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Tuesday, March 29, 1977
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Bennett helps budget
Gov. Robert Bennett has provided the University of Kansas and other state schools with some of the most pleasant surprises of this year's Kansas legislative session. On more than one occasion, Bennett has risked his political neck to support issues of great importance to Board of Regents schools—higher salaries, money for capital improvements and special construction projects.
Benedict saved the most pleasant surprise for last week. In a move that well could have caused resentment among some lawmakers, Bennett sent a letter to the legislature urging that money cut by a Senate committee be restored to the Regents budget.
For KU, Bennett's action meant that he was urging restoration of $447,000 for family practice programs at the Med Center. For all Regents schools, it meant Bennett wanted the legislature to provide the money which had been requested for energy-saving projects and increased utility and maintenance costs.
SOME OBSERVERS thought the House Ways and Means Committee was planning to restore the cuts this week anyway. State legislators were simply pushing for some cuts, but the committee could be spent. But Bennett took no chances in repeating his support of the Regents schools.
It was an action above and beyond the call of duty. Technically, Bennett had already done his part—he had requested the funds for a new camera system in the overall budget requests early in the session.
That is what made his action such an impressive. It is also what made it so impressive,
State legislators knew what Bennett wanted, and some were probably offended by the governor's insistence that state schools get the money. One can easily visualize Bennett's political advisers cringing his decision because his student accounted for a student move would have been to endure in silence, letting the legislature sink or swim on its own.
BUT, AS SAID before, Bennett has been full of pleasant surprises. He obviously is
deeply committed to the cause of higher education. Otherwise, he wouldn't be clamoring for a change of office while regularly chastising the legislature for overpenssing elsewhere
It didn't always like if Bennett would be such an ally. He was a prodding, caustic interrogator earlier this year when the Regents budget was being composed. He bluntly told state school budgets that he had to meet the Regents' satisfaction, all the funds they were requesting. It looked for as time if Bennett might be a roadblock.
But it now becomes clear that his objective is to weed out the unnecessary and bloated items from the Regents budget before it even reached the legislature. Bennett, convinced that the remainder of its departments are easy to defend, has shown that he's now willing to defend the budget to the hit.
THAT'S REMARKABLY sound behavior for a politician, particularly when the subject of money is at the heart of the issue.
Bennett saw the value in the programs sliced from the budget. The family practice plan would establish family practice programs in two Kansas cities and would start two additional family practice clinics in other underserved areas of the state.
The energy-saving programs would provide the legislature with a rare fringe benefit—a continuing return on their investment in years to come. Insulation and efficiency measures provided by the legislature eventually cut power use in all state schools.
AND, IN THE meantime, state schools need an extra $1 million to meet escalating utility costs. KU officials, for example, say that utility costs rose 32 per cent in January and February despite a 15 per cent reduction in usage.
Whether these programs will now find their way back into the budget is still a matter of conjecture. But it is comforting to see the governor isn't backing down on his welcome commitment to improve higher education in Kansas.
WASHINGTON—The House and Senate voted with a whop and a holier recently to repeal the Byrd Amendment on Obamacare, in which President signed the bill the next day. "This puts us on the side of what's right and proper," he said. It was a fatuous remark, but no more embarrassing, learning to expect from Carter.
Vote kills little orphan honesty
Until it was smuffed out a few days ago, the Byrd Amendment was the one bright flame of truth in a murky world of diplomatic falsehood. As such, it was a great embarrassment. In the midst of 10,000 lies, there stood the Byrd Amendment: "I don't believe the servers of the African scene were perplexed: What's a nice kid like you, he kept asking, doing in a lont like this?"
DURING THE FIVE years of its existence, the Byrd Amendment provided the only breath of integrity in the United Nations and allowed an amendment openly, unapologetically, without shame or subterfuge, authorized the importation of Rhodesian chrome. The Amendment violated the United Nations' sanctions against trade with Rhodesia. So long as it remained on the books, the amendment made Uncle Sam a kind of parish, as welcome as Graham at an East Side order.
With this irritating splinter removed, the United States may again be as crooked, as deceitful, as filled with hypocrisy, as everybody else. And this will be a tremendous change since the United Nations imposed these punitive sanctions, none of the leading members of the United Nations has paid the slightest attention to them. Visitors to Salisbury have marveled at the evidence of worldwide commerce before their very eyes—Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen from Germany, Chevrolet from the United States. Every major nation of
the world has violated the sanctions in every conceivable way.
RHODESIA PRODUCES the finest metallurgical chrome in
James J. Kilpatrick [c] 1977 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
the world; and for the past ten years, despite the UN embargo, Rhodesia has sold every ton that could be mined. The ore can be shipped to Germany, and of course to the United States. The ore will continue to find its way into the channels of steel production worldwide. The only difference, the cheating will be monstrous.
regime in Britain. The regime at Salisbury is precisely as "illegal" in its origin, neither more nor less. It was established within Washington. As we were reminded to the point of saturation throughout 1978, the United States came into being by means of a new Independence from Great Britain. Our forefathers were 'rebelis', traitors and revolutionaries. And not to put too far a point on the role of our liberals dedicated to denying the black slaves the most elementary human and civil rights.
IN THE NAME of conscience,
in the name of history, how can
the Americans of that
inheritance denounce an
"illegal, racist regime" in
Salisbury? The government of
Rhodesia is no more illegal than any other government born of revolution; and it is no more oppressive or undemocratic than any regime that are cordially welcome in the nation of nations.
The whole business is disgraceful. Carter has won repeal of the Byrd Amendment. His next step will be to obliterate the tiny Rhodesian Information Service that has been operating modestly in the past decade. Not a single dissenting voice is to be permitted. Root and branch, the last vestige of a Rhodesian presence is to be stamped out.
THIS IS the scenario: The peaceful, inoffensive government of Ian Smith, united with his counterparts, has attained the highest standards
of health, education and personal income in southern Africa, is to be topped. The war has already made the into hands of power-hungry terrorists, Marxist in their orientation, who will set up a one-paragraph act of terrorism against Zimbabwe and Angola. The native blacks will have no effective voice in their destiny; they will be worse off than they are now. Most of them are ill-educated and a long dark night will begin.
In that dreary prospect, repeal of the Byrd Amendment fits perfectly. In the United Nation's essentially dishonest atmosphere polluted by a standard of international morality, the Byrd Amendment was too good to survive. Let it go. Asking the United Nations to tolerate truth is asking too much.
Get 5 more chimps and $13,315
Useless information gathered in a weekend of reading and ruminating;
Anyone who thinks he's just thrown the party of the year should take not of a plan at Chicago's Ambassador Hotel.
For only $13,135, a party of six can enjoy the hotel "Territory Chic" weekend package. The package includes use of the fiveroom presidential suite, a bedroom, an office, an orchestra, champagne and flowers to fill the sunken bathtub and a jet trip to Las Vegas for "six or seven hours of gambling and frolc."
All of which makes a two-keg party in a mobile home look like minor league stuff.
fun and frivolity, New York City, comes a second marvelous idea. To discourage coffee sales, a New York City
FROM ANOTHER center of
Susie, a 6-year-old chimpanzee at the Manhattan (Kansas, that is) Zoo is lonely for male companionship and a
Jerry Seib Editorial Writer
This news, however, is offset by another report that workers who drive to work in Manhattan each pay $107 a year to park in hotels. New York, obviously, is a land of mixed blessings.
restaurant offers patrons a glass of champagne at the price of a cup of coffee.
Jobnny's rednecks fit the bill
Guest Writer
By ROSS MCILVAIN
He saw many strange things and many more strange people. Life wasn't what it had been down on the farm. At first he was fascinated by the strange sights, but he didn't get locked through the hourglass, he grew lonerose for the ways of his youth.
Then one spring day when the wind and the sun were talking to him, he looked around him and saw that the ways of his children became a fad, and his heart was glad.
HE LOOKED AROUND and saw sodubacter caps (baseball cups) to you culturally deprived urbanites inscribed with the names of John Deere," Alain-Challermets, "Sweet Laster" and all the other mystatic symbols of his youth. He saw down vests, pickup trucks, roll-up own cigarettes and even a few bold iconic chewing tobacco
"Hot damn!" he cried in his joy. "To me, them subs butter and downhome down vests is prettier'n a red-haired hog."
Once upon a time there was a likely young lad of redhead birth and training who left his home in the hinterlands of Kentucky to the University to seek his fortune.
group of friends is trying to raise the money to find her a mate.
These sights awakened a great thirst in him for a real redneck bar—one like the little beer joint he grew in it. It didn't really have a name, but everybody called it Marge, because she owned and ran it since before living memory.
THE MOST interesting part of this development, however, is a remark made by Ken Stephenson, zookeeper, who was职位 was lonely because. "You can tell by looking at her."
LIKE THE KNIGHTS of old searching for the Holy Grail, he knew he had a quest. He must find a Redneck Bar. He heard of a place called the
Longbranch. Surely with a noble name like that it must be what he was looking for. But the moment he walked in he felt a strangeness.
He heard of a place called the
Then, stumbling down the alley, he heard music in the distance. ("Well I gift git drunk and I shore do regret it) Cause I know just what I'm gotta money! Gailin everybody homes/ And wind up singing the blues."
"Where's all the other rednecks?" he said. "Well, hell, maybe I'm early."
The music was right. The decor, though a little too fancy, was about right. There was a cow skin on the wall and to you culturally deprived urbanites).
HE FOLLOWED THE sound to a place called Quantrill's. As he walked in, the song changed to "Why Don't We Git Drunk and Screw," and he immediately had a good feeling about the place. When he was walking back to the room and somebody yellowed, "Look at the size of them things!" he began to think this might be the place.
sald. "Whah," he shouted.
He kept his box over both hand and
his book overed to the music box. Sure enough, there were some good redneck songs, and he listened to that fine statement of the rednuck philosophy,
"Faster Horses":
HE HEADED FOR THE outskirts of town in hopes of leaving both urbanities and urbanity behind. Just as he crossed the river he saw Johnny's. The sign was flickering and needed paint. A definite possibility. A proper red坡栏 bar should be used. Maybe because Murgel or Mabel's or Bula Mele, but still, a definite presence.
THAT REASURED him, but when he had to ask for a salt shaker to salt his beer (instead of it being left on the counter) he was suspicious. And when some dude walked in in a suit and tie and clean fingernails- and nobody turned and stared but him—he walked out in disquiet.
The sign on the door said "No shoes, no shirt, no service."
"I said I was a poet My soul was all on fire He looked at me /And said you are a ladar. Son its faster horses, /Younger older. Older whiskey and more money."
But something wasn't right. It seemed as if everybody was trying too hard to be redneck and could achieve only the obvious trappings.
He visited a good many watering holes in his search that night, and his arms grew tired of bending, but nowhere could he find his goal.
"Sounds good." he drawled.
FOR ONE THING, the place was too clean for a red necker bar. There wasn't any cushion on the floor. There was no salt shaker on the bar and he had to ask for it again. Not only that, but the waitress (whose hair seemed to be its natural color) looked at him as if he was berserk.
But the people—the people weren't right. You can't have a red neckbar without redneckers. There were a few folks who were pretending they had them, then were gents with long and glossy locks and vacant looks. And even those who were pretending couldn't really be hardened, then altered them long-handed, freaky people. The red neckbar led walked into the night.
He stepped in and knew he was home again. Everything was right. It won't吵 mock reckoned the earl bar. It will mock reckoned not as a fad, but as a life of life.
Perhaps Kansas utility companies could develop a similar system for mailing my monthly bills.
Heiter's daughter found a watch submerged in 18 inches of water near Heiter's hometown of Salina. The girl wound the watch and it began running—even though the calendar on the watch indicated it had been in the water several months.
As he listened to Willie Nelson sing, "If You've Got the Money Honey, I've Got the Time," he gave the place a good, long gander. It was a family bar—a few of the farmers had brought the wife and kids. He baked cookies for them; bat rats, kids 10 to 12 years old, scavenging for cigarettes and unfinished drinks and shanking pool.
lowest gains in personal income, a mere 108 per cent.
EGGERT ECONOMIC Enterprises has developed an early warning system that prepares its customers for the risks of natural disasters and company mails. The envelopes containing the forecasts are color-coded: green means the forecast is favorable, red means it is unfavorable and indicates the future is uncertain.
THE MUSIC WAS just right, not blatantly declaring red identity, but subtly and unmistakably pure red reckon. These people and this bar had been red reckon all their lives. They were comfortable with it; they didn't have to prove it to anybody or show it off and they probably didn't even think about it.
NO GODLESS long-haired subservies lurking here, by God. These were folks after his own heart. Sodbusters, station attendants, farmers of every stripe—30 to 70 years on this earth and weathered by all its forces. There was one colleague gent but his ultrasonic voice banged the roots proved he was a regular.
The salt shakers, made from converted Miller bottles, were prominently displayed on the bar. When he poured salt on the rim of his can and took a long, soul-satisfying guzzle, he felt a wave of approval and acceptance into the group.
The decor was predominantly Coors and Formica. Nobody felt the need to prove they were superior. There could be no mistake. This was it. His quest was over.
as a disaster for fans of female television stars.
Unfortunately, Stephenson didn't elaborate on what a lonely chimpanzee looks like.
he teaned back on his stool ap-
preciatively, to guzzle beer, com-
template the mysteries of life, and belch.
Don Heier is probably the most distillusioned man in Kansas right now.
Ross McEvin is a junior majoring in political science and journalism.
Heier, obviously impressed,
dashed off a letter to the
manufacturer of the watch,
thinking the company would
also be impressed. In return.
Heir received a repair bill for
$11.11, and he still hasn't
received the watch back.
Clearly then, the wise course of action is to move to Florida and go to work building houses.
On the heels of Farrah Fawcett Majors' announcement that she won't return to television's "Charlie's Angels" next year, there has been a rumor that she won't return as Mary Hartman.
Throw in the loss of Mary Tyler Moore and the news that Cher Bono has filed—again for a seat on the Supreme Court Alman, and this year emerges
Chase Econometrics Associates forecasts that personal income in the United States will rise by 120 per cent in the next decade. That's right, doubled plus 20 per cent more.
Things look particularly rosy for the Southeastern states, where income will rise by 138 per cent, according to Chase. Employment will also increase more in the Southeast than any other region, and construction will reach record levels.
KANSAS AND other farm states,meanwhile,will have the
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What about the judge's orders that members of the jury not leave town?
AND, FINALLY, the award for the best excuse of the week goes to the Mount Clemens, Mich., man who skipped jury duty in the midst of a murder trial. The man, Edward Neirnick, was found in Las Vegas.
I would urge all readers to
"I forgot," Neirinck explained.
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To the editor:
It seems to me this action will serve only to penalize the middle-income members of Congress. Many times these members serve in Congress and professional careers in the interim. To limit the amount of outside income they can bring in is tantamount to penalizing their employers, they provide. While upper-income-bracket members can continue to receive interest payments on previous investments, the middle income members are not required. And to suggest that those seeking public office should be prepared to welcome such a restricted income is an open question for administration composed of the financially advantaged.
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Re: the limiting of outside income for members of Congress.
O Socrates, where are you?
Could not you walk the hill for a
consider this issue and make your opinions known. Kathy Pierron
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chairman, KU College Republicans
GPA value vague
To the editor:
"Ah, it is the best of times," the Dean sayant will, "look at the high GPA. See how wise and diligent our students are." Instead come the lamentation, once more over all of times, the GPA is too high.
day and help us with our dilemma? Is the grade of 'A' relative in value to course expectations or to its frequency? Is GPA exclusively a student measurement or does it also indicate teacher effectiveness? Is there an ethical problem when the pedagogy keeps the student but makes the test harder?
Alas, where in Academe can these questions be put to dialogue?
G. Temp Sparkman
G. Temp Sparkman Lawrence graduate student
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