OPINION
The University Daily KANSAN
April 24,1984 Page4
The University Daily KANSAN
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Any commercial venture, on campus or off, must satisfy customers and make a profit to survive.
Tomorrow night, the Student Senate will vote on a petition asking the Kansas Union Memorial Board to include a fast-food restaurant in its planned renovation of the Union.
10 Burger King and McDonald's have already drawn up their proposals for such a restaurant.
The fact is, fast food is already on campus — the Deli and Hawk's Nest restaurants in the Union and the Wescoe Terrace Cafeteria are clear examples.
Of course, we will say, "Fast- food is bad enough, do we have to drag it on campus?"
But anyone who has eaten at these on campus franchises will admit that any commercial fast-food franchise could provide better burgers in less time, and probably for a cheaper price.
A commercial fast-food restaurant would provide students with a quick, cheap meal - something that the hectic schedule of University life often demands.
If a commercial restaurant were allowed to sign a contract with the Union, its profits could be used to lessen the costs of other products such as textbooks.
The added competition for students' dollars would help improve quality of existing food service fare.
In addition, it would have to renovate its part of the building, lessening the financial burden the University would have to bear.
As long as the University of Kansas has to succumb to fast-food, it might have well do it right.
George C. Lichtenberg said, "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
Ansel Adams, who died yesterday at the age of 82, has left the world a legacy of bright ideas. His striking photographs capture nature's stark beauty with both technical and artistic genius.
Dubbed the photographer laureate of America, Adams was a prolific artist who constantly strove to live up to his own tough standards.
He rarely photographed people, news or scenes of social commentary, but his timeless photographs of the American West have been published throughout the world.
His photographs also brought him commercial success. A large large Adams print two years ago sold for $71,000.
Adams also spoke out most of his
life in favor of conservation of the Earth's natural resources. He was associated with the Sierra Club for more than 60 years,37 of which were spent as a member of its board of directors.
In 1940, he helped set up the department of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He later founded the department of photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and helped start the Friends of Photography group in Carmel.
Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif. Adams' congressman said, "He will long be remembered for his innovations in black and white photography, but . . . he cared about what he photographed, whether it was the Big Sur coast . . . or the valleys of Yosemite. He was truly dedicated to preserving that which he himself knew his photographs alone could not protect."
Benefit of 1981 tax cut
Still smarting from 1040 backkush?
Here's some relatively good news:
Tax Freedom Day, 1984, is May 1,
the same as last year.
The day is the Tax Foundation's way of dramatizing how long the average American taxpayer has to work each year to pay his tax bill.
In 1982, for the first time since 1975, the day moved back to an earlier date. That reflected the effect of the 1981 federal income tax cuts.
But the Tax Foundation points out that the extra day this year goes to pay added state and local taxes, not the federal variety.
This year the date stayed the same, though, thanks to leap year, there has been an extra day of working for the tax man.
There has been a lot of talk by politicians in this campaign year about the failure of the 1981 tax cut to benefit "the people."
If average taxpayers are "the people" to whom these smoke-blowers are referring, the taxpayers should be able to spot that whopper for what it is.
As the encouraging placement of Tax Freedom Day for the past three years shows, that is nonsense.
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Columnist's final flight winds down
When I was a freshman, I'd stand at some column on this page and wonder, "What in blazes is going on here?" I'm still staring and still wondering. But this time it's my egotip.
Back then, though, I thought I could do better, so I signed on with the University Daily Kansan. Before long I was flying information over M. Oread in a beat-up reporter's cargo plane. I'd make a few passes over campus, pick up data, then bank around and drom it to you
Flying a reporter's plane was fun,
but it was hard work. And the old
birds were cumbersome. I dreamed
of a sleek fighter plane of a sleek fighter column plane.
"I'll show 'em." I spat one moonlit night as I dropped my last info and swung west toward home
The day finally came. I was prompted to columnist. Strapping into the video display terminal, I cranked her over, and with a cool "thumbs
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up" to my editor, rolled out onto the tarmac.
I was scared. I'd never been up in a fast one before. My first mission was rough — a dive-bombing run on city hall.
They didn't teach me some things in school, but everything clicked when I got over target. Liberals and politicians dashed for cover as I riddled their Volvos and Saabs.
In this way, time passed, and winter waked headlong into spring. I became a veteran of many missions. I learned barrel rods and loops, better ways to dodge the flack in water, and more come. But I loved the danger. Black
A few times I took some had hits and had to get down quick. And more than once I forgot to secure the logic hatch and looked back to see every idea I ever had falling away into space.
Nobody saw me coming. It was like Pearl Harbor. I let go with everything I had. Wheeling, strafing, cutting them down as they ran. When I still got back to base, all I knew was one on the back. I licked in my mug.
One particularly bloody mission sticks in my mind. Fully loaded with rockets, napalm and 30-caliber fire from the Kingdom of the Gays
After that, flack came like I'd never seen. What got me, though, were the reconnaissance reports. Witnesses said I had gunned down innocent children, women and men. They didn't even know what happened. Said I removed all the blood.
Hearing this, I was chilled to the bone. I thought what I said was
right, in my mind, at the time. But man — the way I said it. A hot chick of me lodged in my brain, and a cooed, eupocalypseful filled long hard nights.
I was a fighter jock, though. So I had to go up again. I flew some more missions that year. The usual targets — commiss, or lars on the left or right. Then the new school had around and I took her aloft one more
I made a few easy shake-down runs, but something was missing. I was flying like a greenhorn. The tower was shouting at me, demanding to know what was wrong. Hell, I couldn't tell 'em. I was in a daze. Then it hit me. My nerves are shot.
more than once I'd try to gain altitude, but the rig would start shaking and I have to吹 out. I didn't know why it was happening,
I took to avoiding the other pilots, cursing my days and drinking. Then one morning, the wing commander approached me about飞掠 again.
With nothing to lose, I took my column aloft.
Jesus, it was the best fight I ever had. The aircraft worked like magic. Feeling frisky after that, I tried to go for the sound barrier Up in the stratosphere. I threw my next column into a six-G turn. But the wings were about to shear off, so I kicked the stick down and headed for home.
And I'm almost home now; I can see blue runway lights up ahead, glowing warm in the night. But I don't think I'll land. There are other airfields to over to owers, and a real hill on toward morning. I'll push on toward morning.
But before we lose radio contact, I just want to say thank you, reader, if you ever read a column I wrote clear through. That is the biggest compliment for me I tried to be honest and not stupid and say what I thought and be a little bit funny. I hope I succeeded a couple of times.
Look there, the sun's coming up,
and the clouds are dancing, and the radio's fading away Later on,
friend.
Acquittal of Klansmen is unjust
They were dancing in Klansville last week.
But justice was not done.
In Winston-Salem, N.C., an all-wait jury audited nine Klu Klux Klansmen and American Nazis on 25 federal charges of violating the civil rights of Communist Workers Party demonstrators in 1979.
Five Communists died while staging a "Death to the Klan" march in Greensboro, N.C. Prosecutors said the defendants had fired the first 11 of 39 shots in the battle. Five men previously had been cleared on state murder charges.
more determined to organize the Klan and "fight communism."
U. S. District Court Judge Thomas Flannery told the jury before deliberations that it could not convict the defendants on civil rights charges unless it first determined that the Khlansmen and Nazis went to the rally because of their hatred of blacks.
Throughout the trial, the defendants claimed that they had appeared at the rally to show their opposition to communism.
Virgil Griffin. Grand Dragon of a Klan faction, said after the decision that he thought that he had "died and went to heaven." Later, he said the results of the trial had made him
The verdict had a hollow, nauseous tone to it. There was no feeling that the Klan would get what it deserved in the end. A jury of 12
JOHN HANNA
Staff Columnist
Perhaps many people, like me, do not care for the legal justifications for the verdict. We'd just like to kick the Klan's Imperial Wizard in the nose. You're just like to see the arrogant Grand Dragons of the world humbled.
Americans had a chance to put down a bunch of idiots and did not take it.
Hatred for the Klan comes easy. Members hide beneath flowing white robes and burn crosses on front lawns, making a mockery of the Christianity they say they believe in.
'We'd just like to kick the Klan's Imperial Wizard in the teeth. We'd just like to see the arrogant Grand Dragons of the world humbled.'
They claim superiority on the basis of race when they actually are inferior to other people.
But are the 'Klansmen much different from the rest of white society?' No, they are just more open in their racial prejudices.
White Americans like to tell themselves, of course, that they have made progress, that the United States is the home of the free and the brave, a place where everyone is equal.
It is a place where politicians wonder about the black vote and where some white, middle-class Americans sometimes worry about the power of men such as Jesse Jackson.
It is a place where some people claim to be beaten out of jobs because of affirmative action and where men and women are employed "because they are black"
And despite our best efforts to
serub them off the walls of our consciousness, the stereotypes remain all Mexican-Americans and are laux, and all Jews hard money
But we'd like to think differently. I'd like to believe, as I have told myself and others, that white America is now liberal and open-minded, and that it does not judge by color, race, sex, creed or sexual preference. Deep down, the doubt still sometimes gnaws.
In its own perverse way, the Klan serves a purpose. I am not a religious person, but perhaps the Klan is a way of showing us that we are not as open-minded as we say we are.
We wonder when that organization of hate will die, but we already know the answer as we are asking the question.
The Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis will disappear when white Americans make them.
To the editor:
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
End Walkman plague
To the editor:
I've been going to the University of Kansas for the past three years and have seen a lot of strange things.
However, as I prepare to graduate in May, there is still something that puzzles me. Maybe a psychology major reading this can answer it for me.
What has been brought to my attention, or shall I say ears, is the extensive, rude use of the Walkman-type radio-tape player within Watson Library.
Now, correct me if I am wrong, but aren't libraries places to go to study where you're relatively assured if it be quiet? You see, when I went to school, libraries were places where people could go to get away from all the racket in other areas such as residence halls, fraternities and sororites.
I'm sure I speak for a great number of the patrons who use Watson when I say that the rude and inconsiderate use of these radios must be stopped.
Nothing is more frustrating than studying for a class or exam when someone else comes in and sits across the room with their Mickey Mouse earphones squealing out a high-pitched tune.
It boggles my mind why somebody would come to the library to escape noise and study only to slip on the headphones and slip into a coma for the evening.
It's not that I'm against them, but the library is a place for total silence and not for inconsiderate
nobits that will inhibit people from using the library for what it was intended for: to study in peace and quiet.
First, offenders would be put on display in the glass case on third floor with the other cockroaches. If I had my choice I'd prefer the cockroaches—at least they're quiet.
What's the solution to this epidemic, you say? It's simple. Incorporate into the library's program to stamp out cockroaches and mice a program to stamp out the Walkman plague.
Charles Luchen
Charles Luchen Shawnee Mission senior
A misleading editorial
After reading Michael Robinson's vicious editorial about Richard Nixon, I was disgusted enough to respond. It seems that Robinson wants Nixon to be the tradition of excessive personal attacks on Nixon.
Brad Bergstrom
Permit me to refresh your memory. The "all-white boundaries of presidential politics" were actually broken 12 years ago, when Congresswoman Shirlie Dishon disbanded her publicity for her campaign but also managed to capture 154 delegates at the 1972 Democratic Convention.
Attack on Nixon wrong
To the editor:
Your April 6th editorial "Jackson breaks the lee," implies an ignorance of recent history.
Lawrence graduate student
The Rev. Jackson's accomplishments not withstanding, your negligence to acknowledge Rep. Chisholm's precedent set achievements in national politics does both blacks and women a
I wonder whether you will remember Jesse Jackson in 1996.
Robinson's making fun of Nixon's appearance was petty. To judge others by their appearance is a habit we should have outgrown by the time we are in college.
Robinson disparages Nixon for showing his "best side" while glossing over his bad points. If this is a crime, shouldn't Robinson be guilty of the opposite?
He's so busy attacking the bad side that he gloves over Nixon's good side. Maybe his memory has faded, in any case he should remember that Nixon was responsible for SALT I, wage and price controls, the China Accord and the only coherent foreign policy in years.
Another Robinson argument holds that Nixon causes "... continuing damage to people's faith in government." Maybe Robinson should remember the 1960 election when Nixon saved that faith.
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Despite being robbed of victory by political chicerain in Illinois and Texas, he refused to embarrass our country by challenging the results as many urged him to.
If one considers both Nixon's accomplishments and failures, one should see an immensely more powerful version of his legacy.
Keith Q. Hayes II
Rein Q. Hayes H
Shawnee Mission freshman