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October 3, 1984 Page 4
OPINION
The University Daily KANSAN
The University Daily KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
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A severe shortage of one life's basic necessities — food continues in Africa, in the regions south and east of the Sahara desert.
So do the deaths on a continent where daily bread is often the main concern.
The severity of the situation will be eased some with $150 million that Congress has approved for emergency food a$^i
More money is needed, and Congress should not abandon the cause before the food shortage has eased.
the cause before the tool Yet the government alone can hardly provide sufficient funds to eliminate the problem of starvation in countries such as Mali and Senegal.
Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo. — who has seen people in Africa who have swollen bellies and are forced to scrouge for scraps to eat — said Friday at a conference on famine in Africa that private assistance programs were needed to supplement government aid.
In a time when volunteer efforts are able to raise money for all sorts of causes, the plight of starving people in another part of the world should stand out as one of the most worthwhile concerns.
Manhattan view
Universities are usually considered places of higher education, but some students at the University of Kansas have recently proven that image is not always true.
have recently proved that things have really been hard.
The students are the makers of a T-shirt called "Fagbusters," emblazoned with a limp-wristed ghost trapped in a circle with a bar across it.
It is not a clever mind that sees violence as a solution to cultural differences. With that kind of mind-set, the ghost in the circle could just as easily have been anyone who does not fall in line with the Moron Majority.
The ghost is gay, however, because KU's Student Senate has approved financing for Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, a student support group. That kind of democratic action was apparently too much for KU's closet bigots.
One student circulated a petition calling for a student body vote on the funding — a procedure not used with other groups. Of course, the issue was not one of morality, he said, but finances. Despite lack of access to Senate records, the student said GLSOK was capable of supporting itself.
Fortunately, the KU Senate Elections Committee voted Thursday to recommend that the Senate reject the petition because of inadequate wording, discriminatory intent, and because monetary allocations should be made by the Senate Finance Committee.
If the Senate does reject the petition—for whatever reason it will help to protect all minorities from the actions of people with the "Fagbusters" mentality.
Kansas State Collegian
in the spring we received the results of a salary survey of people teaching urban planning in the Midwest, and another one arrived recently. They say the same thing. The state of Kansas pays significantly less than other states.
Gazing at stars and making sense
We also found that many other KU faculty are being underpaid. In the past 10 years the per capita income of Kansas increased about 200 percent, but the per capita income of KU faculty increased only by about 100 percent.
Although ways to determine who merits what can vary, we realized that faculty bickering over who gets paid what will only cause us to ignore the real issue. It is a little like arguing over where to shift deck chairs on the Titanic. Collectively, we are falling behind in getting our share of per capita income in Kansas.
Strong Hall administrators have been unable to bridge the increasing income gap. These people mean well, but the folks who push the trend in their lives at St. Ives House have a thumb-down saying: "Nope, you'll get what we wanna give ya."
We began to realize that our struggle for equity through excellence was misguided. Some publisher in New York annually tells us that we have a four-star University, but some of those stars are not being paid for by the state. We as faculty are footing the bill.
JIM ERIC
MAYO STRAUSS
Guest Columnists
The solution for KU faculty is to become creatively mediocre. If we are not being paid for delivering excellence, why should we give it away for free?
A release from guilt burdens of excellence enables us to explore real opportunities. How can we creatively use our unused sick leave to skip lectures? How can we manipulate student feedback scores without administrators knowing about it?
How can we get service credit for being on committees without ever attending meetings? How can we convince decision-makers that consultant reports (which we would never write) are more prestigious than tickets in national audits? If we are being paid only 80 percent of our worth, why don't we keep office hours only 80 percent of the required time?
Promotion and tenure committees need not bother anymore counting an assistant professor's publications or go through agonizing sessions arguing for excellence. None of them are being paid highly enough to consider promotion. Does this individual have a regional or national reputation in his discipline?
Our proposed strategy has tremendous potential for reducing our workload and mental stress. Just as important, it might result in our getting higher salaries. If we aim for lower quality, politicians might begin to see the need to raise academic standards to a level equivalent to the athletic performance demanded by the alumni.
Thus, it is in our interest to create the greatest gap possible between athletic and academic standards.
'Long-suffering Cub fans'had fun
Faculty like David Katzman, professor of history, can no longer 'be allowed to demand academic standards that prevent our athletic teams from maximizing their chances to win. As the teams' performance grows and our ups as a faculty goes down, our performance gap becomes more noticeable.
We realize that our strategy has some severe limitations. The main problem is how can we bring ourselves to reduce our academic efforts to our current levels of economic return? We think that our strategy can achieve a three-star rating and maybe two stars.
Slats Grobnik couldn't take it anymore. He finally jumped up on the bar and started shouting obscenities at the TV set.
Our politicians might begin to realize that they will be accused of neglecting higher education.
I asked him what the problem was.
"Have you been listening to those TV jerks? Have you been reading the newspaper jerks?"
Our alternative "merits" attention over past strategies, which have failed because of their emphasis on excellence. We hope that the faculty can find creative alternatives for the students to fulfill their star university. Let's quit gazing at stars and start making more sense, which can add up to dollars.
Jim Mayo and Eric Strauss are associate professors of architecture & urban design.
"Why are they lying?"
About what?
"About all that suffering. You know, the 39 years of suffering. That's all I've been hearing."
Ah, you mean that cliche, "the long-suffering Cub fans."
"Yeah. Listening to them, you'd think that we've spent all those years acting like we had hemorrhoids, boils, lumbago, cramps and gout. And it's a damn lie Why doesn't somebody tell the truth?"
"That most of the time it's been fun. Why would we have hung on all those years if it wasn't fun?"
Iran. So were we suffering when Ernie hit those 500 rifle shots into the stands?
But he was kind of slow afoot.
"Yeah, sitting in the sunlight and watching Pafko and Nicholson pump balls into the bleachers."
"Hey, do you remember how when we were kids, if we got to the ball park real early in the morning, they'd let us in for setting up the folding chairs they used to have in the box seats?"
Then we'd get to watch all of batting practice
"That's the way sluggers were supposed to be. Any purse snatcher can run fast. Remember when they brought Ernie up? What a skinny kid he was."
"I remember when we got Bank Sauer? Remember how nobody else could swing his bat?"
"Sure. And these goofs forget that we had a pretty good team out there in some of those years. Remember in 1958, we made a run at it. Banks. Morryn. Long Walls. Dark."
All we needed were a couple more
pitchers.
pitchers.
"Yeah. But it was fun. That gang terrified pitchers with their bats."
And they terrified our pitchers with their gloves.
"Nobody's perfect Hey, you remember Sad Sam Jones and his no-hitter against the Pirates? He walks the bases loaded in the ninth,
then he strikes out the next three guys.
"Another thing. Everybody talks about 1969, but they don't really know why it was such a disappointment And it wasn't only because they lost."
"Sure. It was because most of the guys on that team — Banks, Williams, Kessinger, Santo Hundley, Beckert, Fergie — had started here as kids. That's the way baseball was before free agents started jumping from team to team. We felt like we knew the players. So they lost it. It was still fun. Losing is part of life, right?"
Inviable. But you must concede that over those 39 years, the Cubs did have some strange characters.
'Sure. And what's wrong with
that? They were fun, too. Anybody who didn't enjoy seeing fat Harry Chitti it did the only triple of his career
— when they were walking him intentionally and he swung away — doesn't know what fun is. $ ^{1} $
Yes, the right fielder was chatting with the center fielder.
"You know, most of the people who are talking about the 'long-suffering Cub fans' don't understand real Cub fans at all. They didn't know that there was a feeling like we were all part of a family."
We were an odd family.
"So what? Even 220 hitters are human, right? We wouldn't trude those 39 years for anything we'll have to do," the goalie who talk about all of our suffering
"The only reason they talk about it
that they weren't there."
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
'Fagbusters' T-shirts spur consideration of faith, civil rights, bigotry
To the editor:
One of the first issues of the Kansas this semester addressed the issue of the gay community at the University of Kansas. Both your feature article and the letters that followed indicate a lack of understanding of the real crux of the matter.
On one side, the gay people and their proponents argue that they were either born that way or became that way because of some biological process over which they had no control. Thus, they deny claims that they are either sinful or unnatural.
God, not I, has said that no homosexual shall enter his kingdom (I Corinthians 6:9-10). It is his standard. He never created them that way. It is a way of life they chosen. Would a loving God condemn his creation for living in accordance with the way he created them?
On the other side, religious and non-religious people take an opposite view and sometimes take steps to hinder or prevent homosexual activity on their particular campus or in their particular city.
in the ensuing confrontations, both sides can lose sight of the real issue. John Christian I believe the Bible
I am a Christian. I believe the Biba to be the word of God.
Being a Christian and a sinner, I can empathize with gay men and lesbians, not because I believe in their right to such a way of life, but because I have known the frustration of being separated from God.
My sins of pride, envy, lust and
greed, though perhaps not as blatant as those of the sins of the homosexual, were no less despicable in God's eyes. Like theirs, God hatred my sin, but nonetheless, loved me and provided a way for me to meet with deserving husbands who sine. No less does he love them and desire to deliver them from theirs.
As Christians, we can become so opposed to sin that we point a finger of condemnation at the sinner, forgetting the instruction of God "to malign no one, to be uncontentious, gentle, showing every consideration for all men, for we also once were foolish ourselves . . . But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy" (Titus 3:3.5).
The Christian should realize that he will not bring about change by political action or government edict, but rather, by pointing sinners to the savior of mankind, Jesus Christ.
Because he has provided a way to victory over all sin, it is not we who will condemn those who refuse the free gift of that deliverance, but he who has provided it through his death for our sins.
The homosexual should realize that those who use violence or political force in the name of Christianity are in accordance with God's word.
Charles Miller Lawrence resident
Minority rights
To the editor:
Several points need to be made to clarify the controversy over Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas and the current affirmative action policy at the University of Kansas regarding an added clause on sexual preference.
To begin with, let's recap where this whole thing started. Originally, the Student Senate Finance Committee decided that GLSDK was self-supporting and should not be funded. Carla Vogel, student body president, biased the final decision on funding with a threat of a veto. His personal biases aside, it was clearly this special privilege granted by the committee that prompted Steve Imer to sell "Faghapter" T-shirts Vogel is the one singled out GLSDK, so the petition is one against special privileges, not homosexuality.
Second, it is not a federal statute or even logical that sexual deviants of any nature deserve legislative protection from discrimination. The attempt is being made by homosexuals to pervert the nature of their preference is to be logically associated with race, gender and so on.
Many of us who strongly oppose discrimination against those groups named in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and following legislation think that
such a logical fallacy intrudes upon, cheapens the cause of and even threatens the minorities deserving protection under established federal law.
Finally, somehow the "sexual preference" clause was slipped into the KU catalog recently. Who was it that chose to improve the wording of our legislators? Doesn't this cause affirmative action to also protect the rights of sadomasochists and people who practice bestiality to display their perversions and retain their positions as school teachers or whatever? Shouldn't students have the right to accept or reject such policy changes?
Tom Crisp Dayton, Ohio. graduate student
Tolerance absent
To the editor:
Bigot a person intolerant of creeds, opinions, and so forth, other than this own.
I would have supported Imber's right to bring his views on GLSOK
Steve Imber's facade, that his opposition to Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas was only a financial issue, has been torn down. According to recent articles in the Kansan, Imber has actively been promoting bigotry within the frater-nites.
The problem with bibryst is that it is contagious. Will the next T-shirt have a black ghost and be printed in an attempt to run the black students off campus? Or maybe a rainbow-colored ghost to get rid of international students? I know, we'll put the ghost in a wheelchair!
funding to the Student Senate, but this is no longer a matter of financial support, if it ever was. It is a matter of bigotry and whether the students of the University of Kansas will support the rights of minorities to co-exist with them.
Once biggity is allowed into one sector of our society, we've compromised our belief in the rights of our peers to express their individuality provided it does not infringe on the rights of others. Once that compromise is made, then we are no longer as civilization, but a group of tribes in which the largest, strongest or most devious will subjugate the others.
I propose that the Student Senate consure Imber for his actions and possibly issue some sort of warning to the Acacia house for allowing Imber and his associates to operate out of their facilities.
Many individuals have recently demonstrated their opposition to racism in South Africa The biogry at the University of Kansas is a first step toward the violent intolerance we see in South Africa. If we are complacent, by not acting to oppose such bigry, we condone it
rally. I would hope that the Interfraternity Council would make some statement to act as a guide to the other fraternities so that bigotry would not erupt from one of their houses again. The fraternities are seen as leaders on campus and this responsibility seriously and promote tolerance of those who hold differing beliefs and values.
Gary W. McCullough
Gary W. McCullough Lawrence graduate student
Scapegoating
To the editor
To the center
The dishonestly orchestrated and cowardly attack on Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas is a classic form of scapegoating whose tragic ends historically have been the excommunication of and incitement to violence against minority groups.
Such demagogy is odious to the great majority of Americans who cherish democratic institutions and sane relationships among people. Those students who thoughtlessly signed the petition should ponder its implications. Those students who imitated it should ponder whether they intend to use their education to enhance U.S. society or to aggrandize themselves by manipulating the base passions of the mob.
Norman Forer Associate professor of social welfare