OPINION
Friday, April 23, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
IN OUR OPINION
Students need to take advantage of work day
On Wednesday, it is expected that close to a half million 9-to-15-year-old girls will be missing from schools across the nation as they take a step toward preparing themselves for careers in the 21st century.
"Take Our Daughters to Work" day, sponsored by the Ms. Foundation in New York hopes to pique girls' interests in careers and reward them with adult attention.
The latest Harvard University research shows girls in this age group to have a marked loss of self-confidence as compared to boys; this event will give all sectors of society a chance to question the messages girls receive about what their gender contributes.
For girls, visible role models are hard to find. Men still make up the core of leadership positions in business, film, publishing and medicine to name a few.
While parents in the work force are taking daughters, nieces or friends to the factory as well as the board room. students should look at this day as an opportunity to introduce a daughter or younger sister to higher education.
"Take Our Daughters to Work" day is an outstanding idea, but it can only be effective if people take action. On April 28, take a daughter, sister or a friend to work or class. Today's girls will need all the positive reinforcement possible if they are to become tomorrow's captains of industry.
VAL HUBER FOR THE EDITORIAL BOARD
NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Clinton should be Murder signals wary of taxes in displeasure with health-care plan judicial system
President Clinton's agents have once again floated the notion of a national value-added tax to pay for universal health care. Until he broaches the health plan, though, it is idle to speculate about how he would finance it and senseless to let the financing divert everyone's attention.
As a seasoned politician, ... Clinton surely knows the risk of coupling two major controversies — over health care and a new system of taxation. Indeed, the talk of a value-added tax may be nothing more than the White House signaling that the health plan's cost will be formidable.
The president mentioned the possibility of a value-added tax in February, but acknowledged then that it would mark a "radical change" in the nation's taxation, suggesting that it might be considered at some future time, but not now ...
Whatever the merit of a value-added system, one thing is sure: If President Clinton proposes yet another new tax, the Republicans won't let him forget it. On this move, all the political signs flash caution. Moreover, the rules of common sense say that before floating trial balloons about taxes, the White House should consult the bipartisan Senate group that is studying consumption-based taxes. If a consumption tax is coming, it should fit in with a considered plan for tax reform.
The New York Times
Many of the nation's legal and cultural elites are wringing their hands over the grass-roots support for Elle Nesler.
She's the California mother who gunned down a sex abuser of children. Mrs. Nesler shot the man while he was awaiting yet another court hearing on molestation charges—involving her own son.
Talking heads, know it all pundits and endite lawyers are again, as they do whenever one of these cases arise (remember Bernie Goetz), decriing "vigilantism."
The air is filled with pompous lectures on the constitutional protections guaranteed criminal suspects and the sacredness of the judicial system.
To borrow a shopworn phrase,
"They just don't get it."
The elites are blathering on about process while ordinary Americans are concerned about justice.
Why isn't securing domestic peace as important to the elites as protecting criminals' rights?
Millions of Americans don't feel safe anymore. Many are afraid to set foot outside their dwellings after dark. They are prisoners in their own homes — and they are fearful for their children's safety at school.
These are the kind of people who cheer the Ellie Nesters and Bernie Goetzes and shrug their shoulders at elitists' concerns about "vigilate justice." That kind of justice looks a lot better to them than what they're getting. ...
Grass-roots America is trying to send an important message: The justice system is broken. Fix it!
The Herald Augusta, Ga.
KANSAN STAFF
BILL SKEET, Technology coordinator
GREG FARMER
Editor
GAYLE OSTERBERG
Managing editor
TOMEBLEN
General manager, news adviser
Editorial
Ask Managing... Justin Kruck
News... Monique Guislain
David Mitchell
Editorial... Stephen Martino
Campus... KC Tracer
Sports... David Mitchell
Photo... Mark Rowlings
Fastbacks... Lynne McAdam
Graphics... Schauder
STEVE PERRY
Business manager
MELISSA TERLIP
Retail sales manager
JEANNE HINES
Sales and marketing adviser
Business Star
Campus sales mgrs  Brad Beon
Regional sales mgrs  Wade Baxter
National sales mgrs  Jennifer Perrier
Co-op sales mgrs  Ashley Hessel
Production mgrs  Ashley Langford
Marketing director  Angela Clevereng
Creative manager  Holly Perry
Classified mgr  Jerry Dewey
Dave Habiker
**Letters should be typed, double-spaced and fewer than 200 words. They must include the signature, name, address and telephone number. Writers affiliated with the University of Kansas must include class and homework, or faculty or staff position.**
**Guest columns should be typed, double-spaced and fewer than 700 words. The writer will be photographed.**
They receive the right to request or edit letters, guess columns and cartoons. They can be mailed or brought to the Kansas township. [11] Stuart Pflitt Hall
Go ahead and cut this out. Hang it on the refrigerator. You'll help others learn more about AIDS then you are likely to have forgotten.
"All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things" was a popular book of the late 1980's. It even enjoyed a second printing. In this Readers Digest-ish work, basic truisms are distilled down to platitudes that are as palatable as cotton candy and about as sweet, if you know what I mean.
secrets of ALEY.
Experiment with the recipe.
Saccharin is sweetener than sugar. Whine
and hound others to the edge of guilt.
And count on big brother if you eat
too many cookies...
Kitchen provides useful insight into AIDS awareness, prevention
STAFF COLUMNIST
Wars could be solved if we just played fair. The best thing about heaven is that we will get a chance to ask about the true origin of giraffes. And while we wouldn't want to live in a zoo, thinking about the possibility is a fun way to spend an afternoon. You get the idea. Frederich Nietzsche held back at third grade.
And while you've probably seen at least portions of this work on Walden Book Store posters, your grandmother's refrigerator, and doctor office walls, undoubtedly you have not seen its is sequel. "All I Really Need to Know About AIDS I Learned in the Kitchen: Common Thoughts on Uncommon Things." This work is not due out for at least another month, but due to the urgency of its message, the publishers have allowed an excerpt of it to be printed here in honor of AIDS Awareness Week:
My house had a big kitchen. And while there was no hearth, it was warm, as if it did. Had the Walton's lived today, the kitchen of my house would be their type of kitchen.
Ann Jurcyk is a Kansas City, Kan., graduate student majoring in liberal arts.
One of the really neat things about this kitchen was the floor. If you stared long enough at the stains on the linoleum, you could see strange things.
Wild beasts and nectars in various phases of their life cycles came to life in the uninpired dips of pizzeria sauce and spilt red wine. I didn't know it at the time, but I was really doing semiology—the kitchen held the secrets of the world. Lessons of life can be learned in cooking lessons. Take AIDS, for example, what we really need to know can be found in the kitchen.
Of course, there are many man- lessons to be learned, like the time we was wearing a glove but still gar- burned by the cookie sheet. Or the time I left the cucumber out of the salad, but you get the point—the secrets of AIDS are in the kitchen.
Mom, bless her heart, always cooked nice meals. But she always followed the recipe to the letter. Because she never liked to experiment, she will never really get AIDS no matter how hard she tries. I can't really fault her, however. I only learned a valuable AIDS secret when Uncle Herman visited and made this special throw-it-all-in-why-not-
stew. "You see," he would say, "when you experiment with what is tried and true, you get an interesting brew." And so by realizing the importance of experimentation and theme variation, I was on my way to an AIDS education.
Another day I unexpectedly learned an AIDS lesson. It all happened when Dad offered to do the shopping for Mom. So Dad and I went to the store and bought things like margarine, salt substitute and Nutsreutse. When we got home, Mom was upset by the substitutes Dad had made. "Margarine is not the same as butter. Fettucini does not taste the same with margarine. Margarine is not natural, not as good." In Dad's reply, a secret to my AIDS understanding, "I'm sick of your fettucini."
dinner. Of course, Mom would lecture me on self-control, "if you don't watch it, you'll get sick." But I loved those big sugar cookies so much that I would always find a way. More often than not, I would get sick and, Mom would get mad because my appetite would be ruined. But I learned if you then cry a lot, big brother will come to your rescue. Mom would respond, "Bequiet, your not the only one in this house hurting." Grandma was, after all, upstairs dying from cancer, but I just kept yelling and eventually out. Finally even Mom felt guilty after all it was her cookies that made me sick.
Of course, then Mom had to notice that we got Lucky Charms instead of Shredded Wheat. So I had to hear about the lack of nutritional value in candied marshmallows and how stupid I was to fall for a fancy, colorful package. But with Dad's encouraging and empathetic nod, I learned to patience endure. After all, Magic Johnson donned the box cover, and there was a toy surprise in side. Lesson three: how special.
I suppose my biggest lesson about AIDS came from the unsuspecting place of the cookie jar. You see, I would always want cookies before
"Hi, what's your name? What are you majoring in? Would you like to come to a Bible study?"
Column neglects differences among world's religions
These are the "pick-up-lines" of the college evangelist and the topic of Andrew Gilman's March 10th column. Why do Christians always want to talk about "spiritual things?" isn't religion a personal thing?
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
What good would it come from his discovery?None.
Let's say a scientist discovers the cure for AIDS. This would be a monumental discovery—think of all the people who would be saved. But what if the were to keep this cure to himself?
It is the same with the Christian who wants you to talk with you about religion—the they have been cured and want to share it with you. Cured from what? The sickness of the human spirit—a disease of which we are all dying.
Our almighty is easy to observe. Just turn on CNN: someone trying to blow up the World Trade Center, innocent women being raped in Bosnia. What would possess someone to do these things? The same thing that brings out the evil in all of us—the inherent sinfulness of the human spirit.
The cure: the death of Jesus. Because justice had to be served—someone had to pay the penalty for oursins.
What good would it do anyone if Christians were to keep this cure to themselves? None.
"Religion is an important issue as well as a personal one." Gilman says.
Has a person believed in He is trying to say that if one person believes one religion, and another person believes in another, they can both be right? But this isn't true because of the many contradictions between the many religions of the world. For instance Christians say that Jesus is God. Muslims say that this is blasphemy and Jesus was just a great prophet. Jews agree with the blasphemy, but say that Jesus was not a prophet, but a trouble-maker. Where is the similarity here? How can all three of these views of who Jesus is be right at the same time?
what if a blind person was walking to the edge of a cliff? He would have no way of knowing that the cliff was coming up, and he could walk right off; the edge. What would you do? I hope you would try to stop him.
"Let's keep religion a voluntary issue," says Gilman. I totally agree. Let me formally apologize for the Christian community in Lawrence if we seem to be pressuring you. This is not our intent. All it boils down to being your choice, and no matter how much we would like to you become a Christian, we cannot make that decision for you.
David Zimmerman Wichita sophomore
Mystery Strip
By David Rosenfield
LATER, AT THE DAILY PLANET...
GREAT CAESAR'S GHOST, KENT!!
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
JEEPERS, MISTER KENT!
you missed ALL THE EXCITEMENT!
SUPERMAN DEFEATED THOSE
EVIL PUBLISHERS WHO WERE
EXPLOTTING HIS GOOD NAME!
HMM, YES, CLARK, HOW IS IT
THAT YOU'RE NEVER HERE
WHEN SUPERMAN'S AROUND
AH, IT'S NICE TO
KNOW SOME THINGS
WILL NEVER CHANGE
DAILY P