4
Monday, January 24, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Comment
Opinions on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of KU or the School of Journalism
New policy adopted
With this first issue of the second semester, the Kansan returns to an editorial policy used several years ago: unsigned editors.
Rather than reflecting the opinion of only one writer, Kansan editorials will represent, in theory at least, the opinion of the entire paper. These opinions will be determined by an Editorial Board comprising top Kansan editors.
The main disadvantage of this policy is that some readers may think we are trying to hide behind a cloak of anonymity so that we can express opinions we'd be afraid to express otherwise.
HOWEVER, THE disadvantages created
Real newspapers get actively involved in their communities. Real newspapers take stands. Or at least they should.
by this misconception are more than offset by the opportunity that unsigned editors provide for strengthening the editorial voice of the Kansan. The Kansan is a real newspaper as far as its coverage, size and budget are concerned. It should be a real newspaper as far as editors are concerned, as well.
The Kansan, it is hoped, won't abuse this new policy and jump blindly into every controversy simply to test its clout. Ideally, the new policy will make us a constructive—not a destructive—force in the University community.
Doctor shortage cure
Mike Hayden is angry. And he plans to take it out on University of Kansas Medical Center students.
Hayden is a state legislator from Atwood, which, for the untraveled, is on the plains of western Kansas. The object of his anger is a shortage of doctors in rural areas of the state.
His concern is justified. A shortage of doctors has worked hardships on western Kansas citizens for years, and the situation isn't improving. If anything, it's getting worse. A Med Center survey has indicated that 99 of the state's 105 counties fall short of the national average of 159 physicians for 100,000 people.
People in Western Kansas often drive hundreds of miles to make a round trip to a doctor. It isn't fair.
But what Hayden proposes isn't fair to Med Center students. He is proposing legislation that would raise the annual tuition of Med Center students from $1,500 to $13,500—unless the students agree to practice in an underserved area of the state.
Hayden's plan would require a student to serve in an understaffed area one year for each year he pays the lower tuition. Hayden theorizes that $13,500 is the full cost of each medical student's yearly education and that students who aren't going to practice where they are needed in Kansas should foot the entire bill for their education. The state wouldn't be paying for part of a medical education that will never pay dividends to Kansas residents.
Other Kansas editorialists have labeled the plan coercion. That word is too mild. Blackmail is a more appropriate term.
Hayden's proposal runs counter to every principle of free education. Certainly the state is paying the bill for medical students—just as it is for history, anthropology, journalism, law and engineering students. But the state should be doing that for the benefit of the students, most of whom are Kansas citizens. The state shouldn't be financing education just to make sure that it gets its fair share in return.
Hayden is a Republican legislator, a member of that band that moans and groans at every other hint of government interference in their constituents' lives. Apparently, KU Med Center students don't deserve the same consideration.
The Kansas Legislature has no more right to tell new doctors where to practice than it does to move old doctors around the state. Hayden and everyone else know that students can't afford $13,500 a year for a medical education. He might as well propose a plan that prevents students from enrolling in the Med Center until they agree in writing to practice in a rural area.
And who can say that the rural areas would be any better off than they are now? It is presumptuous to assume that western Kansas citizens would care to be served by young doctors who are resentful that they have been plunked into an area they don't like and didn't choose. Moving doctors in and out of small towns as their allotted time runs out is hardly a healthy practice.
Several communities in western Kansas have, very successfully, taken a more positive approach. They have established doctor councils that recruit young doctors and graduating medical students. Communities get doctors who want to go to the area they serve and who will stay longer than a day or two.
Even the Kansas Legislature has a handful of proposals that make more sense than Hayden's. A Kansas Senate committee has, for example, suggested that the Med Center could be encouraged to recruit students who would serve in rural areas. Another proposal would call on the school to develop criteria for model rural health care centers.
Any plan that outlines a positive course of action would be preferable to the heavy-handed approach proposed by Hayden. What rural Kansas needs is young, enthusiastic doctors—and what KU medical students need is the same freedom of choice that every student deserves. There is no reason Kansas can't have both.
Meet the staff—yet again
(Note: This Welcome to the Staff editorial is number 174 in a series of 248. Collect them all!)
series of 348. Collect them all!)
About three and one-half years ago, I picked up the first Kansan of my first freshman semester. In the next Waterteacher problem, the new KU chancellor (Archie something-or-other), and the opening of Wesco Hall. On page four, I welcome a toad in the Staff editorial by Kanasan editor Bob Simison in which he set forth a few goals for the year and introduced the people behind the
I glanced at Simison's editorial and then went on to something else.
IN THE following semesters,
time has stumbled on. Nixon
and his successor have gone and
become Oceane Hai. Have
become old hat.
The times have changed—but not the Welcome to the Staff editorials. They have continued to set forth goals for the year and introduce the people behind the scenes.
So now it is my turn to write a Welcome to the Stuff Editorial. For although it is tempting to say that the fact is that such editorials the fact is that such editorials
AS FAR as goals are concern, we want to make the Kansan more responsive to and active in the University community. We want to get and print more letters to the editor and guest editors by students and faculty. We want
Getting the Kansan out in the morning, let alone improving it, requires experienced and talented people. That's where the folks behind the scenes come in.
are, believe it or not, worthwhile. They are a necessary part of the eternal battle to tell people what the Kansas is about and also a cheap and effective way to boost staff morale.
GREG HACK, Lawrence senior, is the manager editor and, as such, is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the newsroom. Greg has been associate campus editor and a copy chief in earlier semesters and has also worked as a copy
renowned for his dancing ability.
Kansas reporters work for the Campus Desk and the Campus Desk works for Alison Gwin, Prairie Village senior. She helps work with after working this summer and Christmas break at the Kansas City Times and for the Kansas as entertainment editor and copy chief. She is renowned for her memorable reconciliation to Dorothy Hamill
Editor's Note
Tim Bates
to know what readers think we're doing wrong, and why.
We want to avoid boring you,
lest Rupert Murdoch come and
take us over.
We dream of providing the widest and most in-depth news coverage this campus has ever received. We want to staff, and the addition of long-term reporters (known as contributing writers) and a UPI wire to supplement our old and new content. We should have a shot at it.
editing and reporting intern at the Wichita Eagle and Beacon. He is renowned for his neatness and is the staff's token Greek.
Across from Greg on the Kansan hierarchy form chart is Stewart Brann, Great Bend State University, and the operation of his page and his editorial writers, he has only to answer to the editor and the student at Kansas as campus editor and assistant campus editor and is
WORKING FOR and with Alison are Llynn Smith, associate campus editor, and Brisbane student assistant campus editors. Lynda is a senior from Hosington and Jerry and Barb are juniors from Hays and Can City, Kan., respectively.
Lynda has worked for the Salina Journal and as a Kansas cop chief she is renowned for so much like Marie Oermond.
Jerry has worked at the Salina Journal and as a Kansan ace reporter. Bark has worked at the Kansas City Times and as a Kansan ace reporter. Being juniors, they are unrenewed. The sports editor is Gary Vice. Leawood senior. He has
worked at the Clay Center Dispatch and as the Kansan's assistant sports editor. He's renowned for his role in his Associates are Courtney Thompson, Shawnee Mission senior, and Dan Bowerman, the late junior. They are known for their fascination with sports.
THE PHOTO editor is George Millner, Lawrence junior. He is in charge of Kansan photographs and Kansan artwork task. He has renewed for being a Kansan photographer.
A very important—and sometimes underrated—Kansan job is that of chief copy. The copy chiefs are responsible for making sure the Kansan is a literate publication. Considering the spelling flukes of certain editors, this is an understatement. The semester's copy chiefs are Jim Cobb, Holton senior; Bernie Juinke, McPherson senior; and Tim Murcell, Austin, Min., senior. Sheri Baldwin, Hutchinson senior, and Bill Uyeck, Overland Park senior, are teaming up this semester to produce the Kansan entertainment page. They intend to broaden and enhance their entertainment coverage and discover exactly why the entertainment page is called Arts and Leisure.
THERE ARE many other people behind the news-side scenes, but space dictates that they are going to have to settle for being listed on the masthead.
However, good judgment dictates that I'd better at least mention Janice Clements, the lawmaker in business management. Without her and the members of her business staff there wouldn't be any scenes to be behind. They are the ones who sell the ads or have the right to be possible. They probably deserve to be renown.
And me? I'm Jim Bates,
Great Bend senior. I've worked for the Kansan as editorial
assistant and assistant campus editor and have had internships with the
Rochester, N.Y., Democrat and
Chronicle, the Wichita Eagle and Beacon and the Great Bend
University. There's anything, no one has told me I would like, perhaps, to be renowned for putting out a better-than-average Kansas.
I'm certainly going to try.
Carter to unravel web of vows
Now comes the crunch. For the new President, the well-organized and generally well-
Jimmy Carter's rapid and almost fairly tale ascendency to the nation's highest position has been one of this century's most astounding success stories in which the spirit of American freedom and opportunity to excel has triumphed.
received inaugural and transitional honeymoon is over. The American public soon will be baying for Carter's blood if his often excessive promises aren't quickly tended to.
President Carter faces an ardous and lonely task in trying to keep his campaign on track. He has been forced to postpone and perhaps
even abandon many of the proposed programs that brought him the presidency.
HIS FUZZINESS on particular issues, which troubled many people throughout his electoral campaign, could also become a real burden as he realizes that running the U.S. government simply doesn't compare with running Georgia.
the Trilateral Commission, an organization of top businessmen and politicians from the United States, Japan and Europe, stressed the necessity of carrying out narrower negotiations with foreign officials with specific questions with a view to excluding all but those countries directly involved.
In domestic affairs, Carter also hopes to be a productive
And how was your vacation?
Bill Sniffen Editorial Writer
1. How was your vacation?
A. Fantastic. Couldn't have been better.
The following questionnaire was scientifically prepared and thoroughly tested to determine college students' opinions of a No.2 pen, a No.2 pencil, circle the letter that most closely indicates your present feeling. If none apply, simply circle "E," or "no opinion." Your obvious will not be held against you.
Carter can't be expected to find simple. sure-fire solution!
B. What do you mean, you "want to inspect my water meter?"
C. Dunking for french fries.
D. Vacation?
E. No opinion.
2. It is sure is great to be back in school again.
A. Don't bee-jewers, yes.
B. The water meter is outside, anyway.
C. Anywhere he wants.
D. School?
E. No opinion.
3. I got everything I wanted for Christmas.
A. Don't about it.
B. Why are you looking at me that way?
C. The backstroke.
D. Everything?
E. No opinion.
4. My parents are the most thoughtful, considerate people in the world.
A. Go out of my book.
B. Get out of here, you maniac.
C. No, I got them all cut.
A. Exuberant self-confidence B. I'm calling the police.
E. No opinion.
5. The state of mind I'm in after my winter vacation can only be described as:
D. I'm an orphan
C. About seven pounds, depending on where you buy them.
6. How did the insert ethnic slur of your choice) burn his face?
B. Put that down. I'm warning you . . .
D. Kansas, you idiot.
E. No opinion
A. That's a good one.
7. Everything is beautiful, in its own wav.
D. I've had more fund raking leaves.
A. Everything is beautiful, in its own wav.
SCORING: Now that you have completed the questionnaire, simply multiply on, 1.0, each question you answer selected by five, each "B" by four, and on, Multiply each "No opinion" by zero, then subtract 15. Take this number, Subtract 15, Subtract 7.66, and one add.
B. Operator? Operator?
C. When it gets hot, I can open the window.
D. I've got better things to do.
E. No opinion.
Then, throw the sheet of paper away.
E. No opinion.
Now you are ready to compare yourself with others in your age group. Flip page to see how you've done.
1 I book O.P.
1 Guestroom O.P. Box 956
Game Room
Juilliard INR
You consistently cricked the letter "A," you are obviously living through your teeth. Pool, and at your age, send $25 resins to your of study on (as坡) any orders only orderies maniacs.
These flights of fancy must simply talk. Talking about water interiors and manicures can get you into serious trouble.
You consistently cricked the letter "O," you might have found that your parents should avoid you, your parents that you, and you watch too much television. Shape up, Vacations in no laughing matter.
If you consistently cricked the letter "C," you might have noticed that your parents has cost you deeply. You've wud time and yours. You might consider a career in politics.
"D" is the only correct answer. It indicates a wisdom behind your studies. Stay away from best yourays. Send large warmth of luck.
Bill Suffen
c/o Raoul Gomez
P.O. Box 1
Guadalajara, Mexico
IN LAYING his cards on the table as the transition proceeded, Carter showed unmistakable signs of an increasingly confident man, to cope with the reality that things aren't going to come easily.
(Money cheerfully refunded if not completely satisfied.)
Paul Addison
Editorial Writer
to all his campaign promises. If he did, indeed, there undoubtedly would soon be complaints that he was trying to change the governmental structure too quickly.
In just 10 short weeks since Nov. 2, the tone of the Carter administration has been set by the Cabinet selection and his foreign policy, Carter obviously intends to be a more dominant force than either Presidents Nixon or Ford. He has said he will be the chief spokesman and decision maker for the country as well as for carrying out the decisions once they have been made.
CARTER'S PRESIDENCY has begun amid an international atmosphere of comparative calm but deep potential. The specters of Rhodesia's Smith and South Africa's Vorster clearly will continue to raise their importance in the imperial rule becomes a certainity. Neither has the Middle East seen its last days as the scene for a potential world confaguration, especially as the shortages become permanent.
In foreign affairs, the tone of the new administration was "the rule of law" under secretary for economic affairs, whose recent speech to
and constructive participant. His recent proposals for $25 to $30 million of fiscal stimulation have arrived at the same time as a slowdown in the nation's economic recovery, but not little concern. Although this program won't bring great or immediate benefits, Carter's belief is that the rebates on 1976 income taxes, coupled with individual tax credits, government spending, will slightly reduce unemployment and spur economic growth.
Ex
The new cabinet, forged in the style of Kennedy's "best and brightest," brings together a potourri of academicpcoworkers and former Georgia confidantes, Carter's wish, though it must be seen to be believed, is that Walter Mondale will play a more important role than previous vice presidents in participation in and coordinating Cabinet decisions.
A Univ mother e when an house at
Marga visiting room of occurred
The ex away an debris. T nearly a
CLA
The Carter administration can't afford to become tied down by the kind of political hypocrisy that characterized recent administrations. Having pledged an open administration and partially carried that promise in the past few weeks, she was able to newly attained position as a Washington insider looking out不好 assuage the promises he made as an outsider lookin in.
Steve O across the place, s lucky to
"First "Then tl
Paul's the blast breeze garage. determine that a clt on five have i'mg
F A CF D I J U P W
Published at the University of Kansas daily August 15, 2008. Subscriptions are payable on June and July except Saturday, Sunday and Holiday. Please visit www.kansas.edu/college/subscribers or call 660-6444. Subscriptions by mail are a $1 semester or $11 annual fee. A year outside the county. Student subscriptions are a $1 semester.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Editor
Jim Rates
Managing Editor
Greg Hack
Campus Editor
Alfonso Gwinn
Associate Campus Editor
Assistant Campus Editors
Barbara Rosewicz
Copy Chiefs
Jim Cobb
Bernell Junkeh
ts Editor
Gary Lee
Business Manager
Janice Clements
Advertising Manager Tim O'Shea
Classified Manager Randy Higbee
Classified Manager Randy Higbee
Assistant Classified Manager Danny O'Connor
National Advertising Manager Brian Grounder
Ruth Runner