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Friday, March 31, 1995
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Glickman wins Senate confirmation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Dan Glickman was confirmed handily yesterday as secretary of agriculture and pledged to work immediately on the 1995 farm bill.
The Kansas Democrat and 18-year veteran of the House Agriculture Committee promised to represent all of the United States and be an advocate for farmers and ranchers.
"The future of American agriculture is being debated right now, and I intend to be very active in that debate," said Glickman, 50, after the 94-0 Senate vote to confirm him. He was sworn in by Deputy Secretary Richard E. Rominger, who has been running the department since Jan. 1.
Glickman replaces Mike Espy, who resigned last year because of favors he received from companies doing business with the department. Though nominated Dec. 28, Glickman had to wait for an exhaustive background check.
Glickman said he would take a common sense approach.
"Pragmatic solutions to farm problems is what will serve farmers, ranchers and consumers better," he said, but declined to give details about his farm policy plans.
In his statement, Glickman also said the department would hold six forums beginning April 17 on the state of rural America, leading up to a White House National Rural Conference on April 25 in Ames, Iowa.
"We want to hear what rural Americans have to say," he said. "We will incorporate what we hear into the administration's proposal for the 1995 farm bill."
The bill determines government price and income support payments for farmers, as well as trade, conservation, research, forestry, disaster assistance, nutrition and other programs handled by the 110,000-employee department.
Glickman has worked on four such farm bills. This year's bill could be the most difficult because budget-cutting pressures and criticism of traditional farm programs are stronger than ever.
"Mr. Glickman will begin his tenure at an important moment in
the agriculture Department's history," said Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "USDA is in need of strong leadership. It requires active management by a secretary who is knowledgeable, engaged and assertive."
Lugar has proposed cutting $15 billion from farm program spending over five years by ending a popular export subsidy program and trimming the crop subsidies for corn, wheat, rice and cotton.
The administration budget promises only $1.5 billion in unspecified farm program cuts over three years starting in 1998.
During his confirmation hearing March 21, Glickman said he wanted to go slowly in dismantling or trimming farm programs. "The system is not broken," he said. "The system works pretty well. What we have to do is take some of the bumps out of it without destroying the good part."
Glickman was defeated in November in his bid for a 10th term. President Clinton nominated him Dec. 28 to head the Agriculture Department.
Bipartisan support and strong backing from a fellow Kansan — Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole — helped Glickman win confirmation
"He is more interested in solving problems than in scoring partisan points," Dole said. "He realizes the foundation of our nation is agriculture."
Clinton said Glickman was a strong voice and advocate for farmers, working families and American agriculture.
Clinton said that although the Agriculture Department had expanded trade, developed strategies to help rural areas and streamlined the agency, its work was not done.
Glickman also has assigned a high priority to the Forest Service, which is struggling with a reorganization plan and attempts to balance environmental concerns with demands from Western lawmakers for more logging.
Glickman has promised he would try to unravel conflicting laws and rules that have driven up the cost of harvesting trees.
Chicago's 'recent past' structures celebrated
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Mies might call it a mess. Louis Sullivan would say phoeye, and Frank Lloyd Wright would think it wrong.
No matter.
Some 750 architects and historians were in Chicago yesterday to celebrate the "recent past" of Chicago's architecture — which to them means post-World War I — and salute such works as the Superdawg drive-in, the Leaning Tower YMCA and Ray Kroc's original McDonald's restaurant.
"The critics hated my work, but the people loved it," said Morris Lapidus, the 92-year-old architect of Miami's Fountainbleau Hotel,
which bears most of his stylistic tendencies.
Lapidus departed from the "less is more" steel rectangles favored by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and other members of the International Style of architecture.
In contrast to many of his contemporaries, Lapidus favored curvy walls, mirrors and playful glass entrances where it's difficult to discern where "outside" stops and "inside" starts — a style that only recently gained some appreciation among his colleagues.
"I don't think anybody liked those boxes except the critics — who liked them very much," Lapidus said of Mies' work. Lapidus displayed a
slide of his work, a glizy hotel lobby with a "stairway to nowhere."
While there were nods at the "Preserving the Recent Past" conference to Chicago's sophisticated architectural past, which includes the works of Mies, Wright and Sullivan, the styles celebrated were lower brow.
Those attending were offered tours of sites that may be missing from other architectural pilgrimages: the Superdawg drive-in with a big, brawny hot dog wearing a leopard skin a la Tarzan; the Leaning Tower YMCA, which leans in tribute to Pisa's original; and the McDonald's, now a museum where mannequins in 1950s attire stand behind gleaming counters.
Organizer Charles Fisher, an architectural historian, said the meeting's serious purpose was to encourage architects and preservationists to conserve what accurately reflects the way we lived.
Service stations, miniature golf courses, even amusement parks might be worth preserving, if they offer an insight into history, he said.
"Gas stations are important not just because of the physical landscape, but as an example of the impact of the automobile and its effect on society," Fisher said. "What we are trying to save is what was representative of that community."
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