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OPINION
TUESDAY,OCT.23,2001
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OPINION EDITOR'S NOTE
What is your vision of KU in 2030?
I am a fifth-generation Jayhawk. More than a century has passed since my great-grandmother graduated from KU law, as each successive generation has spent their college years on Mount Oread, Mount Oread has looked and felt different.
How will it be different for my children and for yours?
As KU has grown over the years, students, professors, traditions, and buildings have come and gone. Over the next few weeks, the opinion page will retrieve items from the dustbin of KU's history to highlight how much and little the school has changed over the years.
Then, in November, several issues will be devoted to students' and faculty members' guesses of how the University will change over the next thirty years when the children of the current crop of students will be sleeping through classes on the hill.
The opinion page is soliciting essays, artvork and even Free for All comments describing ideas of life at KU in 2030. These an be e-mailed to opinion@kansan.com or delivered to 111 Stuaffer-Flint.
Submissions can include a sketch of Jayaawk Boulevard, a diary entry from a freshman coming up to school, a redesigned ogo, an alternative use for the remenants of Vescoe Hall, a pay scale for GTAs or a sample class schedule. Have fun.
Brendan Woodbury is associate opinion editor
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PERSPECTIVE
There are several students among us who are beginning to prepare for a pilgrimage they will take in late-November, regardless of rain, cold, anger, or words of discouragement. They will drive sixteen hours through the night and work tirelessly throughout the weekend. They will use their words, their minds, and their bodies to make a statement, meet new people, cry with them and return to Lawrence forever changed.
Going off to fight for justice
Protesting for countless years is tiring, and protesting the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) is no different. Many KU students have gone to Ft. Benning, Ga., in years past and are tired of this struggle. But they will be encouraged by those going for the first time, and by the reminder that each voice matters. One more body standing in defiance could finally end this and save lives.
Each of them know they can do something to end the killing. They can raise awareness and work to close the school that teaches how to kill.
In light of the recent attacks on America, the violence that has ensued, and the attention that has been brought to the plight of the Afghan people, closing the SOA is even more crucial. Civilian-targeted warfare must stop. Teaching an army how to kill its own people is a senseless and cruel act, that weas United States citizens must stand against.
Breeze
Luetke-
Stahlman
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Commentary
Today, we the American people, are funding the SOA with our tax dollars, and therefore are partly responsible for the genocidal warfare that has left a trail of blood and suffering across Latin America. People ask how can it be that others in the world hate America. The truth is that our involvement in other countries isn't always heroic.
Since 1946 more than 600,000 soldiers have graduated from the U.S. SOA, and some have been involved in the murder of thousands of innocent women, men, children and infants, in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Chiapas, Nicaragua, and elsewhere, according to SOA Watch.
KU Latin American Solidarity, an organization here at the university, has taken on the responsibility to coordinate the trip to Ft. Benning this fall. The protest will take place November 17 and 18. Please join us.
In 1993 the United Nations concluded that specific vicious and brutal acts involved graduates of the School of the Americas. Yet the school that taught them, and continues to teach others, remains open and accepts new students — to the tune of $20 million tax dollars a year.
I was surrounded by fellow Americans from around the country. They were students, nuns, priests, children grandparents, monks, union leaders and the relatives of thousands that have been massacred and disappeared.
Last year, at the gates of Ft. Benning,
We were all saying one simple thing. We want justice. Close the School of the Americas. And we will stand together again this year on both sides of the line.
Luetke-Stahlman is a senior in economics and political science from Olathe
I was arrested last year, along with my 18-year-old sister, and we risk up to six months in jail and $5,000 in fines if we again cross onto Ft. Benning.
So now I turn to others to ask you to cross that line. I will still be there at the gates, proudly supporting those that risk arrest this year, including my father and 13 and 15 year-old siblings. We must close this school. We are so close. If the American people stand up and demand an end to supporting this terror, I am confident our voices cannot be ignored.
PERSPECTIVE
Senator's stance on female suffrage reflects still-prevalent gender roles
State Sen. Kay O'Connor, a Republican from Olathe, recently said that female suffrage - women's right to vote
In O'Connor's ideal world, men are the head of the home and women are the heart. If men take care of women, then women don't need to vote. O'Connor has since said she was taking a philosophical position. Because we are not living in O'Connor's ideal world, she votes, and encourages other women to do so.
was a bad thing. Yes, you read that correctly.
Ronda Hassig, a Lenexa resident, has started a recall drive to try to get O'Connor out of office. She has to gather about 3,200 signatures of registered voters in her district of about 77,000 to apply for the petition to recall. If she makes that, Hassig will need a total of 14,000 signatures for the petition. If the state approves the signatures and the grounds for the recall Hassig plans to argue incompetence then the recall election will proceed
As deplorable as O'Connor's remarks are, she should remain in office. What makes O'Connor incompetent, the fact that she voiced an unpopular opinion? Should we recall our elected officials because they speak their minds?
Commentary
If the citizens of O'Connor's district want to recall her, then they should wait until her term is up in 2004, and vote her out of office. Politicians should be judged not on their morals, but on their actions.
John Audlehelm
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In her eight years in the House of Representatives and this year in the Senate, O'Connor has pushed for school vouchers — and that's pretty much it, according to The Kansas City Star. Still, plenty of people are for school vouchers and are still for female suffrage.
"O'Connor is not practicing what she preaches. But we can't complain, when she's preaching what we practice."
How moral would it be to vote
O'Connor out of office because of her sexist beliefs when we have plenty of them ourselves?
That's right, our society still practices sexism. Men are generally expected to ask women out on dates. On these dates, men are expected to practice chivalry — open doors and
pull out chairs for women, order for them, stand when they enter the room
This is done out of "respect." But how is it respectful to treat women differently just because they're women? The fact that a woman has just walked into the room has nothing to do with the fact that she's a woman.
I also know a lot of feminists who are all about equal rights until it's their turn to buy their boyfriend a beer. Traditional expectations for men and women as still more prevalent than we would like to think. While we're at the bar, let's examine what the patrons are wearing. Women's bodies, and the clothes they wear on them, are still scrutinized on average more than men's bodies. Men can show up unshaven and without ever having done a sit-up.
Let me be clear. I think women should be able to choose what they want to do, as long as they choose to keep wearing Daisy Dukes that show off nice legs. I am a 22-year-old heterosexual male. My morals pretty much go out the window on this one, along with my inability to call O'Connor a hypocrite.
many argue that, as a female office-holder who opposes female suffrage, O'Connor is not practicing what she preaches. But we can't complain, when she's preaching what we practice.
Audlehelm is a senior in journalism and political science from Des Moines, Iowa
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There is some guy running through the halls of McCollum playing his diggerdo in the middle of the night. What's up with that?
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Alright, I looked it up in the Webster's dictionary, and women is spelled w-o-m-e-n, not w-y-m-e-n.
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Terry Allen: Australian for 'You're fired!'
So American pride ... after achieving something you have pride; pride comes from achieving something. What has been achieved by being born in America? Absolutely nothing. You've achieved nothing, hence, maybe you shouldn't have any American pride. American pride is like white pride, it's as stupid as white pride.
Whoever decided to paint the halls in Oliver hall is a genius, because this is the cheapest high I've ever had.
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Woman lights husband on fire? Glad I got a divorce.
Yes, I think that these devil tails that are in Monday's cartoon, they should be put on Bush too, because there're rape, torture, drug smuggling and human rights abuses, you know, in America too, and I don't think it's right that it's just on the anti-Taliban.
I really get upset when officials are meant to the press during press conferences. I know sometimes they ask too much or ask stupid questions, but we all just really would like to know what's going on and they just treat them like crap. Rumsum is on here being really rude and it really pisses me off.
I went to St. Louis for fall break and I realized that instead of the Show-Me State, Missouri should be called the Many-Women-With-Mullets state
A guy goes into the grocery store and he goes to the checkout counter with a bunch of single-serving pizzas and single-serving dinners and a big thing of cat food and the woman says 'I bet you live alone,' and the guy says 'how did you know?'
And the woman behind the counter says to the girl, "because you're ugly."
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Here is what I just witnessed. I was on campus and I saw a guy giving out parking tickets. Well, while he was doing that, his car was parked in the parking lot and he did not have a sticker. And what I want to know is, who's going to give him a ticket?
I went to St. Louis for fall break. We got arrested the first night, but then the next night we stayed in a posh four-star hotel. How good is that?
For the person that keeps calling in about Gene Hackman, you're absolutely right. It's all about the Hackman. Chew on that John Travolta!
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