MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2003
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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mately concerned with oil
In the mean time, empty polemics are employed to abuse the rest of the newspaper column. He mentions a "loud but strange opposition" coming from Western Europe and the "rabidly Bush-hating British public," but in all this rhetoric the author never once questions why the democratic governments of Britain, Italy, and others are ignoring their own people.
Despite all that, there is one point on which the author and I are in full agreement. The anti-war protests are clearly not just about war. First of all, the term itself is misleading, because when the administration finally does attack Iraq, it will be less war, more bombing exercise. But who among the protesters would actually mind the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime? What most of the protesters are concerned with is the sheer and unrelenting arrogance of the Bush-Rumsfeld administration. And although neither I nor the author like slogans, I've found one that suits our position well and I won't mind repeating it: Drop Bush, not bombs.
Matt Brooks, Lawrence resident
No tax dollars to prisons
I agree with Steve Ducey's recent editorial stressing funding of education rather than incarceration.
On April 1, voters will decide if they want to give $60 million to the DLR Group, a company profiting from incarceration.
The people of Lawrence should know that the DLR Group is responsible for correctional institutions being scrutinized and investigated for human rights violations.
As Ducey's editorial implied, incarceration is big business in the United States, where more than two million people are in prison. No other country has so many of its citizens jailed.
The taxpayers of Lawrence should not support a company that makes money from incarceration. As Ducey asserted, education and rehabilitation are the more humane, socially responsible and economical options.
Let's stop this cycle by voting NO! on the bond issue that would give our tax dollars to the DLR Group.
Chantel C. Guidry, library assistant, Watson Library
Not a tribal affair
Did an editor review Wednesday's front page story, "Powwow Funds Questioned"? If so, it appears that both reporter and editor need to learn the difference between a student organization and a tribe.
The story states "the association finds a head lady and head man from outside the tribe to dance at the powwow." Then it goes on to say "the group...had the talent within the tribe and decided to use its own members."
What "tribe" are you referring to in the story?
In the future, perhaps the reporter needs to ask enough questions to understand the story before attempting to report it to others.
Tommee Sherwood, Custodial Crew Leader, University of Kansas
Stop the name-calling
I'm not sure what the reason is for the recent deluge of venom and name-calling at creationists in the Free for All, but here's a couple things for evolutionists to think about. The very word you use to describe your position, "believe," belies the fact that evolution is still merely a theory, just like creation. And believing equates to faith which is a step away from religion, something most (not all) evolutionists claim to abhor.
Second, a creationist is not
automatically stupid. They just have a different belief than you. This is the same sort of base ignorance that many of you left-learners accuse Americans of exhibiting with regards to other world religions and cultures, especially Middle Eastern Muslimls. Why not try a rational discourse on the topic based on a thorough examination of scientific fact as it stands? You might just find that despite the widely publicized "evidence" in support of evolution, there is a vast preponderance of evidentiary support for creation.
Matt Terrill, Overland Park freshman
Rivalry no excuse
I saw the picture on page 3B on Feb. 21, 2003 entitled "Buffalo, one game closer to extinction." It's a good thing Coca-Cola wanted no part of this rivalry situation between Big 12 athletic schools.
The buffalo, or yannash in the Choctaw language, was the giver of life and sustenance to many tribes and nations throughout the northern and southern plains. U.S. military leaders such as Phillip Sheridan advocated the slaughter of the buffalo as economic genocide against the Dakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche and Kiowa peoples by slaughtering the buffalo to the point of near extinction. Such acts of extinction still occur at Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park every time a buffalo leaves the park's boundaries.
This equation by The University Daily Kansan of defeating the Colorado Buffalo basketball team with the extinction practices of the U.S. government and military forces against the Buffalo and Native People of Turtle Island is unexcusable. I commend Coca-Cola for its stance.
However, where is the concept of reality and sensitivity in higher education?
Mike Ford, Lawrence resident
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