UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesdav. April 27, 1994
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Conservative viewpoint not covered in Kansan
For the past three years I have endured the University Daily Kansan. Don't get me wrong, it is a good newspaper, and its staff puts in arduous hours for little in return. For those who are unfamiliar with newspaper production, may I say, good for you. It's more time and effort than you can possibly imagine.
Like many college students I read the Kansan because it is there. I either am too cheap to flip the bill for the price Kansas City Star (50 cents, ouch!!), or feel too guilty when I inevitably take more than one USA Today out of the stand for the two quarters I deposited.
Now you are saying, how can this fool compare a professional newspaper to a college daily? The assets those newspapers have over the
Kansan is that they tend to present both sides of the issue with a little more balance than the University Daily Liberal, 'er, excuse me, Kansan.
Whatever your definition may be for liberals and conservatives is not the issue here. I just want a little equal coverage by the Kansan to represent the views of both major political views in the "student" newspaper. The coverage for last year's presidential campaign was a joke. Every time the Associated Press ran a story portraying the Republicans as buffoons it made the Kansan in a flash. And if Gennifer Flowers or anyone else spoke out against Clinton, it seemed to be buried or not run at all.
I am not asking for a whole section devoted to any one particular view. For better or worse, Clinton is the President of the United States (wow, I finally said it!) and the coverage by the Kansan of White House activities has been there. The Kansan does a terrific job, and as a student I feel very fortunate to have a student newspaper like this.
But, I also feel that the Kansan, as a newspaper serving a population, owes its readers a little more balance in its news coverage on important political views. No matter if they do or do not agree with them.
McRae Engel Indianapolis, Ind., junior
Columnist displays lack of audacity, spontaneity
I would like to respond to Jacob Arnold's April 18 column, "Time at school a waste but necessary." Ms. Arnold began the column by
Mr. Arnold began the column by
noting that he doesn't care anymore, that he is drunk, and that it doesn't matter. What led Mr. Arnold to such a state? According to Mr. Arnold's column, his disillusionment began in high school, where he was censured for having "the audacity and spontaneous thought to express ideas and behaviors outside the cultural mainstream." One pictures a younger Mr. Arnold being reprimanded after he expressed audacious and spontaneous ideas like, "Hey, let's get drunk and write columns!"
But it is not only high school with which Mr. Arnold finds fault. In his words, "I have taken over 100 hours of college, and only about 12 hours are directly applicable to my efforts to acquire a job." I have two words for you. Mr. Arnold: trade school.
Mr. Arnold begins his conclusion by assuring his readers that he does intend to finish college, for two reasons. First, he remarks, "I have nothing better to do with the scholarship money I receive." Here is a suggestion Mr. Arnold, take some of that money and buy a diary. Please spare the rest of us your pain. Second, Mr. Arnold writes, "I need to prove to all the teachers that thought I was a dropout loser that I am smart, and I can do it." Unfortunately, that is neither an audacious nor a spontaneous way to live.
Jason McClure Lawrence graduate student
Communities, schools must play day-care role
My daughter, Sarah, called me one afternoon in mid-February, to tell me that our next door neighbor had just had a baby. "It's a girl!" she said in a voice choked with happy emotion. Sarah had anxiously agreed to spend her Spring Break helping Mary Rose-Shaffer care for her baby. Even though Sarah is not Mary's child, Mary exhibits a sense of quiet responsibility for her, because Sarah is member of her community.
The University is another community for Mary Rose-Shaffer. She has introduced a child into it, and her name is not "kid" or "distraction" but Hannah.
On April 15th, Samantha Adams wrote in the Kansan, "with well-chosen day care, most of these women managed to do their jobs without sacrificing their children's well-being and without bringing them to work."
Adam's editorial ignored a major study by the Carnegie Corporation of New York that was reported throughout the major media on
April 13th. According to the study, "thousands of infants and toddlers spend their days in unregulated, crowded day-care centers, watched by untrained employees making minimum wage. They are neglected at an age when human interaction molds their personality." An article about the report in The Kansas City Star said, "More than five million young children spend their days in standard day care."
According to the article, ANY day care for babies and toddlers is hard to find, rendering Adam's "well-chosen" words moot.
In addition to business and government, the report concluded that communities and schools "must play larger roles." That's us.
Mary Rose-Shaffer is an example of the new woman, who is no longer willing to let society isolate her because she is involved in pregnancy, motherhood, babies, breast feeding and the other most fundamental aspects of community.
Hannah Lucia Rose-Shaffer is a newborn symbol that bigotry of ageism is about to topple.
Dorian Heironomous Lawrence sophomore
Emporia School Board is right to ban prayer
When I read the editorial in the April 20th University Daily Kansan about prayer at graduation, I was very disappointed.
Everyone seems to be overlooking the fact that when it comes to the separation of church and state, majority does not matter. Even if 99 percent of the seniors at Emporia High wanted prayer at graduation, it would still be illegal.
We have separation of church and state in this country for a reason. Religious freedom is one of the greatest things about our country. When a prayer is said at the graduation ceremonies of a public school, we cease to have religious freedom. Think about what would happen if America quit protecting the rights of the minority.
The Emporia School Board did make the right choice in not allowing the students to vote on prayer at graduation. Christopher Livingston ignores the fact that it is illegal and falsely claims that fear of being sued is why the school board made the decision.
I would never have expected to read such an editorial in a college newspaper where intellect and liberal mindedness should prevail.
Alexia Boesker
Emporia freshman
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