Monday, October 9, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Opinion
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Letters to the editor
Students can't shoulder network fee increase
I am appalled by the administrative attitude demonstrated by the new proposed network upgrades ("Upgrade may cause fee increase in halls," Wednesday).
The Internet is an important part of most students' lives. We rely on it for research, recreation, news and keeping in touch with friends and family. This is the computer age, and the University's inability to cope with its expanding network should not be laid at the door of the students who have always had the Internet. Upgrades are unavoidable, but the cost of an ethernet connection has already doubled from last year. The University has a monopoly on Internet connections. If it wants students to use the ethernet, that's understandable, but connection is none too affordable as it is, and students struggling financially, as I am, should be upset with NTS for wanting to double or even quintuple the rate for Internet service.
In addition, the idea of requiring students to have a computer even to use a phone or a television is truly ludicrous. Many students
— though by no means the major ty — neither have nor want nor have the means of purchasing a computer. Besides which, the Internet connection fees "likely
would become part of the cost of student housing" regardless of whether the student owned a computer, or connected to the Internet. Imagine paying $447 a semester for Internet service when you don't have a computer and are unable to use a phone or a TV without it! The University is busy worrying about the enrollment of minority students, but if this trend of jacking up the prices (tuition, housing costs, food, Internet) continues, it had better start worrying about the enrollment of middle class students.
Wednesday's article says that N(u)U "may poll student housing residents to gauge support for the upgrades." Let me be the first to say, "Under no circumstances will I support such a hefty and biased fee."
Laura Light Colorado Springs, Colo., freshman
Columbus Day hurts indigenous peoples
Since Cristóbal Colón was not European, the "fun" a small number of European Americans have with him annually as a fabricated ancestor must be entertainment delivered at the expense of indigenous peoples and our non-Indian allies.
Colón claimed he was Genoan; if so, in the words of Kirkpatrick Sale, "it hardly registers on his soul." According to Sale, Colón never knew a settled life or identity. Little wonder he is the hero of individuals who Luther Standing Bear in 1931 characterized as not understanding "the Indian for the reason that [they do] not understand America." Those people, in Standing Bear's words, were "too far removed from its formative processes. The roots of the tree of [their] life have not yet grasped the rock and soil."
Columbus (read Happy Invasion, Merry Genocide) Day is an annual reiteration of psychological colonization, an honoring of interminable conquest among a small group of lost individuals who, like Colon in 1492, do not yet today know a settled life or identity. Plain and simple, this what it is: a celebration that dances on the ruins and the trauma of the colonizer's ongoing crimes.
David Anthony Tyeeme Clark
Lawrence doctor student
Chancellor approved "pass/fail" in June
The Oct. 3 Kansan editorial "Pass/fail" extension aids students" said the chancellor had approved the extension the week before.
I think it is important to recognize the role students and faculty play in changing academic regulations and am writing to provide more information about the process. The University Council, composed of elected faculty, staff and students, is responsible for formulating or amending academic
rules and regulations for the campus.
Recommendations of the Council go through an established review procedure before they are adopted. In the case of the extension of the "pass/fail" (credit/no credit) deadline, the Committee on Academic Procedures and Policies recommended that the Council approve amendments to the University Senate Rules and Regulations 2.2.8 concerning the credit/no credit option.
The University Council approved those amendments on March 9, and on March 21 sent them to the University Senate with the instructions that any petitions for further Senate review be submitted by April 7. No petitions were submitted, and on April 11, Mary Hawkins, president of the Council, and James Carothers, chairman of the Senate Executive Committee, forwarded the amendments to the provost and the chancellor for their review. The chancellor approved the amendments in early June. The amendments are incorporated in the current edition of the University Senate Rules and Regulations. The University Timetable of Classes for the fall already had gone to press by the time the amendments had been approved, so the University Registrar's Office posted signs to inform students of the change.
Perhaps this led to the fals impression that it had been approved only recently.
Jeanette Johnson assistant to the provost
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