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Monday, November 16. 1992
OPINION
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"I think Nebraska is marching at will. This is a typical Kansas-Nebraska game. It's pretty ugly, pretty damned ugly."
JOHN TAYLOR, 1992 KU GRADUATE, WHILE WATCHING THE JAY-HAWKS' NATIONALLY TELEVISED LOSS AGAINST THE CORNHUSKERS. NEBRASKA MOVED INTO SOLE POSSESSION OF FIRST PLACE WITH A 49-7 VICTORY.
"All losses hurt. I hate to lose. I absolutely hate it."
—KANSAS COACH GLEN MASON ON THE JAYHAWKS' 25-18 LOSS AGAINST COLORADO. KANSAS LED 18-17 LATE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER.
— DEBORAH GERNER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, PREDICTING THE POLICY OF PRESIDENT-ELECT BILL CLINTON.
"We have very little evidence of what Clinton will do. In many cases, I think he doesn't know. I think the overall foreign-policy presentation will be determined by the men and women he chooses."
"It's time for not only us to speak up, but for people who are not gay to support us and speak up. Hate speech hurts, and the community has been incredibly tolerant. The absurdity of it is that people want others to die because they love."
— LISA McGRAW, LAWRENCE GRADUATE AND KU LIBRARY ASSISTANT. McGRAW DROVE HER VEHICLE INTO A CROWD OF ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS DURING A PROTEST IN TOPEKA
SEXUAL ACTIVISTS DURING A PROTEST IN TOPEKA
"I'm not going to tell them what to do. I would hope they will change their name, and I think they will. Out of the goodness of their hearts, they are going to do what's right."
— KANSAS GOV. JOAN FINNEY ON HER DESIRE TO HAVE THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS CHANGE THEIR NAME OUT OF RESPECT FOR AMERICAN
INDIANS. THE CHIEFS ARE BASED IN KANSAS CITY, MO.
COMPILED FROM KANSAN AND ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
World press awaits changes of Clinton Administration
The election that made Bill Clinton president may be the most important election of the century.
Since the U.S. is the only superpower, the changes this election will bring are of a nature to affect all countries and all peoples. The world is advancing toward a single entity that may be called the union of independent states. In other words, Clinton also is the first president of the World Confederation.
George Bush was the victorious commander of the Cold War and conqueror of the Gulf. But economic crisis and unemployment knocked him down.
Sabah Adana. Turkeu
Sabah
What foreign policy will the United States take in the wake of the Cold War?
Whether we like it or not, and despite the assurances of Bill Clinton of "internationalism," we are facing a U.S. administration that will be more protectionist and more isolationist than its predecessor.
We are still far from reflecting on implementing a new world order and a Euro-American partnership. Having won the election, Clinton and his advisers have three months to do that.
Nothing indicates, however, that they believe that the problems of the planet are as serious as those of their country.
Their apprenticeship is only beginning
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Not all of George Bush's dreams could come true
It happened almost four years ago. Or so the legend goes.
A tall, lanky man walked a lonely beach near Kennebunkport in Maine.
He was deep in thought, head down,
hunched into the winter wind. Then
he stopped. Something caught his
eye.
He bent over and picked up an oddly shaped bottle that had washed ashore.
He looked at it, shook it, then twisted out the cork stopper. Smoke puffed from the bottle. Startled, the man dropped it and jumped back.
The smoke poured out, became thicker, then whirled and materialized as a human form that yawned and stretched.
"Who in the dickens are you," the lanky man asked.
"I am a genie," the creature said. "I have been trapped in the bottle for ages. You have released me so you are my master."
"Golly, Barb will never believe this," the man said. "I wish I had my camera."
"Your wish is my command," the genre said, and a camera appeared in the man's hands.
"Jiminy Cricket," the man said.
"How'd you do that?"
"I am a genie," the genie said. "That is what I do. I can grant you 10 wishes for freeing me. But since you wished for that camera object, you have but nine remaining."
"Wait a minute," the man said. "Are you saying you can actually grant wishes and make things come true?"
The genie shrugged and said, "Hey,
it's living."
COLUMNIST
The genie pursed his lips. "I would guess that it means you are the top maharajah, the big fez."
The lanky man began talking excitedly. "Look, I was just elected to my first term as president. Do you know what that means?"
"Well, since Nixon's days we usually call it the big encllada," the man said with a piercing laugh. "But I think you have the picture."
"Well, I've been walking this lonely beach, as presidents have done since JFK made it fashionable, trying to figure out what I'd do the next four years. You see, that's when I have to run again. And I'm already concerned."
"So what do you wish master?"
MIKE ROYKO
I might not get lucky and draw a pessimite little Greek from Massachusetts.
master. I merely grant wishes."
"Anything?"
"Within reason. Nothing kinky.
Against the genie rules. Nor can we interfere with the movement of the sun or planets. But routine miracles you need only ask."
"OK. So tell me this, can you make Soviet communism collapse? Greatest threat to world peace, you know. Kids'll get a good night's sleep with it gone."
"Golly. There's this wall in Berlin.
Symbol. Ugly. Repression. Can you bring it tumbling down?"
"Granted, What else?"
"As good as done. Next."
"Wowie. OK, inflation. Don't like it.
Give me the lowest inflation rate in umpleen years. And low interest rates too."
"Your wish is my command. Next?"
"Lemme think I, got it. How about war? Not a big one, but something splashy. Bad guy starts it. Invades helpless neighbor. I move fast. Decisive. Warn em. Won't take it. won't let it stand. Rally the world community.Hit 'em hard, hit 'em fast. Win it. Brilliant strategy. Great victory. Yellow ribbons. Parades. TV ratings way up. Critics yay down. How about it?"
"Granted, master. You still have five wishes."
"Right. OK, let's talk polls. Yeah,
after I win the war, can I have the highest
approval rating in history?"
"Easier than a rabbit out of a hat, master."
"OK, what's next? Yes, my opponents. Cuomo. Makes me nervous. Liberal, but talks good. Can you make him drop out?"
"He will be out master. What next?"
"All of 'em, the big Democrats. They thought I'd be a sitting duck-wucky. Give 'em a scare. Make 'em go run and hide. Get rid of 'em. No real opposition."
"Your wish is my command. They're vanquished."
"But I must have an opponent. Wouldn't look good otherwise. OK, let's find a real palsy. How about a governor never heard over of. From a tiny state. Arkansas. Nobody has ever been to Arkansas, even the people who live there. That's it. And give him an Elvis haircut, just for laughs. And make him a draft dodger. Can you do that?"
"You have it, master."
"And ascary, liberal wife."
"You have it, master. Shall I make her a lawyer too?"
"Good touch. Look, I hate to impose,
but is there any way that almost from the day this fella runs, there's some tall blond bombshell who goes on TV and says they were, you know, significant others? In an illicit kind of way?
The scandal thing. The Gary Hart thing."
"It will be done."
"Gee wilkers, I love it. Then for my last wish, I want to win in a historic landslide."
"I'm sorry, master, but you have used up your 10 wishes. I cannot give you a historic landslide."
"Ycan?! Well, it won't matter. Communism, collapsed. Berlin Wall, down. War with bully, won. Inflation, scrunched. Top Democrats, hiding. Pathetic opponent, unknown governor of a teenary state. Draft dogger, sex scandal. Golly, with all for going me, I can't possibly lose, can I genie?"
"I am only a genie, master, not a pilot. Now I must return to my bottle. Please replace the cork after I'm in and throw me back in the sea."
As the lanky man tossed the bottle into the surf, he shouted, "Thanks to you, genie, my election will really catch my place in the history books."
And a faint voice came from the floating bottle, "I think you can count on it."
Mike Royko is a syndicated columnist with the Chicago Tribune.
Loco Locals
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
WHY WOULD SOMEONE JUST CALL, LISTEN TO MY ENTIRE MESSAGE, WAIT FOR THE "BEED" AND THEN HANG UP?
WHICH, INTURN, LEAVES ME THINKING WHEN I GET BACK HOME - THAT SOMEONE ACTUALLY CALLED WAITING TO TALK TO ME...
Bush lost election to the media
The 1992 presidential election is over and the senate is in session.
We will also see how Clinton will manage to keep his read my plan, no new taxes for the middle class pledge he made in the third debate — the exact same pledge Bush caught so much flak for. It is amazing how a man, who for the past 12 months has been telling us how bad everything has become, is so hopeful and optimistic for the future.
It was not Bill Clinton, Ross Perot or the economy that defeated George Bush. It was the media.
Everything voters see is filtered through the lens of the rarely unbiased and usually liberal media. Predictably, publications like the New York Times arrival of a new generation that awards for change. We will see about that.
Craig Cartwright Wichita senior
That's why I'm buying my "Don't blame me. I didn't vote for him" bumper sticker today — to beat the rush.
I just hope and pray that we don't return to the days when the last Democrat was in the White House: 21-percent interest rates and 15-percent inflation. The only change I anticipate Congress is for the tax-and-spend president to do what they do best — taxing and spending.
Peltier case reveals bias
I would like to respond to the comments in the letter from David Wilson that appeared in the Kansan.
Wilson states that he has read stories about the Leonard Peltier case, so I assume that he understands the turbulent atmosphere that surrounded the reservation in South Dakota. His apathetic attitude however, reflects the same attitudes that this country feels toward its American-Indian population. It is this attitude that got Leonard Peltier in this predicament in the first place.
Patti Shinogee
Patti Shingoe
Secretary, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
In conclusion, I feel inspired to quote from what Teddy Roosevelt himself proclaimed as the greatest man in history, and he heard: "Rock Chick, Jayhawk, KU!"
Stop bashing KU's mascot
With reference to the Nov. 3, letter from Graham Smithers, I feel compelled to respond. Baby Jay, I protest, is a model to us all. Any self-respecting student should be proud to be represented by such a fine-feathered friend. Baby Jay, like his father before him, is a pillar of the KU community, not to mention a bastion of society.
As for the mention of upchucking and wanton fornication, I for one spent my 21st birthday in a gripping game of tiddlywinks, followed by a shopping spree at Wal-Mart. If Smithers read his Kansan diligently, as I do, he would be aware that irresponsible drinking leads to bad grades and impairs your game of roller hockey.
Who is this slandering Smithers? We as U.S. citizens are sick and tired of the uppity Brits, denigrating our wholesome KU customs.
Tania Roby Wellsville freshman
Wellsville freshman
By Tom Michaud
THIS ALSO PROVES MY ONGOING
THEORY THAT PEOPLE ONLY
WAIT TO CALL ME WHEN
I AM NOT HOME ...
MICHAUD 1992