Wednesday, September 20, 2000 The University Daily Kansan Section A · Page 5 Opinion Letters to the editor Racism has no place in Free for All comments or comments, contact Ben Embry or Emily Hughey at 864-4924 or e-mail opinion@kansan.com I was horrified to read the bigoted comment printed in Free for All on Monday, Sept. 18. The caller said that the University should stop hiring minority faculty and teach their current ones English. The caller demonstrated his or her own ignorance by confusing ethnic minorities with non-native English speakers. I thought everyone was aware that many ethnic minorities at the University are American citizens who speak English as a first language. Perhaps the caller is unaware that it is illegal to refuse to hire someone based on race. Graduate teaching assistants have to pass the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) before they can teach. It sounds like the caller simply does not want to make the effort to learn from someone who, heaven forbid, Laurie O'Brien Lawrence graduate student does not speak with a Kansas drawl. By publishing callers' comments without printing their names, the UDK is giving bigots a curtain behind which to hide. For this reason, most respectable publications refuse to publish anonymous comments and letters. The Free for All column on Sept. 18, 2000, carried a statement which was slanderous and racist Such racist comments have no place in a university daily which is read by people of all races, creeds and nationalities. It also does a disservice to the international student community and to the distinguished professors of KU who are "minority faculty members." I would appreciate that such comments do not appear again in the University daily. Hasheem Mannan India graduate student Greek stereotypes do not reflect reality The expression, "buying your friends," has turned up in the Kansan's Free for All and is often used by many nongreek students as an opinion concerning sororities and fraternities. Whether this saying is backed by jealousy, low self-esteem or ignorance, it is one of the worst stereotypes I've heard yet regarding KU's Greek community. I joined a sorority because I could not think of a better way to find over 150 girls who share my interests and are going through the same things I am. For all those who don't know, the money that I pay to be in a sorority is not for acceptance among my sisters. The money is for basic house needs and activities that we do together. A nongreek student pays money to live in a dorm, so why doesn't anyone think that person is buying friendships with the several hundred students that also live there? As a part of the greek community, I will gain a lot of things that will help me make it through my four years at KU. I will gain a bond from a house full of wonderful girls, a motivation to maintain good academic standing and perhaps an advantage over many nongreek students. That advantage is the ability to walk around campus feeling like a part of KU and being greeted by hundreds of familiar faces. Being a part of the greek community is a choice. I don't slam other people for not being a part of it, and I don't see why I should be slammed for being a part of it. Emily Melnyk Overland Park freshman Critique overlooks mission of the U.N. It's ironic that you chose to print John McCool's criticism of the United Nations on the same page as two different editors defending the right to parody. I say this because McCool is either parodying the far-right's standard anti-U.N. rhetoric, or is probably holed up in a bunker somewhere with the ghosts of Ayn Rand and Joseph McCarthy waiting for the black helicopters to arrive. He first asserts that the U.N.'s core was "commist red" despite the fact that the majority of Security Council nations are democratic. He also sharply criticizes Stalin's regime while ignoring the fact that neither America's record of tolerating dissent nor its treatment of minorities is anything to brag about. While McCool's arguments seem to defend U.S. sovereignty, what they really protect is America's right to do whatever it wants, whenever it want, to whomever it wants, without fear of international reprisal. What saddens me most is that McCool seems to have forgotten that the U.N. was founded to honor the sacrifice of those who gave their lives to deny any country that right. 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