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Thursday, April 14, 1977
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Time to shift gears
When the Kansas legislature finally succumbs to spring fever and leaves its winter home in Topeka, more will be left behind than the discarded parking tickets the legislators have gathered during their stay.
Much of the major legislation that, if acted upon, would have raised this session's state status above mere medicocracy, now lies gathering dust in subcommittee cubbyholes or awaiting Gov. Robert Bennett's almost-assured veto.
Currently awaiting the governor's action are bills that would provide easier methods to enforce old-age home health standards, major state income tax revisions, specific guarantees by insurers as to product liability and the creation of a division within the Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services specifically for the aged.
BENNETT COULD become both legislative and executive branches of Kansas government when the legislators go home, as he alone will have the power to
decide the fate of these and other bills on his desk.
Of course, Kansas legislators aren't dummies—a special three-day session, scheduled to begin April 27, is specifically designed to review a governor's vetoes. The problem is that this three-day session might have to be devoted to making up the time this session has wasted; the result government by veto.
THIS SESSION has acted responsibly on a number of issues. Noteworthy is its efforts to exempt prescription drugs from sales taxes, action on bingo, public television and protection for those who report suspected use of child abuse. That, however, isn't enough.
Unless the session puts itself in high gear—and soon—the only solution to make-up work in April would be a costly special session. And extra money spent on something that is sometimes the first time around is something few Kansas employers should be expected to tolerate.
Senate action justified
Tuesday night, the Student Senate approved a $1.50 increase in the student activity fee and a resolution calling for the end of funding of women's athletics after this year.
Both actions were justified.
The activity fee increase would help the University's underdeveloped intramural and recreational programs. The Senate also approved the allocation of $60,000 from the Senate's unallocated funds to help the same programs. The $60,000 would be used for improvements in recreational facilities, like tennis court lights.
KU, As a Big Eight school, is very big-time when it comes to men's intercollegiate athletics. But when it comes to the average student, the program is small-time. The hours and the facilities are insufficient for the demand.
By making money available to improve the recreational program, the Senate is doing what it originally was designed to do—provide funding for worthwhile activities that serve the average student and that have trouble setting funding elsewhere.
The fee increase and $60,000 won't do that much, but they are something, and they may be more important.
importance of the recreation program to students.
THE SENATE's action on the funding of women's athletics may appear, at first glance, to be a slap in the face to the women's program. But it is nothing of the kind. The Senate is trying to get out of funnelled ethics because it figures that, under Title IX antisex discrimination guidelines, the University will have to provide the funding.
And, the Senate figures, the University is the organization that should have been doing the funding in the first place. By acting now, the Senate is giving the administration money so it can include women's sports in the fiscal 1978 budget to be drawn up this June.
Women's athletics will hardly be crippled by the Senate's move. In fact, it may be a stronger program in the long run for the change.
And the change will face Senate funds for other, more needy groups that serve a small percentage of the population.
Basically, they both actions were good ones. Ideally, they merely are steps towards a more consistent and student-oriented budgeting philosophy and, in the long run, toward better recreation and women's athletics programs.
For how could be, when he invented baseball in 1839, realize the sport would become its own biggest joke.
Pity Abner Doubleday
Baseball throwing itself a curve
If nobody's laughing, it's because we're paying ever-increasing prices to witness our national pastime. Baseball, largely because of enormous salaries paid to its players, is beaten by the NBA. According to a survey conducted by United Press International, this season's average starting salary is $54,19.19. Of course, there are those at the low end of the scale, such as John Paulson, about what a high school administrator can shoot for. There are those around the $35,000 level—some fortune college professors can hit that. A few earn about $25,500, the same annual salary as the Chief Audit Officer. And some earn what President Jimmy Carter makes in a year—$200,000.
BUT THEN come baseball's real heroes—the multimillion dollar babes whose mouth-covered silver spoons are the size of halfway respectable baseball bats.
Leading the list are Joe Morgan of Cincinnati, Mike Schmidt of Philadelphia and Gary Matthes of Atlanta, all raking in annual salaries approaching $400,000.
If that's not enough to make a popcorn vendor blow his kernels, consider the antics of a man who signed his contract on the veil of Cincinnati's opener. He is like a kid threatened with a sound alarm if he doesn't eat it. That sounds like that they're too hot. The kid waits to complain, "Gosh, Morn, now they're too cold," and holds out just as Rose held out to get his meager $500,000 a day.
POOR GUY. Sort of makes you want to give him an award
or something. But, as the saying goes, those are the breaks of the game.
But suffering through a quarter-million-dollar contract isn't all work. Heck, the guys would get bored stuff without
Simple Get a few cronies who have lots of money, sink the money into player salaries, and volla; the New York Yankees. Can the players be held solely or probably not. After all, they must
Bill Sniffen
Editorial Writer
more than one decade. So why not get it while they can?
Want to win the World Series?
residuals from shaving-cream, cologne or car-rental commercials. And then there are the play-offs.
THE CRUX of the issue is the fans' response. It hasn't been positive. It hasn't been entirely hostile, either. Despite higher season and single-game ticket records across the country.
One can only wonder how long it will all go on, whether an end is in sight.
team in the league to stock sell and therefore the only one open to public inspection, faces a large number of signs of financial weakening.
SALARY LEVELS probably have peaked. It shouldn't be too long before they're back down where they belong.
Signs of that end are appearing. At least one major player has emerged, largely because of the exorbitant prices it has guaranteed its players, on the verge of losing Baltimore Orioles, the only
Whether poor old Abner realized what would happen to his beloved baseball is debatable. But he was clever enough, and probably clever enough to realize its potential.
Too bad he wasn't clever enough to have realized that baseball wouldn't be America's national pastime.
Making money is.
NCAA seeks to aid both sexes
An NCAA suit filed recently try to prevent the federal government from enforcing regulations against sex discrimination in college colleges isn't a battle of the sexes.
Rather, it is an all-too-cool confrontation between those who think it is possible for someone other than federal bureaucracy.
to make decisions that are none of their business and those who don't.
Stories that begin "Scientists have discovered ...", or "Doctors know now that..." are almost certain to contain a reference to the letter i, it is the use of long, "official-sounding terminology when
The reason that the NCAA is seeking separate treatment and education for universities is clear: if strictly interpreted, regulations of the Department of Defense and Welfare (HEW) would require athletic departments to provide as much in scholarship, salaries and expenses to women's athletics as to men's.
ALTHOUGH THE motives of
donate $1,000 to the Williams
Educational Fund, which is
administered by the athletic
Department Shipped to the
department be required.
Science terms congest language
One particular sign of our socio-politico-economic society and how far it has progressed or not, is how it communicates.
you must impress it would seem that the general level of speech has risen from its former state, with fragmented sentences, punctuated only with frequent "you knows" or "like, I mean..." and the even popular exclamation "(exclamation point optional)."
For want of a better term, the language of the literate has been dubbed "Sci-speak," short for scientific speech. It is a term coined by author Arthur Herlih, who wrote a book about something almost every college student employs—the B.S. Factor.
But then again, a perusal of the word list here shows that almost all of them are results of overexposure to and influence of politicians, lawyers and scientists. Especially scientists. What has been happened to the language? In efforts to evade, impress, expose and people tend to gravitate towards the polysyllabic, the grandiose, to say what they mean. Know what I mean?
EDWIN NEWMAN, NBC news correspondent, detailed a plethora of such verbose phrases: "The Strictly Speaking" and "A Tongue," where he assails (and word) abusers of the language.
Sci-speak tries to render infallible the authority of anything 'scientific'. (i.e. test) scientific (results available on request). WHILE SOME scientific discoveries seem dubious at best, sci-speak overcomes this difficulty by sheer force of rhetoric.
simple words would do—as when TV weatherwomen talk about a 50 per cent chance of
Compare "name of the game"
with "point", "waste
management" with trash pick.
precipitation, instead of an even chance of rain.
Paul Jefferson
Editorial Writer
Executives revel in snappy endings, such as-is- , -ate, and -ize. When they "finalize" and "eventuate," they sound like a knife or a sharp, hard edge; sort of like a can opener or a rotolier.
ANOTHER OF the tenets of sci-speak is its amelioration of the speaker's language.
and, "authenticate" with verify,
up, a "ball park estimate" with
a rough guess. It means the
same but says it better.
Thanks to sci-speak, a great number of once technical or at least other areas of their meaning to the point that they are almost as inimical as you prove it yourself, choose any three-digit number, using the
1 2 3
1. evaluative 1. coalition 1. equilibrium
2. hyperbolic 2. power 2. relationship
3. functional 3. dance 3. structure
4. intuitive 4. status 4. attraction
5. interactive 5. role 5. gradient
6. negative 6. communication 6. contingency
7. operational 7. task 7. network
8. centralized 8. activity 8. matrix
9. interdependent 9. index 9. model
10. sociopolical 10. efficacious 10. decision
numbered columns as a guide.
Now put the corresponding words together and you have a sci-speak phrase. Number 343, for example, gives us functional language; something we all should produce has negative role relationship, probably another
name for an enemy.
the possibilities are endless. Soon,
you, too, will be able to hurt an
invertebrate, beguile and buddle
your way into a hostile place
your way into and out of the most
sensitive circumstances.
If only someone could understand you.
the NCAA in this case are necessarily pure, this case does raise an important question: government (in this case, HEW) go in the regulation of organizations and activities not financed by the federal bureau but related to ones that are?
DOES HEW'S regulation against sex discrimination mean that the KUAC must provide, for each football scholarship given, a field hockey shirt in the case, the future of intercollegiate athletics looks bleak.
The Kansas University Athletic Corporation (KUAC), for example, doesn't receive money directly from HEW. Most of its income is from ticket receipts of KU football and basketball games and private dance events given to support, two their programs.
There is little evidence to indicate that the NCAA doesn't support women's athletics. In fact, the opposite seems to be true, a situation that would probably change if the courts decide degrees and universities to divide the controlled by their athletic departments equally between men and women.
UNDER THE present structure, many of the women's athletic programs are supported by the financial successes of some groups. Assuming that a team's record is related to its financial success, and vice versa, the amount of money available for sports programs will probably decrease under a strict HWE enforcement of its sex discrimination regulations. Although that assumption isn't necessary, wouldn't be difficult to prove. A more practical argument, but much less popular, is that because athletic departments are supposed to spend money they should be able to spend it however they want.
Brent Anderson Editorial Writer
side with the NCAA on this issue is to oppose women's intercollegiate athletics.
On the contrary, if the courts decide against the NCAA, both women's and men's athletic programs will be hurt, and HEW will have discriminated against all of us.
SUCH THINKING in modern America is incredible, but it might be worthy of some comparison. You can get the alumnus of KU wanted to
The issue here isn't whether the women should get as much money as men, but whether HEW has the authority to tell them how to spend the KUAC how they can and cannot spend their own money.
OTHER LEGAL questions are involved, such as whether an athletic corporation is a separate entity from its college or university. There is no reason to think, however, that to
because of existing HEW
regulations, to use $500 for
women's scholarships and $500
for men's?
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