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Monday, May 3, 1993
OPINION
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
IN OUR OPINION
Perot's meddling is not productive for Clinton
For the man who said he was "all ears" during last fall's presidential campaign, Ross Perot, in the past few months, has turned into nothing but "all mouth." And for a man who professes to value simplicity, Perot has done nothing but make President Clinton's job more complex.
Perot appears to have an opinion on anything and everything. Yet for all his talk, he has provided little in the way of advice or solutions for the new administration. His only goal thus far seems to be to back President Clinton into a corner. Constantly reminding Clinton of the 19 million voters he won over in last year's election, Perot does not want his presence forgotten. With these 19 million voters, Perot seems to be carrying out a veiled form of blackmail. After all, these are voters Clinton might need if he seeks re-election in 1996. Yet, in this questionable extortion, no one quite knows exactly what Perot wants.
if abolishing gridlock is Perot's wish, he appears to be going about the task the wrong way. As an "uninvited visitor of the White House" he is only slowing all processes down.
Referring to closed-door health care meetings as a secret "nuclear bomb program" and calling Clinton's economic plan a "hand-out," Perot is stealing crucial public support the new administration needs in order to successfully carry out its agenda. Perot is certainly entitled to his opinion, but with his seemingly limitless wealth, Perot is easily able to voice his views and influence a great number of Americans. But the election is over, however, and the campaigning should stop. If Perot truly wishes to see conditions in this nation improve, the best thing he could do would be to back off for a while and give Clinton's proposed policies a chance. Moreover, he could try donating some of his excess money to charity instead of buying blocks of national television.
At the bottom of the matter is the fact that Clinton is now the president, not Perot. Clinton need not constantly look over his shoulder and worry about Perot's 19 million supporters. Clinton has already won the election. He now has three and a half years to accomplish his goals — not enough time to waste acknowledging Perot and his "Mickey Mouse" antics.
KYLE KICKHAEFER FOR THE EDITORIAL BOARI
NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Tailhook report describes even worse situation than believed
Based on his findings, the Pentagon's civilian inspector general has turned over files on 140 junior and midlevel officers for potential disciplinary action.
The Defense Department's long-delayed report on the Tailhook scandal details rife sexual misconduct by Navy and Marine officers that is even more shocking than anticipated.
Considering the supercharged political climate surrounding the probe, it is crucial that every officer be afforded due process. But those found guilty of improprieties, including sexual assault, perjury or conduct unbecoming an officer, should be subject to stern disciplinary measures.
Far more difficult to resolve are the cases of 33 Navy admirals and two Marine generals who attended
the 1991 Tailhook convention. The inspector general also referred their files for review because of "the overall leadership failure that culminated in the events."
Indeed, the most damning passage in the Pentagon's report is its scorching indictment of the Navy's most senior officers. The inspector general found that some admirals "were knowledgeable as to the excesses practiced at Talhook 91 and, by their action, those officers served to condene and even encourage the type of behavior that occurred there."
Among the officers who attended the Tailhook party was Adam. Frank Kelso, the chief of naval operations. Kelso declared ... that he does not intend to resign over the scandal. But, as the Navy's top admiral, he bears a clear responsibility for the institutional failures that contributed to Tailhook
San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego
KANSAN STAFF
STEVE PERRY
Student protests Kansan's failure to run obituary of Cesar Chavez
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Kansan editor Greg Farmer agreed with Hispanic students assembled outside Stuuffer-Flint Monday night that had Bob Dole or Jesse Jackson died on Friday, their deaths would have been newsworthy Monday. It is this sort of inconsistency on the part of the Kansan editors that Hispanics, like myself, do not appreciate and will not tolerate from our student paper.
We peacefully assembled to remember Chavez' great devotion to the non-violent movement. We lit candles as a symbol that his spirit still lives on and that none of us should forget his life's work for human rights. Of course, I said this to a Kansan reporter, but all she could think of quoting was my statement that we were angry. We did not protest in front of Kansan reporters to get press coverage though that's what the Kansan would have you believe. The Kansan thought that it was more newsworthy to print a story about a small group of Hispanic students burning two copies of the Kansan.
On Friday, April 23, 1993, Cesar Chavez, founder and leader of the Farmworker Movement, died. The news of his death was reported by the three major networks, CNN, regional news channels 4.5.6 and 9. KANU, the Kansas City Star and the Topeka Capital Journal. The Lawrence Journal-World ran a story. The news organization that had yet to find out that Cesar Chavez died was our own student paper, the University Daily Kansan. In all fairness, the Kansan staff was aware of Chavez death. However, they clearly informed me that it was not considered newsworthy.
MELISSATERLIP
MELISSA TERZIL
Petrol sales manager
JEANNE HINES Sales and marketing adviser
BILL SKEET, Technology coordinator
GREG FARMER Editor
Felt it was necessary to write this letter in response to the Kansan's failure to recognize a man who only last year lived to a standing-roomly crowd at the Kansas University. Our group held a candlelight vigil in front of Stauffer-Flint every night last week in remembrance of a great Chicano-American and human and to protest the insensithe evidences and proofs, some people still are not convinced that these exterminations took place in our century. It is a shame that in many parts of the world people feel so indifferent to the faith of human beings.
GAYLE OSTERBERG Managing editor
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When watching the news on TV or reading the newspapers, it is hard to imagine what is taking place in the former-Yugoslavia. But the hardest thing to understand is why so many people feel indifferent. Many do not care because it is not their war and they say that it is too far away, so why even care. This pathetic attitude of indifference is the one that took place during Nazi Germany and, because of it, so many innocents died.
Come on, editors, nude dancing isn't just good, clean, old-fashioned college fun. It's nice, and to glorify it by giving two days worth of light-hearted front page coverage offends a lot of people. I want my *Kansan* campus fees refunded. Surely you'll earn it back through Juccers' dividends.
Ghetto uprising of 1943 was not first as Kansan article implies
It's too bad we don't have a choice about our campus fees going to pay for this trash. Your free advertising policy to establishments like Juices seems more characteristic of the Oread Review, and some of your paying advertisers might invest in that publication if you keep glorifying strip joints.
A recent article in the *Kansan* on the Holocaust, while very commendable on its overview of the subject discussed, has a factual error and an implication that could be misconstrued. Referring to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of April 19, 1943, the article's "state of 50,000 Jews fought back for the first time." The April 19 revolt was the second armed uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, the first took place on January 18, 22-19. The lessons learned in the earlier revolt, and the reduced physical enemy presence within the Ghetto that followed, paved they way for the April uprising.
Today, in what was once Yugoslavia, Moslems are being executed, burned and put in concentration camps. Moslem women are being raped and many of them have been expelled from their villages and are running away from the atrocities of ethnic cleansing. Actions must take place; we cannot be indifferent anymore, too many people have already died. After all, the color of your skin or your religion should not matter; in the eyes of God we are all equal. At least to some of us who still believe in divine justice.
Catherine B. Abed
Some people suggest that liberal consciousness disappears the day after college graduation. Somehow I fail to see that a diploma and a job all of sudden changes everything. I think what people really want to tell me is that being liberal is for the young and naive college student because they do not want some liberal stirring up trouble for them in the "real" world.
Systematic killing in Bosnia mirrors genocide of Jews in Nazi Germany
I may not be open to opinions that differ than mine. I cannot accept racism or sexism. But I do know that people with opinions at both ends of the spectrum are everywhere.
Bruce Cutler
Lawrence
"whenever I describe him, I begin by saying, 'He's muster conservative Republican, but every time we get together we have a great time.' As if people suspect that we cannot be near each other unless we're debating welfare or ERA.
Being a "liberal" almost has as frightening repercussions as being labeled "feminist". Even with a "liberal" Democrat in the White House, liberalism is not as acceptable as one might believe.
David P. Trevino Lawrence senior
Elizabeth Soliday Lawrence graduate student
Lawrence senior
tivity and cultural ignorance of the Kansan editorial staff.
Liberal in the classic sense probably means being a Democrat. In college that might expand to include being pro-choice, feminist, environmentalist, anti-war or egalitarian.
The agenda of your editorial staff has become even more transparent in the past few days, I've got it! You all purchased stock in ducers! And my campus fees are helping pay for the two days' worth of free frontpage advertising your editors are giving the nifty little establishment! Good thing you didn't purchase any stock in women's concerns, or you'd have a lot to answer to since you published the wrong day for the Womyn Take Back the Night march! Good thing your editors don't have an 'in' with Cesar Chavez' sympathizers, or you'd really be down the tubes!
Although I question that liberalism has no place outside of college. I also question the whole "liberal" label in the first place.
Shelly Solon is Wheeling, Ill., senior majoring in Journalism.
Stripping story other mistakes merits refunding fees for Kansan
Millions of innocent Jews died during World War II; they were systematically persecuted and executed. To avoid this horror, we commemorate the Holocaust, so that it will never happen again. Despite
Translation. College is an unrealistically accepting environment, and being "liberal" has no place in the real world.
Being "conservative" has backlash just with a different twist, and there happens to be a bit more institutionalized power behind this label. However, many conservatives feel they are being attacked in these days of "white male bashing."
It seems that most people call people liberal or conservative if they disagree with them. One of my good friends from high school is an ultra-conservative Republican. We find ourselves justifying our friendship. We treat our friendship as a strange phenomenon.
As graduation approaches I keep hearing the speech "Things are different out there in the real world."
In four years, I constantly argued in defense of liberal ideologies and opinions. I have heard many people chastise KU for being too liberal or too conservative, assuming that an institution or group of people cannot be both. I wonder if any one person can be 100 percent liberal or conservative
1 question the validity of all these labels.
Being a "liberal," I wondered if I fit this mode. I mean, I'm open to several viewpoints and ideas but most of them happen to oppose "conservative" viewpoints and ideas. So am I really liberal?
A friend once asked if I considered myself a liberal. I said yes. Then he asked why people who only believed in one set of ideas were called liberal. Liberal, he said, means being open to all points of view and ideas. His argument was that most liberals were not as open as the word suggests.
STAFF COLUMNIST
Liberalism whatever it means, has significance
By David Rosenfield