Monday, September 11, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Opinion
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Bar owner apologizes, sets new dress code
I, Dannie Thompson, an African American, owner of Jack Flanigans Bar and Grill, would like to apologize to my fellow African Americans and other concerned citizens who may have felt that the dress code policy at Jack Flanigans was offensive or discriminatory. I have changed the dress policy to a code of conduct, dress and entrance policy. I felt that these changes along with the continued musical restrictions will support my commitment to the City of Lawrence to provide an environment conducive to public safety. The new policy is as follows:
- No undershirt-style tank tops
- No correct sleeves, lingerie
Proper attitude with staff and patrons
No undershirt-style tank tops
No sweat suits, jerseys,
warm-ups, or canvas clothing
Pants must be worn on waistline at all times
No stocking caps, headbands,
do-rags, bandannas or hair nets
Hats must be worn either
directly forward or directly
backwards at all times
No oversized brand named
logos on clothing
Shirts and shoes must be
No gang-affiliated signs or verbiage
Shirts and shoes must be worn at all times
No fighting or loud arguments with staff or other patrons
- Anyone in violation of the above rules will be asked to leave the property and never allowed to return. If you do not leave or you return to the property, it will be considered criminal trespassing, and you will be prosecuted.
- We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
Danny Thompson, owner, Jack Flanigans Bar and Grill
Decline in rankings shows policy failure
The declining standing of the University of Kansas, as reported in the Sept. 5 article "University falls in rankings," is a reflection of the growing problems facing KU under the administration of Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger.
Falling from 30th to 42nd in just three years should be a warning that their current policies and practices are not doing the job and that the administration needs to reflect on what it has done to lead KU into such a serious decline. KU's declining
status is not simply due to changes in financial support, as claimed by the chancellor.
Letters to the editor
The US News and World Report online guide to colleges provides data that are illustrative of KU's problems. Of the Big 12 institutions, KU has the lowest proportion of full-time faculty. Full-time, permanent faculty are the backbone of a university. Faculty who are engaged in teaching, research and service cannot be replaced by temporary, part-time faculty without doing great harm to a university's reputation and national standing.
As reported by US News, the University has only 91 percent fulltime faculty while the other schools in the Big 12 range from 93 percent at the University of Oklahoma to 99 percent at the University of Missouri.
Exactly mirroring the low proportion of full-time faculty on the KU campus Is the high proportion of courses taught by teaching assistants.
KU ranks first among the Big 12 with 23 percent of its courses taught by TAs. The other schools range from 0 percent to 20 percent.
Although graduate students can certainly be competent and exciting teachers, they cannot fill all of the roles of a full-time tenured faculty member. For example, TAs cannot write recommendations for a student applying for professional or graduate school, they do not have access to research facilities and funds that can be used to train undergraduates in research outside of the classroom, and so forth. Tenured faculty provide services to the institution that cannot be provided by graduate student teaching assistants.
This is not the end of it, either. The Division of Biological Sciences hires undergraduate to teach in its undergraduate laboratories,a practice unheard of at other universities. These underpaid and untrained students are put in a difficult position because they lack the experience and authority to supervise other students their own age. This is not a policy that will enhance the academic excellence of the sciences at this institution.
During the past two years, KU has faced a series of legal actions brought by faculty and students concerned about the administration's policies and procedures. If these have not convinced our
chancellor and provost that they need to reconsider their vision for the University of Kansas, perhaps the US News report will serve as a wake-up call.
They must institute policies that demonstrate their concern for the students of KU, and they must begin to adhere to accepted procedures for hiring and evaluating their faculty. If they persist in their program of replacing competent full-time faculty with non-tenured temporary, and using graduate teaching assistants to carry the added burden, KU will continue to plummet in its national rankings.
Cynthia Annett Kansas University Sexism & Racism Victims Coalition
Students should drop unwanted classes
One of the classes I'm teaching has about 10 students who never showed up. Those students put us in violation of the fire code if we add more students, so the eight or nine students who've been to every class, who've handed in every homework, are about to hand in their first quiz, and who want to add can't.
We're not the only class, and these aren't the only students, with this problem.
Be fair to other students. If you're enrolled in a class you're planning to drop, please drop it now.
Judy Roitman Professor of mathematics
Housing restrictions would discriminate
I am a University of Kansas graduate and own several rental properties in Lawrence, many o which are by the KU campus area. My concern is the city's enforcement of the "no more than four unrelated people living together" clause. Steps are now being taken to reduce this number to two people per dwelling. Because "family status" is a protected class and cannot be discriminated against, why does the city or any governing body suddenly believe it has the authority to violate people's rights and flagrantly discriminate?
It is obvious that students, who tend to be single and younger, no longer can share a house that was built with five bedrooms "five ways."
However, the same property can be buildodized and replaced with a multi-unit complex with many more residents living in the same location. The same property can also be rented to a "family" that may have a mother, father and three or more children.
I cannot legally ask potential residents what their relation is, as I could be violating their rights. So now it seems the city expects the owners and managers of rental housing to violate the residents' rights in order to comply with the city's discrimination requirements. Although I refuse to discriminate, I wonder where it will end, or what "class" will next be refused housing? I hate to see discrimination not only being allowed, but required, by the city.
Also, if other homeowners or residents who live near campus cannot handle the fact that Lawrence is a university town, they should move. The last time I checked, I was still living in America and, as a property owner, I intend to continue renting my properties and refusing to discriminate.
Jim Edwards 1983 graduate
Effects of masculinity should not be denied
Thanks for the wonderful oped piece on masculinity ("Masculinity not a disease to be cured." 9/1). Right on! Nothing good can come of denying the truth about who we are or that men and women are naturally different and always will be. Efforts to feminize men and render them powerless in the face of a radical feminist movement are doomed to a deserved failure.
Warren Bainter Oberlin
Faking orgasms sign of dishonest relationship
I was incredibly appalled to find the back page of last Friday's Kansan covered with an article about faking orgasms "Fakin' it," 9/1). I had many problems with this article.
My first problem is with the statement, "More than two-thirds of KU women have faked an orgasm." Are we just assuming that all KU women are sexually active, or was it even taken into account? The article did not make it clear as to whether Tamara Bryan's survey was an accurate study of the sexual activity of the students at the university. I am sure that many people would be surprised at the number of people choosing to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. I'm also sure that those 366 people don't represent me, the majority of my friends here at the university and by no means can accurately speak for a group of students nearly 100 times that number at a school known for its diversity.
The other aspect of this survey that astounds me is that it neglected to mention the relationship status of the people participating. Take 366 people who have publicly and religiously vowed to spend the rest of their lives together in marriage with their spouse, 366 people who are in committed and healthy marriages, and ask those women if they have to fake orgasms. The numbers would be drastically reduced, for a number of reasons. For people who truly understand marriage, sex takes on a grander purpose. It becomes an act of union, one that brings the married couple closer than any other two human beings. It is a pure act of love, one that was meant to stay within marriage. Within the life-long commitment of marriage, sex becomes more than just selfish pleasure, it becomes whole, pure love.
Why are people surprised to see that there is an intense act of dishonesty at what should be the strongest point of giving between any two people? Trust is broken between the two when an orgasm is faked. Sex outside of marriage is like a fire that is out of place, and because of that, emotions are uncontrollable. Dishonesty, selfishness, and pain are just a few of the side effects.
Instead, by encouraging a proper understanding of sex and its proper place in marriage, an attitude of respect and self-control will develop, defining sex by more than just pleasure. It will allow our sense of reason as human beings to prevent such dishonesty from occurring in such an intimate moment.
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