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Opinion
Page 4 University Daily Kansan, March 29, 1982
Time for straight talk
On Saturday, thousands of demonstrators gathered in a park across the street from the White House.
Some chanted slogans. Some gave speeches. At least one wore a Richard Nixon mask. And one carried a sign that bore a darkly cornicible inscription: "If you liked Vietnam, you'll love El Salvador."
The group, which included a busload of KU students, had gathered to protest U.S. activities in El Salvador.
In the White House, President Reagan chose not to comment on the demonstration. But soon, he may be forced to take more notice of the opposition to his foreign policies.
Also on Saturday, Time magazine released results of a poll that showed that a large segment of the American public wasn't buying the stories the administration is trying to sell about U.S. involvement in Central America.
In the poll, 52 percent of those questioned said they hoped Reagan would not run for a second term. In part, their confidence in the Reagan administration was shaken by their uncertainty about the United States'
And skepticism toward Reagan's Central American policies builds as each contradictory story and bungled bit of evidence comes out of Washington.
real intentions in Central America, Time said.
Consider the case of the teen-aged Nicaraguan soldier who claimed to have been trained by the communist bad guys in Cuba.
The State Department made the soldier the centerpiece of its campaign to prove Soviet involvement in Central America. But the soldier turned out to be an entirely impeachable source. He withdrew his story on national television.
This month, the State Department also issued inaccurate reports and photographs that were meant to document Soviet intervention, but succeeded only in further damaging the administration's credibility.
In recent weeks, the administration has talked itself into so many embarrassing corners that it is becoming difficult to believe anything it has to say about U.S. intervention—or non-intervention—in Central America.
When Playboy photographer David Chan returns next month, it will be to pluck six KU females from their everyday lives as relatively anonymous, Midwestern college students and give them a taste of fame, of glamour, of dreams come true.
The Playboy entourage continued on its trail through the city in the first last week, taking with it the idea of flight lessons.
Closet playmates miss their chance
Six lucky women—of more than 250 applicants—will become Miss America, Movie Star and Queen for a Day all at once in the September issue of Playboy.
Playboy has seized upon KU for its Back to School feature to spotlight the schools of the Big Eight. Predictably, this campaign to uncover the state of the art in female college students began with schools on the coasts, first the Ivy League, then the Pac 10 and later the Westwestern Conference as cowboys and the oil business came in vogue.
Now, the thick, slick magazine for men wants the Midwest. And, judging from the more than 250 KU women whose bunny-embossed applications and eagerly smiling snapshots are now in Chan's hands, at least some of us want Playboy.
The initial reactions to the news that Playboy was coming to Kansas was a stir of excitement.
the administration responded with an ap-
proptive response. The parents of
like parents who tell their child yes, they
suppose he can have a puppy, but he will have to take care of it himself.
KU women asked each other—always at least superficially in jest—whether they were going to pursue a job.
Some boyfriend flattered their girlfriends by urging them to apply. Others their girlfriends to be more serious.
Parents of KU students wondered what their daughters' picture were to appear in Playboy.
And every woman at KU, no matter how strong
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her convictions that to be oogied—even while clothed—in that kind of a magazine would be to be blatantly exploited, indulged in a bit of fantasy.
At some point, she had a fleeting vision of herself—airbrushed into a beauty beyond her wildest dreams-set like a polished jewel in the glossy, widely circulated pages of Playboy to be viewed with awe by friends and strangers all over the world.
The dream passed quickly for most, but it tugged playfully at the imaginations of four feet. It sounded like a comedy.
they mustered their courage and knocked at the door of Room 202 at the Kamada Inn. They filled out applications and had their pictures taken by Chan himself.
And each left, eyes sparkling and heart hoping that she would be The One.
Artists have long explored the naked female body with paint and brush, with charcoal and pad and with marble and chisel. That, we say, is one of the most important sums at auctions and is displayed in the Louvre.
Photographer Chan explores the female body with his camera. It is an art medium also; the difficulty for some is in accepting as a vehicle a woman that hardly promotes itself as an art journal.
The women in the centerfolds want to be there. Circulation and advertising figures indicate that women are less likely to receive a break.
Most of those who apply for the Back to School feature, however, don't want to be Playmates all the time. They don't want to give up their goals in college students and their lives as ordinary people.
The foe hath fallen, but what fate awaits the realm?
But fame is rare and thrilling, and when the chance to experience it briefly, simply and thoroughly.
More than 250 KU women grabbed at the chance when they applied to Playboy. Many more, if they're honest, secretly wanted to and are now a little sorry they didn't.
When the September issue comes out, they will sigh to themselves, "Maybe I should have."
OF ROWALN, SON OF KING OTHER PENTAGON, AND HOW HE WTHDREW THE SWORD FROM THE STONE OF SALT AND WITH IT SLEW GERWALD AETHELFORD THE WESTERN LEAF OF THE WAULTINTENDED, AND THEREBY KING OF ALL THE LAND AND OF HOW KING ROWALD WASPUT UNDER A SPELL BY STOCKMAN AND SHUT IN A THEORY UNDER AN ILLUSION, AND CAME NEVER OUT. Being the first part of a Trilogy of Tales adapted from accounts of ages long ago, including those of the Bede, and of Matryon, and the Chronicles.
It befall in the days of Earl Jimmyjrith that there was a mighty duck in Californwall that held war against him long time. And the duck was Ronwald, the Duke of Never- neverland.
Now Ronwald had grown exceeding old in years, when he perceived well that the people of
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the realm were beset by fears of a marauding red host from distant north lands across the waves. So in the fourth year of the reign of Jimmyfrith, when sunny knights were jousting for the tourney prize of the Order of the Grey Beast with the Long Snout and the Wrinkled Rose, Renwould found need of a sword for to join in the joust, and both thought himself to take the sword of the ancient block of SAIT, which no knight dared grab hold of, because none was fit to wield it properly.
And so Rownal handled the sword by the handles, and lightly and fiercely pulled it out of the stone, for he wist not what he was doing by such a feat.
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Wherefore there were many lords wrot, and said it was a great shame unto them all and the realm, to be overgoverned by an old man. But then Ronwaid came upon a docile Bush with many-sided leaves of medicinal qualities, and when he uprooted the Bush and carried it on his back, the hostile knights of the party were quelled.
Thereupon Ronald made many stout boasts and did battle with Earl Jimmyfrith and gave
him a great buffet, and unhorsed him from his donkey. And when the day was done, Ronwald and his knights had possession of the field of slaughter, and of both maddhalls, no less.
Shortly thereafter, Ronwald was crowned king, because the people had wilked it so, or at least 47 out of every hundred hides did. Ronald made officers and held a great feast, unto which came all the powerful lords of the realm, and Duke Haigwulf brought full 50 knights with him.
And the peasants on the outlying manors, who had scarce stores of grain and few oxen, heard of
the great feasting, and some made great dole,
and others were passing wrot.
Now, King Rwandal used to sit on chairs for hours, earnestly deliberating what he should do and what economic theory he should follow, and all the while munching magical beans of jelly, a gift from the wizard Kissingerberth, which were said to give wisdom. On one of these occasions, he met Mr. Clinton at Detroit, Detroit All-Mighty, who said, "Detroit has helped you escape from the hands of the liberals
When he heard this, the king answered that it was his will as well as his duty to bow before the golden radiator grill and sup from the silver hucap, but that he must still discuss the matter with his principal advisers and friends in his "kitchen Witenagenot." He summoned a
whom you feared, and it is through its bouns*, that you have received the kingdom that you desired. Remember the third promise that you made and hesitate no longer. Accept the Faith and keep the commands of It who raised you to the glory of an earthly kingdom.*
council of the wise man and asked each in turn his opinion of this strange doctrine of supply-side economics, and this new way of worshiping the goadhead Capitalism, which required myriad sacrifices to be offered up to it before blessings would begin to trickle down from above.
Stockman, the Chief Priest, replied without hesitation: "The Majesty, let us give careful consideration to this new teaching; for I frankly admit to the scribe from the Atlantic that, in my experience, the economics that we have hitherto have long realized that there is nothing in our way of worship; for the more diligent I sought after truth in our economics, the less I found."
When he heard this, the king flew into a fury, until the veins stood out in his neck nigh unto brasting. Rowalf summoned Stockman to the shed of a humble woodman who abode nearby, and there he smoke him many a smoke for the sake of his hound had spake at the true supply-side God.
And when the two returned to council, Stockman was smarting on the hindside exceedingly, and said, "I now publicly confess that this teaching clearly reveals truths that will afford us the blessings of defense, less taxes and eternal deficits. Therefore, Your Majesty, I am afraid you would not want your predecessors dedicated to no advantage to the key Godnes, be immediately desecrated and transferred to the authority of your barons to administer from this day forth."
And when Ronwald asked the Chief Priest who should be the first to profane the altars and shrines of the idol Roosevelthred, together with the bureauracies that surrounded them, Stockman replied: "I will do this myself, for now that the true God of government has granted me knowledge of supply-side economics, who more suitably than I can set a public example and destroy the idols of welfare I worshipped in ignorance?"
So he formally renounced his super-satuations and once again swore fealty to Ruy.
Then Ronwal, having gotten all of his council to see the wisdom of his beliefs, came before the realm and issued his State of the Kingdom decree, and all his court made much good cheer of his message. But when the crowd heard him, they thought he had gone mad.
THUS ENDS THE FIRST BOOK OF THE DOMESYDA TRILOGY.
Letters to the Editor
'Human life' amendment won't save lives
To the Editor:
Russ Munyuan's recent letter concerning the "historical similarities" between slavery and abortion must certainly hold a place in the University Daily Kansan's large file of absurd
It's quite fitting that he ended his letter with a passage from the propaganda of the so-called "Right to Life" crusade. By attempting to draw an analogy between such vastly different and emotional issues as slavery and abortion, Munwan has conveniently glosed over fact.
It is an obvious and undeniable truth that an unborn fetus is an inseparable part of a woman's body. Therefore, to forbid a woman to do as she does, the law should invade upon her constitutional right to privacy.
Before our legislators in Washington vote on this proposed amendment, perhaps they should be reminded of the butcher shops and coat hanger abortions which were so common in our nation prior to the Roe v. Wade decision. Often, these illegal abortions led to the unnecessary and horrible deaths of those women who were forced to resort to them.
Muyan and the rest of his "Right to Life" friends seem to believe that a "human life" amendment banning legal abortions would put an end to this unfortunate reality of life.
The passage of the "human life" amendment would not save one life. Ironically, it would force a return to illegal methods of abortion and countless deaths resulting from these methods.
If Manyan is truly concerned with the value of human life, he should be able to see through the lies and propaganda spread by this and other political action committees and he should help
women protect those few rights they now have in these ultra-conservative times. One of the most important of these rights is the freedom to choose whether or not to bear a child.
President of the KU Young Democrats
Salina Piece useful
Thomas Long,
President of the KU Young Democrats.
Salina Piece useful
My colleague and former classmate, Don Steeple, proposes several insightful solutions to the problem of the final disposition of the sculpture but stops short of the ultimate solution.
Truly, art irritates life! Therefore, I was delighted to see at last some cogent and witty remarks concerning the "Salina Piece" controversy.
To the Editor:
I have a solution which not onlycircumvents the safety question, but also addresses the problem of making the sculpture more palatable to the artistic tastes of KU alumni, students and staff. We'll put the thing flat on the ground, cover it with it and cook the grill and cook hamburgers and hot dogs on it.
Surely, this would put KU among the top 10 public universities in picnic equipment.
Rock music a sell-out
department of physics and astronomy
Director of laboratories,
Robert T. Curry,
Director of laboratories.
To the Editor:
A recent commentary in Time magazine expresses what has been burned inside me for
several years concerning the mindless, KY102, commercial, trash trend of rock'n'real music.
"The place to start looking for rock's real trouble are the ones that used to be the sources of its renewal: radio and records. What sells is what the radio plays, but the radio plays only sells, and often, sales sell out Styx, Foreign Language, or a very variably typical of what Columbia records executive Peter Philibin calls a 'Madison Avenue approach to rock' 'n' roll, a cunningly anonymous cruise down the mainstream. Telling any of these groups apart is like passing the Peepst Challenge: Even if you see any difference in them, what possible difference does it make?"
I feel I speak for a great many people who have turned to the progressives music of today, New York City.
Steve Sibiger,
Shawnee Mission sonhomore
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