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Thursday, October 20, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Residence hall residents pay too much for simple mistake
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Part of being human is making mistakes, innocent mistakes and mistakes in their own forgetfulness. Being locked out of a room falls into one of those categories.
There is always some price to pay when small mistakes happen. Being angry and inconvenience is normally the price
Not only is this an unpopular policy with many residents, but it is an unfair policy that needs to be amended quickly.
But there's more than that to pay in KU residence halls. Residents have been given a new, strict lockout key policy that is designed to deter their forgetfulness. The policy allows each resident to be human only twice a semester. In other words, each resident is allowed to use their lockout key twice at no charge, then a $5 fee is assessed every time thereafter.
The Association of University Residence Halls is proposing a better, more reasonable policy.
The AURH plan allows five free lockouts for each student. Five additional lockouts would cost $2. If lockouts continued, the student would be charged $4 for five subsequent lockouts. After that, $10 would be the set fee for the rest of the semester. At that point, AURH proposes, the student could be reprimanded by the assistant residence hall director.
The objective of the housing system's policy is to deter theft and ensure that the free lockout privileges. The IRU plan accomplishment is the IRU plan accomplishment.
The Office of Residential Programs needs to listen more clearly to its residents' complaints. In the case of the lockout at the Hanes headquarters, the local council and
Tony Balandran for the editorial board
Lawrence could become the first city in Kansas to sort its trash before throwing it away.
Recycling plan makes sense
Thanks to members of a group called Separate Our Recycle lessons from TRASH (SOHT) for recycling is a step closer to meeting the EU's targets. Lawrence
The City Commission last Tuesday discussed establishing a task force that would look into the feasibility of ourside
Materials such as newspapers, aluminum cans and clear glass would be sorted from other trash by residents. The recyclable materials would be picked up weekly and sold to a recycling center instead of being dumped in the landfill. The plan could save the city money by disposing of solid waste more effectively.
Six neighborhoods in Kansas City, Mo., have implemented successful curbside recycling facilities other cities, such as those in Oklahoma and Texas.
Curbiside recycling is a responsible and sensible approach in dealing with an increasing garbage problem. SORT estimates that up to 25 percent of the trash dumped at a landfill is curbside recyclable, but it could reduce the amount of waste dumped there.
The task force on recycling should move quickly to develop a practical plan that would include the University as a source of recyclable materials. Economically and environmentally, there is no reason that the plan should not go forward.
Lawrence residents, by large, are responsible and involved in their community. The city's response to curbside recycling would more than be favorable. The only thing that could hamper SORTs effort to start a recycling program is the lack of a curbside City Hall. The City Commission should work with the task force to establish a workable curbside recycling plan.
Christine Martin for the editorial board
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Labels, sound bites have a place One-liners aren't always negative, just in this campaign
This label thing has me confused.
Perhaps the greatest legacy of the 1960s was an understanding that to stereotype people by race, creed or ideology was the brawnish of a bellow and describe people using individual, charactery-tailored words.
But other labels are desirable. Imagine life if we stopped labeling people who teach as teachers. Stopped labeling people who cure as doctors or people who grow food as farmers:
Q: Where are you going today?
A: After the one whose job it is to imbue knowledge allows me to leave school. I am going by the office of the person with the knowledge of how to kill the virus that I have, and then I'm headed out to bale hay with a person whose practice it is to produce agricultural product
Obviously, one extreme should preclude the use of labels, while the other should demand it.
Derek Schmidt
that may make the debate in the late president's trial debate, the profundity of the label controversy
"Mr. Public," he called a distraught Dukakis,
"George's call me names again. He did it. two
wives."
Staff columnist
"I was the wounded,
'Am not, am not,' pouted Bush. 'Mikey started'
11"
Mavbe that whole exchange was part of a plot by
And nothing makes a better bite more than a clever label. Stukes Terkel compare news-gathering to an old burlesque skirt in which a Dutch comic describes the pain of a slave, *wat's your philosophy of life in fifes*<sup>25</sup>.
grade school teachers who wanted us to know how to teach them about taking up the blame on somebody talking and trying to dump the blame on somebody else. or may the issue of a liberal/conservative ideology is important. In either case the teacher will have to learn that.
But that short, punchy approach may not be so bad. Goethe said that when ideas fail, words come in hand. Maybe that explains our national eloquence.
or perhaps the truly profound is best expressed in brief. Consider these sound bites of ages past:
■ "Woman was God's second mistake." — Nietzs-
■ "Nietsche was stupid and abnormal." — Tolstoy.
stay
■ "Never mistake motion for action." — Heming
■ "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." — Nandoleo
With a brief mentality (take that as you will),
anybody can philosophize. Some of the best admonitions come from unknown sources: -
"Files spread disease - keep yours sipped."
- "Never eat more than you can lift" - Miss Piggy
"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand."
Maybe slogging through these political one-liners isn't so bad after all. They just might买力
The one-line philosophies in Campaign 88 should not be anathema of itself. It's how well these candidates misuse them that keeps contemporary comics working.
Unless you go to extremes, crying, “Please,
candidates, say less to tell us more,” remember
that the power of the condensed label can be
abused.
At least the campaign's best one-liner is only 19 days away.
- Derek Schmidt is an Independence junior majoring in journalism.
Key complaints
In the Oct. 12 Kansan, there was an article headlined, "Housing officials say dorm policy on lockout works." To justify the $5 fine for being locked out of one room, Fred McEhillen, a professor of residential programs, said that a "few" students abandoned free lockout privileges last year.
Well, it looks as if Fred and other University of Kansas officials have found yet another way to compensate the cost of rotating all the locks, because a number of students already at any hardware store for less than a dollar.
Laith Naavem
Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore
Problems explained
First of all, I appologize to all those people who were unable to find seats. I understand your disappointment. I wish it had been possible to accommodate everyone who wanted to attend
As coordinator of the Roberts Lecture Series, I would like to offer some explanation to those who were unable to attend Elie Wiesel's lecture Monday evening.
It was not possible
Mr. Wiesel's contract stipulated that he personally approve any auditorium seating more than 1,000 people. He approved Crain-Freyer Theatre, which seats 1,200. More than a month ago we asked he to agree to speak in Hoch Auditorium, explaining the potential crowd and audience of such an event at City, Topica and other communities. He reluctantly, but firmly, declined to appear in Hoch, citing the impossibility of establishing any close rapport with an audience in such a setting. Because he considered that rapport essential, he did not cancel his appearance. The choice was simple.
It also was not possible to seat the overflow elsewhere in Murphy Hall. Even where there was a sound system allowing this, no spaces were available for seating or rehearsals. That was out of the question.
I want to thank those who made the appearance a success: the computer science department, which agreed to move an exam for 800 students if Mr. Wiesel agreed to speak there; the theatre department, which moved a rehearsal to accommodate the lecture; to Student Senate for providing the additional funding needed; and to a persuading Mr. Wiesel to accept our invitation
I was very sorry that so many were turned away.
Assistant to the Chancellor
Offensive graffiti
Suicide. It is an ugly word. Recently, the University of Kansas was shocked to learn of
one confirmed and another possible suicide involving KU students. The suicide near the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house caused people to react in different ways. I stopped and wondered how many people I might know if feel alone, unloved and unwanted. It caused another person to write an offensive piece in one of the restrooms in Watson Library.
I am not one of the best supporters of the greek system, but I feel that acts such as this are malicious, cruel-hearted, and totally unsustainable. In the case of a person who wrote that could possibly have been thinking. Perhaps it was an extremely poor attempt at humor. Maybe it was an act of malice at the greek system or at Delta TuDelta. I do believe it is that the shock and grief that now plagues the University.
Eric Moore Great Bend sophomore
Holocaust lessons
Elie Wiesel's major point about the Holocaust for a university community was his reminder that it emanated from a European country with arguably the best higher education in the world and that it made first-class murderers out of the most sacred people with doctrines in the humanities.
Because we are a university, I think KANU or the Kanans story ought to have mentioned this part of Wiesel's message. Its import for us and for this century is obvious.
Kenneth Miner Professor of linguistics
BLOOM COUNTY
by Berke Breathed