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Friday, September 22, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Campaign Kansas, the University's five-year, $150 million — make that $177 million — fund-raising drive is ahead of schedule and shows no signs of slowing. The question is: What should be the real goal?
Just as that goal was in sight, campaign and University officials decided to set their sights a little higher — $27 million higher.
The campaign was announced publicly in May 1988 with $76.4 million already committed. Donations and pledges now total $125.9 million, more than $3 percent of the original goal.
Undoubtedly, this goal will be reached with relative ease, despite comments such as those from John T. Stewart III, chairman of the Kansas University Endowment Association's Board of Trustees, who said, "When the Endowment Association staff first met with University officials a few years ago to plan the campaign, we all questioned whether $100 million was too much to hope for." Hope is running a lot stronger these days.
This is not to say Campaign Kansas should limit itself, KU has a history of generous alumni and supporters, and the campaign will provide an infusion of resources that the state could never match. Without private contributions, the University could not maintain the level of excellence it has achieved, let alone strive for higher achievement.
Campaign Kansas' slickly-produced fund-raising drive has tapped into this generosity and likely will continue to bring in the big donations. The University only stands to benefit
However, the campaign has made a mistake in deciding to inch up its goal a few million at a time while proclaiming that this new goal will be tough to meet. This pattern suggests a new goal every year or so until donations begin to dwindle.
Campaign Kansas needs to dream a little more and raise the stakes to a level that truly challenges the supporters, alumni and students of the University.
Much like a legislature that keeps returning to the public for more taxes for a single project, Campaign Kansas will lose credibility if its goal keeps rising just as the end is in sight.
Daniel Niemi for the editorial board
Haskell journalists deserve praise for fighting censors
They took on the federal government and won.
In an emotionally charged press conference Wednesday, Haskell Indian Junior College student journalists announced that their paper, the Indian Leader, finally would be published free of censorship by school administrators.
The students' announcement that the five-month legal battle for control of the paper had been settled out of court also removed another vestige of the administration of former Haskell president Gerald Ginn
A document filed in federal court as part of the suit was titled "Responsibility for the publication of the Indian Leader." Under Gipp's name, it contained the rules under which the paper had been forced to operate.
The rules amounted to a devious, subtle censorship of the Haskell students' voices. The rules dictated that the Leader be a mouthpiece for the administration.
In a press release, the students called the outcome of the case "a concrete example of Native American self determination in action
"It tells them (Native Americans) that they no longer have to passively accept the misguided paternalism of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and that they have the right to speak out and demand justice."
The four student journalists at the press conference were clearly overwhelmed by the reality brought home to them by the glare of the television lights and the reporters' questions. The reality was that they had won a significant battle for freedom of speech. That victory extends beyond the Haskell campus to benefit us all.
For that victory we owe them our thanks and congratulations
Ric Brack for the editorial board
Members of the editorial board are David Stewart, Stan Diel, Brett Brenner, Ric Brack, Daniel Niemi, Craig Welch, Kathy Walsh, Deb Gruver, Thom Clark and Tiffany Harness.
News staff
David Stewart...Emmel
Ric Brack...Managing editor
Daniel Niemi...News editor
Danny Neilmann...Printing editor
Stan Diel...Editorial editor
Jennifer Corseu...Campus editor
Elaine Sung...Sports editor
Luna Hunt...Photo editor
Christine Winner...Arts/Film feature
Tom Eblen...General manager, news adviser
Business staff
Linda Prokop ... Business manager
Debra Martin ... Local advertising sales director
Jerre Medford ... National/regional sales director
Jill Lowe ... Marketing director
Tami Rank ... Production manager
Cara Slanktin ... Assistant production manager
Margaret Tomswend ... Co-op manager
Eric Hughes ... Creative director
Christi Dool ... Classified manager
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Jeanne Hines ... Sales and marketing adviser
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Black widow weaves web of deceit
The other day, one of my co-workers referred to women as black widow spiders who ensnare men in their webs and suck the lifeblood right out of them.
I was a bit apprehensive
I didn't think the male species would have the mentality to decipher womankind's purpose on earth quite so soon.
But now that he knew the secret, I decided I would have to carefully explain the whole process of entrapment to him so he would have the full truth.
I started at the time when women were in psalms and still innocent of their mission — at least.
When a girl enters grade school, her first lesson on the road to becoming a mantrappater is to coerce the boys into carrying her books home. This serves as a model for teaching students the idea that they should be subservient to women.
This little charade continues until junior high when the girls begin to team up in their fight against mankind. Thus begins the notorious grapevine.
Perhaps its best use is the vicious rumor cycle in which a boy first learns about a girl's interest through one of her friends.
It should be noted that a girl should never, under any circumstances, admit directly to the boy of her choice that she likes him. That would make things too simple.
The woman needs to interject several variables into the man's mind in order to confuse him — a valuable lesson to keep on file for later reference, such as when dealing with men on more complicated issues such as dating, marriage and obtaining the credit cards.
Fortunately, as men grow older, their ability to untangle a glut of information decreases.
The lesson the female is supposed to learn in high school is the art of ego feeding. Men and boys
Merceda Ares
Staff columnist
are almost powerless under this tool because the male species has an oversized egon which it feels must be catered to at all times.
Opportune times for ego feeding are during sporting events, especially football. No male can resist a girl styly looking up from beneath fluttering eyelashes and declaring in a soft, wispy voice how great it was to see her man knock the inside out of a quarterback.
Now, it is true that there is not much lifeblood to suck out of a high school boy as he has not reached maturity yet, nor required the material wealth that you need to keep in style. But he not only can provide you with social status and a social life during your high school years, but also the hands-on experience you will need to entrap the man of your richest dreams.
Equipped with the art of coercing, confusing and eg feeding, the female now is ready to set up the big web (commonly known as the marriage web) on a man. And what better environment than college?
It is almost like supermarket shopping. For instance, if she desires a conservative, business major type, then certainly there will be a fraternity housing that brand. Perhaps her type is more of a laid back granola. There's a fraternity for her every want.
Once she has located the victim, she must become adept at playing the game of hot and cold. This is where the art of ego feeding and confusing is indispensable.
The tradition of fraternities has helped the woman's hunt tremendously by allowing the woman to cut down wasted time she would have gained in a male that had traits and qualities she desires.
In the beginning, the woman must be subservient and overly nice. No matter what men say, they are looking for a second mother, someone to take care of them.
But remember, they already have one mother, so the woman needs to do something extra to insure his attention. The rebuffing tactic is superb for this.
Men do like a challenge. I had one friend who always knew just what to do to intrigue her man and still keep the mystery in their relationship.
One time, she hid in my dorm room closet when she knew he was coming over so he couldn't find her. Other times, she would purposely pick fights to keep him on guard.
This method of alternately rebuffing and tempting the man should allow the woman to entrench him securely in her web. She can then start sucking the lifeblood out of him, thus weakening him from further resistance and ultimately persuading him to pop the question.
And that is the entire scenario of womankind's sole purpose on earth.
"That's terrible!" my male friend exclaimed with a horrified expression on his face. "Isn't there any way the male can resist?"
"Resist?" I asked, puzzled. "The man is wholly responsible for what happens to him."
"How can that be?" he demanded. "He has no idea of the magnitude of games women play."
"Yes." I said. "But he keeps coming back for more."
> Mercedes Ares is a Russell senior majoring in journalism and English.
Remove Delta's blockade to Blacks
If you were appointing a commission to look into the problems of the Middle East, would you exclude Arabs and Jews?
Suppose you were planning hearings on the challenge of immigration in the U.S. Southwest; would you appoint a commission without any Hispanics?
If so, you'll love the makeup of the federal commission now looking into the myriad problems of the Mississippi Delta: not a Black face in the bunch. Every one of the commissioners is a white male, and they're supposed to come up with a plan to improve life in the country's Black Belt.
Jimmie Wilson, the president of the NAACP chapter in Phillips County, Ark., has noticed the complexion of the L.W.L.M.D.D.C., or Lily White Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission. In protest, he's asked NAACP members to boycott its hearings, saying the makeup of the commission "doesn't reflect the face of the people who need help it." It reflects the faces of the people who have been left out and even needed any excuse for overstatement, the composition of this commission has given it to him.
In response, the Black majordoo of the commission, Executive Director Wilbur Hawkins Jr., said that, although the commissioners might be white, the staff was "probably the most ethnically balanced operation around." Even if it were as
Paul Greenberg
Syndicated columnist
balanced as a New York City mayoral ticket — the classic example was the Republican ticket circa 1982 that sounded more like a law firm: Lefkwitz, Fino and Gillehoole — the power will remain highly visible where it long has been in the Delta: in white hands. The governors and the President who appointed this lily-white commission deserve some kind of prize (a bust of Ross Barnett? an evening of reminiscences with Orval Faubus?) for sheer insensitivity to the racial problem that lies at the center of so many others in the Delta.
Hawkins has an obvious interest in trying to minimize the offensive makeup of the commission, but he can scarcely justify it. He notes that the "advisory panels" to the commission in each state act as a whole, which demonstrates mainly that the commission knows how to hand out meaningful sops.
An executive director who wanted to bolster this boondoggle's credibility would like to see it that
at least a few of the white commissioners resigned so some leading Black citizens could be appointed in their places. Such a change would be far more impressive than all this talk about how "ethically balanced" the lower-downs are.
Executive Director Hawkins does note that among the alternate commissioners are a white woman from Illinois, a black man from Arkansas and a Black woman from Mississippi. This will sound familiar to those who have studied the social and economic structure of the antebellum South. When the planters rode off to The War, the women and slaves had to run the plantations, and they did a good job of it, too. Perhaps a better name for the Lily White lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission would be the Plantation Commission. Old times they are not forgotten.
CAMP UHNEELY
Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas had the innate modesty to appoint himself to this commission. If he meant all those nice things he used to say about the need to eliminate racial inequalities, he would be the first to resign and designate his Black alternate as his replacement. Gov. Clinton probably would do just that if he didn't like power and patronage so much.
► Paul Greenberg is a syndicated columnist.
LATELY THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT KANSAS BEING THE ONLY STATE WITH OPRAH EMISSIONS
WHAT WITH PROBLEMS IN CRIME, EDUCATION, AND DRUGS, I THINK KANSAS Has More TO WORK About TRAN A Celebrity'S
BODILY SECRETIONS
BY SCOTT PATTY
SURE THERE'S BEEN LOTS OF RECYCLING PROBLEMS,
AND THERE'S NO REASON
WIN OPRAH CAN'T FIND A BETTER DUMPSTIT. BUT