OPINION
November 2, 1984 Page 4
The University Daily KANSAN
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Wint Winter
The University has a friend and an advocate in the Kansas Senate. Republican Wint Winter Jr., incumbent candidate for the 2nd District seat, has been a strong supporter of KU's needs and goals during his two years in the Senate.
He has consistently looked out for the University and has supported such issues as improvement of work-study programs for students and approval of the 1984 Board of Regents recommendations for salaries and operating costs at KU.
Winter also has maintained high visibility and accessibility at KU. Both are assets for anyone representing the University in the Legislature.
The Democratic candidate, Lawrence Seaman Jr., an attorney, lacks this strong track record.
Winter was appointed to fill the remainder of Sen. Jane Eldredge's term, and he has proved that he is deserving of the KU vote. He should be given the opportunity to continue to serve the community well.
Betty Jo Charlton
The race for the 45th district of the Kansas House of Representatives is conspicuous by the presence of two highly respected and well-qualified candidates, Democratic incumbent Betty Jo Charlton and Republican challenger Julie Hack.
Hack has been on the local school board for 12 years and has acquired a solid reputation for effective service.
Charlton has a master's degree in political science and for the past several years has volunteered each semester to teach a course in Western Civilization, enabling her to maintain a finger on the pulse of the University. Her record in the House indicates strong support for University concerns, such as fee waivers for graduate teaching assistants.
The incumbent's record indicates a habit of taking well-considered stands on the issues. Of particular interest is her proposal on the federally imposed drinking age of 21: to weigh cuts in federal highway aid against cuts in state tax revenue and impact on the economy.
John Solbach
In short, Charlton has given five solid years of service to the 46th district. In the absence of a clearly superior opponent, the incumbent deserves the chance to serve two more.
Democratic incumbent John Solbach has efficiently represented the 45th district in the Kansas House of Representatives for the past six years and merits two more years.
Sobbach's accumulated years in the House represent an investment that is now coming to maturity and yielding significant rewards.
Solbach is in a position of seniority in the House and is now on the agriculture, judiciary, and ways and means committees.
Moreover, his years in the House have given him experience and knowledge his Republican challenger, Martha Parker, doesn't have. Parker enjoys a solid reputation in the community and would no doubt serve diligently if elected, but she lacks previous public service and legislative skills.
In light of his solid performance for the past six years, Solbach should be given the opportunity to continue to provide the 45th district with the benefits of his experience.
In the race for Douglas County district attorney, Mike Glover has emerged as the better candidate.
Mike Glover
Glover is the Democratic candidate for district attorney; Jim Flory is the Republican. Experience is the essential qualification for the position, and experience is what the race has boiled down to. Flory and Glover agree on key issues; both of them would use diversion programs for first-time offenders, and both would use plea bargains in non-violent cases if such action is advantageous to the state.
However, Glover's work since 1980 as Lawrence city prosecutor gives him the edge over Flory. Glover has the advantage of recent experience within the judicial system in Douglas County. Flory, who is a deputy attorney general in Topeka, does not.
Glover has worked, and is likely to continue to work, closely with local agencies and volunteer groups in cases of domestic violence, alcohol abuse and rape.
Moreover, Flory has said that for purposes of law enforcement, Lawrence resesembles other cities in the state whereas Glover recognizes that the University of Kansas makes the population of Lawrence unique among communities in Kansas.
India benefited from Gandhi's rule
The evil that men do lives after them.
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Thus Antony spoke of the death of Caesar.
So set it not be with Indira Gandhi.
The death of Gandhi has all the elements of "hamariya," the Greek word for tragic waste.
As nations stand shocked and speechel, India has lost yet another inspired leader who stood with the country through good and bad, and was eventually meted out a most gruesome and shabby treatment.
Thirty-six years ago the country reeled under the unexpected assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the spiritual and ideological mentor who gave the country its independence on a platter. Ever since then, the country has never had to look back.
Occasional flare-ups are inevitable in a multilingual nation that is comprised of Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and Christians. Yet India still maintains a unified front for the rest of the world.
If India holds its own anywhere in the world, it is because of Indra Gandhi. If ever there was a cohesive force for a country so diverse in its peoples, its cultures, its religions, it was Gandhi.
It is a nation that rose to the forefront, is now reckoned as the eighth largest industrialized nation and is a leader in the non-aligned movement. It is hard not to credit Gandhi for the monumental task that he himself and proved to the world that being a poor nation is not a handicap.
Shot 16 times, not just once — that was the price Gandhi paid for having trusted her people, for having failed to suspect the sinister thoughts lurking in the minds of her own countrymen.
It is ironic, indeed — this is the land hailed for its non-violent philosophy and peaceful resistance, that once effected independence for the country through civil disobedience. This is the country that brought the British
Guest Columnist
Empire to its knees and threw off the shackles of colonialism with little or no bloodshed.
KALPANA
TRIVADI
The fanaticism of a few led to the slaving of Indira Gandhi.
...but not her assassins ever hope to gain? Her death has not resolved India's problems.
By taking away her life, the fanatics made a choice. In making that, they barred the multitude its choice. The fanaticism of a few has shaken democracy and merely reinforced the automatic ways of the near-sighted and the militant.
Indira Gandhi will go down in the annals of history as a leader with unparalleled political acumen, as a woman who surmounted the sexual barrier and gave women a chance to stand beside men as equals, as a citizen who did her utmost for her country.
Unfortunately, a few did not appreciate it.
and men have lost their reason One couldn't say it better
O judgment, thou art fled to brutish
begins.
But here I am to speak what I do
know
Kalpana Trivadi is a Madras, India, graduate student.
You all did love (her) once, not without cause
When you're in the elevator, face forward and don't look at anyone Watch the numbers. Don't talk to someone - you'll make them uncomfortable.
Pot Shots
When you walk across Wescoe Beach, don't pretend that no one is watching you. Everyone is. Just don't turn and look at them as you go by. Try not to do something humiliating, like dropping something or sending hello to someone, which won't bear you.
Be normal. Anyone can do that, and everyone does. Most of us crumble under the
When you have a message and you want to tell it to the world, or at least the University population, display it on a bulletin board.
However, despite the benefits of this elementary form of communication, a disregard for the Bulletin Board Code of Ethics seems prevalent on campus.
"Country living in the heart of the city." "Night of the Living Dead" and "Music at the Bavarian Court" are all offered on the local bulletin board.
People who insist on staples, instead of
stress when we're confronted with the diverse or the obnoxious.
What's the matter? Are you afraid someone will catch you singing in public? What if you have to look someone in the eye and say hello? If someone hands you a pamphlet, will others see you sheeply taking it and wonder why you did? Aren't they going to think you're daft for talking to a chicken?
Do you sing along with the radio in your car, and stop when another car comes? You look at the ground when you pass someone on the street. Do you try your best to avoid being standing out perpulsations or wound Senate candidates dressed up in鸡冠状套?
The next time you trip, don't try to pretend it wasn't your fault. It was, you clumsy oaf. And everyone knows it.
thumbtacks, to post their signs cause difficulty for the person who eventually has to remove the signs.
Removal is imminent, though unfortunately not always in a timely fashion.
All bulletin boards around campus are not "free and open to the public." People who post signs might not know it, but some boards are reserved for departments or notices within particular schools.
Some people also insist on hanging three or more signs for the same cause when one would really be sufficient.
You find people making social statements in the strangest places these days, even at Halloween parties.
Lastly, bulletin boards should be fair game for all legitimate users. People who, in their quest for prime position, post their sign over another one just aren't playing fairly
The one party I attended this week provided a reflection of contemporary U.S. politics and public opinion.
"Missing" were the traditional witches, ghosts and Frankenstein monsters. No, these revelers were obviously inspired more by issues and advertising than by Boris Karpoff.
No fewer than four people came dressed as nerds at this party. There was a couple
dressed as Mr. and Mrs. T, and another as packages of plain and peanut M&M's. One girl came as the San Diego Chicken.
my brother suffered from a truly sad case of costume failure. This occurs when no one recognizes what a costume represents. My brother's daygirl red hair, red and blue face paint, torn jeans, knee-length moccasins, green army jacket and marijuana button tipped off no one in the crowd that he was dressed as a fan of the 1960s rock group, the Grateful Dead. I told him that recognition of the Grateful Dead was probably too much to expect at a party that featured tapes of Michael Jackson and Van Halen.
I have to admit that I was not without guilt in terms of making a statement. However, I was not going to let an electionyear Halloween be by without wearing my red devil's horns over my Ronald Reagan mask
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Sexual freedoms endangered by Reagan
To the editor:
I hope that we are all taking precautions, the best of which — excluding sterilization — are 98 percent foolproof, that is, if you use them correctly and it's not high tide or a full moon.
How many times have the readers had sex in their lives? How many times just this semester have the readers been lucky enough not to get pregnant or not to get someone else pregnant?
On top of that — no puns, please — we women sometimes harbor a guilt feeling that planning — that is, carrying methods of birth control on our person or taking the pill — means intent. In our prudish minds we, of course, would never plan to have sex on the first date or after drink and drown, so why chance being caught with creams, condoms and diaphragms in our pursue — or sook? (Fortunately, guys get a break here. Condoms fit nicely in a wallet.) In addition, most of the lucky players secretly think, "It won't happen to me."
It can and it does. We know, because President Reagan says
there are thousands of abortions each year in this country I say good for those who still have the choice!
I find this a disturbing trend of thought, and suggest that Crisp look beyond his own fears to a greater concern for mankind and the civil rights that our country espouses to be guaranteed to every person.
If you re-elect Reagan, within the next four years you will lose your right to a choice. First, he has said he would push for an amendment to the Constitution; secondly, he will appoint right-to-lifers as Supreme Court justices to ensure it, and that fact alone points to no chance of appeal!
To a female college student, and many male students who find themselves sisters, it means that an unwanted pregnancy, an "accident," could make your education no longer possible. And you may be living forever. It could run your life and possibly lead you to a black market abortion or suicide.
Furthermore, once you have that child, you can bet that Reagan will offer you no assistance, because he's cutting social aid. So you and your new family can struggle with the thousands of others in the class. This will occur because Reagan will offer you to suffer for your little sin.
Tracy Mahoney
Tracy Mahoney Lawrence resident
Don't you think that someone of a
Rights at stake
To the editor:
Now you have a choice. Fight to keep it. Please vote.
little higher authority than a screwed
little, fundamentalist, dying old man —
yes we all seem to "get religion"
just before our calling, don't we? —
should decide how your life will be led?
Maybe you and God?
What will it be next? If Tom Crisp has his way, and Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas is removed from campus, it will set a precedent to reinstall barriers that the civil rights movement has taken years to break up.
Shall we go back to a life in which racism and its like encourage a general lack of understanding and concern for our fellow man? In this new age of technology, are we going to live with the endless tastes of morality — principles that only served to stagnate human understanding?
If Crisp's unenlightened attitude is an indication of where our country is headed, our future is bleak indeed. Such thinking could only serve to further and incite anger, hostility, antagonism, misunderstanding, elitism. Is this an appropriate future for mankind?
Perhaps the civil rights stifle of previous decades is far too removed from Crisp's experience for him to have any understanding of how far we've come, and much better our world is today, (for all of us), than it was within the country to educate people like Crisp in their shortsightedness?
The issue is not merely one of gay rights, it is an issue of all human and civil rights, including those of people like Crisp.
Marybeth Bethel Lawrence senior