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Tuesday, December 7.1976
University Daily Kansan
Comment
Uppimions on this page reflect the view of only the writer.
Nation of CB static
The cool and caressing sound of a favorite jazz album floats through the room. The bottle of burgundy has a deep, rich, ruby color in the candlelight. Now is the time to dream and relax. The world is kept at bay inside your walls for a welcome moment or two.
Suddenly a discordant and shocking squawk of static blasts through your stereo speakers, almost obliterating the music. In some rooms, on talk in some kind of arcane narron
'MOTHER GOOSE, you got a copy on
one corn tape dissembled radio voice
says.'
"For sure, for sure, Road Hoss," he reply. "You're wall to wall and 10 feet tall. This is the Road Hoss spreadin' hate and destruction throughout the land. We gone."
As quickly as they made you jump six inches out of your chair, the voices disappear. The music plays on unleashed. Within 10 minutes your blood pressure returns to a normal level. The voices don't visit you the rest of the night. If not, you eventually get used to them.
WHO SAYS there is justice? The law is almost totally impotent in many cases. The problem of citizen band radio transmissions coming over home stereos and televisions is a good example. Anyone who lives near a busy street or highway or in a neighborhood with home CB owners knows what I'm talking about.
There's no way you can stop CBers from playing with their toys without banning the
So the country is left with the current situation. A few million highly mobile CBers leave a path of frayed nerves and frustrated viewers and listeners in their wake. Not only do most of them have to put up with these unwanted and crude intruders but also that they're deluged with CB songs on the radio, CB glasses and nicknacks and even CB TV commercials.
IT'S TOUGH, but that's the way it looks for now and the future. Perhaps the fad will subside a bit to ease the situation. Perhaps not. The harried majority has one hope, however. Mother Nature may just come to the rescue. Within the next four or five years, scientists are predicting, atmospheric conditions might make CB transmission futile by bouncing the radio waves back to earth instead of letting them pass. This would cause massive static and interference over all CBs and make transmissions unintelligible.
Until that blessed day, the rest of us can make costly modifications on our stern tvs, or girl of them our domestic tranquility is blasted by CB chatter. By John Fuller
It is a sad political fact that people without clout seldom get the representation and justice they deserve. In the last two decades, many groups have asserted their views and made some more rumprous.
Cause of elderly taken up
Unfortunately, not all groups can argue their causes strongly enough to spur change. One group consistently ignored comprises the elderly, most likely those in nursing homes.
SOME THINK the problem is insignificant, but they are wrong. Kansas itself has 23,000 marsing home residents. For some, it is merely existence, and not a very pleasant one at that.
Thankfully, someone has finally taken up their cause. Kansans for improvement of the volunteer group based in Lawrence dedicated to improving nursing home conditions. It has come up with a solution for nursing home regulation.
For example, the group suggests outlawing what is called a provisional license. It should be issued by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) each year. If the home is somehow unfit, the KDHE is given a serious offense for as long as two years.
and that a fine system for violations be established. This would force an end to bad conditions at least once a year—at licensing time—and would ensure good conditions all the time.
The group also suggests making licensing records and
Greg Hack Contributing Writer
violations public. Violations should be printed in newspapers so people will know which homes are doing well and which are not. It is now law that licensing permits be available to the public, but frequently they aren't.
A KINH study of 32 of the 36 local health agencies participating in the KDHE adult care program found that
deficient in many other ways.
Most nursing home care is given by aides, who in general have no training. The number of aides is usually deficient, too, and the law is unenforceable. We need hours of care for each resident, but how can an enforcing official prove that someone hasn't had two hours of care?
licensing reports were mnapec at only 10. This secrecy is legal and helps keep the public informed of nursing home conditions.
KINH recommends regulations requiring a three-week course of nurse's aide training for nursing home aides. It also favors a requirement that the number of aides be based on the number of residents—a simple, enforceable rule.
Another deficiency in nursing home regulation is that mentally handicapped people are put with residents who have only physical health problems stemming from age. KINH says this should be outlawed, and the president of the Kansas County Redevelopment Citizens says the retarded shouldn't be in nursing homes unless the homes offer special services for them.
NOW THAT KINH and others have identified many nursing home problems and suggested rational reforms, one would think the Kansas legislature should not be out, but one would be wrong.
The legislature's record of insensitivity, irrationality and favoritism for the nursing home industry has been inexcusable. They can't afford the needed reformals KINH suggests.
Much data collected by KINH say this isn't true. One nursing home chain in Kansas has issued an alert of 40 per cent during the last year.
Some homes that care for many patients who are poor or on Social Security and Medicaid are not the ones that rates much, but government payments must be increased to those homes. KINH isn't asking for luxury for older citizens. It asks for basicsthes every human deserves.
This isn't merely the humane and just course of action—it is the only course that makes it more humane. But it, but one day many of us may have no choice but to enter a nursing home. When that day comes, do you want a happy, decent last few years? Or do you want to resign from the human race before your health really up?
Sex comments miss mark
To the Editor:
Sex is something we think about and discuss daily in regard to our personal lives and relationships. College becomes more important for most of us in regard to our sexuality, as we losen parental ties, are exposed to new modes of expression and blunder in daily life, and hails that may have lasting effects on our attitudes and
personalities. We are learning how to love—mentally, spiritually and physically.
and change that come with exposure to new lifestyles and values.
There are many groups at the University and in Lawrence that focus on problems and
Because of the important and serious place of sexuality in our lives, I was sadly disappointed
Withdrawals make 'F' unjust
BY DUN MABQUIS
The University policy concerning withdrawals allows a student to withdraw from a course without receiving an "F" within the first 12 weeks of the semester
There seems to be a problem about the justice of giving low grades to students which hasn't to my knowledge been publicly discussed and which should concern all faculty members. The problem arises from the extremely liberal withdrawal policy in this university.
Guest Writer
no matter what the quality of his work. Some schools in the University have stricter policies concerning withdrawals
It allows a student to make a quite accurate appraisal of the grade he would get in a course were he to finish it. If the grade is unacceptable to him, he can avoid receiving it by withdrawing from the course.
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The problem that concerns me doesn't regard their courses. It is the general university policy that creates problems. This policy causes the rate of withdrawals from courses to be high, and some think altogether too high.
Readers Respond
OF COURSE, his decision about withholding may be complicated by other constraints upon him. The course may be required, or he may be receiving veteran's benefits and therefore be required to enroll in a given number of hours.
This situation creates a problem for faculty grading. It used to be the case when students were unable to pass it or unwilling to the course work necessary to pass the course, then that student received an A, which is no longer generally or even usually used.
Except in cases of veterans' benefits, it is certainly difficult to understand why any student fails to withdraw from a course in which he realizes he will need a upon completion. An "P" will certainly not aid in fulfilling a requirement.
Most students who in the past would have received an "F" now get a "W". even though they remain in a course almost until the end. Now surely a
They should receive an "F" only because they cannot weave baskets. But that is no longer a sufficient reason for an "F", only for a "W".
terpersonal Communication Between Women and Men."
Some of the students in Basketweaving 350 have continued in the course almost every year. But I realize either that they will never learn to weave baskets or that they aren't willing, the constraints of a busy lab, or both. And basketweaving lab often enough to learn.
Other students have continued in the course until the end and still haven't learned to wade w buckets. Why should they do it? The answer is clearly a worse grade than a "W?"
Perhaps they persevered in the course until the end, mistakenly thinking they would learn to weave baskets. Should they be made because of their bad judgment? Surely not.
If this is so, then it is unjust to give one student who does failure work in a course a "W" and another student who does failure work an "F." Because University regulations require that some of these students be a "W," they should all receive a "W."
principle of just grading practices is the sarme effect or achievement in a course.
I conclude, therefore, that any faculty member who gives an "F" to a student, unless the circumstances of the grade are unfairly given, must justify. In short, an "F" is morally wrong.
THE INJUSTICE of the "F" grade can be seen in another way. You have your gradesheet in front of you for your course in Basketweaving 350.
I am not arguing that an "F" is unjustified under any circumstances. If the withdrawal policies in the University can be justified in some way, then I can be a justification for giving an "F."
Now, of course, lying is morally wrong.
I really hate to do it. But the alternative to lying is grading students unjustly.
That also is morally wrong.
I DO, in fact, implement this policy in my classes. I promise to turn in "W" for any student who doesn't like the grade he would otherwise get in my course.
In schools that have stricter withdrawal policies, an "F" might be justified. Indeed, this line of argument shows that unless very special circumstances exist, having a student a grade that he wouldn't prefer to a "W".
The consequence of this policy is, of course, that I sometimes lie to the Office of Records and Admissions (Sorry about that, GB).
I am not merely making a report on my grading practices. I am claiming that any "P" given by any faculty member is used unless very special circumstances exist.
A denial of that principle is tantamount to an admission of moral turpitude. No faculty member should want to admit to such a statement of financial exigency looms on the horizon.
As far as I can see, this claim follows from the principle that if a student's achievement in a course is the same as another, students should receive equal grades.
(Don Marquis is an associate professor of philosophy.)
I think these groups are more appropriate to "Comment on Sex" than the sardonic, imprecise newspaper's editorial page. It seems to me that the editorial editor is mistaken in his assumption that skimming the news would make it, at least in this context.
To me, sex is relationships. It is reaching and touching and drawing back. It is crucial in its effects on one's self-concept and how we view others. In short, it is very personal, serious matter.
in the editorial page, "Comment on Sex," in the Dec. 1 Kansas. Two flippen headlines caught my eye: "Touching on Sex" and "(Prostitution) Has Its Ups and Downs." We were to set the derivative tone for most of the page. In the two articles on commercial sex, the author describes experiences in a tongue-in-cheek manner, by relating their insecurities in the big-money world of prostitution and massage parliars. The article on media representation of sex was valid and well-written but has little real bearing on the topic. The story of a slam on ERA proponents, seemed out-of-place in the pages' focus on sex.
More relevant issues of sexuality in the lives of college students were ignored; the student was losing one’s virginity, the empty feeling of a series of one-night stands, the self-examination
Evelyn Cape Lawrence senior
insecurities in dealing with sexuality, and that might be better able to give informative, valuable opinions than the college newspaper. The Human Sexuality Network handles questions on problem pregnancy, birth control, contraception, the Psychology Clinic and Watkins Mental Health Clinic have counselors who are trained to deal with any number of concerns. Gay Services of Kansas, the Lawrence Lesbian Alliance, and Gay Counseling through the Women's Center of the increasing visible gay community. The newly established Women's Transitional Care Service helps women who are in transition as a result of changing relationships. There are even several schools offering sex and relationships, such as "Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior", "The Loving Relationship", and "In-
In response to the Kansan's article on the School of Architecture's facilities, we would like to offer our appreciation for bringing to light the inadequate conditions of Marvin Hall. We, as students and users, would like to emphasize that we need more space and improved environmental conditions.
Marvin inadequate
To the Editor:
Tim McKeehan Trenton, Mo. senior
Steve Chucovich Pleasant Hill,
Mo. senior
Cindy Summers Prairie Village senior
and more than 120 other students and faculty
SOCIALLY, the root cause of many of Britain's problems still
Staff Writer
To we British studying in America, there is something peculiarly humorous, but also disturbing, about typical ways in which Britain and its economy are portrayed and perceived by American students and the news media.
Economically, we're told, Britain is a sinking ship, and no longer a first-rate nation. Politically, tell us the, count our Union problems and our union problems that brought the Conservative Party to its knees in 1974 and will perhaps do the same to the Labor Party in the near future. In Britain, it seems, Americans see everything that they don't happen to do better. British society is conveniently compared with the crisis afflicting New York City.
ACTUALLY it's not so simple.
Neither should Americans point to the demiserts of the British national health service as an example of the failure of a national health system to be pointed out that Britain also has a private health system operating alongside that of the national health service or that other nations have long and diverse records of Socialist health care.
Direct comparisons make little sense because the structure of the two economies is very similar. The imports more than half its food but also has a chronic dependence on raw material imports for its manufacturing industry, and it is subject to the pressures of world wide inflation. As the major ingredient to the economy, they naturally tend to have high rates of inflation in Britain.
By PAUL ADDISON
Criticism of Britain ignores many factors
remains the class structure, which determines to a large extent to what school a person is expected to learn. The British educational system, despite recent attempts at equality, remains elitist and far more beneficial to the rich than to the working classes.
A disturbing feature of many Americans' attitudes toward Britain is their moralizing tone and feeling of self-interest. In a recent CBS "60 Minutes" interview, the comedian propensity for pompous moralizing was acutely in evidence when Dan Rather and Morley Safer proceeded to tell Britain what was wrong with it and what it should do, a tone that would not suit him like what we say but its the truth so you'd better take notice."
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The report didn't point out that one reason Britain lacks capital is that much of its industry is American-or foreign-
THE BRITISH, and we are the first to admit it, have a penchant for self-flagellation and have been telling each other not to do so some time. It's hard, though, for us to listen to unrealistic solutions to Britain's problems presented by journalists and economists don't point out that we are cerning the country's position.
owned and that the profits are frequently removed from the country. At the same time, British-owned companies are more likely than playing back profits becomes almost impossible.
What perhaps is needed most today is the rapid deployment of an International Monetary Fund. The pound's rapid drop will be halted. The loan, coupled with a determination by the British themselves and the confidence of other nations who think it is safe to drop the declines, will at least be a move in the right direction.
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