OPINION
University Daily Kansan, March 6, 1985
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The University Daily KANSAN
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Worth the price
Imagine the University of Kansas without a network of buses shuttling students, faculty and staff. Without a radio station. Without a newspaper. Without a number of services that make campus life fuller, easier, safer, saner.
Imagine the University without student organizations.
Imagine the University without student organizations. Many students, through campus and community organizations, give of their time and energy to provide valuable services to other members of the University community.
Thanks to student organizations, the buses, KJHK-FM and the University Daily Kansan exist. Free legal services are available. Students have access to the University's gymnasiums, swimming pools, tennis courts, tracks and playing fields.
Student Senate, Associated Students of Kansas and the Graduate Student Council provide the framework for students to govern themselves. They also represent students' interests within the University and on a state and national level
The Chamber Music Series, the University Dance Co. University Theatre, KU bands and forensics expand cultural and intellectual experience.
Headquarters, Women's Transitional Care Services and Rape Victim Support Services offer information, emotional support and counseling in times of tribulation and crisis.
Although many students contribute their time and energy to make these services available, all students support them financially through their student activity fee.
The Student Senate will consider tonight whether to increase the student activity fee from $24 to $25 per student for the fall and spring semesters and from $12 to $12.50 for the summer session of the 1985-86 school year.
It is a small price to pay for the wealth of services these organizations provide.
Splintering off
Splinters are often no more than a minor source of irritation, but the results may be more serious for the Democratic Party.
Last week, a group of Southern and Western conservative officeholders formed a splinter group to develop policy outside the party structure.
The splinter members are seeking a cure for the Democratic Party's ills. They have opted against a team approach to regain some of the strength that the party has known in the past.
Yet, while the splinter group's goal of guiding the Democratic Party back to health is an admirable one, the method that they have chosen is not.
These members seem to have forgotten that disagreement and dissatisfaction within an organization are sometimes healthy. Useful ideas and stronger positions often come out of hours of debate and argument.
Paul Kirk, new Democratic Party chairman, lobbied strongly against the new organization because it would operate independently of party structure.
operate independently. So if the splinter group thinks that the Democratic Party has problems, they must realize that their solutions are not moving the party any closer to renewed strength and vigor.
House Majority Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, recently proclaimed that "the Democratic Party is alive and well," but the spinner group could be the first indication of a infection slowly making its way through the party.
Indeed, something is wrong when as many as 40 democratic officeholders around the country decide that the only option is to work outside the system.
While the splinter group may achieve some of their goals, it could foster an irreparable infection from which the Democrats will have a difficult time recovering.
Churches taking up the fight
Most of the television cameras are gone, and the celebrities are few, but the daily routine of protest and arrest is typical south African embassy in Washington.
People still are demonstrating, demanding an end to the South African's system of racial segregation and urging changes in U.S. policy toward the white minority-ruled country that has been forming the ranks of sidewalk demonstrators are from churches.
There is Methodist day, Lutheran day, Presbyterian day and Unitarian day. Each of the major denominations sign on to provide the people to march and to submit to the largely symbolic arrest that has been pattern since the protest began last Thanksgiving eve.
Religious involvement has been present at the protest from the beginning, but in late January churches, synagogues and seminaries — under the leadership of the National Council of Churches — look on the chore of organizing and
educating their communities for the demonstration.
The new phase of the involvement was kicked off with the arrest of Bishop Philip Cousin of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, National Council of Churches president, and the Rev. Arie Brouwer of the Reformed Church in America, NCC general secretary.
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ANDERSON
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"A real partnership has been forged among black and white church leaders for this campaign," said the Rev Joan Campbell, executive director of the NCC's Commission on Regional and Local Ecumenism.
Lutherans chose Feb 18, the annual day of commemoration for Martin Luther, for their vigil at the embassy. They honored the day by reading the text of a public confession of faith and, in the symbolic act
resulting in arrest, sought to ask the embassy staff to convey the text to Christian religious communities in South Africa.
Echoing the 16th century Reformation public confessions, the text said: "We believe, teach and confess that Jesus Christ died to overcome all apartheid between God and man. That Jesus Christ died to overcome all apartheid within humankind. Jesus Christ frees and unites."
U. S. churches have long been opposed to apartheid, and their protests have taken many forms, not only as acts of defiance as the embassy demonstrations.
In February, for example, the General Assembly Council of the Presbyterian Church approved a selective, phased selling of church stock holdings in 33 companies doing business in South Africa.
Approval of the 81-page divestment study paper now goes to the full General Assembly — the business-making body — for its approval.
The plan calls for each agency of
the church with investments to
refrain from holding direct invest-
ments in South African corporations
controlled by South Africa interests.
A number of U.S. churches are involved in direct negotiations with companies that do business in or with South Africa, and some are reporting progress in changing corporate business practices.
The United Church of Christ, for example, has announced that it successfully had concluded nine years of negotiations with Manufacturers Hanover Trust and has convinced the bank to stop making loans to the South African government.
This was a big step for both the church and the bank, said Audrey C. Smock, member of the UCC's Board for World Ministries.
"At a time when Americans of all political persuasions are protesting the evils of apartheid," she said, "it is especially important that one of the nation's premier banking institutions has made such a public commitment."
New Zealand-taking on the big guys
The small South Pacific nation of New Zealand has taken on the United States. The impasse is threatening the 34-year-old ANZUS alliance and might have wider repercussions for alliances throughout the world.
Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke announced Monday the indefinite postponement of the 1985 ANZUS council meeting that was supposed to be held in Australia in July. The cancellation came because of the continuing disagreement between his nation's two closest allies, New Zealand Prime Minister David Cameron, and the postponement "does nothing" to resolve the crisis and expressed his regret, saying that the meeting would have been a good opportunity to thrash out differences.
The ANZUS alliance is highly valued by the signatories. During World War II, Australians, New Zealanders and Americans fought together in the Pacific and in Europe. Contingents of Australians and New Zealanders fought in Korea and Vietnam as U.S. allies.
When Prime Minister David Lange was elected last July, one of his promises was to impose a ban on
nuclear-capable ships. The Reagan administration decided to test the ban last month when it requested port entry for the destroyer, the U.S.S. Buchan. Lange's decision to deny entry came as no surprise to U.S. officials.
The conventionally-powered Buchan carries antisubmarine rockets, or ASROCs, in its weaponry. These can be fitted with either a 40mm or 50mm gun according to David Morrison of the Center for Defense Information.
The United States has reacted to the denial with indignation. In the administration's view, the right to use an ally's military facilities was at a standstill.
Lange has repeatedly stated that his retusal to allow port entry to nuclear-capable ships does not mean that he wants to back out of the
alliance. The right to use another nation's military facilities does not, however, give the United States the right to determine that nation's policy.
Hawke also promised to ban nuclear ships when he was elected in 1983. Since then, he has taken a pragmatic approach to U.S. nuclear policy despite opposition from within his own party and despite widespread antinuclear sentiment in the Australian public.
Recently the opposition within his own party forced him to back down on a promise to cooperate with U.S. MX missile tests.
To the New Zealanders, the declaration of a nuclear free zone is an anti-nuclear act, not an anti-American act. Proponents of the NFZ think that the presence of nuclear weapons increases the likelihood of New Zealand involvement in the event of a nuclear confrontation. New Zealand has no nuclear weapons of its own.
The concept of NFZs is not new to Americans. In Oregon, nine counties have passed NFZ resolutions. Several of these counties are contiguous and form the largest NFZ in the
United States — one third of the state.
In November 1984, the New York City Council joined 79 other communities when it adopted an NFZ resolution by a margin of 26-4.
To date, none of these zones have been enforced in areas where weapons are produced. Thus they have not been the administration's nuclear policies.
New Zealand's resistance is a problem because it offers encouragement to antinuclear forces in other allied nations.
Japan has officially banned the entry of nuclear-capable ships into its ports but negates this policy by allowing all which ships carry nuclear weapons.
Canadian opposition to cruise missile tests has recently gained momentum.
And in Western Europe, there has been consistent opposition to the U.S. deployment of cruise and Pershing II missiles.
For their part, the New Zealanders are telling the United States that they are serious in their commitment to a nuclear free zone and that they will not be pushed around. And many Americans who admire their spunk.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
In the editor
Please title my letter "Hypocrisy at its height!" I am absolutely appalled by the Student Senate Finance Committee's decision to supply $4,500 of student funds to help bring the likes of Louis Farrakhan to this campus. The man, and I use this term liberally, is a militant anti-Semitic.
To the editor:
If this isn't enough, get a load of this. Luca Jellinek, one of the people on the committee and — as Jellinke put it — "someone of Jewish heritage," said, "I think keeping anti-Semitic people off campus is stupid. If someone is saying something against Jews, I don't want to put my head in the sand. I want to hear what they have to say."
If this is true, why was Richard Butler, a member of the Aryan Nation, not asked to speak. Are we
going to deny one speaker and support the other?
After all, this is the University of Kansas. I feel that we the "audience" should be given the broadest "education." We should listen to us, if we hear one, we should hear both.
Gordon Clark Overland Park senior
Free farm market
Should the government — our tax money — really help the farmers as much as it does? Beverly Finger, Rozeil freshman, thinks yes, as she stated in her letter to the editor in the Feb. 27 issue of the University Daily magazine. And I explained the logic of this. The opinion expressed states that if we don't help them, we may eventually run out of farmers. This is impossible.
To the editor:
Why should we pump millions of dollars into this business when we do not do the same for others? If I, or my parents, for example, were to open a hot dog stand in downtown Lawrence, and it rained all summer long — which in turn drove customers away — should I receive aid for my losses? I don't think so. One alternative for me is to switch markets if I feel I cannot make a profit.
A disaster occurred a few years back when the government bought excess cheese from the farmer. These farmers simply continued to produce the same item, some to an even greater extent because they knew our taxes would buy it at a fixed price when no one wanted it.
Then the government gave the cheese away. This should not happen. People must be able to swallow the consequences of the open market.
Sure, I am stepping on a great
number of toes. Some of them belong to my own relatives. But I think this power has been abused. There are other issues to look at, and they affect us all. I am simply making a point based on the information and the solution is not federal aid, and that such aid should be gradually eliminated.
John Foitle
Overland Park junior
Season of success
To the editor:
Although the Big Eight Conference
As one of the many fans who waited inside Allen Field House the night before the Oklahoma game, I feel I speak for everyone in thanking Larry Brown, Monte Johnson and the other Athletic Department staff to support that the entire student body has demonstrated throughout the season.
After this season, we will be losing only one of our Jayhawks, team captain Tad Royle. I will admit that I am one of many fans who holds his eyes every time Tad catches the ball from 30 feet out and turns toward the basket. But Tad should feel good about his successful senior year.
championship has slipped away, the team has improved and matured, and has an excellent chance for success in both the Big Eight Tournament and the NCAA championships. This success can be greatly attributed to that Coach Brown has given to his players. The skills his players have acquired will stay with them long after they graduate.
other players will have another season, but Tad's road has come to an end.
Even though his playing time was minimal, Tad has shown the juniors the leadership and experience that only a senior can understand. This leadership is necessary for a team to
He will be remembered as the player who either hits his free throws at the end of a game or steals the pass to assure a victory. The little things win basketball games. Tad Boyle has performed the little things this year. We all wish the best for him in the future.
The coming tournaments will be a tough challenge for the team, but the players possess the confidence, skill and competitive greatness necessary to be successful. The team has done well against the Oklahoma basketball. It has given the University a sense of national pride that makes us proud to be Jayhawks.
Carter Patterson
I speak for the entire student body in wishing our round-ballers the best of luck for the rest of the season.
Carter Patterson Lee's Summit, Mo., freshman