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OPINION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2002
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Jay Krall
editor
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Brooke Healer and Kyle Ramsey
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Missionaries misrepresent social state of Netherlands
The Oct. 28 article by Aaron Passman, "Couple speaks about missionary work," stated several inaccuracies about the Netherlands. First, it said that only 0.2 percent of the country is exposed to Christianity, in reality 33 percent of the Dutch are Roman Catholic while 25 percent are Protestant according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
It seems since most Dutch Christians have different views about how to deal with social issues than the missionaries they cannot be considered to be Christians.
Second, Amsterdam is not a dangerous crime ridden city of depraved inhabitants. It is one of the most beautiful, friendly and safe cities in the world.
The missionaries in the article were ignorant of this because they can not imagine a society that is tolerant of the so called vices of drug use, prostitution and sexual freedom could consist of nice, normal and friendly citizens. In reality the United States could learn a lot from the Dutch in how it handles social issues.
Josh Arthur Manhattan junior
Arrowhead is best place to hold KU-MU football game
I know the Lawrence business community has long argued against having the KU-MU game at Arrowhead Stadium where both schools could sell the game as part of their season ticket packages every year. And I understand their position, but it seems to me that the majority opinion would be that it is a great idea.
It seems it would financially benefit the program at the University of Kansas to sell the game as a "home game" every year instead of every other year, making five home conference games one season and four the next.
It would breathe new life into the rivalry, put nearly 80,000 fans in Arrowhead annually for a great show... and the KU band could be safely tucked away in the safety of the KU section and march on the KU end of the field if necessary to avoid the Mizzouligans' barrage of batteries and bottles.
It is a disgrace that the Jayhawk band does not participate in the most important game of the year when its not played at Memorial Stadium, although I certainly understand why they don't go.
This is a golden opportunity to showcase the university in a positive light and increase the momentum toward reaching the goal of being the premier university among the six schools making up the Big 12 North.
I've been to Faurot Field and the Hearnes Center and rubbed shoulders with Tiger fans in Kemper Arena, so I can't blame the band directors for passing, but its certainly a shame.
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In response to Audrey Snyder's column on Oct. 29, "Americans don't have duty to cast their vote in elections," I have to wonder why she would want to discourage people even further from voting?
Randall Westfall
KU graduate and resident of Socorro, N.M.
I agree that voting per se is not a duty; however, if we believe in the principles of a democratic, representative government, then it is in fact our duty as citizens to participate in that process.
This does not mean merely voting; it means becoming informed about the candidates and the issues, and then voting based on that informed, educated status. Once we have taken those basic steps, then we may choose to participate further, by writing letters to our representatives, by organizing protests, etc. But if we do not exercise the most fundamental means of our participation in the government, the vote, then we really have no leg to stand on when it comes to any more active involvement.
Don't discourage voting
Why is it that at this school you can put eight hours into a biology class and get four hours of credit, or eight hours into o chemistry class and get five hours of credit? I'm lost.
Ms. Snyder wins no points, in my opinion, by quoting Ayn Rand, a bitter and confused individual at best. Whatever one's opinion of Rand, she does not own the definition of "duty." The mistake comes, of course, in equating the phrase "higher authority" to "totalitarian dictator."
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Two sets of twins on the Crimson Girls dance squad? Oh, you're kidding me. That's just not enough. We need three. No, I do mean, we need three. I'm gonna go call Mary Kate and Ashley, ok?
A higher authority could be a legal or moral system, or any number of things other than a dictatorship.
If we do not vote, especially those of us who are purportedly educated, then we surrender ourselves to whatever government someone else chooses.
I for one am horrified at the direction in which we're headed as a nation, and I urge everyone in the KU community to vote, please, and try to change things for the better, even in a small way.
I have written a poem for your enjoyment. It goes as follows. A friend and I went to Mizzou. We went there to watch KU. We thought it might be cool, but we realized we rule. Around midnight we wanted to come back. There was too much yellow and black. We'll never return to MU, because the Tigers smell like poo.
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Rodney Hill Lawrence graduate student
Free for All
want to be able to use Lawrence's streets. Ranging from taking a driver's test, paying for car insurance, and buying registration, it can get pretty price if someone wants to drive.
The hydrogen bomb turned 50 years old on Friday. Isn't that a great thing to know?
How many cats do you normally have? Like two or three? Well, my friend has cat farm. She has 33 cats.
want to be able to use Lawrence's streets. Ranging from taking a driver's test, paying for car insurance, and buying registration, it can get pretty price if someone wants to drive.
I'm coming back to the dorms, and one of those parking copswouldn't let me in my own parking lot. Isn't that nice?
Props to the guy who tried to run over the traffic cop who wouldn't let him in the McCollum lot. We're just trying to get home
want to be able to use Lawrence's streets. Ranging from taking a driver's test, paying for car insurance, and buying registration, it can get pretty price if someone wants to drive.
want to be able to use Lawrence's streets. Ranging from taking a driver's test, paying for car insurance, and buying registration, it can get pretty price if someone wants to drive.
--want to be able to use Lawrence's streets. Ranging from taking a driver's test, paying for car insurance, and buying registration, it can get pretty price if someone wants to drive.
This is Brett calling in for retaliation against his roommates. Roses are red, violets are blue, Matt's a lazy slob and eats all our food.
Nina thinks crickets eat grass. I think crickets eat, um... no, the, no... hmmm.
What do crickets eat?
Happy belated birthday to my dad, KU class of 1971. You're the reason that I came here,
and I love you. Happy Birthday.
want to be able to use Lawrence's streets. Ranging from taking a driver's test, paying for car insurance, and buying registration, it can get pretty price if someone wants to drive.
You know what's better than Tetris? Drunken Tetris.
want to be able to use Lawrence's streets. Ranging from taking a driver's test, paying for car insurance, and buying registration, it can get pretty price if someone wants to drive.
--want to be able to use Lawrence's streets. Ranging from taking a driver's test, paying for car insurance, and buying registration, it can get pretty price if someone wants to drive.
I was just reading the paper today, and the Kensan had an advertisement about how 81 percent use designated drivers. So that means 19 percent don't use designated drivers. Are you guys idiots? God.
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Steve Sack/Knight Ridder
PERSPECTIVES
Bicycle riders should follow same laws as car drivers
COMMENTARY
There are certain things that people have to endure if they want to be able to use
Meagan Kelleher
opinion@kansan.com
That is, if you want to use the streets for your car. If you want to use it for your bicycle it's a completely different story altogether.
It seems that all bicyclists have free reign on the roads.
There are few laws in place for cyclists, such as Lawrence's laws against riding on the sidewalks, but there are even fewer cyclists who actually follow the laws and even less police officers that enforce them.
While there have been several cases where cyclists have been ticketed, those instances are few and far between.
Although we cannot expect all of the police force to concern themselves with bikes, it would be nice to see more of an effort put into it.
Officers need to not just focus on the wrongdoings of those driving cars, but also those cyclists who are driving illegally on the city streets.
It is ridiculous that cyclists can use
the streets just as much as cars do, but are not required to pay for registration or insurance for their bikes or mess with the same hassles.
I had to stand in line for an hour to take my written test, then stand in line again to take the actual driving test.
I refuse to share the road with those on bikes who create more of a traffic hazard then I do, even though I was the one who had to take all the tests.
If cyclists really do deserve to use the streets like drivers, then they should have to take a driving test just like everyone else who uses the roads. How can we expect someone who knows nothing about the traffic laws for their vehicle of choice to be safe as they weave precariously through traffic?
I get most nervous when I am driving next to someone on a bike.
Should I pass them? If I don't, then I
The Lewis lunch room needs to stop putting roast beef on their pizza and calling it steak pizza. It's disgusting.
Bikes are just as dangerous as cars are and create even more of a hazard. While tickets have been issued, more needs to be done to amend this growing problem and inconvenience of cyclists on the roads.
It is time for the city to start placing restrictions on cyclists, starting with required proficiency tests, licenses, and taxes.
To the kid on McColum bus today, I saw you picking your nose, buddy. Dig it out, dig it out.
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If cyclists want to use their fair share of the roads, then they need to put in their fair share of an effort for safety too.
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am moseying down 19th at 15 miles per hour. If I do, then they give me dirty looks, like "How dare you pass by me, don't you know I am riding a bike?"
Perhaps people who plan on endangering those around them when they ride a bike should have to take safety classes just like those people who plan on driving cars.
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I just wanna know, what's the guy with the 95-pound pumpkin trying to make up for?
I can't even begin to count all the times that I have been driving and a cyclist has cut me off, swerved in front of traffic, or basically ignored every single common sense traffic law known to man.
want to, so hopefully I'll see you around campus.
If a condom can hold approximately four pints of milk, can it also hold four pints of water?
want to, so hopefully I'll see you around campus.
I just want all the girls in the world to be aware of the fact that we also have penises as well as men. Because when you're a baby in the womb, your clitoris forms into a penis if you're a boy, but if not, it stays your clitoris. So quit jerking off, girls.
So I'm learning to play the guitar, and it's like the more I practice, the worse I get. So I think I'm gonna just drop it all and go rip a few bongs.
want to, so hopefully I'll see you around campus.
Squee-ba-boom, squee-ba-boom-baa.
Come on, be my baby tonight. I've seen the way you've treated other thugs you've been with, come on, be my baby tonight. Yeah.
Kelleher is an Omaha, Neb., sophomore in pre-journalism.
--want to, so hopefully I'll see you around campus.
--want to, so hopefully I'll see you around campus.
I would like to request Bobby on a plate please. Thank you.
want to, so hopefully I'll see you around campus.
Brian, the guy I met on the plane to Chicago, I've seen you four times and I haven't gotten your number. And I really
want to, so hopefully I'll see you around campus.
This is for the huge party of KU law students that decided to go out to eat tonight. Next time you might wanna tip a little more than 70 cents a person, because it's a little irritating to make no money. You guys are college students, you should have a little respect for other college students.
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I just got out of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I think I was the only guy there not wearing any make-up. You guys need to get a life.
This is the girl that called earlier that thought that her fish got stolen. Actually, my roommate just found him hanging on for dear life with his fin on the edge of my desk. And I'm very sad because he's an awesome fish, and now he's dead.
It's after midnight, and me and my roommate are sitting here watching the Spanish channel, and like, I'm starting to understand what they're saying. I think this might just make me smarter.
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I'm sitting here eating poppy-cock, and I must say, it's the nuttiest.
I intern in a second grade music class, and this morning I had to teach them this song about a little boy named Mizzou from Africa. And all I could think of when I was teaching them songs is Mizzou sucks:
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