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Wednesday, September 28, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
K-State boosters merit easier way to show spirit
Some time within the next couple of weeks, a purple flag will be raised over Kansas State's main entrance building, the Crown Building, looking like a fire truck.
The flag will mark the first day students can stand in line to buy season tickets for K-State basketball games.
K-State's ticket allocation is slightly different from the one the University of Kansas uses. At KU, all student seating is open. Students get to games and take any seat available in the student section on a first-come, first-served
For years the system worked. It worked until Kent Shank came along.
At K-State, about half of the student tickets are reserved. As a result, one of the riders of fall at K-State is camping out to buy
cattle along.
Athletic department officials were surprised two weeks ago when they looked out of their windows and saw Shank pitch his pup tent near the ticket office.
It seems that he and another K-State student decided to stake their claim on tickets five weeks before they went on sale.
By the end of the week, 40 other pup tents were pitched nearby the athletic building. K-State was beginning to look a
That's when university officials became concerned
It seems that rules are rules, and the rules said that to keep one's place in line, at least 2 people had to be in the tents at all times. And although the campers had stand-ins, administrators figured the temptation to skip class in order to save a place in line was too great. They decided camping and college didn't complement each other.
So word came down from the mighty that the campground would be no more, at least for the time being. The die-hards would have to watch for the purple flag, and when they saw it, they would know it was time to scurry back in line for tickets.
It's great to see K-State students so eager about this new program. The team will be prepared in a spanking new area, a talented team will be prepared in a spanking new area.
It's a shame that with those prospects, the athletic department officials can't find some better way to give away their tickets, allowing the students to get the best seats possible, while meeting their academic obligations at the same time.
Michael Horak for the editorial board
Traffic solution needed
The Lawrence city commission is moving on traffic issues as fast as cars at rush hour on 19th street.
In other words, nowhere fast.
Several times the commission has put off a decision on whether to install stop lights at several busy intersections on
The commission needs to put its foot to the pedal before they are overtaken by the obvious: Stop signs at several four-way intersections on that street simply are no longer efficient or safe. Stop lights are in order.
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Travel on 19th Street, from Iowa to Massachusetts streets, is reaching gridlock at peak hours. The street run parallel to the south of the KU campus, passing by the Stewart Street greek houses, Stouffer Place, several apartment complexes, two residence halls and then rolls past Lawrence High School before reaching Massachusetts Street.
Along this route, driver cross such busy streets as Naisimh Drive and Louisiana Street, which directly link many high school and KU students and staff with South Lawrence by way of 23rd Street. Drivers on 19th also cross Tennessee and Kentucky streets, which link drivers with 9th street and North Lawrence
The street is busy. And at peak times, especially when classes at both KU and Lawrence High School let out, cars are jammed at the stop signs. There, the cars stop, start and stop, slowly taking turns driving through the intersection.
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Emergency vehicles have a hard time getting through. Confusion about who has the right-of-way among ordinary cars slows the pack immensely, making what could be a quick commute annoyingly tedious and lengthy. Stop lights where 19th Street crosses Louisiana and Naismith could speed up the process and keep traffic flowing.
The commission should give the green light to installing stop lights - and soon.
Todd Cohen for the editorial board
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Flag sellers not lonely anymore As drug sales grow, U.S. is feeling more than patriotic
George Bush, the next president of the United States if Dan Quayle conveniently contracts the flu the day of his scheduled debate with Lloyd Benten, has an interesting way of determining how we U.S. citizens feel about our nation as we hurture toward Election Day 2014. He told me last week that just before his trip to a ribbon-raising ceremony to christen the Stars and Stripes Self-Service Fitting Station just off the Pledge of Allegiance Interstate in American Fork, Utah), the vice president noted that flag sales in this country had risen considerably in the past eight years. This, of course, is not surprising because he been proud of Old Glory and the nation she represents as a result of the Reagan-Bush administration.
This is indeed a fascinating barometer of our self-worth, but surely it must go further than just sales of the U.S. flag. I wish to survey the people on the New York Times measure U.S. pride. I tried to contact Gallup, Harris, Roper, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Globe, and Newsweek. My services I could think of offhand to see if they had any figures on the subject. Unfortunately they were all busy measuring the spin factor of Sunday morning, so I have conducted my own informal survey.
U. S. citizens are spending about $11.5 billion
Bill
Kempin
Staff columnist
more in tobacco products now that they were in 1881 when Reagan and Bush took office, indicating what kind of desire we have in living long enough to have the income we need for renting an $200 billion in debt each fiscal year.
The vice president feels that the increase in flag sales shows how happy we citizens are about the Republican administration. With the sale of drugs and alcohol up some 50 percent in the same period, it would be shocking if we weren't deliriously happy about a whole assortment of things.
Money spent on religious activities rose from $41 billion in 1861 to $62.4 billion in 1968. I don't know now how much of that owed end up in PTL waterslides and Louisiana motels, but there was a heck of a lot of folks who need the need to pray for some sort of relief from their burdens.
The amount spent on used cars in this country has nearly doubled since the Reagan Revolution began. Yeah, when a giant heap of prosperity comes my direction, there's no better way to spend
it than on a vehicle that somebody else has given up on.
■ Legal services took in some $1.3 billion in 2014, up from the $1.6 billion in 1981. Thanks in part to the deregulation about when Ronnie and George got each other's back, we as a society are sung each other's face.
■ The company that owns more U.S. daily newspapers than anyone else is Canadian. Thomson Newspapers, Ltd. has 114 dailies in this country and is looking for more. I'm not trying to be jingosic, but while it's all well and good to buy and buy a little U.S. flag to surrender to the enemy, the United States was producing a few more entrepreneurs interested in buying a newspaper or two or 114?
In fact, you can statistics around about as handily as one of those flags on-a-stick. It reminds me of what Dana Quayle said the other day about a Bobknight basketball team — the best defense is a good defensive offensive that often适用于 its offense defensely — well, something like that.
All this flagship also reminds me of what I fullfledged one said in the movie "Methadone." It does that because, too, it
Bill Kempin is a Lawrence graduate student in journalism.
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Lesson needed
Something should be said about the remarks made by syndicated columnist Paul Greenberg (Kansan, Sept. 22) about European culture and European society. Our students in U.S. students taking him seriously. He is, after all, a syndicated columnist, isn't he? Sometimes, however, syndicated columnists are just as ignorant if not more so, than the freshest freshman. This seems to be the case with
First what he had to say about European culture: things like justice, honor, virtue, truth, he says, are, "like so much European culture" for display only. Somewhat further on, our syndicated columnist talks about embracing an 'empty chauvinism' and a 'deep animosity' by making his remark about European culture. Greenberg shows he is suffering from both.
Greenberg's remarks are insulting, and they are stupid. Some more examples: "History on the European continent tends to change with the regime in North Africa," Greenberg accents continent part of the Soviet Union? Or: "The Revolution of 1848 was wiped out by fascism, Communism, Nazism, you写 it by Hitler." Or: "You nobody is it. You are the only one who says these silly things. Last example: 'The
cycle is still continuing." Mr. Greenberg, could you please tell me which interpretation of which part of German history Chancellor Helmut Kohl isdating at the moment?
is unique.
Let me mind by recommending to Greenberg a couple of lines from a poet he certainly knows:
You will hardly know what I am or what I mean.
and I feel good nearness to you nevertheless, and finally bring your blood. Patching to fetch this blood helped encourage, Missing me in one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.
Keep on trying Mr. Greenberg,
some European man, every day you
see him say something sensible about it.
Ruud von Dyk
The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ideas correct
In response to Mary Kelly's comments on Janson's "History of Art," I heartily agree. My choice of this textbook was based on the quality of the illustrations and the literacy of the text. I also selected works by female artists, as well as sections on photography, in his new edition of his father's book.
Other popular textbooks have even fewer women artists! To assign a second book makes the course too expensive. If I were to make additional assignments, I would want students to read the work of the leaders in feminist art history: "Our Hidden Heritage" by Eleanor
**rurs.** "Women Artists 1550-1950" *ann* Harris and Linda Nochile, or a marvelous collection of essays edited by Norma Broule and Mary Crawford and Art History, Questioning the Litary."
I have other criticisms of traditional art history textbooks, for I also dislike the virtual elimination of the crafts. Those of us with criticism, however, should be prepared to do something about the situation. I have at last decided to look closer and see how this problem is not so much what to include as it is what to leave out. Any suggestions will be gratified appreciated.
Marilyn Stokstad
University Distinguished Professor of Art History
20 questions
Let's play 20 Questions. Who said: "I want to tell you something. I know I'm not the toughest-looking guy, but I can knock any of these suckers (sic) down if I want, understand?" Was it some 110-pound Mafia weakening with an ego problem? A New York City drug raid that ended up being "Pretty Boy" Mason, our football coach, talking about his players (Kansas City Times, Sept. 23). So he knocks one of his players on the helmet during a drill — that's just what we boys do in good, clean fun. A coach calls his players, the student-athletes, and gets them to model, "these suckers," should be drummed off the campus yesterday — today is already too late.
Elizabeth C. Banks Associate Professor of Classics
BLOOM COUNTY
by Berke Breathed
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