OPINION
The University Daily KANSAN
January 17,1984 Page4
The University Daily KANSAN
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Shouting useless
One thing is clear after examining the fallout of Sunday's debate among the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination.
JOHN OBERZAN Sales and Marketing Adviser
Shouting matches such as the one that Walter Mondale and John Glenn jumped into near the end of the debate will do nothing to defeat Ronald Reagan.
Indeed, if anything, future such fracases will provide fuel for Republicans who insist that the contemporary Democratic view is fragmented and ill-considered.
Neither front-runner Mondale nor No. 2 Glenn distinguished himself during the debate, which had continued peaceably and at a sometimes lively pace for about $2^{1/2}$ hours.
Other candidates participating in the debate set themselves up as voices of reason in the wilderness during the shouting match. As Jesse Jackson correctly pointed out, discussion of the country's ills deserves to be carried out in a more serious manner than was exhibited Sunday.
Glenn at one point said to
Mondale, "I'm disgusted and tired of all the vague promises."
Mondale repeatedly but unsuccessfully tried to interrupt Glenn, saying "Point of personal privilege! Point of personal privilege!"
Mondale will gain little but debating points with such arguments as his personal privilege one. And in the Reagan camp, one can easily imagine the President and his aides snickering at the spectacle of the Democrats tearing each other apart.
Reagan and his vice president, George Bush, know well the dangers of criticizing other party members, as comments about voodoo economics came back to haunt the Reagan campaign in 1980.
Certainly the exchange between Mondale and Glenn livened up the debate. But perhaps the two should spend their time offering solutions to the country's problems instead of fighting with each other. More incidents of this type would only be counter-productive for the Democrats.
Hawks
More lighting needed
Dusk arrives earlier during the winter months. Darkness lurks around the corners in a more ominous way. Concern for safety takes on greater significance on the dark and deserted campus.
Not so during the long, cold hours of dark winter. Around the corner where darkness lurks, attackers have little chance of being spotted.
A less friendly mood pervades the University than in the warmer months. Then, at least, the cyclists and frisbee-throwers and students leisurely throwers to the law school or the library for an evening of study help ease the apprehension of walking on campus when it is dark.
People walking behind us are nameless faces, and in the dark it is difficult to recognize anyone. It is not a secure feeling to be out in the cold, dark night alone.
But concern for safety and the problem of dark areas around campus involves more than just the idea of a "stranger lurking in the bushes." Spots of ice and snow exist despite the best efforts of facilities operations to keep the sidewalks clean.
In the dark it is often difficult to tell where the patches of ice are until we are upon them. It would not be difficult to avoid the ice if we could only see where we were headed.
Increased lighting on campus would do nothing to warm up the cold winter months. But more lights would brighten up the place and perhaps give the campus a less deserted feeling.
Students and others walking in the early morning, late afternoon and at night could begin to feel a little more secure.
Precious values clash
Proposals to extend fair housing laws to ban discrimination against families with children cause two precious values to clash.
ngh-interest-rate America; the tightness of the rental market; the growth in the proportion of elderly persons; the increased popularity of child-free lifestyles among younger adults.
The protection of the American family is pitted against the right to pursue the relative tranquility of a childless setting.
In one sense, the conflict is as old as the first apartment building, but it has been intensified by several factors: the inability of young families to buy homes in today's
... At the very least, there should be greater public-private efforts to help families with children to purchase affordable housing.
Yet if the friction is likely to persist, there are ways to ease it.
The Milwaukee Journal
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Just one of those days
LETTERS POLICY
Did you ever have one of "those" days? You know exactly what I mean. Something happens to you that makes you feel like Wiley Coyote after one of his famous falls off a cliff.
You may not feel bad when you wake up, but by your first two hours of wakefulness, you know it's only going to get worse.
Maybe you'll realize it after you switch on the television to discover that the United States has invaded your favorite tropical paradise, or perhaps your morning egg will have a beak in it.
We all have them, and there is no way to avoid them. But perhaps if we know the warning signs, we can somehow prepare for them.
... when your cab driver tells you about the long history of epilepsy in his family.
You know it's going to be one of "those" days. . .
when the crew of "60 Minutes"
knocks on your door.
... when you win a trip to the beach and it turns out to be Times Beach, Mo.
... when you're in the confession booth and can hear the father's Walkman.
when, on the jet, the pilot announces that you're making an unscheduled shot in a Cuba, b) the car is parked at the Andes, d) downtown Eudora
... when the automatic teller machine locks the door behind you when you stick your card in.
...when she tells you she has a headache and she's a hooker.
...when, in the kitchen, your favorite wok develops a limp.
... when E.T. asks to borrow your phone so he can "phone home."
... when you're locked in a roon,
alone with an HDDL major.
... when you go home for the
weekend and your parents have
dyeed their hair orange and pierced
their cheeks.
when you go on a date with your boyfriend and he tells you his new car's name is Christine.
...when the A-Team asks to borrow your car.
borrow your car.
... when John Z. Delorean offers to
sell you snow tires
...when they discover that pizza causes AIDS.
...when that cute girl in your biology class says you remind her of Boy George.
... when you decide to run for the Student Senate and you don't have any friends on the elections committee.
With these guidelines in mind, how has your day been? Good? Not so hot? Or does it just suck raw eggs? Be honest.
I recently had what I thought was a wonderful day. I woke up refreshed, the shower was just right — not too hot or too cold. My breakfast was great. French toast, eggs and juice from Florida and coffee, free from the back of Juan Valdez's mule. Mmmm.
I made the bus with time to spare; the Jennifer Beals look-alike gave her prettiest smile, and the bus wasn't late as usual.
My professors gave their most eloquent lectures. I banded in all my homework and even got some back marked on them in crimson ink.
After school I had another great meal and made it to work on time. That day, I broke the company's long-standing sales record.
When I got home, there was a letter from my old girlfriend telling me that no one could ever compare with me. There was a check from the school, in cool half million and an acceptance letter from Stanford law school.
But, doggone it, I'd forgotten to take the hamburger meat out of the freezer that morning. I had to eat a frozen pizza.
Just one of "those" days. 1 guess.
New agency tries to give overseas aid
DAVID E. ANDERSON
"We are not trying to take over what the Board of Global Ministries does in sending missionaries, but we would supplement it by sending more evangelical and traditional missionaries and 'frontier' missionaries to places where they have not board the Gospel," the Rev. L. D. Thomas
Leaders of the effort say they are not out to compete with the church's official mission agency, the board of the Church of Jesus Christ of Christians, by "supplementing mission agency
Critics of the United Methodist Church's Board of Global Ministries have taken steps to form a new "alternative" mission agency aimed at sending more evangelical and traditional missionaries over.
The move reflects the anger and frustration felt in many mainline Protestant denominations during the past decade as the number of foreign missionaries has declined and the number of work has been radically altered.
United Press International
recently told the United Methodist News Service, the denomination's official news agency.
U. S. churches have been sending missionaries overseas since the famous summer rainstorm in Sloane's Meadow, near WILLIAMstown, Mass. There, five young college students took ever under a baystack and prayed together about the "moral darkness of Asia."
Since that "haysstack meeting" in 1896 and the creation of the first overseas missionary society, the mission effort has gone through good times and bad as concepts changed. one-time missionary churches developed their own identity, but now they are most importantly, inflation sharply boosted the cost of maintaining missionaries abroad.
The new alternative Methodist effort stems from conservative concern that the traditional role of the missionary — "proclaiming the Gospel and the love of God to bear on the needs of the people" according to Thomas — is being sifted for a more political, social liberation role. The minister at the Rose Rock National Negent, the "mission-sending function" of the Board of Global Ministries has been put back at the center of the Board's effort and the church is now in the process of a $2 million fund-raising campaign for mission work.
"We have some mission posts vacant because of a need for additional funds," he said.
These people, say the super conservatives, should be driven
Reward friends and punish enemies
WASHINGTON — There is an axiom in politics that advises those in power to "reward your friends and punish your enemies." That is the essence of what the New Right's new President Reagan for three years
The argument from ultra-right has been that Reagan has given too much influence and position to Republicans in name only who qualify as liberals in all but name. The New Rightists appear to find moderate or liberal-leaning Republicans more objectionable than most Republicans, not unlike the implacable base of communists for socialists.
United Press International
ARNOLD SAWISLAK
from the councils of the mighty and shunned like the leperes of old. An example: GO'N Sen. Ben, a former Republican, eight Repubs can primary opponent this year, and
However, now comes information from a reliable source indicating that under the rule of reward and punish, which might be called
the ultra-conservatives were much outraged in 1883 when Reagan went to a Chicago function honoring Percy but gave no encouragement to his opponent, Rep. Thomas Corcoran.
"Mayer Daley's Law." Reagan should be wrecking vengeance in the Senate on (1) Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, (2) Jessie Helms and (4) John East of North Carolina and (5) Steve Symms of Idaho.
They are, of course, four of the Senate's most conservative members, but with only one added starter, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, they lead the 1983 Congressional Quarterly list of Senate Republicans most in opposition to Reagan's policies.
To the editor:
According to CQ, which complied congressional voting records on issues on which Reagan took a position last year, Humphrey led
Senate Republicans in opposition to the president, bucking him 42 percent of the time Helms and Specter, the only one of the top seven who could be described as moderate or liberal, were tied for second with 41 percent. East was fourth with 38 percent, and Symms fifth with 35 percent.
The Republican presidential opposition situation was just the opposite in the House, where liberal and moderate GOP members such as Reps. Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island, Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, Frank Horton of New York, James Leach of Iowa and Stewart McKinney of Connecticut occupied the top five spots.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Column wrong
To the editor:
Michael Beck's editorial "Dropouts Wasting Time, Money, (Dec 1, 1983), conveys an intellectual snobbism and self-righteousness that are inexcusable.
This kind of attitude, which has its underlying premise that college graduates are somehow the ultimate examples of human virtue, success, etc., is an unfortunate aspect of universities as massive baby-sitting establishments.
The decision to go to and to graduate from a university is an exercise of freedom of choice, not of virtue. Simply graduating does not guarantee that one will have a better position in life or be of higher mindedness. Only the narrow-minded and short-sighted can laugh at "the failure" of dropouts.
Beck also makes a ludicrous inference that dropouts end up as factory workers, a fate obviously worse than death or even unemployment. Many factory workers are not at all dissatisfied with their work, and what's more, I'm sure that among them one could college graduates, as well.
All dropouts do not end up in "factories or (on) their parent's payroll." Some find that if they lack the ambition and commitment to pursue a college education, they their true interests and aptitudes lie elsewhere.
Since I'll be returning next semester to pursue a
means of preparing myself for a career (by no
The new drop-add process should be heralded as a new, bad idea replacing an old, bad idea.
means the only acceptable or desirable choice I could possibly make), I thank Mr. Beck for his congratulations and in turn wish him the very best of luck. I hope he is not one day asking for a job from someone who didn't have enough "foresight" or "determination" to finish college.
Zoann Branstine
Feminism hurts society
Militant feminism is destroying America as the scourge of decency and civility. In the last two decades, we have seen an explosion of broken homes, child abuse and pornography. And women who wear pants show their support for our spiritual demise.
To the editor:
Jude 16 in the Bible prophesied of militant feminists as follows: "These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage."
We can rebuild America with the only true word of God, the 1811 King James Bible.
Deuteronomy 22:5 is God's judgment against unsex, and Jude 6-16 is the shameful result. Jesus strove against feminism and even said to his mother, "Woman, what have I to do with thee?"
Wayne L. Johnson San Diego
It is repugnant to me — and others besides me. I will wager — to have one time to drop-add in the first week of classes instead of being able to do so at will. And it is a discourse to teachers not to be informed promptly of who is enrolled in their classes.
Scrap new policy
I recall the old drop-ab system before computerized enrollment, when we took the drop-ab slips to the department offering the course, keeping a copy of the transaction ourselves, one copy going to the teacher of admission, one copy going to the Office of Admissions and Records.
This we could still do, each department sending their drop-add slips to 118 Hall at the end of each day, to be recorded on the computer the next day. This method incurs very little waiting on the students' part, as those of us who were here before would not be able to access them, have prompt notice of changes in their rosters.
The superiority of this drop-add process over the present one seems very obvious. If enough students and teachers demand a change to the here proposed system, maybe it would be implemented. So strike a blow for efficiency and badger a bureaucrat for a change.
michael Guemple Fairway senior