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Tuesday, November 23, 1976
University Dally Kansan
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Win ices fallen cake
Because of circumstances such as losing star quarterback Nolan Cromwell in mid-season, KU football coach Bud Moore said the Jayhawk's surprising 41-14 victory over Missouri Saturday was the best win the team had bad since he became head coach.
"We've had a great deal of adversity," Moore said.
JAYHAWK FOOTBALL teams are certainly no strangers to adversity. The victory over Mizzou gave them a 6-5 record and their first back-to-back winning seasons in 14 years. There have been highlights such as the team's trips to the 1969 Orange Bowl and last year's Sun Bowl, but those 14 years are full of long streaks of bad luck, frustrated hopes and unfulfilled dreams. KU has traditionally suffered from an inability to get it all together, no matter how promising the team looks in the preseason.
But as a local sports writer pointed out this fall, hope springs eternal in the hearts of Jayhawk football fans. Saturday's thrilling satisfying victory was a good reason why.
THE TEAM could have given up and just gone out and run through the motions against a team that had already beaten three of the top teams in the nation. KU had suffered bad luck and bad breaks in losing four of their last six games, but also having an inexperienced quarterback. Probably few fans would have thought badly of them they lost.
Instead, as safety Skip Sharp said after the game, they just got "guided up" and went out and totally dominated a good football team. That says a lot about the spirit and determination of the players and the coaches. The victory not only gives the team and its fans a surely needed morale boost, it plants the seeds of hope for next year.
Linebacker Terry Beeson said it showed that if you worked hard and faced adversity, something good would come from it. He's right. Hearty congratulations are in order for the Jayhawks, coach Bud Moore and his staff. We know it's been rough.
Pollution is a bad solution
Bv John Fuller
Contributing Writer
In the waning days of the 'ate political campaign the accidental President found himself in the Pacific Northwest telling the aircraft workers that, thanks to the administration's environmental noise standards, the airline industry worked with the airport to buy new silent swifteys and more jobs would be created for people in that region of the country.
It was a strange statement by the head of an administration that had opposed environmental protections on the grounds that they cost jobs and slow down the economy.
TWO STRIP mining bills were veted by Ford on those grounds. As with the specifics of its use, there could have been obvious that, if strip mining is prohibited, deep tunneling, which needs more and more power, and the power, will have to be used.
If the airlines must scrap half their jets and the coal industry isn't allowed to use the cheapest technology available to it, airplanes are going to cost more and so is coal and electricity
and everything else made from coal. But raising the prices doesn't axiomatically cost jobs. Ninion does it cause inflation. Ninion does it cause inflation.
Inflation is when all the prices rise, when the price level rises. Prices for individual products rise for all kinds of reasons such as an increase in demand or shortages, strikes by workers making the same thing in
pi-ty air and green-scan drinking water weep about the costs, they don't explain that those so-called costs constitute major part of the new industries created by environmental issues.
"... the cumulative costs of pollution abatement could lie in the trillion dollar range by the middle of the '80s—comparable
Nicholas Von Hoffman
(c) 1974 King Features Syndicate
competitive shops and on and on
bird and bunny crowd," or railing, at "environmental concerns." Fortune does, it might help to calculate the benefits as well as the costs. Unhappily, the traditional bookkeeping of the Western World is set up only to figure costs.
"Eighty-one industrial plants employing 18,000 people have been forced closed," Fortune tells us, but makes no estimate of how many environmental standards have created. When the advocates of
The Democrats aren't likely to reduce arms expenditures, but as long as both parties are committed to achieving an end to high government spending, it's very important that arms not be allowed to be the only or the most significant form that spending can take.
Sums comparable to those wasted in the Pentagon are being wasted in education and medicine and, although non-military spending makes no difference in narrowly economic terms, the plusses for these activities will do aside. It's very important that billions for water treatment plants and other nonwar objectives remain popular and respectable.
Even so, the economy and sanity would be better served if our environmental efforts were carried out less wastefully and with greater environmental regulation favors currently existing large corporations if for no other reason than they have the dollar
volume to handle the paper work and red tape. Moreover, environmental regulation can raise the costs of going into business for our new competition for older, established giants.
THE PRO-piggy crowd at Fortune and elsewhere have a point when they bring up these kinds of objections. They also make sense when they say that the same environmental objectives can be reached, not by regulation and the clanking bureacurity that implies, but by some sort of use tax.
Companies that pollute are charged or taxed for the costs of undoing their mess. Companies that don't pollute don't pay. It isn't much different from a city government saying to a factory—we charge so much a factory carbage off. Or you can hire a scavenger to take care of the mess yourself, or you can develop a process in your factory so that you don't have any garbage.
Standard regulatory structures and procedures can't be applied to problems like the environment. We have to learn how to regulate without it. We have to because there is a bt of Ferdinand in most of us. Besides, we need the jobs.
to the outlays for defense or education." Unthinkable that we should spend that kind of money to satisfy the Ferdinand the Bull complexes of people who won't settle for love but who can't afford a poets one sniffed—"the health-at-any-price view," sneers Fortune, which has no objection to defense at any price. Yet we have every reason to believe that our toxic environment takes American lives every year than the Russians do.
THE ECONOMIC effects of spending money on war material and munitions and spending it on preserving the environment are rather similar. The basic difference is that identical sequences aren't, although both kinds of expenditures do create employment.
Senate events power unsound
The Student Senate seems ready to join the crowd. The Senate's Rights, Responsibilities and Privileges Committee has studied the events committee and will have been invited. They would put the events committee under the Senate's jurisdiction.
Pity the University Events Committee. For most of this semester people have been disputing its decisions and questioning its origins, jurisdiction and power.
The bill would also change the committee from 14 faculty and staff members and nine students to eighty members and nine students.
THE BEHAVIOR of
bureaucracies and committees is usually quite interesting. Unfortunately, it can also be displeasing. Committees are rather famous for slow action, bureaucratic decisions and arbitrary decisions.
I have never served on the events committee, but I know from talking to past and current members that the committee has sometimes had these problems.
The committee has been jealous of its power at times, denying requests that seemed legitimate because the applicants didn't follow procedure to a tee, or because the applicant had tried to get around the committee and failed.
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from "reliable sources," and I have heard committee members tell of instances where they were inwardly hearted by such self-interest.
VET THE events committee usually does a more than adequate job. Despite having most of the flaws of any big event, the events committee accomplishes much and serves KU.
The plan to put the committee under the Student Senate's thumb is a bad idea. For all that can be said against the events committee, it can't be said that it lacks expertise. The faculty and staff members have their own reasons for not taking this very fact that gives them a wealth of knowledge about most parts of the University.
THE PROPOSAL doesn't have much practicality. The Senate won't do a good job if it tries to review all events committee decisions—that would be too much to do. So how would the Senate decide which decisions to discuss? The student members of the events committee (as they are informed, but then you have a handful of students who can gain support for their (not always unbiased) views by manipulating the Senate.
At the risk of sounding elitist, the events committee has many members who usually know what is going on at the conference. Most student senators, in contrast, have trouble understanding what is
going on in just the Student Senate.
The change in the committee from 14 to five faculty and staff members would be bad, too, because it would slash the events committee's pool of knowledge and increase the size of the committee members not representing diverse interests.
You could have a majority of the events committee overruled in effect by any student members who could sell their votes to the Senate, which seldom understands complex issues.
The events committee, like all of us, can be improved. But the way to do it is by having the committee open-minded, not by putting the committee under senators who too often play games or by stripping the committee of most knowledgeable members.
FURTHERMORE, no harm has been shown in having a faculty and staff major on the events committee. Like it or not, many students on the team work hard and go along with the tide as well as or better than the best administration bureaucrats.
There does remain a question of rights and rules, because the KU Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct does state: "Authority for the learning student non-academic conduct residues in the Student Senate."
events. This point does need to be cleared up by the chancellor or the university counsel, but there is no reason this part of a code necessarily means the committee will over the events committee.
But clearly this doesn't mean the Student Senate has sole power over such conduct, and it is important to have power in any way related to scheduling.
Letters Execution immoral
Mary Ann Daugherty's shallow analysis of the Gilmore case (Kansan, Nov. 18) was outie disturbing.
To the Editor:
the ning is that compared with the other two theater productions I've seen this year, "Rashomon" is a refreshing bread choice. Joe and Everybody's SOME body's. Mother (Sometime) was so bad it made my mind hurt.
It may be rough in places, but "Rashomon" has some style, some wit and a delightful sort of oriental, black humor resolution along with interesting theatrics.
She claims Gilmore has exercised free will in arriving at his decision to die. Does this mean that Mary Ann honestly feels that free will truly exists when one's only choices are that of a slow car or a slow cell or an expedient, violent death at the hands of a bunch of amateur marksmans? I don't think so.
She goes on to express her disillusionment with those interest groups that are working against these deals. She says that these groups "should be crusading for him, not against him." Somehow Mary Ann has been able to construe the efforts of those groups so as to avoid capital punishment as being anti-Gilmore. What is so intolerable about doing everything possible to prevent somebody's chest from being exposed by five 30-caliber bullets?
- "mashomun" is the KU entry to the American Theater Festival, and one can only hope that its competition is poor so it can retain the honors KU won with "Concomsona last year."
The crowning absurdity of Mary Ann's piece came when she charged those who are ultimately responsible for making the weighty decision not to lose sight of the fact that "Gilmore is the only one who really matters." Nonsense!
A decision to go ahead and blow Glmore all over the Utah prison yard would have far-reaching effects on the other 700 residents of Death Row. It would only be a matter of time before those others become convicted of legally sanctioned murder.
In a society governed by reason rather than emotion, we can't accept the fact that one man is able to render ultimate judgement over another. No matter how hideous the crimes
He's showing his concern for theater at its best. ("Come on kids, tonight we're playing the Big Eight in theater!")
of these convicted individuals may have been, we must force ourselves to realize the finality of a death sentence and the gross immorality of imposing it. It may be argued that Hammurab was old of his time, but certainly not by 4,000 years.
Jeffrey Byrd Chicago, Ill. senior
There was an amusing quote in last Friday's Kansan. It came at the end of your critic's disappointment: the theater review
Church upheld
In response to Mr. Fuller (Kansan, Nov. 18), first, the church has no doctrine that designates the number of children a couple may or may not have. It simply rejects the rule of use of chemicals and devices. It says that, because of the life principle involved in the procreative process, a denial of this must be matched with a spiritual awareness brought on by another denial, that the life principle of mutual charity flow can't just be turned off and on and rejected without responsibility.
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As a result, it stresses the natural rhythm method, which can be very exact and precise.
It is a denial of the sacredness of life. What remains is the willingness of men and nations to assume this attitude.
Continuing, the bishops didn't say thatosexuals were immoral and so "condemned," but merely that the state is abnormal and it is the act that is immoral. The bishops have a special call to chastity and, also, the grace inherent in a special struggle.
In closing, surely Mr. Fuller must realize even if he may not understand the ground from
Secondly, abortion isn't merely an unsolvable debate. It is an indisputable, biological reality, which is a destruction of human life.
which certain beliefs may spring that if morality does exist it certainly doesn't become unsustainable because it is no longer "practical" or "contemporary". As if anything happens, the ability to shift nature of what is "now" or what is utilitarian. The thought amazes me. The whole article bespeaks an unfamiliarity with the spiritual qualifier of looking at the world through the context of the spirit, the soul, and the universe, which is God, and not merely what is touchable, or measurable, or "practical".
Thomas Krische
Lawrence junior
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