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Wednesday, November 14, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
Costly decision
Arizona should lose bowl games
The people of Arizona may have gotten more than they bargained for Election Day when they defeated a referendum that would have created a paid state holiday honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has recommenced that the league's owners move the 1993 Super Bowl to another state because many of the league's players consider King a role model and would not want to play a championship game in a state that disagrees.
Using similar reasoning, the chairperson of the Sunkist Fiesta Bowl has announced that the game would be moved to another state if players refused to play in Arizona.
Some may argue that the decisions are unfair. The people in Arizona face losing millions of dollars that would have been a boon to the state economy. Phoenix, the scheduled site of the 1993 Super Bowl, and the suburb of Tempe both honor King with a municipal holiday. The state referendum failed to pass by only 15,000 votes out of more than a million cast, meaning that many who support a holiday would be punished too.
Nonetheless, decisions to move the Super Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl would be correct.
Arizona is a Western state whose people enjoy going their own way. Nothing is wrong with that, but the people of Arizona cannot complain if unpleasant consequences go along with their uniqueness.
Bryan Swan for the editorial board
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King as a hero
Achievements outshine faults
People in the United States want to learn more about their heroes.
Martin Luther King Jr. is one such hero. His academic writings have been studied recently by Clayborne Carson, a history professor at Stanford University. Carson discovered that King plagiarized in college and in his doctoral dissertation.
Few heroes prove to be perfect in the face of scrutiny, and King is no exception. Men of the stature of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy reportedly had extra-marital affairs. Abraham Lincoln may not have been motivated as much by his compassion for the slaves as he was by political expediency. The same could be true of Kennedy's role in the civil rights movement.
But those unpleasant facts should not detract from the great acts associated with these U.S. heros.
The same is true of Martin Luther King Jr. and the accusations against him. Carson's analyses indicate that King borrowed ideas, phrases and longer passages from other sources without attributing his sources. In other words, he forgot some footnotes.
He did not forget his vision for equal rights for Black people in the United States that won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He did not forget to move people with words and leadership. He did not forget to demand action from the U.S. government. Most of all, he did not forget to set forth a movement that changed and continues to change lives for the better in the history of the United States.
Carson said that he thought King acted unintentionally but that King knew enough about academic principles to understand the need to attribute his sources.
No one is denying that plagiarism is wrong or that King was probably guilty of academie misconduct.
But it would be wrong to allow a mere footnote in a hero's career to tarnish the memory of a great man of great deeds.
Kjerstin Gabrielson for the editorial board
University Daily Kansan
Arizona deserves games
People throughout the beautiful state of Arizona are donning their black afire this work in mourning.
because of the consequences of last week's election, NFL Commissioner Paul Taglione and National College Athletic Association officials decided that the state is under the control of the bowl games scheduled there.
If people would take a look at the events surrounding the vote, they would discover the great irony of the situation. The vote was not a rejection of Dr. King or his works; rather Arizona would to Tagluateb that Arizona would not be disqualified by an ultimatum of an arrogant commissioner.
Why? Because last week its citizens voted down a measure to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday holiday. The proposed boycott will result in an economic loss reaching the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Before Tagliabue's pre-election threats to move to the 1993 Super Bowl from Phoenix, polls showed the King holiday initiative passing by a healthy to percent margin. Once the Arizona election results would determine the location of the '83 Super Bowl, public outrage and disgust at
This is an extremely dangerous precedent we are witnessing. Unsound labels are being placed on a state because of an election result that doesn't accurately depict public opinion. Also, how much more of a role will professional and college sports play in politics?
route to a decisive victory at the polls when Tagliabue, in poor judgment, overstepped his authority.
As human nature and history have proven, people will not be subjected to intimidating behavior, nor will they respond especially when it involves their vote.
So, where does it stop? Apparently it doesn't t. The NCAA is now following in the NFL's footsteps by considering moving the Fiesta bowl unless the state its stance. The irony is that the state already has changed its stance twice.
Of course these are outrageous proposals. They are almost as outrageous as the people who have labeled Arizonaians as racists because they refuse to be bullied by an egotistical NFL commissioner.
Questions have to be asked. Should the whole state of Arizona be avoided, not only by professional teams but by businesses as well? Should we also boycott states that have lackadaisical environmental protection laws or restrictive abortion policies? What do states that pass amendments we don't agree with or find distasteful? Let's cut federal funds as well.
Last year, the Arizona Legislature passed the King holiday. The only reason it was on the ballot last week was because impasse formed governor Gavin Lockhart and enough petitions to force a referendum on the issue. The matter was en
John Strubert is a St. Louis senior majoring in journalism.
Consequently, the results in no way are an accurate representation of the people's view on a King holiday. Yet Tagliabue has followed through on his threat and has recommended that the Super Bowl be pulled from the state. The matter still requires the approval of 21 of the 28 NFL franchise owners, but it is unlikely they'll against such a controversial issue.
Staff columnist
John Strubert
the man's threats caused an upheaval that resulted in the rejection of the holiday.
Last week I watched Coach Norm Stewart's reaction to the NCAA penalties. It was only two years ago when we Jayhawk fans endured a similar moment.
Williams merits pride
But I write because I remember Roy William's response to KU's NCAA penalties as being significantly different — and that swells my pride in his part of Jachawk life. Instead of having plans for planning about being penalized (for something in which Stewart's tenure and program were involved) and adding comments about whether one should admit to making mistakes, my main recollection was that the team was that this was one example of how life was not always fair.
I guess this is a good moment to let Williams know how pleased I am that he is contributing to the Jayhawk tradition
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Bomb threats are not cool way to delay exams
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The traditional excuse that students use when they have forgotten an assignment is that the dog ate their homework. This time-honored educational loophole worked just once until college came along, and periodical newspapers were published to explain what an instructor used to determine a grade.
Undaunted, the collective student consciousness searched for a fitting excuse that would result in the delay of the dreaded midterms and final exam. Thus, the evolution of the phony bomb threat.
Usually, students are fairly ingenious people. They have to be to survive the academic rigors of college life. Students must master the complex academic concepts of the multiple-guess question and the fine art of writing a 15-page term paper with only two pages of researched information.
KJERSTIN GABRIELSON Managing editor
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Perhaps the need to master so many academic shortcut skills has undermined today's college student's ability to create excuses worthy enough to cause the re-scheduling of an important exam.
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Instead, students have resorted to terrorism. Thursday, a phony bomb threat forced an exam to be canceled at Hoch Auditorium. Apparently it was the first time the finals a little early. The end result of Thursday's
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This is not the 1900s. Threatening to blow up campus property is no longer in vogue. All of those mad phony bombers out there should try to see the error of their ways. They should join the rest of the group and think to up some cool, new excuses for the 1900s. Let all try to make Bart Simpson proud of us.
Whatever course of action students decide to take, it would be an improvement on today's preferred terrorist method of escaping a major exam. It is unfortunate that campus police oftentimes fail to detain or arrest a person from rape, theft and other crimes, are forced to waste time responding to phony bomb threats.
Bryan
Swan
Staff columnist
Students need to pool the powers of their study weary brains and come up with some new excuses. Ironically, the best source for helpful hints may be the students' own experiences. When someone been around a lot longer than the students who constantly try to outwit them with less dramatic day-to-day excuses (grandmother died, car died, dog died from trying to digest homework). Instructional texts that were used before bombs were ever invented.
Bryan Swan is a Topeka senior majoring in journalism.
episode was that there was no bomb, no exam and many upset students who had spent the night before cramming. The instructor gave the student a headache, which probably will be more strictly graded.
principles. Perhaps University policy should be changed, so that if a two-thirds majority of students taking a final exam think they are not ready for it, the exam could be re-scheduled. The time students would be wasting by not being able to complete tests at all and the instructor's time would be wasted too, but revenge could always result through tougher test questions and essays on which no mortal could score well.
If, however, no help from instructors is forth coming, here is an idea based on democratic
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