2—The Daily Collegian ,Friday, Sept. 10,1982
Trudeau gives strip
some time to grow
FAIRWAY, Kan. (AP) Pulitzer
Prize-winning cartoonist Garry Tru
deau is giving up "Doonesbury" for
more than a year to give his charac
ters time to grow up and himself a
needed break, Universal Press Syndi
cate announced Wednesday.
"For almost 15 years, the main
characters have been trapped in a
time warp, and so find themselves
carrying the colors and the scars of
two separate generations," Trudeau,
34, said in a statement issued by
Universal Press. "It was unfair to
stretch their formative years to em
brace both Vietnam and preppy.
"My characters are understandab
ly confused and out of sorts. It's time
to give them some $2O haircuts, grad
uate them and move them out into the
larger world of grown-up concerns.
• "The trip from draft beer and mix
ers to cocaine and herpes is a long
one, and it's time they got a start on
it."
"I need a breather," said Trudeau.
;'lnvestigative cartooning is a young
man's game. Since the industry
frowns on vacations, I'll be claiming
a medical leave."
The strip, poking at politicos, fads
and not the least the quest for
the perfect suntan, will stop Jan. 2
and not resume until the fall of 1984,
said John P. McMeel, president of the
syndicate.
Trudeau has been producing "Doo
nesbury" for 14 years, 12 of them for
daily syndication.
"This is simply a lull in the action,"
he said. "It is not, repeat not, a mid
life crisis."
Trudeau said he hoped to use the
time off to reappraise the characters
and review development of the strip.
Trudeau said he also planned to use
his sabbatical for study and writing.
"Doonesbury," which now runs in
nearly 700 papers; began with 28
subscribers on Oct. 26, 1970. The
controversial strip, with such charac
ters as Michael J. Doonesbury, Joa
nie Caucus, 8.D., Zonker Harris and
Uncle Duke, won a Pulitzer Prize in
1975.
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By SUZANNE REESE
Collegian Staff Writer
Doonesbury comic strip readers at the Universi
ty said they will miss cartoonist Garry Trudeau's
satire and insight into social and political issues
when Trudeau takes a leave of absence beginning
Jan. 2.
"I'll miss his witty and provocative insights into
the American political system," Terry Mansberger
(10th-political science) said. "That's my favorite
comic strip and I'll really miss it."
"It was one of the funniest political cartoons,"
said B.K. Davis (4th-administration of justice). "It
will probably be missed."
Tom Antolick (10th-computer science) also said
he will miss Doonesbury.
"If something is really funny, , you look for a
hidden truth," he said.
Robert O'Connor, associate professor of political
science, said, "It's sad news. I'm deeply hurt.
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ward to every day."
O'Connor said Trudeau can say• in four small
pictures what takes him 25 or more minutes to say
in a lecture, and that Trudeau says it better. He
also said he feels an affinity to the cartoon and the
author because "he really spoke to.the concerns of
my generation."
But despite their disappointment, Doonesbury
readers said they think the break might be good.
"It's probably good," Doug Grier (7th-psycholo
gy) said. "He may come back with something
better."
"He deserves a break," Bill Fernald (10th-agron
omy) said. He added that Trudeau is probably tired
from writing the comic strip for so long.
Paul Boynton (13th-journalism) said he is disap
pointed that the strip will be discontinued for a
while.
"I look forward to it every day," he said. "Hope
fully he'll come back and make it even better."
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John P. McMeel, president of Universal Press
Syndicate, the company that holds Trudeau's con
tract, said the office received between 50 and 100
telephone calls yesterday morning —all saying the
same thing.
"The reaction has been universal," McMeel said.
"One, everyone is disappointed. Two, we have not
been in contact with anyone who was not a Doones
bury fan."
Readers . asked what Trudeau would be doing
during his vacation and what he will do when he
returns, McMeel said.
Trudeau is working on a Broadway musical and a
movie featuring Doonesbury, he said.
McMeel said Trudeau's contract allowed him to
take a leave of absence but "we hoped for years
that he would never exercise it."
Doonesbury fans with high expectations should
be satisfied when Trudeau returns, lie said.
"He's going out with class and will be coming
back with class."
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By SHARON TAYLOR
Collegian Staff Writer
For students who just settled into
their rooms early last week, Spring
Term's dorm contract lines are not a
pervading issue. However, for the
Association of Residence Hall Stu
dents the issue is a timely one.
Once again, ARHS will gather stu
dent opinions on the dorm contract
distribution process. But the group is
facing a tight deadline.
Because the administration wants
student input before it decides wheth
er the existing first-come/first
served system will be used this
spring, University President John W.
Oswald has given ARHS an Oct. 7
deadline to submit student opinion on
the issue.
ARHS Vice President Jennifer
Gould said the group has outlined
strict deadlines to streamline the
survey process, while ensuring that
the survey represents student opin
ion.
The surveys will tentatively be
distributed to the residence hall area
presidents by' Sept. 21, ARHS Presi
dent Laura Cerar said. By Sept. 23,
the area presidents will distribute
them to house representatives, who in
turn will hand them out to the stu
dents living on their floors. -
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'representatives will tally and return
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who will compile results for their
areas and return them to ARHS exec
utives by Sept. 27.
But before the group starts drawing
up the survey questions, Gould said,
ARHS faces the difficult task of in
forming students , about the three
choices: the first-come/first-served
system, the lottery system and the
11th line system.
This posed a problem for the group
last year when the organization con
ducted a similar survey.
"The three systems were not ex
plained clearly," Gould said.
In the first-come/first-served sys
tem, used the past six years, students
desiring contracts are placed accord
ing to the last digit of their social
security numbers in one of 10 lines
formed on campus. Prospective
roommates submit their dorm con
tracts together.
Dorm contracts are distributed on
a first-come/first-served basis with
an equal percentage of people in each
line receiving contracts. Advanced
payments are returned to students
who do not receive dorm space.
The 11th line system is a combina
tion of the first-come/first-served
system arid the lottery system, which
is the third choice in the survey.
As in the first-come/first-served
system, roommates also turn in their
dorm contracts together. However,
students who don't want to wait in
line can submit their contract cards
for another dorm contract survey
'Based on what I have heard last year,• it's
going to be close, because when we talked
to area governments, none supported strictly
lottery there was always a decision
between first-come/first-served and the
11th line.'
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age of contracts accepted out of each
line would also be applied to the cards
submitted for the lottery.
If the 11th line plan is approved by
the administration, Cerar said, stu
dents would probably have to notify
the Office of Housing and Food Serv
ice Operations whether they will opt
for one of the first-come/first-served
lines or the. hypothetical 11th. line
prior to standing in line.
M. • Lee Uperaft, director of the
Office of Residential Life Programs,
said Residential Life has recently
backed both the lottery and the 11th
line systems.
But, he said, Residential Life is
waiting' to hear the administration's
decision before working out the de
tails of the system.
In past years, ARHS did not back
the 11th line system. Fran Kenawell,
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Laura Cerar, ARHS president
former ARHS president, said ARHS
has traditionally supported the first
come/first-served system since Os
wald asked the group to develop a
feasible dorm contract plan that
would accommodate increasing de
mand for dorm space Fall Term 1979.
"First-come/first-served got out of
hand. It used to be that everyone that
wanted a contract got it," Kenawell
said. "With the rent going up, there
were higher demands for the dorms
instead of fighting for location,
students were fighting for? a con
tract."
When the decision was brought to
Oswald ARHS supporting the first
come/first-served system and Resi
dential Life backing the 11th line
system Oswald decided to keep the
first-come/first-served system.
ARHS opposed the 11th line system
because the group feared the lottery
system would eventually dominate
the first-come/first-serve part of the
system, Kenawell said.
This year, the group is reserving
judgment on the issue this year until
it gathers input from the students,
Gould said.
But Cerar said most of the students
that she and Gould spoke with Spring
Term were torn between the first
come/first-served system and the
11th line system.
"Based on what I have heard last
year, it's going to be close," she said,
"because when we talked to area
governments, none supported strictly
lottery there was always a decision
between first-come/first-served and
the 11th line.
"It was always close, never a ma
jority (for either of the systems)
there was never a difference of more
than six or seven (people.)"
This spring, Oswald asked ARHS to
give the administration a "general
feeling" for students' opinion on the
dorm contract distribution process.
He also asked Cerar to give the ad
ministration a final recommendation
based on a representative sample of
students by the middle of October.
Cerar and Gould questioned resi
dence hall area presidents and stu
dents who attended area meetings
about the dorm contract distribution
process Spring Term.
After talking to those students, they
sent Oswald the preliminary student
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reaction that supported the first:
come/first-served system.
In that letter, they also told Oswald .
that the group would conduct a sur
vey Fall Term to determine 'exactly
which system received the most sup=
port from the students now living in
the dorms.
ARHS said the survey would be
conducted, compiled and returned to
Oswald before the end of Fall Term.:
But, Oswald, fearing that the group:
would procrastinate, set a Sept. 36
deadline for ARHS' final recommen-
dation in a Aug. 16 letter sent to the
group, Gould said.
"That was asking a lot from us;
coming into the year," Gould said
yesterday Morning.
Worried that they would not have
the time to put together a comprehen!
sive survey and gather sufficient
input on the issue before Sept. 30,
Cerar and Gould called Old Main;,
hoping to extend the deadline.
Oswald told the ARHS executives to
schedule a meeting with Raymond 0.
Murphy, vice president for Student
Affairs, instead. Murphy handles
Residential Life matters for the ad.
ministration. .
In the meeting, Cerar requested .4
two-week extension. But, she said]
Murphy persuaded the group to agree
to a one-week extension, pushing th 4
deadline back to Oct. 7.