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Monday, October 24, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Nancy stays fashionable with questionable ethics
Recent reports of First Lady Nancy Reagan's non-disclosure of borrowed clothes have brought a skeleton out of her high-fashion closet.
The 1972 Ethics in Government Act requires federal officials to list any expensive clothing as a gift on annual financial disclosure forms. That includes expensive gifts from the president to his wife.
president to his wife.
In November 1981, White House attorneys advised Mrs. Reagan that she could accept clothes as loans but would have to disclose those loans.
On Jan. 15, 1982, Mrs. Reagan announced that she would consider the dresses accepted in 1981 as loans. Beyond that, she said she would select the best and give them to 13 museums to promote the fashion industry. By February of that year, she told her favorite designers that she would not accept new dresses on loan.
Chris Blazakis, executive vice president of Galanos Originals from 1983 to 1985, and another buyer for a leading department store independently estimated the value of his company at $20 million and $1.3 million. Not bad for a presidential salary of $200,000 a year.
The cream of high-fashion designers and jewelers such as David Hayes, James Galanos and Harry Winston have confirmed the first lady's clothes-borrowing practices, even after her promises.
Apparently, Mrs. Reagan's weakness for high-fashion designer, capture got the better of her promises.
white wum mum's the word from Mrs. Reagan, the president praises him's the anti-drug campaign, calling her a valuable leader.
No clothing loans have been disclosed since 1982, nor have the museum received donations after 1982.
unpaid, or no, Mrs. Reagan's rank in judgment is showing her. Wardrobe now will join the ranks of Imladé Marcos' shoes.
Mrs. Reagan needs to take her own advice and "Just say no' to herself and her weakness for glaura rags
wuktha Jost for the editorial board
The editorials in this column are the opinion of the editorial board
The editorial board consists of Michael Merschel, Mark Tillford, Todd Cohen, Michael Horak, Julie Adam, Julie McMahon, Tony Balandran, Muktha Jost and Christian Martin.
Other Voices
Mobile escort service a necessity
A mobile escort service for students at University Park could be operating by next January, a University official said. The possible implementation of the service brings hope to students who are concerned, not only about safety, but about equal opportunity for
Several campus groups have requested the service, and the request comes in different forms. Debate centers on the necessity of the service, hours of operation, and the need for regulations to control its use.
The incidents of rape and violent crime on campus and downtown are alarming. In a community that is trying to preserve women, it makes practical sense.
Although these concerns need to be worked out, the thing is clear: We need some type of mobile escort service from dawn to dawn.
A mobile escort service, as opposed to the student-run walking service, would provide protection to people who need to be escorted to areas far from campus. A combination of walking and driving services would help to provide escorts to all who need them, regardless
The need for the service goes beyond the need for safety, which is reason enough to implement the service. If someone cannot feel safe on the job, it may be more important to provide them with care.
Although there is still debate over the details of the escort service, there should be no debate on its necessity.
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Elie Wiesel should inspire everybody
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Holocaust survivor teaches people that they can, and should, make a difference
Through this book, I began to admire Mr. Wiesel, who watched his father beaten to death in Buchenwald and whose mother and sister were murdered in the Berlin attack, his strength and willingness to make his expert sense.
When I was 16, I went to Israel and encountered Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. It was there that I saw bibwrapped up photos of Jews in concentration camps, stripped, human beings whose blank and sober stems reflected total humiliation. It was there that I witnessed the brutal massacre of one another like thin, fragile logs, waiting to
Wendy Rosenthal
Dreams come true. One of my greatest ambitions in life was to meet Eilew Wieles, Holocaust survivor, writer, teacher and winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. On Monday, I did just that. I was privileged to be invited to a luncheon in his honor. To my surprise and indesirable joy, I was seated directly across from him. In ave. I was faced with his face as he spilled out the words "human being." After lunch, he was kind enough to speak alone with me for a few moments.
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Mr. Wiesel has influenced my life greatly. When I was 13 years old, I read "Night." his account of experiences in a Nazi death camp as a child. The experience made him realize that he never leave my mind. Entrapped in "Night," I was in a world of complete fear and helplessness. The more I read, the more I desired to know. My reading continued, as did the jumping heartbeat when I realized myself why, why was this permitted to happen?
It was a dream I had never imagined or expected would come true.
Guest columnist
I didn't want to leave Yad Vasmir. I wanted the vivid pictures I had just seen to be left in my mind for eternity. I wanted everyone to see what I had seen.
The next year I went to Poland Filled with bitterness and sorrow, I saw the vast acres of land where children watched their mothers and fathers burned, gassed and starved to death, and parents watched their children beaten, tortured and shot. Within a six-day period, I saw Auschwitz, Majdanek and one-word concentration of my feelings while in Poland was "silence." The silence was overwokenning.
Mr. Wiesel once said, "To be silent today is criminal." Through his writings and his actions, he opened my eyes as if I had been thrown into a pool of water. He told me that he who heard him speak also had your eyes opened.
It is a crime to be innocent and naive when so many injustices are happening in our world today. Speak out Act. These things should not be ignored because they affect us and we can be her or her part, if every individual thought about a life other than her or her own and tried to improve it. This peace begins with learning. We must
be willing to learn about each other and respect others' beliefs. Interaction between different types of people and religions encourages unity and understanding.
Interaction isn't just exchanging views and learning about one another, it's lending a helping hand. In his speech, Mr. Wiesel cited the problem of men with mental illnesses of all kinds of men, and children have died of hunger.
"We can save them," he said. "If every one of us simply tried to save one of them, it costs so little. What it costs you to go to the movies a year could save more than one person."
Think about that the next time you see a movie or the fourth time, or even for the second time.
The stories Mr. Wiesel told were to teach us that the impossible is possible, that the inconceivable is conceivable. He said that the lesson was not to be indifferent.
"The opposite of love is not hate but indifference," he said. "The opposite of education is not ignorance but indifference. The opposite of beauty is not indifference but indifference, which is a vulgarity in itself."
At the end of his speech, he said, "Remember, you are young. You are at studying, and you are learning," and he asked me for you. "This world may be imperfect and we can for you." This world may be imperfect and we can for you. "This world may be imperfect and we can for you." This world may be imperfect and we can for you.
My message and plea to you is twofold. First, remember what Elie Wiesel said. Second, dream. Dream in color, dream. live your dreams. Because I know, dreams can come true.
- Wendy Rosenthal is a Tulsa, Okla., junior majoring in journalism.
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Interview clarification
In your story of Oct. 17 titled "The Path to the State Senate," I was quoted as calling for the replacement of campus buses with horses and trolleys. While I do not accuse the Kanas of misquoting me, I believe that the loss of context led to a misleading impression of my views.
In particular, I believe that campus bus service is a great improvement over private auto transport, from both the ecological and the economic points of view. I believe that the campus bus service should not only be encouraged, but should be improved. Our present system allows us to observe students of course and faculty and all KU employees. They should be cleaned up.
However, buses are far from being a perfect solution to our transportation problems. I also was trying to make the point that society suffered real losses, as well as gains, when horses were repaired. This is because they can be recycled and doesn't contribute to a greenhouse effect. In the short
run, government should look for ways to encourage similar natural means of transportation, such as bicycling and walking, when weather permits. For example, Lawrence needs a better system of bicycle paths. In the long run, government should support public fuel (electric or diesel) fuel burning engines with something better, such as electric trolleys charged by wind generators.
I also like to respond to my opponent's comment on representing the interests of KU in the Kansas Senate. I believe that any representative should have a leadership position of the supporter of the University, as will I be. Where he and i part company is that he supported a $1 million tax break for the oil industry. We have a government that i think these revenues should be preserved for public use, as higher education.
Mike DuPree candidate for state senate
candidate for state senate
Column chewed out
As one who has牙, I spend a lot of time studying human teeth, I read with interest the column by Mark Jost (Oct. 13) on future prospects for tooth size. Although I argue with many of the facts he presents, his statement that professor Bruce Haas utilized "millions of牙齿" deserves correction.
My experience shows that it takes about 5 minutes to measure a tooth, considering travel time to the museum, coffee breaks, lunch and conversations with museum staff. This translates into 10 million minutes for two million teeth (the minimum plural of "millions") or about 64 years using a 50-year book and about 24 years using the same year. Professor Brace has not been measuring this long, although for some of his former students it seems like it.
One final note. Besides his reduced dentition, Jost has another feature of the future. Like tooth size, brain size also has decreased over the past 75,000 years.
David Frayer associate professor of anthropology
Prime time
Trilled as I am to find mathematical news in your paper, I must point out that your headline, "Scientists factor primes of 100-digit number" (Oct. 13) is inaccurate. One finds prime factors of a number; strictly speaking, a number has no "primes" to factor.
Jeff Townsend graduate teaching assistant in mathematics
Jeff Townsend
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