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Monday, April 7, 1975
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Primaries confusing
Four Northwestern states are taking the initiative to bring some semblance of order to the presidential primary circuit. Washington is hosting a region and Omaha is organizing a regional primary for May 25, 1976.
This would be the first regional primary in U.S. history. Strictly speaking, the primary will be "regional" only in that all four state primaries will be on the same day. Nevertheless, this principle is appalled and further regionalization should be encouraged.
At least 28 states will sponsor presidential primaries next year. This record number of primaries has been cited by Sen. Walter McCain and Minn., as a major reason he decided against running for president.
Clearly, presidential primary
unfavorable. The country is long
efficient, and the voters are
many proposals to regionalize the primary system, but the four Northwestern states probably will be the ones that will next year's run for the Oval Office.
Perhaps the most sweeping primary reform has been proposed by Sen. Robert Packwood, R-Ore. Packwood wants the country divided into five regional districts of roughly equal population. Each district should have one representative and each election would be one month apart, beginning in March.
It's too late for Congress to adopt such a reform for the 1976 elections. It is hoped that by 1980 we'll have a more liberal system to select our presidential nominees.
Presidential primaries have been growing in popularity since the first primary in Oregon in 1911. It's time we fully adopted the primary system and remedied its haphazard development.
—Steven Lewis
Unless the weather throws
another surprise snowstorm at
us, the major league baseball
season will start today.
Baseball fans' predictions
At my place, it's easy to tell when baseball season is near. My wife takes out her Philadelphia Phillies pennant and starts spelling all "f" words with "ph". And I dig out my yellow clipped cliping of the final game, some dings, a reminder of the last time the New York Yankees won the pennant.
GOOD OJ BASEBALL. Hot dogs, peanuts and Cracker Jack. But just as good as all that is predicting the winners and losers. You don't have to be a sportswriter or Jimmy the trainer try your hand at predicting the season's outcome.
You just have to be a little sillv.
I rounded up two other baseball nails willing to try to pick the division winners for this season. The first is Dean Krause, an acknowledged baseball expert on the journalism faculty. The other is Mark Zeligman, the Kansas's sports editor last fall.
It's important to note that the picks aren't based entirely on your knowledge of some degree, what we hope will happen, not necessarily what we expect to happen. And in my case, there are couple of coin picks.
one lesson, he says. Last year he picked the K.C. Royals to win division. The Royals finished fifth of the six teams in the division.
Leibengood picked Oakland to
His picks this year are:
Baltimore and Oakland in the
American League and the
Phillies and the Los Angeles
By Craig Stock Associate Editor
beat Kansas City in the American League West and Baltimore to finish ahead of the Yankees in the East. He picked Cincinnati to win the National League title, but Miami's favorite National League team, the St. Louis Cardinals, to win the Eastern Division.
Zeligman's predictions are his 11th annual try at picking the winners. He wasn't picked by the Cardinals and Sesame Smith yet. But he's learned at least
Dodgers in the National League.
We've heard many comments, mostly derogatory, about the impressionistic art of William Carlos Williams of Strong Hall. It has been
likened to a pterodactyl, a chicken and a buzzard. But it's still there.
An elusive campus legend provides some hope, albeit small, that she may someday be the Class of 86 donation to the University.
The legend has it that should a virgin ever graduate from KU, the four-ton bird will flap its wings and fly away.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, proposed last week that the KU Athletic Correspondent program I like做. College wrestling is an exciting sport featuring well-conditioned athletes of all sizes. A wrestling bout is as exciting as a fight over time period and there are several bouts in each match.
The Athletic Corporation decided against starting a wrestling program because it estimated that it would cost $100,000 to be competitive in the Big Eight Conference. One member said that "we couldn't carry enough liability insurance
to wrestle in this conference," a reference to theOWER house of breeding programs at Iowa State and Oklahoma State.
But to forget about participating in a sport simply because we can't compete doesn't seem to stop UF from making a run to Nebraska in football every year. After all, KU spends nearly $1 million a year on football. I don't see why it's not ideal to get creamed by Oklahoma in football than in wrestling.
To conclude a column dominated by sports, I want to give a wrap-up on the Pressman, the Society of Professional Journalists basketball team. Our first report reported here earlier. After that unfortunate spectacle, we had a practice and lost the second game by only three points.
We actually won our last two games, one by four points and the other by, no kidding, 73 points. Our bribes worked.
McCarthy to try again in '76
BY JOHN CRICHTON
Kanson Staff Reporter
Eugene McCarthy is running for president again. This time, however, he is running as an opponent rather than a Democrat.
Since his bids for the presidency in 1968 and 1972, McCarthy has become increasingly dissatisfied with the
way the two major parties have run the country. Believing there wasn't any room for his ideas within either of the two major parties, last August McCarthy ran for a Senate seat on a constitutional Presidency.
McCarthy is the Committee's presidential candidate. He hopes to win the support of the
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33 per cent of voters who are registered independent.
Since his 1968 presidential race, McCarthy has been known as a liberal. But the focus of his '68 campaign was on his ob
jections to the way the Constitution was allegedly being ignored. American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, Carlby, was an example of Constitutional abuse on the part of President Johnson. Ford's pardon of Nixon, McCarthy and Bush was an example of Constitutional abuse.
McCarthy's objections to the Vietnam war echo the voice of a liberal, as do his objections to many other official positions of the government. There are, however, stands McCarthy takes that may not be so popular among liberals.
THE MOST RECENT example is McCarthy's unaffected scorn for the new campaign finance law. It is an unconstitutional law, McCarthy says, not an issue of liberal versus conservative. And it is a further example, according to the President, that the President lack a thorough understanding of the Constitution and of democratic ideas.
"The passage of the campaign finance bill," McCarthy has said, "is one more indication of the thoughtlessness of the Congress, of its lack of sensitivity to the function of
ideas and of institutions in American democracy."
McCarthy says the campaign finance law was designed to hinder third party participation in presidential elections. The bill will be given to a third party only if that party received at least five per cent of the vote in the presidential election. Since no third party received five per cent of the votes in the 72 contests, it will be waived to the Democrats and Republicans in 1976.
Just as the March Hare in "Alice in Wonderland" said to Alice, "Have some wine," when there was none, McCarthy thinks the two major parties are saying to independents, "Have some public funds," even though there aren't any.
McCarthy is also opposed to the 25th amendment, which provides for the transition of government to new resigns. The amendment was passed under pressure following President Kennedy's assassination, and McCarthy is conceived and poorly written.
McCarthy also is opposed to the volunteer army, which he says "insures an unrepresentative military democratic mercenary army."
MCCARTHY ALSO opposes the 22nd amendment because he thinks no president should be limited to two terms.
McCarthy says he is 'deadly serious about his campaign'. When McCarthy proved he was wrong, Johnson hit the road for Texas.
McCarthy is known around Washington as "clean Gene," "the great spoiler," and more importantly, as a very experienced and intelligent politician. There is little doubt that he has voter appeal. In 1972, he got 40 per cent of the vote in his primary. Some observers think that McCarthy's full potential as a vote-getter has never been tapped.
At the moment, McCarthy isn't worrying many Democratic presidential hopefuls, mainly because McCarthy isn't going to run in any primaries and he can't get public funds. In addition, third parties seldom perform well.
McCarthy, however, doesn't seem to mind bucking him to get his name on every state ballet for the 1976 general election, and he plans to have a dance rehearsal as people as he can reach by them.
McCarthy IS probably better known than any Democratic candidate except Henry "Scoop" Jackson. Jackson, however, has George Wallace and the Democratic candidate on the run. McCarthy is already nominated and on the run.
If McCarthy is as deadly serious as he claims to be, then his candidacy will be a force to believe. Johnson found out that McCarthy wasn't called the "great spolier" for nothing, and the parties may find that the greatest spolierung is yet to come.
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Readers respond / Santee's son defends 'Ole Wes'
I have read with interest the editorial comments about the deserter Jim York. It appears to me that the criticism of Wes Santee, or should I, too, call him, is another example of students' off their mouths before they know all the facts.
To the Editor:
Since "Ole Wes" happens to be my father, perhaps I can give you a few facts that will set your mind right regardless of your views.
1. THERE WAS NO "one man war" against Jim York. The hiring of York was clearly a violation of the rules set forth in his book, and Wes Wes simply pointed this out.
2. It is understandable that a student not from the Lawrence area might see fit to think York should be hired. However, it is common practice for all of us to learn about the Lawrence community as a member of the Lawrence community for many years; therefore, it does not appear unreasonable that "Ole Wes" and many other Lawrence people think locally unemployment problems should be hired first before a nonresident named York.
3. WHERE WAS "Ole Wes" during Korea? He was happen to be at the University of Kansas and a member of ROTC, which he chose according to the law. He then served his two years of military service before that war in Korea ended and further bloodshed was not necessary. During the war in Vietnam "Ole Wes" along with
many other Marine Reserves, volunteered for active duty but was not taken.
"Ole Wes" has continued to work in the Marine Reserves for over 20 years. He has put in more time than was required. I know this for a fact. He has been given the reserve force that might someday help us all out of a time of crisis.
I HAVE NEVER agreed with the war in Vietnam, nor do I defend it now. I do believe that you can best serve your cause by standing up for what you want, not being afraid to ask the answer when there are numerous alternative service programs available. It is understandable that those who chose to run away now find it so hard to return.
I CAN UNDERSTAND how easy it is for us to think our parents are all wrapped up in the establishment, but when we choose to violate the law we must be on the front. The fact is that Jim York willfully violated the law. He is lucky to have the chance to work his way back to a good standing as a citizen, but I have never been able to do this to accord to the rules. He can't do this by taking a job away from one who served his country, regardless of his personal views. "Ole Wes" has helped other draft evaders and deserters back into the main stream with fewer hassles than they would have had before. It is ridiculous to say that "Ole Wes' war" against Jim York just because York is a deserter.
Spike Santee
Lawrence Sophomore
KUAC by-laws
In the article, "KUAC by-laws labeled unfair," Ed Rolfs is revealed to be a person of limited adaptability and insight. The thought of a white male being passed over in favor of a woman or a minority student seems to send him into trouble, and he speaks of racial and sexual discrimination, his own scruples and the possibility of legal action.
The dilemma, as he sees it, is this: He is limited by the revised by-laws of the KUAC and cannot appoint the 'best qualified person.' The situation is made worse by the fact that of the nine applicants could be considered a minority student.
I WOULD LIKE to offer the following observations.
First, the words 'best qualified' are often taken at face value, but in reality they imply a question: Best qualified for what? It would seem that the best qualified person in this case, as defined in the KUAC by laws, is a student. The position in question is not a salaried one, and if the KUAC board desires some diversity of background, it's its own business. Ed Rolfs,
as a "public servant," as an "executive," should confine himself to carrying out their desires, and appoint the best-qualified applicant as defined in terms of the bv-laws.
SECOND, THERE IS the problem of the lack of minority applicants (women were not mentioned here). To me, this indicates that the position and the stipulations of the by-laws did not receive adequate training. The publicity would result in more minority applicants and a wider choice.
If ed Rolfs wants to combat sexism and racism, he certainly began in an odd way, leaping to the defense of the one sexual-racial group that has all the advantage to begin with.
Rebecca Rose Lawrence Senior
Radiation fatal
To the Editor:
SUCH AN ACCOUNTING should begin with the mining of radioactive substances. Even by the late 1960s, a study of the
According to Bernard Cohen, who spoke here on March 24, "There have been only seven deaths attributed to radiation sickness since 1940" (Kansan, March 25, 1975). This is not true. A thorough accounting of all the Americans who have died in a period as a result of radiation materials would run into the tens of thousands, possibly into the hundreds of thousands.
6,000 people who had engaged in the occupation of uranium mining showed that between 800 and 1,200 were either dead or dying as a result of lung cancer caused by that occupation (H. M. Industrial, M.D., "The Atomic Industrial Establishment").
It would take too much space to go stepwise through each phase of a rebuttal of Cohen's argument, and the ought to be mentioned is the case made by two physicists that, if the trend toward the radiation limit currently by Cohen is correct, the missioner continues, we will suffer an additional 32,000 cancer deaths annually (John Gofman, Ph.D., and Arthur D. Lefkowitz, "Poisoned Power").
Kemp Houck
Associate Professor of English
Finally, there is a new type of body count for which the atomic industrial establishment must be held accountable: the Karen Silkworm case given the sounds like excessively strong language, I highly recommend the coverage of the Karen Silkworm case given in the March 27 edition of *The New York Times*, same article also mentions a recent attempt on the life of Larry Bogart, editor of "Nuclear Opponents."
Rent gripe
To those people thinking about living in a residence hall next year:
I would simply like to quote a few figures to you and express some simple mathematical knowledge that have been bothering me.
A single room in the majority of residence halls next year will cost $1,430 plus a $25 nonrefundable "processing fee." The average person will be paying $143 in 10 monthly payments to live there. Memorandums that you will be frequently kicked out of your rooms at three weeks at Christmas, a week at Thanksgiving and a week at Spring Break.
So, in all actuality, you are really only living in the hall for eight months for that $1,439 you pay in the month that you are really paying. And the rooms are only about 22 by 22 feet, the food is being verbally protested and the studying is an impossibility.
FOR TWO PERSONS to occupy the same space, it will run about $1,200 a person, or about $150 each for each of the eight months, which is $300 a month for that room.
At these outrageous prices, I recommend that those students who find it hard to go to school work boycott these prices.
Multiply these figures by the large number of students that live in these halls and you can see that someone is making out in the deal and it is not the students.
Douglas Campbell Lawrence Junior