UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, June 22,1994
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The Questions:
What do you think of Budig's decision to take the American League presidency position?
Responses
How would you evaluate Budig's performance as chancellor?
- Who would you like to see take his place?
- What suggestions do you have for how to conduct the search for a new chancellor?
I am in agreement with Chancellor Budig's brother, Richard, who says that the game of baseball is nonsensical. It's a case of misplaced values. Richard said, "We've got serious problems in our society. We've got AIDS. We've got cancer. Let's get real get." I agree with the editorial last Sunday in the Kansas City Star that said that Gene Budig taking this job is a step down. In the words of the *Star*, he has moved off into the "toy department of life." He did a fine job of raising money for the University. In spite of what people say, he did not ideal with the academic side of the University, student life, or faculty members. I would hope that his replacement would be a person with some genuine academic qualifications.
Well I think it's a great decision.
He's been here for thirteen years.
It's not like he hasn't given it a shot.
And, besides, who wouldn't leave KU to go be eternally young in the world of baseball. I sure would.
First of all, the article under Oread Forum in yesterday's paper said he [Budig] held the job for fourteen years. It'll be thirteen years.
LETTERS
I think his performance has been quite adequate. He isn't an innovator, but he's a "stand pat" chancelor.
I think it's a fine decision to take the position with the American League. I hope he realizes that he will have very contentious owners who are prima donnas. Some of them are very, very tough.
I have no particular person to take his place. I would hope he or she would be an academician, someone from the academic field and not just an administrator and definitely not a politician or somebody from the business world.
I think the search has to be done pretty much in secret. The person in the Board of Regents said he thought they ought to publish the names. I don't think so. There will be a lot of candidates out there who would like to talk about it and apply. But as soon as they make contact with KU, their names are published. If they aren't chosen it makes them look bad. So I think up to a certain point the committee has to be secret.
Budigshould befired for taking baseball job
A university is both the symbol and living niche of scholarship mental asceticism, idealism and deep-probing inquiry into the mysteries of the universe and man. Its head represents and upholds all these. A switch on his part from these to an antipodal vocation shatters the image of a university. It blurs the very "calling to a university" for its members, faculty and students, especially the young students and new entrants. Such are the degradation and tragedy of the chancellor's acceptance of the job of president of the American Baseball League.
Imagine the abbot of a medieval monastery actively seeking and accepting the job of, say, the president of McDonald's, a job diametrically opposed in spirit and character to that of a monastery and its calling. It would ruin the image of a monastery, confusing the calling of its postulants and clouding the very meaning of monastic life.
The damage could not be fully undone. But firing the abbot before his formal leaving, in its implication of some kind of disas-
sociation, would partially salvage the image of a monastery and retain the meaning of its calling. For these reasons fire the chanceller. T.S. David I am someone graduate student
Lawrence graduate student
Professor offers view of funding for college
Although cost-shifting has reached epidemic proportions, it is not new. Consider the 1003 comments by Wallace Sabine, a famous physicist and administrator at Harvard: "Scholarships can be relied on to relieve the situation for the financially cramped student after he has been here a year, but not during the first year, and still less can this influence be felt and future relief anticipated by the student before coming. The College is already widely known as the 'rich man's college' — an impression to which an increase in tuition fees would be interpreted as giving official recognition. Whether this would increase or decrease the number of students is hard to say."
J. A. Weir
J. A. Weir Professor Emeritus of Biology
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