University Daily Kansan, October 5. 1994
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Most people pay no heed to complaints of homosexuals
To the editor:
In regard to the homosexuals being mad about "Fagbusters" T-shirts, I say, "Who cares?"
Normal people (regardless of whether they are bigots) do not like homosexuals. They don't want them to see them and to see them holding hands and so forth.
The majority decides what will be law.
The majority of the people from Kansas don't like homosexuals
The majority says, "Go to hell, homosexuals!"
So the homosexuals can complain all they want, but the majority rule says, "Homosexuals, we don't care what you think!"
Greg Nelson
Greg Nelson
Lawrence sophomore
Goals not quotas
To the editor:
Misinformed employers and colonists like Jennifer Fine (Sept. 24, "Affirmative action and equality") perpetuate the myth that affirmative action programs require the hiring of one sex or race over another.
Fact: No affirmative action rules require the use of quotas for employment.
Fact: Quotas may be remedially prescribed by Congress or the courts only when illegal discrimination has been proved.
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For 20 years, women and minorities have made gains in employment because of affirmative action. Yet with the current administration's attitude, it isn't surprising that the public has been misled into confusing employment goals with racial quotas.
For a conservative administration to attempt to mislead by suggesting that the concepts of "quotas" and "dolals" are identical is reprehensible.
Political misconceptions are also being spread on seniority. Our forefathers created a discriminatory labor market. The seniority system perpetuates that system. For decades, the organization has been denied the opportunity to accumulate years of progressive experience under one emplover.
The heart cries out when uninformed people bellow "Foul!" as affirmative action programs press for a fairer standard by which to assess an employee's value in times of layoffs.
The heart cries out when uninformed people label plans — based on realistic hiring goals and timetables that don't match the same chance of reverse discrimination.
We must demand that our employment practices correct the effect of past conditions.
There cannot be equality for all
there until women and minorities have the
chance to vote.
Minorities and women cannot rejoice because "everything is equal now." That would be to ignore decades of deprivation.
James A. Turner, Jr.
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Column offensive
To the editor:
I am disgusted by Jennifer Fine's column.
To assume automatically that this black 'girl' was less qualified than her, strictly on the basis that she was black and qualified for affirmative action, is to expose Fine's personal biases for what they are.
No, I don't think it's time to "quit over-compensating."
You've got to understand that discriminatory policies of the past made it partially possible for our mommies and daddies to move into comfortable "whites only" suburbs to the city and be kiddies through college without taking out a loan or having them work.
White America's affluent life was — and is to a degree — facilitated by keeping those less fortunate — read that non-white — locked into low
skill, low-income, dead-end employment. Fine's statement, "I got the job despite my skin color," makes me want to puke.
H. T. Rogers Lawrence senior
Think how "shocked and ... enraged" Fine would be to find that after college — especially if she had to earn her tuition — that the only jobs open to her involved manual labor, or to be passed over for promotion because she just "wasn't part of the team."
I think that positive discrimination and affirmative action will always have a place in a society in which the right to be allowed to exist and express itself.
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Bugs no concern
To the editor:
I am writing in response to Robin Palmer's column about the bugs in Kansas (Sept. 27, "Kansas creepy critters bug Coloradan")
I find that it was a waste of time, space and ink to even write this article and problems there against the world, she wrote about such minute things as bugs.
When I hear people complain about something, it's never about such a small problem as annoying bugs. Palmer must be either very lucky to get the biggest problem, or very naive to think that it's Kansas' biggest problem.
I'm not fond of bugs, but I — a former Coloradan — know enough to realize that these bugs are not even close to hiding Kansas" or even the nation's top 10 list of biggest problems.
where. There are even bugs in Colorado that aren't exactly fun to be near.
Shirley Perel
Shirley Perey
Wichita freshman
I'm sorry, but bugs are every-
In the future, please try to find something worth complaining about.
Sorry, but the pitfall of so many baseball fans today was made clear in John Simpson's column (Oct. 2, "Wrigley represents good in baseball") when the Kansas City Royals were called the "leisure suit of objects."
The pitfall is trying to categorize
Baseball purity
and stereotype basic elements of the and stereotype basic elements of the Royals as the "leisure suit of baseball" two criteries were used: the type of home field that they have and the use of the designated hitter.
The traditionalists adhere to the opinion that the DH is not a natural part of the game and shouldn't be there. Remembering that the NL advocates point to the importance of the tradition of the game, isn't it ironic that six of the 12 NL teams play on an artificial surface but 10 of the 14 AL teams play on natural grass? Tradition?
To the editor:
The use of the DH is unique to the American League. It is a main point of conflict between the younger American League and the traditionists of the older National League.
These differences are good for baseball. Surely one may have an opinion (perhaps a strong one at that) on a particular issue; a person would be of shallow mind if he didn't. But let's not get caught up in "this is good for baseball" or "that is bad for the game." One will miss the beauty of the whole picture by slicing away its parts.
Arthur D. Starns Odessa, Mo., senior
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