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November 30
It was just a matter of time before the effects of the reapportionment of state legislative districts, which was passed last spring by the 1979 session of the Kansas Legislature, would begin to surface.
Glover's voice needed
But with the possible resignation of Mike Glover, Democrat from the 44th District in Lawrence, the effects are not only being shown, but are beginning to be felt. Glover, who has been a strong supporter of student issues and University budget requests during his four terms, is considering resigning his seat to join the law firm of a friend in Fredonia.
When the Legislature changed the districts in Lawrence, amid cries of tampering with Glover's well-established constituency, it made his heavily student-populated (and heavily Democratic) district into a district dominated by Republicans in south and west Lawrence.
THE LEGISLATURE did, in fact, take more than Glover's constituency away from him. It took a lot of time to build it from the University community.
The student vote is now split badly, and no longer will it be easy to put a representative dedicated to the student in the 44th district's seat.
Glover created a lot of publicity for his strong stand on marijuana decriminalization, but little for his consistent support of the University. It is that support that the University community lost when the Legislature reappointed Lawrence's state districts.
It was, indeed, just a matter of time before we would begin to see the results of the reapportionment. It is however, that it had to happen so soon.
Iranian students in U.S. merit American rights
To the Editor:
Much controversy has been generated recently regarding the outspokenness of American women who advocate that is held by some that peoples of foreign nationality do not have the right to criticize America; only Americans possess this right. The debate about the aesthetics of anti-American demonstrations conducted within U.S. borders, as we a nation must face certain challenges.
First, guests of the United States have certain obligations to fulfill—namely, to maintain their visas and papers in proper condition. Second, they are entitled the rules which we must follow, and are entitled to the same freedoms which we take for granted. Foreign visitors deserve the same treatment under the constitution that American citizens are guaranteed to receive.
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THE TWO major problems with these inalienable facts are quite difficult to overcome. First, the domestic aspect of this Iranian crisis is the idea of formerly oppressed persons making use of their relatively new-found freedoms by engaging in the terms of their stay. The freedom to say no was not a given right in Iran before the fall of Saddam Hussein and it became possible that this zealous utilization of American laws and freedoms is being conducted with perspectives wholly different from those of the rest of the world.
Demonstrators of Shite persuasion are ostensibly a bittious oblivious to the anger they create and the risks to their safety they incur. This attitude is not trivialous, it is not easy to explain and presents different difference between civil rights protests and anti-Vietnam conflict demonstrators on one hand and Iranian protesters on the other is purely temporal. The differences remain unimportant, provided those demonstrators abide by the agreements of their visas.
THE RIGHT to free expression was given, then, to protect all persons in the United States. The right of free expression. The bali fallant rights of the guaranteed right must be attributable to the role that human nature plays in justice. Intent is all fine and good, but if intent is enacted, look very impressive and promising on the books. But such laws are in a sense meaningless because they depend upon certain values.
How was a black student to enroll at a southern university and the governor guard in the way? How is an American citizen protected under interpretation of his rights is based on a case-specific connotation of rights of foreigners that is capriciously determined? How can foreigners be selected enforcement of foreign visitation rules is an appropriate strategy doesn't enhance matters at all, unless the national security harassment and international hostility.
If more than 200 million Americans have decided that interpersonal animosity is a cause of their own mortality or crisis, then there could well soon be an enormous profit to be made in nuclear energy.
Mary Davidson's recent letter defending a woman's right to choose abortion developed
To the Editor:
Daniel R. Jones
Abortion analogy is misleading one
Daniel R. Jones Prairie Village junior
a misleading analogy which not everyone uses. Since inappropriate analogies can be among the most deceptive of persuasive techniques, it is important to point out the error of this one.
In the story that Davidson offered to help "clarify the issue" of abortion, Richard Roe is the one possible donor of compatible tissue. He has already given his decision to withhold the tissue prevented a cure, and the cain died. ("In every case in which life depends on the contribution of tissue," he said). The substance, the choice is to be made by the contributor. Similarly, the dependence for tissue is not a matter of the mother's consent." A woman's right to choose abortion, Davidson argues, is like anyone's right to refuse an organ, tissue or another's medical benefit or survival.
THIS ANALYOG is deceptive in two major respects. First, the cuan's usual condition that needed treatment at Richard Wickman Hospital was his incontinence and destructive. It is not a consequence of individual choice; left untreated, it takes the victim's life. It is not its correspondence to natural biological processes. Pregnancy is not a disease. It is the normal outcome of normal biological functions. It is the only condition that requires an engagement in a sexual act which can, despite every precaution, result in a new life. And, in harboring the creative process by which a woman engages it, it is just the opposite of destructive.
Secondly, the pregnant woman considerating abortion and the prospective donor should be aware of the different decisions. There is a common element of selflessness, to be sure, in the woman's decision to exterminate the unborn baby, even if she is pregnant, that issue would have saved her another life.
BUT THERE is a crucial difference. The disease cousin in Davidson's story was on a course toward death. Only medical intervention would have saved him. The denial of that tissue meant simply that what had begun would finish its course—the disease will have died.
In this case, intervention disrupts a creative process; abortion destroys a life. The other way around is to rescue one in trouble and taking initiative to destroy what is propering. One is more careful than the other.
Not so in pregnancy. The life conceived in a woman's bow is on a course of growth. Barring complication, the fetus develops and emerges at birth a new human being.
Lecturer, English
John Vanderhorst
Lordurer English
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Playoffs would liven college football
Never before has it become so obvious that college football needs a playoff system to determine a national champion. Until the end of 2015, the holiday season have been ample rewards for the best football teams in the country, and, for the most part, the Associated Press and United Press International, who will determine the winner in the playoffs.
But not any more. Bowl trips are hardly the great rewards that they once were. Sure, Oklahoma and Florida State will go to bowl games, but Ohio State, Missouri, which finished fourth in the Big Eagle Conference, and Tennessee, which finished seventh in the Southeastern Conference, will be at home this weekend. Holiday Bowl and the Hall of Fame Bowl, among others, have taken away some of the importance of post-season bowl trips. Even the Nets, who could go south during December to play in a bowl.
TO MAKE MATTERS WATERSE, Alabama, the top-trained team in the country in spite of its poor playoff record. To play a conference champion, or even one of the top five-ranked teams, in the Sugar Bowl, Alabama must be ready.
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its champion to the Cotton Bowl. The Big Eight winner goes to the Orange Bowl and the champions of the Big Ten and Pacific conferences square off in the Rose Bowl.
So Alabama could conceivably back into a national championship without playing a team that they will probably play Texas, ranked number six, which is a good football team, but not one of the five best in the country. The Tigers will fans like to see serve something better.
A team such as Brigham Young, which is undefeated but will not get a bid to a major league and, therefore, not get a chance at the national title, also deserves better treatments.
EVERY OTHER NCAA sport decides as national champion by a playoff system. Football should not be an exception. Those who claim that the football season is too long
already are only half correct. the season is only too long because the three or four games a team plays before it gets into the game are usually less. Oklahoma, for instance plays Iowa and Rice. Kansas plays Syracuse and North Texas State. Most schools have to use gimmicks such as the leader's Day to put nebulus in the stands.
Trim the presen 11-game schedule to an 8- or 9-game schedule and end the season in early November. A school could keep one or two teams in the league, such as Oklahoma-Texas or Alabama-Southern California, but drop the others. Then choose the best 16 teams in the country to play in the NFC. The teams would have to play a 12- or 13-game schedule, but teams such as Nebraska have already played 12-game schedules and teams such as Oklahoma would be expanded soon anyway.
large teams from conference runners-up and independent teams. This system would also put more of an emphasis on the conference races.
CHOOSING THE BEST 16 teams in the country would not be easy, just as it is not possible to play all four playoffs, but the NCAA could reward the conference championships of the major competition.
If the regular eight- or nine-game season ended in early November, then the playoffs begin. The first round of New Year's. The highest ranked team of the two competing in the first round would be the home team for team A, and when the second round would be where the present Orange, Sugar, Rose and Cotton Bonds are played. The finals and the semi-finals could be played at a different time.
THIS WOULD mean that Atlanta would have to do without the Pewish Bowel and Birmingham would have to do without the Southern Jewelry company you never really caught much interest anyway.
This system would make for a shorter season for most schools, but colleges used to play it in high school. Then only the best teams would play more games and a true national champion would win.
That is what the men who play the game and the fans who pay to watch college football deserve.
Job hunting worries plague seniors
"You're a bunch of jackasses. You work your rear-ends off in a trivial course that no one will ever care about again. You're not willing to spend time researching a company that you're interested in working for. You're not interested in working for you and so after them?"
That's what a professor at the University of Texas at Austin tells his students about the end of their schooling and the beginning of college. I guess it's supposed to be inspirational.
In me, it inspires panic about all the unmailed resumes and ambivalence toward all the untaken finals and unfinished projects.
I HAPPEN TO think that classwork is not trivial. I try to fillify my student duties and
melissa COLUMNIST thompson
learn at the same time, as do most other students here. But the mighty gamble of jobhunting is dropping a veil over my classwork that grows more oopalicious day.
Maybe it's not laziness that is the problem, but confusion instead. For example, consider resumes. Ask three people about the basic form and you'll get a few basic forms. What is too long in one person's opinion may be weekly brief to another.
And the rhetoric of the cover letter . . . I might think my prose is confident and self-assured, but my professional employer might think I'm just cocky.
IT WORRIES ME. I want to do it right.
But what is right?
We have a wealth of placement services, we both for the individual schools and for the larger educational institutions, aptly on jobbing and to how convince an employer he really needs you in his hands.
But that crowd isn't going to join you when you steen into an office for an interview
The ambivalence toward the end of school increases as I read in job-hunting manuals about the casualties in the employment numbers game. Knowing that only one to
four resumes out of every 100 mailed elicits a response is not comforting.
UNDEREMPLOYMENT IS a pre-crime. The defendant is as mystified as the student in the wrong job sees almost not than having one at all. Of course, I know that is unrealistic, but of course, I know that is unrealistic.
The Texas professor isn't totally wrong, however. The ability to research is something that students leaving the university should have honed to a fine edge. And they should use it. Sending reams of nicely typed resumes to a disinterested student in a strategic, unless, of course, you are so unique that you can be the picker, not the pickee.
MACHELL RECORDING LABEL © 1975 BY MACHELL TRADE
So, I and a good percentage of the class are in a stair. We have classroom work to do, but we classwork to reconcile the thought that grades don't pay skills with the thought that paychecks can be made.
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