4 Friday, October 14, 1988 / University Daily Kansan THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The weather was beautiful on Tuesday. The sun rose to a clear, autumn sky, and the leaves showed a tint of red as students scurried to their first classes. As the frost on grass began to melt out on patches of green grass to study and soak up the sun. Life a little more hollow after deaths of our friends The news of two student suicides traveled quickly. Immediately the beautiful day seemed wrong, out of place. The news sent a chill down the spine that couldn't be warmed. Two new students were dead, and many began to ask themselves why. The more we try to rationalize suicide, the less sense it makes me get angry and think some more, but we fall to find new answers. Psychologists tell us the pressures of studying, dating and succeeding in life sometimes cloud students' perspectives, leading them to think that maybe the world would be better off if people were educated and the goodness in life, seen easily by others, are overlooked. Sadly, this happens too often. Suicide is the second most common cause of a death among college students. Local police have reported an increase in suicides. There is help available. The University and community have counselors available to talk with when life begins to lose its focus. Friends and religious leaders can be invaluable in helping sort out what is important. the leaves, they plies are it little riffle, the frost on our windsheilds a little thicker. Life lies even after death. The sun rose again today at KU just as it did on Tuesday. The leaves on the manes are a But fall won't be the same this year. It's a little harsher than usual Micha Horak for the editorial board Good judgment is shown Although the law states that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty, it's easy to jump to conclusions and rush to convict a person when allegations are made. And it happens all too often. So it's nice to see a group of people — several student leaders at Haskell Indian Junior College in this case — take the proper and wise course and withhold judgment until the facts are known. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs is investigating Gerald E. Gipp, Haskell president, for allegations that he ordered that his daughter's failing grade in a records management class at Haskell in 1987 and that he exercised favoritism in incentive incentives. The bureau, which began investigating Gipp in September, has transmitted him to Washington, D.C., until the investigator. When the accusations were made public, some people rushed to Gipp's defense, and others endorsed the charges. One group was called "The Other." Haskell's student senate and several other campus groups, haskell declined to endorse the petition and haskell made its report. Opinion One student leader, Sondra Bonga of the Thunderbird Theatre group, said, "For students to condemn a man and jeopardize the reputation of our college without having all the evidence would be unethical." She's right. Bonga and the other students who are withholding judgment until the report is complete are to be commended for respecting Gipp's rights and the rule of law. It is terrific to see students taking the wise and fair course. Todd Cohen 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, Toldo Cohen, Michael Jaffe, John Adam, Joe Mehanson, Tony Kornblatt, Robert H. Brown and John R. 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Send address changes to the University Daily Kansas, 118 StaFFier-Hill Hall, Lawrence, Kan. 60450 DEMOCRACY COMES TO THE SOVIET UNION The 3 B's: baseball, bats, books How to master a rite of fall and still pass your midterms Baseball, unlike almost every other sport, has no set time limit. A game may last two hours or five hours. To remind you of the difficulty, each team must be ready to play with the game on the line, throw their hands in the air and Beginning tomorrow night, true Americans who believe that a curve ball is infinitely more patriotic than the Pledge of Allegiance will gather around the National Pasture, baseball's World Series. Realizing that your spouse, your boyfriend, your girlfriend or your roommate will be affixed to this coronation of baseball's best, you may decide you would like to join them in front of the tube and play a game. You can sit there for you But just suppose you know nothing about the sport of Willey, Mickey and the Duke, and you are painfully aware of the irritation caused by too many inane questions asked in the middle of the fray. As a public service to preserve marriages, budding romances and friendships of all shapes may be used to cheer you on inappetite a handful of the subtleties that make up baseball's world championship: The rules of baseball are simple, mostly dealing with the number three: three strikes and you're out, three runs in a game and the other team bats, three home runs in a game and that player will hold out from spring training next season, demanding a new contract with a fat pay raise. Bill Kempin Staff columnist call a pitcher for a balk, insisting he did not stop his motion for a discernible time period. - Players and managers have no way of knowing when a TV camera is focused on them, so forgive them for spitting tobacco, picking their ears by adjusting any equipment under their uniforms. - ■ The American League plays its schedule with a designated hitter, someone who always bats for the pitcher. The National League makes the pitcher bat for himself. In the Series, designated hitters bat when the teams are playing in an American League ballpark. In a National League game, a batter will face three opponents on first base. Then they bunt four three times, kick he dirt and return to the dugout. - Any player hit in the area just below the belly button is NOT suffering from a groin injury, no matter how hard they try. If you forge to purchase the recent edition of Guide detailing the new fall television lineup, sizable audience attraction and promote every single series, miniseries, special and Saturday movie. A fieldier makes a great defensive play without failure, but comes to the very end with a missed opportunity. All players competing in the World Series will be giving it their all, never saying die, really hustling, running flat and not holding back. The Most Valuable Player of the Series is the one player who can do all those actions at once and remain to hit, throw or catch the ball when the game ends. It is important for your enjoyment to pick one of the teams and root for them for whatever reason you desire. I recommend looking at a team, like it, a just lots more fun to cheer for one side to win, unlike it, for instance, the Iraqi war against Saddam Hussein. Now that you know what to look for, have a ball. Here's hoping your team wins. In the meantime, I can help you with the notes and class笔记, wading through material as I study for an endless array of tests. You see, all my instructors have scheduled their midterms for the week before patting the existence of God back into question. Bill Kempin is a Lawrence graduate student in journalism K·A·N·S·A·N MAILBOX Duke's Mass. Mess In response to John Arendt's 'letter on Friday, Oct. 7, do you really think that by voting for Dukakis our environment will get cleaned up?' I have argued in my article that Massachusetts and have seen our polluted harbor (which is the most polluted in the country). What has Dukakis done about it? He has waited until the last minute, and let it get started. The fact that it is killing our fish, is detrimental to our environment and also is detrimental to our health. Well, the harbor is finally getting cleaned up, and it is ironic that he began making a motion for a ban on fishing from the year-round around '12. Let see if he sticks to it. I would like to point out a few other things about Dukakis. First of all, since he has been in office, he has raised taxes to ungoody levels. This has directly affected my family, because we are the owners of some children, the cost of living is outrageous. Second, Dukakis keeps putting down Reaganism. I find this to be ironic because Massachusetts has an excellent economy, not because of it or because of its recently taken in Massachusetts determined that 64 percent of the population said that if Dukakis was not elected president, then they would not re-elect him as governor. Shall I go One last thing — Mr. Dukakis, it isn't a shame that Hull, Mass., had to cut all extracurricular activities and honor programs in the school because it did not have the funding for it? You say our money goes somewhere — but where does it go? Beverly Barnes Lexington, Mass., sophomore Beverly Barnes Support needed Some recent letters to the editor have focused on football coach Glen Mason. Writers have accused him of being hard on the players and not taking them seriously, but nobody talked about Mason's coaching ability. The letters feign concern for the team. The authors claim that Mason should give the players positive feedback in order to raise their image. isn't that the fan job? We should ask Mason if they can say 'good luck' after day. They train without complaint. Meanwhile, their "fans" write letters to the editor and attempt to have the coach fired. Why don't we thank them for staying, rather than spoil the fans' experience? How long do they stay after day. They support with Kenneth Mosley Lawrence sophomore In memoriam I awoke Tuesday, and someone said, “You’d better come see this,” while he stood at the window. I asked what it was, and he said, “Someone handed himself.” I looked, but all I could see were policemen. I didn’t really want to see anything else. Most people probably breathed a sigh of relief when they found out they didn't know the victim. But we all know someone like him, someone who is lonely or depressed, whose problems are pressing down on you. You might be going to go on. Maybe that someone is what. We need to remember is that we can help; we can stop the tragedy, but only if we recognize the problem. It can be very hard sometimes to see that a person is hurting but recognizing it, observing, more caring, more understanding. I did know the victim. I want to say that he was an outgoing, friendly, funny person, and a good guy. He never said a cruel word or committed a cruel act, and there wasn't a nice person around. His fraternity brothers extend their condolences to his family and friends. So when you read this, take a moment to pray for Glen Franklin; he deserves it. Remember him for his sake, and for all of ours. Sometimes it's hard to see that life is a wonderful thing, even if it gets very difficult. Remember this, and help others remember it. Rest in peace, Glenn. Kelly Paddack Overland Park sophomore and the men of Delta Tau Delta BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed 2