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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2006
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EDITORIAL BOARD
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Immigrant students deserve in-state price
Imagine being the son or daughter of an illegal immigrant in Kansas. Your parents work in the community, and you are about to graduate from high school. It has been a tough move, leaving your home country, but you have made new friends here in Kansas.
In fact, some of them are getting ready to go to school at the University of Kansas. Although you are nervous about leaving home, you too are thinking about college. You want to learn about the world, be the first person ever in your family to go to college. Your parents are a little leery about you leaving, but they want to see you better off than them.
You look forward to getting a job, a job that, unlike your parents' jobs, pays well and is something you want to do. It is the dream of every immigrant. It's the American dream.
But one Kansas legislator is trying to block this dream. Last week, Rep. Becky Hutchins, R-Holton, introduced legislation to repeal a Kansas law that grants in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. To qualify, immigrants must have attended a Kansas High School for at
least three years and graduated. They also must be applying for residency.
Although your family worked in Kansas,paid taxes in Kansas and put you in school in Kansas,the bill would force you to pay out-of-state tuition.
For full-time students, that means paying nearly three times as much in tuition,$6,638 compared to just $2,412. For you, the difference in tuition would be the difference in going to college.
If Hutchins gets the law repealed, no college for you.
And at what gain? The state trades a potential college graduate for a few thousand dollars in subsidized tuition.
Giving children of illegal immigrants in-state tuition rates isn't going to break the bank and it's not going put a burden on Kansas tax-payers.
But not doing so would hamper the opportunities of immigrants who came to America to truly improve their lot in life. Let's think about them when thinking about this law.
— John Jordan for the editorial board
New Science Standards mask religious agenda
The legal decision in the Dover, Pa., case that Intelligent Design is religion and not science provides additional evidence that a few religious groups are attempting to change science education so there is less conflict between their religious beliefs and the way science is taught to students in public schools.
Another example of this can be found in Kansas. The six conservatives on the Kansas State School Board have carefully crafted their changes to the Kansas Science Standards to disguise them to look like science when in fact they are driven by religion. They have violated the integrity of science because what they are doing is based in religion, not in science.
because these theories are not in opposition to their beliefs.
These religious fundamentalists see evolution as a threat to their religious beliefs. They only attack the Theory of Evolution. If they really wanted to encourage critical thinking, as they claim, why not mention other theories in biology, such as the Cell Theory, the Germ Theory of Disease and the Chromosomal Theory of Heredity. There has not been one word about questioning these theories
The greatest and most informed criticism of all theories in science comes from the scientific community itself. This grist mill of science constantly demands that principles, concepts and theories in science up to past, current and future research.
The National Academies of Sciences in Washington, D.C., (one of the most prestigious science institutions in the world), The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Teachers Association vigorously support the Theory of Evolution because it is the best current explanation that we have for understanding our biological and physical world. The members of these organizations know solid science.
Healthy diet, exercise can yield better bodies by spring break
What the six conservative members of the school board are doing to the Kansas Science Standards is a misapplication of both religion and science. Their actions will seriously confuse students about both.
COMMENTARY
You hate being out of shape, yet you think you have to be in shape to work out at the gym to compete with the frequent visitors who look amazing. It's a vicious cycle.
If you keep putting off your ambitions to get fit,you will never step foot in a gym. However much you believe you have to be in shape to work out at the gym, it's just another excuse formulated to further prolong starting an exercise program.
Unfortunately, most people fall off the wagon by February or March and weight loss yet again floats to the back of their minds. Don't let this happen to you.
According to Weight Watcher's International, losing weight is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions.
If your New Year's resolution is to sculpt your body into a worship-worthy masterpiece, go about it in a realistic way. If you go full force into any exercise or nutrition program, chances are, you won't stick with it.
So, make a deal with yourself that you'll go to the gym three
Ken Bingman 1963 Alumnus
ABBY CARTER
opinion@kansan.com
times a week instead of seven, and don't restrict yourself completely when it comes to food. Eating healthy can still taste good and it shouldn't be a punishment.
Nutrition is crucial in reaching any fitness goal, whether it be building muscle losing weight or increasing performance. I cannot stress the enormous role nutrition plavs.
I have trained a variety of clients, from a 350-pound scale tiper to a 94-pound soccer mom.
Of all my clients, those who ate reasonably well and consistently worked out saw remarkable success compared to those who frequented the gym three times a day and ate anything they wanted.
Exercise is not a cure for weight loss,it just aids in the process.
Here are a few simple tips for
improving your diet:
- Try to decrease the size and increase the frequency of your meals. This will speed up your metabolism and help shrink the size of your stomach. According to bodybuildingforyou.com eating six small meals a day will help you burn fat, build muscle and be on the way to achieving the body of your dreams.
- Try to incorporate more whole grain products such as oatmeal, brown rice and whole - wheat breads or pastas. Look for a fiber content of at least three grams. Fiber will help keep you fuller longer.
- Add a handful of nuts into your day. Nuts have the "good" monounsaturated fat, which can actually help to promote weight loss.
When starting a new exercise program, remember form is the make-it-or-break-it factor.
What is the use of squatting 450 pounds if you can't even perform one squat correctly?
All you are doing is training your body to use your muscles incorrectly, which will transfer to everyday things and cause your body to be out of alignment, leading to injury.
I have yet to see one person at the student recreation center who can execute a squat correctly.
Trust me boys, it is not a turn-on if you grab a set of eighty-pound dumbbells and have to arch your back like an Alaskan whale to whip the weight up for a bicep curl.
You also need to make sure you hit every major muscle group, which includes chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps and legs.
Muscle not only burns fat, it also gives the appearance of looking leaner.
Most importantly, have fun and add variety. Try adding a group exercise class, like boot camp or S.E.T to cross train and increase the intensity of your workouts.
Group exercise is great because it's free, you have someone else pushing you and you receive all the benefits of personal training without the cost.
Carter is a Shawnee sophomore in health, sport and exercise science
COMMENTARY
Appreciate privilege, strive to improve
It sometimes takes a step away from our daily routine to recognize certain things that otherwise might have gone unnoticed before. For me, that step away was spending two weeks in our country's neighbor to the south (Mexico, for you non-geography majors).
I admit that my purposes for going down there were not nearly as noble as, say, a mission trip or to build homes for poor families, but I did get a healthy dose of reality about our world nonetheless. While there I was continuously barrared by countless vendors peddling their wares at virtually every corner.
"How could anyone make a decent living selling this junk?" I thought.
The answer, I later determined, was that no one could; at least not as we would define decent by our standards.
SCOTT SHORTEN opinion@kansan.com
This prompted me to further investigate how fortunate and remarkably wealthy we all are compared with the rest of the world. Here's what I found—According to the CIA's World Factbook, in 2005 the United States had more
than $13 trillion in gross domestic product (an indicator of standard of living, for you non-Econ majors), accounting for about 30 percent of the entire world of 192 recognized nations! Our unemployment rate is one-sixth that of the world average, and as an American you can expect to live an average of 13 years longer than someone living elsewhere.
By simply reading this very article, you prove yourself to be better off than as much as 50 percent of most African and Middle-Eastern countries.
Now, I don't write this to brag about how great we are. I write simply to re-affirm what tremendous advantages this country has earned for itself over the past 229 years. Yes, we are at the top of
We have an occasion to learn this semester, to learn things that will allow us to continually outperform our global competitors in the future.
the list in many categories, but we would be wise to acknowledge the notion that complacency with where we currently will undoubtedly lead to a decline in those rankings.
At every moment we are either getting better or getting worse;we do not have the luxury of staying the same.
Don't think for a second that because we have done well in the past that we will be able to ride that wave of economic prosperity indefinitely into the future, especially with growing competition from developing markets around the world who would love nothing more than to wrest away our fortunes.
With all of this in mind, we can now see what a golden opportunity we are presented with this semester. An occasion which, cumulatively, can lead to a better and more prosperous United States of America, and one which is not afforded to much of the rest of the world. We have an occasion to learn this semester. To learn things that will allow us to continually outperform our global competitors in the future.
Do you want to ensure that postityer will enjoy the same advantages you've had so far? Do you want to see the United States stay at the top of the hierarchy of wealth?
It all starts here. Make yourself more valuable, and in turn also the United States, by applying yourself to your studies and activities, by making the most of your time this semester and by refusing to rest idly on your laurels.
Best wishes this spring in all of your endeavors!
- Shorten is a Stilwell senior in business administration
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Am I the only that thinks the article about the Corbin parking lot lost all credibility when she entered "dumbass" into her article?
I once read a book.
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I seriously when I actually thought and read that article actually intellectual you know comment—comment towards that, but now that I'm really drunk, it's not coming out the way I want to, and I really feel sorry for all of y'all editors and whatnot who have to deal with all us drunk people who call the Free-For-All all the time, but yeah... sorry.
Sorry, last time, but nonetheless when you add overstatement into an intellectual argument, it takes away from all of it, so keep it all to real vocabulary and
yeah... sorry.
not the word "dumbass."
Hey Free-For-All, can you believe the way some of the people park on this campus? I mean, come on, what's the deal? Just today, I had to get in my car through the trunk because two people parked so close to me on either side. What gives? Come on. We can do whatever they
Hey, what's this about two minutes left to go in the fourth quarter and we're down by about 17? But I just want to congratulate
the Denver Broncos on making it to the title game
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for the first time since John Elway. You guys did me proud. You guys did me well. Thank you Denver Broncos for an awesome, awesome season, and may we win Super Bowl 40.
Yeah, this big monument to the Booths who donated all this money to build the Hall of Athletics, it's kind of cool, but what stinks is that when you're standing right out front, you can't even see Allen Fieldhouse. All you can see is this big monument to these guys, and if you were out front, you'd think the building is called the Booth Hall of
Athletics, and that kind of sucks. You can't even see
the Fieldhouse when you're standing out front. You can't even see the words Allen Fieldhouse unless you're out in the street driving by.
If you want people to vote more, they should give us people, ah ... nevermind.
Jennifer told me to call and say something insightful because I'm good at that.
The University Daily Kansan's claim to be an unbiased newspaper is about as believable as ... well, there's
just nothing that's as not believable. Shocking, isn't it?
I'm calling from Washington, D.C., to letThe University Daily Kansan and University of Kansas know that there are
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130 students who took the time out of their schedules and spent their money to come to Washington, D.C. to support the right to life, and The University Daily Kansan refuses to cover this important event.
I love Justin O'Neal and now that his pictures are no longer in the paper, there is no reason for me to ever pick up a UDK ever again. I love Justin O'Neal.
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