Two at a Time

Option for HardCover Back Cover and as a replacement for Marketing Information, Free Preview material in the original submission. On athletics: What next? I had an important and highly public athletics department that had dropped sports for lack of money, had a stack of unpaid bills, had three loans not current, the director had left town the morning after his new president had been apprised of serious financial problems, the Department’s finance officer could provide no useful information, and my finance vice president would have nothing to do with it! On a student protest: At 4 o’clock I was back on campus and on the south steps of Anderson with the “Save the Castle” student leaders and a loud speaker, but only forty to fifty students were on hand. The rally leader turned to me, “Would it be O.K. to delay the rally? Tickets for a rock concert went on sale at 4 and most of our supporters are in the ticket line.” As the leader announced the rally delay until 5 o’clock, two young women from the crowd followed me into Anderson and my office. They apparently wanted to tell me personally why they disagreed with my recommendation to the legislature. One, though, could hardly contain herself. “I’m so excited!” she said, “The protest, I mean. There were several protests while my sister was here and I was afraid I’d go all the way through K-State and there would never be one!” On protecting academic tenure and academic freedom: One of my colleagues criticized me for spending time on this issue, “in the weeds,” he said. However, I had learned in my youth that, if unchecked, weeds can damage a crop. In this case and at this time, the crop was academic tenure, under some attack. One of the weeds was tenure’s inappropriate use. The important issue was to protect academic tenure, the ultimate protection for academic freedom. On the dedication of new dairy facilities: On completion of the new dairy facilities, we scheduled a morning dedication ceremony for this date, then a luncheon for involved faculty, administrators, and industry leaders plus, of course, legislators who had led the appropriation efforts. At we gathered in the Bluemont Room for the luncheon I was especially pleased to see the Union staff had pitchers of milk and plates of cheese on the table. Soon after we were seated, however, I heard an “Oh,oh” from Representative Ambrose Dempsey, a dairy producer from northeastern Kansas. He reached into the dish in front of us and held up a neatly packaged individual serving of margarine!