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Friday, March 25, 1977
University Dally Kansan
Comment
Opinions on this paper do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Kansas or the School of Journalism
Those were the days
A venerable University of Kansas journalism professor with an unabashed love for history annually requires his students to be called "The Glory and the Dream."
William Manchester wrote the voluminous book and called it a narrative history of America. More accurately, it is Manchester's homespun but perceptive version of what has happened in our country since the Depression.
One of the book's more delightful and thought-provoking sections deals with student life during the 1950s. For the 1977 college student, the message that emerges from this book is clear: years ago is clear: We are a lot more like our parents than our old brothers and sisters.
The consumate '50s student was docile, essentially nonpolitical and, above all, a conformist. He thought the American suburb would have embodied the embodiment of the American dream.
Professors found that their students thought the idea of protesting was a joke. There was nothing to protest, nothing implem ented enough to the 62 students to prompt a march.
THAT WAS THE world of a generation trying to recover from World War II.
Those of us who have older siblings who were on college campuses in the late 1960s and early 1970s know that the picture of the contented college student seems absurd when set alongside the political activist of the flower power generation.
The students of the late '68 were the ones who burned and marched and sat-in. They were the ones who took over presidents' offices and refused to attend classes.
They were students with a cause—rather, a series of causes. They were the most involved students of all time. Politics and public policy were their arenas, and they played the game to the hilt.
YET THESE STUDENTS were less than two decades removed from the 1950s student who longed to do a gray suit an go to work for a corporation.
Which group was better? That's anyone's guess, and perhaps there is no answer. Manchester said that the docility of the 1950s was a sign of a "slow, creeping rot in the country's intellectual life." More than a few found their students' attitude alarming.
But if educators of the '50s were alarmed, parents and educators during the protest days were shocked. College students had been quiet and conforming for so long that thought of students taking to the streets struck people. Political activity was supposed to be dead.
Even the critics had to admit that the students of the late '80s were involved. Students were told they and they were enough to try to get them regardless of what this week's evil was.
IT IS ALSO hard to explain the reason for the difference in attitudes. Perhaps there were more burning issues in the late '60s. But the 1980s students did the atom bomb. McCarthyism and Korea. Perhaps, then, the students of America just didn't care.
At any rate, the quiet campuses of today are a throwback to the generation of bobby socks, not the generation of the anti-war protest sign. It is more peaceful.
But we might do well to heed Manchester's warning of the "creeping rot" in the country's intellectual life. Quit soon slips into the problem. What would you do if student protest days put into campuses.
It may sound impossible, but Kansas and Missouri just might be heading for a skirmish as heated as the one in the 1850s when Kansans were dubbed "Jayhawks." At the center of their campus, they have a intensive cloud-seeding program under consideration in Kansas.
I should note right away that I'm in favor of Kansas farmers getting their much-needed moisture, which is the intention of the cloud-seeding efforts. But the water Kansas would get is important. Missouri, another major agricultural state, won't have.
ACCORDING TO present plans, Kansas wants to seed counties in parts of the state where the current drought has hit the worst. Seeding those clouds just might bring some moisture. But after it rains in those Kansas counties, there will be a lot of rain left in the clouds for rain in Missouri, which is where the clouds would have naturally released their water.
As the advertising slogan goes, "You shouldn't fool with Mother Nature."
MAROTZ AGREES with those who say there are figures in their case that more success from cloud seeding is only a marginal operation and that there are that are difficult to guarantee.
Furthermore, it's not certain whether seedling clouds would have the results intended. There are many critics, including NASA's professor of geography and meteorology at the University of Kansas, Marotz has examined clouds in Kansas to determine whether favorable conditions for seeding exist in the state.
Kansas, Missouri vie for rain
The cloud-seeding operation
Tree house is big story
WASHINGTON - A week or so ago, the President sleggily disclosed that he and daughter Amy had been "out in the front yard of the White House designing a tree house that is built inside her." Washington's press corps will be in seventh heaven.
The construction of Amy's tree house promises to be the biggest story of the spring. By the time this edifice is constructed—if it ever is constructed—it will wish to wipe he word in Plains. Indeed, to judge from experience in these matters, it seems doubtful that even a man of Mr. Carter's prodigious energies can simultaneously run the government and erect a tree house on the White House. But we know that one undertaking, or the other
After two months in which he has done nothing but pardon the draft evaders, create a Department of Energy, fill out his Cabinet, conduct three state dinners, and hold four press conferences, a fireside chat and a news conference made some news. The days of his do-nothing administration are at an end.
SOME OF US recall the trauma experienced by Mr. Nixon when he advanced a modest proposal to roof over a swimming pool and build new hot tub with it, resulting turmilow contributed significantly to the subclinical paranoid that led to Watergate.
And now this! Zounds! The President repeatedly has emphasized that he is merely one of the people; he eschews special privilege; he disdains limousines; he shuns the powers he might assert from imperial office. This being true,
James J. Kilpatrick (c) 1977 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Mr. Carter surely will make no effort to bypass the obstacles, pitfalls or frustrations that can be in front of homebuilders everywhere.
The design cannot go forward until The Tree has been chosen. On this vital matter, the client's wishes may be persuasive, but they cannot be conclusive. The services of a consulting landscape architect will be required.
FIRST, THE design. Mr. Carter, in his burst of good humor, said that "Amy and I intend to be their own arsenal" for the school so important a work as this tree house, nothing less than a design competition will suffice. The American Institute of Architects have to be summoned. Six people should a year should be allowed.
OBVIUOSLY, THE entire project will depend upon the filing of a satisfactory Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) with the Environmental Department. If many limbs must be removed? How many small branches? How many twigs? What is the diameter of the twigs? How many nails will be embedded in the structure of many nails? Why do you want to build the structure anyhow?
Other federal agencies will have to be satisfied. Some months ago, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ordered the University of Illinois to spend $57,000 on new railings for an elevated walkway in Chicago, with the trains running 42 inches high. The OSHA regulation demanded 42 inches. Plainly, the same requirement will apply to a tree house.
THE DISTRICT of Columbia must also be consulted. This will be a single-family dwelling, subject to all the rules that govern such properties' efficiency of the D.C. government that no permit may be expected before the spring of 1980. The Fine Arts Commission will get into the act. Friends of the White House will have to meet. Final funding of this project will demand full public disclosure.
Mr. Carter said the tree house "will be built for her." Plainly, Amy is not to build it herself, thus taking half the fun from the effort. If the President thinks he needs a new office, the House of Representatives, wait till he deals with carpenters, plumbers, electricians, roofers, masones, bricklayers and builders, the price of a single, simple 2x7. The Pentagon's budget may not look so high.
Well, it would be churlish not to wish the President and his daughter every good fortune. With luck, the tree house should be ready for occupancy in January of 1981. About that time, E. Shum, President E. Shum, E. Shum, seven will order two new wings added to the structure and, hiko, we will start the game anew.
involves injecting silver iodide particles and other salts into cumulus clouds, which are considered the most potent with
type of seeding, as meteorologists might say, is up in the air. IT'S THOUGHT that a successful program in Kansas
Jay Bemis Editorial Writer
water. These particles attract water vapor more quickly than dust, which is nature's way of making it rain, and encourage precipitation at lower and warmer levels.
These particle injections are done either by plane or from ground-based generators that provide the thrust. Injecting by plane is more effective since planes can fly much closer to clouds. But it also is more expensive because the air can be rented and to hire crews.
THE KANSAS WATER Resources Board is considering applying for a license to seed in the state, which would be required under state law. A group in northeastern Kansas is considering seeding from ground-based generators.
Because it isn't certain that iodide particles from the ground generators can reach high-flying clouds, Maroz has said that ground seeding is identical to seeding success are multiplied many, many times with an aircraft generator.
But the known results of any
seeding would possibly bring the state three inches a year. Farmers would be the first to get the three inches wouldn't be enough.
might increase the state's total rainfall by 10 per cent. The average rainfall of easterly regions is about 25 mm, which means that a workable
Others have said that Kansas and other Midwestern states are in a cycle pattern in which a drought occurs every 30 years or so. Others are saying that the state has plagued the state for four years now, could be coming to an end this summer.
BEFORE THE state of Kansas begins pumping expensive lodie into the air, it
should further explore the effects of seeding—what such a program would accomplish during a drought, whether it could produce enough rain for the money and manpower in effort, most importantly, what effect it would have on neighboring Missouri.
A result of the border wars between Kansas and Missouri in the 1850s was the nickname of the Kansas Jayhawks. A new nickname could arise if another skirmish breaks out. And who wants to be called the "Cloudhogs?"
"ARIZONA JUST 19WT THE SAME ANNOY!"
Letters
Victim's race irrelevant
To the editor:
Whoever authored Tuesday's "Comment" ("Some just don't fit") must have had some space to fill but nothing to say, and so I must have been misunderstood meanings on an unclear topic. The writer's mournful murmurations about Haskell student Larry Picotte's "foregone fate" are irritating. But his self-righteous condemnation of "innocent Lawrence" and the unconcerned "rest of us," when he really is seeking to salve his displaced guilt, is disgusting.
Larry Picotee was a man. Why must a cause be made of his being an Indian as well when it has nothing to do with what he has done? For the information of the author who "can't tolerate remembering" (tragic), is that Picotee pulled a gun on three cops after they asked him to show some identification. Because the cops now know, how to load, and couldn't realistically assume it, to the
oest of their knowledge they were in mortal danger. They knew the lives of the other people in the bar. They had two choices: disarm the man or let him shoot and anybody else he pleased.
"Having now filled in the writer on the "hazy facts," let me ask him what any of this has to do with the plight of the American Indian? And why he felt the need to use a barshooting as an excuse to quote 8-year-old figures on Indian history to current yardsticks of the minimum living wage? Or why he swooned to inform me that I will "go on in blissful ignorance," but omitted to tell me what it is that I am ignorant about hearing any of this bas on the joint at hand—what whatever it is.
then I'll have to agree—they do not. But the title and content of the entire editorial is so much more personal than obscures anything else that might have been within. The result: emotionalistic failing that adds up to nothing except that it leaves you with a writer's frustration and guilt, about what I don't know. But whatever it is, leave me out of it, because I don't share his view or his guilt about being alive.
The author doesn't seem to be sure of what he's trying to say or how to say it. If it's as the headline says, that "Some (people who wage guns around in crowded bars) just don't fit."
Luise Fuzy Shawnee Mission senior
Nominations open
To the editor:
I share the concern of editorial writer Brent Anderson that a handful of Democratic leaders in Schneider to be their candidate for governor. However, I do not share Anderson's views that these individuals "control the news," or that they endorsement
"virtually assures" Schneider the nomination.
As a member of the Democratic State Committee, I am not about to let any small group hand pick Scheider or any other candidate. Neither is majesty, Kansas University's ruling to their voice in the selection of a subnational nominee.
It is noteworthy that the Young Democrats of Kansas at their convention last weekend overwhelmed my attention with a resolution: "Whereas the Kansas Democratic Party has many talented individuals within its membership, and whereas no strong, consistent leader it be resolved that the Young Democratic Clubs of Kansas urge all men and men considering running for governor to do in the 1978 primary," wrote the "Dempstals, including legislative leaders, concur."
Barry Shalinsky
Overland Park law student
Television no cure for flu victim
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen during these past three days in bed with the flu: fever, dizziness, upset stomach, hurraea, congestion, sniffles, chills and chills and daytime television.
The first nine troubles were supposed to leave my body in 24 hours. Thanks to that tenth trouble, however, they decided to stick around for three days. I never thought the day would
some when I have smart words to voice against daytime TV. It's fashionable for a lot of people to roll their eyes anytime they are mentioned and to offer cute reminders of them they happen upon someone watching a game show or soap opera. But I've always considered daytime TV an old, loyal friend, always willing to keep me company, never wanting anything of me in return.
remember chubby Joanne, the unhappy waitress at Brock's nightclub? She's now thin, divorced and confused about her feelings for Mrs. Chancellor. Brad is still blind.
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But there's a temporary rest at 7 a.m. with "Today." Jane Pauley and Tom Brokaw seem to understand the plight of the flu-striken. They're sedate, pleasant, spiritually uplifting. They don't mention food even once during the two-hour
A FRIEND, that is, until our three days of togetherness this week.
Stewart Brann
Editorial Editor
she's as keen as she's ever been.
On Tuesday, episode she invested the junior class' money in stock so that they could buy
the school a new intercom marvelous; Miss Valentine's performance was—as usual—stunning.
I must admit, I'm still trying to shake off the effects of my bout with the flu; I'm still tense and irritable, and perhaps I'm a bit nervous with rendezvous with the television. Things weren't really that bad.
I just wish that Miss Fran/
Connie/Barbara would've said
my name, too, when she looked
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When one has the flu, one body knows no regular sleeping schedule; one sleeps at 20-minute intervals from dawn to dawn. A child in bed, one seeks solace with the television set.
At least that's my excuse for watching "Romper Room" at 6:30 last Tuesday morning.
Remember "Romper Room?" I hate to tell you this, but it hasn't changed a bit in the two decades since we watched it as tots. The hostess, Miss Marianne Brennan, name changes from region to region, still skirts around the studio with seven or eight preschoolers, still spends most morallistic gems like "Do bee a mother's helper; don't be bee a mother's headache," and still gazes her Magic Mirror to all at home, "to all the little friends to home."
TO THE HEALTHY person,
Miss Friar/Connie Barbara may appear quite innocuous; her little TV friends, cute as buttons, don't try to watchaping around your house with degree fever, it's about as therapeutic as onion/horseradish dip.
program. And neither Miss Jane nor mr. Tom points to the camera and gurges, "YOU get everyone miss you!!"
At 9 a.m., however, the mercy ends. What follows are eight hours of game shows and soap operas that we needn't discuss because we're all familiar with them.
THERE ARE A few surprises, though, that the healthy student might never catch from occasional glance at the screen.
I bet you thought Wally Cox was dead, didn't you? That's just a vicious rumor. I saw him-pale, but as alive and witty as ever—on "Hollywood" he was, and when Reed is the one who died. I didn't see her once the entire three days I was bed-wild.
And I bet you thought everything was hunky-dory with the Foster family on "The Wrong Wrong Wrong." Mrs. Foster pulled the plug on her husband's respirator, and as a result, she was taken from the hospital staff for medical negligence. And
vince you that Karen Valentine is not talented. Don't believe them. Next time you've got the answer, go to your phone. You can see for yourself that
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