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Friday, September 16, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Depiction of Hadl as hero reminder of darker days
Make no mistake about it: KU football is on the way back, in a big way.
43,000 excited fans and the bruised-but-lucky Baylor Bears will tell you that.
KU is going from being "a joke," as Sports Illustrated put it two years ago, to being another KU representative we can be proud of.
But the football program also recently took a step back, with its release last Friday of the "Goin' for the Glory Days" postgame.
The players from KU's football past depicted on the top or the poster took the football program to some of its brightest moments.
But one of the players, John Hadd, also had a hand in taking the program to some of its darkest days while he was an assistant coach.
Hadi left the University after being linked to recruiting violations in an NCAA investigation. The football program was placed on a two-year probation, with an NCAA specification that the coach was to have no contact with the program for three years.
NCAA enforcement director David Berst later confirmed that the assistant coach was Hadl.
Hadd went on to coaching positions in the National Football League and the now-defunct United States Football League.
Eyebrows first were raised last winter when Brad a model came up during the search for a replacement for former head coach Bub Valezone. Hadl was passed over for that position but then was hired as an assistant under Glen Mason.
The decision to put Hadd on a poster promoting the greatest days of KU football is a surprising and irresponsible move.
Hadl has not yet proven that he has what it takes to coach at KU while not getting the program into further trouble.
And in a time when fair recruiting is drowning in a sea of illegalities, it seems wrong to promote Hadi to students and prospective recruiters as a KU football hero.
The other players depicted on the poster truly are KU heroes, not only because of their accomplishments in college and professional football, but in the way they have conducted themselves off the field during their playing days and beyond.
Maybe before we apply glorifying labels, we should ask that
themselves worthy of praise by conducting
themselves self-affirming.
After all, it's the least we ask of our champions . . . shouldn't it be the least we ask of our heroes?
Mark Tilford for the editorial board
Other Voices
Patience for foreign-born teachers
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has become a nationwide leader in developing a program to help foreign-born graduate teaching and research.
A three-week seminar, which started Aug. 1, is part of a program designed to help foreign teachers assist better communicate with students. The seminar stresses language capabilities, teaching skills and cultural differences between the United States and other countries.
The language barrier between students and foreign teachers has been a problem for some time. Many students drop classes after the first day because they are unable to understand their instructors. This in turn, frustrates the instructors.
It's a merry go-round of miscommunication. Students say they're paying good money to attend classes and that they deserve instruction.
That's why students who work with me wastes a lot of time a chance. That's why students who work with me wastes a lot of time a chance.
Why not give that instructor a few weeks to get settled in?
Learning is a two-way street. These instructors have a lot to offer. The potential will never be tapped if students just shut them out.
instructor of about 600 students made by the first vice president of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska. "If a professor goes to
"If a professor can't speak English (the or she) has no business here," he said. "This is a Midwestern school where the majority of students are English-speaking people. We shouldn't cater to just English-speaking children to get people to teach courses who are good English-speaking teachers."
Granted, Nebraska is a long way from China or Taiwan. But universities are supposed to be bastions of liberal thinking and communication. Sometimes, that means making a compromise. A modest approach is, the answer.
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Make your voice heard, Kansas Anathv ruling campus as candidates come and go silently
"For Sale: Liberty and Justice for All, latest edition," proclaimed the street vendor's sign. 1 imprinted on each cover.
"What have you, my good man?"
"The prerequisites for a free society according to the rules and events of Campaign '18," replied the haggard vendor, who sported a red, white and blue jacket. One costs $3.55, four bucks more for volume two.
Being cheap, I purchased the former. Its subtitle, "Criteria for Culling the Gandtistes", piqued my interest.
Gary Hart: Presidents must be pure in body.
Jon Ridder: President of America.
In addition! Presidents must be pure in mind!
Pat Robertson: Presidents must not be too pure in mind.
Other chapters mentioned the Qayle affair, Dukaik's eyebrows, debates on silver, feet, blind mice, swiss cheese, bow ties and wimps. An appendix offers 101 ways to silence a beaker.
To Sam's surprise, I complained again.
Derek Schmidt
I returned to the vendor. "Sam, I wanted the
document deleted, not just the rhetoric." He
said, my lips trembling.
Subtitled "*Substative Public Debate.*" this book offered more promise. It was a book of blank promises.
"You're a pretty sharp kid," said theendor, a snarble of hope returning to his eye. "I've sold
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copies of that junk to students on the nation. Most people buy the stuff and never bother to look at it.
My reply: "I hate being ripped off."
being ripped off
Election '88 is an empty-book scam without provocative debate
A few bumper stickers, scattered posters and flyers, casual political conversation at parties (yes, it's done on occasion) or a political cartoon clipped and stuck on the refrigerator hardly memorize the democratic process. If the nation is awash in apathy, the University must be steeped in zeal.
But secondhand information does not breed zealots.
Why can't KU snare active members from each presidential campaign? Mike Dukeski stopped them early on Friday, and Field on Aug. 31. Instead of offering a speech or press conference, he played catch and touch
"You're kidding," said Dakuks, the honorary
Kansas coach. "Docking when told of the foul
productive play."
Dan Quayle also avoided KU on his campaign tour through Kansas
KU students will all vote abaten this year the candidates, not the voters, are the abatenes. Too much campaign junk food has made students sluggish, but they can still balance their diets.
Issues must live on this campus. Surely people still care whether apartheid continues or impoverished Americans have adequate food and shelter. Yet the United States is now in debt, the environment is dying, millions are homeless from floods in the Sudan and Bangladesh, and this may still be a "A Nation at Risk?" There are more important issues than the Pledge to end apartheid. They are easier as dull or as perfect as Camauroi 98 seeens.
"Only the Students," said the March 1967 University Review, "who would add a perennial element of dynamism to the university community by making it clear that this is not the best of all possible words."
Don't just suffer through suffrage again. Campaign, Kansas
Derek Schmidt is an independence junior majoring in journalism.
Russian history:worth another look
It came like a bolt out of the glasst. Pravda published an article the other day explaining that the United States started the Cold War. That sort of "history" wasn't unusual in Stalin's Russia or even Brezhnev's. But this is Mikhail Gorbachev's. All is supposed to be changing. The learned biologists scratched their heads and reached for explanations. Just what was going on here?
It's simple. This isn't Mikhail Gorbachev's Russia. Not yet. No wholly. He is part of a collective leadership, even if the most prominent part. The old guard and the new still are struggling to keep up. And Gorbachev conradie Gorbachev takes, his ideological rival Yegor Ligasegat takes one backward, maybe two.
This Pravda article represents the response to one that appeared last spring and depicted the Cold War as a misunderstanding rather than a U.S. plot. According to that discreetly worded version, the West had confused the Soviet Union's 'role of military guardian of socialism' in expansion in 1932 with its aim at world domination. That might be a misread difference. Still, it was a decided step back from orthodox Soviet history, which might be summed up as: Capitalists Evil, Communists Good.
It was too much to expect that the new line would go unchallenged by the old ideologies. This latest article is its response. Nothing changes faster than history in the Soviet Union. "Sovshitory" has been a common theme for many past, but it speaks volumes about what's happening at present: an unresolved power struggle.
Paul Greenberg
Syndicated columnist
A similar struggle is being waged over the Nazi Soviet Fact. Once unmentionable, the pact is be dragged out of the closest as a weapon against the Stalinists and crypto-Stalinists. Soviet history not only has its nonpersons but its nonevents, and the alliance between Stalin and Hitler was once chief among them. According to the old orthodoxy, the Stalinist policy in Europe and the Stalin simply made a treaty of non-aggression with Hitler to play for time and prepare his army for the war he knew was coming.
The battle of the historians has little to do with the past; it has everything to do with the present. To quote George Orwell in "1884," he who controls the present can control the past. In the Soviet Union, not just every age creates its own history, but all ages have it. The Soviet hasn't quite jelled yet. When it does, it will tell us who controls the Soviet present and so will shape the Soviet future.
As ideology, that's not bad. As history, it leaves some gaps: If the object was simply to stall Hiltier.
why was this treaty of non-aggression soon followed by one of friendship and cooperation with Germany? Why did Stalin purge his best generals if he was preparing his army for war? Why was the Soviet propaganda machine set to glorify Hitler and promote his anti-Semitic propaganda in the Soviet press?
The attempt to bring the Nazi-Soviet Pact back into history is scarcely confined to Russia. On the anniversary of the pact this year, tens of thousands of Germans joined the invasion of Ukraine and Estonia against the secret proclamation accompanied the Nazi-Soviet Pact and turned their countries over to Soviet control. Demands for freedom were widely heard at the rallies, and the U.S. military had freely joined the Soviet Union was exposed.
The new but still not dominant Soviet leader has taken a great risk in allowing such demonstration.
If Lenni's old "nationalism question" erupts and if the Soviet economy fails to take off despite erstrokestra, Mikhail Gorbachev's brave new Russia might prove only a repeat of Nikita Khrushchev's - complete with sudden end. For clues to the future, watch who controls the past.
Paul Greenberg is a syndicated columnist who writes for the Pink Blow, Ark., Gazette. Copyright 2014 by The New York Times.
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by Berke Breathed
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