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Wednesday, July 7, 1993
OPINION UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
IN OUR OPINION
Students should expect to pay for better faculty
The Board of Regents may have taken the first step toward keeping the University of Kansas a fourstar institution with the proposed tuition increase
1 star institution with the proposed tuition increase to pay for faculty salaries. Even though students will be expected to bear the burden of the salary increase, it is a burden they should have to take up if they want to receive a degree which is meaningful.
In the past two years, several professors have left the University due to salary offers that were more attractive than what they were currently making at KU. KU needs more competitive salaries in order to retain its outstanding faculty members and to make the University marketable to new faculty.
Because of budget cuts, the state claims it cannot afford to increase faculty salaries. Whether this is true or not is not the debate.
Traditionally at KU, the state has picked up the part of the bill that students did not pay. It is this tradition which is coming to an end for several reasons, such as the slumping economy that makes higher education a lower priority. As unpleasant as it may be, reality has come to Kansas. Because the state cannot afford to keep KU an outstanding school, students are going to have to pay.
Eyen with the increase, KU is still affordable.
The raise would be a $71 increase for residents and a $402 increase for nonresidents. This is a minor raise to keep quality faculty at KU.
If students want to receive the excellent education for which KU is traditionally known, they must be willing to bear some of that cost.
The old adage, "You can't get something for nothing" does not just apply to consumer goods. If students want a quality education, they must be willing to foot the bill.
TERRILYN McCORMICK
EDITORIAL EDITOR
NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Terrorist hatemongers should not be allowed to immigrate into U.S.
Last week's bust of a terrorist bombing ring in New York City was clearly the result of superb police work. But the relief of seeing the arrests was tempered by a sobering question. What if?
Had any number of things gone wrong. New York might have erupted in a truly horrifying spectacle of death and ruin. Police say the Muslim extremists involved in the plot had targeted the United Nations building, a large federal building in Manhattan and two tunnels under the Hudson River that carry many thousands of commuters.
What's most disturbing about this case is America's vulnerability to terror of such magnitude. Some of the vulnerability is an inescapable price of maintaining a free and open society as opposed to a safe and hygienic police state. But some of it is self-inflicted.
This conspiracy appears to be closely connected with the bombing of the World Trade Center. In both cases, most of the suspects are not Americans, but Middle Eastern adherents of violent Muslim fundamentalism. Most are devotees of Sheik ibn Abdel Rahman, a New Jersey-based cleric who despises the West and incites his followers to hatred and assassination.
These terrorists weren't drawn here by the American dream; most of them came to make trouble, and they were abetted by ridiculously permissive immigration and asylum policies. Whatever rule allowed Rahman and other hambangers to remain in the country — after entering it illegally in many cases — ought to be discarded as so much suicidal idiocy. The United States has absolutely no obligation, moral or otherwise, to permit vipers like this to breed in its back yard.
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BLIND MAN'S BLUFF
Detachment of husband's penis prompts odd search
Finding the proverbial needle in a haystack may prove impossible to some, but not to the Manassas, Va., police department.
In one of the more bizarre news events recently, a 24-year-old woman, after allegedly being raped by her husband, did what some may decry as an atrocity to manhood, while others may claim it was simply an example of women's empowerment.
It seems she applied the biblical saying "If thy right eye offend thee" to the situation and removed the offending organ.
That's right - she whacked off his penis.
According to the news report, this obviously distraught woman fed the house immediately after the incident, genitalia in hand. When she realized this most unfortunate fact, she flung it out the car window.
COLUMNIST
If you have ever tried to start a car and back out of a driveway with a soda in one hand, all I can say is that she must drive an automatic.
This is where the capable hands of the Manassas police department took over. In about an hour, the penis was recovered, packed in ice and taken to the hospital where it could be reatached.
The doctor who performed the delicate operation attributed successful reattachment to both the penis' quick
recovery from the road and the fact that the woman used a sharp knife and made a clean cut. While I would never want to imagine what took place before penile dismemberment, this is what I think took place in the briefing room before the search:
Sergeant: Not who man, what. I'm talking member. a... you know, um, well... a John Thomas.
Police Sergeant: I'm afraid we have a lost member somewhere out on highway 40. I want all available officers to participate in the search.
Officer: Who is it sir?
WEBB I BOWLING
Officer: John Thomas . . . Wasn't he arrested last night on a drunk and disorderly last night. Sergeant?
Female Officer: I think he means a penis. (Ever notice that men hate to say that word?)
Officer. Should we call out the dogs. 47'.
Sergeant: Yes, that's it.
Sergeant: I think that, well um,
because of the delicate nature of the search, the dogs would not be a good idea. Now I want every square inch searched. Everybody out there should be giving 150 percent. Think of it as your own . . . no, forget that.
The men, with visions of "Fatal Attraction" in their heads, scour the search area diligently. The women, probably wondering what a few inches of recovered flesh could do to better mankind, adopt a somewhat less aggressive approach.
Nevertheless, the organ is recovered. Thanks to the miracle of science and a clean stroke on the part of the woman penile reattachment can take place.
I wonder what will happen to the couple.
In any case, I'm sure we will see them both on "Geraldo."
If we can have movies glorifying people like a craized cult leader in Waco who impregnates his female following and an alleged Texas cheerleader murdering mom, why not?
Will she file for divorce, or will she follow in the steps of Mary Jo Buttafuoco and stand by her man? Maybe we will soon see a movie of the week: "Tragedy at Manassas: The Penis Incident."
Val Huber is a Lawrence graduate student majoring in journalism.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Classified senator's letter oversteps ethical boundaries
This is a response to Mike Auchard's letter to the editor concerning the Custodial Olympics.
After reading the article concerning the Custodial Olympics, we felt the Classified Employees were totally misrepresented by Mike Auchud. As an officer of the Classified Senate, it is his responsibility to represent all classified employees.
It is our opinion that he failed to research the facts on both sides of this issue. We also felt that by his examples, he put a false light on what our profession is all about.
Department of Human Resources, it would only be the concern of those parties involved. This was a breach of confidentiality which makes it impossible for anyone to make a fair and reasonable decision. If the grievance does, in fact, exist, this should automatically void the grievance because of publication.
The most disturbing part of his letter was the fact that Auchud took it upon himself to step over the bounds of ethics by mentioning a tool of conciliation that does not pertain to him. If a grievance has been filed with the
We feel that Auchard had no idea of the repercussions and the impact that his letter would create or he would not have been so quick to write such a one-sided, misinformed point of view.
But then, maybe he would.
Mary Alexander
Custodial Manager
Karen Paasch
Custodial Supervisor
EDITORIAL EDITOR
TERRILYN
McCORMICK
PC has kept opinions debate out of KU classes
With one year left of my college career, I've started to assess my education at the University of Kansas. I've been asking myself, "Am I smarter, well-rounded, more marketable for a job than I was three years ago?" The answer probably is yes. I can't say I haven't learned anything.
But these questions brought me to another that was a little more difficult to answer. What exactly am I supposed to learn?
Traditionally, colleges and universities are places where opinions are expressed openly, ideas exchanged freely and theories debated vigorously. Looking honestly at my years at KU, the University has failed to meet these requirements.
In my general classes, I spent most of my time listening to professors spout an "objective" viewpoint about topics like sociology, history, psychology and science. I, in turn, listened, read the text and then regurgitated the desired information for tests and papers. In some cases, I didn't even read the text or go to the class. Amazingly, I still did well.
Even though I will graduate with a good grade point average, the university has cheated me of the traditional benefit of a college experience. In very few of my classes were opinions expressely free or debate embraced. In too many classes, the professor did not even give an opinion about the subject of study. One even said he did not tell the class what theories he believed because it would influence our ability to choose for ourselves. I said to myself, "What does he think I am? A meek lamb that can be molded and shaped in his image. I can think for myself and form my own opinion." Another professor wouldn't tell the class her beliefs on racial relations in the United States because she feared it would offend some of the members of the class.
The age of political correctness and inclusion has made many professors and students afraid to share their views. No one wants to offend anyone. So no one acknowledges that everyone does not think alike, because if everyone didn't think alike that would present conflict, which in this age has been deemed bad.
The best classes I have taken at KU have been taught by professors who provided instruction on all the theories of a topic and then, most importantly, he or she said which one he or she subscribed to and why. They welcomed views of students who agreed and those who disagreed. No one was forced to accept the professor's opinion. And, at the least, I walked out of those classes better educated than when I walked in.
Universities today are giving students a generic education, one that is agreeable to everyone and one that robots students of the rewards of hearing opinions different than their own.
Next May, when I walk down the Hill, I will have spent four years of my life not learning what a university truly is supposed to teach me - how to form my own opinion and at least hear, if not understand, the opinions of others.
Terrillen M.Cormick is a Kansas City, Mo.
senior manager in journalism.
For the Birds
YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE BY REMOTE CONTROL NEVER GETTING UP AND TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
by Jeff Fitzpatrick