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April 22,1980
Hold on, end is near
In a little less than two weeks, it all will be over. You are in the home stretch of the rat race that began at enrollment in August 1979, with a restart in January 1980. And the question looming in everyone's mind, which is occasionally voiced by one who is braver than most; is. Will I make it to the end? Will I be able to finish the race with honor?
If you are a student, you see the mile markers吱 by you in the forms of term papers, projects and plain, old, everyday assignments. You valiantly, every day, prepare a lure of the great outdoors, enticing you with temptingly toasty temperatures.
If you are a professor, you measure your miles in "per red pen" units. How many more will it take to complete grading all those term papers, projects and plain old, everyday assignments? If you want to learn about sunny skies and balmy breezes, but the back of your mind you wonder how in the world you possibly can
While students are convinced that each of their professors thinks his class is the only one they are taking, attendance in Friday afternoon—in fact, all afternoon—classes dwindle to one-fourth of the number found on the class roster. It is a frustrating time for both students and professors; it is a frustrating time requiring tolerance and compromises from both groups.
cover a hundred years of American history in six more class sessions.
No one can deny that these last few days are a struggle. It takes a lot of will power to stay inside and write a report or grade papers when it's 80 degrees outside and the persistent Kansas winds have quieted momentarily. But no matter how frantically you question your Will it make it, pounds in your head, you know in your heart you will. Then you have three months to train, leisurely or strenuously, before the starting gun fires again.
Surprisingly, many more professors than are given credit willingly make concessions to students in an effort to ease, if not eliminate, the prevailing panic that rises to epidemic proportions this time of year. Unfortunately, however, students tend to expect increasingly bigger concessions then, instead of appreciating the ones already offered.
Hate, anger no cure for Palestinian issue
To the Editor:
On April 11 I attended the lecture delivered by Rashib Harim. I was shocked by the behavior of pro-irarelis and pro-Palestinians as they each attempted to cheap debating points. I was upset by Harim's occasional mis-telling of historical events by the pro-irarelis group's self-irighteousness of several other historical events.
That there is deep animosity between the two groups was very obvious. Signs outside the Union read, "Nuke the FLO." There were three people who were all All the white, people were dying in
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Palestine. Who shot whom seems somewhat intrivile to him. Dead is dead. We cannot recall whether he was on the ground of the monumental misunderstanding in Palestine. He they Palestinian farmer, U.N. officer, or a tourist, they will never again walk earth. With their deaths the entire world has been cut off.
I ask both groups to try, for all our ages, see, to understand the other's position. It could be that Jerusalem will be delivered to another when you think university is a good step in that the end could prove more important than any U.N. resolution. Camp David summit or Geneva
While I believe there is room in this world for a Jewish homeland and a Palestinian state, there are also places where the hatred I saw displayed last Friday. Is the hatred not led to peace. Such hatred will not guarantee anyone's safety. That is needed honesty and understanding.
Chainy J. Folsom A Lawrence senior
Instructor questions Towers purchase
I have a very simple question for you, your readers and the KU administration: Is it necessary to endow Association is willing to foot the costs of purchase Jayhawker Towers, why should the estimated cost of $5,000 be an excuse for cementing the plus-minus grading system?
To the Editor:
The Endowment Association foot the bill at a year, or two years, for the money *money* is spent on the fund. Surely the spouse the funds for a proposal that has been recommended as vital to the academic profession should be made.
Admittedly, the return on such an investment would be nothing more than happy students and instructors, but then what's the Endowment Association for?
If they have such great concern for the happiness of those affluent enough to live in the Towers, surely their concern for the happiness of those who support this proposal
is sufficient to contribute the measly funds necessary.
Jon Mark Mikkelsen
Lawrence graduate student and western civilization instructor
Pro-abortion forces misinterpret Bible
To the Editor
In the April 15 Kansan Louise Farnham wrote expressing a desire to know where the anti-abortion women were. This letter represents just a few of us.
In answer to her question—"How can the life of an unborn child be more important than the life of a woman whose life is more important. If the fetus is truly human, nobody can pressure to judge such an issue. If the fetus is not a human, she is not a human; Farahum claims that the fetus is not a baby. Because we don't know her definition of "baby," we won't contest that point. By her own admission however, the fetus has a drawn line the the medical community has trouble with the same question, but they do concede that the fetus is life. Although the fetus is not human, the question whether all the uprora about abortion is over the potential of the fetus (which is obvious to everybody) as much as the fetus does deserves absolute control over her body.
We do deserve absolute control if we created ourselves. If we did put ourselves on our own shoulders, I should have right to destroy life. But because we didn't, ability to create life remains, as from the start. We don't need to die; as does the right to destroy it. A new life in the form of a fetus is not ours, or anybody's.
Yes, abortion is a religious issue. But how, as Faramh suggests, can it not be a political issue? The law was created so that we could legislate what is right and moral, or rights of those who want what is against moral law in the name of personal rights.
This view is not an easy one for the victims of rape or incest, or those who carelessly practice (or don't practice) birth control and those who abolish it, will be life producing. The fetus should not be made the victim. The problem is not the pregnancy. The problem is our inability to deal with the moral problems in pregnancy, often lead to unwanted pregnancies.
Finally, Farnham appealed to the Christian belief in the immortality of the earth. He called for catharanction, as she would use our believers. Soeil does not float around waiting to find a body to be born in. Call it what you want, but not the Christian version, not not a Christian idea. The Bible says that.
"For you (God) created my immature womb, the eyes I saw in my unformed womb, the eyes I saw in my unformed body. All the days ordained for我 were written in your body, one of them came to be a child."
Vicki Burkhard
Manhattan graduate
student and 13 others
I visited a zoo the other day. I sort of stumbled across it while searching for gasoline in a strange city. I found the zoo and then myself to a sunny spring day in a lovely part.
Zoo enjoyable at animals' expense
As zoo go, this was a fine one. Cages and pens designed to resemble as closely as possible the animals in modern landscaping and bright new buildings made the park a wonderful place.
It seemed as though every grade school in the city had decided to take advantage of the first spring-like weather of the season. The zoo grounds were filled with children run
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ning from exhibit to exhibit with amazement and wonder. Calling to the tigers, to attract to attack the attention of the animals as much as they look at them, are as much fun to watch at the animals.
Young parents with their toddlers and young children learn about hundreds of grade school students the advantages of being a parent is surely one of the greatest gifts the zoo. The joy of discovery as a child touches the sensitive tip of an elephant's trunk must make worthwhile the tears, laughter and wonder.
Other animals received less attention than the monkeys. The antelope and gazelle protected their young from peaceful ways were soothing and beautiful to watch. The shaky steps of a few-day-old springbird on pencil-thin legs supporting a tree above them allowed them to watch as the antics of the chimpms.
The monkeys and apes, the witty ones, the funny ones, also. Swinging from trapezes bars, bopping each other over the head, and mugging at their audacious selves, probably the children of the humans.
The quickness and brightness of the day helped to slow down the movements of the many elderly people at the zoo that day. They walked carefully around, and even took their exhibits. Walking equally as slowly were the young couples at the park. They too, moved slowly. I am not sure they noticed the animals at all.
And the animals are in fine form that day. Almost instinctively zoop妈兽, such like pets, know how to attract the attention of people. Some as the giraffes, don't see a zoo, but their elephants, iguanas, puzzle markings and gracious gait make them popular zoo exhibits.
The birds, hundreds and hundreds of water fowl, predators and flamboyant peacocks, drew only passing attention to meanderings in a meandering series of pools filled with more kinds of ducks and geese than I knew existed. From the Kodachrome brightness of the Mandarin ducks to the subtle greys of the Ciconian ducks were filled with lively, brilliant colors.
The best of the animals in the zoo were my favorites, the cats. The lazy indifference
Humor, too, was everywhere in the aviary. Ducks, no matter what breed or species they were, often have bodies shaped like cocked rowbats and their sturding paddle feet, ducks are the clowns of the bird world. And if the ducks are princes, graceful, haughty diamantines.
of the lions mock their reputation for ferocity, and they spent the day lying in the sun. The tigers are always awe-inspiring. They move with such concentrated force, every muscle tight, the massive leg rage, the screeching swipe out at some pre, breaking its neck.
Even the smaller cats, the servals, ocelots and bobcats move, always, as if on coiled springs. Alert, inquisitive, their actions were as familiar as those of my own pets, as carefree, content and unlatable, the cats are at once the coolest and addest of all zoo animals.
They are sad; all zoo animals are sad.
Even the best of zoos are no more than cages, confining animals to be gawked at by their owners. Zoos are better for animals for their protection, as their
numbers have shrunk before the guns of humans. The American bison, the snow leopard, the eagle, the sea lions must survive in city zones to prevent their extermination.
Zoos are, ultimately, shameful places. They deny the basic urge for freedom of all animals, to satisfy the curiosity of humans. Zoos fail in this respect only a symptom of the frustration of life in continence. Each time I visit a zoop, I must feel dejected and confined by opening doors and settling free the animals.
It was a pleasant day, at the zoo. Good weather, the bubble of the children, the beauty of the park made it so. Yet, still, walked away with an unusey, gulty feeling. I was careful not to make zoo, and that same mobility, same selfishness maintains them.
Elder statesmen could restore faith
York Times Special Features
By J.W.FULBRIGHT
WASHINGTON - The dramatic decline in our nation's fortunes during the last 20 years should not have come as a surprise to us. We should have been given power status so quickly, with so little experience in the labyrinth of world affairs, that we were ill-equipped to discharge.
During the first two centuries of our
age, the great wealth of our land was
the greatest land hold in the
illusion that our wealth was
destiny. "We were destined to
design" was to lead the world to salvation
We forgot or ignored the wise counsel of George Washington in his farewell address: "It is our true policy to steer clear of perishable foods, but we cannot foreign world..." The nation which indulges toward another an habitat hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its disgust. It is a slave to its hatred and it astray from its duty and its interest."
OUR CURRENT misfortunes, or in the words of President Carter, our "malaisie," are primarily attributable to unwise behavior by some of our volunteers in Vietnam and Cambodia, in the
Bay of Pigs, the U-2 affair, the Middle East, and our neglect of the United Nations suggest a lack of clear understanding of our proper role in world affairs. We appear to be both our animosity and our affection and unware of our nation's interest.
In further support of Washington's advice, we may recall Alexis de Tocqueville's observation in his "Democracy in America": "I do not hesitate to say that it is especially difficult for us to win democracies appear to me decidedly inferior to other governments. . . Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which are peculiar to a democracy; they require, on the contrary, of almost all those in which it is deficient."
IT IS, of course, unnecessary to consult Washington or Tocquerve to know that we have problems with our foreign affairs; they are obvious in so many quarters.
In this election year, when our foreign relations are in disarray and our economy is faltering the impact of unprecedented inflation, is there anything that can be done to address the purpose and of confidence in our ability to defend our affections effectively? I believe there is.
In times of unusual turnoil or trouble,
there are precedents for the creation of
special commissions or panels of qualified non-governmental statements to consider the feasibility of a plan After World War II, plans for the reordering of governmental procedures affecting domestic affairs were developed by the Bureau of Governmental Affairs Commission performed the same function regarding foreign affairs. Many activities are planned under this commission have advisory commissions of respected private citizens. Other governments often use special commissions to study and advise governments on issues.
IN THIS ELECTION year, extended and accelerated by numerous partisan candidates, Mr. Bush distracted by the illegal imprisonment of 50 of our diplomatic personnel and the demise of a high-profile terrorist thoughtful and objective non-partisan consideration of our foreign problems could be avoided.
Our elected officials, most of whom are now appealing for votes, and their appointees who are responsive to the needs of their patrons are not likely to be sensitive to the long-term requirements of our foreign residents or to their dividuals who are no longer involved in political affairs but who have had substantial experience in governmental and
foreign-policy affairs and whose integrity and character are beyond question.
A PANEL OF senior foreign-policy statements could be selected and funded by a group of experts as a public foundation and could develop the policies and designed to restore consistency and direction to our nation's foreign policy, and direction to our nation's foreign policy, television upon out public affairs, perhaps a joint venture involving the news media and a public commission. If it is agreed that a panel would be useful, an appropriate procedure for its selection and funding sure can be
The overriding need is to re-establish confidence in our ability to direct our own affairs and to provide for our security in this dangerous age.
We have been and are passing through the most traumatic period of our history since the Civil War, and a panel of respected elder statesmen could steady our nerves, reinforce the nation's priorities, and give us renewed confidence in the good sense of our people.
J. W. Fulbright, Democrat of Arkansas, who served in the Senate from 1944 to 1974 and who was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, practices law in Washington.
---AND SO IT SEEMS THAT EVERY ATTEMPT
I MAKE TO COMMUNKATE WITH OTHERS
GETS TANGLED IN A WEB OF CONFUSION.
IT'S ALMOST AS THOUGH THEY REFUSE TO
TAKE ME SERIOUSLY ENOUGH TO EVEN LISTEN.
WHY IS THAT, LORD? WHY? WHY?
WHAT?
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