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Tuesday, November 23,1976
University Daily 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 had since he became head coach.
"We've had a great deal of adversity," Moore said.
JIAHWAK FOOTBALL teams are certainly no strangers to adversity. The victory over Mizuza gave them a 6-15 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 their last six games, but they were not in an inexperienced quarterback. Probably few fans would have thought badly of them had they lost.
Instead, as safety Skip Sharp said after the game, they just got "fired 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 sorely 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
By John Fuller Contributing Writer
in the waning days of the late 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 would have a new silent swifter 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 vetoed by Ford on those grounds. As a result the specifics of the bill that should have been obvious that, if strp mining is prohibited, deep tunneling, needs more machines, and more 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. Nor does it cause inflation.
piig-sty air and green-scan drinking water weep about the costs, they don't explain that those so-called costs constitute the paychecks of workers in the construction industry be caused by environmental sissies.
Inflation is when all the prices rise, when the price level rises. Prices for individual products are often more expensive as improved quality, temporary shortages, strikes by workers making the same thing in
" . . . 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
INSTEAD OF howling at "the bird and bunny crowd," or railing at "environmental hazards," Fortune does, it might help to calculate the benefits as well as the costs. Unhappily, the traditional bookkeeper of a set is 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 in power, they will regulate prosperity through government spending, it's very important that arms not be allowed to be the only or the first form that spending can take.
Sums comparable to those wasted in the Pentagon are being washed in education and medicine and, although non-military spending makes no difference in nerves, in narrowly economic cars, the plusses of self-defense itself will do aside, it's very important that billions for water treatment plants and other nonwar objectives remain popular and respectable.
volume to handle the paper work and red tape. Moreover, environmental regulation can raise the costs of going into business by encouraging new competition for older, established giants.
Even so, the economy and sanity will be better served if our environment efforts were carried out less wastefully and less harmfully. Most en-
countries are currently existing large corporations if for no other reason than they have the dollar
THE PRO-pisty crowd at Fortune and elsewhere have a point when they bring up these objectives, because we make sense when they say that the same environmental objectives can be reached, no by some sort of bureaucracy 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 base to hand you a saverager 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 so much control. We have to, we have to. There is a bit of Ferdinand in most of us. Besides, we need the jobs.
to the outlays for defense or education. "Unthinking that we should spend that kind of money to satisfy the Ferdinand the Bull complexes of people who won't settle for Airwick but want the swamps by their side," she sniffed the health-at-an-price view, "sneers Fortune, which has no objection to defense at any price. Yet we have every reason to believe that our toxic environment far more American lives every year than the Russians do.
The Student Senate seems ready to join the crowd. The Senate's Rights, Responsibilities and Privileges Committee has studied the events committee discussed in week that would put the events committee under the Senate's jurisdiction.
Senate events power unsound
The bill would also change the committee from 14 faculty and staff members and nine students to four faculty members and nine students.
Pity the University Events Committee. For most of this semester people have been disputing its decisions and questioning its origins, jurisdiction and power.
bureauacraucies and committees is usually quite interesting. Unfortunately, it can also be displeasing. Committees are for slow action, confusing discussion and arbitrary decisions.
THE BEHAVIOR of
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 tree, or because the applicant had tried to get around the committee and failed.
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THE ECONOMIC effects of spending money on war material and munitions and spending it on preserving the environment other than their political consequences aren't, although both kinds of expenditures do create employment.
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**Dobbie Gump**
Managing Editor
Yael Abushakull
Editorial Editor
Jim Bates
Campus Editor
Assistant Campus Editor
Sherri Bedwell
Assistant Campus Editors
Photo Editor
Media Photographers
Music Editor
Sports Editor
Assistant Sports Editor
Gary Vie
Shoot Artist
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Elizabeth Leech
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Am Daugherty, John Fuller
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Chuck Alexander
Demon Vabori, Jay Bemis
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Greg Hack Contributing Writer
MANY COMMITTEE members represent different interests at the University, and as often occurs with humans, these interests can get in the way of proper scheduling and use of facilities. My knowledge is again second-hand, but it comes
Administrators on the committee have many things to do, so much of their days are spent with organizational tasks. But if they blame them, they come to expect attention to detail and orderly process. Legitimate requests that disrupt the normal order of work can change sometimes don't get the attention they deserve.
from "reliable sources," and I have hear committee members tell of instances where people are invented by such self-interest.
Business Adviser Mel Adams
VET THE events committee usually does a more than adequate job. Despite having most of the flaws of any big company, the events committee accomplishes much and serves KU.
News Adviser Bob Giles
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 don't have any own interests, granted, but it is 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 could respond, 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 in the
world. Most students
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. The absence of the nonstudent 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 undertakes complex issues.
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."
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 being 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 have gone and go along with the tide as well as or better than the best administration bureaucrats.
events. This point does need to be cleared up by the chancellor or the university council, but there is no reason this part of a code necessarily means the department over the events committee.
But clearly this doesn't mean the Student Senate has sole power over such conduct, and it is impossible to manage it in any way related to scheduling.
Letters Execution immoral
To the Editor:
Mary Ann Daugherty's shallow analysis of the Gilmore case (Kansan, Nov. 18) was quite disturbing.
She goes on to express her disillusionment with those interest groups that are interfering with Glimmes's death. "You should be crushed for him, not against him." Somehow Mary Ann has been able to construe the efforts of those people who have supported capital punishment as being anti-Glimm. What is so intolerable about doing everything possible to prevent somebody's chest from being exposed? 30-cm bulleties?
It may be rough in places, but "Rashomian" has some style, some wit and a delightful sort of oriental, black humor resolution along with interesting theatrics.
The thing that compared with the other two theater productions I've seen this year, "Rashomon" is a refreshing throwback. It is worthless, and "Everybody's Somebody's" Mother (Sometimes) was so bad it made my mind hurt.
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
The crowning absurdity of Mary Ann's piece came when she charged those who are ultimately responsible for making the weight 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 Gilmore all over the Utah prison yard would have far-reaching effects on the other 700 residents of Death Row. It would only echo the word "street" before others become victims of legally sanctioned murder.
of these convicted individuals may have been, we must force ourselves to realize the finality of a death sentence and the gross immorality of impositing it. It may be argued that Hammurai was ahead of his time, but certainly not by a 4000 years.
He's showing his concern for theater at its best. ("Come on kids, tonight we're playing the Big Eight in the theater!")
Jeffrey pyr.
Chicago, Ill. senior
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 use of chemicals and the 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 in the universal flow can't just be turned off on and rejected without responsibility.
As a result, it stresses the natural rhythm method, which can be very exact and precise.
"Rashomon" 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 "Compassionas last year."
Secondly, abortion isn't merely an unseless debate. It is an indisputable, biological crisis is a destruction of human life.
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 that homosexuals were immoral and so "condemned," but merely that the state is abnormal and it is the act that gay homosexuals 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
There was an amusing quote in last Friday's Kansan. It came at the end of our critics' disappointment) theater review.
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 new can shift nature of what is "now" or what is utilitarian. The thought amuses me. The whole article bespeaks an unfamiliarity with the spiritual qualifier of looking at the world through the context of the spirit, which is God, universe, which is God, and not merely what is touchable, or measurable, or "practical."
Thomas Krische
Lawrence junior
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