September 7,1984 Page 4
OPINION
The University Daily KANSAN
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The University Daily KANSAN
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Canada decides
Oh Canada!
Oh Canada! Canada's Conservative Party demolished the Liberal Party in national elections Tuesday. The vote will mean the first majority government by the Conservative Party in two decades.
The Conservatives won 50 percent of the vote and 75 percent of the seats in the House of Commons; the Liberal Party fell from 147 seats to 40.
Party felt from 147 seats to 40. Landslide elections have occurred in the past throughout the free world, but the significance of Canada's most recent election is that the Liberal Party has been in power for all but nine months since 1963; for nine months in 1979, the Conservatives ruled with a minority government.
The Liberals, led by Pierre Trudeau for 15 years, are king of the hill no longer.
Mulroney's campaign stands out on several p.
The name to remember for the moment in association with Canada is Brian Mulroney, who will become prime minister. Mulroney's campaign stands out on several points.
Multinational campaigns are The prime minister-to-be emphasized improvement in Canada's economy. For example, the nation's unemployment rate now stands at 11.2 percent.
employment are now in addition. Mulroney said he would seek better relations with the United States. This lack of Uncle Sam-bashing is a refreshing change.
An element that added color to the campaign — and possibly affected some votes, too — was the habit of Mulreney's Liberal opponent, John Turner, of patting females on the behind. Some leadership!
Turner, defeated Liberal prime minister, had other problems; he had only recently replaced Trudeau, a leader once popular but increasingly controversial by the time he left office.
Canada is different from the United States: efforts to equate the two nations are hazardous 'at best'.
Yet some politicians south of Canada might benefit from paying extra attention to several aspects of the Conservatives' recipe for success. Strong leadership and economic prosperity appear to turn voters on, while attacks on the United States as the force for evil in the world do not.
Beer barrel blues
Real Lawrence men, apparently, don't want to drink low-alcohol beer.
low alcohol beer.
LA, the brave new marketing experiment by Anheuser-Busch, isn't catching on in this city of crowded bars and well-stocked refrigerators. As one drinker who'd rather not make the switch said, "College students don't drink beer for the taste. They drink beer to get drunk."
the taste. They drink better to get the best from Anheuser-Busch spokesman blamed the slow sales on the usual sluggishness of a new product. But Lawrence drinkers may well be thinking with more than just their taste buds. Most consumers don't want to jump right in when a new product hits the market after all, who wants to get caught up in another corporation's attempt to create a market where none has existed? We can thank corporate snow jobs for the rise of such waste products as designer jeans and mouthwash.
The appeal of a brewery to the vanity of those who want to match their buddies beer-for-beer like real men - but still be able to find their way to the door and the car - is equally contrived.
As long as colleges and bars exist, students will go out to drink with their friends in the time-honored rites of seeking truth and escape. Some will want to stay somewhat sober for whatever reason.
whatever reason.
Sometimes the funniest, most interesting or most spirited person in a bar hasn't had a drink the whole night. Some people actually don't need beer to have a good time. The low sales of low-alcohol beer are an encouraging sign that the city isn't quite as gullible as Anheuser-Busch thought it would be.
Uphill struggle
Bicyclists beware!
Bengals Now you will face additional scrutiny from campus police and rightly so.
and right so. Kansas traffic laws are designed to protect everyone who uses the roads, and campus police say they will begin stringent enforcement of those laws.
stringent enforcement of those who Complaints about unsafe bicyclists are an annual occurrence; people traveling by car complain about bicyclists who ignore stop signs, and people traveling by foot do not care to serve as moving targets.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker of the campus police points out that motorists and pedestrians must contribute their share to traffic safety by cooperating with bicyclists.
Despite the best efforts of campus police, however, problems will likely recur as long as students are in a rush to get on and off - campus, as long as hills provide a tempting speed range, and as long as shortcuts beckon pedestrians to ignore crosswalks, at the expense of safety and healthy grass.
Miracle diets yield food for thought
In light of the fast pace of this advanced society, which we as citizens of the United States are so privileged to live in, it is not hard to understand how we have been blessed with wonderful wonders scientific discovery.
Only in the heartland of opportunity and ambition do we find the scientific cures for all of life's woes.
So you think 18 is too early for wrinkles and, at the age of 21, you have already found those silver-tinted strands of hair you thought were reserved for mom and dad.
Don't worry, and put your troubles behind you, because somewhere, somehow, an enterprising new company will have discovered a new pill, powdered drink, lotion or gadget that will fix all of the mistakes that Mother Nature made at the time of your birth.
couldn't have or more than they had to begin with. In fact, individual satisfaction with one's physical form is almost unheard of.
your school.
The wonder cures of today strike an amazing resemblance to the hair tonics and elixirs of eternal youth that were popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
People bought them 90 years ago and they will continue to do so, because people throughout time have always wanted either what they
The only difference between the cures of the past and those of today is that now these businesses boast of cures for everything from unwanted
Staff Columnist
ROBIN
PALMER
facial hair and cellulite to the color of the skin.
Although baldness still plagues the masculinity of many young men, why worry about the shiny spot on the top of your head when you should really be worrying about eliminating acne overnight? You also can find pills that supposedly stimulate your entire life.
Amazing as it may seem, there are more cures for physical imper
Yet people still reach out for even the strangest and most expensive remedy.
feections than there are problems themselves.
For those people who have tried to limit themselves to only four or five meals a day, and still have not been able to lose their unwanted pounds in just one month, the answer is a new grapefruit "super pill."
A price of $12 for a 14-day supply will guarantee the loss of 10 pounds without the hassle of exercise or calorie counting.
Eat all you want, take this amazing pill before every meal, and leave the work to the grapefruit's dietary calories. Eat more of it and reduce calories in the food you eat.
If that doesn't convince you, try the next breakthrough that is rocking the diet industry: a formula that stimulates the "growth hormones," which in turn speed up the rate at which the body digests food.
With this method you can lose weight while you sleep, because this formula continues both to burn tissue and form up labby tissue 24 hours a day.
Another diet tablet triggers the
high-speed, fat-shrinking ability of this product in 24-48 hours. The pounds drop off because this tablet shrinks the actual fat cells and deposits.
it pits and formulas bother you or if the doctor-proven evidence does not quite convince you, other possibilities are available for the cynics in life.
Fast, safe and proven-effective hypnosis can drop those 50 pounds you have been carrying around for years. Even if you just want to lose those small bulges that make wearing a bathing suit to Lone Star Lake impossible, this could be the solution you've been waiting for.
All you need to do is to purchase a cassette tape that hypnotizes you into losing weight. The theme is, "Control the mind before the body."
And if all else fails, try the old standby — just shut your mouth and refrain from eating.
Computer enrollment process lacks heart
There are some things about my fellow students that I will never understand. I don't know why some wear knee-length plaid shorts, why some join College Republicans or why some even come to school.
But what really bewilders me is why so many students like our present enrollment procedure.
You see. I hate computerized enrollment. I detest it. I never liked it and never will.
I know that such an admission is heresy, but I remember the distant days of the past, when Allen Field House was more than a place where
students saw basketball games, and
things were different. . . .
things were unclear.
Enrolling has never been all
MICHAEL ROBINSON
Staff Columnist
laughs, in my first experience at the field house. I spent two hours going
through the motions before I discovered that my financial aid hadn't arrived and I would have to come back the next day.
But enrolling at the field house was different. It was an adventure then. One didn't merely peruse the timetable; one wandered through the bright sunlit concrete beneath the stands, past folding chairs and tables covered by boxes filled with punched computer cards
The people who staffed the tables were connected with the departments they represented. If you needed to know something about one
of the courses offered, more often than not, they could give you some information.                                         :
Enrolment was also something of a social happening, where old friends ran into each other and had time to chat.
Numerous arguments exist for turning enrollment over to the IBM speed, efficiency, flexibility, timeliness, savings and, of course, money savings.
But I've also had the opportunity to experience some of the other products of computer enrollment times six or seven people deep running the length of Strong Hall, students enrolling at the wrong time, the wrong times being printed on cards
Once we had only enrollment and late enrollment to get everyone into school. Now we have main early (early) and late events, and late event and late enrollment
Adding and dropping classes has become a multicolored nightmare for students as well as instructors
One noticeable thing about the problems with computer enrollment is that they are people problems, that is, they are visited upon the people who have to go through the process. One noticeable thing about the advantages is that they are institutional advantages.
That gets to the heart of the central flaw with using the computer. It is as quick, cold, slam-bam thank you-ma enrolment.
But I don't have to like it. And I won't.
The staff members at the terminals do their jobs efficiently and well, but they couldn't care less what you take.
sow. I'm no fool. I have no illusions about getting the University to change back, to forget about computerized learning. I am not stupid one. But I'm not a stupid one.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Student's view of Nigeria shows lack of understanding
To the editor:
"itus me that Bill Wilcox should be the first KU student to study for a full year at one of Nigeria's finest universities ("KU student sees two cultures in Nigeria," Aug. 31 Kanu). It would, I fancy, be proper of me to say congratulations, and this I do most sincerely.
Somehow I find myself having to quarrel with Wilcox for trying to misguide the KU reading public
First, there are no "juju" markets. Unfortunately, he does not and cannot understand the concept of juju.
SECONDLY I THINK QUEEN is more of understanding of the term culture. Besides, he even goes further to talk of two cultures in Nigeria. I begin to wonder whether Wilcox tried hard to travel to other parts of the country
Or maybe he spent most of his time checking out the local joints with the ladies of the night, and then he comes back here and tells us about some "ancient" woman whom he "figured" out wanted to sleep with him so that she would have a child with a "caucasoid" nose. He must be a joker with a nice way of figuring things out.
I can, however, offer two possible explanations for what might have taken place. First of all, he probably approached a prostitute.
Secondly, it could be that this ancient lady was curious as for whether he had the same "biological instruments" as the regular guys. This, in fact, I see as the more relevant of the two.
Again, he talks about a "primitive" Nigerian society in which animal sacrifices have become the order of the day. But, of course, his
So tell me, was it necessary for Wilcox to adopt primitive behaviors? Because he claimed that the toilets didn't work, this means that he probably had to dig a hole in the ground to plant his waste on Nigerian soil.
I can assure him that Nigerians are, more than ever before, facing up to their difficulties and successfully solving them.
Let's get serious now. You see, those days are gone when a lot of people thought the African lived in trees
If these people for whom he did the twist, and therefore thought he had made happy, should read what he has said, then I am sorry to say that their jwp would be set into motion, and that would be unpleasant.
exchange program worked because he received instructions from a campus that had "modern Western" buildings and served him plenty of Coca-Cola so he could cool off under the grueling Nigerian sun.
Obineche Uzoma Chiedzie
Nigorie, graduate student
Obineche Uzoma Chiedozie
Lagos, Nigeria, graduate student
Primeval picture
To the趴室
As a student at the University of
Wilkes-Barre it is great to have heard of
Bill Wilcox's adventurous tour
through Benin City in Nigeria
To the editor:
I was displeased, however, with some ambiguous information concerning Wileo's primitive description of the Benin City people and their way of life in or out of the marketplace.
marketplace. As a citizen of the United States who has not traveled to Africa, 1
which it is a shame that so many people today have some sort of misconception about Africa; needless to say, people like Wilcox who do not understand the word "culture" give erroneous information that in essence affects a vast majority of us
My advice to the next exchange students from KU is to make sure they get and keep the word "cultural influence" in its right perspective, always remembering that everybody throughout the world isn't the same.
question whether I should believe Wilcox or my dear friends from this land of dried bats and monkey heads, which Wilcox described.
James L. Dunson Los Angeles junior
I guess you can say that the story in the Kansan about the Benin City people in Nigeria was the work of a perd.
It is good to hear of the exchange program that the University of Kansas has initiated with the University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria.
To the editor:
lest attempt fails
sity to be learning.
I do hope, however, that any more students who are going on the exchange program or any other way do not come back as lightened as Bill Wilcox did, whatever blame that might be attributed to the grueling Nigerian sun.
it is quite offensive that someone thinks of those in your home country as people who regard light-skimmedness as a status symbol or that the "ancient" women or their daughters or both had wishes to sleep with him just so their children would
oid'' noses.
To the editor:
have "caucasid" noses
If Wilcox is trying to make jest of his experiences in Benin, he really missed by a long shot.
Avo Alao
Lagos, Nigeria, junior
I read with interest the article by sports editor Greg Daman in the Aug. 31 Kansan titled "Low ticket sales cause for concern."
New conditions cut attendance
In the article he says that in 1958, 93 percent of KU students purchased tickets to football games as contrasted with today's 22 percent. I think that the concern expressed in this article is predicated, at least in part, on incorrect information.
As I recall — I was an undergraduate then — in those halcyon days of the late 1980s and early 60s, all students were admitted to all regularly scheduled athletic events with their student identification cards. In a practice for students with guests to use ID cards of students who were not planning to attend a particular game. It was not necessary for a student to purchase any tickets for himself.
It is not, therefore, too surprising that the percentage of attendance among the student population was much higher than
Lawrence Bradford
Atchison graduate student