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NOVEMBER 9,1978
Fresh ideas needed
The future of Higher Education Week at the University of Kansas would seem to be in jeopardy if this year's events are indicative of things to come.
The credibility of last week's event, which was sponsored by the Student Senate, has suffered greatly from a controversy over the selection of a keynote speaker for the Higher Education Banquet last Sunday.
Originally, a student steering committee for the event chose Jonathon Kozol, a frequent critic of the U.S. educational system. However, Kozol was later dropped as the keynote speaker and replaced by Stephen Bailey, president of the National Academy of Education and a Harvard professor.
AN ADMINISTRATION veto of Kozol's selection was the reason for the change, according to several student senators. It was reported that the administration thought Kozol was not well known and too controversial.
Reggie Robinson, student body vice president, has said the administration was concerned that Kozol's speech might be critical of higher education, and it could be used as an excuse by state legislators to cut the University's funding.
Since then, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes has said he did not veto Kozol as the banquet speaker, but only suggested the committee get a more well-known speaker like Bailey. Kozol was later allowed to speak at an open forum last Saturday.
BUT THE REASONING for the speaker change was flawed, no matter who made the veto. In an event dedicated to higher education, a free exchange of ideas is necessary—this should include those who are not yet well known to the public.
Criticism of established institutions, such as that offered by Kozo], is vital to the improvement of education and should have been welcomed.
In fact, the purpose of Higher Education Week should be, in large part, to examine current educational practices and explore new ideas. This process, however, seems to have been short-circuited at KU.
There has been talk among some student senators of withdrawing Senate support of Higher Education Week. This would be a mistake.
After this year's failure to create a true spirit of higher education, the Senate should work harder to bring controversial ideas to the University.
FTC should let parents shield kids from TV ads
Television advertising often is insulting and bothersome. commercials directed toward the young have been of particular concern recently.
Many television commercials that are directed toward the young and vulnerable often use TV commercials. Although TV commercials of that type aren't fair to their viewers, creators have every right to continue making them. But if you don't want your creature gets its wish, that won't be possible.
NO REGULATIONS are in force yet,
Heartbeat and an FTC vote are
beachified.
The FTC's staff has concluded that such ads are unfair because most younger children do not understand the purpose of a commercial. So they should be regulated in children's TV commercials be regulated. The new rules could lead to severe restrictions on television advertising aimed at children, including a child who is directed at children younger than 8 years old.
Consumer Reports magazine recently estimated that the typical American child watched an average of 25 hours of television every week. And unless children are watching Public Broadcasting Service programs such as "Sesame Street" or "The Electric Company," they're also likely to watch television in 1977 a typical American child between the ages of two and 11 watched more than 20,000 TV commercials.
A large percentage of TV advertising, especially during programs broadcast on weekend mornings and on weekday afternoons, are directed toward the children. The adults involved in the production of expensive cereals and expensive toys that "everyone else already owns."
In 1975, a study analyzed weekend children's advertising on five TV stations in the Boston area. Included in the study of 400 children were 23 percent who eat cereals, 25 percent were for candies and sweets, 10 percent were for restaurants, 4 percent were for snack foods and 4 percent were for cereal
WHAT HARM is being done by all this? Probably a lot among younger children. Television advertisers wouldn't spend an estimated $500 to $600 million on children's advertising if they didn't think the ads would be influential.
Allen Holder
Proponents of the measure argue that children are being sold suqared cereals and foods that result in tooth decay and eventually in poor nutritional habits.
They argue that it's not a fair fight, that adults can resist the temptations given by commercials, but that young children have trouble distinguishing between programming and commercials. They see the end to troubles in more government regulation.
Such regulations would infringe upon First Amendment rights—businesses depend on television advertising to sell their products. Companies that sell children's products have as much right to be valuable as advertising is an essential form of expression for them.
THE PROPOSED regulations also would infringe upon the rights of parents. And the government has no business trying to do the parents' jobs.
It's true that children are especially vulnerable to commercials. They haven't learned yet how to resist impulse—they see only that a certain brand of cereal makes a loud nose or that every other kid on the block already has a certain toy.
Advertising has a similar effect on everyone—no one can resist all advertising. Of course, its effects are much greater on other industries than they are other alternatives to another regulation.
Parents can control how much and what programs children watch. TV doesn't have to be used as a babysitter. Parents can't protect their children from the effect of commercials, but they can cut the effect by explaining to the child about the risks and that every other child doesn't advertise the toy he just saw advertised.
The FTC does not have a mandate to regulate all advertising. If it begins regulating children's commercials, other regulations can probably be seen in the
Much of children's advertising is unfair, but more regulation would be worse.
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It was only mildly disconcerting to hear of scientific proof that diet was dead. Some foods led to hypertension; almost everything else caused cancer.
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Yes, but not eating usually proves fatal;
it is the move pleasant, I presume, to
die with you.
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What you eat can kill you.
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But new scientific evidence has taken a bite out of my appetite. What you eat can
MSG consumption causes the blues
So Late.
That's what Arthur Coleman, a professor at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, said in a letter to the press in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Coleman, a psychiatrist, said his wife experienced fits of depression and rage after consuming monosodium glutamate—MSG—a common seasoning. The link between the disease was discovered when Mrs. Coleman became dependent after eating Chinese food.
I gave Lisa four tacos and a burrito, which she washed down with a beer. In addition to heartburn, she developed an Oedipal complex and went home to tell her father
And he's not talking about his wife's cooking.
I tested other food on other friends. I found most foods to be psychologically suspect, but none as dangerous as Chinese food laced with MSG.
Garlic, I suspect, is only slightly less destructive than MSG.
Eggs induced paranoia –if hard boiled, delusions of persecution; if fried, delusions of grourden. Potato chips, in massive doses, or mashed potatoes, especially if eaten with rancid sauce dip.
The possibility of a connection between food and mental outlook poses a more frightening problem than food-related cancer. It is more immediate. The risks of
NO WONDER the Chinese look so glum.
General Manager Rick Musser
Rick Alm
cancer are, after all, at least three decades of unhealthy meals away for most of us.
I asked him if he felt depressed after久用Cookie cake—he even ate the slip of paper with the fortune on it. His mood dropped and he began muttering about his parents dying last week, falling grades, an incurable blood disease and omnipotence.
Greek food caused schizophrenia.
Pork chops caused melancholia.
But if what you eat for breakfast determines how you feel this morning, then diet assumes a daily significance. One can eat happiness or, if one doesn't eat wisely, condemn oneself to bouts of involutional empathy and hebephrenic schizochrenia.
Tuna fish caused narcissism; carrots brought on dementia. Eating frozen vegetables resulted in manic depressive periods for most people, although those whose superego dominated their id were, it seems, spared any adverse reaction.
It's all on the menu.
I ate nothing but graham crackers and chocolate milk, both of which I hoped were very good.
Coleman's conclusion, of course, was advanced tentatively—some might go as far as 'trying to replicate' that approach. And I devoted most of the weekend to research, taking time out for only sleep and study.
I immediately telephoned Langley, Va., to report my findings to the CIA.
of chicken chow mein, crop suce and rice
and sat back, notepad in hand, to observe
MY FIRST experiment involved Phil, the kid who lived upstairs. I filled him full
In fact, I was able to find only two foods that could be credited with the creation of balanced, rational and emotionally stable human beings.
I didn't have to wait long.
The next morning Phil was dead. He had hanged himself. But he had served humanity by proving, beyond any doubt, that Coleman was on to something, that depressions are caused by MSG. And that the Chinese were trying to depress the whole
eating a plate of spaghetti with mushroom sauce and two slices of garlic toast.
Then I went back to my lab—well, that's what I had begun to call my kitchen—to conduct more tests. I needed to know if they were undermining us through our food.
I wasn't listening that closely
Leonard suffered from an acute and, until
now, irreversible inferiority complex after
Eat macadamia nuts and orange slices.
INITIATED THE couple from next door,
Leonard and Lisa, to help.
Today's Student gay article bigoted
To the editor:
In my four years here as a student, I have never been sufficiently moved by any article or event on campus to write a letter to your paper. However, I feel I must raise a voice of protest against the incredible masquerading as Christian love which appears in the Nov. 1 issue of Today's Student.
I realize freedom of speech is a basic tenet of American life and certainly should be encouraged. However, I cannot believe the blatant and nauseating generalizations the authors make, and I am concerned that many students will swallow this blake uninhinkingly.
Also, I would like to remind readers that the Dade County ordinance did not require the hiring of homosexual teachers, it simply forbade discrimination on teachers on those grounds. I would like to raise the issue, if in 1880 I had waited for a referendum, pass the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks would have been in chains well into the 20th century.
"One writer" (the article doesn't divulge whom) has written "50 percent of all the success in America can be attributed to homosexuality." I would certainly like to know who this writer is, if indeed he is not the fabrication of a Jesus-crazen brain.
The article also cite referrents as proof that homosexuality is aberrant. Of course, Proposition 6 probably will be rejected, but that is after all, goddess and angel; probably also into the ocean at and minute in the number 8 answer to Sodom and Gamorah.
They are animals, devoid of any sense of moral judgment, so Christians certainly cannot blame Satan or corrupt society. As far as animals are concerned, it must have been God's plan. I would also like to ask that we not lose sight of the percent of the population, will granting 5 percent of the population their full and equal rights prove so detrimental to society?
In conclusion, since this is God's creation, and he has control over all that exists, why is there documented proof of homosexuality in our culture? Why are galls and several of the higher nymphs?
Homosexuals are the result of heterosexuality, but their intent to engage in sexual activity is the primary feature of homosexuality.
this paranoia is really necessary? I sincerely doubt it.
Overland Park senior
Joe Bryan
To the editor:
Paper abuses right to non-political view
I am writing in reference to the publication of the so-called Today's Student. This publication has been given distribution space on campus because of its "nonpolitical" format. I realize the University Daily Kansan has little to say about paper's existence on campus, but perhaps Kansan can be helpful by printing this letter.
to non-political view
I understand a certain committee deserves to be admonished for allowing this right wing, ultraconservative paper to be pledged on campus.
In previous weeks this non-political paper has taken on the ERA and gay rights. The paper deals with those subjects under a heavy-handed moralistic gise. It's impossible for any writer to divorce moral when dealing with subjects such as these.
The University has a code or rule governing political literature being distributed on campus, yet this political tripe has been circulating on campus for two years. And I see no action being taken against it. The ERA and its right to argue that if the ERA and gay rights are not political issues then redefinition is needed. The ERA is clearly in the hands of the political machine. As for gay rights, the Dade County Fla., incident, other gay authorities and the current Bridget Ingram in Callaway, put this issue in the hands of the voters.
The Today's Student has no right to insult and downgrade members of this or any
There are some solutions to this problem, one being removal of the paper or distribution of materials. I'm looking at you, I am hoping this pretentious paper will meet with an effective solution.
other campus. As long as this anti-human rights paper exists, and the University continues to acknowledge these attitudes and attitudes of its campus is in jeopardy of losing her or his rights.
Joe Russell
Overland Park senior
To the editor:
It appears that there are a lot of Melissa J. Thompson at the University of Kansas. Like Melissa Thompson, many people have commented on the Natalie Cole concert when they don't really know much about black music.
Cole review prompts legitimate complaints
I think that blacks have intelligently stated their views and defended their culture. These people who did not attend the event were likely to be those who did, are not showing intelligence
What is so hysterical about standing up and speaking for something you feel is right? It is not. The teacher was nothing bozo-like or hysterical about the meeting where 200 boxes showed up to voice their opinions. And if Ms. Thompson can voice her opinion, so can
I did not appreciate being called "bozos" or being described as "overreacting hysterically" as Paul Pimeley stated in a letter, and I am sure other blacks felt the same way.
I still feel that the University Daily Kansan owes an apology to the stars and Ms. Thompson owes an apology to the young man and woman that came to her to calmly
In another letter from Nov. 6, Paul Nance attempted to undermine blacks' and women's organizations by accusing them of "complaining for the sake of complaining." To Mr. Nance, I would just like to say, once blacks and women no longer face the same challenges in society, then and only then will they be complaining for the sake of complaining.
By the way, I did go to the concert and I thought it was great. Natalie Cole, Ashford and Simpson, and Michael Henderson are all exceptional performers. I feel that if the University wants me to show them how students should show a little more objectivity and appreciation.
Pamela A. McAfee
express their views and received obscene language in return. If she has not apologized by now, then I don't think she ever will, which shows her lack of intelligence.
Pamela A. McAlee
Wichita sophomore
To the editor:
Nuclear industry suspected of threats
This is an open letter to those who remember what the government wanted to bury in the Lyons salt mines and are concerned about what two Kansas electric utilities are building near Burlington. It is an invitation to show your opposition to the campaign foilers at a rally held Saturday afternoon on the steps of the capitol in Topeka.
The rally will commemorate the death of Karen Silkwood in November 1974. Karen was a laboratory analyst at a nuclear fuel plant near Oklahoma City. She found that her plant were poor and was on her way to deliver the paper to a New York Times reporter and union officials when her car left the road, crashing into a culvert. Instead he escaped in bed that belonged to her car was rammed from behind by another vehicle, as yet undidentified.
The documents she had were never found. Can an industry that might have gone to such lengths to protect its own interests be trusted? Covert surveillance of citizens by utilities with nuclear power plants has badly happened in Georgia and California.
Those farmers near Burlington, Kan., who have not willingly sold their land to the bank, were told by one harassment in the courts. One farmer was told at gunpoint to get off his land —land he had owned for years.
Those involved in the legal intervention against Wolf Creek construction permit have received anonymous threats against their plant and are apprehended and the plant is planted even built by them.
Do we want to risk our civil liberties by allowing the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant
Barbara Mallett Lawrence senior