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Monday, November 23,1992
OPINION
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"My style is to have no style, but to develop the individual style of the student. I can't teach people, but I can give them an environment in which they want to learn."
— TED JOHNSON, PROFESSOR OF FRENCH & ITALIAN AND 1992
    H.O.P.E. AWARD RECIPIENT.
"I think we need to look more closely at what the goal of Student Senate is. Maybe it would be better just to disband Senate and return the $25 activity fees to the students."
JAMES MILLER, PRESIDENT OF THE JAPAN-AMERICAN CLUB, ON THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING SENATE'S FINANCING OF INTERNATIONAL CLUBS.
"We haven't beaten anybody yet, and now we have to play Kansas."
— MARATHON BASKETBALL COACH GARY VICK BEFORE KANSAS
  DEFEATED MARATHON 121-54.
"Instead of being looked at as a source of revenue, we should be looked at as patrons of a service."
JASON MCINTOSH, PARKING BOARD STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE,
PROTESTING A PROPOSED INCREASE THAT WOULD RAISE THE COST OF
YELLOW ZONE PERMITS TO $55.
— KANSAS FOOTBALL COACH GLEN MASON BEFORE KANASS, 7-3,
    TOOK ON MISSOURI, 2-8.
"If we don't go on to a postseason bowl game, we have no one else to blame but ourselves. So far, my phone isn't ringing, so maybe we're finished."
-MASON AFTER MISSOURI UPSET KANSAS 22-17.
COMPiled FROM KANSAN STAFF REPORTS THE WEEK OF 11/16/92
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Japan's plutonium policy needs to be spelled out
It should be pointed out that this is not the first time that Japan has imported nuclear fuel from abroad. A total of 1,870 pounds of plutonium extracted from spent Japanese reactor fuel has been carried to this country by six shipping operations and eight aircraft flights.
There is some criticism that Japan is acting too hastily in the development of fast-breeder reactors fueled by plutonium. But plutonium is a very useful resource for the future benefit of people everywhere. Japan's initiative in this project should be considered a contribution to mankind.
Nevertheless, Japan should make greater efforts to avoid misunderstandings about its intentions. Therefore, Japan should make transparent its utilization of plutonium. For instance, authorities should make clear that Japan has no more plutonium than for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
The government should also make a study of the advisability of placing plutonium under international control.
It is unavoidable that the shipping route for the plutonium must be kept secret to prevent any terrorist attacks. But the government should make public information about the safety of the freighter carrying the plutonium and its safe storage.
Yomiuri
Tokyo
KANSAN STAFF
SCOTTHANNA
Business manager
BILLLEIBEINGOOD
Retail sales manager
JEANNE HINES
Sales and marketing adviser
ERIC NELSON
Editor
GREG FARMER
Managing editor
TOM EBLEN
General manager, news adviser
BILL SKEET, Technology coordinator
Editors
Asst. Managing...Almee Brainard
News...Alexander Blohmhoff
Editorial...Stephen Martino
Campus...Gayle Ostinger
Sports...Shelly Solon
Photo...Justin Knapp
Features...Cody Holl
Graphics...Sean Teixis
Business Staff
Campus sales mgr Angela Cleverman
Regional sales mgr Melissa Tertilp
National sales mgr Brian Wilkes
Co-op sales mgr Amy Stumbo
Production mgr Brad Broon
Min Clinton
Abelby Langford
Jalena Sinclair
Marketing director ... Ashley Langford
Creative director ... Valerie Spicher
Classified mark ... Julid Standley
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MALCOLM X
Proverb for the Day: Small minds run in deep ruts.
People should learn the truth about the legacy of Malcolm X
Who was the real Malcolm X?
People should not necessarily believe what they hear or the tidbits that writers of history throw into their less-than accurate textbooks. Spike Lee's masterpiece, "Malcolm X," does justice to a world of ideology and disbelief.
Lee's "Malcolm X" goes beyond the boundaries of entertainment value that is usually attached to feature films. The movie seems to be a mission to dispel any myths people have about a controversial social theorist and hero of modern history.
If you were to ask the average U.S. citizen about Malcolm X, answers would range from people seeing him as a religious fundamentalist to a radical anti-American who died preaching separation of the races.
The movie is larger than life and far from fictious. More directors should portray the real lives of historical figures like Spike Lee has done with Alex Haley's book "The Autobiography of Malcolm X."
STAFF COLUMNIST
a militant leader of a right-wing fundamentalist group of African-American Muslims, which is not exactly true. The truth is that considerably more violence surrounded the movements of Martin Luther King Jr., an advocate of non-violence, than those of Malcolm X, who has been perceived as violent.
FRANK WILLIAMS
But there always has been much controversy surrounding African-American leaders of the past For that matter, most of the world's charismatic leaders have been criticized for their actions. Frequently, these leaders have died violently at the hands of the society they devoted their lives to protecting and improving. John F. Kennedy, King, Gandhi, Anwar Sadat and Malcolm X are just a few.
Unfortunately, society has glamorized Malcolm X as if his teachings and ways of life were common knowledge. But people often wear the popular X hats, X clothing and literature depicting his "By Any Means Necessary" message without knowing what he truly stood for. People have the right to display these articles as personal freedom, but wearing them vainly does an injustice to anything that Malcolm X stood for.
Malcolm X recognized that African Americans were stolen from Africa to labor during the growth of this country and that U.S. history is also the history of African Americans. He believed that any social mobility that Africans in this country could have
would only be because of their relationship with the economic world and the means of production that was and still is dominated by the white upper class that suppresses minorities.
Malcolm X is viewed as having been
Lee's movie illustrates the fact that Malcolm changed later in life. After his pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm's ideas changed about racial separation. He realized that race relations were very important; he was not the racist that society portrayed him as being.
People need to see the movie "Malcolm x" in order to question their own beliefs and morals. The legacy of Malcolm x has a powerful freedom for all, not violence and hate.
African Americans, in his view, had nothing to lose by standing up to injustice and everything to gain — by any means necessary.
Frank Williams Is a Kansas City, Kan. junior majoring in Journalism and sociology.
Phone hot lines could supplement KU Info service
So you're frustrated with KU Info. You've called every 10 minutes for the past two hours and haven't heard a human voice yet.
STAFF COLUMNIST
"If I hear one more tape recording," you say, "I'm going to march down to the Kansas Union and start beating people until they answer the damn phone."
Relax. I too have been frustrated by the lack of response from our information service. However, I realize that the people at KU Info are trying as hard as they can. The problem is not the service, but that we ask the service to do too much. KU Info should only be used for serious academic purposes. What we need is to set up alternative information services for those other nonacademic but equally serious purposes that KU students have.
For instance, as we all know, the opinion page of the *Kansan* is the instrument that we colonists use to tell the students what to think. This is as it should be. However, we realize that some of you can't get to campus every day to pick up a *Kansan*, and thus you may be left without a correct
MARK COATNEY
opinion on the vital issues of the day. We certainly can't have that. In order to correct this, we should set up a KU Ministry of Education, a phone hot line that the masses can dial to receive the daily edification that the Kansan opinion page provides.
So much for the intellectual appetites of students. But what about their other, more basic appetites? The answer is a little service I like to call KU Nymph. This handy hot line will help satisfy those late night carnal cravings by our girls, boys and select farm animals by connecting them with either equally depraved
girls, boys and select farm animals. No longer will students be forced to sublimate their desires by ordering a pizza. With a little luck, KNymph will become the No. 1 tool for those students seeking (in comic Jerry Seinfeld's terms) to remain "Masters of their domain."
Of course, after all this simming, KU students will be in need of a little good old-fashioned salvation. KU info has in past years been plagged with students who call at 3 a.m. and invariably want to know three things: Does God want to know what we are doing? And if so, know where he parked my car?
I will be the first one to admit, however, that the cold, hard truth offered by our KU Theological line will not always be pleasant to hear. There simply are times when we need to be tied to. So, I propose a hot line called
We need a separate KU Theological line that will provide answers to these important questions and also serve as a confessional to all the girls, boys and select farm animals that have previously partaken of the sinful delights of KU Nymho.
KU Misinformation, staffed by compassionate, perceptive people who know exactly what you want to hear and will have no qualms about saying it to you. Just think how great it would be to call and hear things like "Of course your thesis makes sense," or "Certainly, another vodka tonic would be just the inspiration you need for your physics homework," or "I'm sure he meant when he said he'd call you in the morning."
With program review currently taking place, this would be a perfect time to implement these new phone lines, and they would enable the KU Info staff to concentrate on the really important academic stuff they do. If we are truly committed to having the finest information service available, we should start up these plans right away.
I don't know, but I have a lunch this would be the most popular of all the new hot lines I'm proposing.
1, for one, can't wait to dial KU Nympho.
Mark Coatney is a Unwind graduate student majoring in political science.
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