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Tuesday, September 13, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Bush is pledging allegiance to a very dangerous notion
Bush wants voters to question the patriotism of Democrat Michael Dukakis for voting a bill that would make recitation mandatory.
But Bush's actions have cast a longer, darker shadow on Bush's campaign and his worthiness as a presidential candidate. Bush, in herhaling the pledge as a barometer of patriotism and by using McCarthy-like tactics to smear Dukakis, has demonstrated a shocking lack of understanding of the pledge and what it articulates.
Lately, Vice President George Bush and his fellow Republicans have been reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at every opportunity, portraying it as evidence of their love for their country.
Bush criticized Dukakis' 1977 veto of a bill that would have required teachers to lead their classes in reciting the pledge
Dukakis, wisely noting that Supreme Court ruler and the religious rights of his constituent, vetoed the bill. He was defending the Constitution and the religious rights guaranteed therein. For example, he protected the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are forbidden by their religion from taking secular oaths.
U. S. schoolchildren once were required to recite the pledge. But in 1943, at the height of wartime patriotism, the U.S. Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette, struck down state laws requiring recitation of the pledge, and lower court's ruling that allowed a school to expel a student who refused to recite the pledge for religious reasons.
the massachusetts bill would have violated the Constitutional rights of both teachers and students. But Bush shamefully has rejected their rights, thumbing his nose to religious and civil rights guaranteed in the Constitution.
It is frightening that Bush would stomp on religious rights. It is more worrisome that Bush has reverted to jingoism by saying that refusing to say the pledge or requiring others to do so is unpatriotic.
Bush should recognize that being coerced into saying a few words about the flag is not patriotism. Defending the Constitution means defending liberty.
Todd Cohen for the editorial board
Dubnick's raise is KU's loss
The University of Kansas has lost another faculty leader. Mel Dubrick won't be teaching public administration at KU this fall.
Dublin, who has headed University Senate Executive Committee and University Council, is teaching in New Yo-
His reason for leaving KU,he said recently, was simply that he could make more money elsewhere - about 100 percent more.
"I really like KU and would have liked to stay, but Kansas was no longer competitive." he said.
His is a familiar song. Too often the brightest and most interesting faculty members abandon KU for opportunities elsewhere. The lure of a bigger paycheck is too hard to resist
The irony in Dubnick's departure cannot be overlooked.
The irony in Dubnick's departure came when As head of the University Council for the last year, he has warned of the bleak future of Kansas high school education without additional state funding. The chair of the three-year of Excellence plan, Dubnick said money had to be allocated to keep the best and brightest teachers at the University.
His departure reminds us that warnings like his should not be taken too lightly.
Before the Margin, the average KU faculty salary was 7.9 percent below that of its peer institutions. By 1990, it is hoped that the Margin will bring salaries up to 100 percent of the peer average.
It should also remind us that the first year of Margin of Excellence funding is only a beginning.
Already, a lobbying effort is on to secure the second of year
future rooms. The absence of Damien in classroom
the final permit needs to be important this effort will be
Michael Horak for the editorial board
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Skim-reading between the lines Simple method lets you find the message that you want
Knowledge is food for the mind. Without a steady diet of information, your brain might as well be an Egg McMuffin from McDonald's. The problem is that in the hustle and bustle of our accelerated lifestyles the amount of data in the world is increasing more and more rapidly. By the time you finish reading this column, the quantity of information known to humankind has doubled. (If it takes you half an hour to get down here, it has already tripled — no thanks to you.)
Only through the advent of computers and high-speed printers have we been able to put down in writing this massive accumulation of facts. To expect today's college student to consume this ever-increasing flow of information by conventional methods of reading is unrealistic.
Skim Reading operates on one basic premise: In any given paragraph of written material, there are at most only about 10 words that one must pay attention to. All the other words present —
Bill Kempin
Therefore, under the auspices of the National Institute of Optometrists Studying Eye Strain, I have developed my own form of speed reading. My students can read at a speed of 250 words per minute. University of Kansas digest those volumes of textbook material essential to good grades, as well as remember more Playboy Party Jokes than any other book.
Staff columnist
practically all adjectives, adverbs and prepositions, plus any word that has its own hand signal in the game of Charades — are just garnish, sprigs of green salad. You'll be given to get the meat and potatoes of the matter. By correctly selecting the 10 or so words in each paragraph that make the point and avoiding all the mamy-pammy flowery descriptions used to sell books, you too can increase your reading speed in the game.
Take a look at the following paragraph
She walked into my hotel room. Suddenly the door closed behind her. I turned just in time to see the man standing in the moonlight. First came her brouse. Then her skirt and bra fell to the floor. Finally she threw her underwear out the window. I gave up my resistence. She laughed. I cried. She dressed the naked woman and I had a candelight dinner in
my bed.
An expert Skim Reader would dissect the material like this:
SHE WISED into my hotel room. Suddenly the door closed behind her. I turned just in time to watch as she TORE her clothing in the pale moonlight. First came her BLOUSE. Then her SKIRT and BRA fell to the floor. Finally she threw herself off the bed and resisted resistance to her and we made LOVE. A few hours later, the NAKED WOMAN and I had a candlelight dinner in my bed.
nowhere, the same paragraph could be analyzed like this:
SHE walked into my hotel room. SUDENLY the door closed behind her. I TURNED just in time to watch as she sore off her clothing in the PALE moonlight. First came her blouse. Then her skirt and bra fell to the floor. Finally she THREW her underwear out the window. The cold was overwhelming and we made love. A few hours later, the naked woman and I had a candlelight DINNER in my bed.
Which just goes to show that all great literature can be interpreted in more than one way.
**Burt Kempin is a Lawrence graduate student in journalism.**
pay attention to it rather than avoiding it completely.
Open up, KJHK
Throughout last week, I read several passionate letters to the editor that were strongly opposed to a faculty attempt to make JKJH a mainstream radio station instead of an alternative music station. One of the letters stated that "College radio does not exist to please an audience whose careers carry progress within the radio industry, to push the bounds of the medium."
Perhaps if KJHK would try to broaden its audience, it would find that people would start to
Kansas City, Kan., freshman
Maybe it is because of that ideological thinking that less than 6 percent of KU students listen to the talk.
The Kansas is a perfect example of a large audience medium. The paper tries to give the national and international picture as well as features on smaller aspects of University life.
The purpose of a university radio station is not to cater to a segment of the student population but rather to encourage a wider audience as possible. This does not mean that the station should discontinue playting alternative programming, but it should enlarge its audience and include songs that are popular to a wide audience.
Sexist textbook
I am disgruntled that the department of history of art at the University of Kansas once again has chosen W. J. Hanson's "History of Art" as the textbook for its survey courses. The quality of the book is beyond doubt, and the department has, once again, chosen to immortalize female artists.
"History of Art" contains 19 black and-white illustrations of work by female artists and two color plates. There are 1,060 black-and-white illustrations and 175 color plates by men. Although this is an improvement over earlier editions of the book, which is often considered a pseudoscience,工业革命 When I took the course as an undergraduate, none of the works by female artists were mentioned in the
lectures, assigned to the students to study or asked about on quizzes or exams.
Why are female artists missing from the history of art in this course and many others? I hope you will find that there were so few female artists between 15,000 B.C. and 1983 A.D. the time frame of the book. There were and are many great female artists who have important roles in the development of Western art.
For example, Janson does not recognize a single female artist from the Renaissance. He claims that their work is "undocumentable." However, such artists did indeed exist and are documentable. Sofisañua Anguissola is one of the 12 international museums for an international repute who became the court painter of Philip II in 1560. When she was 9, Anthony Van Dyck made a piligrimage to see her and learn from her because she was so highly respected. Van Dyck is in "History of Art. Why isn't anguissola? Or Lavina Fontana, or Clarisse Cormier?" Properza de Rosario, Caterina van Hemessen or Levina Teerlic? Other art periods also are lacking in adequate representation by Janson.
If the department insists on continuing the use of "History of Art," it should supplement it with a book on female artists. "Women Artists" by Nancy G. Heller, for example, would be an excellent choice. Female artists have been ignored far too long and are deserving of our attention. We need to add a few women to textsbook here and there. We must actively search to find what was lost in our history and restructure our thinking accordingly.
Mary E. Kelly Overland Park graduate student
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