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Tuesday, October 18, 1988 / University Daily Kansas
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Opinion
We'll say it one more time: You need to register to vote
Good morning.
Good morning. Beautiful day, huh?
Kicking back here on the beach, taking a break from worrying about mid-terms.
How bout those Dodgers?
Registered to vote yet?
Well, hate to spill your people watching, but today is the last day to register. New listen to the chorus of "Oh, damn," ringing loudly on the phone.
But how will people respond?
Some will make it to the Douglas County Clerk's office, 11th and Massachusetts, before 9 p.m. tonight and register. Others will head to the Burge Union bookstore before it closes at 5 p.m.
Others will make up a variety of excuses, all masks for either ignorance of the democratic process or laziness.
Fewer than 50 percent of Americans who were eligible to vote did so in the 1984 presidential election.
A government of half the people, by half the people, and for half the people. Somehow, it's hard to believe that's what our founding fathers and millions of U.S. servicemen and women worked and died for.
Vice President George Bush in his closing statement in Thursday night's debate, quoted Abraham Lincoln as saying that the United States was the "last, best hope of man on earth."
So if you're still sitting there instead of going to register,
don't let the dream of the free world die.
Get up.
Get up.
Go register
Vote.
And keep hope alive
Mark Tilford for the editorial board
Supporting the United Way
Thousands turn to the Heart of America United Way each year for the kind of support that is rare and enduring.
Two factors of operation make United Way a very special institution. One is that it revolves around voluntary help, and another is that it is a highly respected organization.
At a time when charities and fund-raising campaigns shamelessly claim up to 90 percent of the funds raised as administrative costs, United Way spends less than 10 cents on the dollar to raise funds.
United Way's unique chain of voluntary service makes this low profile on administrative costs possible.
The University of Kansas Way University drive is one part or the 12 divisions in Douglas County. Approximately 350 drive locations are available.
The United Way at the University of Kansas raised $86,513 last year. Their year, their goal is $100,000. This year's fund drive began Sept. 15 and has raised $66,153 so far. The drive is scheduled to end Oct. 31.
United Way funds help support services that are vital to Lawrence and to the University. Agencies aided by the United Way help destitute children, sick people, retarded citizens and others in need of care. The United Way health services, legal assistance and consumer protection.
But the United Way cannot provide any support without help from the community. At KU, it needs help from the faculty and staff to ensure that students are successful.
In order to meet a goal that is $12,000 more than the total raised last year, drive organizers said they hoped to increase the number of faculty and staff participating in the campaign event. At other Big Eight schools, the average is 30 to 35 percent.
In spite of overt signs of independence, humans still need each other for support and survival. United Way has set an example in building a humane and efficient way to care for others by providing resources that deserves as much support as the KU community can provide.
Muktha Jost for the editorial board
The editorials in this column are the opinion of the editorial board.
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Not just for candy bars anymore After Vend-a-Bait, the possibilities seem almost endless
While on my way home from a weekend trip, I travel to a small convenience store in Chelota to fill the cupboard.
As I walked up to the store's front door, I did a double-take at the strangest sight. Just to the side of the pop machines and news racks was a Vendable cell phone that connects four quarters into this machine and receive a small portion of live bait — minnows, nightwalters, earthworms and the like. I don't see how small aquatic phylum can live in a closed metal box, but I don't see how the anglers must be getting their money's worth.
If live bait is readily available in vending machines, just think of all the other possibilities.
- Vend-a-Date: A dollar's worth of quarters will buy your choice of a perfect date. Hair color, body shape, personality, wealth and nice parents all are optional.
Vend-a-Diploma? Why bother with four years of
student loan payments? A late-night cramming and
student loan payments?
Matt Taylor
Vend-A-child. Designed especially for the Vend-A-date sponsors who had positive results,
Staff columnist
Babies from these embryonic incubators are already pots trained, can accept all types of milk
*(make sure you stay within the box and make no outside marks.) Dukakis and Bush models are not included.
Vend-S+Swaggart The machine will disobey
and pose for an incredible low sum of money.
Vend-a-KU Coach) For $3.5 million you can get a mentor who wins national championships and then leaves town. Available only in the "brown" model.
Dill-Van anell. Deposit medium sized U.S. misses, listen for them to reach Israel, collect money from coin return box and donate money to nearest bank where you wait patiently to be labeled an American hero
Vend-Lotto: Insert dollar after dollar after dollar after . . .
*Venda-Tax: Insert Form 1040 and a blank check and receive nothing in return.*
Vend-a-Democrat: Insert no cards today - your kids will pay the tab during the next 30 years.
Vend-a-President; Replies of great U.S. presidents such as Lincoln and Roosevelt are received by the president.
Vend-Pepublican: Same as Vend-aDemocrat, but includes a syrup recording of John Wayne reading "Oil Shep" plus an autographed card of Ronald Reagan chopping wood at his barn.
**Vend-an-Astrologer** Face east, throw quarter to left your shoulder, stomp feet twice then
■ Matt Taylor is a Caney junior majoring in journalism.
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MAILBOX
Don't forget friends
Your editorial of Oct. 11 raises significant questions about the survey on alcohol use and abuse, namely the failure to probe why students drink. What's your exhalation?
In reading the report itself, I was impressed (and depressed) to notice that "clergy" was the lowest category of sources for help I'm not surprised either). It probably says something about the lack of an endorsing abstinence (not temperance) and being judgmental. That's too bad and not accurate. Actually, most clergy understand and endorse the significant work of Alcoholics Anonymous (a category that was not listed as an authoritative God for that program and cooperate with them.
On the other side, where do students look for help? Friends (60 percent), girlfriend or boyfriend (41 percent), with surprisingly, parents (29 percent), as well as the Kansan story and your editorial did not mention this. Here one sees that people, especially friends, are the foremost line of help. Friends are as significant for helping people as friends themselves. Friends are important and can make a difference.
Friendship means a lot! Use it well, to make friends and to help friends.
GLSOK works
Don Conrad Lutheran Campus Ministry
In order to get acquainted at the first meeting, which was informational, we socialized. The members of GLORI must feel comfortable to work effectively as an organization. The comfortable environment is necessary for newcomers to participate. Some members spoke out, and other less secure ones were unmotivated. Buchanan attended one other meeting besides the first. To establish an accurate image of GLORI, a myriad of meetings should be attested, not just two. The reason why there weren't lengthy discussions about coming-out issues at the second meeting he had was to meet in a meeting Buchanan missed, the consensus was to have discussions on alternate weeks.
In response to the letter by James Buchanan conning Gay and Lesbian services of Kansas
The specific interests of one dealing with coming-out issues are directly dealt with by peer counseling through GLSKO. The publicity skills of our leadership also provide many other resources. These include a speaker's series in participating classes, a Victim Assistance Network to document acts that defien the victim and help them be enacted, the Vanguard publication and an information table at the Kansas Union on National Coming Out Day.
Aaron Andes Lee's Summit. Mo.. junior
Aaron Andes
GLSOK serves well
How many groups on campus offer a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week counseling service that can be reached through the Information Center or Headquarters. Through this service any person can get in touch with a gay, lesbian or bisexual person who is trained to counsel someone with sexual orientation. We also referrals to people who need more help.
Many of our group's discussions, films, and lectures focus on coming out and dealing with one's sexual orientation. Being afraid of people finding out they're gay was the topic of discussion for the second meeting (obviously some people missed that meeting).
This is another letter about Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas. I have attended every service of the University of Kansas of hopes making it an effective group. Understandably, I was upset when a letter in the Oct. 11 Kansas claimed that GLOSK did not serve as are unsure about their sexual preference
I don't think any group on campus can please everyone all of the time. However, faults can be changed by people who are willing to become involved.
GLOSK's social events help insecure people be themselves in a safe environment and learn about other people's experiences in an informal environment.
Jarrod Brown
Olathe freshman
BLOOM COUNTY
by Berke Breathed
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