being like a Breugel painting. Jim Bates Editorial Editor A short distance away, a group of gay activists debate whether to join the march. The occasional obscenities and antigovernment slogans bother them. Kemper is more than two miles from the camp in Penn Valley Park. About 200 gather for the march, carrying marijuana - leaf fringes and seeds - Gerald Ford head onto an old school bus. "Many gays may be very active on the issue of gay rights," one tells a reporter, "and they are very conservative people." As a Yippie leader asks through the amplifier whether anyone knows how to get to Kemper Arena, a police helicopter flys casually overhead. Several hundred yards away, three policemen lounge in front of the building, checking out the Yippies through a pair of bipinnacles. Photographers and cameramen get what they need and then start for Kemper—by ear. "Does anybody;" the man with the amplifiers asks again. "know how to get to Kemper Arena?" LAWRENCE-In another five years, perhaps, there will be a 60s revival. There will be nostalgic movies about Hight Ashbury and Rememberwhen three-album record collections But right now, all that's left is a ripple. It is a ripple that is sad and laughable at the same time. A warped joke. And it is hard to believe that the people staying in Penn Valley Park don't know it. In 1968, the demonstrators did weird things or different things and "normal" people were offended and scared. The demonstrators were seen as a bad thing because what had to be crushed. Some people still think that way. But most people don't. Most people are more like the Republican delegates who walk through Washington Square with their instastatics clicking. They're more curious than anything. The press still gives the demonstrators coverage and reporters still take turns drawing political gushings from Yippie leaders, but it's mostly force of habit. For all practical purposes, the Movement stopped moving years ago. Its popular ideas were absorbed by mass culture. The majority of participants got tired and joined some newer fed. The end of the drama was the end of Richard Nixon, left the Movement without any central problem or devil. The people in Penn Valley Park are not there because they think they have something to say and a struggle to fight. They are there because it has become a tradition of civilians in national political conventions are supposed to have demonstrators. Maybe a political convention without demonstrators would be like a convention without balloons and fringe. Maybe the public and especially, the press, would think they had been cheated Letters Policy 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. KTU students must provide their academic standing and hometown; faculty must provide their position; others must provide their address. Alison Gwinn, Prairie Village senior, doubles this semester as entertainment editor and copy chief, which she was last spring. Alison is returning from a graduate school with the Kansas City Times this summer. She's calling her Friday page Arts and Leisure to indicate that she's not covering just plays, but also movies. She wants to paint a picture of low students live. PRIZE-WINNING photography has been a Kansan trademark for years, and this year should be no different with Dave Regier, Overland Park senior, as photo editor. He has worked on many of the past two summers as well as for the past two summers as well as for the Lawrence Daily Journal-World and the Kansan in years past. The man who keeps the Kansan out of hock is business manager Terry Hanson, El Dorado senior. After giving up a career in KU football in his first two years, he went to Denver during spring break last year he worked as an ad salesman for the El Dorado Times and returned this season to pressman and pressman there. And I left the Rochester, N.Y., Times-Union to work as editor this fall. Last summer I worked for the Wichta Eagle-Beacon and this spring went to a Seas Congressions internship. After working as a news editor, photo editor and associate editor. I'm eager to learn more about three years overhearing student and faculty comments about the Kanan, and now I want to hear them directly. Give me a call in my room. I almost always there. 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